The battle at Alpha Landing continued until dawn, with Augustus's forces and his Protoss allies holding off seventeen Tiamat, Garmu, Jörmungandr and Leviathan swarms, as well as the Grund Swarm.
attack until the sun rises and the moon sets.
Augustus had experienced several head-on confrontations with the insect swarms, but none of them were as dangerous as today.
In the second half of the night, the defense line was shattered by the swarm of insects and was riddled with holes. The tunnel worms burst out of the ground directly from the center of the base, and a large number of screaming monsters poured out from the collapsed holes. Those used to frighten the enemy
The roar could connect Augustus to the most terrifying sound he had ever heard.
In the past few years, Augustus rarely had nightmares. His sleep quality was quite good, but he slept less. After everything he experienced last night, he felt that he was in a terrible, permanent state of mind.
I won't wake up from the nightmare and believe it.
No one wants to have the same dream again: hordes of monsters swarming up, as if countless evil spirits are trying to drag you into the abyss.
Once captured by those screaming monsters, Augustus would be disemboweled. Without Taldarin's reinforcements, Augustus would never believe that he could survive until now.
Fortunately, Augustus once again persisted until the end and became the real winner. Although it was just a tragic victory, Augustus had always warned himself that the gains and losses in a battle should never be placed in the grand strategy.
Angle.
When the morning rays of Char fell on the earth, a golden star in the double star system of the Char galaxy jumped out impatiently.
The coolness of the morning disappeared without a trace long before it stayed on the surface of Char. The golden light retreated in the blink of an eye, and the almost red sunlight reflected the rocks of Char into the color of molten iron.
.
When Augustus looked forward from behind a sloping bunker that had been bombarded by Hydralisk Spines and Mutalisks, he saw that the ground was already covered with red springtails and Hydra Hydralisks. The sky was dark.
The King Insect, Mutalisaurus and Insect Swarm Guardian have also dispersed, and the remaining ones are flying high, like black kites that have escaped one by one.
Farther away is the fortification wall that collapsed with several gaps. In that direction, the corpses of the zerg are piled up in the slimy blood like dead fish floating on the water. These corpses are also mixed with human corpses.
The remains of some dragon knight mechas shining golden light under the searchlight are gold nuggets inserted diagonally into the tissue.
The zerg stopped attacking before the sun rose. Even though protoss reinforcements were still arriving through the portal, it was only a matter of time before they flooded the place. There must be something forcing the Overlord to recall its tribe.
A huge Goliath armed robot knelt down among the insect corpses. The cockpit was covered with dead springtails, leaving only a flagpole inserted behind the cockpit. The red flag on the flagpole had long been
Corroded to the point of being disfigured by acid, only the golden eagle and wolf of Alpha Squadron can be vaguely seen.
The person driving this Goliath armed robot is a mechanical sergeant from the Alpha Squadron. He is one of the few soldiers in the army who has not undergone resocialization, and he is also a federal soldier who voluntarily joined the Revolutionary Army.
Augustus knew very little about the past of this mechanical sergeant, and he didn't even know his name ten minutes ago. Sergeant Rhodes's hometown is the kind of remote planet that is truly called a backwater. The town where he is located
There were not even two hundred people in total.
Rhodes is the son of the only local police chief. Like many people in the edge world of the Tyrannic Federation, if he fails to finish college and go to the core world to make a living on his own, the most likely future is that he will inherit his father's legacy.
Industry.
Renault's hometown is also a place like that. There have been so many people living there throughout its long history, and they have been doing the same job for generations.
The most important decision in this mechanical sergeant's life was to join the federal army as a recruiter. Another life decision no less important was to decide to do something that could be called a hero and respected by others.
When Augustus was forced to abandon the fortification walls and retreat, this Alpha Squadron mechanical sergeant drove a giant Goliath robot into the enemy formation, standing between him and the pursuing Zerg.
