From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man - Chapter 409

c398 Each for himself, boarding

The Blood Angel fleet appeared almost “out of thin air” at the back end of the Federation expedition fleet.

Of course, the pilots were not aware that the Blood Angel fleet had carrier-grade optical camouflage.

The detection methods of the Federation Expeditionary Fleet are simply unable to lock and detect.

When the expeditionary fleet was parked in low-Earth orbit and released mobile infantry to the surface, and was at its most relaxed, the 1st company fleet of the Blood Angels and the flagship of the direct fleet of the Primarch chose to release the stealth mode.

Immediately afterwards.

The scene presented on the screen of the pilot’s helmet was headed by a New Era aircraft carrier, supplemented by two Valiant-class super-heavy cruisers, followed by two Phoenix-class support boats, and a total of sixteen Paris-class, Fiddes-class and Selunee-class frigates, together form the Blood Angels 1st Company fleet.

Secondly, there is the flagship of the original fleet’s direct fleet, the ten-kilometer-long Sojourner-class dreadnought battleship——

Red Tears.

! ! ! !

After seeing through the screen display that the blade-shaped Tears of Blood was ten kilometers long, the two pilots responsible for driving the Viking landing craft were immediately stunned.

A ten-kilometer-level battleship? !

Even the newly developed Athena-class transport ship by the Federation does not exceed two kilometers.

this.

Is this really “nothing to worry about” as the top federal officials said? !

On the communication channel of the two pilots, an order from the captain of the Roger Young also came:

“Attention all landing craft!! Our intelligence agency made a serious error in judging the enemy’s strength. The motorized infantry to be carried is…!”

However, before the captain finished speaking, the communication channel was filled with harsh noises.

It was obvious that the Blood Angel fleet had released interference bands, directly disrupting their communication system.

At the same time, this also directly proves that the Blood Angel fleet’s method is to stabilize one end of their expedition fleet.

After all, the most important thing in war is communication, and if communication is cut off unilaterally by the enemy, it is equivalent to “opening the door wide” and cannot prevent an effective counterattack.

However, without the orders from their superiors and the sudden appearance of the Blood Angel fleet, will they continue to implement the original battle plan?

The two pilots looked at each other, undecided for a moment.

However, they had already begun to break through the atmosphere. Looking at the other landing craft, they did not change their flight trajectories. The two pilots focused on control and broke through the atmosphere.

It didn’t take long.

Nearly three hundred F-76 Thunder attack aircraft responsible for escort and more than 2,600 DR-4 Viking landing craft successfully broke into the atmosphere and advanced towards the capital city of New Hope on the surface.

The Federation Expeditionary Fleet was busy turning around, preparing to engage in a confrontation with the Blood Angel fleet, which had only twenty-two ships but was far larger than them.

It’s a pity.

How could the Blood Angels give the expedition fleet time to respond?

After confirming that the mobile infantry entered the atmosphere, the Blood Angels first released a round of “low-intensity” artillery fire.

The plasma and Gauss secondary guns hit the tail engines of the federal ships one after another, directly bringing the expedition fleet to a standstill.

Without an engine, what would the expeditionary fleet do to fight against the Blood Angels?

Realizing that the situation was extremely passive, the expeditionary fleet released a large number of carrier-based aircraft and launched a suicidal charge towards the Blood Angel fleet.

Without too much guessing, we knew that the senior leaders of the expedition fleet wanted to rely on the tactical and strategic nuclear bombs carried by the carrier-based aircraft to make a final desperate counterattack.

But how could the Blood Angels, who were aware of the expedition fleet’s intentions, allow the Federation’s carrier-based aircraft formation to approach?

The Red Tears, which had been on standby since its debut, immediately released a different kind of hard light beam.

Whoosh-whoosh-! !

Dozens of green-blue beams emitted, and after they left the secondary gun muzzle of the Red Tears, they immediately dispersed and twisted, turning into thousands of small beams, and accurately locked onto every ship in the carrier-based aircraft formation. Carrier aircraft.

Boom—boom—! !

The sparks generated by the silent explosion directly lit up the dark space in low-Earth orbit.

Although the power of the Red Tears’ secondary gun beam has been reduced to 30%, and it is still locked on the tail engine of the carrier-based aircraft, no federal pilot can withstand this round of secondary gun salvo.

no way.

Carrier-based aircraft are not battleships, and the moment the engines were destroyed, the series of explosions caused did not give the pilots time and space to react and escape.

