Chapter 396 05.0395: ‘Captain, Use Armed Summon on the Rebels! ’

"Warning! The enemy has launched a jump landing on the starboard side of our ship. The entire ship immediately entered an armed readiness state! Repeat——." The sound array broadcast continued to echo the broadcast from the armed forces headquarters.

On the command bridge, amid the passionate drumbeats, the battleship guards wearing eye-catching red military uniforms and white armed belts lined up neatly from the bridge station headquarters and rushed to the bridge to assemble.

The shiny leather shoes stepped on the deck, making a reassuring sound of footsteps. The cold and sharp monomolecular bayonet on the gun made the enemy tremble.

They are the direct naval guards who protect the Imperial Navy facilities and prison areas, and serve as captains and generals. They are also loyal guards who guard the command bridge.

Together with the jump gang members who were dedicated to guarding the bridge, as well as the naval supervision and security forces wearing pitch black carapace and under the management of the Navy Military Supervision Committee, they blocked the road leading to the bridge.

A three-layer defense circle was constructed to strengthen the defense force of the command bridge.

At this time, even if another shell hits the navigation bridge, they can use the human wall to block the fragments fired at the captain.

Shallow deck corridor on the starboard side of the Indefatigable.

"Armed and ready! Armed and ready!"

The sailor sergeant pressed the hilt of his power sword and ran down the corridor waving his bolt pistol while shouting loudly. Some sailors were confused by the harsh noise and the eerie black fog, and stood still in a daze.

Even the intense drumbeats couldn't be heard.

The sergeant was anxious, and one of them stepped forward and punched them to wake them up.

"Get cover! They're coming!"

The next second, the shock of the Terror Claw jump boat hitting the shallow deck was heard.

Horatio, who was sitting on the captain's command throne, frowned and felt unhappy.

It's like there are ants crawling on me.

He understood that this was one of the side effects of resonating with the machine soul after inserting the nerve plug.

These intruders made the host soul of the battlecruiser Indefatigable feel uncomfortable, and this displeasure was also communicated to Horatio through the neural plug.

But she was holding back and continued to fire volleys at the blasphemous battleship step by step.

At the same time, a woman's voice gritted her teeth and seemed to be saying to Horatio: Captain, use the call to arms against the rebels!

The outer corridors of the battleship instantly became dark the moment the hell claws dug into the hull. The wall lights and wiring in the cabin were brutally torn to pieces, and the power supply circuit also failed due to broken cables.

The hot-melt component on the top of the jump cabin was activated, melting open the outer hull. After driving a short distance inside, it was embedded in the wall. The long and sharp claws came into view of the armed sailors.

Some sailors who had just recovered from the noise were knocked down by the splashing molten metal. They screamed and were dragged behind the bunker by other comrades.

The sailor huddled behind the ceramic steel bunker, listening to the clanking of broken pieces hitting the ceramic steel plate in front of him.

When the crash ended, at the command of the sergeants, the sailors stretched out their navy bolters and navy laser guns. The tactical flashlights on the guns shone pure white light on the discordant inserts, illuminating the corridor as before. Still bright.

The twin heavy explosive shells on the high shooting platform were also operated by the gunner to aim the muzzle at the twisting claw that suddenly appeared on the bulkhead.

Bang!

"Kill the servants of the false emperor! Victory belongs to the Chaos Gods!"

The bottom of the cabin of the Chaos Jump Gang was opened, and a harsh war cry entered the cabin.

Those Chaos Jump gang members with eight-pointed stars and various blasphemous designs tattooed on their faces rushed into the cabin. These lost and cursed people were high in fighting spirit, shouting the names of the evil gods and demons they believed in, and charged forward.

"Fire! Destroy the heretical invaders!"

The naval officers and soldiers immediately counterattacked, using bolts, lasers, and fragmentation grenades to form a storm of barrages that rolled towards thousands of hateful enemies.

Taller, but fewer in number, Chaos Space Marines stood tall among the crowds, advancing at their own pace, the crests on their profane power armor indicating their mixed origins.

Among those caught on CCTV alone were members of the Black Legion, sub-warbands of the Emperor's Children, and a missionary warband of the Word Bearers.

As for the Imperial Navy, due to the constraints of the Guilliman Code, the armed forces on the ship must not exceed 20% of the total number, and there are no Space Marines stationed on board.

In the past, many warships of the Imperial Navy fell and fell due to facing powerful Chaos Space Marines in gang wars.

Defeated.

The ship was captured by enemies of the empire and evil traitors, and plunged into boundless darkness.

When they appear again in front of the world, they will transform from the defenders of the imperial world into the hateful minions of the Chaos Gods.

Horatio couldn't help but sigh again. I'm afraid Guilliman never thought that the reform measures he would take when he woke up after ten thousand years would allow him to personally violate the original code and deploy Astartes repairers on the Imperial Navy's capital ships. to further enhance the warship’s armed strength.

The Imperial Navy ships were also fully equipped with new automatic loaders, thereby reducing the number of contract workers and saving more cabin space to station more armed forces.

"Relax and focus on command." Brigadier General Peru's steady voice came from Horatio's ears:

"Keep faith in the officers and men of the Imperial Navy, especially those aboard the Indefatigable."

The brigadier sounded very proud.

"I have commanded this battleship for more than twenty years. The crew, armed forces, and gunners on the ship are all carefully trained elites.

