StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 280
Augustus and Sarah Kerrigan, who was following him, both had a spectacular view as they descended the two steps from the armored vehicle's command bay exit.

In the distance, several small suns rose at the same time in the volcanoes, highlands, and valleys and streams between the mountains occupied by the swarm of gams. The mushroom cloud raised by the huge fireball covered the space, and the shock wave moved at a speed of tens of miles per second. Diffusion, the released light and heat expand at a high speed with the hot air.

The suddenly heated wall of air swept across the hard red land of Antiga and engulfed everything along the way. Countless running zergs were torn apart, and the broken carapaces, together with gravel and dust, were thrown into the air. The ground was thrown up, forming an overwhelming rain of debris.

"It's time for these monsters to see the power of human beings. A nuclear bomb will cost the sacrifice of thousands of warriors."

Protected by a power armor face helmet, Augustus could look straight into the center of the nuclear blast.

This set of advanced CMC-300 commander armor can also effectively protect against damage from extreme environments such as stellar radiation and nuclear explosion radiation. In the early Tyranid Federation, marines wearing the first-generation power armor went deep into the center of the nuclear bomb explosion to test Its protective capabilities, and power armor has proven to be worth the investment and its cost.

"Even a large-scale nuclear strike on a barren planet like Antiga is a debatable strategy. If the Zerg invades a planet with a population as large as Shiloh, we cannot use unscrupulous fusion strikes against the Zerg Already." Kerrigan took a different view.

"You're right. Even if we were to destroy a planet to defend it, the loss of the zerg would be a small setback compared to their sheer numbers. The swarm would look for another target, and we We can only guard the remaining ruins." While Augustus was speaking, the Protoss fleet launched their attack.

One after another, extremely thick blue light beams pierced through the thick smoke, and precisely hit the main nests of the Zerg. Those huge organic buildings that were still standing under the shock wave of the nuclear explosion exploded into splashes of blood and fragments. The skeleton of the giant creature, and the rest are also burning in the flames.

The blow penetrated deep into the ground and flattened the towering mountain in front of Augustus, triggering a terrible volcanic eruption, and the magma continuously poured into the zerg's nests extending in all directions, igniting red flames.The main hive area of ​​the garm swarm became the epicenter of a thermonuclear reaction, leaving nothing but charred or burning earth and zerg.

The earth began to shake, as if the continental plate carrying the mountains and rivers was moving.

".Is it over?" Augustus was not talking to himself, but was directly asking Kerrigan beside him.

"Apparently not, my marshal." In Kerrigan's telepathy, the simple, bloodthirsty thinking of countless individuals was indeed greatly reduced, but quite a few zerg still survived - they passed The underground tunnels and worm nets move, and the depth of the worm tunnels protects these monsters.

"I can feel that their subterranean thinking garm swarms are given a single purpose, which is to tear humans and protoss apart. The icy wrath of Sass, the brain worm, drives the garm swarm into extreme madness. "

"Prepare for battle, soldiers, the zerg have not been completely wiped out," Augustus ordered over the army's public comm channel.

"Follow your command and protect your comrades. Your rifles and power armor will stand with you in this war. We are the Korha Revolutionary Army, the last barrier between the Zerg and the humans. Hold the line, I am with you and I will never fall."

Following Augustus' order, the sound of the gun being drawn and loaded, the sound of armor colliding, and the buzzing of the mecha servo system sounded simultaneously, and countless figures that seemed small on the ground could be heard in the light released by the fire and explosion. Long shadows dragged out one after another, even a 16-year-old boy seemed to be a tall mountain standing tall.

All kinds of responses never stopped in the communication channel, and different oaths from various troops were proving to Augustus that they were ready to give everything for the ultimate victory of mankind-even though Augustus could not hear what they said. the words said.

Augustus took out a Gauss gun from the armored command vehicle, and used a pair of optical binoculars to scan the front of the revolutionary army soldiers, fire bats, Goliath armed robots, chariots and tanks. The battle line with the engine is like a high wall.

The battle line spread for several miles from east to west, and the golden-red painting was the most suitable protective color and camouflage on the land of Antiga.

