In less than half an hour of fighting, three of the five battleships of the Third Exploration Fleet were severely damaged and had to withdraw from the battlefield, while the remaining smaller medium-sized and small battleships suffered dozens of injuries. .
For a time, except for the interstellar colonial base and the three motherships at the rear of the battlefield, the other warships were either hit and then exploded, or were severely damaged and hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield.
On the ground, human losses are even greater.
Exactly eleven of the thirty landing ships were corroded to pieces by the combined efforts of flying dragon insects and giant worms.
Although the engines and other parts of these landing ships are relatively intact due to their size, in such a damaged state, they cannot escape the atmosphere and escape into space.
Under such circumstances, the human troops deployed on the surface can be said to be in danger.
More than a dozen landing ships can only take away part of the marines and weapons and equipment, but most of the soldiers, weapons and equipment cannot be taken away at all.
The most terrible thing is that due to the development of mining areas, a large number of intelligent robots have been put into mining areas.
Even though humans have developed for so many years, intelligent robots, especially intelligent robots with multiple functions such as mining and repair, are still quite troublesome to manufacture.
In particular, the human fleet has not yet truly gained a territory in this star system and cannot take root and develop.
If these intelligent robots are destroyed, the production capacity of the Third Exploration Fleet will be reduced by more than half.
This will undoubtedly be bad news for mankind.
Therefore, the fleet's senior officials immediately ordered that all intelligent robots must be taken away during the intact landing and retreat.
The reason is very simple. As long as hundreds of thousands of intelligent robots are there, the industrial foundation of the human fleet is there. Even if it is evacuated to a farther planet, it can quickly build a new industrial system and then cooperate with the interstellar colony base. This way they can quickly attack the enemy without being defeated by the Zerg and escape from the star system.
As for the marines, they naturally received orders to hold on.
How long will it last?
Defend until the human fleet counterattacks again.
To put it simply, wait for the fleet to build more warships and breed more clones.
From a certain perspective, Fang Xiaoyue also knew that his group was equivalent to being abandoned.
In fact, this is not surprising. If they retreat at this time, the losses of the human fleet will be hundreds of thousands of clone soldiers, some mechanical armor, vulture vehicles, plus the already built air defense towers, etc.
After all, the remaining dozen or so landing ships can carry out all the engineers, intelligent robots, heavy artillery tanks, etc.
In fact, in terms of cost, the value of these hundreds of thousands of clone soldiers is not even comparable to those of heavy artillery tanks.
No way, after more than a thousand years of technological development, the energy and resources consumed in cultivating human clones are too few.
The resources and energy to produce a heavy artillery tank are enough to cultivate two thousand clone soldiers.
Of course, the clone soldiers did not know that they were abandoned. They only knew that they needed to defend for a period of time until the main human force counterattacked.
With the withdrawal of heavy artillery, tanks and other equipment, the pressure on the first protective wall suddenly increased.
At this time, the spider mines had been cleared away by the densely packed mantis insects.
Even though the soldiers continued to shoot wildly at the protective wall, the mantises still refused to retreat. Even after the mantis corpses were piled up under the protective wall, occasionally one or two mantises could leap up and jump onto the wall.
Every time a mantis jumped onto the wall, it immediately caused a panic among the soldiers.
No way, at close range, once the mantis gets close, it can easily split the human soldiers in half.
"We can no longer defend, retreat to the second line of defense!"
Seeing this situation, the officers quickly made the correct judgment.
This is also a helpless thing. If the corpses of the mantis insects pile up more, the mantis insects can easily jump up.
By that time, even if you want to retreat, it will be impossible.
"I ordered to retreat to the second line of defense, but we can't all evacuate. We need to leave a few people to cover. Sign up yourself!"
The captain of Fang Xiaoyue's company fired at the wall and shouted loudly at the soldiers.
Everyone knows that the end result of staying and covering is death.
After the large group of people evacuated, it was impossible for those who left cover to survive the pursuit of those mantises.
"Me! Count me in, but I hope a vulture car can be left for me."
Fang Xiaoyue was the first to stand up at this time.
Everyone looked at him with eyes full of admiration, admiration and other emotions.
Well, everyone is afraid of death.
Those clone soldiers are also afraid of death. Even if they are born, their age is only three or four years at most, and maybe only one or two months at the shortest.
But in their memories, they have survived in this world for at least twenty or thirty years.
They also have their own interests and hobbies, and they also have their own fears.
Therefore, people like Fang Xiaoyue who dare to stand up and carry out a fatal mission still have a high status in their hearts.
Led by Fang Xiaoyue, a total of more than ten people from their company stepped forward.
But these people are almost enough.
After all, they only need to continue to attract the attention of the mantis on the protective wall, and try to block the speed of the mantis through the protective wall, so that the evacuated comrades can run farther.
Under the orders of the officers, the soldiers quickly jumped off the protective wall, some climbed onto the mechanical armor, and some got into the vulture vehicle.
No way, if they relied solely on the speed of their legs, there was no way they could outrun the mantis.
Fortunately, the number of mechanical armors in the vulture vehicles here is not small, and because of the huge size of the mechanical armors, it can carry more than twenty people at a time, and the space in the vulture vehicle can be squeezed into seven or eight people.
Fang Xiaoyue and others had no intention of paying attention to the evacuating comrades at this time. They all dropped their Gauss rifles and sat in front of the Gauss machine guns.
These Gauss machine guns are heavy machine guns with a semicircular transparent glass protective cover. They can fire a thousand rounds of projectiles per minute and have a range twice as long as the Gauss rifle.
In fact, every time the Gauss machine gun fires, the mantises explode in rows, just like balloons hit by bullets.
So when Fang Xiaoyue and others sat in front of the Gauss machine gun, pulled the trigger, and moved the muzzle back and forth, those mantises that were rushing towards the protective wall, except those huddled under the wall, immediately suffered a heavy blow. blow.
To be honest, in Fang Xiaoyue's opinion, this Gauss machine gun is much more exciting than the Gauss rifle. When the trigger is pulled, the Zerg in the distance burst like balloons with a needle. This taste is absolutely sour.
