Chapter 1762 The Fragile Glass Treasure
When the two walked to the entrance of the temple, Seth was very surprised to see Soshyan coming with a mechanical cultist who seemed to be of a very high level, and subconsciously asked Said:
"Brother Soshyan, he is"
"This is the great sage of Angstrom."
The next second, Seth The chain saw in his hand roared, and Soshyan quickly spoke to stop it.
"Wait, Brother Seth, please be patient. I have promised to leave his fate to the Foundry General to decide."
"Huh?"
Seth turned off the chain saw and frowned. Tight wrinkles.
"He is a traitor, and traitors deserve to die. We have the power to execute him, and 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.
"Received."
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 Eternal Loyalty number and arranged in a 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 go back. rushed, but was intercepted by the Imperial fleet. 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 wise man who led the fleet Everyone was dumbfounded. They really did not expect that the forging world would fall so quickly.
After receiving the surrender notice 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 in despair. When they arrived at the airport, Soshyan 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 a single blow. It was considered an extremely successful case. However, before Soshiyan could be happy for long, he immediately received a message from the edge of the galaxy. emergency signal.
Eight hours after Angstrom surrendered, the Red Pirates finally reacted. This time Huron was really in a hurry, with 3 battleships as the core, 2 battlecruisers, and 7 large ships. The cruiser was the main force of the huge fleet that went straight to the Angstrom star system, and 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 to the main star of Angstrom with great momentum. Come. There are a total of seven planets in Angstrom. Only the main planet of Angstrom is habitable. The other planets have basically been turned into mining centers or large warning stations have been deployed. Therefore, those worlds do not have much defense capabilities.
However, facing the menacing red pirates, 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 They are all 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 forces and resources from all aspects and put the Forge World into a state of war immediately. In addition, due to the needs of the war, Soshyan also Bertus was consulted and asked to recommend 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 this time, there were only Astral Knights battleships. 2 large cruisers (Avenger-class large cruiser [Eternal Loyalty] and Carnage-class large cruiser [Atonement]), 4 strike cruisers, 2 Lunar-class cruisers, and 21 other small battleships, although the Black Templars are also traveling with them. , Imperial Fists, Ascetics, and Flesh Tearers, the fleets of the four battle groups, but Imperial Fists only came with one cruiser and three frigates, which can basically be ignored. The ones that are actually large-scale are Black Templar and Ascetic. , these three meat-tearers.
The Black Templars have 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.
From the perspective of 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 the fleet decisive battle, it cannot compete with the long-term fleet battle barge. The distance is comparable to that of a battleship with accurate main guns.
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 ships Strike cruisers, 11 light 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 fort 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 wants to To continue to maintain the current front line, we can only devote a large number of troops to Angstrom in a desperate attempt to recapture this place, but he is destined to be impossible to succeed - of course, after the Star Castle is completed.
So Soshyan not only has to repel the red pirate fleet, but also protects the star fort that is about to be completed. The latter is more difficult than the former.
The star castle of Angerstrom is on the farthest satellite from the main star. Angerstrom main star has three satellites in total. The farthest one is named Liuli 3. Angus In order to deceive others, Thom almost hollowed out one side of the satellite, built a semi-buried weightless shipyard, and secretly built a huge star fortress inside. The Red Pirates should know about this, after all, An After so many years of construction, Gerstrom always leaks some information.
So 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 Liuli 3 hundreds of kilometers away. position, on the one hand, a large number of skitarii were arranged on the satellite ground, and all the orbital defense equipment of the planet and the defense arrays on the satellite were activated.
Just 12 hours after Angstrom surrendered, the Red Pirates' fleet signal appeared on the Eternal Loyalty's scanning array.
The facts indeed confirmed Soshyan's idea. After the Red Pirates' fleet approached the main star of Angstrom, it suddenly changed its direction and headed towards Liuli 3. The war was about to break out——
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