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On the distant horizon, it was originally occupied by the blood-like skylight, forming a crimson band of light. Soon, some black spots appeared in the red light band, and the black spots quickly formed into a piece, and finally formed a billowing wave. That black current is composed of countless black strange insects. These strange insects are three meters long, with a tapered head and tail, and a rounded middle. The whole body is covered with a crystal-like shell, and a row of thin insect claws protrude from each side. The insect claws slide quickly, making the strange insect move quickly like a land chariot.
They are charge bugs, a unit widely used by Jin Luoxius in the wars of the Fourth Age. These zerg are highly mobile and can quickly storm defensive positions. But the evaluation of defense and attack power is very low, and it belongs to the cannon fodder type of arms. However, the number of charging insects is superior to that of the large number. The wave of insects coming from the horizon alone has reached nearly a million orders of magnitude, and the numbers behind it are not ordinary. Just one glance at the horizon is enough to make one's heart chill.
Looking at the past, there are densely packed figures of charging insects. The first flood peak formed by them has an unknown width and a length of many kilometers, and it just surges like this. The ground seemed to be covered with a black curtain, and it was quickly approaching the war fortress.
Under the control of Agladis, the commander of the army issued orders one after another, so all the soldiers mobilized and entered their battle areas one by one. However, the foreign soldiers and many strong men remained unmoved, as if it was not their turn to play yet.
The charging insects formed a series of flood peaks and headed straight for the war fortress. At this time, some extraordinarily huge figures appeared on the horizon. First of all, there are some strange beasts with bodies like big meat sacs. They have a head like a giant turtle, but they are covered with lines and six-sided crystals. Four short but thick legs supported the huge body, moving at a slow speed.
There are only about a hundred of these strange beasts, the number is pitifully small, but the energy aura emanating from them is more than half that of the charging insects. They are producers, a unit that has no combat power, but can extract planetary resources and convert them into energy spars needed by the Proseus army. The producer started to stop and lay down on the ground, with fluttering fleshy whiskers growing from the short legs and head, and then plunged into the ground one by one. They began to extract the energy of the planet, their fleshy bodies began to light up, and they released radiant spars from the hatch at the rear.
There are also some huge alien beast units coming from the horizon. They have a human-like upper body, and a huge multi-segmented insect body on the lower body, with six pitch-black thick jointed limbs that are deeply nailed into the ground. Before moving forward at a step of ten meters, the upper body of the humanoid has the characteristics of a human female, without hands, and has multiple tentacles covered with suction cups.
They are queens, and queens are a kind of production unit. These giant units come behind the producer and use their tentacles to send the energy spar produced by the producer into a giant mouth located on the chest. After a certain amount of energy crystals have been devoured, the queen's worm tail will start to ovulate. They can release thousands of eggs at a time, and the ovulation interval depends on the stage of the production unit.
Now the queen produces a mid-level unit, which is the reaper with excellent mobility and fast attack ability. Their disadvantage is that their defense is weak, but they can be mass-produced. Hundreds of queens give birth together, and each time they can produce 100,000 eggs. The production interval of the harvesters is 10 minutes, which means that within an hour, there will be 600,000 harvesters.
Assuming there is no time limit, then in one day, an army of tens of millions will be formed. Of course, the Queen will not only produce Reapers. Although this is a mid-level combat unit, like the Charging Bug, they are still cannon fodder-like consumables for Proseus. Priority production can form a large number of excellent combat units in a short period of time, just to provide production time for subsequent advanced or even top-level combat units.
When the queen was ovulating for the second time, the first batch of eggs had already begun to hatch, and scorpion-shaped Reaper larvae crawled out of them, but with two pairs of sickle-like jointed limbs. The larvae chop up the egg shells with their sickle limbs and devour them. During the devouring process, the body continued to expand, and then the worm's shell burst, and an adult harvester crawled out of it.
Adult harvesters are not even as big as charge bugs. They are only one meter long, have six black claws, and three hexagonal spars are embedded in their node-shaped bodies. They are the source of power for the harvesters. As soon as they broke out of their shells, hundreds of thousands of Reapers quickly entered the battlefield, following the charge worms.
At this time, the striker's forward was less than one kilometer away from the war fortress. The huge war machine of the fortress started to start, and the missile launching platform took the lead in attacking. After a simple positioning, the missiles dragged the flames into the air, skimmed parabolas on the bloody sky, and then fell into the swarm of insects.
In the first wave of attack alone, thousands of missiles were fired!
Groups of fireballs exploded in the swarm of insects, and every time they appeared, they would leave huge gaps on the black curtain. But these gaps are quickly filled in by bugs that follow.
In the command building in the fortress, the combat staff entered one order after another into the brain in front of them, so as to send the command from the headquarters to each command node. There must be no mistake in these orders, otherwise unnecessary losses will be caused. Under the deployment of the headquarters, some soldiers left the square formation, but more soldiers were still ready to go.
