Chapter 205 Return to the Pangia sub-sector
Today's Imperial Guard has reached thousands of cruisers, and other destroyers are even more indescribably huge. With only a few hundred moons in one sector, there are already ships in Damocles Bay, Partoria , the three star districts headed by Gundwa joined the war sequence.
Such a huge scale has not been seen in the empire for a long time. It is also thanks to Huron's overwhelming power that the high lord can delegate such power. In essence, the fleets here are all servants of the emperor, but usually due to different interests, different civilizations, and different In the area, there are still restrictions from the Holy Code of War and cannot move.
As for thousands of battleships, an average of 30,000 permanent personnel, as well as their expenses and deployments, as the saying goes, it is knowledge to organize a hundred people to travel and come back intact, not to mention 60 million Imperial Guard soldiers?
The elites of the empire must enjoy the best supplies and the best maintenance, and the empire's engines must also be maintained by hundreds of high-level world mechanical priests. After the order of magnitude reaches tens of millions, this number has become blurry.
Such a huge void fleet docked near Pan Lan. Although the commanders talked loudly and scolded Fang Qiu, they still could not stay for a long time. The war and consumption must be carried out as soon as possible.
Also because of the confidence brought to them by the powerful force of the empire, with an order, the subspace jump began. After the flickering scale and the fluctuation of the Mandeville Point, the huge fleet entered the dark subspace.
To be precise, it is not the darkness of the subspace, but the darkness from Geller's standpoint. Human beings are both weak and powerful. In this universe, no race has spread larger than humans, but no race is weaker than humans.
Even green-skinned boys can firmly witness the warp, and the souls that can be killed by the Chaos Gods simply by detecting it are indeed ridiculously weak, but the heroes born from tens of thousands of people can make the galaxy tremble. .
On the Bordero, Alan Bair is enjoying the last vacation brought by subspace travel. According to the information from the intelligence officer he rescued before, the Imperial Guard will face the Pangia sub-sector after highlighting Mandeville Point. Defense Array.
It was a vacuum triangle composed of three imperial worlds. The three worlds were far away from each other, but they tightly held Mandeville Point at the intersection of its three star systems.
In other words, if the Imperial Guard's jump is completed, there is a high probability that they will be attacked by three worlds, which is not strong, and the main force of the Red Pirates is now misled into the void.
But the hesitant attack still lingers.
Commander-in-Chief Qi Fan handed over his elite soldiers to Alan Bayer. When Staff Kane's "brave" voice echoed on the bridge, hundreds of people gathered here, waving their arms and saying goodbye to France. Such enthusiasm.
"Kane, Kephas Kane is here!" As a fan of him, a fan of Kane, the empire's greatest hero, this fan group is so high-profile, its tone is comparable to that of the Pope of the state religion.
Alan Bayer cursed. "Don't make any noise in the important place of the bridge!"
In the end, only Kane bowed and said. "Dear Sun Lord, I'm sorry, my fans are a bit fanatical."
This thing is strange, but not surprising, because every day the crew members on the Bordero watch Lieutenant Colonel Alan Bayer, a people-friendly man, fighting with junior crew members for water heaters to make coffee, or they are studying how to heat Goro cans with the Skadi soldiers. The most delicious thing, and the second thing is that he likes to use cards to swindle money from crew members.
His usual "inaction" made his majesty non-existent, and the captain was also infected by Alan Bair, and his attitude towards his subordinates was not strict. With Kane's bonus, everyone was a little bit proud, even the wave of his hand. The biggest one is Chief of Staff Skadi...
It was only after the soldiers had difficulty quieting down that Kane expressed his concerns about coming here. "Lord Sun Lord, I admire your bravery, but it is unwise to charge the enemy's position without any scruples."
"My recommendation is to be as sensible as possible, such as using part of the vanguard to attract combat power..."
Alan Beyer interrupted Mr. Kane's scruples. "No problem. The Red Pirates have gone to intercept the bomb ships in the subspace. They also lost nearly a thousand troops in the previous war. I don't believe they still have the main force."
