Chapter 339 Pursuit
It only takes thirty seconds from the start of the biomass jump engine to the completion of the mission by the Zerg fleet.
And it was within thirty seconds.
More than 200,000 small and medium-sized ships in the entire mechanical race star field were lost to the precise attack of the Zerg biological ships.
The loss of destroyers alone has approached one-third of the entire star field.
But under the premise that Chen Ming dispatched more than 50,000 cruisers, this number was honestly a bit small.
Among them, Chen Ming deliberately arranged for some more Zerg cruisers to appear in places where there were no mechanical races, causing some Zerg cruisers to miss the mark.
Because the Zerg can target the Machine Race with such precision and on such a large scale, the Machine Race will definitely be suspicious of the reason behind it.
Chen Ming didn't want the mechanical race to notice the way he tracked these mechanical race ships through the common feature that these attacked spaceships had attacked his stronghold.
So he made some extra preparations.
For example, the Zerg itself has the ability to track the Mechanical Tribe, because the Mechanical Tribe's nanorobots produce a toxic waste when operating.
This kind of waste will be easily discovered by the Zerg, and the source of the waste can be pinpointed even if it is thousands of miles away.
That's why Chen Ming asked the Zerg to track the mechanical tribe, and it did not interfere in any way with these Zerg cruisers.
Never let his psychic powers manifest before confirming the destruction of all mechanical units.
Let the Mechanical Race think that all this was done by the Zerg Race themselves.
Although the last time Chen Ming attacked the Machine Clan's stronghold, the Machine Clan had already learned that Chen Ming had the ability to control the Zerg.
But this does not affect what Chen Ming is doing now.
The closer the relationship between Chen Ming himself and the Zerg race is, the more likely it is that the machine race will ignore the role of Chen Ming's spiritual energy in it.
Although Chen Ming doesn't really think that the machine race will ignore his psychic abilities, if he shows more Zerg-related abilities, then he will definitely show less machine-related abilities.
The possibility of making the Machine Race aware of the effects of Chen Ming's psychic powers will also be reduced.
At least reduce the probability that they will investigate the iron atoms contaminated by those machines.
Of course, even so, the mechanical race may indeed suspect that only the spacecraft that attacked Chen Ming's stronghold was attacked by the Zerg warships, and further suspected that there was something in the stronghold that caused it to be tracked.
But the redundant Zerg fleet arranged by Chen Ming should be able to further dispel the idea of the Machine Race.
He also arranged for Zerg fleets to jump to many places where there were no mechanical races.
Of course, this doesn't exist just because he doesn't know whether it exists or not.
In fact, there is a high probability that there are mechanical races in those places.
Because the Machine Clan had just launched a blanket search for Chen Ming's many small strongholds, it meant that they had definitely dispersed a large number of fleets, and there might be a Machine Clan anywhere.
As long as the extra Zerg sent can contact the mechanical fleet that is only responsible for reconnaissance but not attack, the effect will be achieved.
It can even be said that no matter whether the additional Zerg suggestions sent by Chen Ming encounter the mechanical tribe or not, as long as they jump over, they will leave traces.
If traces are left behind, the investigation process of the mechanical race will be interfered with by these Zerg cruisers that waste resources and jump over, leading them to be misled in the wrong direction.
This is Chen Ming's arrangement, and I don't know how much the machine clan will believe it.
They don't believe everything they see, but they don't completely disbelieve the clearly laid out methods either.
Overall.
In order to prevent the mechanical race from discovering the effects of Chen Ming's psychic energy prematurely, the resource exchange ratio of Chen Ming's reverse attack this time was very poor.
It can be said that the costs and gains are not in the same proportion at all.
Although tens of thousands of Zerg cruisers use biological jump engines, they have various limitations in use like ordinary jump engines. Jumps consume resources and require maintenance after the jump.
Even if Chen Ming uses spiritual power to repair it, he can't save materials.
The resources consumed and the results achieved are completely asymmetrical.
The war is about the exchange ratio of resources.
If the exchange ratio is at a loss, even if you win the war, you may not necessarily make a profit.
but.
Chen Ming doesn't care at all and is not afraid of consuming resources.
At least they are not afraid of the resource consumption of the Zerg.
The Zerg can devour everything and turn it into nutrients.
And the universe is so big, there are so many planets that can be swallowed up.
So he was able to proactively make such an exchange ratio.
Even if it costs tens of thousands of cruisers to destroy one battleship, he is willing to do these things.
Of course, forget it if it's too much of a loss, such as exchanging hundreds of ships for one cruiser. He still won't do such stupid things.
But for some things that are not so risky and can cause losses to the resources of the mechanical tribe, he can do it without considering the losses.
Therefore, even if there were only a few mechanical cruisers at the same time, after receiving the news that a large number of their kind were destroyed, they relied on the cover of other ships that were too late to escape, and successfully jumped to the evacuated spacecraft.
