The Zerg swarm executed the commander's orders very efficiently. Almost as soon as Stukov issued the order, all the Zerg units had arrived at the designated tactical position.
Six spine crawlers also emerged from their eggs, raising their slender and sharp spines high to block the entrance to the base.
The protoss' counterattack forces have marched to the edge of the defense line.
However, what Stukov once again exceeded his expectations was that these protoss mechanical legions did not rush forward in one go, but stopped at the boundary line of the destroyers' range.
Afterwards, several probes walked out of the mechanical sentry group and began to bend over the Keldarin crystal along the edge of the destroyer's attack range.
"What are you doing? You want to seal us in here? This doesn't look like a tactic that the Protoss Intelligence AI would come up with. Besides, it doesn't work. We can dig out from anywhere in the crater at any time.
.Not to mention that I will not let their blockade be completed so smoothly..."
Stukov saw this scene through the king insect's field of vision, and his eyes with yellow light slowly narrowed.
It quickly issued an order in the main hive's mind, requiring the saboteurs to move a few hundred meters forward to eliminate those crossing beacons.
The saboteurs followed the order and moved forward, hitting hundreds of burning bile shots on the folding beacons that had just been opened by the probe, instantly shattering these beacons into quantum fragments all over the ground.
The Protoss troops retreated hurriedly, but stopped again after retreating hundreds of meters, and continued to send probes to begin to penetrate the Keldarin Crystal.
Seeing the actions of the protoss, Stukov tilted his head, raised his zerg-shaped left arm and touched his chin, a meaningful smile suddenly appeared on his face.
It summoned an insect mother, had a quiet conversation with it in the main hive mind, and then the insect mother quickly took the order and left.
Stukov then continued to order the saboteurs to move forward and fire close to the crater wall, once again destroying the blockade that the protoss had not yet established.
However, this time, the protoss did not retreat, but suddenly charged towards the insect swarm's defense line.
Led by thousands of mechanical sentries, they unfolded their guardian shields, created a large number of illusions as artillery bait, and rushed over against the saboteurs' volleys.
Behind them...or "above" are six robots with four slender insect-like mechanical limbs, a body height of more than 30 meters, and equipped with thermal cutting guns that are extremely lethal to light armored units on the ground.
The giant protoss war machine - the Colossus.
These intelligent mechanical designs were born during the bloody arbitration period of the protoss, and their purpose was to kill.
Its killing efficiency was so high that the protoss had to seal it away and make any attempt to create a colossus illegal.
However, with the rise of the Queen of Blades, the Protoss' war against the Zerg continued to deteriorate, and they eventually had to unseal the Colossus again.
Colossi can take advantage of their height to attack enemies from a high position. They are equipped with extremely efficient weapon systems and targeting systems, which are a nightmare for all ground units.
Especially those units whose armor is not thick enough.
Six Colossi followed thousands of mechanical sentries and charged towards the insect swarm's defense line. Their weapon ranges had obviously been upgraded, so they could fire at them beyond the attack range of the spiny crawlers.
Twelve blazing golden beams swept across the bodies of the spine reptiles. Two spine reptiles were immediately cut into pieces by these high-heat cutting rays, and the remaining four spine crawlers also suffered varying degrees of damage.
of injury.
Under the cover of fire from the Colossi, the mechanical sentries also rushed forward, but they were jointly intercepted by the Locusts and Lurkers.
Lurkers, also known as "ground thorns" as players often call them, can pierce a row of high-density spikes from the ground to attack enemies. These spikes are very sharp and extremely tough. Mechanical sentries cannot stop these spikes at all.
attack.
Under the joint attack of hundreds of lurkers, the hundreds of mechanical sentries rushing at the front suddenly exploded into a sky filled with psychic fire.
And at the same time, the saboteurs opened fire again.
They focused on targeting the six Protoss Colossi that were about to approach the defense line. More than a thousand orange-yellow burning bile cannonballs rose into the air and hit the heads of those huge war machines accurately.
The shields of three Colossi withstood the attack of burning bile, but the other three Colossi turned into a ball of blue mist the moment they were hit by the cannonballs!
This is the "Illusion" skill of Mechanical Sentinel!
At the same time, on the crater flanking the insect swarm defense line, three giant statues suddenly stepped out from the edge of the cliff. Their slender metal limbs easily crossed the edge of the crater and appeared directly on the cliff next to the Destroyer position.
And launched a marching attack towards the bottom of the cliff.
Three warp prisms also emerged from behind the crater at this time, following the colossus, preparing to project troops toward the inner perimeter of the swarm base after the colossus expanded out of the landing site.
It has to be said that this was a very exciting tactic of "building the plank road in the open and hiding in the warehouse". The protoss first used the blockade action of the frontal troops as bait to attract the attention of the insect swarm, and then used the illusion skill of the mechanical sentry to copy the illusion of the colossus.
This further increases the threat of frontal troops, making the Zerg commanders afraid to disperse their forces to defend in other directions.
Then, they secretly dispatched the Warp Prism, which had never appeared before, with the remaining three Colossi to the crater flanking the Zerg defense line. They used the structural characteristics of the Colossus to cross the obstacles of the cliff and go directly to the rear of the Zerg defense line.
The Protoss Commander even used the Keldarin Crystal's folding beacon as bait to lure the saboteurs into revealing their location, and caused the colossi to appear directly next to the saboteurs' position.
After three colossi and three warping prisms suddenly appeared on the inside of the defense line, the insect swarm defense line immediately became precarious, especially when the defense line was about to face a strong attack from the front by the Protoss troops.
Under such circumstances, any replacement of a slightly inferior commander, or even simply replacement of Xue Hua himself, would definitely result in a big loss.
Even if the troops are not completely wiped out in the attack from both sides, the Yue will definitely be crippled and lose the power to attack the main base of the protoss.
Unfortunately, the protoss commander encountered an opponent in Stukov, one of the high-ranking commanders of the swarm.
"Looking at this handwriting, it should be a phase technician from the Protoss Kalai class? Sure enough! It's better for a nerd to stay in the laboratory, tactical command and so on... It's still too rigid!" Stukov didn't know what to expect.
He took out a cigar, bit it in his mouth and blew out smoke rings. He was not at all anxious about the critical situation in front of him, and he was even teasing the Protoss Commander in a mild way.
Just when the three colossi were using thermal energy rays to kill and advance forward in the destroyer's position in order to expand a space for the warp prism behind them, the ground at their feet suddenly squirmed violently, and then
, thousands of poisonous banelings carrying green poison sacs appeared at the feet of the colossi, and before their intelligent systems had time to react, they directly started to self-destruct on the spot.
Has anyone seen the sight of thousands of poisonous banelings exploding themselves?
In fact, there is nothing interesting to see, just a thick dark green acid-etched fog.
However, it was this acid-etched fog that instantly destroyed the last hope of the protoss.
At the same time that the protoss' assault force was reduced to ashes by the explosion of poisonous banelings, in front of the insect swarm's defense line, the remaining three colossi had followed the mechanical sentries to the front of the defense line, and began to use thermal energy unscrupulously.
The rays cross the defense line and strafe the ground where the insect swarm hosts and lurkers are located.
The soft star sand could not block the high-heat ray gun, and dozens of insect swarm hosts and lurkers were torn apart by this lucky attack.
However, the results of the three Colossi's battles only ended there, because on the other side of them appeared a force that had been hidden by Stukov and had not been used.
