StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 159 The Death of Keha
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Korha Galaxy, the second satellite of Korha IV, Usa.

Like its sister satellite Cannis, USA is a small dark-brown satellite with a diameter of more than 360 million feet (about 1100 kilometers). And the super military fortress in Star Port City.

With the largest satellite Usa as the center, another satellite and the Keha orbital platform Sky Shield II and No. All high-altitude orbital defense platforms have more than 190 sentry unmanned attack aircraft and automatic turrets.

Even so, the Keha Revolutionary Army was still extremely struggling to deal with more than sixty Leviathan and Behemoth-class ships and thousands of affiliated fleet ships in the four federal fleets of the war.

The main reason why the Federation Fleet was able to inflict heavy damage on Keha's guard army in a short period of time was that they were not stingy with using nuclear weapons, let alone the negative effects of nuclear weapons.

As Angus Mengsk saw on the main screen of the command center on another satellite, USA:
Only ten minutes after the Federation fleet appeared, Cannis, who was on the other side of the orbit around Korha, suffered a devastating blow.Judging from the images sent back by several Revolutionary Army military orbiting satellites that were not paralyzed by the signal interference electromagnetic waves sent by the Federation Fleet, Cannis was distorted by the high temperature.

Angus Mengsk, who was dressed in an ordinary dark gray Revolutionary Army officer uniform, had a twitching nose and many wrinkles on his well-defined face. He never paced back and forth in a day as much as today.

This also indicates that Curt Josephine, the commander of Cannis, the descendant of the oldest noble in Keha, and more than 8 soldiers under his command died in these few seconds. Many colorful lives and ambitions have become a thing of the past, and more and more families have lost irreplaceable relatives forever.

Human beings are a sentient race, and the wounds of war are permanent for their short life, and the wounds can never be healed.

Angus Mengsk realized that he had made a huge mistake. He once compared the federal government and the political interest groups and monopoly aristocrats it represented to a dragon, but he underestimated the brutality of this dragon.

The reality is far more unrealistic than fake news. Now it seems that if the founding family is not based on absolute indifference, it is that they are really angry at the failure of the assassination of Angus.

Not only did the assassination fail, Angus also had ample evidence to prove that the Federation was afraid of him.Well, this just shows that the federal government and Angus are so afraid that they must use this despicable method.

The popularity and prestige of Angus and the new ideas and new regime he represents in the Tyrannian Federation has also risen with the slamming and discrediting of UNN Universe News Network and UNN Universe Television.

Gradually, after the federal parliament voted to use apocalypse-level nuclear bombs to destroy Korha, those who believed that Angus and the Korha Revolutionary Army he represented were the evil thugs that the official propaganda said were the same as those who believed that the federal government would exterminate There are as many human beings as there are.

And what the federal government wants to do is to solve Korhal's problem once and for all. Rather than spending time and money to re-control Korhal over a few generations, it is much more convenient to destroy it permanently.

No matter how much he estimated the bloodshed and sacrifice of the revolution, Angus never thought about the possibility that Keha's entire planet would be destroyed by a nuclear attack.But even so, Angus never regretted his decision.

As early as the era of Grandpa Angus, the Mengsk family was dissatisfied with the federal government's policy of strengthening the power of the central government and exploiting its colonies. This prominent family has always regarded their rights as equal to the duty of defending the people. — though so far Angus seems to have brought nothing but war and misery to his people.

At the moment when Cannis was destroyed, there was an uncontrollable sob in the Usa satellite command center where Angus was located. It was an ordinary information technology soldier.

Angus and the generals around him could not blame him. The soldier's father and all his brothers were on Cannis.

"Activate all missile interceptor weapons, as long as a nuclear bomb falls on the top of our heads, we are all finished." In the time of sighing, without Angus saying anything, Colonel Rundstein beside him has already issued the order ordered.

When several soldiers helped the technical soldier who couldn't help crying bitterly, another twelve Federal Behemoth-class battlecruisers made a short jump to the Usa satellite. All the battlecruisers were painted in black and red. The huge inverted U-shaped logo is eye-catching.

The moment they appeared, the missile ejection compartments of these battlecruisers ejected missiles flying all over the sky, and the laser weapons plowed out shocking lines on the dozens of feet thick shaped ceramic steel and new alloy armor plates of the Usa military fortress. scratches.

