StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

The mighty marching army came to a sudden stop like a snake being stepped on its throat. The roar of zerg and the roar of guns were everywhere.

A squad of low-flying Banshee bombers was ready to provide fire support as the Protoss Phoenix fleet descended from the clouds.

The Viking fighters escorting the bombers had disappeared at this moment, and the banshees had completely become the living targets of the phoenix.The speed of the Phoenix fighter is far higher than that of the Banshee, and it is easy to put these bombers within the range of the ion cannon.

A Banshee was hit, and a plume of black smoke rose from her longitudinal balancer, and then her right wing lost balance and fell uncontrollably, spinning, from a thousand feet in the air. Like a big bird with broken wings, it landed on the ground not far from Easter.

What really caught the empire off guard were these protoss. They were once loyal allies of the Tyranid Empire, but now they were used by Amon to deal with the surviving protoss and humans in the Koprulu sector.

Easter still had a little time to figure out what was going on.The train running from west to east along the track has come to a complete stop. It is not clear what kind of force can stop such a behemoth.

They got off on the right side of the train, and a group of Zerg worms gushed out of the tunnel worms were rushing towards this side from the north. There are hundreds, and there will be many more before long.

Wormholes usually signal the start of a larger attack.

Several times of narrow escapes on the battlefield kept Easter calm. There was a train between them and the Zerg. Although it was not as strong as a solid bunker, it was enough to provide buffers and shelters.

Easter and his fighters are not alone. They are in the middle of the marching column of the 7rd Brigade under the command of the 3th Marine Infantry Division. Next to it is the siege tank column of the 143rd Armored Brigade. A powerful armored unit Can quickly break out of the encirclement and come to support.

The companies and platoons of the other carriages of the train also smashed open the doors and windows that did not work, and came out. They were all wearing CMC-400 power armor. The armor of the looters was even heavier and stronger. hinder.

When Easter gathered his warriors together, the familiar rustling of the swarm's movement seemed to draw closer and closer to the dead.

The soldiers who disembarked on the other side of the train opened fire, and the sounds of electromagnetic rifles, grenade guns and various weapons rang out one after another.The troopers dismounted at poor timing and in a poor location, between the protoss and zerg attack paths.They were quickly overwhelmed by hordes of zerg, their terrifying screams unnerving.

"They're coming!"

A springtail with a pair of ridge sails growing on its back jumped onto the roof of the train. Its dark purple carapace shone with a metallic luster in the sun, and its long and thin insect wings fluttered gently, making a rustling sound. The sound is like a rattlesnake in the desert.

This was a signal to attack. Following the sound of heavy impacts, jumping insects one after another jumped onto the roof of the car one after another, their long knife-like claws pierced deeply into the steel, as easily as It's just a piece of tofu.

The teeth and claws of the zerg are not inferior to the hardest substances in nature, and even the largest zerglings in the swarm can easily disembowel them.

Since the first contact between humans and Zerg, not only the military technology of humans has advanced by leaps and bounds, but the swarm is also absorbing the genes of advanced species, strengthening usable traits, abandoning useless traits, and constantly evolving.

Nowadays, the genes of the species of springtails, hydralisks, and ultralisks that make up the huge swarm have undergone earth-shaking changes. They have gained sharper claws, stronger carapaces and bone shields, and even more efficient muscles and organs. Even looks very different from the past.

There is a big difference between the modern swarm and the swarm faced by Emperor Augustus, which is why the Ming Empire already has better warships, better power armor and weapons, and is still in an absolute position today. downwind.

The most effective means of dealing with Zerg is fire.In addition, the Tyrannian Empire also possessed a deterrent weapon capable of turning the tide of battle, that is, the Sael Naga Artifact.

But even though they are undoubtedly heading for failure, the Empire still has no intention of using the artifact, and no one knows why.If the artifact can still be used normally, Keha will definitely use it on the frontal battlefield to reduce the pressure on the imperial army.

