The Plane War Begins from Wandering Earth

Chapter 272 271. Fairness
The Zerg cave deep underground was extremely dark.

The Arazi war bug has a unique ability to locate and identify directions through sonic waves, and it can be said to be able to thrive in dark underground environments.

But the knights of the "Atonement Army" were not much inferior.

As the group with the highest individual combat power in the "Atonement Army", the knights' heavy ceramic steel power armor is almost the pinnacle of the United Government's military technology.

Helmets equipped with various detection technologies can provide knights with powerful protection while giving them comprehensive battlefield observation and response capabilities.

The dark and lightless environment did not affect the "Atonement Army" knights from killing everyone in the Zerg cave.

"Arthur! Cover me!"

Following a roar from the team leader Thomas, Arthur's elite knights behind him passed Thomas, whose grenade launcher had run out of ammunition, and stood at the forefront of the surging swarm of insects.

Every time the trigger is pulled, a 20mm caliber micro-rocket-propelled and accelerated explosive bomb will explode in the narrow cave passage.

The explosion and the sudden flash of fire were like a full-power stun grenade.

Even the most elite mobile infantry soldiers of the Federation would be dizzy by the sound and aftermath of the grenade launcher.

But for the experienced warriors of the Space Marine Legion, the roar of explosive shells is the most beautiful accompaniment on the battlefield.

This temporarily dug Zerg tunnel is not spacious, only enough for two fully armed "Atonement Army" knights to walk side by side.

Similarly, the Arachnids, weighing an average of 550 kilograms, are unable to take advantage of their numbers here.

He was forced to fight the knights in the cave passage.

The volunteer team sent by Knight Commander Siegel to carry out the capture mission has elite knight-level combat power per capita.

These war bugs can be defeated simply by relying on hand-to-hand combat.

After fighting their way forward for one or two kilometers in the underground cave passage, they finally came to a relatively open and spacious cave.

"I have a feeling that the target should be just ahead."

Feeling the increasingly aggressive swarm of insects, Thomas's calm voice was filled with a hint of joy.

The bolter's ammunition is exhausted.

But for the knights who were eager to fight, this was just a warm-up exercise.

"Buzz buzz~"

"嘤~"

The sound of the mechanical gear coupling turning from the chainsword, as well as the sound of a series of energy "cold weapons" such as the melta blade and battle axe running at maximum power soon rang out.

Faced with the larger and swarming Arachnid war bugs, the knights of the "Atonement Army" are ready to use actual combat actions to let the other side know who is the most powerful species on land.

"The Most High God is witnessing us!"

Holding a heavy chainsaw sword in both hands, Thomas' roar seemed to have bestowed some kind of violent war buff on the volunteer team.

Dozens of elite knights charged towards the swarming insects like crazy.

In an instant, the entire underground cave was filled with the crisp sound of chitinous creatures' shells shattering, and the cave walls and the ground were soon covered with splattered insect juice and slurry.

The quality of individual War Bugs is not weak. They can easily crush the federal government's mobile infantry and the indigenous warriors of the United Government.

But in front of the heavily-armored warriors of the Interstellar Legion created by the United Government, they are completely inadequate.

If ordinary war bugs had independent emotions, then the defensive power of the ceramic steel heavy power armor would be enough to make them despair.

No matter how many war bugs there are, they are just a matter of one or two strikes to the elite knights.

The threat they pose to elite knights is limited to blocking passages with their corpses and causing wear and tear on their chainswords.

In fact, there are more advanced combat units in the Zerg that come to deal with these obviously more elite elite knights.

An elite Zerg unit called "Earth Spike" appeared in front of the Elite Knights for the first time.

They can bury insect stingers in an area of ​​dozens of square meters around their bodies, and once the enemy appears within their attack range.

Sharp insect stingers containing nerve-paralyzing toxins will instantly protrude from under the enemy's feet.

These "earthworms" do not appear very often on the battlefield, because they often serve as escorts for higher-level Zerg command units.

However, the appearance of elite knights made it difficult for these powerful "earth thorn insects" to start their attack.

The protection of the ceramic steel heavy power armor is extraordinary, providing comprehensive protection from head to toe for the Space Legion warriors.

Even the soles of the feet, which are neglected by many people, are protected by ceramic steel armored boots that are nearly ten centimeters thick.

The insect stings formed by biomass were undoubtedly defeated by the ceramic steel armor discovered by the United Government's materials research community after tens of thousands of experiments and comparisons.

