1661. The Dilemma of the Expeditionary Force
"Impossible! The shot just now should have hit!" The commander was shocked.
However, it was too late to think too much, and all I saw was a terrifying monster crawling over quickly! This monster has completely lost its human form, with four legs on the ground. Only from the twisted and terrifying head can it be vaguely seen that it is the mutant giant from before wearing a fur coat and holding a rocket launcher.
At this moment, this monster's body is covered with a large amount of mutated substances. These mutated substances are constantly squirming and look like terrifying muscles! With the addition of a large number of mutated muscles, the monster's strength and explosive power will reach a terrifying level.
And what is very conspicuous is that this monster is covered with pustules! The pustules were filled with yellow-green pus and looked extremely disgusting.
One of the pustules had burst, and disgusting fluid was flowing from it.
"Fire!!" the commander gave the order again.
The heavy laser cannons on both sides of the TX-130 Saber tank fired again! At that moment, the monster didn't know if it had a premonition of danger, but it suddenly jumped to the side. Only one of the two laser beams hit, hitting a pustule on its body!
I only saw that the pustule exploded instantly under the irradiation of the laser, and countless fishy liquid burst out. Moreover, this liquid obviously had a very high boiling point and was not instantly vaporized by the ultra-high temperature of the laser. On the contrary, the laser's Neutralize the heat.
The hot and boiling liquid is flowing on the ground, emitting bursts of yellow-green smoke. You can tell that it is full of poison without even looking!
"The attack is invalid! Hurry! Keep firing!" Before the commander could finish his words, he only heard a bang and the vehicle body shook violently.
"It's in our car!"
It was only seen that this monster had jumped onto the body of the tank. Due to insufficient energy and speed, the deflector shield was not triggered. The pus that was constantly flowing from its body fell on the armor and emitted bursts of thick smoke.
"It's strong acid! Those liquids contain strong acid!!" the driver exclaimed.
Yes, although the armor was not corroded by the strong acid, the thick smoke clearly showed what would happen if the human body was contaminated.
But even if I know this now, it's too late...
This monster has already started tearing apart the body of the TX-130 with its huge claws! You must know that in actual combat, the main defense method the TX-130 relies on is the deflection shield. However, the deflection shield of this land vehicle has a higher threshold, which affects the speed and energy level of approaching objects. A certain level must be reached before the shield can be activated.
If this threshold is too low, the tank will be unable to move in complex ground environments.
But in this way, when the TX-130 Saber tank faces these mutated trackers, it will be defenseless!
Yes, these monsters are all stalkers!
In the tracker's first form, although they are also extremely powerful and can break even reinforced concrete with one punch, they also have considerable IQ and can perform basic friend-or-foe identification and use rocket launchers. It is still very weak against the armored forces of the Galactic Republic.
They only used rocket launchers to destroy two TX-130s in the first wave of attacks and broke the mechanical legs of an AT-TE. After that, they were all wiped out by intensive fire from heavy laser cannons.
The power that can break reinforced concrete is still very powerless against real armored units.
However, as Shirley Birkin said, this is just the beginning!
Those trackers who were reduced to a pile of coke by the cannon fodder of the laser cannon began to mutate. The fur coats they wore were just a suppression device to prevent them from mutating due to sudden stimulation during transportation and harming their own people.
And now that the fur coats have been burned by laser cannons, there are no longer any limits to the mutations of these trackers!
Because of the high temperature of the laser cannon, they have mutated in a direction that can withstand the laser cannon! And unlike blaster rifles, laser cannons are soft-kill, so the mutation direction of these trackers is to grow a large number of tumor pustules on their bodies!
These pustules are like reactive armor. They will burst when hit by a laser cannon, and then the venom filled with a boiling point of several hundred degrees will neutralize the high temperature of the laser cannon and flow to the ground to avoid the ultra-high temperature. The temperature harms the tracker's body.
