Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 310 05.0309: ‘Forward Penetration Operation Planning’

After the Imperial Navy took control of the planet's orbit, the 25th Support Squadron of the Gothic Fleet began emergency rest.

Although they had gained control of the Starfort, the remnants of the rebels hiding in the corners of the corner still launched sneak attacks against the Imperial Navy's Starfort patrols from time to time, and sporadic gun battles never stopped.

Amidst the faint sound of gunfire from the distant corridor, Horatio walked quickly along the command floor corridor of the heavily defended Starfort, and the officers he met saluted him one by one.

He was on his way to participate in the 'Captains and Captains' Meeting', which was a discussion meeting often held by the Imperial Navy when formulating combat strategies.

"Look, it's him, an 18-year-old navy captain."

"When I was his age, I was still a star candidate."

"I heard that his letter of appointment was specially sent from the Navy Department in the Sepula-Mundi Star Region."

"It took me three and a half years and seven exams to get my appointment letter."

"Why did he become a captain at such a young age? Could it be that he took advantage of his family connections? I heard that he is the only living heir of Admiral Speyer..."

Several ensigns from other ships stood by the portholes, waiting boredly for the leaders of their departments to end the meeting.

These men and women looked at the young captain coming towards them and whispered.

"Stop your random thoughts, Lieutenant." An older captain held up a parchment scroll and said:

"The Corcoran family was born to serve in the Imperial Navy. I have worked with his father for many years and have seen this young man's abilities. Which of you has successfully wiped out an entire division of gang-hopping enemy troops when you were a candidate?"

For a moment, the ensigns were silent.

"Has anyone ever disabled a mutinous light cruiser's engines with just one shot?"

The men and women lowered their heads.

"Who has personally led a commando team to thwart the conspiracy of the great enemy of Chaos, the Gothic fleet?"

Even the sound of breathing disappeared and could be heard in the audience.

"Very well, it seems that I haven't been completely blinded by jealousy yet. Say less, do more, young people.

Although you are not as young and immature as the candidate officers, compared with Captain Corcoran, you are still too junior and have too many things to turn from theory to practice. "

The captain bowed to Horatio and led the junior lieutenants into the Star Castle conference room.

All the captains and captains on the orbiting ships who were not performing defense missions stood at the huge star chart table, looking at the overview of the planet Fal.

"The enemy is willing to destroy normal agricultural production and bear higher transportation costs. He has activated the weather control system, hoping to interfere with our ground detection and delay time."

Captain Sterling Lord pointed at the thick gas clouds billowing in the atmosphere at the core of the planet.

In order to facilitate agricultural production, each agricultural world is equipped with regional climate change devices.

This is an important mechanical creation on which production in the agricultural world depends for continuous operation, and it is also a meteorological weapon against foreign enemies.

The area directly below the Star Castle is the most important hive area on the entire planet. The continuous severe blizzards and atmospheric gas clouds have seriously blocked the Imperial Navy's orbital observations.

If it gets any closer, it will be bombarded by anti-air macro cannons on the planet's surface.

If it is not forcibly changed, the Astra Militarum forces that later arrive on Phar can only land tens of thousands of kilometers away from the core of the planet in an area not affected by the harsh climate, and then brave the blizzard.

In the absence of ground support, they pass through these tens of thousands of kilometers of no-man's land, advance to their destination, and then carry out a storming mission to the throne area of ​​the core hive of the planet despite the foreseeable supply shortage.

This would be a disastrous Odyssey-style expedition. The blizzard in No Man's Land alone would be enough to produce an alarming proportion of non-combat attrition. When the weather-beaten troops engaged the enemy, the well-positioned defenders in the fortress could also drink heavily. A pot.

And because the planet Fal is extremely valuable as an agricultural world, the Ministry of Interior does not allow the Imperial Navy to carry out large-scale indiscriminate orbital bombing and blow it into a wasteland, so this is destined to be a war of composting corpses.

