People in the Starship Troopers world are already very familiar with the firepower configuration of the Arachnis Zerg. They have never thought about what this configuration means. In their opinion, it is just a way for these bugs to hunt for a long time. Some collaborative instincts in the process.
But in the eyes of Zhuo Qun and others, the meaning of this scene is different. This is the tactical configuration and firepower configuration on the battlefield, and it is a relatively reasonable firepower configuration. This means that the Zerg have learned war.
"Hello viewers, I am your Domirian. I am currently giving a real-time broadcast at Dean Base on the planet Clandaff. As you can see, Marshal Dean has led the mobile troops to build a huge and solid base here. At the military base, our heroic federal army has established a frontline stronghold in the enemy's lair. Will this be the prelude to our complete elimination of the Zerg? I also asked Marshal Dean, and his statement was that we are just here for revenge. Yes, but I think he is still hiding the truth. He is here to completely end the war between humans and insects, so let us wait and see!"
Dean stood behind the mustachioed Domirian when he spoke. His lips moved, but he didn't say anything. What could he say? He really wasn't here for a decisive battle, and he was here solely because of He did something he shouldn't have done, messed up the rules of the game set by the Joint Conference of Generals, the highest military command department, and was abandoned by everyone.
If you know the composition of the army, you will know that the troops coming this time are mainly his subordinates. The role of these people is actually to force him to die. Either you find an opportunity to die heroically and shroud yourself in horse leather, or these few Millions of people will die together with you. It is your choice to do all this. Before, his choice was to sacrifice himself and then evacuate the army.
But it's not the case now. When he landed from space again, he received a call from Lu Ke, asking him to establish a frontline position on the planet. They would send follow-up troops to assist. When the marshal's position was reached, he himself would lose the troops. If the name is too big, just resign. There will be a position for him in the retired marshal advisory committee. His faction can continue to exist in the federal army. His designated successor can take over the position of commander-in-chief of the mobile force. , the premise is to establish a permanent frontline base, or build a battleship base. In short, they want to have their own stronghold in the Clandaff system.
As for the specific reason, no one told him, and he didn't want to know. What he wanted now was to establish a permanent base and then return to Earth to start his retirement career.
In the Federation, everyone is responsible for their own things. They are completely ignorant of other people's things. Even the marshal of the Federation does not know as much about many things as the lower-level people, just like the human beings in the Sanctuary. The largest starship manufacturing base and the home of the federal fleet, except for the ordnance manufacturing department, only a few captains and fleet commanders know the specific location, and others have no idea about it at all.
Just like the most important scientific research base of the scientific research department, it is actually in the Alpha Centaur galaxy. No one in the federation knows this. Also, no one knows that Zhu Xia is an automatic citizen of all members. Yes, they only know that civilians in the five major communities in the federation need to join the army and go to the battlefield to obtain citizen status.
Now Dean doesn't want to pay attention to Domilian's existence at all. He is now staring closely at the scene outside the window. A large area of the sky is the kind of gradient green of mung bean flies. It is also the color of the jumper. Before, it was just Some large gliding grasshoppers have now become overwhelming mung bean flies, and they make the same buzzing sound as flies when flying, making everyone extremely irritated.
Those fortress machine guns have started shooting, and now they can only rely on them to stop these flies. In fact, he has better weapons, but the range of these weapons is not as far as these fortress machine guns.
He watched the red dots on the holographic map slowly approach a blue line, which is the range of more useful weapons. This kind of weapon only has an attack range of about five kilometers, so it cannot be used too early.
The three-tube needle warhead electromagnetic rail gun has a range of more than ten kilometers, and each needle warhead is filled with high explosives. Coupled with their extremely strong puncture ability, each shot is guaranteed to be The bullets explode inside the insect's body.
Originally, these things were used to deal with ground bugs. This kind of weapon can kill a spider bug in just a few shots, and a single round of 120 bullets can destroy a tank bug, and it can be shot from a long distance. However, Now they can only be used as anti-aircraft machine guns. Although they are very useful, Dean knew after looking at the few new jumpers that were captured alive that the best weapon to deal with them is the fragmentation-type anti-aircraft cannon. The wings of these bugs can be broken as before, but the height they fly now is different. Now, once their wings are broken, they will directly fall into bug paste.
And the fortress machine gun in his hand is less than half effective against the air. Most of the bullets directly penetrate their wings, but they cannot fall down or blow up their wings. They can only wait until they fall down to blast the shells of the spider-like insects on the ground into craters, making them useless at all.
Only a small part of the bullets hit the bodies of the jumpers and blew them up into pieces, but even if they broke the pieces, they would have no lethality. At most, they would just make those bright green objects no longer reflect light.
Marshal Dean watched the bugs fly past the five-kilometer blue line and fly toward the three-kilometer red line, and he gave the order.
"Heavily armed troops gathered, set targets in the sky within a range of three to five kilometers, and shoulder-hive missiles began firing."
As Dean's order was issued, tens of thousands of infantry with armor thicker than ordinary motorized infantry stood at the top of the city. Their shoulders had thick shoulder armor, and the height was as high as their heads. Those recruits had previously I felt that the armor of these infantrymen was a design error, but now, their shoulder armors were opened to reveal small missiles densely arranged like a honeycomb.
The sheer number of those missiles would make someone with trypophobia sick on the spot.
These people raised their heads and looked at the flying insects, and pulled a tab on their thigh armor. The missiles on their shoulders flew out like irritated bees, covering three to five kilometers. The sky exploded into a brilliant display of fireworks.
