Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 389 05.0388: "Acting Captain"

Medical officers and fully-armed combat medical sisters rushed out from the side passage, opened their medical kits and provided first aid to the wounded in the bridge.

The most senior medical officer performed emergency hemostatic treatment on the captain.

Then two nuns put him on a stretcher and prepared to transport him to a specialized operating room for more comprehensive treatment.

"Go ahead...Son of Thomas." Captain Sterling said weakly while lying on a stretcher:

"Your father also took over the command of the battleship after Captain Peru was injured. That was the starting point of his legend. I believe you can do it too. Ahem!"

"Don't worry, Captain, I will do it."

Horatio watched the captain, whose consciousness was beginning to blur, being carried away by the nuns. He took a deep breath and focused his thoughts on the only thing in front of him.

He remembered what he had learned at the Officer Candidate School and the Naval Academy, as well as his personal work experience in the Coast Guard in his previous life.

In addition, before his expedition, when he was driving a non-classified ship to fight pirates, Captain Lord Sterling had also asked him to try to independently command a warship.

Faced with such an emergency, he was not at a loss as he had relevant experience.

Unlike most captains who have never sat on the captain's throne, when faced with such a situation, they would fall into a period of confusion of "Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?"

He clenched his fists, closed his eyes, and focused his mind on connecting with the machine spirit of the Indefatigable.

Commanding a battleship and driving a knight mecha look similar, but they are actually very different.

The ruler sitting on the captain's throne cannot use his thoughts to perform real-time and precise control of the warship.

Because she was too huge.

Theoretically, even the smallest Imperial Navy destroyer, after removing all the cabins, would have enough space to fit hundreds of Knight mechas.

Even transporting an Emperor-class Titan and its associated Titan Guards is not a problem.

Although large, she is more sophisticated and powerful than both the Knight Mech and the War Titan.

The moment the neural plug was connected to it and was recognized by the machine soul.

Without any voice or action commands, the core parameters of each department on the battleship immediately appeared on the display screen hanging in front of him according to his will.

He can directly use his own will and language to accurately transmit his orders to any place on the ship where there is a thinker array or sound transmission array.

It is a feeling as if the soul has been freed from the shackles of flesh and blood and has become one with the warship.

The machine soul of the Indefatigable is not as lazy as that of the Q-ship. She is like a mature, steady and experienced female knight of the guards.

Often, Horatio doesn't need to convey any further ideas to immediately understand what he is doing, what he wants to do, and what he might do next.

And it automatically presents everything Horatio might need on the huge display screen in front of him in advance.

Although it was not artificial intelligence, Horatio experienced the control experience assisted by intelligent intelligence that only existed in his imagination in his previous life.

"All departments please report casualties!" With the help of the machine spirit, Horatio, who was able to get the hang of it in just a few minutes, first inquired about the situation to all departments on the ship.

"The chief officer of the operations department was killed and one officer was injured."

"Command Department, the Lord Captain is seriously injured, and two officers are injured, one lightly and one seriously!"

"Two officers and three reserve officers of the Navigation Department were killed in the line of duty."

"An officer from the Communications Department was slightly injured."

"Two reserve officers in the weapons department were slightly injured."

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"Engineering department reports damage control!"

"There are two gaps in the bridge armor glazing with a total area of ​​230 square meters. The oxygen leakage is 60 liters per minute. The gravity field generator is increasing the gravity circle power at the defective part to reduce oxygen leakage."

As soon as he finished speaking, a dark blue energy membrane covered the gap in the core module's gravity field generator, further improving the gas leakage phenomenon.

At the same time, the life support module increased the operating power of the potassium absorber and water oxygen converter to inject more oxygen into the bridge space.

In this universe, after humans entered the void, they have mastered the use of gravity field generators during the ten thousand years of conquest, allowing the void battleship to be transformed into a miniature planet capable of supporting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

The force field it generates will start from the core area of ​​the ship, simulating the construction of a gravity system so that personnel can run firmly on the ground inside the ship instead of floating.

It also keeps essential gases such as oxygen firmly locked within the force field.

The opening and closing of the shuttle apron armored doors will not cause ground crew members to be sucked out. Even if there is partial damage to the ship, a large amount of air will not be lost, endangering the lives of the crew.

Only those unlucky souls who were very close to the leak would be sucked out of the ship.

Fortunately, the part of the Indefatigable that was hit was about thirty or forty meters above the heads of everyone on the bridge, and there was an anti-fall net above their heads.

After briefly reviewing the damage, Horatio immediately made emergency personnel swaps between overstaffed and understaffed departments to ensure that each department could continue to operate.

A professional repair team composed of technical priests was dispatched to the damaged area. "Report the surrounding battle situation! Who attacked us?"

