Chapter 678: Private Legion (Second Update)

Sun Cheng gave this set of tactics and combat methods that belonged solely to him a very common name—Private Legion.

The so-called Private Legion is also very simple to explain.

It is that Sun Cheng makes good use of the Spherical Space and the Space Bridge technology he will inevitably master in the future to carry a Private Legion with him.

When engaging with enemies, he achieves rapid crushing of opponents of the same level by unexpectedly summoning a massive amount of troops.

He can even drag opponents stronger than himself into a war of attrition, eventually using his own force advantage to forcibly crush them.

About a month ago, in that battle with The Fallen in Cairo, Sun Cheng tried deploying hundreds of various robots and even deployed dozens of improved Heavy Artillery in the local area.

The result of that battle, in fact, could not be called very good; it could even be said to be very terrible.

The number of robots Sun Cheng committed to the battlefield was very large; in terms of manufacturing cost alone, it already exceeded one billion US dollars.

Unfortunately, he was facing an ancestral existence of Cybertronian civilization; the power of The Fallen was even above that of a Leader.

In that battle, apart from verifying some of his own tactics and assumptions, Sun Cheng's only gain was probably realizing a key point: that with his own computing power, he could not simultaneously control hundreds of combat units.

He needed to reduce these combat units to a certain number before he could ensure that his own computing power could control them simultaneously without affecting his own combat.

After the battle with The Fallen ended, Sun Cheng had been constantly summarizing the gains and losses, bit by bit perfecting his Private Legion combat system.

During this period, especially after reaching an alliance with Starscream to target Soundwave for assassination, all the Decepticon Engineers and Workers at Base No. 2 temporarily put down their work and, centering on the various deficiencies and problems he raised, filled in and strengthened them bit by bit.

The weapons of the Private Legion are not enough to pose a threat to Decepticons and Autobots with strength above Leader Class; this is a major difficulty.

For example, controlling too many combat units simultaneously requires consuming a massive amount of computing power, which leads to Sun Cheng needing to concentrate fully on controlling these combat units, thereby briefly losing the ability to act and fight.

Take another example, the performance of the Heavy Melee Robot was far below his previous assumptions; the quantity was enough.

But in terms of quality, it took dozens of Heavy Melee Robots to entangle and eliminate one Decepticon replica warrior, and it still required paying an extremely high combat loss ratio; its high cost indicates the failure of this type of Combat Robot.

Addressing these deficiencies, the Decepticon Engineers spent a precious period of time previously performing various enhancements and improvements on them.

Heavy Artillery was temporarily squeezed out of Sun Cheng's Private Legion list by him; they indeed possess great lethality against Decepticons and Autobots.

But the artillery is too cumbersome and requires advance deployment; after exceeding a certain distance, the computing power consumed by Sun Cheng to control them is even more terrifying. Before changing to a New Body, he will temporarily not consider re-equipping artillery.

The Heavy Melee Robot was also temporarily kicked out of his Private Legion list by Sun Cheng; in the previous few battles, the Heavy Melee Robots needed to pay massive sacrifices to trade with one of the replica warriors cultivated in batches by Starscream.

And the production cost of this type of Heavy Melee Robot is already approaching one-third of a Heavy Self-Propelled Artillery.

This combat loss ratio clearly cannot satisfy Sun Cheng; the new requirement he proposed to the Decepticon Engineers under his command is to perform more thorough improvements and enhancements, focusing on improving their survival ability when facing Decepticons.

One day, if the engineers under his command can lower the combat loss ratio of Heavy Melee Robots to Starscream's replica warriors to below 1/4, it would be acceptable to him.

Of course, in the previous few tests, Sun Cheng was actually not without any gains.

The Long-Range Sniper Robot's performance in several battles was unexpectedly good; although this type of robot is only equipped with a specially made Anti-materiel Sniper Rifle, once it is approached by a Decepticon, it does not even have the ability to resist.

But relying on Sun Cheng's computing power, they are deployed in advance at the best shooting position three to four kilometers away, and under his control, they only need a few bullets to make a Decepticon replica warrior lose its life.

What satisfies him most is the low cost of this type of robot; counting its expensive specially made Anti-materiel Sniper Rifle and the equally expensive bullets, the cost of one Long-Range Sniper Robot is only a little over two hundred thousand US dollars.

And for its modification, Sun Cheng's requirements are only to increase the maximum range of the weapon, improve the rate of fire and accuracy, and incidentally develop more powerful sniper bullets.

By comparison, another robot that performed well in previous battles and was still kept on his Private Legion list is the Aerial Combat Robot.

This spherical aerial turret provided Sun Cheng with sufficient firepower coordination in battle.

The disadvantage of the first generation was that the power was not enough; it could only lightly injure but could not severely damage the target.

At the same time, its cost was also very expensive; this large sphere with a diameter of about three meters had a unit cost of about 8 million US dollars, nearly double the price of a Heavy Self-Propelled Artillery.

Some time ago, the Decepticon Engineers under Sun Cheng urgently performed a series of upgrades on it.

The upgraded Second Generation Aerial Combat Robot had its firepower increased by about 30% compared to before; the disadvantage is that the diameter increased from the original three meters to four meters, the weight increased by nearly one ton, and the endurance time was reduced by nearly 40% compared to the first generation.

Overall, it is still not mature or perfect and needs continued improvement.

Because no one knows when Soundwave will attack, Base No. 2 in a hurry only reconfigured about thirty Long-Range Sniper Robots and twenty-four upgraded Second Generation Aerial Combat Robots for Sun Cheng.

Over the past few days, Sun Cheng has been constantly breaking them in.

The overall performance makes him quite satisfied; when controlling no more than fifty robots, it does not affect his participation in combat.

However, once Sun Cheng participates in the battle, the massive data feedback will still affect his provision of precise shooting corrections for the Long-Range Sniper Robots.

Therefore, to adapt to controlling a large number of robots for legion combat in high-intensity battles, unless he upgrades his Core again.

Otherwise, Sun Cheng can only wait until the New Body is completed before he can be completely unaffected.

Controlling dozens of robots to coordinate with himself, for a time he and Astrotrain fought back and forth, and even after the gradually recovering Soundwave rejoined the battle, he only fell slightly into a disadvantage.

But accompanied by a sudden scream, a brilliant smile appeared on Sun Cheng's face.

His reinforcements, the Autobots, had arrived.