On the planet Puen in the Hack Star Zone, a fierce battle between human troops and the army of insects is in full swing in a small town called Silicon River near the ladder.

Among the three major sectors actually controlled by the Fifth War Zone, Huck was the first to detect signs of alien invasion. As early as when Auston led the main force of the Fifth War Zone to attack the Earth Federation on a large scale, a certain forward post was raided by the Alien Pioneer on the planet Pune in the Hack Star Zone.

When the rescue forces arrived at the outpost, they found only the mutilated remains of the sentinels and a few jumping worms that had been blown to a bloody pulp.

After that, the insect attacks on the planet Puen became more and more frequent, and it turned out to be an untold number of insect troops attacking the cities and towns where humans gathered. Due to the remoteness and harsh environment of the planet Puen, there are not many humans living on the planet. So, almost in the blink of an eye, the entire planet was flooded by the boundless sea of worms.

At this moment, several ground troops sent by the Fifth War Zone to reinforce are struggling to defend several key roads leading to the Heavenly Ladder, blocking waves of seemingly endless frenzied attacks by the Alien Army.

The so-called ladder is actually a large-scale landing platform. The ladder is thousands of meters high and covers an area of nearly one million square meters. Located at the top of the ladder, the platform can accommodate twenty large starships at the same time. Starships that take off from the ladder can easily enter and exit the atmosphere and quickly enter a space fold state. In other words, it's a fast near-Earth starport.

Most of the inhabitants of the planet Puen are civilians who have migrated from developed areas to open up wasteland or mine, and the number is only about a few million. For a planet half the size of the Earth, with millions of civilians scattered over it, it can naturally be described as sparsely populated.

However, about a week ago, due to the sharp deterioration of the fighting, the extermination force sent by the Fifth War Zone was unable to cope with the exponential growth of the Alien Army, and the planetary government issued an emergency evacuation order to the scattered residents.

The order only said that in order to deal with the emergency situation, the High Command of the Theater of Operations will take extreme force measures against the planet Pune in order to completely annihilate all the alien creatures that appear on the planet as soon as possible. Therefore, in order to avoid harming the inhabitants of the planet, the war zone will send a large number of starships for temporary strategic transfer to the inhabitants.

"Rest assured, we are only leaving our homes temporarily. We'll be back when our warriors finish destroying the damn aliens, and we'll be back......"

Although the planetary government's so-called "temporary strategic shift" is quite high-sounding, the people with a little insight have already guessed that those big people are preparing to abandon this small planet that is not rich in the first place.

So, for whatever reason, millions of residents hurried out of their homes with mixed feelings, flocking from all directions to the government's designated escape assembly point, the only ladder on the planet, codenamed PN01.

Because of this, the chaos on the ladder platform and nearby can be imagined. Refugees swarming in locomotives or planes were everywhere, and the planetary government staff and the police who maintained order were already exhausted. But even after several days and nights of non-stop emergency evacuation, more than half of the people were still crowded in the ladder and nearby towns. And there are also many people who have traveled far away, and they are still risking their lives to rush towards this side desperately from various blood-soaked passages.

The town of Silicon River is located at the southeast exit of a rolling mountain range, and a road that crosses the mountain leads to the ladder twenty or thirty kilometers away. Topographically, Silicon River is actually a gate to the south of the ladder.

In the vast plains behind the town of Silicon Chuan, there are several sprawling refugee camps, packed with people waiting to be evacuated. Once the town of Silicon River is lost, the army of insects swarming like locusts will rush into those refugee camps in an instant. At that time, this area will probably become even more terrifying and cautious than the Nine Hells.

The one who was ordered to defend the town of Silicon Chuan was an independent reinforced regiment belonging to the 25th Armored Division of the 89th Near-Earth Army Group of the Fifth Theater. The regiment had just been removed from the front line of the battle against the Earth Federation forces. Due to the shortage of troops, the 25th Panzer Division was urgently transferred to join the task force to reinforce the planet Pune, and the armored divisions transferred from several other army groups acted as temporary firefighters.

The initial mission of the task force was to completely annihilate all insects that appeared on the planet Pune.

However, after several bloody battles, the commander of the task force was desperate to find that these aliens from the alien system seemed to never be able to kill. Moreover, with the passage of time, the number of Alien Insect troops has not only increased unabated, but even in terms of troops and overall combat power, they are gradually increasing. A task force supported by only a small detachment of battleships was powerless to turn the tide of the battle.

As a result, the contingent commander had to truthfully report the progress of the entire battle to the Theater Supreme Command, and requested that more combat units and warships be sent to support.

However, it wasn't long before the task force commander waited for an order that surprised him a little.

The order requires the task force to immediately assist the government of Planet Pune in evacuating the people of the entire planet in the shortest possible time, and later the High Command will send an independent fleet to take extreme force measures against the planet Pune.

Despite his misgivings, the Task Force Commander had no choice but to quickly adjust his troop deployment, quickly integrate the remaining combat forces at hand, and deploy a series of strong defensive lines near the PN01 ladder to guard the lifeline of the people on the planet.

