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Chapter 1092
chapter 0455 part 1
Chapter 447: Prelude to War
The massive Bug Swarm was forced to halt outside Titan, their frenzied attack was held back for a full four hours.
But this Bug Swarm, similar in appearance to the Zerg, was raised by the Erdos Civilization. The races they herded weren't just the fearless Spider Bugs and Jumping Bugs—
In a civilization structure resembling ant nests within the Human World, these Spider Bugs and Jumping Bugs, the size of Human World cars, often served only as Sentinels and Worker Ants.
After the Earth Alliance's Heavy Firepower eliminated hundreds of thousands of Sentinel Bugs, the true Soldier Ants among the Bug Swarm herded by the Erdos Civilization began to appear in the Earth Alliance's field of vision.
These Soldier Ants, similar in appearance to Beetles, possessed a pair of sharp pincer-like mouthparts. Beneath their two split carapaces were bulging, bloated, and obese bodies. When you truly saw the size of these creatures, you would understand why they were so late.
Their split carapaces seemed to function as wings, but those small wings dragged their bloated bodies, which were the size of Heavy Truck beds, through the sky. Although the small wings vibrated at an extremely high frequency, their flight speed was even slower than a speed-limited two-wheeled electric vehicle on Earth.
The sight of these Beetles appearing... well, how should I put it? It was extremely comical!
But when these Beetles lined up densely on the World Tree Branch, lifting their bloated, water-sack-like rear ends and aiming them at the Earth Alliance's Defense Line, these seemingly comical Insects instantly transformed into long-range weapons.
Sticky balls of sulfuric acid solution emitting blue light sprayed out from their perky, bloated rear ends like autocannons.
The liquid strong acid balls sprayed from the rear ends of these Beetles could strike over ten kilometers away. The high corrosiveness of this liquid biological strong acid could even melt steel! Compared to the Spider Bugs and Jumping Bugs, the number of these Beetles wasn't large, only twenty to thirty thousand. But it was precisely because of the appearance of these Beetles that the Earth Alliance's Heavy Artillery couldn't fully unleash its force, allowing the Erdos Civilization's Bug Swarm to reverse the situation of their stalled attack.
Large batches of the Bug Swarm began to tear through the Earth Alliance's Battlefield Defense Line, the First Battlefield Defense Line. After several hours of continuous operation, the tank gun muzzles and heavy machine guns were already glowing red hot. Even without the attack by those Beetles, these heavy tanks would have to take turns cooling their cannon bores.
In the sky, sulfuric acid balls, one to two meters in diameter, fell from the sky. Under the effect of the internal blue light, they exploded in the center of the Earth Alliance's Defense Line. The Soldiers hiding inside the tanks were relatively safe; although this strong acid liquid could corrode steel, it couldn't do much to these heavy tanks with thick armor in a short time.
But for the sulfuric acid balls that landed on the Allied Forces Defense Line, if a Soldier was unfortunately splashed by the strong acid liquid after they exploded, their flesh and blood could be corroded away, exposing their bare white bones.
And the area covered by these exploding sulfuric acid balls was extremely large; one could cover an area of over ten meters. These sulfuric acid balls caused immense damage to the Earth Alliance, not only physically but also psychologically. Imagine those Soldiers watching their Comrades-in-arms being corroded into piles of white bone before their very eyes.
Small-scale soldier routs even occurred in some battlefields. To prevent a chain reaction, these fleeing South Korean Soldiers were immediately executed by firing squad by the Federation's Inspector Team! This prevented a large-scale desertion.
Even so, the Battlefield situation remained extremely grim. To prevent the Heavy Artillery group from being subjected to long-range strike, some Heavy Artillery positions and Rocket Launcher vehicles had to retreat. Although the Frontline Commander had already ordered the Frontline Soldiers to use mortars and rocket launchers to fill the missing Heavy Artillery firepower gap.
However, the firepower gap between these rocket launchers and mortars issued to squads and the Heavy Artillery with calibers above 200 millimeters was naturally extremely obvious.
This undoubtedly gave the Insects an opportunity! "Those damned Insects are swarming again! A Company! Block the gap!"
"Officer! Coordinates 346, 234, large numbers of Insects detected, I need artillery fire support!"
"Go! Go! Go!"
Without Heavy Firepower support, and with the landmines having been flattened by the Insects with their flesh and blood over the past four hours, large numbers of Bug Swarm began to cross the tanks and armored vehicles' Heavy Firepower and penetrate the Earth Alliance's Defense Line.
"Da da da da da da—"
"Bang bang bang bang—Boom boom boom boom"
Facing these huge Insects hissing and rushing forward, the Human Soldiers at the Frontline Position suppressed their fear and began their defensive counterattack.
