" This time, 600,000 soldiers will be sent to Zone 3 and Zone 6 of the Giant Planet to wipe out the Zergs in this area and build fortresses to control this area. The 36,000 airborne assault infantrymen would act as the second wave of attack power during the battle, attacking the Zergs. The entire operation was estimated to take 160 cosmic hours. " After they launch their attack, we will be attacked in the first area. A total of twelve teams will enter the underground cave from all directions. The Holy Church Priest has confirmed that the Zerg Queen Mother is in this area. The main Zerg army will be attracted by the landing force, and we have to quickly and stealthily enter the underground cave to find the Zerg Queen and kill her. Then, we will be picked up by the recovery ship at the rendezvous point. Do you understand?”
" Kill the insect queen…" The slut looked at the Taiji spirit."F * ck them. What are our chances of survival in such an operation?”
" The plan's success rate is no higher than one percent," Taiji Ling said emotionlessly." The survival rate of all of us is zero, and the survival rate of each individual is no higher than one in a thousand.”
"Old Lion, have you done this kind of quest before?" The slut cursed again.”
"I participated in the hunt for the queen bug. That time, we had 17 assault team members who broke into the ground, and three of us returned alive. " As for the Bug Tribe Queen Mother, am I not still alive…?" What he meant was that if he had participated in the attack on the Bug Tribe Queen Mother, there was no way he would be alive.
" F * ck…" The slut complained and stood up."Rookie Captain, if you're done, I'm going out for a while.”
"What are you doing?"
"Next to it is a recruit cabin. I think there should be many real men who are not impotent like you. Since I am about to die, I want to have a good time.”
She walked out. It seemed like she really wanted to find a man to vent her anger.
"Is this mission really that dangerous?"
" It's just a matter of ratio," Chess Player said as he adjusted his glasses." Even if we don't participate in this kind of assault, how much higher will our chances of returning alive be if we join the 600,000 baiting troops?"”
"Wait a minute, you're saying that the 600,000 is bait and that everyone will die?”
"The 36,000 airborne assault infantrymen at the back will basically die as well," the Undying Lion said. Clearing out an area to build a fortress? What a joke, how could they build a fortress in the Zerg's territory? A large number of Zergs gathered together to form a cloud that could not allow large transport ships to enter. The Zergs could use the cloud to teleport through space. That was not fighting against a region, but against the Zergs of the entire planet. The higher-ups had no intention of bringing them back from the beginning. These people were just bait to attract the Zerg army. If things went wrong, none of them would be able to come back.”
"Sacrificing so many people just for a one percent chance?" Huo Lian was stunned.”
"There's at least a one percent chance," Octopus Head said.”
" They're the bait," the gunner said nonchalantly." We have a one percent chance. If they don't act as bait, we have no chance at all. It's that simple." Besides, they could kill a lot of bugs, which was enough for the officers.”
Sacrificing so many people just for a one percent chance... The cruelty of this war completely shocked Huo Lian. "Why didn't you just blow up the planet? There should be such a weapon, right?”
"You mean to completely destroy the planet? Don't you know that the Star Cluster Law forbids destructive attacks on planets above level-1 civilization? It's not allowed to blow up an entire planet. Besides, planets with a cloud of insects could distort space. Even if a small planet was thrown down, it would not be able to destroy the planet. As for why the Star Cluster Law has such a law, don't ask me, I don't know either.”
"Will the army mutiny if they find out?" Huo Lian muttered.”
"The army is a local force transferred from various planets," the Immortal Lion said. They probably hadn't even heard of the Zergs, let alone know what they were facing and what their fate was. Otherwise, there was no need to prepare 36,000 airborne assault infantry for the second wave of preparations. The higher-ups probably felt that 600,000 soldiers were not too safe. However, considering the number of starships, 600,000 was basically the limit. It was estimated that a large number of cargo ships would be requisitioned. Even if the planets gave millions of troops, there would not be enough starships that could enter the atmosphere to transport them to the battlefield.
Even though airborne assault infantrymen were cannon fodder for people like starship sergeants, compared to the general army, they were already soldiers with a very high status.
Based on what Huo Lian had learned during this period of time, the Empire's army was divided into three levels. The army of the planet itself was known as the army. In fact, according to Earth's standards, it included the army, navy, and air force. The manager of the planet, no matter what title he had, such as king, president, or whatever, was not allowed to own a combat starship for space combat. However, ordinary planets did not have the financial resources to build such monstrously expensive monsters like large starships. Their soldiers were mainly responsible for the security, war, and other internal affairs of the planets. They were the lowest level of the army. The command center would sometimes make adjustments based on the situation. However, most of the time, they didn't care about the army. They were not even qualified to be cannon fodder.
As for the main military force of the dynasty, the starship troops were the core, and the commander-in-chief of the space zone was in charge of military affairs. A star sector was usually a constellation region. Some of the larger Star Regions had hundreds of civilized planets under their control. It was said that there were more than 100,000 such regions in the entire empire.
