Countless orc warships fled under the blows of the Imperial fleet, long lost the arrogance of the beginning of the war.

The huge greenskin fleet has been transformed into a huge mass of debris floating in space. And those orcs who survived by luck now only hope that they can escape the pursuit of the Imperial fleet and escape from this land of death as soon as possible.

In order to better pursue these orcs, Croatia divided the Imperial ships into a large number of pursuing fleets with about 1,000 ships. Reducing the size of the fleet appropriately will allow for more effective results in pursuit.

Except for a part of the fleet that was in pursuit of the remnants of the orcs. There is also a part of the fleet that arrives in the skies above those orc planets and carries out a suppressive attack on the planets, that is, orbital bombardment.

When human beings are able to explore the oceans, sea dominance is extremely important. And when humans are able to fly in the air, it is crucial to seize air supremacy in war.

And as humanity steps into space, the most important thing in warfare is undoubtedly to ensure that it has enough space power.

Whoever controls the universe controls the planet; Whoever controls space controls the initiative in the war.

The Human Empire can do without Space Marines, or even countless Astral Troops, but the Human Empire, the Galactic Empire, must not do without the Imperial Navy.

Without space power, the Imperial world would be like the orc planet that is now surrounded by hordes of fleets.

Neither the ability to escape, nor the ability to launch a counterattack.

Even if there were billions, tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions of orcs on the planet below the Imperial fleet, and even if all of them were orc bosses, they could only be scattered into dust under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Imperial fleet.

This is what happens when you lose your naval power in a space war. No matter how powerful your ground forces are, they will be useless.

Space is a key combat domain in the war between the Empire and the Orcs, and can greatly affect the success or failure of wars in other realms. This is why the empire spared no effort to develop the navy.

You must know that the resources spent on building a battleship can be used to make almost all the weapons and vehicles of hundreds of thousands of Astral Army legions.

Whether it is a series of weapons such as heavy weapons, light weapons, and melee weapons, or a series of vehicles such as tanks, armored vehicles, towed artillery, and missile carriers, all of them are included.

And such battleships, the Reich built almost a hundred thousand. And that's not counting the larger number of cruisers, destroyers, frigates, etc.

A large amount of the Empire's resources are used to build these expensive units, so much so that the Empire's long-planned Astral Army Unified Gear Changeover is still being prepared.

However, these warships did not cost the Empire so many resources, and in the war with the orcs, they easily destroyed the vast fleets of the orcs, while there were almost no casualties themselves.

After gaining the advantage of war in space, these empire's space warships will mainly serve the planetary battlefield, creating more favorable conditions for the planetary battlefield to seize the initiative in the war.

They can provide information support for combat operations on land, sea, and air on the planet's surface, and cooperate with and support operations on the planet's surface.

At the same time, these Imperial warships, built with the new technology of the Empire, can condescendingly monitor the planetary battlefield and carry out precision strikes against the planet's military targets, and the damage is huge. This plays a very important role in promoting the combat process of the planetary battlefield and achieving combat victory.

However, these planets, which are full of green-skinned orcs, and every soil is full of orc reproductive spores, are almost worthless to the Empire.

What's more, the planetary environment of most orcs is extremely harsh. Orcs' strong constitution allows them to survive in any extreme environment, even if they are highly poisonous, or if they are nascent and volcanically active.

Abandoned ships or platforms, floating ice floes, asteroid belts filled with active stellar radiation, dream demon worlds with black bean sprouts, hot worlds full of fearsome predators, and even destroyed planetary wreckage.

And according to some rumors in the Empire, it seems that the Orcs even have an enclave inside the Eye of Fear.

Even if there are some orc worlds that are highly habitable for humans, empires that have mastered extremely advanced planetary modification technology will not show mercy at all because some orc planets are very habitable for humans.

For most orc planets, the Empire has no intention of sending ground units to fight them, and the constant orbital bombardment is the Empire's strategic choice for these orc-filled planets.

