Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords! - Chapter 491

The Drag-and-Drag Fortune Teller is activated. “

“The torpedoes are being warmed up in Torpedo Silo No. 5.”

“Captain! We have discovered the position of the enemy destroyer that has dived into the gas cloud. It is conducting cruise detection at a speed of 7 void knots. It is speculated that it is searching for the position of our ship’s signal wave. The phase is ZD!”

“Fishing, continue to use ‘bait’ to catch it. Captain, right rudder 270! “

“As ordered, turn right rudder at 270 degrees!”

The Epic pulled out the S-shaped snakeskin and moved around. The towed ‘diviner’ was hung behind by a long cable, constantly sending out active detection waves and receiving echoes reflected by enemy ships.

By comparing the detection waves in pairs, the precise position of the enemy ship can be obtained.

And that moment is a good opportunity to launch a torpedo.

As Horatio expected, the Tau Empire destroyer did find a small thing floating in the gas clouds that continued to send out signals.

But the size of the target did not match the size of the prey detected by their radar.

The captain immediately realized it was a drag bait.

The real enemy controls the radiation very well, and the specific location is uncertain on the spherical radar. I don’t know if it has passive electronic countermeasures equipment or is playing some new trick.

“Withdraw. Do a peripheral blockade, it won’t go away today.”

The commander of the Fire Clan’s Broken Relationship issued an order to evacuate the gas cloud and seal off the entire gas cloud group.

As soon as he finished speaking, the communication from the destroyer turned into a cacophony of ionizing radiation.

“Commander #Governor! ‘Karit #86 Watt’ was destroyed!”

exclaimed the observer on the light cruiser.

The prey in the cloud struck back, killing a hound hunting for its scent.

“Quick! Aim at the final locking position, and the locking advance is 8 kilometers! Spread 5,000, and launch two missiles!”

Whoosh!

Two Seeker missiles rushed out of the launch silo, drilled into the gas cloud, and circled around to roughly aim at the Epic’s true position.

“The rudder is returning! The maximum allowed speed is 8 knots!”

The successful Epic tried its best to drill into the asteroid belt.

The space junk composed of the nearby destroyed Merchant class produced new asteroids, expanding the area of ​​this asteroid belt that stretches for thousands of kilometers.

At the last moment before being caught up by the missile, the Epic got behind a meteorite, and the missile hit the meteorite and exploded.

The explosion shock wave was somewhat reduced by a layer of buffer, but the debris of the debris made the Epic jingle, and the paint surface was a lot worn in the blast of rubble.

But no one cares about these details. The Epic is a weapon, not a collectible, and battle wounds are her medals.

“Reduce the speed to 5 void knots and rely on asteroids to cover and escape.”

At the same time, the Tau Empire light cruiser also chased above the asteroid belt. The broken commander was convinced that the prey had sneaked into the asteroid belt. It was much more difficult to pull it out than in the gas cloud.

From previous reports, he believed that the frontal projection of the ship was not much larger than a meteorite and could easily be filtered by radar as an asteroid.

But as an experienced commander who breaks up relationships, in his eyes, these cunning tricks are just the rest of his game.

“Open the meteorite deflector shield, activate the multi-spectral sensor, activate the shooting coordinator, activate the radioactive emitter force field, let us sneak in and pull them out.”

After a series of combos were fired, the light cruiser disappeared from the oracle just like the Epic.

She sailed directly into the asteroid belt. With the help of the deflector shield, the meteorites were directly pushed away by the invisible force field and could not hit her hull at all.

Faced with this unexpected situation, Horatio became determined.

In terms of experience, this enemy ship is definitely richer.

For now, all he can rely on is the shadow field from Eldar technology.

“Reduce the speed and let us attach to the big meteorite ahead.” Horatio exhaled cold air, and deep bags under his eyes had already formed due to congestion.

While chasing each other, the Epic, which was hidden in the shadow field, adjusted its hull and quietly attached itself to a meteorite through micro-steering.

She was like a stick insect hiding from enemies, almost completely still, resting on a floating meteorite.

The Tau Imperial destroyer chased behind, carefully searching for the location of its prey.

“It’s interesting.”

The Fire Warrior Commander squinted his eyes, looked at the radar that seemed to have nothing unusual, and murmured.

Aboard the Epic.

Horatio had no clue about the enemy’s position and situation at this time, and the Epic did not dare to move.