"Recovering the first sector as quickly as possible is more in line with the current interests of the empire. If we fail to achieve results and delay, there will be huge internal pressure. Imagine that we have 60 million combat troops and 2,000 The burden of the void battleship is not the previous war.”
Kane was speechless. He naturally agreed, but this was really a bit... "a bit too..."
"Gambling?" "Without gambling, there is no victory. Playing steadily is not in the interest of today's empire." Alan Bayer said.
Kane judged in his heart that the Sun Lord was a madman. Why didn't he feel it before? No wonder his situation was so strange when we first met!
Now that Kane thought that the act of plundering an ambassador-class merchant ship and forcing the aliens to fall from the sky was just the tip of the iceberg of the madness of the imperial hero, he couldn't help but sigh.
"Okay, okay, then I have a question..." Before Kane could finish speaking, Alan Bair answered. "Our transport ship is in good condition and can escape at any time."
"Are you the roundworm in my belly?" Kane felt for the first time that he was being manipulated. If the person opposite could not read minds, then he must not be simple.
Such a guy is far better as a teammate than an enemy. Kane is still grateful for this in his heart, but because of this, he has the confidence to gamble. But before that, he needs to test whether the escape system of this battleship is safe enough. .
When Kane walked away, Alan Bair still couldn't believe that this guy who looked like a bit of an actor was a real hero of the empire, but the empire would not allow trash to become a hero. His great achievements were all real achievements.
"Captain, how long is the voyage?"
The captain took a puff from his wooden pipe and blew out a ring of smoke. "One month, one month will be here."
"Faster than expected, good warp lanes, the Emperor's blessing," he added.
"That's right, the emperor's blessing..." Alan Bair nodded.
At this moment, in the subspace on the other side, the main force of the Red Pirates arrived belatedly. They were composed of the most ferocious and crazy Space Marines, but they did not have the former members of the Star Claws. It must be mentioned here that the current Star Claws Claw structure.
Compared with the previous war group, the current Red Pirates are a large war group. In addition to the Space Marines, there are countless warriors gathered because of the Black Heart King, just like the heroes of Liangshan who only come to Liangshan.
"Timely Rain" Huron's power and his morality have gathered a large number of traitors, but his core is just the former Star Claw soldiers, those loyal brothers.
Therefore, he had no scruples in employing people but favored his brothers. This situation caused those veterans to be squeezed out by others, especially those who joined later. Once the basic base of Xiu Lun was fixed, he and Sun Lord Alan Bair The basis is Skadi, the Pangia Sub-Army is the same as the Phracian Armored Regiment, and the Red Corsair is the basic base of the Black Heart King.
It's just that Alan Bair bound those soldiers with honor, blood, the future of mankind and the empire. He relied on isolation, privilege and alienation.
This huge Chaos force organized to resist the Astra Militarum is the Blackheart King's strongest force besides the local guardian force. Although it only has 500 battleships, its core is Abaddon, a member of the Black Legion who was instigated from the Eye of Terror. Some warriors were dissatisfied because they did not do serious business as adults and were beaten violently by Cardia, and the Black Heart King was the powerful person to satisfy them.
At this moment, the living blood they prayed for was right in front of them, and they felt restless among the strike ships that could be chased to the founding era of the empire. The chaotic filth and blood made them favor the lives of their compatriots.
"Go forward, let those Imperial Corpse Emperor followers see how powerful we are!" A roaring voice echoed in the communicator. It is difficult to judge the specific situation of the battleship with the naked eye in the vast subspace field, so the auspicious device can only judge The approximate size of the enemy determines the level.
Basically, imperial cargo ships can reach the destroyer level, large barges can have the cruiser level, and even larger ones can have the size of a battleship.
"Servants of the Corpse Emperor, that's right!" In the command point, the elites were gearing up. They were eager and eager, but they didn't know that the enemy in front of them was not the Imperial Guard but the Fire Attack Ship.
"The distance is 4000 kilometers, 3000, 2500, 2000, 1000, 500, 200... visible to the naked eye, the distance is close..." The space warrior picked up the observer, but the demon host who served as the navigator and prophet in the battleship suddenly roared violently. The sound made the chaotic interior of the battleship even worse.