At the same time, because he was killed by the previous attack, the T virus in the tracker's body believed that it was still not strong enough, so it mutated into a larger, stronger and more agile one!
These mutated trackers have become a nightmare for the TX-130 Saber hover tank that relies entirely on deflector shields for defense!
I saw that the mutant tracker used its incomparable power to directly tear off a laser cannon on the side of the TX-130! Then he beat the car like crazy! The thin armor, which could only protect against blaster machine gun fire, could no longer withstand the attack of the mutant tracker and dented.
In desperation, the commander opened the hatch and stuck his head out to shoot with a blaster rifle, but was grabbed by the pursuer, pulled out of the car, and then torn in half with a roar!
"Roar!!!" The permeating smell of blood stimulated the pursuer, making him even more crazy!
On the other side of Cabo Town, the armored company's only AT-TE walker had collapsed to the ground, thick smoke billowing, and a total of five mutated trackers were absorbing the corpses of the crew members on the ground to replenish their own mutation consumption. energy.
They don't eat with their mouths, but directly cover the corpses with mutated substances, and then directly assimilate the corpses!
After eating enough corpses, one of the mutant trackers lay on the AT-TE walking fuselage and stopped moving, while the other trackers were attracted by another TX-130 tank that was escaping at high speed, howling and chasing. passed.
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"General! We finally received news from the armored company in Cabo Town!" The communications soldier quickly ran over and said to the commander-in-chief Casio Tagg.
"Say!" Casio Tagg already had a very strong ominous premonition in his heart at this moment.
"They are asking for help, and now there are only 7 TX-130 tanks left!" the communications soldier said eagerly, "They claimed to have been attacked by monsters. Those monsters cannot be eliminated, and they are becoming more and more terrifying! Now they are heading towards Kati City is moving forward, wanting to join up with the 77th Army Corps!"
"What is it? T-Virus? Do you have any battlefield data?" Laszlo Dolit asked quickly.
"No! The tank responsible for the battlefield records was destroyed. There is nothing except their verbal description of the current battle situation." The signal soldier replied.
"Where is the reconnaissance plane?" Casio Tagg raised his voice and asked the team on the other side that was communicating with the reconnaissance plane.
The correspondent took off his earphones and looked back: "According to the battlefield situation sent back by the reconnaissance plane, there are no signs of fighting in Kati City. They are conducting more careful reconnaissance, but the situation is not optimistic."
"It seems that the Kati City side is finished... If we include Kabo Town, there will be a huge gap in our encirclement in this direction. Originally, our operations in the eastern area of the capital of the planet Annaji were not going well, and now If the direction of Kati City is lost again, our entire encirclement network will be in vain." Laszlo Dolit said solemnly.
This also means that Casio Tag took a huge risk and launched a landing operation from hundreds of battlefields at the same time. His plan was completely bankrupt!
As if to sprinkle a pinch of salt on Casio Tag's wound, another communications soldier turned back and said: "General, just now the battleship Sieg sent a message that they briefly scanned a large separatist convoy. The signal was lost after entering Kati City, and they suspected that they were transporting supplies to the planet's capital area!"
"These separatist lunatics! They actually used the T-Virus on their own planet!!" Casio Tag's eyes turned red, and the anger of the failed plan simmered in his heart, almost turning him into a tower that could explode at any time. Huoshan, "Bastard! Let our troops postpone the attack and defend in place waiting for more landing troops! To prevent the separatist T-virus biological weapons from causing greater damage!"
"General, we still have a chance." Laszlo Dolit said, "I think those T-virus monsters can only work in complex terrain environments, so we need to immediately attack the Kati City area, including Cabo Town. Carry out indiscriminate orbital bombing over a large area including!"
