Chapter 339: Pursuit

It took only thirty seconds from the start of the biomass jump engine to the completion of the Zerg fleet's mission.

And it was in those thirty seconds.

The entire mechanical star field lost more than 200,000 small and medium-sized ships under the precise raid of the Zerg biological ships.

The loss of destroyers alone was close to one-third of the entire star field.

But under the premise that Chen Ming sent more than 50,000 cruisers, this number was honestly a bit small.

Among them, Chen Ming deliberately arranged some Zerg cruisers to appear in places where there were no mechanical races, causing some Zerg cruisers to miss.

Because the Zerg can lock the mechanical race so accurately and on such a large scale, the mechanical race will definitely suspect the reason behind it.

Chen Ming did not want the mechanical race to detect his way of tracking these mechanical race ships through the common feature that these attacked ships had attacked his base.

So he made some extra preparations.

For example, the Zerg itself has the ability to track the mechanical race, because the mechanical race's nanorobots will produce a kind of toxic waste when they are in operation.

This kind of waste can be easily discovered by the Zerg, and the source of the waste can be accurately locked even if it is thousands of miles away.

That is why Chen Ming asked the Zerg to track the Mechanical Clan, and he himself did not interfere with these Zerg cruisers.

He would never let his psychic power show up before confirming that all Mechanical Clan units were destroyed.

Let the Mechanical Clan think that all this was done by the Zerg themselves.

Although the Mechanical Clan had already learned that Chen Ming had the ability to control the Zerg when Chen Ming attacked the Mechanical Clan's stronghold last time.

But this does not affect Chen Ming's current behavior.

The closer the relationship between Chen Ming and the Zerg is, the more likely the Mechanical Clan will ignore the role of Chen Ming's psychic power.

Although Chen Ming does not think that the Mechanical Clan will ignore his psychic power, if he shows more Zerg-related abilities, then his mechanical-related abilities will definitely decrease accordingly.

The possibility of the Mechanical Clan realizing the effect of Chen Ming's psychic power will also be reduced.

At least it will reduce the probability that they will investigate the iron atoms contaminated on those Mechanical Clan.

Of course, even so, the mechanical race may indeed suspect that only the spacecraft that attacked Chen Ming's base was attacked by the Zerg warship, and further suspect that there was something in the base that caused it to be tracked.

But the extra Zerg fleet arranged by Chen Ming should be able to further dispel the mechanical race's idea.

He also arranged Zerg fleets to jump to many places where the mechanical race did not exist.

Of course, this non-existence is just that he himself does not know whether it exists or not.

In fact, there is a high probability that the mechanical race exists in those places.

Because the mechanical race just launched a carpet search for so many small bases of Chen Ming, it means that they have definitely dispersed a large number of fleets, and the mechanical race may exist anywhere.

As long as the additional Zerg sent can contact those mechanical fleets that are only responsible for reconnaissance but not for attack, the effect will be achieved.

It can even be said that no matter whether the extra Zerg sent by Chen Ming encounters the mechanical race, as long as they jump over, they will leave traces.

If traces are left, the investigation process of the mechanical race will be disturbed by these Zerg cruisers that waste resources to jump over, and misled in the wrong direction.

This is Chen Ming's arrangement, and I don't know how much the mechanical race will believe it.

They don't believe everything they see, but they don't completely disbelieve these means arranged by Chen Ming.

In general.

In order to prevent the mechanical race from discovering the effect of Chen Ming's psychic power too early, the resource exchange ratio of the reverse attack launched by Chen Ming this time is very unfavorable.

The cost and the gain can be said to be completely out of proportion.

Although tens of thousands of Zerg cruisers use biological jump engines, they have various usage restrictions like ordinary jump engines. Jumping requires resources and maintenance after the jump is also required.

Even if Chen Ming uses psychic power to repair, he can't save materials.

The resources consumed and the results achieved are completely asymmetrical.

And the war is fought on the exchange ratio of resources.

If the exchange ratio is unfavorable, even if you win the war, you may not necessarily make a profit.

However.

Chen Ming doesn't care about or fear the consumption of resources.

At least he is not afraid of the consumption of resources by the Zerg.

The Zerg can devour everything and convert it into nutrition.

And the universe is so big, there are so many planets that can be devoured.

So he can take the initiative to make such an exchange ratio.

Even if it costs tens of thousands of cruisers to destroy a battleship, he is willing to do these things.

Of course, forget about the big loss, such as exchanging hundreds of ships for a cruiser, he still won't do such stupid things.

But for some things that are not so lossy and can cause losses to the resources of the mechanical race, he can do them without considering the loss.

