Chapter 378: Being tricked
This time, because the opponent's number of battleships was relatively small, this wave of players did not even bring Corruptors.
This wave is mainly assisted by the third-level Zerg Host and the fourth-level Zerg Host of the new units.
The Thunder Beast, Cyclops Beast and Cockroach are responsible for the main attack.
Of course, after understanding the opponent's current situation, the players are not as careful in their layout as before.
After all, they came here privately, and the relationship between each civilization is not as good as imagined, so it is basically impossible for them to come with reinforcements.
The current situation is that as long as people find the enemy, they can attack at will without worrying about what will happen.
Therefore, when attacking this civilization, the players' preparations will naturally not be as long as the previous two civilizations.
Basically, you just head straight towards your destination.
And on the way there, the players did not worry at all that the enemy would run away when they saw their large troops. The main reason was that the players dispatched too few troops, and the opponent would always have a feeling of being able to easily defeat them. The illusion of annihilation.
It is also because of this layer that this civilization, like the previous two civilizations, is obediently waiting for players to come over.
When the players came over, they were immediately pressed to the ground and rubbed.
Naturally, the fate of this civilization is basically the same as that of the previous two civilizations. Both were easily solved by the players. Through this wave, the players also discovered the auxiliary capabilities of the new units.
There is only one word to describe it: strong.
Even the third-stage bugs can provide astonishing defensive capabilities. Under normal circumstances, the opponent will need at least 20,000 warships to focus their fire to clear out all your bugs.
As for the players in the fourth stage, they have not yet measured accurate data, because after this war has been fought in the fourth stage, the retention rate of bugs hatched by the insect swarm host is still about 80%, so the specific upper limit of damage is still there. Not tested out.
Of course, this effect naturally makes the players extremely satisfied. After all, with this layer of armor, the players will have more blood.
Even if it only evolves to the third stage, the effect it plays is very large.
For players, if they sacrifice one or two bugs less in each battle, they can make a lot more money.
Although the insect swarm host also requires a large amount of energy to produce insects, compared to the direct loss of more than 1 million worth of troops, the consumption of a small amount of energy is still acceptable to everyone.
In this way, after confirming the powerful auxiliary capabilities of the insect swarm host, the players continued to search for other civilized warships in this star field.
As time goes by, more and more warships come to this star field, and naturally the probability of them being discovered is also increasing.
Therefore, the probability of players finding battleships has significantly increased during this period compared to before. As more and more battleships are found, if players collectively clean them up, they will basically be unable to clean them up.
Therefore, after many powerful guilds negotiated, they decided that one guild or two guilds would act together. Of course, taking into account the battle losses, they also added a lot of third-stage insect swarm hosts during this period.
Every time before a war begins, they will give priority to the insect swarm host to produce enough insect king insects to be responsible for transportation.
After everything is ready, let the king bugs and other combat units go to the area where the enemy warships are, and release these bugs as soon as they arrive there.
In this way, although the loss rate of the king insect is relatively high, it is so cheap that no one feels bad about it.
Anyway, for players, as long as they protect the first stage hatchers and Ultralisks, everything will be fine.
During this period, as the players' action routes increased, the number of civilizations they harvested also increased, and through the information retained by these civilized warships, the players probably had a certain understanding of the current empire.
Through this information, players learned that the empire's main battleships were many times more powerful than these battleships.
And now the warships that players kill can be understood as the warships of the empire's cannon fodder squad.
Although it is easier for players to kill now, according to the data, players also know that the reason why they kill so easily is because these battleships do not form a formation. Once these battle lines form a formation, their combat effectiveness will increase exponentially.
Of course, after understanding these situations, the players also understood that their current strength is not even a little bit worse than that of the empire.
And now all the players can do is to try their best to clear out these cannon fodder.
At least this can reduce the pressure on players in the later stages when they actually go to war with the empire.
But this time on the empire's side.
Naturally, he knows about these dishonest civilized empires under his command.
Of course, for the empire, he also had his own reasons for not taking care of this matter.
The main purpose of the empire is to find out the enemy's situation through its civilizations. Don't forget that the highest authority of these warships belongs to them, so it is too easy for them to retrieve this data.
It is even said that as long as those in the empire are willing, these warships may not even be able to leave the port.
For the empire, the battleships lost during this period are nothing. After all, the number of battleships they have in hand is very terrifying.
Therefore, the loss of tens or millions of dollars is not unacceptable to them, and the most important thing is that more than 95% of the resources of these battleships are provided by them, so they will not feel bad if they lose it.
The most critical thing at the moment is that these warships themselves are within their loss plan. Even if these civilizations do not take the initiative to go out to kill the empire, they may arrange some death missions for them in the later stage.
After all, they are just a bunch of subsidiary civilizations in the final analysis, and these civilizations are not very honest. No matter who has the highest authority of these battleships, the empire will not allow the number of these battleships to be too large.
After all, it is possible for some civilizations to tamper with the authority of battleships.
If a few civilizations have an idea, they will unite more affiliated civilizations and start to produce warships like crazy. They will not announce the method of changing the permissions until the number is almost over.
By that time, wouldn't a resistance army be formed?
Therefore, the empire has always reserved its hands on these matters. It will find ways to control these warships within a relatively safe range.
Once the number of battleships reaches an unsafe range, he will find a way to clear out the extra battleships.
