"My ship is closest to Blackstone Fortress! Deploy the Void Shield with all my might, and I'll try to stop this madness! With my faith, may the light of the emperor shine on the universe. With my responsibility, the galaxy will surely return to justice. By my words and deeds, Holy Terra will remember the glory of the Imperial Navy. For the emperor of mankind! For the Gothic Fleet! ”

- Abridal, captain of the battlecruiser "Purifying Fire", led his ships to paralyze three Blackstone Fortresses during the 12th Black Expedition, killing all of them. Ranked in the Hall of Heroes of Terra.

In the Empire, people usually think that the Imperial Navy is an army composed of a group of sissies and rich children, and some people think that they are fearless gentlemen of the Empire, obviously, Alan Baier is the former, but even so, he cannot deny the courage and sacrifice in the Imperial Navy, because salvaging the wreckage of the dead and the broken ships in the void is also their daily ......

During the Battle of Gethsemane during the distant Gothic Wars, the battle line consisting of 2 battleships, 2 battle cruisers, 13 cruisers and more than 20 escort ships had already made Leoton. Captain Sempel exclaimed, "This spectacular spectacle represents perhaps the largest naval force deployed in a single battle since the Great Horus Rebellion in the distant past." ”

No one knew that this level of battle line would soon become the new normal for the Imperial Navy's general battles, and hundreds of battleship battles would become frequent at the end of the M40 years, burning all over the empire, and the entire galaxy would also become a battlefield.

By Imperial Navy standards, the battle was to be fought with the rank of lieutenant general and admiral, and the former Captain Bordello was now in charge of the Ngilli spaceport as an engine of war.

The remaining hundred less than barges, 70 percent of which are composed of battleships below the level of sword-class frigates, and the remaining 20 percent are almost all cruisers, the only owner of the three heavy battleships, the senior admiral of the Imperial Navy in this star sector, above him there are only the five major domain admirals of the star field level and the only Terra Domination Domain admiral, who is also the lord of Terragao......

He was naturally dignified and powerful, but he was also battle-hardened, and in the glow of his red-glowing mechanical prosthetic eyes and blue naval officer's uniform with its ornate gold trim, or the golden badge of his bones on his chest, the admiral could not help but look forward to a war that would burn himself.

In his long service so far, the largest battle he has seen is only a few warships, because most of the contradictions of the empire can be easily settled with a cruiser, but such a war makes him feel bored, and now, this opportunity to go down in history is in front of him, and he has a great plan......

Even though he is over 100 years old, the desire for war in his heart has long since dissipated a lot, but now when the nightmare of the empire returns, as a soldier and as an officer, his heart is also excited, especially when he regards an existence like a Space Mariner as an enemy, is it a success, or is it buried here, is it passed down through the ages, or is it gone with the wind?

He clenched his saber and looked at the sound of the dripping sound on the bird device, in the intelligence battle where illusory and reality are intertwined, the empire is at a disadvantage in most cases, but the titanium drone is as dense as a dark thunder outside the extreme shooting range of the imperial navy, this time, the empire already has a real eye of ten thousand miles!

After a short tick of the instrument, the admiral looked at the captain, his Emperor-class heavy strategic ships and Fire-class heavy cruisers were gathering momentum, as the most long-range and least numerous of the Imperial Navy's guns, their long guns and short guns had more shooting ability than human imagination.

Corrected by the array of computer servants, clerks, and contemplatives, hundreds of rounds of macro cannons, and the focus of the light spear array were accurately and unmistakably aimed, and in the gift of the emperor and the wrath of the empire, the temperature of tens of thousands of degrees Celsius and the impact beyond human imagination were sent out in an instant.

At the same time, the Njili spaceport, which serves as a fixed firing battery, is not only used as an ordinary port, its heavy artillery and light spear array are far more capable than ordinary imperial warships, countless rays and shells come out from all directions, but the most important volcano cannon is still stagnant, only the outer 0.6 kilometers long giant cannon fires.

Although many people believe that Imperial warships are not suitable for over-distance combat, even so, those super-large combat firepower is almost unhindered in the Void, and in the Imperial records, there are records of unlucky people who were destroyed by the shells of battleships several light years away, and there are hundreds of shooting battles that are far beyond the sight of humans.