"So, Captain Corcoran, is there a way for the Hellspike to shut down these climate intervention devices?

If Fal can't hold its position, we will have to accompany the Astra Militarum to transport more troops. If this waste continues, we will miss the second Damocles Gulf expedition. "

“The cold wave is too strong and there is no way to airborne directly from suborbital, otherwise the hell soldiers will be blown everywhere, and the landing point will become uncontrollable.

Once the complete organization is scattered to pieces, even they will have difficulty surviving in the heavy blizzard, let alone reuniting to carry out missions. "

Horatio frowned.

"If you want to achieve your goal, you can only try to let the Valkyrie fighter plane brave the blizzard and deliver the hell soldiers directly to the target location, and then let them carry out the mission.

To achieve this, we first need to know where these devices are hidden.

Perhaps, snowstorms are both our worst enemy and our best friend. "

"According to calculations, the enemy's anti-aircraft auspicious device has only a 46.736% probability of detecting the loose Valkyrie formation. After discovery, there is about a 33.333% probability of reacting and counterattacking. However, in this environment, the hit rate is estimated to be only 18.818%. "

"There are risks, but they are within the tolerance range," Horatio said:

"As long as the Hell Snipers can be safely delivered to the ground, in addition to destroying the climate intervention device, they may also be able to paralyze several anti-aircraft fortress turrets."

"Captain Cochran, if all the Hell Snipers are handed over to you for command, and supplemented by air-to-ground support, can you complete such a task?"

"I believe in the capabilities of the Hell Snipers and the Imperial Navy Air Force, but more follow-up docking and coordination may be required, which is what I suggested to you last time. A battleship, and a complete support system."

Captain Peru nodded, looking serious:

"Okay, I will give the action force Dispatch a Cobra-class destroyer.

She will quietly sail into the range of the enemy's anti-aircraft macro-cannon firepower, risking being severely damaged or even destroyed, consuming a large amount of energy and fuel to resist the planet's gravity well as your close-ground support ship.

No matter what support the Hell Vanguard needs, firepower strikes, weapons and ammunition supplies, even the Imperial Navy armed forces, we will find a way to airdrop them. "

Horatio understood that for the expeditionary fleet that had to carefully calculate all resources, this was the most Commodore Peru could spend on the Hell Vanguard of less than 100 people.

Higher risks and ship consumption were unacceptable.

"Thank you, sir. According to the latest updated defense map of Far Star in the Star Fortress, their anti-aircraft artillery is mainly distributed within a thousand kilometers around the core area, and it becomes more and more dense as it approaches the core area.

Considering the number of Hell's Vanguards, we can't carry out infiltration and destruction in places where the enemy is densely populated. In that case, our airborne 100-man team will face the encirclement and suppression of millions of rebel troops and will not survive for more than 10 hours.

So it is most suitable to be 8,000 kilometers outside the core area. The distance between the fortresses in this peripheral area is very far, and one fortress has to undertake the air defense mission of hundreds of kilometers.

Even if attacked, the enemy will not rashly support these remote positions in the blizzard under unknown circumstances, so we can turn the blizzard into our advantage."

The colonels and lieutenants here all nodded in approval.

Then Horatio said:

"Changing the weather, that is, interfering with ground detection in the early stage of planetary invasion, is useful.

Once the Imperial Guard successfully lands near the core hinterland instead of the remote uninhabited area, the traffic jam caused by bad weather will only be more detrimental to the rebels' defense operations. They will definitely shut down.

So, we only need to take down the anti-aircraft artillery and climate intervention devices in the 8,000-kilometer circle outside the core area.

It will save the Astra Militarum a lot of time in the snow in the uninhabited area, and let the rebels, after weighing the pros and cons, adjust the climate intervention devices to the weather suitable for combat, that is, the clear summer sky.

At that time, it will be the time for the two armies to face each other head-on under the clear sky."

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