Infinite Stream Metaverse

Chapter 211 Tactical Deduction
"What's the result of the planetary scan?"

As soon as Fu Qinghai returned to the bridge of the cruiser, he couldn't wait to ask.

"Khan, this is the topographic map of the feudal world of Marzaan before the Great Rebellion."

Eugene Eleanor displayed a spherical holographic projection on the table.

"After scanning by the auspicious array, we marked the places where the terrain has changed in red."

As Eugene's finger slides, the holographic projection rotates and zooms in and out, and a place marked in red appears, which is several hemispherical "bubbles" embedded on the ground.

"Look, this is the castle of the local warlord. It was built against a valley, and it is estimated to have a huge underground area. In addition, the castle and several subsidiary bastions have void shields, which isolate the further scanning of the auspicious instrument."

There is a void shield, which means that the interior of the castle cannot be probed through the auspice.

Has void shields, which means lances and macro cannons cannot be used for orbital bombing.

Many people will wonder why the naval fleet of the human empire still has to send ground troops to land and fight after occupying the space orbit, just like fighting the First World War, let the Imperial Guard use human lives to fill it.

First of all, the empire regards the place where the astronomical torch can shine as its traditional sphere of influence. It is to occupy the place of rule, and it cannot issue an extinction order at every turn. The cost of interstellar war is very high, and war is a continuation of politics. Victory and victory, what are you going to do in a dead world?

Secondly, if you don’t use the whirlwind torpedoes and virus bombs of the Extinction Order, there are many restrictions on relying on macro cannons and light spears alone. Ground-based void shields can often be made larger than ship-borne void shields and are difficult to penetrate. Special terrains such as the seabed or Canyons can offset the power of orbital bombing.

"Intel from Mars indicates that the STC is hiding under the castle of this local warlord named 'Bancroft Kellogg'."

Master Kunto interrupted to remind him.

"These are not the main point. The point is that we found the corpse of the Iron Warrior on the space station, and the traitors also came to Maldives. They couldn't have come here on foot. Start the sub-light speed engine, search around the space orbit, and find the iron warrior first. Brave battleship!"

Fu Qinghai waved his hand and ordered directly.

The Lime Horse set sail again and flew around Marzaan, but the augury instrument still didn't detect any sign of the aircraft.

Even Fu Qinghai, Qiao Shida and Camille drove the Stormbird to search carefully in the meteorite belt far away from the planet, but still did not find any spaceships.

On the bridge, everyone gathered.

"What's the matter, Khan."

Camille asked.

Fu Qinghai recalled the battle on Planet Rosewell 7, pondered for a moment, and said:

"If it's not some kind of stealth technology, there is only one possibility left. The enemy's ships are hiding on the surface."

"That means that the tonnage of the opponent's battleship is very small, and it basically does not have the ability to compete with a cruiser."

Joe Star said lightly.

"Would you like to try diplomatic means, contact the warlord on the surface and ask him to surrender and hand over the STC."

Eugene made a suggestion from the side.

Fu Qinghai shook his head:
"If the corpses of those Iron Warriors are not found, I would also prefer to settle them through diplomatic negotiations. The other party has a void shield, and must have a bird auspicious instrument. We have all flown around the planet, and there is still no information from the surface to contact us. , the attitude of the other party is self-evident."

"The airborne pod can be smashed in directly from the top of the head, or we can respectively drive the Thunderhawk gunboat to penetrate the defense at low altitude."

Joestar proposed a standard Space Marine solution.

Fu Qinghai stared in thought, pursed his lips, noncommittal.

In fact, he doesn't really want to fight the enemy on the surface. The battle on Loswell Planet 7 has always reminded himself that he can't make the same mistake as Frajos, occupying orbital air supremacy and then fighting the enemy on the ground. , This is equivalent to the Russian army with heavy artillery firepower entering the ruins of Grozny to fight street battles.

Fu Qinghai propped his hands on the wide tabletop, fixed his eyes on the fortress shrouded in the void shield, and said:

"There is actually a solution."

"what?"

Joe Star asked curiously.

Fu Qinghai said calmly:

"Put thrusters on that abandoned space station, throw it out of orbit, and kill those traitors and warlords."

"Wonderful."

