Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 464 06.0463: "Joining the Skitarii"

“Our battle plan is to use the Helios torpedo to destroy the entire bridge of the enemy ship, instantly paralyzing their ability to seek help from the surrounding patrol fleet.

Next, we will board this "headless" merchant-class freighter. According to previous intelligence, there are not many enemy armed personnel on the freighter, and the space in the cabin corridors is not enough for heavy equipment.

Ideally, it wouldn't take us long to resolve the battle.

After occupying the entire ship, we will plunder all the supplies we can use, and then the engineering team led by Father Lati will be responsible for delaying the overloading of the enemy ship's engine. Finally, we will withdraw to the Epic and let the ship self-destruct. "

"understand!"

The merchant-class cargo ship code-named '7002' had not yet realized the danger she was about to face, let alone that she was slowly heading towards death.

On the Epic, the officers took their positions. Horatio put on his Imperator-type Hell Sniper officer power armor, and the semicircular iron light behind him shone brightly.

He stood on the observation platform and kept a close eye on the target's direction.

"The target is 200 kilometers away from our ship!" reported the warrant officer operating the auspicious instrument.

"Torpedo No. 4 is ready!"

"Open torpedo silo number four." Horatio gave the order.

"Launch silo No. 4 is open." Fideo pressed the operating button on the display console and reported. The sailors in the torpedo room opened the front sliding cover of launch silo No. 4, and the torpedo was ready to launch.

"The final torpedo route has been confirmed! 99% accuracy!"

"Ready to launch!"

"Torpedo preheating complete!"

"Fire!"

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With a loud and exciting ignition sound, the acceleration section of a short-burning torpedo was successfully ignited.

It instantly escaped from the hundred-meter-long torpedo silo and sped along the route calculated by the officers.

A distance of less than 200 kilometers can be crossed in just a few seconds for a short-burning torpedo.

"three two……"

Horatio whispered.

"one."

A gorgeous blue flower shines through the bright red eyepiece of the tactical helmet.

"Enemy command bridge completely destroyed!"

"No signal was detected from the enemy ship. It is assumed that its communications are paralyzed!"

Horatio immediately turned around and left after hearing that, and Louise, who was also wearing the officer-type Hell's Elite power armor, strode out with him.

The crew members who saw the iron halo behind him along the way knelt down one after another. The sailors also placed the butts of their guns on the ground, crossed their hands on their chests to make the shape of a sky eagle, knelt on one knee, and devoutly expressed their "imperial respect" to the saintly captain.

"Captain, the boarding team is ready." Several fully armed boarding team sergeants came up and saluted the captain, including the old veterans who had served as his guards when he was a candidate officer.

After the Indefatigable was repaired, most of the ship's most elite sailors and boarding teams were inherited by Horatio's Epic.

These sailors and boarding teams are all experienced heroes and are absolutely reliable. Many of them have even experienced more than ten boarding operations of varying sizes.

Normally, the Imperial Navy's smaller ships would not engage in boarding attacks, and therefore would not be equipped with Shark Assault Boats.

But non-class ships are an exception.

Because non-class ships tend to carry out more varied "low-intensity military operations", they are not subject to the standard Imperial Navy armament rationing regulations. This is especially true for E-type attack ships.

Even though this is an attack ship that mainly uses torpedoes, who can guarantee that shark assault boats and law enforcement boats are not needed for operations behind enemy lines?

Although the number is not large, it is enough to send at least 300 elite boarding teams onto the enemy ships.

As the armored sliding door of the dock slowly opened, the Shark assault boat parked inside was already in place.

This time, Horatio carefully selected 250 boarding members, while Father Latti brought his own crusaders.

Horatio looked at Lati's Skitarii troops, among them were Vanguards, Rangers, and a Castellan robot that came from nowhere.

In order to prevent radium radiation from killing friendly forces, Horatio rejected all of Latti's applications for the use of radiation weapons and phosphorus fire weapons.

Therefore, Lati's Crusaders were small in number and had no heavy equipment.

But the Arkham-type galvanic carbine used by the Rangers, which is similar to the Lee-Enfield MK2, and the plasma rapid-fire rifle used by the Vanguard are sufficient to deal with most possible threats.

Although the Castellan mechas have fierce phosphorus fire weapons and holy promethium weapons, because Horatio did not approve of either of them, their arms were replaced with demolition pliers, and the phosphorus fire guns on their shoulders were also replaced with galvano generators, making them auxiliary demolition robots.

"I think that's about it," Horatio said to Letty.

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"Of course, Captain." Latti held the Axe of the God of All Machines in his hand, and the prosthetic limb on his back was equipped with a variety of live ammunition or electric weapons, with a smile on his face.

Although it was still a smile, the usual charm was gone, and instead there was a frightening and murderous aura.

The prosthetic limbs were all hung with various weapons of the Mechanicus, some of which he couldn't even name after reading military books in his previous life.

Louise, Thei, Valina and Horatio boarded the same Shark assault boat, which was full of Hell's Peaks and elite boarding team members who had undergone special training for the anti-Tau forces.

Horatio took some time to check their attribute panels with Iron Hand in advance, and all of them were elite warriors who had fought in many battles.

Through this method, he does not need to spend time testing the level of his subordinates through various means. He can pick out those truly powerful soldiers from the huge armed forces of the Indefatigable and transfer them to his own Epic.

The big monk Korchagin boarded another assault boat.

The battle plan was to break directly into the midsection of the enemy cargo ship and eliminate all enemy personnel as quickly as possible.
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Following the instructions of the dispatcher holding a fluorescent stick, the Shark assault boats came out one after another.

"Remember, leave no one alive." Horatio reiterated the operational guidelines on the internal combat channel.

The assault boats, spewing tail flames, swarmed towards the already paralyzed huge prey like ferocious piranhas.

Boom!
With a loud noise coming through the armor layer, the hot-melt demolition parts in front of the Shark assault boat crashed into the midship structure of the cargo ship.

At the gap where the metal steam gradually dissipated, the heavy hatch gangplank opened, and fully armed Imperial marines filed out and advanced towards the depths of the beheaded cargo ship.

"It's the Imperials!"

A naturalized human in orange-yellow armor screamed, and the next second, he was shot into 13 pieces by an oversized shotgun shell, sticking to the high-tech wall.

I have to say that the Titanium ship does have a sense of technology like that in science fiction movies.

It’s a pity that they were born in the wrong place and offended the wrong people.

When the boarding party and the Skitarii rushed in, the Tau crew inside were still trying to perform damage control and repairs on the bridge that had been blown to pieces.

Many people even had their backs to the Imperial Navy officers and soldiers.

As soon as the fighters boarded the ship, they saw the eye-catching red arrows on each enemy target.

From the drones to the crew members, anyone that Horatio spotted from a bird's eye view was marked out and inscribed with the mark of death.

The next second, what awaited them was a hail of bullets from the boarding troops.

(Mechanicus Vanguard)
(Skiltarian Ranger, armed with a Brown Bess flintlock and a drunken Lee-Enfield MK2 - a galvanic rifle)
(Castellan Robot, nicknamed "Dabai" in Chinese Hammer Circle)
(End of this chapter)