The empire is indeed doing its best to reduce the casualties caused by human “civil war”, especially the casualties of grassroots soldiers.

But it is impossible for the Blood Angels to watch carrier-based aircraft carrying tactical and strategic nuclear bombs swagger close to their own fleet in order to reduce the casualties of the Federation.

Even the Sojourner-class Red Tear can release an energy barrier that covers the entire fleet, and every battleship in the Empire has been equipped with energy shield generation devices since the integration of the “Halo” universe.

But being “ridden in the face” by a carrier-based aircraft formation would be unbearable after all.

After the Federation’s carrier-based aircraft formation was “taken away” by the Red Tears, it slowly moved closer to the stalled expedition fleet.

——

Inside the bridge of the Roger Young at this moment;

“Captain Delatier! All four of our main engines have stalled! The backup energy can only keep the battleship running for two hours!”

“The main force of the mobile infantry has entered the atmosphere, but we have lost contact with the other party and cannot communicate with other warships in real time!”

“Captain! It has been detected that the enemy fleet has released a large number of carrier-based aircraft!”

The crew members were hurriedly reporting the current situation verbally to the female captain named Delatier.

Delatier, who was sitting in the main seat, had a frown on his face, a sad look on his face, and said something like, “Damn! There’s a big mistake in the intelligence! Who the hell said the other party doesn’t have anything to worry about?!” Discourse.

Then, she ordered Carmen Ibanez and Xander Barrow, who were in charge of driving the entire battleship:

“Activate the backup energy source to complete the turnaround of this ship within two minutes!”

Then, he ordered the gunner: “After the ship completes its turn, immediately lock the enemy’s carrier-based aircraft and do not allow the enemy’s carrier-based aircraft to approach our fleet!”

“Yes! Captain!”

After receiving the order, the crew members began to prepare the Roger Young to launch a counterattack against the Blood Angels in the shortest possible time.

Carmen and Xander, who were responsible for controlling the battleship, immediately consumed the backup energy, causing the Roger Young to begin to rapidly change its angle.

As they operated, the view from the bridge’s portholes gradually moved past the New Hope Colony to their own warships parked not far away.

Finally, they could finally face their approaching Blood Angel fleet, as well as a large number of carrier-based aircraft formations composed of Thunder, Thunder Eagle, Ghost, White-legged Falcon and a large number of drones.

However, when they were able to visualize the Blood Angels with their naked eyes——

“Captain! Then…what is that??!!”

One crew member looked extremely shocked. He stood up and raised his hand, pointing tremblingly out of the window.

Everyone looked in the direction of the crew member’s finger and vaguely saw a looming “golden light spot” approaching the position of their federal fleet at an extremely fast speed.

And the crew member used the control console to enlarge the view of the porthole and focus on the “golden light spot”.

This time, everyone finally saw clearly what it was.

Equipped with gorgeous golden armor and helmet, holding the Imperial Spear burning with golden flames, and with white wings on his back, Sanguinius, the Primarch of the Blood Angels.

! ! ! !

Delatiel, Carmen, Xander and others were all astonished when they saw Sanguinius’s appearance clearly.

Is that still human? ?

Why is there a pair of angel-like wings on the back?

And why can the war spear in the hand of that “angel” still burn with golden flames in the space environment? ?

If the human empire was simply crushed by technology, they might not be too surprised.

But the appearance of “supernatural creatures” like Sanguinius has subverted their cognition.

The most important thing is that the appearance of Sanguinius really resembles the angel recorded in myths and legends, which made Delatier and others instantly feel that “God is on the side of the enemy.”

A moment of surprise.

Delatier said quickly: “Gunner! Lock on the humanoid target, and the enemy carrier-based aircraft will launch a salvo of fire!”

“yes!”

The gunner who reacted quickly used the control panel in front of him to lock onto Sanguinius and dozens of Thunder assault boats and Thunderhawk gunboats.

Boom-boom-boom-! !

In an instant, the sound caused by the salvo of the ship’s artillery was transmitted to everyone’s ears with the help of the vibration of the ship’s hull.

But the Roger Young’s salvo of artillery fire was unable to pose an effective threat to Sanguinius, Thunderbolt, and Thunderhawk.

The artillery fire was easily dodged.

Unless it is a close-range anti-cannon array, it is possible to have an impact on it, but it cannot break through the energy shields of Thunder and Thunder Eagle in a short period of time.

