Chapter 338: Raid in the opposite direction
Chen Ming focused his attention on the insect nest planet, which is now full of pits and pits that can be seen from space due to the shallow insect nest transformation.
At this time, the deep rock layers under the earth's crust have been exposed in many places on the Hive Planet.
But this does not mean that the coverage area of the deep nest is small.
On the contrary, there are far more deep-level insect hives left than the shallow-level insect hives that have been converted into energy crystals and become Zerg cruisers.
It's just that they are all deep underground, constantly providing a steady stream of energy to the Zerg in space.
So that's what's even more outrageous.
Chen Ming now has the exception of the huge fleet of 100,000 Zerg cruisers that covers the sky on the Zerg Hive Planet.
It is possible to create three more identical or even larger fleets.
It's just not necessary.
The function of the deep insect nest itself is to absorb the nutrients of the planet and provide them to the shallow insect nest for cultivating new individuals.
That's why Chen Ming asked the insect queen to keep the deep insect nest and frantically expand the deep insect nest.
Let the bugs here turn the entire planet into nutrients for the Zerg.
The energy crystals produced by these insect nests will be directly sent to the set sail of the insect warships through the influence of spiritual energy.
This is not what Chen Ming did by using his spiritual energy, but the more powerful ability to coordinate the use of spiritual energy that the insect queen has mastered after devouring the fairy tree species and evolving.
The Insect Queen can already dispatch a small amount of Chen Ming's psychic effects like the Ship Spirit, providing extremely powerful logistical support to the Zerg.
The mere existence of these energy crystals is enough to cause the ships themselves to mitotically split into an identical Zerg fleet.
And as long as the deep insect nest parasitic on the planet still exists and the planet still exists, then these logistical supports can be said to be unlimited.
The Zerg can completely devour a planet and wipe out the life of a planet to create such terrifying Zerg fleets one after another.
This is the Zerg.
This is the Zerg.
So how did the Zerg race come to the brink of extinction in the first place? Are there no means of combat such as battleships?
Oh, no.
If you think about it carefully, it seems that the Zerg race is on the verge of extinction.
The current insect queen has been transformed several times by Chen Ming's spiritual power, and has evolved several times by eating a large number of living creatures and psychic creatures. The last time she even swallowed a fairy tree species, she evolved to her current existence.
The strength is definitely not on the same level as the previous Zerg, or even on the same plane.
In particular, the previous Zerg species could only swallow part of the minerals as nutrients.
But now the Zerg can directly swallow all inorganic substances such as soil and rocks as nutrients, and the efficiency is extremely exaggerated.
Today's Zerg can convert almost everything into nutrients, and this is the most terrifying thing.
But Chen Ming suddenly remembered the previous generation of insect queens.
It had earlier mastered the ability to convert mechanical battleships into biological battleships.
Although it may not be as strong as the insect queen it gave birth to, it is out of everyone's sight, and no one knows where it is and what it is doing.
And although it does not have the spiritual power to optimize itself, if the number of Zerg units increases, it may be possible to achieve such an effect just by mutation and evolution.
If the escaped first-generation insect queen really did these things, then the situation would seem to become a little complicated.
Forget it, now is not the time to think about such things.
Chen Ming restrained his divergent thoughts.
At least with the current order of magnitude, Zerg cruisers can even continue to be added at a terrifying speed if necessary in the future.
Chen Ming felt relieved enough.
But it's not enough.
Chen Ming has such a large Zerg fleet and is qualified to compete head-on with the Machine Race, but this does not mean that he must have the same combat effectiveness as the Machine Race.
Chen Ming had previously obtained the defense map of the Machine Clan through the Mechanical Empress, and knew that the Mechanical Clan had at least two battleships and tens of thousands of cruisers, as well as countless other ships.
But he also believed that the number of mechanical fleets was definitely more than that.
There are always some fleets used as reserve forces and mobile fleets.
Moreover, in the Mechanical Star Territory, which is about to have a battle with the Empire, the number of Mechanical Tribes as reserve forces and mobile fleets is likely to exceed the number of fleets deployed.
So in case of uncertainty, he has to use some other data as a reference.
Chen Ming remembered some of the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Star Territory.
For example, the standard combat power of the edge star field is a capital ship plus about 3,000 cruiser-level combat power, tens of thousands of destroyers and more escorts.
This was the situation in the Gallo Star Territory before. It was just because of internal corruption that the battleships were abandoned and a large number of cruisers were left unmaintained. In addition, many cruisers were scattered in different places throughout the star territory, so it seemed that the defense force was very empty. .
It's much better now.
Baiquan's branch took over the original army, and two battleships, one offensive-class and one legion-class, were always on standby here.
A large number of cruisers have been incorporated into the army after maintenance or reconstruction, and their combat effectiveness has basically exceeded the standard combat effectiveness of the edge star field.
