One Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty-Three Strong Attack
The aliens fought again and again after repeated defeats, and finally captured the artillery array, but the artillery array was sent into the sky by a nuclear bomb in the blink of an eye, and all the giant insects and servants near the artillery array followed them into the sky, which was a heavy loss.
It is said that the aliens should have been quiet for a while, but they did not. They immediately organized another ground force and set off for another artillery array.
"It's just that they don't know how to live or die!" Ye Han, who was far away on the Leishan, commented.
Although the aliens succeeded once, it was the result of Yuzhou's unwillingness to fight hard. Now two full days have passed. Nanzhou will be able to return to Ceres in two days. However, no matter how small Ceres is, its diameter is more than a thousand kilometers. From the No. 1 artillery array to the No. 2 artillery array, the straight-line distance is no less than a thousand kilometers, and the actual distance is at least 1,400 kilometers.
No matter how fast the giant insects crawl, they can't crawl to the place in two days. What's more, the Yuzhou battle group can't let them crawl so comfortably. They have already made preparations on the road, waiting for the enemy to get into the trap.
The aliens are not stupid, they just don't understand human methods, but after so many battles, they should know something even if they don't understand. As long as their IQ is normal, they should not continue to attack.
However, the aliens are very eager to monopolize Ceres, and they would rather bear huge losses for this.
The aliens know very well that the human fleet is about to return. In order to buy time for the ground forces, the alien fleet is divided into two, half of which stays on Ceres to continue to support the ground forces, and the other half leaves Ceres. All warships act separately and take the initiative to meet the returning human warships.
The battle develops from space to the ground, and then from the ground to space. The military operations of both sides around Ceres are becoming more and more complicated.
In order to buy time, the aliens leave all the insect machines to the ground forces to speed up the transfer of the ground forces.
The remaining aliens dare not neglect and immediately organize troops to attack. Thousands of insect machines are crawling with enemy soldiers, and car bugs and armored bugs are huddled together and hanging under the insect machines.
Maybe the giant insect is too heavy, or maybe to reduce the burden, the insect machine is not hanging the giant insect, but three or more insect machines cooperate. I don't know what they use to hold the giant insect and fly at low altitude. The speed is not very fast. Even if there is an accident on the way, it will not kill the giant insect.
Ye Han thought that the enemy did this to prevent the attack of the Yuzhou battle group, but before the Yuzhou took action, the insect machine on the transfer had an accident. The insect machine suddenly lost control and fell, and the enemy soldiers on its back fell like dumplings.
The other two insect machines immediately pulled the insect tight, and several nearby insect machines rushed up to hold the insect.
This situation is a bit weird. Why is it self-destructing? And as soon as there is a problem here, the other side immediately fills the position. This must be prepared in advance!
The falling insect machine bounced a few times on the ground, and it didn't seem to have any problems, but it couldn't fly anymore. I don't know what went wrong.
At first, Ye Han thought it was a recurrence of an old injury, but soon found that it was not the case, because other insect machines also had similar problems, falling down one after another. After falling to the ground, they moved a few times at most, and could only fly again.
This is interesting. Ye Han immediately found the information of the insect machine, and let alone let him find some clues.
The matter has to start with the flight principle of the insect machine. This thing flies by vibrating and throwing away gas molecules. In other words, gas molecules are the fuel of the insect machine.
As for whether these fuels are added by aliens or accumulated by the insect machine itself, no one knows.
According to Beiyuezhou’s research, the flight method of the insect machine is relatively primitive, and its efficiency is far less than that of the jet engine using chemical fuel. It can only fly in a weightless or microgravity environment.
Seeing this, Ye Han understood that although the gravity of Ceres is so low, it is also a big burden for the insect machine. Moreover, the insect machine is not flying by itself, but also has to carry so many enemy soldiers and giant insects, which increases the burden of the insect machine.
This is like a person carrying dozens of kilograms on a flat ground, which is at most a burden, but if you do this on a plateau, it is not much different from seeking death.
In other words, the fallen insect planes either ran out of fuel,
or the burden was too heavy and crushed their backbones.
Ye Han would rather tire out the insect planes than send the ground troops to the front line. He has a new understanding of the aliens' determination.
It is said that the insect plane has a problem, which is the best time to deal with this enemy, but the Yuzhou still did not move and remained silent.
Ye Han knew that the Yuzhou must want to wait for the best time.
The enemy continued to advance, more and more insect planes fell, and more and more enemy soldiers stayed on the road. The Yuzhou finally felt that the time was ripe and raised its altitude to fire at the enemy.
The enemy's ground troops did not care, neither fighting back nor stopping, and their only reaction was to speed up and rush forward.
However, the fleet left by the aliens moved, quickly flew over the ground troops, and had a long-range bombardment with the Yuzhou battle group.
At present, the distance is still far, beyond the range of the guns of both sides. It is no problem to hit the enemy soldiers and giant insects, but the battleship bombardment is not the same. Even if the enemy ships are hit, they will not cause much damage. It is not a life-and-death battleship confrontation, but a bit like a lame performance in a third-rate science fiction movie.
Yuzhou simply ignored the alien fleet and fired at the ground, giving priority to destroying the enemy's living forces.
The alien fleet was also unambiguous, and all its firepower was aimed at the Yuzhou battle group, trying to contain the Yuzhou battle group.
In this case, the alien ground forces still did not give up and continued to advance despite huge losses.
The aliens soon found that this was not going to work. If they continued to persist, the ground troops would be wiped out before they could reach the designated position.
In desperation, the aliens ordered the ground troops to stop advancing and rely on favorable terrain to resist human attacks. Then the giant worms dug holes on the spot, intending to dig their way under the artillery array, and then rush out of the ground to completely occupy the artillery array.
This method was indeed very effective. At least they did not have to face human air strikes. The only disadvantage was that the speed was too slow. The straight-line distance was six or seven hundred kilometers. Not to mention two or three days, it would take ten or half a month to dig through.
Soon after, all the alien ground troops moved underground, and the follow-up troops also went into the caves. Only the alien fleet remained in low-altitude orbit.
Two days later, the first returning human warship returned to Ceres, but a few hours later, the Nanzhou returned, and the other warships returned in the next few days.
For safety, the alien fleet, which originally wanted to persist, had to evacuate Ceres and leave all the ground troops that had drilled into the caves.
Fortunately, all the ground troops were hidden underground, so there was no need to worry about air strikes from the human fleet.