Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 411 05.0410: ‘The huge dark shadow over the planet Far’

"Sir! The green rock is rushing towards us!" The lookout officer on the star fortress reported urgently in a loud voice.

'Fire! Fire!" The star fortress commander was pale and stammered.

The shells fired by the ring macro artillery array just hit the huge rock, splashing a bunch of gravel. The next moment, the huge asteroid hit the star fortress unstoppably. The outer ring part that was hit collapsed and shattered in an instant, and the relative position of the entire star fortress showed a visible deflection.

"Ah! ! "

The violent impact and tremor were accompanied by the creaking sound of the adamantium skeleton being overwhelmed. Almost all the survivors in the star fortress were knocked unconscious, and many of them had broken hands, feet, and brains.

The carrier-based aircraft in the hangar were like a pile of toys that had been kicked and piled together randomly, with broken wings and crooked sparks and pungent giant oil.

Several bloodstains of different colors were smeared on the flight deck. Among the ground crew and pilots who were preparing for the attack, at least hundreds of people were killed or injured in this collision.

The corner extending from the outside of the hexagonal star fortress was directly knocked down, and the Gothic church structure above was completely damaged and collapsed, turning into a drifting space ruin.

Even though the booster engine had been turned on, the star fortress was knocked out of its original orbit by the boulder and was still retreating.

"Commander! The greenskins want to push the star fortress onto the gravity well and smash it to the ground! "

The officer in the star fortress desperately sent a distress signal to the commander of the Karl-Duniash fleet.

On the surface of Farr, it was an ordinary day in the days of war.

"God Emperor, that is——? Star fortress?"

In an occupied air fortress, a British lieutenant stationed in it raised his binoculars and stared carefully at a black dot that was expanding in the blue sky, whispering uncertainly.

The sound of artillery from afar continued, just like the past few months on Farr, day after day, year after year, but today, it seemed that something different was coming.

"Sir! Something is happening!"

The lieutenant shouted to Sir Wellesley who was observing the battle in the distance. Since he was dismissed from the rank of brigadier general in the army,

and relieved of his post as commander of the first brigade and transferred to guard this "mountain of cannons", he has been so depressed almost every day, and a smile rarely appears on his face.

The soldiers next to him were talking to each other, asking what was happening in the sky.

Under the guidance of the second lieutenant, he turned the gun mirror and looked up at the sky.

"How did the star fortress get so close to the surface? What happened in the void?" He muttered to himself, remembering the last time he met the captain of the Imperial Navy, who had said that the enemy appeared in the void.

The black spot kept getting bigger, and soon, he could see the giant rock asteroid that was tightly attached to the star fortress and constantly pushing this ancient creation into the planet's near-Earth orbit through the dazzling star fortress engine in the lens.

At this moment, a word subconsciously passed through Sir Wellesley's mind.

Destruction!

Once the star fortress really hits the ground, I'm afraid it will be shattered into slag along with the continent under my feet!

Well, the continent may not be shattered too much, but they are definitely finished.

"God Emperor above - that asteroid is going to push the star fortress to the surface of the planet! Artillery! Report on the repair of the orbital defense cannon!"

"The technical priests of the regiment are still stepping up the repair, but the turret can already rotate within 120 degrees!"

Sir Wellesley made a quick gesture, and the 120-degree rotation just happened to bring the asteroid into the firing range.

"Artillery! Operate the orbital defense cannon and follow my instructions!

Connect to the General Staff. This is the N11 Orbital Defense Fortress. I am Arthur Wellesley, the commander of the fortress.

The Justice Department has observed that the orbital defense star fortress has been hit by an asteroid with an engine and is being pushed to the planet's near-Earth orbit. At present, there is a risk of falling.

Once it falls, the consequences will be disastrous. Request a firing order!"

When the General Staff received this message, all the generals were stunned.

Amid the orders to call the observation department for verification again and the discussions that exploded, the generals of the Astra Militarum hurriedly sent a communication to Brigadier General Andrew, the commander of the Carl-Duniash fleet guarding the orbit of the satellite.

The Mars-class battlecruiser, which was in the process of calling for arms, did not care about the original plan and directly changed its course and fired at the boulder that hit the star fortress.

After the Imperial Navy confirmed the threat of the green-skinned boulder, the General Staff issued firing orders to all the surrounding anti-aircraft fortresses that could hit the green-skinned boulder.

