"What are the results of the planetary scan?"

As soon as Fu Qinghai returned to the bridge of the cruiser, he couldn't wait to ask.

"Khan, this is the topographical map of the feudal world before the Great Rebellion."

Eugene Eleanor displayed a spherical holographic projection on the table.

"After scanning the bird array, we marked the changes in the terrain in red."

As Eugene's finger swiped, the holographic projection swirled and zoomed in, revealing a red-marked area of hemispherical "bubbles" embedded in the ground.

"You see, this is the castle of the local warlord, built on a valley, it is estimated that there is a large underground area, and in addition, the castle and several affiliated bastions have Void shields, which prevent further scanning of the ornith."

There is a Void Shield, which means that the interior of the castle cannot be probed with the Ornith.

There is the Void Shield, which means that orbital bombardment cannot be done with Light Spears and macro cannons.

Many people will wonder why the naval fleet of the Human Empire still sends ground troops to land after occupying space orbit, just like fighting World War I, and letting the Imperial Guard fill it with human lives.

First of all, the empire regards the place where the star torch can shine as its traditional sphere of influence, it is to occupy the place of rule, and it cannot issue an extermination order at every turn, the cost of interstellar war is very high, war is a continuation of politics, if it is for the sake of victory, what are you doing in a dead world?

Secondly, if you don't use the whirlwind torpedo and virus bombs of the Extermination Order, there are many limitations to relying on macro cannons and light spears alone, and the ground-based Void Shield can often be larger than the ship-borne Void Shield, which is difficult to penetrate, and special terrain such as the seabed or canyon can cancel out the power of orbital bombardment.

"Mars has provided intelligence that the STC is hiding beneath the castle of this local warlord known as 'Bancroft Kellogg'."

Master Quintor chimed in and reminded.

"These are not the point, the point is that we found the body of the Iron Warrior on the space station, the traitors also came to Malcu, they can't have come on foot, start the sub-light engine, look around along the space orbit, and find the Iron Warrior battleship first!"

Fu Qinghai waved his hand and ordered directly.

The Burning Horse set sail again, circling Mar, but the orniths still showed no signs of a flying machine.

Even Fu Qinghai, Qiao Shida and Camille, respectively, drove the storm bird to search carefully in the meteorite belt far away from the planet, but still did not find the existence of any spaceship.

On the bridge, everyone gathered.

"What's going on, Khan."

Camille asked.

Fu Qinghai recalled the battle of Planet Losswell 7, pondered for a moment, and said:

"If it weren't for some kind of stealth technology, there would be only one possibility, the enemy's ships hiding on the surface."

"That means that the tonnage of the opposing warship is very small, and it basically does not have the ability to compete with a cruiser."

Qiao Shida said lightly.

"Why don't you try diplomacy and contact the warlord on the surface and get him to surrender and surrender the STC?"

Eugene offered advice on the sidelines.

Fu Qinghai shook his head:

"If the bodies of the Iron Warriors are not found, I would prefer a diplomatic settlement. The other party has a void shield, and there must also be a bird divination, we have all flown around the planet, and there is still no information from the surface to actively contact us, and the other party's attitude is self-evident. ”

"Just drop the airborne compartment and smash it directly overhead, or we will drive the Thunderhawk gunboat to penetrate the defense at a low altitude."

Jostar came up with a standard Space Marine's solution.

Fu Qinghai stared in contemplation, pursed his lips, and was noncommittal.

He doesn't really want to fight the enemy on the surface, and the battle on Planet Losswell 7 has always reminded him that he can't make the same mistake as Vlahos, occupying orbital air supremacy and then fighting a ground battle with the enemy, which is equivalent to the Russian army with heavy artillery fire driving into the ruins of Grozny to fight street battles.

Fu Qinghai propped his hands on the wide table, staring at the fortress shrouded in the middle of the void shield, and said:

"There's actually a solution."

"What?"

Joshida asked curiously.

Fu Qinghai said calmly:

"Put thrusters on that abandoned space station, throw it off orbit, and kill those traitors and warlords."

"Wonderful."

Qiao Shida's eyes lit up when he heard this.

Master Kunto immediately stopped him:

"Little Locke, our primary target is the STC below the castle, not the Iron Warriors or the rebel warlords."