After confirming that all the zerg had been removed, Augustus retreated to the bunker and glanced at the last few soldiers around him - the bloodshot Renault, the expressionless Faraday statue, and the last two surviving members of the Marshal's Guard.
It was an overturned transport platform unloading crane, with bullet casings and discarded guns piled at its feet.
Several members of the Marshal's Guard fell in a pool of blood. Their strong new alloy steel power armor was riddled with holes from the Hydralisk spine needles. There was also a man with a ferocious head on his arm, which was biting him.
The Hydra Hydralisk was beheaded by the Protoss Templar's psychic blade after tearing open its arms and chest.
"We were almost drowned by the sea of worms. The number of bugs is simply more than the sand here." Renault is still in high spirits. Like everyone who is still alive, he has just received his second injection of stimulants.
Although the side effects of stimulants will make Renault suffer from headaches and deep insomnia for dozens of hours after the effects of the drug wear off, and he may even drool like an idiot, but no one will be bald in life and death.
Care about these.
"Augustus, I thought several times that our adventure was going to end here and that we had to hand your career back to your father and brother." He still had lingering fears.
At the most critical moment, Renault and members of the Marshal's Guard tried to put Augustus on the transport ship, but everyone knew that space was not safer than on the ground. There were at least tens of millions of aliens in Char's high-altitude orbit.
Dragons and mosquitoes.
"I bet you must be wrong, Jimmy." Augustus had also just received a dose of stimulants. Although his subconscious was still telling him that he should be extremely tired, at this moment he really felt that he could punch
Dead cow.
"I won't stop until I want to take a rest."
"Then you have no chance to stop." Renault said.
At this time, a dragon knight with some scars came from behind Augustus, followed by two Templar fanatics holding psychic blades. The Templars nodded to Augustus,
It's really their way of showing respect to humanity.
The protoss had no intention of talking to Augustus, but just moved forward past them. Some of the zerg did not die. Even if they suffered fatal injuries, their constantly regenerating cells could still maintain the vitality of the machine guns.
Augustus glanced at the helmets of Raynor, Corporal Faraday and others, and noticed that they were covered with the blood of the zerg and the tiny holes eroded by the highly corrosive acidic blood after the death of the alien dragon: "Counting the number of casualties, Lieutenant Commander Lane
Doctor, give me the results within an hour...not just numbers, I need a list."
Most of the officers in the command channel have disconnected, and all that is left is electrical noise and noise.
"Tiamat and Jormungandr, the two largest zerg hives, have left, leaving only Sars' Gamu hive and several other zerg hives." Raynor was commanding from the liaison base.
Orbiting satellite base station in the center.
All the Revolutionary Army satellites in Char's orbit have been destroyed by the Zerg, but the last satellite was still working half an hour ago.
"What do you think those two brood clan members are doing?" Raynor looked at Augustus.
"Is it possible that there is a protoss landing force on Char...or maybe Zeratul's Dark Templars have made the worm masters feel threatened. Zeratul said that the worms want revenge? Who should they take revenge on?
I bet the Overlord still doesn't know where the Dark Templar is."
"It's hard to say, Jimmy." Augustus thought for a moment and said.
"Tassadar's protoss expeditionary force fought their way into Char, and then Zeratul's dark templar killed three more cerebrates."
"If the Overlord wants to give the protoss a sharp and fatal blow, then going straight for the weak point and biting the throat of the prey is what a predator is more likely to do." He thought his speculation was still too conservative.
Already.
To be precise, Augustus was not speculating on what the master might do, but rather deriving the process based on established history.
"I suspect that the swarm is planning a powerful counterattack against the Protoss Empire, and the target is probably several planets of the Protoss."
"The planets of the protoss... what makes me most angry is that now all the planets that are infested with bugs belong to us." Reynold followed Augustus's thoughts and speculated on the master's intentions: "We are even
I don’t even know if the protoss has colonized planets.”
"Well, I just remember that Zeratul mentioned a planet called El, which seems to be the home planet of the protoss. It must be far away from here. Even if the bugs know where it is, they don't know how long it would take to fly there.
time," he said.
