Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 405 05.0404: "Cut off the battle line"

Faced with the precarious situation, Horatio frowned, but remained calm and continued to calmly command the Indefatigable to fight against the surrounding enemies.

He is very clear.

Problems must be solved step by step. If they are disturbed and affected by too many external factors, we will panic and become like an ant on the hot pan.

Not only will they fail to save the planet Far, but they will most likely even lose the Gothic Fleet.

He knew that he had to examine the situation with Brigadier General Peru carefully, unravel the problems one by one, and solve them one by one in order to turn the tide.

The three armies engaged in battle approximately 2500 kilometers from the anchor mine belt of the planet Far, and continued to approach the planet Far at a speed of 6 void knots.

At this moment, the Chaos Fleet was already entangled with the Greenskin Fleet. The battle line had long since disappeared, and each ship was maneuvering according to the judgment of its captain and fighting on its own.

The Gothic fleet is still maintaining its battle line for the time being to ensure maximum output of broadside firepower.

Therefore, the Greenskins and Chaos would not let go of this obvious threat in front of them, and all the turrets on both sides that allowed by their firing range opened fire at the Imperial Navy ships.

A super-large cannon shell fired from the mouth of a cruiser-sized junk ship hit the Indefatigable's void shield, splashing a gorgeous colorful ripple.

This hugely powerful shell had the power to destroy mountains and boil seas. The incandescent white light ball and the subsequent high-temperature mushroom cloud composed of metallic gases caused the void shield to emit a whistle sound like a scream, and finally turned into a layer of ash and disappeared.

Cold sweat streamed down Horatio's temples. If this powerful live ammunition weapon hit the hull, the damage caused would probably far exceed the previous concentrated firepower of the two Chaos battleships.

Soon, the second ship in the Chaos team, the Slaughter-class, was almost beaten into a stick under the concentrated fire of the Imperial Navy and the Greenskins.

Her bridge was ablaze, and the weapon turrets on both sides were either destroyed or collapsed by the macro-cannons and lances. The only two surviving light turrets were also silenced. It was unknown whether the crew members had collapsed in morale and fled their posts, or were killed during the greenskins' boarding.

The hull was in tatters, with holes of all sizes dotted like stars.

Without weapons, the ship used all its energy on void shields.

"Subspace rift fluctuations detected."

The half-crippled Slaughter-class ignored the Chaos Admiral's orders and opened a newly generated Warp Space rift on its own, intending to teleport and escape urgently.

"Don't let her get away. Prepare the assault boats immediately on the shuttle landing pad..."

Generally speaking, all the armed forces of a ship that issues an armed call-up will be used to defend against foreign enemies and will not be able to conduct boarding strikes.

But the Hell Troopers, a special warfare force of the Imperial Navy, are not affected by this.

As long as Horatio gave the order, they could immediately board the Shark assault boats on the shuttle ramp and launch an assault on the enemy ship, interrupting her jump out of the battle.

"Huh?! Want to escape??? You stinky black shrimp, take my thick and long dimensional vibration super-large artillery attack!!!"

The green-skinned warrior wearing the captain's bicorne hat roared, his small eyes hidden under the brim of the hat flashing cunningly, and hit the button that was emitting electric light beside him. Then, a yellow-green lightning shot out from the huge squeaking electromagnetic cannon on the top of the big rock, directly hitting the Killer-class cruiser that was about to escape from the battle.

At the moment of the impact, hundreds of green-skinned giants appeared inside the ship, amid the burnt smell of ionized air and the dark green chaotic electric currents.

They laughed loudly, slammed their iron-clad combat boots on the deck, and roared as they charged into the warp engine compartment of the Chaos warship, using their big guns and hacks to crush all the technological heretics with strange auras and bizarre appendages.

The crackling power claws tore through the flesh and steel, exposing the activated subspace engine core and poking the unclean yellow eye so that juice splashed.

