Chapter 700 How to deal with wild beasts?
Terra, orbital space.
The Battle Moon still hangs high in the orbit of the Throne World, but it is no longer the master of the void.
The White Scar and Imperial Fist fleets turned around and left the orbit of Mars. More than 150 battleships of different sizes were divided into several groups and slowly spread out along the edge of the maximum range of the battle moon's gravity weapon. It's like a pair of big open hands, about to grab the ball pointed at the palm.
Behind them were hidden the huge mechanical ark of the ruler Sage Adeptus McCann, as well as the frigates and cruisers next to the ark. Their metal bellies were filled with red weapons ready to go. robed soldiers and mecha knights.
The Battle Moon is located in the orbit over the northwestern hemisphere of Terra, and in the orbit of the southeastern hemisphere of Terra across from the Battle Moon, there is another important ship parked, the Eternal Sephalax, the High Lord Admiral Lan. Song's flagship, as well as the remaining Imperial Navy fleet surrounding the flagship.
After the previous battle to rescue the world of Entin's Nest City, Fu Qinghai already knew: the battle moon itself has no ability to move. It does not have some kind of planetary propulsion engine like the movie "The Wandering Earth". The Battle Moon relies entirely on teleportation technology for deployment, and can at best rotate slowly - so Lanson can hide on the other side of the Throne World.
The fleets of White Scar and Emperor Fist have completed their formation.
The battleships of the Imperial Navy remained motionless.
"Send a signal to the Eternal Sephalax."
Fu Qinghai propped himself up on the strategic platform of the Suzheng, with the projection of another Emperor-class battleship reflected in his pupils.
“Still no response, Khan.”
The crew member sitting in front of the communication device shook his head and said.
“Just stop there and do nothing?”
Talgukin asked angrily in the projection:
"He is also worthy of being called the Supreme Lord Admiral?"
"Leave him alone, Qingshan."
Mandu Ratu suggested in the projection:
"This The bullshit admiral is obviously a coward, don't delay our attack plan because of them."
"All fleets, start attacking."
Fu Qinghai stood up and ordered in a deep voice.
He has already given Lan Song a chance.
The light in the tail nozzles of all the battleships suddenly expanded and became bright and dazzling. The battleships of the thirteen fleets were all at full power, rushing towards the battle moon along the pre-calculated navigation route, like a intertwined A deadly web together.
The battle moon is surrounded by the destroyed orbital defense facilities of the Throne World. These large space junks have been captured by the gravity of the battle moon and are slowly floating and rotating around the battle moon, forming a ring of debris and debris.
“Enable gravity field scanning.”
Fu Qinghai issued the most important order.
The crew on the bridge performed in an orderly manner.
Facing the direction of the Space Marines' battleships, the Battle Moon slowly opened its jaws. The "jaw" is a huge armor plate, supported by countless giant gears, rolling down along four deep tracks, revealing a black hole hidden behind the armor plate, which is huge enough to accommodate the passage of a warship.
The battle moon seems to want to open its mouth and roar.
“Is the accompanying fleet coming?”
Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes and stared at the hole.
I want to see what is coming out of my mouth.
He recalled the battle moon over the hive world of Endin, and a large number of orc warships swarmed out of the huge hole.
However, it was beyond his expectation.
“The battle moon has a gravity peak fluctuation!”
The crew member shouted a warning.
Is it necessary to use gravity storm at such a long distance? Could it be that the range of the Battle Moon has been increased during this time?
Doubts just arose in Fu Qinghai’s mind.
As if to echo the words of the crew, several giant meteorites suddenly appeared in the shadow of the big black hole. These black meteorites, which are seven to eight hundred meters in diameter, irregular in shape, and full of large and small craters, rotated Moving, rolling, and shooting at the White Scar and Imperial Fist battleships at extremely fast speeds.
Is this the original trick?
Fu Qinghai's eyes widened slightly.
The meteorite was as fast as a cannonball, and in the blink of an eye it hit a Black Templar frigate that was unable to dodge. Such a fast speed naturally exceeds the judgment range of the void shield. However, facing a behemoth with a diameter of several hundred meters, the frigate's void shield almost flashed and overloaded. The meteorite hit the side of the frigate, and the meteorite instantly shattered and exploded. As it opened, the ship's hull also underwent violent distortion and deformation. It was pushed by the meteorite and turned over. The leaked gas sprayed metal fragments and human body parts out of the ship's hull, forming a flashing cloud.
"Disband the formation and maneuver to avoid!"
Fu Qinghai ordered immediately.
The fleet formation, which was neat and orderly like a web, instantly became chaotic. Meteorite groups of large and small sizes penetrated directly through the large web, and the warships of each battle group began to maneuver to avoid it.
