Chapter 356 Reinforcement

Within the mechanical race's stargate galaxy, the stargate named No. 7 by the empire is being activated.

The mirror mask is slowly covering the circular area inside the stargate frame.

Near the star gate, there is a mechanical fleet waiting in full formation.

When Chen Ming's Zerg gathered to attack the mechanical colony, they were already preparing here, apparently guessing Chen Ming's next move.

This does not affect Chen Ming's continued execution of his plan.

Just looking at the fleet composed of at least four motherships, 130,000 cruisers and more destroyer escorts.

He suddenly discovered that he had some misunderstandings about the mechanical race, or the power of industry.

Chen Ming's previous estimation of the number of battleships owned by the Machine Tribe was based on the data he usually knew, and was estimated through the combat readiness of different star regions.

He originally thought that after the battle of the Black Mist Zerg just now, there would be very little cruiser-level power left in the Mechanical Race star field.

But the fact is obviously not what he thought.

But those numbers would obviously continue to increase in a real war.

The war between the machine race and the empire has lasted for several months since the earliest days.

They must have analyzed the empire's intentions long ago and started the industrial transformation within their borders.

Not to mention capital ships, at least cruisers will definitely be mass-produced.

Chen Ming's previous guess of 40,000 ships was just the norm.

In a true war that leads to destruction, it is most likely that all productive forces will be used to produce instruments of war.

No matter who it is for.

However, the number of these 130,000 cruisers is quite large for the mechanical race in this star field.

They may not have arranged all the cruisers produced in recent times here.

Logically speaking, after the previous few battles, the mechanical race should have understood that all non-capital ships are just cannon fodder and slightly more resistant cannon fodder in front of the Zerg. Why are they preparing so many cruisers?

Isn't it better to use these cruisers in the war with the Empire, or even to raid the Empire's colonies, than to put them here?

There are two possibilities for the mechanical tribe to do this.

One is to act as a human shield for those motherships and the stargate itself, so that the mothership will not at least face the concentrated fire of millions of Zerg fleets at the same time in the early stage of the attack, thereby creating a way for the mothership to quickly clear the Zerg fleet. Opportunity.

The probability of doing so is very high.

The firepower of the mothership, especially when facing a dense front line, is quite terrifying. A casual strafing attack can affect dozens or even hundreds of warships.

The power of main-level weapons is such that if you touch them, you will basically die.

This is still a completely unavoidable situation when the Zerg fleet attacks.

Just like before.

Although the Black Mist Zerg fleet drove away the three mechanical motherships, its own losses were also quite huge.

If the number of cruisers of the Mechanical Tribe can be larger, then it is really possible for the Mechanical Tribe to rely on cannon fodder to drag them to the mothership to create sufficient results.

Of course, the premise is that the mothership really has so much combat readiness materials that it can kill so many Zerg warships.

Another possibility is that they have some subsequent arrangements for doing so.

But no matter which one the impact is, it’s not big.

It is impossible for Chen Ming to give up the plan just because of some speculation.

And to him, all the mechanical destroyers and frigates are just cannon fodder.

All cruisers are just like a mantis in front of the Zerg fleet.

The only thing that needs attention is the mothership of the mechanical family.

The emergence of these four motherships suddenly increased the total number of battleships of the Mechanical Race to twelve.

What's even more troublesome is that this time, two of the motherships guarding the Stargate Galaxy are each equipped with a psychic spine cannon.

Moreover, there are four or five motherships behind Chen Ming's Zerg fleet that may follow at any time.

Three motherships can already destroy hundreds of thousands of Zerg warships in just ten minutes with tens of thousands of cruisers as human shields.

If the mechanical race is allowed to gather seven or eight or even more motherships in a galaxy, then the number of its Zerg warships lost will definitely not be calculated by simply multiplying by two.

The Machine Race deliberately released so many cruisers in this galaxy, and it may be because of this.

Chen Ming knew clearly that he could not delay it any longer.

Especially the star gate inside the galaxy is still activated.

He knew of eleven motherships that the Machine Tribe could use, and there were probably more behind the Star Gate.

The Zerg fleet immediately began to attack the stargate itself from a long distance under Chen Ming's order.

The Star Gate is a huge building, but in Chen Ming's opinion it is also very fragile.

In order to maintain the basic functions of the star gate, the star gate itself must have a large number of high-precision equipment, which means that its own protection ability is definitely not strong. Directly destroying it is definitely the best way to prevent the mechanical race from continuing here. means of sending reinforcements.

Moreover, even if the star gate is damaged, it won't be a big problem. At worst, it can just be repaired.

