I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

"The day the troops land is the day the nuclear explosion comes."

Everyone in the meeting room looked at each other in bewilderment. This was indeed a very important question. Could they withstand a nuclear explosion? It was not impossible if they had to, but they could only rely on the goddess to do it, and the price they paid might be something no one was willing to accept.

This is not about one person facing a nuclear bomb alone, but about the legion having to withstand the explosion of one or several large-yield nuclear weapons. If this were to happen, the power of faith accumulated by the alliance for hundreds of years would probably be drained at once.

So there is absolutely no such thing as a head-on attack. The country they are facing now has nuclear bombs with equivalents starting from hundreds of thousands to millions of tons, and more than just one or two. How can they withstand it?

'So what should our troops do?'

Anna took over and replied: "The answer is to do nothing."

'Um? '

Anna walked onto the stage and pointed at the location of Washington State on the map of America with a baton in her hand. "The next major goal of the Zerg is to occupy the Lewis-McChord Joint Base and Kisper Naval Base in the country."

"As long as the joint base is still there, there will be a steady stream of enemy troops arriving at the battlefield via transit. Currently, the Zerg forces have initially completed the occupation."

"The purpose of occupying Kispur Naval Base is to cut off its sea landing channel and reserve an outlet for our troops to land in the future. After solving the transit points of these two bases, we can expand overseas."

Anna's baton touched the Canadian area above, then slid down through Oregon and California to the area marked with Mexico, with a smile on her face:

"We have already eaten up the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division stationed in California. As long as we break through the defenses of Oregon, we will not encounter strong resistance from the land in a short period of time. The population of these three areas is about 200 million..."

"Once the Zerg branch enters Mexico, we will have a stable supply of logistics support. Then we can slowly take over the entire continent."

'What is the mission of our own soldiers?'

"Of course the mission is to wait for the right time to rescue this world invaded by bugs!"

Anna's face turned serious, and she said solemnly, "We Seris people love peace. We don't want to see world after world destroyed by the hateful Zerg, so we cross borders to hunt and kill the cancer of this world and restore peace to the universe!"

"Soon Her Majesty will block the memory of the officers and soldiers of the ace troops, so that they will forget some of the little experiences they had while serving in the Second World~"

Medea nodded in agreement. After the branch nest is established, the mother nest will be transferred to the third world of pain to avoid suspicion even if its mission is completed.

The branch nest that takes root on Earth will become the new mother nest. It has no other connection with the mother nest in the original world and is an independent mother body. Whatever sins are committed will naturally be borne by this branch itself.

They will destroy the nuclear weapons when they need to, and force you to throw big bombs when they need to. Anyway, their underlying genes are to devour everything they can to reproduce.

As long as the operation is good, the Zerg, with 200 million food supplies, can easily launch a protracted war.

Hundreds of millions of insects are running around all over the ground, and no one knows where they will come from. This is more tiring than fighting a guerrilla war.

After hearing this, everyone suddenly realized that there was no suitable excuse, so they found a target to legitimize the invasion.

No, it's not an invasion, it's an army of justice!

What? You said this was your land? You can talk to the bugs about this. What I took back is naturally mine. Besides, how can I better eliminate the bugs without a base?

If you have no moral principles and start internal strife when facing a powerful enemy, and bully an alien friend of mine who came from another world to help, and want to make some alien bleed and cry, then my sword will not be at all disadvantage!

At this time, the Lewisburg sub-base in Washington State had been breached by the Zerg tide, and the US military personnel stranded inside were completely slaughtered. A large number of corpses were swallowed by the tunnel worms and digested into the biomass needed by the Zerg, and discharged into the cracks on the surface.

Under the 350 square kilometers of grassland in the Lewisburg area, a large number of tunnel worms are digging diligently. The liquid secreted from their body surface hardens the soil, and from time to time they discharge groups of worker worms to expand the underground tunnel space at a very fast speed.

