Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 17 Battle of Barnard

Qin Xu was the first to bear the brunt, fighting directly towards the exit against the wave of deformed monsters.

When the deformed monsters saw Qin Xu rushing toward them, they backed away crazily as if they were seeing some great being.

Every time they retreated, they only got Qin Xu's bullets, and the other party didn't care and always maintained a certain safety limit with Qin Xu.

However, Qin Xu soon understood why the other party was so afraid of him.

A deformed monster that was crowded with people and had no time to retreat was approached by Qin Xu. Before Qin Xu could make a move, the deformed monster let out a soul-rending cry.

Then, before Qin Xu had a chance to look at him, he turned into a ball of smoke and completely dissipated.

It seems that some kind of existence is absorbing energy from the outside world using itself as a medium.

These things, which were shown as dead objects on the life detector, were replaced by some kind of energy and entered Qin Xu's body the moment they approached Qin Xu.

And he himself cannot intercept even a trace of this energy, and even if he is forced to keep it, he will not be able to use it.

To be honest, after realizing this, not only did they not want to get close to Qin Xu, Qin Xu himself also didn't want to get close to them.

Who knows what the guy behind him is doing with all this energy.

But he had to protect the safety of hundreds of people around him. If the situation was critical, he could only let the other party smoke a few more times. He just hoped that this little thing would not cause too big changes.

Qin Xu was like a bright light in a completely dark world, always blocking the darkness within a certain range around him.

Under the protection of the bright lamp, everyone finally crawled out of the long-dark abyss and saw the light of day again.

It was only at this time that everyone truly realized the seriousness of the matter.

When I rushed out of the underground ruins, I looked around and saw that the entire surface of the planet was densely covered with all kinds of deformed monsters.

If nothing unexpected happens, this should be the half of the population of this ideal city that was wiped out when the gods came to the world.

"Rumble..."

The orbital bombardment of frigates continues in the outer space of the planet.

They don't even need to aim, they can kill countless deformed monsters by just firing at any place.

The people on the frigate were all prepared to sacrifice all the people below. Suddenly they saw a large number of people rushing out of the underground ruins, and everyone was frightened.

Besides, there are so many deformed monsters on the ground. They originally emerged from the underground. How can the number underground be reduced?
But it is always good when people come out. The captain immediately opened the communication with the headquarters, "The Forgotten Galaxy needs a lot of army support, the Forgot Galaxy needs a lot of army support!"

"Army? Are we still using the Army in this scene?"

The person on the other end of the communication had obviously seen the picture they sent back.Therefore, when they called for support before, the space army was already on the way.

It would be useless for the army to attack such a large number of enemies. The fleet must be used to conduct non-stop orbital bombardment of the entire planet.

As for how long it will take to blow up all the monsters on the planet through this method, I don't know.

"Immediately, send out all the army immediately, don't let me repeat it a second time!"

The frigate fleet commander yelled very angrily, and immediately hung up the communication, allowing all the ship's turrets to conduct orbital bombing without interruption.

Kill as many people as you can, and if you can reduce the pressure on those below, it will reduce the pressure by one point.

The situation of the people below is still very dangerous. Every time the army's support is delayed, the risk of the people below being annihilated increases.

Under the leadership of Qin Xu, everyone struggled to occupy the favorable terrain.

Although there are still many monsters, there is no need to defend in six directions in the underground ruins, and the pressure suddenly feels much lighter.

The main thing is that Qin Xu circles around them alone. Once the defense line is about to be breached, Qin Xu will stand there and the defense line will be stable immediately.

Despite this, casualties are still unavoidable. There are nearly 1000 people here. Qin Xu has no skills at all. He will give up decisively if he can't save them.

Not long after, the United Nations Army's transport ship finally arrived in the outer space of the lost planet.

"Wow wow wow..."

The sky full of J-25s came directly from outer space and broke through the atmosphere.

Incendiary bombs were thrown down one after another as if they were free of charge, quickly burning a belt of flames around Qin Xu and others.

The flame belt crackled and burned the deformed monsters within the range, but it only blocked it slightly at first. After the monsters found that they could not be burned, they continued to rush forward despite the flames.

Fortunately, these monsters couldn't fly. One after another, armed helicopters hovered in positions where the monsters seemed to be able to reach but not reach them when they jumped, pouring ammunition crazily.

Finally, rope ladders were lowered one after another from transport helicopters, and after a long time all survivors were finally taken out of this dangerous planet.

"We need a bandage here!"

"After losing the bottle, who will replace it?"

"Hold it, it will be fine soon..."

……

The army transport ship hovering in the outer space of the lost planet was filled with people.

Nurses, wounded, doctors, and soldiers came and went. Everyone was so busy that there seemed to be endless things to do.

"What's the condition of this wounded man?"

A doctor passed by Hu Yiyi's simple hospital bed and took a look at Hu Yiyi. He didn't look like he was seriously injured.

