Chapter 354 Preparation, a new round of action
Another three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Chen Ming brought the phase beast back to the empire and temporarily settled it in the legion headquarters.
The Mechanical Race Star Territory has become a battlefield, and it is not a good place after all.
In particular, the phase beast is quite obviously hostile to the mechanical tribe, and will wander towards the mechanical tribe from time to time, which is even more dangerous.
The phase behemoth itself has limited abilities. Basically, it can only rely on physical means to destroy the colonies and ships of the mechanical race, which is very inefficient.
Continuing there doesn't accomplish much and puts itself in danger.
The mechanical race's phase ship technology has been developing rapidly, and it is possible to develop a phase cruiser with sufficient combat effectiveness at any time.
Therefore, it is better for the phase beast to return to the headquarters and cooperate with the research on phase space to speed up the advancement of technology.
This is also good for Chen Ming.
Of course, the Legion extremely welcomes Chen Ming to do this.
The phase beast had no objection either.
After Chen Ming was regarded as the new clan leader, it followed Chen Ming and went wherever Chen Ming went.
It can also roam freely in the headquarters area most of the time, and it can show up at the ship research institute from time to time to cooperate with experiments.
Although many people in the legion wanted to find out how Chen Ming managed to tame the phase beast, it seemed that he even tamed the phase beast that had been recorded before.
But no one dared to ask Chen Ming directly about these things. They focused more on the phase beast.
In addition to those from the Ship Research Institute, these people also come from other departments.
Since Chen Ming didn't want the phase beast to become a research tool, he only agreed to the Ship Research Institute.
People from other departments, such as those from the Institute of Biology, wanted to come over to study what kind of phase beast they were, but Chen Ming rejected them.
After learning the specific situation, the regiment commander made a special call and came back to chat with Chen Ming for a while.
In the end, I didn’t say much.
The phase beast is Chen Ming's pet, and others are not qualified to interfere too much.
Later, the Fanchao Research Institute seemed to be quite interested, and sent a more formal email to Chen Ming to apply for Phase Behemoth to participate in their phase technology research.
Chen Ming did not explicitly refuse,
He just replied.
"Come here by yourself if you need it."
As for whether Fanchao Research Institute will send someone over later, it's hard to say.
After all, according to Chen Ming's understanding, almost all research institutes that cooperate with Fanchao Research Institute send people from other research institutes there, and it is rare that Fanchao Research Institute takes the initiative to send people abroad.
In addition to the previous interactive experiment of dimensional infection that affected the entire empire and deeply affected the Caimo Star Territory.
It's hard to say whether they will come this time.
But if they come, they certainly can’t come empty-handed.
By the way, Chen Ming also gave the phase beast a name after careful consideration.
Little phase.
It seems that many people were very embarrassed when they learned Chen Ming's name. Bai Quan even asked Chen Ming to say goodbye without knowing the name.
But the impact was not big. Chen Ming thought the name was very good, and finally decided on the name Xiao Xiang.
Sent to headquarters.
Except that Chen Ming needed to provide food for Xiao Xiang, he didn't need to worry too much about other things for the time being.
The legion will have specialized zoologists to observe and study Xiaoxiang to ensure that it does not have any emotional problems.
In the past few days, Chen Ming was mainly paying attention to the progress of the war between the Empire and the Machine Tribe.
With the early trial of the empire over, the main combat force of Beniu's Fourteenth Legion arrived.
Star field armies or independent armies from other star fields that were originally scheduled to participate in the mechanical war gradually began to gather at Gallo's branch.
Basically everyone can foresee what the next war will look like.
Combat effectiveness and morale are absolutely no problem.
The mechanical tribe has also organized several attacks in recent days.
They are all aimed at those galaxies that do not have much protection and are relatively close to the battle area between the empire and the machine race.
But these attacks were different from the first one.
The mechanical race did not prepare a mothership, but only prepared cruisers and spaceships below the cruiser level, which was basically a waste of money.
It looks weird.
But as long as you change your thinking, you can roughly see that the mechanical race is actually regularly looking for weakly defended galaxies close to their star field.
The number of fleets that attacked was basically large enough to defeat the colonial patrols and cause a devastating blow to the colonies.
He looked like he was ready to break up with the empire at any time.
This tactic looks familiar.
Because this is the same approach as Chen Ming, exchanging battle losses.
However, Chen Ming exchanged battle losses because he could afford it, and the mechanical clan exchanged battle losses because they knew that their star field could not win this war.
The mechanical tribe is ready to fight.
Now that they have determined that they cannot defeat the Empire, what else can they do?
They originally had only two choices, either to evacuate the star field and hand over the star field.
