Him and their stars

This is the innate ability of the young Star Planter. During the action, he will not mind our weak attacks and will only follow his instinct and move towards the sun. However, its instinctive immune mechanism will also react. Its defense cells will automatically fall off its body and attack all threatening targets in the galaxy.

Professor Zinov's explanation flashed in Deng Zhengqing's mind.

...But, cells? Whose cells are this big?

Deng Zhengqing looked at the image fed back by the radar, and only saw something the size of a fighter jet, with an oval body, insect-like mouthparts, and the whole body was covered with spikes and crooked tentacles. If the Star Planter looks like a sacred creation, these so-called cells look like demons that choose people to eat. The appearance really challenges the limits of human aesthetics. They stretched out their wings of light, which were very similar to those of New Shenzhou 2, and swaggered toward them.

Forget it, they are said to be immune cells, but in fact, the white blood cells in the human body are actually quite vicious. If you think about it this way, will you feel relieved?

He gritted his teeth and said to Brigadier General Bazin, who seemed hesitant: "Your Excellency, we cannot be held back by this."

The veteran nodded solemnly, hesitation flashed in his eyes, and then he immediately ordered the escort detachment to fill in the line. The remaining warships adjusted thirty degrees clockwise as they advanced, accelerated to charging speed, and advanced in an arc to intercept the Star Planter.

However, now comes the problem.

According to intelligence estimates, the "cells" of these star planters can burst out at a high speed equivalent to a sublight charge in a short period of time, but their endurance is a little less interesting. In other words, they are disposable weapons. When they are separated from the main body, their "life" has already entered a countdown.

However, during the time they exist, they must be intercepted. Otherwise, once the main force of the fleet, which is fully pursuing the Star Planter, is cut from the waist or even the tail by them, these warships, which are now designed to confront the enemy with their bows, will die quite miserably and humiliatingly.

The so-called fourth and fifth detachments are both light cruisers and destroyers, but at any rate their air defense capabilities are pretty good. There is also an old model of Sentinel-class guard ship, which was also dragged out of the New Shenzhou sector from its own shipyard. grandfather. Although the ship is old, it is packed with close-in firepower like a hedgehog, and is equipped with a capital ship-level wide-area force field barrier shield. Considering that the original Sentinel-class should not have this kind of equipment, it is natural that it does have it and it can only be modified by Xia Ji Ba from the New China Sector.

But even if he continued to mess around, this large battleship, which was even larger than the Xiaguang and could be called the largest tonnage of the combined fleet, still came to the forefront of the fleet and opened a wide-area energy barrier. It was a transparent glass that seemed to be condensed with photon energy, extending to both sides of the ship, covering one's own anti-aircraft warships, like forming a shield wall for teammates.

On the guard ship "Shenzhou Candide", the captain, Colonel Bai Kelu, looked at the protective barrier deployed by the ship and sighed with some satisfaction: "Humph, give this thing a little bit of the shock of our new Shenzhou! "

The current wide-area force field shields that are the mainstream equipment for protecting warships in various countries cannot reach a protection plane of this scale. Either the New China Guard Fleet obtained the latest products of the Empire or Alliance from somewhere, or their magic modification achieved a breakthrough success.

"I originally planned to give the Imperial Devils a surprise, but I didn't expect that the first battle would be against that monster." Facing the incoming powerful enemy, Captain Bai was still confident, but then he sighed: "It's a pity. Yes, we only have one ship. If we have twenty ships, we can defend the front watertight."

The captain looked at the enemy that was getting closer and closer to him, and ordered all close firepower to be in place. Also prepare the second echelon.

The so-called second echelon refers to allowing the crew to drive large anti-aircraft mechas, equipped with space components and fixators, to deploy defenses on the outer shell of the ship, thus forming a second fire interception network for large warships. When necessary, you can even intercept the enemy from jumping gangs.

