Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords! - Chapter 527

Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!

The side cannon array of the Retribution-class battleship fired hot plasma balls in groups of four and four, shooting at the enemies of the Empire. The sound of the cannons echoed in the gun room, and then passed through the compartments and armor, and spread to all parts of the battleship, almost overlapping each other.

This huge and magnificent void creation was accompanied by several cruisers and light cruisers, as well as more than a dozen other small warships to escort it.

The power of destruction was applied to the Tau warships, and the explosions and flames tore the long and flat hulls one by one.

“Commander # , it’s the hostile fleet. According to the current combat power comparison, we can’t compete with the other side and must retreat immediately.” The flagship commander saw that a light cruiser was damaged and caught fire after a round of salvos.

The gravity shield of the ship was also overloaded, and he hurriedly asked the fleet commander.

The Fire Clan’s frigate commander was still just staring at the “silver needle” next to the void whale.

“All ships, lock onto the enemy’s colony ships, launch heavy seeker missiles, and immediately make an emergency jump after the launch. In the eyes of the Tau Empire, the pilgrimage ships of the Human Empire are no different from colony ships. They are an important support for the Empire to occupy the territory of the Tau Empire. For the commerce-breaking fleet, destroying the pilgrimage ships of the Human Empire is also their important mission.

“Yes, missile salvo!”

The Tau ships in front retreated one after another and tore open the curtain of emergency jump.

Several heavy seeker missiles flew straight towards the pilgrimage ship.

They locked onto her engine.

“Be prepared to be hit! “Horatio issued a tactical order to the Operations Department.

Ouch!

The spherical twin-mounted close-in defense guns distributed on the hull had already opened fire, shooting at the missiles that were flying.

Under this posture command, the Thinker array of the close-in defense gun group received additional energy, and the accuracy increased significantly. Although the latter’s blue fireflies were not conspicuous in the physical universe that became colorful due to the subspace rift, the surrounding warships did not rely on visual observation and had discovered this threat early and fired at the missiles.

The flight trajectories of these missiles were strange and swaying, and the display on the auspicious instrument was also moving and static, with no regularity at all.

As a time traveler who had served in the military department, he instantly guessed what was going on.

“Captain, the enemy missiles have built-in electronic countermeasures, and we cannot determine their exact flight trajectory! The interception lead time is difficult to estimate!” This unprecedented routine surprised Louise, and she quickly reported.

“Focus on the range, don’t disperse. “Horatio ordered.

“But Captain, concentrated locking will significantly reduce the efficiency of interception.” The first mate reminded.

“Yes, normally it is, but these are missiles, and they are different high-tech missiles.”

As soon as he finished speaking, these missiles made a simple evasive maneuver.

“These missiles are connected by data links and can defend and evade on their own. We must launch a dense barrage of bullets to stop them. Tracking and intercepting will only disperse our firepower. Help me call Sir Samuel Hood. ”

This was the tactic used by the huge number of AK630 close-in defense guns on Soviet warships when dealing with the massive Harpoon missiles fired by NATO fighters and the terminal close-in defense was interfered by electronic warfare.

In simple terms, when encountering terminal electronic warfare interference, two fire control radars are used to lock a missile to counter electronic interference.

The accuracy of the focus lock is much higher than the “ray” of a single fire control radar, and the parameters of the two fire control radars are used to screen out the correct position of the enemy missile.

A large-scale barrage interception is carried out regardless of the cost.

After a brief communication, the surrounding warships all opened fire at full power, firing a large-scale dense barrage like rain, instead of chasing a single missile and strafing, which was tossed in vain by the complex evasive trajectory.

It turned out that this was effective. Missiles were intercepted by the surface barrage on the way to the “Pure White Mayflower”.

But at this time, these missiles caused trouble for the Imperial Warships.

As the distance got closer, they actually scattered, scattering in the vast space like flowers from heaven, and then wrapped around the pilgrim ship like an onion.

Horatio looked at the fleeing Tau warship and realized something.

“Before, it was semi-active radar guidance, which required the warship to continuously index. Now the active radar built into the missile is turned on, so the enemy ship no longer needs to guide the missile. They are trying to leave.”

Some imperial light cruisers chased up and engaged the Tau warship that was trying to escape.