"That's not like the time we raided Tarsonis. We were well prepared then."
"The Master will not do meaningless things." After saying this, Augustus followed several approaching Protoss Templars out of the bunker and stepped onto the ground piled with corpses.
Among the Zerg corpses next to each other, the legs of Augustus's power armor were stained even more red. From time to time, he pulled out his electromagnetic pistol to kill the Zerg that still had a breath left.
At this time, Augustus could see what the entire base looked like today in the daylight. Only the ruins of the solid fortification walls were left, 90% of the buildings had been razed, and only the artwork of Xingling was left.
The shining portal still stands.
Not long after, bad news came from the revolutionary army fleet in high-altitude orbit of Char.
"The fleet of the Protoss Expeditionary Force failed to defeat the Zerg fleet in the Char System and was forced to retreat to the planets at the edge of the Char System. We also had to withdraw from Char's high-altitude orbit." Captain Cormoran connected.
Augustus' communication channel.
"We are still trying to send fighter planes and transport ships to Char, but with little success," he said.
"You'd better do what you have to do, captain, we will find a way." Augustus immediately accepted this reality, knowing that complaining was meaningless: "Where are General Duke and Tychus' troops?"
The captain replied: "The troops of General Duke and Colonel Tychus are near you, but I'm afraid they won't be able to pass through the zerg siege to provide support."
"I understand." Augustus nodded.
"Jimmy, I'm afraid we have to stay on the Char for a while." After Augustus issued a series of orders to Captain Cormoran, he turned to Renault behind him and said.
"What? This is the most unfortunate news I have heard since I arrived in Char. The bugs that broke into the base last night almost destroyed all our supplies." Renault reacted.
"Staying in Char, a place full of zerg, is not something to be happy about. Where are Tychus and the others?"
"At least the Taldarin army is still with us...I am contacting Tychus and Duke." Augustus finally connected to Tychus's communication channel, which shows that there are no
In the case of communication base stations, they are already quite close to us.
"You are still alive, Mengsk." Tychus's voice sounded a little excited, but this emotion was then hidden under his magnetic and deep voice: "I was planning to return to the Hyperion, and when I heard
The news that you are surrounded will come right away. But there are too many bugs outside."
"Later, I contacted Duke's people. They suffered a lot when they arrived. However, Duke captured a few scouts and alien scientists from Nova Squadron - don't ask me why there is such a place in this war-torn place.
Scientist." He said in a deep voice.
"Anyway, it's a mess."
"Good brother, Tychus. Remember to ask Duke to keep those prisoners alive." Augustus had to admit that Tychus had won his trust with practical actions.
"I'm coming soon. The bugs outside are retreating. Who knows what's going on in those bugs' heads? Hey, if you still have extra manpower to support us, please help us as soon as possible."
"It's really thrilling. The most exciting shooting game in the galaxy is nothing more than this." Tychus is a good fighter, but his shortcomings are as obvious as his advantages. As soon as he goes to the battlefield, he talks a lot, and his whole body is filled with enthusiasm.
heat.
"Char...this dirty little planet that was kicked by demons is the most hell-like place I have ever seen." Tychus continued to speak loudly on Augustus's channel, and this
The channel was just transferred to Renault by the latter: "Oh, I almost forgot, we are the devil."
"Take the remaining people to meet Tychus." Augustus said to Renault: "In the name of Adun, let's see if those protoss can give us some more help."
"Stop flattering yourself, Tychus, you bastard." Renault said mercilessly on the channel and left with a member of the marshal's guard.
At this moment, the communication crystal Augustus carried with him shone again.
"Come to this coordinate, my friend." Zeratul's image appeared in the light and shadow reflected by the communication crystal. The veil and robes on his body were obviously more shabby than before.
"We have observed that the main nest area where the master is located feels signs of abnormal time and space surges. This is an unusual and ominous omen."