When there is enough space, groups of tunnel worms, knife worms, worker worms and other insects with different divisions of labor squeeze together in groups and stop their life activities. Their bodies degrade into mucus that covers the wide underground space.

After the required genetic information chain was completed, a huge blood cocoon slowly took shape in the center. The life matter covering the surface was continuously sucked into the cocoon, and the surging heartbeat sound resounded throughout the underground space.

'Boom boom! '

'Dongdong...'

Amid the sound of rapid heartbeats, the surface of the blood cocoon was covered with dense blood vessels, which spread and grew rapidly along the surrounding liquid pool.

Soon, flesh and blood tissue enveloped the entire underground space. The blood cocoon in the center had quietly disappeared at some point. The familiar hatching pool took shape in the flesh and blood, and insect eggs more than half a meter high drifted in the hatching liquid.

It was unknown how long it took before the eggs burst open, revealing the curled-up worker insects inside. After stretching their bodies, they swam out of the hatching pool to begin their first and last job as insects.

A branching insect nest completes the process from nothing to something and then to order at an extremely fast speed. Under the selection of genetic genes, everything is the best arrangement.

Naval Base Kitsap, also known as Kitsap Naval Base, is located on Kitsap Peninsula in Washington State and is formed by the merger of Bremer Naval Station and Bangor Naval Submarine Base.

It is the largest submarine naval base of the US military. Two aircraft carriers use it as their home port, namely the USS Nimitz and the USS John C. Stennis.

Of course, the largest number of them are submarines, including eight ballistic missile nuclear submarines, three attack nuclear submarines and two cruise missile nuclear submarines. This is also the third largest nuclear weapons warehouse in America, with about 1700 Trident submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

The Zerg suffered many times from the attacks of the two cruise missile nuclear submarines, whether it was the Tomahawk or the AGM-158, they were the portals launched by them.

Therefore, the number of tunnel worms attacking here is the largest, accounting for 80% of the Zerg forces.

Logically speaking, such a powerful naval base should have very terrifying defensive capabilities, but in fact, for the Zerg, there is not much difference between the two compared to Fort Lewis.

It is true that the Kitsap Naval Base is powerful. Its two aircraft carrier fleets and more than a dozen nuclear submarines are the top combat power on Blue Planet that can destroy a country wherever they are placed. However, their strength lies in external attacks rather than attacking their own country.

America has an air force and navy that crush the world, and a submarine force that appears and disappears at will. Any country in the world would feel the fear of being strangled by the Grim Reaper's scythe if they were to face it head-on. But to the Zerg, that's all bullshit.

I am the only one who has no home and I am not afraid of your revenge. As long as your home is my home, I even hope you will retaliate with nuclear weapons. If you are so awesome and capable, you can drop a nuclear bomb on your home port. If you don't, you are my grandson!

As soon as dozens of tunnel worms that had drilled through the ground appeared, they spit out a swarm of knife worms on the ground. The swarm formed by tens of thousands of knife worms madly attacked the base's defense line like a wave.

Naturally, the US military could not give up this naval base which was extremely important to them. The various fighter jets, attack aircraft and main gun missiles of the destroyers of the aircraft carrier battle group cruising nearby poured a dense metal storm on the area where the insect swarm was formed.

In front of such a strategic-level base, no one dared to study the cost-effectiveness. All attacks within the base's tolerance were launched regardless of cost. Every medium-sized and heavy-duty aerial bomb and artillery shell could easily take the lives of hundreds of insects.

The broken limbs of the swarm even formed a 20-centimeter-thick mountain of insects in the heavy fire coverage area around the base, and the degradation rate could not keep up with the loss rate.

But the Zerg tide seemed to have no end. Thousands of Zerg swarms appeared on the radar all the time, and were then destroyed by precision strikes. Then another one appeared and was destroyed again, and this cycle continued over and over again.

"Fuck! Is this going to end? Where on earth do all these bugs come from? ! "

Vice Admiral Paul, the captain of the USS Stennis, looked at the swarm mentality that kept appearing on the big screen and cursed angrily.