In this era where the technology tree is distorted and everyone loves hand-cranked cannons and gang-hopping charges, this is actually a symbol of courage. Those who dare to use magnetic pads and traction ropes to tie themselves to the outside of the battleship and face the enemy in space are the bravest crew members.

Fortunately, although New China is one of the poorest star regions in the entire community, it is a homeland established by adventurers and pioneers. The most important thing is brave people.

One thousand three hundred two-seater large land combat mechas, with the help of traction ropes and magnetic attraction pads, jumped out of the cabin one after another, and then were pulled by the attraction facilities and landed on the hull again.

"Those guys are really ugly!" Lieutenant Colonel Myrian, who led the team, said to everyone: "But they are really not the ugliest!"

Indeed, many of the crew members present were cowboys from pioneer families. Contact with all kinds of alien species with strange shapes has been engraved in their DNA.

Since the headquarters said that these inexplicable monsters can be regarded as small fighter planes and jumping gang mechas, then let's fight like this!

The guard ship Candide held up its shield while dragging its wingmen behind it and began to move forward. It is not the habit of the New China Cowboys to stay where they are and take a beating. More importantly, the sooner they make contact with the enemy, the sooner they can buy time for the strike fleet to attack.

However, this choice will make them bear the impact of those "Star Planter Cells" head-on, and they will inevitably suffer greater casualties.

Three minutes later, at 11:14 standard time, these "immune cells" like hell demons spit out countless beams of light towards the fleet.

It can be seen that they can only act based on instinct. These fierce light beams were quickly caught by the light barrier.

"The shield power has been reduced by 67%!" the armed officer on the Shenzhou Candide said loudly.

Someone gasped. These so-called "immune cells" are obviously only the size of a single fighter plane, but the power of a salvo launched by hundreds of cells at the same time is almost as powerful as the main gun of a battleship.

"...What kind of fighter plane is this?" Captain Bai snorted fiercely.

If there is a clear and rational will behind these "immune cells", a long-distance salvo alone would be enough to disintegrate the direction of the combined fleet. Fortunately, they act more instinctively. After weakening the opponent's energy shield, he directly hit the shield physically, roaring like a crazy wasp and pounced on the Earthlings' warship.

All the close firepower of the fleet intertwined a fierce and blazing fire net in the void. Then, the crew quickly discovered that these guys not only fired like battleships, but were also ridiculously thick. They were all clearly the size of a single-seat fighter jet or even an unmanned wingman, but each one of them looked like an assault ship with shields open.

At 11:21, the first "cell" landed on Candide's outer armor plate. This monster is ten meters long and has a crawling height of more than three meters. Compared with its host, it is indeed as tiny as an unrecognizable cell. But now, looking at it up close, it is clear that it is also a terrifying monster that chooses people to eat. .

Before the mecha closest to it could react, it had already pounced on it, tore half of the mecha's body apart with its mouthparts, and threw it away.

Thus, in this battle against the giant beast, the community's first war casualty occurred.

"All crew members, change into space suits." Captain Bai ordered in a deep voice. He now felt that he should have given this order five minutes earlier. But there is nothing we can do about it. After all, he was just an officer guarding the fleet. He had only fought pirates before, so his combat experience and professional abilities were limited, and the attack speed of those monsters was indeed beyond his imagination.

What's more, wearing a space armor suit for shipboard operations for a long time is a great test for the physical fitness of the personnel.

However, even if he lacks professionalism and formal combat experience, this captain from a pioneer family still believes that the soldiers guarding the fleet will not lack courage.

"Everyone, grit your teeth and hold on! Think about our development in Baichuan Star, none of you have been allocated a public house there! Only by killing this big guy, can those public houses be left for your parents to take care of in their old age!" Pass it on to your wives and children!”

At the same moment, Lieutenant Colonel Myrian, who was on Candide's shell, controlled the mecha and wielded a molten battle ax as big as a windmill to split open a giant beast that was coming towards him.

"Children, Baichuan Star has cultivated millions of fertile fields! Professor Ji said that if this guy is killed, this place will definitely become better! Tell your little brats, these are all our New China's The old cowboys conquered the world!"