These powerful and long-lasting orbital bombardments can cause massive damage to the planet's orcs, ecology, buildings, and the planet itself.

Generally speaking, the main purpose of bombing is to destroy the defenses on the planet and prepare the ground forces to land and capture the planet.

However, what the Empire has carried out on most of the orc planets is a doomsday judgment orbital bombardment, and these Imperial fleets will bombard the entire planet into a dead planet.

If it were a former empire, this level of orbital bombardment would have been given another name - an extermination order.

Some orc worlds are extremely lucky, and the orcs above them will not become thick black suspended particles in the atmosphere in the endless bombardment.

When the Imperial fleet bombs to a certain extent and weakens the combat effectiveness of the orcs on the planet to a certain extent, the newly formed Space Marine Legion will carry out landing operations.

This was partly to test their combat capabilities, and partly to capture orc captives for the Empire to conduct research experiments.

After the various Star Marine warbands were reorganized into legions, there were big problems with the coordination between them due to the different ways they used to fight.

Although they are still super soldiers, when the number of space marines increases, the tacit cooperation can allow them to exert greater combat effectiveness.

Fortunately, before these star-conned legions were formed, the Empire had a force of warriors from various warbands - Death Watch.

Deathwatch are the Xenohunters on the front lines of the galaxy, their prowess proven in battles against hundreds of Xenomorphs, their triumph and charisma recognized by all, and their mission is to ensure that humanity is not destroyed by those Space Xenomorphs.

And those kill squads in Death Watch, each member is from a different warband. Trained by experienced Deathwatch commanders, they know how to work well with their comrades.

Therefore, Croatia specially recruited a group of soldiers belonging to Death Watch to train the newly formed Star Marine Legion.

Through the centuries of combat experience and wisdom accumulated by Death Watch Legion, the warriors of the Space Marine Legion quickly became well-matched warriors and gained a deeper understanding of how to destroy the orcs.

Soon, the image of a large-scale Space Marine stepping into the battlefield in a sea of mountains will once again appear in the galaxy after thousands of years.

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"Captain Scola, there's something wrong with this planet beneath our feet."

On an Imperial ship that was carrying out orbital bombardment on the orc planet, a crew member who was aware of the various states of the planet below through the ship's monitoring equipment warned his captain.

"On the surface and in orbit of this planet, there are large-scale gravity anomalies. And the geological movement of the planet itself is so violent and unusual that our orbital bombardment of this magnitude would not have been able to achieve such an effect. ”

At this time, the sudden extreme change in the gravitational environment near the planet affected all the Imperial warships hovering in orbit. A large number of Imperial fleets did not bother to find the cause of such a change, and hurriedly increased the power of their engines to keep the warships away from the vicinity of the planet.

This situation is not unique, in the core region of the Orc Empire, in the galaxy, there are dozens of planets in the vicinity of such anomalies.

What is certain is that this is by no means a change in the environment caused by the Empire's orbital bombardment, as this anomaly has also been detected near some barren planets that have not been bombed by the Imperial fleet for the time being.

Upon receiving reports from the captains of the ships, Croatia immediately recalled what had happened to the Empire during the Beast Wars.

"It's the orc battle moon teleporting! Get away from those planets and get ready for battle! ”

He immediately ordered the captains of those warships in the communication channel, and at the same time asked the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, which was chasing the orcs, to return to the defense, preparing for the upcoming orc battle moon.

Croatia's swift judgment bought the Imperial fleet time to react, and the Imperial Fleet's pulse engines advanced at full speed, quickly distancing themselves from the planets.

Soon, the murderer responsible for all these anomalies gradually revealed his prototype, which was a man-made planetary-level sphere that suddenly appeared, and its size was even several times larger than that of the Empire's master!

That's the orc battle moon that used to appear in the Beast Wars! It was its arrival that caused the gravitational pull and the distortion of space near the planet!

