Chapter 205 Return to the Pangea Subsector
The size of Ru Ming's Imperial Guard has reached a thousand cruisers, and other destroyers are even more indescribably huge. In a sector with hundreds of moons, Ru Ming already has the Gulf of Damocles, Parr Tolia and the three sectors headed by Gundwa joined the war sequence.
Such a huge scale has not been seen in the empire for a long time. It is also thanks to Huron's overwhelming power that the high lord can delegate such power. Essentially, the fleets there are servants of the emperor, but they are usually due to different interests and different civilizations. , different regions are restricted by the war scriptures and cannot move.
Thousands of battleships, with an average of 30,000 permanent personnel, require a lot of expenditure and deployment. As the saying goes, it is impossible to organize a hundred people to travel and come back intact, let alone 60 million Imperial Guard soldiers?
The elites of the empire must enjoy the best supplies and the best maintenance, and the imperial engines must also be maintained by hundreds of high-level world mechanical priests. After the order of magnitude reaches tens of millions, that number has become blurry.
Such a huge void fleet docked near Pan Lan. Although the commanders talked loudly and criticized Fang Qiu, they could not stay for a long time at all. The war and consumption must be carried out as early as possible.
Also because of the confidence brought to them by the powerful force of the empire, with an order to the east, the subspace jump began. After the flickering scale and the fluctuation of the Mandeville Point, the huge fleet entered the dark subspace.
To be precise, it is not the darkness of subspace, but the darkness from Geller's standpoint. Human beings are both weak and powerful. In that universe, no race spreads larger than humans, but no race is weaker than humans.
Even green-skinned boys can firmly witness the subspace, but the souls killed by the Chaos Gods simply because of their lack of detection are indeed ridiculously weak, but the heroes born from tens of thousands of people can make the galaxy tremble. .
The Bordero is on board, and Alan Bair is enjoying the initial vacation brought by subspace travel. According to the information from the intelligence officer he rescued before, after the Mandeville Point is highlighted in the east, the Imperial Guard will face the Pangia sub-sector. defense array.
It is a vacuum triangle composed of three imperial worlds. The three worlds are far away from each other, but they tightly hold Mandeville Point at the intersection of its three star systems.
In other words, if the Imperial Guard's jump is completed and they are likely to be attacked by three worlds, it will not be powerful, and the main force of the Red Pirates, Ru Ming, will be misled into the void.
But the hesitant attack still lingers.
Commander-in-Chief Qi Fan handed over his elite soldiers to Alan Bayer. When Staff Kane's "brave" voice echoed on the bridge, hundreds of people gathered here, waving their legs and arms to Fa*s. Return to that kind of fanaticism.
"Kane, Kephas Kane is here!" As a fan of him, a fan of Kane, the empire's biggest hero, that fan group is so high-profile, its tone is comparable to that of the Pope of the state religion.
Alan Bayer cursed. "The bridge is an important place, so no noise is required!"
It turns out that Kane bowed and said. ‘The Sun Lord of Xijing, sorry, his fans are a bit fanatical. "
That incident was strange, but it was not strange either, because every day the crew members who were with Bordero watched the friendly Lieutenant Colonel Alan Bayer and the East-class crewmen fighting for the water heater to make coffee, so why not study with the Skadi soldiers on how to make coffee? It tastes best when canned Goro is heated, and secondly, he likes to use cards to swindle money out of crew members' legs.
His usual "inaction" made his majesty non-existent, and the captain was also infected by Alan Bair, and his attitude towards the East was not strict. With Kane's bonus, everyone was a little worried, even among them. The one who swung his legs the most was Chief of Staff Skadi...
It was only after the soldiers came back quietly that Kane expressed his concerns about coming there. "Lord Sun Lord, he admires your bravery, but it would be unwise to charge the enemy's position without any scruples."
"Should his recommendations be as rational as possible, such as using part of the vanguard to attract combat power..."
Alan Beyer interrupted Mr. Kane's scruples. "No problem. The Red Pirates have gone to intercept the bomb ships in the subspace. They also lost nearly a thousand troops in the previous war. He doesn't believe that they have the main force."
