Chapter 161 Black and Red, Plans in the Shadows (11) Backhand
"How long?" Tabers once again asked the servo deck responsible for large-scale data calculations. This was the third time in two hours that he took the initiative to ask about this. (Navigators are usually responsible for subspace navigation.
Long-distance navigation and medium- and short-range subspace jumps are completed by battleships after calculation.)
He was aware of the pressure the original body was facing, and he also knew that the situation ahead was out of control, and that the two precious imperial armed forces were engaged in internal fighting, but there was an insurmountable distance between them.
"No wait!" Tabers thumped the handrail in front of him hard, and the same words from Calvin made him suddenly look up.
The Primarch did not know when he returned to the bridge again, and the opinions he brought coincided with Tabos.
"Bishop Klein." Calvin looked at the mechanical priest in front of the console, who showed him the parameters of the battleship that had been prepared:
"The Retribution-class battleship has an energy supply that far exceeds that of battleships of the same class due to its configuration of energy weapons throughout the ship. The same is true for the subspace engine. So if we are willing, then it is estimated that according to real-world time, it will take up to 12 hours.
We can see the brilliance of the star Barlog."
"Real time?" Calvin keenly grasped the message left by Bishop Klein.
"What about time in the Warp?"
"One hour, the error is within plus or minus one hour." Bishop Klein replied.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's do it!" Calvin and Tabers' eyes met, and then ordered to Bishop Klein.
The chief engineer was obviously well prepared. She took out two data keys from her waist under the gaze of the two people. She used the robotic arm on her back to complete the wake-up procedure for the two keys, and then inserted them into the six keys of the engine management platform.
Put the key next to it.
"General order, special matter 009, handle with the highest priority." She gave the order in the direction of the engine room, then got up and walked towards the engine room.
Such a violent driving method will inevitably cause protests from the battleship's machine soul. She needs to personally go to the direction of the engine room to preside over the machine soul's comfort and guidance.
The Gray Knight fleet was sailing in the deep and strange subspace. Among the fusiform space bubbles of different sizes, the one belonging to the Relentless Jihad suddenly accelerated and began to separate from its comrades behind it.
But this is still not enough, because if Calvin guessed correctly, the war between the Inquisition and Fenris has already begun.
He stared closely at the auspicious omen on the battleship, and fell into focused thinking with Tabos beside him.
"Initiate contact with Lisetta." The quiet air was broken again by Calvin, but the order he gave made everyone confused.
The inquisitor's resistance to the Gray Knights was obvious enough, and since the previous orders had been prevaricated by the other party in the name of "internal regulations," what was the significance of this contact?
It still makes sense, such as the Gray Knight Arbiter named Alvin. He can be used as a transmission beacon that actively and continuously sends signals to allow the Relentless Jihad to obtain more accurate accuracy during mid- and short-range subspace jumps.
Location.
Tabos obviously thought of this, but it still didn't solve the problem.
The function of this beacon will certainly speed up their speed again, but compared to the distance of more than 200 light years they have to cross, this speed increase is still a drop in the bucket.
Unless...unless the Primarch wants to act alone!
My Majesty the Emperor! What a dangerous act this is!
Is he crazy? He actually wants to do something by himself that the entire battleship cannot do?
What if there was a warp trek? What if it was an enemy conspiracy?
Compared with the value of the original body, the entire Gian Moro is worthless in the eyes of the Gray Knight. He must stop the original body's ideas, and he must clarify his responsibilities to the original body!
Tybus almost spoke out to stop the original body the moment he thought of this idea, but as soon as his raised eyes touched Calvin, he swallowed his words again.
That was not a look asking for opinions, it was a declaration after making a decision.
Yes, this is not a multiple-choice question, at least in the eyes of an Emperor's Son, this should not be a multiple-choice question.
"Yes! I'll contact him right away!" Tabos thumped his chest heavily with his hand armor, then turned and walked towards the Astropath deck.
Calvin, who was still on the command deck, continued to look at the holographic projection. As the distance between the Relentless Jihad and the target shortened, the last question also appeared in his mind:
Will Alvin, a comrade who has not returned to Titan for a whole century and has never met him, answer his call?
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The war in Ballogo continues, and at this time, the Inquisition has taken full initiative on the battlefield.
The Astartes mixed fleet headed by Savillian has completed its deployment in the galaxy. Under the absolute suppression of the Grand Fleet's firepower, the Space Wolves' strike cruisers and attached assault fleets can only fight and retreat.
, and was finally besieged near the capital planet of Ballog.
The war has progressed to this point, and the damage that has occurred is no longer limited to the Space Wolves. Although the planetary defense system of Ballog is not as strong as that of the fortress world, the local defense has still accumulated some accumulation after decades of operation.
Two abandoned ruins from the early empire were found by these Space Wolves, and the pedestal weapons left in these ruins gave them a severe blow on the flanks of the Grand Fleet when it focused its main efforts on the capital, Barlog.
one strike.
