"The alert level of the ship's defense facilities has been raised to the highest level, and all cabin partition doors have been lowered to prepare the Marines to face the enemy!" Rear Admiral Alexander issued three orders in succession.

As soon as he finished speaking, four thick armored doors fell down one after another, sealing off the corridor leading to the bridge. Several soldiers responsible for defending the bridge set up two machine cannons behind the door, and the black muzzles were straight.

The ground is pointed in the direction of the corridor.

"Everyone, be ready for battle...even civilian officers." Major General Alexander said. He took out the exquisitely crafted pistol from his waist that was used to symbolize the commander's identity. He took a look at it and shook his head with some disappointment.

, and casually threw it into the glove cabinet under the captain's console. Then he quickly walked to the weapons cabinet on the side of the bridge, took a 0.5-inch caliber hunting pistol and stuffed it into the holster, and picked another

He straddled his body with a Gauss machine gun weighing a full 25 kilograms.

"Uh, General, how about I hold it..." An officer wanted to take the machine gun from Major General Alexander, but Alexander glared back, "If you need a weapon, get it from the cabinet yourself...

I said, everyone must be ready for battle, please note, everyone, including myself."

"But, you are the supreme commander here..."

The officer was interrupted by Alexander before he finished speaking: "So what if I am the supreme commander? Can't the supreme commander hold a gun? If those monsters break through the defense line and enter the bridge, they will because

Why don’t you attack me if I don’t have a weapon in my hand?”

Before the officer could react, Alexander took out another rifle from the weapons cabinet and stuffed it into his hand.

"Can you use it?" Alexander asked.

"Uh... yes." The officer was stunned for a moment, and then nodded quickly - although he is a civilian officer, as long as he is a soldier, he can still operate the most basic firearms, and the army also does it every year.

Conduct skill assessments, even for generals.

In addition to the officers and soldiers who were operating the "Scati", other people on the bridge also ran to the weapons cabinet to pick out their own weapons. Some people even directly put on tactical mechas and guarded the ship.

Both sides of the entrance and exit of the bridge.

The difference between having battleships for air support and not having battleships for air support is so great that it no longer affects the balance of victory, but directly overturns the balance.

But Alexander also knew very well that no matter how excellent the commander's quality was, it was useless in the face of the absolute gap in combat power... At most, it could only make him lose more honorably.

"Two hundred men against ten thousand monsters." Major General Alexander said, "Are you sure?"

But there are risks in doing so - the number of egg-shaped sarcomas projected onto the Skati is still increasing, and the number of monsters placed inside the battleship will become increasingly difficult to control. This is like a dam,

When the water pressure is not high, it is easy to control the water release gate, but when the amount of water accumulated behind the dam exceeds a certain threshold, the entire dam is in danger of bursting.

"Rejected." Alexander immediately rejected the Marine Corps Commander's proposal, "Even if you can fight those monsters outside the high-speed flying battleship, how many troops can you put in?"

The battle loss ratio between humans and indigenous creatures has always been a number that is difficult to quantify. If the target is assumed to be an insect creature in the wilderness, the insect creature can be destroyed in a single fight with human soldiers.

A team of ten human soldiers, and the human soldiers

The light weapons in their hands are difficult to cause damage to them. But if humans set up an ambush area in advance and use napalm bombs, tactical nuclear weapons or even battleship main guns to kill them, then they only need to pay a small price.

Destroy a huge swarm of insects.

Concentrating the strength of the survivor coalition in one place is a countermeasure, but this means that they must give up a large amount of supplies and production facilities, which is tantamount to cutting off their arms.

Once this "dam" really breaks, the monsters that continuously rush into the ship will instantly destroy all defensive forces and slaughter the entire interior of the battleship.

Major General Alexander suddenly remembered an earth plant that he had read in a book when he was young - the seeds of that plant are stored in a tightly closed cyst. When an animal passes by, the stimulated cyst will

It bursts suddenly and sprays out the seeds. The seeds with sticky substances on the surface will stick firmly to the hair of passing animals and be carried to other places by the animals to take root and germinate.

