StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 577 Frontline: Why We Fight
Mom always said: Killing is a sin, because all life is given by God.Therefore, everyone is a brother, and brothers will not kill each other with swords.

Private Ardo Melnikov, who grew up on the Imperial colony planet Bountiful, used to believe in what he learned in seminary, but now Ardo has wavered. .

If the life of the zerg is also given by God, then who did he release these demons to punish?

"They're coming up again! Overhead! Underfoot! Kill them! Kill them! Fire!"

The hysterical shout drew Hodor back to the battlefield, and he put his finger on the trigger of the C-14 Gauss gun before he remembered that the enemy had already retreated.

"Hold him down! Damn, hold this guy down!"

A soldier in black khaki uniform was running between the vertical and horizontal fortifications of the trench, followed by several army doctors who threw him down in the muddy trench pit like a tiger.

"It's over! It's all over!" Their shouts echoed on the battlefield full of alloy steel bunkers and solid bunker clusters, clearly audible.

"Only resocialization can save him."

Like other imperial soldiers around him, Hodor just watched silently behind the helmet visor of the power armor as the crying soldier was carried back to the combat medical center.

The soldiers who were witnessing all this made gestures of prayer in unison, their eyes filled with sadness.

The soldier was their comrade in arms. He once witnessed a ferocious primitive tyrannosaurus tearing apart many of his comrades in arms alive. Since then, he has suffered from mental problems.The field hospital couldn't deal with this kind of illness, so it could only be sent to Melihus, which is closer to here.

"It's all over." Hoduo murmured to himself, looking past his comrades to the battlefield: "Amen."

This is the front line of Tasha. The 664th and 665th Divisions of the Imperial Marine Corps who were ordered to station here have built an impenetrable line of defense around thousands of islands and reefs.

On the morning of Easter Sunday, April 4, thick fog was hanging over the heaving sea.

Huge fortifications cover the entire coast of Zephyr Cove. This island was once a tourist attraction in Tasha. It is warm like spring in all seasons. The abundant rainfall and temperature create an idyllic and poetic landscape. paradise on earth.

The poetic natural environment also naturally raised the poetic Tasha people. The science, education and humanities here are unique even in the vast interstellar empire Tyranid Empire.

But now, this once paradise on earth has been transformed into a battlefield.

From flat beaches to steep cliffs, there are fortifications made of concrete and alloy steel everywhere. The tens of miles of underground facilities are connected to countless planetary fortresses, bunker clusters and erected by Draken cannons. giant turret.

Numerous bunkers and firepower points set up on the high ground guard the city of Belfalter by the Breeze Bay. The endless, jagged fortifications and strong defense points extend along the once quiet and clear bay. Countless cluster rockets and The Super Railgun locks on to the skies and seas.Countless giant cannons, countless banners, engraved with the iron ambition of the Tyrannian Empire.

Ardo had seen these great cannons fire, and they were truly prepared for destruction and war.It is not an exaggeration to say that the size of some of the giant guns is no exaggeration even if it is used to deal with battlecruisers.

When the artillery fire roared, several tons of artillery shells set off a doomsday-like smoke column and dust, and the laser cannon burned the ocean and land, shaking the mountains in an instant, and everything was wiped out.

And those treacherous black jungles of electrified barbed wire, spider traps, and widow mines littered with countless primal zerg corpses are a testament to the horrors of this war.Some of them were hundreds of yards long for their skeletons alone, and they were monsters that existed only in mythology.

At this time, several large excavators were rumbling to clean up the piles of bones on the battlefield splashed with thick blood, as if they were moving on the ground paved with broken bones and flesh.

Not a real person who experienced it personally, I am afraid it is difficult for some people to believe what kind of enemy and what kind of war Hoduo once faced.

For nearly four weeks, the Primal Swarm has launched an all-out attack on Tasha.At that time, all the sky that could be seen with the eyes was covered with primordial zerg with vibrating wings, what was heard was deafening and terrifying roars, and what was touched was death and blood.

As far as the eye can see, there are human and zerg corpses. The poisonous, thick blood of the original zerg polluted the water source, turning Tasha's ocean into a blackened crimson.

The air of Tasha contains even more primal zerg than oxygen.

