Chapter 166: Conquering the Lair of the Reef
Since he had this, Li Qing gave up the idea of tun alien troops and mechanical armored troops, and devoted himself to creating this kind of army as the main force, and the cannon fodder used clone troops.
At least that's all for now, but at this time, Qingluan is obsessed with genetic technology, and when she can research an incomparably powerful genetic warrior or genetic combat body in the future, the main force will become a genetic warrior and a genetic combat body, this octopus robot will become cannon fodder, and the clone force will be directly discontinued, or used as a guard.
The individual physical fitness of the Shata people is stronger than that of humans, but the weapons and equipment are not as good as human clones, and they are not as good as octopus robots.
There are quite a lot of people in Star City, there are hundreds of millions of people in total, but most of them are staff, and there are not many army troops stationed, mainly used to maintain law and order rather than fighting.
The main thing is that it makes no sense to get too many ground troops, it is difficult that Star City has been captured, and the ground troops can not counterattack.
Moreover, it is also inconvenient to use high-powered heavy weapons inside Star City, and the use of ground troops is very limited.
On the contrary, the interior of the planet is different, and that is the main battlefield of the ground forces.
A provincial capital like the Reef Lair has a population of nearly 20 billion, and the number of ground armies will be very large, and there will definitely be a lot of resistance, and when he captures Star City, he will have to spend a long time clearing the resistance on the planet.
The ground forces did not pay attention to the attack on Star City Li Qing in real time, and could only see that the battle inside Star City was very smooth from constantly feeling the spiritual energy that erupted from time to time in Star City, as well as the continuous stopping of attacks by regional weapons.
Every time you capture a large area, the network and some automatic weapon command systems in that area are interrupted as soon as possible, and the fleets and fighters outside Star City can reduce the pressure by a point.
The area on the offensive side of the fleet was the first to be liberated and the attack stopped, and the fleet, which had been fighting for hours, could finally take a breather.
Then this truce gradually spread to other areas of Star City over time, and the firepower became weaker and weaker, until at a certain moment, the weapons in the three directions that were still fighting suddenly stopped, and the entire Star City suddenly darkened and became extremely quiet, and Li Qing clearly faced that the troops should capture the command core of Star City.
"Your Majesty, we have captured the Star City Command Center and captured a large number of Star City Command members."
"Good! Well done!"
Li Qing received a message from several ground commanders inside Star City with excitement about the capture of the Star City command center.
The fall of Star City means that the reef lair galaxy has been completely conquered.
The next step is to put the finishing touches, repair Star City, send messengers to the expeditionary force, and then prepare to relocate the headquarters, and rearm to prevent the Shata from retaking it.
On the contrary, there is no need to rush to conquer the planet of the reef lair, without air supremacy, the army and civilians on the planet cannot escape at all.
"Not a lot of time!"
Now that the nest has not been cleared in Star City, Li Qing thought about it for a while, returned to the universe in his palm, stopped all the construction in the dock, gathered all the shipbuilding engineers in hundreds of industrial ships, and prepared to wait for the Star City to be completely captured, and the internal resistance was completely cleared, all these shipbuilding engineers were pulled out, and the Star City was repaired on the spot.
It's not very difficult, after breaking the shield before, the offensive was slowed down, and there was a certain amount of damage in only one of the ten directions of Star City, so there was only one side to repair.
Two hours later, Li Qing received a report that the last recalcitrant area of Star City had been cleared, and was about to pull the industrial fleet out to repair the Star Fort, when suddenly one of the admirals, Deng Wende, who was in charge of the Star City raiders, sent a communication:
"Your Majesty, there are several powerful people of the Sha'tar who say they have something very important to see you."
"Hmm!"
Li Qing was silent for a moment and said:
"Bring him here."
"The magnates of the Sha'tars? Is this a surrender?"
He didn't take it to heart, opened the universe in his palm and summoned the industrial fleet and the maintenance fleet out to prepare for the maintenance of the Star Castle.
Soon the communication opens again, and several gorgeously dressed sea spider men appear in the projection, one of them with a full body member
The black sea spider man made a strange salute to Li Qing and said loudly:
"Honorable Human Commander, we are the Elders of the Senate of the Sea Spider Tribe of the United Civilization of Shata, and I am Noel."
