Chapter 5: Star Spirit Ship (Good luck at noon~)
Stokov's tactics were simple, one might even say simple, a little overdone.
It just gathered all the swarm forces, led the way with three colossias and all the other units followed, and surrounded the saboteurs with a swarm of stinging snakes, and began to advance directly towards the Star Spirit base on the cliff.
As expected, the swarm was constantly encountering resistance from small forces along the way, all of which were centered on a Keldarin Crystal, with three or four photon turrets as fulcrums, and a varying number of mechanical sentinels as defensive strongholds for mobile forces.
This defensive stronghold is typical of how turret advance tactics are implemented.
In the face of the superior forces of the insect swarm, this kind of defensive stronghold could not play any role at all, and directly turned into a pile of scrap metal in front of the powerful firepower of the saboteur and the nest insect lord.
Even the purpose of delaying time cannot be achieved.
Under Stokoff's orders, the swarm rallied closely, uprooting these defensive positions one by one with rapid and determined steps, and advancing in the direction of the opponent's base.
Finally, after removing the sixth defensive stronghold, the Star Spirit Commander couldn't sit still, and he began to send his remaining flying troops to attack the Zerg attacking forces from the flanks, intending to slow down the progress of the Zerg swarm.
However, Stokoff had already expected this, and the huge allosaurus group was divided into dozens of defensive forces, roaming the flanks of the swarm, taking advantage of its high mobility to counterattack and kill the astral spirit vehicles that came to sneak attack.
After losing hundreds of drones again, the commander of the Star Spirit finally understood what kind of opponent he was facing.
He began to shrink all remaining forces into the base, intending to make a last ditch effort with the advantage of the terrain.
This reaction, while still not out of Stokoff's prediction, still caused some problems in the final battle of the swarm to wipe out the resistance of the astral spirits.
Due to the relatively high cliff where the main base of the Star Spirit is located, the captured Colossus could not climb up from the back of the cliff, and there seems to be some unknown defensive weapon in this main base, which actually injured a Cordyceps Lord who tried to attack behind the cliff, so Stakov could only launch a strong attack on the last line of defense of the Star Spirit from the front of the cliff.
The main base of the Star Spirit was almost full of photon turrets, and when the vanguard of the swarm came within range of these automatic defense weapons, the shells of the large number of photon cannons almost obscured the dark starry sky.
Moreover, due to the condescending position of the opponent, coupled with the fact that the Guardian King Worm was unable to get close to the opponent's defense line to guide the saboteurs to fire the shelling, this led to considerable casualties among the exterminators who were on the mission of the first wave of attacks.
Fortunately, however, the casualties proved to be worth it, as the exterminators, with their own flesh and blood, were able to tear a gap in the defensive line of the Photon Battery for the rear troops.
Subsequently, a mixed force of jumping insects and cockroaches successfully filled the gap left by the exterminators, gradually widening the gap.
However, in the central area of the Star Spirit Base, from time to time, a bright white beam of light will shoot out, this beam is very powerful, and the units hit by it have basically no chance of surviving.
Even the three colossi that were captured were destroyed by the beam.
Fortunately, the firing speed of this beam weapon is quite slow, and it can only be used to focus on valuable targets, and after seeing through this, Stokoff let the king insects break into the defense line of the photon battery at any cost and guide the artillery attack for the saboteurs.
At the same time, the infected and toadstools also rushed to the front line, and the spread of the bacterial mist and a large number of mutants quickly accelerated the breakthrough speed of the swarm.
With the fire support of the saboteurs and the hive lords, the defenses of the Star Spirit base were soon on the verge of collapse, and the Star Spirit commander had no choice but to send all the existing mechanical sentinels and drones to reinforce the defense line in an attempt to delay the attack of the swarm.
However, it was this moment that Stokoff was waiting for.
At the moment when the last mobile force of the Star Spirit reached the defense line, the King Worms, who had been forced into the battlefield by Stokoff's order, suddenly dropped in altitude and forced hundreds of poisonous explosion insects into the center of the Star Spirit's defense line against the attack of the photon turret, the mechanical sentry and the unknown beam weapon.
With a splash of poisonous slurry, the last line of defense of the Astral Spirit was shattered, and the Dragons and Corruptors began to rush forward to destroy the Astral drones that came to their aid.
The swarm also stormed the base and began to destroy the Keldarin Crystals hidden in the depths.
And as the Keldarin crystal crystals were extinguished one by one, the operation of the entire Star Spirit Base was quickly paralyzed, and the Photon Batteries that were still resisting stubbornly were extinguished one after another, and the last resistance of the Star Spirit Base also came to naught.
Stokoff arrived on the battlefield on the King Worm, and was reported to him by the Mother Worm that a special astral facility had been discovered, and that there were astral creature signal fluctuations in this astral facility.
And that kind of powerful beam weapon was also launched from this facility.
At a glance, Stokoff saw what the Mother Worms called a special astral facility—a conical structure that was half-cut diagonally into the star sand on the asteroid's surface.
More than 100 toadstools are constantly emitting inhibition spores at the building next to the building, and the top of the building is constantly gathering a little bit of psionic energy, and then quickly dispersing under the interference of the antibacterial mist, obviously the star spirit inside the facility has not given up resistance.
But......
Stokoff looked closely at this so-called special "facility" and thought that it was more like a ship than a building?
It was huge, much larger than a normal Astral Hub, and even twice as tall as the Colossus, even if half of it had been inserted into the Star Sand.
It has some cracks in its surface that eventually all extend underneath it.
This is clearly a scar from the impact of the ship on the ground when it landed.
However, Stokoff did not find any entrances and exits in the part of the hull where the sand was exposed, and it was clear that the entrances and exits should be in the part of the hull that was buried in the sand of the starsand.
Stokoff glanced up and found that the star spirits inside the ship were still persistently trying to attack the swarm with the ship's weapon system, and he couldn't help but become a little impatient.
It spreads out the psionic signal and successfully connects to the ship's psionic communicator, which then sends an ultimatum to the ship's star spirits.
"Listen to me, the star spirits in the ship, immediately give up resistance, open the hatch, and surrender to the fleet dominated by the great swarms! Otherwise, I will open fire and destroy your ships!" I'll give you three points... Damn it! ”
Only halfway through Stokoff's ultimatum, the communication system in the ship was forcibly shut down by the other side, and it was obvious that the other side was ready to resist to the end.
"Saboteur! Blow up the opponent's weapon system for me! Maybe the tiger with its teeth pulled out will know how to talk to people! ”
As soon as Stokoff gave the order, hundreds of scorching bile cannonballs flew from the rear and smashed directly into the ship's psionic energy gathering point, and a fierce blue fire suddenly erupted from there.
After the explosion, there was no more psionic reaction at the psionic gathering point, and it was clear that the last weapon system had been destroyed.
"What do you say now? Are you going to seal yourselves in this iron coffin and wait for death, or are you going to come out and surrender yourself? Or... I'll let these cuties pick you up? ”
Stokov stroked the hideous head of a jumping insect next to him, and used his powerful psionic energy to forcibly pry open the other party's communication system, and said in a threatening and playful voice.