"Currently, there are approximately 7,500 egg-shaped sarcomas attached to battleships with a diameter of less than one meter, approximately 1,100 with a diameter of one to three meters, and 200 with a diameter of three to ten meters.

, there are nine giant sarcomas with a diameter of more than ten meters... No, two more giant sarcomas just broke through the energy shield, and now there are eleven.

! Thirty percent of the sarcomas have completed incubation, and of the remaining 70%, more than half will complete incubation within one minute." The CIC intelligence officer quickly compiled the statistics, "Moreover, this number is still rapid.

Soaring... the enemies we will face are estimated to be between 10,000 and 12,000."

"It will be very unfavorable for us to drag on like this!" The commander of the Marine Corps also connected the communication to the bridge and said to Major General Alexander, "General, let me take the mecha troops outside the ship to clear out these monsters and adherents

It’s a sarcoma on the ship! Our mechas have all been upgraded with strong magnetic foot pads, so they can move around on the surface of the warship without being thrown out!"

These egg-shaped sarcomas are very similar to the seeds of that kind of plant... except that the place where they take root and germinate is not in the soil, but in the body of the host.

Major General Alexander seemed serious and calm, but in fact he was very anxious in his heart...but as a commander, he could never show this anxiety on his face.

In other words, it is possible to directly airdrop a cluster of tactical mechas to the main nest of the insect swarm, and use the thick armor and strong firepower of the tactical mechas to break into the core of the main nest and directly kill the insect queen. It is also possible to eliminate a group of insects in a short time.

group.

"Damn fat man, can you be quiet for a while?" The hound sitting on the sofa glanced at Maginot, "We are also in a hurry, but is being anxious useful? Didn't you see that Ke Lan was thinking? You are blind at this time

A few random calls will not help the situation."

"Even if you are still thinking about countermeasures, at least send Yagunaktor out first!" Magino said urgently.

…

Even if Mount Tai collapses before him, his appearance remains unchanged. This is the quality that a good commander must possess.

"No! If this continues, they will definitely follow in the footsteps of the Ark Guard Fleet and the First Cruise Fleet! I finally know how those battleships perished!" Maginot said quickly, "Ke Lan, we must now

Let them retreat and send support immediately, so that it is possible to save the Skati and the officers and soldiers on the ship... Our combat power is very tight. If we lose the Skati, the whole situation will become unfair.

We are at a disadvantage!"

"The unknown substance in the egg-shaped sarcoma is corroding the outer armor of the battleship." CIC's intelligence officer loudly reported to Alexander, "In the most serious areas of corrosion, the depth of corrosion has reached a quarter of the armor layer. It is expected that there will be more

In forty seconds, the armor layer will be eroded!"

The battle between the "Scati" and the Ark is being broadcast live on the projection screen facing the sofa through an information transmission chain composed of thousands of communication drones. Seeing that the surface of the Skati is covered in

There are many large and small egg-shaped sarcomas. General Maginot went from being calm at the beginning to being restless, and finally turned into what he is now.

Alexander turned back and glanced at the live screen in front of him. The Skati had already arrived directly above the Ark. However, the size of the Ark was too huge. He wanted to pass over the top of the Ark and use the Skati

It takes several minutes to do it at any speed.

At the same time, at Mukach Base, General Maginot's office.

"Ke Lan, why are you still so indifferent! I'm going to die!" General Maginot's facial features were all squeezed together, "Can't you see the screen? I know you want to keep your trump card, but no matter what

If we stay, we may have to do everything

We are at a disadvantage. At that time, even if you play your cards, it may not work! Although I don’t know how to lead troops in war, the importance of the Skati to us is very clear even to the orderlies below.

…We must rescue them!”