His heart is bleeding. Every missile launch and every carrier-based aircraft takeoff is throwing money into a bottomless pit. Under his instructions, the US military has tried its best to control the cost of deploying weapons. How much can it save?

You have to know that even if you only use the antique A-10 attack aircraft, the total cost of one attack is more than 200 million Miyuan. The missiles are even more expensive. One missile will evaporate more than Miyuan on the spot, and what you are shooting at is just a bug.

Can bugs be considered high-value targets?

Now it seems that the most cost-effective ones are those warships that attack with their main guns, but they don’t have many shells. After all, this world is dominated by beyond-visual-range strikes, and they don’t know how long it has been since they fought such a brutal battle like the one they are fighting now.

When the Kitsap Naval Base was hit by the insect swarm, most of the US military-supported armed forces were rushing to this area. If any one of the thousands of nuclear bombs in the warehouse had a problem, the entire peninsula would be completely wiped off the map.

Without the protection of its two largest military bases, the state can only rely on the high-intensity air force and the state's National Guard to resist. All areas of Washington state are falling rapidly at a speed that is difficult for ordinary people to understand.

The fungal mat that spread along with the insect tide is the culprit of all this. As the name suggests, the fungal mat is a highly concentrated bacterial community, which itself functions as a huge digester.

You only need to place the inactivated flesh and blood on the fungal blanket. In a short while, it will be decomposed into nutrients by the fungus and transported through internal pipes to various underground incubation pools for genetic recombination incubation.

Although the external hatching pool cannot adjust the hatching species and functions as flexibly as the mother nest, it can indeed rigidly execute the simplest hatching of knife worms in the mother nest's vein fulcrum.

This is also the most brainless aspect of the Zerg. As long as there is resource conversion, there is no need to worry about a lack of new Zerg replenishment. This is also the fundamental reason why they can never be killed completely at the naval base.

No matter how many people you kill, the fungal mat buried underground can convert the corpses back into biomass and flow them back for recycling. Even if it cannot be converted without loss, recycling 60% is disgusting enough.

However, this was also because America suffered a loss in information. If napalm bombs and white phosphorus bombs were used, the results would be completely different.

The microorganisms on the fungal mat cannot survive the continuous high-temperature combustion, so it is naturally impossible for them to return the substances.

It was precisely because they ignored the fungal mat that followed the spread of the Zerg that the National Guard became weaker and weaker. Their logistical and ammunition supplies could not keep up, and they became increasingly powerless.

Every time a line of defense is breached, a large number of civilians will be systematically slaughtered and inactivated, and then transformed into biological machines without intelligence, faithfully carrying out all orders issued by the brain worm.

As time went on, it seemed that the naval base was only fighting the Zerg in one area, but in fact, by the mid-term, they were fighting the entire population resources of Washington State.

And how many people are there in Washington State? 7.4 million!

Even if we ignore those who managed to escape, and assume that the conversion rate for those killed during the transformation is 60%, the Kitsap Naval Base would conservatively have to kill million Zergs to achieve their goal of successful defense.

But is this possible?

Chapter 488: Arrogance always comes at a price.

The missiles were endless, and the insect swarms were endless, but the stalemate between the two sides was soon broken by the US military reinforcements.

Through the undisturbed coastline, the 1st Marine Division stationed at Camp Pendleton, California, reached Puget Sound by transport ship and quickly landed under the fire cover of the naval fleet.

This unit is the elite force of the US regular army, the main division of the Marine Corps and the Pacific Strategic Mobile Force, with a reorganized force of 80 people, 233 main tanks, 165 amphibious vehicles, 273 armored vehicles, 465 artillery pieces, 106 anti-tank missile launchers, and air defense missile systems.

