115: Chapter 115 The New Zerg, Army Expansion

This was a new type of terrain in the direction of the Salt Flats.

Through the first-person perspective of his Scout, Su Yang discovered that there were no crystal spore plants growing in this area either.

The landscape was essentially vast stretches of bare rock, with the surface densely covered in pale blue veins.

Unlike the previous hive located underground, this hive was rooted within the mountain itself.

More than a dozen small openings were distributed at the base of the mountain, with some pale blue crystals around the entrances.

If nothing unexpected happened, these crystals should be a new type of mineral.

In the Forbidden Ground, steel was far from the limit of Materials; many substances could enhance steel.

Therefore, Su Yang was very interested in these crystals; perhaps this was the material to further enhance the strength of the Imperial Armor.

Soon, General Li Xin led his troops to arrive at this new area.

Because it was a bare rock zone, the black iron chariot traveled faster there than in the dense forest.

Similarly, when they were three kilometers away from the target area, General Li Xin led his troops to disembark.

Unlike the previous third-generation hive, this time Su Yang's humanitarian tactics could not be used.

The Skyfire Guard were projectile artillery and could not launch shells into the vertical openings.

So this time, Su Yang planned to lure the Insect Swarm out and then deal with them at the entrance.

The Skyfire Guard deployed, and a high-explosive shell was launched into the air.

BOOM—

The shell landed at the hive entrance, and flames and dust surged out simultaneously.

As the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, the situation before him surprised Su Yang.

After a high-explosive shell with maxed-out explosion and impact damage, these hive openings remained completely unscathed.

At most, some of the gray rock crumbled, but the parts reinforced with pale blue crystals had almost no damage.

If it were a normal hive opening, even if it didn't collapse entirely, at least the bottom half would have caved in.

There was only one explanation for what he was seeing: the strength of this crystal was astonishing!

SWISH SWISH—

The Xenomorphs were awakened, and countless faint walking sounds emanated from the openings.

Stinger Bugs with pale blue shells emerged from the openings.

"It's the Gray Rock Clan from last time!" Su Yang's eyes flickered.

This special race could strengthen itself by consuming inorganic matter.

BOOM—

Just as a large number of Stinger Bugs poured out of the openings, a Skyfire Bomb landed, covering the entire entrance area with explosions and flames.

"How was the effect?" Su Yang stared intently at the scene.

Before the smoke and dust had even cleared, the pale blue Stinger Bugs rushed out, heading straight for the Skyfire Guard.

It turned out that the supposedly world-destroying Skyfire artillery had not caused any effective damage!

Except for the Stinger Bugs directly within the explosion radius that lost their mobility, the others were almost completely unharmed.

Moreover, besides the poor effect of the explosive shockwave, even the flames did not have much of an effect.

These pale blue insect shells had excellent resistance to explosions and flames!

"A large Insect Swarm is coming, prepare to engage!"

Su Yang ordered the Armored Elite Soldiers to form a line formation, and the crossbowmen all switched to Armor-piercing Arrows.

The Skyfire Guard switched to high-explosive shells, and the Fire Dragon Guard provided cover on the flanks.

The artillery units had minimal effect in this round, and the battle returned to a mode of close-quarters combat with the Xenomorphs!

While deploying the troops, Su Yang quickly switched his perspective and used the recently obtained Heart of the Hive to instantly complete two technologies.

With the artillery units ineffective, this battle would likely fall into a stalemate.

"Reinforcements must be sent!"

[Used item Heart of the Hive, shortening required research time by 2 days]

[Technology Fuel-powered Chainsaw Sword research complete, Level 4 Armored Elite Soldiers can now be upgraded]

[Technology Rapid-fire Transmission Structure research complete, Level 4 Armored Crossbowman units can now be upgraded]

With the technology research complete, Su Yang opened the Imperial Armor Camp panel.

[Unit: Great Qin Armored Elite Soldier]

[Unit Type: Melee Infantry]

[Production Requirement: Level 4 Imperial Armor Camp]

[Description: Melee unit equipped with full-body steel Imperial Armor and a fuel-powered chainsaw iron sword, capable of rapidly crushing enemy armor]

[Unlock prerequisite technologies to improve the offensive and defensive capabilities of the Elite Soldiers and increase front-line strength]

[Summoning cost: 800 command points]

[Consumption: 4 units of fuel/day, 4 units of concentrated water/day]

[Maintenance consumption: 4 units of steel/time, 4 units of copper/time]

[Reload consumption: 1 unit of fuel/time]

[Unit: Great Qin Armored Crossbowmen]

[Unit Type: Ranged Infantry]

[Production Requirement: Level 4 Imperial Armor Camp]

[Description: Improved crossbow firing mechanism, equipped with a rapid-fire transmission device, capable of up to 10 consecutive shots]

[Unlock prerequisite technologies to upgrade the crossbows of the Crossbowmen and increase ranged attack strength]

[Summoning cost: 1000 command points]

[Consumption: 4 units of fuel/day, 4 units of concentrated water/day]

[Maintenance consumption: 4 units of steel/time, 4 units of copper/time]

[Reload consumption: 2 units of steel/time, 1 unit of saltpeter/time, 1 unit of fuel/time]

Level 4 Armored Crossbowman possess high armor-piercing capabilities, and Level 4 Armored Crossbowman have several times the firepower increase.

The troops must be expanded as quickly as possible to reinforce the front line!

The current total command points were 80,371.

Su Yang's thoughts flickered, and he invested the command points.

He directly summoned 70 Level 4 Great Qin Armored Elite Soldiers and 50 Level 4 Great Qin Armored Crossbowmen, plus one dark iron heavy armored vehicle.

This was the maximum extent of military expansion possible with the current command points!

[command points - 77,700]

[Summoning Level 4 Great Qin Armored Elite Soldier * 70...]

[Summoning Level 4 Great Qin Armored Crossbowmen * 50...]

[Summoning dark iron heavy armored vehicle...]

CLANK CLANK—

The gates of the Imperial Armor Camp opened and closed continuously, steam and black smoke surged out, and batch after batch of Armored Soldiers walked out.

This was a massive expansion; after this expansion, the number of Imperial Armor Troops would reach three times what it was before!

The new dark iron heavy armored vehicle was deployed, and 60 Level 4 Armored Elite Soldiers and 40 Level 4 Armored Crossbowman quickly boarded and took their positions.

With an order from General Meng Tian, he led the reinforcement troops to set off.

The roar of engines erupted, and the reinforcement troops sped toward the front line.

On the other side, the wide-area Skyfire Bomb lacked sufficient armor-piercing damage, so the two Skyfire Guard units had to switch to high-explosive mode to pour out their remaining firepower.

BOOM—

The last two high-explosive shells landed; although the damage was sufficient, the lethal range was insufficient.

After two rounds of bombardment by the Skyfire Guard, a large number of Stinger Bugs still survived, and behind them, an endless stream of Xenomorphs continued to pour out.

WHOOSH—

After the Insect Swarm entered range, the four Fire Dragon Guard units on the flanks opened fire at maximum power.

Surging fire dragons roared out, forming a high-temperature purgatory in the middle.

However, the Xenomorph army was only slightly hindered and quickly broke through the blockade of fire.

This group of Xenomorphs had extremely high heat resistance!!