“It is time to prepare for the decisive battle.”
Xia Jin calculated her basic situation.
Creep: 300,000 square kilometers, producing 72 million units of standard energy per day.
War loot: Generating approximately 30 million units of standard energy per day.
Bug corpse recycling: Fluctuating between 2 million and 10 million units per day.
The total averaged roughly 106 million units per day.
Compared to the last assessment, the numbers had doubled again.
The remainder, roughly 3 to 4 million, was generally spent on healing injured bugs, expanding the creep, sustaining bug activities, and producing specialized units like scout bugs, missile bugs, shell bugs, and rocket bugs.
Of that 106 million energy, scourges alone accounted for 10 million.
Indeed, 100,000 scourges rolled off the production line every day. They were either used to support newly built naval vessels or held in the rear as reserves, ready to be deployed when the all out war with the Dawn Empire began.
Mutalisk production was reduced to 100 per day. These creatures were primarily used to ambush the enemy under the cover of scourges. Because of their high damage, they were exceptionally effective, but they were also easily targeted.
Xia Jin felt that mutalisks did not have much of an advantage right now.
The energy required to build one mutalisk seemed better spent on scourges. Thus, she only maintained a small number to deal with enemy powerhouses and fortified structures.
Of the remaining energy, 2 million was invested into the navy to maintain the offensive in the Great West Sea.
The underwater battles remained fierce but were generally in a stalemate, providing Xia Jin with a steady supply of energy every day.
The final 90 million energy produced 80,000 zerglings daily, along with 10,000 to 20,000 other types of bugs.
As a result, the current reserves of the Zerg forces were as follows (including all units):
Scourges: 350,000
Mutalisks: 2,800
Carrier Bugs: 12
Escort Carrier Bugs: 120
Zerglings: 700,000
Roaches: 20,000
Ultralisks: 1,200
Hydralisks: 80,000
Banelings: 30,000
Elf bugs: 8,000
Lurkers: 6,000
Infestors: 3,000
Ravagers: 5,000
Heavy cannon bugs: 1,200
Swarm hosts: 4,000
Nydus worms: 220
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Looking at it this way, the numbers did not seem like much, but in just these few days of war, the scale of the zerglings alone had grown from nearly 400,000 to 700,000. The Empire would likely collapse just knowing this growth rate.
Xia Jin was effectively playing a game of exponential growth.
Most terrifying of all, she had suddenly produced a batch of swarm hosts two days ago, bringing their number to 4,000. This meant 1.92 million locusts were provided daily to accompany the main offensive.
For the trouble of lacking enough main Swarm forces in the early stages of the war, Xia Jin relied entirely on locusts.
And the 350,000 scourges would be used to seize air superiority once the war began.
“Redeploy the main Swarm forces from the Orc Empire back to the south.”
Previously, to fight the orcs, the main force had all moved north into orc territory. Now, it was time for them to return. Only a few elf bugs and several tens of thousands of other bugs would remain to suppress the local area.
Once these bugs moved south, the total land based Swarm facing the Dawn Empire would be close to 800,000 units.
The rest, over 100,000 units, were located in Huiwei and the Mis Kingdom, tasked with annihilating the Dawn Empire's landing forces there.
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As the main force moved south, the Swarm began to strengthen its control over the occupied areas.
Furthermore, more unicycles and artillery produced in Clear were being sent to the front lines for support.
Temporary factories were also established in the Orc Empire to begin manufacturing unicycles and launch tubes.
After hearing Xia Jin's requirements, the engineers of Clear had already begun manufacturing truck mounted rocket artillery.
Driven by cost and the urgent needs of war, the vehicle itself only existed as a transport. It did not need any complex facilities; as long as it could carry a sufficient number of rocket launch tubes and enough rockets, it could be deployed to the front lines.
After the first vehicle was manufactured using magic printing technology, it was driven to the frontline artillery positions under the power of magic crystals.
“Let us give it a try.”
The commanding officer stepped down from the vehicle and ordered the soldiers to raise the launch tubes.
After being informed of the target direction, the vehicle turned slightly to align itself. Following a simple adjustment of the launch angle, it began firing one rocket after another.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Accompanied by massive clouds of thick smoke, the scene possessed the overwhelming momentum of a rocket launch vehicle firing in succession.
For the Gexilu United Kingdom battlefield, which was surrounded on three sides, this wave of firepower was merely the icing on the cake, but the enemy would certainly not see it that way.
This attack launched a total of 20 rockets, averaging one every three seconds, maintaining a steady output for one minute.
Once the test was complete, Xia Jin observed the impact points through the scouting bugs on the front lines.
Continuous explosions!
A single vehicle was enough to keep the enemy's heads down.
“Not bad, not bad at all. Let us begin mass production.”
She did not believe the Empire lacked such firepower projection weapons. Next, it would simply be a matter of whose firepower was more ferocious.
The munitions factories in Clear went into full production. Furthermore, two thirds of the rocket launch vehicles would be equipped with long range rockets, capable of striking the enemy from at least 30 kilometers away.
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