Chapter 405: The Road to Expedition: Stabbing the Dagger

In the orbit of the fortress world, the huge star port rotates around the border of the planet. It is huge and sturdy. The steel surfaces are parallel to each other. It rotates in a ring structure in the outer orbit of the planet. It relies on the slow rotation force of the planet itself to rotate slowly. Layers of steel decks are spliced ​​together. On the dusk line on the eastern side of the planet, it is gradually illuminated by the rising sun.

The sunlight slowly sprinkles on the silver-white armor surface, just like a wheat field illuminated by the dawn at dawn. The silver-gray armor turns a light golden yellow in the sun, just like mature wheat, swaying in the autumn wind, waiting for the seed bag to be picked and crushed, and edible grains are taken out of it.

But suddenly, the "wheat" in the golden field broke itself, and the armor surface that was tanned golden in the sun exploded instantly. The sky-high fire tore out from the armor surface, and the broken hole broke through the steel, and a long tongue of fire sprayed from it.

The flames rose from the surface of the star port, just like the natural gas drilled from the ground was ignited. The huge fire column rushed to the sky, and soon more explosions occurred on the surface of the star port around it. The raging fire swept across the entire golden armored surface.

The flames sprayed into the air, and several fighters passed through the fire cloud at once. The star shark bombers painted with the colors of the Imperial Navy quickly rushed through the fire cloud. They dived and roared downwards. The fighters drilled into the airspace where a dense rain of bullets was flying. Behind the leading fighter, several bombers were hit by artillery fire and exploded.

But the leading bomber and the remaining fighters passed through the rain of bullets. They quickly passed through it, dodging the dense rain of bullets and rushed towards a moving warship.

The leading Star Sand bomber slid out two torpedo warheads from its belly. The twin torpedoes were fired at once, spitting out flames and spinning at high speed in the universe, hitting one side of the battleship. The other bombers behind the bomber also fired torpedoes.

The torpedoes flying at high speed in the air and changing angles circled each other, pulling out a beautiful arc and hitting the side of the battleship. The armor surface was quickly penetrated, and the explosion tore it below. In the huge explosion of the hull, the Star Shark bomber turned rapidly in front of the ship and flew out to the side.

The bomber roared out from the side of the hull, but its wing was instantly interrupted by a roaring anti-aircraft artillery fire. The wing of the fighter plane broke and flames sprayed from the gap. The fighter plane lost its balance and spun at high speed in the gorgeous battlefield curtain, and then suddenly hit something and exploded instantly.

Under the flames of the explosion, the surface of the flashing shield jumped brightly, and a huge warship with a whole black color passed over the flames, and one side of it was swept by the surging flames.

The shining void shield flickered and lit up on that side to block the flames, and on the other side of the shining shield, under the boundary where the flash gradually faded, the sun's light spread over the black surface, and under that light, several thick gun muzzles stretched out.

A deafening volley sounded instantly, and the roaring macro gun muzzle instantly ejected a dazzling fireball. Under the raging fire, several rotating shells whistled out, they slid through the faint light curtain projected from the distant sun, and hit a piece of armor head-on.

A fierce explosion sounded instantly, and the huge explosion impact shattered the side of the sailing imperial warship. One side of the warship was instantly torn apart, and the raging fire sprayed out from the inside, accompanied by the leaked oxygen pouring into the vacuum, instantly spreading the fire and covering the entire side of the hull.

The flames quickly swept the body of the warship, and then a sudden explosion occurred. A huge fireball expanded and rose from the fire cloud. The two halves of the warship were thrown up in the explosion and flew out from the left and right sides of the fire cloud. The golden sky eagle on the bow reflected the luster under the blazing fire.

Below the shattered bow, a huge warship rushed out from the fire. Its body swept out from the fire cloud, stirring the surrounding sky-high fire and rushed forward. It sailed past quickly, and the macro cannons on one side fired in succession, bombarding the Chaos warship on the other side with swift shells.

The shining void shield lit up instantly, and the exploding fire swept across the shield. Under the fire, there was a silver steel skull logo on both sides. The double-row macro cannons roared quickly, and the rotating shells shot out the burning flames in front of them. Under the roar of the heavy artillery, the chaos warships behind it also began to shoot rapidly.

The whistling shells shot through the curtain of the universe, and the dense warheads drilled through the light of the sun, smashing into the side of the Imperial fleet sailing towards the sun's light. The fire and explosion instantly became brighter than the sun and rose up, roaring in the silent universe.