"What's that roaring?!" the Terminator veteran in the Traitor Space Marines yelled, realizing something was wrong. He turned on the device and looked outside. "O Gods of Chaos!"
The fire attack ship is unfamiliar to those veterans, but they are not unfamiliar. After all, there are always opportunities to use such crazy tactics in this long dark millennium. At the same time, they do not understand why the mortals on the ship can not activate Geller. Standing in the subspace.
It's not that the Chaos troops are weak, but that this matter is inherently bizarre. After all, this means that their intelligence has been severely lost, so that the enemy can predict their actions, and there is also the technology of unmanned spacecraft on the opposite side.
Compared with the Chaos Traitors, the drones do not have much intelligence. They just calmly execute their own programs, launch the messenger ship, and return to the physical universe. The fire attack ship advances at full speed and collides with the enemy.
The crazy speed of the sublight engine at a distance visible to the naked eye and the blurry distance of the subspace make it impossible for even the most elite Space Marine veterans to avoid the most unskilled impact.
Just as the most frequently used tactic in this universe is the most primitive thing in civilized fighting, the effect of this suicide impact was far greater than expected.
"Right full rudder!" the Space Marines screamed, and the mortal servants kept twisting the spiked rudder in front of them due to the curse, but just as it was too late when they arrived at this place, the Empire's fire attack The ship is close at hand.
The light spears and cannons of the Chaos traitors can tear apart some small ships but cannot attack the enemy's core battleships. The nuclear bombs, hydrogen bombs, messy gunpowder and the Eldar's subspace bombs, fire and dark matter, were ignited under the violent impact. explode.
The dark subspace now has stars, and the violent energy generated by the explosion shines on the realm of the Chaos Gods. The actions of mortals make the demons puzzled, and there are only ten Space Marines who have escaped death.
Even if they lived in the Eye of Terror, the mutation of their gene seeds, or even the bloody gladiatorial arena did not devour them all, the Space Marines were naturally not afraid of war and sacrifice. However, the fragments of ancient strike barges and burning hulls all over the ground were still there. The ships crackled with the blessing of air and supplies, the scenery like a bonfire floated in the void, and the death-defying look of the battle brothers whose bodies were severely burned still made the surviving Space Marines fearful and... angry.
At this moment, the real target they need to ambush has broken through the most difficult time of travel in the subspace. At the Mandeville Point, which is pulled by the gravity of the planet and stabilizes the node between subspace and reality, thousands of Imperial Guard warships flash out of the void.
The mortal traitors, especially the former Astra Militarum in the Pangia sub-sector, were almost grinning from ear to ear in surprise. After all, expeditions were very rare in the history of the Empire, especially when Guilliman completed writing the Codex Astartes. In the next ten thousand years, there were only a handful of wars of this magnitude.
They realized what a huge storm they had been caught in, and began to regret having kowtowed to the servants of the gods, but the former Imperial Navy void base was no match for the Imperial Guard Expeditionary Force, and they could indeed tear apart a There were even more battleships, but in the face of such a large number of expeditions, this solid fortress was evaporated by the light spear in an instant, leaving only the rubble of ruins.
And its destruction also means that the Imperial Guard has come to Pangia, to Alan Bair, to be precise the Skadi people, the home of the Pangia Sub-sector Army, but this place has become strange and strange.
The battleships only looked at the auspices, wary of the next attack, but with the Emperor's blessing, the auspices did not respond, and the enemy had no power to attack the Imperial Guard...
Kane looked at the Sun Lord with a complicated expression. He made the right bet. The Imperial Navy was devastated and the enemy's main force was not here.
Alan Bayer just put his finger on the star map. The void war was a naval battle. They had to occupy the worlds in the occupied areas, the so-called islands, in a short time to provide sufficient supplies for this huge force.
His fingers crossed three crucial places on the star map, namely the triangle that formed the curtain of war, the forging world Minastilia, the hive world Pangia X, and the agricultural world Veina.
The empire wants to seize these places just like traitors plundering the empire's territory, so that this huge army can gain a firm foothold and now gradually move forward to win this huge war. (End of chapter)