paranoianovel Chapter 156 Titanium is scary, history lied to me again
Chapter 156 Titanium is scary, history lied to me again
"The war is about to break out"
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Then both sides built the city for three years.
Three years later, Shadow Bee fighters and Tau interstellar reconnaissance aircraft clashed countless times in the endless dark world. Every time they reached the edge of all-out war, one side would always stop with a tacit understanding.
Ultimately, three years later, both sides decided the advantage was theirs.
The plenipotentiary commander of the Fire Caste took a copy of the Holy Book of Astartes and studied it carefully for a long time. The experienced commander accurately realized that when he met the Astartes last time, in the land battle The large number of "metal big men" deployed locally are the enemy's army's trump card.
The key to victory is to contain these enemies, preferably by trapping them and completely destroying them.
These guys called Astartes wear the best and toughest armors, and their own army has almost no way to deal with them.
But other troops can do it. No matter how powerful they are, can they block the cannons of ground-based air defense (which targets Moon-class cruisers)?
The Fire Caste commander read the Codex Astartes again. According to what it said, the enemy's tactical choices are likely to allow the Astartes to raid their important facilities.
So a fake command headquarters and a fake Tau shield group (something similar to a void shield) were built, as well as a fake power plant.
The entire planet has been evacuated. It is a steel trap, and every important facility is full of mines and laser guidance signals.
Once triggered, it is an unlimited bombardment of hidden missiles.
This all-powerful commander looks at his own defense facilities with great confidence. In countless strategic deductions, they will achieve difficult victories.
Then he looked at his own advanced battleships. Since the start of the Defender Project, the performance of the battleships can compete with the enemy's so-called moon-class main battleships.
But the ethers nearby have poured cold water on them many times. The ether tribesman received the order from the top, which is to require the local troops to kill the enemy's army as much as possible and preserve their own fleet. Their strategy is not to rely on naval battles. The winner is the Yin man in the land battle.
This made the all-powerful commander very angry. He was very sure that his navy could win. This was the result of countless deductions, and the data did not lie.
On the supreme ether side of Tau, the old fellows of the Secret Cult performed special rituals and once again asked about the prophecies of the subspace, and then received a prophecy that made them unbelievable.
The all-out war started two years ago and we were dead a year ago.
???
What the hell, subspace convulsions?
The esoteric cults unanimously believe that the expansion of the Great Rift caused psychic chaos in the subspace, and they still base everything on their previous prophecies.
I don’t know if I am deceiving myself or simply not believing in the prophecy.
On the other side, in three years, Yifeng waited for the stability of more than 20 worlds, waited for the Sisyphus Think Tank to "support" William's troops after dancing, and waited for Ms. Christina to capture a few people. A request from a Tau to study.
Until the end, the repaired battleship "Infinite Loyalty" arrived.
(The ship snatched from the forces of Slaanesh. After repairing it, on the way to the Nurgle wandering planet flying to Atris, it was jumped by a war gang and was seriously damaged.)
Yifeng felt that the time was ripe.
Four battle barges, one Retribution-class battleship, one strike cruiser, nine Lunar-class cruisers, and more than 800 Astartes.
Five Titans, a heavily armored army, several regiments of the Atris Imperial Army, mortal regiments cobbled together from more than twenty worlds...
Wait, can I myself launch an expedition larger than the Damocles expedition?
One million worlds, one million Astartes.
Then I have nearly a thousand Astartes and cannot manage a thousand worlds?
After occupying all the Tau tribe, we still owe more than 600 worlds?
Yifeng took a deep breath and suddenly realized how hard it is to let the twelve worlds in the temporary Taiping Star Region support us.
Then don’t wait any longer and let’s get started!
Matthew Leo said goodbye to Yifeng, and the Mother of Tears quietly entered the subspace channel discovered during the last empire's retreat, preparing to raid the enemy's rear.