The implication is that if they smash the castle into it, smash out a big hole in the ground, and smash the STC below, then they will come in vain.

"There are two termite-class tyrant-type assault drill rigs on the research ship, and we may be able to start from underground."

Master Quintor reminded.

Fu Qinghai pinched his chin and said:

"Anyway, let's go down and see the actual situation before making a decision."

Fu Qinghai turned his head and ordered:

"Jostar, pick a landing site."

Joshida had already figured out this, and he reached out to flick the holographic projection of the planet, magnifying the land area, and pointed to a valley not far from the warlord's fortress, and said:

"Here, Khan."

"Fifty kilometers from the castle, the curvature of the planet can interfere with the detection of the ornithography to a certain extent."

"It is surrounded by primeval forest, there is no sign of human activity, and the probability of being spotted by locals is small."

"I look at the structure of the valley facilities, it is very similar to an abandoned mine pit, and the mine is generally accompanied by a strong magnetic field, which can also interfere with the enemy's detection means to a certain extent."

Josda listed three reasons in one go.

caused Camille next to him to look at him differently.

"Very well, check the teleportation beacon, pack up the weapons and equipment, and let's go down in the Thunderhawk gunboat."

Fu Qinghai ordered with satisfaction.

The Void Shield is a shield system unique to the Human Empire.

Very advanced and ingenious one of the designs.

The shield system of other sci-fi IPs is nothing more than two kinds: the bias shield and the energy shield, which is different from the "hard interception" method in which the energy shield mainly intercepts the attack through energy neutralization, and the way in which the bias shield deflects the attack instead of intercepting it is also different, and the principle of the Void Shield is to transfer the attack to subspace.

Sometimes you can imagine the feeling of the four hawkers - people sitting at home, water drenching their heads, and when the human empire was fighting, all kinds of laser shells and other garbage were thrown into subspace one by one.

The Void Shield consumes a lot of energy, but its energy consumption is mainly used to maintain the entrance to this subspace, not to neutralize incoming attacks.

Also, like the Holzman Shield in Dune Universe, the Void Shield will only defend against high-velocity live-fire and directed energy weapons, such as macrocannons, light spears, and nova cannons, but will not intercept penetration of low-velocity objects, such as torpedoes, missiles, and assault boats.

This statement is somewhat absolute, after all, the speed is a relative concept, in fact, if you want to subdivide it, the shipborne Void Shield, the ground-based Void Shield and the Titan Void Shield are different, and by adjusting the frequency and harmonics of the Void Shield, the interception of torpedoes and missiles can also be realized.

However, tanks and infantry are 100% sure that they can pass through the Void Shield, which is one of the reasons why the Imperial Guard still implements the dull tactics of WW1.

Therefore, Fu Qinghai proposed a plan to smash the castle with the space station, and due to the influence of air resistance in the atmosphere, the falling speed of the space station is likely to be unable to reach the interception speed of the Void Shield.

In addition, the Void Shield also blocks a variety of psionic technologies based on the principles of subspace, such as teleportation technology, such as the scanning of the ornith.

Therefore, Fu Qinghai personally led the team down to the surface to observe the actual situation of the castle's defense.

The old driver, Fu Qinghai, operated the Thunder Eagle gunboat and landed steadily in the valley.

Three Space Marines walk out the front door of the fallen gunboat.

There were black slag and rusty iron frames scattered around, Fu Qinghai glanced at the hand-held bird divination instrument in his hand, showing that there was indeed a strong magnetic field here, and he said in the communication channel:

"Let's go."

Half an hour later, the three of them stood on a high hill, observing the fortress in the distance.

The main color of gray and yellow spreads all over the land, and the surrounding scenery is very bleak, shrouded in haze, dirt is lifted, and trenches are crisscrossed.

The activated Void Shield creates a transparent bubble-like film around the castle, which causes an optical blur due to its ability to refract visible light passing through it.

The energy consumption to maintain the Void Shield is enormous.

The standard dogma of the Imperial Navy is to maintain the Void Shield at 50% of its maximum power forever. However, given its enormous energy requirements and the consequent increase in vessel maintenance, few captains will strictly follow this rule. Most people will keep the Void Shield at a minimum energy when they are in a "safe" situation, such as being in a naval port above the orbit of an Imperial world.

