Chapter 355 The Second Attack

After nearly a week of breeding, the hive regained its strength.

This was also true in the mechanical clan's logistics area.

It could even be said that the Zerg breeding speed in this logistics area was much faster than that of the Zerg covered by the black fog prosthesis, and the number of Zerg bred was much greater than that of the black fog Zerg.

Although the mechanical clan had long anticipated the outbreak of the Zerg plague near the logistics star field, they had also prepared an alarm system on any planet that had the possibility of Zerg contact.

But when the alarm sounded at the same time in almost every planet in every galaxy in this area, the meaning of the alarm was almost non-existent.

Thousands to tens of thousands of Zerg cruisers took off on each planet.

Although it didn't seem like much.

But just think back and think about the number of Zerg cruisers produced by the hive in less than a week, not the number of ordinary Zerg.

And when the number of hives was expanded from one planet to hundreds of planets.

Then the number of Zerg fleets assembled in the end would be even higher than the last attack made by Chen Ming.

This is not a question of whether there are more or less, but whether the Zerg fleet can directly confront the entire star field of the Mechanical Clan with the main battleships after the number is added up.

Of course, Chen Ming will not do this.

He still likes to keep a hand in things that he is not absolutely sure of, and this time is no exception.

He did not completely transform the Zerg nests on each planet into Zerg cruisers.

The Zerg nests are still breeding on the planets. As long as they are not destroyed, they can continue to provide him with a steady stream of Zerg fleets in the future.

And millions of Zerg cruisers have appeared in a large area, threatening the rear of the Mechanical Clan at all times.

The Mechanical Clan reacted very quickly.

All the colonies in the nearby galaxies that belong to the Mechanical Clan and are responsible for material mining, alloy smelting, parts production, etc., all ended production at a very fast speed at the same time as the alarm was issued.

Relying on the transfer means that have been prepared long ago, including various transportation channels and transport ships, they took away most of the resources that have been produced on the planet.

At the same time, these mechanical tribes also directly deployed a large number of self-destruction devices on the colony, and then destroyed the original colonial buildings and factories, leaving no complete equipment for Chen Ming.

They chose to completely abandon the planet occupied by the Zerg.

In order to prevent Chen Ming from taking over the complete colony easily without any pressure, they chose to self-destruct.

However, this time they were not like last time, the Destroyer mothership did not come to send the planet to the west.

It may also be because the mechanical tribe knew that destroying the planet was not meaningful after the Zerg had developed from multiple planets.

After destroying one planet, the Zerg still had hundreds of planets to cultivate insect eggs.

Even if the Destroyer could really destroy hundreds of planets, they could not determine how many Zerg planets there were in the entire universe, or even if it was reduced to the vicinity of their star field.

So for them, it was enough to disgust Chen Ming a little without doing too much.

While the mechanical tribe was dealing with their own resources, they assembled the fleet at the first time.

Starting from the direction of other star systems in the logistics area that had not yet been occupied by Chen Ming's Zerg, they attacked the Zerg fleets that had just emerged from the planets and gathered in the star system where the Zerg nest planet was located, and had not yet assembled.

The mechanical race killed several fleets that emerged from different planets at the fastest speed.

But what they did was only a drop in the bucket compared to what Chen Ming did.

They could not produce cruisers like Chen Ming did, just like digging cruisers out of the ground.

If the reinforcements that have not yet appeared are not counted, the mechanical race has only about 40,000 cruisers in total.

In Chen Ming's last attack, they had already lost nearly half of them, and even the destroyers had lost one-third. Only the frigates were intact because they generally did not participate in large-scale battles with high-level ships.

But destroyers and escorts are almost meaningless when fighting against Zerg.

Only the number of cruisers is

In short, under such circumstances.

The existing strength of the mechanical race can only cause enough damage to Chen Ming's Zerg fleet under the leadership of the mothership, otherwise it is not even as good as those Zerg cruiser fleets that grew out of the ground.

So far, there are eight motherships of the mechanical race.

One of them was attacked by the Zerg fleet at the earliest time.

Three of them were sent to the Black Mist Zerg in the last war.

There is still a Destroyer still in the star system where the star gate is located, and no further action has been taken.

In addition, there are three Zerg motherships that just appeared today to deal with the logistics star field.

A total of eight.

Perhaps one mothership that was killed by Lu Bai on the way to the Empire can also be counted.

This total is very close to the ten motherships that Chen Ming had previously speculated.

But Chen Ming felt that there should be more, because the reinforcements of the mechanical race have not appeared yet.

Putting aside the Destroyer mothership, the other motherships can actually allow Chen Ming to make some moves.

