StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 388 Bloody Battle

"Well done, Dark Templar!"

Rick Kidd stretched out his right hand, and the huge metal glove of the power armor clenched into a fist.

After battling the zerg for so long, even the most common soldier knows that deep within the hive lies a zerg creature called the cerebrate that controls the bloodthirsty and furious monsters on the battlefield.

Once a cerebrate is completely killed and its resurrection is prevented, the vast number of zerg in its pack will all go to ultimate destruction in an uncontrollable rage.

"That's not enough." Phoenix's voice sounded like Hong Zhong's: "We have penetrated deep into the hinterland of the worm's nest, and we have never been so close to those shivering brain worms hiding in the nest."

Fenix ​​is ​​a commander unlike any other, always at the forefront with his Templars.When Phoenix was a templar, he was the first to charge and leap into the enemy line.

"Zeratul and his dark templar will have a better chance of killing the cerebrates only if we move forward and force the cerebrates to focus more on commanding the zerg ahead."

If it was just the hundred or so dark templar troops led by Zeratul in the past, their success rate in assassinating the cerebrates would undoubtedly not be enough.But after returning to Sacoolas to summon more dark templars and even elite shadow guards, tens of thousands of dark templars and shadow masters are enough to make the ruler feel threatened.

When a horde of Dark Templars emerged from the shadows, it was hardly an ordinary assassination by any means.

Zeratul's dark templars don't care about the price, no matter how much sacrifice they make, for them and the coalition forces, as long as they can kill the cerebrate, it is worth it.

The Dark Templar have customs very different from their kin in Aiur, and have an incomprehensible reverence for dying.In the eyes of the dark templars, the closer to death is the further away from the icy void, and returning to the void is the fate of generations of dark templars.

"That's why I was ordered to come here." Rick knew exactly what Augustus and the allied forces were trying to do, and it was clearly visible in the battle meeting and the map with the map attached.

Unless you have to, or wait for help, a protracted war and a war of attrition with the zerg is tantamount to asking for death. Any resourceful protoss or human commander will put the end of the campaign on killing the cerebrates and destroying the nests and even the hatches in the nests.

At this time, more transport ships of the 1st Airborne Division of the Revolutionary Army landed on the desolate land where Mars was flying. The landing gear popped out from the belly of the aircraft raised scorching air waves when they landed, and they were dressed in black and gray CMC power armor in rows. soldiers go down the gangway.

Arc light tanks and Goliath armed robots tied in the cargo hold with heavy chains drove out of the cargo hold one after another. The gold and red painted chariots and mechs were painted with the standards and numbers of the Revolutionary Army. The soldiers near these giants all Appears short.

Among the soldiers stood Firebats in heavy armor and a squad of Marauders wearing similar models to the former. Many of them were Wolf Warrior I heavy mechs transformed from space engineering vehicles.

Compared with the Goliath armed robot, the ordinary mech transformed with the space engineering vehicle is only 4 to 5 feet (about 1.2 to 1.5 meters) higher than the CMC power armor, only a reinforced frame and alloy steel coating are added on the original basis And stainless steel guard plate, equipped with a large titanium steel explosion-proof shield.

The mass-produced Wolf Warrior uses a castrated version of the Sidewinder tank railgun and 30mm cannon, so the battery and propeller are also larger than the original ones.Their weapons are not always fixed, and are heavily equipped with hydraulic flamethrowers to suppress hordes of Zerglings.

The construction of these mechs came from the orders of Augustus, and it was completely done by the chief engineer Rory Swan and his team of engineers. After all, the Kemorians are best at putting armor on their civilian equipment. And after the artillery pulled up the front line.

When facing the surging swarm of insects, the wolf warrior holding the wall shield can also undergo a small deformation and retract the walking limbs to form a shield wall.These modified space engineering vehicles have effectively enhanced the firepower of the Revolutionary Army's ground troops, but even if they are modified with almost obsolete engineering vehicles, the transformation in the heavy factory workshop is quite rough, but it is still expensive.

