Following Zhang Lang's order, the artificial intelligence immediately formulated a feasible plan based on the current situation, and the entire fleet was put into operation.
This is also the conventional combat method of human armies in this world.
In the context of highly developed technology, artificial intelligence has completely replaced humans in tedious or computationally demanding tasks such as organizing intelligence, transmitting instructions, formulating tactics, and mobilizing fleets.
The role of humans is mainly to determine goals and control details.
For example, Zhang Lang, as the supreme commander, only needs to tell the artificial intelligence what the strategic goals are.
The large number of troops below only need to follow the instructions of artificial intelligence.
As for the commanders at the middle level, they are responsible for adapting to problems that cannot be handled by artificial intelligence.
As the most advanced artificial intelligence, Zhuge is undoubtedly rational and efficient. The tactics it formulates are the most reasonable in theory. However, it is precisely because of its absolute rationality that it cannot understand the emotions unique to living creatures.
Living things, especially intelligent creatures, often perform irrational behaviors, which are beyond the computing scope of artificial intelligence.
Therefore, when it comes to personnel management, cold-blooded artificial intelligence is far less useful than humans. To sum up, Zhuge is impersonal.
When formulating tactics, Zhuge also predicts the enemy's behavior based on the premise that the opponent is also absolutely rational. If the enemy falls into an irrational state, Zhuge's prediction accuracy will be greatly reduced.
At this time, humans are needed to assist and correct errors.
Therefore, in the human army, although Zhuge is the tactical planner, his authority level is not very high. Many mid-level officers have the authority to change orders to a certain extent based on the current situation.
Zhang Lang estimated that this was also a plug-in auxiliary system given to him by the altar. After all, in a future war of this scale, the command threshold is definitely not low. Not to mention the so-called military literacy, he can't even understand the operation of various future high-tech equipment.
The existence of Zhuge is equivalent to taking over all these dirty work and letting him only use his talents.
As the fleet moved forward, the destination Big Dust Star soon appeared on the display.
This is a dark red planet. According to the data sent back by the detector, the gravity of the big dust star is 2.3 times that of the earth. The oxygen content in the atmosphere is less than 3% and is full of sulfide gas. The average temperature is about 75 degrees Celsius. The surface is dry, and there are relatively abundant water veins underground. In theory, it can only sustain some primitive life.
Of course, these theories are not an obstacle in front of the Zerg. As long as this planet can allow them to take root, then, with extremely limited resources, these bugs can rely on the energy radiated by the star to transform the planet's environment and transform It becomes the new mother nest of the Zerg!
But obviously, the degree of transformation of this big dust star is not completely high, and it is just used for practicing!
Without further instructions from Zhang Lang, Zhuge had already begun to issue orders. The fleet lined up in the orbit of the Big Dust Star and began the first round of bombing!
War in the interstellar era is naturally not a charge of a group of infantrymen with swords and guns roaring, especially when facing a group of disgusting bugs, fire coverage is the best strategy.
After the bombing, all places on the Big Dust Star covered by germ carpets turned into scorched earth. Next, Zhuge sent out an unmanned probe, which flew close to the ground and began to fly around to collect data on the ground.
Soon, after analysis, several attack points were determined.
Of course, it is impossible to completely eradicate the bugs with just one round of bombing. The points planned by Zhuge are all areas with a lot of signs of life. Obviously, there are more bugs here and they are more tenacious, so they need to be targeted!
Soon, after the second round of precision bombing, all signs of the Zerg at these points were wiped out. The Zerg on the Big Dust Star could no longer be found through detectors alone.
The next third step is the welcome landing operation.
After all, the goal of mankind is to occupy, not blow up, the planet. Therefore, although the previous bombing was intense, it still preserved the original environment of the Big Dust Star as much as possible. The following ground troops will, on the one hand, participate in the reconstruction and transformation of the surface environment, and on the other hand, they will also facilitate the elimination of the remaining Zerg.
This stage is the longest and most prone to casualties.
Although the vast majority of the Zerg died in the two rounds of bombings, there were always fish that slipped through the net. With a huge base of 600 million, the number of surviving Zerg on the dust star was at least millions. Not long after the human army landed, they encountered a counterattack by a large-scale Zerg army!
The most numerous of the Zerg tribe is the soldier bug. This bug is five meters long, three meters high, and weighs more than five hundred kilograms. It moves nimble and agile, and has sharp chelicerae that can easily tear a car to pieces. Hundreds of these monsters gather together, and one can imagine how terrifying they are.
And these are just the basic units in the Zerg army. They are more advanced than ordinary soldier bugs, and there are giant armored bugs with huge bodies and hard shells; sickle dragonflies with slender bodies, sharp secondary limbs, and wings; although they are small, But the round belly is full of flammable and explosive liquids; the stinger bugs that can shoot poisonous spikes and have long-range capabilities, etc...
In Zhang Lang's impression, human physical fitness is definitely not comparable to these extremely evolved Zerg, and they will most likely be in a hard fight after landing.
However, the reality was somewhat beyond his expectation.
These ferocious-looking, huge bugs of various types, often numbering in the thousands, did not get any benefit from the human army!
Because what they faced was not the weak human beings that Zhang Lang thought!
On the screen, a human soldier wearing heavy power armor and more than three meters tall grabbed a snarling soldier insect with one hand. With the other hand, he took out a pistol that was even bigger than a roaring tiger and stuffed it with the insect. With a bang from his mouth, Bing Chong's entire head and half of his chest were blown apart.
On the other side, an armored human soldier with a relatively slender but fast body, holding two shining plasma knives, shuttled back and forth among the insect swarms, cutting through more than a dozen bolters in a matter of seconds. By the time the liquid in their stomachs exploded, the double-blade ranger had already found other targets, and the firelight could only illuminate his back.
Farther away, a huge mecha more than ten meters high was holding a huge spear, nailing an armored giant insect to the ground. The thick carapace was like paper in front of the rotating spear edge, and it collapsed at the touch!
In the sky, human flying units are faster and stronger than scythes and dragonflies. With their own tracking bullets, it is easy and enjoyable to handle these flying insects.
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It has to be said that the human army in this world is much stronger than Zhang Lang expected.
This is not just because of the sophisticated equipment. After reviewing the information, Zhang Lang discovered that these soldiers had undergone a series of biochemical transformations after joining the army. The strength of their muscles and bones was far greater than that of ordinary people, and their hearts also had devices to assist in pumping blood. In terms of speed, it can run 100 meters within eight seconds. In terms of strength, it can lift a car over its head. Even without armor, it is still a human-sized beast.
With such soldiers wearing power armor armed to the teeth, and with the perfect command of the artificial intelligence Zhuge, these bugs on the big dust star are no threat at all!
However, Zhang Lang did not forget that the difficulty of the task he chose was hell level!
For such a terrifying army, they are all hell-level opponents. How terrifying is it?
Thinking of this, Zhang Lang's body trembled slightly.
"How many points is this worth!"
