StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 215 Swan's New Research
The time between Tal'darin ground troops emerging in the subwarp field and Alpha Squadron firing was only a few seconds, no longer than a marine drew and loaded a gun or a Tadarim warrior ignited a psionic blade. Long.

Baishere is becoming a battlefield between humans and the Tadarin protoss in the withered jungle and dead trees. The electromagnetic guns and magnetic nail guns in the hands of the Alpha Squadron infantry are rattling, and the firebats at the front are using plasma flamethrowers on the front line. A wall of scorching smoke was released at the very front.

Goliath Armored Droids and Arc Tanks with their braces deployed line the lines of Alpha Squadron, between battle battalions providing fire support to their infantry comrades.

As for the Tal'darim's warriors, they marched under the hail of bullets, their padded, reinforced mechanical gauntlets allowing these furious protoss warriors to charge at phantom speed, smashing into enemy lines with overwhelming force.

More than 2 soldiers of Edmund Duke's Alpha Squadron were deployed on a front about 15 miles wide. Behind them were more than a dozen artillery battalions and more than 6000 elite mercenaries from the Camerian Hammer Security Company.

Compared with Alpha Squadron's bright white power armor and golden eagle badge, Hammer Security's armor color scheme is much lower-key, mainly black, supplemented by silver-gray right-angled lines.

These mercenaries have signed a non-disclosure agreement, promising not to say what they saw and heard today within five years.But even so, news of the existence of alien civilizations outside the Koprulu star zone will spread like wildfire sooner or later, and even the most well-informed people cannot help but be curious about mysterious alien civilizations—especially when they harbor suspicions about humans. When there is malice.

In fact, the Tyranid Federation government and other human governments discovered and named these alien races much earlier than 2497 as the public knows.

After the first calibration, the artillery of the Revolutionary Army fired at the position where the Tadarin troops appeared in the initial report. The intensive artillery fire immediately covered the area of ​​several square miles in Alpha Squadron. The pillars are raised from the ground, and the ground is lifted off a layer.

However, by the time the artillery commander was about to launch a second round of shelling, he had already received reports of a hand-to-hand encounter between the Tadarin protoss and the Alpha infantry, and the artillery turned to aim at the Tadarim's rear to avoid accidental injury.

Tal'darim fighters emerged from the smoke from the gunfire, getting closer to the firing Alpha Squadron soldiers.Such intensive artillery fire is enough to tear apart the power armor of human soldiers and destroy any known human ground troops, while the protoss troops seem to have few casualties, or even unscathed.

The plasma shields on their bodies still shone with a cold light, like solid ice under Baishel's fine sunlight.Protoss' combat methods are different from humans who are used to using guns. They hardly use ballistic kinetic weapons, and prefer beam-type spiritual weapons.

Even so, the warriors of the protoss still uphold the traditions of the Horde era, still using knives and spears to fight, but replaced the stone weapons with psionic blades.Maybe they think that close combat between swords can better reflect the value of warriors, but that doesn't mean that the Protoss, especially their cruel branch Tadarin Protoss, won't use powerful firepower to destroy their enemies.

Behind the Tadarin front, nearly a thousand Tadarin Dragon Knights drove flat quadruped armor forward in the bomb crater like deep-sea giant crabs. The middle is like walking on the ground.

As long as the scarlet energy projectiles of the phase fragmentation cannon projected by the dragon knights fall in the middle of the Alpha Squadron's line, whether it is a marine or a firebat wearing a thicker armor, it will immediately melt, or it will be like a crushed jelly same split.

These amazingly powerful walking mechs come from close relatives of the Tadalin protoss far away on the planet Aiur, the origin planet of the protoss. The dragon knights were originally prepared for those protoss warriors who were disabled by injuries and wanted to continue fighting.

After the Tadarin Protoss obtained the Dragon Knight Mecha from their kinsmen by unjust means, they directly threw the remains and even the brains of the defeated fighters into the nutrient solution, making these defeated fighters forever become these Part of the icy mecha.

The Tadarim warriors run like strong springboks, their indestructible plasma shields block all bullets, shrapnel and even lasers, and their psionic blades drag scarlet arcs, as if jumping flames.

