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Chapter 196: Iron Torrent vs. Hive Will, Complete Warrior Hunting Insect
Following the order from the fleet commander-in-chief Chen Yanyan!
The twenty level 19 flying wing tanks in the front, with ten in a team, formed a V-formation and acted as the vanguard of the dreadnoughts.

There was a roar of artillery fire all of a sudden. Each tank was equipped with five shotguns and twelve heavy machine guns. Twenty tanks meant a total of one hundred shotguns!
Any wave of black-spine zerg would be difficult to resist under the salvo, and only the second-level Zerg could withstand the artillery bombardment with damage of up to 190 points.

However, the Queen Mother of Haicheng obviously did not expect that the defenders of Wucheng, after suffering a disastrous defeat yesterday, would dare to take the lead and send out a mysterious air mobile force to brazenly attack the second-stage wind-wing insect bombing brigade that she had worked so hard and spent a huge price to hatch!

The main reason was the information gap, which made the Queen Mother of Haicheng mistakenly believe that the human army defending Wucheng had lost its air support, so she felt at ease to stockpile wind-wing insects at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters so that she could take down the Wucheng fleet and defense line in one wave.

Now, it is me who is being carried away by the wave.

In the violent chain of explosions, the Queen Mother of Haicheng instantly lost twelve precious wind-wing insects and fell into a daze.

In fact, if you want to control a wind-wing insect thousands of meters away and perform precise and cutting-edge aerial missions, you need to consume extremely high mental power.

So much so that even the Queen Mother of Haicheng, who was in the middle stage of the third stage, was unable to sustain large-scale group combat on the ground and carry out precise bombing in the air at the same time.

So when the wind-wing insect was ambushed and self-destructed, the spiritual energy it brought backlashed, causing the Queen Mother of Haicheng to fall into dizziness and trance.

By the time the human fleet had already fought its way into the suburbs of Wucheng, which had just been recaptured yesterday, the thousands of black-backed insects defending their positions on the ground had not yet received any orders to respond.

But Chen Yanyan will not give the Zerg time to wake up, and the hundreds of soldiers in the fleet and the artillery and machine guns in their hands will not miss the opportunity either!
With the twenty chariots in the vanguard and the twenty chariots on the left and right wings, they lined up in a straight line and charged towards the suburbs of Wucheng, braving the insect armor fragments that fell from the sky...

There were a total of forty tanks in the front row, with a distance of fifty meters between them, forming a two-kilometer-long battle line. Like a sharp sword, it pierced into the Zerg position twenty kilometers north and south outside Wucheng.

Following closely behind were the dreadnoughts that provided the backbone of the battle, and the twenty tanks that were responsible for the finishing touches, clearing the remaining wormholes on the battlefield and sealing the underground arteries for the Zerg's expansion.

When the fleet was fully operational, marching at a maximum speed of 100 kilometers per hour, bombarding all the way to the border between the two cities, pushing the battle line forward by more than ten kilometers...

Chen Yanyan waved her hand and began to command the fleet to move northward to sweep across the remaining positions and completely recapture the strategic buffer zone that had just been lost yesterday.

After a brief moment of distraction, the Queen Mother of Haicheng finally reacted. She quickly concentrated and took control of her reserve attack team again.

At this point, it also understands that the decisive battle on the front battlefield has already broken out. If it simply retreats to Haicheng at this moment, it will mean failure!
Because there is more than one queen eyeing the big lake behind Wucheng.

The Queen Mother of Jiangbei in the north must have crossed the river, and the Queen Mother of Jiacheng in the south is estimated to have already laid hands on the south bank of the Lake. With every day of delay, the advantage brought by its first advancement will be weakened.

Moreover, in order to win the decisive battle at this moment, the Queen Mother of Haicheng directly adopted a warmongering strategy and used all the reserve energy on the hatching and production of the second-order Zerg.

After the second-order wind-wing insect is born...

The food supply of the entire Zerg race can no longer last for a few days, so the bombing of the wind-wing insects is just a test before the decisive battle. The real reason behind it is that the Queen Mother of Haicheng can no longer delay and must take the initiative to provoke a decisive battle within a week.