Qiao Shida's eyes lit up when he heard that.

Master Kunto immediately stopped him and said:
"Little Locke, our primary target is the STC below the castle, not the Iron Warriors or the rebel warlords."

The implication is that if the castle is dented, a large hole is created on the surface, and the STC below is destroyed, then their group will be in vain.

"There are two termite-class tyrant-type assault drilling vehicles on the scientific research ship, and we may be able to start from the ground."

Master Kunto reminded.

Fu Qinghai squeezed his chin and said:
"No matter what, go down and see the actual situation before making a decision."

Fu Qinghai turned his head and ordered:

"Jostar, choose a landing site."

Qiao Shida had a long-awaited draft of this, and he stretched out his hand to move the holographic projection of the planet to enlarge the land area, pointed to a valley not far from the warlord's fortress, and said:

"Here, Khan."

"Fifty kilometers away from the castle, the curvature of the planet can interfere with the detection of the auspicious instrument to a certain extent."

"It's surrounded by primeval forests, there are no signs of human activities, and the probability of being discovered by local people is relatively small."

"I observed the structure of the facility in the valley. It looks like an abandoned mine. Mines are generally accompanied by a strong magnetic field, which can also interfere with the enemy's detection methods to a certain extent."

Joe Star listed three reasons in one breath.

It caused Camille next to him to look at him differently.

"Very well, check the transmission beacon, pack up the weapons and equipment, and let's go down on the Thunderhawk gunboat."

Fu Qinghai ordered in satisfaction.

……

The Void Shield is a shield system unique to the Imperium of Man.

A very advanced and ingenious design.

The shield systems of other sci-fi IPs are nothing more than two types: deflector shield and energy shield, which are different from the "hard interception" method in which energy shield mainly intercepts attacks through energy neutralization, and deflect the attack with deflector shield The method of non-interception is also different. The principle of the void shield is to transfer the attack to the subspace.

Sometimes I can also imagine the feelings of the four peddlers-people sitting at home, water pouring from their heads, and when the human empire is fighting, all kinds of laser shells and other garbage are thrown into the subspace.

Void shields consume a lot of energy, but their energy is mainly used to maintain this warp portal, not to neutralize incoming attacks.

At the same time, like the Holzmann shield in the dune universe, the void shield will only defend against high-speed live ammunition weapons and directed energy weapons, such as macro cannons, light spears and nova cannons, and will not intercept the penetration of low-speed objects. Such as torpedoes, missiles and assault boats.

This kind of statement is somewhat absolute. After all, the speed is a relative concept. In fact, if you insist on subdividing it, the shipboard void shield, ground-based void shield and Titan void shield are different. By adjusting the frequency of the void shield to harmonize Waves can also intercept torpedoes and missiles.

But tanks and infantry are 100% sure they can go through void shields, which is one of the reasons why the Imperial Guard still practice the dull WW[-] tactics.

Therefore, Fu Qinghai proposed the plan of smashing the castle with the space station. Due to the influence of air resistance in the atmosphere, the falling speed of the space station will most likely not reach the interception speed of the void shield.

In addition, the void shield will also isolate a variety of psionic technologies based on the principle of subspace, such as teleportation technology, such as the scanning of the auspicious instrument.

So Fu Qinghai had to personally lead the team down to the surface to observe the actual situation of the castle defense.

……

Veteran driver Fu Qinghai operated the Thunder Eagle gunboat, and it landed steadily in the valley.

Three Space Marines emerged from the downed gunship's front door.

There were black slag and rusty iron frames scattered around. Fu Qinghai glanced at the handheld auspicious instrument in his hand, which showed that there was indeed a strong magnetic field here. He said in the communication channel:
"Set off."

Half an hour later, the three of them stood on a higher hill, observing the fortress in the distance.

The main color of grey-yellow covers the entire land, and the surrounding scenery is very bleak, shrouded in smog, the soil is lifted, and trenches are criss-crossed.

The activated void shield created a transparent bubble-like membrane around the castle, which caused an optical blur effect due to its ability to refract visible light passing through it.

The energy consumption of maintaining a void shield is enormous.

