Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 160 03.0159: ‘Only one chance’

The port side commanded by Horatio quickly blasted open the void shield of the rebellious dreadnought with superb artillery.

While coordinating and commanding the entire gun group, he observed the various details of the enemy ship's movements, thinking in his mind about the tactics that the enemy might adopt and the countermeasures he could take.

He squinted his eyes and judged from the navigation track of the ship captured by the peripheral camera that the dreadnought should have been corrupted by the mutiny of the corrupted crew.

Because her navigation operation was not smooth, sometimes there was a left-right yaw, just like several parties who were dissatisfied with each other and held their own opinions.

He was the only one among all the candidates who had insight into the abnormality of the enemy ship, and even many junior lieutenants could not find it.

And Horatio's judgment was correct.

The command bridge of this rebellious ship full of corpses and skulls is now arguing endlessly.

Rather than saying it is a command bridge, it is better to say it is a black market in the lower nest.

The crew members with blasphemous marks on their faces accused each other of their operations and slandered the command of other clan members.

They were deceived by the evil god and almost killed all the officers on the bridge in the blood-thirsty mutiny.

A small number of prisoners refused to cooperate with them after being tortured and were executed or killed one after another.

There was no Chaos Astartes as a spiritual pillar leader, all of them were fallen mortals.

These crew members who did not obey each other could not form a unified coordinated command chain at all, and they were unhappy with each other.

In the eyes of those clan leaders, what others said was wrong, and what he said was right.

As a result, although this dreadnought-class light cruiser participated in the war, its combat efficiency was even worse than that of some apostate attack ships.

After all, the commanders on these attack ships were all void pirates or slave owners, and they were much more professional than these makeshift teams.

With this judgment, Horatio changed his mind.

He ordered the gun crew to change the target from the original bridge to the gun deck to reduce the threat to the surrounding frigates.

Then focus on the engine power system and completely paralyze the entire ship. To retain the recyclable parts of this rebel ship to the maximum extent.

Anyway, the command of the enemy ship is so chaotic, keeping the command bridge will bring more negative effects to the enemy ship than tearing it up.

Under the fierce firepower salvo from the port side of the Indefatigable, two of the six light macro guns in the Dreadnought-class light cruiser array quickly went silent.

The design concept of the Dreadnought-class light cruiser is in line with that of the Ancient Terra light cruiser, serving as the flagship of the reconnaissance fleet.

At the same time, it plays the role of a hunter of small ships such as destroyers and frigates.

It is equipped with a light rapid-fire macro gun array with a smaller caliber but a faster firing rate, and as many as 6 guns.

The huge thrust of the ten engine jets allows this slender and graceful light cruiser to make excellent maneuvers like a frigate.

The surging power allows her to easily catch up with the enemy destroyers at her extreme acceleration.

The spacious hull of 4.5 kilometers long and about 0.5 kilometers wide at the fin, the extremely dexterous handling feel, and the high speed make her very popular in the Imperial Navy and have been popular for a long time.

It is recognized by captains as the most comfortable warship for escort and patrol missions, without a doubt.

However, the battle line gun is her shortcoming.

As a reconnaissance cruiser, she can never compete with a real cruiser like the Doomsday class in a one-on-one game, not to mention that she is still a model without torpedoes.

Her light macro guns of the same size as frigates are like tickling to the Indefatigable.

Although the firing rate is fast, it can only penetrate the shallow deck of the Indefatigable.

Several shells hit the macro gun shield commanded by Horatio, blowing out some fragments. Although the deck of the command platform trembles from time to time, it is a bit annoying, but it has never been able to effectively penetrate.

As Horatio shouted the order to fire, it reached the two cannon firing decks.

The Mars IV macro cannon fired a huge shell with a huge caliber that could cause more than three times the damage of a light macro cannon.

In just a blink of an eye, the golden flames of the explosion directly tore off a macro cannon turret on the Dreadnought-class cruiser.

The rebel ship was covered in wounds, and only two light macro cannons were left on the wing that was engaged in a firefight with the Indefatigable.

The light spear of the Indefatigable caused serious damage to her inner side, and a large area of ​​the deck collapsed in the middle, crushing many people to death.

The morale of the warship driven by the fallen sailors was completely lost, even though the command bridge was still shouting to turn around and continue to fight with the Indefatigable to satisfy the scarlet true god they were loyal to.

But the people of the steering clan didn't think so. The people of their clan picked up their guns and didn't let anyone get close to the steering wheel. The fallen clan leader began to turn the bow and wanted to escape.