These meteorites did not have the guidance and tracking of space torpedoes, nor were they loaded with explosives like macro cannon shells, but there were so many of them that it was like a meteor shower floating in the void. The only difference was that there was no tail of flames trailing behind the meteorites.
The first wave of meteorite attacks is over.
A frigate was crashed, two cruisers were seriously injured, and other surrounding warships were also damaged to varying degrees.
“Tsk, what a cheap attack method.”
Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself.
Combining the "gravity peak fluctuations" mentioned by the crew just now, Fu Qinghai instantly deduced that the Battle Moon caused these meteorites to gain huge acceleration by creating artificial gravity wells in the vector direction, turning them into cannonballs and crashing into the fleet. The principle is somewhat similar to the Empire's Nova Cannon. The Nova Cannon also accelerates through a gravity accelerator rather than a macro-cannon propulsion method.
Although these meteorites have neither guidance nor charges, they are very large in size and mass. The huge mass and super speed are huge kinetic energy. The kinetic energy itself is a weapon, enough to destroy A space battleship.
“Qingshan!”
Kurland’s serious face appeared on the screen.
“Listen to my instructions.”
Fu Qinghai made a calm gesture:
"The navigation route has been updated. We continue to make a circuitous route along the edge of the gravity weapon range, bypassing the hole. The battle moon rotates very slowly, and it cannot follow. Come aboard us.”
The bridge of the battleship Abomination.
“Execute his orders.”
Bosmond said in a deep voice.
Kurland glanced at Bosmond in surprise.
Ever since the two legions decided to join forces, Kurand was most worried about the Black Templar Grand Marshal. He was worried that Bosymond would be self-willed and disobey orders due to his large number of troops and ships. However, he did not expect that he would always be unruly. Moreover, the irascible Bosmond was so convinced by Qingshan Khan at this moment that he immediately executed the order without questioning or discounting.
The bridge of the battleship Suzheng.
“The battle moon has another peak gravity fluctuation!”
The crew member sitting in front of the screen shouted loudly.
Fu Qinghai knew that the second wave of meteorites was coming.
So he immediately issued the second order:
"All battleships, reorganize their formations, lift the firepower restrictions of the bow guns and spine gun groups, and shoot freely to destroy the meteorites."
Yes, meteorites are very massive and very fast, but they are also very large, which is good for aiming. If you can't dodge, you can use the light spear on the spine of the ship and the macro cannon on the bow to destroy them in advance. Attacking meteorites. Once these giant meteorites fragment, their lethality will be greatly weakened.
After a small wave of chaos, the killing net formed by the fleet cluster began to be sorted and weaved again, and all the warships spread out to bypass the big hole in the center of the moon. A second wave of meteorites erupted from the cave entrance, but did not cause many casualties. The golden beams of light staggered and shattered the incoming meteorite. The meteorite broke into large and small pieces, which were either swallowed up by the void shield and disappeared, or hit the outer shell of the battleship and continued to roll and break.
"Reverse gravity peak fluctuations occur!"
The crew continued to report changes in the gravity curve.
“What new tricks are you going to play this time?”
Fu Qinghai stared at the battle moon with squinted eyes.
The circle of space junk floating around the battle moon suddenly seemed to be pulled by some kind of pull, and they all gathered towards the huge black hole in the center of the moon. Just like garbage floating on the water being attracted by a whirlpool, these orbital facility fragments were sucked into the giant hole one by one.
All the blocking obstacles disappeared
The entire orbital space was cleared.
Then the huge black hole suddenly erupted.
The space junk that was just sucked in was ejected again, and the metal debris reflected sunlight, like a cluster of dazzling flash debris. The next second the debris turned into a cannonball and struck. This huge black hole is like a planet-scale shotgun. It has no accuracy, but it covers a huge range.
Fu Qinghai witnessed with his own eyes a several-kilometer-long cylindrical orbital space station rolling and flying past the side window of the Suzheng. There were also various metal debris fragments on the shield. Scratched out colorful streams of light and stars.
A very creative attack, but unfortunately the battle moon itself rotates too slowly, and the battleship cluster has already dispersed in a roundabout way, so this wave of attacks did not have much effect.
“It should be quite useful for orbital bombing.”
Fu Qinghai even took the time to comment.
He is worthy of being the man who destroyed a battle moon...
Fu Qinghai's calm and composed performance infected Kurander and calmed his nervous heart slightly. This battle moon showed a different attack method, which caused some problems and deviations in the attack plan originally formulated based on the battle moon over the world of Endin Hive City, but Qingshan Khan quickly corrected it on the spot. these deviations.
"There are violent fluctuations in the gravity position ahead!"
The crew in front of the screen suddenly shouted loudly.
The curves on the screen rise and fall like jumping off a cliff.
“All warships are ready to evade!”
