Chapter 362 Four o'clock in the afternoon
As mentioned before, the second round of duels surrounding Tasanis went directly into a state of stalemate from the beginning, which may be incorrect, because for the human coalition at this time, their situation tends to be more critical than stalemate in the face of the sea of insects.
It is not necessary to say that Al's fleet is at a disadvantage in number, but there is no big problem with resisting the Sea of Insects. After all, in addition to Tasada's interstellar cruise fleet, there is also the Cronis Expeditionary Fleet that was urgently mobilized back - the Expeditionary Fleet is an elite with high self-sustaining ability formed to explore the deep space universe (Note 1 - see the author for details), rather than a local garrison. In front of two complete elite Protos fleets, the Sea of Insects has some advantages and is slowly advancing, but it will definitely not be able to gain an absolute advantage for a while.
As for Lehman, he was originally luring the enemy into the depths, so he dragged the sea of insects behind his butt and ran wildly like Jerry with Tom behind his butt. Naturally, there was no advantage or disadvantage.
But the human coalition is different. Their troops do not have much weapon and technical advantages and not much quantity at this time. It can be said that they do not occupy any end, so it is quite hard to fight. Moreover, they have one of the biggest military weaknesses, which is as follows:
At about 2 pm local time, when the fire intensity reached its peak, the human coalition's space fleet formed a triangular resistance formation. One side was the fleet of the sons of Kha led by Akturas Minsk, the other was the fleet of Yumoyang led by Minsk's father-in-law Pasteur, and the last one was the fleet of Kha's leader led by the guildmaster Abraham Kaczynsky (note 2-see the author for details).
The triangle formed by these three fronts firmly protects the transport fleet in the center, which looks indestructible, but the strength of these three lines is different - the son of Keha is fighting all year round and is extremely brave, but the other two fleets are different.
The Guild War has ended for a long time. The Kelvin troops have been satisfied with the public security war to suppress the working people's resistance. They are very good at bullying miners like Rory Swan, but they would have been a little short of attacks like the tsunami of the guild. If the guild president Kaczynski, who was as majestic as Hannibal to the Celtics and all kinds of coercion and temptation, they might have collapsed long ago.
So if we mark the combat power of the son of Keha at this time as 10 and the combat power of the Kailian at this time, then the combat power of the Yumoyang fleet at this moment is at most between 4-5.
This is the biggest weakness of the human coalition. Their combat power is somewhat uneven, and this weakness was soon discovered by the brainworm Zas, who was specifically responsible for attacking the human coalition. The insect swarm quickly identified in the temptation that the Yumoyang fleet was the shortest and most fragile of the three embankments, so it launched a more fierce attack on the Yumoyang coalition.
Under the impact of the Sea of Insects, the Youmoyang fleet quickly lost many battlecruisers and aerospace fighters, which was in danger.
Fortunately, at this moment, the commander-in-chief of the coalition was not the weak politician Pasteur, nor the profit-oriented Kaczynsky, but the hero of Akturas Minsk. Although he could not be called a famous general, he had already seen his weaknesses and knew that his father-in-law Yumoyang's fleet was a shortcoming, so he prepared the support force early.
Just as Zas launched a fierce attack on Yumoyang, a large number of vengeful spirit fighters who had activated their stealth devices quietly passed through the chaotic front and touched the bottom of the front line of the Yumoyang fleet. After the swarms were still intensively assaulted, these vengeful spirit fighters who had unloaded all Gemini missiles fired their nuclear missiles in a row. These large-scale nuclear bombs briefly cleared the vanguard of the swarm with scorching shock waves, creating a valuable respite for the Youmoyang fleet.
Then Akturas started to do [Scattered Boy] at the speed of the guild leader of Kailian's guild. The son of Keha began to launch nuclear bombs without any money. This combat method made Kailian and Yumoyang stunned. Minsk breathed a sigh of relief at this time. Since seeing the insect swarms on Bekaro many years ago, Minsk has been preparing for war. He cleverly judged through the combat characteristics displayed by the Zerg in small-scale battles that it must be a key to offset the numerical advantage of the insect swarm, so he has been preparing secretly over the years.
The Marines who had shown their power before were one of the preparations, and this large number of nuclear bombs were also one of the preparations. Not only that, he also ordered the ground troops to give priority to the Apocalypse nuclear bombs reserved by the Federal Army in Tasanis, and threw these terrifying killers that turned his hometown into ashes and threw them at the insect swarm.
Under the burning of nuclear flames, the human joint fleet seemed to defend the fire, resisting the beast-like Zerg troops that rushed from the darkness while the light of the fire faded.
Minsk looked at this battle situation that could be said to be a dangerous situation, his face looked ugly as Napoleon who saw the shadow of St. Helena, but he also knew that there was a great opportunity in this great risk. If he could survive, then what awaited him would be a complete and unified human empire--and according to what Lehman said before, he must retreat, just wait for the retreat signal.
