The sickly ghost could not be considered a good teacher because he was too focused when giving instructions and would not waste time and energy explaining to Zhu Shijiu the details and meanings behind each of his operations.
Therefore, if you want to understand the meaning of each operation, Zhu Shijiu has to think about it carefully and understand it himself.
But problems soon arose. Often, when a certain instruction came out of the mouth of the sickly man, while Zhu Shijiu was still trying to understand it, the sickly man issued the next instruction. He could hear it with his ears, but his brain could not react, and he fell behind step by step. It was like when he lowered his head to pick up a pen in an advanced mathematics class in college, and couldn't understand it when he looked up again.
Of course he was not distracted now. Not only that, his brain had been strengthened many times and his thinking speed was at least two or three times faster than that of an ordinary person. But even so, he still couldn't keep up with the command thinking of the sickly man.
The picture that appears on the computer screen is clear at a glance.
Two large forces advancing from the southeast and northwest directions arrived at the marked points on the map one after another, and successfully divided the entire Zerg swarm into two halves, causing the Zerg swarm to look like it was cut in half by a huge knife.
This was the perspective from a drone's bird's-eye view. The "fog" made up of individual Zerg swarms was easily split in half. Now it was the turn of the dispersed forces to appear. A total of twenty-eight teams plunged into the gaps between the separated Zerg swarms like sharp awls, and then separated in lines to form a wall dividing the battlefield.
Zhu Shijiu could not hear the reports from the various teams through the headset worn on the ear of the sickly ghost, but he could clearly see the changes in the situation on the field.
After the twenty-eight teams from the central area entered the battlefield, the entire battlefield had been divided and had a fixed form.
The overall shape had been formed, which meant that the extremely important first step had not gone wrong, so the sick ghost finally had a chance to breathe. Perhaps to take into account Zhu Shijiu's feelings, he took the initiative to explain to Zhu Shijiu.
"When fighting Zerg, the most important thing is to have a sense of the overall situation, and then you can take care of the details. What do you think is the biggest difference between a swarm of Zerg and a single Zerg?"
Zhu Shijiu said without hesitation: "Quantity."
The sickly ghost rolled his eyes at Zhu Shijiu and said, "Are you talking nonsense?"
Zhu Shijiu smiled sheepishly: "Apart from the number, it should be the fighting method. The swarm of alien insects and the single alien insect will greatly change the fighting method of the black soldiers."
"That's right." The sickly ghost said with a teachable look, "That's exactly what I wanted to say. If I hadn't reminded you, would you have thought that the black soldiers' fighting style when facing a swarm of Zerg is not much different from that when facing a single Zerg?"
"I didn't notice that." Zhu Shijiu admitted humbly.
"The black soldiers fought against the Zerg swarms, and their main fighting method was a method called 'tactical extermination'... You may not understand what I mean, but you can understand it if you just imagine the two sides of the battle as simple numbers of troops. I will show you a practical demonstration."
Having said that, the sickly man adjusted his headset, stared at the computer screen seriously, and quickly issued several instructions.
As a result, the situation on the field, which had just stabilized, changed slightly.
The black soldiers from the large army in the southeast direction suddenly separated a small group of combat forces to attract a small number of alien insects. Then, when the alien insects left the main battlefield, the large army dispatched another part of the combat forces to surround the small group of alien insects, and then quickly eliminated them in a very short time.
"This is tactical extermination. It is not about fighting the Zerg one-on-one with hard power, but about using the majority to bully the minority, dividing the Zerg swarm into smaller pieces, and then bullying them with a huge disparity in strength, and devouring the Zerg swarm in the easiest way. What I just demonstrated to you is the simplest tactical extermination method."
The sick ghost told Zhu Shijiu that this would not only save the black soldiers' energy, but also eliminate some of the alien insects without casualties. If they encountered a single alien insect, the black soldiers would choose to fight and kill it more directly.
"The battle for each defense base is a protracted war, so the head-on killing has become a tactical elimination. Including the current overall situation, it is also a tactical elimination idea."