But he still wants to wait a little longer, because he feels that the Destroyer is the truly valuable existence.

To put it bluntly.

If he wants now, he can get a mothership from the Empire at a little cost, or even get other types of capital ships from the Empire.

So he doesn't want to stop there.

He wanted more.

He would not hesitate to lose as much as possible.

Whether it was the Destroyer or the Stargate.

Moreover, if he had not insisted on using cruisers and motherships to fight, he could even use many different methods to pull the Mechanic race.

The Mechanic race could at most take advantage of his initial surprise attack to destroy one or two Zerg fleets, and their motherships would not be able to see a Zerg warship later.

But fighting hard also has its benefits.

At least all the motherships used by the Mechanic race now, except for the Destroyer mothership, have been stained with Zerg blood and flesh.

The Zerg's fearless fighting style can easily get close enough to splash blood and flesh on the armor of the Mechanic race's warships.

As long as Chen Ming wants, he can do more.

And these are just appetizers.

The main course has not yet officially started.

After the Mechanic race launched a round of counterattacks near the logistics area.

Their jump system will be temporarily unavailable.

Chen Ming's Zerg fleet quickly assembled in a star system inside the mechanical star field.

At present, Chen Ming has locked the movements of several motherships of the mechanical family, and knows that the Destroyer is still inside the star system where the star gate is located.

So in order to achieve his goal, he must first attract the Destroyer mothership.

All Zerg fleets assembled and redistributed into eight Zerg fleets.

Each fleet has more than 500,000 cruisers, with a total of more than 4 million.

This number can crush any fleet.

But considering the existence of the Destroyer, which has a large-scale attack method, and the density of the fleet when the number exceeds a certain level.

Chen Ming still chose to divide his troops and use the most reliable means to deal with the next matter.

The eight fleets that were divided alone already have the scale of all Zerg forces that Chen Ming took the initiative to launch last time, enough to destroy any mechanical colony.

This time, with such power.

Chen Ming no longer needs to consider anything else except the Destroyer.

He only has one thing to do.

Randomly select a few lucky colonies of the mechanical race, drive the fleet to the face of the colony, and attract the destroyer mothership to dispatch.

However, Chen Ming still does not know where the mechanical race's reinforcements are.

He must be prepared for this.

If the external reinforcements are similar to the destroyer, it is also possible to cause terrible damage to his Zerg fleet in a short period of time.

After the Zerg fleet regrouped.

A huge jump began.

The eight fleets each locked onto a galaxy inside the logistics area of ​​the mechanical race and began to jump.

This time Chen Ming's goal is not to seize the technology of the mechanical race. He has obtained enough technology from the mechanical colony he seized before.

Continuing to seize colonies only shortens the time for his mechanical race to develop.

And for a bigger goal, he can accept some necessary losses.

Moreover, although doing so will lose the colony of the mechanical race, it will also obtain a new Zerg nest planet.

It's not a big loss.

And at the same time as Chen Ming's fleet was jumping.

The mechanical race also detected those jump fluctuations.

They will definitely respond immediately.

The logistics star field is destroyed, and their front line will definitely be pushed all the way.

The mechanical race itself was destroyed by Chen Ming, and the star field defense force that could last for a few years can only last less than half of the time before the empire.

This is what Bai Quan answered personally when Chen Ming asked Bai Quan how long the mechanical race could last if the mechanical race lost half of its logistics support.

And if the logistics area located in the resource-rich nebula area is completely destroyed.

The mechanical race will completely lose the source of some important materials and the source of most basic materials.

They may even be unable to launch a final dying counterattack against the empire.

Therefore, the mechanical race soon couldn't sit still.

Chen Ming's remaining reconnaissance means at the edge of the star gate galaxy where the mothership was resting soon captured the star gate being activated and the signs of mothership activity inside the galaxy.

However, the signs of the mothership's activity soon disappeared.

Chen Ming knew that this was the mechanical race sending the mothership into the phase space again.

Rely on the power of phase space to suppress the normal universe to prevent the Zerg from causing damage to the mothership from the normal universe environment.

Let this mothership focus on output without having to worry about being attacked.

Even after leaving the port, this destroyer mothership showed no signs of gathering the escort fleet, and it directly started the jump.

Anyway, the escort fleet was killed by the Zerg fleet in the end, so there was no need to waste it on fighting the Zerg.

The jump fluctuations of the destroyer mothership soon appeared on the face of a Zerg fleet closest to the Stargate System.

Although the Zerg fleet here could not see the whereabouts of the mothership, Chen Ming could see the mothership that suddenly appeared in the phase space here.

