Chapter 166: Capture of the Reef Lair
Since this, Li Qing gave up the idea of garrisoning the alien troops and mechanical armored troops, and focused on creating this kind of army main force, and cannon fodder used clone troops.
At least that's all at this stage, but at this time Qingluan is obsessed with genetic technology. When she can develop extremely powerful genetic warriors or genetic warriors in the future, the main force will become genetic warriors and genetic warriors. This octopus robot will become cannon fodder, and the clone troops will be directly discontinued or used as guards.
The individual physical fitness of Shata people is stronger than that of humans, but their weapons and equipment are not as good as human clones, nor are they as good as octopus robots. When the ground troops enter Star City, they move forward with unstoppable momentum.
The population in Xingcheng is quite large, with hundreds of millions of people, but most of them are staff members. There are actually not many army stationed in it, and it is mainly used to maintain public order rather than combat.
The main reason is that it is meaningless to get too many ground troops. Could it be that Xingcheng has been captured and the ground troops can still counterattack?
Moreover, it is not convenient to use heavy weapons inside Star City, and the use of ground troops is greatly limited.
On the contrary, the inside of the planet is different, and that is the main battlefield of the ground forces.
A provincial capital like the Reef Nest has a population of nearly 20 billion. The number of troops on the ground will be very large, and there will definitely be a lot of resistance. When he captures Star City, he will have to spend a long time to clear the resistance on the planet.
Li Qing did not pay real-time attention to the attack of Star City by the ground troops. He could only see from the continuous feeling of the spiritual energy that bursts from time to time in Star City, and the continuous stopping of regional weapons, it can be seen that the battle inside Star City was very smooth.
Every time a large area is captured, the network and some automatic weapon command systems of that area are interrupted as soon as possible, and fleets and fighter jets outside Star City can reduce the pressure by a little.
The area located on this side of the fleet's attack was the first to liberate and stop the attack. The fleet, which had been fighting for several hours, could finally breathe for a while.
Then this kind of ceasefire gradually spread to other areas of Star City over time, and its firepower became weaker and weaker. Until at some point, all weapons in the three directions that were still fighting suddenly stopped, and the entire Star City suddenly became dark and became extremely quiet. Li Qing knew that the ground troops should have captured the command core of Star City.
"Your Majesty, you have captured the Xingcheng command center and captured a large number of members of the Xingcheng command center."
"Very good! Well done!"
With excitement, Li Qing received a message from several ground troops commanders inside Star City from the command center of the Astrology City.
The fall of Star City means that the reef nest galaxy has been completely captured.
Next is the end, repairing the Star City, sending messengers to the Expeditionary Force, preparing to relocate the headquarters, and re-arrange the defense to prevent the Shata people from recapturing them. All of them must be put in front.
On the contrary, there is no need to worry about conquering the planet, the reef nest. Without air supremacy, the army and civilians on the planet cannot escape at all.
“It’s not enough time!”
Now that the clearing of the nest in Xingcheng has not been completed, Li Qing thought about it, returned to the universe in his palm, stopped all construction in the dock, gathered all shipbuilding engineers in hundreds of industrial ships, preparing to wait for the Star City to completely capture, and internal resistance to completely clear out, pull out all these shipbuilding engineers, and repair Xingcheng on the spot.
It's not difficult. After breaking the shield, the offensive slowed down. There was only one direction in the ten directions of Xingcheng City, so you only need to repair this side.
Two hours later, Li Qing received a report that the last stubborn area in Xingcheng was cleared out and was about to pull the industrial fleet out to repair the Xingfort. Suddenly, one of the generals Deng Wende, who was in charge of Xingcheng's strategy, sent a message:
"Your Majesty, there are several powerful people from Shata who say that there is something very important to meet you."
"Um!"
Li Qing was silent for a moment and said:
"Take him here."
"The powerful and powerful of Shata people? Is this surrender?"
He didn't take it seriously, and opened the universe in his palm and summoned the industrial fleet and the maintenance fleet out to prepare for the maintenance of the Star Castle.
Soon the communication opened again, and several gorgeously dressed sea spider-men appeared in the projection. One of the sea spider-men with black limbs performed a strange etiquette to Li Qing and said loudly:
"Dear human commander, we are the senators of the Noble Senate of Shata United Civilization Sea Spider Tribe, I am Noel."