This can't help but make people worry whether the artifact has been damaged long ago, but Keha did not announce it in order to stabilize the morale of the army.

For a moment, these springtails just stood on a high place, taking a panoramic view of everything with their glowing red eyes.Easter's soldiers opened fire, and the ferocious firepower immediately wiped out these monsters.In the torrent of bullets, they were riddled with holes in an instant, and fell from the top of the train like dead grasshoppers.

These are just a few waves in the vast ocean of insects, just like in the past, several times or even ten times more springtails soon appeared from the dead bodies of their own kind.

In Easter's eyes, these savage little monsters are exactly the same. Their genetic codes are extremely easy to replicate for the swarm. One larva can mutate into two springtails, and a group of springtails can turn a group of The Marine Corps killed so much that they threw away their helmets and armor.

Fire from Easter's platoon quickly focused forward, knocking back the zerglings on the roof, some of which managed to hop to the ground, but the Marauder's Punisher grenades immediately knocked out the "lucky ones" It was smashed into a pile of debris made of insect limbs.

Their weapons are equipped with self-recharging supercapacitors, which are used to shorten the reload time, in other words, they can fire more bullets in the same time.

But the springtails were plentiful, emerging endlessly from the other side of the train, through open doors, windows and roofs, and swarming.

Their corpses gradually piled up in front of Easter, and the number of ammunition capacity recorded on the HUD display in front of his eyes was jumping crazily at 110-0. Hundreds of spike bullets were shot out during this period. Killed several Zerglings.

A few Reapers flew in from the other side to join the fray, beating up the springlings with their P-45 Gauss pistols and dropping their cluster bombs to cause explosions and chaos.

The flames from their jump packs allow them to move around the battlefield with incredible speed.

Easter knew those scouts. They were good players from the Ice Harvester training camp. Although most of them had bad records before enlisting in the army, their performance on the battlefield was never bad.

At this time, amidst the tooth-piercing sound of metal tearing, a huge Hydra Hydralisk easily propped up the car door with its pair of terrifying sickle-shaped giant claws. The armor is reminiscent of the mythical Hydra monster.

A gust of poisonous spines strong enough to pierce fine steel hit Easter like a bullet, and one of them almost flew past the side of his mask, the jagged sharp edges and smooth The arc is comparable to man's deadliest dagger.

"Kill it!"

Marauder strode forward from Istr's right rear, letting the spines jingle against his heavy armor.A Punisher grenade was loaded into the launcher, and it accurately hit the most vulnerable chest of the Hydralisk, making it scream again and again.

Countless bullets poured on the bloody body of this giant snake at this time, and finally fell forward to the ground with a threatening hissing sound, without moving.

Before Easter's subordinates cheered and celebrated, several banelings rushed out from the swarm of springtails, and hit the carriage in front of Easter head-on. The earth-shattering explosion immediately wiped out The carriage exploded into the sky, and the thick green strong acid splashed everywhere corroded black potholes on the ground.

This caused even more confusion, as more and more Zerglings and Hydralisks rushed out of the gap.

A burst of dense spines swept down Daniel, Ernest, and Aldos, and their life support index immediately dropped below 30% on the display on Easter's helmet, and a terrible spike came out on the channel. cry.

"help me!"

"They're coming towards me!"

"Medical soldiers!"

Aldous's body was riddled with spines while lying on his back, and he died shortly after he fell to the ground.

There was a terrible gap in Daniel's belly, a long spine that sank into the armor.He moaned for a while, and then died away.

With two spines stuck in his thigh, Ernest was sitting sideways on the ground shooting the Gauss rifle in his hand, screaming and moving backward with difficulty.

This can frighten a group of vicious dogs, but not a few tigers.Zerglings are like the velociraptors of Earth, swarming, cunning and brutal.

Swarms of springtails were running towards Ernest, eager to tear him apart.

Two of his comrades immediately ran to help him, but there were already seven or eight Hydralisks that had crossed the wreckage of the train, and the stormy spines made it impossible for them to move an inch.

