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On the distant horizon, the sky was occupied by blood, forming a crimson band of light. Soon, some black dots appeared in the red band of light, and the black dots quickly continued into patches, eventually forming a rolling wave. In that black tide, it is composed of countless black monsters. These monsters are three meters long, with a thin head and tail and a round middle. The whole body is covered in a crystal-like shell, and a row of thin claws protrude from each side, and the claws slide rapidly, allowing the strange insects to move quickly like a land chariot.

They are the Stormtroopers, a class of troops widely used by Jinrosius during the Fourth Age Wars. These insects are highly mobile and capable of quickly attacking defensive positions. However, the defense and attack power are very low, and it belongs to the cannon fodder type of troops. However, the number of storm bugs is numerous, and the wave of bugs surging from the horizon alone will reach the order of nearly one million in the forwards, and the number of those behind is unknown. Just looking at the horizon is chilling enough.

Looking at the past, it is densely packed with the figures of storm bugs. The first flood peak they formed, the width of which was not known how many kilometers long, surged wildly. The ground seemed to be covered with a black curtain, and it quickly approached the fortress of war.

Under the control of Agradis, the commander of the army issued one order after another, so all the soldiers mobilized and entered their battle zone one by one. The alien soldiers and many powerful men remained unmoved, as if it was not yet their turn to play.

The Storm Worm formed a Dao Dao Flood Peak and rushed straight to the war fortress, and at this time, some extremely huge figures appeared on the horizon. First of all, there are some strange beasts with large fleshy bodies, with a head like a giant tortoise, but it is covered with lines and hexahedral crystals. Four short, thick legs supported the massive body, moving at a slow pace.

There were only about a hundred of these strange beasts, and the number was pitiful, but the energy aura emitted from their bodies was so strong that it was close to more than half of the entire Storm Bug. They are producers, units that have no combat power, but are able to extract planetary resources and convert them into the power hedrons needed by the Prosius army. The producer began to stop and lay on the ground, growing whiskers from his short legs and head and plunging into the ground one by one. They began to draw the planet's energy, and their meat-like bodies began to light up, and glowing hedrons were emitted from the tail bays.

There were also some large alien beast units coming from the horizon, with humanoid upper bodies and large knobby bodies underneath, with six thick pitch-black arthropods nailed deep into the ground. Before moving forward in one step and ten meters, the humanoid upper body has distinctly human female features, no hands, and multiple tentacles covered with suction cups.

They are the Queen, a type of production unit that comes up behind the producer and uses its tentacles to send the energy hedron produced by the producer into a giant mouth located on the chest. After the energy hedron was swallowed to a certain amount, the tail of the queen's body began to ovulate. They can shed thousands of eggs at a time, and the ovulation interval depends on the order of the production unit.

Now the queen is producing a mid-tier class, which is a reaper with excellent mobility and quick attack, but they have the disadvantage of weak defense, which can be mass-produced. Hundreds of queens are produced together, and each time they can produce 100,000 eggs. The interval between harvesters is 10 minutes, which means that in an hour, 600,000 harvesters will appear.

Assuming that there is no time limit, then at the end of the day, tens of millions of troops will be formed. Of course, the queen doesn't just produce reapers, and although they are mid-level combat units, they are still cannon fodder consumables for Prosius, just like the Stormtroopers. Priority production can form a good number of combat units in a short period of time, in order to provide production time for subsequent high-level or even top-level combat units.

By the time the queen ovulated for the second time, the first eggs had begun to hatch, and from them crawled out of them reaper larvae shaped like scorpions but with two pairs of sickle-like arthropods. The larvae use their sickle arthropods to chop the eggshell into pieces and devour it. The body swells as it devours, and then the shell cracks, and an adult reaper crawls out of it.

Adult Reapers, who are not even as large as the Charger Bugs, are just over a meter long, have six black claws, and have three hexagonal hexagonal hedrons embedded in their knotted bodies, which are the power source for the Reapers. As soon as they broke out of their shells, hundreds of thousands of reapers quickly threw themselves into the battlefield, trailing away with the stormtroopers.

At this time, the vanguard of the Storm Bug was already less than a kilometer away from the war fortress. The fortress's massive war machine began to activate, and the missile launch platform took the lead in attacking, and after a simple positioning, the missiles were dragged into the air by fire, skimming the parabola on the bloody canopy, and then falling into the insect tide.

In the first wave alone, thousands of missiles were fired!

Fireballs exploded in the insect tide, leaving huge gaps in the black curtain every time they appeared. But these gaps will soon be filled in by the bugs behind them.

In the command building in the fortress, the combat staff officers input one command after another to the brain in front of them, so as to send the orders of the headquarters to each command node. There must not be a trace of error in these commands, otherwise unnecessary losses will be caused. Under the deployment of the headquarters, some soldiers broke away from the square phalanx, but more soldiers were still ready to go.

The missile strike continued, this was already the third wave of the offensive, and thousands of missiles were thrown into the insect tide, accompanied by the flames and shock waves of the explosion, the color of the insect tide was obviously much lighter than before. The strikers of the Storm Worm are already approaching the fortress of war, and the previous million strikers have been cut in half under the continuous bombardment of missiles, but the number is still daunting.