"But what happens after the bombing? If we don't send troops to blockade it, the separatist transport convoy can still pass through the bombing zone!" Casio Tagg punched the console, "And to block the bombing zone, we need more troops! "
"We have no shortage of troops! We just need to temporarily cut off the supply of the capital area. Next, we can take this opportunity to directly attack and occupy the capital area!" Laszlo Dolit said decisively, "Since we have chosen to speed up If the battle is decided quickly, then we should carry it out to the end! It is no longer appropriate to think about slowing down the pace of the attack now."
Casio Tag's face was uncertain. The battle situation he faced now was so complicated that what he learned in the military academy could not give him any guidance at all. Even though he boasted that he had studied countless battle cases over the past 20,000 years since the founding of the Galactic Republic, none of them could tell him what he should do now.
The weird T-virus biological weapon left him at a loss as to what the opponent had, what its combat strength was, and what its advantages and disadvantages were, so he was unable to make targeted arrangements.
Even if more than 9,000 of the 77th Army Corps invested in the Kati City Region were completely wiped out, the problem is that the biggest problem with the T-Virus is its contagiousness! What if the T-Virus spreads to the rest of his troops?
Therefore, the biggest purpose of why he asked all the troops to stop attacking and defend in place was this. He was worried that continuing to invest more troops would make the T virus spread more quickly.
However, at this time, another piece of information made Casio Tagg finally make up his mind!
The battleship that escorted one of the transport fleets to the Annaji system destroyed a sneaky separatist transport ship, and among the wreckage of the transport ship, they found the corpse of a T-virus biological weapon!
Now the Jaeger-class battlecruiser has recovered the corpses and handed them over to the scientific research team for study. At the same time, the warship notified the command headquarters of the news, hoping that Casio Tag would attract attention, because this was just a discovered spaceship. God knows how many other spaceships the separatists had quietly sent to the planet Annaji. ?
If such biological weapons are rampant on the planet Annaji, then Cassio Tagg's only option is to launch a devastating orbital bombing of the planet and completely destroy the surface of the planet.
But in this way, he can only establish his own forward base in such a desolate galaxy. That's not to say it's impossible. In fact, as long as another hyperspace stabilizer is built here, he can also have solid logistics.
But the problem is that the hyperspace stabilizer is a very huge project. Once he gives the order to the rear to start transporting various parts of the hyperspace stabilizer and a large number of engineering ships and scientists, basically the entire route will serve this thing.
In other words, during this period, his fleet will not receive any supplies!
The most ideal situation is of course to be able to occupy the planet Annaji, so that his fleet can be supplied and repaired on the planet Annaji, and some simple parts needed for the hyperspace stabilizer can also be produced in the factory on this planet. This way, there will be much less stress on rear transportation.
Therefore, Cassio Tagg is still unwilling to destroy the planet Annaji unless it is absolutely necessary.
"Okay..." Casio Tag's expression was a little ferocious, "Let's make a plan! Without a complete encirclement, directly attack the capital of Annaji's planet! Don't worry about whether it's an encirclement or whether the capital area can get reinforcements. ! So what if they keep adding reinforcements! How can the combat power of just one planet be compared with our fleet!"
"Okay. I will instruct the staff to formulate an attack plan within two hours!" Laszlo Dolit responded immediately.
Although deep down in his heart, he was very reluctant to launch such an uncertain battle. However, with the emergence of biological weapons in the Kati City area, and the army in the direction of Kati City was confirmed to have been destroyed, he could only carry out such an offensive.
Otherwise, filling one hole after another will never end.
Of course, Casio Tagg also felt that this plan was unreliable. He immediately called a space operations staff officer and ordered: "Let our fleet organize an attack immediately! Try to open a bombing window so that we can attack Kati City Conduct precise orbital bombing in the direction of the large area!"
The staff officer said with some embarrassment: "General, the current rotation direction of the planet Annaji is that the Kati City area is just opposite our fleet deployment area. We can only invest more warships to launch an attack and enter a synchronous orbit. That will work. Otherwise, we need to wait until 13 standard hours before the direction of Kati City rotates around so that we can carry out bombing more conveniently."
