Chapter 338: Raid From the Opposite Direction

Chen Ming focused his attention on the insect nest planet, which is now full of pits and pits that can be seen from space due to the shallow insect nest transformation.

At this time, the deep rock layers under the earth's crust have been exposed in many places on the Hive Planet.

But this does not mean that the coverage area of ​​the deep nest is small.

On the contrary, there are far more deep-level insect hives left than the shallow-level insect hives that have been converted into energy crystals and become Zerg cruisers.

It's just that they are all deep underground, constantly providing a steady stream of energy to the Zerg in space.

So that's what's even more outrageous.

Chen Ming now has the exception of the huge fleet of 100,000 Zerg cruisers that covers the sky on the Zerg Hive Planet.

It is possible to create three more identical or even larger fleets.

It's just not necessary.

The function of the deep insect nest itself is to absorb the nutrients of the planet and provide them to the shallow insect nest for cultivating new individuals.

That's why Chen Ming asked the insect queen to keep the deep insect nest and frantically expand the deep insect nest.

Let the bugs here turn the entire planet into nutrients for the Zerg.

The energy crystals produced by these insect nests will be directly sent to the set sail of the insect warships through the influence of spiritual energy.

This is not what Chen Ming did by using his spiritual energy, but the more powerful ability to coordinate the use of spiritual energy that the insect queen has mastered after devouring the fairy tree species and evolving.

The Insect Queen can already dispatch a small amount of Chen Ming's psychic effects like the Ship Spirit, providing extremely powerful logistical support to the Zerg.

The mere existence of these energy crystals is enough to cause the ships themselves to mitotically split into an identical Zerg fleet.

And as long as the deep insect nest parasitic on the planet still exists and the planet still exists, then these logistical supports can be said to be unlimited.

The Zerg can completely devour a planet and wipe out the life of a planet to create such terrifying Zerg fleets one after another.

This is the Zerg.

This is the Zerg.

So how did the Zerg race come to the brink of extinction in the first place? Are there no means of combat such as battleships?

Oh, no.

If you think about it carefully, it seems that the Zerg race is on the verge of extinction.

The current insect queen has been transformed several times by Chen Ming's spiritual power, and has evolved several times by eating a large number of living creatures and psychic creatures. The last time she even swallowed a fairy tree species, she evolved to her current existence.

The strength is definitely not on the same level as the previous Zerg, or even on the same plane.

In particular, the previous Zerg species could only swallow part of the minerals as nutrients.

But now the Zerg can directly swallow all inorganic substances such as soil and rocks as nutrients, and the efficiency is extremely exaggerated.

Today's Zerg can convert almost everything into nutrients, and this is the most terrifying thing.

But Chen Ming suddenly remembered the previous generation of insect queens.

It had earlier mastered the ability to convert mechanical battleships into biological battleships.

Although it may not be as strong as the insect queen it gave birth to, it is out of everyone's sight, and no one knows where it is and what it is doing.

And although it does not have the spiritual power to optimize itself, if the number of Zerg units increases, it may be possible to achieve such an effect just by mutation and evolution.

If the escaped first-generation insect queen really did these things, then the situation would seem to become a little complicated.

Forget it, now is not the time to think about such things.

Chen Ming restrained his divergent thoughts.

At least with the current order of magnitude, Zerg cruisers can even continue to be added at a terrifying speed if necessary in the future.

Chen Ming felt relieved enough.

But it's not enough.

Chen Ming has such a large Zerg fleet and is qualified to compete head-on with the Machine Race, but this does not mean that he must have the same combat effectiveness as the Machine Race.

Chen Ming had previously obtained the defense map of the Machine Clan through the Mechanical Empress, and knew that the Mechanical Clan had at least two battleships and tens of thousands of cruisers, as well as countless other ships.

But he also believes that the number of mechanical fleets is definitely more than this.

There are always some fleets used as reserve forces and mobile fleets.

Moreover, in the Mechanical Star Territory, which is about to have a battle with the Empire, the number of Mechanical Tribes as reserve forces and mobile fleets is likely to exceed the number of fleets deployed.

So in case of uncertainty, he has to use some other data as a reference.

Chen Ming remembered some of the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Star Territory.

For example, the standard combat power of the edge star field is a capital ship plus about 3,000 cruiser-level combat power, tens of thousands of destroyers and more escorts.

This was the situation in the Gallo Star Territory before. It was just because of internal corruption that the battleships were abandoned and a large number of cruisers were left unmaintained. In addition, many cruisers were scattered in different places throughout the star territory, so it seemed that the defense force was very empty. .

It's much better now.

