Chapter 88: Taking Advantage of the Fire (Part 3)

The dense firepower did not stop the Zerg ground forces from advancing.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer.

Some Marines could even hear the heavy breathing of the Zerg from the chaotic gunfire.

Seeing that the Zerg was about to rush into the defense line, Qiao Shan ordered the electromagnetic cannon on the top of the transport boat to fire.

Instantly, a bloody storm was set off in the Zerg.

The Marines, who faced the Zerg at such a close distance for the first time, cheered when they saw this scene.

After all, the strong sense of oppression from the dense Zerg rushing towards them had made his will hover on the edge of collapse.

After the attack of ten 100mm electromagnetic cannons, the Zerg retreated.

Qiao Shan understood that this was just a tentative attack by the Zerg.

Looking at the weak defense line, he was extremely anxious.

Looking back at the excavation site, the engineers were stepping up the excavation, and two-thirds of the main body of the arc generator had been excavated.

"Fortunately, it won't be long before we can leave this damn place." Qiao Shan breathed a sigh of relief silently.

At this moment, Qi Yiming was already in a tough battle on the space battlefield.

The gas ejected from the tail of the Corrupted Dragon pushed his huge oval body forward slowly.

After the fleet entered the attack range of the Corrupted Dragon, hundreds of Corrupted Dragons suddenly swelled up, as if they were about to explode from the inside.

Then they suddenly opened their mouthparts and sprayed a large amount of corrosive liquid towards Qi Yiming's fleet.

And their originally bulging bodies quickly deflated after spraying the liquid.

The fleet covered by the sudden acidic liquid suddenly panicked.

In order to reduce losses, Qi Yiming had to command the fleet to slowly retreat to avoid the range attack of the swarm.

But the swarm did not give Qi Yiming any chance to retreat, and then the flying dragons that covered the sky and the sun rushed towards the fleet.

The dense firepower net was torn open by the swarm of insects.

"It's going to be bad..." When Qi Yiming found that the swarm of insects had broken through the firepower net, it was too late.

The swarm of insects reacted very quickly. Before the first wave of flying dragons had completely passed through the firepower net, the second and third waves of swarms had already lined up behind and were waiting to attack.

The flying dragons swept through the fleet in groups, spraying corrosive liquid on each warship. The outer armor of each warship was melted away at a speed visible to the naked eye, revealing the internal structural layer of the warship.

Even with the encouragement and support of the Xuefeng, it was still a drop in the bucket.

The speed of repairing the armor layer still couldn't keep up with the speed of damage by the corrosive liquid.

Soon, dense holes appeared on the hull of Wei Feng's battlecruiser, and some crew members were thrown out of the warship.

The bodies were taken away by the dragons that swept over the warship with their mouthparts.

What reassured Qi Yiming was that the insects with higher individual combat power in the swarm did not join the battlefield, but stayed guarding beside Leviathan.

There were not many individuals with high combat power, and the Zerg did not have the ability to increase their individual combat power after leaving the hive.

The individual combat power of the dragons that broke through the firepower network was not high. The fleet reorganized its formation after leaving the range covered by the corrosive liquid sprayed by the corrupted dragons.

Under Qi Yiming's command, the secondary guns of each ship also reorganized a dense firepower network to plug the gap.

The thousands of dragons that broke into the fleet were also destroyed one by one by the crossfire formed by the secondary guns after the fleet formation was stabilized.

But before Qi Yiming could breathe a sigh of relief, the Zerg swarm was estimated to recover once again.

The fleet formation that had just been reorganized was once again covered by corrosive liquid.

With the first experience, the captains of each ship no longer seemed panicked this time, and followed the Xuefeng to slowly retreat again, without giving the Zerg a chance to break through the firepower network.

The Zerg was much smarter than everyone thought, and immediately gave up this combat method after discovering that it could not pose a threat to the human fleet.

Instead, the reconnaissance king insects with faster flying speed and stronger protection launched an attack on the fleet.

The attack method of the Scout Overlord is very simple. Inside its hundreds-meter-long body is a huge cavity.

