Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 123 03.0122: ‘Untiring Attack’

"Level 1 combat alert! Level 1 combat alert! All personnel are in position! All personnel are in position!"

The loudest first-level combat readiness warning sound was quickly spread throughout the ship through all sound array devices and sound tubes before the torpedo was launched.

The warning lights in each cabin on the battlecruiser Indefatigable flashed, sailors and armed forces were running, and military drummers began to beat drums in preparation for war. The rapid drumbeats were sweet, loud, and exciting.

Hearing the first-level combat readiness alarm and the combat readiness drumbeat, Horatio opened his eyes instantly, stood up, put on his officer's uniform, and walked out of the lounge.

"I think you should be in better spirits now." Farida looked at him with a smile.

"I slept well and my mind is clear. Did anything happen during this period?" Horatio asked, adjusting his collar.

"Don't worry, everything is solved perfectly. What can be difficult for me?" Farida smiled proudly, and motioned the waiter to bring the prepared hot refreshing tea and sandwiches to Horatio.

In fact, there were some minor issues along the way, but in order to let Horatio sleep a little longer, she did not hesitate to lower her status to ask the warrant officer for advice. In the end, the matter was resolved satisfactorily, and Horatio slept peacefully for two hours.

"You are quite attentive." Horatio smiled as he looked at the hot tea and freshly cooked food in front of him.

"Hmph, I suggest you eat quickly. We are going to fight, so don't choke."

"Well, it tastes very good." Horatio took a bite of the warm and soft fresh-cut steak sandwich and praised the solid ingredients inside.

Farida kept a proud smile, solemnly and decently placed her hands behind her back, guarding the void.

Wearing long black leather boots, she tiptoed forward from time to time, showing that she was in a happy mood.

Inside the command bridge.

"Watch that blasphemous battleship! If it doesn't change course, speed up and hit it!" Commodore Edward ordered.

The six torpedoes galloped forward, just on the Murder-class's established route. Even if it intercepted with full firepower, at least three of them would directly hit the middle of her hull, followed closely by many more. The sharp and huge dynamic collision angle of the Tired Horn, and the faint blue decomposition force field buzzed.

The Murder-class cruiser retreated in the face of the imminent high-threat target.

She gave up chasing the heavily damaged Cobra-class destroyer and began to full port rudder, avoiding torpedoes while keeping distance from the approaching Indefatigable.

The timing and dispersion of this row of torpedoes was perfect.

In order to avoid it, the Murder-class cruiser could no longer fire at the injured Cobra-class with its cannon at any angle, giving the small ship time to restart its void shield and escape.

"Thank you very much! Captain Peru!" The female captain of the Cobra class who was hit sent a communication expressing her gratitude.

"Thank you, Captain, for keeping your battleship outside the battle line."

"As you command, Commander!"

In addition to the ships originally scheduled to perform peripheral security missions, and those ships that had to join the security mission due to damage.

The other two intact auxiliary battleships began to change course and moved closer to the Indefatigable, hunting the Chaos battleship together. The tactical policy of "we retreat when the enemy is strong and attack when the enemy is tired" has been fully implemented.

The Imperial Navy is an expert in void warfare, and its well-trained captains and officers know exactly how to use flexible wolf pack tactics to tear apart the minions and traitors of the evil god.

Commodore Edward Perroux, as the commander of this siege fleet, coordinated the tactics of each ship.

Each battleship is coordinated and unified, the battle position is determined, and each battleship has its own mission.

While guarding the surroundings and continuously detecting the void, the frigate uses weapons to wear down the enemy ship's void shield until it is overloaded.

Destroyers used torpedoes to block shipping lanes, forcing enemy ships to change course in a direction favorable to Imperial Navy operations.

The Indefatigable will be responsible for the main firefighting mission, severely damaging enemy ships at medium-range distances, and giving priority to disabling systems. After the Vengeful Blade arrives, it will cooperate with the Second Company of the Blood Angels to conduct gang-hopping operations.