At the same time, hundreds of battleships are now being prepared in a defensive salvo posture, waiting for the remaining enemy to enter their firing range, and those behemoths are lined up, among which the barrels of the macro cannons are the size of the Ford-class aircraft carriers of the Gutella era, 0.6-0.7 km!

The rest of the frigates and light destroyers with lower firepower chose to move forward in a vertical row, opening up enough cutting depth, that is, a T-array, to allow the frigates and light cruisers or destroyers with the most powerful melee combat power to arrive at the first time when they were all forced to advance, and interfere or disrupt the enemy.

When it can also be like a long contradiction, one side defense, one side fire suppression, and one side assault, but the core of such an array is not the same Imperial Navy heavy battleship as always, but the Engilli spaceport, that is, all the ships of the Imperial Navy are using this big T to defend the Empire's greatest heavy void platform.

Sacrifice, honor, and broken bones, they are already at the gates of hell, if this tactic is spear and shield, then the spear is a light Cobra-class, dreadnought-class, sword-class Imperial warship, and the shield is a heavy barge such as the moon class, the fire class, and the emperor class.

At the same time, the core area, which represents the core of the Empire's combat power on the battlefield, is the two hundred battle ships of Poldello and the Baptism of Fire as flags, which play a stabilizing effect in the dark void.

It can be said that the Imperial warships and their tens of thousands of naval officers and rank-and-file soldiers, with the exception of Engili and Poldero, and the baptism of fire, are weapons that can be discarded at any time and place, the iron on the spearhead, and the wood in the long shield.

The Ngilli spaceport, which is now in the most central area, is a place that cannot be breached under any circumstances, and after the first salvo is over, the Admiral asks the head of audio. "What was the result of the shelling?"

The head of audio sorted out the garbled titanium encrypted calls, which were as difficult to understand as the dialects of many of the worlds of the Empire, but the head of audio who was proficient in Gothic and dozens of lower Gothic languages and some level of upper psionic rune language answered quickly. "The enemy's five ships are broken, and the remaining seven ships are suspended in the Void Shield, and our artillery bombardment accuracy is extremely high!"

It's not that the empire is not good at over-the-horizon combat, on the contrary, the race that can set foot in this universe for tens of thousands of years is simply handy on how to kill the enemy as quickly as possible, but after getting this data, the general couldn't help but smile.

"Emperor bless, those aliens are more useful than imagined, and when the enemy breaks through to the front of our army at sub-light speed, they will lose ten percent of their combat effectiveness!"

He spoke quickly. "Prepare for the second shelling!" The readiness of the light spear and macro cannon looks easy, but the distance that can be shot is actually close to tens of millions of kilometers, to describe it in astronomical units is to fight from Terra to Mars, which requires a lot of calculation and correction, just one of the infinite 0000 after the decimal point of the number 1 has a fluctuation, which means that the artillery fire brought here by the countless resources of the empire is lost in the void.

At the same time, such negligence led to the fact that a battleship broke through the defenses, and the Imperial Navy needed to use all its own dense loopholes, which eventually led to the death of tens of thousands of people in this unwarranted disaster, so the artillery correction was more than three or four times slower than the normal firing distance......

But it was worth the wait, and after another venting fire, the heavy fire had been added to the fire of a cruiser with a much closer firing distance.

This attack was even more deadly, at a range of tens of millions of kilometers, under the correction of the data provided by some of the drones provided by Titanium, the firepower of the Empire's full tilt was enough to make people marvel, and the observer passed on the information, and the audio director soon came back with good news, and the ten barges were completely evaporated.

It's just that at this moment, the enemy also began to counterattack according to the position of the muzzle flame, and several fierce beams of light grazed the outside of the Emperor-class battleship, intercepted by the Void Shield, and then emitted a violent tremor and vibration.

The recruits were swayed by such abnormal vibrations, but the old admiral was accustomed to it, because the shock wave of the cannonballs alone was enough to shake the interior of the ship, and even if most of the cannonballs entered the subspace because of the Void Shield, the aftermath was enough for mortals to tremble, and if it weren't for the loyal machine soul using her pure metal body to hinder those powers, everything here would be wiped out.

