Chapter 163, Fleet Commander
There are many reasons why Genie Crazyfang personally led his most elite combat boys to board the Quintet and personally participate in the battle.
The sudden appearance of the "Quinte" turned the battle that they had originally been sure to win into an extremely disadvantageous one. The casualties of a destroyer and a frigate caused by the sneak attack directly tilted the balance of victory in favor of the opponent.
In the subsequent naval battle, the "Quinte" demonstrated its powerful firepower and strong defense.
If we continue to bombard like this, it will be very disastrous.
If you want to win, you have to think of other ways.
You can give up charging the energy shield, overload the firepower system, and hope that the entire fleet can launch a concentrated, all-out firepower strike to achieve crucial results.
You can also use the so-called "hunting group tactics" to disperse and conduct three-dimensional turning operations through excellent ship maneuverability and greater numbers, avoid maintaining a relatively balanced speed with the Quintet, and instead use instantaneous acceleration and deceleration to make the relative speed of both sides produce large and frequent variables, reducing the firepower that can be hit in advance and accurately locked.
Or, just like what the greenskin fleet is doing now, the so-called "close-in tactics", rushing under the firepower, rushing to the face-to-face position, shooting at full speed at close range, with no room to dodge, no chance of interception, most of the firepower has to be taken, and the competition is about who has the stronger ship and the more powerful guns, and who has more ships.
However…there seem to be many options, but few can actually be implemented.
The "Hunting Pack Tactics" are not suitable for the Greenskin Fleet. To execute the "Hunting Pack Tactics" well, you need strong ship maneuverability and more accurate firepower. Greenskin warships are generally not suitable for this, they have strong firepower, but not accurate enough; they are fast, but not flexible enough.
Humans are relatively fond of this tactic. The ones who like to use this "hunting pack tactic" the most are those guys who call themselves the Eldar. Crazy Fang hates such opponents the most. He can't catch up, can't hit, and is surrounded by people. But as long as he seizes the opportunity to hit hard, there will be a decisive result.
As for the "close approach tactics", the greenskins were doing just that. Even crazier, the last order left by Crazy Fang before he left his flagship to board the ship was to shut down the power and energy protection after approaching, overload the firepower system, and bombard the Quintet with all his might.
But judging from the current situation, they might not be able to rush in, and who knows how many ships they will be destroyed on the way. The remaining ships that can rush in may not have as strong firepower and protection as the Quintet.
In order to make the crazy plan of close approach and full firepower succeed, he personally led his men to join the ship.
Although he is the fleet commander, given the characteristics of the greenskins, no matter what group it is, the one who can become the boss or leader must be the most powerful one among them.
The same is undoubtedly true of Gurney Wildfang.
Of course, he was also worried that during the attack, before the landing capsule had time to enter the enemy's ship, it would be blown up by the enemy's intercepting fire.
This is very possible, even if many bait capsules are deployed and a lot of effort is used to camouflage and silence the landing capsules so that they are not easily locked, but these cannot be guaranteed to be 100%.
However, now that he had successfully boarded the ship, the remaining problems were easy.
Who of those human shrimps can be his opponent?
In his past fighting career, he had killed countless shrimps, even some big guys wearing canned food among them, and he had chopped them to death.
The group of small, burly guys in yellow cans left a deep impression on him, and he had to admit that those guys were very powerful, but unfortunately, he and his men were the winners in the end.
And it was because of that achievement and that fierce battle that he became bigger, greener, and stronger, and won the favor of the warlord Kuro Irontooth, the boss of the Irontooth clan, and served as the commander-in-chief of the Tenth Plundering Fleet.
And today, in this ship, there can’t be a group of small, useless guys jumping out, right?
Without that kind of powerful stuff, he was confident that under his leadership, his most elite troops, even if they were small in number, would definitely be able to make unstoppable progress and kill their way through the entire starship.
In fact, this is true.
After boarding the ship, he almost single-handedly wiped out a team of Marines on the Quintet, and then destroyed a defensive laser cannon. He led his elite troops and began to assault the core area inside the construction.
This backbone has not been without obstacles.
On the contrary, it was the most elite troops on the Quintet who came to intercept him.
The Quintet can mobilize up to 30,000 armed forces, of which 10,000 are standing marines. This is a T4-level army with good weapons and equipment. They don't even look at the G-series live ammunition rifles, and use either the L-series laser rifles or the HS-series electromagnetic rifles.
After realizing that they were facing a surprise attack by elite greenskin troops, the commander of the Marine Corps ordered his most elite troops to join the battle with their most sophisticated weapons.
The two most important weapons are the Rambler tank and the Foxhound-class infantry combat mecha.
The former is not mentioned. The reason why it is not equipped with larger vehicles than the Wanderer, such as the Lion tank, is because the combat environment inside the starship does not allow the Lion to be driven everywhere. Although the Wanderer is also quite large, it is still two sizes smaller than the heavy tank. It can still run on many main roads inside the starship.
As for the latter, he is essentially a "human", a servitor, a product of the Mechanicum. During the mechanical transformation, in addition to removing part of his brain, turning him into a servitor that only obeys orders, he also underwent a very large body transformation. From the outside, he no longer looks like a human, and almost his entire body has been mechanized. He looks like a half-standing hound, with a purely mechanical recurved knee structure on his legs. The head structure that houses the brain is shaped like a dog, and is integrated with a large number of sensors.
Its overall size is over two meters high, it is equipped with heavy machine guns, and has hard ceramic steel armor. Even if a Space Marine comes, it will take some effort to dismantle it.
It is a very valuable product of the Mechanicus, and there are only about 150 of them on the entire starship.