Yi knows their level and believes in their ability. After all we have thirty thousand Imperial Navy armed forces, don't we? "

"That's right, Your Excellency."

The Indefatigable has a crew of 150,000, of which 30,000 are members of the Navy's armed forces, based on 20% of the scale.

9,000 of the 30,000 are boarding members of the Imperial Navy.

As a battlecruiser and the flagship of the fleet, these armed forces are sufficient to deal with the thousands of enemy troops boarding.

In addition, when necessary, the state priests on board can also call on the state priests and the Crusaders, the navigator family guards, the stormtroopers directly under the Supervision Department, the battleship guards, and the Mechanicus Guardians, who are not regular armed personnel, to participate in the battle to defend the battleship.

"If the enemy ships don't board our ships, they will board the light cruisers behind us.

This level of boarding force will cause a greater blow to the light cruisers with fewer people. It is better to let the well-guarded and large-scale Indefatigable bear this blow for the warships behind."

"Yes, Commander. In addition, regarding our boarding plan, I hope to wait until the greenskin fleet joins the battle before deciding whether to board and when to board."

"These are all up to you, acting captain." The commodore said, and once again emphasized his identity as acting captain:

"When you sit in that position, you are the supreme commander of the Indefatigable, and all departments of the ship must obey your orders. According to your wisdom, attack boldly and decisively!"

"Understood, I will act according to the situation."

Facing the frequent whispers of the Indefatigable machine spirit, Horatio issued new orders to the armed forces.

"Armed Forces Command, I am the acting captain. I am issuing an order to cancel the boarding plan against the enemy ship and immediately call for arms to the crew on the starboard side of the ship!"

"Yes, Captain! Please command the warship with peace of mind. We will organize a counter-boarding operation for you and the Indefatigable! The enemy will never step into the deep deck and combat module!"

The captain of the armed forces, wearing a carapace and a red belt around his waist, saluted from the holographic image.

Horatio nodded.

Then he received the voice communication from Fasha.

"Sorry, Captain, my men and I can only intercept so much."

"I understand, you tried your best, Captain Fasha."

This round of boarding on the Emperor's Death successfully delivered about 5,000 invading troops to the Indefatigable.

The boarding site was concentrated near the macro gun array and the shuttle apron.

Horatio asked the armed forces to strictly guard the hangar, shuttle apron, and ammunition depot, especially to protect the safety of ammunition and pilots.

Outside the battleship, the battle between the void beasts was still going on. As the ship moved forward, Lord Daros began to fight with the enemy's third battleship.

The second cruiser of the Chaos Fleet, a Slaughter-class, began to fight with the Indefatigable.

Under the concentrated fire of the Slaughter-class cruiser "Emperor's Death" and the Slaughter-class cruiser, the Indefatigable still fought firmly.

She first grabbed the "Emperor's Death" and beat it hard, destroying the two light giant turrets on the starboard side of the enemy ship, and blew up the seat ring of a twin-mounted heavy giant turret, making its rotation angle unable to exceed 60 degrees from the front, and also killed and injured a large number of crew members.

At this time, the "Emperor's Death" was no easier than the Indefatigable - several orcs' boarding torpedoes came from a distance and stabbed her hull fiercely.

A swarm of orcs rushed into the ship fearlessly, burning, killing and looting.

However, she had just launched a boarding force of 10,000 people, as well as a boarding force including more than ten Chaos Astartes, and half of them were intercepted by the Imperial Navy's carrier-based aircraft and escort ships.

She never thought that her home base would be stolen by the greenskins.

So the "Emperor's Death" and the Indefatigable issued an armed call-up order almost at the same time. It seemed that there would be no manpower to launch a second additional boarding for a while.

In the exchange of fire with the Destruction-class artillery, which was ranked second in the Chaos fleet, the Indefatigable's void shield was overloaded again, and it could not be supercharged in a short time.

The Indefatigable had a huge hull and was well-armored, so it used its solid and reliable body structure to withstand several cannon shells, while the rest were deflected by the planet's gravitational interference and failed to hit.

The shells that hit the Indefatigable killed and injured the Imperial Navy crew and the Chaos rebels who came to board the ship indiscriminately. But no matter what, the navy officers and soldiers were ready to counter-board the ship. There was a ceramsite steel bunker on the side of the hull to block the fragments and seek protection.

And those Chaos rebels who boarded the ship were really blown up from behind by their own people.

Some Space Marines were blown into pieces by their own shells before they could indulge in the pleasure of killing.

Soon, the Slaughter-class cruiser also launched a boarding pod.

At this stage of the battle, the escorting Fury Squadron had no missiles.

Anya Fasha set an example by shuttling among the speeding Terror Claw boarding pods, risking being crashed, and firing at these boarding pods with laser cannons.

They did not stop until the energy was exhausted and the barrel burned red.

"This is the Skyhawk Squadron. We have no more ammunition available. Please return."

She helplessly watched a large group of boarding pods smash into the side of the Indefatigable again. She lowered her head and uttered a word from her clenched silver teeth to report to the flagship.

"Thank you for your hard work, Captain Fasha. I approve your return. But be careful. There is a firefight with the Chaos rebels near the starboard shuttle apron." Horatio nodded and kindly reminded.

"Understood. Thank you, little captain. Skyhawk Squadron, assemble and land on the starboard shuttle apron of the mothership. But be careful, beware of the enemy boarding troops."