It doesn’t count as a raid. After all, the Tau are not very good at subspace navigation, so there is no need to talk about the defense of the channel node planet. They may not even know the route of the channel.
Why send the Lamenters Chapter?
Because Yifeng was afraid that the Weeper would follow the large army and the large army would die suddenly. For example, halfway through the subspace voyage, the engine blew up or something.
On the frontal battlefield, the Eternal Mountain and nine Moon-class cruisers smashed into the enemy's first fortress world.
Alarms sounded throughout the fortress, and the local defender fleet had been waiting for a long time.
In countless reconnaissance plane battles, the experienced Fire Caste commander keenly discovered the main attack direction of the war group, and made a desperate move to smash most of the main fleet into this system, making up for the lack of weapon power with quantity.
Five Guardian-class motherships, ten Ambassador-class cruisers and eleven Defender-class cruisers, this is almost the entire main force of the Tau navy except for the home world defense force.
For a time, the empty space of the universe was filled with brilliant light. Countless kinetic energy weapons shuttled back and forth on the battlefield. The beams of energy weapons were brighter than stars.
The fleet of the Red Torrent remained at the edge of the galaxy and even retreated quickly to prevent it from being consumed in advance by the enemy's long-range bombardment.
This caused a little misunderstanding among the Fire Clan commanders.
He believed that after the enemy came out, they found that our fleet was stronger than they expected, and the "Human Empire Fleet" was unable to cope with it, so it slowly retreated in order to cover up their retreat strategy.
So what are you waiting for? Press on.
The entire Tau fleet was divided into three formations, all the way forward to the front of the entire galaxy, until it was at the same position as the outermost space-based fort.
At this place, once the Red Flood fleet approaches, it will receive the most intense firepower.
At this time, the "Imperial" fleet had retreated very far away.
At this time, Yifeng ordered all fleets to use full power and circle around the galaxy.
The plenipotentiary commander of the Tau tribe has further strengthened his belief that our side is at the upper hand. This must be the case when the troops of the Human Empire are looking for the weaknesses of their own galaxy.
They could not have imagined that our galaxy has been built into a steel fortress with no blind spots. No matter where they attack from, they will be violently attacked by us.
There are a total of five planets in this fortress galaxy. The planet closest to the star is too hot and has no layout. The second planet is the colony, which belongs to the Kroot Titanium Alliance. It has now been built into a steel fortress. There are also magnificent space station defenses on the periphery of the galaxy.
The third planet is a gaseous planet, which is worthless and difficult to install turrets. Although the fourth and fifth terrestrial planets are not suitable for survival, there are a large number of turrets and false targets scattered on them, completely creating traps.
Now, the fifth planet is already crowded with densely packed Tau warships.
The long-range weapons of both sides have fired. The difference is that the Red Torrent Chapter fired side weapons, while the enemy fired bow weapons.
The plenipotentiary commander glanced at the Ether tribesman behind him, who shook his head slightly and motioned for him to carry out the original plan.
Damn it, why don't we attack!
The plenipotentiary commander also ordered his own fleet to start orbiting his own galaxy and keep shooting at the battleships of Red Torrent.
When it comes to long-range firepower, we have a huge advantage. The enemy doesn't know how to use his strengths and avoid weaknesses. He is simply an amateur.
The all-powerful commander of the Fire Clan looks down upon the enemy in front of him more and more. In terms of technology, they have a slight advantage, but in terms of tactics, they are just like the gorilla Kruger. Isn't this a proper technological barbarian?
The Eternal Mountain is at the front. The battle barge is not good at long-range combat, but the void shield is very advanced and can serve as a human shield for a short time.
The Lunar-class cruisers were behind the battle barge, pouring firepower from their broadsides.
After rotating around the galaxy for one and a half times, the Eternal Mountain could no longer hold it any longer and began to slowly retreat, with the several-month-class cruiser on top.
On the other hand, the Tau side suffered almost no losses, and even the shields were not overloaded. Only a few frigates and gunboats were damaged.