So even if the few mechanical cruisers just received the news that a large number of their own race were destroyed at the same time, they relied on the cover of other ships that did not have time to escape and successfully jumped to the evacuation spacecraft.

Chen Ming did not want to let it go.

They can't escape.

Because at this time, all the Zerg cruisers that jumped over, at the same time after destroying the mechanical fleet, showed signs of Chen Ming's psychic fluctuations.

This is not Chen Ming, whose mental power has not recovered enough, calling on psychic energy, but the Zerg borrowing Chen Ming's psychic energy.

Using the psychic connection between Chen Ming and the Queen, the individual consciousness of the Zerg in the Zerg psychic hive network can also dispatch Chen Ming's psychic energy to a certain extent.

This requires the consumption of the individual Zerg's own mental power and a large amount of energy, and the efficiency of using psychic energy is also low, and the psychic energy dispatched has little effect.

It is only the most basic of the many abilities that Chen Ming has now.

Repair.

This psychic energy is enough.

A few minutes are enough to repair the biomass jump engine that needs maintenance.

The Zerg fleet can immediately track the jump traces of the mechanical race and catch up with them.

However, before the jump, Chen Ming must first confirm the purpose of the other end of the jump wave by letting go of several mechanical cruisers.

At this time, Chen Ming unexpectedly discovered that the destination of the escaped spacecraft was close to the border of the mechanical race star field.

And at that location, there happened to be the mechanical psychic biological conversion device of the mechanical race that Chen Ming learned from the Queen.

This kind of place must have the defense power of the mechanical race.

And the fact that the mechanical cruiser went to that place on purpose also indicated that it was likely a trap.

But Chen Ming had nothing to worry about now.

The Zerg fleet unified the time and launched a jump again.

After a few seconds of jump, the Zerg fleet appeared in the galaxy where Chen Ming had already known the situation of the entire galaxy.

However, there was a little more information here than Chen Ming knew.

There was an additional mechanical mothership docked above the orbit of the planet where Chen Ming's target was located,

and about 5,000 mechanical cruisers following the mothership, tens of thousands of destroyers, and about 30,000 guards.

The mechanical family deployed troops here, waiting for the arrival of the Zerg fleet.

Even if there was a battleship parked there, Chen Ming had no fear or worry at all.

He did not let the fleet retreat.

Because for the Zerg fleet, the only real enemy was that battleship, and the rest were just food.

Don't look at the battleship, just look at the lower-level spacecraft.

The number of Zerg cruisers on Chen Ming's side is already more than the cruisers, destroyers, and escorts of the mechanical race combined.

The main battleship has no way to protect those lower-level ships.

The chain shield it has is used to resist the attack of the main weapons of the same level, not to resist the weapons of the lower-level ships.

Although it can resist these attacks by changing the chain frequency, it is usually used to reduce the damage unless the battle has entered the endgame.

Otherwise, the main battleship will never do that.

Because if it really gives so many cruisers a layer of chain shield that can resist the attack of ships of the same level, it will cause the shield of this main battleship to withstand the terrifying concentrated fire of 50,000 cruisers at the same time.

So what the mechanical mothership will do next is to destroy the Zerg warships as soon as possible.

No matter how efficient the main battleship's attack is, it is impossible to solve all 50,000 cruisers in a short time.

This is an opportunity.

As long as these lower-level ships are gone, the main battleship will sooner or later be defeated by the concentrated fire of the Zerg fleet.

Chen Ming can also use the organizational structure of the Zerg unit to mark the battleship, and even use the afterglow core to control the mothership.

This is a battleship.

Chen Ming must not miss the opportunity to directly obtain it.

The battle is about to start.

Chen Ming immediately let the Zerg fleet disperse in a dense formation after the jump to avoid being skewered by the weapons of the mechanical race.

At the same time, Chen Ming's attention was immediately focused on the spine cannon of the mechanical race's mothership.

There are three spine cannons on the mothership.

The one in the center uses an old-fashioned design, a laser spine cannon head, which purely emits high-intensity lasers.

It looks ordinary, but it does have the power of a main-class weapon.

The spine cannons distributed on the left and right sides of the spacecraft are new.

It is the main-class weapon of the live ammunition type that He Gu showed Chen Ming before.

However, there is a big problem with live ammunition weapons in actual combat.

It is a kind of mass void effect that exists in this world.

The closer the speed of an object is to the speed of light, the lower its mass will be.

So when the speed of a live ammunition weapon breaks through a limit, the closer it is to the speed of light, the lower its mass will be, and of course the lower its power will be.

When developing and testing live ammunition weapons, a suitable speed must be selected to maximize the ratio of speed to mass under the formula of this effect, so that the application of live ammunition weapons can be realized.

