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Chapter 34 The Forced Preemptive Offensive
The Wanli-class cruiser slowly rose into the air, its silver-gray hull gleaming coldly under the starlight. The particle lance array at the bow began charging, and a ghostly blue energy gathered at the muzzle.
"Target locked," the mechanic calmly reported. "Betel II hive city, Greenskin warship construction site."
Zhou Qing returned to his governor's palace. He could leave the rest to the warships. The warships, equipped with the AI, were fully capable of operating autonomously and would take care of these greenskins.
If Zhou Xin weren't so poor right now, and didn't want to bear the cost of terraforming the planet, he could simply use light spears or cyclone missiles to cleanse the planet, and those greens would naturally be eliminated.
Poverty affected Zhou Qing, forcing him to constantly reflect on what he valued most in the early stages, rather than blindly using force to wipe everything out.
The cruiser slowly arrived above the orbit of Hive City No. 2, the Light Spear main gun was fully charged and the Cyclone missiles were ready.
Cyclone missiles will not be used in this operation, since these things, if they hit a planet, would most likely destroy it.
However, the Light Spear main cannon is different; it only needs to control the energy output power to achieve precise strikes.
Inside Zhou Qing's planetary governor's palace, a tactical holographic projection clearly displayed real-time footage of the second hive city.
Those greens were reveling around their crudely made spaceships, completely unaware that the Grim Reaper's scythe was already hanging over their heads.
"The main cannon of the Light Spear is fully charged, with output power limited to 0.0003%," the mechanical adjutant reported. "The strike is expected to create a precise vaporization zone with a diameter of 1.2 kilometers, without triggering any crustal movement."
Zhou Qing sat on the throne in the governor's palace, watching the live feed from the cruiser on the holographic screen in front of him. He snapped his fingers lightly: "Fire."
In an instant, a beam of blue and white light descended from the sky, like a thunderbolt thrown by a god.
The reveling green-skinned warships didn't even have time to look up before they instantly vaporized in the billions of degrees of heat. The crude green-skinned warships melted like ice cream under the scorching sun, and the surrounding buildings looked like pencil drawings erased by an eraser.
When the light faded, only a perfectly circular lava lake remained in the center of the second hive. The lake's surface was as smooth as a mirror, and its edges were so neatly cut as if by the most precise instruments.
"Strike effectiveness assessment: Target completely eliminated," the mechanical adjutant reported.
Seeing that he had completely erased the green-skinned initial attempt to reach space, Zhou Qing felt a little better.
Finally, we've stopped these green creatures from taking their first step into space, preventing them from causing us further trouble. However, we need to speed up our operations on the green-skinned land; there's no time to wait for those PDFs to continue training.
"Order the First Legion to assemble and prepare to attack. All PDFs should follow behind the First Legion to assist in the operation, clear out the Greenskins, and liberate this planet."
The rapid pace of the Greenskins' development made Zhou Qing uneasy. He didn't want to wait any longer; he couldn't believe how far the war would go once his planetary defense forces were ready.
At least for now, he needs to launch an attack to slow down the Greenskins' development and continuously kill them.
The mechanical legion can now wage war.
In the pitch-black night of the Betel Empire's nest world, Zhou Qing issued the order to attack.
His order was not only given to the Mechanical Legion, but also transmitted to the Astronautical Army.
This human empire's army will naturally be put to use.
Zhou Qing knew very well that this Star Realm Army legion would never defect to him.
He had figured out the situation of the Krieg Death Legion. Since they couldn't be used for his own purposes, he could only let them sacrifice themselves.
At least they were sacrificing for their race.
Zhou Qing didn't want to kill these ordinary people; he wanted them to realize their dreams.
Atonement for their God-Emperor on the battlefield was the greatest mercy he could bestow upon the Krieg Death Legion.
The petrified lizards began firing their artillery, while the cruisers on orbit started orbital bombardment of the greens below.
A massive number of low-intensity light spears were continuously fired, unleashing a devastating attack on hordes of greenskins.
Meanwhile, a large number of Gauss rifles on the ground also launched their attack. The Greenskins were caught off guard and were caught off guard, but they were Greenskins after all.
"Waaagh!"
The greenskins surrounding the hive only needed to shout this once before launching a counter-charge against the troops that had charged out!
The orbital bombardment's light spears lashed the earth like divine whips, turning swarms of green-skinned creatures into plasma-like dust.
Despite their relentless consumption of green-skinned animals, they continue their relentless assault, fearlessly charging forward.
The sole purpose was to attack Zhou Qing's planetary defense forces or mechanical legion.
The petrified lizards' artillery fire showed no sign of stopping, and the tanks had already launched their charge. The green-skinned combat weapons were also pushed out, and their vehicles were also deployed.
Human legions, one after another, began to engage in battle, as did the Greenskins.
Their troops from all over the country are also continuously sending reinforcements to this area.
The Greenskins' terrifying numbers temporarily halted the battle.
Who says numbers don't matter? When there are so many people, like the Green Leopards, and they have both quality and quantity, then they really can hold them off.
Zhou Qing's planetary defense force ultimately had too little training time.