The all-powerful commander once again asked the entire army to attack and fight the enemy to the death, but was stopped by the Ether tribe behind him.
"Why?" The commander kept asking the Ether clansman, finally angering him.
The ether's eyes slightly emitted psychic light, like bright stars.
"I said, follow the orders of Lord (deleted), stick to the galaxy and not go to war."
The plenipotentiary commander immediately stood up straight and accepted the order, "Understand, everything is for the greater good."
The ether also sighed. He didn't understand why the top leader repeatedly asked not to go out to fight. It was obviously a big advantage, okay?
The Tau made two mistakes.
First, they thought that what was in front of them was Yifeng's main force. They didn't know that William and the "Infinite Loyalty" were coming to support them. According to the Tau's intelligence, the enemy has only one big ship that has not yet been used, which may be their trump card.
Second, they circled the galaxy one and a half times, that is to say, the butt of their battleship was facing the Mandeville Point where Yifeng entered.
When Yifeng ordered the troops to start turning and the bow of the ship faced the enemy, everyone in the Fire Clan was full of fighting spirit, thinking that the enemy was going to fight to the death.
Then, on the other side of the galaxy, at Mandeville Point, the Solemn Alert, Dawnlight, and Infinite Loyalty jumped out of the subspace.
The rough-skinned battle barge rushes toward the enemy's planet.
The Tau fleet was shocked. Two motherships and three cruisers immediately turned around and tried to return to support their own world.
At this time, the Moon-class cruiser on the front completed its U-turn and quickly rushed towards the Tau.
Due to the rapid rotation, the Tau fleet is now far away from the turret support of the fifth planet. Only the space-based turrets floating in the system can cover them.
"Hold still, don't move. The first formation turns around to deal with the sneak attack enemy, and the second and third formations prepare a salvo."
The Moon-class cruiser approached the Tau warship at high speed. After a rough calculation, the commander found that the top speed of his own warship was only 80% of the enemy's.
Damn it, will those guys die if they don’t brag? To say that it has completely surpassed the performance of the enemy warships, the result is nonsense.
The Moon-class cruiser is about to enter the combat range of the drones. These are the farthest combat ranges of the intelligent control AI.
The Guardian-class mothership released its own battle formation, and a large number of space bombers and drone formations roared out, and then flew towards the enemy.
Bright light gradually condensed on the gun barrel hanging from the bow of the Moon-class cruiser.
The Moon-class cruiser's Nova Cannon opened fire, and the huge sub-light-speed shells quickly hit the battleships ahead. The Tau were unable to dodge. Seven of the nine shells hit, instantly destroying the enemy's five Ambassador-class cruisers and severely damaging two Guardian ships. carrier-class mothership.
The Tau were shocked.
What is this? The empire has never used it before. Is it a new weapon?
The all-powerful commander of the Fire Clan felt that the situation was getting out of control, and he seemed to have lost the initiative on the battlefield.
"Don't panic. For such a powerful weapon, the enemy must have a long reloading time. They won't have a chance to fire it a second time."
The powerful Moon-class cruiser did not stop, but accelerated towards the enemy, preparing for a close fight.
At this time, the commander-in-chief knew that the time had come to change his fate.
The defender fleet learned the lessons of the Damocles expedition. Although they did not install additional artillery fire on the sides of the battleships, they infinitely reduced the area of the sides.
That's right, the current Tau battleship is no longer a long cylinder. Instead, it's flat, like a butterfly or a manta ray.
Their sides are extremely small, just the thickness of an ion cannon.
The Moon-class cruiser broke into the formation, but found that it was difficult for the broadside macroguns and torpedoes to hit the target, because the two sides were charging face to face, and the first contact must be on the broadside first.
The enemy turned slightly sideways and adjusted, and our attack passed by the side.
Although the enemy did not have a speed advantage, their Guardian Mothership released a large number of drones and missiles to attack the Moon-class cruiser from all angles.
