StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

After that, the arrived Cerberus swarm launched a lightning attack, and launched an extremely cruel and bloody fight with the Protoss and Zerg that attacked Easter's troops, like a As sharp and cold and sharp as a planer knife.

The imperial army, whose pressure had dropped sharply, regrouped and gathered its forces to launch a counterattack.

After that, the Jormungandr swarm continued to increase its troops through the tunnel worms that broke out of the ground, and the battle continued until the stars in the sky slowly climbed to the horizon.

Even in the dark night, the sound of intense firefights can be heard in all directions, the lights of explosions in the sky are also flickering, and the traces of the battle extend from the ground to tens of thousands of feet in the air.Flares, laser beams, and plasma beams light up the clear night sky over and over again, and only the brightest stars are still faintly visible.

It was a chaotic melee, and the raid completely disrupted the pre-deployment of the Imperial landing force, and the various Imperial forces were forced to fight on their own.

To make matters worse, the satellites and ground communication base stations of the empire's command system were suddenly hit by the protoss.The scope of the attack included the corps, division, brigade, and battalion-level headquarters of the Imperial Army. It is likely that the signals from the orbiting satellite base station completely exposed the positions of the various high-level command units.

The enemy didn't wait until they were in position to attack.

During this period, the communication between Easter's unit and the 7th Marine Infantry Division was once interrupted.

When a lieutenant colonel took over the command, they learned that the command center where the division commander, General Ludwild, was located was suddenly attacked, and both himself and his adjutant staff suffered accidents.Not only the division headquarters, but even the battalion could not be contacted, and there was no news of the fleet in orbit.

That night, bad news came one after another.

When the battle broke out on this side, another hive force of the Jormungandr swarm began to besiege the 7th Fortress of Water Source, where the 4th Marine Infantry Division was about to go for reinforcements. In just a few hours, thousands of All the defenders were wiped out.

Before the second and third lines of defense were fully formed, they were breached one after another, without even delaying much time.On a bloody evening, the 19th and 76th Marine Infantry Divisions along the route of the Jormungandr Swarm were massacred, with more than [-] dead.

The army was defeated like a mountain.

Immediately afterwards, the Yemengarde swarm, which drove straight into the water source oasis colony, crossed the line of defense, and a total of 21 divisions were besieged, dismembered and annihilated.Misfortune is a blessing, and Easter's troops are not among them, but they are very close to the encirclement, almost under their noses.

And at this moment, their own Cerberus swarm had long since disappeared. After the battle, they turned around and disappeared into the worm lanes of the Jormungandr swarm, continuing to pursue their enemies.

Obviously, the Lord of Cerberus has his own ideas about leading troops to fight.

In the case of delays in contacting the command center and poor communication, the lower-level imperial officers united to take over control to command battalion and brigade-level troops.

Lieutenant Colonel Glantz took over the position of commander of the 7th Marine Infantry Division. Because he was leading the troops in a command vehicle outside, he escaped the attack of the protoss on the division headquarters.

The new division commander dispatched vulture riders to act as communications troops to gather the troops, and ordered to continue to advance to Fort 4, rescue the army besieged by the Jormungandr swarm and join them.

Easter could see Lieutenant Colonel Glantz's intention: they could only move forward, not retreat.

There was almost no danger in the flat oasis hinterland, retreating would mean exposing the back and flanks to the bloodthirsty Jormungandr swarm, competing with the swarm for endurance would be a dead end.And it was a long way to return to New Richmond City. In comparison, the Water Source No. 4 Fortress they were going to was much closer.

Had they been able to muster enough forces to recapture the fort, and hold on to it until reinforcements arrived, they would not have been wiped out on the first day they landed in the colony.

Could this be another Brocas Hull Landing massacre?Without those famous generals of the empire, the remaining commanders seemed to be unable to fight.

No, they are still good commanders.The many victories won by Augustus the Great brought the Tyrannian Empire had made Easter forget how hard they used to fight.

Cerebral worms are always learning and getting stronger.They have survived the first Total War and the Brood War, and every time they have fought the Protoss and Tyranid Empires, the Swarm has learned its lesson and will never do it again.

In front of the swarm, if they take one wrong step, they will be lost forever.

Lieutenant Colonel Glantz must fight with his back if he is to save his army.

That night, Easter's platoon had been fighting.

They followed their company to Fortress No. 4 of Shuiyuan, and advanced behind the Xu Jin barrage of the siege tanks. The armored troops and all the raider companies gathered to take the lead, almost stepping on the corpses of enemies and comrades-in-arms.

The wanton flow of blood made the originally hard ground under the feet become muddy and slippery. I don't know how many people died this night, and they never saw the sun the next day.

Later, parts of several nearby divisions also joined Istr.Many troops were wiped out, and the rest either joined other troops or disappeared.

This battle was fought very hard. The number of Jormungandr swarms was more than ten times that of theirs, constantly attacking the weak points that were crumbling.

People kept falling, and the injured had no time to transfer and treat them.

Most of the medivacs were shot down, and the rest had to keep descending to avoid the protoss Phoenix fleet, their air power was long overdue.

Since the army is always on the move, field hospitals are useless at this time, and we can only hope for those armored ambulances equipped with medical equipment.But in this case, even finding those ambulances is simply a dream.

Lin, who was injured the day before, was not transferred to Haven for recuperation as Easter expected. The Hydralisk that attacked him evolved a new poisonous gland, which made the ridges it spout The needle becomes a venomous dagger coated with toxin, possibly from some kind of venomous snake from New Trinidad.

Until a new antidote is developed, there is no cure.

Riol kept his back on Lin, so Easter could only scold him and tell him to put down Lin's body.Finally Riol cried.