But compared to the prosperous star field, it is still not enough. The fleet combat effectiveness of the prosperous star field can be simply and roughly increased ten times based on the standards of the edge star field.
ten times.
There is such a huge gap between the fringe and the prosperity.
This is determined by the development level of the star field itself. The more prosperous the place, the more advanced the ship research will be, the greater the number of ship factories, and the better the quality of the ships produced. This is inevitable. .
It is precisely because of this problem that the border combat effectiveness is lower than within the territory due to economic and environmental conditions, so the empire has a star field joint theater system.
This system that forces the prosperous star field to provide ship support for the edge star field is beneficial to the edge star field.
Of course this is not important now.
The important thing is that Chen Ming can estimate the number of mechanical ships based on these numbers
Based on the approximate number of combat ships in different star regions, the size of the mechanical race star domain, and what he knows about the development level of the mechanical race,
Chen Ming first gave the mechanical race's star field combat power that he speculated to be an intermediate value between the combat power of the fringe star field and the prosperous star field.
That is to say, six battleships and 20,000 cruisers are the main force, and the number of spaceships for the remaining destroyers will be increased by about ten times. The number of frigates should be two to five times that of destroyers.
Then, on this basis, multiply the number of main spaceships in the war such as capital ships and cruisers by 1.5 to 2.
This should be the real number.
There are about ten capital ships, about thirty-five thousand cruisers, two hundred thousand destroyers and about forty to one million escorts.
This is the most likely number of fleets for a mechanical race in a star field when they are about to face a war.
Of course, the number of capital ships was because Chen Ming was not sure about the number of reinforcements from the mechanical race star field from outside, so he simply and crudely added four more ships.
The others should be pretty much the same.
Compared with the entire empire, the estimated combat effectiveness of the Machine Race Star Region is nothing, but war is not about comparing the size of the war.
Especially foreign wars initiated by the empire.
The scale of the Mechanical Star Territory is large enough for the empire to take it seriously.
Winning can be said to be a must-win, but the losses in the process of winning must also be considered.
What kind of strategic depth, what kind of external support, what kind of top weapons are all under the consideration of the war commander, which is very troublesome.
Even the empire found it troublesome, and Chen Ming certainly couldn't solve it easily.
But to Chen Ming, small and medium-sized spaceships are nothing.
So what if there are more small and medium-sized spacecraft? In front of the cruiser, it's just food delivery.
As for the mechanical cruiser.
Among the spaceships of the same level, Chen Ming really couldn't find a few spaceships that could compete with the Zerg cruisers, and the machine race's spaceships definitely couldn't.
Not to mention that there is a several-fold gap in the number of cruisers. If Chen Ming wants to, this gap can be expanded to dozens of times.
Therefore, the only trouble worth considering for Chen Ming is the battleship of the mechanical race and the main-level weapons possessed by the battleship.
Capital ships are always a huge pain in the ass.
Because there is a cliff-like strength gap between cruisers and battleships.
Even if there is only one capital ship, the losses will be extremely heavy even if the number of cruisers is accumulated.
Not to mention that the mechanical race is not a fool, and it is impossible to let the battleship go alone.
And if the battleships of the mechanical race don't spread out, it's absolutely impossible to swarm them to death with cruisers alone.
Of course Chen Ming would not be so wasteful.
He has such a large number of cruisers and different combat methods to choose from. There is no need to have a head-on battle with the mechanical race.
As for the specific plan, he already had the prototype of an idea in his mind.
A plan modified from the original plan drawn up by the mechanic.
However, before the specific implementation, he must first use so many Zerg cruisers to help the pioneering fleet evacuate.
Avoid being discovered by the Machines in the temporary stronghold location during the battle between Chen Ming and the Machines, who then jumped over the wall and chose to self-destruct.
Chen Ming felt that if the Machinery Clan was really given a chance, the Machinery Clan would definitely not mind jumping all the cruisers and main forces to Chen Ming's development base to fight with him.
So it must protect itself first.
With the help of a large fleet and countless workers who are hardworking and only follow orders, the relocation and packaging of supplies does not take much time.
What originally took several days to prepare was completely completed in just a few hours.
Everything from the two colonies was packed and sent onto the spacecraft.
Next, in order to avoid the spread of the war, these Zerg and Afterglow spacecraft will jump three times in a row.
From the original position of the fourth extreme distance jump to the position that should have been reached by the seventh extreme distance jump.
There are still seven jumps away from Chen Ming's destination when he originally chose the route.
Halfway through the process.
It would take a full three days for the empire to go to the place where the phase beasts were raging, just three extreme jumps away.
You can imagine how difficult it is to quickly reach a place with seven extreme distance jumps.