Of course, it is impossible for him to directly clean it up. Wouldn't this further encourage some people to think of being villains?
So usually he would choose a more tactful method, but at this time the insect swarm was undoubtedly helping him complete the job.
This is also the reason why during this period of time, players were frantically attacking those battleships but they did not make any big moves. A few more months passed in this way. The Empire took a look and felt that the number was almost there. Then he began to gather members to prepare for organizing an effective attack.
Naturally, the players have no idea about this change in the empire's policy.
At the moment, Tudou is leading his guild members to clean up a newly discovered civilization.
"Brothers, this civilization only has 50,000 warships. We should be able to send them all away within a few hours."
"Fifty thousand battleships are a lot of money. By the way, apart from this fleet group, have we found any other fleet groups?"
"No, we found this one during this time."
"Hey, it seems that after this job is done, we have to rest for a few days."
"Yes, but I was thinking that we have found the home bases of about 10 civilizations now. When will we go over and serve these civilizations to them?"
"Don't think about it in the short term. We can only wait until we can deal with the empire head-on in the future.
After all, the nests of these civilizations are not too far away from the empire. Once we pass, they can call for reinforcements at any time. ”
"It's better to make waves around the empire's jurisdiction than here. If you dare to go there and make waves, an army of warships will immediately come to the border and send you away in minutes."
In this way, the players chatted all the way and soon reached their destination.
When the players arrived at their destination, they naturally launched an attack on the enemy immediately.
As in the previous operation, the thunder beast took the lead and the king insect released the armored bugs it carried. The next moment, the armored bugs each flew towards their attachment target.
After a wave of operations, it only took less than a minute for the players to complete the deployment. After completing the deployment, the players immediately launched an attack on this fleet group.
As the attack began, the opponent was also desperately counterattacking, but it was obvious that their counterattack was not a threat at all to the players protected by armored bugs. In this way, the players easily harvested their warships.
And just when the players thought that this civilization would be easily solved by them like the previous civilizations, they suddenly discovered that the situation was not good.
"What happened, brothers? Why do I feel that the space fluctuations around me are getting stronger and stronger?"
"I don't know, but I always have a bad feeling."
While the players were still discussing, the next moment hundreds of thousands of warships appeared here.
Moreover, these warships are all different types of warships, and our family will naturally recognize these warships.
Because during this period of time when they attacked the imperial warships, they figured out the types of imperial warships.
Some of these battleships are attack ships responsible for specialized offenses, some are defense ships responsible for front-row damage, and some are auxiliary ships responsible for electronic warfare interference.
In the past, it was easy for players to kill these warships when they were separated and without reinforcements.
But now it's different. Not only did the other side come with a large number of reinforcements, but these reinforcements and the existing warships can just form a complete system.
Seeing this scene, the players still didn't understand what was going on. "Brothers, the situation is not right, retreat! Retreat!"
"Unable to remove the anti-jump warships on the opposite side, they prioritized our Ultralisks and Cyclops."
"Holy crap! Didn't we agree that these civilizations are not connected to each other and each has internal conflicts? What's going on?"
"It's probably because we cleaned up the battleships too hard during this period that they united."
"Damn it, don't say you don't have these anymore, think of a solution quickly."
"Think of a stupid idea. The opponent's lineup has both output and defense, and they can completely crush us in terms of numbers. We have to die hard."
While the players were still arguing, Tudou immediately shouted at everyone: "Brothers, be quiet."
"Now it seems that we have been tricked by the other side. From now on, everyone will obey my command. All the thunder beasts, one-eyed beasts and cockroaches should move back."
"The Corruptor moves forward, and the Corruptor switches all attack targets to the enemy's auxiliary battleships."
"I'll kill the opponent's anti-warp ship first, and the Thunder Beast and Cyclops can retreat when they find they can jump. As for the Corruptors, they can only be used as cannon fodder."
At this time, everyone who heard Tuduo also knew what he was going to do, but for now, they could only protect as much as they wanted.
Tudou also immediately informed everyone in the group of the situation to prevent them from encountering a similar experience to himself.
At this time, when Potato clicked on the public screen to chat, he found that the place had become a mess, because not only their guild encountered other guilds but also encountered similar situations.
But when he saw this scene, Tudou suddenly thought of something.
"Brothers, I'm thinking about the general situation and I understand it clearly."
"We have been too active during this period. Although the enemies seem to have no connection on the surface, our actions are most likely known to the empire's senior officials, so they formulated such a plan against us."< br>
"And now I seriously suspect that the other party's purpose is not to kill our team. Their purpose should be to find our home base through the return route of our escaped bugs."
When they heard what Tudou said, some players who were rushing home immediately stopped.
"Holy shit, I should say it or not, I think this thing is really possible."
"Then what should we do? We can't just wander in space."
"Yes, you must know that all the troops we ran away are high-value troops. It would be a pity if these troops wandered in space and encountered enemies and were destroyed."
Hearing everyone's words, Potato naturally knew the current situation, "In short, brothers, remember, we can never go home now. As for the high-level troops wandering around now, we can set up a temporary gathering point."
"Then we all gather there. As for the players who haven't sent out troops or haven't arrived at the attack location yet, they all gather in that area."
Speaking of which, Tudou added, "The other party has most likely arranged a ship to follow us, so if we want to get rid of them or solve the current predicament, the only way is to fight with them."
(End of chapter)