Chapter 355 The Second Attack
After nearly a week of breeding, the hive once again has power.
Even in the logistics area of the mechanical clan, it is the same.
It can even be said that the Zerg breeding speed in this logistics area is much faster than that of the Zerg covered by the Black Mist Prosthesis, and the number of Zerg bred is far greater than that of the Black Mist Zerg.
Although the Mechanical Tribe has long expected the insect plague to break out again near the Logistics Star Territory, they have also prepared warning systems on any planet that may have been contacted by the Insect Tribe.
But when almost every planet in this area sounds an alarm at the same time, the meaning of the alarm is almost non-existent.
There are thousands to tens of thousands of Zerg cruisers taking off on each planet.
Although it doesn't look like much.
But just look back and think that this is just the number of Zerg cruisers produced by the Zerg Hive in less than a week, not the number of ordinary Zerg.
And when the number of insect nests has expanded from one planet to hundreds of planetary insect nests.
Then the number of the Zerg fleet assembled in the end will be even higher than the last attack made by Chen Ming.
This is not a question of less at all, but a question of whether the Zerg fleet can directly face the mechanical race of an entire star field when the number is added up, including the capital ship.
Of course Chen Ming would not do this.
He still likes to hold back on things he is not absolutely sure of, and this time is no different.
He did not completely transform every hive on the planet into a zerg cruiser.
The insect nest is still breeding on the planet, and as long as it is not destroyed, it can continue to provide him with a steady stream of insect fleets in the future.
Millions of Zerg cruisers have appeared in a large area, threatening the rear of the mechanical race at all times.
The reaction of the mechanical clan was quite fast.
All the nearby colonies in the galaxy that belong to the mechanical tribe and are responsible for tasks such as material mining, alloy smelting, parts production, etc., all ended production at an extremely fast speed at the same time as the alarm was issued.
Relying on the prepared transfer methods, including various transportation channels and transportation spacecraft, most of the resources that have been produced on the planet will be taken away.
At the same time, these mechanical tribes also directly deployed a large number of self-destruction devices on the colonies, and then destroyed the original colonial buildings and factories, leaving no complete equipment for Chen Ming.
They chose to completely abandon the planet occupied by the Zerg.
In order to prevent Chen Ming from being able to easily take over the complete colony without any pressure, he chose to self-destruct.
But this time they were not like last time. The Destroyer Mothership did not come and send the planet to the west.
It may also be because the Machine Race understands that there is little point in destroying planets after the Zerg have developed from multiple planets.
After destroying one planet, the Zerg still have hundreds of planets that can be used to cultivate insect eggs.
Even if the Destroyers can really destroy hundreds of planets, they have no way of determining how many Zerg planets there are in the entire universe, or even if it shrinks to the vicinity of their star field.
So it would be enough for them to be able to disgust Chen Ming a little without doing too much.
While the machine clan was dealing with its own resources, it immediately assembled a fleet.
Starting from the direction of other galaxies in the logistics areas that have not yet been occupied by Chen Ming's Zerg, they attacked the Zerg fleet that had just emerged from the planet and gathered in the galaxy where the Zerg planet was located, but had not yet assembled together.
The mechanical race killed several fleets that appeared from different planets as quickly as possible.
But what they did was only a drop in the bucket compared to what Chen Ming did.
They cannot produce cruisers by digging them out of the soil like Chen Ming.
Not counting the reinforcements that have not yet been revealed, the Machine Race only has about 40,000 cruisers in total.
During Chen Ming's last attack, nearly half of them were lost, and even one-third of the destroyers were lost. The frigates were still intact because they generally did not participate in large numbers of battles with high-level ships.
But Expulsion and Escort are almost meaningless when fighting Zerg.
Only the number of cruisers is
In short, under such circumstances.
The existing power of the mechanical race can only cause enough damage to Chen Ming's Zerg fleet under the leadership of the mothership. Otherwise, it will not even be able to compare with the Zerg cruiser fleet that grew out of the ground.
There are currently a total of eight motherships of the Machine Tribe.
One of them was the mothership that was first attacked by the Zerg fleet.
Three of them were sent to the Black Mist Zerg clan in the last war.
There is also a Destroyer still inside the galaxy where the star gate is located, with no further action.
Coupled with the three motherships that just appeared today to deal with the Zerg near the logistics star field.
Eight ships in total.
Perhaps it can also be counted as a mothership that went to the empire and was killed by Lu Bai.
This total is very close to the ten motherships that Chen Ming had speculated before.
But Chen Ming felt that there should be more, because the reinforcements from the mechanical tribe had not yet appeared.
Putting aside the Destroyer Mothership, the other motherships can actually allow Chen Ming to make some moves.
