In the virtual war room, after deploying the combat mission, Jiang Xingchen emphasized again.
All fleet commanders saluted and shouted.
Jiang Xingchen knew very well that the key to solving the problem of the Zerg was not the lower-level third-level Zerg that accounted for 99.99% of the Zerg, but the upper-level third-level commanding class.
That is, the leader of the swarm, the leader of the swarm, and the prince.
Well, in addition to the third level, we also need to add the Zerg Queen Aisha.
As for the units at the lower third level, they can be handed over to the affiliated civilization for cleaning later.
Therefore, Jiang Xingchen's action goal this time is very clear, that is...
At the top of the Zerg pyramid in the starry sky, Zerg Queen Aisha, and the hundreds of Zerg princes!
It is not required to kill them all at once, after all, this is not realistic, but at least dozens of Zerg princes must be killed!!
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A few hours later.
It is 457 light years away from the federal controlled area.
Nearly a hundred of them are as big as a planet and look different, like Zerg princes of different races, forming a guard formation.
Protect Queen Ayesha firmly in the middle.
At this moment, all the princes are gathered here except those commanding at the front.
Within the spiritual network...
"Queen, we have assembled more than 90% of the insect group, and we can start!"
"Then start, but be careful of their sneak attacks..."
However.
Just when Ayesha wanted to remind Feisal to be careful of human sneak attacks.
Aisha suddenly felt something, and then her face suddenly changed.
"defense!!!"
Although he reacted immediately and conveyed the order through the Zerg spiritual network.
But, it's too late!
Tens of thousands of space attacks have been intensively attacking from a certain direction.
The two princes were cut into countless pieces before they could even defend themselves.
Even...
Hundreds of holes were blown out all over his body.
Already too dead to die any more.
As long as there is no defense, even the prince will be killed instantly under the intensive space attack.
But there is a premise, that is, you can get close without the prince noticing.
Normally, this is impossible.
Because, each prince is surrounded by at least ten insect groups for protection, and these protecting insect groups can even cover an area of more than 10 au.
What is this concept?
1au is approximately 150 million kilometers, and even for the Federation, the range of space weapons is only 50 light seconds, which is roughly 15 million kilometers.
Therefore, if you want to kill a prince, you must pierce through the insect swarms that protect it outside and kill it for hundreds of millions of kilometers.
Only then can it be brought into range.
In the premise, after the insect group protecting him was defeated, the prince still stayed in place.
However, there is a defensive hole here.
That is...
There is a gap between the insect groups!
Normally, this is not considered a defense vulnerability.
Because, you want to pass through the gap between the insect groups and fight your way in to sneak attack on the prince...
The Zerg tribe is not blind. I am afraid that you will be surrounded by several groups of Zerg before you can get very far.
But unfortunately, in front of today's pioneering fleet, these bugs are really no different from blind men.
Of course, when he first formulated this battle plan, Jiang Xingchen also considered sending only one strategic reconnaissance ship to sneak in from a bunch of worms, and then the other fleets would directly rely on hyperspace navigation to accurately reach the prince and queen.
But in the end, Jiang Xingchen gave up this plan.
After all, the battleship is coated with Aitos metal, making it invisible to the Zerg.
But once the hyperspace window is opened, the situation will be different, which is not conducive to a surprise attack.
Unless those princes and the Zerg queen, after seeing more than 100,000 hyperspace windows being opened intensively, remained indifferent and did not make any defense.
But is this possible?
Obviously it's impossible.
Therefore, Jiang Xingchen finally adopted a very clumsy but very effective method.
Send the fourteen fleets outside the guard arrays of those insect groups, and then each find a passable path without disturbing the surrounding insect groups...
Go in quietly.
This is how the scene just happened.
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The two princes were killed, something that had never happened since the birth of the Zerg race.
The other princes were stunned for a moment, but soon they all reacted and turned in the direction of the attack, and deployed their own defensive barriers to prevent another wave of attacks.
At the same time, they are also sensing the enemy's position.
Although the Prince's attack range is no worse than that of the Pangu class, you still have to know where the enemy is, right?
The general direction is useless. Even if the attack angle is different by 0.0001 degrees, it will still deviate far away after dozens of light seconds.
If we follow the previous method, the Zerg's perception ability is actually equivalent to the federal radar.
By using perception to detect the enemy and then attacking, you can complete a precise strike.
Even if they are tens of light seconds apart.
But now...
It's simply outrageous that you can't sense the enemy's existence at all!
And just as these princes were desperately trying to sense the enemy's position, Aisha's warning came once again within the Zerg's spiritual network.
"careful!"
This time, a large number of attacks came from three directions at the same time.
Moreover, the attacks from every direction, both in terms of firepower density and power, were no worse than the last time.
Speaking of which, there is something very interesting about the Zerg.
That is...
Although high-level Zerg can release a barrier similar to a shield, they are unable to provide a full-body shield like a technological civilization. Instead, they are all one-way defensive barriers.
This is true even for princes.
Therefore, when they all launched defenses and moved towards the way of the first attack, as for other directions...
Simply undefended.
In addition, after the attack got closer, Ayesha reacted and issued a warning.
This was simply not enough time for these princes to mount a defense.
The next moment, another seven-headed prince was killed, and three more princes were injured at the same time.
All the princes were instantly confused. Where did this attack come from?
In those three directions, they also failed to sense any enemies. At least within a range of hundreds of AU, there were absolutely no enemies!
Compared to the prince, Ayesha was somewhat more responsive.
Before those insect groups were eliminated, they reported it through the spiritual network.
They were all attacked inexplicably without finding any enemies. How similar is this to the current situation?
So, the opponent's fleet can block the Zerg's perception?
This is a bit troublesome.
However, trouble is trouble, but there are temporary solutions.
"With me as the center, form a circle for defense, and at the same time order all the guard insect groups to tighten up on us immediately, without leaving any gaps!"
Aisha's intentions were straightforward.
Since we can't find you, we will directly use the Zerg under our command to replace our sentience.
As long as the entire area is filled with war bugs without leaving any gaps, these sneak attackers will naturally be found.
If you can hide from the Zerg's perception, can you still hide from the Zerg's eyes?
Although this is done, maintaining the same warning range as the previous escort worm group may require the consumption of more than ten times the troops.
but...
Do the Zerg lack these troops?
Apparently, there is no shortage!!
This is like humans saying that problems that can be solved with money are not problems.
If it were a Zerg, this sentence would become...
Problems that can be solved by fighting insects are also not problems.