By 0:00 on the 13th, the Imperial Army had deployed three armies in the narrow corridor east-west of the main nest area of the Griffin Swarm - Formica River - Formica Laiwen Fortress, one with 2,000 arc tanks.
Armored clusters, thousands of HALO cluster rocket mounts and several tactical nuclear bomb silos.
Seven million soldiers and civilians believed that an unprecedented war was coming and were ready. However, the Imperial Army only focused on the main nest area in the south with saturated firepower coverage for four hours, and then began to shrink the defense line and build fortifications. There was no such thing as
Take the initiative to attack as expected.
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At 4 o'clock, Emperor Augustus Mengsk boarded the Raiven Fortress on the north bank of the Formica River and had a panoramic view of the 7-mile imperial defense line.
The Formiga River spans most of the Helmut continent, with dense tributaries, nourishing the vibrant forests and prosperous ecosystems on both sides of the river. This gentle river has beautiful scenery, and 95% of the colonial cities are located on both sides of the river.
Land and factories have naturally become the main battlefields.
Nowadays, the cities on the north coast have been reduced to ruins, and the high-rise buildings on the east coast have been reinforced as bunkers and artillery positions. Bunkers, missile towers and high-rise buildings all have an imperial flag hung diagonally. Every few minutes, the empire has just arrived on the surface.
The Marine Corps rushed to the front line in formation. There were many of them, but the formation did not appear chaotic. They were serious and orderly, like a torrent of red heavy armor.
Behind the fortifications on the east bank, there are residential areas with tents, housing many people in small areas. The quality of life there has been reduced to an unbearable level, but only the stupidest fools can
Complain loudly.
Almost all Formica men have joined the Imperial Stormtroopers or joined the logistics department to assist the Imperial Army. If the Empire had not banned the recruitment of civilian women in war zones into the Stormtroopers and the regular army, this number would have doubled.
In addition to Imperial Marines wearing kinetic armor and armed with Gauss rifles, Formica also has more than 1.5 million Dominion Troopers. They are soldiers temporarily recruited from Formica by the Empire and have only undergone a relatively short training.
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The equipment of the Imperial Stormtroopers is the low-cost CMC light infantry armor (CMor), equipped with rolled-edge steel helmets with goggles and camouflage helmet cloth.
Light power armor is a kind of light armor with far lower protection capabilities than CMC armor. It uses batteries instead of micro-cold fusion reactors for power, and its limited servo system only allows them to have faster speed and flexibility than ordinary soldiers.
.Mainly produced by the military factories of Tarsonis, Bronte, and Veridia day and night, 25 million sets were produced in just two months.
Of course, the shortcomings are also obvious: it is difficult to adapt to the harsh combat environment, the battery must be replaced, the battery life is poor, easy to damage and extremely unreliable, but the advantage is the amazing output.
The Imperial Stormtroopers are large in number, mainly composed of militia and emergency levy soldiers. They are only equipped with fairly limited armor and submachine guns. Only the more elite Imperial Stormtroopers and Stormtroopers will be equipped with better weapons, such as UED missiles.
Technologically improved hail rockets.
Despite this, are such weapons enough to deal with some of the Zerg and Protoss forces, and to combat the separatist forces and evil-doing pirates within the Empire?
It must be emphasized that they are by no means the standard cannon fodder used by the Empire to fill the battle lines, but rather serve as a reserve force to make up for the severe shortage of troops when the limited forces of the Empire escape and are dispersed in the Koprulu sector.
As long as people like Formiga, who have lost their homes and relatives and friends to the Zerg, distribute weapons, they will become a powerful armed force with hatred. Once the war is over, the stormtrooper equipment will be recycled and the soldiers will
will return to their original lives, and the rest will be used to equip colonial state police, local law enforcement officers and militia forces.
In the Empire, it is considered a felony to order stormtroopers to sacrifice themselves in order to gain space for the main force to attack or retreat.
The Formica, who had been urgently recruited and issued armor and weapons, were ready to fight to the death, but Augustus was not prepared to do so.
"Stick to the used position and wait for the psychic crusher to start operating before advancing forward." Augustus walked from the Formica River position lined with trenches. The imperial soldiers along the way stood up straight and saluted the emperor.
