StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 706 We stand shoulder to shoulder, sword to sword

There is no dawn in Sacoolas.

Beyond the temple's main defenses was a horrific sight, countless gigantic skeletons and mech remains exposed to the cold midnight winds of Sacoolas and the unnerving twilight.

This is an undoubtedly epic defensive battle.

In the days and nights when the twilight of Sacoolas is always shrouded, a huge army of insects came one after another, covering the sky and covering the sky, attacking the bunkers of humans and the fort complexes of the protoss, as if the glory of the dominant era is here reproduce.

Until this time, the never-ending erosion of the shadows of the void had made Sacoolas very ill. After Taimatros, the Kakaru Keys, the Temple of Rizul, the Isle of Razjan and Major Protoss settlements such as New Antioch also fell, and the Xel'Naga Temple was the last area still in the hands of the Tyranid Empire and its allies.

Since the beginning of the war, Nerazim Protoss Phase Technicians and Imperial Engineers have been continuously strengthening the defenses of the Xel'Naga Temple. The solid planetary fortresses, steel-plated bunkers and doomsday turrets are welded by T-280 space engineering vehicles. Rising from the ground, glittering golden photon turrets, ion light cannons, and shield chargers jumped from the Spear of Adun to the surface at an astonishing speed.

Almost every few minutes, the transformation of the Sarnaga Temple from a sacred sanctuary to a super fortress has taken another step. The jagged fortifications seem to be a jungle that is soaring under a time-lapse lens.Every fifty yards there is a piercing siege tank, and every two hundred yards there is a bunker covered with galvanized steel plates. Countless black artillery muzzles stretch out obliquely into the air, like hedgehogs Spikes standing up all over the body.

Even in power armor and with a Gauss rifle in hand, a Marine would not want to face a swarm head-on on an open battlefield.If they happen to have a bunker nearby, they can destroy enemies ten times their size.

All the Marines braced for a sudden encounter that would turn into hand-to-hand combat, but everyone knew it had no chance of winning.

Outside the fortifications of the temple are a large number of bunkers, obstacles and shocking dense minefields made of concrete. The area tens of miles deep is covered with countless spider mines, widow mines and Mag sky mines. Making any attempt to get close to the temple is a crazy adventure.

Now, this magnificent temple building has been completely transformed into a rock fortress rooted in the Sacoolas Highlands. It has to be said that this is another Tyranid speed, led by chief engineer Rory Swan , The Imperial Engineering Corps, which the Emperor is proud of, has once again accomplished its mission brilliantly.

In this way, on the first night when Augustus arrived at the Sarnaga Temple, after the first few tentative attacks, the insect swarms gathered outside the temple began to attack in batches in units of insect nests. Attack the temple.Judging from the deployment of the attack, it is obvious that this is not a swarming and chaotic attack, but to find out the weak points of the fortifications.

Zerg individuals lack obvious intelligence and are efficient and ruthless killing machines. However, zerg swarms are not wild beasts that only rely on instinct to hunt. On the contrary, their tactics are very clever, but in more cases, the absolute number can overwhelm everything.

That night, Augustus only slept briefly for about two or three hours, but it was enough for him.

At night, the huge noise and terrifying shock waves from the Imperial defensive positions swept across the battlefield, as if a hundred Gorgon-class battlecruisers were firing at the same time, and large swaths of mud and rubble were thrown into the air, falling every square mile The number of shells is even comparable to the zerg density in the area.

By the next morning, the ground was already covered with huge bomb craters, the huge rocks were smashed to pieces, and even the mounds dotted on the desert were completely flattened.Under such dense covering firepower, all things are equal, even those rough-skinned, thick-skinned and heavily armored Ultralisks are hard to escape.

The hundred-mile radius of the Naganaga Temple turned into a meat grinder of steel, fire, and flesh. The overwhelming artillery fire tore all the enemies who tried to approach the temple to pieces.The dust of the explosion and the plume of destruction hang in the sky, and the vast land is piled up with broken insect corpses and huge skeletons, like piles of flying insect corpses that died under the lampshade.

