Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 160

160. Chapter 160, The Starting Point of the Road to Glory

The close firepower of the eleven greenskin ships made it very difficult for Wang Jiarong’s fleet to resist.

However, their counterattack seemed weak.

Their bows rushed outward, which was not conducive to firepower projection. Moreover, when the enemy’s weapon system was online, the close-range interception capability was also online at the same time. Some of the laser cannons and macro cannon shells they fired were locked in mid-air and intercepted by the enemy’s firepower in the void.

Of course, the interception system in the merchant ship was also playing a role. The ‘Defender’ kinetic rapid-fire cannon and the ‘Reflector’ interception laser cannon all did similar work.

But in general, they were undoubtedly at a disadvantage.

Before they could completely distance themselves, they would probably be knocked down by the firepower of the greenskin orcs.

And what’s worse is that their speed…seems not as fast as the greenskins.

The engine system of the Orc ship began to accelerate at full speed at this moment. Although it was late, it actually reached a very fast speed in a short period of time. Their advantage of being ahead of the enemy will probably be eliminated in a short time.

When the speed difference between the two sides is eliminated, the increasingly close distance will allow the firepower advantage of the Greenskin Fleet to be further exerted.

Not to mention, the Greenskin Fleet has a special hobby during the naval battle: boarding operations.

They can almost be regarded as the second guys in this universe who like to board in naval battles – the first ones are the Space Marines.

Landing capsules, landing ships and even short-distance jumps… these means are what the Greenskins can use. Once the distance reaches a dangerous level, they will use such means.

Small landing capsules and landing ships, followed by a large amount of artillery fire, approach the target, and there is a considerable degree of camouflage on them to deceive the interception system of the target ship. After approaching the target ship, these landing capsules and landing ships will sail at a low speed, making the void shield unable to produce a defensive effect, and thus close to the ship.

Some of the innocuous holes in the hull that were made during the naval battle will become the entrance for invasion; if there is no such entrance, various high-performance bombs and cutting devices that come with the boarding troops will find relatively weak positions on the ship and cut holes.

These holes are of little threat to the ship itself, equivalent to an adult being bitten by a mosquito. But the terrible thing is the “venom” that comes with the bite. A considerable number of soldiers will enter the ship through it and engage in fierce combat inside the hull.

There is no particularly open area on the ship that is particularly suitable for heavy firepower deployment. Most of the combat environments are narrow, closed, and face-to-face.

Who can compete with the green-skinned orcs in such an environment?

The elite green-skinned team will kill in the ship. Even if it is not possible to directly destroy and kill all the people in the entire starship, every certain amount of casualties will cause the battleship’s combat capability to decline by a large margin.

If they can silence a part of the firepower by reaching the weapon system, they will win. If they can reach the Thinker array, they can paralyze the ship’s automation system and greatly reduce the coordination of the ship’s various departments. If they reach the engine hangar, the high-performance bombs detonated from the inside may paralyze the entire ship. If they reach the captain’s room again…

Boarding operations are of course high-risk and high-loss operations. In most cases, landing capsules and landing ships will be destroyed by intercepting firepower while approaching the target to build ships. But as long as they succeed a little, it will be a disruption; if they succeed greatly, they can simply seize the ship.

The greenskins are not afraid of death.

In fact, some small airdrop capsules have already flown over with the shells.

But so far, no airdrop capsules have been able to pass through the fire interception network. It is estimated that there are about one or two hundred greenskin boys who have been buried in the starry sea.

However, Wang Jiarong’s face was still pale.

It was of course good news that no greenskin marines had landed on the starship, but this good news was too insignificant.

Seeing that the void shield had turned purple, and seeing that some shells had passed through the void shield and hit the starship’s hull, she could already feel the vibration.

The void shield is an energy protection system, and its characteristic is that it can intercept physical shells, energy cannons, missile weapons, especially objects and energy approaching at high speed. However, the blocking effect is not good for things flying at low speed.

The void shield in its complete state, that is, when it is blue, has the best blocking effect; but if the attack it withstands exceeds a certain limit and turns purple, it will fail to block, and there will be a certain probability that shells and energy rays will leak in.

At the beginning, it was okay. Even if it leaked in, the blows weakened by the void shield would generally be able to withstand the strong physical armor on the starship.

But when the void shield’s carrying capacity reaches its limit, that is, when it turns red, the probability of missing shells will increase significantly, and the weakening effect on attacks will also weaken. At this time, it is probably a competition of armor strength and hull strength.

