While some Imperial forces confronted the Tyranid creatures on the battlefield, others worked on the battle elsewhere under the orders of their commanders.

The combat effectiveness of soldiers is not the only condition that determines a war, and the victory of a war often depends on many factors, one of which is intelligence.

The Empire was able to resist the onslaught of the swarm of insects in the past, and its own side suffered almost no casualties, thanks to the Empire's partial understanding of the Tyranid creature attack methods, and built a large number of heavy artillery and missile bases.

And this time, the Tyranid creatures were able to take the empire by surprise because the empire did not know how Tyranid attacked at the microscopic level, and at the same time, they did not understand that these creatures had the ability to dig into the ground.

If the Empire had known this beforehand, Tyranny's attack would never have caused such a large number of casualties.

The importance of intelligence is evident.

It plays an important role in military decision-making, and whoever can obtain accurate intelligence before the war will be able to take the initiative in the war and thus gain the upper hand.

So before a war, the most important thing is to observe the enemy and gather intelligence. Only by gathering accurate intelligence can we make the right judgment and formulate the most appropriate strategy for the situation.

The commanders of the empire were convinced of this.

From the first day of contact with Tyron, they used all sorts of means to get to know this kind of enemy that the empire had never touched.

And when collecting enemy intelligence, the enemy's weakness is what the empire needs to know the most, and after discovering the opponent's weakness, attacking its weakness can be described as twice the result with half the effort.

The Imperial Soldier was able to quickly gain the upper hand in the raid of the Tyranid creatures, thanks to the Empire's deeper understanding of the Tyranid creatures, and figured out the importance of the node creatures to Tyranid.

However, in addition to the information of "node creatures", there is another important piece of information that has attracted the attention of Imperial commanders in this war - the Tyron hatching nest.

Over the years, the Scout units of the Astral Army and Space Marines have been providing information about Tyrann to the rest of the Empire.

But their main reconnaissance direction was placed on the planet's orbit and on the planet's surface.

For example, to know how many sporangia have narrowly passed through the Empire's anti-aircraft fire network, to provide the Empire's missile and artillery bases with the exact points of Tyranid buildings for them to carry out artillery strikes, and to provide early warning when the Tyranid Creatures are attacking the human colony.

And when the Tyranid creatures attacked through the underground, they realized their negligence.

Unmanned reconnaissance planes, ground-penetrating radars, and underground reconnaissance robots equipped with high-performance thermal imaging instruments, acoustic search equipment, and high-power communication instruments were immediately put to use.

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The passages dug by the Tyranid creatures underground were identified one by one, and then the information was reported to the Imperial Commander. This allows Imperial forces to accurately deploy troops to defend and stop the Bugs from attempting to break through the Underground Passages without wasting large numbers of troops.

At the same time, the Imperial forces understand the layout of these underground passages, and after repelling the Tyranid creatures, they can start blocking the passages to the surface, or deploy companies to defend the underground passages.

Having an understanding of the three-dimensional situation underground, the commander is able to make the most advantageous tactical arrangements for humanity.

When the Empire's reconnaissance department completed the investigation of the underground near the human settlement, their detection range gradually expanded.

Space Marine reconnaissance squads, warplanes equipped with special reconnaissance equipment, and special reconnaissance missiles began to explore the entire underground of the Long River Star.

Soon, they discovered some information that they had previously missed.

Beneath the massive Tyranid biostructures on the surface of the Long River Star are complex subterranean structures. And based on the information they had before, as well as the analysis of the Imperial biologists, it was likely that this was the hatching nest of the Tyranid creatures.

With the sporangia that were lucky enough to pass through the Empire's anti-aircraft fire net, it was impossible for so many Tyranid creatures to attack a human city. Therefore, Tyranid creatures must have nests that can hatch on the Long River Star.

In the past, the Empire carried out missile strikes on discovered Tyranid structures, in addition to destroying capillaries and preventing biomass from being transported to suborbital biowarplanes, in order to reduce the number of Tyranid creatures.

However, the effect is not obvious.

