Chapter 1831 War of Attrition and Attack
After breaking through the formation of the Red Pirates, the flexible White Scar battleship quickly turned around with the help of its highly modified engine, and then concentrated its firepower to attack the Blood Beast. There was a void behind this giant ship. The shield finally overloaded after holding on for five minutes, and then the engines were overwhelmed by beams and macrocannons, completely losing power.
Corsaro did not waste time on the red pirate flagship that lost power, and quickly carried out cutting attacks on other battleships. Although the number of the empire's small battleships was not as good as that of the red pirates, their quality was higher than that of the red pirates, and the captain and The morale and quality of the crew are also much higher than those of the Red Pirates.
After the flagship was paralyzed, the Red Pirates' chain of command was on the verge of collapse, and was attacked by White Scar again. Eventually, many small battleships began to flee the battlefield, which triggered more chain reactions, and cruisers also began to abandon their teammates. .
In the end, this naval battle called the Battle of the Dark Light Star Belt ended with Corsaro's complete victory. The Red Pirates not only lost one Carnage-class cruiser, but also a dozen plunderers. The Abomination The commander of the large cruiser also activated the self-destruction system of the plasma reactor in desperation. Fortunately, Corsaro Khan personally led the team to jump gangs and broke through the power cabin in time, deactivating the self-destruction system and killing the red pirate. Fleet Commander.
Although this fleet was only a squadron of the Red Pirates attacking the third theater and not the main fleet, the war lord who commanded this battle was still greatly shocked and immediately stopped the attack on Galen V and retreated again In the void.
As for Soshyan, he actually didn’t know about the victory of the Dark Light Star Belt. As soon as he received the news that the red pirates had attacked the Galen V planet, the team stationed in Angstrom Half of the fleet left, seemingly heading to the third theater for support.
Not long after the fleet disappeared, an alarm came from the edge of the galaxy, and a huge fleet jumped out of subspace.
Being able to grasp the time so accurately, it is obvious that there are insiders of the Red Pirates within Angerstrom, but this is also within Soshyan's expectation. Huron attaches great importance to Angstrom. He must have spread his eyes widely.
The leader of this offensive was still the war lord Mogaro Kalai. Although he failed last time, Huron not only did not blame him, but encouraged the other party. After all, in that situation, It is extremely rare to be able to fight like this and bring out the main force of the fleet.
The Red Pirates are a complex armed group. To maintain such a group, fear and violence alone are not enough. Huron also believes that he does not have the so-called "chosen destiny" like Abaddon, so he is grateful and old friends Points are still an important tool for him, just as he is still the leader of the Star Claw Chapter. More importantly, at least he can't find a better fleet commander than Mogaro Kalai.
This time Mogaro Kale's fleet was strengthened again, with an Emperor-class battleship Death Swamp captured five hundred years ago, a battlecruiser, a large cruiser and two A dozen medium-sized ships were added to the fleet.
Along with the fleet came 20,000 Chaos Space Marines from the Red Corsairs and various warbands.
Mogaro Kale learned from the previous lessons and did not launch a direct attack on Angstrom itself. Instead, he captured two planets and four asteroids on the outer reaches of the system and established a military Stronghold and temporary dock.
His idea is that since Angstrom's planetary defense has so many fighters, he will rely on those planetary strongholds to summon a large number of demons and advance step by step until the entire forge world is flooded.
No matter how many Mechanicus fighters there are, they can't be more than demons, right?
For this reason, there are also a large number of transport ships in the fleet, which carry many slaves captured from various planets. They will be the materials for blood sacrifices.
However, two things surprised Mogaro Kalai -
The fleet that left came back right away.
The star fort is completed.
In fact, it doesn't matter if half of the fleet returns. After all, the red pirate fleet still has the advantage. But after the blessing barrier appeared, Mogaro Kale was somewhat unwilling to give up.
At this time, the Red Pirates had occupied 4 planets in the Angstrom system, and were not very far away from Liuli 3. However, Soshyan did not continue the previous retreat strategy, but instead let the fleet take the initiative Attack, as if to regain the lost planet.
Seeing this situation, Mogaro Kalai decided to fight first. The fleets of both sides immediately broke out in the second naval battle of Angstrom, but this time the Red Pirates were much more conservative, and even the fleet took the initiative to withdraw from the planet Angstrom IV which they had just occupied.
But there is one more variable in the battle.
demon.
When the Blessed Barrier and the Imperial fleet approached Angstrom 4, a sacrifice ceremony of more than half a million people had been completed. A subspace rift opened on the surface of the planet, and the entire planet instantly Overrun with the snarling daemons of Khorne.
In this case, the Imperial fleet began to clear the surface of the planet of demons, which made Mogaro Kalai realize that this strategy was effective.
If the subspace rift is left unchecked, the entire galaxy will eventually become a devil's paradise, or even be dragged into subspace.
In this case, the offensive and defensive sides have switched. The Empire must come to take back those occupied worlds, while the Red Corsairs must defend them and continue to expand the influence of subspace. This may be A longer battle, but there is still hope of victory.
So he retracted his intention to retreat and began to order the fleet to move forward. He wanted to prevent the Imperial fleet from getting too close to the planet, so that they could not directly destroy the planet with cyclone torpedoes or other extermination methods.
The fleets of both sides began a small-scale battle, and the Imperial fleet began to deliver transport ships to the planet's surface, so Mogaro Kale also ordered the deployment of ground troops.
At the same time, he also sent a message to Huron very cautiously, explaining his strategy and telling the boss that he had occupied one-third of the Angstrom system, while requesting more troops to prepare for Be prepared for a long-term war later.
And this plays into Soshiyang's hands. It can be foreseen that the Red Pirates will have to put more troops in Angstrom for a long time.
As for those demons, although they are a bit unexpected, Soshyan does not seem to be a big deal, because Angstrom will provide a steady stream of skitarii. Compared with their fight against demons, Mortal Legion is more appropriate and powerful.
The important thing is that he must create an appearance of a very anxious war, give the Red Pirates some hope, and let them, or Huron, continue to invest, so that they think that as long as they invest, they may win.
The speed of this is not easy to grasp, but it has made a good start. In the fighting within 24 hours of landing, Angstrom's Skitarii troops lost about 800,000 troops and Some heavy equipment, but the same Red Corsairs also lost hundreds of Space Marines, and they also had to be wary of their own summoned daemons, a number that was likely well into the thousands.
But just exerting force on Angstrom is far from achieving this effect.
Earlier, the second batch of 200 million new recruits had walked out of the training ground, and Soshyan put most of them into the first and second theaters fighting in Badab.
So after learning that the new support forces around Badab, including the troops from the fourth theater, had been assembled, Soshyan issued an order for a general attack and sent the Black Templar as his The envoy appointed Herbrecht as the commander-in-chief of the Badab Theater and established a frontline enemy-suppression headquarters to command and dispatch combat forces in various theaters.
The brutal battle of Badab opened a bloody curtain——
(End of this chapter)