The rapid-fire macro cannons had fierce firepower, and the experienced captain ordered the gun crew to lock on the enemy’s engine for a focused attack.

After breaking the gravity shield, the salvo of macro cannons destroyed the engines of two enemy ships. They also sent out lightning strikes on the boarding force. The fully armed elite boarding team urgently shut down the engine before being surrounded and killed, leaving the two enemy ships completely.

At the same time, the Epic immediately maneuvered, the ship and the Pure White Mayflower were in the same direction, using the close-in defense guns on both sides to strafe the cross-scattered missiles.

“It’s too late. A missile is about to hit the middle of the pilgrim ship’s engine! It is expected that this will blow up the entire engine group. Then she will be completely unable to return. No ship can tow this 20-kilometer-long, billion-ton giant!”

“Full left rudder immediately!”

“Full left rudder!” the helmsman shouted.

A shocking scene appeared. When the left missile passed the Epic and headed straight for the pilgrim ship “Pure White Mayflower”, the light macro cannon on the ridge of the ship actually fired a shell.

The adamantium macro cannon shell flew straight out and hit the middle of the heavy seeker missile.

Boom! A brilliant light of golden and blue fire flashed, and the missile was intercepted by the macro cannon shell of huge caliber.

This scene that was completely out of common sense stunned the officers on the bridge. The macro cannon officer shook his head and hurriedly explained to the captain that he had not issued the order for this round of shooting.

Horatio roughly understood what happened. He looked at the white-haired machine soul girl in front of him with her eyebrows tightly together, trying her best to sense the missile and try to intercept it, and nodded in approval. This was an active attack by the Epic Machine Soul, which was not common in actual operation. Such intelligent operation generally only exists in those old ships that have been in service for thousands of years. This shows that the Epic Machine Soul has great growth potential!

But the crisis has not been resolved yet. That was just one of them. The light macro cannon that had finished shooting could only load the next adamantium shell as soon as possible.

Under Horatio’s order, the Epic immediately turned left and blocked the missile horizontally, trying to occupy the best shooting range to destroy it.

But a small object suddenly appeared in front of the active radar guidance head of the Seeker missile, which made the missile, which was not very maneuverable, rush directly to the bridge of the Epic.

“Enemy missiles are coming towards us!” Louise, who was on the lookout, pointed at the target and shouted.

Before she finished her words, boom!

The Romanesque church bridge of the Epic shook violently, just like a submarine in the ocean hit by a whale.

Many people fell to the ground. Fortunately, Horatio asked the engineering department to increase the height of the fence. Louise sat like a duck to lower the center of gravity and hugged the fence in front of her urgently, so she did not fall off the fence like before.

Horatio sat on the command throne, gasping for breath and blinking.

There was no fire that engulfed the entire bridge and tore everyone apart as he expected.

Sister Arabella and Sister Farley Hood were more frightened than Horatio at this moment.

She was preaching the key points of recuperation to Farida, who was lying on the detector, when a huge missile crashed in from the temporary repaired place next to her after being hit by the railgun.

The huge missile shattered the bulkhead and corridor next to it, and the bulkhead of the infirmary was directly squeezed inward,

Farida was frightened and her face turned pale and her abdomen hurt, but fortunately the bulkhead did not break and the airtightness remained.

After the incident, the technical priest Lati rushed to the bridge scene as soon as possible.

The heavy servitor cleared the messy wreckage in front of her, and after a preliminary on-site investigation, she reported the situation to Horatio.

“What happened, Father Lati.”

“According to my judgment, the torpedo hit the part that was hit by the railgun before. It was only simply repaired and very fragile. Therefore, the impact did not trigger the missile’s detonator, but caused the missile to get stuck inside. I am leading the technical team to carry out bomb disposal operations.”

“Be careful, Lati.”

“I didn’t expect you to take the initiative to care about me. Of course, I will pay attention. After all, if there is a mistake, the entire upper half of the Epic’s bridge and everyone inside will fly into the sky.” Lati snorted and laughed, and the tone of his voice sounded a little complaining when he said what Horatio really thought.

“I believe you will succeed.”

“I will try my best. After all, this is also the first time I have come into contact with such creations of these blue-blooded aliens.”