Chapter 57: Tactical Nuclear Strike
Al.
The Pride of Ortaris and the Memory of Nessin are indeed a bit of a pity as the two Ark ships that were forcibly destroyed by an unknown force. Their main structures were two places far apart from each other on the surface of the El, and Yang Yi chose the location of the Pride of Otarith - because the Memories of Neshin seemed too badly damaged, he didn't dare to take too many risks, so he chose the Pride of Aultaris, which didn't look so serious.
Although they have arrived at the El and are engaged in a fierce battle with the swarm, it does not mean that the insects of the entire planet have been alarmed. In fact, most of the entire El are wild insects, and there is no high-level individual who is responsible for the overall defense of the planet. The battle on this side of the planet did not alarm the insects on the other side of the planet, they were still facing the part of the 5 billion insects - but the pressure was definitely not small.
Ground troops are doing their best to build a line of defense under the attack of wild insects. To be honest, these Alien Insect defenses that have been rooted for many years are indeed solid, even the Alien Insects that are not good at defense have successfully built a difficult ground orbital defense system on the surface, coupled with the Alien Insect Air Force units that are fighting with various ships in orbit, it is not easy for Behemoth to break through the atmosphere and transport resources down.
"'Valkyrie', this is 'Wolf's Lair', please reply when you receive it, over." Looking at the scorching battle situation on the surface, Yang Yi really couldn't sit still, and directly opened the communication channel.
"Huh...... Bang bang bang! "There was a dense mess of gunfire and the roar of insects in the communication channel," he said...... This is the 'Valkyrie'! The signal is clear! Please! Complete! ”
"Find the right position and prepare to lead a tactical nuclear strike! Complete! ”
"Huh...... What?! Repeat the command! Complete! ”
"This is the 'wolf's den', looking for a suitable position and preparing to lead a tactical nuclear strike! Complete! ”
"Huh...... Roger that! ”
The ICBM with tactical nuclear warheads equipped on the hull of the A1 is now the time to come in handy, at the moment, these wild insects are basically uncontrolled, and the geological environment of the El is relatively stable, and there should be no evolution master like Abbather who will take the opportunity to use nuclear bombs to strengthen the swarm, and he plans to use nuclear bombs to support the ground forces as much as possible.
The hydra on the ground quickly withdrew into the command center, and with the help of the command center's equipment, the best place to drop the bomb was calculated.
The advantage of dropping tactical nuclear bombs in such a battlefield environment is that everyone is equipped and does not have to worry about the continuous negative effects that tactical nuclear bombs may bring, such as radiation, EMP shock, etc., but the disadvantage is that they have to take care of their own alien allies and the wreckage of the huge Otaris Pride main body.
The wreckage of the Pride of Ortaris is uncertain whether it will be able to withstand the shock wave of tactical nuclear bombs, and if one of them fails to disintegrate, it will be in vain. Therefore, Hydra needs to minimize the damage of the nuclear bomb blast to the Pride of Ortaris as much as possible, but if the nuclear warhead is thrown too far, it will have little impact on the battlefield.
Finally, after an hour of intense calculation and coordination, Hydra identified six nuclear bomb drop points, uploaded the coordinate points to the A1 bridge, and personally took the C-10 shotgun to the designated location to use laser guidance to ensure that the tactical nuclear bomb would fall in the designated position and not deviate too much.
The Tyranid Empire's tactical nuclear weapon yield is generally different depending on the race to be dealt with, and the yield and type are also different. The tactical nuclear weapons used against the Star Spirit are more focused on EMP killing, while the Alien Insect is basically killed by explosive impact, and the Humans, depending on the purpose, different types of nuclear weapons such as radiation bombs or neutron bombs are used.
Six ICBMs equipped with tactical nuclear warheads will be launched to the designated location under the guidance of Hydra, because Hydra is the only one with psionic energy on the ground and a low-frequency laser to guide tactical nuclear bombs, so all six nuclear bombs need to be guided by herself, and they can only be launched separately.
Optimistically, these six tactical nuclear bombs should be enough to blow the wild insects back, forcing them to refrain from continuing to attack the ground forces for a while, so as to give them enough time to build a defensive base. Of course, if you are unlucky, you may not be able to blow up anything, and six nuclear bombs will not do much and be wasted.
On the other side, Behemoth was still trying to break through to the surface under the cover of the Black Rose, but with great difficulty, he was unable to reach the surface in a short period of time to lay down the crystal ore and high-energy gas stored in his body.
Six intercontinental nuclear missiles (ICBMs) dragged their long tail flames into the atmosphere from low-earth orbit and swooped down at high speed toward the target site.
The surface command center and the A1 hull monitored the status of the six intercontinental missiles in real time, in order to prevent these six missiles from being intercepted by the swarm air defense force, the ground swarm ventured to launch a wave of tactical counteroffensive to attract the attention of the wild insects, and the human troops were constantly sending short-range surface-to-surface missiles to the proven base of the wild insects to attract the attention of the swarm air defense forces.
The Worm's defense against human missiles is still intercepted by spore crawlers at the end, but the success rate is very low, which is basically equivalent to no defense. But no one was willing to take that risk, and they tried to distract the swarm as much as possible to make sure that the six nuclear bombs would succeed in their mission.
And those six nuclear bombs did exactly that. With six mushroom clouds rising one after another in six different locations, the effect looked very good, and the wild insects began to retreat quickly within ten minutes of the six mushroom clouds rising, quickly retreating towards their respective bases.
However, according to the information collected by the command center and A1 in the future, the effect of the six nuclear bombs is actually not very good, compared with the estimated that each of them can kill thousands of wild insect units, the actual actual killing of insect units may only be a few hundred each, and the effect is far less than expected.
As for why the wild insects retreated without suffering major losses, A1 and the ground staff estimated that it may be a problem with the characteristics of the wild insects themselves. Due to the lack of specific jurisdiction over the high-level individuals, the wild insects of the El went through a berserk phase after losing the mind of the main nest, and then gradually went wild, and in the past few years have returned to the law of the jungle, and each hive should have become an independent force or faction. El apparently doesn't have a worm mother, so the worms that control each hive begin to split and fight.
When confronted with alien humans, they will instinctively act hostile, but after the six nuclear bombs were dropped, the insect queen who controlled these wild alien insects thought that attacking these humans was really worth the loss, and there was not much progress but too much loss. Unable to grab the biomass and essence, they lost a bunch of troops, and the group of humans and alien insects seemed to be only aiming at the huge wreckage, so they chose to retreat instead of continuing to attack, in order to prevent other wild alien sects from running to fight the autumn wind.
Behemoth confirmed their conjecture, but she corrected some of the erroneous claims: the wild insects did not completely lose the mind of the main nest, and if the Queen of Blades used the mind network of the main nest to forcibly control it, these wild insects would also respond, but the El was too far away from the main activity area of the swarm, and the Queen of Blades should not be too lazy to care about the insects here after the death of the master, so the insects here will gradually become wild.