Even if Chen Ming doesn't understand the operating principle of the Star Gate, his ability can still be used on it.

However, Chen Ming's idea did not come true.

Because at the moment when the Zerg warship launched countless acid plasma balls towards the star gate, and these bright green light balls approached the star gate.

A force from an unknown source suddenly acted on all the plasma balls, deflecting them all from their trajectories, and not a single one of them successfully hit the target.

That was the ability of the singularity in operation.

Long-range weapons were completely ineffective.

To destroy the star gate, one had to get close enough.

However, the mechanical fleet near the star gate was closely arranged near the star gate.

Although they didn't know that Chen Ming could send an extra afterglow core to control it, they knew that if the Zerg touched the star gate, it would be the end. There would definitely be an ending between being controlled and being destroyed.

The Zerg could not be killed completely, even if the Destroyer came. Without the support of the star gate, it would be equivalent to completely abandoning this star region.

They had to stop here.

Relying on the mothership and the subsequent reinforcements, the Zerg fleet was destroyed here.

The firepower of the four motherships was extremely terrifying.

They were distributed at different locations of the star gate, protecting the star gate behind them.

However, the Zerg was even more terrifying.

The Zerg fleet in space can attack the star gate from any angle. The twelve ridge cannons of the mechanical race cannot stop the attack from the 360-degree circular surface even in two-dimensional space, let alone the attack from a sphere.

Before, when the black fog Zerg attacked the mechanical race, the mechanical race could escape and fight guerrilla warfare with the Zerg in the galaxy, but now the mechanical race must block the star gate tightly.

This is simply using their biggest disadvantage to fight against the Zerg's biggest advantage.

Even if the mechanical race has two psychic ridge cannons, it is meaningless.

One of these two psychic ridge cannons is the Soul Killer that Chen Ming knows.

It can't play an effective role at all when facing the hive consciousness of the Zerg cluster.

It can only be said that the Soul Killer is naturally countered by the hive-thinking creatures of the Zerg, of course, it may also be that the Zerg is naturally countered by this weapon.

There is mutual restraint, who wins and who loses depends on who is stronger.

If the Soul Killer is stronger, then the entire Zerg will be killed directly by the Soul Killer.

But if the Zerg's consciousness is stronger, then the Soul Killer will obviously not play any role, just like now.

And the other psychic spine cannon can tear the structure of the Zerg cruiser out of thin air, and the visual effect is terrifying.

But the actual effect is only slightly stronger than the normal spine cannon.

It does not have the suppression power of the Destroyer at all.

The ending is obvious.

The Zerg's acid cannon almost forms a wall of acid that seals all the mechanical races inside.

The Zerg's biological fighters can completely destroy all warships that cannot support full-angle shields.

The war inside the Stargate system can no longer be called a battlefield.

It is a combination of a meat grinder and a crusher.

What is minced is the flesh and blood of the Zerg, and what is crushed is the structure of the mechanical race.

The mechanical race is already trying its best to stop the Zerg fleet.

But the Zerg is still gradually crushing the mechanical race's fleet.

The time that hundreds of thousands of mechanical cruisers can hold out in the battle with the Zerg is not enough for the mothership to beat the number of the Zerg fleet.

The weaving of the mechanical fleet was soon broken by the seemingly endless Zerg, and the four motherships could only barely maintain the shield to block the Zerg outside the shield.

They still have the ability to protect themselves and the ability to destroy the Zerg, but they no longer have the ability to protect the stargate.

After the Zerg tore through the defense line formed by the mechanical cruisers.

The four motherships suddenly stopped in place, all weapons stopped firing, and all running systems were stagnant in an instant.

The mothership did not stop, it was... stagnant.

All the acid cannons fired at the mothership, all the biological fighters and biological missiles that rushed towards the mothership's shield, all suddenly stopped in place after approaching

Even the surrounding Zerg warships close to the mothership's shield fell into stagnation like the mothership.

But Chen Ming did not disconnect the links of the locked Zerg units.

The consciousness of those Zerg units still remained active.

And they felt that it seemed that the space around the mothership seemed to be locked, causing them to be unable to move.

If it were just this, it wouldn't be a big deal.

But at the same time, the mirror of the star gate that was about to open suddenly flashed for a moment.

A twisted force swept towards the surrounding space with the base of the star gate as the origin.

This is a force that twists space.

While twisting space, it also tore apart the Zerg in the surrounding space.

Only a small number of mechanical races and Zerg in the stagnant position of the mothership survived.