The missile attack is still going on, this is already the third wave of offensive, and thousands of missiles have been thrown into the swarm of insects. With the flames and shock waves of the explosion, the color of the swarm of insects is obviously much lighter than before. However, the strikers of the Charging Worms were already approaching the fortress of war. The previous million strikers had been cut in half under the constant coverage and bombardment of missiles, but the number was still daunting.
As soon as it approached the war fortress, the charging bug that served as the vanguard suddenly only bounced off the ground, and then stretched its body segments, its limbs grew violently, and purple insect thorns emerged from the gaps in the opened body segments, immediately making it look like a chariot. Worm-like armed to the teeth. These stingers can be fired, and after shooting, the shell will rupture, and the poisonous insect fluid will be sprayed inside. At the same time, it can also be used to drill the enemy in close combat, which is a flexible attack method that the charging bug can use.
But now, the giant scorpion-like zerg is the true form of the charge worm.
At this time, thousands of heavy artillery forts on the fortress began to go into battle. The dull sound of heavy artillery was one after another, and shells whizzed down all over the sky, blasting a bright flame on the battlefield. The charging bugs were blown away in pieces, their fragile shells could not reach the bombing of the heavy artillery, and countless bugs were blown into a pile of meat, but this did not stop the determination of the bugs to attack, so the subsequent charging bugs kept crossing After passing this fire belt, the second and third fire belts are lit on the battlefield.
The appearance of each fire belt meant that tens of thousands of charging bugs were blown away, but the fire belt gradually retracted. When it shrank to only about 300 meters away from the fortress, the fire belt no longer retreated, but bombarded firmly in turn, continuously planing and flying the bugs and the ground. The distance from the first fire belt to the last fire belt is only more than 200 meters. But it was this distance that cut off nearly 100,000 troops of the charging worms.
The battlefield has become a meat grinder.
After the heavy artillery, the unique sound of anti-aircraft cannon and rotary cannon sounded in the fortress. Arranged in tens of thousands of shooting holes on the high defensive wall in front of the fortress, these two powerful guns fired at the same time, and the visible bright lines of fire immediately pierced the battlefield. The smell of gunpowder and blood mixed together, forming a battlefield unique to the battlefield. smell. Nearly a hundred flamethrowers located on the high defensive wall were working at the same time. Under the operation of the soldiers, one after another fire dragons sprayed down the city wall and swept over the charging insects. Immediately, the worm's shell burst, and the whole body of the worm caught fire, turning into fireballs.
At this time, the previous contact battle between Agladis and Prosius was in full swing. The flames of war spread across thousands of square kilometers of battlefield, and explosion flames and splattered flesh and blood could be seen in almost every corner. At this time, as the attacking side, the charging bugs had almost left nearly a million corpses, and the casualties in the fortress were almost negligible.
However, the number of charge bugs is still numb, and behind the swarm, three waves of reapers have joined the battlefield. Soon, the number of reapers will catch up with the charge bugs.
Some charge bugs had already begun to climb up the high defensive wall, but on the top of the wall, densely packed firepower points rained bullets from the top of the wall, smashing the charge bugs clinging to the city wall into sieves and shooting them down one by one. Every minute and every second, the corpses of the charging bugs could be seen falling on the city wall. From a distance, it looked like a rain of bugs. But if this continues, it is only a matter of time before the charging bug enters the fortress, so the headquarters revised the order.
On the take-off pad, teams of light mechas lined up to vacate, with a team of a hundred combat units, forming a defensive formation and launching them onto the battlefield. These mechas are similar to the Griffin Knights of the Western Continent, but they have obviously been improved. Mechs are half the size of Gryphon Riders, allowing them to carry more weapons. For example, the previous pocket-guided missile system has been replaced, and now the shoulders are loaded with scattered small missiles, and the guided missile compartment has also been expanded to improve the lack of Griffon Knight's combat capabilities.
The portable micro-machine gun was replaced with a wrist armor continuous-firing machine gun, and the magazine of the wrist armor machine gun was equipped with standard bullets and a small number of guns.
Finally, the chest armor part is equipped with a micro-reactor, which greatly improves the power of the old Griffin Rider, and can emit pulsed light waves when needed, causing huge damage. But the pulsed light wave will greatly consume the energy of the mecha, so the operator will not use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
These second-generation Griffin Riders continued to rise into the sky. In the blink of an eye, there were nearly ten thousand Griffin Riders in the sky above the fortress, but the number continued to increase.
At the same time, the doors on both sides of the fortress opened one by one, and ground mobile suits drove out from inside. These ground mechas are obviously improved models of paladin mechas. The original bipedal walking mode was replaced by the axle-wheel sliding mode. shortcoming. At the same time, the old-fashioned rotary cannon was removed and replaced with a double-barreled automatic cannon. The shoulder is a linked missile launch system, the back is a tube of liftable howitzer, and the waist is a combinable high-frequency tomahawk component. When the ammunition is exhausted, the driver can still use the tomahawk for hand-to-hand combat.
The greatly improved paladins kept coming out of the mecha warehouse, forming silver torrents, approaching the charging bugs from both sides.