They speak the Shata language, not the lingua franca of mankind, and the reason why Li Qing can understand it is only because he has a translator.
Humans and Shata have been fighting for five years, and their languages have long been parsed and translated, and there is no barrier to communication.
In the face of the opponent's aristocratic class, Li Qing still maintained some etiquette, stretched out his hand to cover his chest and returned the salute, but said in a calm tone:
"I am Li Qing, the military commander of the United Human Empire's Garan Legion and the commander-in-chief of this fleet."
The sea spider nobleman returned the salute and said in a deep voice:
"Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief Li Qing, in fact, I have been advocating in the Tribal Senate to withdraw from the Shata United Empire and form an alliance with the human race, but the patriarch in charge of the military in the capital disagreed, which led to today's war."
"Hmm....."
Li Qing said with a smile:
"It's a pity, but it doesn't seem to make sense to say that at this point."
"No, it still makes sense, although the reef lair was captured by Commander Li Qing, there is still a division on the side of the Quelta Fortress, Marshal Quelta is the best commander in the history of our clan, it is difficult for you to capture the Querta Fortress."
After a slight pause, he continued:
"Of course, at this point we are defeated, and Marshal Quelta will have difficulty withstanding your siege, and it is only a matter of time before we are defeated without support, but I think we still have a certain role to play for you."
Li Qing shook his head and said indifferently:
"No, it doesn't work."
Noel, the black sea spider man, trembled in his heart when he saw Li Qing's indifferent expression, forced the abnormal emotions in his heart, and said in a deep voice:
"I admit that this defeat is far-reaching, and we are not strong enough to be on an equal footing with humans, but we still have tens of billions of people to serve you, and we have a powerful fleet willing to fight with you."
"You may not know that a very powerful psionic has been born in our Shata tribe, who has the extraordinary skill to unify all the tribes of the entire civilization, build a powerful empire led by him, and at the same time wage war against the Shar civilization and the Council of Sivas, as well as you humans."
"His strength is very strong, and the unified Shata United Empire is also very strong, we have learned about the human race, although your headquarters in another star field is strong, but it is definitely not as strong as the integrated Shata United Empire."
Li Qing tilted his head slightly, his face showed a hint of strangeness, and Shao Tian smiled slightly and said:
"First of all, we don't need your fleet, we can't look down on it."
After a pause, a trace of evil taste inexplicably floated in his heart, and said:
"In addition, perhaps you have some misunderstanding of the strength of our United Human Empire, the headquarters you know is not actually the headquarters of our civilization, our headquarters is in the distant star field, and the headquarters you know is just a small enclave of our civilization, a province like your southern province."
As he directly picked these out, Noel's pupils opened involuntarily, his eyes full of horror and disbelief.
Li Qing smiled slightly and said:
"I don't have to lie to you, our United Empire of Mankind is a powerful civilization far beyond your imagination, such a province, there are hundreds of them on our side, each of which can easily sweep away your so-called United Empire, what you are facing now is just an expeditionary force hosted by Jinmen Province and just established for five years."
Noel's pupils opened violently, and his mouth opened slightly involuntarily, the news was so shocking that he couldn't react for a while.
Li Qing put his hands behind his back and smiled slightly, and said:
"Therefore, your cooperation means nothing to us, and you are not qualified to form an alliance with our United Human Empire, or even become our vassals, depending on whether we are interested or not."
After saying this, Li Qing had no interest in continuing to chat.
He just said
It's not pretending, it's really not interested, why do you want a weak vassal?
Mining is not required, they have ample full-time miners for regular players.
There is no need for farming, as long as there is a planet, the fully automated farm does not need many manpower, even if you want to be a slave owner, you can use a clone who is honored and resentful.
Soldiers don't need it, they can't look at it, although the physique of the sea spider clan is slightly stronger than that of humans, but who can fight hand-to-hand in the troops of the interstellar era, all of them are high-tech weapons, and there are also alien troops in real hand-to-hand combat, which is much better than that of sea spider people.
Looking back, I feel useless, and it's so ugly.