Or try to exchange as much war damage as possible with the empire before being terminated.
It's just that when I'm about to die, I'm going to have someone to support me.
It should look like this.
but.
Chen Ming felt that he had to maintain a skeptical attitude.
Because he has a Mechanical Queen snatched from the Mechanical Tribe in his hand.
It can help him analyze the war situation and the various actions of the mechanical tribe.
The mechanical clan itself is an existence supported by individual personality cores like the Mechanical Queen.
Of course, Chen Ming can understand the thoughts of the mechanical clan through the Mechanical Queen.
And as the war progressed, Chen Ming became more and more aware of the power he, the machine race and the empire had, and mastered more and more detailed war data.
The more detailed the data, the more content the machine can analyze and the closer it is to reality.
The machine queen made judgments based on the battle situation analyzed based on the current situation.
It is indeed possible that the Machine Tribe is preparing to kill as many people as possible before being wiped out.
But, it's more likely.
It was all the layouts and arrangements made by the mechanical tribe in the war, all of which were directed at Chen Ming.
No matter who is placed in that position of the mechanical clan.
When choosing between killing a part of the empire's vital forces before they were destined to be destroyed, or killing Chen Ming, a man who was a complete threat to the machine race, he would inevitably choose the latter.
No matter how hard the machine clan tried to show the situation and wanted to fight the empire desperately, no matter how hard they mobilized their forces to the front line of fighting the empire.
It was impossible for Chen Ming to completely let go of his vigilance.
He believed in the analysis of the machine queen, but he also believed in his ability to achieve his goals when facing the machine race.
The mechanical tribe knew that Chen Ming had a mechanical queen in his hands, and they also knew that Chen Ming must have ideas about certain entities in their star field.
So the current situation is that Chen Ming and the Machine Tribe basically have open minds to each other.
It depends on who is worse in this confrontation.
What the Empire is doing now is more like a countdown.
Forcing Chen Ming and the mechanical tribe to decide the winner before the countdown ends.
After all, if the Empire completely occupies the Mechanical Clan's star field, the Mechanical Clan will have no chance to kill Chen Ming, and Chen Ming will have no chance to steal what he needs.
Stealing things from the machine race and grabbing things from the empire are obviously not the same concepts.
If you look at it from the most basic aspect, Chen Ming is not afraid at all.
He was invincible from the start.
As long as he has no ideas, he cannot lose.
But he has ideas.
So he was still a little worried about something happening.
That is, the Machine Tribe will drive the Destroyer Mothership to the front line with the Empire. In that case, he will lose the possibility of obtaining the Destroyer.
But these things are all problems for the future. At least for now, the Machinery Clan has no plans to do so.
They still want to rely on their own strength to fight back against the empire.
The empire is also constantly making arrangements and adjusting the deployment of military forces in response to the attacks of the mechanical tribe.
It's just that the war has begun. Almost every galaxy on the border has devices to detect transition fluctuations, and fleets are stationed in every star field.
Although it may not be able to block the attack of the mechanical tribe, it can at least delay it for a while.
As long as the mechanical tribe invades, they can be discovered and blocked immediately.
Enough to hold on until fleet reinforcements arrive via jump.
The mechanical attacks in recent days have caused almost no damage.
Especially after Bei Niu's fighting force also joined the war.
As the empire's war machine gradually began to operate, a large number of military forces arrived at the border, and the strength at the border became even stronger.
And since the empire was designed to ensure victory in the war from the beginning, it was quite well prepared in terms of military strength.
As a result, now, judging from the performance of the machine race, the issue that the empire needs to consider is no longer how much military power is needed to achieve the empire's goals, but rather that the enemy does not have enough to allocate it.
I thought that the battle line would be stretched, and that the war would develop in the direction of the empire encircling the entire Mechanical Race Star Territory. This would require a large number of troops, and some troops would also need to be stationed at the borders of the Afterglow Star Territory. Prevent Yuhui from taking the opportunity to cause trouble.
But the current situation is that the empire's vanguard has pierced into the mechanical race's star field like a nail.
The mechanical race could only shrink its defense line again and again, completely abandoning the border and shrinking itself like a turtle.
At the same time, a little fleet was explored to test the empire.
The empire's massive army was left powerless and useless.
Of course, the scale of the Mechanical Star Territory is there, and just because the Empire can defeat it does not mean that it can be occupied. This is also an issue that needs to be considered in war.
The purpose of the empire from beginning to end is not to win, but to seize.
Therefore, the overall advancement speed of the war between the Empire and the Machine Tribe has not changed much compared to before.
It is still advancing slowly in order to occupy the mechanical clan's star field, and it can even be said that it has slowed down a bit.
