StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

"Land." Augustus opened the safety of the Gauss rifle and said on his command channel: "Surround the enemy army."

"Load and load, follow your commander."

After receiving the order, the transport ship fleet immediately divided into two teams. One part landed on the spot and blocked the Alpha Squadron's path, while the transport ship headed by the Augustus transport ship flew to the rear to block its retreat.

At this time, the camera on the bottom of the transport ship had already captured the footage of several Revolutionary Army Wraith fighter planes lowering their altitude and diving towards the deserted canyon like a falcon. The 25mm laser cannon fired close to the ground in the darkness, and the orange-red laser beam set off A series of sparkling explosions.

The Alpha Squadron soldiers below immediately responded with shoulder-launched anti-aircraft rockets, but their supply of rockets was soon exhausted. Next, the soldiers of Alpha Squadron did not try to shoot at the fighter planes thousands of feet high, but looked for bunkers as much as possible in the rugged canyon.

Augustus believed that Duke and his Alpha Squadron elite guard soldiers were just burying their heads in the sand.

A dozen Revolutionary Army APOD transport ships sailed low over the desolate canyon, and the wakes ejected by dozens of pushing machines were like phoenix wings. This seemed like it to the Alpha Squadron soldiers who were constantly dodging the laser fire of Wraith fighter jets. It's the God of Death that's rapidly approaching.

The transport ship Augustus was on landed smoothly after a brief turbulence, landing on the sand like a feather. When he stood up with Kerrigan and Corporal Faraday beside him, the hatch was already open. The blue light used for lighting is always on.

The best pilots are as important as the best spaceships. The pilots who fly ships for the Revolutionary Army Marshal are of course the best pilots in Keha. After the Korhal IV was destroyed by the Federation fleet, all the Korhals lost most of their property, and the problem of class leadership no longer existed. The contradiction between the rich and the poor temporarily disappeared, and the Korhal people were driven by hatred like never before. to unite.

In the process of building a new home in Umoyan, some of the former ace pilots and top engineers of Korhal's civilian interstellar airlines joined the revolutionary army and served Augustus.

As soon as he jumped off the transport ship, the alarm inside the Augustus power armor flashed red, followed closely by Corporal Faraday, followed by ghost agent Sarah Kerrigan, who closed her eyepiece as soon as she landed. Disappeared into the darkness.

Dozens of revolutionary soldiers inside the transport ship filed down quickly but without any panic. These people were basically civilian officers, but fighting was not unfamiliar to them. Every staff officer in the command headquarters had been waiting for a long time. Passing the battlefield.

More Revolutionary Army soldiers disembarked from other transport ships, and they brought almost all the heavy individual support weapons in the Martin Fortress armory, including rockets, 25mm Mark II rail guns, and a large number of electromagnetic grenades. .

"V-shaped formations advance alternately, flares!" Augustus gave the order through the command channel, and within a few seconds the flares rose up and lit up the entire canyon. Only a thousand yards away from Augustus, the bright white power armor of Alpha Squadron was so eye-catching at the moment.

As the flares lit up, both sides immediately opened fire. The intensive sound of shooting echoed among the rock walls of the canyon, as if tens of millions of soldiers were shooting at the same time.

"He is at the end of his rope." At this moment, Kerrigan said to Augustus in the private direct communication channel: "Although I cannot feel Edmund Duke's thoughts, I can detect the thoughts of his men. Soldiers. Duke is among them. They are planning to escape, and the transport ship taking off from the Capital District Airport will come to pick them up."

"Be careful, they have two ghost agents."

"Go forward." Augustus said on the command channel: "They have psykers and are ready to use EMP weapons."

"Don't save bullets, fire all our grenades and rockets."

Augustus' troops immediately spread out across the ravine, firing as they advanced.

Kerrigan's powerful psychic power spread out in front of Augustus and the Revolutionary Army soldiers at the front, like an invisible wall. All the bullets fired at them stopped in mid-air and fell to the ground.

At the same time, another revolutionary army army, led by a staff lieutenant colonel, came from the other direction. The surrounded Alpha Squadron had to deal with an enemy that was ten times their size on both sides.

Even Duke's elite guards had been fighting fiercely with the main force of Reno's Revolutionary Army in the desolate canyon for more than ten hours. The ammunition stored in the power armor shoulder pads had long been exhausted, and their firepower was at a clear disadvantage. Many soldiers were torn into pieces by rockets that were powerful enough to destroy Camerian heavy tanks, and their blood spattered.

As the fighting continued, Alpha Squadron's men dwindled, while Augustus's revolutionary army closed the circle.

"Edmund Duke, I'm giving you a chance to surrender," Augustus said loudly using his power armor's loudspeaker as Alpha Squadron's firepower became noticeably thinner.

"But you must cease fire first." After a few seconds, there was a response from Alpha Squadron.

"I will give you three seconds to prepare, and we will cease fire at the same time." At this time, Augustus was only four or five hundred yards away from Alpha Squadron, and he could see the power armor of many Alpha Squadron soldiers being torn apart. , fell into a pool of blood composed of his own blood.

There were almost no casualties on Augustus' side, as all the bullets were blocked by Kerrigan's powerful psychic energy.

"I can only surrender to your supreme commander - no fake, self-proclaimed general." About half a minute after the actual ceasefire, a rough roar came belatedly.

"For the sake of God, I am a general, and I will only surrender to your rebel leader. Let Augustus Mengsk come to see me!" Even in a desperate situation, this voice was still extremely arrogant. He did not recognize Augustus's voice because he did not believe that the other party would appear here at this moment.

"When did he get promoted?" Kerrigan's voice rang in Augustus' ears: "How did he get promoted to general in less than a day."

"Don't expose him for this kind of thing. Colonel Duke values ​​​​face very much." Augustus replied.

"I am Augustus Mengsk." When Augustus spoke, Corporal Faraday waved his hand and blocked his face with a dozen soldiers from the guard battalion to guard against possible ghost agents.

"You have no chance to negotiate terms."

Augustus knew that the way to deal with someone like Duke was to never go along with him and let him become angry in his own world.

"Your troops have been lost, but my reinforcements are flowing in continuously. Before today, you were still a federal colonel, but now you are nothing." He said.

"I give you two options, join us or give your life to the corrupt government of the Federation. If you order the remaining Alpha Squadron soldiers and fleet to surrender, then I can leave you a cabinet position."

"I am simply crazy to join the rebels." Duke's voice wavered - Augustus persuaded him.

He doesn't want to die.

"Okay, I'll surrender."