Chapter 1661: The Dilemma of the Expeditionary Force
1661. The Dilemma of the Expeditionary Force
"Impossible! The shot just now should have hit!" The commander was shocked.
However, it was too late to think too much, and all I saw was a terrifying monster crawling over quickly! This monster has completely lost its human form, with four legs on the ground. Only from the twisted and terrifying head can it be vaguely seen that it is the mutant giant from before wearing a fur coat and holding a rocket launcher.
At this moment, this monster's body is covered with a large amount of mutated substances. These mutated substances are constantly squirming and look like terrifying muscles! With the addition of a large number of mutated muscles, the monster's strength and explosive power will reach a terrifying level.
And what is very conspicuous is that this monster is covered with pustules! The pustules were filled with yellow-green pus and looked extremely disgusting.
One of the pustules had burst, and disgusting fluid was flowing from it.
"Fire!!" the commander gave the order again.
The heavy laser cannons on both sides of the TX-130 Saber tank fired again! At that moment, the monster didn't know if it had a premonition of danger, but it suddenly jumped to the side. Only one of the two laser beams hit, hitting a pustule on its body!
I only saw that the pustule exploded instantly under the irradiation of the laser, and countless smelly liquids burst out. Moreover, this liquid obviously had a very high boiling point and was not instantly vaporized by the ultra-high temperature of the laser. , on the contrary, it neutralizes the high temperature of the laser.
The hot and boiling liquid is flowing on the ground, emitting bursts of yellow-green smoke. You can tell that it is full of poison without even looking!
"The attack is invalid! Hurry! Keep firing!" Before the commander could finish his words, he only heard a bang and the car body shook violently.
“It’s on our car!”
I only saw that this monster had jumped onto the body of the tank. Because of insufficient energy and speed, the deflector shield was not triggered. The continuously flowing pus fell on the armor and emitted bursts of smoke.
"It's strong acid! Those liquids contain strong acid!!" the driver screamed.
Yes, although the armor was not corroded by the strong acid, the thick smoke clearly showed what would happen if the human body was contaminated.
But even if you know this now, it's too late...
This monster has begun to tear the TX-130's body with its huge claws! You must know that in actual combat, the main defense method the TX-130 relies on is the deflection shield. However, the deflection shield of this land vehicle has a higher threshold, which affects the speed and energy level of approaching objects. A certain level must be reached before the shield can be activated.
If this threshold is too low, the tank will be unable to move in a complex ground environment.
But in this way, when the TX-130 Saber tank faces these mutated trackers, it will be defenseless!
Yes, these monsters are all stalkers!
In the first form of trackers, although they are also extremely powerful and can even break reinforced concrete with one punch, they also have considerable IQ and can perform basic identification of friend and foe, and can also It can use rocket launchers, but it is still very powerless against the armored forces of the Galactic Republic.
They only used rocket launchers to destroy two TX-130s in the first wave of attacks and broke the mechanical legs of an AT-TE. After that, they were all wiped out by intensive fire from heavy laser cannons.
The power that can break reinforced concrete is still very powerless against real armored units.
However, as Shirley Birkin said, this is just the beginning!
Those trackers who were reduced to a pile of coke by the cannon fodder of the laser cannon began to mutate. The fur coats they wore were just a suppression device to prevent them from mutating due to sudden stimulation during transportation and harming their own people.
And now that the fur coat has been burned by the laser cannon, there is no longer any limit to the mutation of these trackers!
Because of the high temperature of the laser cannon, they have mutated in a direction that can withstand the laser cannon! And unlike blaster rifles, laser cannons are soft-kill, so the mutation direction of these trackers is to grow a large number of tumor pustules on their bodies!
These pustules are like reactive armor. When hit by a laser cannon, they will burst, and then the venom filled with a boiling point of several hundred degrees will neutralize the high temperature of the laser cannon and flow to the ground. to prevent the ultra-high temperature from harming the tracker's body.
