Chapter 553, Blood Shark Kills the Torch
The Shura field-like scene in front of him made Wang Mengsong feel uncomfortable.
He personally gathered two hundred Space Marines, divided them into two teams, and targeted the blood sharks that had approached the core engine area of the Torchlight.
According to current reports of blood sharks in this area, the number is estimated to be between 50 and 100.
Our team of two hundred people should be able to form a clear numerical advantage.
One hundred soldiers, led by Wang Mengsong personally, were stationed behind the enemy lines; another hundred soldiers were stationed on the only way to the core engine room to block the enemy.
When the blood shark is blocked by the hundreds of torch warriors stationed there, Wang Mengsong's team will follow. If they attack from both sides, won't they be able to annihilate the enemy?
Wang Mengsong didn't think this would be a problem, especially since the group of blood sharks crashed directly into the target location without any sign of turning, so they would be ignited by the torch and burned completely.
What he was thinking about was how to continue to mobilize his troops and exterminate several other places after he had dealt with this group of blood sharks.
However, when he actually arrived at the scene, his thoughts were quickly brought back by the smell of blood in his nose and the cruel scenes in his eyes.
Although the Space Marines of the New Age Torch had only just begun to mobilize, the battle had already broken out. The mortal auxiliary troops stationed around the ship were the first wave of units to fight the blood sharks.
The mortal auxiliary army of the Chapter is not weak, at least at the level of the Astra Militarum. The direct troops directly trained by the Space Marines may be stronger and reach the level of the well-known Astra Militarum; there are also more elite ones, such as the Star Militarum. In the training process of warriors, the elimination rate is very high.
The eliminated people, as former Star Warrior candidates, even if they did not meet the requirements of Star Warriors, are still the best among mortals, one in a million.
Not to mention, the reason why many of them were eliminated was not because they were not good enough. In many cases, it was just because the fitness of the gene seeds was not enough after testing, or they were overage when waiting in line for seeds.
They will not be wasted, they will join the mortal auxiliary army, and even wealthy regiments will be equipped with feedback power armor.
Not as powerful as a Space Marine, but still at the top of the conventional force.
The New Age Torch naturally has such a reserve of personnel, and with the support of the Iron Armor, the New Age Torch is not a wealthy group, but it is not a poor group either. The elites of these auxiliary armies are not too poorly equipped.
These troops are especially abundant on the flagship Torchlight.
Even if these elites cannot withstand the impact of the blood sharks, they should still be able to cause some trouble and delay.
But it seems that the effect in this regard is not great.
What's worse is that the broken corpses here, mixed with armor and gushing blood, make people's hearts tremble.
Wang Mengsong's mind immediately recalled the characteristics of the blood shark mentioned in the document.
Seeing is better than hearing a hundred times.
Whoever sees it trembles in heart.
He couldn't help but ask himself, could his war group do what the blood sharks did?
It should...should be possible, right?
That is, our own war group will not make the scene so ugly like the Blood Shark.
The New Age Torch, whose bloodline is inherited from the Infinite Chapter, is the kind of war group that is upright and has nothing strange about it. They have always been proud of it - although now the parent group is on the way to beat them.
Because of the tragic scenes he witnessed with his own eyes, he had many confusing thoughts in his mind. And these, because of the fierce gunshots, explosions, and even the loud and tragic screams of Space Marines before they died, he was brought back to reality again.
The battle has begun.
The hundred-man company blocking the blood sharks in front should have already started fighting with the group of blood sharks.
Originally, Wang Mengsong was full of confidence in this. Even if the people he brought were not present, he should be able to defeat the enemy by relying solely on the blocking troops in front, or at least be able to withstand the blood shark's attack.
Even though the Blood Shark Chapter was exposed to the eyes of the world last time and achieved a brilliant record, Wang Mengsong had to admit that the Blood Shark Chapter's individual combat capabilities may indeed be 'slightly' better than their New Age Torch. .
But after all, this group of blood sharks only numbered about 50 to 100 people. There are also a hundred people blocking the New World Torch. There is a high probability that there are more people than the opponent. If they can't win, there is no problem in blocking them for a longer time, right?
But now... he feels quite confident. As for him asking the team to speed up, it's definitely not because of a guilty conscience!