His ability to launch an attack on the Greenskins was mainly due to the Federation's robot forces.
Of course, this refers to the batch he brought from the Federation himself, not the batch he made by hand.
Most of the mechanical legions are only one or two times better than the Astral Army in terms of combat strength.
The truly invincible ones are the bodyguard-type robots; they charge into the green-skinned humans like war gods and unleash their full power.
They wiped out every green scavenger charging forward, just like mowing grass.
The battlefield was extremely bloody, and the sight of such fighting made Zhou Qing's eyelids twitch. He absolutely could not let the fighting continue like this.
"Search for the location of the Greenskin warlord, lock onto him, take him out with the light spear, and cause the Greenskins' morale to collapse and a civil war to break out!"
Although Zhou Qing was not a professional officer of the Federation, he was not stupid. He had previously sent bodyguard-type robots to behead the Greenskin warlords, but the attempt failed.
The records left by the human empire clearly state that creatures like the Greenskins have extremely high morale when their warlords and leaders are present.
However, they only have one leader, and once one is eliminated, the morale of some of the Greenskins will collapse.
They will retreat like the tide, then fight among themselves to elect a leader.
At this time, Zhou Qing was not prepared for war. This attack was a last resort, so he had to select the war leader and then kill him.
Chapter 35 I am just a scientist with no strength to even kill a chicken
The cruiser's tactical system quickly responded to Zhou Qing's orders, and they began scanning the entire planet, searching for the orc warlords.
Zhou Qing's assessment was correct; this orc warlord was indeed very clever.
For some unknown reason, this orc warlord seemed to know that Zhou Qing had always wanted to kill him.
Therefore, his hiding place was very clever.
"Waaagh! You'll never find my teeth!"
As if he had anticipated something, the orc warlord of the Betel Empire's hive world directly commanded his greenskins to dig a huge underground tunnel for him.
He himself was hiding in this huge underground passage, actually 4 kilometers below the surface.
So when Zhou Qing saw the location of the Green-skinned warlords, he was a little stunned.
4000 meters?
Looking at the clarity of the scan system, Zhou Qing was once again shocked by the biological type of the green-skinned creature.
At a distance of 4 kilometers, if you were to use a light spear to melt everything within that 4-kilometer range and then eliminate the green-skinned creatures below, the power of the light spear would have to be significantly increased.
The extent of the damage that would result would be unacceptable to Zhou Qing.
Don't ask why you can't accept him; the answer is simply that he's too poor.
He had no intention of bearing the enormous expenses of postwar reconstruction, and it was clear that the human empire's administrative system would never send him supplies.
What's even more frustrating is that he knows very well that the human empire's tax ships will arrive next year.
He not only didn't receive material aid from the human empire, but he also had to pay taxes on the materials.
Of course, you can choose not to pay taxes, but then you'll run into the human empire's fleet.
Zhou Qing was unaware of the capabilities of the Human Empire's fleet at this time.
The limited information available to the planetary governor was far from sufficient for him to assess the overall warship capabilities of the entire human empire.
He doesn't want to go to war with the human empire anytime soon.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have secretly replaced the planet's governor like he is now; he should have simply swept the entire planet away.
With many factors interfering, Zhou Qing had no choice but to adopt the simplest and most cost-effective method.
He personally took action to behead the Greenskin warlord!
Zhou Qing slowly stood up from his seat, and in an instant, 2000 bodyguard robots appeared around him.
A 2001-man squad wipes out the green-skinned warlords!
Zhou Qing did not tidy up his weapons and equipment, but simply removed his limiter.
A powerful force began to emerge from his body, a force powerful enough to split mountains and sever rivers.
The bodyguard robots behind him also demonstrated their combat capabilities after their limiters were removed.
They're all federal bodyguard robots, how could their combat power be inferior to that of a scientist like Zhou Qing who can only lift a small mountain over 600 meters high?
As we all know, scientists don't have that much power.
Zhou Qing's single-handed strength is only 3 million tons, and even with some techniques, his combined strength is only 8 million tons.
Such power is sufficient for a scientist, but it is insignificant when facing an enemy.
The bodyguard robots provided to scientists by the federal government are different. These bodyguard robots can exert a force of 10 billion tons with one hand and 28 billion tons with both hands.
Moreover, once these bodyguard robots are unrestricted, they also possess phase-disintegration cannons.
The Phase Splitting Cannon, a weapon carried by the bodyguard robot, was tested by the Federation and was able to destroy an asteroid with a diameter of about 80 kilometers in a single shot.
This is why when these bodyguard robots appear on the battlefield, they simply sweep away the green-skinned creatures with their unparalleled speed, rather than directly using weapons.
Even when dealing with the greenskins, they don't use all their strength when clearing out ordinary infantry.
It will only use a tiny fraction of its power to ensure that the damaged area is within the acceptable range for its own creator.
After all, these weapons and forces are not usually used.
Because when fighting on a planetary surface, the use of weapons of mass destruction, or the full force of a small force, will inevitably result in a devastated planet.
Furthermore, they will not use it during scientific research trips, since they are there for scientific research, not to cause destructive damage.