火炮中155毫米榴弹炮108门，203毫米榴弹炮12门，81毫米迫击炮72门，61毫米迫击炮81门，大量的火炮和装甲车辆可算是解决了海军舰队目前面临的难题。

The artillery barrage formed by 120 large-caliber artillery pieces almost instantly wiped out all the insect swarms moving on the ground, which was many times more powerful than fancy missiles.

The most important point is that artillery shells are very cheap, and the US military's naval and air logistics support capabilities are world-famous, which made these generals and commanders breathe a sigh of relief and start celebrating.

But the commander of the 1st Division brought them some not-so-good news, that is, after their stockpiled ammunition was used up, it would be basically impossible to get a supply of artillery shells in a short period of time.

"Fuck You! What nonsense are you talking about! We in America may lack anything, but how could we lack artillery shells? Did you eat our sealed stock?"

The goal of America's standing stockpile of ammunition is to meet the U.S. military's ammunition consumption for at least 30-60 days in the event of a major conflict. Don't underestimate this number, which is only one to two months. It depends on the U.S. military's definition of a major conflict and its timeline.

The definition of a major conflict for the US military refers to a war of the scale of World War II. In the late stages of World War II, the total number of US armed forces exceeded 1000 million, of which the total number of frontline troops reached 400 million. The weapons reserves are prepared based on the "number of personnel" for such a "major conflict".

The "Van Fleet ammunition" is a representation of the amount of weapons used and stored in the country. In 126 days, a division of 9 guns fired more than 36 rounds of artillery shells, an average of more than 2800 rounds per gun, and more than 320 rounds per gun per day.

Given the nature of the American authorities at the time and the tense environment of the subsequent Cold War, they would definitely produce enough weapons to store in accordance with the needs of an army of tens of millions.

And you tell me there aren't enough shells? Isn't that hilarious?

The commander of the First Naval Division looked at the furious captain with a helpless expression on his face and briefly explained the current situation to his superior.

There are weapons and ammunition sealed in the war reserve warehouse, and it can even be said that there are plenty of them.

But what is a bit embarrassing is that after so many years, the data and information of those equipment 'graveyards' have been almost lost. You can still count how many large equipment are stored here, but there is no way to count the specific types of ammunition and other things.

The most embarrassing thing is that the directional ammunition with accurate data internally, such as 155mm and 203mm artillery shells, were basically donated to the Ermao. Within more than a year after the war started, America sent more than 200 million stockpiled ammunition, and later wanted to send 300 million cluster bombs.

All the artillery shells in stock have been sent out, so can we rely on existing military factories to produce them? The answer is yes, but we have to wait.

After the dissolution of a certain Red Brother, America's military industry underwent a large-scale reduction, and its production capacity suddenly evaporated by one-third. Nearly 6 years have passed since then, and now there are only factories that can still produce.

Note that it is a factory, not an enterprise.

Why did it drop so much? Because there was no demand.

Under America's competitive mechanism, companies without demand can only go bankrupt. Take America's war against a certain camel as an example. The average number of artillery shells dropped from 13 to 19 was less than 4000.

就按创纪录的19年数据，7400枚，就算这7300枚全部按照MK82这个500磅装药的炸弹也不过消耗1791吨弹药量，1800吨换算成炮弹折合下来155毫米炮弹约38000枚。

Ermao can fire thousands of shells a day, and America may not consume as much as others in a month even if they fight for a year. Under this procurement mechanism, the factories producing shells would have starved to death long ago.

The division commander did not dare to tell the captain that the remaining six artillery shell factories were all about a hundred years old. After all, according to the previous demand, even if the old equipment was fully manual, the production of any one of them for two months would be enough for the US military to use for two years...

The factory building is made of red bricks, and the protective material used to seal the equipment is asbestos, a carcinogenic material. Just because of this, when the factory was allowed to resume work to produce shells for Ermao, no workers were willing to come.

All the sealed mechanical equipment are of the ancestral level. They all need to be operated manually and no modern technicians know how to use them. Even if they are used reluctantly, problems will arise. More than a dozen major production accidents had occurred before the insects invaded.