There is no shelling, which only means that the asteroid has been tampered with.

At this moment, I suddenly remembered a fact that I had ignored for a long time, that on this battlefield, in addition to the ships I had witnessed with my own eyes, there were other forces hidden, such as the interstellar warband that may be from the same world as me, the Silent Blade......

I also realized that although this was an asteroid belt full of rubble, and rocks of all sizes were inhabited, most of the rocks were not remarkable, the smaller ones were smaller than the Thunderbolts, the larger ones were just over a kilometer in diameter, and not much larger than the Luna cruisers. And the guy in front of him, which is full of ten kilometers in size, is really too abrupt.

"Expected impact, five minutes." Routine debriefing by officers.

On the screen, the image of the asteroid is enlarged and clearer. What is faintly visible is that the points of the explosion seem to be arranged in a very neat shape, and what is left behind after the explosion is not an ordinary crater, but ...... Round potholes with a metallic sheen?

"Oh my God! That's thrusters, an array of thrusters! In an oppressive silence, a naval officer shouted.

Well, a miracle happened, and the thing actually grew legs.

More and more people exclaimed,

"The Emperor is above! It's a space fortress! ”

Space fortresses, I've heard of such things, are man-made creations that are larger, stronger, and more powerful than any warship. Compared to the warships that can be found in almost every corner of the empire, the number of space fortresses is pitiful, because they lack the ability to maneuver and cannot be deployed to the required positions as quickly as warships. The Dark Angels and Imperial Fists are old warbands that don't have a home planet, and their main base is the Fortress Monastery flying in space.

However, compared to those legendary and magnificent creations, this one seems to be a little abnormal. After all, the size of ten kilometers is a behemoth compared to the moon god, but in the era when the legendary emperor walked in the world, the battleships owned by human beings often had a length of more than ten or even dozens of kilometers. In terms of appearance, it is a large black stone, without any traces of artificial processing, and even the thruster vent has been carefully camouflaged with rocks before, which is completely different from the tall and mighty Four Corners Fortress and other Space Marine monasteries seen in the picture. If anything, it seems more like the legendary green-skinned orc's rolling stone ship.

If it is encountered in another situation, perhaps everyone will immediately get nervous and enter the combat mode.

Now, that asteroid ...... In other words, the thrusters exposed on the space fortress have been ignited one after another, and the fiery tail flames that are thousands of kilometers long illuminate the entire space outside our portholes as if it were day. It had ten times as many thrusters in operation as the luna, but even after a long time, there was no sign of any movement. It may not be as big as the creations of the mechanical gods who have served the Emperor, but it is still too big for us mortals.

"A flash signal came from the other side."

On the other side, where there is no thruster, a point of light flickers regularly. It seems that the Silent Blade is really true to its name, and they are not willing to speak directly when they are face-to-face, but use flashes of communication that is similar to sign language. The problem is that I can understand sign language, but I can't understand flash! What's even more depressing is that everyone in the navy on the bridge seems to be able to understand, so there is not even a translator.

Luckily, I'm not the only one who can't read it, and the other person has much more power than me.

"Translation." The young Inquisitor ordered succinctly.

The naval officer in charge of communications immediately said, "The Blade of Silence welcomes you in the Hall of Silence. ”

Such short content? And I didn't even explain who I welcomed!

"Do you say they welcome us or wolves?" Add asked.

"Of course we are." Colonel Lem explained, "They used laser directional signals, specifically aimed at us. Light doesn't scatter in space, and no one but us sees the communication. For the wild wolves, they must have sent other messages. ”

"But even if they dodge us, we won't be able to stop immediately, will we?" Add asked again.

It was only a minor matter that we could not stop, and it seemed that although the danger of crashing into it was no longer as the asteroid - or the space fortress called the Hall of Silence - had left its original position, the blazing tail flame was still burning in front of us, and if we hit it headlong like this, it felt like everyone would be slowly roasted in this sealed tin can, and it would be better to crash into it all at once.

"Communication received," another officer shouted, and a voice was played, "Space Wolf, this is the Starwarband Silent Blade, please move the ship out of the way so that I can launch a cannonball on the traitors." ”

Judging from the projector, the Glory of the Mackenna is still facing off from a distance with the Space Wolf's Frost Fang, and the two sides have a tacit understanding that they are not firing guns, but are fighting landing and counter-landing in the way of a Space Marine. The Space Wolves seemed to be bound to the Red Pirates' warships, and the Red Pirates were not in a hurry to deal with them. It was only when the Space Fortress Hall of Silence was undisguised to reveal its massive size, that Mackenna's Flare began to slowly accelerate to try to move away from the battlefield, carefully keeping himself in the straight line between the Frost Fang and the Hall of Silence, so that if the Space Fortress fired, there was a high chance that the wolf's ship would be accidentally damaged.

After a few moments, we heard the echo of the wolf, with the gruff voice and unstoppable arrogance of the Fenris, "This is the space wolf, warn no forces present to open fire without permission, the traitor has our men on board, and we are about to take the ship." ”

"Why does the Silent Blade use sound to talk to wolves, but light to us?" Add asked.

"Maybe the wolves didn't pay attention to their light signals." Colonel Leme guessed.

"Can the wolf take the boat down?" Add asked again.

Sylvia said, "It should be easy, the space wolf is invincible. In the earlier battles, the Red Pirates had lost far more than a company. ”

Colonel Lem sighed: "It's hard to say, the Red Pirates are experts in naval warfare after all, and the wild wolf, obviously this ship has not made any preparations for naval battles in advance, they are not even equipped with landing torpedoes and teleporters, and only rely on transport boats such as Thunder Eagle to deliver troops, and there is no way to transport troops over at one time, and it is easy to be broken by the other side." As you've seen in previous battles, the defensive operations inside the battleship, the defenders who are familiar with the terrain and are at ease have a great advantage. What's more, the Wild Wolves' strength should not be as sufficient as that of the Red Pirates, usually one of their battle cruisers will not carry more than one Holy Scripture Company, if there is any previous combat damage......"

The standard size of a Space Marine Canon Company is a hundred, so the wolves may only have seventy or eighty or less. And how many enemies might there be? Not counting the Red Pirates who stayed on the ship, an army of mortals alone would probably have to be one or two thousand, if they had enough weapons to arm the crew.

Colonel Lem shook his head, "Maybe I'm thinking too much, but in fact, wild wolves have always been able to create miracles, aren't they?" Besides, looking at the current comparison of forces, even if the Red Pirates can win the landing wolf, what can they do? Will they be able to escape from the fire of a fortress? ”

As we spoke, there were another series of small explosions on the fortress of the Hall of Silence, revealing a neat array of artillery that had been camouflaged off the surface rock. On the other side, the Jewel of the Mackenna is speeding away, and is about to rush into a dense belt of asteroids with complex terrain.

And we're only a minute away from the blazing plasma tail flame that the space fortress spews.

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