Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 203 Defensive Counterattack
On the battlefield of planet No. [-], the mechanical army could not attack for a long time.

This is not because they are not strong enough. In fact, the only three satellites are almost riddled with holes by both sides.

But no matter how well they do, as long as there is room to survive, Zerg units will emerge from there and attack them fearlessly.

The other party cannot establish a base here, so naturally there is no long-term supply of resources, because the Zerg from the deep underground will appear and destroy it at any time.

During this process, Visser went through many tests and finally confirmed that "it" was not here.

It is worth mentioning that during the test, Visser found that the opponent's overall offensive strategy would have a delay of about three hours.

This point is actually very not obvious, because the opponent did not make any minor adjustments to the battle situation. If it was not realized before, Viser would never notice this.

"It" doesn't directly control the entire battle situation in real time, but it does fine-tune the continent here all the time, so that the whole situation will not go in an unknown direction due to the rigidity of the program.

But it was this small continuous change that Viser, who was focused on it, clearly captured.

This is the case with many things. When you know nothing, it is difficult to detect. Once you have a focus and observe in a targeted manner, those clues will not escape no matter how small they are.

This has also become one of the bases for Visser to finally judge that "it" is not here, because it takes about three hours for the electromagnetic waves to go back and forth from here to the current position of planet No. [-]!

The other party is still communicating frequently, but limited by the long distance, "it" can only delay for about three hours, and make minor adjustments to the battle situation on the sixth planet.

The discovery of this also allowed Viser to further determine where "it" is now.

There is a high probability that it is the No. [-] planetary system!
In addition, judging from the distance, there is a slight possibility of some asteroids on the edge of the galaxy, but Viser doesn't think the other party will be there.

Of course, "it" is not a dead thing, and it doesn't make sense to determine its location at this time. The swarm has no ability to go there to destroy the opponent. On the contrary, Viser has to worry that the opponent's support will cause trouble to the dwarf planet occupied by his side.

Regarding the development of this dwarf planet, Mira has already done a lot of work with its mechanical army before. A large number of minerals in the stratum have been proven and even mined. Therefore, what the Zerg took over is a relatively mature planet. Although the reserves of mined planets have declined, they are still rich in substances.

The Zerg fleet is recovering its combat power as quickly as possible. If the bugs that were killed by the opponent's defense force during the attack can be found and have recycling value, they will all be rebuilt.

Even the huge army of robots on the surface, as well as the countless factory production lines, have all become food for the swarm in the shortest possible time.

This time, the Zerg had to defend this place, because if they left again, they would have nowhere to go with their current strength. These Zerg forces couldn't stand a big battle, so they had to be resupplied here.

At this moment, "it" is still "remotely controlling" the battlefield in the orbit of planet No. [-] from the No. [-] planetary system, and according to the time calculation, if the other party has support, it should have set off long ago.

That is, "it" didn't come with the likely arrival of the fleet.

So even if the opponent's strength is extremely strong, the Zerg's defensive position can be arranged in advance, and they have mastered the opponent's weaknesses, so they are not without the power to fight.

The war on planet [-] is in full swing, and the flames of war never stop. Although the swarm fights back and forth with the opponent on the surface with the help of geographical advantages, and sometimes even has an advantage for a while, but at the moment when the opponent has absolute "air supremacy", want to It is very difficult to drive the other party out of here.

The atmosphere here in the asteroid belt is also tense. The Zerg are nervously waiting for the reinforcements from the other side, and at the same time their own combat power is also recovering rapidly.

Two months later, the Zerg detectors in the deep space discovered the shadow of the opponent's fleet. The number was basically the same as before the Zerg War, and it was about 1.2 times that of the Zerg after the war and recovery.

Under normal circumstances, if we only compare the combat power on paper, the combat power of the swarm is obviously weaker than that of the opponent. Given the numerical advantage, the opponent obviously has a greater chance of winning.

However, during this period of time, in addition to restoring space combat power, Viser also made many arrangements near this small planet.

In addition to space mines and biological torpedoes in the conventional sense, there are also some orbital weapons that can threaten the opponent's warships, that is, existences similar to mobile turrets, which can release almost unlimited firepower in a short time relying on the supply of resources on the surface. unit.

In addition to its slow movement speed, it can almost be said to be the Zerg species that can cause the largest damage to the enemy in a short period of time except for nuclear weapons.

But they will not be used at the very beginning, they will be hidden and exist as an important force that can control the situation of the battle.

Viser intends to use them to cause fatal damage to the opponent's possible "command ship"!
And before that, the Swarm needs to find them in battle.

If the opponent is smart enough, then these "command ships" will definitely be hidden in the fleet. As for how to distinguish them, it is another problem.

The Zerg can be regarded as a fixed target here, and its strength relative to the opponent is not enough to disperse the execution of tactics, so it can only stick to it.

Viser will have a head-to-head decisive battle with the opponent here. If he wins, the Zerg will open up the situation. If he loses, he will completely lose his foothold in this galaxy and can only go into exile in the corner.