The Tal'darin warriors with scarlet blood blades leaped into the enemy line against the intensive firepower of the Alpha Squadron. In the blink of an eye, blood and flesh flew across the human battle line. The psionic blades of the Tadarin Protoss could cut through the power with just a few swings. armor.

The roar of artillery fire, the shadow of swords and swords.

At this time, even the Tadarin Protoss was amazed by the morale of the Alpha Squadron that seemed to never collapse or retreat. The resocialized soldiers would not collapse even if only one person was left in the battle. Their combat awareness Almost like a robot.Never retreat, fight to the death.

The first wave of the Tal'darim charge inflicted heavy casualties on Alpha Squadron, not to mention the suspended Tal'darim leaders who could use their powerful psychic powers to unleash scarlet psionic chains that swept across the battlefield.

The way protoss use psionic energy has reached the pinnacle, and their individual psionic power far exceeds that of any human psyker except Sarah Kerrigan.While the total number of human psykers in the entire Koplu star area is between one thousand and ten thousand, the psykers of the Tadarin protoss are everywhere.If psionic potential is the product of a highly evolved species, then Protoss has undoubtedly evolved to a very high level.

The terrifying psychic arc could easily tear apart the power armor, and the human soldiers at the center of the psychic chain were directly dried like crabs in an oven, dying in an extremely tragic way.

It's just that Duke's Alpha Squadron is undoubtedly an elite team. They quickly withstood the charge of the protoss and used EMP weapons and anti-psychic weapons to inflict heavy damage on the enemy.

Tadarin's fighters can use their advanced plasma shield technology and psionic blades to kill all sides when facing human fighters, but their number is still too small, plus the dragon knight troops deployed in the rear, the number of people participating in the battle The number of Tal'darin Protoss is less than 5000.

At the same time, the Warfield Marine Corps behind the Alpha Squadron reinforced and strengthened its flank defenses, and Renault's Rangers detoured to the left flank of the Tadarin front, which gave the Dragoon troops in the rear a great sense of oppression.

After the sniper of the Revolutionary Army shot and killed a Tadarin protoss commander, the Tadarim ground troops began to retreat. They used some kind of sub-warp technology to instantly recall their troops. It seems that this is just Tada Lin's trial.

Augustus, who was in the command center, was watching all of this through the monitors of his own satellites and reconnaissance planes. There were dozens of different windows on the main screen of the command center showing pictures of the battlefield.A bunch of people were talking in front of the console of the command center, reporting casualties or some data about the fleet's synchronous orbit.

The losses of the Alpha Squadron were relatively heavy, but they were all resocialized soldiers of the Federation after all, and Augustus was not so distressed. Compared with this, the losses of the Tadarim Squadron were hard to count. Their soldiers died in battle. Or hardly any corpses are left after a serious injury, and only a few remain in place.

Augustus’s desire to capture a high-ranked Tadarin alive became a luxury. Protoss’s way of deploying ground troops is much more flexible and faster than that of humans. They can arbitrarily choose the location of the battle and the timing of the retreat. .

At this time, Augustus was even more sure that there were not many Tadarin protoss in Baishir. In his impression, the Tadarin here was only a part of the Tadarim expeditionary force, and this Tadalin expeditionary force was originally a A lone army far from the Tal'darin homeworld of Sreen.

And within minutes of the Taldarin protoss retreating, Augustus received a communication from Alpha Squadron commander Edmund Duke.

"Alpha Squadron lived up to expectations. This was a glorious victory. We easily shaved off the pointed heads of the Tadarin protoss and burned them to slag. It was as easy as burning a group of cockroaches." The pointed head in Duke's helmet had already There is no trace of hair, and the shiny head is radiant.

Whether it is in the Tyrann Federation or the Revolutionary Army, Duke's reputation is not very good. Tychus, Raynor, and Harnack all called him an insidious poisonous snake, and a noble-educated man like Rundstein The aristocratic officer literaryly referred to Duke as the pointed silverback gorilla kept in captivity in King Arthur's court. Of course, he undoubtedly compared Augustus to King Arthur in the earth age.

