Chapter 395 05.0394: ‘Siren’s Confusing Words? Chaos Tricks! ’
"All ships fire! Open fire!"
"Scatter those scum! Kill those foolish pseudo-emperors! The corpse emperor is dead! The true god should be established!"
The shells as big as several nest towers shuttled in the void between the two battle lines. At this time, the distance between the battle line of the Imperial Navy and the battle line of the Chaos Fleet was only 570 kilometers.
The fighter planes of the three services shuttled, attacked, retreated, and then reorganized in this not-too-small interval.
In order to protect the flagship, the Chaos light cruiser with a shuttle ramp did not hesitate to release the Hell Dragon Demon Engine that was originally used to target the Imperial Navy's flag in advance.
The black and red unclean fire dragon roared out of the deck, chasing the green-skinned Daka jet with a flexibility far beyond that of normal fighters, spewing black flames to ignite these smoke-spraying big flies, and even pounced on them and tore them apart with its adamantine teeth.
This unclean thing is a Chaos aircraft, a fighter pilot, and a Chaos Demon in one, a strange existence that is deeply integrated. The evil masterpiece of the Lord of Enchantment.
The close-range laser cannons of the two fleets added color to the confrontation between Guangyu and Hongpao. The dazzling beams formed a three-dimensional light net, making the battle look very fierce.
Facing this death net, even the ferocious Hell Dragon Demon Engine could not escape.
Two or three Hell Dragons became ferocious after chasing and killing the nearby Daka fighters.
They tried to attack the Imperial Navy battle line directly, but were locked and torn apart by the close-range cannons while crossing a distance of hundreds of kilometers.
The combat method of sudden attack at close range and rushing directly into the aircraft body is more suitable for this demonic creation, but the greenskins' interference disrupted the Chaos Fleet's boarding raid plan.
(The Hell Dragon Demon Engine was spitting fire at the cockpit of the Valkyrie fighter. Around the battle line, small ships of different affiliations also surrounded their respective battle lines and launched attacks, defenses and interceptions.
A Cobra-class destroyer of the Imperial Navy used the cover of the Void Air Cloud to sneak attack a Hell Envoy-class light cruiser equipped with a shuttle apron with a torpedo.
The Chaos Light Cruiser, which urgently adjusted its close-range firepower, successfully intercepted three of the four torpedoes.
But the lucky torpedo hit the armored shell above the shuttle apron, and the built-in high-yield melt warhead opened a large hole above the junction of the two shuttle aprons.
In the subsequent battles, the flagship aviation department of the Imperial Navy never saw the side shuttle apron release new aircraft.
As the battleships continued to intersect, the third and fourth ships in the battle lines of both sides The warships also opened fire on the enemy ships that entered the firing range.
The third and fourth ships in the Imperial Navy's battle line were both Voss-class light cruisers. These ships were equipped with standard cruiser-level weapons, so their firepower damage was no less than that of the enemy ships.
But Chaos's third and fourth positions were also not to be underestimated.
They were Hell Apostle MK.2, planetary assault ships designed entirely by Chaos forces in the M36 era.
They were designed to plunder planets and were the vanguard of the Chaos army.
Once the orbital defense facilities were cleared and the orbital defense firepower on the surface was suppressed, the landing craft would be released immediately to plunder the Imperial population and plunder all the supplies needed by the Chaos army.
The ship was equipped with a triple heavy rotating turret on the ridge, and two heavy light spear turrets were installed on the tail fins on both sides.
Which I'm afraid that the Imperial Navy has to admit that this is a ship designed by the Black Mechanicus, with both firepower and maneuverability.
But it is not without flaws - no torpedoes, no rams, fragile armor all over the body, and very afraid of enemies who are good at close combat, such as green-skinned garbage ships and Tyranid bio-ships.
The Imperial Navy will also seize this weakness and use torpedoes or ramming to deal with them.
"Captain, the void shield needs to release overload energy!"
The power department sent a report, and Horatio saw that the logos of the two void shield generators had turned red and needed to be released urgently.
On the enemy ship.
"My Lord, the enemy flagship's void shield is overloaded, and our ship has activated "lock"!"
"Activate the weapons given to us by the true God, and the blessing of the Siren Cannon will cooperate with our boarding to cause a devastating blow to the false emperor's believers!"
Chaos The crew members grinned cruelly, controlling their squirming tentacles to immediately execute the firing order.
Through the "Siren Demon" possessed by the demon host, they used extremely cruel means to conduct the evil power of the warp to the cannon shells and light spear energy groups, enchanting the real bullets and charging them with evil energy.
The dark barrel of the Chaos warship pointed at the Indefatigable.
But then the Chaos warship did not conduct the free shooting that the Imperial Navy officers guessed. The long barrel was silent, and it was only covered with disturbing purple mist.
Horatio looked at the enemy ship and noticed the disturbing purple anomaly on the barrel of the Emperor's Death.
"That's the Siren Cannon?!" Horatio recognized the thing.
This is a taboo technique that will not be recorded in the notes of the Imperial Navy's manual.
Because just writing these taboos can easily lead to the writer and learner being corrupted by the power of demons.