Soldiers in heavy armor, tanks, and mechas walking on huge walking legs are like a steel-cast high wall in progress. Amid the roar of tank engines and the hum of Goliath armed robot servo systems, the torrent of steel is rolling forward.Fighter planes roared overhead, and the first round of test firing by friendly artillery on the right exploded in the distance.

When Rick ordered his soldiers to assemble, the 1st Division moved end to end, endless as far as the eye could see, countless matte masks shaking in the sun.

"I have seen the courage to face death in these humans." Phoenix praised the well-groomed soldiers of the Revolutionary Army and said, "Brave humans! The most invulnerable templar in the history of the Protoss Empire is nothing more than this."

"Compared to protoss, we have many shortcomings, such as clumsiness, timidity, and greed. But human beings have as many advantages as shortcomings." Rick Kidd smiled softly: "In a place far away from our homeland, we are more powerful than anyone in the past. Unity at all times. The courage of mankind lies in the hymn of sacrifice."

"I have seen many human soldiers, and they are all resolute and brave warriors." Phoenix continued: "But a few years ago, they were just civilians engaged in the Carlisle industry. Some people had never seen weapons, but now Already able to face dozens of Zerglings fearlessly."

"War, death, and the loss of family and friends are enough to change a person and make him strong." Rick said: "Augustus would say that war is hammering us into steel."

"You are a piece of steel, Jaco Bennett. You think you are an executioner, but I want to tell you that what you are good at is not just killing people." Phoenix is ​​still saying Rick's real name, but the latter once To put it bluntly, unless he inherits the Bennett family, he will never use his own name and family surname back.

Now, Rick felt very strange when he heard the name again.

"I command this army in the name of Field Marshal Augustus Mengsk, and all the praise and respect I receive is based on my brave fighters," Rick said.

"The protoss believes that an outstanding legion does not necessarily have an outstanding leader, but an outstanding leader must lead an army capable of conquest. Augustus Mengsk is already outstanding among his kind, and his warriors He is also a role model among human beings."

Phoenix said of his leader to Rick: "I've had long conversations with him more than once, and he always credits you guys for what he's accomplished."

"Augustus never talked about himself because there were so many people who praised him," Rick said.

"Jacques Bennett, maybe you haven't noticed that the words, deeds and qualities of Augustus Mengsk are affecting you." Phoenix can see through Rick's heart: "The education received in your family has not stopped you Be a soldier. In fact, you are a born fighter, you learned a lot from Augustus, so you are compassionate to your men, which is why you are loved."

Except for the unselfish political commissars of the Revolutionary Army, many generals in the Revolutionary Army are loved by others. They either care about their subordinates and run the army well, or they are like Mira Han and Tychus Finley. The style makes his subordinates obey his words.

"Colonel Rick, the sensor has detected the activity of tunnel worms under your feet. Be careful, the swarms are approaching you." At this time, Rick's ear came from the mechanical adjutant's unemotional siren.

"The enemy is Zerg, the whole army is on alert, and the bullets are loaded!" Rick immediately ordered in the channel.

The 1st Airborne Division was at the forefront of the offensive echelon, with only Colonel Prior and General Duke's troops ahead.But the Zerg is not a beast that can only pounce. It not only lays ambushes like those web-spinning spiders, but also launches surprise attacks from the air and the ground.

"One of my zealot legions is on your right." Without any communication equipment, Phoenix's order has been transmitted to the entire legion he leads through the spiritual network Kara.

Rick can't see the main force of the Protoss with his naked eyes, but with the deployment speed of the Protoss, they can rush to any battlefield at a jaw-dropping speed.

At this time, like a harbinger of a tsunami, the ashes on the ground trembled due to the ground shaking.Two months ago, it used to be a garden world with lush green trees and fragrant birds and flowers, but now it is as desolate and dead as the world of death, Charle.

Under the feet of a standing airborne troop, the ground suddenly trembled and collapsed.A large pit with a diameter of dozens of feet and a width swallowed three paratroopers holding Gauss rifles in their forehands in an instant. They disappeared in the blink of an eye, as if they had fallen into an abyss.