Half an hour after Genie Wildfang's fierce advance into the interior, the first batch of elite Marines assembled included eighty Foxhound mechas, thirty Wanderer armored vehicles, more than a thousand Marines, and two thousand armed sailors.
As a result, their defense line was penetrated by a wave of Crazy Fangs.
The rocket in his hand seemed to be blessed by some mysterious power, extremely accurate, and even had a certain tracking effect. There was also a melta cannon above his left shoulder. The firepower intensity of him alone was already at its maximum.
Moreover, he was not fighting alone. During the previous advance, many greenskins who had landed from other places gathered around instinctively after smelling the boss's scent. Now, the number of greenskins following Crazy Fang had exceeded a thousand.
Moreover, the greenskin guys following behind him were elite. Not only were they all extremely tall among the greenskins, they also had strong armor, larger caliber and more powerful guns, and plenty of explosives.
What's more, compared with the small infantry fighting mecha, the killing cans among the greenskins and the larger death iron cans are not weak either.
With the Crazy Fang Warlord as the spearhead, they charged fiercely. When Crazy Fang used the melta cannon and multiple rockets to blow up the firepower position of the mechas, and then charged to the short range, fired another round of rockets, and then picked up the axe to chop wildly, the green-skinned walking mechas and elite infantry behind them also rushed up.
The scale of the battle may not be particularly large, but it is extremely bloody.
After losing all their infantry and fighting vehicles, the elite Marines who were blocking the way fought desperately for another 15 minutes, killing more than 60% of their forces. Then, the collapse of the armed sailors triggered the collapse of the entire force.
In fact, we can't be too harsh. Even if they all have infinite fighting will and are willing to sacrifice their lives for this battle, it is nothing more than blocking the enemy for a while, and it cannot change the outcome.
Of course, the greenskins also paid a heavy price. At least 400 greenskin orcs and more than 30 greenskin armored vehicles of various types were killed in the battle.
Both sides lost hundreds of machines and nearly 3,000 lives in total, and all this happened in about 20 minutes, on a battlefield no more than 800 meters in width. The bodies and mechanical wreckage were no longer everywhere, with not even one body per meter, but piled up layer by layer. The greenskin army had to step on the shattered limbs and wreckage to move forward.
Kuangya himself was fine.
With him and the remaining 600 greenskins, their combat effectiveness is still there and they can continue the assault.
However, the Marines were unable to gather a force comparable to the one they had just assembled to stop the attack in such a short period of time.
There were only a few small-scale troops along the way. The brave soldiers tried to use their lives to delay the advance of the greenskin boarding force and buy time for the friendly forces.
However, Ye Lisia, who was on the command bridge, fell into panic.
Through the intelligence sent back from the front, she recognized that it was the boarding team led by the Orc Overlord himself. She immediately realized that with only the battle preparations on the Quintet, nothing could stop this Orc Overlord.
On the one hand, she was incredulous at the orc warlord's recklessness. In her opinion, how could a fleet commander-in-chief and fleet commander personally lead his troops to conduct a boarding raid? It was too easy to die in the interception fire without knowing why, and such a death would be worthless.
But on the other hand, reality was like a slap in her face. The powerful individual strength and the terrible advantage it brought on the battlefield were magnified to the extreme in the special environment of a starship.
This is not an open ground battlefield. All battles take place inside the starship. No matter how open the space is, it is limited. It is impossible to deploy heavy artillery groups dozens of kilometers behind to attack the enemy. In a limited environment, an invincible orc warlord equipped with heavy armor, invulnerable to swords and guns, and with full single-unit firepower is simply a nightmare for any defense line.
What made her even more panic was that the beast seemed to have an extremely keen sense of battle. The direction of his attack was not wrong at all, and he was heading towards the core area of the starship - the power engine center.
What would happen if it gets there is simply unimaginable.
At present, the naval battle has reached a critical moment. Just now, they blew up another enemy frigate. But the distance between the two sides has also been further shortened. The Quintet was attacked by the boarding force, and many firepower platforms were silenced. This caused the bombardment to be slightly weaker. The void shield of their own side has also turned red, and more firepower began to penetrate the void shield and directly challenge the armor of the cruiser.
Likewise, those green-skinned warships were also under greater pressure, and the L-class "Wrath of the Loyal Heir" was still terrifying.
When the bayonets were drawn, if the Quintet was stabbed harder inside, the ship's power would fail, and there would be problems with the power supply of its weapon system and void shield, and it would suffer a devastating blow in an instant.
what to do?
What else can stop the beast?
The last straw lies in Gu Hang.
The planetary governor not only brought 20,000 soldiers, but also four space marines.
She immediately contacted Gu Hang through the communication system. He had already left the bridge to mobilize the troops.
"You have to solve this problem immediately! We are all on the same ship. If the Quintet is destroyed, none of us will survive!"
On the other end of the communicator, Gu Hang's voice quickly responded with a simple sentence:
"I know. I'm already there."
His voice was quite steady.
Ye Licia felt somewhat relieved.
She didn't know whether Gu Hang and the Space Marines with him could stop the orc governor. But now, she had no choice but to trust Governor Gu.
At this time, she began to feel fortunate that she had allowed Gu Hang to get on board.
…
Gu Hang did not fool Ye Licia, his troops were indeed in place.
It's not just him, nor are it just the four Phoenixes. Just relying on their strength alone is not enough to stop an army.
Following him were the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Wind-Quying Brigade and a regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division.
Earlier, he had already known the shocking news that a unit of the Marine Corps was wiped out in twenty minutes.
The troops under his command were no stronger than the elite Marines that were quickly annihilated.
If possible, he didn't want to let his troops face such a brutal battle.
But that's war.
In war, there is no choice.
(End of this chapter)
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