Baiquan's branch took over the original army, and two battleships, one offensive-class and one legion-class, were always on standby here.

A large number of cruisers have been incorporated into the army after maintenance or reconstruction, and their combat effectiveness has basically exceeded the standard combat effectiveness of the edge star field.

But compared to the prosperous star field, it is still not enough. The fleet combat effectiveness of the prosperous star field can be simply and roughly increased ten times based on the standards of the edge star field.

ten times.

There is such a huge gap between the fringe and the prosperity.

This is determined by the development level of the star field itself. The more prosperous the place, the more advanced the ship research, the more ship factories there are, and the better the quality of the ships manufactured. This is inevitable.

It is precisely because of this problem that the border combat effectiveness is lower than that of the interior due to economic and environmental conditions that the empire has a star field joint war zone system.

This system that requires prosperous star fields to provide ship support for marginal star fields is beneficial to marginal star fields.

Of course, this is not important now.

The important thing is that Chen Ming can speculate the number of ships of the mechanical race based on these numbers.

According to the approximate number of combat ships in different star fields, the size of the mechanical race star field, and the development level of the mechanical race he knows,

Chen Ming first took the middle value of the combat effectiveness of the marginal star field and the prosperous star field for his speculated mechanical race star field war power.

That is, six battleships and 20,000 cruisers are the main force, and the number of remaining destroyer ships is about ten times, and the number of frigates should be two to five times that of destroyers.

Then, on this basis, multiply the number of battleships and cruisers, the main ships in the war, by 1.5 to 2.

This should be the real number.

About ten battleships, about 35,000 cruisers, and 200,000 destroyers and about 40 to 1 million escorts.

This is the most likely number of fleets for the mechanical race in a star field when it is about to face a war.

Of course, the number of battleships was simply and roughly increased by four because Chen Ming was not sure about the number of reinforcements from the external mechanical race star field.

The others should be similar.

Compared with the entire empire, the estimated combat power of the mechanical race star field is nothing, but war is not just about size.

Especially the foreign war initiated by the empire.

The scale of the mechanical race star field is enough for the empire to take seriously.

Winning can be said to be a must, but the losses in the process of winning must also be considered.

What strategic depth, what external support, what top weapons are all in the consideration of the war commander, all very troublesome.

Even the empire finds it troublesome, so Chen Ming certainly can't solve it easily.

However, for Chen Ming, small and medium-sized spaceships are nothing.

What does it matter if there are many small and medium-sized spaceships? They are just food in front of cruisers.

As for the mechanical race's cruisers.

Chen Ming really can't find a few spaceships of the same level that can compete with the Zerg cruisers, and the mechanical race's spaceships are definitely not good enough.

Not to mention that the number of cruisers is several times different, as long as Chen Ming wants, this gap can be expanded to dozens of times.

So the only trouble worth considering for Chen Ming is the mechanical race's main battleships and the main weapons possessed by the main battleships.

Main battleships are always a huge trouble.

Because there is a cliff-like gap in strength between cruisers and main battleships.

Even if there is only one main battleship, even if it can win by relying on the number of cruisers, the loss will be extremely heavy.

Not to mention that the mechanical race is not stupid, it is impossible to let the main battleship go alone.

And if the main battleships of the mechanical race are not dispersed, it is absolutely impossible to rely on cruisers to pile up to death.

Of course, Chen Ming will not be so wasteful.

With such a large number of cruisers, he had different options for combat methods, and there was no need to engage in direct combat with the mechanical race.

He already had an idea in mind for the specific plan.

It was a modified plan from the original plan made by the mechanical queen.

However, before the specific implementation, he had to use so many Zerg cruisers to help the pioneering fleet withdraw first.

To avoid the mechanical race discovering the temporary base during the battle between Chen Ming and the mechanical race, and then the mechanical race would choose to self-destruct in desperation.

Chen Ming felt that if the mechanical race was really given a chance, the mechanical race would definitely not mind jumping all the cruisers and main forces to Chen Ming's pioneering base to explode with him.

So it must first protect itself.

With the help of a large fleet and countless hardworking and uncomplaining worker insects who only obey orders, it does not take too much time to move and pack the materials.

The work that originally required several days of preparation was completely completed in just a few hours.

Everything in the two colonies was packed and sent to the spacecraft.

Next, in order to avoid the impact of the war, these Zerg and Yuhui's spacecraft will make three consecutive jumps.

From the original fourth extreme distance jump position, they will directly reach the position that should have been reached by the seventh extreme jump.

There are still seven jumps to the destination when Chen Ming chose the route.

The process is halfway through.

