Chapter 697, The Last Line of Defense, Battle of Rheaduches (XII)

If the extermination order has been transported to the ground by transport ships, then the difficulty of launching it from the ground is much simpler than passing through the layers of obstruction of biological ships and the interception of ground orbital firepower from space.

There is no need to launch it at all, just detonate it in an open-air environment, without the conditions for the Zerg to intercept it.

The estimated detonation time is one month later.

This month is naturally the time for the ground troops to evacuate.

The fact that the extermination order will be detonated has not been notified to the front-line troops. Only senior commanders such as Salisius, Martins, and Xi Rui know about it.

The purpose of concealing this situation is to avoid panic.

The human troops on the ground are all very brave warriors. However, if the one-month evacuation deadline is known, it will inevitably cause a lot of unnecessary chaos.

Avoid it if you can.

What's more, the Queen of the Zerg knows that a sky-burning torpedo has come down.

It is desperate, that's right. But it doesn't mean that the controller of this Zerg nest will give up struggling.

The interception in the sky failed, and destroying it on the ground became the last option.

There will definitely be a large number of insect swarms. When the human forces shrink and retreat to a certain extent, they will attack the location of the Burning Sky torpedo with all their strength and destroy it before it explodes.

At that time, there will definitely be a force on the ground to hold on for a short period of time during the final detonation.

This force... unfortunately, is the sacrifice.

Perhaps at the last moment, the Alliance Command will tell them the real situation.

Or maybe not.

But in short, they are one of the "prices" of detonating the Burning Sky torpedo.

If it must be paid, Gu Hang will make this decision calmly.

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The subsequent development of the situation is basically consistent with Gu Hang's plan, assumption, and prediction.

The evacuation plan of the ground forces was implemented relatively smoothly.

But at the same time, the insect swarm troops are also pressing step by step. As the human forces shrink, the insect swarm will immediately go to recover the lost ground.

By the 30th day, there were only about 20,000 human troops on the ground.

The defense line they held was a circle with a radius of about 15 kilometers.

The artillery position was in the middle, and there were many bunkers and firepower points in every direction around it. These were all built by the engineering troops driving engineering machinery and working overtime in the past month.

At this time, the last transport ship had also left.

Half of the 20,000 people were from the elite skeleton division of an alliance; the other half were from the infantry regiment with a glorious history of the Sun Legion. The order they received was to hold on in place and wait for the next transport ship to arrive. The center of the position was where the spacecraft landed.

Their troops were relatively small, and even if they had sufficient firepower, they would inevitably be overwhelmed by enemies ten or a hundred times their number.

However, the remaining troops continued to perform their duties with high morale and were determined to hold on until the last moment.

That moment came.

The spaceship they were looking forward to taking them away was nowhere to be seen, but the open space in the center of the position that had been reserved for the transport spaceship to land had a crack.

The gap was getting bigger and bigger, and a missile that seemed huge to humans and needed the largest transport ship to carry was slowly pushed up.

Ordinary soldiers and low-level officers might not recognize what it was. However, the senior generals from the Solar Legion and the Alliance Army who stayed behind would recognize it.

The moment they saw it, they understood what the top leaders of the coalition were planning. They were abandoned, and their mission was to stop the enemy's final attack with their lives. There was never a transport ship prepared for them, and they were destined to die here.

Faced with this situation, they made the same choice without any prior agreement: silence, everything went on as usual.

They faced one bad news after another on the battlefield with a normal heart, and listened to the loss of one front after another. When faced with the junior officers asking where the ship to take them away was when the time was up, they often only answered with "follow orders and stick to the end".

And the Burning Sky torpedo didn't even need to be completely launched from the temporary launch silo, the ignition program had already started.

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The ignition program started, but the Burning Sky Torpedo was not detonated.

Gu Hang knew clearly why: the Queen was still making her final struggle.

At the critical moment, she removed the suppression of the subspace shadow on the psychic power, and the two neuroprotozoa, separated by half a world, began to project psychic power.

It was this force that stopped the ignition program.

Gu Hang was not surprised.

It was normal for the Queen to fight desperately.

It was something that had been expected.

Temporarily lifting the subspace shadow would not only liberate the neuroprotozoa around the two Queens, but also Gu Hang.

In an instant, his psychic power also descended to the ground.

The Zerg psychic power that originally wanted to destroy the Burning Sky Torpedo was stopped by Gu Hang.

But the two neuroprotozoa did not retreat. They bit up madly and entangled with Gu Hang's psychic power.

Now, they are delaying time instead.

They tried to entangle Gu Hang and prevent him from using his psychic power to continue the ignition process.

As long as this goal can be achieved, it will be fine.

On the ground, the Zerg army is getting closer and closer, and the Bio-Titan has already appeared on the battlefield. The remaining small human forces can no longer be stopped. Given a little more time, they will be able to destroy the Burning Sky Torpedo from the ground and physically.

At that time, the subspace shadow can be blocked again.

By then, it doesn’t matter if the two neuroprotozoa have been torn apart by Gu Hang’s psychic power. They are also the price that the Queen of the Zerg can pay.

As for the next similar crisis, how will the Queen of the Zerg deal with it without the neuroprotozoa... That will have to happen next time. This time is over, not to mention the future.

What’s more, humans have already withdrawn from the ground. Later, she can fully repair, proliferate, and arrange many air defense nests to reoccupy this area. If humans want to repeat the same trick and occupy the ground, even if they can do it, it will take a long time.

If they hold on for half a year, they will be saved.

Seeing that the Queen of the Zerg’s last struggle is really about to succeed. Gu Hang completely suppressed the two neuroprotozoa and was in an absolute advantage, but the time he needed to deal with them was still faster than the time it took for the Zerg to overwhelm the human ground forces.

If this trend continues, the end result will probably be that the Bio-Titan physically destroys the Burning Sky Torpedo.

But at this moment, a roaring Thunder Bear, about the same size as the Bio-Titan, appeared on the ground battlefield and pounced on a Zerg Saint.

Then, one after another, giant bears appeared, accompanied by hundreds of thousands of azure heroic warriors, pouring out of the subspace cracks.

They became the last line of defense to intercept the Zerg!

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