The light of energy dissipation on its spine cannon destroyer seemed to be magnified to the limit and completely dissipated in the next moment.

Destruction was released.

Chen Ming has tried his best to arrange the queen worms as loosely as possible, but it is still difficult to disperse them completely with this number.

At the moment of destruction, more than 500,000 Zerg cruisers seemed to be bitten by an invisible giant mouth, and a quarter of them melted in an instant.

The remaining Zerg cruisers scattered in a hurry, but still took the opportunity to concentrate fire and destroy the colonies in the galaxy.

In an instant, hundreds of thousands of cruisers without the protection of other battleships were destroyed. This can be said to be a dimensionality reduction attack for any battleship of the same level.

According to Chen Ming, the empire currently has no motherships and main weapons that can do this.

Although there are problems such as the Zerg fleet has no shield and cannot use the shield to block psychic fluctuations, and is specifically restrained by the destroyer, and because of the large number, the fleet formation is too dense in order to activate the colony.

But it is enough to show the horror of the destroyer.

But this degree is not enough for Chen Ming.

He only destroyed a quarter of the fleet in his hand.

He still has seven fleets of the same size.

At the moment when the destroyer was dispatched, the seven fleets scattered in different galaxies also jumped together at the same time.

Jumped to the star gate system that the Destroyer had just left.

This time Chen Ming did not intend to go through too many twists and turns with the mechanical race.

He only pursued one word.

Efficiency.

The jump fluctuations of millions of warships reverberated throughout the star gate system.

The remaining jump traces almost completely disrupted the space in the entire system.

Chen Ming suddenly discovered that the movement of the Zerg fleet unexpectedly interfered with the jump engines of all ships in the system.

It was as if this was originally an ocean.

When the wind was calm, the warships could float on it, and even use the force to jump on the ocean and jump.

But when this ocean was turbulent, let alone jump, it would be good if there was no problem with their own system.

Such a huge aftermath would take at least half an hour to dissipate.

During this half hour, although the Zerg fleet could not use the biomass jump engine to retreat.

But the mechanical fleet had the same problem, and their reinforcements could not arrive through jump.

Their only way to get reinforcements was within the star gate that Chen Ming was targeting.

At this moment.

All the Zerg warships rushed towards the star gate in the galaxy like mad dogs.

Just as Chen Ming's Zerg fleet ran to the star gate galaxy.

His Black Mist Zerg fleet controlled by the Black Mist prosthesis also broke out in battle with the fleet of the Mechanical Clan's border star field.

The main body of the Black Mist Zerg fleet was outside the Mechanical Clan galaxy and had not been cleaned by the Destroyer before. The Destroyer had mainly taken care of the logistics galaxy before.

Therefore, when the Black Mist Zerg fleet assembled, the scale was almost the same as the Zerg fleet assembled in the logistics star field.

A Zerg nest can produce tens of thousands of cruisers a week, and hundreds of planets are parasitized, which means millions of Zerg cruisers.

If it weren't for the fact that the Zerg in the logistics area could rely on the large amount of resources on the planet to develop rapidly, Chen Ming even felt that there would be more Black Mist Zerg this time.

The large number of Zerg is not a bad thing.

And the Black Mist Zerg fleet is in order to meet the character setting that Chen Ming gave to the Black Mist prosthesis at the beginning.

After gathering together, they continued to move towards the direction of the Empire. On their way, there happened to be several mechanical star systems.

The mechanical race and the black fog Zerg fleet collided again.

The last time the mechanical race had three motherships and a large number of matching mid- and low-level spacecrafts, and this time they also had them.

But this time, after the Zerg had undergone an important evolution of the queen and mastered the manufacturing method of new biological buildings, they had a more terrifying breeding rate and a larger Zerg fleet than before.

The black fog Zerg warships can do much more than before.

And in terms of combat effectiveness, these Zerg fleets that were specially cared for by Chen Ming and shrouded in a large amount of black fog are more powerful than ordinary Zerg fleets.

All the warships except the motherships in several star systems on the border of the mechanical race were destroyed almost in one encounter.

Even though the Zerg suffered far more losses than the mechanical race due to forced exchange of battle damage, despite their overall advantage in combat effectiveness.

But the combat effectiveness of the Zerg did not decline significantly at all.

On the contrary, the mechanical race only had three motherships left to support.

Even if the mothership's main weapons left the Zerg cruisers with almost no means of counterattack and defense, the mothership was somewhat powerless when facing enemies that were not of the same order of magnitude.

The suppression between ship levels seemed to have lost its meaning.

Chen Ming could feel the horror of the huge amount of energy and materials consumed and the Zerg cruisers that could not be killed or destroyed no matter how hard he tried.