The sound of mortars and rocket launchers breaking through the sky and exploding roared on the Battlefield. Rows of tubular objects, like beehives, formed Metal Storms that fired metal torrents at a rate of fire of thirty thousand rounds per minute. Even the Insects with sturdy bodies were instantly turned into puddles of minced meat by these metal torrents.
At the same time, each of these Metal Storm tube boxes was equipped with four launchers, capable of firing 16 rounds of 40mm grenades in less than 0.01 seconds.
It's worth mentioning that these grenades, like the grenades fired from the 40mm semi-automatic grenade launchers hanging under the rifles of the Earth Alliance Soldiers, were filled with thermite shells.
This thermite shell, which absolutely violates the Geneva Convention, was originally developed to target heavy defensive weapons like tanks.
When they hit the huge-bodied Insects, often a single thermite shell could burn through their thick carapaces, burning their flesh and blood into ash.
Hundreds of thousands of fierce Insects were blocked outside the Defense Line by humanity's top firearms, unable to advance a single step for another two hours.
But as the Earth Alliance's Metal Storms ran out, Vulcan Cannon ammunition belts were depleted, gun barrels overheated, various light and heavy machine gun barrels were replaced multiple times, and the cannon bores of mortars and light artillery reached their limits.
The Earth Alliance's Defense Line advantage also diminished little by little, especially as the sky gradually darkened. Although under the radiance emitted by Yggdrasil, Titan was not completely devoid of light like Earth's Night Sky.
However, the dim environment was undoubtedly an excellent attack environment for the Bug Swarm herded by the Erdos Civilization. "Officer! Position 270 lost! The Bug Swarm is rushing towards Position 275, we've lost two Battalions!"
"Contact the rear Heavy Firepower, tell the artillery, I need artillery fire support!"
"Officer! Position 364, defended by the Japanese people, is lost!"
"Officer, we have already lost ten kilometers of deep Defense Line!"
In the First Battlefield's Forward Command Post, a Federal Army Lieutenant General, responsible for Frontline Command, listened to the Operations Staff Officers receiving one bad news after another from the walkie-talkies. The news of losing one position after another made him frown deeply. He walked directly to a red telephone and picked it up: "Officer, I need Heavy Firepower support, whether it's artillery, missiles, or anything else, throw it all onto the lost positions. Otherwise, I can't hold out for two days!"
"Lieutenant General Haosi, this is just the enemy's vanguard force. According to the original plan, we need to hold out here for at least fifteen days. You need to know that against these alien bastards, once the big guns are used, they will be on guard in the future. Once the trump cards are used up, we won't last long!"
Chapter 447: Prelude to War
The massive Bug Swarm was forced to halt outside Titan, their frenzied attack was held back for a full four hours.
But this Bug Swarm, similar in appearance to the Zerg, was raised by the Erdos Civilization. The races they herded weren't just the fearless Spider Bugs and Jumping Bugs—
In a civilization structure resembling ant nests within the Human World, these Spider Bugs and Jumping Bugs, the size of Human World cars, often served only as Sentinels and Worker Ants.
After the Earth Alliance's Heavy Firepower eliminated hundreds of thousands of Sentinel Bugs, the true Soldier Ants among the Bug Swarm herded by the Erdos Civilization began to appear in the Earth Alliance's field of vision.
These Soldier Ants, similar in appearance to Beetles, possessed a pair of sharp pincer-like mouthparts. Beneath their two split carapaces were bulging, bloated, and obese bodies. When you truly saw the size of these creatures, you would understand why they were so late.
Their split carapaces seemed to function as wings, but those small wings dragged their bloated bodies, which were the size of Heavy Truck beds, through the sky. Although the small wings vibrated at an extremely high frequency, their flight speed was even slower than a speed-limited two-wheeled electric vehicle on Earth.
The sight of these Beetles appearing... well, how should I put it? It was extremely comical!
But when these Beetles lined up densely on the World Tree Branch, lifting their bloated, water-sack-like rear ends and aiming them at the Earth Alliance's Defense Line, these seemingly comical Insects instantly transformed into long-range weapons.
Sticky balls of sulfuric acid solution emitting blue light sprayed out from their perky, bloated rear ends like autocannons.
The liquid strong acid balls sprayed from the rear ends of these Beetles could strike over ten kilometers away. The high corrosiveness of this liquid biological strong acid could even melt steel! Compared to the Spider Bugs and Jumping Bugs, the number of these Beetles wasn't large, only twenty to thirty thousand. But it was precisely because of the appearance of these Beetles that the Earth Alliance's Heavy Artillery couldn't fully unleash its force, allowing the Erdos Civilization's Bug Swarm to reverse the situation of their stalled attack.
Large batches of the Bug Swarm began to tear through the Earth Alliance's Battlefield Defense Line, the First Battlefield Defense Line. After several hours of continuous operation, the tank gun muzzles and heavy machine guns were already glowing red hot. Even without the attack by those Beetles, these heavy tanks would have to take turns cooling their cannon bores.
