Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

One hundred kilometers behind the First Brigade, the Imperial Navy field take-off and landing airport is located under the Montalchia Mountains.

The ground crews sent from the Tireless were busy busy installing different tactical equipment for each Furious squadron preparing for the air assault.

The first echelon is the air superiority team. The wings and wingtips are covered with air-to-air missiles equipped with bird's eye radar index heads and short-range omnidirectional infrared combat bombs.

Their mission is to destroy enemy Deathclaw fighter-bomber groups that have taken off along the way under the surveillance of the alert Predator.

The second echelon is the long-range strike squadron, with rapid concrete destruction rockets and huge death-hit missiles mounted below.

Their mission is to destroy enemy bunkers and hangars, as well as detected or possible anti-aircraft fire around the airport.

Different from the uncertainty of whether there are field air defense positions, the distribution of air defense firepower around the airport is usually not far apart. Even if it is to use ballistic missiles to clear the ground, as long as it can be destroyed, it will be profitable.

The wealthy Imperial Navy has no shortage of powerful death-strike missiles, and the Astra Militarum is frugal with precious missiles. There are thousands of them in the huge hangar ammunition bay of the battlecruiser Indefatigable.

At least one Far star is enough.

The third echelon is a low-altitude penetration squadron with high-resistance bombs hanging underneath. After the first and second echelons clear the enemy fighter-bombers taking off, and conduct a saturation attack on possible air defense positions around the airport.

They will carry out low-altitude penetration at the extremely fast speed of void fighters, and then pour high-drag bombs on the enemy's airport runways, simple bunkers, ammunition depots and oil depots, and aviation command centers.

The high-drag bomb is a powerful low-altitude bomb. The characteristic is that the shell of the missile is designed with high wind resistance to slow it down during the fall, so that after the bomb lands, its explosion and fragments will not damage the mother aircraft for low-altitude penetration bombing.

The ground takeoff and landing dispatchers guided the 40-meter-long Big Macs one after another to slide out of the protective hangar. They followed a certain safe distance from each other and lined up near the runway of the airport. Their tails were ignited one by one. The engine soared into the sky with loud explosions along the recently hardened high-speed concrete take-off and landing runway.

Two alert Predator fighters belonging to the Pick-type light cruisers of the Gothic Fleet, and an Electronic Countermeasures and Detection (EW) Starhawk seconded from the Karl-Duniash Fleet were deployed to the safe corridor. above.

After changing into his anti-Dutch uniform, Horatio boarded Anya Fasha's plane. She was both the wing commander and the executive officer of the air interception squadron.

"Welcome, little captain. Well, the last time you flew on my plane, I called you 'little lieutenant.' I'm sorry, you are too young and I can't help but call you that." In Horatio When boarding the command aircraft and sitting on the wing command platform, the female pilot did not forget to joke:

"Then that night, when I listened to you introduce your past, I realized that your life is really colorful, well, colorful in every sense of the word, including how you dealt with the dispute between the kitten and the pony after the dinner."

"Did you see that?"

“Hmm, this is not a very unusual thing, but it’s interesting that it happened to you.

At least you did what you said and didn't make unrealistic promises to your little lover. "

Horatio shrugged and hummed, lying flat on the comfortable airline seat, subconsciously feeling that his waist was still itching.

"Hold on tight, we're about to take off."

She looked at the flat runway in front of her and pushed the throttle to the maximum.

"Enemy armor! Fire!"

Bang!

260 kilometers away from the side of the first brigade on the southern front, the Modians built many anti-tank bunkers on their positions. At this moment, heavy firepower behind the bunkers opened fire.

A bunch of blazing high-energy beams hit the heavy tracked chariot composed of the rebels' emergency modifications of agricultural machinery and piles of heavy firepower weapons.

Due to the wide body and unreasonable design, these small fortress-like tanks can only advance slowly. The rebels standing or squatting on them are pouring out firepower at the Mordian foxholes and trenches from a high position. Following the Leman Russ tanks collected by the rebels from the planet and Chimera tanks loaded with rebel infantry.

"Artillery unit, 0.2 base, fire!"

A loud noise like thunder was played instantly.

The artillery positions at the rear fired large shells out of the muzzles according to the marked points passed by the enemy units, flying along the trajectories calculated in advance, raining down steel rain on them, and rapidly bombarding them.

This caused considerable damage to the enemy's forward assault troops, effectively delaying the enemy's offensive momentum. Many tracked armors had their tracks blown off, and some unfortunate armors directly used the hull to forcibly eat high-altitude missiles with a caliber of hundreds of millimeters. The explosive bomb was instantly blown into factory parts.

"The forward warning position is under attack!"

Gunfire erupted from the early warning position in the protrusion. The Mordian Iron Guard inside used ferocious firepower to force the enemy troops to form a battle formation in advance before attacking the position, hindering their advancement.

But everyone knew that when the rebel troops really rushed forward, it would not take long for all the people in the platoon to be killed.

This is an inevitable sacrifice. It is because of these brave men who are willing to die that the defense line is still alive.

Guns and artillery roared, and the missile launchers on the first trench position of the main defense line advanced to 3,000

When he was about 3 meters away, he opened fire, and the missile flew away with a long tail flame and landed on the rebel armor.

Soon, the enemy approached the battle line at about 1,500 meters.

As the target got closer to the precision shooting range, the loud cannons, laser guns, automatic guns, and heavy bombs opened fire.

The enemy infantrymen riding in armored vehicles began to get off the vehicles to accompany the battle, but as soon as their feet stepped on the fertile farmland, they faced the same dilemma as the Modians and the deep mud made it difficult for them to move. They gradually lost touch with the armor they carried, making them targets for the Modians.