From the destruction of the underground biological furnace in Jiangbei County to the severe damage to the hatching nest there, the time left for the Queen Mother of Haicheng is not much.

Strategic layout is always closely linked.

After Lin Feng's unexpected attack on Jiangbei...

The only choice left to the Queen Mother of Haicheng is to fight a decisive battle with the defenders of Wucheng!

If she wins, she can devour tens of thousands of awakened ones and obtain a large amount of biological resources from Taihu Lake, allowing the Queen Mother to make further progress and lay the foundation for her advancement to the late third stage.

If they lose, the entire swarm will collapse, and the Queen Mother of Haicheng will have to withdraw her troops and retreat to the center of Haicheng, relying on the resources sent by the ocean to lick her wounds and replenish her strength.

This also means that it will miss the global queen competition and lose the opportunity to become a fourth-level insect king.

So at this moment, facing the aggressive human fleet, even if the Queen Mother of Haicheng was unwilling to risk a decisive battle, she had to break in and block the attack.

Under its mobilization, hundreds of second-order tiger-spine insects suddenly crawled out from the large wasteland at the junction of the two cities.

Their bodies are about 20 to 30 meters in size, and their pair of sharp and hard jaws are more than ten meters long.

The combat effectiveness of the second-order tiger-back worm is unquestionable. As long as it can engage in close combat with the chariot, it can directly destroy it by swinging its giant jaws.

At the same time, in the suburbs of Haicheng, hundreds of pulse war scorpions suddenly emerged from the camouflaged wormhole. They raised the muzzles of the guns at the end of their tails high, and the gun sacs storing plasma in their abdomens began to accumulate power.

The violent pulse ball cannon, as it completed its aiming and charged, bombarded the fleet five kilometers away, providing cover for the approaching tiger-spine insect swarm.

The pulse cannon's flying speed is not fast, but it cannot be destroyed by artillery. Apart from the energy shield that can defend itself a little, the only way to dodge it is to rely on one's own mobility.

However, firing hundreds of pulse cannons at once made it impossible for the tanks in the fleet to avoid being hit by electric currents. There was a high probability that the tanks would be damaged in power, and the first-level awakeners inside would also fall into temporary paralysis.

Facing the powerful counterattack launched by the Zerg, Chen Yanyan, the captain of the dreadnought, standing on the bow of the ship more than 20 meters high, could naturally see it clearly.

At the same time, she also understood that the Queen Mother of Haicheng had decided to adopt a desperate strategy, wanting to use this wave of saturation attacks to decide the final outcome with the human fleet.

In this case, it becomes particularly crucial to know who can withstand the opponent's first wave of attack!

Immediately, she took control of the chariots, manipulating them to shrink the battle line, gathering around the dreadnought first, and concentrating their strength on one point.

At the same time, activate and use the new additional attribute of the Dreadnought, Indestructible!

As the dreadnought's range dropped sharply, the extracted energy turned into a spherical shield, which continued to expand and eventually covered the entire ship.

Just like the absolute defense of the Flying Tiger Armor, the invisible energy shield creates ripples like water waves. It seems fragile but can withstand a thousand points of energy attack.

The pulse cannon of the Pulse Scorpion has a maximum single-shot center damage of only over 900 points, and it will continue to decrease as the shooting distance increases.

When most of the hundreds of pulse cannons hit the energy shield that emerged from the outside of the dreadnought, a large number of electric arcs appeared on the surface of this spherical shield that covered the hull and had a diameter of 300 meters.

The plasma of the pulse cannon was absorbed by the energy shield, and part of it evaporated and dissipated directly in the air, leaving only the ozone generated by the electric shock, which gradually dissipated with a strange smell, and the rest was guided into the ground and absorbed by the earth.

But the spectacular scene of dozens of pulse cannons hitting the energy shield was both gorgeous and extremely shocking.

If there is no shield to protect it, an attack of this level can destroy half of the fleet in an instant!

Those flying wing tanks that were leaning against the dreadnought and hiding behind the ship luckily escaped the disaster.