The Imperial and Chaos fleets fired fiercely at each other in the outer orbit of the planet. The macro cannon shells flew through the light of the sun, and the dazzling light flash instantly penetrated the light curtain and hit the warships on both sides. The violent flash suddenly exploded, pierced the void shield and bombarded the Chaos warship itself.

The Chaos warship was instantly pierced through the back by the spear of light, and the high-rise buildings there collapsed under the light. In front of its sailing direction, an Imperial warship was approaching quickly from the direction of the beam of light. When the giant ship flew past quickly with bright plasma thrusters spewing from one side, the broadside macro cannons fired at the same time, hitting the Chaos warship on one side with fierce shells.

The black hull shattered and collapsed under the bombardment of the shells. One side of the warhead with the Imperial Sky Eagle logo on it rotated at high speed and rushed to the side of the Chaos hull. The shell with the tip of the warhead penetrated the hull and smashed into its structure before exploding. The flames spread rapidly along the side corridor of the entire warship, the glass was shattered, and the flames of the explosion sprayed out from all places.

The Chaos warship's propellers went out instantly, and the ship exploded from the inside after sliding forward powerlessly for a distance. A huge fireball broke through one side of the warship, shining the firelight on the Imperial destroyer that was rushing forward. The statue of the Angel of Silence on the back of the ship was completely illuminated by the huge fireball rising up on the side, and the golden long sword raised high was also flashing with flowing halos under the flames.

The sword blade pointed to the position in front, and the destroyer instantly fired a long row of torpedoes during the charge. The torpedoes flashing with red light spots sprayed flames and quickly smashed into the bows of several Chaos warships rushing parallel to the opposite side, and the void shield instantly flashed there.

Among them, the Chaos frigate closest to the front row, the void shield on the bow was then instantly pierced by the light spear of the Imperial destroyer. The dazzling light column shattered the building standing on the back of the frigate, pierced through the front of the bridge, and turned the long row of buildings on the back into floating steel debris in the universe.

The frigate floated helplessly in the void, and suddenly collided with another Chaos warship. The void shields of the two ships collided violently with each other, and then the shields broke and the ships collided with each other. The bow of the frigate suddenly stabbed into the belly of the other ship like a dagger, and the fire gushed out from the wound, just like blood.

The Imperial destroyer continued to move forward under the roar of the shining plasma thrusters, but suddenly one side of it was also hit fiercely. The void shield flashed violently and broke instantly. Above the roiling sea of ​​fire on one side of the ship, a huge Dark Mechanicus war cruiser slowly passed by, and the automatic weapon array on one side turned its muzzle and fired rapidly at the Imperial warship below.

Rapid-fire cannons, multi-barreled turbo lasers and light spears lit up at the same time, piercing the entire side of the Imperial battleship at an extremely fast rate of fire. The hull was hit with countless tunnels, and the warship's propellers were also pierced by a whistling shining light spear and instantly shut down. The destroyer slowly stopped, and the fire burning at the end of the propeller ignited the fuel tank, turning into an even larger explosion fireball.

The destroyer exploded from the back, and the blooming fireball instantly tore the entire ship from the end. It was on fire and shattered in the explosion and floated away, eventually turning into a series of chain explosions and flames that illuminated the dark Mechanicus battlecruiser on the side.

The huge propellers at the end of the dark red Mechanicus battlecruiser ignited at full speed, and it rushed past the flames rushing from the side. The flashing nova cannon on the bow quickly gathered energy and lit up, and then instantly turned into a huge beam of light rushing forward, and instantly pierced through an Imperial cruiser right in front of it.

The warship was pierced from the head by a cannon, and a shining beam of light shot out from the center of its thruster. Explosions occurred instantly from all parts of the entire warship, and the raging fire engulfed the magnificent outer buildings. The macro cannons and automatic cannons that fired fiercely in all directions fired the last round of cannon fire before the explosion.

That last roar brought the death of a Chaos cruiser of the same level. The cruiser flying parallel to it exploded violently, and the armored wreckage flew around in the flames, like a fire meteor hitting the Dark Mechanicus war cruiser that was speeding on the side. The Mechanicus warship knocked away the flying wreckage and rushed forward.

