Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 513: Psychic Sea Battle
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Three solar months later.

In the galaxy named "Hrud", the main fleet and various branch fleets jumped out of the subspace and headed towards the Hrud alien fleet.

It was not Angron but Jaghatai who commanded the void war aboard the Warmaster's flagship, Unyielding Resolve.

The White Scars specialize in void combat.

Under Chagatai's arrangement, the White Knight Think Tank Fleet gradually separated from the fleet as a shock force and detoured to the left wing of the Hrud fleet.

At this time, the White Knight think tanks gathered in the library as usual for meetings or studies.

The think tanks surrounded Qin Xia, all sitting on the ground and holding their breath.

"Today we are going to experiment with a new tactic." Qin Xia gestured to Kamaz to speak, "Tell your think tank brothers about your ideas."

Kamas, the think tank mentor, immediately spoke up: "Based on some previous experience, I found that our psychic power can play a miraculous role in void warfare, so I thought of a set of tactics specifically for void warfare."

"We can cooperate with each other and use our psychic powers in naval battles, and then defeat enemies that are several times larger than us with psychic powers just like in land battles."

Kamas was talking but his mind was not idle either.

The more detailed and complex thoughts behind his words were projected psionically into the minds of his fellow Librarians.

The other think tanks immediately understood that what they needed to do in using psychic energy for void warfare was actually no different from before, which was just to assist the battleships in combat as much as possible.

It’s just more systematic, more comprehensive, and more collaborative.

"The most crucial point, brothers." Kamas glanced at everyone, "is that when the Lord of the White Knights is present, each of us can use psychic spells to assist in void combat. If he is not present, only those with the most stable psychic talents can do so."

"Brother Kamas is right." Tethys agreed very much. "Psychic spells involving void battles are not easy to release. It will bring our psychic power to the critical point of being out of control."

"Understood, brother Kamas, brother Tethys." The other think tanks said in unison.

"Now it's time for the practical part." Qin Xia closed his eyes, "Empty your mind and focus on one thing."

All the think tanks took a deep breath and slowly closed their eyes.

The darkness before my eyes quickly dissipated, and was replaced by everything I saw when I opened my eyes just now.

The think tanks soon discovered that they could instantly travel to any place on the ship and observe anything, whether it happened in the past, present, or future.

They realized that they were in a mental link state, not actually opening their eyes and walking around the ship in the flesh, but sharing the psychic vision of the Lord of the White Knights.

In a state of mental connection, Qin Xia brought the think tanks to the outside of the ship. His body and vision seemed as huge and tall as stars, overlooking the entire galaxy from a God's perspective.

The White Knight moved away from the fleet and circled towards the Hrud fleet.

The Hrud Fleet sent an interceptor fleet of six ships to attack the White Knight.

Chagatai did order the think tank assault fleet to conduct a flanking operation, but Qin Xia only arranged for the White Knight to form the assault fleet.

As a heavy cruiser second only to the Glorious Queen-class battleship in size, the White Knight already has the ability to fight against many enemies alone, not to mention that it now has the full assistance of think tanks who are ready to experiment with new tactics.

"The Hrud interception fleet will surround us." Qin Xia waved his hand lightly, and the stars passed by rapidly. Everything that happened in the entire galaxy seemed to be fast-forwarded to the step he said.

The six Hrud warships gradually dispersed as they moved forward, surrounding the White Knight, which was traveling alone.

"We can let the White Knight continue to move forward, teleport it out of the encirclement, and then open fire on the interception fleet's pilot ship near the teleportation point." Varis suggested.

Qin Xia agreed: "Inform the port side gun deck of the battleship to stand by, cross all weapons, and fire immediately when I give the order to fire."

A think tank came to the gun deck and conveyed the Lord of the White Knights' orders to the weapons officer on the port gun deck.

The weapons officer on the gun deck saw a vague outline of the think tank, and then heard an order.

The Lord of the White Knights' orders arrived in real time without having to go through layers of command transmission chains.

Qin Xia waved his hand again, and the scene he and the think tanks saw was synchronized with reality.

When Varis used the psychic power shared by Qin Xia to release the teleportation spell, wind and snow condensed in the void in front of the White Knight. The entire warship sailed into the wind and snow, and appeared on the right side of the enemy's interception fleet's lead ship.

The warships of both sides were level with each other, and in just a moment, the two warships would pass each other.

The think tank conveyed Qin Xia's new order in real time. When the weapons officer waved his command knife and shouted out the order, all the weapons on the artillery deck opened fire.

The anti-entropy field devices built by the Quadrant for ships have long been effective, and the Hrud pilot ships no longer look like vague outlines, which is a sign that they cannot use the entropy field to resist attacks.

The light spear rays and macro cannon shells all bombarded the intersection area of ​​the rays, which was the middle section of the Hrud pilot ship.