Just a few seconds after Augustus finished speaking, a large number of springtails and Hydra Hydralisks came from the hard red soil in the southwest, and the screeching sound of their shells rubbing against the ground was accompanied by the creaking sounds of the springtails as they marched. The sound is chilling.

Tens of thousands of zerg used their sharp claws to easily smash the hard soil and gravel from the ground in all directions, roaring and drilling out of the ground, their orange chitin carapace refracted under the light released by the explosion. Metallic luster, like flowing black tide.

Garm swarms never blindly attack from the enemy's strongest defense front. Their cerebrates are more willing to surround the enemy from all directions, or order a hive army to attract the enemy's attention and then concentrate their forces on the weakest line of defense. local attack.Like prying open the shell of a clam with a sharp blade, turn to the weakest point to strike.

"Fire—fire—fire!" One revolutionary army commander after another immediately issued orders, and the order to fire was transmitted to each unit along with the radio waves.

The soldiers of the Revolutionary Army quickly adjusted their formation, Gauss rifles fired a deadly barrage of dense barrages, and hundreds of zerglings were pierced by screaming spike bullets or blasted to pieces by artillery shells.

At the same time, the roar of a high-ranking Templar resounded from the Protoss troops directly in front of the Revolutionary Army.

He doesn't need to speak out to command all the fighters in a spiritual network like Kara, but just like the roar of a giant beast in the jungle of Ayr, this battle cry that contains some kind of spiritual language is enough to shock the will of the enemy .

"Templars, show your blades."

Following the order of the protoss commander, the protoss templars with neat military appearances aroused the blue psionic blades in their wrists one after another, and thousands of shining sharp blades burst into brilliant light.

Immediately afterwards, this army consisting of less than [-] protoss templars, dragon knights, and hundreds of golden beetles began to push forward against the charge of the Gum swarm.

Any one of the Protoss warriors who have practiced this way for hundreds of years is equivalent to a master of swordsmanship among humans. When they wield their double blades, they are swift and graceful, without any extraneous movements of showing off their skills. The head of a zerg, piercing their massive heart.

The shining, dense psionic blade of the protoss templar can easily cut through almost all matter, and the psionic blade made of psionic energy is indestructible.

The four-legged spider-shaped protoss dragon knight mecha phase tearing cannon weaves a brilliant blue barrage in front of the templars, and the slow-moving protoss golden beetle shaped like a trilobite It is constantly releasing an astonishingly powerful high-explosive smart bomb.

The smart bomb that looks like a blue comet is closer to a human missile with an automatic locking function. Once it explodes, it will release a brilliant blue electromagnetic force field, which is enough to sweep away a large number of zerg or paralyze human machinery.

While humans are still resisting the attack of the Zerg Swarm, the army of the protoss is crushing the raging Zerg torrent.The protoss is a rare and long-lived race, which makes each of their fighters an experienced elite fighter, and the lifespan of each protoss fighter is longer than the history of humans in the Koprulu sector itself.

"Damn idiot Protoss, so we can't fire at their position-what era is it, they still want to stab people with knives? It's like a group of primitive people driving starships to throw stone locks and Spear." At this moment, the artillery commander's roar came from Augustus's command channel.

"Maybe they think it's cooler, Nord, just focus on dealing with the Zerg from other directions. If these protoss still need our support, it must be a lost battle." Augustus said.

While Augustus was speaking, the charging Garm swarm was getting closer and closer to the soldiers around him.A large number of zerg fell on the way of charging, and the air was filled with the stench of blood and saliva.

The nearest springtail was only more than 800 yards away from Augustus, and it was quickly overwhelmed by the bullets of hundreds of Revolutionary Army soldiers in front of Augustus.

But this is how the swarm attack, even if the sacrifice of a dozen zerglings can only be exchanged for one marine, it is worth it for the entire swarm.

As more zerg rushed towards the firebats at the forefront of the battle, a wall of plasma fire from flamethrowers held off the zergling attacks.Following the commander's order, some of the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army began to switch to grenade launchers, focusing on dealing with those huge ultralisks and deadly scorpions.

When Augustus swept towards the battle line on his right, a huge Thunder Beast had already rushed in front of several firebats. Its huge, scythe-like fangs swept over a dozen firebats and the revolutionary army. The soldiers sliced ​​open their armor, and it charged among the soldiers, slaughtering them like a rhinoceros on a rampage.