But he still wanted to wait, because he felt that the Destroyer was the truly valuable being.
To put it bluntly.
If he wanted to now, he could get a mothership from the empire at a small price, or even other types of capital ships from the empire.
So he didn't want to stop there.
He wanted more.
No matter how much the loss is, no matter how much it is lost.
Whether it's the Destroyer or the Stargate.
Moreover, if he didn't insist on using cruisers and motherships to fight, he could even use many different methods to pull back the mechanical tribe.
The mechanical race can at most take advantage of the initial attack to destroy one or two Zerg fleets, and their mothership will never see a single Zerg warship later.
But being tough also has its benefits.
At least all the motherships used by the Machine Race now, except for the Destroyer Mothership, are all stained with the flesh and blood of the Zerg Race.
The Zerg's fearless fighting style can easily get close enough to splash flesh and blood onto the armor of the mechanical warship.
As long as Chen Ming wants to, he can do more.
And these are just appetizers.
The main meal hasn’t officially started yet.
After the mechanical tribe launched a round of counterattack near the logistics area.
Their warp systems will be temporarily unavailable.
Chen Ming's Zerg fleet quickly assembled in a galaxy inside the mechanical race star field.
At present, Chen Ming has locked onto the movements of several motherships of the Machine Tribe, and also knows that the Destroyer is still within the galaxy where the Star Gate is located.
Therefore, in order to achieve his goal, it must first attract the Destroyer Mothership.
The entire Zerg fleet was assembled and redistributed into eight Zerg fleets.
Each fleet had more than half a million cruisers, totaling more than four million.
This number can defeat any fleet.
But considering the existence of the Destroyer, which has a wide range of attack methods, and the density of the fleet when the number exceeds a certain level.
Chen Ming still chose to divide his troops and use the safest means to deal with the next matter.
The eight separate fleets alone already have the size of the entire Zerg force that Chen Ming launched in his last active attack, which is enough to destroy any mechanical colony.
This time, with such power.
Chen Ming no longer needs to think about anything except the Destroyer.
There was only one thing he had to do.
Randomly select a few lucky colonies of the mechanical race, and send the fleet to the colony's face to attract the Destroyer Mothership.
However, Chen Ming still doesn't know where the mechanical tribe's reinforcements are.
He had to be prepared for this.
If there are external reinforcements similar to the Destroyer, it is also possible to cause horrific damage to his Zerg fleet in a short period of time.
After the Zerg fleet regrouped.
A mighty leap began.
Each of the eight fleets locked onto a galaxy within the logistics area of a mechanical race and began the jump.
This time Chen Ming's goal is not to seize the technology of the mechanical tribe. He has already obtained enough technology from the mechanical tribe's colony that he captured earlier.
Continuing to seize colonies will only shorten the development time of his mechanical race.
And when pursuing a larger goal, he can accept some necessary losses.
What's more, although doing this will lose the colony of the mechanical race, it will also gain a new insect nest planet.
Nothing to lose.
At the same time as Chen Ming's fleet was making a jump.
Of course, the mechanical tribe also detected those transition fluctuations.
They will definitely respond immediately
The logistics star field was destroyed, and their front line was bound to be pushed all the way.
The mechanical race itself was destroyed by Chen Ming in part of the logistics system. The star field defense force that could last for several years could only last less than half the time in front of the empire.
This is what Bai Quan answered personally when Chen Ming asked Bai Quan how long the machine clan would be able to survive assuming they lost half of their logistical support.
And if it is completely destroyed again, this logistics area located in the resource-rich nebula area.
The mechanical race will completely lose some sources of important supplies and most of the sources of basic supplies.
They may even be unable to launch a final, dying counterattack against the Empire.
Therefore, the mechanical tribe soon became unable to sit still.
Chen Ming's remaining reconnaissance methods located at the edge of the stargate galaxy where the mothership was resting quickly captured the stargate being activated and signs of mothership activity within the galaxy.
However, the signs of activity on the mothership soon disappeared.
Chen Ming knew clearly that this was once again the mechanical clan sending the mothership into the phase space.
Rely on the power of phase space to suppress the normal universe to prevent the Zerg from causing damage to the mothership from the normal universe environment.
This allows the mothership to focus on output without having to worry about being attacked.
Even after the Destroyer Mothership left port, there was no sign of gathering a convoy and it just started the jump.
Anyway, the escort fleet will be killed by the Zerg fleet in the end, so there is no need to waste it fighting against the Zerg fleet.
The jump fluctuations of the Destroyer Mothership soon appeared on the face of the Zerg fleet closest to the Stargate Galaxy.
Although the Zerg fleet here could not see the whereabouts of the mothership, Chen Ming could see the mothership that suddenly appeared in the phase space here. The energy dissipated light from its spine cannon destroyer seemed to be amplified to the limit, and completely dissipated in the next moment.