These low-speed targets passed through the void shield and engaged in fierce firefights with close-in defense artillery.
When entering a state of melee, the Moon-class cruiser also quickly changed formations. With the support of the think tank, the communication was very smooth, which was enough to complete difficult formation changes.
The cost of the manta-shaped battleship's narrow sides is its huge bottom area. Once the "Imperial" battleship finds the right angle during maneuvers, it will hit the target with perfect accuracy.
The Tau commander was not a stupid person. He immediately ordered all the warships to disperse, causing chaos and attacking from multiple angles. He also ordered the space-based turrets to start firing. These orbital defense facilities that have been built for a long time are not ordinary deployments. In the orbit of the planet, it is deployed in the orbit of the galaxy.
Pulse cannons, missile nests, heavy railguns, and heavy ion cannons are all carrier-grade, built with the sole purpose of attacking enemy ships.
The ants killed the elephant, and a large number of attacks were wearing away the armor and void shield of the Lunar-class cruiser.
There is no doubt that the enemy has numerical superiority.
The only commendable thing about the Tau is that their intensive close-range firepower effectively blocked the torpedo attack.
The intensive bombardment of the railgun can quickly break through the defense of low-armored targets in close combat, but do we have low-armored targets?
There don't seem to be any, and there aren't even a few frigates.
We are fighting now. The Tau are attacking our void shield and armor with all their strength. While we are gambling on the hit rate of the macro cannon, we are also waiting for the light spear to cool down.
The light spear is bound to hit.
This is not some kind of laser pointer. The light spear can be fired for a long time, just like a laser cutter.
The enemy's shield technology level is too low. The simultaneous attack of the light spear arrays of three moon-class cruisers is enough to completely destroy a complete enemy ship with shield and armor.
After several rounds of this, several enemy Ambassador-class cruisers were destroyed.
The Tau commander frantically rammed the Warden-class frigate into the Lunar-class cruiser with all its strength, forcing the enemy to turn its main firepower toward the frigate, buying time for the Guardian-class mothership's continuous firepower output.
At this time, the shortcoming of the Scarlet Torrent Chapter's lack of frigates in this offensive became apparent. Several new-star frigates were unable to intercept the enemy's frigates, and the battlefield fell into a fight.
Relying on the sacrifice of the frigate, the large battleships of the Tau gradually distanced themselves from us.
Moreover, the Commander-in-Chief ordered that behind the void shield of the overloaded Moon-class cruiser, priority be given to attacking our light spear weapon array. As time went by, three Moon-class light spears were destroyed. Similarly, the enemy's frigates were completely destroyed. Broken armor and rescue cabins littered the entire battlefield.
The firepower of the Tau's large battleships gradually drifted away. They discovered that the enemy's super-large ships, whose void shields were almost overloaded, did not meet up with the Moon-class cruisers, but went straight to their main fleet.
The enemy formed a horn offensive, and the Eternal Mountain was one of the horns.
Soon, the Eternal Mountain, sailing alone, arrived at the battlefield. The terrifying power of the bombardment will tell the enemy that the combat power you are proud of is not worth mentioning in our eyes.
As a bombardment blasted an enemy's wounded Guardian-class mothership into pieces, the situation on the frontal battlefield began to tilt toward the Empire.
Ten against fourteen, the enemy made a mistake. They should not have divided their forces to deal with William's troops.
They made the second mistake. They actually thought that five battleships could hold William back.
The two battle barges ignored the enemy's troops and rushed straight towards the enemy's world, using their own firepower to suppress the enemy's ground-based forts and reduce their impact on the battle situation in space.
As for the Infinite Loyalty... they are fighting one against five, overwhelming the enemy.
Just kidding, I'm a serious Retribution-class battleship. Who are you? You dare to compete with me for firepower?
The battleship's bombardment arrived first and dealt with an enemy cruiser in an instant.
