Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 301 05.0300: ‘The Far Star War Begins’

"Children, come on! Waaaagh!"

The officers on the command bridge listened through the holographic star map and audio, watching the green-skinned garbage ship launch another impact towards the orbital defense platform and star fort with a majestic roar.

Horatio discovered the junk ship that had been damaged by the bomb.

The strange face that was burned and collapsed by the light spear and plasma bomb was the key evidence that helped him confirm the identity of the ship.

No wonder these greenskins ran away, it turned out they were looking for bigger targets.

However, Horatio found no trace of the giant rock, and only half-broken junk ships were detected so far.

This made him speculate.

There are only two possibilities.

Either the green-skinned main fleet is lurking in the dark like them, sending these semi-remnant junk ships to clear the waterway through the minefields.

Either the main green-skin fleet is fighting the Chaos fleet elsewhere, temporarily sending the half-broken junk ships to carry out suicide attacks, and then attack the planet after their main force has finished cleaning up the Chaos fleet.

Horatio felt that the latter was more in line with the Greenskins' style, based on their previous actions of heading towards the fleet Waaaagh.

If there was a main fleet next to the planet at this time, they would have all rushed towards it.

Moreover, the Chaos fleet that attacked Fal Star was indeed not in the surrounding area. The reconnaissance team searched for three whole days but found no trace of the rebel ship.

There are only some planetary defense ships patrolling around the planet that have no subspace navigation capabilities.

Those ships were once planetary assets loyal to the Empire, but now, they were pawns of the rebels.

Brigadier General Peru, who had fought against the greenskins many times, had already considered the second situation one step ahead.

"We let these greenskins flow over first and let them kill the planetary defense ship.

When those junk ships fall into the minefield, we will use the Nova Cannon to take away these dirty aliens together with the minefield.

Captain, issue level one combat alert. "

"As you command, Captain."

The fleet originally wanted to let the officers and soldiers rest for a day before the attack on the port began.

But the Greenskin's offensive brought an opportunity to attack and also took away the rest time for the naval officers and soldiers.

This is war, and there are a lot of uncertainties.

Opportunities are fleeting, and only the wisest commanders can seize the opportunity and gain the greatest victory at the smallest cost.

Horatio has two main tasks next.

First, before the battleship launches a gang-hopping attack, he must command the air force to sweep and destroy minefields that may threaten the fleet's navigation.

When the fleet enters the inner ring of the planet's orbit, he will serve as the fleet liaison officer, and together with his old comrade-in-arms Louise and the hell's elite soldiers, he will launch a lightning strike on the star fort.

After completing the gang-hopping mission, the fleet will be guided from the Starcastle pilot beacon, and maneuvers will be coordinated in the relatively narrow inner orbit of the maneuvering space to avoid collisions and mine accidents.

Of course, this is only tentative. The timing of combat is unpredictable and missions can change at any time.

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The green-skinned garbage ship puffed out flames filled with yellow, green and black smoke, and rushed towards the orbital defense platform where the star fort was located.

It looked like he was going to crash it.

This star fort, which is already dilapidated on the surface, has withstood the impact of countless battles.

From resisting the Chaos fleet at the hands of the Imperial Planetary Defense Force, to becoming a frontline for the servants of Chaos to resist the green-skinned aliens.

Now, its surface armor has become pitted, and its usable macrogun turret has also lost a lot.

This is a good thing and a bad thing for the Imperial Navy.

The good thing is that the damage to the Imperial Navy warships will be reduced accordingly, but the bad thing is that after capturing the Star Fortress, its defensive effectiveness will be greatly reduced, which is not conducive to subsequent operations.

But a navy that focuses on reducing fleet losses will still be more satisfied with its current status.

The planetary defense ships began to gather and opened fire on the green garbage ship.

These planetary defense ships do not belong to the Imperial Navy. They are the assets of the planet itself. Their number and equipment depend on how willing the planetary governor is to spend.

Even though it was bigger, it still couldn't defeat the Imperial Navy's frigates in a single fight.

These ships do not have military-grade void shields and are equipped with civilian-grade void shields of the same type as the Imperial cargo ships.

If a planet wants to rebel, it only needs a light cruiser or a frigate detachment to easily destroy these planetary defense ships, and then use macro cannons to point at the throne area, ordering the planetary governor and rebel nobles to commit collective suicide.

However, most of the time, this kind of rebellion on a single planet is mostly left to the suppression ship of the Ministry of Justice on the next planet to handle it, and it is not the turn of the navy master to personally deal with it.

Sailors on the navy ship stood close to the portholes and watched curiously.

But they could only see various explosions and fires looming in the distance.

Horatio was on the aviation command bridge and used optical lookout equipment to see the current battle situation clearly.

The greenskin fleet broke through the line in a standard prismatic shape, and the leading garbage ship directly hit the defense ship that happened to be blocking the route.

The void ship, which was about 2 kilometers long, was hit by the huge adamantine mandible of the orc's bow. The hull was knocked over and rolled over, and a piece of debris and crew members flew out from the crack on the way.

The green-skinned garbage ship was still sprinting at high speed. The hit ship had broken off from its middle part, and the wreckage flew to both sides.

Not long after flying out, it was hit again by green-skinned ships charging from both sides. This time, it was completely shattered in the explosion.

"Oh——" The sailors on the deck booed loudly.

They didn't know what ship was destroyed, but they were happy when they thought it was the enemy's.

The traitors on the other defense ships were terrified and began to turn and maneuver urgently.

But this was exactly what the greenskins wanted, and the greenskins' broadside cannons began to roar with thunder.

The large and small artillery arrays with different positions and numbers and completely different levels of armament on each garbage ship began to roar along with the greenskins' roar.

Countless shells of different sizes were ejected under the hot golden fire, and the largest shells were larger than the bridge of the planetary defense ship.

The greenskins' big shells hit the small boats, forcibly stretched their armor, tore through the thin armor belt, penetrated deeply into the interior of the hull, and exploded in the central core area.

The entire hull was shaken by the internal explosion, and the hot molten iron spurted out from the drill holes of the shells, burning all traces of life and blasphemy.

The seemingly crudely made scrapped goods only took two or three rounds of broadside salvos to tear a defense ship to pieces.

After killing all the defense ships, the greenskin ships continued to rush into the depths of the defense.

The void minefield blocked them.

These anchor mines were locked with thick iron chains, staggered up and down. If they were accidentally touched, the large-yield explosion would blow a big hole in the hull.

Its inner and outer layer separation design prevented laser close-in defense guns and small live ammunition weapons from detonating them in advance.

Although macro guns and light spears can destroy them, the anchor mines are arranged in a dispersed manner. If the main gun array is used to slowly remove them one by one, it will seriously slow down the attack speed, and the slow-moving ships will become targets under the muzzles of star fortresses and orbital defense platforms.

The garbage ship that rushed in first with the greenskins used its huge adamantium steel teeth mandible to pierce the anchor mine in front of it, and did not suffer major damage.

But the flank with weaker armor was blown out of a huge hideous hole the moment it touched the anchor mine.

However, for the junk ship with jagged surfaces, jagged edges, and loose structures, the damage was surprisingly small.

The greenskin fleet was wading in the minefield, about to break through the defense line.

Five thousand kilometers away, a faint blue light became brighter and brighter.

The blue light passed through the muzzle of the Nova Cannon at a speed that was difficult for the naked eye to capture, and passed over the side of the advancing Imperial Navy fleet.

More than 20 large and small ships of the Imperial Navy carrying His sacred will launched a formal attack on the port.

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