Egg-shaped sarcomas are constantly being shot at the Skadi. The base of these sarcomas has a structure similar to a jet device. Its output is so powerful that it can even shoot sarcomas weighing more than ten tons to a height of one thousand meters -

—Although the Skadi has increased in altitude, it still cannot avoid these shell-like egg-shaped sarcoids.

According to Alexander's plan, it is to defend according to danger and put these monsters into the interior of the battleship in small quantities and many times to destroy them. In this way, the "geographical advantage" can be brought into full play, which is equivalent to the second attack when facing the insect swarm.

A tactical strategy.

The best solution is to keep the "Skati". As long as the "Skati" is stationed, whether it is a defensive battle or an encounter in the wilderness, the coalition of survivors can achieve greater success.

winning rate.

It will take at least a few months for the new battleships at Griffin Fortress to be put into use, and during this period, the monsters on the Ark are likely to attack various locations including Griffin Fortress and Mukah Fortress.

The survivors allied forces to attack the strongholds. Even if Ke Lan showed the Yagunaktor's trump card, there was only one Yagunaktor, and it was impossible to save all the strongholds.

Countless monsters were hatched from the sarcoid, and as the sarcoma ruptured, a liquid that looked like amniotic fluid flowed out from inside. As soon as this liquid came into contact with the Skati's surface armor, a large amount of it began to emerge.

White smoke - obviously, this is a very corrosive substance.

What Magino said is not unreasonable. The Skadi heavy cruiser is considered to be the strongest combat power of the human survivor coalition. This statement is not an exaggeration at all. If the total combat power of the survivor coalition is compared to

If it were 100%, the Skati accounted for at least 85% or more. Losing the Skati was almost the same as the annihilation of the entire army.

"CIC, tell him how many enemies there are on the surface of our warship now," Major General Alexander said.

In addition, there is another problem, that is, choosing the battlefield inside the battleship will inevitably cause serious damage to the internal structure of the battleship. Marine soldiers are even restricted from using overly powerful heavy weapons.

...Under such a constrained situation, the bonus brought by the "geographical advantage" will continue to weaken as time goes by.

"It's over, it's over...these tumors can actually penetrate the Skadi's energy shield. It's over now!" General Maginot put his hands behind his back, walked quickly in circles in front of the sofa, and kept mumbling,

"Ten thousand... no, there are almost 20,000 monsters boarding the battleship, right? How can they possibly defeat this? Once the gap in the ship is opened, these monsters will get in one after another... Then, then

It will be a massacre!"

This commander of the Marine Corps, who is over 1.9 meters tall and extremely brave, is an old subordinate of Major General Alexander. He was transferred from the First Cruise Fleet to the Zero Fleet with him. He can be regarded as a veteran of many battles.

He is a veteran. But even he, after hearing the enemy's numbers, a look of despair flashed across his face.

"I..." The commander of the Marine Corps was suddenly speechless - although he knew that the situation was serious, the CIC data would not be opened to the Marine Corps without the permission of the captain, so it was projected to

He did not know the exact number of oval sarcomas on the Skati.

But in the current situation, if the marines really went outside the battleship to fight with those monsters, there is no doubt that they would never be able to achieve the battle loss ratio of the latter two situations.

"Two hundred people! I only need to take two hundred people out, so that the defense inside the ship will not be empty!" said the commander of the Marine Corps.

"Do you think it's still too late for Yagunaktor to set off?" Ke Lan glanced at him and asked.

"What?"

"According to the information sent back by the CIC of the Skadi, those monsters will invade the interior of the battleship in thirty seconds at most and come into close contact with the personnel on the ship. Do you think that Yagunaktor should be sent to the rescue now?

Is it too late?" Ke Lan continued to ask.

"Thirty seconds..." Maginot sat down on the sofa as if he had lost his soul, "How could it... be so fast? Isn't the armor of the Skadi very thick? Why can't it last even a minute?

?”
Chapter completed!