There are hundreds of poisonous banelings inside the cavity.

In addition, the queen insect has specially strengthened its shell, so it can still stubbornly rush towards Qi Yiming's fleet even when it is hit by several burst lasers.

At one time, hundreds of Scout Overlords carrying thousands of poisonous banelings rushed up against the powerful firepower of the fleet.

Its speed is very fast. Before Qi Yiming can adjust his tactics, more than a dozen Scout Overlords fly over the friendly ships, open their cavities, and spray the poisonous banelings inside at the warships.

As soon as the banelings touched the outer armor of the warship, a violent explosion occurred. Although the power was not very good, the green liquid splashing from their bodies once again caused considerable damage to the already damaged outer armor.

Qi Yiming watched one of his destroyers disintegrate instantly after being attacked by hundreds of poisonous banelings.

As soon as the scattered green liquid touched the floating human corpses, the corpses would instantly vaporize.

Qi Yiming watched the friendly ships sinking one by one, but he could do nothing. He had already turned on the power of the equipment on the Xuefeng to the maximum for repairing the armor of friendly ships, but it still couldn't keep up with the speed of the swarm's destruction.

Seeing more reconnaissance maggots breaking through the firepower network and flying towards the fleet, Qi Yiming became more and more anxious.

But Qiao Shan on the ground was not much better.

Not long after the first wave of swarms retreated, the second wave of attacks was launched.

The attacking team not only had hydralisks, but also fire-breathing cockroaches.

They also stood on the high ground, their limbs firmly stuck in the soft sand, and looked up to spray streams of hot liquid into the sky.

The liquid drew a perfect parabola in the sky and accurately hit the battle line that the marines were struggling to hold.

A dozen unlucky guys were hit by the hot liquid, and the marines watched their bodies being dissolved inch by inch by the hot liquid while howling in pain, and then the howling stopped abruptly.

The number of the second wave of swarms was several times that of the first attack, and the electromagnetic guns on the transport boats could no longer suppress the attacking swarms.

Hundreds of springtails rushed into the defense line. The springtails that were more than one person tall on the front line swung their bodies wildly, knocking the already panicked Marines to the ground, and then three or two springtails pounced on them and bit them.

The Marines who were pounced on were torn into pieces by several springtails before they even had time to roar in pain.

"Don't retreat... If you retreat a step, everyone will die! Push up!!" Qiao Shan shouted and rushed up with a single-soldier electromagnetic rifle.

When everyone saw that their superiors had rushed up, how could they have the nerve to retreat, so they followed Qiao Shan and rushed up.

After sacrificing more than 30 people, the hundreds of springtails that rushed into the defense line were cleared.

But before everyone could cheer, another wave of springtails rushed into the defense line.

Qiao Shan decisively picked up the communicator: "Calling the fleet... Coordinates 237, 116. Requesting orbital weapon support!!"

The warship that received the support request was the destroyer that Qi Yiming had sent to low orbit in advance to support Qiao Shan at any time.

The destroyer, with a hull length of more than 1,000 meters, aimed its starboard side at the ground.

After adjusting the muzzle, the secondary guns fired continuously, and then the main guns joined in.

A few seconds later, a huge explosion occurred in the swarm of insects that hit the Marines' front line on the ground.

The first to be hit were the hydralisks and fire-breathing cockroaches standing on the high ground.

The thick bursting laser beam was like a punishment from the sky, and in just a blink of an eye, it disappeared in front of Qiao Shan along with the high ground under the feet of the swarm.

The larger number of springtails were vaporized piece by piece by the bursting lasers that fell from the sky.

When the bursting laser hit the ground, it also generated a powerful shock wave, blowing all the swarms within a hundred meters around into the sky, and then fell heavily to the ground.

Even the strongest bugs would be knocked unconscious after falling from hundreds of meters.

The orbital bombardment lasted for nearly a minute, which stopped the subsequent swarm of bugs and gave Qiao Shan and his team a little time to clear out the Zerglings that had rushed into the front line.