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There were a total of twelve battleships in the enemy fleet that overlapped with the suddenly teleported void mine, and almost all of them were cruisers. This may be because cruisers are larger than frigates.
These unlucky battleships were superimposed on the Void Mine. The adamantine armor and the Void Mine's shell were so tightly fused that it seemed like they were born as one.
In the internal structure of the battleship, some people are locked inside the void mine, some are fused with the shell of the void mine, and there are even subspace engines split into two by the shell of the void mine.
Those who rushed over to check the situation could only look at the metal shell covered with people and objects in a daze. They wanted to dismantle the damn thing, but they didn't know where to start.
These operational warships superimposed by void mines either tried to leave the fleet, or rushed directly to the warships of other warbands with conflicts. Those that could not operate stayed where they were, and could only wait for the surrounding friendly warships to take the initiative to move away.
The situation in the fleet was very chaotic.
Until ten minutes later, the void mine exploded, destroying a total of seventeen warships.
Everyone in the bridge felt very happy after witnessing this result on the holographic image. Although this weapon was not as effective as the weapon array, it always gave people the feeling of winning a prize.
"Don't pay attention to the situation in the void. The focus of our mission is to fight on the surface of the Forge World." Gray reminded everyone loudly, his eyes fixed on the planet marked as the Forge World on the holographic image.
The celestial engine is still accelerating around the star, and the various devices on it, large and small, precisely control the environment of the artificial celestial body to ensure that it does not affect the people and objects inside when accelerating or approaching the planet.
The Celestial Engine gets closer and closer to the Forge Worlds, and as it slows down in orbit as it passes the Forge Worlds further inside, it's time for the Army to teleport massively.
The hologram also shows the transfer location of each regiment, as well as the strategic goals they want to achieve.
"Get ready for battle." Gray put the helmet of the guard's power armor on his head.
Other officers recorded the strategies and then teleported them to the location of their regiments.
……
The fleet is evacuating.
In the bridge of the Conqueror, Thorax sat on the throne and looked blankly at the brass blood pool. This thing called the blood pool imager was still operating, showing the situation in the galaxy.
The largest drop of blood sometimes condenses out of the blood pool, sometimes falls back into the blood pool, and sometimes even runs out of the blood pool... Obviously it cannot stably detect celestial objects that suddenly appear in the galaxy.
"Something is interfering with the blood camera." A woman in a white uniform suddenly flashed next to the blood camera, and then she circled around the witchcraft creation to examine it carefully.
After confirming the situation, the woman looked at Thorax and said: "Not only the blood camera, but also the subspace engine has been interfered with. The celestial gravity of the entire galaxy seems to have been expanded several times. To put it simply, it is the distance from the Mandeville point. We’re further away.”
Thorax said nothing and remained silent, staring at the Blood Imager.
He was not looking at the metallic celestial body, but at the forging world.
Most of the members of the Oathbreakers warband remained there, including the lieutenants.
Although Shalok in the adjutant group disappeared inexplicably a month ago, the other three people were definitely left behind.
As for the mortals and the rest of the warband... Thorax didn't care at all.
"We have to leave this system quickly," the woman reminded Thorax.
At this time, the weapon arrays on the surfaces of the two metal satellites began to charge again, and the dazzling light on the surface of the satellites illuminated the bridge of the Conqueror.
"Aren't you already evacuating?" Thorax said.
It was not him who gave the order to evacuate, but this woman who could control the entire battleship.
"But it was you who gave the order to deal with it before." The woman said.
When those celestial bodies appeared in the galaxy just now, Thorax did not think that they had very terrifying attack capabilities. He only thought that they should be used to transport troops, so he insisted on staying and picking up his subordinates.
Thorax wasn't even assertive, and he couldn't make up his mind, so he asked the woman.
The answer given by the woman was: Such a huge amount of creation energy is a problem. The weapon array it carries may severely damage the fleet, but it should only be able to release a small amount of attacks or only one attack. Furthermore, most of the warships belong to other warbands and red pirates, which is much better than leaving immediately and leaving the World Eaters behind.
