As much as the Swarm fleet was lost, Zhang Han replenished it from hyperspace. Three hours later, when Zhang Han's landing combat bugs basically cleared half of the surface area of the first asteroid.
He looked at the losses and Zhang Han felt a little overwhelmed.
Thirty thousand Swarm fleets have been turned into flesh and blood wreckage in the universe, of which 20,000 are fang warships. They use warships to smash meteorites from the sky. This approach is too cruel and the losses are a bit heavy.
On the surface of the asteroid, there are many giant spore towers with a tusk battleship lying on them. The tens of meters long fangs use the kinetic energy falling from the sky to cut off and pierce the spore towers, and blood gushes out from the wounds like a waterfall.
Some tusk warships are still alive, and some are dead. The effects of force are mutual. If you use potential energy to kill the enemy, you will also be injured. The stronger tusk warships are still alive, and the weaker ones are dead.
This situation of mutual destruction is not uncommon on asteroids.
On the other hand, the defender also discovered that the Psionics released by Zhang Han's worms greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of his Swarm fleet, and quickly adjusted its firepower projection to prioritize killing the hidden worms.
They are both Swarm, and both have Swarm Network with super learning ability. Civil wars between Swarm are often more difficult than battles with other civilizations. Both sides learn quickly, and both sides have Swarm that they can never finish fighting.
The calculation results of Cerebrate are out. If the battle continues like this, Zhang Han will lose at least 80,000 Swarm fleets by eating this galaxy.
Such losses are unacceptable to Zhang Han. He came to unify Hatchery mainly to annex their troops and expand his own Swarm scale and production capacity. How can he compete with Zagara and Kundera while losing money while fighting.
After seeing several attack plans calculated by Cerebrate, Zhang Han sighed. No wonder Overmind has been dead for so long. Swarm has not decided on a new Overmind internally.
An ordinary Hatchery can fight you to the last insect as long as it makes no mistakes. This greatly increases the cost and time of the war.
After moving his four arms, Zhang Han kicked his legs again. Defending Swarm has the advantages of location and formation. He has the advantage in numbers and Psionics of the Youworm. After the Youworm was discovered, this advantage was reduced.
Zhang Han's final and greatest advantage is himself. The first gift Hive Mind gave him was an almost immortal body; at the same time, he could find the location of Hatchery's logical consciousness through Psionics.
In order to end the battle quickly, there is only one answer, go in!
Waves of worried thoughts came from Swarm Network, and Zhang Han gave a reassuring response. Recently, Overmind Zhang Han has been closely connected with Swarm Network, and his mental power is growing every moment.
Overmind Zhang Han gradually understood that Overmind is actually the combination of logical consciousness and the huge Hive Swarm Consciousness body. The bigger Swarm is, the bigger Swarm Network is, the more powerful Overmind is.
Eventually, every Overmind will be integrated into Swarm Network, which is irreversible. When Zhang Han's consciousness no longer has emotional impulses and is all rational analysis, it means that he has integrated into the network.
At this time, Overmind usually leaves a new emotional and logical clone to continue leading Swarm. It is the first time that Swarm's consciousness was shattered by Shroud weapon.
Because of this relationship, Swarm Network has also become extra protective of Zhang Han's safety. As long as he does something risky, his thoughts will tend to worry and stop him.
As a last resort, Zhang Han checked the calculations on the network, optimized the combat plan, and increased the success rate to 90%. Only then did the ideological resistance in Swarm Network lessen.
Since it is a collection of collective consciousness, it will be very difficult to defy the demands of the collective consciousness.
Soon, the new combat plan began to be implemented.
The elite Swarm Leviathan left hyperspace and entered the battlefield, followed by a large number of heavily armored Devourer, Netherworms.
This is the most elite Swarm fleet in Zhang Han's hands, with a total number of only five thousand. Based on quality alone, they can at least defeat one and a half of the council's standard fleet, with a number ranging from twelve to fifteen thousand.
As soon as this elite fleet appeared, Zhang Han's entire Swarm fleet began to charge, aiming at the weakest point of the defender.
At this time, not only the tusk battleship rushed into the defender's Swarm, but also Psionics, Corruptor, and Brood Lord.
In the vast space battlefield, this kind of situation rarely happens. This is also a life-threatening way of fighting, just like a soldier hearing the charge, Knight driving the war horse Duan Ping's spear.
The closer firefight distance caused the battle losses of both sides to soar. Hatchery on the defensive side judged that this was Zhang Han's final attempt to break the situation and expand the battlefield regardless of casualties to give full play to their numerical advantage.
For the defense of Hatchery, it must mobilize troops to block the gap. This is a must. Once it loses its terrain and siege situation, it will quickly collapse without the worms.
It quickly mobilized its Swarm Leviathan and Devourer to block the weak points and engage in a face-to-face flesh-and-blood collision with Zhang Han's elite Swarm fleet.
Soon, Zhang Han's vanguard, including the tusk battleships, Psionics Corruptor, Brood Lord's ten thousand Swarm fleet, were all wiped out. With the quality advantage brought by the worms, the defender's fifteen thousand were also consumed.
The high-quality fleets of both sides also began to collide. It often happened that the two Swarm Leviathans poured firepower on each other while colliding with each other, biting with their spiked tentacles and fangs.
Devourer, which has a thick carapace, cannot last long here. It is the larger Corruptor, which has enhanced armor and firepower. The acid it sprays is not only extremely hot, but also the most corrosive.
Except for the Swarm Leviathan, they are the largest existence in the Swarm fleet. But here, they have also become consumables. After a Devourer often causes some damage, it will be destroyed by the opponent's concentrated firepower.
Nether Worms are a combination of Brood Lord and Nether Worms. Their presence can passively provide Psionics Enchantment to nearby friendly units, increasing defense and the penetration of spikes.
It is shaped like a giant Yao fish, with a row of hatching organs on both sides, which are used to produce consumable bugs, such as self-exploding mosquitoes. The main thing is a little raised, and inside is an advanced Psionics organ, which is the source of the powerful Psionics of the giant ghost bug.
It constantly extracts spiritual power from Swarm Network, and shoots Psionics Shock with great power and long range like burst fire.
Giant ghost worms are the rarest in number, even fewer than Swarm Leviathan. If it is not the ideological trend in Swarm Network, Zhang Han is simply reluctant to put them into this kind of strangulation battle.
The defending Hatchery tried their best and mobilized all the fleets, but they still couldn't stop Zhang Han's elite Swarm fleet. The quality gap was too big.