"Boom, boom!"

A row of unusually bright plasma artillery shells smashed down on the mountain road west of Silicon River Town, and a cloud of billowing smoke and dust rose up, and the insects that crowded the mountain road were scattered and screamed. After the smoke cleared, the mountain path was left with huge charred craters, and countless fragments of alien flesh and blood were everywhere around the craters. Rao is like this, and at the end of the mountain road, waves of alien insects with teeth and claws and snorting and screaming are still appearing.

At the entrance of the mountain road leading to Silicon River Town, the lines of defense have long been torn apart by the insects. One by one, the firepower points of the permanent fortifications were still spitting out tongues of fire, trying their best to block the progress of the insects that rushed through the heavy artillery fire net.

The town was full of billowing gunsmoke, shocking ruins, bursts of rapid and fierce gunfire, and blue figures shuttling between the ruins, struggling to fire at the jumping insects that were scurrying like headless flies.

In less than three days, the defensive line deployed by the reinforced regiment on the outskirts of the town was torn apart no less than ten times by the frantically surging army of insects. Almost every time, it was the soldiers of the reinforcement regiment who used their own flesh and blood to eliminate or drive out the insects that broke into the town little by little.

"Jiao Daming, you shit, stunned and waiting to die! Why don't you hurry up and take a few people to grab the firepower of the left-wing street for Lao Tzu back! On a dilapidated street in the town, a bloodied major battalion commander jumped to his feet in front of a miniature communication terminal and roared angrily: "Don't tell Lao Tzu, you can't even deal with those beasts!" ”

"Battalion commander, there are a few stinging snakes there, and there are no less than ten cockroaches, and the few heads I have left in my hand are not enough to stuff the teeth of those beasts! Good luck sending me a Marauder mech! Inside the communication terminal, a Marine with the same broken armor and bloodied pleading with a sad face.

"You shit, if you still have a mecha in your hand, you don't have to carry a rifle and fight with those beasts!" The battalion commander of the major used his big hand wrapped in steel gloves to touch the colorful insect blood on his mask, bared his teeth and ordered loudly: "Don't fucking nonsense, hurry up with your squad!" There is the commanding heights, control there, and the beasts of the dog day will not be so arrogant! When all your brothers are dead, you go up yourself. You're all spelled out, Lao Tzu is on it himself! Damn, I'm going to die for Lao Tzu to die on this line of defense! ”

"Yes, battalion commander! Next year, remember to burn more paper money for me and my brothers! The Major's order finally stirred up the Marine's blood, and after a thunderous roar, the screen of the communication terminal suddenly turned back to pitch black.

"Uncle's!" Knowing that this henchman must have rushed forward with the commandos, the major suddenly relieved his heart, casually threw the communication terminal to the side, leaned against a broken low wall, and reached out to open his helmet mask to the maximum, and then let out a long sigh of relief.

The major was probably less than thirty years old, and his bronze face was quite honest, and his black hair was like a bird's nest. However, if Hao Yi was here, he would definitely jump in surprise.

This major battalion commander is not anyone, it is Zhao Jiakun, a friend that Haoyi met in the Ninth Maintenance Company back then. After the unexpected reunion with Haoyi on the planet Asur in the Poole Star Zone, Zhao Jiakun was stirred up by the bold words of Haoyi and Hu Erfat, two friends who had passed by his life.

Soon after, Zhao Jiakun, with the support of his wife, enlisted again as a retired officer and joined the counterinsurgency forces in the Fifth War Zone to the major rebel star regions. With his bravery and good fighting, in the line of fire with a rain of bullets, Zhao Jiakun fought to the company commander with one knife and one shot.

After his triumphant return, Zhao Jiakun was quickly promoted to major battalion commander and served as the commander of the first battalion of this independent reinforced regiment because of his outstanding military achievements. This time, Zhao Jiakun followed the large army to the small town of Silicon River, and was ordered to buy more precious time for the safe transfer of the people in the rear at all costs.

From the first exchange of fire with the Alien Insect Force on this planet to the present, the casualty rate of Zhao Jiakun's armored battalion has been as high as more than 40%. The heavy weapons such as raider mechs and siege tanks have been exhausted, and there are less than 200 officers and soldiers left in the battalion, whether they are mecha chariot drivers or medics and signal soldiers, all of them shoulder their rifles and put on armor, gritting their steel teeth and waging endless bloody battles with crazy insects.

"Da-da-da, boom-boom!"

Through the gap in the low wall, Zhao Jiakun saw that at the corner of the street not far away, several soldiers hiding in a sturdy building were trying their best to fire at the jumping insects that kept rushing over.

"Alas, it would be nice if Haoyi's perverted guy was here!" For a while, Zhao Jiakun suddenly had an illusion, as if he had returned to Solomi's counterinsurgency battlefield, a feeling of déjà vu, which made him involuntarily whisper......