Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 523 06.0522: "Enemy missiles!"

Bang bang bang!Bang bang bang!Bang bang bang!

The side macro-cannon arrays of the Retribution-class battleships were arranged in groups of four-four, firing balls of blazing plasma at the enemies of the Empire. The sound of the cannons echoed in the gun room, and then passed through numerous compartments and armor, reaching all parts of the battleship, almost overlapping each other.

This huge and majestic void creation was escorted by several cruisers and light cruisers, as well as more than a dozen other small warships.

The power of destruction was inflicted on the Tau warships, and explosions and flames tore apart the long and flat hulls one by one.

"Commander, this is a hostile fleet. Based on the current combat power comparison, we cannot compete with the enemy and must retreat immediately." The flagship commander saw that a light cruiser was damaged and caught fire after suffering a round of salvos, and the ship's gravity shield was overloaded, so he hurriedly requested the fleet commander.

The Fire Clan's commander was still staring at the 'silver needle' next to the Void Whale.

"All ships, lock onto the enemy colony ship, launch heavy seeker missiles, and make an emergency jump immediately after launch."

In the eyes of the Tau Empire, the Human Empire's pilgrimage ships are no different from colonial ships and are an important support for the Empire's occupation of the Tau Empire's territory. For the commerce-breaking fleet, destroying the Human Empire's pilgrimage ships is also their important mission.

"Yes, missile salvo!"

The Tau ships in front retreated one after another and tore open the curtain of emergency jump.

Several heavy Seeker missiles flew towards the holy ship in a staggered manner.

They locked onto her engines.

"Prepare to be attacked!" Horatio issued tactical instructions to the operations department.

Squeak!

Those spherical twin-mounted close-in defense guns distributed on the hull had already opened fire, shooting at the oncoming missiles.

Under this posture command, the contemplator array of the close-in defense artillery group received additional energy and its accuracy increased significantly.

Although the latter's blue fireflies were not conspicuous in the physical universe that had become colorful due to the subspace rifts, the surrounding warships did not rely on visual observation and discovered the threat early and launched a sweeping missile attack.

The flight trajectories of these missiles were strange and wobbly, and their displays on the auspicious instrument were sometimes moving and sometimes still, with no regular pattern at all.

As a time traveler who once served in the military, he instantly guessed what was going on.

"Captain, the enemy's missiles have built-in electronic countermeasures. We cannot determine their exact flight trajectory! The lead time for interception is difficult to estimate!" Louise was shocked by this unprecedented tactic and quickly reported.

"Concentrate fire over a wide area, don't disperse," Horatio ordered.

"But Captain, concentrated locking will significantly reduce the efficiency of interception." The first mate reminded.

"Yes, normally they are, but these are missiles, and they are different, high-tech missiles."

As soon as he finished speaking, the missiles made a simple evasive maneuver.

"These missiles are connected by data links and can defend and evade on their own. We must launch a dense barrage of missiles to stop them. Tracking and intercepting will only disperse our firepower. Please call Sir Samuel Hood for me."

This was the tactic used by the large number of AK630 close-in defense guns on Soviet warships when they were dealing with a large number of Harpoon missiles fired by NATO fighter jets and when the terminal close-in defense was interfered with by electronic warfare.

To put it simply, when encountering terminal electronic warfare interference, two fire control radars are used to lock onto a missile to counter the electronic interference.

The focal locking accuracy is much higher than the "ray" of a single fire control radar, and the parameters of two fire control radars are used to screen out the correct position of the enemy missile.

Carry out a large-scale barrage interception at any cost.

After a brief communication, the surrounding warships opened fire at full capacity, launching a large area of ​​dense barrage like rain, instead of chasing and firing at single missiles, which were futile due to complex evasive trajectories.

It turned out that this was effective, and missiles were intercepted by the surface barrage on their way to the Pure White Mayflower.

But at this time, these missiles caused trouble for the Imperial warships again.

As the distance got closer, they actually dispersed, scattering in the vast universe like flowers from heaven, and then wrapped around the pilgrimage ship like onions.

Horatio looked at the fleeing Tau warship and realized something. "It was semi-active radar guidance before, which required the warship to continuously index. Now the active radar built into the missile is turned on, so the enemy ship no longer needs to guide the missile. They are trying to leave."