So far, as far as Chen Ming knows, the only high-speed live ammunition weapon is the Gauss cannon, a large weapon.

The main weapon of the capital ship is really unprecedented.

The mechanical family was the first to come up with it.

But it's good this way.

At least this mothership does not have the other psychic ridge cannon head that Chen Ming learned from He Gu, nor does it have the only one destroyer that Chen Ming himself knows about. This is good news.

If the enemy does not have psychic power, many things will be much easier to do.

Just like now.

The Zerg fleet at the edge of the galaxy has already dispersed and charged towards the mechanical family fleet with the idea of ​​death.

The distance between the two sides has not yet shortened to the firing range of the Zerg weapons, but has entered the firing range of the mechanical mothership.

The two ridge cannons on the left and right of the mothership are all lit up with a glow of energy surge.

The arc at the muzzle began to flicker violently.

But at this moment, no real bullets were fired. Instead, the gun head was in that arc, and some structural changes were taking place.

However, soon, the mechanical family completed the structural adjustment of the gun head.

At the moment when the arc began to flicker again, countless threaded steel needle-like warheads were accelerated to the limit under the mass void effect, and shot at the Zerg fleet like an impenetrable rainstorm.

Although the length of these steel needle warheads is about three meters, the diameter is close to 40 centimeters, and the size is not small.

But in the dark space, the Zerg has no effective detection means for this high-speed warhead without any thermal energy reaction.

They can only rely on luck to avoid it.

But as long as it touches a little, the terrifying speed carried by the warhead will tear the carapace of the Zerg cruiser apart, taking away large pieces of tissue and flesh.

Even the black carapace that had been reinforced once again could not stop it at all.

And if these steel needle warheads hit directly, the Zerg warship would be completely penetrated.

The terrifying kinetic energy and spiral rotating warheads would completely tear apart all the biological tissues inside the Zerg cruiser.

Even these warheads could penetrate another warship and continue to penetrate the next one without losing momentum.

The body length of 1,200 meters could not stop this powerful live ammunition warhead.

Chen Ming frowned after seeing this.

It was not because of the damage suffered by the Zerg fleet. As long as the critical structure was not damaged or it was directly hit, those injuries could be quickly recovered with the supply of a large amount of energy crystals.

The reason for his frown was that the power of this weapon seemed to be more than that.

Being able to directly destroy a cruiser with a single shot can be regarded as a qualified main force weapon.

But from the change in the structure of the gun head during the arc flashing just now, it can be seen.

This ridge peak gun head obviously has another mode.

Chen Ming used the visual information brought back by the Zerg's biological compound eyes to continuously analyze the structure of the ridge cannon muzzle.

It was found that the design of the structure itself was relatively simple, that is, a deformable nested weapon structure that combined two weapons of similar nature, and could use each other's structure.

One of the structures is like now, firing a large number of steel needles with speed boosted to the limit.

Some are similar to a weapon called Storm Needle that Chen Ming once knew about, but more powerful.

And the other weapon structure seems to be able to fire a super-large live ammunition with a diameter of more than 100 meters.

Similar to the large live ammunition fired by the Gauss cannon.

The diameter of the Gauss cannon's shells seems to be about 20 meters.

Now this shell with a diameter of 100 meters has increased in volume by 125 times, and the mass may have increased by the same or even more.

Such a large live ammunition has been accelerated to the extreme, and the power...

Chen Ming dared not think about it.

But the hit rate of this thing should be very problematic.

It can only hit the battleships of the same level, or attack some fixed targets.

This thing is not very useful against cruiser ships.

That is why the mechanical mothership will switch the weapon form and transform it into firing needles before the battle officially begins.

Chen Ming has a feeling.

This gun head is actually a combination of storm needles and Gauss guns.

Then the size of the weapon is simply enlarged, and after supplying a huge amount of energy, a powerful brick-flying effect is achieved.

After all, both Gauss guns and storm needles are large-scale live ammunition weapons, and both have application environments. There is no problem in developing more advanced weapons based on these two.

There is indeed no problem in use, and the effect is there.

Chen Ming can even be said to have experienced it personally.

But this kind of live ammunition weapon still has its limitations. Space combat, especially the ultra-long distance of the battleship level, is enough to cross half of the galaxy.

The accuracy of live ammunition weapons is a difficult problem to solve.

At least now the ridge peak gun head that the mechanical family has just taken out is still not as efficient as the energy ridge peak gun in the center of the mothership that was activated after the mechanical family tested the live ammunition gun head.

I saw a red laser beam converged on the center gun bow of the mothership and shot out.

As long as the red laser beam swept through, the high-heat energy would destroy everything it touched.

Countless Zerg cruisers were cut, burned, and destroyed, disappearing like snowflakes.