No one knows how the greenskins used 100,000-volt AC electricity to overload the void shield, then created a crack in the enemy ship, and finally sent so many big guys up.

But under the greenskins' active, physical "lightning strike", this duck in the mouth could no longer fly.

The warp rift shrank with a piercing scream, and finally disappeared from the material universe. The Slaughter-class cruiser named "Heart of Destruction" floated helplessly in the void, and even the engine could not be fully started, like a desperate prisoner who had completely given up resistance and was waiting to be killed.

"It's alright, cancel the boarding attack."

Horatio raised his hand to signal the command center, which immediately sent out a communication to cancel the lightning strike plan, and then issued a concentrated fire order to the operations department:

"Take care of one first, then the other. All fleets, focus your fire on the Heart of Destruction."

At a command, all the Imperial Navy ships within range of the Slaughter-class ship concentrated their fire on it.

Shells and light spears hit the Slaughter-class cruiser, which had no void shield protection and did not run its engines at full speed. The metal warheads and high-heat beams tore the starboard side into pieces and cracked everywhere. Red flames leaped out of the cracks in the main structure and danced in the void. The broken pieces of armor were pushed out of the ship in a series of explosions inside the hull.

A green-skinned light cruiser activated its afterburner and rammed straight into the badly damaged Slaughter-class cruiser.

Boom! Crunch—

The harsh collision and the sound of metal tearing, separated by a gap of empty space for unknown reasons, caused tinnitus in Horatio's ears.

The Heart of Destruction, whose main structure was damaged, was knocked out of the battle line by the junk ship Adamantine Jaw, which was running at full speed, and pushed towards the Imperial Navy's battle line.

The armor amidships was shattered, and the keel was bent by the afterburner impact.

The protection of the internal main engine could not withstand such a huge impact and afterburner propulsion. The cracks in the combustion chamber outer shell expanded again, and crystal plasma began to leak with flames.

"Vashtor, the creator of Hell, bless us! Grant us the end of the aliens!"

The technological heretic archsage on the ship raised a long-handled hammer staff with black flames on the top, stomped the ground, and inserted his arms that had twisted into cable tentacles into the Thinker's main control array in the engine room.

"Overloading the mad engine... about to activate the self-destruct sequence..."

"Attention! The enemy is activating engine self-destruct!"

The actions of the technological heretics were also sensed by the Great Sage of Technology on the Indefatigable. The source power circuit sent binary language directly to the Machine Soul of the Indefatigable, which was then converted into High Gothic by the Machine Soul and reported as a warning in front of Horatio.

After receiving the alarm, the surrounding Imperial Navy warships immediately stopped firing their energy weapons and allocated all their energy to the void shields.

The armored explosion-proof doors on the side shuttle apron of the Indefatigable also closed with a click.

Accompanied by a huge explosion that could blind people, the two connected ships, Chaos and Greenskin, were simultaneously engulfed by a ball of purple-red light, and their main structures were completely torn apart.

The half-melted high-speed fragments of the hull were shot in all directions in a disorderly manner like macro-cannon shells, and the fastest and most powerful ones were directly blocked by the void shield.

In this incident which was not an enemy attack but was worse than an enemy attack, the Indefatigable's void shield was overloaded again, but fortunately its armor belt was strong enough and only a small amount of fragments were firmly embedded in the hull.

As the second ship in the Chaos line was torn apart by the greenskins' suicide attack.

From a bird's-eye view, the battle lines now resemble the Chinese character "土", with the Chaos Fleet being cut off right in the middle and the green-skinned junk ships pressing directly at the Navy ships.

From this moment on, the main opponent of the Gothic Squadron strike group changed from the Chaos enemy to the Greenskin fleet that was pressing hard.

The huge rock that had previously fought against it had changed its course and was facing the battlecruiser Indefatigable.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but when Horatio turned his head to look at the boulder, he seemed to feel that the fierce and cunning captain of the beast was also staring at him. The man and the beast were looking at each other across the distant void and layers of rocks and steel armor.

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