A mere one million battleships pushing the entire Zerg sea outward was a terrifying phenomenon.
Of course, a large part of the reason was that there was no peak Zerg power here. Otherwise, the Sant Wei Empire would not have been defeated by the Zerg before they had Zero Point Armament.
At this time, Alba was not the only one who was inexplicably shocked. In another part of the Gall Galaxy, there was also an extremely large Zerg looking at the image transmitted from the Zerg's mental network in shock.
He thought that the humans were already strong enough, but he never expected that the humans would have even greater power.
And now, after Garcia's death, the Zerg did not even have 10% of their peak strength.
Emir was not optimistic about the second Zerg Holy War at all. This was simply pushing the entire race into a fire pit!
However, ever since Alba became an Imperial Zerg, the queen seemed to have lost her ability to think rationally. Perhaps in Aliya's mind, there was no longer the existence of race, only the thought of evolution.
Emir even felt that Aliya would not hesitate to sacrifice the entire Zerg race to achieve this goal.
"Damn it, this is absolutely not allowed to happen!"
"Wait, if I slightly change my previous plan and cooperate with the humans …"
Once certain thoughts appeared, they were like turbulent waves that kept churning and could no longer be suppressed.
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In hyperspace, the United was still leading the huge fleet and sailing toward the preset landing point.
"Looks like everything is going well!"
In the bridge, Lin Tian was looking at the real-time tactical image of the frontline. In the image, the omnidirectional encirclement formed by the Zerg sea was constantly expanding.
Of course, the expansion of the encirclement was not because there were more Zergs. On the contrary, it was because the entire encirclement was being pushed back.
After all, the farther a spherical encirclement was from the center, the larger the encirclement would become.
But at the same time, for the vanguard fleet, if the encirclement was expanded, it meant that they had to face more Zergs at the same time.
Take the current situation for example. In the first ten minutes, the vanguard fleet directly suppressed the Zergs and pushed the encirclement outwards by 0.5AU.
By the end of the second ten minutes, the entire Zerg encirclement had only been pushed back by 0.3 AU by the vanguard fleet.
It could be predicted that after the third ten minutes, the distance that could be pushed forward would probably be less than 0.2 AU.
Obviously, such a speed was not enough to fulfill Lin Fan's requirement of ensuring a safe zone with a diameter of 10 AU within an hour!
At this moment, the vanguard fleet was already feeling some pressure. After all, they had too few warships. As the number of insectoids increased, their speed of advancement became slower and slower.
Finally, from the 32nd minute of the battle, the battle line was in a stalemate!
The insectoids could not advance an inch further, and even with the number of warships and firepower of the vanguard fleet, they could not continue to push forward!
There was a delicate balance on the entire front.
Of course, what maintained this balance was the endless waves of combat bugs that were dying every second.
"As expected, 1 million warships is still too much. The 6 AU safety zone that we're currently ensuring should be the limit."
"Now, it's almost impossible for them to advance even 0.1 AU just by relying on themselves!"
On the side, Vieruodis was also analyzing the tactical video.
However, Lin Tian was not satisfied. He was not satisfied at all. This was far from what he wanted.
"Inform the vanguard fleet that there's no need to maintain a distance and snipe. Press forward and use all weapons!"
Vieruodis stared at Lin Tian, dumbfounded.
In the history of war between humans and insectoids, there had never been a close combat battle.
No matter which human commander was asked what tactics they should use against the insectoids, the answer would always be to maintain a distance and use the advantage of range and firepower to carry out a one-sided slaughter.
If anyone said that they should charge forward and engage in close combat, they would definitely be scolded until they did not even know where their home was.
It was simply ridiculous!
But now, Lin Tian had given such a ridiculous order!
Of course, he would not send his fleet to their deaths. Since he had given such an order, he was naturally confident that it could be done.
The source of Lin Tian's confidence was the phase shield, which was completely different from the energy shield or the spatial shield.
The phase shield was not something that could be broken just because your attacks were strong enough and you had enough protection. As long as you had a way to pull the dreadnought out of the phase dimension, you would not be able to destroy it even if the universe was destroyed.
Of course, there was a way, and that was to wait for the warship's energy to run out. Naturally, it would not be able to continue hiding in other phases!
As for the firepower that would become stronger after getting closer?
Sorry, that was impossible!
Every dreadnought was only equipped with 13 general-purpose spatial cannons. One of them was large, and the other 12 were medium. There was no such thing as a close-range defense weapon.
Therefore, no matter how close the distance was, the firepower would not become stronger. And for the spatial cannons, long-range attacks were obviously more suitable.
After all, with such a large range of damage, if the distance was too close, or even close to the face, wouldn't the attack range cover the user?
"Order the vanguard fleet to unlock all assault ships!"
"Commander, the assault ships were just equipped and rushed to the Gar Star System. We haven't even tested them yet. If there is a problem, all the vanguard fleet will …"
"It's fine, just follow my orders!"
Lin Tian interrupted Vieruodis's unfinished words and said in a somewhat forceful tone.
Others might not know, but Lin Tian did not know either.
No matter what, Lin Tian was one of the only three people in the world who knew about Lin Fan's system. At the same time, he also knew where these battleships, weapons, and even the assault ships that were mentioned just now came from.
Therefore, Lin Tian was very clear that there was absolutely no problem with these assault ships, and the soldiers in the vanguard fleet did not have any problems operating them. He could completely rest assured!
"Okay, if you insist!"
Although Vieruodis still had doubts in her heart, when she saw Lin Tian's expression …
She had no choice but to do as he said.
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"Hmm?"
In the tunnel of the hive, Alba saw the latest changes in the vanguard fleet and was a little confused.
Why did the human fleet not maintain a distance attack, but quickly closed the distance between them and the Zerg's encirclement, as if they wanted to engage in close combat with the Zerg swarm?
Well, no matter what, close combat is much better than waiting in line to be shot, isn't it?
Anyway, no matter how bad the situation was, it could not be worse than now.
Since you want to engage in close combat,
then I'll engage in close combat with you!
Maybe …
I might be able to obtain my first victory in the war with the humans.