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Chapter 449: Stealing a ship is so simple

The Revenant Spike is off to a winning start. One shot blew up a Silver Sword ship first.

This is the normal performance of the Retribution-class battleship. Let the X-level specification 'Heavenly Punishment' light spear array be fired, and this is the result.

Moreover, there are three X-level macro cannons on the Revenant Spike with weapons of the same level.

The macro cannon of the same specifications is much more powerful than the light spear array, but the hit rate is lower.

There are a total of 18 L-class weapons that should not be underestimated, which is already as many as the three cruisers on the human side combined.

Such is the power of battleships.

Of course, losing a frigate at the beginning of the war is also a matter of luck. Being so far away, even a light spear is not that easy to hit.

In fact, the three macro cannons fired subsequently, as well as multiple L-level weapons, were all missed. Only a few of the shots hit, and failed to cause any further damage.

During this process, the ships on both sides were constantly approaching.

But even so, the current result achieved by the Alliance fleet is nothing more than turning its void shield red. The price paid was that within a short period of time, at least ten warships exploded into space debris.

At his request, the battleship's powerful firepower fired fiercely at the cruiser, the absolute core of the ship group facing them.

That's what the greenskins like to do. They don't take their lives seriously, and their boarding torpedoes are so cheap that they cost nothing.

Even the cheapest patrol ship costs more than 30 million. Ten ships are equivalent to 300 million. Not to mention, not all of the exploded warships were patrol ships, but there were also three frigates.

The void shield mounted on the 'Revenant Spike' is of course very strong, but if it can't hold up, it alone will take a beating. There are no frigates to intercept firepower for it, and there are even no boats to block it. It has to bear all the artillery fire of the combined fleet by itself. No matter how strong the void shield is, it cannot withstand such a bombardment.

Jumping gangs directly through boarding torpedoes is an unconventional tactic for the human navy. The boarding torpedo itself is not cheap, and it will be even more expensive if people and equipment are installed inside. In naval battles, during the flight before boarding the ship, any accident will happen and it is easy to be intercepted. Once intercepted, both the people and the ship will be reimbursed, resulting in huge losses.

At this moment, the alliance's losses in the naval battle had reached over one billion.

Naval battles are the most expensive thing.

Does he care about destroying a few Alliance ships?

Not to mention, half the fleet chasing it was also constantly projecting firepower on it.

Without the Pegasus fleet under Gu Hang's account, and without the century-old accumulation of Gu's Trading Company, the Alliance simply could not afford to fight with the ships it had accumulated in the past few years.

But at the same time, the void shield surrounding the 'Revenant Spike' was also flashing frequently, gradually turning towards a dangerous red color. Even some of the combined fleet's firepower can pass through the void shield and directly damage the armor and hull of the 'Revenant Spike'.

The warband wizard led the group, and two hundred Space Marines were already on standby inside the four boarding torpedoes.

of course not.

But even with this exchange ratio, Zhong Jihua, who was on board the 'Revenant Spike', was still not satisfied.

And since the space of the boarding torpedo is limited, the number of personnel and equipment that can be installed in it is also limited, so it may not be possible to defeat it if it is boarded.

However, a lot of firepower was intercepted. Even if it can't be intercepted, several patrol ships will even appear to block it.

However, at this distance, it has reached the level Zhong Jihua wanted.

After fighting for so long, they failed to pose any definite threat to the cruiser.

The 'Dead Soul Spike' rushed towards the joint fleet coming out from Side Horse IV at full speed. As the distance between the two sides got closer and closer, the firepower hit rate of both sides also increased during the exchange of bombardments.

The losses on the human fleet's side began to increase.

The human fleet doesn't like to do anything. Although the Marine Corps is not regarded as a human being by the navy masters, it always has to pay attention to the cost-effectiveness ratio.

Except for the Space Marines.