Whether it is an improved Griffin Knight or a Paladin, it is not Agladis's imagination, but a technology that can be developed within a limited time based on the technology and development capabilities currently mastered by humans, so he was chosen by him. Combat units that are reproduced and placed on the battlefield through digital modeling.
In other words, in time, if there were no accidents, the two types of mechas in the Western Continent would be what they are now.
Once in the air, the Griffin Knights formed a defensive formation and flew directly to the front of the charging insect army. As soon as they entered the battlefield, the shoulder armor of all the knights opened, and the scattered small missiles inside continued to shoot out. Suddenly, it was like rain, densely packed downward The bug swarm went away. After a while, countless small fireballs appeared in the insect swarm. The formation and bombing points of the Griffin Knights were carefully calculated to achieve the maximum lethality.
After bombing back and forth several times like this, the swarm of bugs in front of the fortress was obviously reduced, forming a rare blank space.
The paladins coming from both sides occupied this blank area and formed the first steel line of defense. The paladin's double-barreled automatic cannon fires at a rate of two rounds per second. The bullets from the artillery are enough to blow a huge hole in the charging bug. A few shots of a charging bug can kill it, and a few more shots will completely bombard it. into pieces. Of course, the pilots wouldn't be so wasteful. Under the command of the commander, they attacked in an echelon style, bombarding and killing the swarms of bugs that kept coming.
After another two rounds of bombing, the Griffon Knights in the sky basically used up the distributed missiles on their shoulders. So some mechas returned to reload, and the other part cooperated with the ground troops to fire with wrist armor machine guns, and occasionally replaced them with guns, forming a wall of fire in the insect swarm. It's just that there is not much time for the firewall to stop the swarm of insects, and after a while, it will be trampled out by the rushing insects.
After these two kinds of mechs, when the blank area in front of the fortress was obtained, the key gate began to rise. The first to drive out were all kinds of steel chariots. In addition to the common artillery tanks and guided missile armored vehicles, there were more A brand new combat unit. This combat unit is like an upgraded version of the artillery tank. It also uses a tracked power system, but the ordinary cannon is replaced with a double-barreled cannon, but the double-barreled cannon is just a radial cannon. It is located on both sides of the tank. A combat platform that requires soldiers to operate within it. The main gun is a 120mm plasma cannon. This was originally a weapon system used on the Knights of the Round Table King Arthur, but now it is loaded on this brand new chariot.
This chariot is called Thor, with powerful fire support, it is a complete war machine.
After the tanks came another batch of large combat units. They are a combination of mechs and chariots, with a humanoid upper body and a disc wheel and tracked body at the waist. The new mechs, which are nearly five meters tall, hold a high-temperature flamethrower and have a large-capacity fuel tank behind them to ensure that they can fight for a long time.
A double-barreled shotgun is hung on each side of the fuel tank to ensure that the mech can continue to fight when the fuel is exhausted. Even the locomotive on the lower body is not just a decoration, the anti-aircraft machine guns in front and the small artillery platforms on both sides can provide enough firepower.
The mecha named Annihilator requires three operators alone. This is a mecha that needs to be controlled by multiple people, and it belongs to a large combat unit like Thor. Along with the Annihilator, there were also ordinary human soldiers. The soldiers wore light tactical uniforms with certain defensive capabilities. The standard ones are equipped with new-age high-powered rifles, which fire faster and are more powerful. In addition, there are composite daggers, high-explosive guns, and self-destruct devices as a last resort.
When the main force of this fortress went to the battlefield, the charging bugs were immediately harvested in large numbers, especially when the big guys like Thor and Annihilator were put on the battlefield, they were simply small movable fortresses. Once Thor's plasma cannon blasts out, it will clear a passage in the insect swarm that is nearly two hundred meters wide and four to five meters wide, and subsequent explosions will continue to dig out a blank space on the insect swarm. .
The Annihilator is not inferior either, the fuel produced by the improved formula can spray flames up to 2,000 degrees, not to mention the charging bugs, even steel has to be melted into iron juice. The Annihilator fought forward, and the jets swept out fire dragons, and casually swept towards the swarm, and the charging worms fell in pieces.
Coupled with the help of various locomotives such as artillery tanks and missile tanks, the army in the fortress not only stopped the swarm of insects, but also tended to advance to the rear of Proseus' army. By this time, less than half of the charging bugs had fallen, and millions of corpses witnessed the brutality of the war.
But at this time, the reaper of Proseus finally arrived.
These combat units, which are more flexible than the charging bugs, quickly evade the firepower of the fortress army. If they cannot dodge, they will temporarily order the nearby charging bugs to serve as their own human shields. Once the distance is close, the Reaper will blatantly pounce.
The first line of defense against the Reapers was the paladins, and the pilots in the mechs roared and ran into these monsters of similar size. After the initial collision, there was an intense fight. The Paladin's double-barreled artillery can easily leave a huge wound on the Reaper's body, but at the same time, the sharp sickle of the Reaper is also enough to chop the Paladin's mecha.
In terms of destructive power, the two are evenly matched. The number of reapers is ten times that of paladins, or even more!