Those spikes that could pierce through several centimeters of uniform steel plates could only leave tiny, barely noticeable dents on the elite knights' ceramic steel armored boots.

Occasionally, an elite knight would be affected by the sudden attack of the ground spikes and stumble to the ground.

This is probably the greatest achievement that the "ground thorn worm" can achieve.

Neither war bugs nor ground thorn bugs can stop the elite knights' progress.

Finally, even the huge fire tank beetle appeared in the cave.

Obviously, the senior commander of this Zerg swarm has been forced into a desperate situation.

The elite knights obviously have experience in dealing with the "old opponent" the flaming tank beetle.

Before the raised tentacles had a chance to spit out flames, they were instantly cut off by the melta blade wielded by the sudden attacking elite knight.

The wailing of the fire tank worm had just begun to sound when a miniature nuclear grenade was stuffed into its huge and ferocious mouthparts.

"Boom~"

With a loud bang, a huge explosion occurred in this not-so-wide cave.

The explosion was fueled by the flammable biological fluids stored in the fire tank beetle's body.

Under the "stifling effect", the insect swarms in the cave were killed or injured.

The elite knights were also knocked to the ground by the impact of the explosion.

By the time these interstellar legion warriors, who had two hearts and three lungs and whose vitality was incredibly strong, climbed up as if nothing had happened.

The battle in the entire cave officially entered its final stage.

The war bugs that were still resisting were quickly wiped out by the elite knights' ruthless slaughter.

The deeper you go into the cave, the fewer war insects there are, and they are replaced by densely packed groups of "worker insects" that look like large cockroaches.

These small bugs that have no fighting ability can be easily crushed to death by the elite knights with just a single step.

Until a huge white giant worm appeared in front of him, which was half the size of a fire tank beetle.

Everyone knew that their mission target had finally appeared. Brainworm!

The command unit of the Arach Zerg forces, possessing powerful swarm communication and command capabilities, capable of controlling all Arach Zerg creatures in a considerable area.

By sucking the brains of human beings, they gain knowledge and intelligence about human civilization.

The only flaw is their extremely bloated size and correspondingly slow movement speed.

The movement of the brain worm depends entirely on the help of the worker worms.

In the makeshift underground passage, the pace of progress was extremely slow.

This also led to its eventual capture by elite knights.

A group of human corpses of various shapes are piled up on the cave walls surrounding the brain worm.

Judging from their attire, there were soldiers from the Whiskey Outpost, soldiers from the "Tough Guy Regiment", and some members of the Federation starship force who were forced to land and escape after being attacked by a pulse energy plasma group and were eventually captured.

But the most eye-catching person is Marshal Lip of the Federal Ministry of Literature, Art and Propaganda, wearing a conspicuous medal of honor and a marshal's uniform.

Regardless of their identities, the only thing they had in common was that their brains had been sucked out, leaving only shriveled shells thrown randomly in the cave.

Three hours after the volunteer team raided into the underground Zerg cave.

The Redemption Army headquarters received a signal from Thomas' elite knights of the vanguard corps in an area 2.2 kilometers away.

Dozens of minutes later, with the assistance of logistics engineers, the surface rock and soil layer was successfully drilled and blasted.

The brain worm, which looked like a white ball of flesh weighing several tons, was lifted from the underground cave by the engineering unit's hoisting machinery and appeared in front of everyone.

The survivors of the "Tough Guy Group" stared in amazement at the huge, fleshy worm in front of them.

They didn't expect that this colonial galaxy armed force actually successfully captured the brain worm in the dark and terrifying Zerg underground nest.

This brain worm was the Zerg culprit that caused the "Tough Guy Group" to have a 90% death rate and besieged and blocked the Whiskey Outpost.

The P Star front command soon received a report from the "Atonement Army".

[Our unit made a long-distance raid of nearly 3 kilometers and successfully killed a medium-sized (5 to ) insect swarm gathered in the area around the Whiskey Outpost.

Successfully rescued the surviving members of the "Tough Guy Group" trapped in the Whiskey Outpost.

The body of Marshal Lip of the Federal Government's Propaganda and Culture Department was found 2.2 kilometers underground from the Whiskey Post.

In addition, an Arazi Zerg commander who was commanding a nearby medium-sized Zerg swarm was captured, the Brain Zerg...】

If this battlefield intelligence was received on normal days, the P Star front command would definitely think that the other party had lost their mind.

After a long-distance raid of hundreds of kilometers in a field combat state, without any large-scale air fire support, they killed through a medium-sized swarm of Arachi insects.