The torches of the New Age who are accelerating their progress are also somewhat anxious in their hearts.
Judging from the sound, I couldn't tell who had the upper hand, but at least it was a very intense fight. They are eager to reach the battlefield and support their battle brothers.
However, haste makes waste.
Their overeager mentality made their formation a little loose.
This laid the foundation for disaster.
When they passed a somewhat narrow passage very close to the battlefield, the partition walls on both sides were suddenly blasted open.
The anxious New World Torch was unable to detect the situation in advance.
Of course, as space warriors, their reactions are still very fast. If a simple bomb trap is not powerful enough, it is unrealistic to cause serious attrition to them.
However, when their formation became more scattered due to the explosion, more than ten blood sharks followed the explosion silently and rushed into them!
These silent warriors wear silver-gray breastplates, leg armors and helmets, with dark gray shoulders, a touch of blood on the helmets, and bloody shark patterns. Some are holding double axes, and some are holding giant axes; there is power in them. Weapons, there are also chainsaw weapons.
They seem to have a special preference for axes. Among the dozen or so people, most of them hold axes. Only a few were equipped with weapons such as power swords or long-handled halberds.
They are unquestionable masters of close combat and brutal killers.
In an instant, they caused terrible damage and caused a bloody storm among the New World Torch crowd.
Wang Mengsong saw with his own eyes that in the chaos of his own team that was attacked, severed limbs were flying in an instant, and he even saw three heads flying.
This scene made him feel painful and angry!
After a blood shark cut off the arm of a New World Torch, he followed up with a series of blows like a sudden storm. Within a moment, he had slashed the opponent's breastplate, leg armor, and helmet several times, almost It has been ensured that the opponent can no longer resist, and is seriously injured even if he is not dead.
However, the blood shark had no intention of stopping, as if it would not stop until it cut off a few more body parts.
"That's enough!" Wang Mengsong shouted and charged quickly to the back of the blood shark.
The blood shark turned his head, staring at the torch leader with scarlet eyes, and slashed at him with both axes without any pause.
As the leader of the battle group, Wang Mengsong's natural strength level is not bad. He holds a flaming long-handled warhammer - a sacred object of the New Age Torch, and a weapon that only the Chapter Master can wield.
The weapons of both sides came into contact, and the heavy force made the blood shark warrior completely unable to withstand it, and he was directly knocked off balance. The flames that suddenly expanded suddenly enveloped the blood shark in the next moment.
After the loud explosion, the flames gradually dissipated.
The blood shark was already lying on the ground, and the flaming long-handled war hammer was being lifted up from his sunken chest.
In a rage, Wang Mengsong didn't stop for a moment, and immediately ran to the next blood shark, and then within three or four moves, he knocked the second one to the ground.
Then, there was the third one.
The remaining blood sharks were quickly killed.
Lying on the ground, there were a total of 29 corpses, 12 of which belonged to blood sharks, and the remaining 17 incomplete bodies were warriors painted in brass and orange from the New World Torch.
Looking at this ratio, it seems that there is not much difference between the two sides. The New Age Torch was still the one that was blasted and attacked.
However, the manpower gap between the two sides is ten times!
There were only 12 blood sharks in the raid. Although no one survived, before they all died in the battle, facing ten times as many warriors, including Wang Mengsong, who was the champion of the battle group, they still cut down more New Age Torches than themselves!
This is enough to show their strong fighting power.
In addition, the goals of these blood sharks were also achieved. They hindered Wang Mengsong's team for a short period of time.
Wang Mengsong also understands this.
There was no time to express any emotion, so he left a few men behind to take care of the wounded. He took the remaining seventy men and continued to rush to the battlefield which was not far away.
When he arrived at the scene, he found that the battle situation was already quite bad.
The number of blood sharks did not exceed expectations. Wang Mengsong glanced at it and roughly judged that there were about sixty blood sharks in total, and there were still forty alive at this moment; but the worst thing was that the person responsible for blocking them here , there were originally a hundred people in the New Age Torch, but now there are only sixty left.
Facing the enemy with superior strength, they were still beaten to a one-to-two exchange ratio.
It was difficult for Wang Mengsong to tell clearly whether he should be shocked and angry at the enemy's strength, or whether he should hate his own people for not living up to expectations.