Chen Ming didn't want to let it go either.
They can't escape.
Because at this time, all the Zerg cruisers that jumped over showed signs of Chen Ming's psychic energy fluctuations at the same time after destroying the mechanical fleet.
This is not Chen Ming who has not recovered enough spiritual power, but Chen Ming's spiritual power is being borrowed by the Zerg.
Using the psychic connection between Chen Ming and the Insect Queen, these individual Zerg consciousnesses in the Zerg psychic hive network can also dispatch Chen Ming's psychic energy to a certain extent.
This requires consuming the Zerg individual's own mental strength and a large amount of energy. The efficiency of using spiritual energy is also low, and the effect of adjusting spiritual energy is not much.
It's just the most basic of the many abilities that Chen Ming possesses now.
repair.
This one spiritual power is enough.
A few minutes is enough to restore the biomass jump engine that needs maintenance to its original condition.
The Zerg fleet will immediately be able to track the mechanical jump traces and catch up with them.
However, before the jump, Chen Ming had to first confirm the purpose of the other side of the jump wave by letting go of the Zerg fleet on the other side of several mechanical cruisers.
At this time, Chen Ming unexpectedly discovered that the destination of those spaceships that had just escaped was relatively close to the border of the Mechanical Race Star Territory.
And in that position, there happened to be the mechanical psychic biological transformation device of the mechanical clan, which Chen Ming learned through the machine queen.
A place like this must have the defense power of the mechanical race.
And the fact that the mechanical cruiser went to that kind of place specifically indicates that there is probably a trap there.
But Chen Ming has nothing to worry about now.
The Zerg fleet unified the time and launched the jump together again.
After a few seconds of transition, the Zerg fleet appeared in the galaxy where Chen Ming was already familiar with the situation of the entire galaxy.
However, there is a little more information here than what Chen Ming knew.
There is one more mechanical mothership docked in the orbit of the planet where Chen Ming’s target is located,
As well as about 5,000 mechanical cruisers following the mothership, tens of thousands of destroyers, and about 30,000 escorts,
The Machine Tribe has its troops here, waiting for the Zerg Tribe’s fleet to arrive.
Even if there was a battleship parked there, Chen Ming did not have the slightest fear or worry.
He did not allow the fleet to retreat.
Because for the Zerg fleet, the only real enemy is that one battleship, and the rest are just food.
Don't look at the capital ships, just look at the lower-level spaceships.
The number of Zerg cruisers on Chen Ming's side was already more than the mechanical cruisers, destroyers, and escorts combined.
It is impossible for the capital ship to protect those lower-level spaceships.
The attached shield it possesses is used to withstand attacks from main-level weapons of the same level, not weapons from lower-level spacecraft.
Although it can resist these attacks by changing the link frequency, it is usually used to reduce combat losses unless the battle has entered an endgame state.
Otherwise the battleship would never do that.
Because if it really puts a layer of joint shields on so many cruisers that can withstand attacks from ships of the same level, it will cause the shield of this battleship to withstand the terrifying concentrated fire of 50,000 cruisers at the same time. .
Therefore, what the mechanical race mothership will do next is to destroy the Zerg warships as soon as possible.
No matter how efficient the battleship attack is, it is impossible to eliminate all 50,000 cruisers in a short time.
This is an opportunity.
As long as these lower-level spaceships are gone, the capital ships will sooner or later be defeated by the concentrated fire of the Zerg fleet.
Chen Ming can also use the organizational structure of the Zerg unit to mark the battleship, and even use the afterglow core to control the mothership.
This is a capital ship.
Chen Ming must not miss the opportunity to obtain it directly.
The battle is about to break out.
Chen Ming immediately asked the Zerg fleet to disperse in a somewhat dense formation after the jump to avoid being skewered by the weapons of the machine race.
At the same time, Chen Ming's attention immediately turned to the spine cannon of the mechanical clan's mothership.
There are three spine guns on the mother ship.
The one in the center uses an old-fashioned design, with a laser spine cannon tip that purely emits high-intensity lasers.
It looks ordinary, but it does possess the power of a main-level weapon.
The cannon heads of the spine cannons distributed on the left and right sides of the spacecraft are new.
It was the live-ammunition main-level weapon that He Gu had shown Chen Ming before.
However, live ammunition weapons have a big problem in actual combat.
It is a mass void effect that exists in this world.
The closer the speed of an object is to the speed of light, the lower its mass is.
Therefore, when the live ammunition speed of a live ammunition weapon breaks through a limit, the closer it is to the speed of light, the lower the quality will be, and of course the lower the power will be.
During the development and testing of live ammunition weapons, a suitable speed must be selected so that the ratio of speed and mass reaches the maximum under the formula of this effect. Only in this way can the application of live ammunition weapons be realized.