When they finally approached the range of 800 meters, the Iron Guard infantrymen who had already built trenches on the hard soil stretched out the muzzles of the laser guns from the sandbags and shot these traitors mercilessly with resolute firepower. But this could only slow down their offensive, and the rebels' front finally touched the defense line.

The enemy's armored vehicles rolled over the trenches above their heads one by one, and the black soft mud sprinkled on the gorgeous uniforms of the Iron Guards. Without waiting for a breath, they had to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemies who jumped into the trenches one after another.

The enemy armored vehicles that rolled over the first trench did not progress too smoothly. Many were paralyzed by the anti-tank mines arranged in advance. Modian's commandos relied on the well-arranged bunkers and communication trenches to quickly approach the armored vehicles that had lost their mobility, and used special weapons to attack their fragile rear and side armor.

This is a common measure used by the light infantry regiments that are good at defense to deal with enemy armored forces. They are not anvils, but like soft gauze.

After wrapping up the fists that hit them, they will tighten the gap and strangle these seemingly indestructible and unstoppable armored monsters.

Although in this process, they will also pay a great price in casualties.

"This is Dolphin. The rebel armored forces have launched a new round of attacks on the defense line of the Mordian forces."

"Pegasus received. Have you detected any enemy air units?" Horatio asked while holding the intercom.

"There is a group signal reflection wave at a relative altitude of 1,500 meters, with a bearing of 36 degrees, heading from northeast to southwest, and a distance of 173 kilometers."

Horatio marked the location on the holographic aviation tactical map according to the feedback from the early warning aircraft.

As he expected, this was the first batch of Hell fighter-bombers accompanying the ground attack. They had just taken off and were climbing at a relatively slow speed.

The relevant air situation information was sent to the Thinker array in front of Fasha, and the experienced pilot immediately began to deploy the battle.

"Skyhawk Squadron, Falcon Squadron, follow me. At 12 km intervals, with our interception course of 350 as a reference, at an altitude of 7,000 meters, conduct the first round of missile salvos at 50 km, without giving the enemy aircraft much warning and turning time."

The two squadrons, a total of 16 huge fighters, immediately broke away from the formation and drove to both sides, heading towards the predetermined interception course in a double-teaming manner.

"The supporters of the true God, the wise believers, the believers seeking truth, we will break through the weak front of the Corpse King's lackeys today and cut them off before they reach the central nest group!"

"Destroy the Corpse King's lackeys, and victory belongs to the true God!"

Suddenly, a harsh warning sounded from the Black Thinker array of the leader.

That was the warning sound locked by the bird radar wave.

"Each aircraft conducts the first round of intensive salvos!"

! !

Each Fury interceptor first released the first air-to-air missile, and the second followed closely, falling from the rack and igniting in mid-air.

Dozens of white streaks flew across the cloudless blue sky, standing out from the crowd.

"The falcons of the false emperor! Damn, how can these guys be so fast!"

"Avoid! Avoid! Call the air cover squadron! Call the air cover squadron!"

The Hell Claw fighter-bombers immediately dispersed their formation and performed scattered evasive maneuvers.

For a moment, flares, aluminum foil decoys, and noise emitters were flying above the blue sky, and then, missiles that lost their trails due to the disappearance of the power section exploded in the sky.

"Ah! True God! I beg you to save us! Wow-

The aircraft that was hit dragged thick black smoke and flames, and fell to the ground from a thousand meters high in the sky without control.

Horatio looked at the air situation information map, on which red crosses appeared one after another - that was the signal that the enemy aircraft was destroyed.

This fighter-bomber group, which had just taken off and was preparing to provide ground support and attack the Mordian front, instantly evaporated 40% of its units in the missile raid just now. The remaining surviving fighters also fled to the northwest, avoiding the sight. Attack of the Imperial Navy Air Force.

Horatio's self-light noticed the air situation report sent by the alert predator.

An enemy squadron flew from a higher altitude, heading from due north to south, towards the two interception squadrons he led.

The surviving enemy aircraft were heading towards the shelter of their air cover squadron. For them who failed to complete the assembly, releasing a new round of missiles was of little significance.

'Captain Fasha, target, enemy air cover squadron. '

'Second round of attack, release! '

Swish, swish, swish!

Both sides released their own air-to-air missiles at the same time.

As a fighter-bomber, the Hell Claw can attack the ground and fight against enemy air units. It is more versatile and is the Chaos Force's favorite multi-purpose fighter in the atmosphere.

However, because it is also an intra-atmospheric fighter, the missile equivalent and acceleration power segment it carries are far inferior to the Skyfire missiles of the Imperial Navy's void fighters.

When the missiles they launched ran out of acceleration fuel and the trail disappeared, the Skyfire missiles of the Imperial Navy were still accelerating forward, and the speed once reached Mach 5.

After that, both sides had to continue to guide the radar signals. The two fleets formed an eerie silence in the sky. Facing the missiles flying towards them, no fighter jets left their formation to evade.

Horatio bit his lower lip. This was the most breathtaking moment in the dogfight.

The legendary "line up in the air and shoot, whoever dares will die."

Any fighter that loses the courage to evade will lose its radar index, and the missile it launches will inevitably lose its target. It is still unknown whether it can avoid the enemy missile.

However, this is generally speaking.

Horatio had anticipated this situation and was cautious.

On a level invisible to the naked eye, the EW, seconded from the Karl-Duniash Air Force, accompanied the flight.

On the electronic warfare type Starhawk, the large spindle-shaped device on the seemingly bulky tail of the fuselage, like an auxiliary fuel tank, began to function.

(Three-person crew in the Hell Claw fighter-bomber, pilot, gunner and captain)