"Elevation angle 76 degrees! Distance 462 kilometers! Times the normal ammunition! Lead time--"

The artillery officer observed the target with a scope while poking and clicking on the ballistic meditator, reporting the parameters. Hundreds of artillerymen served this giant cannon, and the twin-mounted anti-aircraft macro cannon stood tall and pointed straight to the sky.

The giant shells, which were dozens of meters high like a cathedral, were placed in the shell rack with the help of a special crane, and then stuffed into the barrel by a telescopic shell hoist.

The acceleration coil transmitted a strange electromagnetic sound.

"Sir, the shells are loaded!"

"The coil is charging normally! "

The surface plowed by the artillery fire of both sides is full of craters and scorched earth. The land of Far Star is a little desolate at the moment.

The sky is covered with dark clouds and thunder, but this is not a natural weather phenomenon.

It is a climate phenomenon caused by the full-load collision of the star fortress's boosters and the drag of gravity.

As the star fortress was pushed closer to the Earth's orbit, more and more Astra Militarum soldiers noticed this ominous sign and stared at the giant structure in the sky nervously.

"God Emperor, if that thing falls down, everything will be over---

The soldiers held the laser guns tightly in their hands, sweat flowed down their foreheads, and their hearts beat violently in their chests.

Most of them already knew that the green-skinned aircraft, those monsters made of rough stone and metal, were carrying the orbital star fortress and trying to push it to the ground to destroy human defenses.

But they could do nothing. Apart from the help of the Imperial Navy and the occupied orbital bombardment cannons, the Astra Militarum had almost nothing to stop this A weapon that caused a tragedy.

Lieutenant Colonel Wellesley stared at the majestic shadow in the sky and recalled the legends of Britain in the past.

Britain once had a civil war. During the war, the rebels who defected to the Chaos Cult used a very large airship to bomb the loyalist cities for a long time.

Since then, "the fear of airships" has become a shadow in the hearts of generations of British people, and even became the material for parents to scold children who did not turn off the lights and go to bed on time. If they did not go to bed, the evil airship would take away the disobedient children.

Now, the huge shadow with different shapes but the same effect has appeared over the heads of the British again,

inspiring the fear deep in everyone's hearts.

"We must overcome---overcome, the fear of these evil spirits." The knight muttered to himself, and then came to his senses and took a deep breath.

"Fire!!!" He held the command knife and shouted and swung it down.

The artillerymen outside the firing group blocked their ears and ran to a safe area. In the firing room, the warriors wearing heavy shockproof and soundproof clothing pressed the firing button.

Bang! Bang!

The mountain shook violently, and the whole land trembled.

On the battle line a hundred kilometers away, the enemy and our troops who were fighting were suddenly shaken to the ground without knowing it, and the vehicles rolled out of the road.

Many fortresses on the ground fired at the same time, and the shells comparable to the caliber of super-heavy macro-cannons hit the big rocks in the sky. After a few seconds that seemed to last forever, the bottom of the big rock was torn apart by the gushing flames.

Large pieces of asteroid fragments scattered and turned into meteorites to hit the ground of Far Star.

Its expected landing point was the industrial zone of the eastern continent, where the Chaos rebels were still fortifying with militarized factories, trying to stop the Star Army troops that would approach in a few days.

When the air was shaking as if the entire planet was burning, the Chaos rebels who were building fortifications looked up and saw thousands of meteors with fire falling from the sky, flashing golden orange flames and cutting through the curtain.

Many small asteroid fragments with a diameter of about one or two meters were directly destroyed by friction with the atmosphere.

But those larger fragments fell to the ground with sparks and high temperatures, just like the legend of the Apocalypse that the Lord sent down excommunication on the mortal world and destroyed the earth.

The whole sky was dyed scarlet by the flames, and meteorites with a diameter of more than ten meters hit the factory buildings and the positions built by the rebels. The heretics screamed and were smashed by the collapsed building debris and burned into charred corpses by the flames.

The survivors went into the factory one after another, but although many factory buildings were strong enough to resist air strikes, they could not withstand the meteorites falling from the sky. Many factory warehouses that were regarded as solid defense bases were directly pierced by meteorites.

Those who wanted to survive had to seek shelter in deeper underground structures.

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