Enemy warships try to use their numerical advantage to launch attacks from all directions, but the Empire's warships are always full of weapons. No matter where you come from, the Retribution-class battleship always has more than three weapon arrays facing you.
The Tau finally saw what it means to be crazy and barbaric in design.
The machine soul of the Retribution-class battleship poured out firepower feverishly, firing macrocannons group by group, and the cooldown time of the light spear was even shorter than usual.
I haven't fought this kind of battle in many years. I'm going to blow you up.
Of the twenty-seven warships, only eighteen are left. However, not one of the enemy's fourteen warships has been destroyed, and only three have barely lost their combat effectiveness.
Even the Moon-class cruiser that rushed into the crowd was seriously injured, its weapon array was completely destroyed, and the torpedo launch tube with the lowest priority was still firing plasma torpedoes.
"Retreat, Commander-in-Chief, and carry out the orders of the supreme leader."
The commander-in-chief had begun to do so. Their battle ended in a complete failure, and they could only retreat towards the edge of the galaxy, waiting for support from several warships and merchant fleets from other fortress worlds.
The last two Warden-class frigates launched a suicide attack on Yifeng's main fleet to buy time for their own large forces.
They emitted a kind of smoke that could interfere with the detection of the bird servant, like a squid spitting ink, trying to obscure the view of our warships.
This man-made... titanium space smoke grenade combined with the dense battleship debris on the battlefield blocked the field of vision very well.
Yifeng looked at the other party's actions with a strange expression. Don't they know that smoke bombs are only useful when the enemy is afraid of you? Don't they know that in space, if a ship travels at a slow speed, it will definitely be overtaken after an almost infinite time?
The Eternal Mountain passed through the enemy's smoke array without any scruples, corrected its course and pursued the enemy.
"Commander, retreat."
"What about the warriors on our planet?"
"I said, retreat." This Ether clan member is not a secret sect. He only knows that if he doesn't leave now, the navy will be completely wiped out. He only knows that this is the order from his superiors, to preserve the naval power.
The determination of the "Imperial" fleet was beyond the Tau's expectations, and the Red Torrent Chapter launched an unrestricted pursuit of them instead of driving them away.
Finally, in desperation, most of the enemy ships that had retreated outside the galaxy prepared to make a warp jump.
Of course, Yifeng will definitely cause harm.
When the Tau calculated based on the data that the Eternal Mountains still had several minutes to catch up with them, and they had enough warships to hang the small boat to the side of the big ship, the Shadow Bee fighters were dispatched.
The solid stance combined with the ultra-realistic acceleration system directly sends the soldiers to the enemy's edge with weird acceleration.
The Tau are familiar with these things. They always think that these are drones, because their reconnaissance always collects intelligence from a distance, and once discovered, they immediately escape at extremely fast speeds.
At this time, they discovered that the enemy passed through the dense barrage at a terrifying speed, and then dropped a cylindrical "missile" that directly smashed into a Guardian-class mothership.
Dud?
The warship was hit by six enemy "missiles" without any explosion.
Afterwards, the battleship completely lost contact. Not only did it slowly slow down, its curvature engine also stopped.
No matter how many times the Tau called, they could not contact the battleship.
"Maybe it's biological poison gas," the trainee commander said.
"It's impossible. Our battleship's sealed door is very strict. All personnel are wearing sealed space suits. Even worse, we still have escape capsules to use. It's impossible for an entire battleship to be annihilated by biological gas."
"Could it be an Astartes?"
"What creature could withstand the acceleration of that kind of maneuver?"
The Plenipotentiary Commander was a little unsure and looked through the Codex Astartes again. He didn't see that the enemy would use reconnaissance planes to deliver them.
There was no time to hesitate. The other warships immediately started their curvature engines and fled the battlefield.
They will have another decisive battle with the enemy in the next Steel Fortress.
The captured Guardian-class mothership slowly stopped, was captured by the Eternal Mountain, and then turned and flew into the galaxy.
How to deal with these enemy planets armed as hedgehogs?