It was just dawn at this time, and it was the moment when dawn arrived. If Augustus looked at the rushing Formica River, he would see thousands of floating corpses floating down the river, and the rushing river could not wash them away.
This strong corpse smell.
Those corpses were disgusting, smelling of disease and death.
On the other side, infected buildings and huge zerg buildings have been razed to the ground by artillery fire, but infected people still pour out of them like zombies. In the dawn, ghost figures and countless eyes glowing red like the wind
The candle swayed like a red candle, and the roar of pain echoed on the banks of the Formica River.
These infected humans have higher intelligence than in the past, and even have the ability to use Gauss rifles. In some areas of Formica, infected tanks have even been seen.
Although infected individuals of the Griffon swarm have overcome their fear of strong ultraviolet rays to a certain extent, sunlight can slow them down.
At the same time, the Imperial Army's psychic disruptors were once again upgraded and a different approach was found. UED scientists discovered that a concentrated dose of sigma rays could reduce the movement and reaction speed of the zerg by half. With the support of Augustus, this discovery
was quickly applied.
This also makes today's imperial army more inclined to defensive warfare rather than offensive warfare in the past.
"As long as the psychic crusher takes effect as expected, the Griffin swarm's attack will collapse. At that time, it will not be us but Carlos who are eager to attack." Kerrigan rarely wears the ghost combat suit now.
This equipment has become of little use to her.
Under the guidance of the Dark Templar Master, Kerrigan was able to become invisible through powerful psychic powers, distorting light and shadow even without equipment. She became more powerful than ever, capable of detonating the heads of her enemies with just a glance, even within the Empire.
Another tenth-level psyker, Shaco, also bluntly stated that the past PSI level is no longer applicable to the Queen of the Empire.
It is rumored that the queen's psychic power can even cover the entire palace, making her a true psychic queen.
"By deploying psychic crushers to advance layer by layer and gradually expand the occupied area, Carlos will have to give up his main nest and hatchery. At the same time, it can also prevent the scorpions and infected people lurking underground from breaking into the queue when the troops advance.
"Inflicting huge casualties." Lieutenant Commander Mortier Ulbricht was traveling with the Emperor's companions.
Because the troops he commanded miraculously completed the arduous task of holding on to Formiga and protecting the civilian population, Lieutenant Colonel Ulbricht had been promoted and given the opportunity to report on the war with Emperor Augustus.
His troops had withdrawn from the front line and had a chance to rest in the rear. Everyone was also given mutton stew, a small glass of red champagne from Tarsonis and a few pieces of dark chocolate.
When the reinforcements first arrived, Motier's 375th Marine Brigade had almost held on until they ran out of ammunition and food. Together with Formiga's militiamen and volunteers, they stood in the trenches and blocked the soldiers who were pouring into the position like a wave of corpses at night.
The infected people would wrap themselves in blankets and rest in the bunker during the day.
Countless bullets and explosives were poured in front of the position, and some soldiers even claimed that they had finished shooting all their life's worth of bullets. In the end, the soldiers without bullets even had to use bayonets and homemade gas explosives to form a defense line with flames.
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In Formica Frontline, your only duty is to fight zombies until you are the last to survive or they tear you to pieces.
"Your Majesty, Carlos will definitely panic by then, and that is the best time to catch and kill it." As soon as he heard about the value of the psychic crusher, Mortier gave up the idea of evacuating Formiga.
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"The new master has awakened. Even if Carlos is killed, it may still bring the message here to the master at the other end of the galaxy." Augustus turned to Motier, nodded and said:
"Besides, don't underestimate Carlos. It may still be hiding a hundred and eighty thousand light years away from here, leaving Dugar to lead the infected humans." He said:
"Although Carlos is not as cautious as Sars, the brainworm of the Gamu swarm, he is also a guy who is afraid of death."
"...Our opponent is the former Lieutenant General Dugar?" Motier seemed to still remember this opponent, but he had no impression of his appearance.
"Old rival." Augustus said:
"Dugar is a respectable opponent, and we should give him a better ending."
"Gerald Dugar is an extremely rare individual. Previously, infection by the zerg would only create mindless monsters and deformed aliens. Only high-level psykers could retain a certain amount of wisdom." Naru
Dr. De also followed Augustus to the front.