His partner and fireman laughed loudly in coordination, and continued to control the cannon on his shoulder to fire at the enemies who were constantly falling to the ground. Even the rain of bullets seemed to be much denser.

At this moment, a monster waved its light whip-like tentacles, deflected the rain of bullets, and landed in front of them. It was about to explode and attack, but then, its body suddenly twitched and fell to the ground, never moving again.

It took Lieutenant Colonel Mylion a few seconds to realize that his head was still there. He swallowed with fear, then laughed and said: "Yes, they are just some cells! Do you see it? Guys, just hold on for ten minutes. !Ten minutes! Our comrades will bring us victory!"

What he said is indeed correct. After these "immune cells" are separated from the main body, their action time is actually limited. However, while the body of the Star Planter is advancing, it is still producing continuously. If the main body cannot be killed, no matter how brave the pioneers guarding the fleet are, they will be overwhelmed sooner or later.

On the other side, the main fleet headed by Xiaguang entered charging speed ahead of schedule. Their actions are bound to put a considerable strain on the engine. If the engine reaches its limit and cannot win, all battleships may turn into living coffins for tens of thousands of soldiers.

However, now everyone only has this choice. This was also the possibility anticipated by General Bazan and Deng Zhengqing in the battle plan they formulated at the beginning.

"What a pity. I don't even expect to have a few more guard ships... But it would be great if we had ten Holy Shield or Ridge-class ships. If that doesn't work, the Iron Army's Shiwei-class ships would be good too!" Bazin muttered the Brigadier.

The Empire's Aegis class, the Alliance's Ridge class, and the Iron Army Alliance's Stone Guard class are the strongest escort light cruisers currently in service in the galaxy.

The layout is smaller. Deng Zhengqing thought. You might as well think we have ten Titan ships on hand.

"It would be even better if the light-wing equipment of New Shenzhou 2 can be used on our large battleships!" Commodore Bazin sighed again.

This veteran feels that there is still a lot of room for improvement in the tactics he has formulated, but the premise is that his hardware can first keep up with the requirements.

He asked: "Is the strike fleet in place?"

"We are ready to attack. If the calculation is correct, the target will enter the planned strike position after 180 seconds."

General Bazin nodded. Fortunately, this terrifying planet monster is really just like an oversized space jellyfish at the moment. It is acting entirely based on instinct, which gives us the possibility to continuously attack it.

...What if it is intelligent?

I don't expect it to have the intelligence of Edelweiss, but it can be like an ordinary reptile predator. What will be our current situation?

Haha, not to mention this small combined fleet. I am afraid that the community must have a main fleet as large as the New World Expeditionary Force and be mentally prepared to suffer more than 50% battle damage before there is a possibility of a war.

We are lucky after all! There is indeed some power protecting us somewhere!

Brigadier Bazin said to himself.

"Where is New Shenzhou 2?"

"Communication has been lost." Deng Zhengqing said.

"Lost communication?"

"The interference from the strong magnetic field phenomenon in the galaxy becomes more serious the closer we get to the inner ring of Tianshu Star. Our communication with the escort fleet has also begun to become unstable." Deng Zhengqing said, but then he added: "However, The image sent back by the Survey Eye three minutes ago shows that No. 2 is still there. It is heading towards the orbit of the third planet."

The impact of the strong magnetic field phenomenon in Tianshu Galaxy is more serious than everyone imagined. Fortunately, because of the existence of 11 priceless sky survey eyes, we can at least form a not very efficient monitoring network through gravitational waves. While there's always a three to ten minute delay, it's better than nothing.

"Planet No. 3? This is different from what was promised." Brigadier General Bazin frowned slightly, but then he was relieved.

New Shenzhou 2 is the final trump card in the battle, and it has given the captain the greatest autonomy.

Now, he has done almost everything he can do as the commander of the entire fleet, and can only perform the duties of a warrior.

"The entire fleet, enter the second charge speed, and the main guns start loading!"