Fu Qinghai reminded in a deep voice.
Meteor spit is just an appetizer.
Gravity storm is the real highlight.
In the craters and craters with a radius of thousands of kilometers on the surface of the moon, flashes and arcs visible to the naked eye are connected. The familiar and terrifying invisible force appears again, like a twisted whip. Combined Fleet.
Unfortunately, a battle barge of the Iron Knight Chapter was hit. The middle of the hull collapsed instantly, and the bow and stern were broken into two pieces and drifted away. Then a violent explosion occurred at the stern, causing a nearby ship to be hit. The cruiser was swallowed up by the ion fireball from the reactor explosion, lost control, and crashed into another battleship.
Fu Qinghai looked away from the screen.
No matter how well planned it is in advance.
This scene before me is unavoidable.
The power of gravity storm is too strong. Currently, no warship in the human empire can withstand this kind of damage. It can only use a large number of warships to spread out and launch a charge at the same time to share this damage to a certain extent and try as much as possible. to reduce losses.
But there is no way to completely avoid losses.
At the same time as the gravity storm was set off, the cannons and lasers on the surface of the battle moon also opened fire, exploding colorful ripples on the void shield light film of each battleship, and the combined fleet endured the indiscriminate bombardment. Continue to sprint forward, and at the same time launch a dense swarm of torpedoes, giving the Battle Moon a counterattack.
The whipping of the gravity storm continues, and battleships are constantly being crushed or torn apart because they cannot dodge. However, compared to the last time they attacked the Battle Moon, the White Scars sub-group was obviously more skillful. They figured out the attack patterns and calmly evaded the fluctuations in the gravity field.
The casualties are obviously less than the final high wall fleet.
"Start gang-hopping in five minutes."
Fu Qinghai ordered calmly.
At the same time, he leaned close to the intercom:
"Lord Sage Adeptus, we are about to land on the Battle Moon, and your Mechanical Ark is ready for deployment."
"Okay, Chapter Commander Aoyama."
Communication A reply came from the channel.
The Mechanical Ark, which is larger and slower than the battle barge, begins to move forward slowly. At the same time, firepower that is more ferocious and denser than the battle barge is pouring crazily towards the battle moon, and the frigates and cruisers quickly follow up. Protect around.
After saying this, Fu Qinghai left the strategic platform, picked up his helmet and walked quickly down the bridge steps, shouting:
"All companies, follow me to join the gang!"
"Khan!"
Qiao Shida grabbed him again.
The Moon Wolf warrior looked at his chapter leader steadily:
“What if another ‘beast’ comes?”
Fu Qinghai stopped when he heard this.
“I will let the Mechanicus go up first.”
Fu Qinghai looked at Qiao Shida and said.
Qiao Shida was relieved when he heard this.
“Okay, boss.”
The first company commander stood at attention, beat his chest and saluted:
"Happy hunting."
...
Suzheng, teleportation deck.
The ship's hull was still shaking violently, and the ground crew was busy running around. However, this time the Suzheng was not hit by the aftermath of the gravity storm, and the deck was not damaged or caught on fire.
Fu Qinghai stepped onto the teleportation block again.
On each round platform around him stood a tough and fully armed Iron Buddha Terminator. They were arranged neatly, like a group of silent and towering black gold iron towers.
The first batch of Space Marines boarding the Kraken Assault Claw drop pod have successfully landed on the surface of the Battle Moon. They are building a simple landing site on the moon, setting up teleportation beacons, clearing the surrounding Orcs, and opening the way for the Chapter's subsequent landing troops. space.
Like the battle moon above Endin Hive World, the battle moon above Terra also has an abstract and grotesque big face of an orc on its surface. The facial features that make up this big face are like real mountains. Such a majestic and huge man-made mountain. Yuskina's Peasant Crusaders were not without some effect. At least they proved that these man-made mountains were movable and controlled by the Orcs. While the Battle Moon winked and made various mocking expressions, it also The millions of Imperial civilians who landed on the moon were crushed to death.
After learning of this situation, the man-made mountains on the surface of the battle moon also received intensive attention from the Space Marines' shipboard firepower. Torpedoes, light spears and macro cannons took turns to bombard them. At the same time, the landing site was also deliberately avoided. Near man-made mountains.
"The beacon connection is stable and ready to start transmitting."
A mechanical electronic sound sounded overhead:
"Countdown, five, four, three, two..."
"Yes, what if there is another 'beast'?"
Fu Qinghai was also thinking about this problem in his mind.
The next second, the field of vision completely disappeared.
When the feeling of alienation and tearing dissipates.
Fu Qinghai's vision suddenly changed. He stood under a giant overturned gear. Looking up, he could see a fierce battle in the dark sky with beams of light piercing through cannonballs. Chainsaw weapons were everywhere around him. The green-skinned corpse had been disemboweled with explosive weapons, and blood from its intestines and organs was flowing all over the floor.
