Chapter 264

The moment Li Tianran’s fleet made contact with the massive beast tide, the five major powers basically had no chance to launch intercontinental missiles. In the melee, the destructive power of intercontinental missiles was indiscriminate. While obliterating the beast tide, Li Tianran’s side would also suffer heavy losses.

The best moment for fire support had been missed, and now, it was too late.

Qin Yiming sat in the monitoring room. From the gathering of the beast tide to its arrival at the Kuangxi Island battlefield, there was a transition period of four to five hours. It was impossible for the powerful nations to be completely unaware, but apart from the initial warning from the Alliance Association, no combat unit had sent a message to Kuangxi Island asking if support was needed!

This also confirmed that all of Li Tianran's guesses were correct, and his malicious speculation about the powerful nations was not groundless.

Qin Yiming's last glimmer of hope for all the powerful nations was also shattered.

In this world, only oneself is the most reliable. Placing hope on anyone else is a naive and foolish act.

Qin Yiming felt ridiculous for his previous idea of asking the powerful nations for help. He took a deep breath, turned his gaze to the monitoring screen, and began to quickly report the real-time war situation to Li Tianran.

"The beast tide has entered the fleet's attack range. Cannons No. 1 to No. 20 of the 3rd Fleet are starting up, bombing begins!"

"It is estimated that the beast tide will break through the firepower blockade line in three minutes and reach within one hundred meters of the fleet!"

"The fleet carrying Tank Mingshi and Adult Mingshi are ready for battle! To fight against the beast tide landing on the warships!"

"Ten Mecha Mingshi stabilize the defense line!"

"Mecha Mingshi Nos. 11 to 20 cooperate with the 4th Fleet and the fighter team to divide the beast tide from the left!"

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On the battlefield, viewed from the sky, black and green monsters occupied the entire sea surface, and the entire battlefield was divided into two areas. One was the Kuangxi Island defense line, fighting against the previous 600,000-plus beast tide.

The other was the large beast tide surging from the Kuangsha Islands. The 3rd and 4th Fleets formed an interception circle nearly one hundred kilometers away from the Kuangxi Island defense line.

After several hours of fighting, most of the original beast tide on the Kuangxi Island defense line had been wiped out, and the Pioneer Corps, as the most elite force, was also exhausted after a long period of fighting.

Therefore, Li Tianran's combat method was to have the army that constituted the original Kuangxi Island defense line remain in its original area, while the fleet and fighter teams he exchanged for with a large number of points departed from the Kuangsha Islands non-stop, using a "mutually assured destruction" combat method to frantically intercept and counterattack the large beast tide one hundred kilometers outside the defense line.

Before these two large beast tides reached the original Kuangxi Island defense line, which was mainly composed of Pioneers, they would have to break through at least ten layers of suicide squads composed entirely of warships, fighters, and Mechanical Mingshi.

Li Tianran's method of fighting was indeed very wasteful. He placed the strongest defense line, which included the Pioneers, at the very end, and put the relatively weaker army composed of Mechanical Mingshi at the forefront, treating them as expendable items, letting them bear the brunt of the beast tide's first and fiercest impact.

This kind of warfare resulted in huge casualties for his mechanical units!

The first mechanical unit that went up collapsed completely in less than an hour. More than thirty warships and fighters, thousands of Tank Mingshi, and nearly ten thousand Adult Mingshi were all torn apart and sunk to the bottom of the sea.

This extravagant way of fighting was not because he really had too many resources to spend, but because mechanical units were, after all, lifeless and could be replicated, but the Pioneers were people.

Li Tianran could directly release the beast tide and let the strongest defense line, including the Pioneer Corps, bear the brunt of the pressure. By doing so, his mechanical unit losses would indeed be smaller, but the deaths of the Pioneer warriors could not be reversed. If the Pioneers were all dead, then he would not be able to quickly rebuild such a team in a short period of time.

Moreover, no matter how much the mechanical units consumed, after all, it was just a matter of cold resources and point numbers, while the Pioneers were fresh lives, important members of Kuangxi Island.

The Pioneers were willing to give their lives to defend Kuangxi Island, so how could Li Tianran treat their lives as cold machines and tools?

Therefore, he would rather spend several times more resources to withstand the first round of pressure from the beast tide, to use a wasteful method to delay the beast tide, than to allow the Pioneer Corps to suffer significant losses.

And when these two large beast tides broke through the layers of blockades of Li Tianran's mechanical units and finally reached the strongest defense line composed of Pioneers, the Pioneers had already cleared the first hundreds of thousands of beast tide and had been rested.

They would be in their peak condition to face the large-scale beast tide that had been crippled by Li Tianran's self-destructive method.

"Awoo!"

The Beast King roared, and large mutated beasts were shattered by naval guns, with flesh and blood debris flying everywhere. The word "slaughterhouse" was no longer enough to describe the situation on the sea at this time. Wherever the eye could see, it seemed that the heaven and earth were covered by ferocious monsters and artillery fire.

Da da da!

Fighters traversed the battlefield, posing a great threat to the beast tide with their air superiority.

Every cannon shot that landed killed dozens of mutated beasts!

The hand-length naval gun machine gun bullets blasted into the beast swarm, instantly piercing through more than a dozen mutated beasts!

In this kind of melee, there was no need to aim at all. As long as one fired forward, no bullet would ever miss.

The broken hull of the 2nd Fleet quietly sank, and a huge Beast King floated up from the sea, crashing hard into the bottom of the flagship of the 3rd Fleet on the sea.

Boom!

The warship, which was more than a hundred meters long, shook for a while, and dozens of adult-level Mingshi and tank-level Mingshi on the deck were thrown into the sea by the violent shaking, and were quickly torn apart by the surrounding beast tide!

A huge depression also appeared in the area below the warship that was hit, the bolts at the connection began to loosen, and a large amount of sea water began to pour inward through the gaps!

The giant Beast King retreated backwards and crashed into it a second time.

But in the dark seabed, a scarlet electronic eye suddenly lit up, and a giant lance split the sea surface, directly shattering the Beast King!

It was the five Mecha Mingshi that Li Tianran had purchased for the second time.

Although these expensive mechanical warriors showed strong combat effectiveness in the first battle with the beast tide, their expensive prices and some drawbacks meant that Li Tianran could not purchase them in large quantities for the time being.

The purchase price of a Mecha Mingshi was one billion points, while the purchase price of a light warship was fifty million, and the price of a Gale-class fighter was eighty million.

In other words, one Mecha Mingshi could be exchanged for twenty light warships.

And in this large-scale war, the number of enemies killed by a Mecha Mingshi in the same amount of time, as well as the area of sea it could defend, was not as good as twenty light warships!