They are strong enough and elite enough that they can complete tasks that require large forces with only a small number. They are completely suitable for battlefields such as gang-hopping operations with limited projection and narrow combat space.

Just solve one problem: delivery security.

Space Marines are powerful, but also valuable. It doesn't matter if one boarding torpedo is destroyed, but if a ship of Space Marines is killed, no one will be able to withstand it.

Ever since, when each war group was playing gang-hopping warfare, at this link, they could be said to have shown their special abilities, trying their best to accurately and safely send their men to the enemy ship.

Some work hard on boarding torpedoes to make them strong and flexible, or to make them invisible and not detectable. They also add multiple batches and place many false targets to hide the real boarding torpedoes... In short , just don’t hesitate to spend more money;

Some people play psychic teleportation, which is more accurate, but the requirements are also higher. It is also risky and can easily be deflected by the anti-teleportation device.

The method adopted by 'Ashes of the Dead' is a combination of the two.

Zhong Jihua on the bridge stared at the group of alliance ships in front of him with madness in his eyes.

He shouted an order: "Let's go!"

Immediately afterwards, the 'Revenant Spike' suddenly released more than twenty boarding torpedoes.

Of course, most of them are fake, and there are only four that contain the ashes of the dead.

The interception firepower of the Alliance fleet was of course launched directly, and many boarding torpedoes were destroyed by the interception firepower.

The four genuine boarding torpedoes loaded with Ashes of the Dead actually took some firepower. But these four boarding torpedoes were all equipped with small energy shields to block the attack.

Of course, this also led to their exposure.

But it's okay.

In an instant, scarlet light enveloped the four boarding torpedoes, and suddenly they disappeared.

The next moment, four boarding torpedoes appeared within the void shield of the Opera at the same time!
Then, they violently blasted into the Opera's hull.

The extremely hard tapered front end of the boarding torpedo broke through the ship's armor, and then a micro explosion occurred. When the warhead was detached, it also provided a good attack space for the soldiers in the torpedo's rear compartment.

Immediately afterwards, a total of 200 renegade Space Marines rushed out of the four boarding torpedoes.

They eliminated the surrounding enemies in a very short period of time.

There are usually 100,000 people in a cruiser like the Opera. A considerable part of it is the so-called 'crew world', that is, people who were born on the ship, the previous generation or even the previous generation, were crew members. They belong to ship servants, and there are also some families of technical officers. These people are the key to a ship being able to operate and maintain itself during long-term voyages. At the bottom of the starship, it is even equivalent to a closed, self-circulating society.

The performance of the ships on the Pegasus fleet is not particularly obvious in this regard. Some sailors can still retire and leave the ship, and then recruit new people from the ground planet.

After all, they have been stationed in their hometown for a long time.

However, there are some ships in the empire that are on mission all year round and are constantly making long voyages in space. The so-called 'crew family' has really never left the ship for several generations. It is quite common for them to intermarry with each other and live their entire lives on the ship.

But whether they are recruited or on the ship all year round, these people, who are mainly sailors, workers, and servants, obviously do not have much combat effectiveness.

Even if the war breaks out, they will be distributed with weapons.

After the Ashes Dead successfully boarded the ship, the first wave of resistance they encountered came from these armed sailors. They numbered in the thousands, so they were naturally swept away.

Then, these renegade Space Marines did not continue to attack. They waited in place for two minutes.

At this time, more boarding torpedoes came in.

Although these boarding torpedoes did not have the help of warband wizards and did not have the ability to teleport, they suffered a lot when breaking through and intercepting firepower from the front. Among them, the moment of greatest loss is when decelerating through the void shield.

Of the sixteen boarding torpedoes, only three finally arrived.

This probability is very low and significantly lower than normal.

Just because on the current battlefield, the alliance's ships only have one target, the 'Revenant Spike'. When the boarding torpedo appears, naturally a lot of interception firepower is attracted.

From this perspective, being able to successfully board three ships is already considered very good.