Several white lights flashed next to him.
More Iron Buddha Terminators are coming.
"Khan, this way!"
An Iron Buddha warrior emerged from the entrance of a dark tunnel that was blown underground and shouted.
Fu Qinghai drew his Blue Fang and strode over, with the Iron Buddha Terminator following behind him with rumbles of footsteps.
“How is the progress now?”
Fu Qinghai asked as he walked.
"We have rushed several kilometers underground and found and destroyed a large number of substations and power stations."
The space warrior who led the way replied.
"Is the gravity storm weapon still operating?"
Fu Qinghai then asked.
"No high-energy response has been detected. Techmarine speculates that the gravity weapon has been disabled, at least temporarily."
The Space Marine replied as he walked away.
“Very good.”
Fu Qinghai nodded slightly when he heard this.
The first task of every landing on the battle moon is to disable gravity weapons, otherwise the fleet in space will always face the threat of gravity storms. The consumption of such a powerful weapon is naturally terrible. Space warriors only need to find the facilities that power the gravity weapons and destroy part of them, and the gravity weapons will no longer be able to function. After the Phaeton Tech-Priest analyzed the remains of the Battle Moon, the Iron Buddha warriors were more targeted in their search for corresponding facilities. They could go straight to the target without wasting any time on other targets.
“How are the other chapters progressing?”
Fu Qinghai then asked again.
"We should be the fastest progressing."
The space warrior thought for a moment and said:
"The White Scars can barely catch up with us. The Storm Prophet is very strong. The other White Scar subgroups are also heading underground, but the offensive is not as smooth as ours. In the end, the high-walled space warriors have just landed on the moon and are still fighting fiercely with the greenskins in the area and have not yet gained a foothold. ”
“Hmm.”
Fu Qinghai said lightly "Yeah".
This result is deserved. Compared with other space warriors of this era, the new alien space warriors are completely surpassed and crushed in terms of weapons and equipment and physical enhancement. There is no surprise in achieving such results.
After all battlefield information is verified.
Fu Qinghai issued his first instruction:
“Don’t rush deep underground.”
Fu Qinghai stopped and stood on the spot and ordered:
"Continue to expand the landing site and wait for the arrival of our third batch of landing troops. I will inform the ruling sage to let the Martian troops under our control Landing in this area."
"Okay, Khan."
The Space Marine jotted down the order and hurried off.
Fu Qinghai led the first company and continued to walk forward. Both sides of the passage were filled with swaying orc corpses, and he did not see any fallen or injured Space Marines. As his order was conveyed, the companies on each front began to stop attacking and shrink in an orderly manner, consolidating the defense of the occupied area and preparing to resist the orcs' counterattack.
"Khan!"
The space warrior ran back after finishing the arrangement.
He stood in front of Fu Qinghai and took off his helmet.
It is Fu Qinghai’s former attendant, Lin Yu.
“Is there anything else?”
Fu Qinghai looked at the attendant and asked.
"If another 'beast' really appears."
Lin Yu stared at Fu Qinghai with burning eyes.
Both sides of the face were filled with a flush of excitement:
“Let me have a go at it, okay?”
"You will die."
Fu Qinghai glanced at him sideways and said lightly:
"Me too."
Lin Yu was stunned for a moment and asked :
"Then how are you going to deal with that monster?"
"I said wait for the third batch of landing troops to arrive."
Fu Qinghai shook his head and walked forward past Lin Yu.
"Waiting for Mars? The knight mecha of the Mechanicum?"
Lin Yu hurriedly followed him and asked:
"But I feel that the knight mecha Nor is it a match.”
"Use your brain, we also have knight mechas."
Fu Qinghai curled his lips and said helplessly. He stepped onto a wider ramp temporarily laid by the technical sergeant using dismantled steel plates. Return to the surface of the Battle Moon.
The naval battle in the dark void continued, but the density of artillery fire fired on the moon was obviously much smaller than before. There was a faint whistling sound in the sky. A group of sword-tail interceptors broke through the thin atmosphere of the battle moon, soared and swooped down in a row in an arc, followed by the escorting Thunderhawk gunboats and the Flame Raptor gunboat. .
The interceptor group swooped and then continued flying to other places. The Thunder gunship and the Flame Raptor gunship slowly landed on the landing site that the technical sergeant had simply leveled.
“Chi——”
The front hatch of the gunboat opened and fell.
The figures of the passengers inside were revealed.
Not Space Marines, but a group of women.
A group of women wearing armor and holding big swords.
They looked at Fu Qinghai with firm and cold eyes.
"Sister Silence!"
Lin Yu suddenly realized and blurted out. …………