But after a simple diagnosis, he was indeed in a coma.

"She's fine, she just fainted from shock."

Yu Minghai said with some embarrassment.He was currently on an intravenous drip and was scratched on his arm, but after treatment, it was confirmed that there was no risk of infection.

The doctor nodded and stopped wasting time with Hu Yiyi. She still had countless patients to see.

This time everyone rushed out of the ruins with some success, but luckily there were still more than 600 people here.

This is really an incredible number. Judging from the situation at the time, many people had already given up resistance. It is simply unimaginable that so many people can still run out now.

But it's not that unimaginable.

When he thought of Qin Xu going against the flow of people and jumping into the tide of deformed monsters with almost no heads visible, that figure appeared in Yu Minghai's mind again.

That figure that has reminded him countless times in the past ten years.

Inside the frigate, the sirens kept sounding and the red lights flashing.

Yu Minghe pushed Yu Minghai, who was so frightened that his legs trembled and his face turned pale, into the rescue capsule that could only accommodate one person.

"Those bastards of racial germophiles, brother, don't worry, I will definitely kill them back. Even if I can't, I will earn one by killing two, and earn a pair by killing three!"

The bullet was pressed into the pistol. Yu Minghe didn't look at Yu Minghai. He turned around and walked towards the aisle of the ship despite the red alert.

On the other hand, Yu Minghai hid in the escape pod timidly, and pressed the launch button of the escape pod without any hesitation.

However, at the moment when the escape capsule was launched, Yu Minghai saw the whole process through the glass.

Yu Minghe rushed out and collided with the oncoming enemy.

"boom."

The small pistol hit the heavily armored opponent without even bleeding.

"boom!"

The other party fired a shot, and a blood flower burst out from Yu Minghe's chest and he fell to the ground.

Then the alien with the bird's head stepped forward and crushed Yu Minghe's head with his claws.

The next second, the escape capsule was launched. At the end, Yu Minghai only saw the birdman sneer in the direction of the escape capsule, then spit on the corpse on the ground and turn around to leave.

For a moment, Yu Minghai's mind went blank. He frantically slapped the glass of the escape capsule that had been launched.

But all this is in vain.

Looking at the battleship gradually becoming silent amid the fire and explosion, Yu Minghai felt extremely tormented in his heart.

This was the first time that Yu Minghai knew that he was a coward, and it was also the first time that he hated himself so much for being a coward.

In people's eyes, a genius student is a loser who can't even hold a gun in close combat and doesn't have the courage to fight back.

Countless nights, Yu Minghai was awakened by the scene that day and saw the sneering and mocking face of the birdman.

He saw the other party, and the other party also saw him at that time.

The birdman spat at Yu Minghe, whose head had exploded, just to show Yu Minghai in the escape cabin.

Time and time again, in dreams, mirrors, and in Yu Minghai's life, that birdman's face has always been his lingering nightmare.

And his brother Yu Minghe's behavior of rushing back upstream after leaving him behind was undoubtedly an act of suicide.

But I have to say that if Yu Minghe hadn't been entangled with the other party for a while, Yu Minghai's escape pod would have been blown up by the other party.

When the back figure swimming against the current appears again.

When Qin Xu committed suicide again like Yu Minghe.

This time, Yu Minghai finally made a different choice.

The Battle of Barnard was the worst defeat the Earth had ever suffered since the founding of the United Nations, and it was also the first time it encountered a boarding battle between interstellar warships.

The enemy fleet instantly appeared in the fleet group of our own fleet through the hyperspace channel.

At this moment, the two sides are basically face to face. In this case, whoever fires first has a huge advantage.

It should be so.

However, during this battle, the United Nations of Earth discovered two problems of its own.

The first is that he did not choose to fire immediately when he saw the enemy appear. Instead, he chose to continuously send communications to try to contact the other party, and after the other party refused to reply, there was still no action.

The enemy fleet had just flashed into this galaxy through the hyperspace channel, which was originally the most vulnerable time. However, because of hesitation and underestimation of the enemy, they did not choose to open fire at the first time, which resulted in a disastrous failure.

The second problem is caused by insufficient experience in space warfare.

In this face-to-face situation, although the small and medium laser cannons and mass projectile cannons in the S slot and the M slot can hit accurately.

But all the large forts were unable to be aimed and locked.

On the one hand, it's because the distance is too close, and on the other hand, it's because the tracking speed of the rotation is not enough.

When the opponent is very far apart, the main gun only needs to turn a slight angle to catch up if the opponent moves a long distance.

In a face-to-face situation, if the opponent's ship moves a certain distance, the main gun will track it very quickly.

Normally heavy turrets do not have such tracking capabilities.

This resulted in the large turrets on both sides basically being unable to function in a face-to-face battle, leaving only various small turrets with full output.

(End of this chapter)