Everything in front of me is really sensational. The swarm seems to have opened up a road with flesh and blood in the minefield deployed outside the temple. There are conspicuous traces drawn on Lars's purple-glowing ground.

After the strong air wave from the shell explosion, the bloody carapaces of the Zerg rained down, it was really bloody.

On the positions of Dark Templar, Purifier, Templar and Tadarin Protoss, the situation may be different. All kinds of dazzling particle weapons can be seen in the sky above their positions, and the enemy is either directly reduced to ashes, Either it looks like it was precisely cut into several pieces by a few silk threads, or it was directly broken into a molecular state.

This can be called the last battle of Sacoolas. The dark templar led by Vorazun did not hesitate to use their mysterious omen ability and terrible time and space weapons to relieve pressure on their allies as much as possible and buy time.

The dark templar can drag the enemy into the gravity well, disrupt time and space, and even stop time, which makes Alarak's Tadarin Protoss jaw drop, sour and greedy.

In any case, when the day was over, Augustus was glad that they had held off the swarm for relatively little cost.The swarm paid an unimaginable price, and the dead zerg were enough to fill the deep trench in front of the Xel'Naga Temple, but it must not be blindly optimistic because of this.

Augustus believed that this was only the first attack of the swarm, and the subsequent attacks would be even crazier, which was immediately confirmed.

As a rough estimate, the zerg that died outside the temple the day before accounted for a very small fraction of the number that landed on Sacoolas.For the protoss, this level of sacrifice is already an absolute blow, but for the swarm, it is just scratching an itch.

The lord of the swarm would never be sad for the sacrifice of an individual, and Amon would not care about the life and death of the tool of destruction.

The second wave of offensive is coming soon, and this time the swarms are led by a large number of hybrids. Hundreds of Void Rippers appear from the gap between the void and reality, and the dense psychic signals indicate that A more terrifying and bloody killing is about to come.

Hybrids are Amon's loyal servants. They possess extremely high intelligence, can control large-scale insect swarms, and are extremely powerful individually.At the same time, the erosion of the Void on Sacoolas has further increased the power of these hybrids, and only the most powerful protoss warriors can rival them.

For the soldiers in the fortifications, this is a cruel test.

Augustus is not worried about whether his army can hold the line under the terrible offensive of the swarm. Whether facing humans, zerg or protoss, they no longer fear.

The time is now, and young people of the right age no longer reject joining the army as they did in the past.It has become a tradition that the Tyranid Empire needs more soldiers whenever an all-out war sweeps across the Koprulu Sector.

Many imperial worlds have militia units close to the standing army system, capable of forming millions of stormtroopers if necessary, because the threat of the swarm forces them to form an armed force to defend their homeland.One would say that the first thing a child born in a swarm-ravaged world learns in life before he learns to speak is to shoot the zerg.

Despite facing billions of bug swarms, the Imperial warriors guarding the Xel'Naga Temple never thought they were abandoned, but fought with high spirits.

As the founder of an interstellar empire with live ammunition, Augustus fought with his warriors as a matter of course.Recalling the old story, even if Augustus just showed up at the front, the demoralized Imperial soldiers would be greatly encouraged immediately.

If someone told Admiral Jim Raynor, someone said that as long as Emperor Augustus was there, the Tyrannian Empire had never lost.

The general said, well, yes, just put him up there, it will work better than anything else.

The torrent of the swarm is like waves rushing onto the beach, one wave after another, and each wave is stronger than the next wave, making you unstable and eventually being caught in the suffocating waves.

For the rest of the time, the artillery fire never stopped.Amid the flickering flames of tracer bombs and flare bombs, the impact points of the shells emitted violent flashes and deafening explosions one after another, and the huge sound waves were enough to throw smaller zergs into the sky.