At the same time, because it was killed by the previous attack, the T virus in the tracker's body thought that it was still not strong enough, so it mutated into a larger, stronger and more agile one!
These mutated trackers have become a nightmare for the TX-130 Saber hover tank that relies entirely on deflector shields for defense!
I only saw that the mutant tracker used its extremely powerful power to directly tear off a laser cannon on the side of the TX-130! Then he beat the car body like crazy! The thin armor, which could only protect against blaster machine gun fire, could no longer withstand the attack of the mutant tracker and dented.
In desperation, the commander opened the hatch and stuck his head out to shoot with a blaster rifle, but he was grabbed by the pursuer, pulled out of the car, and then torn in half with a roar!
"Roar!!!" The permeating smell of blood stimulates the pursuer, making him even more crazy!
On the other side of Cabo Town, the only AT-TE walker in the armored company has collapsed to the ground, thick smoke billowing, and a total of five mutated trackers are absorbing the corpses of the crew members on the ground. , replenishing the energy consumed by one's own mutation.
They don't eat with their mouths, but directly cover the corpses with mutated substances, and then directly assimilate the corpses!
After eating enough corpses, one of the mutant trackers lay on the AT-TE walking fuselage and stopped moving, while the other trackers were killed by another TX-130 tank that escaped at high speed. Attracted, he howled and chased after him.
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"General! We finally received news from the armored company in Cabo Town!" The communications soldier quickly ran over and said to the commander-in-chief Casio Tagg.
“Say!” Casio Tagg already had a very strong ominous feeling in his heart at this moment. "They are asking for help, and now there are only 7 TX-130 tanks left!" the communications soldier said eagerly, "They claimed to have been attacked by monsters. Those monsters cannot be eliminated, and they are becoming more and more terrifying! Now they are heading towards Kati City moves forward, wanting to join the 77th Legion!”
"What is it? T-Virus? Do you have any battlefield data?" Laszlo Dolit asked quickly.
"No! The tank responsible for the battlefield records was destroyed. There is nothing except their verbal description of the current battle situation." The signal soldier replied.
“Where is the reconnaissance plane?” Casio Tag raised his voice and asked the team on the other side that was communicating with the reconnaissance plane.
The correspondent took off his earphones and turned back and said: "According to the battlefield situation sent back by the reconnaissance plane, there are no signs of fighting in Kati City. They are conducting more careful reconnaissance, but the situation is not optimistic. ”
"It seems that Kati City is finished... If we include Kabo Town, there will be a huge gap in our encirclement in this direction. Originally, our operations in the eastern area of the capital of the planet Annaji were not going well, and now If the direction of Kati City is lost again, our entire encirclement network will be in vain," Laszlo Dolit said solemnly.
This also means that Casio Tag took a huge risk and launched a landing operation from hundreds of battlefields at the same time. His plan was completely bankrupt!
As if to sprinkle a pinch of salt on Casio Tag's wound, another communication soldier turned back and said: "General, just now the battleship Sieg sent a message, they briefly scanned a The signal of the large separatist convoy was lost after entering Kati City. They suspected that it was transporting supplies to the planet's capital area! "
"These separatist lunatics are actually using it on their own planet! T-Virus!" Casio Tag's eyes turned red, and the anger of the failed plan almost turned him into a volcano that could erupt at any time. "Asshole! Let our troops postpone the attack and wait in place. More landing troops! Prevent the separatist T-virus biological weapons from causing greater damage!"
"General, we still have a chance," Laszlo Dolit said, "I think those T-viruses. Monsters can only function in complex terrain environments, so we need to immediately carry out indiscriminate orbital bombing of large areas in the Kati City area, including Cabo Town!”
