Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

"Starboard gun, fire the first salvo from front to back, open fire!"

Following the order from Hong Artillery Officer.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Every ship in the line opened fire, and every roar from the huge cannon was accompanied by violent shaking of the entire ship.

Even when Horatio stood at the top of the command bridge, he could feel the shock coming from the macro gun deck under his feet.

Flame is the symbol of the birth of human civilization, and it has always accompanied mankind into the cold void.

Live ammunition weapons will always enjoy loyal support among humans because their firing and design are so shocking.

The target of these fine gold cannonballs has a small frontal projection, and is even an oval-shaped boat that is too small for a void ship.

A swarm of green-skinned small junk ships at the vanguard of the alien fleet were rushing towards them at the lead. They were extremely fast, with thick smoke billowing out from their tails.

These adamantine blades are their ramming horns. Thanks to this distinctive feature, these small boats are called "ramming ships" by the Imperial Navy.

The ship itself is equivalent to a huge jumping torpedo.

Relying on brutal collisions, they penetrated into the hull of the battleship, and then sprayed tens of thousands of dirty green skins against the hull, defiling the sacred and precious naval battleship.

This was an act of blasphemy that no Imperial Navy service member would tolerate.

There are also some ships that are obviously very small, but the ship is extremely uncoordinated in carrying a gunboat that is slightly larger than the caliber of the Imperial Navy's heavy cloud cannon.

The ship's heavy cannon makes no secret of the brutality and threat it possesses given by the green-skinned alien giant.

Except for the looming greenskin threat.

The officers of the Observation Department were also nervously paying attention to the four-color evil light emitting in the dark void about 30,000 kilometers away in the opposite direction.

"Your Majesty, God Emperor, stop these boats quickly!" the captain of the combat department shouted to his subordinate weapons officers.

"Report! The alien capital ship is approaching.

The Chaos Fleet is coming towards us from direction 296, and it seems that it wants to cut off our fleet's front line. "

Another piece of bad news came from the Observation Department.

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"The attack frequency of these boats is too high, and the void shield needs to be relieved! There will be a 15-minute gap period!

Everyone is ready to be attacked! We must release excess energy before engaging the enemy's main force! "

The dazzling cannonballs sailed through the void and hit the green-skinned garbage ship.

There are too many of these small junk ships, and they are ordered to weaken the human capital ships at all costs.

Therefore, he did not care about the ferocious firepower and just rushed forward, constantly getting close to the Imperial Navy warship, close enough that his powerful crude weapons could fire, or directly ram into it.

Around the battle line, escort ships and destroyers filed out, like well-trained war dogs, rushing forward to bite these small boats.

Try desperately to intercept them before they threaten the main fleet.

On average, one shot of the heavy artillery carried by the Imperial Navy cruisers can paralyze such a small ship.

Up to 6 rapid-fire light macro cannons on one side of the cruiser are more effective against these things.

Light spears pose a greater threat to these small ships, but they fire less frequently and recharge slowly.

In order to stop these suicidal enemy ships, even close firepower participated in the firing.

Behind them, the light of stars illuminated a dozen larger junk ships and huge flying rocks.

"Yes!"

Captain Horatio Cochrane, the captain has orders, please rush to the command bridge and command the throne immediately. "The herald stood up at the aviation control platform and said after a hurried salute.

"Roger." Horatio returned the greeting, then placed an aviation order on the table, then turned to Collingwood and said: "Archie, you have done a good job so far, next I will go to the command ship Qiao reported, continue to protect the temple."

"Don't worry, leave it to me." Although Collingwood's face was covered with sweat, his nervousness did not really affect his excellent brain performance. His orders and plans were still methodical, taking into account both organization and decisiveness.

Egg!

Horatio took the captain's elevator and arrived at the command bridge as quickly as possible.

The huge explosion that occurred after the green-skinned garbage ship was destroyed continued to flash in the void beside it. After the explosion, the wreckage flew across the sky, causing nearby destroyers to frequently avoid it.

Even at this time, he could directly see the ferocious faces with "green skin art" on the fronts of those boats.

"Captain." Horatio saluted.

Suddenly, he felt a slight tremor in his iron hand, which was an early warning reminder of the omen fragments.

"Mr. Horatio, you will serve as my temporary staff officer next to me. We are now in a "left full rudder!" Full left rudder! Everyone is ready for attack! "

"Captain, be careful!" Horatio pulled the commodore behind the adamantine command throne.

With a crash, the glass portholes of the command bridge suddenly shattered.

The passage of time seemed to slow down. From the corner of his eye, Horatio clearly saw an extremely huge cannonball, nearly seventy or eighty meters in diameter, shattering the towering armored glass layer of the command bridge.