So except for the extremely experienced old captain, few officers of the Imperial Navy can recognize what this scene means.
As a time traveler, Horatio naturally knew that this was a skill of the Lord of Pleasure.
In the "lock" mode, the Siren Cannon will give the large weapons carried by the side a powerful destructive power on the enemy ship, while causing a strong mental blow to the enemy crew.
After the mental blow weakened morale and combat effectiveness, the next step is often to face the fatal boarding action.
Horatio stood up suddenly and ordered the sound array to broadcast his words to the power department at maximum power: "Immediately supercharge the void shield!"
Then he used brain waves to issue the order of "armed preparation" to the armed command room under the command bridge.
It took time for the whole ship to sound a piercing and dazzling red alarm.
At the same time, after receiving the corresponding order, the technical sage of the Mechanicus of the Indefatigable also raised the Axe of the God of All Machines and chanted a binary language prayer that outsiders did not understand.
The overloaded miscellaneous energy in the void shield capacitor was released wastefully into the surrounding void.
The restless energy dissipation forced the surrounding escort to evade urgently to avoid being paralyzed or damaged by the ionization field.
After the pressure was relieved in a very short time, the technical sage called on the stable ionization energy originally supplied to the weapons and power departments to supercharge the void shield urgently.
This is an emergency restart of the void shield at the cost of weakening the light spear cannon and the power of the entire ship.
This action requires a long time to cool down, and it can only be used once in battle, otherwise the ion core of the void shield generator will have a high risk of explosion during the rapid decompression and charging process.
The pipeline connected to the void shield generator suddenly emitted a dazzling blue light, and the stable energy was transmitted to the void shield generator by the transformer at maximum power.
Because the situation was too urgent, the technical sage did not have time to remind the surrounding Imperial Navy crew members, and turned on the super charging.
Some mortal crew members were instantly blinded by the dazzling light that could not be blocked by the thick insulating pipe skin, and knelt on the ground and wailed with their bleeding eyes.
The Emperor's Death opened fire, shooting at the Indefatigable with shrieking beams and shells.
With a millimeter difference, the void shield that had disappeared around the Indefatigable was lit again.
On the screen in front of Horatio, the energy tank of the light spear cannon flashed an orange warning sign, indicating that the corresponding component was insufficiently supplied with energy and that it would take five to ten minutes to switch energy.
Among the enemy's shots, only one beam of light spear successfully hit the Indefatigable's head, and the others were intercepted by the newly deployed void shield.
A crack was instantly scratched at the hit part, and this beam of light penetrated the dozens of meters thick adamantine armor as if nothing was inside, and penetrated deep into the hull.
The black and purple beams of light were accompanied by a strange scream. Compared with what happened to their comrades later,
those crew members who were killed in one shot because they were too close became the lucky ones.
The black and purple miasma, like a nightmare, crossed the ceramic steel isolation door, followed the pipes filled with cables, invaded the air circulation system, and spread to the cabin near the hit part.
"God, it's the Siren!" The old crew member who was repairing the ship stopped his work, his expression frozen, and he listened to something in disbelief.
"What is the Siren?" The marines selected from the naval planetary base were confused. These newly recruited soldiers for the expedition did not understand the ways in the void.
"Soul-stealing female ghost! Run away, get out of there!"
The old crew member dropped the tools in his hand, howled and ran away, and the crew members around him followed suit. The cabin, which was originally in order, fell into chaos in an instant.
"Give it back! Damn it, I will shoot anyone who dares to leave his position!
Seamen are superstitious, and this is still the case when humans set foot on the ocean and even sail across the universe. There are many strange legends among them, among which "Siren" is an enduring legend. It is a mermaid creature that paralyzes people's hearts through sound and eventually drags people into the sea and drowns them.
But in the Age of the Void, it has more interpretations, but all of them contain the deep fear of sailors and seamen.
And Chaos, especially the Embrace of Slaanesh, knows best how to use the fear and harsh noise of people's hearts to achieve such a terrifying purpose.
There was a commotion among the crew. In order to ensure the operation of various positions, the armed sailors mercilessly pointed their guns at the sailors at the twilight curtain.
But soon, these sailors also saw these shadows, and the supernatural scenes filled their minds with those terrible and terrifying ghost stories.
They tried to fight back with the weapons in their hands, raising their guns to shoot at the sky, but in addition to damaging some cabin parts, those ghosts still roamed freely on the cabin, making sometimes tempting and sometimes terrifying laughter, causing fear and greater commotion.
Those noises surrounded the soldiers forever.
Soon, some people began to vomit, and some people seemed to have lost their souls, with their arms pulled and laser guns hanging crookedly on their bodies, walking aimlessly, no matter how others shouted, they did not respond, as if their souls had left their bodies.
These strange phenomena greatly weakened the morale of the crew.
"Attention, the enemy boarding force is coming."
Horatio stared at the boarding cabin of the "Emperor's Death" with a dense array of claws of fear, and the nearby escort aircraft and escort ships immediately began to intercept it.
In the 500-kilometer battle interval, flames suddenly scattered, explosions occurred frequently, and the intensity reached another level.