Those battle moons were huge, and had been modified by the orcs in strange ways. The interior has been hollowed out and turned into a cavern, the deep black interior is studded with lights, and the hangar buried in the ground protrudes from the cavern, bathed in the brilliant light of the stars.

Roughly constructed towers, dockyards, and other bloated structures have left scars on the surface. Its massive face squinted at the Imperial fleet, so the Imperial warships could only see it from the side - eyebrows the size of the continental shelf were upturned, a rockery-like nose, and a complex pile of scaffolding and buildings made up the protruding lower lip.

No one knew where these battle moons came from, but when they appeared, the orcs, who were only one line away from being defeated on all fronts, or had already been defeated, immediately stopped retreating.

They completed the transition from retreat to charge at breakneck speed. In just a few minutes, the orc ships launched a counterattack against the Imperial fleet with the appearance of the Battle Moon.

As soon as the Orc's Battle Moon appeared, it began to absorb the resources of the planets near its teleportation site through the giant gravity equipment that housed it.

All kinds of minerals and energy are absorbed by the orc battle moon under the pull of gravity. And useless clods and boulders were sprayed at the Empire's fleet at breakneck speed under the action of the gravity device.

Of course, these attacks did not cause any damage to the Imperial fleet, which had already distanced itself, but these planetary wrecks were between the Imperial fleet and the orc fleet, effectively blocking a large number of long-range attacks from the Imperial fleet.

Some Imperial fleets that failed to leave the attack range of the Orc Battle Moon Gravity Weapon in time were pulled by the Orc Battle Moon through the gravity device, causing their evacuation speed to be greatly reduced.

A large number of orc warships followed the Battle Moon and rushed towards the Imperial fleet!

The attacked Imperial fleet was under full fire under the orders of the Croatian commander, ignoring the harassing attacks of the orc fleet, and concentrated its fire on the orc battle moon.

The attacks of the orc fleet are separated by such a long distance, it is very difficult to hit the Imperial fleet, their accuracy is so low that people can't bear to look at it directly, and some of the attacks that are lucky to hit are also completely defended by the Void Shield of the Imperial warship.

The only real mortal threat to the Imperial fleet is the Orc Battle Moon!

"Our courage will be like a sharp sword that sharpens iron and clay, piercing the stench and filthy black heart of the shattered alien! Attack! ”

What about the orcs battle moon, can you stop the fire of these thousands of imperial fleets!

Even planets can't withstand a round of fire of this magnitude, let alone the tiny "moon" of orcs.

Dazzling spears of light and an inconspicuous but equally deadly cannonball struck the orcs on the battle moon.

And under the gravity of the battle moon, the trajectory of a large number of planetary debris changed, blocking a large number of attacks. Battle Moon even used gravity devices to pull some orc ships in front of him, shielding himself from attacks from the Imperial fleet.

After the attack of the Imperial fleet, which had long been separated from the Orc Battle Moon Gravity Device, was blocked, it immediately pulled the opponent backwards while preparing for the next round of attacks.

However, the Orc Battle Moon and the Orc Fleet could hardly create any lethal attack on the Imperial fleet. In this case, sooner or later, the battle moon of these orcs will be destroyed under the attack of the Imperial warships.

However, those Imperial fleets that did not leave the range of the Orc Battle Moon Attack in the first place could not carry out this tactic.

The traction of the gravity device made them like meteorites captured by the battle moon, and no matter how much the power engine increased, the orc battle moon was still slowly approaching them.

The large number of planetary wrecks that came with the Battle Moon also caused the Imperial fleet's formations to be scattered, scattered one by one in isolated and scattered formations.

At this point, the distance between the two sides was close enough, and it was impossible for the Imperial fleet to destroy the orc fleet with almost no casualties on its own side, as it had done before.

Next, it was the time to truly test the will of the Imperial soldiers to fight.