It passed through countless warships around it, and the Chaos and Imperial fleets fought hand-to-hand, firing fiercely at each other at a very close distance, just like a group of ancient cavalry caught in a chaotic battle, they swung swords and slashed at each other, denting the armor and beheading the riders.

The entire starry sky was filled with chaotic explosions. The Chaos Fleet never expected that the Empire would take the initiative to attack. They thought that the already exhausted and weak Empire Fleet would maintain a defensive posture in front of the Chaos army that was twice as large as their own, so the Chaos Fleet was not prepared for defense, but was preparing for attack.

What they didn't expect was that when the Chaos Fleet was just about to set sail, the Empire Fleet suddenly appeared on the planet's dusk line, rushing over in groups from the back of the shadow. Their fierce charge and firing instantly broke up the Chaos Fleet's formation, and finally switched from offense to defense, and the huge fleet fell into a tragic close-range melee.

The Dark Mechanicus's battlecruiser raised its bow, and it fired fiercely at each other from both sides, rushing through the Chaos Fleet that burned the entire starry sea, and it fired the Nova Cannon again forward.

The shining beam of light hit an oncoming Imperial warship, and the body of the ship exploded under the subsequent bombardment of more artillery fire. A raging fire gushed out from both sides of the hull, instantly sweeping across the starry sky in front of the battlecruiser. The Dark Mechanicus warship rushed forward and headed towards the huge cloud of fire.

But suddenly, a huge shadow outline was outlined from the flames, and soon a golden line larger than all the battleships present sailed out from the surface of the flames. Its huge hull headed directly towards the dark machine. The teaching war patrol rushed forward, and the latter was almost unable to dodge at such a close distance.

The battlecruiser turned to one side to escape, and the giant ship suddenly hit the side of the battlecruiser. The ship's shining void shield instantly collided with the battlecruiser's, and was shattered by the stronger void shield strength. On the battle patrol's shield, the ship was instantly split in half by the majestic golden warship, and a rapid explosion exploded in front of the hull.

The golden giant ship broke through the waves from the flames of the explosion. The light spear turret above its body flashed instantly, and a huge golden light beam shot out instantly, directly sweeping across the body of a chaotic battleship on the side. A huge glowing wound opened up.

The warship instantly exploded in space, and the light illuminated the towering huge hull on the side of the giant ship, as well as the multi-layered macro cannons arranged on it. A hundred macro cannons fired at the same time, and the rows of The muzzle roared out and sprayed out a wall of fire, and within it, raindrop-like macro-cannon shells hit the Chaos fleet beside it, and they all exploded violently.

The explosion flames of those battleships shone on the hull of the golden giant ship. The battleship roared and spurted out a long thrust of flames, and above the flames, the light spear turrets on the back of the ship rotated to the side and lit up the beams of light. At the end of the array of weapons with countless roaring barrage and missiles, above the tall and huge fortress building, the fire also illuminated the space inside the bridge.

Captain Rena stood on the high platform of the bridge. She raised her head and looked at the explosions in the sky. Then she turned around and strode to the edge of the captain's high platform. "First officer, how is the progress on the battlefield?"

"Two-thirds of the forward fleet has been lost, but the preset mission has been completed. The Chaos Fleet's formation has been completely disrupted, and the remaining fleet is completing the cutting mission." Ye Ta, standing under the captain's platform, stood on a screen surrounded by She said between the holographic images, her eyes staring at the interfaces around her, and the green flash mixed with the explosion fire lit up her face.

"Very good, order the forward fleet to start retreating, helmsman, the whole fleet will accelerate to take over the offensive position and penetrate the chaotic front." Reina stood on the armrest and stared forward and said loudly. Old Bobasa below her nodded, and then fiercely The ground pulled down the golden handle, and the violent machine spirit in the engine was instantly released.

The huge plasma thruster propelled the flames, and as the Fantasy's main thruster turbofan spread out in all directions, it instantly sprayed out. The huge fire flow pushed the huge battleship from the side of the astrolabe into the battlefield, and the magnificent giant ship roared. Rushing towards the chaotic orbit of the planet, the light spear above its head turned around and instantly fired a dazzling beam of light forward.

The void shield of the Chaos frigate that was firing forward in the far orbit of the planet disappeared almost instantly. The shield did not even last for a moment under the bombardment of the Dream's powerful light spear. The shield surface flickered and disappeared. But the light spear did not. It continued to shoot and directly penetrated the hull of the ship. It shattered the warship with one shot and then hit another Chaos warship below.

