Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 398 05.0397: "Destroy the enemy ship"

This Chaos warship had been severely damaged by the Greenskin fleet before the battle and was in poor condition. Although it had powerful guns, their accuracy was very poor. Its sighting and observation system was severely damaged, and the crew could only use an inefficient optical rangefinder for artillery calibration.

Only the two twin-mounted lance cannons were reasonably accurate and really came in handy.

The shaking of the Indefatigable's hull had not stopped since the two fleets exchanged fire.

The loud noises from our own firing and being hit by the enemy's artillery made it difficult for people to hear the instructions clearly amid the noise and the shaking of the ground.

Captain Horatio was passed by a group of naval messengers wearing large communication helmets.

His voice had been trained to be loud enough at the Abridar Academy, and with the help of the amplifying sound array, it was loud enough for the officers three or four kilometers outside the bridge to hear Horatio's voice.

The officer who received the order would implement the orders regarding his department, and then have a reserve officer go to the voice tube and shout loudly to the bottom to convey other orders.

Within the Indefatigable's massive 5.3-kilometer hull, simple wireless communications were easily interfered with by the constantly changing force fields and electromagnetic waves caused by the explosions of shells and lances.

Wired communications may also fail as pipes are damaged due to wall cracks.

The voice tube is more reliable than the VOX communicator and is the last line of defense for transmission.

Through this relay, one after another, the messenger sailors from the communications department, squatting next to the voice tube, transmitted the orders from the bridge to the deck below in real time.

The specific operations department will then implement the order.

"Macro artillery array, fire freely!" The macro artillery officer's order was issued to the artillery position.

"Target enemy ship 'Apostle of Hate', distance 521 kilometers! Speed ​​6 Void Knots! Phase ZL! Angle 6 degrees! Load double normal ammunition!"

"Calibrating the trajectory, concentrate fire on the enemy ship's No. 2 turret on its ridge!"

The candidates and warrant officers on the macro cannon command platform were busy calculating and directing the calibration and loading of the macro cannon.

"Ballistic parameter calculation completed, imported into the macro cannon operation display console."

"Macro cannon loading complete!"

"Fire!" shouted the battery officer in the command room.

"Open fire!" The warrant officer standing in the corridor turned around and shouted down after hearing it.

"Open fire!" A powerful baritone voice echoed in the dark corridor.

The process was passed on layer by layer until the gunner pressed the red fire button on the display console.

Buzz! Bang!
A double-charged, super-heavy bullet was instantly pushed out of the barrel by the acceleration coil and spun towards the enemy ship.

The hard cap instantly penetrated the core armor that had been smashed by the Lord Daros and went straight into the armored compartment under the No. 2 triple-mounted giant turret.

The neighboring gun crew fired first, hitting the base of the turret, causing a dazzling fire.

The shell's refined gold surface reflected the golden flames, dazzling and brilliant, and with a howling of death it plunged into the armored cabin that had been blown apart.

The warhead broke through the cracked black armor inside the enemy ship. The Chaos crew members inside listened to the strange noise coming from above their heads in amazement and stared at the shaking ceiling anxiously.

"Run!!!"

The shell finally hit a shell of the same type whose caliber was two times smaller than its own.

boom!
In an instant, an extremely conspicuous black-red flame burst out from the ridge of the light cruiser "Apostle of Hate", which was bright enough to illuminate the dark void.

The flames shot into the void and turned into a striking beacon.

The No. 2 turret that was blown away flew backwards at an angle, hitting the sharp part of the top of the bridge, and knocked down a taller and more slender tower behind it.

The Chaos battleship's observation bridge and the towering navigation tower at the rear were instantly wiped out.

This turned her into a blind person, one who no longer had the ability to navigate the warp.

The Apostle of Hate, which was badly damaged and unable to fight again, yawed to the left. At first, the Chaos rebels thought it was a mechanical failure caused by damage to the steering gear, but soon discovered that something was wrong.
——This is a defection. "'Apostle of Hate', where are you going!? Come back!" The Chaos Admiral, alerted by the observer, noticed the disconnection of a certain warship in the fleet and ordered with gritted teeth.

