Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 126 03.0125: ‘Armed Preparation’

Even though the caliber is only 1/5 of the Mars IV macrocannon, it is still not small. Huge cannonballs with a diameter of dozens of meters hit the hull of the Indefatigable.

Horatio and Farida could see the blasphemy mark on the projectile through the peripheral screenshot displayed on the display console.

"Prepare for bombardment!" Horatio shouted at the sound array system.

The crew on the shallow deck began to run towards the nearest thing that could be used as a cover.

The rusty scarlet cannonball tore the outer steel plate, and the crew member directly hit by the cannonball was engulfed in flames in an instant and turned into a pool of blood on the deck.

Collapsed debris continued to fall from the top, most of which were caught by anti-fall nets and no one was hurt.

Some shells got stuck in the deeper armored core and failed to detonate.

These strong and sacred steels, blessed by the God of All Machines, successfully blocked the aftermath of the explosion and protected the armored command platform and the crew on the gun deck.

Horatio's No. 4 gun bay was hit by two shots, and No. 3 gun bay was hit by one shot.

The huge explosion, fire and chaos that came from the display made Farida cover her mouth in surprise. She looked at Horatio in panic and asked stammering: "What should we do now?"

"Watch it." Horatio demonstrated to Farida.

He communicated efficiently and briefly to the sound array with alternate officers from other departments.

The damage control team immediately sprayed water foam mixed with fire-extinguishing liquid toward the fire. After the fire was extinguished, the engineering department's alternate officer commanded the technical acolytes to divide into two groups. One group checked the condition of the macro cannon, and the other group began to weld and repair the damaged parts.

"The gun crew reports the damage!" Horatio said to the two warrant officers and gunners.

After a short statistics, they gave their answers one after another.

"The No. 3 macro gun crew on the port side suffered 46 casualties and no damage to the gun!"

"The No. 4 macro gun group on the port side suffered 102 crew casualties, and the gun was not damaged! But some contract workers need to be replaced, and some people were killed by falling debris."

Horatio quickly reported the casualty figures to the macro artillery officer. The macro artillery officer integrated the numbers and passed them to the captain of the operations department. He also mobilized reserve crews and contractors for each artillery team to ensure that the two macro artillery guns could continue to be put into follow-up operations with the highest efficiency. Combat.

"Report the damage." Captain Peru asked seriously.

"The port side macro gun group suffered minor casualties, and the macro gun was not damaged. The port side light lance group suffered minor casualties, and the No. 1 light lance was slightly damaged and is being repaired." The captain of the operations department only reported the situation that the captain needed to pay attention to, and skipped it. Casualty figures.

"The deck structure was slightly damaged and there were minor casualties."

"The power cabin is not damaged and is in good condition."

"All four of our ship's macro cannons hit, and the enemy ship's void shield was at least half overloaded!"

"Speed ​​up the rate of fire! Captain, keep as far away from the enemy ships as possible. We are a little too close."

"Yes! Keep your distance! With the enemy ship!" The helmsman began to show off his superb steering skills, avoiding the murder-class S-shaped twisting shot.

‘Combat Order: Rate of Fire Priority’

Horatio looked at the instructions that popped up on the display console.

"Start the automatic tractor!" Horatio gave the order.

The artillery crew is equipped with automatic tractors. These huge mechanical arms will transport the artillery shells on their own. However, maintenance after each use is very troublesome and can easily cause "machine soul displeasure", so they will not be turned on for a long time. Generally, it is only turned on when the two ships are close to each other to pursue explosive rate of fire.

In this case, Horatio does not need precise calculations. He only needs to ensure that the gun crew can hit the enemy ship at the fastest speed and with basic accuracy.

With a burst of macro cannons roaring angrily. The Indefatigable destroyed the Murder-class cruiser's remaining void shield with just three salvos.

"Their void shields dissipate! Fire! Let us swing the Emperor's Swords of Punishment upon them!"

Farida is getting better and better. Not only is she able to quickly complete the tasks assigned to her by Horatio, she is even sent by Horatio to try to command the No. 4 gun crew.

With an excellent education, she understands things very quickly. She mastered almost all the processes just by seeing and trying her hands on it.

[This little girl is quite smart. ]

Horatio checked all her operations and found no mistakes, so he could safely give her room to perform.