By noon the next day, the 7th and 11th Marine Infantry Divisions finally broke through the Jormungandr Swarm's defenses and joined the remnants of the other two divisions.

At this time, as a second lieutenant, Easter became a battalion commander like a rocket, which meant that the company commanders and platoon leaders he had selected before had all died, or could no longer command his own troops.

Since the fleet in orbit has never sent additional reinforcements, the lost troops cannot be replenished, and the experienced commanders also suffer heavy casualties, which can only be made up through larger-scale temporary promotions.

This has become more and more common in these years of increasingly tragic battles.The grassroots officers of the Imperial Army still maintained the tradition of the Revolutionary Army era, and would often take the lead in the charge, which greatly increased their death rate.

Under such a situation, soldiers and non-commissioned officers at the bottom have more opportunities for promotion, which is very similar to the end of the old Federation.

It's just that even though he has become the battalion commander, the number of soldiers under him has been reduced to less than one-third of the original, and the original platoon was forced to mix with the other two platoons to maintain combat strength.

When Easter led his troops to recapture Water Fort 4, he realized that it was an impossible task.

The towering city of steel still stands, but it has been completely reduced to a nest of insects.The zerg had infested the entire building, with masses of spine crawlers, spore cannons, and bile projectiles thriving along the walls of the fortress crawling with veins and connective crusts, forming a terrifying web of firepower.

In the past, the swarm had never done this.

When they were on the verge of desperation, support from above the orbit finally arrived.

One after another, they were supported by personnel and supplies. At this time, Easter became the real battalion commander, and he found that he was fully qualified for this position.

Three full Kel-Morian airborne divisions were also brought into battle, armies of workers, miners, and explorers clad in rusty, brass-colored armor to differentiate them from the Imperial armies.

These Kemerians have a strong will to fight, not even losing to the elite troops of the Empire like the 7th Marine Division.

Since the rise of the empire, the internal rule of the Kelmorian Federation has been declining day by day. The current corporate coalition government has long followed the lead of Kehama, and without any hesitation, it has handed over the command of the combined army to the Supreme Command of the Empire.Anyway, the army was trained and formed by the empire, and in terms of command and dispatch, those shrewd businessmen and politicians couldn't say much at all.

But the nature of the Kel-Morians was such that they would never become Tyranids, Easter was absolutely certain.

Not only the Kel-Morians, but even the Umoyan United States also sent troops.

Umoyan's elected council was originally worried that the forces of the Tyranid Empire would use this to erode and control their country, but after the golden fleet and swarms effortlessly destroyed several territories of the United States, the Umoyan National Defense Army immediately stood firm Standing on the side of the Tyrannian Empire.

At the same time, there were also several mercenary regiments. Many of these veteran mercenaries were unwilling to join the Imperial Army during the Federation era, and could not find other better jobs after retiring.They are stronger than regular Imperial recruits, but command a hefty price tag.

Even if the world is about to be destroyed, the commission is still charged, and not many people will question this.

The newly supported support force meant that the fleet in orbit had been freed up to provide fire support, so Lieutenant Colonel Grantz once again ordered an attack on Fort 4.

On the second night, they broke in and recaptured the fort with tactical nukes and pyrotechnics.

The remnants of the seven divisions, about 3 people, took advantage of the weakening of the Yemengard swarm to repair the fortress and held on until the third day.

But on the third night, the corpses of those comrades who hadn't had time to be burned staggered forward dragging their horrific rotting bodies. Horrible spores took root on their broken corpses, twisting people into monsters.

Easter and his warriors had to kill them all again.

On the fourth day, an army of Zealots appeared in front of the fortress, and the offensive was raging. They used the only reserve troops, and even the medical soldiers filled the gaps in the front line with weapons.On this day, Easter used up all the stimulants, and he basically didn't sleep much in the past one hundred hours.

The casualties of the army have reached an unbearable ratio, and they are on the verge of collapse.

At the same time, the battle situation on the track is not optimistic, and the follow-up fleet of the Golden Fleet has arrived.

The fleet commander had to admit that they had to abandon the planet, and ordered all transport ships to be dropped to retrieve the surface troops.

"We have stood here for four days and nights, and we still have to give up here in the end. Then, what's the point of our sacrifice?" McGinn was sitting next to Easter on the transport ship Hercules returning to the fleet.

He was the last survivor of Easter's original platoon except himself, and everyone else remained in the water source forever.

The oasis of water source has now been reduced to a puddle of corruption.

Looking back at the direction of New Richmond City when I came here, I can only see black smoke rising into the sky.The ugly creeping creeps spread like scars on the earth, where there is no grass, a barren, lifeless scene in a place full of vitality.

In just a few days, Easter almost completely forgot the original appearance of the water source oasis, but could vaguely recall the impressive lake and blue sky.

It is now a ruin of rubble.

Look at the atrocities of the enemy in our land, the protoss and zerg are killing with impunity.

Emon admired this wonderful doomsday play very much, and personally arranged for the actors to appear on stage.

"I don't know." Easter rubbed an identity plate in his hand.

Heinlein was blown to pieces by a baneling buried in the ground, not even a broken bone was found, and Easter only found his identity plate.

These people trust him and regard him as a leader and an authority in combat, but can he live up to these trusts.In the end, there was only so much left to prove that they had ever existed, that they had fought here.

Easter thought of the last words of Emperor Augustus:

I have signed an order, ordering every inch of mountains and rivers and every inch of blood. I am just a mediocre person, but I ask you to be as selfless and holy as a saint, and I ask you to pay, sacrifice, and dedicate.

The transport plane rose into the clouds, and the ruins of New Richmond below were only small black spots.

In the end, they watched numbly from the high-altitude orbit that the Protoss fleet destroyed the Helioc III, until anger and grief poured down their throats like hot peppery oil. (end of this chapter)