After all, Thunder and Thunder Eagle are responsible for “hard” gang jumping.

The structure is solid, the armor is thick, and the mobility is guaranteed. It also has an energy shield generator that is replaceable and easy to repair and maintain.

The Federation ships in the “Starship Fleet” universe are really powerless against them.

Moreover, Sanguinius didn’t bother to care what the top brass of the Federation fleet thought, and immediately rushed with a Thunderhawk gunboat carrying the Honor Guard to the Roger Young, where he and the Blood Angels were launching a counterattack.

Immediately afterwards

Ri~咻——————! ! !

The Thunder gunboat’s double-barreled melt cannon burst out an extremely high-temperature, extremely high-energy “beam” that successfully penetrated the belly of the Roger Young’s hull and created a gap.

See this.

Sanguinius suddenly accelerated his flight speed, passed through the gap first, and rushed into the Roger Young’s hangar.

Then came the Thunderhawk gunship with its wings folded.

And while the Thunderhawk rushed into the hangar, it also released a gel-like “air bag” to temporarily block the melted gap to prevent oxygen from leaking due to internal and external air pressure.

Boom boom.!

As for the Thunderhawk gunboat “rambling” in the hangar, you can still notice it even if you are on the bridge.

Therefore, without the communication officer’s report, Delatier knew that the Roger Young had been forcibly jumped into the gang, and she immediately ordered:

“Let the security team and the mobile infantry on standby rush to the hangar to expel and annihilate the foreign invaders!”

“Yes! Captain!”

The communications officer quickly notified the combat units inside the Roger Young.

“captain.”

But at this time, Carmen stood up in a daze, looked out the window with confusion and said:

“Is it necessary to continue fighting this battle?”

?

Hearing this, Dratier turned his attention to the porthole again.

Looking out through the sealed portholes, the first thing that catches the eye is the “Taishan Mountain”-like Red Tears, which is already close to the entire expedition fleet.

The expedition fleet’s main guns, secondary guns, and missile salvos were unable to penetrate the energy shield emitting cyan-blue light.

All attacks are in vain.

On the other hand, the Red Tears’ secondary guns, after reducing the power to 10%, once again accurately destroyed the expedition fleet’s main guns and secondary guns.

In an instant, the expedition fleet was completely reduced to a helpless “lamb”, waiting for the fate of being slaughtered.

In addition, countless Thunder assault boats and Thunderhawk gunboats, under the cover of the Blood Angel fleet and carrier-based aircraft formations, successfully jumped to all expedition ships.

This means that the next battle will mainly focus on the interior of each ship.

“Is it necessary to continue fighting?”

Knowing that the defeat was certain, Delatier looked a little decadent, but he quickly regained his momentum, stood up and left the captain’s seat, and took out a pistol from the coded weapon box on the side.

He held the loaded gun, turned off the safety, and said loudly:

“Of course we will continue to fight! Notify all personnel on this ship to arm themselves, we will fight the invaders until the last moment!

Even if we lose, we must lose standing instead of kneeling directly to him! ! ”

“yes!!”

The people who were originally depressed saw their overall morale rising again after seeing that the captain was preparing to rush to the front line.

There may have been no major changes in the federation as a whole for too long, leading to the growth of corruption, as well as a “blowout” of various bad habits and unfair treatment.

However, the basic spirit of the federal army to “fear no war” and “unite strength to protect peace” has always existed.

Today, Delatier and others still believe that the Human Empire is a major hidden danger that threatens peace and stability as promoted by the federation’s top leaders.

So they would rather die than fight until the last moment.

As for the main force of mobile infantry that had been deployed by the expedition fleet, there was no way of knowing what the expedition fleet had encountered.

After all, communications were unilaterally blocked, and even the expedition fleet was unable to communicate with each warship in real time and had to fight independently.

at the same time.

Inside the hangar of the Roger Young

“Ahem!”

“what happened?”

“Did two things rush in just now?!”

“There! There!”

The violent explosions and air surges caused by the forcible jump made the ground and logistics personnel who were a little dizzy and fell on the deck got up again in a daze.

Boom, boom.

However, these ground and logistics personnel had just turned their attention to the stopped Thunderhawk gunship, but they also heard the unique sound of the magnetic boots stepping on the floor.

Moreover, they also saw more than a dozen Blood Angels Glory Guards and Wrath Blood Guards wearing exclusive power armor, as well as the Blood Angels’ Primarch——

Sanguinius.