Cruiser-class battleships have two thrones, one is the battleship command throne, and the other is the fleet command throne.

The former is seated by the captain, the latter by the generals who command the fleet.

But Commodore Peru is unique in that he is both the captain and the battle group commander.

He sits on the fleet command throne, and his first mate, Lord Sterling, sits on the battleship command throne and provides specific combat command of the Indefatigable battlecruiser.

"All combat departments are ordered to wait until the target appears within the firing range to start the first round of salvo fire." Captain Sterling shouted to the officers of the combat department.

"Yes! Captain."

The combat order has been issued, and subsequent specific details will be released by the officers serving as macro artillery officer, light spear artillery officer, and close defense artillery officer in the combat department to their respective departments in an orderly and well-coordinated manner.

The macro gunnery officer of the Indefatigable is a senior lieutenant who graduated from the ship gunnery department of the Abridar Tadashi Academy. She is Fidio's senior. She will issue the gun crew orders in the next battle.

Horatio held his breath and waited for the enemy ship to appear from the wide porthole in front of him. The width and height of this porthole fit the extreme pitch and rotation angles of this macrogun. It can fire at any target that appears in the porthole.

In the void, the Cobra-class destroyer 'Silver Sword' relied on its high speed and flexible maneuverability to turn from right to left, and circled diagonally behind the right side of the Murder-class.

"Your Excellency, Commander, our ship will release the last group of torpedoes to force the enemy ship to turn right!" The captain reported his planned tactics to Commodore Edward.

"Go ahead." Commodore Peru nodded.

At the same time, he shouted to the helmsman: "After seeing the torpedo track, immediately turn right two and a half turns."

"Yes, two and a half turns right, when you see the torpedo track!" The helmsman held the steering wheel with both hands, looked at the scale above, and repeated the instructions in reverse.

The purpose of this is to prevent the operator from only repeating unilaterally, rather than thoroughly interpreting and identifying the command.

Four torpedoes streaked across the void, and the burning track of promethium was clearly visible.

The Murder-class cruiser immediately began to maneuver and chose to turn right.

As her course changed, the Indefatigable Doomsday-class battlecruiser immediately turned its bow at a 40-degree angle and cut in, and the left side gun slowly turned.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was about one "void chain" (about 7,696 kilometers).

The maximum allowable firing distance of the Void Ripper Light Lance on the backbone of the Indefatigable is 1/4 chain (i.e. ultra-long-range gun distance, about 1924 kilometers), which is the longest-range gun platform on the entire ship, but its power is not as good as the Titan-cast Heavy Light Lance Cannon on the side.

The maximum allowable firing distance of the broadside macro cannon and light spear cannon array is 3/16 chain (long-range gun distance, about 1443 kilometers), both of which are heavy gun groups with amazing power.

Although the number of only four macro cannons and two light spear cannons on one side seems to be far lower than the murder level of 16 macro cannons on one side.

But the damage caused by all the four huge Mars IV heavy macro cannons hitting the enemy is greater than the damage caused by all the 16 small-caliber macro cannons hitting the enemy.

The broadside and backbone light spear cannons have a 100% hit rate.

"The distance to the enemy ship is about 3,300 kilometers! The closing rate is positive 1.3, the bearing is +0315, and the phase is ZL."

"Return to the right position, set the rudder!" The captain announced the new course.

"Ring straight, hold it!" As the helmsman turned the rudder straight, the huge body of the Indefatigable maintained the new course and began to slide sideways, gradually approaching the Murder Class, while pointing all its weapons on the port side at the prey.

This not only ensures that the gun crew has enough time to adjust the firing range, but also ensures a certain close rate, allowing both sides to enter the range of the gun.

In the artillery fort, the lights on the command platform turned blue, and the lights in the gun cabin below turned red.

This also fits the ancient tradition of physiology.

Blue lights can keep people calm, while red lights can make people feel full of energy and affect the pupil expansion, allowing people to adapt to the darkness in advance.