Countless metal fragments and glass fragments collapsed from one side.

The giant cannonball rotated, arbitrarily breaking the fine gold sky eagle tied to the statue of the God Emperor with iron ropes, speeding past about 300 meters away from Horatio's eyes, shattering the glazed layer on the other side, and flew through Got out,

There was no explosion inside the ship.

boom!

The huge transformed adamantine sky eagle that broke free from the iron chain fell from the top and hit the surveying platform at the navigation point below.

In an instant, two officers and three alternates disappeared from people's eyes, leaving only a huge pit on the command deck.

No one knows which level below the command bridge the adamantine Eagle statue smashed into, or how many people were killed in the process.

People didn't care about this, because what followed was more small fragments of falling objects such as glass fragments and broken steel, shining brightly from the sky, falling like deadly crystal rain on the bridge of the command ship.

At this moment, the bridge was in chaos. Some people were unable to dodge, and their exposed legs were stabbed. Others were more unfortunate, and their torsos were smashed into mud, or their heads were directly hit, and they fell to the ground bleeding profusely. The ground cannot stand.

For a moment, the sound of the pinging table tennis and the hiss of damaged circuit cables were mixed with people's screams, echoing in the empty command bridge.

Boom!

One of the sharp prismatic glass fragments landed around the armrest of the fleet command bridge.

If Horatio hadn't had quick eyesight and quick hands just now and pulled Brigadier Peru behind the adamantine throne, he might have been broken in two.

"Your Majesty, the God Emperor." Commodore Peru walked out from behind the fleet command throne and murmured with lingering fear as he looked at the sudden change.

Soon, he discovered that the battleship was traveling in the wrong direction and had yawed.

It's not a damaged yaw, it's a human-operated yaw.

He immediately looked at the lord captain on the battleship's command throne.

"God Emperor, what happened? Report the situation, Captain Sterling Lord."

"Report——Captain. Ahem!"

Captain Sterling endured the severe pain and sat up, but he could only lie half-paralyzed on the command throne of the battleship. There were many deep scratches on his body and face.

Some fragments of glass pierced his abdomen and chest, piercing his internal organs and causing massive bleeding. Blood was coughed out of his alveoli as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Captain Lord is injured! Second officer! Take over! Send the medical officer and medical sister over!" the Brigadier shouted.

He looked at the battle position where the captain of the operations department, who was the second mate, was standing, and saw a half-cut body king hanging on the meditator array.

A second lieutenant next to him was sitting on the ground with a pale face and a frightened look, watching blood and colorful organs flowing down from the fractured half of the combat captain's body.

"Third mate! Third mate!"

"Captain, the command department is short of officers. Two people are injured! One is minor and the other is serious!" The captain of the command department wiped the splattered blood on his face and took over the wounded man's position, saying that he could not escape.

The fourth and fifth officers were too far away from the battleship's command throne, and it would be too late for them to run a kilometer or two over.

Captain Peru immediately looked at the young captain next to him.

"Captain Horatio, take over the battleship command throne! Right now, I urgently appoint you as the Indefatigable. After receiving the authorization, Horatio acted immediately.

He jumped up, held on to the railings from the high platform, jumped down the metal steps, and ran towards the battleship command throne.

As the thirteenth captain with the most junior qualifications on the ship, and before the Indefatigable had the aviation department, there was no such position in Japan.

Horatio would have been ranked last among the captains in command of the ships.

Normally, the battle command throne is where the captain sits, while the fleet command throne is where the fleet officers and generals sit.

However, because the Commodore can serve as the commander of a small strike group without battleships, he can also serve as the captain.

Therefore, Commodore Edward Peru, as captain, sat on the fleet command throne.

The first officer of the Indefatigable, Captain Sterling Lord, therefore took the seat that should have been occupied by the captain.

“Hurry——.——Young man, it’s time————· Use me, the skills I taught you at that time————·

The captain in front of him was completely different from the elegant and calm appearance of Chun Chun Jiaohai on the Q ship back then.

At this time, he was covered in blood, his face was pale, and every breath was filled with blood. Blood foam accumulated at the corners of his mouth, making the words he spat out unclear.

Horatio looked resolute and nodded. He carefully cut off the nerve plug behind the lord captain, and then sat alone on the blood-stained command throne of the battleship.

Although it was the first time to dock with the Indefatigable, he still skillfully connected to the nerve plug of the Pilot's Throne.

‘New access signal received·.’

‘Identification in progress...’

'Horatio Cochrane - Captain of the Imperial Navy - Chief Officer of the Indefatigable Aviation Department'

'The identity has been authorized by the Ministry of Navy and unlocks all permissions on the entire ship'

'The Indefatigable is at your command, Captain'

A soft female voice sounded in Horatio's ears.