Moreover, Qianmen's jump can be said to be traceable. After all, there is only one way out of the empire without going through the territory of the Machine Tribe and Yuhui.
Making a jump won't deviate too much.
But after several jumps, there is no reference route for subsequent jump routes.
Safe enough.
Looking at the countless Zerg ships, Chen Ming suddenly thought that at least in terms of the number of fleets, he really didn't suffer at all.
The combat power of a Zerg planet is basically equivalent to that of a galaxy
This can only be said that the Zerg are too exaggerated after being strengthened by Chen Ming
After all, no matter whether it is a mechanical race or something else, it is impossible for a star field to only consider military strength.
It is necessary to comprehensively consider various aspects to limit the fleet to a certain appropriate number, and only expend troop production when necessary.
Even if a large number of fleets are allocated to help with migration.
There are still enough Zerg cruisers to cause trouble for the Machine Tribe.
Then, it’s time to test the commanding skills I’ve learned these days.
A star map of the nearby star field appeared out of thin air in Chen Ming's eyes.
This is a precise star map that his fleet developed bit by bit and measured and mapped bit by bit.
The locations of all small strongholds are marked on it, as are all the mechanical fleets that attack his stronghold.
In order to completely eliminate Chen Ming's influence, the Machine Tribe attacked Chen Ming's small stronghold with a blanket bombing. They also sent some Machine Tribe units to the ground to inspect the ruins, striving to destroy all mechanized structures. .
But what they don't know is that even if Chen Ming's mental power is completely exhausted, he can connect to anything he has been connected to through his spiritual energy again.
They range from industrial facilities to iron atoms.
Unless the machine clan can completely annihilate all molecules and atoms when destroying small strongholds.
Otherwise, Chen Ming's eyes will always exist in the place covered by his spiritual energy.
But the machine race doesn't know this.
It is normal for them to be contaminated with some iron atoms when destroying small strongholds.
This resulted in the positions of almost all the mechanical warships participating in the attack being clearly marked on the star map, and every active fleet was revealed in front of Chen Ming's eyes.
Most of the mechanical fleet returned to the cruiser that led them here after what they thought was a complete destruction of Chen Ming's small stronghold.
Chen Mingneng also marked the locations of those cruise fleets.
The actions of these cruisers followed a large number of small and medium-sized ships. Not only the spacecraft that destroyed Chen Ming's small stronghold, but also many other ships that had not yet moved, all appeared in Chen Ming's eyes.
There were even some cruisers that carried combat readiness supplies to provide supplies for some small ships when they consumed a lot of supplies in order to destroy Chen Ming's stronghold.
During the process of providing supplies, there was direct contact between the spacecraft.
As long as Chen Ming wanted to, he could even use the iron atoms contaminated on these spacecrafts to send afterglow cores there and create data lines to forcefully take over those cruisers.
But he didn't.
Because forcibly taking over the Machine Tribe will cause the Machine Tribe individuals to become abnormal sub-individuals and be disconnected from the Machine Tribe's network.
This will cause the controlled machine race to be immediately discovered by the machine race, and will also allow them to discover that Chen Ming now has the means to directly control the spacecraft using iron atoms.
When Chen Ming first came into contact with the Machine Race in the Machine Race Star Territory, he personally put on the power armor and ran to the Machine Race cruiser to control it.
From the perspective of the mechanical tribe, this is definitely the limit of Chen Ming's abilities.
Otherwise, Chen Ming would have already controlled the entire Yuhui, the entire mechanical clan, and even all the mechanical structures of the entire empire.
So if Chen Ming's ability is exposed, many of the things he could have been unable to do.
For example, in the future, there are some things he can do when the mechanical race's spaceships that retain the iron atoms controlled by his psychic energy may be able to come into contact with the mechanical race's mothership.
Although we haven't encountered it yet, there are definitely battleships in the Mechanical Tribe's star field, and the Mechanical Tribe is definitely ready to use the capital ships at any time.
It may be used on the empire, or it may be used on Chen Ming.
What Chen Ming lacks most now is a battleship.
The capital ship is the most critical existence in the upper limit of the fleet's combat power.
If he takes control of the cruiser now for a small profit and causes the machine race to be on guard, he will not have such a good opportunity in the future.
And since the mechanical race may have restrictions that require him to personally control some things.
Then the fact that the machine tribe is controlled means one thing to the machine tribe, that there must be Chen Ming in that place.
This is a misdirection scheme that can only be used once.
Chen Ming could not simply destroy the environment in which this plan could be implemented.
So there is nothing to say, none of these machines can be controlled.
All the mechanical races must die.
One hundred thousand Zerg cruisers with the consciousness of Zerg sub-individuals, under the meticulous command of the Zerg Queen and Chen Ming, locked every spacecraft that attacked Chen Ming's small stronghold.