Therefore, so far, as far as Chen Ming knows, the only high-speed live ammunition weapon is the Gauss cannon, which is a large weapon.
The battleship-level weapons are truly unprecedented.
The mechanical tribe was the first to come up with it.
But that’s fine too.
At least this mothership does not have another kind of psychic spine cannon that Chen Ming learned from He Gu, nor does it have only one destroyer that Chen Ming learned about himself. This is good news.
Many things would be much easier if the enemy didn't have psychic powers.
Like now.
The Zerg fleet at the edge of the galaxy had dispersed and charged towards the Machinery fleet with the thought of death.
The distance between the two sides has not yet shortened to the range of fire of the Zerg weapons, but has already entered the range of the machine race's mothership. I saw that the two spine cannons on the left and right of the mothership were all glowing with a surge of energy.
The arc at the muzzle began to flicker violently.
But at this moment, no live ammunition was fired. Instead, the cannon head was undergoing some structural changes in the arc.
But soon, the mechanical clan completed the structural adjustment of the cannon head.
The moment the arc began to flicker again, countless threaded steel needle-like warheads were accelerated to the limit under the mass void effect, and shot towards the Zerg fleet like an airtight rainstorm.
Although these steel needle warheads are about three meters in length and nearly forty centimeters in diameter, they are not small.
But in the dark space, the Zerg has no effective detection method for this high-speed warhead that does not react with any thermal energy.
It can only be avoided by luck.
But as long as it touches a little, the terrifying speed carried by the warhead will tear the carapace of the Zerg cruiser into pieces, taking away large pieces of tissue and flesh.
The jet-black carapace, which had been strengthened again, could not stop him even half a cent.
And if these steel needle warheads hit directly, the Zerg warship will be completely penetrated.
The terrifying kinetic energy and spirally rotating warheads will completely tear apart all biological tissues inside the Zerg cruiser.
These warheads can even penetrate one more warship and then continue to penetrate the next one unabated.
Even its body length of 1,200 meters cannot stop this terrifying live ammunition warhead.
Chen Ming frowned after seeing this situation.
It is not due to the damage suffered by the Zerg fleet, as long as the key structure is not damaged or is directly hit, those injuries can be quickly recovered with the supply of large amounts of energy crystals.
The reason why he frowned was that the power of this weapon seemed to be more than that.
It can be regarded as a qualified main-level weapon if it can directly destroy a cruiser with a single shot.
But it can be seen from the structural changes in the gun nose during the arc flash just now.
This ridged cannon apparently has another pattern.
Chen Ming used the visual information brought back by the compound eyes of the Zerg creatures to continuously analyze the structure of the muzzle of the spine cannon.
It was found that the design of the structure itself is relatively simple. It is a deformable nested weapon structure that combines two weapons with similar properties and can rely on each other's structure.
One of the structures is like now, which shoots a large number of steel needles that are accelerated to the limit.
Some are similar to a weapon called Storm Needle that Chen Ming once knew, but it is more powerful.
Another weapon structure seems to be able to fire a very large live ammunition with a diameter of more than 100 meters.
Fires large live rounds similar to the Gauss Cannon.
The diameter of the gauss cannon's shell seems to be about twenty meters.
Nowadays, the volume of this 100-meter-diameter cannonball has increased 125 times, and the mass may have increased by the same or even more.
A live ammunition of this size accelerates to the extreme, and its power...
Chen Ming didn't dare to think about it.
But the hit rate of this thing should be very problematic.
That means fighting battleships of the same level, or attacking some fixed targets.
This thing is not easy to use when dealing with a sea of cruisers.
That's why the mechanical race mothership will switch the form of its weapons to fire needles before the battle officially begins.
Chen Ming had a feeling.
It's this cannon head that actually combines the Storm Needle and Gauss Cannon.
Then it simply enlarged the size of the weapon, and after supplying a huge amount of energy, it achieved an effect of making bricks fly.
After all, both Gauss Cannon and Storm Needle are large-scale live ammunition weapons and both have application environments. There is no problem in developing more advanced weapons based on these two.
There is really no problem in using it, and the effect is there.
Chen Ming even experienced it personally.
However, this kind of live ammunition weapon still has its limitations. Space combat, especially the ultra-long-distance battle at the capital ship level, is enough for ultra-long-distance combat across most of the galaxy.
The accuracy of live-fire weapons is a difficult problem to solve.
At least the efficiency of the spine cannon head that the Machine Tribe has just taken out is still not as efficient as the energy spine cannon in the center of the mothership that was activated after the Machine Tribe tested the live ammunition cannon head.
A red laser beam was seen converging on the central gun bow of the mothership and shooting out.
As long as the red laser beam is swept across, the high-heat energy will destroy everything it touches.
Countless Zerg cruisers were cut, burned, and destroyed, disappearing like snowflakes.