These two anti-ship base weapons placed on the third and fifth planets of Ballogo have obvious technological backgrounds from alien civilizations.
Unlike the Empire's anti-ship technology, which is often the size of a hill, their power systems are rooted deep into the ground like tree roots, leaving only narrow and sharp pipes on the ground.
Because of this, the Grand Fleet ignored the threat. After the Grand Fleet cleared the weapons platforms in its orbit, the battle barges of the Emperor's Spear and the Dark Hunter passed by without warning.
It is locked by this weapon and then penetrated instantly.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The hundreds of meters long bone-white projectile flies to the sky with the energy supply from the ground. The atmosphere along the way is constrained by the magnetic field array hidden on the surface, becoming this projectile.
The projectile continues to accelerate the barrel.
Sharp warnings instantly sounded on the two battle barges of the Astartes Chapter. However, before their auspices could react, the gun barrel accelerated after dozens of kilometers and reached Mach 15.
The armor-piercing steel needle had already penetrated the energy shield and directly penetrated their warship.
Mach 15, which is exactly the lower limit of the data that the battleship void shield can sense and effectively defend. It is also this speed that allows the void shield to identify it as a slow and non-significant threat, and it does not play its due role.
Under this vicious attack that was obviously aimed at human defense technology, the armor of the two battle barges was instantly penetrated from the belly. The huge shock wave and projectiles that spontaneously started secondary explosions after entering the battleships completed the horizontal movement with dense metal jets.
Kill and injure, instantly exterminating all life within one kilometer along the way.
Hundreds of Astartes warriors did not have time to react, and were killed by the first wave of fragments and thermal kinetic energy of the attack. The life signals of tens of thousands of mortal sailors disappeared, withered by the kinetic energy of the explosion.
and the subsequent failure of the battleship's vacuum position.
The entire battlefield of Barlog came to a standstill due to the heavy damage suffered by these two battleships. In the empty galaxy space, everyone was watching the explosion of the two battleships, as well as countless small bodies that were thrown out and instantly froze in space.
figure.
And that's not all, because among the two battle barges, the one belonging to the Emperor's Spear was attacked exactly at the location of the plasma engine.
After tearing apart the bottom deck of the battleship, the sharp armor-piercing projectile moved all the way up. After instantly penetrating the plasma engine, the remaining kinetic energy still pushed the self-sharpening warhead all the way, penetrating through the layers.
After being blocked by the armor, the battleship's bridge was overturned.
Captain Graham of the Emperor's Spear and his entire battleship command team were sacrificed in this attack. And the subsequent explosions that started from the plasma engine and spread to the entire battleship made this team that originated from the second
The descendants of Guilliman who founded the army will forever remain in the starry sky of Ballog.
Grand Inquisitor Lisetta and frontline commander Xavilian both fell silent, and the interventional battle that originally seemed to go smoothly in their plans has since cast an ominous shadow.
The Inquisition's large fleet immediately launched a saturation bombing campaign on the two planets, but this kind of retaliatory killing seemed quite serious in the context of the fact that one of the two Astartes companies suffered heavy losses, and the other simply sacrificed all its members.
Powerless.
As a result, more violent artillery fire began to be released from the direction of the Grand Fleet. Stimulated by the sacrifice of friendly forces, the Grand Fleet had no scruples and began to truly regard the Space Wolves on Barlog as enemies.
They began to form the main force of the fleet into a horizontal array, and used the macro cannon fired at full power to pour artillery fire on Barlogo.
The Imperial Navy, escorted by many large battleships, also began to open the belly deck of the cruiser, and released swarms of space fighters carrying aerial bombs with various damaging effects in orbit towards the capital of Barlog.
This war has developed to this point and is no longer a civilized "knight showdown." Since the Space Wolves extended their claws to their compatriots, they have been regarded as mortal enemies by the three war groups in space.
The physical damage of the macro cannon and the kinetic energy of the light spear are no longer enough to express their anger. Those weapons of extermination that are unique to the Tribunal and carried on the fleet of the Imperial Navy are what they tear off the last dignity and tenderness.
’s ferocious face.
Seeing dense mushroom clouds rising from the ground, the Space Wolves' assault ships were forced to break out of the planet's defense system to seek resistance.
However, Xavilian's large fleet was waiting for this moment. Under the intensive attack of the five cruisers' light spears, these small battleships with only the most basic void shields could neither evade nor resist.
They are like bloody fireworks blooming in the starry sky of Barlogo. In the deep hatred after both sides no longer hold back, they gradually turn from hot melt into icy debris...
However, the counterattack of the Space Wolves still could not change the difference in force between the two sides. Whether it was the blocking of the assault fleet or the two destroyed anti-ship weapons, they were just twists and turns in the process of the victory of the war going to the Inquisition.
They could no more stop the advance of the Inquisition fleet than they could stop the entire orbital defenses of Ballog, which were being cleared point by point.