Or they locked on the cruise fleet that led the small and medium-sized spacecraft of the mechanical tribe to select the jump location and searched for Chen Ming's temporary stronghold.
Chen Ming arranged at least double the combat power for every locked place.
The combat effectiveness of the Zerg biological cruiser itself is quite sufficient.
It uses plasma-acid cannons and bioenergetic weapons modeled after tachyon spears as its primary weapons.
The former is a product that takes the form of an energy restraint bullet but is combined with a chemical live ammunition weapon.
It relies on the plasma produced by the Aurora Wind Spirit gene among the Zerg genes and the highly corrosive acid of the Zerg itself as a means of damage.
The combined damage of the two has a good effect on shields, armor and hulls.
Not to mention the latter's biopolymer high-energy particle torrent emitter.
The biological version of the tachyon spear is powered by the evolved fluorescent energy crystal, and the effect is more terrifying than the ordinary tachyon spear.
Not only because of the optimization of energy sources, but also because it is an energy weapon of biomass.
As long as it is a living thing, it can be amplified by the psychic energy of the Insect Queen.
Although the increase in psychic energy of the Insect Queen is a comprehensive increase, after this evolution, the Insect Queen has been able to make some organs obtain more powerful additional increases individually, and the increase is still the function of the organ itself.
As a biological weapon, the increase is of course combat performance.
The combat performance of the tachyon spear, including charging time, particle flow and duration, is stronger than ordinary models.
This is an additional increase brought by psychic energy.
As long as Chen Ming or the Queen continues to develop more advanced biomass tachyon spears in the future, these spears will be even more powerful.
Other weapons include missile weapons such as biological missiles and carrier-based aircraft weapons such as biological warfare aircraft.
However, Chen Ming felt that these weapons would not have any chance to perform in this battle.
As for the Zerg spacecraft itself.
Although there is no shield, even if the insect queen evolves, she still cannot reproduce the shield system.
In this case, the insect queen did not cling to the shield.
Choose to fully buff the Zerg Carapace, which is already very powerful in its own right.
Nowadays, the carapace of the Zerg, that is, the armor of the Zerg spacecraft, is also different from the past.
The seed coat structure of the fairy tree species eaten by the insect queen was also applied to the jet black carapace.
The seed coat of the fairy tree species is extremely strong, and even Chen Ming's mental power cannot penetrate it.
This is not only the protection of mental power, but also the solidity in the physical sense.
Even the queen had to chew it herself to digest it.
This structure is applied to the carapace, so that the carapace armor of the Zerg cruiser is now stronger than the armor of a normal cruiser.
It is such a powerful Zerg cruiser gathered in the orbit of the Zerg Hive Planet.
Each ship is confirming its target.
Each ship is preparing to start the biomass jump engine that the Queen has completely transformed during the process of evolving and cocooning.
There is no need to worry about the instability of the hive mind network that will occur when the Zerg warship is far away from the Queen after the jump.
After the insect queen absorbed the fairy tree species and completed its evolution, the insect hive mind network no longer relied on pheromones, fungi and a small amount of spiritual energy to maintain it as before.
Rather, it is maintained through a thorough psychic thinking network.
And the old methods have not been abandoned. In places where psychic fluctuations cannot reach, pheromones and fungi can still be used as a way to build insect swarm networks.
There is no need to worry about the problem of losing connection when entering the psychic isolation area like the mechanical tribe.
It is the construction of this hive mind network based on psychic energy that allows the Zerg to gain some additional abilities.
As for what the specific ability is, Chen Ming feels that he should see it soon.
Under such a variety of conditions, after a huge surge of transition fluctuations that was enough to disrupt the outer space of the insect nest planet, distortions visible to the naked eye flashed.
Chen Ming sensed through the insect queen that the tens of thousands of Zerg cruisers that had set off were already in place one by one.
Magnificent electric balls and torrents of particles that turned into pure white beams using special energy crystallization functions completely covered the machine race's fleet.
The black carapace, plasma acid balls and pure white beams bring the ultimate visual impact.
The physical impact is no less impressive.
None of the mechanical fleets in the screen could withstand it for more than three seconds.
All the Zerg fleets arrived at the moment of jump, and destroyed the enemy in just one encounter.
The cruisers were overwhelmed by the combat power of the destroyers and escorts, leaving the mechanical fleet with no chance to resist.
The same goes for the mechanical cruisers, even faster.
Because there were too many fleets on Chen Ming's side, he arranged a little more for the cruise fleets of the mechanical race.
Therefore, the mechanical cruisers in these places and other small and medium-sized ships following them were destroyed under the cover of the mindless firepower of the Zerg cruisers, even faster than the speed at which the Zerg in other places needed to accurately destroy several small ships. quick.
(End of chapter)