Destruction was unleashed.
Chen Ming had tried his best to arrange the insect queens as loosely as possible, but it was still difficult to completely disperse this number.
And at the moment of destruction, more than 500,000 Zerg cruisers seemed to be suddenly bitten by an invisible giant mouth, and a quarter of them melted in an instant.
The remaining Zerg cruisers dispersed quickly, but still took the opportunity to focus their fire and destroy the colonies in the system.
Killing hundreds of thousands of cruisers without the protection of other battleships in an instant can be said to be a dimensionality-reducing blow for any battleship of the same level.
According to Chen Ming's understanding, the empire currently does not have a mothership or main-level weapons that can do this.
Although there are problems such as the Zerg fleet having no shields, being unable to use shields to block psychic fluctuations, being specifically restrained by the Destroyer, and because there are too many, the fleet formation is too dense in order to activate the colony.
But it is enough to show the terror of the Destroyer.
But this level is not enough for Chen Ming.
He only had a quarter of his fleet destroyed.
He also has seven fleets of the same size.
And at the moment when the Destroyer was dispatched, the seven fleets scattered in different galaxies also made the jump at the same time.
Jumped to the star gate galaxy that the Destroyer just left.
This time Chen Ming didn't plan to have too many twists and turns with the mechanical clan.
He pursues only one word.
efficiency.
The jump fluctuations of millions of battleships echoed throughout the Stargate Galaxy.
The remaining traces of the transition almost completely disrupted the space within the entire galaxy.
Chen Ming suddenly discovered that the movement of the Zerg fleet had unexpectedly interfered with the jump engines of all spacecraft in the galaxy.
It's like this place was originally an ocean.
When the sea is calm, the warship can float on it, and can even use its strength to jump up on the ocean and make a jump.
But when the ocean is rough, let alone jumping up, it is considered good if there is no problem with your own system.
It will take at least half an hour for such a huge aftermath to dissipate.
In this half hour, although the Zerg fleet was unable to use the biomass jump engine to retreat.
But the mechanical fleet also has the same problem, and their reinforcements have no way to arrive through the jump.
Their only way to obtain reinforcements is within the star gate of Chen Ming's target.
now.
All the Zerg warships rushed towards the star gate in the galaxy like mad dogs.
Just as Chen Ming's Zerg fleet ran to the Stargate Galaxy.
His Black Mist Zerg fleet controlled by the Black Mist Prosthesis also broke out into battle with the fleet of the Mechanical Tribe's border star field.
The main body of the Black Mist Zerg Fleet is outside the Machinery Galaxy and has not been cleaned by the Destroyer before. The Destroyer had mainly taken care of the logistics galaxy.
Therefore, when the Black Mist Zerg fleet assembled, its size was almost the same as the Zerg fleet assembled in the logistics star field.
A single insect nest can produce tens of thousands of cruisers in a week. If hundreds of planets are parasitized, then there are millions of insect cruisers.
If it weren't for the fact that the Zerg in the logistics area could rely on the massive resources of the planet to develop rapidly, Chen Ming even felt that there would be more Black Mist Zerg this time.
Having more Zerg isn't a bad thing.
In order to fit in with the character design that Chen Ming originally gave the Black Mist prosthesis, the Black Mist Zerg Fleet was designed.
After gathering, they continued to move in the direction of the empire. On their way forward, there also happened to be several galaxies of the mechanical race.
The fleets of the Machine Tribe and the Black Mist Zerg Tribe collided again.
Last time, the Machine Tribe had three motherships and a large number of supporting middle and lower-class spacecraft, and this time they also have them.
But this time, after the Zerg underwent an important evolution and mastered the manufacturing method of new biological buildings, they now have a more terrifying breeding rate and a larger Zerg fleet than before.
The Black Mist Zerg warships can do far more than what they came before.
And in terms of combat effectiveness, these Zerg fleets that Chen Ming took special care of and were shrouded in a large amount of black mist were more powerful than ordinary Zerg fleets.
Except for the mothership, all the battleships in several star systems on the border of the mechanical race were almost destroyed in a single encounter.
Even though the Zerg tribe forcibly exchanged battle losses, they suffered far more losses than the mechanical tribe despite having an overall advantage in combat effectiveness.
But the Zerg's combat effectiveness has not declined significantly at all.
On the contrary, the mechanical clan only had three motherships struggling to support themselves.
Even if the mothership's main weapons leave the Zerg cruisers with almost no means of countermeasures and protection, the mothership is still somewhat powerless when facing enemies that are not of the same order of magnitude.
The suppression between ship classes seems to have lost its meaning.