The soldiers on the vehicles looked through the firing holes and saw arcs of electricity as thick as thighs appearing on the energy shield. They kept piercing into the invisible shield, like devil's claws trying to break through the blocking net and attack the fleet inside...

So everyone turned pale and prayed silently.

Not until all the pulse cannon shocks were exhausted under the protection of the energy shield did the worried crowd finally breathe a sigh of relief.

However, just as they were relieved, the shield collapsed in an instant after withstanding dozens of pulse cannons, and everyone became nervous again.

Chen Yanyan frowned.

Although the indestructible energy shield can last for five minutes, that is based on the premise that the shield has not been hit. The shield energy will gradually dissipate over time.

Now, it has resisted dozens of electromagnetic cannon attacks in one go, directly using up all its reserves. Seeing the disappearing shield, everyone's hearts, which had just been relieved, became heavier again.

The next wave of long-range attacks will arrive again in a dozen seconds while the Pulse Scorpion is charging.

Chen Yanyan immediately activated the super firepower attribute of the dreadnought, and controlled the ten level 23 battleship heavy guns on the ship, turning them all at once, aiming at the position of the Pulse Scorpion five kilometers away, and fired heavy shells with a damage of up to 390 points.

It took ten seconds and five rounds of long-range bombardment before fifty 300mm caliber heavy artillery fell on the pulse war scorpion group like thunder. The shock wave generated by the violent explosion directly interrupted their secondary charging and aiming.

Chen Yanyan knew that it was impossible to completely wipe out the Pulse Scorpions with just the battleship artillery.

There must be quite a few mid-to-late stage 2 creatures in the pulse scorpion group, which can withstand the attack of heavy artillery.

So she commanded the chariot group to redisperse the battle formation to deal with the aggressive swarm of first-order black-backed insects, which were mixed with hundreds of second-order tiger-backed insects, on the front battlefield.

On the other side, the dreadnought's ten battleship guns were converted into electromagnetic gun mode.

The gun barrel, which was big enough for a person to fit into, began to split into four petals, just like Lin Feng's level 29 electromagnetic cannon, accumulating energy to condense spherical lightning.

Relying on the preparation time gained from the previous five rounds of heavy artillery bombardment, the electromagnetic cannon completed its charging after ten seconds. Following Chen Yanyan's decisive order, it fired ten violent large-scale magnetic bombs at the same time.

The maximum shooting distance of five kilometers is just enough to hit the position of the pulse war scorpion group.

Ten magnetic storm bombs streaked across the sky, passing over the dark swarm of tiger-spine worms at an altitude of dozens of meters above the ground. Strong arcs of electricity continued to expand and spread out. The dissipated lightning energy injured many second-order tiger-spine worms.

When the magnetic storm bomb hits the pulse scorpion's base, it explodes completely with a thunderous tremor and releases countless electric arcs, sweeping across the pulse scorpion group in the position like a spider web.

The damage of up to one thousand at the center of the magnetic storm, and the continuous electric shock that spread out to an average of five hundred, dealt an even more severe blow to the already dizzy group of pulse war scorpions.

For a moment, only a dozen or so early-stage second-order pulse war scorpions at the edge managed to escape.

Apparently, the Queen Mother of Haicheng was in such a hurry to fight that she did not have time to place the Pulse War Scorpions at positions of different distances according to their levels and strengths.

The result is that they are now being wiped out by the dreadnought battleship.

The original plan to use the power of cluster salvos to deal a devastating blow to the human fleet was successfully resolved under the protection of the dreadnought's energy shield.

Now the Pulse War Scorpion can no longer influence the situation, and the Queen Mother of Haicheng has fewer and fewer cards to use.

After this wave of long-range bombardment, the fleet and the deadly tide of running spiny worms were already in close combat!
Although the Pulse Scorpions were almost wiped out, they used a round of salvos to help the melee Zerg swarm rushing to the front line and bought a minute of time.

It was precisely this one-minute-long firebreak that allowed the Zerg nest to rush like a flood to a place only one kilometer ahead of the fleet.

Afterwards, even if the shield disappeared, all the chariots spread out in formation and fired shotguns, but it was still difficult to stop the insect swarms that continued to advance and even broke out into a stampede.