Middlebrook rushed up again, dragging Ernest's arm before he was knocked to the ground within a few steps.

"Request fire support." The display on Easter's helmet showed that the siege tanks of the 143rd brigade had been set up, and the fire strike group was going online, so he immediately uploaded the coordinates.

"We can't help him, damn it, back off!"

While speaking, another person was knocked down, and Yistr's fighters fell one after another.They were retreating as the swarm drew closer.

Ernest fell behind. After a few desperate cries, he was thrown down by the zerg and torn into several pieces in a blink of an eye. The remains of his limbs were thrown everywhere, making Yis Terl thought of the pack of wolves that ate the fawn.

Far more terrifying than that.

Only the most steadfast and cruel fighters could be calm about this place, and it was too difficult for Easter.

A few more fell, and a dozen or so zerglings surrounded Marauder William, dismembering him in no time.

Misfortunes never come singly, the digging claws rattled suddenly, and a large number of cockroaches appeared from their left flank. The two squads of another company were submerged in an instant, and now they came straight here.

"Use armor-piercing bullets! Spike bullets are useless to them, they are tickling." Easter immediately mobilized his hands to resist the cockroaches, but this time they were even more unable to block the frontal enemies.

Although Easter's subordinates were mostly battle-tested soldiers who knew what to do, others, let them stand there in a daze, only remembering to shoot mechanically by instinct.

Artillery support finally arrived, and the explosion exploded not far in front of Easter, and hundreds of hot tungsten bomb shrapnel splashed outward from the point of impact, bursting out a dazzling glare.Large pieces of springtails and hydralisks were blown to pieces, minced meat and shattered carapaces continuously fell from the air, and bright red blood spread all over the ground, as thick as oil.

Their pressure suddenly eased, Easter ordered to concentrate firepower on the cockroaches on the left, and the medical soldiers immediately seized the opportunity to rush to save people.

On the battlefield, medical soldiers who operate with the Marine Corps are high-risk jobs.Veteran Zerg and Protoss units will prioritize them, just as they would prioritize Banelings and Sentinels.

The fine traditions of the people on Earth have been somewhat inherited. Most of the medical soldiers in the Imperial Army are women. This is probably the most correct thing the Marine Corps headquarters has done.

Easter still had time to confirm the casualties. What made his heart hurt was that they lost a third of their manpower in just a few minutes, and most of them were caused by the Hydralisk's spine.

They left their hometown and traveled hundreds of light years just to die here.

Even if they can survive to the end, the war will leave a permanent imprint on these people. Many retired soldiers are still alert to fight at any time, and the swarm of insects lingers like a nightmare.

When Easter's troops returned to the rear to rest, they would be replenished, and his men would have more fresh faces, many of whom would have died as they did today.

again and again.

"Sir, I can continue to fight." Although Lin said so, he was sobbing in pain.He probably couldn't fight any longer in his hunched arm. There were five or six spine needles horrifyingly stuck in it, some of which were almost protruding.

"I think he has to be amputated," a medic who was opening the nanomedical kit told Easter.

"We can find better ones for him," Easter said immediately.Whispering, Easter likes this girl, but she doesn't buy it.

For Lin, the war is over, he will be sent to Haven or Tyrador to receive better treatment, away from this nightmare battlefield.

As soon as the words fell, a shell landed not far away, and the soil surged and fell like a pillar.

"Spot it, you blind fool!" said the medic, busy with the task at hand.

Medics are sometimes loving mothers, sometimes raging lions, and sometimes just somewhere in between.

"Be careful, the tunnel worms are approaching!" Someone suddenly shouted in the channel.

Easter immediately followed the prestige, and saw a strange worm whose head was covered with metal breaking out of the ground: "No, it's our tunnel worm."

Batches of cyborg cerbros zerg appeared, and immediately fought with the Jormungandr swarm.The formation of these Zergs was extremely organized in comparison, like an army in formation.

It was obvious that the Lord of Cerberus was watching. (end of this chapter)