They spoke Shata language, not a common language for humans. The reason why Li Qing understood it was just that he had a translator.
Humans and Shata people have been fighting for five years, and their language has been analyzed and translated long ago, and there is no obstacle to communication.
Facing the opponent's aristocratic class, Li Qing still maintained some etiquette and reached out to cover his chest and bowed, but said calmly:
"I am the military chief of the Kalan Legion, the commander-in-chief of this fleet, Li Qing."
The sea spider nobleman returned a bow and said in a deep voice:
"Your Excellency General Li Qing, in fact, I have always advocated withdrawing from the Shata United Empire and alliance with humanity in the tribal senate, but the veterans in the capital who control military affairs did not agree, which led to today's battle."
“Um….”
Li Qing said with a smile:
"It's a pity, but it seems meaningless to say this at this moment."
"No, it still makes sense. Although the reef nest was captured by General Li Qing, there is still a division on the side of the Quelta Fortress. Marshal Quelta is the most outstanding commander in our tribe's history. It is difficult for you to capture Quelta Fortress."
After a pause, he continued:
"Of course, we are defeated at this time, and Marshal Querta will find it difficult to resist your siege. It is a matter of time to lose without support, but I think we still have a certain effect on you."
Li Qing shook his head and said calmly:
"No, it's useless."
The black sea spiderman Noel trembled when he saw Li Qingran's calm expression, suppressing his abnormal emotions and said in a deep voice:
"I admit that this defeat has far-reaching impact. We who are not strong enough are no longer on par with humanity. But we still have tens of billions of people who can serve you, and we still have a powerful fleet willing to fight with you."
"You may not know that a very powerful psychic was born among our Shata tribe. He had extraordinary skills to unify all tribes of the entire civilization, established a powerful empire led by him, and also waged wars against the Shara civilization and the Savis Council, and you humans."
"His strength is very strong, and the integrated Shata United Empire is also very powerful. We have learned about humans. Although your headquarters in another star field is strong, it is definitely not as strong as the integrated Shata United Empire."
Li Qing turned his head slightly, a hint of strangeness appeared on his face, Shao Qing smiled and said:
"First of all, we don't need your fleet, we don't like it."
After a pause, a trace of evil taste appeared in his heart and said:
"In addition, perhaps you have some misunderstandings about the strength of our human United Empire. The headquarters you know is not the headquarters of our civilization. Our headquarters is in the distant star field. The headquarters you know is just a small enclave of our civilization, a province like your southern province."
As he directly identified these things, Noel, the sea spider-man, opened his pupils involuntarily, his eyes full of fear and disbelief.
Li Qing smiled slightly and said:
"I don't need to lie to you. Our United Empire of Humanity is a powerful civilization far beyond your imagination. There are hundreds of such provinces over us, and each of them can easily sweep your so-called United Empire. What you are facing now is just an expeditionary force hosted by the Tianjin Province and has just been established for five years."
Noel's pupils opened sharply, and his mouth opened slightly involuntarily. The news was so shocking that he couldn't react for a moment.
Li Qing put his hands on his back and smiled slightly, saying:
"So, your cooperation does not mean much to us, and you are not qualified to be an alliance with our United Empire. Even becoming our vassal depends on whether we are interested."
After saying this, Li Qing had no interest in continuing to talk.
What he said just now is not showing off, he really has no interest. Why do you want a weak vassal?
Mining does not require it, they have sufficient regular players to work as a full-time miner.
You don’t need to farm. As long as you have a planet, a fully automated farm does not require many people. Even if you want to be a slave owner, you can use Ren Rong and Ren Jiang’s clones.
Soldiers don't need it, and they don't look down on them. Although the sea spider tribe has a slightly stronger physique than humans, who can fight hand-to-hand combat in the interstellar era? They are all high-tech weapons. Moreover, there are alien troops in real hand-to-hand combat, which is much easier to use than the sea spider man.
Thinking back a while, I feel that it’s useless and it’s so ugly.