The first thing the chariot encountered was a swarm of black-backed worms that emerged from the wormhole here. Because of their small size, they could directly drill out of the small wormhole.

And those powerful second-order tiger-spine worms that are extremely threatening to chariots have to crawl out from the large wormhole at the junction of the two cities and follow behind the entire insect tide.

This gave the tanks in the front row a chance to catch their breath.

After all, it is still difficult for a first-level black-backed worm to break through the 19-degree outer shell defense of a level flying wing tank, and at most it can leave some dents or cuts.

But close combat is very disadvantageous for tanks. After all, the number of flying wing tanks is limited, only sixty in total.

Even if each one is comparable to a peak-level second-level Zerg, they will still appear very small compared to the terrifying scale of tens of thousands of Zerg.

What the tank fears most is being surrounded by insects and losing its greatest advantage, its super high mobility.

So while the second-level tiger-spine worms had not yet reached the front line, Chen Yanyan directly controlled the entire fleet to retreat, creating distance from the insect tide while making room for the high-end combat power of the 13th Division to enter the battlefield.

However, when the fleet just broke free from the harassment of the black-backed insects, they saw dozens of tall insect men in human form suddenly rushing out from the insect tide!

They can be more than three meters tall, with an insect-like triangular head, covered with yellow and black scales, and six legs. A pair of sturdy hind legs shaped like the back of a grasshopper are responsible for supporting the entire body, allowing it to walk on two legs.

The two pairs of forelimbs on the chest of the torso evolved into the claws on both sides of the long neck, and the long arms shaped like human hands, tightly grasping the sharp blades made of giant jaws.

These weird humanoid insects are the complete forms of warrior hunting insects that were hatched and bred by the Queen of Haicheng through continuous iterations!

The previous crude human-worm suture has been eliminated.

The human brain was transplanted directly into the Zerg's head, making their necks strangely long and slender.

Compared with the previous ones, the limb details of this group of warrior hunting insects are very different, but the body structure is roughly the same.

This means that although they are all products of the assembly line, they will no longer look the same after they have metamorphosed and developed into their complete form, depending on the differences in the human brains they are implanted in and the different abilities awakened in human cells.

Moreover, the more advanced and tighter fusion method has also caused the new generation of warrior hunting insects to shrink sharply in size, shrinking to about three meters, which is almost the same as the average height of human genetic warriors of two meters.

However, their first appearance almost caused heavy losses to the fleet!
If it weren't for Chen Yanyan's quick reaction, this group of hidden warrior hunters with sharp blades would have chopped the chariot into several pieces like cutting melons and vegetables.

But even so, their explosive speed of movement was much faster than that of the chariots that were retreating in reverse gear. At this moment, many of the chariots that were left behind were suddenly kicked back by the warrior hunting insects and landed on the front of the chariots.

The claws at the neck pierced straight into the engine cover, and then the sharp blades held tightly in both arms chopped into the tank's cockpit, piercing the driver's heart.

It was not until the shotgunners in the observation tower on top of the tank fired wildly that they were able to drive it back.

The seriously injured driver endured the severe pain and turned the tank around before dying. Then he stepped on the accelerator, fell headfirst on the steering wheel, and fainted.

This tank was able to escape from the battlefield with its team members, but the other tanks were not so lucky. Their engines were shattered and they were stranded in front of the insect tide. After being swallowed by the insect swarm, they became isolated islands to be slaughtered by the insects.

Chen Yanyan gritted her teeth and had to retreat first.

The reappearance of the Samurai Hunter dealt a heavy blow to the fleet.

Fortunately, the next moment...

Dozens of fully armed second-tier members...

Finally joining the battlefield!

They held makeshift giant jaw swords to stop the warrior hunting insects from continuing to invade.

At this moment, there was a fierce sound of artillery fire in the air, and a group of genetic warriors with green and yellow membranous wings arrived at the battlefield, also holding machine guns.

The leader, Shen Jie, and a second-stage warrior hunter insect that was still hiding in the insect tide, looked at each other...

In the eyes of both parties,
They all aroused strong murderous intent towards each other!
(End of this chapter)