Blood was still spattering in the ever-expanding pothole like a bloody mouth, and an ugly and hideous giant mouth rose from the ground amidst the roar of guns, hundreds of springtails and Hydra Hydralisks Jumping down from the giant mouth of the tunnel worm hanging high in the air, he plunged into the revolutionary soldiers on the ground and started killing, blood was seen in an instant.

In an instant, dozens of tunnel worms jumped out of the ground at the same time, throwing the dark swarm of worms into the crowd.

Their bright, blood-red skin gleamed bloodthirsty in the sun, and more proliferating spikes and exoskeleton armor made these monsters look more like real demons.Undoubtedly, this is one of the Tiamat swarms, the guardians of the Lord's minions, the most fearsome of hives.

Rick's communication channel immediately became chaotic, the officers kept repeating the commander's order, some soldiers were asking their comrades, and others were screaming.No matter how indestructible the human army is, it will also be embarrassed when facing a swarm that far outnumbers its own.

This is still the elite of the Revolutionary Army. If those recruits were dragged onto the battlefield after only a few days of training, they would have long been unable to suppress their inner fear and began to flee and attack their own friendly forces, causing a large number of armed forces with sophisticated weapons The entire human army was defeated and massacred.

This is not uncommon in areas of the Tyranid Federation world that have never experienced war and in armies that have not undergone resocialization.The Confederacy armies that had shown their prowess on the Kel-Morian Labor Auxiliary Army were often defeated when facing the Zerg, throwing away their armor and armor.

Rick ordered the various units of the Airborne Division to move closer to the friendly forces, and at the same time ordered them to blow up the Nydus Worm at all costs and release high-temperature plasma flames into its fetid intestines.

When Rick turned to a tunnel worm that was leaping from the ground not far from where he was, he witnessed a frightening scene:

The tunnel worm that opened its bloody mouth while roaring kept spitting out infected humans and soldiers in power armor, some of which were carrying terrifying explosive chemicals to infect people.As soon as the infected fell among the soldiers, they caused an earth-shattering explosion. Many soldiers were torn apart, and some of them didn't even leave their bodies.

So far, the only human beings in Al are the Revolutionary Army, and these hideous infected people were once allies of the 1st Airborne Division.During the many campaigns deep into Ayr, many armies were lost forever in the dangerous jungles.

The swarm reshaped the bodies of the captured human soldiers and comrades-in-arms who were too late for the revolutionary army to take away, and controlled them with the mind of the main hive, making these brave and steadfast fighters become slaves of the alien monsters they once hated so much.

The aberrations on some of the infected Revolutionary Army soldiers hadn't covered their entire bodies. It was obvious that the insect swarm had thrown them onto the battlefield before they had time to fully assimilate them.

Some people still retain their past memories and consciousness, and some people are even awake in their brains, but they can no longer control their bodies. Gauss rifles fired at fellow citizens.

Both Rick and the revolutionary army who faced the infected directly felt extremely sad and angry.In the past, those warriors with yellowed and disgusting helmets, deformed tentacles and sharp appendages may have been the paragons of the army. They were sons and husbands who swore to fight for the freedom of mankind, but now they are lost. own freedom.

"The cerebrate Carlos must have created these infected humans. The zerg cannot infect the protoss, but they can control the minds of humans." Phoenix looked there, and the templars around him ignited the azure spirits one after another. The blade of energy rushed towards the tunnel worm.

They are the bravest fanatics in Phoenix, walking like flying, charging like a hurricane on the sea.

The running Templars were all in heavy armor but as light as cats pouncing on the hunt. They passed through the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army who kept shooting, as if brushing against the blue arcs of soldiers passing by.

"Once again." Phoenix also walked towards the rushing Zerg: "I fight side by side with the brave ones among humans."

"I am deeply honored."

"Me too." Rick closed his helmet with the skull of the demon of heaven painted on it, and took down the FN-92 boatswain's sniper rifle on his back.

(End of this chapter)