Some Imperial light cruisers gave chase, engaging the Tau warships as they attempted to escape.

The rapid-fire macro guns have fierce firepower, and the experienced captain orders the gun crew to lock onto the enemy's engine for a focused attack.

After breaking the gravity shield, a salvo of macro cannons destroyed the engines of the two enemy ships. They also sent out lightning strikes to attack the boarding forces. The fully armed elite boarding team urgently shut down the engines before being surrounded and killed, thus completely saving the two enemy ships.

At the same time, the Epic immediately maneuvered, with its bow in the same direction as the Pure White Mayflower, and used the close-in defense guns on both sides to fire at the crossed missiles.

"It's too late. A missile is about to hit the middle section of the pilgrim ship's engine! It is expected that this will blow up the entire engine group. She will then be unable to return. No ship can tow this 20-kilometer-long, billion-ton behemoth!"

"Hold hard left immediately!"

"Full left!" the helmsman shouted.

A shocking scene occurred. When the port side missile passed over the Epic and headed straight for the pilgrimage ship "Pure White Mayflower", the light cannon on the spine of the ship actually fired a shell.

The Platinum Macro Cannon shell flew straight out and hit the middle of the heavy Seeker missile.

Boom! A brilliant flash of golden and blue fire passed by, and the missile was intercepted by a huge caliber macro cannon shell.

This scene, which was completely beyond common sense, stunned the officers on the bridge. The artillery officer shook his head and quickly explained to the captain that he had not issued the order for this round of shooting.

Horatio roughly understood what was happening. He looked at the white-haired machine soul girl in front of him, who was frowning and trying her best to sense the missile and intercept it, and nodded in approval.
——This is an active attack by the Epic Machine Soul, which is not common in actual operations. Such intelligent operations are generally only found in old ships that have been in service for thousands of years. This shows that the Epic Machine Soul has great growth potential!

But the crisis has not been resolved yet. That was just one of the shells. The light macro cannon that had completed the shooting could only load the next platinum shell as quickly as possible.

At Horatio's command, the Epic immediately turned left and positioned itself horizontally in front of the missile, trying to occupy the best firing range to destroy it.

However, a small object suddenly appeared in front of the Seeker missile's active radar guidance head, blocking the way, causing the missile, whose maneuverability was not very good to begin with, to head straight for the Epic's bridge.

"Enemy missiles are coming towards us!" Louise on the lookout shouted, pointing at the target.

Before she could finish her words, boom!
The Romanesque cathedral bridge of the Epic shook violently, like a submarine in the ocean being hit by a whale.

Many people fell to the ground. Fortunately, Horatio asked the engineering department to raise the height of the fence. Louise did a duck sit to lower the center of gravity and at the same time urgently hugged the fence in front of her, so she did not fall off the fence like before.

Horatio sat in his command throne, breathing heavily and blinking.

He did not expect the flames to engulf the entire bridge and tear everyone to pieces.

Sister Arabella and Farida Hood were more frightened than Horatio at this moment.

She was giving a lecture on the key points of recuperation to Farida, who was lying on the detector, when a huge missile crashed in from the temporary repaired area next to her that was hit by a railgun.

The huge projectile shattered the adjacent bulkheads and corridors. The bulkhead of the infirmary was directly squeezed and bulged inward, frightening Farida so much that her face turned pale and her abdomen ached. Fortunately, the bulkhead did not break and remained airtight.

After the incident, Technical Priest Lati rushed to the bridge as soon as possible.

The heavy servitor cleared the messy wreckage in front of her, and after a preliminary on-site investigation, she reported the situation to Horatio.

"What happened, Father Ratti?"

"According to my analysis, this torpedo hit the part that was hit by the railgun before. The part was only simply repaired and is very fragile. Therefore, the impact did not trigger the missile's detonator, but caused the missile to get stuck inside. I am leading the technical team to carry out the bomb disposal operation."

"Be safe, Letty."

"I didn't expect you would take the initiative to care about me. Of course, I will pay attention. After all, if there is a mistake, the entire upper half of the bridge of the Epic and everyone inside will fly into the sky." Latti snorted and laughed, and the tone of her voice sounded a little complaining as she spoke Horatio's true thoughts.

"I'm sure you'll succeed."

"I'll try my best. After all, this is my first time dealing with such creations of these blue-blooded aliens."

(End of this chapter)