Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 594 06.0593: "Vampire! Vampire!"

"Second round of torpedoes fired."

Gu——chi!!
Four more torpedoes were ignited and headed straight for the enemy fleet.

This launch also allowed the Screen Fleet, which had been searching for the Epic's location since the first round of attacks, to locate the Epic's approximate position - the thermal effect of the Helios short-burning torpedo's tail flame was too obvious.

The Screen Guard Fleet was like a sheepdog guarding a flock of sheep, pouncing straight towards the Epic, the evil wolf hiding in the darkness.

"Launch a salvo of heavy Seeker air-burst missiles," said the captain of a light cruiser.

Almost all escort screen ships opened the sliding covers of their missile launch bays.

"Let these hostiles who thought they could hide pay the price! Today is the day they will be buried. Launch!"

Whoosh whoosh!
"Vampire! Vampire! Enemy anti-ship missiles detected on the port side, initiate emergency defense measures immediately!" Louise saw the signal target marked on the combat console, speeding towards the Epic.

'Vampire' originally means 'vampire'. In the old 2-3K British and American naval terminology, it refers to the code name for all incoming anti-ship missiles.

Today, this traditional term has also been passed down to the Imperial Navy in the 41k era. I heard that this is closely related to the Night Lords who are good at surprise attacks.

"Release the towed Diviner detector! We must have temporal control of the specific location of the incoming missile!" Horatio almost jumped up from the command throne.

He looked at the real-time tactical display console and saw as many as six heavy Seeker missiles flying towards the Epic's relative position.

And they also have active detection guidance heads! The Epic's hull can be searched through gravitational waves - even if she is invisible from the optical sight, her physical mass of 650 million tons will not deceive people.

Beep! Drop!

The Fortune Teller's detector was dragged by a cable along the stern slide and released to the tail. It emitted a clear and long buzzing sound, and each buzz was accompanied by the issuance of an active detection signal.

"All ships, 'Ready to Receive Attack' stance!"

As the combat order was issued, nine on one side, a total of 18 spherical twin-mounted close-in defense guns were powered up and stood up one after another. They were controlled by an array of advanced computing power thinkers, and the huge and heavy revolving laser gun barrels began to rotate and preheat.

(Small but cute)
It is only half the size of the spherical defense turret of the old Sword-class escort ship. Although it has almost no effect on ship-to-ship shooting due to its smaller caliber, it can be installed in greater numbers on a battleship.

Rather than the smaller number of close-in defense laser cannons with an additional anti-ship function, Horatio would rather choose these smaller but more numerous specialized close-in defense cannons.

The idea is just like the Soviet Union installing more AK630 close-in defense systems on warships.

It is small, but it can be installed in greater quantities.

There is not much demand for close-range strafing of ships, and being good at everything would be equivalent to being poor at nothing.

"Enemy missiles approaching! Launch jamming decoy barrage!"

Puff puff puff!

A series of smoke, heat and noise decoys were fired from both sides of the Epic.

The specially made heat-isolating nano-fog instantly covered the 2.2-kilometer-long ship's hull.

It's like covering the Epic with an isolation coat to reduce the probability of being hit by missiles.

Woo——!
The twin-mounted close-in defense guns on both sides fired small laser beams at a rate of 3000 rounds per minute. Although it was much weaker than the large laser guns of the Sword-class escort ships, it had a higher firing rate and lower energy consumption for intercepting missiles. Most importantly, it had more gun barrels! This meant a higher interception rate!

puff!
The red lasers shot out from the thick smoke and blew up the incoming missiles in mid-air, and the fragments splashed on the armor on both sides of the Epic and bounced off.

Whoosh! Bang!

The missile fuse that passed by the Epic was detonated by artificial intelligence. As a new type of large-charge heavy-duty Seeker missile used to deal with attack ships, the internal warhead was much larger, and the improved charge increased its power tenfold.

