Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 397 05.0396: ‘The Beast of Omaha’

The dispatch of three batches of fighters on each side is now very tight. Because of the threat brought by the first round of boarding, the Falcon Squadron, which originally took off and landed on the right apron, had to land on the port apron belonging to the Skyhawk Squadron.

However, due to its bravery in combat, the Skyhawk Squadron returned faster than expected and hovered in the combat airspace. The fighters without ammunition were tantamount to live targets. Horatio had to arrange the return of these pilots as soon as possible.

Inside the Indefatigable, the heroic armed forces blocked the invading forces that boarded with flesh and blood and counterattacks.

As Commodore Peru said, if the enemy wanted to board anyway, it would be better for the Indefatigable, which had strict internal defense, to bear the boarding forces of the two largest tonnage warships of the enemy fleet than for them to jump onto the light cruiser behind.

The boarding operation of the Slaughter-class cruiser once again sent nearly 6,000 troops.

When they boarded the Indefatigable, the landing site of the "Emperor's Death" had turned into a sea of ​​blood and corpses.

Every step was filled with broken pieces of corpses.

The dead, wearing black, purple, red and blue uniforms, fell to the ground with broken bodies. Many normal or mutant limbs were broken but they still held their weapons tightly to maintain a fighting posture.

The Chaos boarding force relied on the fierce offensive momentum when they first boarded the ship, as well as the powerful Chaos Astartes, and successfully broke through part of the outer corridor of the Indefatigable.

But when Horatio quickly determined the invading enemy through the perception of the Indefatigable's machine soul, he immediately assisted the armed forces command based on the information and arranged a stranglehold force to surround the enemy.

With the help of the ship's internal defense Positions, blocking gates, and "killing grounds" are the names given by the Imperial Navy to the open spaces with firepower points set up at high altitudes within the ship. The armed sailors of the Indefatigable have successfully blocked the further advancement of the Chaos boarding force.

When Horatio was the chief officer of the Aviation Department, he considered the possible attack routes of the enemy to the apron after boarding.

As the head of the Aviation Department, he believed that it was very necessary to strengthen the defense of the hangar and shuttle apron.

So under his plan, the flat and open hangar and shuttle apron on both sides were also vacated with a depth of about 100 meters, and the open areas without cover for the enemy were used as "killing grounds". Even if this was considered a waste of some precious space divisions, it was worth it.

And the Engineering Department built combat corridors and circular combat platforms at high altitudes, and deployed heavy weapons gun racks.

His "partiality" was not without reward.

At this time, these equipment and battle sites came in handy.

This is a tower defense game like a ceramic steel and flesh and blood.

By manipulating the hatch, the invaders are divided or merged and guided to the battle site that is beneficial to the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Navy.

When these invaders rush to the aviation block deck, which is 100 meters wide and high, they will be hit fiercely by the apron garrison troops who have been prepared for it.

The naval garrisons of the hangar and shuttle apron either hide behind the preset positions or look down from a high position, using fierce firepower to knock down these rash intruders in batches like cutting straw.

The enemy soldiers who broke in later faced this situation, but they could not find anything to cover themselves.

And the subsequent influx of troops blocked the On the retreat route of the front troops, any rebel soldiers who dared to flee were brutally and ruthlessly slaughtered.

Faced with the desperate situation of being unable to advance or retreat, the survivors caught in the middle had to lie directly on the cold aviation deck and use the bodies of the Chaos rebels who died in battle for cover.

But this futile struggle was meaningless in the face of the newly built defense platform above the hangar.

These firepower points on the defense platforms, which were set up at a height of 40 to 50 meters, could easily cross the pile of corpses and shoot down the Chaos rebels who were crawling forward after being suppressed by firepower.

Later, according to the post-war report summary, Horatio found that in a hangar killing field code-named "Omaha", an ordinary heavy weapon shooter named Hein Severo performed particularly well.

Faced with the fierce attack of the Chaos rebels, Hein Severo, who was hiding on the No. 62 shooting defense platform, kept firing with the heavy grenade that had been set up.

