StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 185
"Your family is disgraced by you, Governor Richard. Look at the stupid things you've done, with your men in the latest power armor, in Confederate Marine vehicles, only to end up with The rebels who burned fire sticks and drove motorcycles were defeated steadily, and lost most of Ma Sara in less than a week.

"There is no cure, a crushing defeat."

Edmund Duke and Governor Mar Sara had apparently known each other for a long time, their friendship dating back to the two noblemen's youth.Of course, this does not affect their dislike for each other in the slightest.

"The territory of the Federation spans the entire Koprulu sector, and in the end the council sends pigs, donkeys, and scale bugs to manage a colony because they are nobles."

With his head held high and his toes held high, Duke condescendingly looked down at Governor Mar Sara's face dripping with tears.Because he knew that Richard could no longer keep his position, the Lyon family behind him wanted to thank Duke for keeping their property in Mar Sara.

When the nobles heard about the suffering of the people at the bottom, they would shed a few tears because of their commendable sympathy, but most of the tears could not be restrained when it was about their own life and death.

When the founding family of Tarsonis selected their heirs, they all required them to have the outstanding ability to inherit their family power, but they couldn't require every family member to be good enough.

"Colonel." Behind Governor Mar Sara is a nickel-plated alloy wall, and on the right side is a heavy lead door with rivets. Standing beside him are fully armed guards instead of his aides in suits and ties and drunken men. military advisor.

This shows that the governor is hiding in the underground shelter of the governor's mansion at this moment. At this moment, all parts of Mar Sara are under fire, but the secret room is covered with expensive silk carpets, decorated with gold and silver utensils, and full of jewels.

"We're going to be overwhelmed. Rebel fighter planes are bombarding our positions. Once Augustus Mengsk's men launch a general attack, we're all finished." The governor stopped crying as quickly as He burst into tears at the same speed as when he burst into tears.

"How many of them are there?" Duke looked like a dangerous snake as he squinted his triangular eyes.

"At least 20 people." The Governor's thick sausage lips trembled.

"The unmanned reconnaissance drone has photographed the badges of at least ten divisions of the rebel army. They also have a large number of armored units and mobile units. They are not a group of armed Kha IV farmers at all, but a real army."

"Nonsense." Although Duke didn't believe Governor Mar Sara's statement at all, he still used it as a reference.Duke estimated that there should be around [-] to [-] rebels on the surface of Mar Sara.

"There's no way the rebels have that many people," Duke said.

And considering that the rebel army has a certain amount of CMC power armor, it cannot be treated as an ordinary rebel army.Usually, only a federal marine of about 200 people can easily quell a rebellion in a city, and a battalion of marines is enough to guard a marginal colony.

Not since Angus Mengsk and his ambitious sons started the rebellion has a region's Marines been able to put down a rebellion with ease.

"Colonel Duke, land your Alpha Squadron in Ma Sara as soon as possible." Governor Ma Sara gradually became impatient. He was worried that Duke would stand by and watch the capital area fall.

"Otherwise you should be at least half responsible for the fall of Mar Sara, and I will truthfully report your indifference."

"Richard, I always say you are an imbecile, that's right." Duke's arrogance swelled to the peak: "The fox has fallen into the hunter's trap, and now he threatens those who are ready to help him .”

"You poisonous snake, Ma Sara is about to fall, and you are still yelling here!" Governor Ma Sara became furious.

"Then I'd like to see whose responsibility it is." Duke ordered the adjutant to close the communication connection as he spoke.

Amid the governor's hysterical roar, Duke began to think calmly. A new battle plan was being conceived in his pointed head.Alpha Squadron carried quite a few small tactical nuclear bombs with a yield of 2000 million, enough to flatten a medium-sized city and turn an area of ​​about thirty square miles into scorched earth.

But according to the image of the capital region in the southern hemisphere captured by the Mar Sara orbiting satellite on the main screen of the Norad III bridge, it can be seen that the rebel positions have overlapped with the Governor's Planetary Defense Force and organized militia forces. , like tangled roots.

Orbital bombing will inevitably bring fratricide, and precise fixed-point strikes cannot destroy the constantly moving rebels.To retake Mar Sara, Duke must send his Alpha Squadron down to low Earth orbit in landing craft to defeat Augustus' rebels.

The complete destruction of the entire Capital District means that Duke has to bear moral condemnation. He must be responsible for the death of nearly 50 Ma Sara civilians in the Capital District and tens of thousands of federal soldiers-although Duke doesn't care at all.

After all, Duke could find [-] reasons to justify himself without being court-martialed.For example, the brutal rebels released a terrible virus in the capital area, and everyone has been infected, and Alpha Squadron had to cleanse the infected land.

But at least for now, Duke does not have the authority to activate nuclear weapons at will.In fact, Duke is not too happy to earn the reputation of a butcher for himself, massacring civilians will bring more troubles to his bumpy promotion road, and in many cases he prefers to charge forward by himself to prove his courage.

"Adjutant, besides those battlecruisers, are there other rebel fleets in the Sara galaxy?" At this moment, Duke looked at the orange-brown Mar Sara star outside the porthole of the bridge.In the Battle of Tarsonis six months ago, there were 26 rebel warships that appeared and were recorded, and [-] ships successfully jumped away in the end.

This is extremely inconsistent with the number of rebel warships in the Sara system, unless the rebel fleet has been dispersed into several relatively small fleets.

"Sir, our scouting forces and radars still haven't detected any more rebel fleets in the Sara system," the adjutant replied.

"Judging from the sharply increasing energy index, they are preparing to jump away."

"You can't let them go." Duke said after a few seconds of silence: "The fleet moves forward and stops that rebel fleet."

At this time, the main screen of the bridge lit up again.