The Epic whipped its crimson fire whip, but the hull was still shaking violently from the near miss.

The refined golden dragon bone let out a shrill wail, as if it was about to break in the middle at any moment.

"Descend to the plane, we can't be bombed like this anymore! Send a damage control team to the keel of the lower cabin, and have the tech-priests stand by!"

"Captain! The enemy light cruiser is coming towards us!"

"Lock detected! Enemy's heavy twin railguns firing!"

The Heavy Dual Railgun is a formidable weapon that accelerates live ammunition to near light speed via a pulse track. It is powerful enough to blast the Epic to pieces in one salvo.

(Twin railguns of the TIE ship)

"Keep spraying smoke and turn towards the depths of the gas cloud!"

Fifth Damage Control Team.

"Put on your protective clothing. The boss wants us to go downstairs to check the keel."

"Hey, this thing is so heavy." The youngest son of old man Joe, who has become a formal second-class seaman, picked up a protective helmet shaped like a Victorian diving suit and put it on his head. He wore a bulky void protective suit and stepped on large void boots made of alloy and walked on the deck.

There was no equipment on the Epic designed for his small body, so all the equipment was one size too big for him.

"Hey! Hey! Bro! Help me tighten the straps..." He grabbed the leather straps behind him, wanting his teammates to help him tighten them.

He just took a step forward.

Boom!

In an instant a blue light flashed in front of him, like a beam of light, leaving a dark shadow on his retina.

The two older brothers from the same team were instantly left with four broken limbs on the ground, and blood splattered all over the youngest son.

"Eh?" He was still holding the belt behind him, completely stunned, with no idea what was happening. His shocked brain hadn't yet realized that two living people were gone in front of him.

He looked at the broken leg bones remaining on the ground, and suddenly felt a warm sensation in his lower body when he thought that if he had taken another 10 centimeters forward, he would have suffered the same fate.

"Quack! Someone's dead!"

On the command bridge.

Beep, beep! Beep, beep!
The hit alarm sounded from the combat display console.

"Our ship was hit!" The first captain's fingers quickly entered the damage control request command on the display console.

Leidos, director of the engineering department, took immediate action.

Five minutes later, he sent a report.

"Captain, fortunately for us, the railgun over-penetrated. The shell vertically penetrated our mid-deck and flew out from the other side, resulting in a loss of about 20 people."

Although this overpenetration was horrific, it did not cause excessive damage.

The essence of overpenetration is that the warhead had already flown out of the Epic's hull before exploding.

It was like a bullet passing through the Epic's hull. This was the most optimistic scenario after being hit.

"It can only be said that this is a blessing in disguise." Horatio wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and turned his head to look out the window. "Where are the sharks now?"

"Shark's here!"

When the hot and dazzling high-energy accelerated plasma tail flashes out from the gas cloud.

The Nicol suddenly rushed out from the gas cloud on the side of the screen fleet approaching the Epic, and like a rushing shark, it hit the side of one of the Envoy-class light cruisers, rammed it into another light cruiser, and clamped an unlucky destroyer in the middle into metal pieces. The explosion also damaged the two colliding light cruisers.

However, the aftermath of the explosion is insignificant compared to the damage caused by the collision.

Boom!Boom!
The Nicol was like a great white shark rushing into a group of seals, rushing forward, its bombardment guns and heavy macro cannons on both sides spewing fierce flames, ruthlessly tearing apart the prey in front of it.

"The shark is hunting, Sir Captain.

If you want to hunt the injured manta ray, you have to hurry up, Nicole is very hungry now." Tiberius's fuzzy and noisy audio came from the communication sound array.

"Well done, sharks." Horatio's heart was relieved a little, "The Screen Fleet will be hunted by your main battleships."

He turned his head and said to Louise, "Operation Department, search for the location of the cruiser carrier! See if our second round of torpedo attack has achieved any results."

"As you command, Captain!"

(End of this chapter)