During the nine-hour battle, Hein Severo fired a total of more than 12,000 heavy bolts, almost emptied all the heavy bolt ammunition in the nearby arsenal, and replaced more than a dozen gun barrels.

In front of the defense platform, the Chaos rebels screamed hysterically, and the rebels surged up like a tide and fell to the ground like a tide.

Blood dyed the entire deck and the surrounding drainage ditch red.

In the post-war inventory of the corpse pile, some officers believed that Severo caused more than 4,000 casualties of the Chaos rebels that day, as well as the death of two Black Legion Chaos Space Marines.

And Hein Severo was also dubbed the "Beast of Omaha Killing Field" for this terrifying shooting record.

He was promoted directly from an ordinary second-class sailor to a sergeant of the Imperial Navy's boarding team, and was affectionately called "Beast Forerunner" by the sailors.

Thanks to the heroic resistance of these Imperial Navy soldiers, the Skyhawk Squadron landed safely on the right shuttle apron.

When the Fury fighter was pulled into the hangar by the traction ray, the explosion-proof armored door was immediately closed to prevent the shells fired from the enemy's battle line from directly hitting the shuttle apron with the door wide open.

Fasha jumped down from the boarding ladder pushed by the ground crew with sweat all over her head, and the sound of gunfire came from all directions in panoramic sound.

She looked at the charred laser scratches on the wings and let out a long breath.

A roar that kept approaching suddenly came from behind.

"Haha!" A Chaos soldier who was lucky enough to break through the blockade picked up a laser gun engraved with blasphemous patterns and pointed the sharp bayonet at the female pilot.

She immediately pulled out the Tallan sword from her waist, dodged the spear thrust, and then kicked the opponent hard in the face. She swiped the knife across his throat with her backhand, causing the traitor to bleed on the aircraft platform with a cry.

"There's an infiltration team! Fire! Fire!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The armed sailors who arrived carried shotguns and fired dense pellets, killing several mutinous PDF soldiers who leaked through the gap.

The Navy jump gang members assigned by the young acting captain to reinforce the hangar's stability arrived at the hangar and started a fierce and bloody battle with the Chaos rebels on the spacious apron.

"Sir, we'll leave this to us. Please go to the pilot's lounge. The technical priest will ask the servitor to maintain your fighter plane and supply fuel bombs." A female sergeant from the gang team saluted Fasha.

"Okay, please protect my aircraft too! This wing command aircraft must not be damaged."

"We will protect you to the death, sir!" After the sergeant saluted, he immediately led his men to hunt down the Chaos gang members who were running around.

At this time, in the void.

The Lord Daros has engaged the fourth enemy ship in the Chaos Line.

As the first ship in the battle line, it took the lead in bearing the most ferocious concentrated fire.

This Moon-class cruiser, produced in the Orbital Shipyard of the Savage Mining World, has a long history. It served in the Gothic Fleet during the Gothic War, with a total service life of a thousand years.

The residents of this wild mining world have been using primitive methods to mine and smelt ore, and then hand over the finished metal ingots to the attendants of the "God of All Machines" as offerings to create the "Sky Temple".

Finally, their persistence paid off.

Many years later, their descendants piously saw a new meteor born in the void, which remained in the universe with its brothers.

Her "meteor trail" was the plasma wake of Lord Daros as she left the system to join the Imperial Navy's Gothic Fleet.

This thousand-year-old ship galloped towards the cold and dark void, the cannons and light spears on its side venting the wrath of the God-Emperor at any hateful enemy that dared to challenge the authority of the Imperial Navy.

The firepower of the Doomsday-class battlecruiser followed closely behind, and those enemy ships that Lord Daros successfully overloaded the void shield and were severely whipped could not get a breather.

Before the void shield could recover, it was fired upon by the Indefatigable.

"Target "Apostle of Hate" (Hell Apostle MK.2 light cruiser), salvo from front to back, open fire!" Horatio sat on the captain's command throne, and calmly responded according to the fierce exchange of fire and gunfire. Issue orders as the battle situation changes.

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