"A green-skinned gunboat hiding behind the ramming ship, with two heavy cannons of huge caliber on the bow!
After destroying the ramming ship in front, the Macro Cannon command platform failed to identify it in time because it was covered by the wreckage, and immediately selected the next target, which gave the other side a chance to launch a sneak attack. "

"Lookout, keep your eyes open and don't let this happen again!"

"Yes!"

"Aviation Department!"

"Give your orders, Captain! Eh...Horatio?"

"Immediately release a squadron on the port side, equipped with Death Strike missiles, to guard and intercept any small enemy ships approaching the Indefatigable. Have the pilots focus on the target's power system. Preventing the enemy ship from getting closer is the top priority!"

"Yes!" His deputy Archie immediately began to deploy the escort squadron to set sail.

"Operation Department, have the Light Lance turrets tear apart the enemy ship that attacked us! It's trying to escape behind other small ships, using the same old trick.

Communications, alert the Spear of Achilles (Endurance-class light cruiser) to be on guard and have their light spears join us in focusing fire to eliminate this threat.

This experienced and cunning alien target must be eliminated and must not be allowed to live."

"Yes!"

Under Horatio's clear and decisive orders, the chaos caused by the attack on the bridge was soon replaced by an orderly and busy scene.

Many of the slightly wounded officers still insisted on holding their posts, and only about five were sent to the rear for treatment.

All services filled the vacancies with midshipmen or senior warrant officers.

"Hey, hey, hey! I got a shot at the Flying Cathedral of Stinky Shrimp."

The green-skinned leader hiding in the gunboat grinned complacently, and excitedly smashed the steel handrail beside him with the hook embedded in his right hand, causing sparks.

"Boss... Boss, but our big Boom Boom didn't explode! It just went through. Ouch!"

A collared fart spirit was hit on the head by a tall green-skinned leader, and a big bump instantly appeared on the top of his head.

"Find me another boat to hide behind! Let's give that stinky shrimp cathedral another shot!"

"Yes... yes! Boss!" The fart spirit covered the big bump on his head and jumped to steer the ship.

"Boss! Boss!" A fart spirit in the eye socket of the bow shouted, "There are so many squeaking cannons pointing at us!"

"Hmm?" The green-skinned leader raised the damaged version of the artillery mirror and looked at the lance turret on the spine of the Indefatigable.

The two light spear cannons with dozens of energy-gathering tubes in total slowly turned, and the dark barrels like honeycombs lit up with dark blue energy-storing light.

"Quick! Quick! Spray the dirty smoke! Turn! Turn!"

The little boss roared and punched the fart spirit at the helm again. At this time, the light spear cannons on the two warships also completed the energy storage and fired at the same time with a terrifying synchronization rate.

Four beams of blazing light pierced directly into the main structure of the junk ship, and the light spear fired by the Indefatigable directly penetrated its "head" through the fins.

"Gah! It's so hot! It's so hot! Boss, save my teeth!"

The fart spirit at the steering wheel screamed. The steering wheel was melted by the sudden burst of high temperature. Its slender and bony hands were also burnt black and stuck to it.

"Ah! No! My Waaaaaagh Big Business!!! No!!!"

The green-skinned little leader let out a final shrill scream before being engulfed by the burning beam.

The junk ship that was hit lost its stable acceleration trajectory and slid forward out of control, seemingly slowly but actually quickly.

Bang! Bang!
Suddenly, there was a huge explosion in this dilapidated junk ship, and the heavy cannon in the hateful big mouth on the bow, countless dangerous high-yield shells, and the surrounding junk ships that it had wanted to use as shields were all reduced to ashes.

The Furious Squadron that took off from the port side passed by the glass windows of the bridge. They crossed the spine of the ship and fired huge death-strike missiles at other oncoming ramming ships.

The fierce nuclear flames either blew these broken ships with vicious razors into pieces or blew them out of control.

It failed to actually hit the Indefatigable's hull, and after glancing past the ship randomly, it was destroyed by a salvo from the port side's giant cannon.

After resolving the immediate threat, Horatio immediately looked at the entire battle situation around him.

The main Greenskin force came in an irregular formation from a heading of 40-85 degrees, as expected.

In the direction of 296, the Chaos Fleet has appeared and has been detected and located by the scanners of the escort ships patrolling on the outer cordon.

They came with great force, like a curved arrow, piercing the center of the Imperial Navy's battle line.

The enemy's lead ship was now turning, like a barb, trying to penetrate the weak link between the Diligence-class and the Provocation-class, and twist the battle line of the Imperial Navy fleet.

"Sir, it's time to maneuver." Horatio used a neural plug to transmit his tactical intentions and words directly to the fleet command throne.

This is a wonderful brain neural wave wired real-time communication technology. The communicator can directly transmit the tactical composition in his mind in the form of brain wave electrical signals, and finally draw the image on the opponent's holographic ship operation diagram.

　Recently, the QD online writing circle has tightened the standards for applying for a new title, so the text may be written in a more plain style later. I woke up from my nap today and found that the previous part was already censored ()
　　
　
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