Dr. Narud wore a reinforced CMC kinetic armor and walked on thin ice on the rugged terrain. He seemed very panicked, trembling and wincing every time he heard the sound of artillery shelling and the roar of the infected.
Come to think of it, Narud was really scared to death. He told Augustus many times that he was just a powerless scientist. As soon as he arrived at the front line, Narud was always frightened and panicked all day long.
"Your Majesty, if we can capture Dugal alive, I can figure out how the Zerg virus works on Dugal, which will be beneficial to my further research..." Narud said as he walked.
With.
"The Protoss' nano-serum can even completely remove the virus from Dugar's body - before it mutates into another form that we cannot understand." He emphasized:
"If you decide to do that, you'd better do it quickly."
Several times Narud almost tripped over the bricks, but in the end he always saved the day.
"There will be a chance." Augustus glanced at Narud, thinking of Narud's past inhuman experiments and torture on the infected Lieutenant General Stukov.
Similar to this half-human, half-insect form may give Narud more inspiration to study hybrids. After all, the current hybrid is still only a semi-finished product. Narud is just a mad scientist. He is not a human being.
Just don't expect it to be moral.
At this time, Formiga and the insect swarm on the other side launched a new round of attack, which far exceeded the previous entire night.
A large number of scorpions were mixed in among the staggering infected people, spitting out yellow smoke like a sandstorm, and carried across the Formiga River with the wind. This greatly affected the Imperial Army's field of vision and interfered with other detection equipment.
But the artillery troops don't need to see clearly whether there are enemies at the impact point of the artillery shells. Because the infected people on the ground are so dense and dense, they can hit the enemy even if they fire with their eyes closed.
There were a huge number of King Insects and Queen Insects floating in the sky, and they soon became the targets of Imperial fighter planes and anti-aircraft firepower.
The Imperial Army quickly opened fire to meet them, with gauss guns, rockets and artillery blasts coming one after another. Large swaths of infected people were blasted into pieces and thrown into the air.
"Your Majesty, you should evacuate here immediately, the swarm is about to start attacking." Lieutenant Colonel Motier said to Augustus.
Before he finished speaking, the shells from the other side of the river roared and landed on the Imperial Army's position. They came from those infected arc tanks. One of them landed not far away.
"I think what Lieutenant Colonel Motier said makes sense." Dr. Narud nodded immediately: "You are the emperor of the Tyranids, but guns don't have eyes."
The accompanying imperial staff officers also felt as if they were facing a powerful enemy. They were all soldiers who had experienced real wars, so they would not panic. But if the emperor made any mistakes here, it would be the end.
"What's there to be afraid of? With old Tychus standing here, the cannonballs have to take a detour." Old God Tychus Finley, dressed in crimson power armor, smoked a cigarette comfortably.
It's not that he is daring, but if someone passes by Queen Kerrigan's ability to stuff a cannon ball back into the barrel with just her psychic powers, create a psychic shield out of thin air and bend the bullet, they probably won't be so panicked.
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"How long will it take for the psychic crusher to be activated?" Augustus didn't hesitate and followed Motier directly into the nearest trench.
"It will take half an hour at the fastest. The psychic crusher is not an easy-to-assemble device like the psychic disruptor. It is bulky and requires a corresponding reactor and a series of equipment. Moreover, debugging also takes time." Narud
explain.
"Too slow," said Augustus.
"This is already the fastest speed." Narud didn't lie. If he used Xel'Naga technology, it would undoubtedly be much faster. But the problem is that he can neither expose this nor human engineers can understand such technology.
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Narud didn't dare to expose too much, otherwise humans would not regard him as a genius scientist, but would throw him on the stake - in fact, he thought he had exposed enough, and there had never been anyone like him.
Such scientists possess so many talents.
"I will improve the existing design as much as possible." He replied quickly, fearing that the elusive monarch in his eyes would change his mind.
"Very good." Augustus originally asked.
He found that as long as Narud was questioned, this guy would always come up with something better.
"Your Majesty, the Alexander has appeared again, and a huge Griffin swarm fleet has appeared on Kangaroor, the satellite of Formica."