Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 356

"Want to leave? How can it be so easy!"

In the hall named after the sage Salatan, Emperor Fist Company Commander Hounthorn slapped his hand heavily on the edge of the holographic imaging table.

After half a month of unilateral bombing on the ground, the military and civilians of the entire Ophelia 7 star urgently needed a morale-boosting counterattack.

And at this critical moment, the astropath brought them better news:
Imperial reinforcements have arrived!
A huge imperial fleet is passing through the blockade of the subspace storm with an unstoppable momentum.And as soon as it returned to the real universe, it fired angry artillery fire at the enemies from chaos!

Although all the signal stations have been destroyed, the ground cannot receive relay information in the direction of space.

But from the description of the silver sword that traversed the galaxy in the mouth of the astropath, Hounthorn easily deduced the identity of the person.

The enemy's retreat also supports this inference from the side - the frontal offensive of the rebel army is weakening, and there is no trace of the Alphas who originally threatened the defense line of the Imperial Fist.

Except for the powerful fleet under the command of the lord, it was hard for Hohnthorne to imagine anyone else in the nearby star area who could put such a strong pressure on these servants of chaos.

Well, it's time to fight back!

Hornthorne met the eyes of the Ultramarines Captain Stewart, determined to sound the horn of counterattack.

On the equatorial belt of the planet centered on the City of Grace, anti-ship pedestal weapons code-named "Hunting" were activated from dormancy...

"Everyone is ready!"

On the equator line of Ophelia, on a certain plain in the plateau of Rockhar province.From the rock formation silo at a depth of 5 kilometers underground, a tower-like electromagnetic gun tube is slowly being raised by a hydraulic platform.

There are hundreds of similar anti-ship weapon base stations, and they are secretly arranged on the equator line of the planet and the two poles of the planet's rotation axis by the galaxy defense fleet at a density of hundreds of kilometers.

When the Chaos Fleet arrived at the galaxy, it once targeted them and carried out a key attack.

Although the overall loss was heavy, the base where the air defense company commander Siegel was located was lucky enough to survive the bombardment of the battleship's macro artillery.

Two weeks ago, the last order they received was to stop firing and to do everything possible to covertly stand by;
And two weeks later, they finally waited for the opportunity to fight back in the painful torment.

The orders from Grace City had arrived, and he was as angry as all his colleagues.

After impatiently releasing the concealment of the weapon base station, this huge weapon, which requires a full 300 people to operate, officially entered the combat state.

"Countdown 10 minute!"

Siegel took out a data pad from his arms, and after fingerprint, voiceprint and genetic testing, the imperial eagle emblem hanging high above the thorns appeared in front of him.

Siegel also had the same emblem on his chest, and he knew that at the feet of the golden imperial eagle, the thorny thorns were the symbol of their mission.

The two complex data bars are under the eagle emblem, and a large amount of data is refreshed in real time.

Siegel stared at them closely. While ensuring the docking with the City of Grace and successfully completing the timing procedure, he also controlled the various variables caused by the equatorial angle and atmospheric environment on the shooting angle of attack.

Nearly a thousand meters below him, a huge metal warhead weighing 15 tons carried by a rail train is being lifted from a pallet by a huge crane under the command of technicians and operated by soldiers in charge of loading. .

The mechanical priests closely watched the progress of loading.After the warhead carrying destruction and hatred was loaded into the barrel, they used the mechanical prosthetic limbs on their backs to complete the key unlocking of the warhead, as well as the accompanying machine soul awakening and blessing ceremony...

"Pre-loading is in place!" Seeing the warhead being put into the barrel, the crew leader in charge of loading reported to Siegel in the communicator.

"Countdown 7 minutes!" Siegel repeatedly reminded in the communicator again that in his command system at the same level, the first wave of strikes to the orbit had already begun.

Looking at the artillery fire projected into space by anti-ship weapons in other positions in the servo system, Siegel's angry mood calmed down instead.

There was a sound from the communicator next to the ear, which was the news that the energy battery pack and the electromagnetic track team had completed preparations.

Seeing that there were only 3 minutes left in the countdown, Siegel turned around and took out a bottle of spirits from the storage room.

It was a gift from his comrade-in-arms, and his comrade-in-arms had already died in the battle with the Alphas.

2 minutes countdown;
1 minutes countdown;
30 seconds countdown;
Countdown 10 seconds:
Seeing the moment the screen number returned to zero, Siegel pressed the trigger of the heavy artillery on time.

Amidst the huge electromagnetic roar, Siegel watched the warhead go away.He smashed the neck of the wine bottle on the corner of the table, and then sipped it with his head up regardless of the sharp glass of the bottle mouth:
"Go ahead and say hello to you bastards for me!"
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boom!boom!boom!
The naval battle in space is still going on, and the killing machines built for humans and consuming planet-level resources are still projecting mutual hatred in space at a seemingly slow but fast pace.

The Chaos Fleet did not wait for Calvin's side to fully encircle and suppress them, but soon after the formation of the battle line, it waited for a targeted attack from the direction of Ophelia.

The anti-ship weapon based on the planet itself naturally has a thicker caliber and a longer barrel diameter than the battleship macro gun.

In addition to the narrow shooting range caused by the rotation of the planet, its power surpasses the macro guns of battleships in all directions.

But now, the Chaos Fleet, which has just escaped the shackles of gravity, is still gathering to face the Imperial Fleet;
In the eyes of ground weapons, this is simply a target fixed above the track, which happens to be the best environment for these pedestal weapons.

Dozens of warheads the size of locomotives shot upwards along the planet's equator, creating new chaos in the Chaos fleet that had just completed the battle line.

The dense railgun fire went straight to the target after passing through the atmosphere, exploding in the belly of the fleet flagship "Lost Truth" and other warships, quickly consuming their shields.

The latter had to adjust their position in embarrassment before facing the imperial fleet, so as not to continue to bear the continuous blow of these anti-aircraft weapons.

But the battleship's turn was so slow, and before the fleet's evasive action was completed, Alpha's commander was horrified to notice that the battleship's shield energy had already been significantly depleted after being hit by ground fire.

what to do?Alpha's commander is caught in a dilemma.

In the face of a sudden attack on the ground, or he chooses the entire fleet to evade in an emergency, the newly formed battle line will disintegrate;

Either he chooses to withstand all the attacks of Ophelia 7 star, but he can face the strong attack of the empire under the background of a large amount of shield consumption, which is also a dead end...

The precious time window was fleeting in his weighing, and his hesitation about the battle made him commit the biggest mistake of the commander.

In his helpless and desperate eyes, the artillery fire in the direction of Olyfia has just subsided, and the second round of salvo has just begun on the textbook-like battle line of the imperial fleet in the distance...

　Second watch, ticket!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)