The shrinkage of the mechanical tribe is still of some use. The more the empire's fleet enters the mechanical tribe's star field, the stronger the defensive force becomes.
Therefore, the empire's choice is to continue to increase its offensive on the front line.
Not giving the machine race a chance to breathe.
And there are several reserve fleets near the border at any time, ready to jump to reinforce those places that are raided by the mechanical tribe. War is really just a slow death for the machine race.
There is just one problem that Chen Ming has not been able to figure out.
Where did the reinforcements from the Machine Tribe go?
In addition to the front lines of the war, the empire has also been doing things in the rear.
Just after Lu Bai took care of the mechanical race mothership.
Chen Mingyou obtained information from the private sector about the military results report announced by the empire.
Mainly to promote Lu Bai's achievements, plus some earlier, unannounced contributions of psykers in the early days of the war between the Empire and the Machine Tribe.
Of course, the Empire did not directly say that they were psykers. The Empire only announced the names of those who made important contributions and the results they created.
But Chen Ming could tell that about half of these announced achievements were done by psychics.
It can only be said that the empire's thoughts are very clear, and a lot of information is directly released to the people.
After all, there is no need to keep the rear position of the battle against the machine clan strictly confidential, and the results can basically be announced immediately.
This news can relieve some of the pressure within the empire.
Chen Ming has also noticed recently that in some of the empire's ship markets, especially those in the fringe star regions near the border, the transaction volume of various ship types here, especially pioneer ships, has increased significantly.
The circulation volume in all aspects of the materials market and fuel market has increased significantly, and the prices of various items have also seen a certain degree of healthy expansion.
Apparently many people have noticed what happened on Gallo's side and discovered something from the empire's propaganda.
So I came up with the idea of taking advantage of this opportunity to do business.
And this is what the empire wants to see.
Only a market that is not a backwater can provide economic support to the empire.
This is only the change that Chen Ming is aware of in the field that he is familiar with.
The entire empire is gradually getting better with this war.
But of course the Empire's doing so also aroused a lot of doubts.
Because there are many things that psykers can do that ordinary people cannot do.
Especially a few days ago, Lu Bai participated in the battle with the mechanical clan mothership.
He single-handedly destroyed the mothership's electrical signal network, ending a battle that might have required a stalemate for a period of time in a matter of minutes
Even if the news released is slightly embellished, it cannot conceal the objective fact that a single person made a major contribution that affected the war situation
Does this seem normal to normal people?
Of course some people will doubt
Although some of the people in question are indeed ordinary people, it's just that they have created the same outrageous achievements as psykers.
But it’s also a recognition of their abilities.
And this is also part of the imperial public opinion layout.
When the concept of psykers is announced, all doubts will disappear.
That is, psychics cannot go out directly to the public, and there must be sufficient preparation.
According to Bai Quan, various rumors about psykers have begun to spread.
Chen Ming also heard some rumors from Lao Wu's channels.
It should be effective soon, and the empire can implement its plan step by step.
Of course, these things have nothing to do with what Chen Ming wants to do for the time being.
What he really cared about was always behind the mechanical tribe.
There, there is currently the most powerful and important existence in the Machine Star Territory, and it is also Chen Ming's goal.
It's just that in the past few days, there have been no military movements behind the mechanical clan.
Chen Ming's Zerg is growing.
The only thing the mechanical race is doing is to continuously speed up the development of resources on the planets that the Zerg race has come into contact with, striving to exploit the most resources in the shortest time.
And the destroyer mothership didn't move at all.
At least the monitoring device that Chen Ming left outside the message found no signs of stargate activity in the galaxy, nor did it find any trace of the Destroyer mothership leaving anywhere.
The Destroyer has indeed been keeping an eye on this area.
Or maybe, he was acting as a bait to let Chen Ming pass.
Regardless of whether this is the case or not, Chen Ming is definitely going to take action against the Destroyer.
He even wants to suppress the Destroyer in the giant shipyard of the Machine Tribe or a certain star port and directly control it.
But obviously this can't be done.
Because Chen Ming had only left Zerg eggs in other places before,
Even though the Zerg developed from these insect eggs developed at a terrifying speed based on the fact that the Zerg Queen relied on Chen Ming's new ideas to create a large number of biological buildings, the construction speed of the insect nest was also quite terrifying.
But the warships that were finally hatched were only at the cruiser level at best. The jump would at most pose some threat to the colonies, and it was impossible to crush a mothership to death on the planet.
Not to mention the mothership carrying the Destroyer.
So he can only try to target it in some other ways.
It has been almost a week since the last time the Zerg invaded the Machine Tribe.
