The fleet's strategy is to use a large number of railguns to form a barrage, coupled with the assistance of mecha troops, to delay the advancement of the Insect Sea as much as possible.
At the same time, use energy weapons to focus on attacking the tail scorpions hiding behind the sea of insects.
The Starry Sky Zerg maintain the same old tactics, which is the so-called shield in front and spear in back.
Use the sea of war worms as a shield, and use the tail scorpion worms hidden behind it as a spear.
The mother worm is commanded through spiritual sharing. Whenever the scorpion worm can release energy bombs again, the war worms on the ray will move away under the command. After the scorpion worm attacks, the war worm will quickly close the gap.
Fill.
Therefore, the outcome of the war depends on two points.
One is whether the human fleet can eliminate most of the tail scorpions before the losses are too great.
Another point is how effective the tactics of combining railgun barrages and mechas can be when used on a large scale.
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"Captain, the positron cannon star-breaking cannon is fully charged!"
"Expand the positron cannon and shoot at 30% power. Currently, there are a swarm of tail scorpions gathered in area g5!"
"Yes, Captain!"
It has been five minutes since the battle started. It has to be said that Zabier is very smart and even created a big problem for the humans.
He completely dispersed the 5,000 tail scorpions, so that humans could not kill a group with one shot like before, but could only kill one at a time.
So, after ten minutes, the number of tail scorpions killed was not even 1,000.
At this moment, Mu Zhengfeng also realized the reason why the fleet headquarters believed that the loss could be controlled below 15% after simulating the battle, but Jiang Xingchen said it might reach 30%.
To put it simply...
A group of staff members in the fleet headquarters still regarded the Star Zerg as wild beasts rather than highly intelligent species, so various misjudgments occurred.
"Admiral, I have an idea!"
Just when Mu Zhengfeng was sighing, Jiang Xingchen suddenly spoke.
"you say."
"If this continues, we will suffer huge losses, so I suggest that we capture the thief first and capture the king first!"
"Why would you capture a thief first and capture the king first?"
Hearing this, Mu Zhengfeng was a little puzzled.
If it was a single worm mound, or a small number of worm mounds, he could still understand.
After all, as long as the worm mound is destroyed, the war worms without the command of the mother worm will be like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and the war will basically be over.
But now there are more than 70 worm mounds. Even if you kill a few, the war insects that originally belonged to this worm mound will quickly be taken over by the female insects in other worm mounds.
In other words, unless all the insect graves are eliminated, there is no such thing as capturing the thief first, right?
"The Houyi will drill through the sea of insects, and then raid the five 800-meter-level insect mounds located at the rear of the starry sky insect array, as well as the invisible kilometer-level insect mounds."
"you mean..."
"Admiral, I don't think those insect mounds below 800 meters have the ability to take over the tail scorpions!"
"Is there any basis for this?"
“No, but it’s worth a try!”
Hearing what Jiang Xingchen said, Mu Zhengfeng almost lost his temper.
At such a critical time, you proposed a plan without any basis as a premise?
"Admiral, even if this guess is wrong, it doesn't matter!"
"Once the Hou Yi penetrates the sea of worms and reaches the rear of the worm array, there will only be two results."
"One, my guess is correct. After we solved the five 800-meter-level worm mounds and another 1,000-meter-level worm mound, the tail scorpions completely lost their combat power."
"Two, after the insect nest is eliminated, the tail scorpions have not lost their combat effectiveness, then we will continue to take action and solve these tail scorpions ourselves!"
"Even if it ends up being the second outcome, it will force the Starry Sky Zerg to return to defense in large numbers, thus reducing the pressure on the frontal defense line."
"At the same time, we on the other side are not afraid of the insects coming back to defend us. We can keep our distance and hang them!"
"If they want to pursue us, we will retreat. If they want to retreat, we will catch up and fight!"
Jiang Xingchen quickly explained the plan in his mind briefly. Although it was very simple, a person of Mu Zhengfeng's level immediately understood the core idea.
Instead of capturing the thief first, capture the king, it also contains elements of besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao and the classic sixteen-character mantra.
Anyway...
Under the best result, victory can be directly determined.
Even if it is not the best result, it can still play a role in reducing pressure on the defense line.
However, there are two big problems here.
One is, how can the Hou Yi penetrate the sea of insects formed by millions of war insects?
The other thing is, five 800-meter-level worm mounds are okay, but how to find the invisible worm mound?
If these two problems are not solved, everything will be empty talk.
"Admiral, we can do this..."
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Three minutes later.
At this moment, two battleships on the defense line have been severely damaged, and more than 300 mecha units have been damaged. The situation is not optimistic.
If this continues, the final loss may even exceed the 30% mentioned by Jiang Xingchen.
but...
"Captain, the shuttle boat carried by Admiral Mu Zhengfeng has arrived safely at the Wuluo."
"Captain, all mechas involved in the operation are in place."
"Captain, the charging of the positron star-breaking cannon has been completed."
"captain..."
In the bridge, reports sounded one after another.
At this moment, Jiang Xingchen had sat back on his captain's chair.
Mu Zhengfeng was transferred to the Wuluo via a shuttle ship.
After all, he is the commander-in-chief of the battlefield, so it is impossible for him to follow the Hou Yi and participate in the operation.
"Notify all the mechas involved in the operation to check the fixation of their respective fuselages again. If they are thrown off after a while, they will be directly in the sea of insects, and there will be no way to rescue them."
"clear!"
"Chen Xiaoguang, start the sublight engine, maximum combat speed!"
"Yes, Captain!"
"Wang Feng, deploy the positron star-breaking cannon, full power mode on standby!"
"Yes, Captain!"
...
The next moment, Hou Yi moved, left the defense line toward the front, and continued to accelerate.
If you look at the Houyi from the outside at this moment, you will find that except for the gun positions everywhere, the rest of the place is already densely packed with mechas, as if there is another layer of armor composed of mechas added to the armor.
General.
Although it looks funny, when you see that each mecha has a beam rifle in its hand, it doesn't feel funny, but terrifying.
Jiang Xingchen had directly hit more than 800 close-in defense artillery pieces on the Houyi.
Moreover, in addition to the more than 800 mechas that were temporarily summoned, there are also four carrier-based mecha squadrons on the ship.
In other words, for this operation, almost a thousand mechas were mobilized, equivalent to 20% of the current remaining mecha forces.
"500 meters away from the Insect Sea..."
"300..."
"100..."
"Wang Feng, fire!"
"Yes, Captain, positron star-breaking cannon, full power mode, fire!"
The terrifying beam of light was released instantly. In just the blink of an eye, a hole was blasted out of the sea of insects, and the front of the battleship became extremely clean.
"Chen Xiaoguang, rush in!"
"Yes, Captain!"
"Wang Feng, use all your weapons to prevent the war insects from approaching, and at the same time, let the mecha group fixed on the shell armor cooperate to stop the enemy!"
"clear!"
Thousands of beams of light were shot from Hou Yi towards all surrounding defense lines.
The war bugs that were surrounding them seemed to have been pressed on the pause button, and they were suddenly stunned.
At this moment, the Houyi was like a hedgehog, difficult to approach.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Hou Yi aimed at the gap just created and rushed directly into the sea of insects.
The next moment, as the surrounding war bugs came around crazily, the gap was quickly blocked again...
The Hou Yi disappeared in front of everyone's eyes.