"Duke, I order you to press on and provide cover for our engineering regiment - we will not only bury Tadarim's terrazine springs, but also knock down their shrines. Protoss artifacts are all Koplu The most collectable thing, it is also quite valuable as long as you find the right buyer."

Augustus ignored Duke's self-satisfied bragging. All the generals in the Federal Naval Command knew that Colonel Duke's report could only be trusted halfway. It would also turn into a big win for Alpha Squadron against an entire Ripper brigade.

But at present, it seems that this is still a victory. If Tadalin has the power to defeat the human army, then they will not just send two or three kittens to tickle it, but cleanly destroy all human troops.

Tadarin doesn't need to deploy many troops in Baishir, and they hardly encounter any other enemies in this universe.

"That shouldn't sound too difficult," Duke said, "but I imagine it will take months if we're going to clear all the shrines from these tadarin heads."

"It's even more difficult to get rid of all the sharp heads of Baisheer. They have an invisible position, and we are completely blind." He said so and suddenly turned his head to the other side, as if someone was chasing him say.

"Marshal Augustus, I have some good news for you." At this time, Duke showed his signature smug smile, and said in a tone almost asking for credit.

"If you cheat on me again, you'll never get any medals or promotions again." Augustus knew that Duke was a man who was good at playing with the wind.When he was in the Federation, Duke didn't like to please his boss very much, because he was backed by the Duke family, the founding family, but now it is no longer the past.

"Tadalin left some fighters behind when he retreated, and we found a few spider-type mechas that were smashed by shells-I think it should be called this." Duke said: "One of them was destroyed. We found a dying Tal'darin pointy head in the rotten mecha, if we can revive him"

"Arrange a special plane to send this Tadarin to the command center. Send it directly to the field hospital. Also, send all the captured Tadarin protoss equipment together." Augustus said immediately.Then, Augustus summoned Kerrigan and Corporal Faraday next to him.

"Call Swan and Kaczynski over here and see how these things can help us." As he spoke, he walked towards the straight ladder leading to the ground from the command island of the command center: "Let Lisa Kexidi Prepare an operating room with our best attending physicians."

"Yes, Marshal." Corporal Faraday immediately saluted a standard military salute.

Outside the command center is still an ordinary scene of martial law. Augustus’s guards are patrolling. Outside the iron grille wall where the command center is located is the hospital and armory, so Augustus standing in the open space quickly Swan and his assistants waited until they arrived in a hurry.

"Boss Mengsk, we are not too late, but I don't know what made you rush to find us. These days, my people and I have been dealing with machinery and screws." Swan was dressed in orange-gray The suspender work clothes were covered with black oil stains.

At the same time, a command vehicle to take Augustus to the hospital has stopped nearby.As usual, either Kerrigan or Corporal Faraday drove for Augustus himself.

"I need you to deal with a batch of Tadarin protoss weapons." Augustus smiled lightly, telling Swan not to be too nervous.

"We got in the car and talked as we walked."

"How's the research on those protoss weapons?" Augustus sat in the back seat of the command car, and he didn't mind sitting next to him with the oily Swann and Kaczynski, who seemed to be Somewhat stiff.

Swann was the one who touched him the most. When he was in Meinhof a year ago, Augustus was only a second lieutenant, and he had dozens of people under his command. He was already the supreme leader of the Keha rebels, commanding 10,000 soldiers. + people.

Even so, Augustus seems to be the same as before, but it always makes people feel that the burden on his shoulders is too heavy, so that he is more frowning than in the past.

Never in Augustus' life had he lost as many friends and soldiers as he had in the previous year.

"Progress is about as good as nothing. I don't like to brag...that's basically it." Swan said: "I still remember those void crystals we found in Mar Sara. The ones that power the Tadalin protoss weapons are similar things, but among them The energy is even more violent."

"The plasma shield of the protoss gave me some inspiration. Maybe we can refer to this to improve the defensive shields of the Huberian and other warships-if we can get more Tadarin protoss weapons or buildings, then the results It will be much more.”

　Thanks to Corporal Kerry for going out on patrol, Blackwatch Senior Commander, Agent Rong Rong, and Jason1326 for their tipping!
　　
　
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