It takes three full days for the Empire to reach the place where the phase beast is rampant with only three extreme jumps.

It is difficult to quickly reach the place where seven extreme distance jumps are required.

Moreover, the jump of Qianmian can be said to be traceable.

After all, there is only one way to get out of the territory of the mechanical race and Yuhui from the direction of the Empire.

There will not be too much deviation in the jump.

But after several jumps, there is no reference route for the subsequent jump routes.

It is safe enough.

Looking at the countless Zerg ships, Chen Ming suddenly thought that at least he was not at a disadvantage in terms of the number of fleets.

The combat power of a Zerg planet is basically equivalent to that of a galaxy

This can only be said that the Zerg is too exaggerated after being strengthened by Chen Ming.

After all, whether it is the mechanical race or something else, a star field cannot only consider military strength.

It is necessary to comprehensively consider many aspects and limit the fleet to a certain appropriate number, and only produce troops when necessary.

Even if a large number of fleets are allocated to help with migration.

There are still enough Zerg cruisers to trouble the mechanical race.

Then, it is time to test the command technology level learned these days.

Chen Ming's eyes appeared out of thin air with star maps of nearby star fields.

These are all accurate star maps that his fleet has explored and mapped bit by bit.

The locations of all small bases are marked on them, and so are all the mechanical fleets that attacked his bases.

In order to completely erase Chen Ming's influence, the mechanical race attacked Chen Ming's small bases with carpet bombing, and also sent some mechanical units to the ground to inspect the ruins, striving to destroy all mechanized structures.

But what they don't know is that even if Chen Ming's mental power is completely exhausted, he can reconnect anything that has been connected through his psychic power.

From large industrial facilities to small iron atoms.

Unless the mechanical race can completely annihilate all molecular atoms when destroying small bases.

Otherwise, Chen Ming's eyes will always exist in the place covered by his psychic power.

But the mechanical race does not know this.

It is normal for them to be contaminated with some iron atoms when destroying small bases.

And this has led to the positions of almost all the mechanical race warships involved in the attack being clearly marked on the star map, and every active fleet has appeared in front of Chen Ming.

Most of the mechanical race's fleet returned to the vicinity of the cruiser that led them here after they completely destroyed Chen Ming's small base.

Let Chen Ming also mark the positions of those cruiser fleets.

The actions of these cruisers followed a large number of small and medium-sized ships, not only those ships that carried out the destruction of Chen Ming's small base, but also many other ships that have not yet taken action, all appeared in Chen Ming's eyes.

Some cruisers even carried war supplies, and provided them with supplies when some small ships consumed a lot of supplies in order to destroy Chen Ming's base.

In the process of providing supplies, direct contact occurred between the spacecraft.

As long as Chen Ming wanted, he could even use the iron atoms on these spacecraft to send the afterglow core over, create data lines and forcibly take over those cruisers.

But he didn't do it.

Because forcibly taking over the mechanical race will make the mechanical race individuals become abnormal sub-individuals and disconnect from the mechanical race network.

This will cause the controlled mechanical race to be discovered by the mechanical race immediately, and at the same time, it will make them discover that Chen Ming now has the means to directly use iron atoms to control the spacecraft.

When Chen Ming first came into contact with the mechanical race in the mechanical race star field, he personally put on power armor and ran to the mechanical race cruiser to control it.

In the eyes of the mechanical race, Chen Ming's ability must be limited by this.

Otherwise, Chen Ming would have controlled the entire afterglow, the entire mechanical race, and even all the mechanical structures of the entire empire.

So if Chen Ming's ability is exposed, many things he could do will not be able to be done.

For example, in the future, when the mechanical race's spacecraft with iron atoms controlled by his psychic power may be able to contact the mechanical race mothership, he can do some things.

Although it has not been encountered yet, there are definitely battleships in the mechanical race's star field, and the mechanical race has definitely prepared battleships to be used at any time.

It may be used on the Empire, or it may be used on Chen Ming.

What Chen Ming lacks most now is the battleship.

The battleship is the most critical existence of the fleet's combat power limit.

If he controls the cruiser for a little profit now, causing the mechanical race to be on guard, there will be no such good opportunity in the future.

And since the mechanical race may have restrictions that he must personally control some things.

Then the mechanical race being controlled means one thing to the mechanical race, that there must be Chen Ming in that place.

This is a misleading plan that can only be used once.

Chen Ming can't just destroy the environment where this plan can be implemented.

So there is nothing to say, none of these mechanical races can be controlled.

All mechanical races must die.

Under the meticulous command of the Queen and Chen Ming, 100,000 Zerg cruisers with Zerg sub-individual consciousness locked onto every spaceship that attacked Chen Ming's small base.