"I...I will not die for you and the evil god you believe in!" The captain of the 'Apostle of Hate' shouted unclearly in the projection.

"You idiot! Come back here! Do you think you can survive if you leave the battle line? You loser, don't forget who promoted you from boatswain to captain!"

"No! I believe in the revelation of the true God! The scriptures of the True Word Apostles have told me that I have made the right decision!"

"You damn hypocrite! I now declare you a heretic! All members of the fleet! Excommunicate this coward!" The admiral of the Chaos fleet bared his sharp teeth and cursed.

The Apostle of Hate, with flames blazing from its spine, veered to the left and sailed out of the Chaos battle line at an angle.

But the Indefatigable still refused to let go of this fugitive who was in an excellent range of fire.

Horatio issued new attack orders to the Light Lance and Macro Cannon crews, aiming at the enemy ship's power module.

Soon, the free-firing light spears and macro cannons once again launched concentrated and locked fire.

Even the Defiant-class light cruiser that was protected by the Indefatigable on the port side exposed its turret on the spine and fired a volley of light spears at the escaping engine of the God-Emperor's great enemy, crossing the spine of the Indefatigable.

Several flames suddenly exploded from the tail of the 'Apostle of Abomination'.

The plasma engine flashed twice, and the activated power and flesh tissue inside it beat slowly like a heart that was losing blood.

The Chaos battle line's port side weapons on standby also opened fire on the warship that had disobeyed orders and fled.

The 'Apostle of Hate' was attacked from both sides and was the target of concentrated fire from the entire battlefield.

The collapse of the main structure caused the bridge to collapse and fires broke out in many places inside the ship.

The damage control department on the ship was no longer able to rescue the No. 2 heavy turret which was still on fire under the heavy blows.

"No! No! You fool! I curse you! I curse you to die here with me today! I will wait for you in hell! Hahahahahahahahahahaha!"

The captain of the 'Apostle of Hate' stared fiercely at Admiral Chaos through the projection, and finally began to laugh wildly.

Ziz! Puff!
A deafening roar instantly drowned out the creepy laughter.

The ion reactor of this Hell Apostle MK.2 light cruiser had reached a critical point while maintaining its void shield, and the energy recoil from the engine explosion became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Finally, as it continued to bear the blows, the ion reactor turned into a disturbing scarlet under the heavy burden, and with a scream similar to the desperate scream of a demon, the expanding plasma fireball instantly exploded the entire battleship into countless pieces of wreckage.

It was like an evil curse suddenly erupted, killing the cursed.

These hull fragments scattered in all directions and hit the warships around the Chaos fleet.

The relatively slow-moving large pieces of debris passed through the void shield and smashed the 45-degree inclined deck of the wedge-shaped ship, causing damage to the hulls of the warships in front and behind.

Soon, because the explosion was too close, the rapidly expanding out-of-control ion group also affected the two ships in front and behind, causing relatively serious damage to the main structure of the ship's surface.

The explosion also overloaded their void shields, allowing the Lord Daros, the Indefatigable, the Defiant-class Ikaros Storm, and the Endurance-class 'Spear of Achilles' to seize the opportunity and fire indiscriminately at the unprotected enemy ships.

Horatio looked at the real-time ship maneuver hologram in front of him. The original plan of a large turn in front of the enemy was completely completed. The Gothic Fleet strike group was now sailing in a direction completely parallel to that of the Chaos Fleet, and only the last battleship in the team was still engaged.

The greenskin fleet had already approached within 1500 kilometers of the Chaos flagship, and was charging towards the two fleets in a wedge-shaped charge formation similar to that of cavalry.

Horatio knew it was time for the next fleet maneuver.

The first fleet maneuver caused heavy losses to the Chaos Fleet, and the last maneuver will be the final blow to put an end to the chaos.

This will also be the last full fleet maneuver of the Imperial Navy in the entire naval battle.

Then there will be a bloody decisive battle, the final showdown that determines survival.

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(End of this chapter)