Chapter 697: The Last Line of Defense, the Battle of Rheaduches (1)

Chapter 697: The Last Line of Defense, the Battle of Rheaduches (XII)

If the extinction order has been delivered to the ground by a transport ship, then launching it from the ground would be much easier than having to overcome the layers of obstructions of biological ships and the interception of ground orbital firepower from space.

There is no need to even launch it, it can be detonated directly in an open-air environment, leaving no room for the Zerg to intercept it.

The estimated detonation time is one month later.

This month is naturally the time for ground troops to withdraw.

The fact that the extermination order would be detonated was not announced to the front-line troops. Only senior commanders such as Salilius, Martins, and Xi Rui knew about it.

The purpose of concealing the situation was to avoid panic.

The human troops on the ground were all brave warriors, but if the one-month evacuation deadline was known, it would inevitably cause a lot of unnecessary chaos.

Avoid it if you can.

What's more, the Queen of Insects knew that a Burning Sky Torpedo was coming down.

It was desperate, that was true, but that didn't mean the controller of this hive would give up struggling.

Since the interception in the air failed, destroying it on the ground became the last option.

There will definitely be a large number of insect swarms, which will take advantage of the human forces' shrinking and retreating to a certain extent, and attack the location of the Burning Sky Torpedo with all their strength, destroying it before it explodes.

By then, a force will definitely be needed on the ground to hold on for a short period of time during the final detonation.

This unit... unfortunately, is the victim.

Perhaps at the last moment, the Alliance Command will tell them the real situation.

Or maybe not.

But all in all, they are one of the 'price' for detonating the Burning Sky Torpedo.

If he has to pay, Gu Hang will make the decision calmly.

……

The subsequent developments were basically consistent with Gu Hang’s plans, assumptions, and predictions.

The ground force evacuation plan was executed relatively smoothly.

But at the same time, the Zerg troops are also pressing forward step by step. As the human forces shrink, the Zerg will soon regain lost territory.

By the 30th day, there were only about human troops left on the ground.

The defense line they held was a circle with a radius of about fifteen kilometers.

The artillery position was in the middle, and in every direction around it, there were numerous pillboxes and fire points. These were all built by the engineering troops who drove the engineering machinery and worked overtime in the past month.

At this time, the last transport ship had already left.

Half of these 20,000 people were elite soldiers from the Skeleton Division of an alliance, and the other half were from the infantry regiment of the Solar Legion with a glorious history. Their orders were to hold their ground and wait for the next transport ship to arrive. The center of the position was where the spaceship would land.

Their forces were relatively small, and even though they had ample firepower, they were still inevitably overwhelmed by enemies that were ten or a hundred times their size.

However, the remaining troops continued to perform their duties with high morale, determined to hold on until the last moment.

That moment has arrived.

The spaceship they were expecting to take them to evacuate was nowhere to be seen, but a gap appeared in the center of the position where the transport spaceship had been reserved for landing.

The gap was getting bigger and bigger, and a missile that seemed huge to humans and required the largest transport spacecraft to carry was slowly pushed up.

Ordinary soldiers and junior officers might not recognize what it was, but the senior generals from the Sun Legion and the Alliance Army who stayed behind would recognize it.

The moment they saw this, they understood what the coalition leaders were planning. They were abandoned, and their mission was to use their lives to stop the enemy's final attack. There had never been a transport ship prepared for them, and they were destined to die here.

Faced with this situation, they all made the same choice: remain silent and carry on as usual.

They faced the bad news on the battlefield one after another with a calm mind, and listened to the battle lines being lost one after another. When the junior officers asked them where the ship to take them away was when the time had come, they would often just answer with one sentence: "Follow the order and hold on to the end."

And that Burning Sky torpedo didn't even need to be completely launched from the temporary launch silo, the ignition procedure had already been started.

……

The ignition procedure started, but the Burning Sky torpedo did not explode.

Gu Hang knew exactly why: the Queen Insect was still making her final struggle.

At the critical moment, she removed the suppression of psychic power by the subspace shadow, and two neurozoa began to project psychic power across half the world.

It was this force that terminated the ignition process.

Gu Hang was not surprised.

It is normal for the queen insect to fight desperately.

Something that was expected.

Temporarily lifting the shadow of the subspace not only liberated the neurozoa around the two queens, but also liberated Gu Hangke.

In an instant, his psychic power also descended to the ground.

The Zerg psychic power that originally wanted to destroy the Burning Sky Torpedo was stopped by Gu Hang.

But the two neuroprotozoa did not retreat. They bit and ripped into him frantically, entangled with Gu Hang's spiritual energy.

Now, they are the ones who are stalling.

They tried to entangle Gu Hang and prevent him from using his psychic power to directly continue the ignition process.

As long as we can achieve this goal, that's enough.

On the ground, the Zerg army was getting closer and closer, and the Bio-Titans had already appeared on the battlefield. The remaining small human forces were no longer able to stop them. Given a little more time, they would be able to destroy the Burning Sky Torpedo from the ground and physically.

At that time, the subspace shadow can be blocked again.

By then, it wouldn’t matter even if the two neuroprotozoa had been torn to pieces by Gu Hang’s psychic power. They were also the price the Queen of Insects could pay.

As for the next time there is a similar crisis, how will the queen deal with it without the neurozoa... That will have to happen first. This time it's all over, not to mention the future.

What's more, humans have already withdrawn from the ground. Later, she can focus on repairing, proliferating, and deploying numerous air-raid nests to reoccupy this area. If humans want to repeat the same trick and occupy the ground, even if they can do it, it will take a very long time.

If we hold on for half a year, there will be hope.

Seeing that the Queen's final struggle was about to succeed, Gu Hang completely suppressed the two neuroprotozoa and was in an absolute advantage, but the time he needed to deal with them was still not faster than the time it took for the swarm to overwhelm the human ground forces.

If this trend continues, the final outcome will probably be that the Bio-Titan physically destroys the Burning Sky Torpedo.

But at this moment, a roaring giant thunder bear, almost the same size as a biological titan, appeared on the battlefield on the ground, and pounced on it, knocking down a bug saint.

Afterwards, giant bears appeared one after another, accompanied by hundreds of thousands of azure heroic warriors, pouring out from the subspace cracks.

They became the last line of defense to stop the swarm of insects!
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Even more.

go to bed
(End of this chapter)