The standard dogma of the Imperial Navy is to always maintain void shields at 50.00% of their maximum power.However, few captains follow this rule strictly, given their enormous power requirements and consequently increased ship maintenance.Most people will keep the Void Shield at minimum power in a "safe" situation, such as in a naval port above the orbit of an Imperial world.

Considering the enemy is a techno-barbarian warlord, it's obviously not normal to keep the void shield fully activated.

The scene above the castle showed that the enemy already knew of the arrival of the fleet, and raised the void shield in advance, maintaining a relatively high power level.

Fu Qinghai gritted his teeth and looked worried.

Through the distorted film of light, Fu Qinghai could vaguely see, on the protruding bastion of the warlord's castle, a huge and solid fort with thick black muzzles piercing into the sky.

Skyhawk macro cannon.

The enemy moved all the macro cannons to the ground. This is a heavy ground-based macro cannon specially used for ground defense.

Ironically, the cannon even had the Imperial double-headed eagle on it before it could be erased.

Trench-style defensive platforms and half-buried fortifications stretched along the edge of the castle, with a large number of dead men's bones, abandoned weapons, ammunition boxes, shovels, metal rivets and firing holes attached to them.

"Before we came, they had fought more than one war, not necessarily because of our void shield."

Joe Star came to a conclusion.

Fu Qinghai nodded:
"Look, they are still reinforcing the crenels and city walls, those densely packed gun barrels, flat-firing cannons combined with curved-firing mortars and howitzers, and cross-firing holes for heavy bombers and logging guns...It's very Iron Warriors style."

Numerous fortifications fortified the warlord's castle into an iron hedgehog.

Joe Star also put away the idea of ​​​​the Thunderhawk gunship's low-altitude penetration and the airborne pod's center bloom.

"Drill the ground."

Joe Star said.

"That's all."

Fu Qinghai said in a low voice.

There is no other way.

Fu Qinghai secretly calculated in his heart:

Assault drilling vehicles will make a lot of noise, and the enemy cannot be unaware. Therefore, it is not enough to simply drill the ground. It must also cooperate with the frontal attack of the ground forces and the air and space strikes of the orbital warships to serve as the real tactical goal-underground assault. cover.

The Skitarii and armed servants were all brave enough to rush forward against the artillery fire of the castle's defense system, and sacrificed them under the city wall as bait and abandoned children. Master Quinto would not say no.

But Fu Qinghai felt that wars were not fought this way. Iron Warriors might fight this way, but White Scars didn't.

Maybe I can smash the space station next to the castle, change the terrain, and use the cover of the wreckage to shoot at the enemy?

Fu Qinghai recalled several classic battles between the White Scars and the orcs, but the problem remained. The STC was the primary target of this operation. Fu Qinghai had no way of predicting the destructive effect of the space station's fall, and it was difficult to accurately micro-manage the expected ending.

Fu Qinghai wanted to make this battle more beautiful.

Fu Qinghai is brainstorming...

Suddenly, feeling something in his heart, Fu Qinghai, Qiao Shida and Camille all looked to the side together.

A ragged mortal crawled to the foot of the mountain.

His hair was disheveled like a chicken coop, his face was pale, his dirty hands and feet were full of mud, his eyes timidly stared at the three space warriors on the hill, and he said cautiously:
"Three...Three adults, our adults would like to invite you to talk over there."

"Your family?"

Joe Star frowned.

"He, he is also an Astartes."

The man stammered and explained.

The three looked at each other.

"This may be a trap, Khan."

Joe Star whispered on the communication channel.

Fu Qinghai frowned and remained silent.

At this moment, the man suddenly rolled his eyes, his face began to distort, cobalt blue blood vessel stripes appeared around his cheeks, and a hideous little head of cobalt blue gelatin emerged from his back, with big evil white eyes straight Googo looked at Fu Qinghai, grinned his sharp teeth, and said in a hoarse voice:
"He said, if you don't want to, see me and you will."

"What the hell is this!?"

Joe Star was startled, subconsciously grasping the weapon at his waist.

"A mortal man controlled by alien parasites."

Joestar drew out his power sword and came to a conclusion.

"Do not."

Fu Qinghai reached out and held Qiao Shida down.

"Go and talk."

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　Thank you, the European admiral gave me a spear, if I don't like it, I will stay away silently, King Marquez, the rewards of the three book friends.

　
(End of this chapter)