Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

This Chaos warship had been severely damaged by the greenskin fleet before the battle. It was in poor condition. Although it had powerful guns, its accuracy was very poor. Its sighting system was severely damaged, and the crew could only use the inefficient optical rangefinder for artillery calibration.

Only the two twin-mounted light spear cannons were accurate and really came in handy.

The vibration of the Indefatigable's hull had not stopped since the two fleets exchanged fire.

The loud noises after the firing of the enemy's cannons and the impact of the enemy's cannons made it difficult for people to hear the instructions clearly in the noise and the shaking of the earth.

Captain Horatio ran past one after another of the navy messengers wearing large communication helmets.

His voice was trained to be loud enough in the Abridar Loyalty Academy, and with the help of the amplified sound array, it was loud enough for the officers three or four kilometers outside the bridge to hear Horatio's voice.

The officers who received the order would implement the orders related to their own department, and then let a candidate officer go to the sound tube and shout loudly to convey other orders.

In the huge 5.3 km hull of the Indefatigable, simple wireless communication is easily affected by the constantly changing force field and electromagnetic waves caused by the explosion of shells and light spears.

Wired communication may also fail as the wall breaks and the pipeline is damaged.

The sound tube is more reliable than the VOX communicator, the last line of defense.

Through this chain, one by one, the messenger sailors who belong to the communication department and squat beside the sound tube transmit the orders from the bridge to the deck below in real time.

Then the specific operation department implements the order.

"Macro gun array, free fire!" The order of the macro gun officer was issued to the gun turret.

"The target enemy ship "Apostle of Hate", 521 kilometers away! Speed ​​6 void knots! Phase ZL! Angle 6 degrees! Loading double normal bullets!"

"Calibrating the trajectory, focusing fire on the enemy ship's ridge turret below! "

The candidates and warrant officers in the macro gun command platform were busy calculating and directing the calibration and loading of the macro gun.

"The ballistic parameters have been calculated and imported into the macro gun operation display console. "

"Macro gun loading is complete!"

"Fire!" The candidate officer of the artillery fort standing in the command room shouted.

"Fire!" The warrant officer standing in the corridor turned his head and shouted down after hearing it.

"Fire! "The deep corridor was echoed with a strong baritone.

The human power was passed on layer by layer until the gunner pressed the red button of the display console.

Buzz! Bang!

A double-charged super-heavy shell was instantly pushed out of the barrel by the acceleration coil and spun towards the enemy ship.

The hard cap instantly penetrated the core area armor that had been smashed by the Lord Daros, and directly penetrated the armored compartment under the No. 2 triple-mounted giant turret.

The adjacent gun group fired first, hitting the turret base, and exploding a dazzling fire.

The fine gold surface of this shell reflected the golden fire, brilliant and gorgeous, and plunged into the armored compartment that had been blown apart with a roar of death.

The warhead pushed open the black armor inside the enemy ship that had already cracked, and the Chaos crew inside listened to the strange noise from above in amazement, staring at the constantly shaking ceiling anxiously.

"Run!!! "

The shell finally crashed head-on into a similar one with a caliber two times smaller than its own.

Bang!

Instantly, the ridge of the light cruiser "Apostle of Hate" emitted an extremely conspicuous black-red flame that was enough to illuminate the dark void.

The flames rushed into the void and turned into a striking beacon.

The blown-off No. 2 turret flew backwards obliquely, hitting the sharp part of the top of the bridge, and knocked down a taller and thinner tower behind it.

The observation bridge of this Chaos warship and the towering navigation tower at the rear were instantly wiped out.

This made her a blind person, a blind person who no longer had the ability to navigate in the subspace.

The "Apostle of Hate", which was severely damaged and unable to fight again, had a left cabin yaw. At first, the Chaos rebels thought it was a mechanical failure caused by the damage to the cabin engine, but soon found out that something was wrong - this was a defection.

"Apostle of Hate, where are you going! ? Come back to me! "The Chaos Admiral noticed the disconnection of a battleship in the fleet at the reminder of the observer, and ordered with gritted teeth.