After all, it is common for the power system to be damaged during the battle and the surroundings to fall into darkness.

Horatio stood in front of the display console, waiting for the rangefinder officer to send the parameters.

Everyone knew that it would not be long before the first round of salvo battles would begin.

The inexperienced Farida was a little nervous. The most intuitive manifestation was that she spoke less and twisted her slender fingers behind her back.

Although she still tried her best to maintain a dignified look, the smile on her face disappeared, replaced by some anxious little movements.

Horatio noticed Farida's nervousness.

"Don't worry, it's safe here." He stared at the void with sharp eyes, and said in a soft but serious tone, giving people a full sense of security.

"I'm looking forward to the battle, not worried about the danger." The girl's voice was very light, and she exhaled slowly.

Horatio smiled without saying anything and continued his work.

'According to the closing rate, it is expected to reach the long-range artillery range within 5 minutes'

The display console popped up the message and parameters sent by the combat officer.

"Second artillery position, deflect to 21 degrees positive, 14 degrees elevation, load high-speed normal bullets."

Horatio reported the result of his calculation on the draft paper with a feather pen, and only gave the order after it was consistent with the data on the display console.

That's right, hand calculation, it's so rough.

Because even the machine soul in this world may be invaded by demons, machines are considered to be untrustworthy. The combat regulations of the Imperial Navy require that the officer's hand calculation and the data on the display console are completely consistent before an order can be issued.

Only well-educated naval officers can perform these formulas and mathematical calculations accurately.

Even a warrant officer like the gunner can only rely on his feelings accumulated over the years to fire independently, and cannot be as accurate as a naval officer.

This intuitive gunnery technique has almost no hit rate at a long distance.

This fundamentally determines that unless the naval officers participate in the mutiny, even if the crew seizes the warship, they will still be beaten by the encircled Imperial Navy warships in the crossfire of the void war.

"Follow your orders, sir!" The gunner immediately implemented Horatio's orders on the operation of the macro cannon: "Load high-speed normal bullets!!"

Under the waving of the whip, the contract worker struggled to push the huge steering and elevation dials, and the terrifying black muzzle slowly moved through the layers of mechanical gears.

Although the muzzle did not rotate very fast, considering that the target was a giant ship several kilometers long, this was not a problem.

Horatio took out his pocket watch and silently counted the time in his mind.

[About 1 minute to reach the long-range gun range. (about 1443 kilometers). ]

He held his pocket watch and looked at the rotating void.

This was the Indefatigable turning faster to increase the range, but it would not be directly parallel. She was still moving forward, trying to get close to the medium-range gun range (about 962 kilometers).

Therefore, the captain of the operations department requested that the first round of artillery fire from the port side of the macro gun be carried out in a right oblique salvo.

[10...9...]

Horatio was holding the stopwatch with a sharp look.

Looking at his serious expression, Farida could not help but get nervous.

[3…2…]

Horatio took a deep breath and looked into the void.

The blood-red painted surface of the enemy ship appeared in the porthole of the range, and the pale skulls on it seemed to be mocking him provocatively.

"Start firing from the front to the back!" The macro gun officer sent an order.

Buzz——!! The first sharp sound of the acceleration coil came from the right, and the command platform trembled.

"Hmm!" Farida lost her voice slightly, holding Horatio's arm with one hand and the guardrail beside her with the other hand.

She didn't expect that the movement and sound of the heavy macro gun firing would be so loud, far exceeding her psychological expectations.

This was still inside the armored command platform, and it was the No. 1 macro gun in the distance.

If it was closer, it would be completely possible to shake people to bleeding!

Buzz——!!! A louder sound came from the next cabin, and the vibration was more violent, like a small earthquake.

It was Horatio's macro gun array's turn.

Farida was even more nervous. What would it be like to fire in front of others? ?

Nervous sweat dripped down her beautiful face.

Horatio raised his left hand and waved it downward, shouting: "Fire!!!"

"Fire!!!" The gunner repeated Horatio's order and shouted at the firing console below.

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