"Lock those battlecruisers and confirm their unit numbers." When Commander Rundstein gave the order to the officers in the missile tower control center, Angus turned his head to a Revolutionary Army technician in front of the main screen console. Bing said.

The flagship bridge of the Federation Fleet was gradually enlarged on the main screen of the command center, and after a few seconds, an X-shaped skull logo appeared in front of everyone.

"Omega Squadron." The adjutant of the command center began to mechanically read the entry of information provided by the Umoyan agent organization:
"Skeletons of the Dead, Black Skeletons, Death's Head, Death Legion. This is a fleet floating in the Della galaxy. Their main base is in the Della IV star of the Della galaxy, which is located within the territory of the Tyrann Federation. This It is an army mainly composed of resocialized soldiers, and the soldiers come from the prison planets of the entire Tyrannian Federation."

"While washing out the criminals' antisocial personalities and reprogramming their memories, the 'doctors' at the Tyrannian Federal Resocialization Plant retained the most aggressive aspects of the criminals' personalities, making them able to activate the craziest parts of their personalities at the command of their commanders when necessary, and slaughter the enemies of the Union in the most savage and tyrannical ways."

"It is reported that the doctors amplified the evil personalities of some of these people during the transformation, so that at the end of the battle, the friendly forces may find the marines and paratroopers of the Omega Squadron lying on the corpses of the Kel Morians Feasting, cannibalizing human flesh, grilling an enemy's liver or desecrating an enemy's corpse—these are bizarre, cruel, and twisted stories that go hand-in-hand with why they end up in prison."

"The Tyranid Federation is transforming living humans into weapons." Angus watched silently as the interceptor missiles in the Usa Satellite Base and the missiles of the Omega Squadron collided with each other in mid-air, forming a continuous explosion of light A gorgeous scene composed of dots.

It can be found that although some missiles landed on the military fortress of the Revolutionary Army on the Usa satellite from time to time, less than 5% of the missiles that landed on the surface of the satellite carried nuclear warheads.

These nuclear bombs destroyed the military fortresses of the Revolutionary Army one after another, and even shook the geological structure, but Usa will not be directly destroyed like its own sister planet Cannis.

It can be seen that the number of nuclear bombs carried by the Federation Fleet is not large enough for them to squander them recklessly.

From the intermittent communication signals, Angus learned that the other two high-altitude orbital defense platforms and a space-based weapon station have been surrounded by various federal fleets, and the enemy's ammunition seems to be too much to run out. Bombarded like hell.

The command center was completely enclosed, and Angus could only keep a close eye on the battle situation over Usa through the cameras outside the fortress.The battlecruisers of the Omega Squadron moored above the satellite, and after two hours of uninterrupted bombing, their attacks gradually subsided.

Both sides were consuming their own ammunition and weapon energy reserves on a large scale. From time to time, diffuse circular light spots appeared on the surface of Usa, which came from the destroyed revolutionary army fortresses one after another.

At this time, the commander of the Federation Fleet had to admit that it was indeed difficult for them to break through the defense of the Keha Revolutionary Army in a short period of time. Several unparalleled defense base stations have been established in space.

As early as a year ago, Umoyan began to send military materials and a considerable part of advanced artificial intelligence and robot manufacturing research and development technology to Korha IV through trade routes.

The Umoyan government's economic subsidy plan was also the main reason why Keha was able to develop steadily during the Kailian War. To be precise, the unnatural economic growth of the Keha economy during the war was also related to Umoyan's large-scale blood transfusion related.

Both the army and the military factory were formed and built by the Umoyans to help the Keha people. Not only that, Umoyan also tried his best to assist the Keha engineers to build the high-altitude track in half a year by delivering accessories and resources Defense platforms and space-based weapon stations.

If only relying on Korhal's own strength, they can't even prevent the Federation fleet from swaggeringly leaping into the Korhal galaxy to carry out orbital bombing and deliver nuclear bombs.

After spending six hours destroying a third of the buildings on the surface of Usa, Omega Squadron also paid a certain price. Five of the twelve battlecruisers were attacked by anti-aircraft missiles with extremely long ranges that could even hit Korha. It was hit hard by the strong firepower of the local pulse guns.

However, since the Revolutionary Army did not have a fleet that could deal a fatal blow to these severely damaged battlecruisers, Angus could only watch helplessly as these damaged battleships sailed away or were dragged away by large ships using tractor beams.