Everyone is waiting for the captain to give the next order to take them out.

But, what should we do at this time——.——.?

“All torpedo launch tubes are loaded into the Fortuner detector, and the boost time is set to 10 seconds. After being launched from the torpedo well, they are allowed to float on the asteroid meteorite belt.”

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The four Fortuner probes were ejected from the torpedo launcher. After accelerating for the specified countdown, they got mixed into the asteroid belt and continued to emit detection waves.

The bird’s radar in front of Horatio showed an erratic figure moving back and forth within a certain range.

This is the enemy’s radiator force field at work.

It is an electronic countermeasure device whose main function is to interfere with the detection of bird’s eye radar.

“What a difficult opponent.” Even Horatio had to admit that the Wolf Head of the Tau Empire was so skilled that all the tricks he came up with were defeated by the opponent. He had to play the trump card that the opponent was not prepared for. An effective counterattack was carried out.

“Captain, we are implementing radiation control and cannot communicate tactically with E-99 and E-47. They should not be able to see the position of the enemy ships in the asteroid belt and cannot launch torpedoes to support us.”

“Of course I know this. Don’t worry. First find a way to get out, and then find the location of this interceptor.”

Although no specific signal was received, there was only a suspicious flashing red ball on the void sand table, but after the possible signal source passed by, the Epic started the engine again and quietly bypassed the asteroid.

‘We saw her. “Louise reported that the Envoy-class ship with the diffuser turned on was moving smoothly through the asteroid belt, and no asteroid caused any harm to it.

However, the diffuser is not a shadow field, and its shadow can still be seen within the visual range.

This was a scene that made everyone’s heart and lungs stop.

The destroyer that just passed by was the leading destroyer. Because of the diffuser field, the Envoy-class commerce raider disguised its true position, causing the captain and the captain on the Epic to misjudge.

The principle is just like the era when Horatio once lived, with fighters tightly arranged in flight formations, Let the ground radar, under the condition of electronic interference, misjudge the flying fighters in the goose formation as a large passenger plane and be deceived.

At this time, the Epic was less than 60 kilometers away from the life-taker.

In the previous battle, the Epic had almost emptied all the torpedoes in the front and middle torpedo compartments, and only the last two torpedoes were left in the rear compartment.

It took nearly one kilometer of dragging to stuff the torpedoes from the rear compartment into the front torpedo silo, and the crew was now exhausted.

Just now, four more “diviners” probes were launched.

Now, if you want to reload urgently, it will take a long time. As the captain, he must buy this time for the crew.

“Stop!” Horatio shouted urgently: “Descend to the plane and stick to the top of the asteroid. Keep the weight balanced in the compartment! Use torpedoes to balance!”

Everyone held their breath and watched the light cruiser pass by with trembling pupils.

The railgun on it was aimed everywhere under the drive of the aiming coordinator.

Bang!

Suddenly, the enemy ship opened fire.

An extremely precise beam of light flashed past Horatio’s eyes and hit the “Fortune Teller” detector that had been launched before.

The multi-spectral detector carried by the enemy ship is a rare new type of high-tech detector. Currently, only some flagships have selected this component.

As the flagship of a commerce-breaking fleet, this Envoy-class ship is certainly qualified to carry it.

Under the command of the enemy commander, the enemy ship’s radar obviously adjusted the detection and screening mechanism in response to some of the characteristics exposed by the previous E-type attack ship.

They soon discovered the Epic’s trick and destroyed one of the floating signal sources.

If Horatio hadn’t controlled the rhythm of the machine soul and stopped suddenly at the moment of climbing up the surface of the asteroid, the Epic would have directly collided with the light cruiser.

“God bless you–God bless you-‘ David Betty’s expression at this time was distorted as if he was wearing a mask of pain, praying for the protection of the God Emperor so that the terrible railgun carried by the enemy ship would not find him.

Horatio himself was also scared and broke into a cold sweat, but others could not see his expression, because he was in the machine soul world, guiding the machine soul of the Epic, and took advantage of the slight delay in controlling the body to restrain his expression in time.

Under the operation of two micro-manipulators, the Epic descended little by little, trying to stick to the top of the meteorite.

This difficulty is like putting a needle on the top of an upright egg, which requires extremely delicate operation.

The speed cannot be fast or slow, otherwise the Epic will hit the bottom directly.

At the least, it will be scratched, and at the worst, the hull will break directly from the middle.