"Recovering the first sector as quickly as possible is more in line with the empire's current interests. If they fail to produce results and drag their feet, there will be huge external pressure. Imagine Yidong, they have 60 million combat troops and two The burden of a thousand void battleships is not the same as the previous war."
Kane was speechless. He naturally denied admitting it, but was it really a bit..."a bit too..."
"Gambling?" "Without gambling, there is no victory. Playing steadily and steadily is not in the interest of Ruming's empire." Alan Bair said.
Kane judged from the outside that the Sun Lord was a madman. Why didn't he feel it before? No wonder his situation was so strange when we first met!
When Ming Kane thought that the act of plundering an ambassador-class merchant ship and forcing the aliens to drop from the sky was just the tip of the iceberg of the madness of the imperial heroes, he couldn't help but sigh.
"Okay, okay, then he has a question..." Kane didn't finish his sentence, Alan Beyer answered. "Their transport ships are in good condition and they can escape at any time."
"Don't you mind the roundworm in his stomach?" Kane felt for the first time that he was being manipulated. If the person he met could not read minds, then he must not be simple.
Such a guy is better than his enemy as a teammate. Kane is still grateful for this. Because of this, he has the confidence to gamble, but before that, he needs to test the escape system of the Dongna battleship. It's safe enough.
When Cain walked away, Alanbair still couldn't believe that the guy who looked a bit like a playboy was a genuine hero of the Empire, but the Empire would not allow trash to become heroes, and his great achievements were all real achievements.
"Captain, how long will the voyage take?"
The captain took a puff of his wooden pipe and blew out a smoke ring. "One month, one month."
"Sooner than expected, the warp channel is good, the Emperor bless you." He added.
"Yes, the Emperor bless you..." Alanbair nodded.
At this moment, in the other side of the warp, the main force of the Red Pirates arrived late. Those were the most brutal and crazy Space Marines, but they did not have the former members of the Star Claws, so they had to mention the structure of the Star Claws.
Compared with the previous regiment, the current Red Pirates are more of a large war group. In addition to the Space Marines, there are countless warriors gathered by the Black Heart King, just like the Liangshan heroes who came to Liangshan.
The power of "Timely Rain" Huron and his morality gathered a large number of traitors, and his core was the former soldiers of the Star Claws, those loyal brothers.
Therefore, he was reckless in employing people but partial to his brothers. Such a situation led to the exclusion of those veterans by others, especially those who joined later, which fixed Huron's base. Just like the base of the Sun Lord Alanbair was Skadi, the Pangea Sub-Army and the Furaxia Armored Regiment, the Red Corsairs were the base of the Blackheart King.
Because Alanbair bound those soldiers with honor, blood, the future of mankind and the empire, he relied on isolation, privilege and alienation.
The huge Chaos Force organized to resist the Astra Militarum was the strongest force of the Blackheart King besides the local guardian force. Although there were only 500 warships, its core was the members of the Black Legion who were turned against the Eye of Terror. Abaddon's adulthood of not doing his job and being beaten by Cadia caused some soldiers to be dissatisfied, and the Blackheart King was the powerful person who satisfied them.
At this moment, the blood of the living people they prayed for was right in front of them. The restless feeling was in those strike ships that could chase the founding era of the empire. The filth and blood of chaos made them favor the lives of their compatriots.
"Go forward, let those believers of the Empire Corpse King see how powerful they are!" The roaring voice echoed in the communicator. It is difficult to judge the specific situation of the warship with the naked eye in the vast subspace field, so the bird divination instrument can determine the approximate size of the enemy to determine the level.
Basically, the Empire cargo ship can reach the destroyer level, the large barge can be the cruiser level, and the larger one can also be the size of a battleship.
"Servants of the Corpse King, that's right!" In the command point, those elites were ready to fight. They were eager, eager, but they didn't know that the enemy in front of them was not the Imperial Guard but the fire attack ship.
"4000 kilometers away, 3000, 2500, 2000, 1000, 500, 200... visible to the naked eye, close to..." The Space Marine picked up the observer, but the demon host who served as the navigator and prophet in the battleship suddenly roared, and the fierce sound made the chaotic battleship even worse.