All other Zerg fleets that dared to approach were twisted into pieces by this unstoppable force.

And the scope of this force is still expanding rapidly.

Only the Zerg fleet that was close to the periphery and could not directly attack the star gate due to the range of fire was spared from the attack of the space distortion caused by the singularity of the star gate.

Just one counterattack by the star gate caused more than half of the Zerg fleet to be lost.

The Zerg fleet that came out with four million people now only has more than one million.

This attack almost completely cleared the area around the star gate.

The remaining Zergs who survived by relying on the indiscriminate stasis of the mothership also found it difficult to continue to fight between the mothership and the remaining mechanical warships.

The Zerg fleet outside Chen Ming has not yet filled the gap.

The mechanical star gate...was successfully activated.

Ripples appeared on the gorgeous mirror film, and complete mechanical warships were passing through the star gate to enter the galaxy that the Zerg was invading.

In just a blink of an eye, four newly appeared motherships were stationed around the star gate, protecting the star gate itself together with the motherships that were already in the galaxy.

And inside the mirror of the star gate, more and more mechanical warships were flying out at high speed to join this battle.

The combat power of the mechanical reinforcements looked very deterrent.

It seemed that the mechanical race really arranged all their main forces here.

But Chen Ming was not afraid.

The number of its Zerg fleet still crushed the mechanical race, and the attack that the star gate had just released could never be used a second time in a short period of time.

This was not only the conclusion that Chen Ming drew based on the power and influence of this attack and the energy consumed.

He could also sense that the surrounding space could not withstand another disturbance after the previous disturbance.

To be precise, it was impossible to disturb it again.

The mechanical race wants to replicate the space distortion just now, unless they can forcibly smooth out the disturbed space.

This is ten thousand times more difficult than disturbing the space.

Therefore, Chen Ming did not panic at all and continued to let the Zerg rush to the star gate.

The behavior of the Zerg became more extreme from this moment on.

Many of them have given up attacking and survival, just to let themselves or their peers around them touch the star gate and the mirror of the star gate.

Not only the star gate itself, but also because behind the star gate must be another important star area for the mechanical race.

If the Zerg can spread there, then Chen Ming will have more power, and the mechanical race will lose more opportunities.

And the most important thing.

As long as the Zerg corpse fragments or blood can be contaminated with the star gate in the end, then Chen Ming’s goal has actually been achieved.

The Zerg fleet still charged towards the star gate fearlessly, like a meat grinder, all the middle and lower-level warships of the mechanical race that appeared from the star gate were crushed.

Then Chen Ming suddenly discovered a problem.

The materials of these warships are not right.

When attacking the mechanical race, Chen Ming often deliberately collects some materials from the mechanical race.

After all, he has fought large-scale battles with the mechanical race so far, and each time a large number of mechanical races and mechanical warships have been damaged.

The main structure of the mechanical race is usually Baiyun steel alloy.

And due to the problem of technology loss, the proportion of Baiyun steel in the Baiyun steel alloy of the mechanical race is usually more than 10%.

Therefore, it is still valuable to collect the wreckage of the mechanical race, which may supplement some household expenses.

Even if it is not easy to collect these materials in some cases, just letting the Zerg warships eat them and digest them in battle can also become a part of the Zerg warships. The endurance power.

In this battle, Chen Ming did the same as usual.

Then he found out.

There is a problem with the material ratio of the warships that appeared in these star gates, and some things are missing.

In this mechanical star field bordering the Galo star field of the empire.

Most mechanical units, whether ground units or warships, use materials mostly produced in the star systems in the nebula area that Chen Ming is attacking at this time.

There is a kind of dust-like material that is unique to this nebula in this nebula environment. It is suspended in this area and is also the basis of this nebula, filling every corner.

Therefore, all things in this nebula will be mixed with this special material, and it will be mixed in all things.

And this special material has some effects similar to Baiyun steel, which makes the quality of resources mined in this nebula better than other places.

Therefore, the mechanical race usually does not take the initiative to precipitate this material. At most, some precision components need to ensure the purity of precipitation.

And most of the manufactured things will carry this material.

Therefore, Chen Ming can distinguish which mechanical race individuals are original goods in this star field and which are foreign.

So he has been wondering where the reinforcements of the mechanical race are.

Those foreign reinforcements will not have the same situation of mixing the unique materials of this nebula.

And now Chen Ming can be sure.

These fleets that appeared from the star gate are foreign reinforcements of the mechanical race.

However, this is just an ordinary fleet. Although there are four motherships in the fleet, more than 40,000 cruisers have emerged from the star gate, as well as more destroyers and escorts.