The strength gap between the two sides is indeed obvious.
But that wasn't the only thing that bothered him.
He also saw a blood shark team leaving the blockade.
They had already disrupted the line of the torch company responsible for blocking them. The main manpower was dragging the people of the New World Torch here, but they still had time to separate a small team to go out to work.
What were they going to do?
Rest assured at the port, there is no doubt that they are going to blow up the core power cabin.
Wang Mengsong immediately gave command and sent people to chase him. But there were two blood sharks trying to block the pursuers.
The leader of the Torch roared angrily, rushed forward personally, and killed the two blood sharks who were blocking the road at the cost of an axe.
There were three blood sharks who went to blow up the engine room, and the New World Torch's pursuit team consisted of ten people, one of whom was a company commander, and there were two company champions among them. They should...should be able to stop it, right?
Before he had time to think about it, he was already in the middle of the battle.
With him and the sixty men he led joining the battlefield, the military advantage became even more obvious.
In the end, they won, killing nearly thirty blood sharks at the cost of about twenty casualties.
After the battle, Wang Mengsong took off his helmet.
He was gasping for air and his head was covered in blood.
In the entire battle, he killed a total of nine blood sharks.
However, he also paid a heavy price.
His helmet was chopped into pieces, and there were two deep scars on his skull, which were constantly bleeding; his left hand was a little limp, because when he had to use his elbow to block a slash, the bones were severed, and the bones in his left arm were broken. There was only one layer of skin and one layer of armor, holding it together and keeping it from falling.
If he hadn't rushed into the pile of blood sharks himself, Wang Mengsong wouldn't have been like this.
Every blood shark has a very strong individual level, not to mention, among the two he killed, there were two company champions, and even reached the level of company commander.
If he didn't take the lead, he might still be victorious, but his losses would most likely not be twenty, and maybe ten more.
But he couldn't care less about his injuries and the casualties of his team for the time being.
He called urgently on the communicator, calling for the team that was going to stop the enemy's blown-up power cabin.
He hopes to get good news.
However, there was silence on the other end of the communicator.
A very bad premonition arose in his heart.
But since there hasn’t been an explosion yet, is it possible that they are just fighting hard and have no time to connect...
"Boom!"
The violent explosion interrupted Wang Mengsong's thinking.
He, as well as the New Age Torches around him, were thrown away one after another.
The core engine room exploded.
He fell hard to the ground, and after more than ten seconds, Wang Mengsong struggled to get up.
What came into view was a sea of fire.
……
The explosion in the core engine compartment did not directly destroy the Torchlight, nor did it kill Wang Mengsong and the more than 100 soldiers he led.
However, this does not mean that Torchlight will survive.
After the core engine was destroyed, the power of the entire warship instantly dropped to a terrifying level, almost to the point of being unable to move.
At the same time, because the energy output dropped instantly, the void shield that affected the ship also suddenly disappeared.
Of course, Torchlight also has multiple secondary energy engines. If there is no battle pressure, it can be used at a slower speed, or simply towed away by other ships and returned to the factory for repairs, which can probably be saved.
But now, how could we give it this chance?
The Blood Shark Fleet, which was originally charging towards the Fire of Triumph, suddenly turned its guns and blasted towards the Light of the Torch.
Take advantage of his illness and kill him!
Be sure to blow it up!
The Alliance ships also moved their targets and opened fire.
In the end, the Torchlight battle barge, a battleship-level flagship belonging to a battle group, exploded into a piece of space junk.
At the same time, the Triumph Fire also retreated.
This battle is no longer possible.
The sudden appearance of the Blood Shark Group was a bit too fierce.
Not to mention getting jumped again, even in a naval battle, without a battle barge, the balance of victory is no longer on his side.
Paulitos decisively chose to leave.
After retreating and entangled all the way, he managed to persevere until he finally completed the rendezvous with his own battleships that had completed the transition and arrived in this galaxy.
The Alliance fleet and the Blood Shark fleet did not continue to pursue them.
However, Paulitos could feel a strong smell of blood surrounding his fleet. The group of man-eating sharks that smelled it had no intention of leaving.
The threat currently facing the Raging Flame Fleet has not yet been eliminated.
(End of chapter)