Chapter 213 Multiple Efforts, Difficult Entrapment.

The Grand Fleet is still advancing, but the commander of the Northern Theater is no longer willing to wait.

Vice Admiral Joseph has been at the fleet's front-line outpost for three days. The delay in his original front-line patrol has caused dissatisfaction among the rear staff.

But he has no intention of leaving here and returning to the fleet.

On the contrary, he even wants to mobilize the four main battleships of the entire Northern Fleet here.

The scouts who went to the Lyak interstellar channel hundreds of astronomical units away have confirmed to him that Chaos' shipbuilding operation is nearing its end.

The huge ship has been equipped with the last main armor belt under the drive of billions of enslaved people in the occupied areas regardless of casualties, and it is only a millimeter away from the real acceptance link.

Due to the limitations of authority and distance, Joseph neither knows the arrival of the Grand Fleet behind him nor what the enemy is waiting for.

But in the eyes of this general who is famous for his loyalty to the empire and his enthusiasm for war, there are really not many opportunities left for him to change the fate of the Northern Theater's failure.

If we wait any longer, once the new forces in the hands of the other side are formed, the defense system built with the Katin galaxy as the center of the northern theater will surely face a great test!

He could almost imagine that the other side, with an absolute advantage in military strength, would surround Katin.

Then, as far as possible, they would use their new weapons to target the heavy artillery in the fixed position of the galaxy one by one outside the range of the orbital defense weapons!

Joseph was no longer willing to calculate the probability of this happening.

Because both he and the Chaos Fleet on the other side of the Star Sea knew clearly that Orpheus at this time would never have a spare fleet to support the battle.

It was impossible to defend inside, and there was no reinforcement outside.

To avoid a tragic defeat, Lieutenant General Joseph could only seek the possibility of actively breaking the deadlock.

He decided to dispatch all the fleets in his hands, and on the basis of trying to secretly bypass the ruins of the Leyak Channel, give a fatal blow to the Forge World entrenched on the edge of the Leyak Star Zone!

In fact, he had already done so.

According to the latest intelligence he had obtained, one of the 14 main battleships of the other side had returned to the rear of the theater.

Some recent movements indicate that another cruiser is also returning to the occupied area, surrounded by several small frigates.

He doesn't know the reason for the enemy's abnormal movement.

But if there is still an existence in the occupied area that can cause trouble for these Chaos fleets, he sincerely hopes that this existence will live as long as possible!

After two transfers, the enemy in the front of the star zone is at its weakest period.

Even if the enemy still has an absolute advantage in force, he is still unwilling to give up this rare opportunity.

Once this precious time window is lost, the possibility of taking advantage of the opponent's large fleet will be even lower.

The fleet base on the main star of Katin is already in full operation, and the crew members on rotation have also been urgently transferred back.

The mixed fleet consisting of a battleship and five cruisers is all the chips Joseph can offer.

But in this gamble where he loses more and wins less, he has no choice but to go all in.

After a long journey, the Grey Knights' battlecruiser, the Soul Redeemer, and the Minotaur's Star Labyrinth cruiser finally reached their destination.

After wandering for a few days in several galaxies that had been completely destroyed by war outside of Leyak, they finally saw biological signs of large-scale life on the main star of the Malus galaxy.

Under the experienced command of Tabers, the fleet did not rush to approach.

Instead, they split into two groups, one positive and one negative, and used the cover of two groups of periodically returning comets to test whether the orbital defense here was still functioning normally by static inertial floating.

As for the small fleet consisting of a cruiser and five frigates on the orbit, they were not taken seriously by Tabers, Jules and others.

After all, it was an active attack against a passive one, and a dark attack against a bright one.

Moreover, with the powerful firepower of the Soul Redeemer now, it is definitely the ceiling level among cruisers.

Tabers can even pat his chest and assure everyone that as long as the four nova cannons output a round of firepower, the opponent's shield will definitely be overloaded!

This kind of medium- and long-range sniping, which is calculated without intention, is different from the close-range bow heavy artillery, which only has one chance to hit.

The distance between the two sides will create a fatal battlefield environment for the enemy at this time, and the size of the main star of the Malus planet will make the opponent spend a long time to get rid of gravity, and there is no chance to escape at all!

In the outer space of Malus, a one-sided hunt has begun.

As the capital of this industrial galaxy, another difficult and long war is also going on on the surface of the Malus industrial world itself.

In the factory thousands of meters underground in the No. 22 nest, Calvin has been standing at the gate of the core furnace and has been holding on for nearly a hundred hours.

After the other two attempts failed, the team that eliminated the false targets finally arrived at the No. 22 industrial nest after a 10-day long raid before the last batch of ore in the furnace product line was transported away.

Needless to say, the hardships and difficulties along the way.

Just to say that in Hive No. 3, escaping from the trap set by Alpha and the Night Lords, half of the 9-man team of the Slanderers were killed or wounded.

The other 5-man team was not doing any better.

The straight-line distance between Hive 41 on another continent and Hive 9 where they started is as long as 3,000 kilometers.

In order to leave enough time for the failure of these two attempts, Calvin pulled four Astartes warriors of different origins and launched hundreds of teleportations in 10 days.

Today, Calvin's face is haggard and his weight has dropped by more than one-fifth;

The conditions of several other Astartes warriors are also worrying - the consequences of abusing psychic power are not only borne by Calvin himself, but also by these Astartes, who are called supermen.

After they met near Hive 22, they had no time to rest and plunged into the steel jungle of the hive again.

Hives with different numbers are naturally built at different times; and the construction purposes of different times also depend on the industrial needs of the entire industrial world.

Different from the simple building structure brought by the early colonial technology of Hive No. 3;

Also different from the small scale of the craftsmanship of Hive No. 411 under the economic recession in the late period of Malus;

Hive No. 22, as the creation of the pinnacle of the Malus industrial world, is the top existence among all 42 hives, whether it is the technical content represented by the internal equipment of the hive or the scale created by the economic environment.

And it is the scale mentioned in the second half of the sentence that made Calvin and others suffer.

Can you imagine the existence of an industrial city with a diameter of tens of kilometers?

Can you imagine a hive tower that can theoretically break through the atmosphere and connect with the orbital capacity by its own height?

The scale of this city is so grand that it can be clearly seen from orbit:

The iron-gray body it represents is lying tightly on this planet like a giant starfish with its pentagonal tentacles extending outward.

And it is such a huge city that Calvin entered it with full psychological preparation.

Then I realized that the scale of the building hidden underground was the same as that on the surface!

This is not a parallel pentagram, but a three-dimensional multi-faceted pentagonal pyramid!

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