The woman also believed that the Forsworn Warband were still members of the World Eaters Legion, perhaps she was remembering it wrong.
"How could it possibly be running?" the woman complained, "This is unreasonable at all. Could it be that a star was inserted into that small planet to provide energy? I have seen similar artificial celestial bodies, but I have never seen such energy. Abundant...it just doesn't make sense."
"Without this weird interference, I would be able to read its energy source, and I wouldn't be so passive."
"..."
"What's the situation with the other warships in the fleet?"
Thorax asked suddenly.
"The overall fleet was damaged by 40%."
"I'm not asking about our entire fleet, but about the situation of the Oathbreakers' warships..."
"I advise you to listen to the overall damage situation of the fleet, otherwise it will be difficult for you to accept it."
After asking twice, Thorax fell silent again.
Apparently the plan failed.
In order to use this plan to reunite the broken World Eaters, Thorax spent countless efforts.
When Huron agreed to participate in this plan on the condition of helping to obtain the warships of an unknown small force, Thorax had already seen hope.
Because as long as Huron joins the team, the execution time of the entire plan can even be advanced several years. There is no need to wait for that bastard with braided hair to contain the empire, and the plunder of the Forge World can be turned into conquering...
boom--
The bridge suddenly trembled while Thorax was thinking confusedly.
"Our ship's hull is damaged." The woman eagerly told the situation of the warship, "The starboard side was hit!"
Thorax could instantly imagine what happened. The body must have started a second round of attacks, and then a small part of the attacks penetrated the fleet and hit the fastest evacuating Conqueror. The void shield was overloaded, and the ship The body was hit...
Thorax said nothing.
The battleship finally arrived at Mandeville Point and began its subspace voyage. After entering the subspace, the ship was filled with shadows of terrifying creatures.
Thorax remained silent at this time.
Chapter 172 There are no sages left
The Conqueror jumped into the warp to escape.
The capital ships of other warbands also quickly entered the subspace, avoiding the end of the entire army being annihilated.
However, there are still hundreds of wreckage of warships left in the galaxy. The fleet that Thorax put in countless efforts to organize lost 80% of the ships.
Gray stared at the holographic image in the celestial engine bridge, and the war had entered its second step.
"Will we be teleported to the war zone?" Yao En asked.
"No, we will first teleport to the location of the top leaders of this world and take command as the top leaders of Tyrone's army." Gray shook his head and answered.
Yao En felt very strange: "Why don't we fight together with the army? Orbital bombing, after the bombing is completed, advance, and after the advancement, we continue to defend in the galaxy. Isn't this necessary?"
"It's not that simple." Gray shook his head helplessly, "There are industries accumulated over thousands of years in the Forge World. We can't just go fight with the army."
Yaoen still couldn't understand. He felt that Gray was thinking about too many things and could even be said to be indecisive.
The order everyone received before setting off from the Tyrone Galaxy was to defend the Forge World, not to defend a certain factory in the Forge World.
However, after a lot of calculations and deductions, the stone man in the celestial engine came up with a strategy that was completely consistent with Gray's.
That is to first send the army to the battlefield to participate in the existing battle, instead of immediately letting the army launch a full-scale attack on the remaining enemies on the planet.
As for the two imperial guards, they were arranged to meet with the senior officials of the Forging World.
The Celestial Engine continued to orbit the star, ever closer to the Forge World still at war.
Soon the celestial engine covered the sky of the forging world and slowed down. Under the control of the stone man, this huge miraculous creation accurately maintained the distance from the forging world, ensuring that the unfinished planetary structure of the celestial engine would not be cast. The gravitational influence of the world.
The detection array located on the planetary structure releases detection waves sufficient to cover the entire forged world, visually displaying the situation of the entire world on the holographic image.
Gray observed the image for a while, and then breathed a sigh of relief, because compared to the situation in the entire galaxy, the situation on the Forge World was not serious.
