Chapter 23 The Battle of Defense
The plan to renovate all residents of Base North 1 was not carried out in secret.
The North 1 base even publicized this extensively!
News spread like wildfire across Starlink, and everyone on the mainland knew that Qi An was at North Base 1, and that North Base 1 was about to execute a grand operational plan.
As everyone knows, Black Sun, who has been slaughtering people everywhere, has probably also received the news.
Heiyang's strategy for dealing with the massive North 1 Base, which is overseen by Qi An, should be "pulling out the nails, then encircling it."
The objective is to destroy as many weaker bases as possible around North 1, create a massive army of Fallen Insects, and surround North 1.
North 1 cannot be suffocated, and the millions of people in the surrounding area cannot be sent to Heiyang in batches as food.
Therefore, the North 1 Base is making a big fuss about attracting Hei Yang to fight to the death!
The arrival of Hei Yang wouldn't surprise Mao Anlin and the others, but the sheer number of Hei Yangs silenced his command center.
[A large high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft observed over 500 Black Sun clones!]
Tan Fu's cold, mechanical voice was a bit off-putting:
The total size of these black sun clones is definitely greater than that one at sea, at least 10 times larger!
Qi An was completely focused on the "operation" and did not answer Tan Fu. It was Mao Anlin's voice, still calm:
"From Huazhong Base No. 5 to North Base No. 4, the total volume of the black sun clones we observed has been increasing."
It might just grow bigger and stronger over time.
This further proves that their strategy of actively provoking conflict was correct.
In the reconnaissance aircraft's field of vision, the Black Sun clones appeared as a dense cluster of black dots.
Today is a bright and sunny day. Against the backdrop of the blue sky, those black dots look like a clean blue cloth with many holes poked in it.
The smaller, scattered balls moved faster than the larger ball, and in an instant they passed the N-3-14 outpost, then all the outposts within 5 kilometers, and approached the base!
However, when the front of the fleshy array was less than 1 kilometer away from the base, a buzzing sound arose!
Large numbers of drones took off from the outposts below, from the outer outposts over which the fleshy balls flew, from the farmland, and from the southern wall, from all directions!
The Black Sun Group was neither frightened nor panicked, clearly having anticipated resistance. Their formation instantly transformed from a loose oval into a sharp, pointed one.
The various sizes of the Black Sun clones were staggered in height, with some of them immediately descending and heading towards the nearby outpost.
The Black Sun Group is arranged in a thrust formation, aiming to crush the drone swarm directly.
They could indeed crush and smash through, but the drone swarm didn't engage in direct confrontation; it simply surrounded and drove them away.
What they were directly confronting was a missile whose trajectory flashed through the air, almost invisible to the naked eye!
The ultra-short-range micro-missiles are not fired one at a time, but hundreds per second!
Black Sun has been roaming the continent for several days, and has probably never seen such an extravagant base.
There are more than a dozen armored vehicles that can launch hundreds of miniature air-to-air missiles per second!
Smoke billowed from more than a dozen firing ports, while on the top of the outpost below, close-in weapon systems, which could also automatically guide and adjust their muzzles, spewed out tongues of fire several meters long.
Green blood and bits of flesh fell like rain, as if a broth of steel was being simmered.
However, only a ring of minced meat fell into the soup; not all the meatballs could be put into the pot.
The gun was shut down three minutes later. As the smoke dissipated, a large mass of black flesh was still writhing in the gray sky, only more fragmented, and much of its skin was on fire.
The burning fleshy balls voluntarily peeled off their outer skin, and continued to regroup, reorganize their formation, and break outwards!
Only then did the drones begin to engage in direct combat.
The crudely made large drone was still trying to drive the black spheres away, but it started to crash into them.
Once they are enveloped by the Black Sun and attacked, they will immediately self-destruct!
Behind the large drone, or even higher up, dozens of new combat drones simultaneously opened their bottom compartments.
The fireworks display created by the miniature missiles had just ended when the giant meatball was subjected to another round, no, several rounds, of automated guided high-explosive air-dropped bombs!
These air-dropped bombs have a very low rate of fire, firing only a few at a time, but their accuracy is ridiculously high!
They either launch surprise attacks or encircle and flank, every shot is tactically executed, and they never miss!
This time the roar wasn't as loud as the last one, but it lasted a long time.
This wave of bombing and blocking, which turned half the sky red, halved the massive Black Sun Array!