When the enemy fleet revealed its metallic sheen from the darkness of deep space in the sight of the Zerg planet defense probes, the war had already begun.

The first to attack is the torrent of bullets and miniature missiles from both sides. This kind of worthless weapon is launched from millions of kilometers away. As the distance between the two sides approaches, it will take tens of minutes to arrive.

The swarm relied on the planet's defense to avoid this round of damage to the greatest extent. Apart from a round of bombing on the surface, they did not suffer much loss.

However, this round of attacks by the other party was not fruitless, and most of the Zerg space mines lying in front of them were cleared by them.

The attack of the swarm had a certain effect. Looking from the surface of the dwarf planet, bright fires lit up in the starry sky. It was the micro blasters of the zerg carrying stars and chemical energy that were doing their work.

In this tentative confrontation, the results of both sides are very limited.The opponent's short-range laser weapon, based on precise calculations, intercepted most of the threatening blasters out of the attack range, and only a very small number of them hit the target.

And after this round of blows is completed, the distance between the two sides is already close at hand.

The most tragic short-range attack and close combat began here, steel and flesh danced together, fire and stars competed for glory.

Huge worms died in the explosion, and some starry space behemoths made of steel became pieces of space junk.

Viser was directing the swarm to fight, and was also quietly observing every move on the battlefield.

The warships of the two sides criss-crossed, numerous in number, and each had their own division of labor, lying in the boundless deep space, boundless.

To grasp the overall situation in such a vast space, sufficient intelligence support is required, and a huge amount of information needs to be processed.

The former, Viser, had been prepared for a long time, and before the opponent arrived, he sprinkled a large number of observers in the surrounding interstellar medium. Their goal was not to hinder the opponent's progress, but to swim around the battlefield, paying close attention to the people on the battlefield. Every move.

As for the latter, the will of the hive will help Viser to complete statistics and calculations, which is the authority of the brain worms and comes from Zero's instruction.

The war continued in space, and even with prior arrangements and continuous support from the surface, the Zerg would inevitably fall into a disadvantage.

From this point of view, the opponent's calculations are very accurate. With their power, they can indeed wipe out the main force of the Zerg space, and then trap them on the planet for siege, just like on planet No. [-].

It's just that this time is different, because the swarm has already understood their attack mode, and also knows what kind of fatal weakness exists in this seemingly huge fleet.

The opponent's attack seemed to be well-organized, precise and sharp, but in Viser's eyes, it clearly revealed an imperceptible stiffness!
And at this moment, while the two sides are fighting fiercely at close range, it is looking for a target in this sense of stiffness.

While fighting, many Zerg units are also preparing, preparing to cause heavy damage to the opponent in one fell swoop when the fleeting fighter comes, and they will not hesitate to pay a heavy price for this!

Finally, with the passage of time, Visser noticed a sense of familiar disobedience in this chaotic battlefield through a little bit of analysis and observation.

——With the help of the will of the hive, Viser marked the units on the battlefield that might be the opponent's "command ship".

With the current size of the two sides, even in space, the scale of the battlefield is quite large.

This small dwarf planet has endured the intensity of the war that it should not have endured. The two sides have accumulated hundreds of thousands of space combat units, and they are engaged in a fierce fighting game around it.

In the open space, on the battlefield of millions of miles across, even electromagnetic wave communication cannot be completed in an instant.

In this short second, Viser, who was fully focused, keenly found the key point through the changes of the enemy on the battlefield!
The next moment, the giant space beast that had been secretly hiding in the dark let out a silent roar!

At the same time, all the fighting swarms launched an attack on the nearest target regardless of the cost!
The Zerg, who had always been obsessed with moderate defense, suddenly launched an explosive attack, which caught the mechanical warships commanded by these intelligent programs off guard.

Of course, they will not be caught off guard, they just follow the instructions one after another.

Even at this moment, their behavior is still orderly, as if the sudden change of the swarm has no effect.

——They are just doing what they should do according to the program.

But this time, the swarm's target was clear, and the attack was unprecedentedly resolute. Together with the space turret hidden in the dark and waiting for a long time, at the same time, endless attacks of all kinds surged towards the command ships hidden among the many battleships. !

Viser didn't know if the other party had a plan for all command units to be attacked at the same time, but at this moment, even if there was, it would be difficult for them to stop the swarm.

Because this is an attack that the Zerg have planned for a long time, on today's canine-toothed battlefield, they cannot escape!
Even in the vast cosmic medium, this attack of the swarm is still sharp.

Not long after, a burst of flames suddenly appeared, and the extremely redundant attack total covered all escape routes. Even if they were much stronger than the insect swarm in terms of short-range defense, some fish would slip through the net eventually.

And once hit, there is no reason for it.

For this attack, Viser planned it meticulously, so there was no reason for him to miss it.

All suspicious units in the will mark of the worm nest were devastated. For this reason, the zerg paid more than [-]% of the total casualties!
But it is all worth it, because in the next moment, these losses are recovered.

——Due to the massive loss of the command ship, there was a fleeting pause in the opponent's offensive, which was fatal.

