Chapter 15: Underground Defense
Bai Qi led the space soldiers to rush forward in the complex cave like an anthill, relying on a planetary locator received from the federal military in his hand, he always looked at the south and ran all the way.
While running, Bai Qi contacted Adrian again, reassuring her to find clues to the modified electromagnetic gun, and a little trouble on her side could be solved soon.
Adrian was so confident in Bai Qi that he was not very worried and quickly ended the call.
After that, Bai Qi contacted Qin Qing again and asked her to find a way to get three more armored personnel carriers to come to the Red Plateau to meet her.
Qin Qing's three military ranks are not high, and the upper limit of materials used is not enough for half an armored vehicle, how to get three armored personnel carriers depends on her and the black gold in her hand.
After listening to Bai Qi's situation, Qin Qing reassured him that she would definitely get three armored vehicles to pick him up.
After arranging these two things, Bai Qi focused his mind on the situation around him again.
According to his guess, when the Stealth Mosquito launched a surprise attack on them, the three Zerg teams should have been lying in ambush fifty kilometers away from them, outside the detection range of the Scout Ball.
Since the Zerg have such a high IQ and have been fighting with humans for so long, it shouldn't be difficult to master the reconnaissance range of the Scout Ball.
Fifty kilometers is half an hour's journey for the Zerg.
And in half an hour, they advanced at most twenty kilometers underground.
However, running all the way just now, Bai Qi specially chose a narrow cave to drill, although he walked a dead end several times, but he also encountered a lot of narrow passages that could not be passed through by the size of the Zerg, and if the race wanted to track them, it was necessary to take a detour. Or a violent breakthrough.
This will undoubtedly make it more difficult for the Zerg to track down, allowing them to escape even further.
It turns out. Bai Qi's decision was completely correct, until nearly an hour later. The fleeing space soldiers heard the movement of the Zerg.
A faint rumbling sound in the distance indicated that the Zerg were violently breaking through some of the too narrow caves they had drilled through.
Bai Qi led the team to run and search, and finally he stopped in a cave with a small belly and a bottle shape.
The entrance to this cave is not big or small, with a diameter of nearly three meters, just enough to barely accommodate two tank bugs standing side by side.
Bai Qi ordered Barian to command everyone to arrange a defensive formation, and at the same time took out a "complex topographic mapper" to observe the surrounding terrain.
Amos was puzzled and asked, "Lee, why did you choose here?" Didn't we just pass through a passage with a hole so small that not even a tank worm could pass through? ”
Bai Qi stared at the mapper in his hand, and explained without looking back: "If the cave entrance is too small, the Zerg is likely to completely abandon the cave entrance and find a way to dig a new cave from all sides. ”
After observing for a while, Bai Qi collected the surveyor. He turned and ran towards the back of the cavern.
The cave resembles a double-mouth bottle to be exact, with a small front and back mouth, and a large belly in the middle, almost the size of a basketball court.
Bai Qi came to the cave in the back. After walking through the narrow cave for a while, the cave began to enlarge again.
In the enlarged cave in the back, Bai Qi took out a mapper again to observe the surrounding terrain. Soon he found a weak wall in the cave.
Bai Qi collected the mapper and took out the hammer of heavy blowing. Start smashing that boom.
It was a cave wall about a meter thick, and there was another cave behind it. In this cave, there are not many such thin cave walls, most of the cave walls are more than three meters, even for tank bugs, it is not a simple matter to open a completely new passage.
The rocks on this planet are exceptionally strong because they are rich in minerals, and after more than ten smashes from Bai Qi, the stones on the stone walls began to fall off in large quantities.
Bai Qi worked for five or six minutes before smashing through this rock wall and burrowing into another cave.
Bai Qi took out the mapper, drilled hundreds of meters forward in this cave, smashed through two walls, and finally walked into a familiar cave through a forked hole, which was a section of the cave they had just passed.
Bai Qi's location was about three hundred meters away from the two-mouth bottle cave where he ordered to set up an ambush to resist, and in front of the two-mouth bottle cave, there was a narrow cave of about twenty meters, and in front of this narrow cave, there was a cave smaller than the two-mouth bottle cave, if nothing else, the chasing Zerg army would gather here.
Listening to the rumbling sound in the cave, knowing that the Zerg army was not far from here, Bai Qi quickly retreated to the fork hole.
Following the fork hole, Bai Qi returned to the double-mouth bottle cave.
Adrian had already set up his defenses, and he selected all five paladins in his team, and equipped them with five full-defense warriors, who worked together in pairs to block the middle of the passage directly ahead.
He also concentrated all the spellcasters in the center of the cave, the rangers and dark rangers were protected around the casters, and the remaining heavy armor professionals were guarded on the periphery, and finally arranged the remaining inner martial artists at the end of the passage in front of them, and they were responsible for intercepting the fish that slipped through the net and buying time for the ranged professionals.
At this time, there were a total of eleven spellcasters in the entire team, eight of whom were third-level spellcasters, and these people themselves had less than twenty second-level spell slots, but if you count the charged staff in their hands, there were almost fifty second-level spells.
After the previous battle, Barian was able to accurately judge that two attack-type second-level spells were enough to kill a tank worm, and one second-level attack spell was more than enough to kill a sharp knife worm in seconds.
In addition to the second-level spells, these eleven spellcasters themselves possess more than sixty first-level spells.
These second- and third-level spellcasters have a very high level of first-level spells, four first-level spells are enough to kill a tank bug, and two first-level spells are enough to kill a sharp knife worm.
Even if these casters only memorized half of the offensive spells, they would be able to kill nearly twenty tank bugs and double the knife worms in a single round, or a burst of seconds.
Of course, once the spell slots are used up, these spellcasters are basically cost.
This is the caster, the fragile and powerful caster.
Of course, Barian couldn't let the spellcasters explode like this, he divided the eleven spellcasters into five groups of two, and only one group could do his orders at a time, and their task was not exactly to kill the insects, but to provide support to the two heavy armor professionals blocked in the passage, and to provide fire suppression as they rotated.
The real killing mission, Barian actually handed over to four rangers and three dark rangers. (To be continued......)