Chapter 419 - 213: Arms Race, Zerg Civil War, The Fleet Appears

Chapter 419: Chapter 213: Arms Race, Zerg Civil War, The Fleet Appears

Even combined with the remnants absorbed from North of the River, their forces were fewer than the sixty thousand Black Spine Zergs and eight hundred Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs present now.

Not to mention, the Hai City Mother Empress also had new Tier Two Zerg Race units like the Pulse War Scorpions, Tank Flame Beetles, and Samurai Hunter Zergs under her command. If the Samurai Hunter Zergs, in particular, were to join the battle, it would be an absolute steamroll...

They were comparable to human Genetic Warriors.

Therefore, the Hai City Mother Empress’s current advance was not just to probe the enemy Zerg Race’s true strength; she also wanted to use this battle to strengthen her own Swarm.

She was certain of victory. In the end, all the Zerg corpses would be collected and recycled in the Biological Nest. She might as well use this opportunity to train a batch of Late Stage Zerg and compensate for the elite Tier One and Tier Two forces lost in the decisive battle for Wu City.

With this mindset, the Hai City Mother Empress clearly hadn’t considered the possibility of a human counterattack. In her cognitive logic, even though her own side had suffered heavy losses in the decisive battle for Wu City, the human defenders had also been on the brink of collapse.

If it weren’t for that last batch of reinforcing Tier Two Awakeners, especially their leader, the struggling fleet would never have been able to hold on.

Furthermore, the Hai City Mother Empress had even sent troops to launch a sneak attack on the human defenders’ main base behind the second defensive line in the Wu City West District...

Until Lin Feng’s appearance, the Hai City Mother Empress’s offensive strategy and battlefield advantage had been flawless.

And now, certain of victory, she pressed her advantage, sending a full four hundred Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs to tear through the lines of Low-tier Zerg Race in an overwhelming assault, relentlessly pushing toward the lakefront.

Ling Yi, in response, sent out the only one hundred and fifty-odd Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs she had left to meet the enemy’s charge.

The Tiger Spine Zergs, all over twenty meters long, collided with the force of dozens of tons. Their Giant Mandibles clashed and locked together, striking dazzling sparks.

However, the Hai City Zerg Race, outnumbering the defenders by nearly three to one, used their advantage to engage in two-on-one or even three-on-one fights. The unengaged attackers would then ambush the deadlocked opponents, using their ten-meter-long Giant Mandibles to crush their enemies’ limbs, Back Armor, and torsos...

This one-sided dismemberment was happening over and over.

Fortunately, Ling Yi was positioned closer to the battlefield. Although her Spiritual Attribute was far weaker than the Tier Three Middle Stage Hai City Mother Empress, her fine control over the Swarm far surpassed her opponent’s.

Distance was a crucial factor in the strength of Spiritual Power; otherwise, a Zerg Race Mother Empress wouldn’t be so difficult to kill.

Ling Yi now put the guerrilla tactics she had learned from Lin Feng to full use. First, she used about a hundred Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs to tie down the enemy’s main assault force. Then, she controlled the remaining fifty Tiger Spine Zergs, dividing them into ten squads of five to take advantage of local numerical superiority and attack scattered enemies.

As long as they could kill faster than the enemy could reinforce, they could withdraw before being surrounded and move on to the next target.

Of course, pulling off this level of micromanagement required a real-time, map-wide field of vision.

And Ling Yi, standing atop a high-rise, happened to have just that.

But guerrilla tactics alone couldn’t overcome the Hai City Zerg Race’s absolute numerical superiority.

When the Hai City Mother Empress realized the situation was not to her liking, she began dispatching the Samurai Hunter Zergs hidden behind the second defensive line to the battlefield in pursuit...

Ling Yi’s delaying tactics gradually failed as the Samurai Hunter Zergs encircled and wiped out her remaining Tiger Spine Zergs.

Forty-odd minutes later...

The last squad of five Tiger Spine Zergs fell, surrounded by fifteen Samurai Hunter Zergs. The situation on the battlefield began to collapse completely.

Vast swarms of Black Spine Zergs were completely encircled, trapped in the Hai City Zerg Race’s deadly pincer.

The Hai City Mother Empress had no intention of letting them go. She didn’t even bother to seize Spiritual Control and convert them to her side. Instead, she planned to use their deaths to pave the way for her own Zerg Race’s advancement.

Knowing the situation was hopeless, Ling Yi released her control over the tens of thousands of remaining Black Spine Zergs. She focused all her energy on the Swarm behind her, near the lake shore.

These were her last reserves.

Just as the Black Spine Zerg Swarm on the field was on the verge of annihilation and the nearly one hundred square kilometers of the Wu City West District were covered in the black and yellow corpses of Zergs...

And just as the Hai City Mother Empress commanded her front-line Tiger Spine Zergs and Samurai Hunter Zergs to step into the University City Camp and assault the adjacent Taihu Lake Waterfront...

A volley of earth-shattering cannon fire roared!

The shells whistled through the air, streaking in from a great distance!

Ling Yi, sitting atop a Red-Armored Beetle and preparing to flee, whipped her head around...

The flames and debris from the violent explosions behind her sent a shockwave that whipped through her long hair, and her pupils reflected a sight on the distant horizon:

An entire Super Fleet had appeared!

However, in the brief moment Ling Yi was stunned, a Samurai Hunter Zerg that had tracked her down flapped its Membrane Wings and soared into the air...

It raised its four scythes and charged straight for her!