The defenders suffered unimaginable casualties. At the most difficult moment, the position of Zephyr Bay was almost completely lost. The surviving imperial soldiers were trapped in isolated fortresses and bunker clusters to resist until the last ammunition was exhausted or Detonate the nuclear device and die with the enemy.

Hoduo and his comrades had been trapped in the quagmire of despair and failure time and time again, only relying on mechanical battles to survive the mountain of corpses and blood.As Prince Arcturus said: You will be the voices of death, eager to fight.A gun is just a tool, but a heart of stone is a weapon.

In this large-scale all-out war, individual ingenuity and will will not play a big role. Hodor and his friends can survive in the end, relying on good enough luck.

Finally, fortunately, General Pryor arrived at the emperor's order and broke the siege of Tasha.

And now, the original Zerg has finally evacuated Tasha. Although this once picturesque planet has long been devastated, she is saved after all.The original swarm, they are gone, leaving only trauma and suffering in this world.

But as an ordinary soldier, Hodor didn't know why the original Zerg desperately wanted to take Tasha down, and suddenly left without interest.Like, Hodor can't figure out why they're here.

"Melnikov, Ado Melnikov." The platoon leader, Lieutenant Sheffield, came out of the bunker on the other side. This man with a big nose and flat eyes had to bow his head to get out of the low bunker exit.

Since a large amount of communication equipment, logistics support equipment, and ammunition depots must be installed in the bunker, the space left for the Imperial Marines is much smaller, so that there is not even half a stool for a squad of soldiers inside.

"Lieutenant." Hodor immediately walked towards Sheffield: "What is it?"

"You've been promoted." Sheffield waved to Ado: "Now you are the corporal squad leader of your class, and you are also appointed with a gold star badge."

Hodor nodded, not surprised by this, because he was one of the last two people in his class who were still alive.In some units with particularly severe attrition, some people were even exceptionally promoted to captain during the war, and all the officers above him, including platoon commanders, company commanders, and battalion commanders, died.

This is the front line, and the emperor can only choose his excellent commander from the sea of ​​corpses and blood.

Although the system and armaments of the imperial army have been fully optimized since Augustus Mengsk the Great ascended the throne in Kehad, and more and more new power armors, mechas, and tanks were prepared for the entire army, but the original Insects are, after all, formidable enemies.

The race of Primordial Zerg has been consumed endlessly in their homeland of Zerus for countless years, and the entire race has also evolved infinitely for killing.If the army of the old federal era encountered them, they would have little chance of winning.

And Ah Duo's division still survived a lot of people, and some brother troops couldn't gather the number of people in a headquarters in the end.

"The order has arrived, and our division will be transferred back to the rear to rest immediately. The transport ship will arrive in half an hour. They are always on time, and those who fly the spaceship have never liked to wait for people." Lieutenant Sheffield continued:
"After that, there will be new arrivals to replace us."

We are talking about rest, but in fact, the most important thing is to keep the establishment and wait for the re-establishment of the army, because the two divisions stationed in Tasha and the more than 20 divisions that were later reinforced suffered heavy losses.Tasha was the main battleground for most of the campaign.

At the beginning, the commander of the empire obviously did not expect this, so the first garrison in Tasha was not the elite main force.

"Where to rest? I don't know how far it is from Kangfeng." Ado wanted to go home and take a look, because he might lose his life next time.

It's not just Hoduo, too many people have no hesitation on the battlefield, and when the smoke clears, they will be afraid of homesickness.

Kangfeng is not close to the front line, but it can be reached in less than a week on a spaceship equipped with the latest warp drive.For Adduo, he didn't know whether this was good news or bad news.

"It's not something I can know, child. But I promise, you will have a chance." Sheffield walked past Hodor's soldiers with a low voice:

"Now go to the airport to report. You don't need to be in a hurry, there is more than enough time. I think the seats on the spaceship are not full at all."

Adduo is only 19 years old this year, and to Sheffield, he is indeed a child. His youngest child is older than this bratty yellow-haired boy.

"Yes, sir," said Hodor.

Lieutenant Sheffield said before leaving: "In God's name, you're a veteran now. Remember, it was the son of a bitch war that made you a real man."

"Let's go. Since he said so." At this time, Will Volonov was coming out of another bunker.The order to evacuate to the airport was given by the command channel in the power armor, but he just heard what Sheffield said.

