Chapter 4338, pursuit
A simple allocation of energy made the coalition's pursuit become more fierce.
The price of losses incurred by the Zerg army that was fully retreating was therefore further amplified.
In the process of constantly paying a large price in terms of troops, the Zerg commanders on the opposite side should have realized that they could not escape the strong pursuit from the coalition forces.
The zerg commander who understood this situation responded quickly and simply made a 'tail-cutting to survive' move, leaving a large enough number of soldiers behind and ordering them to entangle the pursuing coalition forces and execute the tail-cutting action.
The task is to buy time for the retreat of one's own large forces.
As long as their insect army can keep a certain safe distance from the coalition forces.
Then the coalition's pursuit and subsequent threat to them will be greatly reduced.
However, on the coalition side, there are so many generals with rich command experience?
How could it be possible that the other party had not considered in advance the situation of sending troops to cut off the rear?
Almost at the same time that the rear forces of the Zerg army counterattacked, the fleets that had been deployed on both flanks and followed the coalition forces throughout the entire process also took action.
In an instant, both wings of the fleet opened fire at the same time, directly forming an astonishing cross-fire. The well-trained fire fleet controlled the firing angle extremely accurately. Countless insects were reduced to ashes under the energy attack.
At the same time, the pursuing troops on the front saw the opportunity and launched an offensive in cooperation. They killed the Zerg troops on the spot and tried to intercept them, cutting off the rear troops and sweeping them to pieces!
During this entire process, the main force of the coalition forces on the front was pursuing the momentum without even a moment's pause. It passed through and continued to pursue the retreating zerg army.
Through the Zerg's unique neural network, intelligence information is quickly fed back.
After understanding the situation and realizing his own countermeasures, the brainworm that was easily cracked by the other party suddenly showed a bit of annoyance, and his plump tawny body began to tremble with the fluctuations in emotion.
However, as the commander-in-chief of the Zerg army, Brainworm is undoubtedly aware of the current situation. He does not have the time to slowly let it get angry. The most urgent thing now is to respond quickly.
And in a situation like this, the specific means of dealing with it are actually very simple.
That is to send a larger force to cut off the rear. Otherwise, what else can we do?
Of course, while sending out the rear-cutting troops this time, facing the coalition flank fleet that had exposed its position to them, as the commander-in-chief of the Zerg army, Cerebrate undoubtedly also took special care of it.
With the distortion of the surrounding void, ferocious void centipedes and void earth-boring insects emerged from the cracks in the void one after another, and then directly attacked the flanking fleets on both sides.
These are all strategic-level units in the zerg army, although this is not the first time that the coalition forces have fought against void centipedes and void burrowers.
But the opponent's ability to move at high speed in the void, shuttle through the void, and directly attack the target is still difficult to guard against.
Facing attacks from void centipedes and void burrowers, their only current response is to always be vigilant about the fluctuations in the surrounding space.
The emergence of void centipedes and void burrowers will be accompanied by quite strong space fluctuations. Basically, as long as it is a country that has science and technology development as its core and has entered the ranks of cosmic nations, it wants to detect space with such intensity.
Fluctuation is basically not difficult.
But this does not mean that the void centipedes and void burrowers that appear later will be easy to solve.
From the appearance of space fluctuations to the emergence of void centipedes and void burrowers, the entire process cannot be said to be very fast, but it is definitely not much slower.
For a conventional space fleet, that time can at most allow you to make mental preparations and take some simple countermeasures, but it is not enough to allow you to mobilize the fleet on a large scale and change the formation.
This puts the conventional fleet into an embarrassing situation, that is, you know that the void centipedes and void burrowers will come out from here next, and you don't have a good way to target them.
Under this premise, there is another very important issue that must not be ignored.
That is, the Void Centipede and the Void Burrower are serious strategic-level units. Units of the level of normal interstellar battleships happen to be the type they are best at dealing with! Their very existence is targeted.
Not to mention there are so many of them...
At that moment, a series of void centipedes and void worms emerged from the surrounding void, and then launched an attack directly towards the flanking fleet!
During this process, the commander of the flanking fleet also took a deep breath, directed the fleet as much as possible, adjusted the firing angle, and tried to force it back with firepower.
However, when the opponent directly confronts them, the Void Centipede and the Void Burrower have an overwhelming advantage in terms of flexibility.
Their naval gun firepower makes it very difficult to hit them, let alone force them back.
Normally, facing such a sudden attack, the flanking fleet would probably be in trouble.
But today is different from the past!
I saw a Void Centipede that was attacking one of the interstellar battleships at that time. The huge body was suddenly attacked by a series of missiles.
The intensive continuous bombing deformed the Void Centipede's culling action.
The next second, dark red energy beams swept over quickly, cutting the long body of the Void Centipede into more than a dozen sections on the spot!
As the attack started, figures about five meters tall, all wrapped in alloy armor, flew out of the flanking fleet.
Needless to say, these are the ace annihilator troops from the Black Iron Empire!
At this time, they were all equipped with the latest batch of 'Lord of War' exoskeleton reinforced armor from the Black Iron Empire.
Although the incident with the Guyue Empire has passed, it cannot change the fact that their Black Iron Empire is now in a slightly embarrassing situation.
Therefore, no matter which aspect is considered, in this battle with the Zerg, their Black Iron Empire also showed an attitude of duty-bound!
After receiving the news from the Seven Star Alliance, they immediately decided to send troops and let their country's ace troops go with the army!
At this moment, escorted by the Annihilator troops of the Dark Iron Empire, with enhanced armor flexibility and firepower based on the 'Lord of War' exoskeleton, the Zerg side, the Void Centipede and the Void Burrower want to threaten their flanking fleet.
Security will never be as easy as before.
However, their attack did indeed bring trouble to the flank fleet that could not be ignored. For a while, there was no remaining power to support the frontal forces.
At this moment, the Zerg's rear-end troops were completely fighting against their coalition forces.
In this wave, the scale of the rear-cutting troops sent by the Zerg was quite astonishing, and the number was basically comparable to a formal attack.
Seeing that the pursuit force was intercepted, the zerg army was about to retreat.
At the critical moment, a terrifying flaming slash swept out, instantly opening a gap in the interception net of the troops behind them!
Chapter completed!