The Protoss in Warhammer

Chapter 392 380. Inappropriate weapons, plus inappropriate soldiers

In the space turret, the naval officers and soldiers of the Empire immediately armed themselves after receiving the news. Under the loud scolding of the officers, the soldiers who were still resting an hour ago were quickly driven out of their beds. Some of them didn't even have a shirt, and they came to the gun position naked before they had time to put it on.

The space turret of Tigris is very interesting. The main defense measure is the twin-mounted super-heavy rail gun. This powerful weapon can easily pose a great threat to the enemy's plasma shield, and at the same time, due to its slower speed, it can also pose a threat to the void shield. Of course, there are problems with this type of artillery. The main reason why railguns are not widely used in the empire is that due to the huge size of this weapon, the main area occupied by this thing alone completely occupies the center of the entire space station, which leads to the layout of other things very hastily around the circular turret. At the same time, in order to prevent being pulled by the gravity of the planet, the armor of some close-range artillery is very fragile. In a sense, these turrets like hanging silos are the secondary armor belts of the main guns.

Another problem is even more fatal, that is, because of the extremely high heat generated when electromagnetic artillery fires shells, they have to constantly replace the gun barrels. On average, a gun barrel needs to be replaced after firing 90 rounds. This also leads to the fact that this type of artillery must master the accuracy as much as possible, achieve a one-shot victory, and reduce the firing time.

If it were the original defenders of the space turret, it would probably be no problem, but the imperial army has just started for no more than two weeks, and they are thankful that they can fire!

Zeratul commanded the cruiser fleet to advance rapidly. He did not need any psychic prophecy at all, because common sense could infer that the Imperial Army had no way to master those artillery. The agile Eldar cruisers were quickly divided into several formations. They were light and quickly approached the enemy before they were fully prepared, destroying the outer armor with their lasers and torpedoes.

Antimatter bombs and plasma bombs exploded at the edges of those turrets. The fragile armor had no way to protect the soldiers inside. Some soldiers were attacked just as they arrived at their gun positions and were thrown into the cold void, causing their blood to slowly solidify and eventually turn into ice statues.

When the Empire's defense was successfully cut off, the second-stage formation composed of frigates, destroyers and carrier-based aircraft also took off quickly. Compared with humans who had just come into contact with other races' military equipment, Zeratul was more flexible. After the cruiser took the right angle to obtain sufficient results, he quickly issued the next order. The speed was so fast that even when the Aida naval officers were still cheering, they continued to issue the next order.

Zeratul's idea of ​​letting the small frigates and destroyers go forward to cover the aircraft was correct. Although a large number of sub-defense systems had been destroyed, the Imperial Navy fleet could still launch a large number of carrier-based aircraft into the void. Although the carrier-based aircraft of the Aida people were very suitable for guerrilla warfare, combat and annihilation warfare, they could not be so flexible when facing large aircraft groups. Therefore, the small frigates and destroyers were more like bomber groups responsible for advancing, and the role of those aircraft was to protect these bombers from being interfered with by enemy fighters.

The Aida fighters gracefully danced the ancient battle dance in the void. Compared with the huge and clumsy fighters of humans, they showed incomparable lightness. Although every attack of human fighters could easily destroy them, and although sometimes their round of attacks might not be enough to destroy the enemy fighters, the Aida people seemed to have completely fallen into the joy of this battle, so that some pilots were too addicted to the pleasure of fighting and neglected their original tasks.

This is why Zeratul insisted on taking over the Eldar fleet. He was worried that these pointy-eared guys would get too excited and abandon their original mission. In the past, the Eldars had failed in their wars more than once because of their pride and rich emotions. After each failure, they complained about themselves and were very dissatisfied, nagging like a woman.

Before the fighters that were about to get excited reached the worst situation, Zeratul's next order came out. He asked the fighters to quickly break through the enemy's remaining air defense line and cover all small warships to reach the sky. Although the fighter pilots were a little excited, they were still soldiers and would still understand the orders of their superiors. After quickly leaving the battle with the human fighters, they went to eliminate the scattered air defense forces.

Due to the failure of a large number of sub-defense systems on the space turrets, human troops were even forced to wear space suits and go to some open places to use shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles and wolf spider turrets for air defense.

This kind of fragile air defense force is nothing. Take the anti-aircraft missiles for example. It is estimated that only rookie pilots or Ork pilots will be hit. As for the wolf spider turret, it was originally an automatic artillery for use on the ground. It is too difficult for the machine souls in the machines to use it for air defense.

Soon, those fragile air defense forces were destroyed by the Eldar fighters. The Nightwing fighters and Phoenix fighters used their powerful firepower to wantonly lick those fragile infantry and astronauts, smashing them into pieces. This kind of attack mission without any fun soon made the Aida feel bored, so they solved everything as quickly as possible and left hastily.

After all, the pleasure of killing a powerful prey is incomparable to that of crushing an ant.

But this is also a good thing, after all, the efficiency of the Aida can be much higher, and they will not spend too much time on such things. Now those defense platforms floating on the Korhal space orbit are completely finished. They only have the central electromagnetic artillery, and some electromagnetic artillery have been destroyed by the successive attacks of cruisers and destroyers. The human empire did not even have time to use these powerful weapons to their original role before they were destroyed along with these creations.

Looking at the turrets that have been basically scrapped, Zeratul sighed. Although such a strong record was related to his own outstanding ability and the stupidity of the Imperial Army, it also proved that the so-called iron wall of Korhal was not strong enough in a sense, otherwise humans would not have been able to take over the fortifications of the Teclis so easily.

This young civilization was not fully prepared to step into the galaxy. I hope that after this lesson, they can remember it.

Zeratul sighed and re-entered the battle. Don't forget that they have just solved their space artillery, and the fleet of the human empire is still floating!