There was almost no ability to resist.

But now the snow in this galaxy is not a light snow, but a blizzard that is enough to cover the entire world.

After adapting to the combat style of the mechanical race, Chen Ming began to command and dispatch the Zerg cruisers to perform instant short-distance jumps to avoid the attack of the mothership.

After losing thousands of cruisers in just a few minutes.

The Zerg fleet finally approached the distance enough to launch an attack.

At this moment, the mechanical cruisers also pressed closer from the edge of the battle line.

They wanted to cooperate with the mothership to suppress the Zerg fleet.

And at the moment when both sides entered their respective ranges.

Around the formation of the mechanical fleet, and even inside the formation, there were surging jump fluctuations.

Looking at the scale of the jump fluctuations, there are at least 100,000 cruisers approaching here.

That is the new batch of biological warships that Chen Ming asked the Queen to prepare just now.

After the Queen had the first experience, the efficiency of subsequent biological warship manufacturing was even more terrifying.

This number is enough to completely overwhelm the mechanical race.

The mechanical race can't stand and wait for death.

They also want to start the jump engine for short-distance jumps within the galaxy to avoid their formation being disturbed.

But the surging jump fluctuations at their current location have hindered the activation of the mechanical race's jump engine to a certain extent.

In just a dozen seconds, a brand new Zerg fleet appeared in the galaxy.

The battle situation was completely chaotic.

Although the melee is acceptable to the Zerg and the mechanical race with hive thinking.

But the Zerg's ship facilities carry a large number of missile weapons and biological fighters.

The role that these two can play in the melee is much greater than that of the mechanical race.

Moreover, when one side in the melee has completely crushed the other side, the melee becomes a one-sided massacre.

Although the orbital defense industrial facilities on the planet behind the mechanical race and the ground orbital defense industrial facilities can also launch attacks on the Zerg.

And the firepower of a planet did cause serious losses to the Zerg fleet.

But this did not affect the complete destruction of the mechanical fleet in just one encounter.

Only one battleship barely maintained its all-round shield and was not directly destroyed.

But if it hesitated a little more, the result would be the same.

Unfortunately, the mechanical mothership did not hesitate.

At the moment when the Zerg fleet completed the jump, it knew that the situation was hopeless.

Even in the melee, a large number of Zerg cruisers were destroyed.

But even the concentrated fire of the remaining 130,000 cruisers is definitely not something that a single battleship can withstand.

Even if many cruisers cannot attack the battleship because of the blocked firing range, the result will not change.

Quantitative change has caused qualitative change.

It had completely given up on active attacks, and had put all its energy systems into passive defense weapons and shields.

At the moment when it was about to encounter concentrated fire.

It successfully started the jump engine.

Evacuated from here.

In this battle, Chen Ming won a great victory.

He was not in a hurry to chase the mechanical race's battleship.

After all, the mechanical race must have more than one battleship, although it is not clear why the mechanical race has no other battleships to support.

But Chen Ming could not deny the possibility that there were other battleships where the mothership just escaped.

It was already very good to achieve the results.

Not to mention... Chen Ming had just let the crazy bugs sprinkle some of their body tissue or blood on the mothership.

There was no need to pay attention to the mothership for the time being.

Chen Ming now had another thing to do.

His eyes gradually turned to the planet that was still using orbital defense facilities to attack Chen Ming's fleet.

Although the mechanical race mothership retreated, their support could arrive at any time.

Chen Ming must fight quickly and seize the mechanical psychic biological conversion facility.

130,000 cruisers is already an exaggerated number in a ship war.

Even when facing the firepower of a planet, it is the same.

Although the magnitude of the cruiser's weapons is far from that of the main battleship even if it is concentrated.

But when attacking the planet, it is enough to break through their defenses.

Although the planet in front of Chen Ming is extremely favored by the mechanical race, it has a large number of orbital defense facilities distributed throughout the planetary orbit and even on the surface.

Relying on a very dense and powerful firepower to repel the first two waves of Zerg fleets that are closer to the planet.

But the Zerg's biological warships seem to be endless, and they continue to attack the defense line of the orbital defense facilities.

In the process of countless machines and equipment being destroyed, countless Zergs were also killed.

But the number of Zerg can be made up at any time, and the defense facilities of the mechanical race are really one less.

Soon, the planetary defense line was broken in the direction where the Zerg fleet was most densely packed.

There was a gap in the firepower network of the orbital defense facilities.

Several Zerg cruisers forced their way through the gap and crashed into the ground like meteorites.

These cruisers did not slow down at all during the fall and died directly at the moment of impact.

However, the Zerg inside these cruisers dug a path leading deep underground under the corpses of the Zerg cruisers.