When the two of them walked to the entrance of the temple, Seth was very surprised to see Soshyan coming with a seemingly high-level mechanical cultist, and subconsciously asked:
"Brother Soshyan, he is"
"This is the Great Sage of Angstrom."
The next second, the chain saw in Seth's hand roared, and Soshyan quickly spoke to stop it.
"Wait a minute, Brother Seth, please be patient. I have promised to leave his fate to General Forge to decide."
"Um?"
Seth turned off the chain saw and frowned.
"He is a traitor, and traitors deserve to die. We have the power to execute him, so we don't need to bother Mars—"
"Brother Seth."
Soshyan stared at the other party and emphasized his tone.
"I have my own arrangements."
Seth was stunned for a moment and finally nodded.
"receive."
After walking out of the gate, Soshyan summoned the third company commander Farzad and asked him to use his landline to personally escort Bertus to the Eternal Loyalty and arrange him in the VIP cabin.
When Bertus arrived on the Eternal Loyalty, he immediately broadcast to the planet his decision to surrender and accept the ruling of Mars. All forces and cities in Angstrom immediately ceased all hostilities.
But things have just begun here. After receiving the news that the Forge World was attacked, the Angstrom fleet that went to the edge of the galaxy to rescue the merchant fleet immediately realized that it was a trap and planned to rush back. However, it was attacked.
The imperial fleet intercepted, and the two sides engaged in a small-scale exchange of fire. Although there was no damage, it successfully delayed the pace of the Angstrom fleet. When the news of Bertus' surrender came, the sages leading the fleet were dumbfounded.
I really didn't expect the Forge World to fall so quickly.
After receiving the notice of persuasion to surrender from the Imperial fleet, they could only turn off their weapons and follow the Imperial fleet back to the Forge World. The intercepted Hoyland family fleet was also escorted to the airport in despair.
Shi Yang had no intention of taking action now, so he just detained them first.
This operation was able to capture a heavily guarded and powerful forging world without any bloodshed, which was considered an extremely successful case. However, before Soshyan could be happy for too long, he immediately received an emergency signal from the edge of the galaxy.
Eight hours after the surrender of Angstrom, the Red Pirates finally realized that this time Huron was really in a hurry. They formed a huge fleet with 3 battleships as the core, 2 battlecruisers, and 7 large cruisers as the main force.
It headed straight for the Angstrom galaxy, destroyed the Watch 9 guard station at the outermost edge of the galaxy, the large subspace probe on it, and all the defenders, and headed straight for the main star of Angstrom in a menacing manner.
Angstrom has a total of seven planets. Only Angstrom's main planet is habitable. The other planets have basically been turned into mining centers or large warning stations have been deployed, so those worlds do not have much defense capabilities.
However, facing the menacing Red Corsairs, Soshyan was not surprised. After all, this was a key node in the entire campaign. Huron must have arranged countermeasures. Although this operation did not bring many troops, most of them were Astartes.
, but Angstrom itself has considerable strength, otherwise Huron would not have suppressed it for so many years.
He immediately ordered Angstrom to form a temporary war council to coordinate all aspects of power and resources and put the Forge World into a state of war immediately. In addition, due to the needs of the war, Soshyan also consulted Bertus.
The other party recommended several capable sages to lead Angstrom's upcoming army.
As for the fleet, since the second company led by Ustad took away one-third of the battle group fleet, among the fleets that the empire came to blitz with this time, there were only two Astral Knight capital ships and two large cruisers (Revenge).
The leader-class large cruiser [Eternal Loyalty], the Carnage-class large cruiser [Atonement]), 4 strike cruisers, 2 Lunar-class cruisers, and 21 other small battleships, although they are also accompanied by the Black Templar, Imperial Fist, and Penance.
The fleets of the four battle groups, the Flesh Tearers and the Flesh Tearers, but the Imperial Fists only came with one cruiser and three frigates, which can be basically ignored. The three actually large ones are the Black Templar, the Ascetic, and the Flesh Tearers.
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Among them, the Black Templar has 1 battle barge, 4 strike cruisers and 3 frigates.
The Flesh Tearers also have 1 battle barge, 4 strike cruisers, and 4 frigates.
Although the Ascetic fleet is quite powerful, because it has to look after the home planet, only half of the fleet joined the expedition, including 1 battle barge, 3 strike cruisers and 5 frigates.
Judging from the number of capital ships, the empire is not much different from the Red Corsair. However, due to its own characteristics, the battle barge is better at planetary attacks and ship-to-ship gang operations. In a fleet battle, it cannot compete with a battleship with a long-range and accurate main gun.
Comparable.
As for the warships of the National Religion, they are basically armed transport ships and do not have much naval combat power.
In total, including Angstrom's fleet, the empire's fleet in the system is 1 battleship, 3 battle barges, 3 large cruisers, 4 heavy cruisers, 16 strike cruisers, and 11 light cruisers.
Cruisers, hundreds of destroyers and frigates of different types.
If there really was to be a fleet battle, the gap between the two sides would actually not be that big, but Soshyan was not that stupid. After taking control of Angstrom, the initiative had already fallen into his hands. There was no need for him to have a fight with the Red Pirates at this time.
A 50-50 decisive battle, so the goal of this battle is to repel the Red Pirates' fleet and then wait for Angstrom's star fortress to be completed.
As long as Angstrom's star fortress is completed, this system will become a Achilles' heel for the Red Pirates, including their army deployed in Badab. Huron will have to maintain the current battle line if he wants to continue.
He could only devote a large number of troops to Angstrom in a desperate attempt to recapture this place, but he was destined to be unable to succeed - of course after the Star Castle was completed.
Therefore, Soshyan not only had to repel the Red Pirates' fleet, but also protect the star fort that was about to be completed. The latter was actually more difficult than the former.
Angstrom's star fortress is on the farthest satellite from the main star. Angstrom's main star has three satellites in total. The farthest one is named Liuli 3. In order to deceive others, Angstrom placed it on
One side of the satellite was almost hollowed out, a semi-buried weightless dock was built, and a huge star castle was secretly built inside. The Red Pirates should know about this, after all, Angstrom built it
Over the years, some news will leak out.
Therefore, Soshyan concluded that even if the Red Pirates could not recapture Angstrom this time, they would still find ways to destroy the Star Castle. So on the one hand, he deployed the fleet to a location hundreds of kilometers away from Liuli 3, and on the other hand, he arranged a large number of
The Skitarii are on the moon's surface and have activated all of the planet's orbital defense equipment and the satellite's defense arrays.
Just 12 hours after Angstrom surrendered, the Red Pirates' fleet signal appeared on the Eternal Loyalty's scanning array.
Facts have indeed confirmed Soshyan's idea. After the Red Pirates' fleet approached the main star of Angstrom, they suddenly changed direction and headed towards Liuli 3. The war was about to break out——