The giant pillars of light spears shot down in succession instantly penetrated all the Chaos fighter planes in the entire straight line. They lit up countless fireballs in the night sky, and among the lit flames, the Fantasy had already rushed in. Forming a battle formation, countless weapons on both sides of it roared and fired, multi-layered macro cannons fired continuously from end to end, and countless explosions lit up both sides of the Dream in an instant.

Reina stood on the high platform, staring closely at the roaring barrage like raindrops shooting from the front. The explosion instantly lit up a flash of light on the void shield on the front side of the battleship, and on both sides of the bridge, those billowing out The smoky Imperial battleships were also sliding out from both sides. They retreated from the Dream, and the latter took over the assault position.

"Order the rear fleet to continue dividing the Chaos fleet, prioritize destroying their more maneuverable small and medium-sized warships, and leave the large warships for hunting. The main attack mission is now under the command of Admiral Speyer. How are they doing?"

Reina asked from a high place overlooking it, while Yeta below her pulled up a holographic screen, and she scanned it, "The Gothic fleet's attack went smoothly. They have defeated the Chaos flank fleet, and the Eldar's fleet has been defeated." The fleet intercepted and dispersed the Chaos assembled fleet on the back of the planet. They suddenly appeared and caught Chaos off guard. "

"Our active attack obviously exceeded Chaos's expectations. Everything went smoothly. Admiral Speyer is commanding the hunt. He took over the command of the fleet by receiving signals."

"Very good, now we go to carry out our mission. The whole ship can open fire freely and move forward at full speed." Reina said calmly. The bridge crew members immediately pressed the buttons on the terminals in front of them behind the consoles on both sides of her. , as the program was executed, the Fantasy rushed into the front of the Chaos Fleet, and the light spears continued to flash and shoot out in all directions, strafing and pulling a straight line of light in the air.

The macro cannon roared and opened fire on both sides of the cavalry. The Dream was passing between two Chaos battle patrols at this moment. The chaos fighters on both sides were hit by hundreds of macro cannon shells in an instant. The void shield was unable to survive the violent explosion. The support flickered and disappeared, and then it was the turn of the two battleships to meet their doom.

In a swift explosion, the huge hull of the Fantasy Dream rushed through it all at once. The magnificent ship broke away from the Empire's offensive echelon and penetrated the entire Chaos's terminal defense line composed of dozens of warships alone. The defense line that should have been strong enough to stop the Empire's assault was instantly torn open, and the Fantasy Dream rushed in.

Reina stood on the captain's high seat, her eyes looked around the explosion range. The entire hull of the Fantasy Dream was filled with countless exploding fireballs, but the void shield still firmly guarded the hull. Even in the face of concentrated fire from enemy ships that were several times larger than her own, the powerful void shield generator had long supported the defense of the entire ship.

Reina lowered her head, but she heard a huge explosion as soon as she lowered her head. The explosion shook the entire bridge, causing everything here to shake. Reina suddenly raised her head and looked at the shining explosion in front of her. In the flames, a huge beam of light hit the shield of the warship.

"Report the situation." Reina asked calmly from a high place. She stood on the handrail in the shaking, while Yeta below her was shaking on the flat ground, but she still stood firm in the shock after she spread her legs. Yeta immediately raised her head and searched the data interface in front of her.

"The bow and side of the ship were hit by the nova cannon of the Dark Mechanicus Fleet. It seems that they have transferred the general reserve to deal with us." Yeta said that he suddenly saw the bird radar coming from the emergency jump point. The interface was flashing red light crazily, and several rapidly approaching red dots appeared on it.

Yeta looked at the red dots, quickly clicked on them, and a row of information icons flashed, "The Astartes strike cruiser is approaching rapidly, and they are trying to board us."

"Weapon array, destroy them." Reina punched the handrail fiercely and said sternly. Her order was immediately implemented. The automatic gun muzzle on one side of the battleship turned quickly, and a light spear also turned to the three Chaos Space Marine strike cruisers that were rushing over.

The three warships rushed towards the Phantom Dream at a rapid speed. The shining thrusters pushed them like meteors in the night sky. The rotating light spear turrets aimed at them. The light from the muzzles instantly flashed with golden arcs. Then a shot was fired and hit the leading strike cruiser.