This had disastrous consequences, and as the battle lines were breached, more and more zerglings and hydralisks ran past the monster, mercilessly harvesting the lives of the human soldiers.

When Augustus looked there, he could clearly see a springtail jumping up and onto the chest of a revolutionary soldier.

It is as light as a cat jumping on the bed or a desert jerboa leaping into the grass. It looks like a child stumbling into the arms of a giant, but its bloody fangs and claws suggest It is definitely a monster that came out of a nightmare.

Instead of a harmless pet or flimsy ball of wool, a springtail rams into a human like a bloodthirsty velociraptor.

The screeching little monster opened its mouth wide open, slit all the way to the base of its ears, and from some angles it looked like a weird, humorless smile, a Cheshire cat smile.It thrust a long, spiked claw into the soldier's dull orange matte visor, and blood immediately stained the inside of the helmet.

The zerg was obviously not satisfied with this, it immediately pierced the spike of the other forelimb on its chest into the breastplate of the power armor.

Just a tear, the creaking and howling monster tore apart the power armor like tearing open a tinfoil can with its bare hands. It dragged the dead Revolutionary Army soldier from the roaring crowd with a foot in its mouth. Go, the Zerglings behind him followed and shrieked and tore him apart.

These ferocious-looking monsters also let out different roars when they were tearing apart. In Augustus, it sounded like the excited screams of wild dogs when they were eating their prey.

More than a dozen Hydralisks with orange carapaces crawled forward. Their long snake-like bodies cut across the gravel and gravel. They inserted their long sickle-shaped forelimbs into the ground, arched their backs, and ejected hundreds of them. A thousand poisonous thorns.

These thorny needles, which were strong enough to pierce the armor of the front fender of the tank, nailed the frontmost Firebat to death in an instant. Immediately, several matte helmets riddled with holes fell to the ground, and the light and shadow came from the densely packed holes on the helmet. spilled.

"Sergeant Mond, take your men to cover the gap! Otherwise we will have to pay more to get him back!" Anger filled Augustus's mind, and he shouted from the people around him. Faraday took an electromagnetic gun in his hand and fired it at the huge Ultralisk.

At this time, the huge Ultralisk was already covered in bruises, its body was full of bullet marks and huge wounds, at least forty anti-tank rocket launchers and more Gauss rifles were pointing at it.Even so, the Thunder Beast stood still, until it was hit by a few armor-piercing grenades and crashed down.

When the behemoth fell, it also overwhelmed several firebats, dozens of zerglings and Hydralisks, stirring up a burst of crimson dust.The charging zerg were finally temporarily pushed back as more reinforcements rushed to fill the gap.

However, hundreds of Revolutionary Army soldiers were already lying down on the ground, and many of them were brutally torn to pieces, while those who were rescued by their comrades in time lay powerless on the ground.

Not even the constricting servos of the power armor could lock their gaping wounds, and only a massive injection of sedatives and analgesics was able to keep the soldiers awake.

Most of the soldiers with blurred and distracted eyes couldn't last until the rescue spacecraft arrived, their arteries were all cut open, and the blood flowed like fine sand in an hourglass.

Finally, the Gum swarm retreated, abandoning the destroyed hives and retreating.Gradually, bursts of cheers came from the front of the revolutionary army.

"The swarm has retreated." Augustus's forehead was full of sweat: "Medical soldier, save people quickly."

"Destroying these hives means that there will be no more zerg around Ansardar for quite some time, giving us time to push on until we drive the zerg out of Antiga." Shotgun's Kerrigan said.

"This is the fleet, and I'm Warfield." Ten seconds later, when Augustus was about to order an army to go deep into the destroyed main lair to remove any zerg that might survive, Warfield's voice suddenly ringing in his ears.

"Delta Squadron and Nova Squadron have moved to the high-altitude orbit of the main star of Antiga... They are opening the bomb bay." Warfield said in a solemn voice.

"I suspect they want to bomb Ansardar."

"Federation. They must be crazy." Augustus said: "The Protoss building is right next to it."

"Unless they want to annoy the protoss," Kerrigan said quickly.

"But maybe the Federation doesn't care about this at all, because the Protoss and Zerg are enemies in their eyes."

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