"What is it roaring?!" The Terminator veteran in the traitor Space Marine realized that something was wrong. He turned on the device and looked out, and shouted. "Chaos Gods!"
The fire attack ship was unfamiliar to those veterans, but they were not unfamiliar. After all, there was always an opportunity to use such crazy tactics in that long dark millennium. At the same time, they did not understand why mortals on the ship could travel the subspace without opening the Geller position.
It does not deny that the Chaos forces are weak, but that the essence of the matter is incredible. After all, it means that their intelligence loss is serious, so that the enemy can predict their actions, and there is no technology for unmanned spacecraft.
Compared with the Chaos traitors, the drones were not very intelligent. They just calmly executed their programs, launched the messenger ship, and returned to the physical universe. The fire attack ship went at full speed and hit the enemy.
The crazy speed of the light speed engine in the distance visible to the naked eye plus the blurred sense of distance in the subspace made the most elite Space Marine veterans unable to avoid the most unskilled collision.
Just like the most frequently used tactics in that universe and the most primitive thing in the civilized fighting, the effect of that suicide collision was far greater than expected.
"Right full rudder!" The Space Marines screamed, and the mortal servants kept twisting the rudder in front of them that had spikes due to the curse, but just as they arrived at that place, it was too late, and the Empire's fire attack ship was already close at hand.
The Chaos traitors' light spears and cannons could tear apart some small ships but could not attack the enemy's core warships. The nuclear bombs, hydrogen bombs, messy gunpowder and Eldar's subspace bombs and dark matter that had been prepared early ignited and exploded in the fierce collision.
The dark warp now had a star, and the violent energy from the explosion illuminated the realm of the Chaos Gods. The actions of the mortals puzzled the demons, and only one in ten Space Marines survived.
Even if they lived in the Eye of Terror or the mutation of their gene seeds, or even the bloody arena did not devour them, the Space Marines were naturally not afraid of war and sacrifice, but the fragments of the ancient strike barges and the burning hulls on the ground crackled with the air and materials in their ships, and the scene like a bonfire floated in the void. The appearance of the severely burned battle brothers who died with their eyes wide open still made the Space Marines who came back alive feel frightened and... angry.
And at this moment, the illusion of their real need for an ambush has broken through the most difficult travel time in the warp. At the Mandeville Point, which was pulled by the gravity of the planet and stabilized in the warp and reality, thousands of Imperial Guard warships flashed from the void.
The mortal traitors, especially the former Astra Militarum in the Pangea sub-sector, were almost surprised. After all, there were very few expeditions in the history of the Empire. Especially in the ten thousand years after Guilliman wrote the Astartes Codex, there were only a few wars of this scale.
They realized that they were caught in a huge storm and began to regret their groveling to the servants of the gods, but the former Imperial Navy's void base was not strong in front of the Imperial Guard Expeditionary Force. They could indeed tear apart one or even more battleships, but in front of such a large number of expeditions, the solid fortress instantly evaporated, leaving only the garbage of the Eastern Ruins.
Its destruction also means that the Imperial Guard has come to Pangia, to Alanbir, or more precisely, the home of the Skadi people, the Pangia sub-sector army group, and that place has become strange and weird.
The warships only looked at the auspicious instrument, alert to the incoming attack, but thanks to the Emperor, the auspicious instrument did not respond, and the enemy had no power to attack the Imperial Guard...
Cain looked at the Sun Lord with a complicated expression. He made a wrong bet. The Imperial Navy was crushing the enemy, and the main force was not here.
Alanbir only placed his finger on the star map. The void war was a naval war. They had to occupy the occupied worlds, the so-called islands, in a short time to provide enough supplies for the huge army.
His finger crossed the star map at three crucial places, which formed the triangle of the war curtain, the forging world Minastiriya, the hive world Pangia X, and the agricultural world Vena.
The Empire sought to seize those places as traitors had plundered the Empire's territory, allowing that huge army to gain a foothold, advance gradually and win that huge war.