When a firepower stronghold is attacked by the swarm, they will immediately attract more violent counterattacks.Those who parachuted to the surface of Sacoolas were the elite main divisions of the Empire, some of which can be traced back to the Korhal Rebellion, and some veterans even heard the Declaration of Independence issued by Angus Mengsk.

The Naganaga Temple soon became a slaughterhouse full of ruins, wreckage, corpses and nightmares. The fierce battles continued day and night, and hundreds of battles surrounded every courtyard, every corridor and every building. The altar unfolded, so that those exquisite carvings and hieroglyphs praising the epic were wet and infiltrated with blood.

It is nothing new for the Tyrann Empire and the protoss to fight against the swarm side by side, but it is a fantasy for Tadalin to work together with the templar and dark templar to resist the swarm.The Purifier and the high-ranking Templar faced back to back tens of hundreds of Zerglings, unreservedly giving their backs to each other for protection. When a Tadarin Protoss fought to defend the temple, even Dark Templar would also find it awkward.

Artanis never thought that Tassadar and the unification of the protoss he had always wanted to achieve would become a reality in this way.If there is no Amon, even after another 1 years, the various protoss branches will never communicate with each other, and even friction and conflicts will continue.

The protoss said that humans are a race that loves cannibalism, but they are not much better.

Holding on to the second night, the casualties were already unmanageable, but more troops and heavy firepower were sent to the temple.An army reporter who was specially allowed to enter the front-line troops tried to describe the scene of this battle with words, but all descriptions and words paled in the face of the bloody reality.The fact that the Imperials don't want to sing the praises of war and sacrifice is real news.

People will know what they or others' brothers, sisters and children did to defend the Empire, but they will never understand the pain they endured.

Fortunately, the defenders maintained air superiority throughout, and Artanis dispatched almost all of the Phoenix fighters in the Spear of Adun, except for the scout plane he flew in the Brood War.

Under the superiority of the air, the Banshee bombers of the Tyrann Empire's Twilight Wing rushed to the ground targets in groups, baptizing the battlefield with a banshee-like howl.Bombers loaded with napalm bombs focused on conspicuous ground targets, clearing out giant ground units that would pose a threat to fortifications.

Little by little, though at great cost, the Xel'Naga Temple's position was lost, leaving only a heap of flame-blackened rubble.

At the same time, the number of insect swarms on Sacoolas also reached a very terrifying number, and the number of hybrids also exceeded five figures for the first time.

When Augustus and Artanis learned that the phase prism of the Xel'Naga Temple could be overloaded at any time, they both decided that the time had come.

The wounded were the first to leave in the evacuation craft, and then some soldiers were ordered to stay, while others left.The remaining defenders used continuous orbital bombing as a cover to gradually abandon most of the positions of the Xel'Naga Temple, and the last elite retreated into the depths of the Xel'Naga Temple through staggered and complicated passages, waiting for the prism to overload, Create a shock wave that destroys the planet.

"How glad I am to fight by your side once again, Augustus Mengsk."

Walking in the carved beams and painted buildings of the Sarnaga Temple, Artanis couldn't help saying to Augustus: "Together we will march towards the battlefield of glory!"

Surrounding them are numerous Imperial Royal Guards, Matriarch Shadowguard, Spear of Adun Golden Age Templars, and Tal'darin High Ascended.

You're still hot-blooded, Augustus thinks with relief: "It's just the same as it used to be."

Augustus originally thought that Artanis would stand alone until the last moment when the phase prism was overloaded.

But Artanis didn't, he seemed to want to be with himself.

As if thinking of something suddenly, Artanis looked at Alarak again and said:
"And you too, Alarak."

"I am neither honored nor happy," Alarak replied immediately.

"We are all connected by blood, and we are all protoss." Artanis's shining blue eyes became brighter: "In the face of this catastrophe, protoss should abandon the prejudices and barriers of the past, unite as one, and unite as one to defeat Eamon."

"Well said, Artanis." Alarak said, "I thought your stupidity was just a disguise, but I didn't expect you to really think so."

"If you can kill an enemy, do it, A-ta-nis."

(End of this chapter)