Chapter 425 Black and Red, the Plan in the Shadows (XI) Backhand

"How long will it take?" Tibers asked the servo deck responsible for large-scale data calculations again, and this was the third time he asked about this matter in two hours. (Navigators are usually responsible for long-distance navigation in the warp, and medium- and short-distance warp jumps are completed by warships after calculation.)

He knew the pressure faced by the Primarch, and knew that the situation in front was out of control. The two precious imperial armed forces were in internal strife, but they were at an insurmountable distance from there.

"No more waiting!" Tibers pounded the armrest in front of him, and the same words from Calvin made him look up suddenly.

The Primarch returned to the bridge again at some point, and the opinions he brought coincided with those of Tibers.

"Bishop Klein." Calvin looked at the mechanical priest in front of the operating table, who showed him the battleship parameters that had been prepared long ago:

"The Retribution-class battleship has a power supply far exceeding that of battleships of the same class because of its configuration of energy weapons throughout the ship. The same is true for the warp engine. So if we want, then according to the time of the real world, it is estimated that we can see the glory of the Ballog star in 12 hours at most."

"Real time?" Calvin keenly grasped the information left by Bishop Klein.

"What about the time in the warp?"

"1 hour, with an error of plus or minus 1 hour." Bishop Klein replied.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's do it!" Calvin and Tiberus met each other's eyes, and then ordered Bishop Klein.

The chief engineer was obviously well prepared, and took out two data keys from his waist under the gaze of the two people. She used the mechanical arm behind her to complete the wake-up program for the two keys, and then inserted them next to the six keys on the engine management platform.

"General order, special matter 009, handle with the highest priority." She gave an order in the direction of the engine room, then stood up and walked towards the engine room.

Such a violent driving style is bound to cause protests from the battleship's machine soul. She needs to go to the direction of the engine room in person to preside over the machine soul's appeasement and guidance procedures.

The Grey Knights fleet is sailing in the deep and strange subspace. The one belonging to the Unremitting Crusade in a group of shuttle-shaped space bubbles of different sizes suddenly accelerates and begins to separate from the comrades behind it.

But this is still not enough, because if Calvin is not wrong, the war between the Inquisition and Fenris has begun.

He stared at the auspicious instrument on the battleship, and fell into concentrated thinking with Tiberus beside him.

"Initiate contact with Lisetta." The quiet air was broken by Calvin again, but the order he issued puzzled everyone.

The Inquisitor's resistance to the Grey Knights was obvious enough, and since the previous orders had been evaded by the other party in the name of "internal regulations", what was the meaning of this contact?

It still makes sense, such as the Grey Knights arbitrator named Irwin. He can be used as a transmission beacon that actively and continuously sends signals, so that the Relentless Crusade can obtain a more accurate position in the medium and short-range warp jump.

Tibers obviously thought of this, but it still can't solve the problem.

The effect of this beacon will certainly increase their speed again, but compared with the distance of more than 200 light years they have to cross, this speed increase is still a drop in the bucket.

Unless... unless the Primarch wants to act alone!

Emperor! What a dangerous behavior!

Is he crazy? He actually wants to use himself to accomplish what the entire battleship can't do?

What if there is a warp trek? What if this is an enemy conspiracy?

Compared with the value of the Primarch, the entire Janmorro is not worth mentioning in the eyes of the Grey Knights. He must stop the Primarch's idea, and he must explain his responsibility to the Primarch!

Tibers almost spoke out to stop the Primarch the moment he thought of this idea, but his raised eyes just touched Calvin, and he swallowed his words again.

That was not a look of seeking opinions, but a declaration after making a decision.

Yes, this is not a multiple-choice question, at least in the eyes of an Emperor's son, it should not be a multiple-choice question.

"Yes! I'll contact him now!" Tibers pounded his chest heavily with his gauntlet, then turned and walked towards the Astropath deck.

Calvin, who was still on the command deck, continued to look at the holographic projection. As the distance between the Relentless Crusade and the target shortened, the last question also emerged in his mind:

Alvin, this comrade who has not returned to Titan for a whole century and has never met him, will he respond to his call? ——

The war in Balelog is still going on, and the Inquisition has taken the full initiative on the battlefield.

The Astartes mixed fleet led by Xavier has completed its deployment in the galaxy, and under the absolute suppression of the large fleet's firepower, the Space Wolves' strike cruisers and attached assault fleets can only fight and retreat, and finally be besieged near Balelog's capital planet.

As the war progressed, the damage was not limited to the Space Wolves. Although the planetary defense system of Baelog was not as strong as that of the Fortress World, the local defense had accumulated some strength after dozens of centuries of operation.

The abandoned ruins of the two empires were found by the Space Wolves, and the pedestal weapons left in these ruins dealt a heavy blow to the Grand Fleet on its flank when the fleet focused its main attention on the capital Baelog.