"A communication request from the command center of the Mar Sara Marine Corps Division commanded by" Duke interrupted him before the adjutant could finish.

"Access." Duke stood up straight, and he had already anticipated a certain possibility in his heart.

"Duke. The last time we met was in the Solyan galaxy, and it was in Turasis a long time ago." The long line in the main screen of the Norad III bridge is Augustus.

Due to the various electromagnetic interference frequency bands during the war, the picture was not very stable, and snowflake-like garbled characters sometimes appeared on the holographic projection screen.Even so, Augustus's iconic Mengsk family's gray hair and gray eyes and his statue-like three-dimensional face were still deeply engraved in the eyes of every Alpha Squadron soldier present.

On the screen, Augustus was wearing a dark gray military overcoat and a wide-brimmed military cap with the logo of the Revolutionary Army, sitting on a single sofa.The brim of the military cap blocked the light from the window, covering half of Augustus' eyes in the shadow.

Behind him stood Corporal Faraday and Sarah Kerrigan, soldiers of the Revolutionary Army in dark gray uniforms running back and forth across the vast command island.

Augustus Mengsk, the leader of the rebel army, has become synonymous with rebellion after the Battle of Kailian. He created riots, provoked wars, and brought black fear to every planet.

Augustus was obviously in the circular command island on the top of the command center at this time. The walls of the command island were replaced by light-transmitting tempered glass. The federal commander could sit on the command island and overlook the entire federal barracks.The command center of the Tyranid Federation is a nearly square giant building made of steel and refined crystal ore. The outer wall is equipped with inclined plain steel plates, which is strong enough to resist artillery fire and even small nuclear bombs.

For a long time, the commanders of the Tyrannian Federation would remotely monitor all levels of barracks, military bases, and operations departments through consoles in the command island command post raised on the top of the command center.The fact that Augustus is sitting in it proves one thing, that is, Mar Sara's marine division has already been defeated by the rebels.

"Mengsk, if you're here to catch up with me, then there's nothing to talk about between us." Duke didn't intend to hide his dislike for Augustus.

"For a rebel like you, I will only give you one bullet."

"Hehe." A smile appeared on Augustus' handsome face, and he pointed to the screen: "I thought you should be at least a lieutenant general now, why are you still wearing the rank of colonel?"

"Are you reluctant to part with that old suit?"

Veins popped out of Duke's forehead. He wanted to refute but was at a loss for words, because it was indeed the truth.After being silent for a while, the anger in Duke's heart suddenly became stronger.

"Arcturs was a colonel before he retired, and you served almost three times as long. Of course, we all know that promotion in the Marine Corps is still too slow."

"You don't need to worry about it." Duke wanted to close the communication, but this undoubtedly showed that he was guilty, which made him even more unable to swallow this breath.

In the past, Duke had always ridiculed others and bossed them around, but it was the turn of Augustus, the former little second lieutenant, to mock.

"What do you think you are now? Bereaved dog! Keha has been destroyed, do you still want the people of Mar Sara to suffer the same fate?"

"Edmund Duke." Augustus did not answer Duke's words directly. He was obviously deliberately guiding the topic in a direction that was beneficial to him.

"Look at you, you are underappreciated and suppressed." He sighed and said, "Your talent cannot be limited to a small colonel."

"In the Federal Navy, even if you are promoted to a colonel, that may be the end of it. With me, I will not only let you become a general, but also have a place for you in the new cabinet in the future."

"At that time, you will be the elder of the New Tyrann Federation, the minister of the arm."

"I don't know if a lunatic like you likes to daydream." Duke squeezed a ray of cold wind through his cracked teeth: "The Federal Navy has a thousand battlecruisers and more planets, and you are just Poor scum on the run. The wolf-totemed Mengsk family is nothing more than a pack of lagging dogs."

"I am a member of the founding family of Tarsonis, and the Mengsk family is just the manor owner of a small planet."

"Take your Alpha Squadron to be loyal to me." Augustus didn't seem to hear what Duke was saying, he just said to himself.

"And I will give you everything you want but can't get. Or, are you willing to be a colonel in this life and be ridiculed by the rest of the Duke family?"

"Humph" Duke laughed angrily. In a sense, Augustus' words really hurt him.Not being able to become a general and go further, this is the eternal pain in Duke's heart.

But Duke quickly calmed down. He stared at the screen and said, "Why did you provoke me on purpose? It was to delay the time so that your army and fleet can evacuate in time—"

"This is just a holographic image you deliberately recorded, and the real you must be somewhere in Mar Sara—no, a cunning person like you, you may be on a fleet in synchronous orbit, you can always leave."

"No, it's not a pre-recorded hologram," Augustus replied.

"I just think what you say is stupid and unnecessary to talk about," he said. "My promise to you always counts."

"Join us and you're no longer just Edmund Duke of the Duke family, people don't think of the Duke until they talk about you first."

"You think I'll believe it," Duke said before Augustus's face disappeared from the screen.

"Locate the coordinates of that command center!" Duke trembled with anger.

"We don't know if this is a pre-recorded image, and we're not sure if even this location is fake." The adjutant said, "It's no secret that you haven't been promoted to general, because the new promotion after the Battle of Kailian All generals are publicly awarded."

"Shut up." Duke spat out two cold words.

"Look, we don't know if Augustus Mengsk is in that command center or in the fleet in geosynchronous orbit, but it doesn't matter."

"I will crush all of Augustus Mengsk's armies until he is found!"

"But it may well be a trap," said the adjutant.

"Fucking traps." Duke growled in anger: "There are traps everywhere, should I be afraid of it?"

"Send my order, prepare the landing module, I will personally defeat Augustus Mengsk's rebels in Mar Sara!"

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