Considering that the enemy is a tech barbarian warlord, it is obvious that the Void Shield will not be kept fully open under normal circumstances.

And the scene above the castle showed that the enemy had known about the arrival of the fleet, and raised the Void Shield in advance, maintaining a large power level.

Fu Qinghai's teeth rubbed, and his eyes were a little worried.

Through the distorted film of light, Fu Qinghai could vaguely see that on the protruding fortress of the warlord's castle, there was a huge and stocky fort, and the black and thick cannon muzzle reached straight into the sky.

Skyhawk macro cannon.

The enemy has moved all the macros to the ground, and this is a heavy ground-based macrocannon specially used for ground defense.

Ironically, there was even the Imperial Double-headed Eagle emblem on the cannon that had not had time to be erased.

Trench-like defensive platforms and half-buried fortifications, spread along the edge of the castle, with a large number of dead human bones, abandoned weapons, ammunition boxes, shovels, metal rivets, and firing holes.

"Before we arrived, they had fought more than one war, not necessarily because of us, the Void Shield."

Joshida concluded.

Fu Qinghai nodded:

"Look, they're still reinforcing the battlements and walls, the dense barrels, the flat-firing cannon combined with the curved mortar and howitzer, the cross-fire holes of the heavy bomb and the logging gun are very Iron Warriors."

Numerous artillery forts fortified the warlord's castle into an iron hedgehog.

Joshida also put away the idea of the Thunderhawk gunboat's low-altitude penetration and the flowering of the center of the airborne warehouse.

"Let's get into the ground."

Josda said.

"That's all there is to it."

Fu Qinghai said in a low voice.

There is no other way.

Fu Qinghai secretly calculated in his heart:

The assault drill vehicle will produce a lot of movement, and it is impossible for the enemy not to be aware of it, so it is not enough to simply drill into the ground, but also to cooperate with the frontal attack of the ground forces and the air-space strike of the orbital warship to serve as cover for the real tactical target - the underground assault.

The cathars and armed servants were all undaunted to death, and let them rush forward against the fire of the castle's defenses, sacrificing them as bait and outcasts under the walls, and Master Quintor would not say a word.

But Fu Qinghai felt that the battle was not fought like this, and the Iron Warriors might fight like this, but the white scar would not.

Maybe I can smash the station next to the castle and change the terrain to shoot at the enemy under the cover of the wreckage?

Fu Qinghai remembered several classic battles of White Scar against the orcs, but it was still that problem, STC was the primary target of this operation, Fu Qinghai had no way to predict the destruction effect of the fall of the space station, and it was difficult to accurately manipulate the expected ending.

Fu Qinghai wanted to fight this battle more beautifully.

Fu Qinghai is brainstorming

Suddenly, Fu Qinghai, Qiao Shida and Qiao Shida, the three of them looked to the side together.

A ragged mortal climbed to the foot of the mountain.

His hair was as messy as a chicken's nest, his face was yellow, his dirty hands and feet were covered with mud, and his eyes timidly stared at the three Space Marines on the hill, and he spoke cautiously:

"Three or three adults, our family wants to invite you to come and talk."

"Your lords?"

Josda frowned.

"He's, he's also an Astarte. ”

The man stammered as he explained.

The three of them looked at each other.

"This could be a trap, Khan."

Josda whispered in the communication channel.

Fu Qinghai frowned and was silent.

At this time, the man suddenly rolled his eyes, his face began to distort, cobalt-blue vascular streaks appeared around his cheeks, and a hideous little head of cobalt blue gum came out of his back, and the evil big white eyes looked directly at Fu Qinghai, grinned and opened his sharp teeth, and hissed hoarsely:

"He said, if you don't want to, see me, and you'll be willing."

"What the hell!?"

Qiao Shida was startled, and his palm subconsciously grasped the weapon at his waist.

"A mortal controlled by an alien parasite."

Josda pulled out his power sword and drew his conclusion.

"Nope."

Fu Qinghai stretched out his hand and pressed Qiao Shida.

"Let's talk."

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