There is almost no ability to resist.
But the snow falling in this galaxy now is not light snow, but a blizzard that is enough to cover the entire sky and earth.
After adapting to the mechanical race's combat style, Chen Ming began to command and dispatch the Zerg cruisers to make instantaneous short-distance jumps to avoid the mothership's attack.
After losing thousands of cruisers in just a few minutes.
The Zerg fleet finally got close enough to launch an attack.
The mechanical cruiser was also approaching from the edge of the battle line at this moment.
Want to cooperate with the mothership to suppress the Zerg fleet.
And at the moment both sides entered their respective shooting ranges.
Around the formation arranged by the mechanical fleet, and even within the formation, there were turbulent jump fluctuations.
Looking at the scale of this jump fluctuation, there are at least 100,000 cruisers approaching here behind.
Those were the new batch of biological battleships that Chen Ming had just asked the insect queen to prepare.
After the insect queen had her first experience, the subsequent efficiency of manufacturing biological warships was even more terrifying.
This number is enough to completely submerge the mechanical race.
It is impossible for the machine race to stand and wait to die.
They also want to activate the jump engine to make short-distance jumps within the galaxy to avoid disrupting their formation.
But the turbulent jump fluctuations at their current location have hindered the activation of the mechanical family's jump engine to a certain extent.
In just ten seconds, a brand new Zerg fleet appeared in the galaxy.
The battle situation became completely chaotic.
Although melee combat is acceptable to Zerg and Machine races with hive minds.
But the Zerg's ship facilities contain a large number of missile weapons and biological warfare aircraft.
These two can play a much greater role in melee than the mechanical clan.
And when one party in the melee has completely overwhelmed the other party, the melee turns into a one-sided massacre.
Although the orbital defense industrial facilities on the planet behind the mechanical race and the ground orbital defense industrial facilities can also attack the Zerg.
And the firepower of a planet did cause serious losses to the Zerg fleet.
But this does not affect the complete destruction of the mechanical fleet in just one encounter.
Only one battleship was left that barely maintained its all-round shield and was not directly destroyed.
But as long as it hesitates a little longer, the result will be the same.
It's a pity that the mechanical race mothership did not hesitate.
The moment the Zerg fleet's jump was completed, it knew that the war situation was beyond redemption.
Even in the melee, a large number of Zerg cruisers were destroyed.
But even the concentrated fire of the remaining 130,000 cruisers is definitely not something that a single battleship can withstand.
Even if there are many cruisers unable to attack the battleship due to their blocked range of fire, the result will not change.
Quantitative changes have caused qualitative changes.
It has completely given up active attack and supplied all energy systems to passive defense weapons and shields.
At the moment when it is about to encounter a concentrated fire.
It successfully started the warp drive.
Evacuated here.
Chen Ming won this battle.
He was not in a hurry to chase the mechanical race's capital ship.
After all, the Mechanical Tribe must have more than one capital ship, although it is unclear why the Mechanical Tribe does not have other capital ships to support it.
But Chen Ming could not deny the possibility that there were other battleships where the mothership escaped just now.
The results achieved are already very good.
Not to mention... Chen Ming had just asked the crazy bugs to scatter part of their body tissue or blood on the mothership.
There is no need to pay attention to the mothership for the time being.
Chen Ming has another thing to do now.
His eyes gradually turned to the planet that was still using orbital defense facilities to launch an attack on Chen Ming's fleet.
Although the mechanical race mothership has retreated, their support may arrive at any time.
Chen Ming must fight quickly to snatch away the mechanical psychic biological transformation facility.
One hundred and thirty thousand cruisers is already an exaggerated number in a ship-to-ship war.
Even when facing the firepower of a planet, it is the same.
Although the magnitude of the cruiser's weapons is far less than that of a battleship even if it focuses fire.
But when attacking planets, it is enough to break through their defenses.
Although the planet in front of Chen Ming is extremely attractive to the mechanical race, it has a large number of orbital defense facilities all around the orbit of the planet, and even on the surface.
The first two waves of Zerg fleets that were closer to the planet were repelled with relatively dense and powerful firepower.
But the Zerg biological warships seemed to be endless, and they were still attacking the defense line of the orbital defense facilities one after another.
In the process of countless machines and equipment being destroyed, countless Zerg were also killed.
But the number of Zerg can be made up at any time, and the defense facilities of the mechanical tribe are really missing one.
Soon, the planet's defense line was breached in the direction of the densest Zerg fleet.
There was a gap in the fire network of the orbital defense facilities.
Several Zerg cruisers forced their way through the gap and hit the ground like meteorites.
These cruisers did not slow down at all during the fall, and died immediately at the moment of impact.
But the Zerg inside these cruisers dug a path deep underground under the corpses of the Zerg cruisers.
(End of chapter)