Li Qing waved his hand, and was about to cut off the communication, when suddenly Noel raised his head as if he had woken up and shouted:
"Chief Li Qing, we can serve you, serve you alone, in addition, I also want to tell you an important news, the commander-in-chief of the previously defeated provincial guard fleet contacted the Rock Fortress support before the battle, and there is already an imperial division coming, it is estimated that it will arrive in less than eight hours!"
"Hmm!"
Li Qing paused and asked:
"Are you sure?"
Noel nodded vigorously:
"I'm sure we're arguing with him and we're under house arrest."
At this time, the other sea spider people beside him who had never had a chance to speak also nodded in affirmation.
Li Qing was silent for a moment, raised his head and said:
"I'm sorry to wait for a day, and if the reinforcements really come as you say, I'll give you a chance to serve me."
Disconnected, Li Qing opened the command channel for the first time, announced the news very calmly, and then the command channel was quiet.
A bunch of people in the channel were discussing how to clean up the defenders on this planet, and how to deal with the two or three billion sea spider people on the planet, and they were chatting happily, when they suddenly heard the news, everyone was dumbfounded.
"Everyone regroup, help deliver some supplies and collect the wreckage when they have time, and I'll go restart Star City and try to be able to fight before the battle begins."
If Star City can be restarted, with the geographical advantage brought by Star City and the existing fleet, it will not be irresistible.
There is only one division, and it's not that it hasn't been fought, or it is far away without the home of Star City, and its strength is not as strong as the reef lair defenders that they just dealt with.
Thinking of this, Li Qing put his mind at ease, and immediately ordered the team that was being repaired, asking them to restart Star City's shield first.
Other damage is just that, the key is to open the shield first, there is no shield and you need to rely directly on the armor to resist, and it will be very troublesome to repair in the future.
Time kept passing, and in the fourth hour, Star City's shield was finally reactivated, and Li Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief and waited with peace of mind.
At the sixth hour, the reconnaissance ship noticed that there was a sudden fleet jump in the void five million kilometers away from Star City, and the reconnaissance ship leaned over to find a strange fleet of Shata people jumping over.
But the specifications were small, consisting of only five destroyers and twenty frigates.
This is a reconnaissance fleet that approaches Star City after entering the galaxy, but suddenly stops when it is about a million kilometers away from Star City, and then turns around and runs.
Li Qing, who was about to mobilize the cruiser fleet to go around, was stunned for a moment, and then received a message from his subordinates from Star City, just now he received an unfamiliar signal from inside Star City, and before he could respond, the signal disappeared.
After a minute, the same unfamiliar signal reappeared and disappeared again.
After another minute, the same unfamiliar signal appeared for the third time and disappeared for the third time.
Engineers went back and forth, but they didn't find the source.
After the third time, the signal did not reappear.
Combined with the abnormal movement of this fleet just now, Li Qing had some understanding in his heart.
Time continued to pass, and soon more than eight hours passed, and there were no anomalies in the void.
Twelve hours have passed, and there are still no anomalies in the void, and the large number of reconnaissance ships sent out have not found any anomalies.
"It should be found that Star City has been captured, directly
Gone."
But Li Qing still didn't let his guard down, and just ordered Star City to close the shield and continue repairs.
It would take at least half an hour for Star City's shield to open and close, but with the fleet there, it would be enough to support half an hour and wait for it to restart, so it wouldn't be too much of a problem.
Next, Li Qing stayed awake and waited in front of the Titan Super Flagship Bridge.
Although he guessed that there was a high probability that they would not come, he did not dare to be careless.
It wasn't until a full twenty hours had passed that he breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the fleet to take turns to guard near Star City, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief and went to rest first.
It's been twelve hours since I woke up again, and everything is fine in Star City.
Obviously, it was found that Star City had been captured, and the reinforcements sent by Locke Fortress had not come.
If you think about it carefully, this is normal, Locke Fortress is the most important fortress level of the United Empire of Shata, and the security there is more important than the entire Southern Province, even if the entire Southern Province falls, there will be no problem, and the priority is not a level at all.
If there is a chance to fall, it is obvious that a division is not sure to take it, so it will naturally give up decisively.
"So, we succeeded!"
In the command channel, when Li Qing officially announced the news, everyone jumped up excitedly.
"That's great."
"We've really taken over a planet of life, it's so cool!"
"I'm going to get rich!"
"I'm rich, too."