Above the starship troops, it was said that there was an existence known as the Galaxy Army. This was the highest level of the army, but Huo Lian could not find any detailed information about them. It seemed that only the high-ranking officers had access to accurate information about the army. The army on the planet probably did not know about the existence of such a super army. The block-shaped concept armor was the symbol of the Galaxy Legion warriors.
The airborne assault infantrymen were an amphip-type combat force that belonged to the starships. The primitive land forces naturally could not be compared to them. At the very least, the standard equipment for airborne assault infantrymen was combat uniforms. In the army, only the core few units could be equipped with combat uniforms.
The empire's territory was simply too vast, so vast that even the empire itself could not manage it completely. That was why the dynasty divided civilizations into levels. Only planets with level-4 civilizations and above were qualified to be directly managed by the dynasty. As for those planets with primitive civilizations, unless there were some resources that the dynasty needed, the dynasty would not even bother to spend energy on establishing administrative institutions. Within the Empire's territory, there were also many undeveloped planets. Their civilizations varied, and they had no idea that they were living in a huge Empire that they could not even imagine. In order to maintain the variety of civilization systems, the dynasty was not allowed to provide technology to primitive civilizations if they were not resource planets, allowing them to develop quickly.
For some reason, the dynasty forbade the existence of mechanical life and artificial intelligence. Therefore, even though technology had surpassed Earth by many years, it was not like the sci-fi movies Huo Lian had watched on Earth. It was not an era of robots, and there were not even drones.
The Giant Planet was a level-4 civilization planet at the edge of the Ox Crab Constellation. It looked like a red human face and had a diameter of about 90,000 kilometers. The surface was 65% ocean and 35% land, with a population of about 20 billion. However, after the Zergs were discovered to have spread in large numbers, the planet's external roads were completely blocked. No one knew how many survivors there were now. In the information system of the starship, the giant planet was labeled as a waste planet with no people. Even if the Zergs were eliminated, there would probably not be a new civilization born on this planet for millions of years.
Looking down from the universe, the surface of the planet was filled with intersecting blue bug clouds. Any area with a cloud of bugs was an area that the bugs had already occupied. The cloud of bugs spat out by the bugs would form a mixed force field, causing the space to distort irregularly. Large starships could not move at all in such a force field. The bug cloud would spread upward and not touch the ground. The bug cloud would continue to rise into the vacuum of the universe. When the bug cloud formed a sealed cocoon in the universe and completely enveloped the planet, that would be the final stage of the bug race, the end of everything.
Thousands of starships were gathered in the space outside the giant planet. From time to time, blue-green gas clusters could be seen drifting in space at a speed no slower than meteorites. It was a corrosive bomb shot out by the giant bugs. The tremendous acceleration brought by the space distortion of the bugs could reach twenty times the speed of sound. Flying at high speed in the universe around the planet, its power was enough to destroy the defense shield of a medium-sized starship.
The starships first used hydrogen ion beams to fire at the target area. The hydrogen ions would neutralize the corrosiveness of the bug cloud. Then, the particle removal ship would charge into the atmosphere and completely eliminate the bug cloud above the target area, giving the landing ship space to enter.
After that, the fighter jets would enter the atmosphere and carry out intensive bombardment to clear the Zergs on the ground. Only then would the landing ships land, allowing the infantry to begin clearing the remaining enemies and constructing the fortress.
It sounded simple, but hundreds of particle removal starships had been destroyed just by clearing the bug cloud. However, when the infantry finally landed on the surface of the planet, they realized that everything was not as they had imagined. The battle had begun in a cruel way that they had not expected.
Huo Lian waited patiently in the airborne cabin. They had no idea what stage the battle outside had reached. When the battle reached a predetermined time, the command center would drop them from the orbit of the planet outside the atmosphere directly from the range of the bug cloud.
The airborne capsule was a gray alloy ball with a diameter of about three meters. It was equipped with a force field regulator that could neutralize all kinds of force fields for a short period of time and defend against energy weapons. In the era of starships, launching airborne troops from space to the core of the enemy to destroy the target was the most economical way of war. This was also to maintain space travel. Starships were mostly made of composite materials and were very light. The friction of the atmosphere was enough to destroy a starship. Such starships did not have the ability to break through the atmosphere.
Looking at the weapons on his left and right, Huo Lian sighed. Once again, he felt that with such an airborne capsule, it would not be a problem for him to establish a country on Earth.
The four thermonary-guided missiles were only the size of a person's forearm, but the power of the explosion was greater than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Even the airborne infantry in combat suits would die in the core of the explosion. The ion flamethrower could shoot out ion flames with a range of 300 meters and a temperature of 6,000 degrees. The kinetic particle rifle could fire 30 rounds per second and could fire 15,000 rounds continuously. The Gauss rifle fired live ammunition. One magazine could hold 100 armor-piercing bullets, and its effective lethality could reach 6,000 meters. The visual tracking rocket launcher was equipped with 24 tracking missiles. The explosion power of the pencil sized rocket was enough to destroy a tank. It could also fire a liquid freeze bomb at close range and freeze the target within three seconds.
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