Apparently, the will of the hive did not completely mark all the command ships of the opponent, or in other words, there is some redundancy in the centers hidden in the fleet group, and the loss of command due to the inertia of space navigation caused chaos in less than half a minute. These mechanical warships became orderly again.

But even if it was only half a minute, the two sides were close to hand-to-hand combat, and it was enough for the Zerg to cause a lot of damage to them.

Even some battleships on the edge of the battlefield, because a large number of command ships were destroyed at the same time, couldn't get orders for a long time, and slammed into the asteroid.

In this long-planned Zerg plan, the Zerg swarm lost about [-]% of their troops, while the opponent, through deliberate calculations and unintentional calculations, lost more than [-]% of the battle!
Coupled with the losses since the start of the war, the swarm already has an advantage in terms of numbers, not to mention the fact that the only remaining command ships of the opponent are insufficient, even if they are in the center of the battlefield, it is difficult to command the warships on the edge. , there will be at least a moment of delay, and in this level of close combat, it is enough to be destroyed by the swarm in a blink of an eye!

It can be said that from this moment on, the Zerg has already established a victory in this war.

The other party will come to attack later, and the swarm will have at least four months to develop. By then, "it" will not only have to face this number of swarms.

Viser can be sure that at this moment, the electromagnetic wave signal representing the latest changes on the battlefield must be transmitted to the interior of the galaxy, which will make "it" know everything the swarm has done in this war.

In other words, it is impossible for Viser to use the same tactic twice, and when the next war begins, the opponent will inevitably make preparations against it.

Yes, the research on large-scale electromagnetic interference insect species is still in progress in Dagos, and cannot be applied in this war.

Otherwise, the war would be simpler.

Today, in the Ori galaxy located in the Zerg base camp, Sass is also working hard for this.

So far, the means of communication used by the other party have almost entirely relied on electromagnetic waves. The micro-satellites that spread throughout the space of the galaxy before existed for the purpose of information transfer. "Meet" in deep space.

In this invisible battlefield, the Zerg has the upper hand, and the opponent has no ability to resist, and will be destroyed by the Zerg.

But there are too many of them. Just like the Zerg at the beginning, a steady stream of micro-satellites were released from various planets. However, after the Zerg lost the "air supremacy" of planet No. The released batch has been newly added.

Therefore, in today's planetary system, Zerg explorers are being cleared in large numbers, while the number of micro-satellites of the other party continues to increase.

In this regard, the swarm has no way to hinder it.

The research that Sass and Dagos are doing now is how to find ways to isolate the transmission of electromagnetic signals from the other side during the battle.

If this can be achieved, even if the opponent equips all combat units with intelligent programs to avoid the recurrence of this failure, they will surely fall into the dilemma of fighting on their own in the war, losing unified command, and their The threat level will be greatly reduced!
Visser didn't know how "it" commanded the war machines produced under his command, but since the long-distance communication hadn't been born yet, it was nothing more than those several forms, and it had to be classified in the "Bo" category. In the class, there will never be a wire transfer.

Therefore, doing everything possible to destroy the opponent's command system is Viser's main idea of ​​winning this war.

Presumably, the other party who is a smart machine should also be aware of this, but Zero is very curious, what can it do?

It is true that wide-area electromagnetic interference is very difficult even for swarms to achieve, especially in today's era of "scarce supplies", but even if it is only used on a small scale on the battlefield, it is enough for the opponent to drink a pot that's it.

In fact, it is equivalent to the Zerg command system of long-distance communication. Through the will of the hive as a medium, the brain worms can command the battle in real time anywhere the swarm exists!
This is the biggest advantage of the Zerg over the opponent in this war, and so far they have not received any obvious interference, even if they are separated by a long distance of several galaxies, there has not been the slightest attenuation.

It is true that in a frontal collision, today's Zerg is far from being an opponent. They are much stronger than the Zerg in terms of armor and attack methods.

Especially at the moment when the enemy occupies most of the planets in the galaxy, the swarm is not even at the same level as the opponent in terms of production capacity and quantity that they are proud of.

But this does not mean that the enemy is invincible,
Maximizing strengths and avoiding weaknesses, making full use of one's own advantages, defeating this mechanical civilization that the Zergs have no specific information about since its appearance, but actively launched attacks on the Zergs after encountering each other, is Viser's biggest obsession today!

When the bug swarm was attacked, it felt a little confused.It's no wonder that it is the third brain worm of the Zerg. Since its birth, the Zerg has been expanding at a rapid rate, and it has led the Zerg through hundreds of years in the days of calm development!

It's just that the incident at the beginning still made him deeply ashamed.Although it is just a worm, brain worms naturally have higher intelligence than intelligent races. As a healthy life, it also has emotions, but for a long time, the peaceful life will make its emotions fluctuate. It has become much less.

But this time, it really felt the anger!Under its command, the Zerg lost all their power in space. Although there were a few partial victories later, the Zerg was still at a disadvantage overall.

Now that I have found the opponent's weakness, it is really me, Visser, who will not take revenge and swear not to be a bug!
(End of this chapter)