War raged throughout the Forge World, and the Skitarii fought against infantrymen of various heretical sects, renegade Space Marines and Knights, and even Titans... but the Skitarii still had an absolute advantage.
The Skitarii were only forced to fight in places protected by void shields due to the orbital bombardment carried out by the previous fleet. In addition to the absence of Space Marines, the number of infantry knights, Titans and other types of war machines absolutely far exceeded the enemy.
Now that the enemy fleet is gone, it is not difficult to kill the remaining enemies on the Forge World.
"It is estimated that the battle will be over soon. We just need to stay in the Agrippina system for a while." Gray is very optimistic about the progress of the next battle.
"Yes." Yaoen nodded in agreement, but his expression was solemn and obviously not optimistic.
Yao En's memory returned to the time when he was fighting in the hive a few years ago. He knew a secret that only two people in the entire galaxy knew, that is, the heretics of the Wisdom Bishop sect performed rituals before being kicked out of the hive world. , summoned the devil.
The remaining enemies in the Forge World are a hundred or even a thousand times more than the total number of Wisdom Bishops. They are also likely to summon demons or perform blasphemous rituals.
While Yaoen was thinking about the difficulties he might face in the future, the armies in the celestial engine had been teleported to the battlefield one after another, and the particle lances began to bombard the enemy knights and Titans detected on the battlefields.
"It's time for us to be teleported down." Gray looked away from the holographic image. The teleportation protection device on his body was releasing an energy barrier.
……
In the open space of the fortress where Vic was, a rift tore open the barrier between dimensional space and reality. Gray and Yaoen's bodies quickly condensed outside the rift, and the energy barrier surrounding them shattered and disappeared after completing the task.
Gray looked around and found himself in an open space inside a fortress. The skitarii in the fortress immediately surrounded them after discovering them.
Since the intra-system communication method used by Tyron's army is completely different from that of the Skitarii, there was no contact between the arrival of the Celestial Engine and the beginning of the troop drop.
Although the Stone Man believes that the Imperial Guards should be allowed to meet with the senior officials of the forging world, it does not know where these senior officials are. It can only send the Imperial Guards to the most heavily defended location on the planet, because the senior officials of a world should be located in The most heavily defended position.
"They are not enemies."
"Zizzizi."
Gray heard shouts and signal transmissions, and then saw two Mechanicus people walking towards him and Yaoen. One of the Mechanicus personnel released a signal to let all soldiers off guard.
Gray and Yaoen's eyes looked at the two people approaching. Their body images were recorded and stored in the database. One of them was not yet identified, and the other was Vic whose information had been stored in the database.
"Praise Om Messiah." Vic was unhurried in both words and actions, just like Sewyn next to him.
Gray had met Vic before when he inspected the hive world, but now was not the time to reminisce: "Where is your ruling sage or foundry director?"
"There are no longer any governing sages." Saiwen said on the side. "There are still many technical priests like me in this world. We are the current top leaders in this world."
"Your army is more numerous and stronger than the enemy. The void shields deployed in various places on the surface are still running. Did your ruling sage commit suicide?" Gray did not believe Severn's words.
"After we lose orbital control, no matter how much defensive force we deploy around the Sage, it will be useless." Sevin patiently explained, "I only received the news a few days ago. There must be more than twenty people." An airdrop pod landed near the ruling sage."
"I understand." Gray thought to himself that this ruling sage was really unlucky.
After letting the visitors briefly understand the battle situation, Sevin said the most important thing: "Please do not carry out orbital bombing, because the industries accumulated in the Forge World for thousands of years are the treasures of the entire human race, and they cannot be allowed to become In ruins."
Gray nodded without hesitation, that's what he thought.
The most important thing in the Forge World is the industrial facilities. If the safety of the industrial facilities is not taken into account during the war, it is equivalent to destroying the logistics of the Astra Militarum. A Forge World that cannot continue to produce weapons has no value.