Although the mechanical race would not feel the horror, they could understand what inevitable failure meant.

This scene at this moment was not only seen by Chen Ming and the mechanical race.

It was obvious that it would also be discovered by the Empire.

Before, when the Black Mist Zerg dropped the eggs, the process was always monitored by the Empire's reconnaissance fleet.

Therefore, when the last battle between the Black Mist Zerg and the Mechanical Race was suspended.

The Empire had quietly sent a fleet to drop reconnaissance devices.

Chen Ming knew the location and function of these reconnaissance devices, and as long as he could connect to the external communication device, he could send the information back to the Empire as soon as possible.

So after he dismantled a lot of them, he deliberately left some holes for the Empire to drop detectors, just so that they could transmit the news of the Black Mist Zerg back as soon as possible.

After the Black Mist Zerg nest was almost completely out, the news should be delivered to the relevant people soon.

And the behavior of the Black Mist prosthesis and the terrifying number of Black Mist Zerg will surely make many people drop their jaws.

It can also expose part of An Wuping's ability.

Let the people of the Empire think in disguise whether An Wuping also has such ability, so that more and more people will focus on An Wuping instead of himself.

Let more and more people notice the existence of the Black Mist, so that Zuo Jing, who is hiding in the dark, has nowhere to hide.

Soon.

The firepower generated by the three motherships of the mechanical race has gradually become sparse.

These three motherships are equipped with three types of ridge peak gun heads, namely energy, restrained energy and plasma.

Each weapon can cause quite terrible damage to the Zerg after reaching the level of main weapons.

But it is meaningless.

Kill one Zerg and there will be another one, kill one piece and there will be another piece.

Every cruiser destroyed means more Zerg cruisers will surge.

Zerg ships can also capture the bodies of their dead counterparts in battle, and rely on the bodies to gain stronger combat power in battle.

The other side of the battle will almost never see the hope of victory.

The Zerg really played the meaning of the word "Zerg tide" in the battle.

The three motherships suddenly stopped.

The Zerg fleet burst out with a new force again like a shark that smelled blood.

But unfortunately, this is not a sign that the motherships will be submerged by the Zerg tide.

Because at the moment when the Zerg fleet approached in large numbers.

The three motherships burst out a wave of rapid firepower in a short period of time, completely clearing the surrounding Zerg.

The mechanical mothership just took the initiative to show weakness, luring the Zerg fleet to approach, making the Zerg fleet's formation more dense, so as to create greater results.

However, the three motherships seemed to have finally reached their limit, and after releasing this wave of firepower at the end, they started the jump engine.

Taking advantage of the time when the Zerg warships could not get close, they disappeared into the galaxy and gave up the information that they were coming to rescue.

Chen Ming has means to block the jump, but it can only target cruisers, and it is very troublesome to deploy, so he can't stop the mothership from retreating now.

But at the same time, he also has means to track the jump.

Even the main battleship that can use multiple jump engines in a short period of time can't escape the tracking of the Zerg cruiser.

Chen Ming immediately confirmed the direction of the mothership by analyzing the jump fluctuations.

They jumped to the channel where the Empire, the Mechanical Clan and the Afterglow meet.

Chen Ming first simply counted the losses.

About 400,000.

It can only be said that the number of fleets has increased. A brick thrown out can hit more than a dozen Zerg cruisers, and the mothership's weapons have a high probability of hitting them at random.

The Zerg are not afraid of death, so they just fight head-on, so the losses are indeed a bit large.

But compared to the remaining number of Zerg, these losses are really not a problem.

After counting the losses, Chen Ming continued to let the Zerg fleet start the jump and followed again.

However, at the moment when the Zerg fleet jumped and arrived.

The three motherships chose to start the jump engine again, and their jump fluctuations locked to three different places.

Chen Ming's face suddenly changed.

Because one of the three coordinates was located in his hometown, the pirate space station galaxy.

One was located in the branch of the legion, the front line of the war between the mechanical race and the empire, the galaxy where Baiquan was located.

The jump destination of another mothership was a galaxy in the mechanical race star field that was shot down by the subsequent reinforcements of the empire.

Chen Ming's face suddenly turned black, not only because the mechanical race chose to lead the Black Mist Zerg to the empire, but also because of other reasons.

But he did not make any plans to change the plan.

He still let the Zerg fleet jump again and prepare to follow.

However, after making such an order, he did not continue to pay attention to the movements of the Black Mist Zerg.

He chose to pay attention to the Zerg that were attacking the Star Gate galaxy.

Because this is the place where the mechanical race will inevitably be counterattacked.