A total of 1,500 people disembarked from these three boarding torpedoes. All of them were wearing black and red combat uniforms, and a high proportion of them wore exoskeletons.

These people belong to the servants of the Ashes Dead.

After reuniting with the real Ashes of the Dead, a total of 1,700 people began to march towards the interior of the Opera.

During this process, the team within the Opera House was also gathering.

In addition to the ordinary crew, there are 20,000 marines among the 100,000 people on the ship. They are even equipped with armored vehicles, sentry mechas and the like.

The combat effectiveness of these troops is certainly much stronger than that of the first wave of ship sailors who came up before.

However, as the Ashdead advanced with their elite auxiliaries, the Marines once again served as the backdrop.

The armored vehicle blocking the main passage in the ship was destroyed by the Ash Dead's plasma gun, and then quickly pushed away and torn apart. Immediately afterwards, the Terminator team among the Ashes of the Dead rushed out from the gap in large strides. Withstanding the bombardment of the semi-fixed machine turret behind them, they used hand-held grenade launchers to remove all these human firepower points.

After the passage was cleared, the troops immediately followed. In front, another group of Marine Sentinel mechas appeared, but this time they were directly cleared by the renegade Space Marines with bolters.

Under the leadership of the Space Marines, the entire team's forward speed, although sometimes fast and sometimes slow, was generally quite smooth and headed resolutely towards the bridge of the ship.

The bridge command post is the command center of a battleship and also the brain of the battleship. Once here, they can take over most of the control of the ship.

At the same time, the ship-wide broadcast system here can also be used to allow the warband wizards to quickly spread the corruption of Chaos.

This is a temporary method and not suitable for large-scale use. But in the critical and closed environment of a ship, it is quite effective.

They have used this trick many times in the past and are familiar with it.

Stealing a ship is such a simple thing.

The commander of this group of Ash Dead, Ankoni Ben, even felt a little bored. He said: "There is nothing special about this so-called alliance."

"It's no different from other imperial ships."

"Didn't you say that there is a phoenix? Why didn't it appear? If those bastards and recruits from nowhere appeared, they would be able to relieve our boredom."

Just as he was saying this, he suddenly received information.

An auxiliary group posted on the flank said they had been routed.

At first, I thought it was just an elite group of Marines who did it.

After all, the Marines on those ships also had a large number of Sentinel mechas. Although the auxiliary troops deployed on the side were of high level and blessed with the power of Chaos, it was normal for them to be defeated due to the enemy's numerical advantage.

The commander quickly deployed support, and another auxiliary army rushed over to plug the loophole there.

But soon, that team was wiped out. At the same time, a new situation also came: the ones who defeated them were not simple Marines, but a group of Space Marines wearing scarlet power armor!
Now, Ben felt excited!

If you say it's boring, isn't this where something interesting turns out to be coming?

However, after thinking about it for a while, he decided not to cause trouble.

Their most important task at the moment is to capture the bridge first.

Just wait until we capture it and let the wizards of the warband finish what they need to do, while their main force stays on the bridge.

If those 'newbies' and 'bastards' wanted to do something, they would naturally launch an active attack on the bridge. When the time comes, they can set up a defense line on the bridge and wait for work.

In his opinion, it was normal for some Space Marines to appear on this cruiser. But the quantity should not be very large.

However, the news that followed one after another made him alert.

From the side in the other direction, there were also traces of Phoenix Space Marines appearing again.

Then, the troops in the frontal assault also said that they encountered the obstruction of the Phoenix and their attack was limited.

"How many people are there?"

Ankoni Ben already felt something was wrong.

But if it was limited to this, he would just feel bad and nervous. Even if there are a hundred or even two hundred phoenixes in front of them, so what?

These new phoenixes are, as he calls them, 'new recruits'. According to their standards, a group of people who have just become Space Marines for at most ten years have nothing to fear!

(End of this chapter)