These two anti-ship base weapons placed on the third and fifth planets of Ballog have obvious backgrounds of alien civilization technology.

Unlike the hill-sized volume of the Imperial anti-ship technology, their power systems are deeply rooted in the ground like tree roots, leaving only narrow and sharp pipes on the ground.

Because of this, the Grand Fleet ignored the threat. After the Grand Fleet cleared the weapon platforms in its orbit, the battle barges of the Emperor's Spear and the Dark Hunter passing by were locked by this weapon without any defense, and then instantly penetrated.

The hundreds of meters long bone-white projectile flew into the sky under the energy supply from the underground. The atmosphere along the way was constrained by the magnetic field array hidden on the surface, becoming the barrel for the projectile to continue to accelerate.

The sharp warning instantly resounded on the battle barges of the two Astartes regiments. However, before their auspicious instruments could react, the armor-piercing steel needle that had reached Mach 15 after accelerating through the barrel of dozens of kilometers had penetrated the energy shield and directly penetrated their warships.

Mach 15, this is exactly the lower limit of the data that the battleship void shield can sense and effectively defend. It is also this speed that makes the void shield identify it as a slow and non-significant threat, and it does not play its due role.

Under this vicious attack that is obviously aimed at human defense technology, the armor of the two battle barges was instantly penetrated from the abdomen, and the huge shock wave and the projectiles that spontaneously started a secondary explosion after entering the battleship completed the lateral killing with dense metal jets, instantly extincting all life within one kilometer along the way.

Hundreds of Astartes warriors died in the first wave of fragments and thermal kinetic killing effects of this attack without time to react. The life signals of tens of thousands of mortal crew members disappeared, and they died in the kinetic killing after the explosion and the subsequent failure of the battleship's vacuum stand.

The entire battlefield of Ballog paused because of the heavy damage to the two battleships. In the empty galaxy space, everyone was watching the two battleships explode, and countless tiny figures that were instantly frozen in space after being thrown out.

And that's not all, because the one belonging to the Emperor's Spear of the two battle barges was attacked right at the plasma engine.

After tearing the bottom deck of the battleship, the sharp armor-piercing shell moved all the way up, and after instantly piercing the plasma engine, the remaining kinetic energy pushed the self-sharpening warhead all the way, and after penetrating layers of armor barriers, it overturned the battleship's bridge.

The captain of the Emperor's Spear, Graham, and his entire battleship command team were killed in this attack. The subsequent explosion that spread from the plasma engine to the entire battleship made the descendants of Guilliman, who originated from the Second Founding of the Army, stay forever in the starry sky of Balelog.

Grand Inquisitor Lisetta and front-line commander Savillian were silent, and the intervention operation that seemed to be smooth in their plan was also cast an ominous shadow from then on.

The Grand Fleet of the Inquisition then launched a saturation bombardment on the two planets, but this retaliatory killing seemed quite powerless in the context of one Astartes company suffering heavy damage and the other being completely sacrificed.

So more fierce artillery fire began to be released from the direction of the Grand Fleet. Stimulated by the sacrifice of friendly forces, the Grand Fleet had no scruples and began to truly regard the Space Wolves on Balelog as enemies.

They began to form the main force of the fleet into a horizontal array, pouring artillery fire on Balelog with macro cannons fired at full power.

And the Imperial Navy, under the protection of many large warships, also began to open the belly deck of the Grand Cruiser and release groups of space fighters carrying bombs with various destructive effects into the orbit of Balelog's capital.

At this point, the war was no longer a civilized "knight duel". When the Space Wolves extended their claws to their compatriots, they were already regarded as mortal enemies by the three war groups in space.

The physical damage of the macro cannon and the kinetic energy of the light spears were no longer enough to express their anger. The extermination weapons unique to the Inquisition carried on the Imperial Navy fleet were their hideous faces after they tore off their last dignity and tenderness.

Seeing the dense mushroom cloud rising on the ground, the Space Wolves' assault ships were forced to rush out of the planet's defense system to seek blocking.

However, Savillian's large fleet was waiting for this moment. Under the intensive attack of the light spears of five cruisers, these small warships with only the most basic void shields could neither evade nor resist.

They were like blood-red fireworks blooming in the starry sky of Balelog. In the deep hatred after both sides stopped holding back, they gradually turned from hot melting into cold wreckage...

However, the counterattack of the Space Wolves still could not change the gap in the military power between the two sides. Whether it was the blocking of the assault fleet or the two destroyed anti-ship weapons, they were just twists and turns in the process of victory in the war turning to the Inquisition.

They could not stop the advance of the Inquisition fleet, just as they could not stop the entire orbital defense of Baelog, which was being cleared point by point.

