Although the Meteor Fortress is much smaller than the planet, it is not easy to capture at all.
On the surface it looks like a sphere, but inside it is in the shape of a honeycomb. The interior of the complex fortress is filled with Hatchery passages of flesh and blood, with a large number of fighting bugs and defensive organs ambushed in it.
If you want to chew it down bit by bit, you will have to pay an extremely heavy price for every meter you advance. The Creep here is still on the defensive side, and it will be more tenacious in a war of attrition.
Therefore, the core point of the ground combat in the Swarm civil war is to compete for the occupied area and control the fierce battle as much as possible on your own Creep.
After gaining air supremacy, Zhang Han first sent out a group of fang battleships and smashed them down from space. While they were able to open maps, they also destroyed many anti-aircraft spore towers and plasma towers.
After having a vision and positioning, the prepared Swarm Leviathan equipped with a tachyon light spear began orbital bombing, accurately shooting out these air defense tower groups.
At the same time, 10,000 Corruptor also landed on the surface of the meteorite fortress, and began to use the spikes Baneling on their bodies to bombard the Creep on the ground, clearing the space for their own Hatchery to lay Creep.
The two meteorite fortresses are not big, and one of 20 million combat bugs to 10 million can occupy a large amount of the fortress surface area. Even Gurt has deployed a lot of ground defenses on the surface, such as spike towers, buried Baneling, Viper that can release blood mist, etc.
It was impossible to eliminate so many combat bugs at the first time. The ground defenses were a bit overwhelmed by the sea of bugs, and I felt at a loss.
Seeing that the situation was okay, Zhang Han did not throw out the incarnation of consciousness with the power of the gods, nor did he excessively use the Psionics force field to strengthen his own Swarm. The trump card should be used at critical moments.
Such success is closely related to Gurt's military shortage. Since the beginning of the war, he has received very little support.
Zhang Han fights hard and doesn't care about losses. Gurt can't do that. Every part of his force must be used carefully.
A total of two million Swarm fleets were allocated to him. The fighting bugs on the ground were enough, but the fighting bugs couldn't fly!
Originally, the two million Swarm fleet relied on the meteorite fortress and the battle Hatchery, which was more than enough to defend the two galaxies, but I didn't expect Zhang Han's offensive to be so fierce.
In the first month, the battle only took place in one galaxy. Gurt was still able to control the battle losses. Excluding the supplementary losses, Gurt still consumed 200,000 Swarm fleets.
The net loss was only more than 6,000 in one day, which can be regarded as a successful completion of the defensive task. After 2 million, it will be no problem to fight for a year. As long as the delay reaches a certain level, Zagara will definitely send support. In this way, Gurt can defend until he dies of old age.
However, after Zhang Han increased the intensity of the attack, the situation changed.
The battlefield is wider, and Zhang Han has invested more troops. Both sides of the twin galaxies are also at war at the same time. The average daily loss used to be 50,000, but now it has suddenly increased to 80,000, and it is still increasing.
Even if the intensity of subsequent battles does not increase, Gurt's net loss of the Swarm fleet will reach 800,000 in one month, leaving only one million Swarm fleets. With this small force, Gurt cannot defend two star systems no matter how capable he is.
What's more, when the number of fleets in his hands drops to a certain level, Zhang Han will definitely attack more fiercely, and it is inevitable that the intensity of the battle will double.
In order to reduce losses, Gurt's approach was very simple, trading space for time. Using the Meteorite Fortress to exchange the attention of the Zhang Han fleet, and reducing the intensity of the battle damage caused by the confrontation between the Swarm fleets on both sides.
From Gurt's point of view, after losing all the meteorite fortresses, he can still rely on the war Hatchery and the planets in the galaxy to continue to resist, delaying the fall of the galaxy from one month to two months.
Of course, all of this is a deduction model calculated by Cerebrate, under the condition of existing variables.
The battle in the first eight days was slightly beyond Gurt's expectations. In his plan, the two meteorite fortresses could not last for ten days. Unfortunately, he underestimated the command improvement level of Zhang Han and the combat power bonus of Psionics Enchantment against the combat bugs.
As a last resort, when the second of the two meteorite fortresses was about to fall, Gurt used a spare meteorite to hit it, breaking it into seven or eight pieces, preventing Zhang Han from using it smoothly.
This meteorite was originally intended to be used by Gurt to counterattack the meteorite fortress occupied by Zhang Han, but he did not expect that it could only be used to destroy his own side.
There are five of the eight meteorite fortresses left, and two are occupied by Zhang Han. The entire hyperspace channel has been completely opened, and a large part of the galaxy is under the control of Zhang Han.
At this moment, Zhang Han revealed its hidden fangs, and a million Swarm fleets crowded into the galaxy. The second war Hatchery also jumped in. This was a decisive general attack.
Only then did Gurt realize that he had underestimated Zhang Han's determination. You must know that on the frontal battlefield between Zagara and Kundera, it was rare to launch a fleet duel with a scale of millions at once.
First of all, the average galaxy is not big enough for the fleet to deploy; secondly, such a huge decisive battle is a gamble. The battle has been going on for such a long time, and everyone knows each other well. Even if the duel results in a win or a loss, both sides will lose if the situation is ignored, and the battle loss ratio will not be too exaggerated.
This kind of million-level decisive battle is too strenuous for the fleet production of both sides, and it is tantamount to playing cards and exposing the trump card.
You know, in addition to the battlefield on Gurt's side and the battlefield on Moras on the side, the entire sector is engaged in fierce battles all the time, and the Swarm fleets on both sides are losing every moment.
Therefore, Gurt did not expect from the beginning that Zhang Han would invest so many troops in the decisive battle. This was not in line with the prediction of the strength of the consciousness fragment in the pre-war meeting.
Suddenly a possibility appeared in Gurt's mind. Could the consciousness fragment be a being that is very good at expansion and development? Swarm has a fleet with extremely high productivity, so he doesn't care about losses.
Regarding this point, Gurt really guessed it right. Zagara's internal judgment on the power of Zhang Han was wrong at the beginning, because Zhang Han started late. Even when Zagara and Kundera were fighting and consuming each other, Zhang Han had a lot of time to develop.
Zagara never thought that these development times would allow Zhang Han's strength to increase explosively, so Zagara slightly overestimated Zhang Han's Swarm fleet production capacity and set the number at the same daily output of 300,000 as his own.
In fact, the daily output of Zhang Han has almost reached 500,000.
There is no threat from his rear. Laplace and Abaddon are both very good at coordinating production capacity. Swarm Node. Zhang Han has also developed a neutron star, and the production capacity of various elemental minerals has also increased dramatically.
Supplies and rare elements were transported from the Balance Star Field in a steady stream. Johnny basically controlled an area spanning more than a thousand light years, and the civilization here basically surrendered.
With this kind of logistical support, Zhang Han can not only attack the enemy with all its strength despite huge losses, but also develop and colonize more galaxies.
Therefore, Zhang Han's war potential is very huge, which is why he does not care about losing the Swarm fleet. This is also the characteristic of Swarm, which is to use numbers to overwhelm the enemy.