Or locked onto the cruiser fleet that led the small and medium-sized spaceships of the mechanical race to select the location of the jump and search for Chen Ming's temporary base.

Chen Ming arranged at least double the combat power for each locked place.

The combat power of the Zerg biological cruisers is quite sufficient.

The main weapons are plasma acid cannons and biological energy weapons that imitate tachyon spears.

The former is a product that has the form of energy restraint bombs, but is combined with chemical live ammunition weapons.

Relying on the plasma produced by the Aurora Wind Spirit gene in the Zerg gene and the highly corrosive acid of the Zerg itself as a means of damage.

The combined damage of the two can have a good effect on shield armor and hull.

And the latter is called the biological aggregate high-energy particle torrent launcher, needless to say.

The biological version of the tachyon spear, powered by the evolved fluorescent energy crystal, is more terrifying than the ordinary tachyon spear.

Not only because of the optimization of the energy source, but also because it is a biomass energy weapon.

As long as it is a biological being, it can be amplified by the Queen's psychic power.

Although the Queen's psychic power amplification is a comprehensive amplification, after this evolution, the Queen has been able to make some organs obtain more powerful additional amplification separately, and the amplification is still the function of the organ itself.

As a biological weapon, the amplification is of course combat performance.

The combat performance of the tachyon spear, including charging time, particle flow and duration, is stronger than that of ordinary models.

This is still the additional amplification brought by psychic power.

As long as Chen Ming or the Queen continues to develop more advanced biomass tachyon spears in the future, the power of these spears will be even stronger.

Other weapons include missile weapons such as biological missiles and carrier-based aircraft weapons such as biological fighters.

However, Chen Ming felt that these weapons would not have any chance to perform in this battle.

As for the Zerg spacecraft itself.

Although there is no shield, the Queen of Zerg cannot replicate the shield system even if it evolves.

In this case, the Queen of Zerg did not stick to the shield.

She chose to comprehensively strengthen the Zerg carapace, which is already very powerful.

Today, the Zerg carapace, that is, the armor of the Zerg spacecraft, is different from the past.

The seed coat structure of the fairy tree species eaten by the Queen of Zerg was also applied to the black carapace.

The seed coat of the fairy tree species is extremely strong, and Chen Ming's mental power cannot penetrate it.

This is not only a protection for mental power, but also physically strong.

Even the Queen of Zerg had to chew it herself to digest it.

Such a structure is applied to the carapace, which is enough to make the carapace armor of the Zerg cruiser stronger than the normal cruiser armor.

Such powerful Zerg cruisers gathered in the orbit of the hive planet.

Each one is confirming the target.

Each ship is preparing to start the biomass jump engine that the queen has completely transformed during the evolution cocooning process.

There is no need to worry about the instability of the hive mind network when the Zerg warships are far away from the queen after the jump.

After the queen absorbed the fairy tree seeds and completed the evolution, the hive mind network of the Zerg no longer relied on pheromones, fungi and a small amount of psychic energy as before.

Instead, it is maintained through a complete psychic mind network.

And the old method has not been abandoned. In places where psychic energy fluctuations cannot reach, pheromones and fungi can still be used as a way to build the Zerg network.

There is no need to worry about the same problem as the mechanical race, that is, losing connection when entering the psychic isolation area.

And it is this psychic-based hive mind network that allows the Zerg to gain some additional abilities.

As for what the specific abilities are, Chen Ming feels that he should see them soon.

Under such conditions, after the flash of the jump wave that is enough to disturb the space outside the Zerg hive planet and cause visible distortions,

Chen Ming sensed through the Queen Zerg that tens of thousands of Zerg cruisers that were about to set out had already arrived one by one.

The magnificent electric balls and the particle torrents that turned into pure white beams using the special energy crystallization function completely covered the mechanical fleet.

The black carapace, plasma acid balls and pure white beams brought an extreme visual impact.

The physical impact was no less than that.

No mechanical fleet in the picture could withstand more than three seconds.

All the Zerg fleets were destroyed by the enemy at the moment of the jump.

The cruisers crushed the destroyers and escorts, leaving the mechanical fleet no chance to resist.

The same was true for those mechanical cruisers, and they were even faster.

Because the number of fleets on Chen Ming's side was too large, he arranged a little more for those mechanical cruisers.

Therefore, the speed at which the Mechanical cruisers and other small and medium-sized ships following them were destroyed under the mindless firepower coverage of the Zerg cruisers was even faster than the speed at which the Zerg in other places needed to accurately destroy a few small boats.