At the time, the Empire thought that Tyranny's lair might be hidden beneath the extremely tall alien plants, scattered scattered in pieces.

This makes it not as tall and easy to observe as some Tyranid buildings, making it difficult for the Empire to hit Tyranid's lair.

But now it seems that it turned out that it was the Empire's blow that didn't do much damage to these Tyranid creature nests that were located underground.

General Wadez, who had planned to send troops to counterattack the Tyranid Zerg, learned of the information and immediately set the next strategic goal as destroying the Tyranid hatching nest near the city.

Tyranid spores have caused a lot of casualties to humans, and the Tyranid Creatures' underground attacks have caused the largest casualties to the Imperial forces since the start of the war.

Whether it is the Imperial soldiers or the Imperial citizens in the city, a victory is needed at this time to boost morale and lift spirits.

And after knocking Tyranid creatures back, it's a great time to fight back.

According to the calculations of the Imperial scholars, this attack by Tyranid has thrown a large part of the Tyranid creatures on the Long River Star.

After defeating the swarms attacking the Imperial Front, the number of Tyranid creatures will temporarily drop to a less alarming level, at which point the Empire can send elite troops out of cities and strongholds to strike at Tyrann.

The number of Tyranid creatures they encounter will be much smaller than in the past, and even if they are surrounded by Tyranid creatures, they will have enough ability to break through.

If the Empire misses this opportunity, then in a few days, the Tyranid creatures may be able to replenish these lost forces.

Although the Tyranid creatures are not as fast as the orcs, their ability to reproduce is still not to be underestimated.

Strategic Command Room.

General Wadez looked at the room as a company commander of a Space Marine, a commander of an armored unit, and a commander in charge of the city's defense.

"Since everyone has no opinion, then I declare that we will send the most elite warriors to strangle in the cradle those Tyranid creatures who may come to this world!"

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When Tyrann attacks the planets, more and more spores will infect the planets during the Conquest phase.

These spores have many effects, one of which seems to allow the Tyranid organization to grow and thrive quickly. The hatchery nest is one such organization that provides rapid reinforcements to the Tyrannic Worm Tide.

The Empire's anti-aircraft firepower was so powerful that even the Tyranid bioships, which were large enough to obscure the planet's skies, could not safely place large quantities of Tyranid sporangia on the planet's surface.

There is no way for the millions of Tyranid creatures in a single creature ship to set foot on the Long River Star.

But Taryn was able to adjust his tactics according to the situation on the battlefield.

After realizing that anti-aircraft fire is difficult to break through, the sporangia often carry not large Tyranid creatures, but even smaller Tyranid spores.

Even if these spores are attacked by Imperial fire, there will always be some of them that will land on the ground.

These spores will begin to develop on the planet and grow into a variety of Tyranid structures. Many of them have become hatching nests for Tyranid creatures.

Since the Tyranid creatures bred in space cannot be released, they are bred directly on the planet.

As a result, numerous Tyranid hatching nests began to appear on the planet. This hatching nest of Tyranids is also a huge construct and is a complex of many other types of Tyrannical buildings.

More like a giant mound than anything else, their towering spires emitting billowing black smoke.

And this smoke is actually spores blown out of the smoke sacs by geothermal air currents generated by magma vents deep inside the hive, which are not as deep as the vents outside the hive, which are filled with groundwater and Tyranid secretions, creating a hot and humid environment.

In this dark, humid and hot system, swarms are quickly hatched out and devoured the planet's resources.

Thousands of rippers ravage the planet endlessly, returning to store their harvest in sheltered digesters. Some capillaries are sometimes connected to the highest point of these monolithic structures.

On the surface, the hatchery nest looks like a deep pile of lotus holes, but underneath is a complex of womb-like caverns, and the Tyranid creatures are nurtured by the hatching nest in the safety of the ground.

On the surface, the hatchery nest looks like a deep lotus hole, but underneath is a complex of womb-like caverns in which the terrifying Tyranid creatures are thriving.

In the warm environment of the hatching nest, the Tyranid creatures grow at a frightening rate, and the incubation time is short. In just a few days, the hatching nest can give birth to a litter full of monsters.

