StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 79 We have stepped into the dead zone

The Iron Justice is a behemoth-class battlecruiser of the Tyranid Federation. This [-]-foot-long steel giant ship has more than twenty sets of cannons and laser pulse cannons accelerated by magnetic coils, and laser dot arrays. Defensive turrets, powered by a massive Colossus reactor that powers the entire ship's life support and weapons systems.

These battleships, armed with thick steel armor and heavy cannons, are like mobile fortresses made of steel. In wartime, the Tyrannian Federation Fleet is the commander's general command center, and in peacetime, it is an extension of the federal government's display of its force. .

Augustus was wearing a black-gray power armor and walked on the corridor of Iron Justice from the crew cabin to the launch cabin, followed by the first squad of Heavenly Devils. Simple, functional shapes echo on the hallway walls.

"When we take down Meinhof, Kel-Morian will not be far from surrendering. It's October, and there are still two months left. We can go home by Christmas."

Jim Raynor said something completely unrelated to the landing mission on the comm channel of the first squad: "I really want to see my mother and father. I hope our heifer is not pregnant, Billy's husband Cows always have bad intentions."

"Jim, don't you know that reality often doesn't go your way?" Tychus said cursingly.

"We all know that Lady Luck is a whore, she only opens her crotch to her enemies."

"I have read the mission briefing carefully, and Meinhof is not undefended." Rundstein said on the communication channel: "And our commander is obviously only deploying troops based on outdated intelligence provided by spies. Things change quickly, and who knows if we'll land right in the middle of tens of thousands of heavily armed Kel-Morian Rippers."

"The generals are used to launching wars strictly according to their plans. I only hope that their battle plans are formulated after careful consideration and repeated revisions. If it is me."

"You're just a soldier, Alan De, wait until you become a general." Josephine said, "Even I can see that the higher-ups are not very interested in this 'broken rock in the universe', they want it It’s resources. We’re robbers, we’ll run away after grabbing things.”

"Who has seen my peanut butter, little Amy." Harnack asked in a low voice on the channel.

"You keep throwing things all over the place, last time I saw it was in your stinky socks." Amy Brandon complained: "I'm not your mother, sometimes I really doubt you Will you not be able to live without me?"

"I can't live without peanut butter." Harnack's voice sounded like he was going to die.

Amidst the complaints and chatter of his subordinates, Augustus turned into another more open corridor and entered the launch cabin full of ozone and engine oil smell.Ground crews in orange uniforms ran around the transport planes and landing craft parked on the mooring platform. Mechanics surrounded the damaged Avengers, the lights of their welding torches flickered.

A battalion of Marines was lining up to board four round-bellied landing craft, while ground crews in bright orange nylon caps were busy removing the cables that held the ships in place.

The Devils of Heaven have their own dropship, a recently completed APOD-46 dropship built at the Bennett Shipyard in Tarsonis.Augustus and his men spent more than a week repainting the transport ship, painting its black and gray hull with the hooded skull of the Demon of Heaven and a crimson cross.

More than 40 demons from heaven wanted to give the ship a unique name, but after a weekend of arguing without agreement, Augustus decided to call it the Imp.Harnack's Red Devil plan was ruthlessly rejected, and he doubted that if the Demon of Heaven had a larger battleship, Augustus would call it the Great Demon.

It didn't take long for Augustus's troops to board their transport ship, which was driven by a pilot named Jack, who used to fly supply barges between the space station and the ground for private airlines.Fick, the armor technician of the Devil of Heaven, did not follow them, but stayed on the center deck of the battleship with other workers to repair the damaged cables.

The little devil was quickly sent into deep space by the electromagnetic launcher of the launch bay. This spaceship built at the end of the Battle of Kailian has more functions than the old ones.Each seat has a data cable that can be plugged into the power armor, and the HUD display on the marines' mask can be directly connected to the spacecraft's detector.

Augustus's HUD display has six different image intervals, he can get the pilot's perspective, and he can also see the orange-red plume of the spacecraft's stern.Under the cover of Avengers and Wraith fighters, hundreds of transport ships and landing craft crashed into Meinhof's much thinner atmosphere than other colony planets.

When passing through the atmosphere, a layer of flames was attached to the shell of the little devil, and the plasma flames of the thrusters became more gorgeous. From Augustus' perspective, the spaceship seemed to have become a falling to the ground, bathed in flames. Phoenix.

More and more phoenixes are falling behind Augustus from the dark blue dome of Meinhof.

As the Imp descended to eight thousand feet, Augustus could see Kel-Morian's Cerberus swarming towards them like angry hornets.Initially there were only a few dozen, but this number has multiplied over time.

Fighters on both sides fired at the same time.

Out of the corner of Augustus' eye, a laser beam grazed the Imp's tail and hit an APOD-33 transport behind it, which immediately burst into flames.A large transport ship carrying a company of soldiers collides head-on with another Cerberus, leaving no one on board alive.

During the long time when the spacecraft was getting closer and closer to the ground, Augustus alone saw more than 20 landing ships were destroyed by machine guns, missiles, and even suicide attacks by Kel Morian fighter jets.But the little devil is lucky enough that the enemy hasn't targeted it yet.

When he was on the battlefield, Augustus had the feeling more than once that his life and death were not in his own control, it was entirely dependent on whether the enemy bullets and shells would suddenly fall on his head.

At this moment, Augustus couldn't do anything, and he missed the feeling of his feet still standing on the ground safely.

Just when Augustus could already see the dark brown mountains of Meinhof and the Kelmorian town with black spiers in the distance, a Kelmerian Cerberus followed them. Its missiles had already been exhausted. Shooting at the imp with two sets of air-to-air laser cannons on the nose.

In order to escape the pursuit, the pilot Jack deviated from the planned route and flew towards the mountains instead of the city of Ke Morian.On Augustus's HUD display, the constantly beating numbers showed that they were getting farther and farther away from the planned landing point, the New Apollowin Mine.

　half a pigeon...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)