In the sky, sulfuric acid balls, one to two meters in diameter, fell from the sky. Under the effect of the internal blue light, they exploded in the center of the Earth Alliance's Defense Line. The Soldiers hiding inside the tanks were relatively safe; although this strong acid liquid could corrode steel, it couldn't do much to these heavy tanks with thick armor in a short time.
But for the sulfuric acid balls that landed on the Allied Forces Defense Line, if a Soldier was unfortunately splashed by the strong acid liquid after they exploded, their flesh and blood could be corroded away, exposing their bare white bones.
And the area covered by these exploding sulfuric acid balls was extremely large; one could cover an area of over ten meters. These sulfuric acid balls caused immense damage to the Earth Alliance, not only physically but also psychologically. Imagine those Soldiers watching their Comrades-in-arms being corroded into piles of white bone before their very eyes.
Small-scale soldier routs even occurred in some battlefields. To prevent a chain reaction, these fleeing South Korean Soldiers were immediately executed by firing squad by the Federation's Inspector Team! This prevented a large-scale desertion.
Even so, the Battlefield situation remained extremely grim. To prevent the Heavy Artillery group from being subjected to long-range strike, some Heavy Artillery positions and Rocket Launcher vehicles had to retreat. Although the Frontline Commander had already ordered the Frontline Soldiers to use mortars and rocket launchers to fill the missing Heavy Artillery firepower gap.
However, the firepower gap between these rocket launchers and mortars issued to squads and the Heavy Artillery with calibers above 200 millimeters was naturally extremely obvious.
This undoubtedly gave the Insects an opportunity! "Those damned Insects are swarming again! A Company! Block the gap!"
"Officer! Coordinates 346, 234, large numbers of Insects detected, I need artillery fire support!"
"Go! Go! Go!"
Without Heavy Firepower support, and with the landmines having been flattened by the Insects with their flesh and blood over the past four hours, large numbers of Bug Swarm began to cross the tanks and armored vehicles' Heavy Firepower and penetrate the Earth Alliance's Defense Line.
"Da da da da da da—"
"Bang bang bang bang—Boom boom boom boom"
Facing these huge Insects hissing and rushing forward, the Human Soldiers at the Frontline Position suppressed their fear and began their defensive counterattack.
The sound of mortars and rocket launchers breaking through the sky and exploding roared on the Battlefield. Rows of tubular objects, like beehives, formed Metal Storms that fired metal torrents at a rate of fire of thirty thousand rounds per minute. Even the Insects with sturdy bodies were instantly turned into puddles of minced meat by these metal torrents.
At the same time, each of these Metal Storm tube boxes was equipped with four launchers, capable of firing 16 rounds of 40mm grenades in less than 0.01 seconds.
It's worth mentioning that these grenades, like the grenades fired from the 40mm semi-automatic grenade launchers hanging under the rifles of the Earth Alliance Soldiers, were filled with thermite shells.
This thermite shell, which absolutely violates the Geneva Convention, was originally developed to target heavy defensive weapons like tanks.
When they hit the huge-bodied Insects, often a single thermite shell could burn through their thick carapaces, burning their flesh and blood into ash.
Hundreds of thousands of fierce Insects were blocked outside the Defense Line by humanity's top firearms, unable to advance a single step for another two hours.
But as the Earth Alliance's Metal Storms ran out, Vulcan Cannon ammunition belts were depleted, gun barrels overheated, various light and heavy machine gun barrels were replaced multiple times, and the cannon bores of mortars and light artillery reached their limits.
The Earth Alliance's Defense Line advantage also diminished little by little, especially as the sky gradually darkened. Although under the radiance emitted by Yggdrasil, Titan was not completely devoid of light like Earth's Night Sky.
However, the dim environment was undoubtedly an excellent attack environment for the Bug Swarm herded by the Erdos Civilization. "Officer! Position 270 lost! The Bug Swarm is rushing towards Position 275, we've lost two Battalions!"
"Contact the rear Heavy Firepower, tell the artillery, I need artillery fire support!"
"Officer! Position 364, defended by the Japanese people, is lost!"
"Officer, we have already lost ten kilometers of deep Defense Line!"
In the First Battlefield's Forward Command Post, a Federal Army Lieutenant General, responsible for Frontline Command, listened to the Operations Staff Officers receiving one bad news after another from the walkie-talkies. The news of losing one position after another made him frown deeply. He walked directly to a red telephone and picked it up: "Officer, I need Heavy Firepower support, whether it's artillery, missiles, or anything else, throw it all onto the lost positions. Otherwise, I can't hold out for two days!"
"Lieutenant General Haosi, this is just the enemy's vanguard force. According to the original plan, we need to hold out here for at least fifteen days. You need to know that against these alien bastards, once the big guns are used, they will be on guard in the future. Once the trump cards are used up, we won't last long!"