As soon as they approached the fortress of war, the stormtrooper insect that served as the vanguard suddenly only bounced off the ground, and then the body segment stretched, and the segment grew violently, and purple insect stingers emerged from the gaps in the open body segments, which immediately armed the original chariot-like insect to the teeth. These stings can be fired, and when shot, the shell will crack and the inside will sputter with poisonous insect fluid. At the same time, it can also be used to drill the enemy during close combat, and it is an attack method that can be flexibly used by the Storm Bug.

And now, the giant scorpion-like insect is the true form of the storm bug.

At this time, thousands of heavy artillery batteries on the fortress began to enter the battle, and the dull sound of heavy artillery rose and fell, and one after another roaring shells fell into the sky, exploding a bright belt of fire on the battlefield. The bugs were blown up in pieces, their fragile shells could not reach the bombardment of heavy artillery, and countless bugs were blown into a pile of flesh, but this could not stop the determination of the bugs to attack, so the follow-up bugs continued to cross this fire belt, and then the second and third fire belts lit up on the battlefield.

The appearance of each fire belt represents that tens of thousands of storm bugs have been blown away, but the fire belt has gradually retracted. When it shrank to a distance of about 300 meters from the fortress, the fire belt no longer flinched, but resolutely bombarded in turns, constantly digging up and flying insects and the earth. Starting from the first fire belt, it is only a distance of more than 200 meters to the last fire belt. But this distance has cut off nearly 100,000 troops.

The battlefield became a meat grinder.

Following the heavy artillery, the distinctive sound of anti-aircraft guns and revolver guns sounded in the fortress. Arranged in the tens of thousands of shooting holes in the defensive wall in front of the fortress, these two powerful guns fired at the same time, and the visible bright line of fire immediately pierced the battlefield, and the smell of gunpowder and blood mixed together to form a unique smell of the battlefield. Nearly a hundred flamethrowers on the defensive wall worked at the same time, and under the operation of the soldiers, one after another fire dragons sprayed down the city wall and swept over the stormtroopering insects. Immediately, the insect shell bursts, and the insect is on fire all over its body, turning into fireballs.

By this time, the previous contact battle between Agradis and Prosius was in full swing, and the flames of war spread across thousands of square kilometers of the battlefield, and the flames of explosions and splatters of flesh could be seen in almost every corner. At this time, as the attacking side, the Storm Worm had almost dropped nearly a million corpses, and the casualties on the fortress side were almost negligible.

However, the number of Storm Bugs is still numbing, and behind the Bug Tide, three waves of Reapers have already joined the battlefield, and it won't be long before the number of Reapers will catch up with the Bugs.

Some of the bugs had already begun to climb the defensive wall, but on the wall, the dense fire points sprinkled a rain of bullets from the wall, beating the stormtroopers clinging to the wall into a sieve and shooting them down one by one. Every minute and every second, the corpse of the storm bug can be seen falling down on the city wall, and from a distance, it looks like a rain of insects. But if this continues, it is only a matter of time before the storm worm enters the fortress, so the command corrects the order.

On the take-off apron, groups of light mechs took off in formation, with 100 combat units as a team, and threw them into the battlefield in a defensive formation. These mechs resemble the Griffon Knights of the Western Continent, but are clearly improved. Mechs are half as large as Griffin Knights, which allows them to carry more weapons. For example, the previous pocket guided missile system has been replaced, and now it is equipped with small scattered missiles on the shoulder, and the medicine bay has also been expanded to improve the Griffin Knight's combat capabilities.

The portable micro-machine gun was replaced by a wrist-armor repeating machine gun, and the wrist-armor machine gun magazine was equipped with standard bullets and a small number of incendiary grenades.

At the back, the chest armor is equipped with a miniature reactor, which greatly increases the power of the old Griffon Rider and can emit pulsed light waves when needed, causing massive damage. However, pulsed light waves consume a lot of energy from the mech, so operators will not use them unless absolutely necessary.

These second-generation griffin knights continued to rise into the air, and in the blink of an eye, there were nearly 10,000 griffin knights in the sky of the fortress, but the number continued to increase.

At the same time, on both sides of the fortress, one by one the warehouse doors opened, and from inside drove out of the mechas. These mechs are obviously an improved version of the Paladin's mecha, and the original bipedal walking mode has been replaced by the axle wheel glide mode, and the mecha's feet are equipped with a row of axle wheels, which greatly improves the shortcomings of the original lack of mobility. At the same time, the old revolver cannon was removed and replaced with a double-barreled automatic gun. On the shoulders is a linked missile launch system, behind it is a howitzer that can be lifted and lowered, and on the waist is a combinable high-frequency Tomahawk assembly, which allows the driver to still use the Tomahawk for hand-to-hand combat when the ammunition is exhausted.

Greatly improved paladins continued to emerge from the mech warehouse, forming silver torrents that approached the stormtroopers from both sides.

