Chapter 2 Protoss' counterattack (something happened to the unit~)
While the Brood Lords launched an attack from the air towards the rear of the Protoss Hub, the ground troops of the Zerg Swarm also launched an attack on the defense system at the only entrance to the crater where the Protoss Base is located.
The first one to appear is not the destroyer who serves as ultra-long-range artillery firepower, but the new unit just unlocked by the Zerg - the Zerg Host.
From the appearance, the swarm host looks like a strange and ferocious-looking hermit crab carrying a big mushroom on its back. However, their front claws are not pincers, but a pair of huge ones, which can allow it to quickly escape underground.
Enough digging.
Once the swarm host escapes underground, the skeletal stabilizing organs in its body will begin to function. When it is ready to hatch locusts to attack, this elastic skeleton structure composed of different thicknesses will stabilize the host.
Like the supports of human siege tanks, this special skeletal system allows the swarm host to maintain stability and balance when it sprays out locusts or is attacked.
The swarm hosts themselves do not have any attack power. They rely on the mushroom-shaped incubators on their backs to quickly hatch millions of parasite larvae in their bodies. These larvae will be stimulated and accelerated by special hormones injected into the incubator from the glands in the host's body.
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When they take shape, the incubator on the host's back will eject them out of the host's body and attack the enemy as a short-lived biological weapon.
Xue Hua stuffed about 400 swarm hosts into the abdominal pouch of the king worm. They will show their combat effectiveness in the initial battle between the swarm and the protoss and expose some shortcomings that need to be improved.
Under the command of a mother insect, these four hundred insect swarm hosts slowly moved to the outskirts of the crater pass, and prepared to dig into the sand on the surface of the asteroid at the edge of the range of the photon turret.
Following a burst of rapid and efficient digging, soon, only a piece of soft and slightly messy star sand was left on the spot.
A few seconds later, thousands of transparent eggs suddenly shot out from the star sand and exploded in mid-air, hatching out a large swarm of ferocious-looking locusts.
These locusts did not feel any discomfort at all from being exposed to the vacuum environment. They quickly formed a large army and rushed towards the defense line of the Protoss Base not far away.
This time, the remaining mechanical sentries in the Protoss base reacted much faster. They appeared behind the photon turret defense line almost instantly and began to use their fields to block the Locusts' attack.
At first, this trick was indeed very effective. The locusts' attack distance was not far away. The mechanical sentries quickly trapped them in the fence with force fields, and then cooperated with the photon turret to eliminate them with their own disintegration ray weapons.
Fewer locusts.
However, after the Saboteurs began to join in this feast of destruction, the Mechanical Sentinels' tactics quickly began to collapse.
The burning bile cannonballs fired by the saboteurs can easily destroy the force field created by the mechanical sentries, and the intensive artillery fire can also help the locusts that break through the fence clear a path for attack.
With the help of the saboteurs and the second wave of locusts who came to support, the swarm troops finally tore a hole in the protoss' photon turret defense line before the first wave of locusts came to an end.
After this, the exterminators and springtails began to appear. They expanded to both sides along the openings torn by the locusts. Hydralisks and cockroach troops followed, and the jumping spines and cockroaches soon became the remainder.
The nemesis of the few mechanical sentries.
As for the photon turret defense line?
These immovable defensive weapons have become the best targets for saboteurs. Every three rounds of burning bile cannons can turn a photon turret into a sky full of twisted scrap metal.
Under attack from both sides by the swarm fleet and ground forces, the protoss' defense line was rapidly falling. A large number of probes poured out from the hub defense line and broke through the Keldarin crystal and photon turret in the center of the base in an attempt to make a final stand.
This meaningless behavior was quickly shattered by the springtail troops that arrived at lightning speed. Before they could be canceled, a large number of jump coordinates turned into quantum fragments all over the place.
The swarm troops quickly destroyed all mechanical sentinel production facilities - the portal.
However, the building necessary to control the protoss drone troops - the control core - was not found in the base.
Stukov checked the mission records recorded in the Protoss Hub, but did not find any valuable clues.
Obviously, this base is just a "mineral point" that provides resources.
The real protoss facility should still be in that mysterious main base.
Just when it was about to give the order for the insect swarm to start attacking another protoss base.
Something unexpected happened.
The King Insects suddenly detected a large number of protoss troops with strong psychic disturbance coming out of the base on a cliff and attacking in the direction of the insect swarm troops.
From the monitoring field of view of the Overlord Insect, it was found that not only did this protoss army have a large number of mechanical sentries and a small number of probes, but there were even six huge colossi among them!
Moreover, some Overlord Insects also discovered some protoss air force units that had never been recorded in the insect swarm information database in the airspace not far from the insect swarm fleet.
This air force unit looks like some kind of unmanned fighter jet. It is about the size of an Allosaurus and looks a bit like a hexagonal prism with four wings: upper, lower, left and right.
The protoss attack was quite sudden, especially the protoss air force. They seemed to have circled for a long distance before suddenly emerging from behind the insect fleet.
Stukov instantly understood how they did it. In addition to the king insects of the swarm, there must be detectors of the protoss nearby!
Only this kind of invisible gadget can avoid the detection sight of the king insects. Only by monitoring the anti-stealth detection of the king insects can they be found.
But at this moment, it is futile to search for detectors all over the world. It must now quickly adjust its strategy to cope with the counterattack of the protoss forces!
"Worker bees! Incubate the insect nest on the spot! Overlord insects, transport all our troops into the crater, and then lay the carpet at the entrance of the crater! Insect mothers! Incubate carpet tumors on the carpet at the entrance! Except for
Except for the worker bee that was transformed into the hatchery, the other worker bees were divided into two groups. One group went to the entrance of the crater and mutated into a spine crawler, and the other group went to the back of the crater and mutated into a spore crawler!"
Stukov remained calm in the face of danger, quickly selected tactics, and began to build an insect nest on the original site of the Protoss base, and used it as a stronghold to defend against counterattacks by the Protoss forces.
"All saboteurs! Stand by at the left rear of the defense line! All swarm hosts! Station directly behind the defense line! Spread the lurkers! Spread to both sides of the defense line! Our opponents have colossi! We can't let them burn us in groups.
army!"
"All Hydralisks are divided into two groups. One group is on standby at the frontal defense line, and the other group is on the back side of the crater, ready to support our fleet! The springtails and cockroaches are lurking first and are on standby! All the exterminators are lurking behind the needle reptiles.
Standby!"
"The alien dragons were divided into 100, leading the monitoring king insect to patrol the frontal defense line, and eliminate all detectors trying to get close!"
"The fleet is concentrating on the Brood Lord in the center! Corruptors advance forward! Mutalisks are supporting from both wings! Prepare to meet the enemy!"