However, the admiral did not panic, he knew that the enemy would not sit still, and he also knew that the Imperial Navy would not be timid because of such an attack, but he realized that the Imperial Navy would not be able to take advantage of this.

Because the enemy is so numerous, although the enemy's warships tend to be lightweight in general, and there is a lack of maintenance due to long docking in subspace, those numerical superiority will gradually overwhelm them in a long battle.

He had now dialed the line of the Commander-in-Chief, and the officer had calmed his expression slightly after Alan Bair's voice appeared. "It's been a long time, my lord, our war has come out on top, but I don't think wheel warfare will give us an advantage, and the enemy's counterattack just now has made me realize that they are not pirate rogues who have been beaten to the ground by a few volleys."

"If the emperor will think that he can only kill himself by sitting and waiting for death, I think, this time can use the volcano cannon!" He was a little excited, after all, the Imperial people who worship force have a little admiration for such a weapon of extraordinary specifications, and they naturally have trust in those loyal and powerful machine souls.

Alan Beyer replied. "No, the enemy's main ship has not yet been locked, and secondly, the crystals of the volcano cannon also have a certain degree of resistance, and high-intensity warfare will make rare crystals crack."

"The price of the crystal itself is higher than that of an Imperial battleship, and we can't risk using it to destroy a normal warship, and secondly, even if its heat can tear through the battle line, it must be prioritized for protecting the Engili spaceport."

The admiral quickly calmed down and said at the same time. "If you find the enemy's core command ship, you can open fire?"

Commander-in-Chief Alan Barr replied. "Yes, if you can secure that strategic objective, we can start using that powerful weapon right away, but you also have to understand that in this situation, we have an advantage in holding on to the defense."

said the admiral. "But, the Space Marine's battle barge is easily recognizable, so ......"

He gave a military salute, showed it to the Commander-in-Chief in a holographic projection, and then turned off the communications, he had already made up his mind that the Imperial Navy needed more time to clear the enemy's forward deployment and open the way before the Ark of Evil Omen arrived, rather than relying on the range advantage to fight slowly.

Of course he had ideas, but such thoughts would destroy hundreds of thousands of people, but compared to the risks that a protracted war might cause, a frantic attack was nothing, and giving up the battlefield advantage of defensive warfare was quite risky and stupid for the standard battle of the Empire, but in the current situation, he needed to be flexible.

This is also the reason why this man can become an imperial admiral, in essence, the long war career has not erased his sensitivity and intelligence, but has made such qualities more and more intense, sharper and sharper, and in the land of war near the maelstrom, there is no merciful emperor to allow him to spend his days drinking.

He sent away countless imperial enemies, pirates, aliens, heretics, nightmares from the maelstrom, rebellions from the fringe worlds, and countless others, so he was never a man who was bound by rules, on the contrary, he was the one who created them.

He opened the communication channel to the lieutenant generals and rear admirals in his hands, the real middle force of the Imperial Navy and the true owners of the Imperial warships. "All the lords of lightweight battleships, Indomitable light cruisers, sword-class frigates, Firestorm-class frigates, Cobra-class destroyers......"

"The war begins, the spears, the sharps, the warriors of the Empire, attack the enemy's location, lock on their core warships, navigate the Empire's volcanic cannons, destroy the enemy's living forces with torpedoes and macro cannons, and destroy the enemies of the Empire." He let out a long gasp before continuing.

"Although the number of enemies far exceeds ours, but the fire support will not stop, you should know that we destroyed almost 20 enemy warships in the two salvos just now, you only need to contain the enemy's fire, dodge the shell fire, you can slowly see us tear open the enemy's battle line, the emperor's soldiers, chess pieces, currency...... Be enlightened! ”

"Then comes hell, it's fighting, it's tango, but I believe you're doing a good job, just like your position on the battle line, and now, my Imperial Admiral, the head of the Imperial Navy in Pangia, allows you to launch a charge against the enemy that will not return, for the sake of the Emperor!"

(End of chapter)