Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 477 06.0476: "First in the Round"

"Praise His subtlety, sing His erudition, praise His creation, in the holy name of Om Messiah."

The upper half of the technical priest's face, which was completely covered with a dark red artificial eye, was reflecting the dim green light of the cathode ray tube screen, and the smooth electronic sound was played accurately according to the preset programming.

"Red Flame Hymn, verse 12, paragraph 12...

111001111000001010111001 1110...

(Step 12: Light the candles and burn the incense; silently chant for 12 seconds, chant times, push the valve to cut off the plasma supply to the engine) ”

When the incense smoke with a strange metallic smell filled the operating room, the technical priest pulled down the gate.

The humming sound of charging plasma joined the chorus.

"Pray 12 times, silently chant the name of Ohm the Messiah, and open the slide cover of the torpedo well."

The tedious operation was completed quickly, and the probability of successful launch calculated by the Thinker was clearly displayed as 100% on the cathode ray tube screen.

Horatio's E96 was located at the tail of the merchant fleet, in the southwest corner of the relative position of the merchant fleet.

The Epic had just performed a flexible turning maneuver, turning from following to moving forward, and aimed at the side of the armed merchant ship at the rear of the team at a nearly vertical angle.

"emission!"

Whoosh!
The surging tail energy turned into dazzling light and fire, and the raging tail wave was very conspicuous in this dark universe far away from the stars.

Almost at the same time, the attack ships at the four corners launched attacks on the Merchant-class armed merchant ship carrying two destroyers in "parasite" mode.

This is because the combat information that Horatio brought to the Fury interceptor also included a short text instruction - 'Attack immediately after seeing the red mark.'

Some attack ships fired two torpedoes at a time, and some were even more aggressive in firing all of their torpedoes at once, just to increase the success rate of destroying armed merchant ships.

In an instant, multiple hostile warning signals were detected on the radar display of the Tau merchant ship.

The ion close-in defense guns on the side that were controlled by artificial intelligence immediately became alert, stood at attention, and pointed their muzzles at the speeding torpedoes.

The ion close-in defense cannons within the ship's gravity field roared, and a steady stream of ions were transmitted from the engine along the insulator-wrapped waveguide tubes, where they were focused and converted and fired at a rate of 1200 rounds per second.

The ion missiles from the close-in defense gun formed a dark blue curtain around the battleship.

"Nuclear detonation torpedo number two, wire-guided launch!"

After finding the right moment and finding the right time interval, Horatio immediately asked the Operations Department to issue a new attack order.

As the second torpedo was launched.

goo goo-

Shortly after the engine is activated, the thermonuclear fuse is activated by injecting energy through the internal duct and undergoing a preheating reaction.

In front, the short-burn torpedoes were still speeding at a very high speed, and behind, the nuclear-explosive torpedoes were following closely.

The armed freighter targeted by the Epic was like a fire hedgehog. Her long, clumsy, and slow-moving hull tried its best to avoid the short-burning torpedo fired from a distance of less than 400 kilometers.

The shadowy attacker threw the extremely fast 'harpoon' accurately at her amidships at a close distance under the concept of the void.

She only had ten seconds to react.

The close-in defense guns on it were almost pulling the firing range to track the torpedoes fired towards the ship.

But in fact, it was not only the E-96 Epic that launched the attack. E-99 was just in front of E-96, not far away in the direction of 283, and she also threw a round of sharp "harpoons".

The plasma ball hit the closest short-burning torpedo, burning the metal casing.

However, the Helios torpedoes and their derivatives commonly used by the Imperial Navy have thicker protective casings.

Moreover, the interior of the torpedo is not complicated. This has been taken into consideration since the beginning of its design. Even if the pipelines are burned through, it will not affect its normal detonation.

This meant that the steel pillars in the five major locations would need to be subjected to concentrated fire for a while, or accidentally detonated by the warheads before they could be destroyed.

The two close-in defense guns on the left side continued to fire at the middle and front warheads of the short-burning torpedo for six or seven seconds.

boom!
With a blinding flash, the torpedo exploded, and the remaining plasma ball swept past the Epic's hull 400 kilometers away. Thanks to the extremely small frontal projection of the hull, it was not hit by drifting shrapnel.

"Torpedo No. 1 was intercepted! It missed."

As soon as the lookout officer finished speaking, brilliant flames burst out from the side of the Merchant-class ship.

That was the result of the attack ship E-99, with Captain Otto Kretschmer scoring the first hit in the battle.

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Under the threat of the first torpedo launched by E-96, these artificial intelligences will only prioritize the torpedo that is closest and poses the greatest threat, and will have to let go of other torpedoes.

It is precisely by grasping this idea that saturation salvo will be the most effective anti-interception strategy against the Titan Empire's ion close-in defense guns.

Of course, a first hit does not mean the end of the battle.

Armed merchant ships were created for escort purposes and could be considered warships in the trading fleet.

The ship is equipped with a large number of professional damage control troops and repair drones.

For this 4.5-kilometer-long light cruiser, a short-burning torpedo was enough to cause serious damage, but it was not fatal.

The first shot was confirmed, and the nuclear flames destroyed one of the ion close-in defense guns and a twin-mounted railgun on the side of the enemy ship.

Just as the ship was about to begin damage control and was trying to release the gravity hook onto the two destroyers that had been prepared, an even more violent explosion that shook the entire ship again interrupted Captain Qi's decision.

The sophisticated logic of the calculation circuits in Latti's mind even surpassed the reaction of artificial intelligence. The nuclear detonation torpedo in the wire-guided mode seemed to have real life under her operation. It was extremely agile and maneuverable, and it successfully performed the "fish dance", deceiving the advance calculation logic of artificial intelligence, and delivered a beautiful uppercut, directly hitting the belly of the ship.

The gravity hook on one side instantly tore apart the hull structure near the fin, the nuclear trigger was activated, and high-energy thermonuclear fusion broke out in the ship.

The bright light was so dazzling that the observing officer could not even look directly at it for a moment. After a moment, Louise finally saw the situation clearly through the periscope with the fusion filter turned on.

"Results confirmed! The enemy ship's midships are broken! The entire ship is split in two and has lost its combat capability!"

Horatio nodded slightly, tapping his index finger on the armrest of the command throne made of one piece of adamantium.

He understood the battle situation earlier than Louise and saw the damage to the enemy ships in the void sandbox in advance.

That's right, who stipulated that the destruction in a void battle must completely explode the enemy ship to count?

If it is blown into two, even if the front and rear sections of the hull are still relatively intact, there are still a large number of people alive inside, and it can even continue to fire, it will be no different from a scrap ship.

At this point, E-96 and E-99 should have completed their mission and successfully destroyed the armed merchant ship before it released the destroyer.

But when Horatio looked at the overall hunting situation again, he found that things were not going as smoothly as he had imagined.

(End of this chapter)