Chen Ming could feel the terror just looking at the huge amount of energy and the consumption of elder materials and the insect tide formed by the Zerg cruisers that could not be seen to the end no matter how they were killed or destroyed.
Although the mechanical race does not feel terror, they can understand what inevitable failure is.
This scene at this moment was not only seen by Chen Ming and the machine tribe.
It will obviously be discovered by the Empire.
Previously, when the Black Mist Zerg released insect eggs, the process had been monitored by the empire's reconnaissance fleet.
Therefore, when the last battle between the Black Mist Zerg and the Machine Tribe was suspended.
The empire has quietly sent a fleet to drop the detector.
Chen Ming knows the location and functions of these detectors. As long as they can connect to external communication devices, they can send information back to the empire as soon as possible.
So after dismantling a lot of them, he deliberately left some openings for the Empire to launch detectors, just so that they could transmit the news about the Black Mist Zerg back as soon as possible.
After almost all the black fog bugs came out of the nest, the news should be sent to the relevant people soon.
The behavior of the Black Mist Prosthesis and the terrifying number of Black Mist Zerg will definitely shock many people.
It can also expose part of An Wuping's abilities.
It allowed people in the empire to think in disguise whether An Wuping might have such abilities, causing more and more people to focus on An Wuping instead of himself.
Let more and more people notice the existence of the black mist, leaving the left path hidden in the dark with nowhere to hide.
soon.
The firepower produced by the three motherships of the Machine Tribe has gradually begun to sparse.
These three motherships carry three types of ridge gun heads, namely energy, restraint energy and plasma.
Each weapon can cause considerable damage to the Zerg after reaching the level of the main weapon.
But it makes no sense.
If the Zerg kill one, there will be another, and if they kill one, there will be another.
Every cruiser destroyed means more Zerg cruisers are coming.
Zerg ships can also capture the corpses of dead similar species in battle, relying on the corpses to gain stronger combat power in battle.
The other side of the battle almost never sees any hope of victory.
The Zerg really made the meaning of the word "worm tide" in the battle.
The three motherships suddenly stalled.
The Zerg fleet once again burst out with a new force like a shark that smelled blood.
But unfortunately, this is not a sign that the mothership will be submerged by the insect tide.
Because at the moment when the Zerg fleet was approaching in large numbers.
The three motherships erupted with another wave of rapid firepower in a short period of time, completely clearing the surrounding Zerg.
The mechanical race's mothership had just taken the initiative to show weakness, luring the Zerg fleet closer, making the Zerg fleet's formation denser, in order to create greater results.
However, the three motherships seemed to have finally reached their limit, and after finally releasing this wave of firepower, they started their jump engines.
Taking advantage of the time when the Zerg warships could not get close, they disappeared into the galaxy and gave up the message that they came to rescue.
Chen Ming has a way to block the jump, but it can only target cruisers, and the arrangement is very troublesome, so he can't stop the mothership from retreating now.
But similarly, he also has the means to track jumps.
Even capital ships that can use multiple jump engines in a short period of time cannot escape the pursuit of Zerg cruisers.
Chen Ming immediately confirmed the whereabouts of the mothership by analyzing the jump fluctuations.
They jumped into the passage between the empire, the machine race and the afterglow.
Chen Ming first briefly counted the losses.
About four hundred thousand.
It can only be said that the number of fleets has increased. A thrown brick can hit more than a dozen Zerg cruisers, and the mothership's weapons have a high probability of hitting at will.
The Zerg are not afraid of death, they just fight head-on, so the losses are indeed quite heavy.
But compared to the remaining number of Zerg, these losses are really not a problem.
After counting the losses, Chen Ming continued to let the Zerg fleet also start the jump, and followed up again.
However, at the moment when the Zerg fleet arrived via jump.
The three motherships chose to start the jump engines again, and their jump fluctuations were locked to three different places.
Chen Ming's expression suddenly changed.
Because one of the three coordinates is located in his hometown, the pirate space station galaxy.
A branch of the Legion, now the front line of the war between the Machine Tribe and the Empire, in the galaxy where Bai Quan is located.
There is also a mothership whose jump destination is a certain star system in the mechanical star field that was knocked down by the empire's subsequent reinforcements.
Chen Ming's sudden face turned dark, not only because the Machine Tribe chose to lead the Black Mist Zerg Tribe to the Empire, but also for other reasons.
But he made no plans to change his plans.
Still let the Zerg fleet jump again, ready to follow.
However, after making such an order, he did not continue to pay attention to the movements of the Black Mist Zerg.
He chose to pay attention to the Zerg that were attacking the Stargate Galaxy.
Because this is the place where the mechanical tribe will inevitably encounter a crazy counterattack.
(End of chapter)