Chapter 691, Insect Saint Bio-Titan, Battle of Rheaduches (6)
Chapter 691, Insect Saint Bio-Titan, Battle of Rheaduches (VI)
Le Luwa understood that Gu Hang had sent such a force not just for him to defend the base.
It is not even possible to simply expand the base.
Although this is an achievement, it is obviously disappointing.
Even Leroy himself would look down on this achievement.
The target he chose was an insect nest that he had discovered was about 80 kilometers away from the base.
Human defense is, of course, never about holding on to one's death. It is true that many trenches were dug and some bunkers were quickly built on the border of the base, but some passages were also left. If the Zerg wanted to rush in from the flat area of the passage, they would be courting death. The passages left behind are areas of special concern, and they require cross-fire coverage. After the Zerg tried several times and sacrificed many in vain, they just continued to attack the fire points one by one.
On the contrary, the human side often uses these channels to launch outward attacks.
Armored units attack to destroy the Zerg's biological artillery positions; elite units take advantage of the intervals between wars to go out and perform special operations missions. Mission types range from sabotage to decapitation of high-value targets to intelligence reconnaissance.
Especially intelligence reconnaissance.
There are reconnaissance spearhead companies from various units, stormtroopers, space marines...all of them will perform various intelligence gathering tasks of varying values.
Among them, this place was chosen as the target by Le Luwa this time.
It was not only an anti-aircraft nest, but also a huge hatching nest. It should not have been so large in the past, but when the human base was built, it seemed to be chosen by the queen of insects or some other high-level node creature as one of the core bases of the insect swarm.
The functions of the hatchery and arsenal were greatly enhanced. Many pipelines for transporting biomass were connected in it, and even if it was not enough, many soldier insects and specialized hatched giant land transport creatures arrived at this nest carrying huge amounts of biomass.
At the same time, the large number of Zerg creatures hatched in this nest became an important factor in attacking human positions and creating military pressure.
From there, according to the opinions of the alien handling experts of the Anti-Foreign Order, judging from the scale of the insect nest, it can hatch about 100,000 to 200,000 insects a day, which puts a lot of pressure on the human base.
Removing it not only destroyed a large anti-aircraft insect nest, but also cut off the enemy's means of directly and quickly replenishing troops on the front line. Moreover, the large amount of biomass remaining in it could be regarded as potential enemies. Destroying it while it is still biomass is definitely much easier than destroying it after it is hatched into insects.
It is even possible that these biomass were originally in the heart of the Zerg-controlled area and were transported here after being digested by Zerg armies, worker insects and other creatures.
The Zerg will indeed do this kind of thing. As long as the entire process of digestion - transportation - and then hatching takes less time and consumes less energy than the Zerg army's own movement, they will arrange it this way.
Obviously, transporting troops from the other side of the world to here in a re-hatching mode is much more economical than letting those Zerg troops run for a long time.
But it also gives humans room for breakthroughs.
At one dawn, the human army set out.
Dozens of Lion King tanks led the way, followed by more than ten times the number of Lion tanks, and even more armored vehicles carrying infantry set off.
The human artillery in the position covered the armored forces' advance path with tens of thousands of shells in a short period of time.
The swarm of insects also responded immediately.
They also noticed the previous large-scale successful airborne situation and were able to analyze that humans were likely to launch an offensive operation later. However, they still failed to stop it.
The proud numerical advantage was not brought into play. Under the fierce bombardment, no swarm of insects could show their heads. They followed the requirements of the superior node creatures and hid in tunnels, caves and other places. At the very least, they had to lie half-lying on the ground to avoid the bombardment.
They are not afraid of death, but when the node creatures are alive, they can analyze what is a necessary sacrifice and what is a wasted death.
It was not until the bombing was over that the remaining Zerg emerged and tried to stop the advance of the armored forces.
But it was ruthlessly crushed by the steel torrent.
They could only make way for the enemy and then try to attack the attacking armored convoy from the side.
But it was still useless. After sacrificing a large number of units, the final outcome was still failure.
The human armored forces took about a day to break through the 80-kilometer route. During this time, countless battles of varying sizes took place, but almost all of them ended with human victory.
At night, the advance basically stopped, but a considerable number of infantrymen were still working. They drove engineering machinery and quickly dug some trenches. The self-propelled artillery, including armored guns and simpler truck guns, that were escorted over entered the position.
At night, the swarm of insects, which suffered heavy losses, launched several attacks, causing some damage. It was especially dangerous when a group of snake insects burrowed into the ground and cooperated with a group of assassin insects to suddenly attack.
However, Leroy personally led a team of hundreds of Black Crusaders to destroy the invading Zerg elite units. The Executioner Tyrant, which was a node creature, was also destroyed by Leroy himself.
On the morning of the next day, after the human troops were ready for attack, they launched a fierce attack on the insect lair.
The Titan Legion, which had been gathering its strength, also set out.
This battle can be regarded as the most exaggerated battle in the surface battle of Rheaduches.
Over the past entire day, the Zerg, feeling threatened, has been mobilizing its forces; the hatchery itself has also done its best to create a large army, which has been resisting layer by layer within the insect lair, repeatedly hindering the offensive pace of the human forces.
By the afternoon, they had not yet broken into the city and had lost two War Dog Titans.
In the evening, a large swarm of insects finally arrived to provide support.
Among them, the most eye-catching are several Zerg creatures that are even larger than the warlord-level Titans at first glance!
Insect Saint Bio-Titan!
They have four long legs to support their huge bodies; a long gun barrel extends from their mouthparts, and a single shot from a distance can smash a Lion tank; the varying numbers of appendages extending from their bodies are the most terrifying melee weapons.
It wasn't just the Insect Saint Titans that came. There were also some that were smaller than the Insect Saints, but also reached a similar level to that of war dogs. Two thick recurved legs supported the body, and the forelimbs were two huge biological symbiotic cannons. The mouthparts were so large that they could almost bite the upper body of the Titan.
The Zerg Bio-Titan appears.
(End of this chapter)