However, Minsk did not intend to defend himself like this. He saw the situation very clearly. The key now lies in the progress of the population retreat on the surface of the planet. In other words, the retreat operations and resistance forces on the ground are the keys to the real breakthrough. If the planet had been completely evacuated, he knew that Lehman would have pulled him away long ago.
As for the situation on the planet, he also had a strategy from observing Lehman's combat operations and immediately put it into practice. In order to implement this strategy smoothly, he was preparing to send his most powerful ghost agent, Sarah Carrigan, to the planet's surface. Now he only hopes that the defenders on the planet's surface can persist until the complete implementation of this strategy.
Jim Reno, the interim commander of the ground forces at the largest evacuation point on the planet's surface, soon received a message from Minsk. At this time, he and Minsk did not have the deep hatred and still had a good impression of Minsk. So after receiving the order from Minsk, he quickly converted the skuo into an autonomous driving turret and began to discuss with Tex.
In the communication sent by Minsk, they asked them to kill as many Zerg lords as possible. Now because of Lehman's information sharing, everyone knows that those guys who look like personal brains and elephant trunks and full of tentacles are the key to the front-line command of the insect swarm, and knows that these big guys have no attack power except for using tentacles to bind and capture unarmed civilians.
But without attack power does not mean it is easy to fight. Of course, this is not because these command centers are equipped with armor that is thicker than some domestic game manufacturers who claim to be 100 million masterpieces but are a sewing monster, but because these lords are placed at a safe distance, just like any mobile warning center.
For example, the lords who now make Jim and Tex have a headache floating in an altitude of nearly 18,000 meters. This altitude has long exceeded the effective shooting height of ground air defense fire, and neither Golia's Hellfire missile nor the longbow missiles of the missile tower are reaching.
When the ground air defense firepower is not reached, of course, we must consider the support of the Air Force brothers. However, at this moment, all the air forces cannot be freed. The human coalition and the Air Force of the Star Fleet are all in the universe, while Lehman's black dragon puppets are basically exhausted, and a small number are parked on the ground to serve as the final reserve team. How to attack the lords in the sky suddenly seems to have become an unsolvable problem for Jim and Tex.
But it just seemed that Jim, a nimble front-line commander, cooperated with Tex, who was the walking lower limit reducer, and quickly came up with a solution. They simply modified the nuclear bombs that were delegated to them for defense, and then shot them into the sky with the electromagnetic catapult device inside the base.
After these nuclear bombs were thrown into the sky, they were about to contact the Zerg Air Force that came to intercept, and they were detonated by time or remote control devices. After other resistance points were also copied, for a moment, not only did the nuclear bomb flash constantly on the surface of the ground, but even the air was like the night sky of the small county town where the rabbit family couldn't help but fireworks, flashing non-stop.
Because Lehman and Minsk had explained before that the planet Tasanis had to give up temporarily, and rescuing people was the most important thing, so the human warriors on the planet completely broke off the shackles of gravity when their feet were still on the earth. They began to project a large number of nuclear weapons accumulated by humans as ordinary ammunition. Anyway, the planet is not allowed for the time being. People are wearing three-defense clothing such as power armor, afraid of being furious!
This nuclear bomb projection tactic, which does not consider the environment, can make environmentalists so angry that they can ascend to heaven directly, not only blocks the ground offensive of the sea of insects, but also clears a lot of the sky covered by the insect swarm, not only kills a large number of lords, but also makes many remaining lords empty all of a sudden.
A large area of airspace was empty around many lords, and before the Zerg's air force had time to fill the seat, a group of special troops deployed to the ground by Minsk and other human coalition fleets began to operate. These soldiers who were riding through the atmosphere on small stealth transport ships were waiting for the clearance to appear around the lord, jumped down from the transport ship, wearing various wing suits covering the biological signal characteristics, and dived towards the lord!
"This is Sarah Kerrigan. The commando began to act, select their respective targets, and immediately joined the nearby resistance base after landing on the ground to prepare for the mission. Squad A, come with me, come on!" A remaining lord locked through the tactical goggles in the wing suit and issued an order.
"Alpha, get it!"
Several warriors in wing suit responded to the command, followed Carrigan, and rushed towards the lord as quickly as a swift to cut open the clouds. With the help of the small signal characteristics, they approached a fatal distance before the lord discovered them.
"Flip, fire!"
Kerrigan took the lead, flew past the lord, then turned over, from a downward dive into a pose falling to a back to the earth, then raised the miniature rocket launcher she carried with her and exploded the lord's head away with one shot.
For a time, more lords fell from the air. When the swarm was in chaos due to the loss of a large number of lords, the commando of the Son of Khas landed on the surface of Tasanis with more psychic signal transmitters.
Chapter completed!