The sickly ghost pointed at the huge zerg swarm in the bird's-eye view and said, "But judging from the numbers, the zerg are much larger than the black soldiers. This not only means that there is a gap in strength between the zerg swarm and the black soldiers, but also means that the zerg can freely send out any number of zerg to surround and erode our combat power."
After the explanation from the sickly ghost, Zhu Shijiu understood that if they could just separate a small part of the huge zerg swarm to execute tactics like humans, the black soldiers would be powerless to reverse the situation no matter how capable they were. Therefore, the black soldiers' primary goal was not to annihilate the zerg, but to stop the zerg swarm from using tactics.
"From the moment my southeast and northwest forces and the 28 teams in the center appeared, their greatest role was not to stop the Zerg's offensive, but to stabilize the entire battlefield. This stabilization meant that the Zerg could only fight us in the battlefield area we planned. We were equivalent to using a relatively small number of troops to 'surround' the entire huge Zerg swarm."
Zhu Shijiu was somewhat surprised: "Aren't they said that the Zerg only have the intelligence of a seven or eight year old child? What tactics can they use?"
What intelligence does a seven or eight-year-old have? In a normal human society, it is the level of a kindergarten graduate or a primary school student.
"Don't underestimate the Zerg. Their feeding instinct is ingrained in their bones. So even if they don't have intelligence, they will genetically behave in a way that is most conducive to their predation... Of course, this behavior won't be too complicated. At best, it will just be the simplest tactic of dividing the troops and surrounding them."
Therefore, the basis for the black soldiers to use the few to bully the many is this tactical means of extermination.
As time went by with the tuberculosis ghost's explanation, Zhu Shijiu soon discovered that the demonstration the tuberculosis ghost had given him before was really just a demonstration. In actual command, there was no battlefield that could be separated out for the tuberculosis ghost to use tactics to eliminate the enemy.
In actual operation, tactical elimination takes place inside the battlefield, and many operations are dazzling. Sometimes Zhu Shijiu thought that the sickly ghost wanted to attack the alien insects, and commanded the team to rush into the dense swarm of alien insects, but in fact he let the black soldiers form a bait force to attract the alien insects, forming an empty area, and then further lured the alien insects into the empty area. The moment they entered the empty area, the black soldier team blocked the gap again, forming an encirclement to eliminate the alien insects.
There are so many such operations that it’s hard to keep up.
Zhu Shijiu became more and more shocked the more he looked at it. He finally understood why this position could make a black soldier who had met the graduation standards so tired that he fainted.
This is simply not something a human can do. The amount of energy required is too terrifying.
And what the sickly man said before was that this tactic was too complicated, and it was indeed complicated, and was far less simple than the tactic that had already been proven to have failed.
As time went by, a fine layer of sweat appeared on the tuberculosis patient's forehead.
Just when Zhu Shijiu thought the situation was clear and that the sickly ghost could execute the tactics perfectly, something unexpected happened...
—At first, only one of the teams was attacked by a large number of alien insects.
It really was that simple, but problems soon arose. It was almost the same reason for failure as when the first tactic was executed. The black soldier squad had problems responding to the attack by alien insects.
The black soldiers' bodies were already at the limit, and the team that was attacked only held on for a short while before being easily crushed.
The result is predictable. It was like a hole appeared on the dam that blocked the flood. This hole caused the Zerg to surge in like a flood, and as a result, ten teams were suddenly destroyed. The remaining eighteen teams barely withstood the impact of the Zerg, but could not prevent the general decline.
Things happened very quickly.
The biggest problem in fighting Zerg lies here. No matter how fast the commander reacts, once a problem occurs, he can only make up for it but cannot prevent it in advance.
The tuberculosis ghost's expression changed, and he immediately ordered the two large armies to release pheromones separately. The fighting situation in the central area eased slightly, but a large number of black soldiers were seriously injured and the damage could not be made up for.
"hateful!"
The sickly man slammed the table with his fist and was about to adjust the headset to issue the next instruction.
However, when he reached out and touched it, he felt something warm and sticky, and the entire computer screen was suddenly soaked in half by the scarlet liquid that splashed out.
The sickly ghost looked to the side in daze and astonishment, only to see Zhu Shijiu throwing the pieces of meat on his neck to the ground and giving him an ambiguous smile.