Chapter 691, Insect Saint Biological Titan, Battle of Rheaducches (6)
Leroy understood that Gu Hang had thrown such a force, and of course it was not as simple as letting him just hold the base.
It can't even just be a simple expansion of the base area.
Although achieving this can be regarded as an achievement, it will obviously be disappointing.
Leroy himself would look down upon this achievement.
The target he selected was an insect nest that was approximately 80 kilometers away from the base area.
Humanity's defense, of course, is never about clinging to death. On the border of the base area, it is true that many trenches were dug and some bunkers were quickly built, but there were also some passages left. If the Zerg want to rush in from the flat area of the passage, they are seeking death. The remaining passage is the area of focus and requires cross-fire coverage. The Zerg tried several times and after sacrificing a lot in vain, they just continued to attack the firepower points one by one.
On the contrary, the human side often uses these passages to launch attacks outwards.
The armored troops went out to destroy the Zerg's biological artillery positions; the elite troops took advantage of the break in the war to go out to perform special operations missions. Mission types range from sabotage to beheading high-value targets to intelligence reconnaissance.
Especially intelligence investigation does a lot.
There are reconnaissance knives companies from various units, there are stormtroopers, there are space warriors... all of them will perform various intelligence collection tasks of varying value.
Among them, this place was chosen as the target by Leroy this time.
That is not only an anti-aircraft insect nest, but also a huge hatching nest. It should not have been so large in the past, but after the human base was built, it seemed to be selected by the insect queen or some other high-level node creature as one of the core bases of the insect swarm.
The functions of incubation and arsenal have been greatly strengthened. Many pipelines transporting biomass are connected in it, and even if it is not enough, giant land transport creatures hatched by many soldiers and specializations arrive at the lair here carrying a huge amount of biomass.
At the same time, a large number of incubating Zerg creatures in this nest have become an important factor in attacking human positions and causing military pressure.
From there, according to the opinions of experts dealing with aliens from the Order of Foreigners, judging from the scale of the insect nest, it can hatch about 100,000 to 200,000 people in one day, which will still put a lot of pressure on the human base.
Uprooting it not only destroys a large anti-aircraft insect nest, but also cuts off the enemy's direct and rapid means of replenishing troops on the front line. Moreover, the large amount of biomass remaining inside can also be regarded as a potential It would be much easier to destroy the enemy while it is still biomass than to destroy it after it hatches into a bug.
In fact, these biomass might have been digested and transported by creatures such as the Zerg army and worker insects in the hinterland of the area controlled by the insect swarm.
The Zerg can indeed do this kind of thing. As long as the whole process of digestion-transportation-and hatching is shorter and less consuming than the movement of the Zerg army by itself, they will arrange it this way.
Obviously, it is much more economical and more cost-effective to transport troops here from the other side of the world in a re-incubation mode than to directly let those Zerg troops run for a long time.
But it also gives humans room for breakthroughs.
At dawn, the human army moved out.
Dozens of Lion tanks cleared the way, and ten times more Lion tanks followed behind. A larger number of armored vehicles set off carrying infantry.
The human artillery in the position covered the path of the armored forces with tens of thousands of shells in a short period of time.
The insect swarm also reacted immediately.
They were also aware of the previous successful large-scale airborne landings and were able to analyze that humans were likely to conduct an offensive operation later. However, they still failed to stop it.
The numerical advantage that we are proud of has not been fully utilized. Under the fierce bombardment, no insect swarm could show up. They followed the requirements of the superior node creatures and lurked in tunnels, caves and other places. At worst, they had to lie half on the ground to avoid the fire bombing.
They are not afraid of death, but when the node creatures are alive, they can analyze what is a necessary sacrifice and what is a wasted death.
It wasn't until the bombing passed that the remaining insect swarms emerged, trying to block the armored forces' advance.
But he was mercilessly run over by the torrent of steel.
They could only move across the road and then try to attack the attacking armored convoy from the side.
But it was still useless. After sacrificing a large number of units, the final outcome was finished.
It took the human armored forces about a day to break through the eighty kilometers. During this period, countless battles, big and small, took place, but almost all ended in human victory.
At night, the advance basically stopped, but a considerable part of the infantry was still working. Driving engineering machines, some trenches were quickly dug, and the escorted self-propelled artillery, including armored artillery and simpler truck artillery, entered the position.
At night, the insect swarms that suffered heavy losses still launched several attacks, causing some damage. Especially when a group of snake bugs burrow into the ground and cooperate with a group of assassin bugs to suddenly come in, it is really dangerous.
However, Leroy personally led the team and hundreds of Black Crusaders soldiers wiped out this group of invading Zerg elite units. The executioner tyrant as a node creature was also eliminated by Leroy himself.
In the morning of the next day, after the human troops were ready to attack, they began to launch a fierce attack on the insect lair.
The Titan Legion, which was recharging its strength, also moved out.
And this battle can be called the most exaggerated battle in the surface battle of Rhea Douches.
In the past whole day, the insect swarms that felt threatened were also fiercely deploying their troops; the hatching nest itself also tried its best to create an army, resisting layer by layer inside the insect lair, allowing the human troops to The offensive pace has been repeatedly blocked.
Until the afternoon, they had not yet scored, and they had lost two War Dog Titans.
In the evening, a supporting army of insect swarms finally arrived.
Among them, the most eye-catching ones are several Zerg creatures that are even larger than the warlord-level Titans at a glance!
The insect holy creature Titan!
They have four long legs that support their huge bodies; a long barrel extends from their mouthparts, and one shot from a distance can destroy the Lion Tank; The varying numbers of appendages are the most terrifying melee weapons.
It's not just the Insect Saint Titan that's coming. There are also some that are smaller than the Insect Saint, but have reached a level similar to that of a war dog. Two thick recurved legs support the body, and the forelimbs are two huge biological symbiotic cannons. The mouthparts are so long that they can almost bite into the upper body of the Titan.
The Zerg biological Titan appears.
(End of this chapter)