The black ship Lissetta was on was floating quietly at the rear of the battlefield. Her figure sitting high on the throne was so indifferent, even the fall of the Emperor's Spear failed to move her.
The Black Templar battleship also came here, and the Marshal Fidel of this company (Company Commander, Marshal is the unique military rank of the Black Templar) had a heavy look on his face. He was obviously very upset that these compatriots died in such a dishonorable war.
regret.
"Judge, your intention has been achieved. Then how will you deal with these descendants of Russ?"
He looked at the woman sitting under the emblem of the Inquisition and said, but Grand Inquisitor Lisetta did not respond.
This was undoubtedly an obvious offense and disrespect, and Field had no intention of being tolerant and directly raised his voice to question the owner of the black ship.
"Representative of the Tribunal, you..."
Just as he was about to express his accusation, the scanning array on the battleship issued a sharp warning, forcing him to stop his movements.
And there is no need for him to find the source of this threat. In fact, the cruiser covered with Fenris' unique bronze decorations has used its huge body to rush out of the asteroid group, allowing Field to see it with the naked eye.
its existence.
The huge battleship has occupied the entire view of the porthole in front of Field, and at such a close distance, he can already see the jumping torpedoes appearing at the flight deck hatch.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Alert! The Rebound Gang is preparing for battle!" Field reacted almost instinctively, having already guessed and responded to the Space Wolves' tactics.
A cruiser, two frigates, including his flagship, as well as the Black Templars he sent to the black ship where the Inquisitor was located, also occupied favorable positions on their respective battleships and began to respond to the upcoming counterattack.
Get ready for gang-hopping battles.
wrong!
Field suddenly seemed to remember something. He suddenly turned around and looked at the top of the screen. As expected, he saw a smile of success on the woman's face.
"You have guessed it a long time ago? Really?" Field suppressed his anger and asked her. He felt that he and his soldiers were being used by the former.
"It's just a little bit of prejudgment, nothing more." Lisetta stood up from the throne of the battleship, raised her hand and made a gesture to express her pleasure towards Field.
As she stood up, hundreds of heavily armed Stormtroopers emerged from the Black Templars guarding her.
Not only that, the same scene was playing out on the entire black ship. At least tens of thousands of elite Tribunal guards poured out from all over the black ship under Field's observation through video signals.
They held various heavy equipment in hand, and with a plan that was obviously calculated and staged, they began to garrison various key nodes of the battleship.
"This is a conspiracy!" Field accused the judge, but he was unable to stop the gang war that had begun.
Hundreds of bronze shuttle torpedoes passed over the Black Templars' warships and headed towards the black ship in their sight. They almost thought that they were about to kill the enemy with their own hands, and thereby gain a hearty victory through beheading.
What was different from what they expected was that under the thick armor of the black ship, what awaited them were traps and weapons all over the battleship, as well as tens of thousands of emotionless Inquisition soldiers...
The balance of victory seems to be tilting towards Lisetta again, and even Field believes that the Space Wolves will definitely fail.
However, just as these Space Wolves penetrated the black ship's armor, entered the black ship amidst bursts of explosions, and then found themselves trapped in a tight siege, outside this small battlefield composed of five battleships, another light appeared.
The light projected by Kia Space.
"Hrafnkel!" Field almost groaned out this ancient word as he looked at the giant creature leaping out of the huge subspace hole.
The already complacent Grand Inquisitor Lisetta couldn't help but lose her original composure when she saw this giant battleship that represented the top crown of human industrial civilization.
"Queen of Glory...Queen of Glory belonging to the Space Wolves..."
Strong signal interference reverberated violently on the black ships of the Inquisition and the Black Templar warships. After a burst of piercing noise, the contemporary chapter leader of the Space Wolves Chapter, the alpha wolf—Ragnar Bloodscream—appeared.
In front of the two people.
His burly figure was wrapped in an ancient armor, and the wolfskin mane hanging down from his shoulders was intertwined with his beard and hair, full of wild flavor, and the blood-red eyes on his face were trembling and rough.
Holding tightly in his gauntlet is a heavy ax half as tall as a man.
The owner of this face is obviously not on the bridge. The background behind him looks more like he is in some kind of large device.
Transmission platform...
Both of them realized the significance of the device in an instant, and it was at this moment that the beast-like terrifying figure leaned down and brought his face closer, and then said to Lisetta with a mouth full of fangs:
"Zombie, hold your head, I'll be there soon!"
Lisetta is also a battle-hardened inquisitor, but has she ever faced such horror?
She was momentarily frightened by this wildness that faced her soul and lost the ability to speak. However, many Black Templars noticed the crisis of the situation and began to look around vigilantly.
The atmosphere on the entire battleship fell into silence because of the huge battleship, and in the silence of everyone, there was a firm aura in the hand of the gray knight Elvin behind the crowd, which was faint on the eve of the storm.