Chapter Seventy-Two: Return
The tremendous suction force from the vacuum outside created a sharp air flow in the torpedo compartment, which carried me out of the battleship, along with the corpse fragments of the Chaos Space Marines of the squad that landed in the torpedo. Although it is more convenient to use teleportation, it is better to fly slowly for the sake of safety.
The battleship's hull had been planted with six landing torpedoes like pins, indicating that more than fifty - that is, half a company of Chaos Space Marines had landed, and the last three landing torpedoes were closing in on the massive hull of the Redemption of Heresy. Looking at the ones that shot at the Melvid Picker and the Imperial Dawn, it was clear that Sylvia had mistaken the information, and that the total strength of the enemy Chaos Space Marines would never be just one company. Plus an even larger number of pagans......
Since the interior had not yet fully recovered, there was almost no near-fire force outside the huge heretical Redemption, and only a lone heavy explosive machine gun was firing, and it was Aishvalya standing outside the battleship in an almost desperate resistance. However, the Wehrmacht-style heavy explosive machine gun did not have a high range of fire when the bipod was deployed, and when it was put up, there was no hit rate at all, and even if a few bullets occasionally hit, it would only splash a few sparks - the landing torpedo was a solid thing that could collide with a battleship without disintegrating.
I reached out and unleashed a psionic thrust that deflected the three torpedoes in the back at a slight angle, causing two of them to deviate from their original direction and pass the ship, before diving headlong into the endless expanse of space. As for whether they will hit an asteroid or fall into a star or drift like this forever, it's not something I have to worry about. Although the first one still hit the heretic redemption, because it was not a vertical incidence, its drill bit failed to penetrate the armor of the battleship, but slipped and bounced away, and then the whole body fell on the surface of the battleship, and the tail thruster suddenly exploded and caught fire under this fall, and several Chaos warriors who were lucky enough not to die opened the burning ruins and did not escape too far, and the heavy explosive arrows that followed closely tore them apart one by one.
"Ash, put down your gun and send me to the Melved Picker." I ordered it in the communicator.
Sister Seraphic stood still and asked, "Are you trying to escape?" ”
Escape your sister, do you have a place to escape from a place with many enemies?
"I have the authority of the Inquisitor Editius, obey orders!" I didn't bother to explain to this brain-dead, and directly took out the orders of my superiors to suppress people.
But this time I miscalculated again, the nuns are the armed forces of the Anglican See, not our defense army, and they have not developed the habit of absolute obedience to orders, so when I gave the order, Ashwarya's first reaction was not to execute, but to ask Eddie to confirm first.
Thankfully, Eddie was able to save face and reconfirm the authorization given to me, and the nun opened the jetpack and pushed me towards the Melvid Picker. The rocket thrusters were much faster than compressed air, and it took the crew half an hour to cover the distance, and it took Aishwarya only five minutes to fly there, at the cost of being a little dizzy from the tremendous acceleration along the way.
Perhaps because the transport ship was considered easier to deal with, the Melved Picker suffered only four landing torpedoes, less than half the size of the Heresy Redemption. With only more than forty Chaos Space Marines, there are almost no troops and firepower density scattered inside the battleship that is a kilometer long and hundreds of meters wide, but considering that there are not many elite crews left on the ship, and the individual heavy weapons have also been taken away by the crew members who participated in the jumping gang, the battle is still somewhat difficult.
There was no one on the departure deck with the hatch wide open, and there was no sign of battle, only some military supplies that had been discarded in panic were quietly suspended in the air, and the bright lights had now been completely extinguished, and even the slight vibrations on the deck caused by the operation of the engines had disappeared, and the whole ship gave me a feeling of lifelessness. And the door leading to the inside of this large cabin is also tightly sealed, and it is obvious that it cannot be opened by human power alone. I can't be late, right? It's only been a few minutes since the enemy landed? …,
"Captain Vane, are you there?" I plugged into the ship's internal channels.
Soon there was an answer, "Thank you, Emperor, you have finally arrived." "It was as if I was a savior, and there was a dense burst of gunfire.
Even the acting captain is on the front line? Not a good sign.
"I'm on the departure deck and can't get into the boat. What about you? ”
"The enemy was so numerous that we were completely unable to hold out, and now we have been forced to abandon the bridge and most of the power compartments, and all the men have retreated to the cargo hold to wait for support. However, we have almost completely cut off the power on the ship, and the enemy has been trying to control the ship very early. ”
"Hold on for a moment! I'll rush to the aid right away! "I interrupted the call.
Ashwarya floated up to me and shook at me, "How are we going to get in?" ”
If I didn't bring this oil bottle, I would have been able to teleport in. There were nuns watching, and I was bound hand and foot for a long time. But even if I just use the usual method, it's a breeze for me.
"We will get in as the enemy gets in." I replied to her in sign language, then drew my sword and slashed through a box floating beside me. More than a dozen molten bombs and a single laser cannon were scattered. At this time, the nun did not have the time to pay attention to the unreasonable details of why the bombs were in the same box as the laser cannon, so she took two bombs and tried to blow up the hatch.
I hurriedly stopped her and said, "Don't waste a bomb in that place, a bomb can only blow a small hole." Follow me. ”
Floating out of the ship with a laser cannon on my shoulder, I aimed at the tail of a landing torpedo and fired a few shots. The thrusters, which had been out and cooled down for a long time, didn't burst as easily as the previous one, and I almost ran out of energy from a battery backpack to make a hole in it that was large enough for a person to pass through, and beckoned Ashvalya to go in with me.
Another advantage of going this way is that you can follow in the footsteps of your enemies instead of having to teleport to one place and then search for them in a nutshell. While there has been no fighting in most places, the power armor's heavy boots with magnets can still leave marks on the steel floor. Not only was the ship powerless, but even the power was almost completely cut off, all the corridors and cabins were dark, and the air was almost completely lit, so I couldn't attack the place where the guns rang out like I would in a normal battle. And the hustle and bustle of the souls of the deceased could not allow me to extend my psionic perception too far.
Dead, I saw a large number of dead people as soon as I entered the ship. Thankfully, they weren't the outfits of the crew of the Melved Picker, but a pagan force with no vacuum protection. Obviously, the Crimson Pirates didn't expect that the ship had already pumped much of the area into a vacuum before the battle, and that the huge number of pagan marines died in the vacuum before they could enter the battle. This is really good news, although cannon fodder heretics are not much of a threat in terms of combat, if they want to completely control a ship, it is difficult to do without them. There are only a few Chaos Space Marines, and they can't go door to door to get the power pods back up and running.
If there were only forty or fifty Chaos Space Marines in the enemy, the next battle would seem simple. I couldn't help but feel lighter.
Walking through the compartments where the corpses of the enemy were suspended everywhere, it was not until I entered the large warehouse where the tank artillery was stored that I found my own man. The crew members who stayed behind were dressed in heavy and clumsy protective suits, carrying compressed air cylinders and armed with various firearms. And the half-human, half-mechanical tech priests have dismantled huge cargo crates and fixed various turrets to the deck as turrets, forming a steel defense line that seems to me completely unshakable by infantry alone. On the other side, under the command of Ah Da, a group of people is assembling a full-fledged Riemann Ruth tank. In order to allow the behemoth to move in a gravity-free environment, they also geniusly equipped the tank with a large jet propulsion device.
If it's just going to hold on, it doesn't seem like I'm needed for support anymore. The next task should be to plan to recapture the bridge or find and destroy the Chaos Space Marines.