"Obviously, Huron plans to leave the battlefield here and go to join the forces in the Kara system that are fighting the Salamander Chapter fleet, because that is the weakest part of our defense. If Huron can concentrate his strength to break through, If the Salamanders and other battle groups block the attack, then they can attack the Dark Angels from the rear, and then he will be able to rescue his troops trapped in the battlefield of the Moon of Destruction."
On the bridge of the Eternal Loyalty, Soshyan, who had just returned from the space hulk, had no time to rest and immediately began pursuit deployment. The battle group command team surrounded him, and his image and voice also disappeared after the communication was restored. Spread to the bridges of most capital ships.
"If this is the case, then Huron will not be completely defeated. Even if we destroy New Badab in the future, he will still have the possibility of making a comeback. After all, he almost escaped from Badab alone. We cannot underestimate this ability. .”
He now needs to use the shortest time and the most concise way to explain to everyone why he did not go after the Huron flagship but another cruiser. After all, Occam's matter is not visible to the public. If he keeps silent, he will turn around and others. There will always be whispers.
"The current Huron flagship, the Ghost of Destruction, and most of the battleships are turning towards the battlefield where Corsaro Khan is blocking Zhufu. This is extremely abnormal. Zhufu is a member of the Black Legion, and he is not interested in the current situation. Huron is only a threat, and Huron has no reason to go in that direction, so we can draw a conclusion that Huron has already left the flagship in order to escape, and he is now on this marked Murder-class cruiser!"
After making this conclusion, Soshyan immediately made arrangements to form a pursuit fleet with the three ships closest to the target: Unbound Soul, Eternal Loyalty and Soul Messenger as the core. At the same time, he ordered the Minotaur fleet to start from one Block the opponent sideways.
The Mantis Warriors and Flesh Tearers were too far behind to pursue the Destruction Ghost and were unable to carry out this mission. Although Soshyan was actually willing to give the credit for killing Huron to others, things had developed like this and they could only He gave up, and also ordered the ships chasing the Destruction Ghost not to pursue them too far, otherwise they might be killed by the opponent if they broke away from the main cover.
Anyway, as long as Huron is killed, the war will be over, and running away a few fish that slip through the net will not cause any trouble.
As if to confirm Soshyan's judgment, many red pirate ships began to move closer to Huron's real "flagship". Originally it was just a small formation, but now it has become a large detachment composed of more than a dozen ships.
But there were no main ships inside, so Soshyan was not worried.
Soon, three ships formed an assault formation and passed over the edge of the decomposed hulk. Their engines burned at maximum efficiency. The Eternal Loyalty occupied the central command position and formed a loose triangular formation with the other two ships on the battle plane. Adjusting the angle would The main fire perforations are expanded to the widest width.
Since they had not suffered any damage before, the three ships were in the best condition. With the full output of the engines, the gap between the fleets narrowed, while the formation of the fleeing red pirates remained unchanged. They were not as messy as before. Instead, they maintain a stable speed and unite to form a classic lattice formation.
This made Soshyan firmly convinced that Huron was commanding.
In the Empire, the first lesson that every student who enters the Naval Academy learns from the teachers is always - in a void war, formation is everything. In the open void, the defense of a fleet completely relies on it. Overlapping formations, and a fleet's attack also completely relies on the matching of each other's ships' firepower level. During the transfer or retreat of a fleet, a formation that can cover each other is also the most important.
The Red Pirates' escape formation clearly implemented the feature of "covering each other".
Although they seemed to be fleeing in a hurry, each battleship protected the sides of other battleships, leaving no opportunity for the attackers.
Unfortunately, after a long period of fierce fighting, the Red Pirates' ships were already in poor condition both in quantity and condition. Moreover, due to the extremely threatening attack direction of the Minotaur fleet, the fleeing fleet had to spend more time making roundabout maneuvers. .
So, all that's left is a battle between speed and short-range strategy.
At the same time, many destroyers and frigates were also slowing down the red pirate fleet. They bravely avoided the incoming artillery fire and still maintained a chain formation, constantly attacking the ships at the rear and sides of the red pirate fleet with their own not-so-powerful weapons.
After ten minutes of chasing, the three capital ships of the Astral Knights began to engage Huron's fleeing fleet.
The three ferocious capital ships were as unstoppable as tigers among the flock of plunderers and light cruisers, but Soshyan ordered not to pay special attention to those small ships. The three capital ships fired their guns all the way and cleared them away. Narrow tunnel, another torpedo salvo was fired, followed by intensive macrogun and light lance strikes on the sides.
Such ferocious firepower shattered the void shield and bent the adamantine armor. The two speeding red pirate destroyers disappeared in the catastrophic explosion. Several ships were paralyzed or destroyed in the fire, including a massacre. class cruiser.
But that was not the main goal of the raid.
When the three chasing capital ships approached the target, the hangar doors of each battleship opened with a hiss, leaking wisps of oxygen into the void.
Immediately afterwards, wave after wave of boarding torpedoes rushed out of the launch tube, sometimes gathering and sometimes spreading out, until the attack target was locked.
At the same time, although the battleship was still at attack speed, the gunboat formation as the second wave of attacks was launched into the air according to the pre-planned attack vector, entering a battlefield full of wreckage and laser firepower. These small attack boats aimed at the behemoth ahead, Whistling towards the target, all the soldiers inside were excited, because the victory of this expedition would be witnessed by their own eyes.
Boarding torpedoes and others of their kind moved through the battle sphere, spinning through clouds of explosions as the meditators inside rapidly performed trillions of calculations in an effort to get them to their target.
Soshyan also boarded a Storm Bird. After all, Huron was the hero of the Maelstrom. His final desperate struggle should not be underestimated. The same ship probably also carried his most elite power. He must personally fight this battle. Solve it, otherwise the casualties may be huge.
After closing in on its target, the Stormbirds unleashed a barrage of bombardments that crashed into the ship's trunk with a crackle of armor plating, the buffers screeching like a banshee before crunching in a tangle of molten iron. The ground stopped.
The next second, amidst the servitor's warning sound, steam overflowed, the clamps exploded, and the hatch suddenly opened.
(End of chapter)
