This is not surprising. The Third Exploration Fleet has been fighting fierce battles with the Zerg in this star system for several years, and is still aware of the bravery of the Zerg.
Even though there are only tens of thousands of praying mantises, it is likely that more will appear soon.
The journey of more than one hundred kilometers took the mantises only more than an hour. When they sprinted at full speed, their speed was almost the same as that of a car.
But just when the mantises were still five or six kilometers away from the protective wall, the nighthawk once again sent super intelligence. More mantises appeared. The number of this batch of mantises exceeded 300,000, and behind them
There are also snake-spraying bugs that can spray acid thousands of meters into the air.
There are as many as 50,000 to 60,000 snake-breathing insects.
After the emergence of these snake-spraying insects, the nighthawk's detection range was forced to shrink by half.
This is also a helpless thing.
Although the nighthawk flies very fast, once the number of snake-spitters increases to a high level, it can pose a great threat to the nighthawk.
In fact, during the investigation process, more than ten Nighthawks were shot down in the air.
Boom boom boom boom......
First, the sky-high flames appeared more than ten kilometers away, and then a series of huge sounds came.
That was the roar of a self-propelled heavy artillery tank.
Every time the extremely thick barrel is retracted, a cannonball containing ten kilograms of metallic hydrogen will be ejected ten kilometers away!
And these artillery shells containing 20 kilograms of metallic hydrogen can explode with the power of thousands of kilograms of TNT as soon as they hit the ground!
When a cannonball hit the ground, a fireball that expanded at the speed of sound instantly appeared on the ground of more than ten football fields.
All the Zerg in this area, no matter how fast or flexible they are, will be roasted into coke by the high-temperature and high-pressure shock wave in an instant, and then torn into pieces.
After just a few shots, gaps appeared in the dense insect swarm, and the insects inside did not even leave any corpses.
It can be said that when those self-propelled heavy artillery tanks kept firing, those mantises were simply unable to break through the area covered by artillery fire.
Only when most of the mantises were blown to pieces and the ground emitted a burnt smell did the self-propelled heavy artillery tanks stop shooting.
At this time, Fang Xiaoyue and other marines became vigilant.
They all climbed onto the protective wall, placed their Gauss rifles on the gun mounts on the protective wall, and began to aim forward.
Not long after, some sporadic insects appeared.
At the same time as they appeared, a large number of Gauss rifles opened fire. The radius of the tiny projectiles fired from the Gauss rifles was only 0.1 mm. However, under the acceleration of the high-energy electromagnetic field, these tiny projectiles instantly transformed from a static state to a distance of 2,000 meters.
/ second, which is Mach 6 speed!
At such a speed, even a small projectile will explode with terrifying power after hitting the target.
Any mantis insect hit by a high-speed projectile will explode into pieces in an instant, and yellow-brown liquid will splash everywhere, looking extremely disgusting.
However, the total number of mantises that were able to break through the artillery blockade and reach here was only three to four thousand, and they were all blown to pieces in a few seconds.
This made the Marines heave a sigh of relief, and then they took out high-energy food and began to replenish energy, while bragging and chatting about the mountains.
But this is just an appetizer.
Before they could rest for an hour, the roar of heavy artillery and tanks was heard again in the distance.
The strange smell after large swaths of bugs were blown to pieces was blown over by the strong wind brought by the explosion, making the soldiers who had just eaten the energy bars want to vomit.
It should be said that this planet is pretty good for humans.
Human soldiers do not need to wear heavy protective clothing in this type, and can breathe air directly without worrying about damage to them by alien microorganisms.
No way, the microorganisms on this planet are too inert. Perhaps the genes of the two sides are too different to be able to interact with each other, so those viruses and bacteria are helpless against humans.
After all, whether it is a virus or a bacterium, if you want to cause damage to cells, you still need a certain way.
The genetic differences are so great that the methods used by viruses and bacteria are completely ineffective.
In the next few days, the Zerg attacks never stopped.
But even so, the intensity of the Zerg attacks could not exceed the upper limit of human force.
To put it simply, after being bombarded by heavy artillery tanks, the number of bugs arriving at the protective wall will be much less, and then they will be eliminated by the soldiers like target practice.
But as time passed, Fang Xiaoyue's expression became more and more serious.
He knew that the insect's major counterattack was about to begin, but it was impossible for him to report the matter.
Well, to be precise, there is no way to report it.
What happens if I report it?
Will the fleet leaders above listen to the nonsense of a small soldier?
Don't be kidding me. You, a soldier squatting on the front line, discovered the information that was not discovered by satellites or battleships in the sky. Besides, you were the only one who discovered it? Are everyone else blind?
With all this going on, the final conclusion can only be that Fang Mingming suffers from battlefield schizophrenia syndrome.
In that case, Fang Xiaoyue will most likely be sent to the logistics support ship for treatment.
But if this happens, the main mission will probably fail directly.
Five days later, the exploration fleet has launched a large number of intelligent robots in the mining area.
The biggest use of these intelligent robots is mining. They use high-energy lasers to cut the Kalasti ore in the mine into half-meter-square cubes, and then transfer them to the logistics shuttle. The logistics shuttle will send these ore cubes back to the interstellar colony.
base and mothership.
Of course, some of the ore blocks are digested on the spot and divided into smaller blocks for use by landing ships, heavy artillery tanks, and mechanical armor.
After all, compared to the soldiers' Gauss rifles, these heavy weapons consume hundreds or even thousands of times more energy.
Small weapons such as the Gauss rifle can continue firing for 3 hours after the energy tank is filled.
In an ordinary battle, this is enough to keep soldiers in combat condition for 3-4 days.
After all, those bugs can't always keep coming, there will always be a time to rest.
It can be said that after occupying this mining area, the Third Exploration Fleet began to exert its efforts, dropping a large number of intelligent robots, clone soldiers and even various weapons and equipment, preparing to use this as a stronghold to expand outward.
In fact, at this time, the Zerg stopped attacking.