The development of all insect nests has received almost no interference, and it is almost time to start the next stage of action.
If Chen Ming wants to take action, it will be time for the black mist prosthetic to appear again.
The last time the Black Mist Prosthesis was made at the border, there was an imperial fleet scouting nearby and it was certified by the empire.
However, the empire could not determine whether the subsequent black mist prosthesis was killed by the Destroyer or whether it was hidden.
We can only observe further and then improve the situation within the territory to prevent the resurgence of left-wing forces.
But if the black fog prosthesis does not appear later, the level of attention will only be that much.
So it must appear near that border star field.
And Chen Ming also had to take some appropriate actions to cooperate with the black mist prosthesis to prove its danger
Of course this is not the point.
The Black Mist Prosthetic is only used to attract the attention of the Empire.
What Chen Ming really cares about is the logistics area of the mechanical clan.
Chen Ming's plan is very simple.
Since the Destroyer Mothership attaches so much importance to the galaxies in the nearby area, he will start from these galaxies and force the mothership to travel to solve the problem.
Fight a war of attrition and use the Zerg fleet to exchange the supplies for the mechanical mothership.
The key is to convince the Machine Tribe that his first target is the mothership.
But in fact his first target is the Stargate itself.
The size of the mechanical clan's star field is there, and one jump can basically cover it completely.
But the jump is an operation that cannot be performed multiple times in a short period of time.
Therefore, the star gate plays a very important role in the mechanical race star field.
It allows the large fleets of the mechanical race to move quickly within the star field and go to various places for reinforcements.
Just as the empire is now about to enter the galaxy with the star gate closest to the empire by the mechanical race, it is facing more and more enemies, and it is becoming more and more difficult to continue to occupy the galaxy.
Of course, no matter how high it is, it cannot be higher than the military strength of the empire itself, but the role of the Star Gate is still very obvious.
For Chen Ming, although this thing may not prevent the mechanical tribe from causing trouble to him, it can at least avoid many mechanical tribes that can only come to him for trouble through the Star Gate.
As long as the Machinery Clan loses the Star Gate, Chen Ming will have a lot of room to compete with the Machinery Clan.
It's just that Chen Ming really didn't understand anything about the Star Gate technology.
Although this can be regarded as a research project of the relevant departments of the Naval Research Institute, there are too many prerequisite technologies to learn to learn this technology.
He could only snatch it away and then think about how to use it.
And there are definitely heavy soldiers on the Star Gate side.
Not only the Destroyer Mothership, there must be other motherships squatting there.
Multiple motherships operating together, Chen Ming's cruisers have no chance of winning no matter how many cruisers they have.
Therefore, Chen Ming prepared a plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain.
The current strength of the Zerg is enough to seize the star gate itself after a lot of losses.
But this is not enough.
Chen Ming's goal is not only the Star Gate, but also the Destroyer.
After the tiger left the mountain and took out his nest, Chen Ming also wanted to take the tiger home with him.
Therefore, he would also use himself as bait to set a trap that might deceive the machine race.
Plans have been thought out beforehand.
All that's left is execution.
Chen Ming was in no hurry to start.
But after a night's rest and his mental strength returned to its peak, he officially started this operation.
Let’s start with the black mist prosthesis.
Chen Ming's mental power has increased significantly after being exposed to the scarlet dimension many times.
Just like what he told his boss last time.
His mental power can already directly cover the galaxy, but his ability is still limited within a framework.
This affects his ability to control the spaceship, but it does not affect his ability to control things other than the spacecraft.
It also does not affect the derived effects of his psychic powers.
Therefore, at the same time that Chen Ming made his decision, large-scale black fog appeared at the same time on hundreds of planets parasitized by the Zerg within dozens of galaxies in the border area of the mechanical race.
Black mist enveloped the Zerg fleet, and they gathered again.
Chen Ming did not deliberately hide this action.
On the contrary, he even used the intelligence from the front line to deliberately let some of the Black Mist Zerg appear in front of the Imperial fleet that was scouting the edge of the Mechanical Race's star field.
I was afraid that the empire would not notice the movements of the black mist prosthesis.
Naturally, this attracted the attention of the mechanical tribe.
They already knew that this day would come sooner or later.
Therefore, when the Black Mist Zerg began to gather, the Machine Tribe had already sent three motherships to the star field where the Black Mist Zerg gathered.
It's still the same three ships as before, still gathering together to avoid being alone and killed by the cruiser.
Just as the Machine Tribe was preparing to fight the Black Mist Zerg Fleet.
Chen Ming stayed in the mechanical race star field, and the Zerg race in the galaxy near the logistics area also started activities.
(End of chapter)