Li Qing waved his hand and was about to cut off the communication. Suddenly, Noel looked up and shouted loudly as if awakened:
"General Li Qing, we can serve you and serve you alone. In addition, I will also tell you an important news. The commander-in-chief of the provincial guard fleet, who had previously defeated, contacted Locke Fortress before the war, and an imperial division was already coming, and it is estimated that it will be coming in less than eight hours!"
"Um!"
Li Qing paused and asked:
"Are you sure?"
Noel nodded vigorously:
"I'm sure we were under house arrest just by arguing with him."
At this time, the other sea spider-man beside him who had never had the chance to speak also nodded repeatedly.
Li Qing was silent with a serious look on his face, and looked up and said:
"Please wait for a day first. If reinforcements really come as you said, I will give you a chance to serve me."
After disconnecting from the contact, Li Qing opened the command channel as soon as possible, and announced the news calmly, and then the command channel became quiet.
A bunch of people on the channel were discussing how to clear out the defenders on this planet and how to deal with the 20 to 30 billion sea spider-men on the planet. They were having fun, and when they suddenly heard the news, everyone was stunned.
"Everyone gathers again, and if you have time, help transport some supplies and collect wreckage. I will restart Star City and strive to be able to join the battle before the battle begins."
If Star City can be restarted, it will not be irresistible to rely on the geographical advantages brought by Star City and the existing fleet.
There is only one division, not that I have never fought, or that I have come from afar without Star City home court. In terms of strength, I am not as strong as the reef nest defender I just dealt with.
Thinking of this, Li Qing felt relieved and immediately ordered the team that was under repair, asking them to restart the shield of Star City first.
Other damage is just for the sake of damage. The key is to turn on the shield first. Without the shield, you need to rely on armor to resist directly, and repairing in the future is very troublesome.
Time flies, and in the fourth hour, the shield of Xingcheng finally restarted. Li Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief and waited with peace of mind.
In the sixth hour, the reconnaissance ship discovered that a fleet jump suddenly fluctuated in the void five million kilometers away from Star City. The reconnaissance ship leaned over and found a strange Shata fleet that was leaping over.
But the specifications are very small, and they are only composed of five destroyers and twenty frigates.
This is a reconnaissance fleet. After entering the galaxy, it approaches the Star City, but suddenly stops when it is about one million kilometers away from the Star City, and then turns around and runs.
Li Qing, who was about to mobilize the cruiser fleet to go around, was stunned for a moment, and then received a message from his subordinates from Xingcheng. He just received a strange signal inside Xingcheng, and before he could respond, the signal disappeared.
After a minute, the same strange signal appeared again and disappeared again.
Another minute later, the same strange signal appeared for the third time and disappeared for the third time.
The engineers checked back and forth but found no signal source.
After the third time, the signal did not appear again.
Combined with the abnormal movements of the fleet just now, Li Qing had some understanding in his heart.
Time continued to pass, and soon more than eight hours, without any abnormalities in the void.
Twelve hours passed, but there was still no abnormality in the void, and the large number of reconnaissance ships sent out did not find any abnormality.
"It should be that I found that Xingcheng had been captured and left directly."
But Li Qing still did not relax his vigilance, but ordered Xingcheng to close the shield and continue to repair it.
It takes at least half an hour to turn on the shield of Star City, but with a fleet, it is enough to support half an hour to wait for the restart, so there will not be too much problem.
Next, Li Qing stayed asleep and sat in front of the Titan Super Flagship Bridge waiting.
Although he guessed that they would not come, he did not dare to be careless.
It was not until twenty hours passed that he breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the fleet to take a rest to guard near Star City. He finally breathed a sigh of relief and went to take a break first.
It was twelve hours after waking up again, and everything in Xingcheng was fine.
Obviously, it was discovered that Star City had been captured, and reinforcements sent by Locke Fortress did not come.
It is normal to think about it carefully. Lock Fortress is the most important fortress checkpoint of the Shata United Empire. The security there is more important than the entire southern province. Even if the entire southern province falls there, there is no problem. The priority level is not the same level at all.
If there is a chance, it is obvious that a division is not sure to conquer, so it is naturally decisive to give up.
"So, we succeeded!"
In the command channel, when everyone jumped up excitedly after hearing Li Qing officially announced the news.
"marvelous."
"We're really taking a planet of life, it's so cool!"
"I'm going to get rich!"
"I'm rich, too."
Chapter completed!