In the Empire, it is equivalent to a star field with a medium level of development taking out all its military forces.

It can be said that this is a fleet with considerable comprehensive combat power.

But in Chen Ming's view, it is completely meaningless, and there is no point in making him so defensive.

Chen Ming has been looking for reinforcements from the mechanical race, and has been worried about whether the reinforcements from the mechanical race will have any strength beyond expectations.

If there is another destroyer or a slightly weaker ridge cannon, it may lead to a one-sided combat power.

He has also been worried that reinforcements will suddenly appear when it is fighting with the mechanical race, resulting in the failure of some important battles.

So he has been preparing many back-up plans.

But the result... is this?

Chen Ming feels that he is fighting wits and courage with the air.

Before, he still had some pressure in his heart, after all, he really didn't know the strength, number and location of the reinforcements.

But now that the reinforcements of the mechanical tribe have appeared, there is nothing to say.

But he still has doubts in his heart.

Is it really that simple?

The several traps set by the mechanical tribe for him before were almost impossible for him to avoid if he didn't have special abilities.

Some of them were even aimed at his abilities, but the hidden part of his abilities was more than the mechanical tribe knew, so the mechanical tribe had not been able to achieve their goals.

And now the backup means arranged by the mechanical tribe don't seem to have the same feeling as before. Is it possible that this is also a trap set by the mechanical tribe to let him relax his vigilance?

It's hard to say.

Chen Ming's eyes swept over the fleet of foreign reinforcements of the mechanical tribe.

He couldn't even be sure whether this fleet that looked powerful was all the foreign reinforcements of the mechanical tribe.

If there were other reinforcements, and these that appeared now were just bait, he might still encounter troublesome problems.

Chen Ming always believed that fighting with the relics of the shining civilization like the mechanical race must be extremely vigilant until the last mechanical race is killed or controlled.

In short, it is tactically important and strategically despised.

His tactical emphasis on the mechanical race is obvious.

It is not so easy for the Empire to take out those millions of cruisers.

It is okay to take them out, but it is absolutely impossible to do it within a week and in a very relaxed situation.

At least the production line must be changed and the whole country must produce them.

But the Empire does not need to do this.

Because the Empire can produce capital ships.

With the ability to produce millions of cruisers, it is also possible to produce thousands of capital ships.

Chen Ming has personally experienced the suppression of capital ships on lower-level ships several times.

The huge loss is enough to show the true power of the mothership.

If it were not for the limited size of the mechanical race star field itself, and the Zerg was strengthened to an outrageous degree by Chen Ming, the capital ship itself would be invincible unless it encountered an opponent of the same level.

So Chen Ming would not be arrogant.

Even if millions of cruisers seem extremely powerful, even the Empire can't easily take them out.

He also has absolute awe for the real power, the battleship.

Cruisers are only lower-level ships after all, and he must have battleships.

Chen Ming's eyes were fixed on the newly appeared reinforcement fleet of the mechanical race and the eight motherships around the star gate.

But immediately his eyes turned to the star gate that was still open next to him.

And those Zergs who were moving towards the star gate, and every time they moved a little further, countless corpses of their kind would be crushed.

Compared with the battleship, the star gate is indeed more important.

And as long as Chen Ming's psychic energy exists, as long as a little flesh and blood covers the battleships of the mechanical race, then these battleships will be his sooner or later.

So he didn't hesitate at all, he knew what he really needed.

The Zerg continued to fight.

Still continued to advance towards the star gate, gradually approaching the mirror of the star gate.

And the reinforcements of the mechanical race were still flying out of the mirror.

Even though these reinforcements might be destroyed the moment they left the star gate, and even though the damaged debris was immediately bounced back to the star gate, the mechanical race was still fighting against the Zerg.

As long as Chen Ming and the Zerg were given three more minutes, the Zerg could withstand the attacks of eight motherships and the counterattacks of the reinforcements that continued to appear in the star gate, and reach the star gate and enter the star gate.

However, the mechanical race was a "species" with clear considerations after all.

At the moment when the Zerg was about to reach the star gate, even though there were still a large number of spaceships sailing in the mirror of the star gate, and a large number of ships only appeared half of their bodies.

The mechanical race also forcibly closed the star gate.

While destroying their own spaceships with the star gate, they also stopped Chen Ming's greedy ambition to go directly to the other end of the star gate.

At the same time, the edge of the galaxy suddenly appeared the fluctuation of the hyperspace channel engine starting.

A warship that could not be observed by the naked eye entered the galaxy.

That was the Destroyer.