Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 355

Sacrifice

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When the Swarm fleet launched the attack, Gu Teng felt great pressure. The quality of the fleets on both sides was no longer at the same level.

In the past, the steel fleet could crush the flesh and blood fleet, but now it is completely reversed. Those Swarm fleets that know how to Psionics have begun to crush the steel fleet.

The once invincible field shield has become a worthless existence. Not only the low-speed acid bombs, self-exploding mosquitoes, and fang warships can break through the defense, but the high-speed plasma weapons and gigabit electromagnetic cannons ignore the existence of the field shield and severely damage the steel fleet protected by the shield one by one.

The purple Psionics greatly reduced the damage of the steel fleet. The laser, artillery, and point defense systems were all weakened by the purple shield.

Seeing that one's own warship was cut into two pieces by the ferocious fang warship and blown into pieces by the ferocious self-destructing mosquito. The battle had only lasted half an hour, and the entire battle line was already crumbling.

Gu Teng, who was on the flagship, looked at the radar. His own fleet was still in a long snake formation, and the number of fleets in front was less than 60,000. Some civilized fleets were even retreating, and seemed to be planning to escape.

"The mob!" As an Anfenli person with weak emotions, Shuren himself didn't have strong emotions, but at this moment he cursed angrily.

"Soldiers, have all battleships activate their tachyon lances to cover the large Swarm in the frontal areas from A4 to C9."

The tree correspondent who conveyed this order seemed to hesitate for a moment. He looked back at Gu Teng's serious tree face before conveying the order in a heavy voice.

The heads of the three thousand Anfinli battleships equipped with tachyon light lances revealed their built-in gun barrels like split trees. After aiming at the area, a powerful blue light spurted out. Many Swarm battleships were pierced by this light.

In terms of the defense power of the Swarm fleet, except for the huge Swarm Leviathan, the tachyon light spear can instantly kill any Swarm unit due to its huge power and penetration.

This is determined by the nature of the weapon. After all, tachyons can exceed the speed of light and are several levels higher than the power of lasers. The Psionics shield cannot withstand it.

Seeing the blue evolutionary light effectively killing the Swarm fleet one after another, Gu Teng was not happy. His heart was filled with sadness. If he had tear ducts, his face must be covered with tears now.

The Tachyon Light Spear is the technological pinnacle of Antilians. It is a weapon developed by them in an attempt to break through the secondary civilization. It theoretically breaks many laws of physics and opens the door to new theoretical science.

How can it be that there is no cost to mastering such a powerful power? How can technology obtained for free be applied to battleships and weapons in an instant?

The technical foundation of the Anfenli people is not enough. It is impossible for them to create a tachyon light spear unless they study the technology given by Antilians for decades and thoroughly understand it...

But the natural disaster Swarm did not give them so much time. The rapid weaponization of the theory quickly encountered difficulties. A special material carrying high-energy tachyons was needed in the core exciter of the light spear.

No civilization in the Balance Star Domain can make this material, and Antilians only transferred the technology, but not various materials and alloys.

So the tree people made a decision to overcome this technical difficulty in the tachyon light spear. The life form of the tree people is very special. There is a special energy in their living bodies that can temporarily carry high-energy tachyons.

Different from the original material, the material processed by the tree people is disposable..., which means that every time the tachyon light spear is fired, it kills an Anfenli person, and it is still very painful to burn to death.

The Swarm fleet was unwilling to bear the battle damage ratio caused by being hit by the tachyon light spear. Their elite Swarm units began to retreat, and a large number of self-destructing mosquitoes and Mutalisk rushed up. The efficiency of dealing with small units of tachyon light spears was greatly reduced.

In the first round of fighting, the losses of both sides were roughly equal. The combined fleet's fleet casualties were about 13,000, and the Swarm fleet, excluding Mutalisk and self-destructing mosquitoes, suffered losses of 8,000, most of which were caused by the tachyon light lance.

In order to prevent the fleet from being severely damaged by a large number of Mutalisk and self-exploding mosquitoes, Guteng ordered all fleets to retreat back to within the range of the planetary defense platform, preparing to rely on the defense system and missile matrix there to fight positional warfare.

As for the exit of the hyperspace channel, just get out of the way. The battle just now was too fierce and the damage was too high. Every time I think of those tree people Gu Teng who died in pain, I feel extremely painful in my heart.

The fleets of both sides seemed to have reached a tacit understanding. The combined fleet retreated without pursuing Swarm, but firmly guarded the exit of the hyperspace channel, allowing a steady stream of Swarm fleets to enter the galaxy.

According to the intelligence, the Swarm fleet attacking has about 120,000 people. If it is an ordinary civilization's fleet, this number will definitely not be able to defeat the galaxy, because the average fleet will usually retreat after more than half of the casualties.

How can the war be considered a victory if all the fleets are destroyed? But the Swarm fleet is completely different. In order to kill the enemy, they can destroy it to the last one.

The relative silence between the battlefield lasted for two hours. Gu Teng tried his best to gather the fleet, and assembled a fleet of 80,000 in the area backed by the planet and defense platform.

However, only one hundred thousand Swarm fleet jumped out from the hyperspace channel, which was less than the detector expected. Just when Guteng began to wonder whether the detector made an error, or some of the Swarm fleet turned around and went in other directions.

A scene that he couldn't believe was uploaded from the optical radar. What jumped out of hyperspace was a steel fleet made of 20,000 metals. They were close to the previous Swarm fleet like vassals and escorts.

This scene not only shocked Gu Teng, but also shocked the entire combined fleet. They all sent communications asking why fleets from other countries were united with the Swarm fleet.

Since the emblems of these steel fleets have been erased, no one dares to say which civilization these fleets came from, even if there are traces of their manufacturing processes.

In the chaotic communication, someone kept shouting, "Which civilization betrayed us?"

"By taking refuge in Swarm, and their stupidity, don't they know that the insects will Consume destroy everything in the end?"

"Does this mean we can negotiate with bugs?"

"Don't be stupid, we haven't even deciphered their language, how can we negotiate!"

In the chaos, a mixed fleet of 120,000 Swarm launched an attack.

Gu Teng also suppressed the shock in his heart. He first asked the correspondent to use quantum communication to send everything he had just detected to the rear, so that the rear would study the cause. Then, he ordered the 80,000 fleet to form a defensive formation to prepare for the second frontal battle with Swarm.

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