"An'an, guess who the commander of this combat drone control team is?" Tan Fu asked Qi An amidst his busy schedule.
Qi An still did not answer, and Tan Fu was essentially answering his own question:
[It's not me, it's Lin Xiaoyan, one of the clones.]
This person's talent in piloting and flight control is off the charts!
She's now a senior purification master and a captain in a long-range artillery support battalion of the close-range defense force—she's incredibly cool!
Although Qi An did not answer, he heard it, smiled, and felt gratified.
But Tan Fu immediately followed up with: "Damn! There are also Black Suns in the east and west directions!"
Did this huge meatball eat some kind of super-nutritious tonic? How can it be divided into so many parts?
High-explosive shells are all gone... Damn! They've entered the base!
Tan Fu broadcasts: [The enemy has infiltrated the base. All military personnel and civilians, be on guard against contamination! The coordinates of the intrusion point are...]
She reported that the speed of information transmission and calculation over there was not as fast as Hei Yangfei's speed.
Tan Fu gave up and directly relayed the order from headquarters: Free kill!
Even soldiers at each defense post who don't have access to lasers or anti-aircraft artillery can still get their hands on the flesh ball.
Of the approximately 200 large fleshy balls that entered the base, about half of them swooped down and entered the streets and alleys.
For an ordinary base, this step marks the beginning of a major collapse, as people within the base will begin to mutate in large numbers.
However, there were no civilians on the surface of the North 1 base.
Two-thirds of the soldiers on the ground are connected to Qi An.
All the loudspeakers on the ground were playing music.
Now that the two sides have encountered each other at close range, the mutation rate on the human side is simply not enough to break through the defense line.
However, as a result, there are many more large fleshy balls flying towards the city center in the direction of Qi An!
Qi An could sense these black suns, and they could sense Qi An as well.
The black ball storm surged toward the largest city square on that blue planet, rushed over the flagpole, and snapped the flagpole.
There were several lines of defense inside and outside the square. When fighting against these lines, they smeared writhing pieces of flesh and foul-smelling blood on the national flag, on the palace roof, and on the white marble steps!
Ancient dragon and auspicious cloud relief patterns and exquisite floral patterned window lattices are either broken or burned.
Black Sun broke through the innermost layer of soldiers' defenses on the surface of the bunker!
But before entering the conference hall, there was still the "Weaver Girl" defense line.
This is a combination of three "Weaver Girl" sets, with a total of 10,000 miniature drones! When unfolded slightly, it forms an incredibly thick silver shield wall!
This is the most dangerous wall; it filters out as many of the giant fleshy balls as they come, until they run out of power or are destroyed!
But the giant meatball didn't rush to attack; instead, it flew around erratically in the air.
Chen Yuezhou in the command room was stunned for a moment.
"Weaver Girl" is right next to him, and he still has a lot of anti-aircraft firepower. Black Sun has clearly found the general direction of the bunker entrance, so why is he lingering in such a dangerous place?!
"Pay attention to enemy reconnaissance in the air and on the ground!" Chen Yuezhou warned in a deep voice.
He didn't let this opportunity pass, and ordered a saturation attack on the black sun hovering in the air!
The attack was remarkably effective; the largest black sun, with a diameter of 1 meter, was directly hit by a laser cannon! Diao Ling lay on the ground.
The smaller clones were surrounded and intercepted by various large and micro drones, resulting in rapid losses!
However, before the fleshy mass that had crossed the defense line could be completely eliminated, just as Chen Yuezhou had feared, intelligence arrived from afar:
"East of the base, there are flying objects... and Ash Priests!"
Chen Yuezhou frowned and immediately switched to the reconnaissance position's feed, where he saw a six-winged...
That six-winged priest born in the North 4 base!
"It will definitely come this way. Charge laser cannon number 6, and don't fire laser cannon number 7. Wait for my order."
"Weaver Girl, combat drone squad, and heavy sniper position, look at the map I posted..."
In just two or three minutes, Chen Yuezhou integrated all the nearby firepower units and designed a trap to capture the six-winged priest!
However, when the six-winged, middle-aged man with a solemn, long face appeared...
It didn't attack at all; the sky full of drones, including combat drones, miniature drones, and even electromagnetic and laser cannons deployed nearby, all malfunctioned!
[Electromagnetic interference! This six-winged priest has electromagnetic interference capabilities!]
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