"I--I will not die for you and the evil god you believe in!" "The Apostle of Hate" the captain's voice shouted indistinctly in the projection.

"You idiot! Come back to justice! Do you think you can survive if you leave the battle line? You waste, don't forget who promoted you from a boatswain to a captain!"

"No! I believe in the revelation of the true God! The scriptures of the Apostle of the True Word have told me that I made the right decision!"

"You damn hypocrite! I now declare you a heretic! All members of the fleet! Excommunicate this coward!" The admiral of the Chaos Fleet cursed with sharp teeth.

The 'Apostle of Hate', with fire on its ridge, yawed to the left and sailed out of the Chaos battle line crookedly.

But the Indefatigable still refused to let go of this escaper in an excellent shooting range.

Horatio issued a new attack order to the light spear and macro cannon gun crew, aiming at the enemy ship's power module.

Soon, the light spears and macro cannons that fired freely once again concentrated their fire and locked fire.

Even the Tiaopan-class light cruiser that was protected by the Indefatigable at the left rear exposed the turret on the ship's spine, crossed the Indefatigable's spine, and fired a volley of light spears at the escaping power engine of the God-Emperor's great enemy.

Several flames exploded from the tail of the "Apostle of Hate" in an instant,

The plasma engine flashed twice, and the activated power flesh and blood tissue inside it beat slowly like a heart that had lost blood.

The left weapon on standby in the Chaos battle line also opened fire on the warship that disobeyed orders and fled.

The "Apostle of Hate" was attacked from both sides and was subjected to concentrated fire from the entire field.

The collapsed main structure caused the bridge to collapse and multiple fires broke out inside the hull.

The damage control department on the ship was no longer able to rescue the No. 2 ridge heavy turret that was still on fire under the heavy blows.

"No! No! You fool! I curse you! I curse you to die here with me today! I will wait for you in hell! Hahahahahahahahahaha!"

The captain of the "Apostle of Hate" stared at Admiral Chaos through the projection fiercely, and finally began to laugh wildly.

Zi! Puff!

A deafening roar instantly drowned out the creepy laughter.

The ion reactor of this Hell Apostle MK.2 light cruiser had reached a critical point in the process of maintaining the void shield, and the energy recoil after the engine explosion became the last straw that broke her back.

Finally, as it continued to bear the blows, the ion reactor turned into an unsettling scarlet color under the heavy load. With a scream similar to the devil's despair, the expanding plasma fireball instantly exploded the entire warship into countless debris.

It was like an evil curse suddenly erupted, killing the cursed.

These hull fragments scattered around and hit the warships around the Chaos fleet.

The relatively slow large pieces of debris passed through the void shield and collapsed the 45-degree inclined deck of the wedge-shaped ship, causing damage to the hull of the warships in front and behind.

Soon, due to the close distance of the explosion, the rapidly unfolding out-of-control ion group also affected the two ships in front and behind, causing the main structure of the hull surface to suffer relatively serious damage.

The explosion also overloaded their void shields, allowing the Lord Daros, the Indefatigable, the Ikaros Storm, and the Endurance-class "Spear of Achilles" to seize the opportunity and fire at the unprotected enemy ships.

Horatio looked at the real-time ship operation hologram in front of him. The original plan of turning in front of the enemy was completed. The Gothic Fleet Strike Group was now sailing in a direction completely parallel to the Chaos Fleet, and only the last warship was still fighting.

The Greenskin Fleet had approached to a distance of 1,500 kilometers from the Chaos first voyage, rushing towards the two fleets in a wedge-shaped charge formation similar to cavalry.

Horatio understood that it was time to make the next fleet maneuver.

The battle under the first fleet maneuver caused heavy losses to the Chaos Fleet, so the last maneuver would be a fatal stop.

This would also be the last full fleet maneuver of the Imperial Navy in the entire naval battle,

and then it would be a bloody decisive battle posture, the final duel to determine survival.