This ridiculous description of the battlefield situation, coming from a colonial galaxy armed forces, was simply an insult to the IQ of the expeditionary force's command system.

But all this happens under the monitoring of military satellites in outer space.

Including the Psychic Strategic Force, the P Star Front Command, and finally even the secretary of the expeditionary force's supreme commander, all personally inquired about the "bait operation" that took place on P Star.

The Redemption Army, which was chosen as "bait", actually fought back and killed the Zerg tide, and they did it in a frontal battlefield charge without any tricks or luck.

If they had not been paying close attention throughout the process, almost all expeditionary officers would have thought that this was a false report of military intelligence.

What is unbelievable to countless people is that such an exaggerated record actually came from a colonial galaxy force that the expeditionary force looked down upon.

How could the expeditionary force known as the "Federal Iron Fist" accept this?

However, the news that the "brain worm" was captured alive soon overshadowed everything.

The expeditionary force's supreme commander, Marshal Bihar, personally took charge of the matter, and Marshal Lip, who was killed in the Battle of Whiskey Post, did not even receive the attention he deserved.

He was simply packed into a body bag by an officer and taken away.

A series of high-level officials, including the expeditionary force's supreme command, think tank staff, spiritual strategic forces, etc., all paid great attention to the captured "brain worm".

Marshal Bihar even arranged an entire starship combat cluster and personally went to Planet P to escort the brain worm to the federal scientific research base for relevant research.

As the greatest contributor to the capture of the brain worms, the Redemption Army from the Thraide Galaxy also received high praise from the expeditionary force headquarters.

However, the expeditionary force headquarters was troubled by the details of the specific commendation.

The performance of the Redemption Army is unprecedentedly strong in the entire history of the expeditionary force's operations against the Arach Zerg, and their contributions are naturally unmatched.

But as a colonial galaxy force, there will be some problems with "political correctness" in propaganda.

For a long time, the federal government’s propaganda has portrayed the federal government’s army as indestructible and federal army soldiers as “military supermen.”

The "Clandaff Rout" dealt a severe blow to the status of the federal government army in the eyes of the people.

If the tremendous combat performance of a colonial galaxy armed force were publicized, wouldn't the federal government army seem a little too incompetent in comparison?

The most troublesome thing is that the new interstellar marshal has just lifted the arming ban on all colonial galaxies.

Once the Redemption Army completely overshadows the Expeditionary Force, will the "risk of losing control" in the colonized galaxies increase?
What's more, the expeditionary force has always looked down on the armed forces of the colonial galaxies.

If the achievements of the Redemption Army are widely publicized, will it intensify the hostility between the expeditionary force and the colonial galaxy armed forces?
Unlike simply fighting a war, the federal government has more political factors to consider.

The expeditionary force's supreme commander, feeling the difficulty, passed the problem to the Earth Federation Government.

After a series of discussions within the federal government, the new interstellar marshal finally ordered the full publicity of the great victory of the "Battle of Whiskey Post".

This was the most impressive achievement of the expeditionary force since she took office, and she would never miss the opportunity to publicize it.

[After the bloody battle of the armed forces of the colonized galaxy: the Redemption Army from the Slade galaxy, and the elite force of the federal government army, the "Tough Guy Regiment".

The expeditionary force annihilated an important Zerg force on the Arazi Zerg colony planet P in the Crandaff system and successfully arrested a Zerg commander.

The Supreme Commander of the Expeditionary Force highly recognized the "Colonial Galaxy Armed Recruitment Order" implemented by the new interstellar marshal.

He also said that the victory in the "Battle of Whiskey Post" was just the beginning.

The expeditionary force will achieve even more brilliant results under the leadership of the new interstellar marshal...】

In news reports, members of the "Tough Guy Group" were placed in the absolute C position.

Reports on the Redemption Army were only passing.

The people of the Federation were confused by this obviously biased and differentiated reporting. They just felt that the Thraide galaxy looked a bit powerful, and that their armed forces were qualified to make the headlines along with the elite expeditionary forces.

But it caused an uproar within the expeditionary force and even the Earth Federation military.

The expeditionary forces that have participated in ground combat are well aware of the terrifying combat power of the Arazi Zerg.

This obvious false propaganda has caused widespread dissatisfaction.

Representatives of the various colonized galaxies were extremely angry, claiming that the federal government's differential treatment in propaganda was discrimination not only against the Slade galaxy, but also against all colonized galaxies.

The federal government must give the Redemption Army justice!
(End of this chapter)