In addition, Will is a priest.Out of respect for the religious culture of Generosity, the 417th Marine Battalion is one of the few imperial troops that has chaplains, although less than 12.00% of the troops are Generosity, but they graduated from the boot camp there.

Generous is a religious colony established in the 24th century.The people who founded this colony were members of religious groups, they were all saints and pilgrims who had wandered here.

In the past, Kangfeng refused to join the old Tyrannian Federation, but was later incorporated into the newly established Tyrannian Empire.During that period of turmoil, Kangfeng originally set off an uprising against the rule of the Tyrannian Empire, because the people living there did not understand this new regime, thinking that it was no different from the tyrannical Federation in the past.

Until one day, what Kangfeng people didn't expect at all was that the emperor of the Tailun Empire came to Kangfeng in person.Augustus the Great stood among his own people, declaring that he would give them legal freedom of religion, so charismatic and convincing in his firm voice that no one suspected him of lying.

Will was Hodor's childhood friend, and it was a miracle they survived, and there were countless times when these two soldiers thought they had seen heaven.

Both of them are the same age, they grew up together, and they are as close as brothers to each other.However, there are also several friends who have played with them since they were young, and they have died.Some died in Tasha, some died in Warrant VI, the colony of the Kel-Morian Federation, and some died in space with the battleship.

Many people can't go back.

Along with Will, Hodor rallied his platoon to the airport.The airport in Hefeng Bay is very large, and there are huge spaceships all the time. Among them, you can see the heavily armed imperial troops lined up neatly towards the transport ship.

These newcomers have shiny armor, apparently because they have had enough time to maintain it.Another batch of imperial soldiers came to Tasha, and Hodor didn't know what was waiting for them.

It was rumored that Tasha would give up before long, because even if the original zerg were gone, the Overmind swarm that followed would be even more terrifying.

But the high command obviously didn't want to think otherwise, they seemed to have a secret weapon against the master.

There is a huge Odin mech parked in the airport, and it is said that it is still at the prototype level, which is more powerful than ordinary Odin.

Ever since Hodor saw that tall steel giant being thrown into the battlefield by a Hercules-class transport ship from a height of thousands of feet, making a huge blood pit among tens of thousands of primitive Zerg, he never Never doubted the power of this weapon of war.

At this moment, a number of engineering soldiers are driving the T-280 space engineering vehicle to do maintenance and repair work for the damaged Odin, using plasma torches to weld pieces of electroplated ceramic composite steel plates of the battlecruiser level.

Will is madly in love with the steel giant and is running around it.And Hodor just found a secluded corner and took out the photos in the armor storage unit to look at.

It was a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, her hair was like a bountiful autumn wheat field, and her eyes were like the winter sea.

Perhaps, every boy of this age has such a girl in his heart.

A Duoduo wanted to see her again.

"Excuse me, buddy." A tall man came from behind with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. His face was full of flesh and scars, as if he had walked out of a sea of ​​corpses and blood.

A corporal, just look at this, Hodor is about the same as him.

Hoduo threw the laser lighter to him, and the other party lit a cigarette while looking at the photo.

"What's her name?" the man said.

"Melani Bradlaw," Hodor replied.

"Have you ever slept?" The other party was an old hooligan.

"No." Hoduo was stunned for a moment, then he said emphatically, "Of course not."

"Huh—she is the driving force behind your survival."

"Live and live until the end of the war." Tychus took a puff of smoke: "I have seen too many widows. Even if they receive pensions, most of them will marry in the end."

This is Tychus Finlay's own form of consolation.

"Goodbye, little boy," Tychus called out to the engineers setting up the construction trucks before leaving. "Guys, grease up my babe, I'll need it later!"

　After the hidden level of the Wings of Liberty campaign revealed the shady scene, the scrolling subtitles at the bottom of the UNN news mentioned the news that the immigrants of Kangfeng Star declared their independence, and there were also guest appearances in the subsequent battles.

　　This planet was originally going to be included in the world destruction mechanism of the heart of the swarm, but later this very good mechanism was abandoned. We had the opportunity to see more and more distinctive StarCraft planets in the campaign and experience It's a pity that Star Wars has its own distinctive humanistic features.

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