"But what happens after the bombing? If we don't send troops to blockade it, the separatist transport convoy can still pass through the bombing zone!" Casio Tagg punched the console, "And to block the bombing zone, we need more troops! "
"We have no shortage of troops! We just need to temporarily cut off the supply of the capital area. Next, we can take this opportunity to directly attack and occupy the capital area!" Laszlo Dolit said decisively! , "Since we have chosen a quick victory, we should implement it to the end! It is no longer appropriate to think about slowing down the offensive rhythm now."
Casio Tagg's face is uncertain, and the battle situation he is facing now So complex that what he learned at the military academy gave him no guidance at all. Even though he boasted that he had studied countless battle cases over the past 20,000 years since the founding of the Galactic Republic, none of them could tell him what he should do now.
The weird T virus biological weapon left him at a loss. He had no idea what the other party had, what its combat strength was, and what its advantages and disadvantages were, so he was unable to make targeted arrangements.
The 77th Army Corps invested in the Kati City Region, and more than 9,000 people were wiped out. But the problem is that the biggest problem with the T virus is its contagiousness! What if the T-Virus spreads to the rest of his troops?
Therefore, the biggest purpose of why he asked all the troops to stop attacking and defend in place was this. He was worried that continuing to invest more troops would make the T virus spread more quickly.
However, at this time, another piece of information made Casio Tagg finally make up his mind!
The battleship that escorted one of the transport fleets to the Annaji system destroyed a sneaky separatist transport ship, and among the wreckage of the transport ship, they found the corpse of a T-virus biological weapon!
Now the Jaeger-class battlecruiser has recovered the corpses and handed them over to the scientific research team for study. At the same time, the warship notified the command headquarters of the news, hoping that Casio Tag would attract attention, because this was just a discovered spaceship. God knows how many other spaceships the separatists had quietly sent to the planet Annaji. ?
If such biological weapons are rampant on the planet Annaji, then Cassio Tag's only option is to launch a devastating orbital bombardment on the planet to completely destroy the surface of the planet.
But in this way, he can only establish his own forward base in such a desolate galaxy. That's not to say it's impossible. In fact, as long as another hyperspace stabilizer is built here, he can also have solid logistics.
But the problem is that the hyperspace stabilizer is a very huge project. Once he gives the order to the rear to start transporting various parts of the hyperspace stabilizer and a large number of engineering ships and scientists, basically the entire route will serve this thing.
In other words, during this period, his fleet will not receive any supplies!
The ideal situation is of course to be able to occupy the planet Annaji, so that his fleet can be supplied and repaired on the planet Annaji, and at the same time, some simple parts needed for the hyperspace stabilizer can also be found on this planet. production at the factory. This way, there will be much less stress on rear transportation.
So Cassio Tagg is still unwilling to destroy the planet Annaji unless it is absolutely necessary.
"Okay..." Casio Tag's expression was a little ferocious, "Let's make a plan! Without a complete encirclement, directly attack the capital of Annaji's planet! Don't worry about whether it's an encirclement or whether the capital area can get reinforcements. ! So what if they keep adding reinforcements! How can the combat power of a mere planet be compared with our fleet!"
"Okay. I will instruct the staff to plan an attack within two hours. Plan!" Laszlo-Dolit responded immediately.
Although deep down in his heart, he was very reluctant to launch such an uncertain battle. However, with the emergence of biological weapons in the Kati City area, and the army in the direction of Kati City was confirmed to have been destroyed, he could only carry out such an offensive.
Otherwise, if one hole appears to fill another hole, it will never end.
Of course, Casio Tagg also felt that this plan was unreliable. He immediately called a space operations staff officer and ordered: "Let our fleet organize an attack immediately! Try to open a bombing window , capable of conducting precise orbital bombing in the direction of the Kati City area!”
The staff officer said with some embarrassment: "General, the current rotation direction of the planet Annaji is that the Kati City area is just opposite our fleet deployment area. We can only invest more warships to launch an attack and enter a synchronous orbit. That’s fine. Otherwise, it will be easier to bomb after 13 standard hours when the direction of Kati City is reversed.”
(End of this chapter)