The void shield of the warship disappeared instantly under the firepower of the Phantom Dream. The light spear penetrated from the side of its back and burned a straight tunnel on the back building complex of the warship. The gap in the steel flashed with bright high-temperature light bands. The strike cruiser was burning with raging fire, but it still rushed towards the Phantom Dream.

The automatic muzzles on the back of the warship were all raised, and dense barrages rose from them instantly. The rain-like barrage bombarded the advancing strike cruiser that swooped down from above. Countless explosions and flames rose from it, tearing it into pieces in the blink of an eye.

The shattered strike cruiser fell from the sky into countless debris. The fragments of the warship roared and hit the top shield of the Fantasy Dream. The shining void shield blocked all the falling fragments. They burned and exploded on the back of the warship and turned into fragmented debris floating in the universe.

And after the exploding strike cruiser, the second Space Marine warship rushed down at a high speed. It dived towards the Fantasy Dream. Reina looked up at the flashing point of the warship and raised her arm to point at it, "Gunner! Destroy it."

Behind the front light spear turret, the second light spear slowly raised up, its muzzle rotated and aimed at the roaring strike cruiser. With a flash of light, the light spear instantly shot up and penetrated the rear thruster of the strike cruiser from the side of the inclined surface.

The strike cruiser instantly lost its balance, and the exploding thrusters instantly caused a fire on the entire ship. The burning hull shook violently in the air and roared down. Reina looked up at the warship that was smashing down. It did not dodge or evade, but rushed straight at it, staring at all the firepower of the Dream and hitting the back of the warship.

The huge strike cruiser crashed into the void shield, and a huge plasma explosion rose from the outside of the bridge. The powerful shock wave spread along the back of the ship to the entire ship. The entire bridge was shaken strongly, and Reina leaned on the handrail all of a sudden.

"Report the situation on the whole ship!" Reina stood up and said loudly, and Yeta below also stood up from the ground again. She reached out and pulled down the floating interface, looking at the warning window jumping on it.

"The flank void shield has been weakened, the system is recharging, and it is expected that..." Before Yeta's words came out, a violent explosion flashed beside the bridge. It was a precise macro cannon salvo.

The only remaining third Space Marine strike cruiser dived from above the battleship. When the huge ship reached the side of the Fantasy Dream, it quickly lifted up and ignited the recoil engine on its belly at full power, completing an instant stop with an extremely high overload that could almost crush all the mortals on the ship, and stopped the diving battleship instantly.

The moment the battleship stopped on the side of the Fantasy Dream, the macro cannons on the side opened fire, and the fierce artillery fire bombarded the side shield of the battleship. A corner of the void shield on the side of the huge ship flashed and shrank around, and a circular gap appeared on the blue shield surface, and the strike cruiser also seized this opportunity.

In the blink of an eye, countless flashes of light shot out from the side of the ship. They were more than a dozen Space Marines boarding landing pods. They all shot out from the ventral side of the ship, spewing flames at the end and smashing into the side armor of the Fantasy Dream. At such a close distance, the defensive firepower had no time to intercept them in time.

The automatic guns on the side of the ship quickly turned around and fired fiercely at the landing pods. The whistling barrage of bullets instantly hit several landing pods. Those Death Claws' empty pods instantly exploded into burning fireballs in the starry sky, and the Space Marines in them were also killed instantly.

But there were still nearly ten landing pods that smashed into the inner layer of the battleship deck. The hot melt jets at their front ends ignited instantly, and the hot melt rays opened a channel in the armor for them to smash in.

Yeta looked at the internal system of the warship in front of her, which was alarming. She clicked the window in front of her, then raised her head and looked at Reina above, "Captain, decks 7 and 3 were boarded, and Space Marines invaded the hull. Do you want me to contact the marshal and the weepers?"

"No, there is no need to contact them. They have their own tasks. Notify the Solar Auxiliary Army to go and eliminate the invading traitor Astartes." Reina said while leaning on the armrest. He turned his head and looked at the strike cruiser hovering on the side of the warship.

"Captain, have we arrived at the designated location?" Reina asked loudly. The captain below also scanned the screen in front of him, then raised his head and looked at Reina's position and nodded sharply.

"We have arrived above the coordinates, but the void shield needs to be recharged. Captain, we need time to reorganize the defense."

"We won't stay here for too long, Yeta, notify Vito, I found him the ride he wanted." Reina said and looked at the strike cruiser on the side.

"Notify the torpedo launch deck to land and prepare to board."