The Emperor’s Angel of Death

This time the Angstrom naval battle will be commanded by Soshyan himself. In order to maximize the combat effectiveness of the coalition forces, he has unified the command of all squadrons, including the Reza fleet, into the Thinker data link of the Eternal Loyalty. This is A huge challenge. Although the command center of the Eternal Loyalty has undergone many enhancements and transformations, it is the first time to process such a large amount of battlefield data. In order to prevent accidents, Soshyan even mobilized ten data officers from Angstrom. The sages come to take part of the computing functions with the sages of Reza.

In addition, Angstrom's flagship Alloy Truth will serve as the deputy flagship of the joint fleet of the Expeditionary Force and the Mechanicus, as well as the aircraft flight control center of the entire fleet. The captain is still the same as before, but the tactical command is temporarily controlled by the fourth company commander Lothar. Responsible and assisting him are also several sages and more than a dozen experts in other fields.

When comparing the strength of the enemy and our fleets, Soshyan did not ignore another advantage of his own side, which is the formation of fighter jets.

Fighter formations occupy an important position in Angstrom's planetary defense system. Not only are large hangars and flight decks deployed on orbital stations, but also solid bunker hangars have been built on several satellites. The entire Angstrom In the Mu planetary defense force, there are 480 fury interceptor flying wings, 240 starhawk bomber flying wings, a total of more than 60,000 space fighters.

Although the status of fighter planes in the imperial navy is far inferior to naval guns, just like what often happens in those virgin forests, the most powerful beasts may also be bitten to death by the tiniest insects, but when the number of fighter jets reaches a certain scale, It is impossible to ignore their damage as huge as a battleship, but the only shortcoming that restricts fighters is the voyage and limited combat time. After all, the distance of the fleet's firefights is often tens of thousands of kilometers, and fighters may lose most of their fuel in one round trip. How much remaining combat time.

However, this time it is a defensive operation. Relying on satellites to engage the enemy can alleviate this shortcoming to the greatest extent. In addition, whether it is Angstrom's capital ship or Astarte's battle barge, the number of flight decks is compared to There are more other ships, which can also provide a temporary transfer station for the fighter formations fighting on the front line.

In order to achieve such a combat goal, Soshyan put the solid battle barges in front, on the one hand, they used them as fleet barriers to resist possible enemy firepower, and on the other hand, they served as support nodes for the front-line fighter formation.

In addition, the system of the orbital defense station has finally been activated again with the efforts of more than a dozen data craftsmen. Although some functions are still in a state of paralysis, at least the weapon system is ready to use.

On the busy bridge, Soshyan stared at the tactical imaging device. The thing swimming in the void in front of him was the powerful opponent he was going to face. Three huge battleships were suspended in the open space above the holographic projection platform. Surrounded by tiny, twinkling dots of light representing the next-tier battleships.

Those three battleships were the strongest capital ships of the Red Pirates, and they all left a lot of notoriety in the records of the empire.

The first one is the Apostle-class battleship Torment. The Apostle-class is a battleship built using many long-lost technologies of Mechanicus. In service, from the 31st to the 34th millennium, at least five ships of this type turned their backs on the Emperor's Light, and the Torment was the oldest of these, whose engine was destroyed during the Spartan War, in a helpless After drifting into an exhausted asteroid belt, it was occupied by rebel pirates. After many years of twists and turns, it fell into the hands of Huron, who was still the leader of the Star Claw Chapter at that time. After hundreds of years of restoration, it became a powerful Star Claw Chapter. A part of the fleet, but the Star Claw has fallen before the official combat, and it also escaped into the depths of the maelstrom as Huron's hidden power. In the more than a hundred years when Huron launched revenge on the Empire in the name of the Black Heart King, The crimes committed by the Tormentor are countless, including but not limited to, destroying dozens of key space stations of the Empire, and participating in several large-scale plundering activities against the Empire.

The second ship is the Retribution-class battleship Desperate Prayer, which was taken back from the subspace by the Red Pirates fifty years ago. After a series of transformations, it is even more powerful than before.

The third ship is the Conqueror-class battleship Sorrow. As a very old ship model, due to the aging of the engine and main structure, it was sealed in a naval port in the Storm Starfield. The red pirates attacked, and the old ship was also looted, and after a major transformation, it regained its powerful combat effectiveness.

Although these three battleships are of different models, they have a common feature, that is, their long-range bombardment capabilities are all very powerful, which is not good news.

"It stands to reason that it has already entered the range, but the enemy flagship has not fired yet and is still moving. It is very likely that the target is Liuli No. 3."

As the first company commander of the Imperial Fist, Laishander also has rich experience in naval warfare, so he came to the flagship as Suoshyan's deputy.

Hearing his words, Soshyan drew a line on the tactical chart with his hand.

"The opponent will enter the furthest range of our side in about 20 minutes. If they continue to move for 40 minutes according to the current route and speed, they will enter the furthest range of the giant light spear array of the planetary orbital station, but I think Once they get here, they won't go any further."

Then he turned to the communications officer.

"Send a message to Alloy Truth, and the first batch of fighter formations and bomber formations on Liuli 3 will take off in ten minutes."

"yes!"

The subsequent development of the matter confirmed Soshyan's thoughts. The forwards of the Red Pirates began to turn after approaching the firing range of the Imperial Fleet, and became a standard artillery formation. Obviously, they did not spend less effort on Angstrom. Know the fire distribution and range of the Forge World's Orbital Defense System.

Then, the capital ships with the furthest range in the Red Pirate fleet suddenly opened fire, aiming at Liuli 3.

Dazzling spots of light flashed across the observation windows of all the ships, and the powerful shooting made the entire star body of Liuli 3 seem to shake, and a huge gully was split on the barren satellite surface. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

But most importantly, the hidden Starcastle Shipyard is exposed.

The Red Pirates found that the target did not hesitate, and immediately launched a second round of main gun salvo in a very short time. If it hits, it will directly destroy the unfinished star fort.

However, something happened that surprised the commander of the Red Pirate Fleet.

The thick void shield raised at an unknown time absorbed all the firepower, leaving the star castle intact!

It turned out that although the energy system of Star Fort had not been completely completed, after an hour of unremitting efforts by the sages, they successfully connected the energy system of the shipyard with Star Fort, enabling the giant void shield generator already installed to be successfully activated.

As one of the most powerful void weapons in the empire, the defense of the Ramirez-class star castle is self-evident. With sufficient energy, the enemy's long-distance bombardment did not shake its void shield at all.

After withstood a round of enemy bombardment, the underground bunker hangars of Liuli No. 3 were activated one after another, as if a giant crocodile lurking underwater opened its mouth, revealing a dark flight exit from the desolate gray ground—