They may then wait months in hibernation before being summoned, but once born they are immediately controlled by the Hive Will.

Biologists who study the growth of Tylen's organic matter have noticed that Tylen and the human growth cycle, from infancy to adolescence to adulthood, are completely incompatible with each other—Taryn is always born to full maturity. No one has ever found Tyrann's larvae.

Zerg creatures remain asleep when they are fully grown, until the Hive will needs them, when they wake up and tear a path with their claws, bursting out of the hole, and although the bugs are still covered in amniotic skin and slime, they are fully developed and ready to kill.

According to the situation detected by the Empire, these hatching nests vary in size, ranging from small nests containing only a few bugs to large nest nets with many holes that contain tens of thousands of developing bugs.

It is precisely because these hatching nests of Tyranids are buried deep underground that the missile attacks against Tyranid creatures before the Empire did not cause much damage to these Tyranid creatures deep underground.

One might wonder if the Empire failed to do any harm to these hatching nests because it wasn't clear that they were buried deep underground.

But now that we know, why send troops to clean it up instead of using more powerful missiles or ground-penetrating missiles.

It's not that this ability is impossible, and the Empire's missiles are more than capable of destroying these Tyranid structures buried deep underground. Not to mention being located below the surface, it is located in the center of the earth, and some of the Empire's missiles are also capable of destroying it.

But one thing that has to be considered is whether this type of blow will cause harm to human beings themselves.

Those missiles that are enough to destroy the planet can certainly kill the Tyranid creatures, but the human ones on the planet's surface must not survive.

And the use of ground-penetrating missiles, or high-powered missiles to hit the underground Tyranid hatching nest, may also cause unacceptable dangers to humans on the Long River Star.

As mentioned earlier, these hatching nests of Tyranids use the temperature of magma to provide heat to the nests.

They used this geothermal heat by digging tunnels until they reached the surface and magma, digging out a Tyranid magma vent.

The tunnels dug by the giant Tyranid creatures drill through the Mohorovich discontinuum, which lies between the earth's crust and the mantle, allowing the gas trapped in the depths of the planet to escape into the atmosphere.

Sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and other gases escape in the form of superheated gas streams from these bio-excavated channels that are typically located at or near tectonic plate junctions.

The gases that escape affect the planet's climate and are a way to help other Tyranid creatures grab resources.

Vents drilled through ocean basins slowly warm the oceans, further exacerbating this climate catalytic effect, and sometimes triggering volcanic eruptions if the region is already unstable enough.

In areas where magma has sufficient corrosive power, low-viscosity lava usually erupts, releasing large amounts of dissolved gases.

In areas where lava is acidic and sticky, explosive eruptions and pyroclastic flows can occur. This would result in a significant loss of life for all native organisms within miles of the flashpoint.

Some Tyranid creatures can survive the shockwave and the periphery of the gas cloud, but the heat is strong enough to cause the death of any creature trapped inside the gas cloud.

As mentioned earlier, these magma vents are also used as a geothermal energy source for the Tylen hatching hive complex.

Dozens of vents of this type are used to heat the entire hive and provide heat for the nest to grow. They also sometimes seem to drill underneath larger regional spore sacs, providing ventilation to the interior of the structure, allowing more Tylen spores to blow farther away.

The tunnels dug by these Tyranid creatures are considered by some scholars of the Empire to be unstable and dangerous.

Tyrannic uses this method to provide heat to the hatchery, thanks to the amazing biological structure and tenacious vitality of Tyranid.

If the Empire uses Ground-Penetrating Missiles or High-Power Missiles to destroy these hatching nests, the first thing the Empire should consider before considering the fate of the Tyranid creatures is whether this behavior will cause a massive earthquake or the movement of continental plates.

A: It is unpredictable.

So Wadez did not order the troops to launch a missile strike on the discovered Tylen hatchery. Now is not the time to fight with the Tyranid creatures.

This tactic is not at all a life-swapping style of injuring 800 enemies and losing 1,000 yourself. It is a way to make it possible for all humans on the Long River Star to be buried by the Tyranid creatures on the planet at this time.