The distance between the two ships was only about 800 kilometers, and the void shields on both sides were leaking energy. At this time, the only defense was the armor of the ship's hull, and the battle changed from boxing to a brutal bayonet battle.

Every cannonball and light spear energy beam was a sharp knife piercing the ship's hull. Horatio asked the gun crew to stare at the enemy ship's macrogun array and fire fiercely.

The huge Mars-type macrocannon shell can chip away an enemy's small-caliber giant turret with one shot, and tear apart the surrounding cabins.

Beams spurted out, cannonballs flew across the sky, and shipwrecks were scattered everywhere. Crew members on both sides were constantly being sucked into the dark void and suffocated to death.

No one can care about those unfortunate guys. When there are few people, they will be recruited from the on-call crew to replace them. Once the war machine is started, an individual is just a small screw in the operation of the machine, and there are more than 100,000 such screws. .

The blood floated in the air and condensed into a beautiful perfect sphere, but it would soon be smashed into pieces by the running damage control team members and crew members, who were all too busy.

Even the close-defense secondary guns of both sides joined in strafing the enemy ship's breached deck. The firefight was much more fierce than the dozen or so artillery regiments of the Imperial Guard combined.

This opened Farida's eyes. All the battles she had seen were nothing more than small fights at the void cruiser level.

She is seeing and experiencing the ferocity and horror of the largest war creation in human history.

The heavy double-barreled lance cannon on the bow of the Murder-class ship fired over. This is the most ferocious and vicious weapon on this class of warships. A round of salvos is more powerful than the four imperial lance turrets.

The dazzling scarlet energy shook the Indefatigable and drew a terrifying "smiley face" just below the bridge.

"Report the situation!"

"8 large crew cabins and 1 contract worker area were penetrated. God Emperor bless, now the crew are all in their positions, and the casualties are only hundreds of sick and resting. But thousands of contract workers in one section are all dead." The captain of the service department reported.

"Our ship caused serious damage to the enemy ship. 6 of their starboard macro cannons were destroyed! The power supply system was also damaged!" The lieutenant of the lookout department reported happily.

"Report!" The navigation officer suddenly shouted, "The enemy ship suddenly accelerated!"

"Emergency evasion! Captain, full rudder to the left! Power department, maximum engine thrust!"

"Full rudder to the left! Emergency evasion!"

In the void, the Murder-class cruiser suddenly overloaded its engine and rushed towards the Indefatigable.

The Indefatigable quickly turned, and the plasma engine ejected a larger and more brilliant golden light.

In the second macro-cannon array on the port side.

"Fire!" Horatio shouted and gave orders, his voice a little hoarse.

Two shells flew towards another giant turret of the enemy ship that was firing.

The dazzling golden flames produced by the explosion were reflected in Horatio's eyes. The previous round of salvos ignited the ready-to-fire ammunition of the enemy ship's turret.

The shooting of these Khorne cultists was not accurate, and they blindly relied on fierce firepower to make up for their shortcomings, but they obviously forgot to close the fire door.

The flames from the two macro cannons quickly rushed into the propellant chamber, and the chain explosions triggered overturned the hull of about 260 square meters on the surface of the ship, destroying everything below, plus another turret.

A fire of nearly 1,000 degrees broke out in the gun compartment of the enemy ship, and many people were burned to death without knowing the situation.

The enemy ship's damage control team forcibly closed the doors of the nearby cabins and cut off the oxygen supply. Many cultists could not escape, and could only wait to be roasted into charcoal by the approaching fire, or be poisoned by the toxic gas produced by the burning.

Horatio seemed to be able to hear the miserable screams of the cultists. Nothing could purify these evil spirits better than fire.

"It's all retribution." Horatio snorted expressionlessly.

These cultists must pay the most painful price for what they did in Abyss Port today, and he will personally avenge his dead comrades and killed civilians.

"All cabins! Arm and prepare!" The voice of the lord captain came from the loudspeaker.

"Horatio, what is armed preparation?"

"The enemy ship is preparing to board."

Horatio explained to Farida briefly and quickly, and then used the loudspeaker to shout to the two gun cabins:

"All naval armed forces in the gun fort are on duty immediately and ready for anti-boarding battle!"

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