At the same time, two light cruisers of the Imperial Navy, the Endurance and Duty, entered the crossfire.

They fired a volley at the rebels who wanted to escape, and a fire exploded on the relatively intact side.

Although they were both light cruisers, these new ships produced by the Voss Forge World adopted a completely different design concept from the Dreadnought.

The Duty class is a macro gunboat, the Endurance class is a light spear gunboat, and the Provocation class is an escort aircraft carrier.

The three warships have their own duties and functions.

As light cruisers, they have a speed similar to that of the Moonlight class, and are not suitable for hunting small ships.

For this reason, their battlefield positioning is the heavy escort ship of the cruiser. The two have similar speeds, and the weapons equipped are also standard cruiser weapons.

The macro cannon is the newer Voss V-type macro cannon.

The caliber is similar to the Mars IV heavy macro cannon, but the range is not as far as the Mars IV.

However, its higher and faster production capacity makes up for this shortcoming strategically and logistically.

Seeing the demoralized Dreadnought-class light cruiser trying to escape from the battle, Captain Peru made a quick decision.

"Send an armed team to board the ship immediately! Stop her no matter what!"

"Yes, Captain!" the armed captain in the armed command room below the command bridge reported to the captain.

There are three categories of personnel in the Imperial Navy:

An armed gang member who enjoys the treatment of a first-class sailor. An armed sailor who enjoys the treatment of a second-class sailor. and ordinary sailors who enjoy the treatment of third-class sailors.

The duty of the armed sailors is to protect the warship itself, and it is the job of the armed sailors to join the enemy ship.

The Armed Command and War Room of the Indefatigable sent an armed second lieutenant to lead and carry out this mission.

Instead of a naval officer's uniform, he was wearing an officer's heavy carapace armor.

A red belt will be worn around the waist like the Astra Militarum as an identification of the officer.

Amidst the drums, 2,500 heavily armored Imperial Navy jumpers were ready to go and lined up neatly on the boat deck.

Accompanied by drumbeats and sirens, we boarded rows of shark assault boats parked neatly and on standby.

The Dreadnought turned on the plasma engine overload, and Horatio saw the dazzling golden fire in the distance quickly retreating.

At this speed, she would soon be out of the Indefatigable's extreme jumping angle.

And her void shield was about to rise, so it was difficult to use lightning strikes to teleport people in such a short period of time.

If we want to intercept her, we can only rely on the efforts of Horatio and other artillery crews.

"Reloading of twice the normal ammunition is complete!"

Hot sweat ran down Horatio's cheeks.

[Whether it can be intercepted or not, there is only one chance! ]

At this time, errors began to appear frequently on the Thinker array.

"Yes, this broken machine just happened to be like this. It got better after you came back, but now..."

Horatio stared at the error message on the array tube screen.

As a professional officer from a naval academy, he could understand all the meanings of these error codes.

"It's the void code, not the virus, it's the array disorder." Horatio said calmly.

"What should I do..."

"Normally it can only be handled by technical priests."

Horatio looked at the enemy ship trying to sail away.

"But now we don't have time."

Curved and slender neural dendrites stretched out from his iron hand, reaching into the dendritic slots on the cogitator array that were inlaid with the skull gears of the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Horatio explores the dark field of vision, and in this state the flow of time seems to have stopped.

"Damn..." He cleared the source of the waste code and saw a strange 9 flashing in the binary code that should have only been 0 and 1.

Because of this, the correct check code that comes with the Thinker Array pops up with errors and invalid codes.

Because it simply cannot handle arguments with 9 in binary.

Generally speaking, Tzeentch likes to make trouble for both warring parties. As long as the combatants are not Tzeentch believers, he will set traps for the combatants regardless of rain or dew.

The Khorne battleship on the opposite side also encountered the same situation, or even worse.

Their array of cogitators began to leak electricity, electrocuting many of the technical sailors who knew a fraction of the gunnery calculations to the point where they were left twitching on the ground.

‘Activate: Machine Soul Favor’

Horatio broke through the protocol of service under which only tech-priests had the authority to activate manipulation.

The 'unhinged' machine spirit began to calm down, and Horatio restarted it.

The waste code disappeared, and the number 9 shining with a strange blue-purple luster in the binary arithmetic unit disappeared without a trace.

"Okay, correct the parameters!" Horatio said to Farida.

"Parameter correction completed, ready for launch!"

"Fire!!" Horatio, who was accurately calibrating the two macrocannons with Farida, shouted at the command sound array.

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