First there was fire, then there was an explosion. The pilot ship was blown into two pieces. The wreckage was spinning and drifting forward due to inertia. The rear part of the wreckage was pushed towards the front part by the propulsion device that was still in operation, and they collided with each other, producing a more violent explosion. "Release the torpedoes from the starboard gun deck." Qin Xia ordered calmly.

The White Knight entered the snowstorm again, and then appeared on the left side of the Hrud interception fleet.

The starboard gun deck received an order to fire torpedoes when no enemy ships were observed.

There were two enemy ships in the path of the large number of torpedoes.

Qin Xia waved his hand and adjusted the flow of time to the limit of the foreseeable future.

The torpedoes passed by the edge of the enemy ship, but failed to achieve any other results except that one of the torpedoes scratched the paint on the armor plate of the Hrud battleship.

"Here." Tethys turned time back a little and then stopped it. The two enemy ships were making evasive movements and turned right at the same time. "If we can find a way to delay the two enemy ships at this point in time so that they cannot make evasive movements in time or fail to evade, then all the torpedoes will hit them."

"Do as you say." Qin Xia agreed, and at the same time signaled all think tanks to release spiritual energy with him.

They spent time discussing tactics and making decisions, but this was all done in the psychic link created by Qin Xia. In reality, they responded in a timely manner before even a second had passed.

The two battleships, which were quickly taking evasive action due to the incoming torpedo attack, turned to the right at the same time.

The captain on the command deck noticed this scene and guessed that the Hrud should also have similar technology but different from psychic power to ensure that orders are conveyed and executed in real time.

As for why this technology is definitely not psychic power... If it is something like astropathic or psychic communication, the think tank in this battleship can cause the Hrud fleet to collapse by distorting the content of the communication.

"The enemy ships are beginning to evade."

The report sounded.

The captain stared out the porthole expressionlessly.

The torpedo hit rate is not high, so if you don't have any hope, you won't be afraid of disappointment.

The energy streams ejected from the rear propulsion devices of the two enemy ships were more conspicuous. At the same time, the propulsion devices on the left side of the hull also began to eject energy streams, apparently to add assistance to the turning process.

But just as the speed slowly increased, the warship on the right of the two enemy ships suddenly turned to the left. This process happened suddenly and incredibly fast, and was obviously caused by an external force.

The enemy ships moved one to the left and the other to the right, eventually colliding with each other, and then slowly floated to the sides due to the impact force.

The torpedo arrived at this time, and the enemy ship sank in a dazzling flash of fire.

"Chase after them." The reflection of the chief think tank's face appeared in the porthole glass in front of the captain.

The White Knight was moving at full speed.

After three ships of the Hrud interception fleet sank in succession, they lost their will to fight and quickly turned to evacuate.

At the same time, their main fleet sent more warships to support.

At this time, energy fluctuations appeared in front.

The energy released by the battleship in the Hrud main fleet, which was equivalent in size to the Queen of Glory-class battleship, caused everything except the Hrud creations to rapidly increase in entropy wherever the energy passed.

Even the planets began to wither.

This was undoubtedly another energy shock that the Iron Warriors fleet had encountered in the Gugan system before, but at this time, even if the think tank did not tell the captain of the Lord of the White Knights' orders, the captain did not intend to avoid it.

The fleet had a contingency plan in place, and every ship was equipped with an anti-entropy increase device. The time weapons used by the Hrud in land battles were no longer effective against Space Marines, so their time weapons that could even rapidly turn stars into red giants would naturally no longer be effective.

Sure enough, when the energy spread through the White Knight and even the entire Human Empire Fleet, it only affected the environment of the entire galaxy.

The White Knight continued to move forward straight, teleporting to the side of an enemy ship again, and all the weapons on the gun deck fired at the same time.

After another enemy ship sank, the Hrud fleet commander probably judged the White Knight to be an extreme threat, so he arranged for more warships to encircle it.

The next step is to tie down as many enemy ships as possible... This is the captain's judgment.

The White Knight alone cannot face an entire hostile main fleet, even with a think tank.

But considering the White Knight's combat mission.

In large-scale void battles, they fight side by side with thousands of friendly fleets, but when acting alone, there is no need to deal with an entire fleet at all. If the White Knight were to go deep into the heart of the Hrud people today and encounter the main fleet, and try its best to resist but fail, it would just turn around and run, and no one could stop it.

The more the captain thought about it, the more he felt that the job he was doing in the World Eaters was wonderful, and he was grateful to the Lion King for giving him as a gift to Angron, because at least in the World Eaters there would not be a high probability of him dying in the void war.

If it were in the First Legion, this void war would probably start with the White Knight ramming the enemy's battleship.

(End of this chapter)