Whether it is an improved griffin knight or a paladin, it is not a fantasy of Agradis, but a technique that can be developed in a limited time according to the technology and development ability that humans currently master, so that he can reproduce and put it on the battlefield, and the combat unit obtained through digital modeling.

In other words, in time, if nothing happens, the two mecha in the Western Continent will be what they are now.

As soon as it was lifted into the air, the griffin knights formed a defensive formation and flew directly to the front of the army of charging insects, and as soon as they swept into the battlefield, the shoulder armor of all the knights was opened, and the scattered small missiles inside continued to shoot out, and suddenly it rained down, densely blasting towards the insect tide below. A moment later, countless small fireballs appeared in the insect tide, and the griffin knights' formations and bombing points were carefully calculated to achieve maximum lethality.

After several bombardments back and forth, the insect tide in front of the fortress was significantly reduced, creating a rare void.

Paladins from both sides occupied the empty space and formed the first line of steel defense. The Paladin's double-barreled automatic cannon fires at a rate of two rounds per second, and the bullets of the cannon are enough to blast a huge hole in the bug's body, killing a bug with a few shots, and blasting it to pieces with a few more shots. Of course, the drivers were not going to be so wasteful, and they attacked in echelons under the orders of the commander, repeatedly bombarding the incoming swarms.

After another two rounds of bombardment, the griffin knights in the sky basically ran out of sporadic missiles on their shoulders. As a result, some of the mechs returned to reload, while the other part cooperated with the ground troops, using wrist-armored machine guns to strafe, occasionally replacing them with incendiary bombs, forming a wall of fire in the insect tide. It's just that the wall of fire doesn't have much time to stop the insect tide, and after a while, it is trampled by the insects that rush forward and follow.

Following these two mechas, when obtaining the empty space in front of the fortress, the vital gate began to rise, and the first thing to open was all kinds of steel combat vehicles, in addition to the common artillery tanks, missile armored vehicles, there was also a new combat unit. This combat unit is like an upgraded artillery tank, with the same tracked power system, but the ordinary cannon is replaced by a double-barreled cannon, but this double-barreled cannon is only a radiated cannon, which is located on both sides of the combat vehicle, and has a separate combat platform, which needs to be operated by soldiers. The main gun is a 120 mm muzzle plasma cannon, which was originally used on the Knights of the Round Table Arthur, but is now loaded on this new vehicle.

This vehicle, called Thor, is a complete war machine with powerful firepower.

After the tank, another large batch of combat units appeared. They are a combination of mechs and chariots, with a human-like design on the upper body and a disc wheel and a tracked body at the waist. The new mech, which is nearly five meters tall, holds a high-temperature flamethrower and a large fuel tank on the back, which can ensure that they can fight for a long time.

On each side of the fuel tank hangs a double-barreled shotgun to ensure that the mech can continue to fight when the fuel runs out. Even the locomotive at the bottom was not just an ornament, the anti-aircraft machine guns in front and the small artillery platforms on the sides could provide sufficient firepower.

The mecha called the Annihilator, which requires three operators alone, is a mecha that requires multiple people to control, and belongs to the same large combat unit as Thor. Along with the Annihilators, there were also ordinary human soldiers, dressed in lightweight, defensive tactical uniforms. The standard is equipped with new-age high-energy drive rifles, which are faster and more powerful. In addition to this, there are composite daggers, high-explosive grenades, and self-detonation devices that act as the most sophisticated means of warfare.

When the main force of this fortress left for the battlefield, the Storm Bugs were immediately harvested in large quantities, especially when big guys like Thor and Annihilator were put on the battlefield, they were simply small fortresses that could be moved. As soon as Thor's plasma cannon blasts out, it will clear a passage of nearly two hundred meters and four or five meters wide in the insect tide, and the subsequent explosion will continue to dig a blank in the insect tide.

The Annihilator is no slouch, the fuel produced by the improved formula can shoot flames of up to 2,000 degrees, not to mention the Storm Bug, even steel has to be melted into iron juice. As the Annihilator fought, the jet swept out the Dao Fire Dragon, and with a casual sweep towards the swarm, the Storm Worms fell in pieces.

Coupled with the help of various locomotives such as artillery, tanks, missile fighting vehicles, etc., the army of the fortress not only stopped the insect tide, but also tended to advance to the rear of the Prosius army. By this time, the storm bugs had fallen in half, and millions of corpses witnessed the tragedy of the war.

But at this time, the reaper of Prosius finally arrived.

These units, which are more agile than the Stormtrooper, quickly evade the fire of the fortress army, and if they are unable to do so, they will temporarily order nearby Stormtrooper to act as their own flesh shield. Once the distance is closed, the Reaper will pounce on him.

The first line of defense against the Reapers is the Paladin, and the pilots of the mechs roar and crash into these monsters of comparable size. After the initial collision, there was a fierce tear-off. The Paladin's double-barreled cannon can easily leave huge wounds on the Reaper's body, but at the same time, the Reaper's razor-sharp scythe is enough to smash the Paladin's mech.

In terms of destructive power, the two are evenly matched. The number of Reapers is ten times that of Paladins, or even higher!