The black ship where Lisetta was quietly suspended at the back of the battlefield. Her figure sitting high on the throne was so indifferent that even the fall of the Emperor's Spear did not move her.

The Black Templar warship was also here, and the marshal of this company, Fidel (the company commander, marshal is a unique military rank of the Black Templar) had a heavy face, obviously feeling great regret for these compatriots who died in such an inglorious war.

"Inquisitor, your intention has been achieved. So how will you deal with these descendants of Russ next?"

He looked at the woman sitting under the emblem of the Inquisition and said, but the Grand Inquisitor Lisetta did not respond.

This was undoubtedly an obvious offense and impoliteness, and Field had no intention of being tolerant, and directly raised his voice to question the owner of the black ship.

"Representative of the Inquisition, you..."

Just as he was about to say the accusation, the scanning array on the warship issued a sharp warning, forcing him to stop.

And he did not need to look for the source of this threat. In fact, the cruiser with Fenris's unique bronze decorations had already used its huge body to rush out of the asteroid group, allowing Field to see its existence with the naked eye.

The huge warship had occupied the entire field of view on the porthole in front of Field, and at such a close distance, he could already see the boarding torpedoes that appeared at the hatch of the flight deck.

"Alert! Prepare for anti-boarding operations!" Field's reaction was almost instinctive, and he had already guessed and responded to the tactics of the Space Wolves.

And a cruiser, two frigates, including his flagship, and the Black Templars sent to the black ship where the Inquisitor was, also occupied advantageous positions on their respective warships and began to prepare for the upcoming anti-boarding operations.

No!

Field suddenly seemed to remember something, he turned around and looked at the top of the screen, and as expected, he saw a smile of success on the woman's face.

"You guessed it a long time ago? Is that right?" Field suppressed his anger and questioned her. He felt that he and his soldiers were being used by the former.

"Just a little bit of prediction, that's all." Lisetta stood up from the throne of the warship, raised her hand and gestured to Field to express her joy.

As she stood up, hundreds of heavily armed stormtroopers emerged from the Black Templars guarding her.

Not only that, the same scene was playing out on the entire black ship. At least tens of thousands of elite Inquisition guards, under Field's observation through video signals, emerged from all parts of the black ship.

Holding various heavy equipment, they began to garrison at various key nodes of the warship in a plan that was obviously calculated and acted out.

"This is a conspiracy!" Field accused the Inquisitor, but he was powerless to stop the boarding battle that had already begun.

Hundreds of bronze-colored shuttle torpedoes passed over the warships of the Black Templars and headed towards the black ship in their sight. They almost thought they were going to kill their enemies with their own hands, thus achieving a hearty victory through decapitation.

Unlike what they expected, under the heavy armor of the black ship, what awaited them were traps and weapons all over the warships, as well as tens of thousands of emotionless soldiers of the Inquisition...

The balance of victory seemed to tilt towards Lisetta again, and even Field believed that the Space Wolves would fail.

However, just as these Space Wolves melted through the armor of the black ship, entered the interior of the black ship amid bursts of explosions, and found themselves surrounded, the light of the warp projection was lit again outside this small battlefield composed of five warships.

"Hrafinkel!" Field looked at the behemoth that jumped out of the huge warp hole, and almost moaned and uttered this ancient word.

And the already complacent Grand Inquisitor Lisetta, when she saw this giant warship representing the top crown of human industrial civilization, she couldn't help but lose her original composure.

"The Queen of Glory... The Queen of Glory of the Space Wolves..."

The strong signal interference echoed violently on the warships of the Inquisition's Black Ship and the Black Templar. After a burst of harsh noise, the current Chapter Master and Alpha Wolf of the Space Wolves, Ragnar Bloodhowl, appeared in front of the two.

His burly figure was wrapped in an ancient armor, and the wolfskin mane hanging from his shoulders was intertwined with his own hair and beard, full of wildness. The blood-red eyes on his face were trembling, and the rough gauntlets tightly grasped a heavy axe half a person's height.

And the owner of this face was obviously not on the bridge, and the background behind him was more like some kind of large device.

Transmission platform...

Both of them instantly realized the significance of the device, and at that moment, the beast-like terrifying figure leaned down and put his face close to Lisetta, and then said to Lisetta with his fanged mouth:

"Bastard, hold your head, I'll be there soon!"

Lisetta was also a veteran judge, but when had she ever faced such horror?

She was shocked by the wildness of facing the soul and lost the ability to speak, and many Black Templars sensed the crisis and began to look around vigilantly.

The atmosphere on the entire battleship fell into silence because of the huge battleship, and in the silence of everyone, there was a firm aura on the hand of the Grey Knight Alvin behind the crowd, flickering faintly on the eve of the storm...

Five thousand words, update, and I remember the first two chapters, but my body is a little unstable recently, so let me return them slowly.