It has been more than twelve hours from the beginning of the war to the complete ceasefire of the federal fleet, during which neither the Omega Squadron nor other fleets sent any landing troops.When the ships of the Omega Squadron sailed out of a safe distance and parked quietly in the deep space, many soldiers of the Revolutionary Army breathed a sigh of relief. They almost thought that the Federation Fleet was about to retreat.

Even though he basically knew nothing about war, Angus was keenly aware that the Federation Fleet was either planning a new offensive method, or was trying to completely block Usa and the high-altitude orbital defense platform, but it was only besieging but not attacking.

"The commander of the Federal Fleet is not in a hurry to defeat us in a short time." Colonel Rundstein handed over a dry towel.

"How are the casualties, Colonel?" Angus wiped the sweat off his face with a towel, and looked at Rundstein.

Angus admired this young officer who was not much older than his second son. He was not only a descendant of nobles but also a general trusted by Augustus.

In terms of commanding the army, Rundstein was not outstanding in all aspects. He was not a genius general, but he was calm and able to carry out Augustus' orders without compromise.

If you hand over the detailed battle plan to Rundstein, he will definitely do it step by step, but unfortunately, we all know that the situation of war is always unpredictable.

"Based on the 5000 people in each fortress, then we have lost at least 30 soldiers, Speaker Angus." Lundstein's face turned blue, and he couldn't be indifferent to this. The revolutionaries who died in battle today Many of the soldiers in the army were still his classmates.

"Well——" Angus was just about to say that he wanted to erect a monument to these Revolutionary Army soldiers who died in battle, but he immediately realized that this was not the political arena and podium he was familiar with.

Whether it is the lost soldiers and family members, he does not need to promise anything.

"Maybe they want to besiege us for a long time." Rundstein's expression is very ugly: "There are not enough synthetic food and hydroponic crop factories here, as long as the federal fleet besieges us for a week, the soldiers will starve After two weeks, the combat effectiveness will drop sharply, and by the third week, the army will tend to collapse."

"No, if they don't want a quick fix, then that's exactly what we want." Angus said, shaking his head.

But the ensuing changes exceeded the expectations of the two of them, because they could notice that the Omega Squadron actually left three battlecruisers that could not enter the jump orbit and entered the hyperspace channel.

In a matter of minutes, the entire fleet had warped away from the Korhal system, leaving behind seven abandoned battlecruisers.

An intercepted encrypted signal was broadcasting the words of the Speaker of the Federation Parliament: "All fleets, return to Tarsonis immediately!"

"They retreated! Haha—Keha IV was saved!" The people in the command center hugged each other. They could guess what happened at this moment. As planned, Augustus' fleet must have succeeded. Assault on Tarsonis.

Angus's smile was fleeting, and he ordered, "Point the satellite's camera at Keha!"

The laughter and laughter of the Revolutionary Army soldiers in the command center came to an abrupt end.

There are several light spots visible to the naked eye on the main screen. When the Revolutionary Army in space was engaged with the Federation Fleet, a part of the Federation Fleet was already carrying out their mission of delivering nuclear bombs to Keha—but judging from the explosion points detected so far In fact, there were not as many as one thousand as expected. A considerable part of the nuclear bombs that were supposed to be delivered to Korhal fell on Cannis, Usa and the two high-altitude orbital defense platforms.

The effect of this is that Korha didn't turn into a black crystal with nothing intact like the original timeline, and most areas were not even affected for a short time.

The Federal Fleet delivered only about 150 to [-] Apocalypse-class nuclear bombs to the ground, but the landing points of these nuclear bombs were not random.

Almost all major cities and industrial areas in Keha IV have been targeted by nuclear bombs. The black smoke and dust rising from the explosion point will enter the air ten miles high. plummeted over the course of a month.

In a few years, Keha will fall into a cold nuclear winter, more than 95% of the animals and plants on the surface will be extinct due to climate change and strong nuclear radiation, and the lush and beautiful Keha will no longer exist.

In the next few centuries or even longer, this planet will no longer be suitable for human habitation unless it undergoes large-scale environmental modification.

"No matter what, we have to leave Keha." Angus said, looking at the dazzling stars blooming on the main screen.

"Let us bury those who died in battle today and set sail."

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