Although the void shield was still turning purple, the starship armor was still quite powerful, and the occasional attack that penetrated the void shield did not cause much harm.

However, all this was extremely bad news.

Things had been deteriorating rapidly since the greenskins launched a counterattack.

More importantly, Wang Jiarong had no idea of any way to change the status quo.

“Gu Hang, Gu Hang! You really killed me this time! I shouldn’t have come to this remote place…”

She muttered in her heart, her face pale.

At this moment, the star talker suddenly reported a message: “Captain! We received a communication signal from the Quintet!”

Wang Jiarong was stunned for a moment, and suddenly overjoyed: “Hurry up and connect it!”

The next moment, Ye Lishia’s voice rang throughout the bridge: “I am Commodore of the Imperial Navy Pegasus Fleet, Captain of the Quintet, Ye Lishia Fofana.”

Her clear voice sounded like a savior to everyone on the “Beautiful Girl”.

“Yelisa! Thank God! We finally got in touch! Save us!”

Wang Jiarong was so happy that she almost cried.

“I’m right next to them.” Ye Lisia said, “Now, you have to let your fleet turn around and fire at those green ships with all your strength. We have to be here, before they can speed up, and completely destroy them!”

Wang Jiarong was slightly stunned.

What does “right next to them” mean?

Did Ye Lisia have already expected to encounter the green fleet here, so she ambushed here early? The reason why the astropath contacted but there was no response was because the “Quinte” was in a silent and lurking state?

But why is this? How did she get the news in advance?

Wang Jiarong’s mind was in a mess, but these thoughts only turned in her mind for a short while, and soon she stopped thinking about it.

Obeying Ye Lixia’s instructions is the only chance to survive.

At this moment, the four ships of the beautiful girl caravan began to turn sideways and bombard with all their strength according to Ye Lixia’s request.

If there is no external help, it is to seek death. It

is very dangerous to face the enemy sideways.

This can fully exert the firepower of the ship, but the area of attack is also the largest; when the distance is far enough, the two sides shoot at each other, and the direction of the war is determined by firepower, this problem is not big. When the two sides are more than 100,000 or 150,000 kilometers apart, the firepower attack suffered by the opponent sideways or directly facing the opponent is not much different, but the firepower projection capability of the own side may be 30% or more.

But in the same way, when the ship is sideways, it is of course impossible to stand still. Ships moving sideways are also easier to avoid artillery fire.

In general, this is a balanced offensive tactic.

The greenskin fleet charging at this moment was, of course, an absolutely radical offensive tactic. As the distance shortened, the artillery of both sides would greatly increase its power and accuracy, and they were even willing to sacrifice 20-30% of their firepower for this.

But despite this, the greenskins’ firepower advantage was still much greater than that of the Beautiful Girl.

They didn’t know why these shrimp ships suddenly showed that they were going to fight them, but this obviously made them more excited.

Not only did the firepower become more powerful, but they also released more landing capsules

. However, at this moment, hundreds of missiles suddenly flew out from a dark void in the distance.

These missiles went towards a greenskin destroyer.

And the next moment, two huge macro cannon shells crossed the void and hit its energy shield hard.

The two heavy artillery that arrived at the same time, that batch of them, also had great destructive power against starships.

The energy shield around the greenskin destroyer that was targeted suddenly changed from calm blue to purple light that symbolized danger. Then, among the hundreds of missiles, seventy of them passed through the void shield and hit the destroyer.

The seventy explosion points that suddenly erupted on the hull of the green destroyer immediately caused serious damage to the ship.

The energy shield generator may have been affected by the explosion. The purple void shield disappeared for a while.

If they were given a little time, not long, a few minutes would be enough for the energy generator on the green ship to restart or activate the backup energy.

However, there was no such opportunity.

The next ten slightly smaller macro cannons came again, six of which hit and hit it hard. The damage caused by these six cannons was even more terrible than the previous seventy missiles, directly hitting the green warship into a huge fireball in the air.

A valuable destroyer was completely destroyed in this way.

And the results of this inexplicable firepower were not just that.

There were also ten macro cannons that bombarded a green frigate, four of which hit, and the energy shield on it suddenly turned red.

The shield strength of the frigate is much weaker than that of the destroyer.

…

On the bridge of the Quintet, after confirming the results of the battle through the battle screen faithfully transmitted by the Thinker Array, Ye Lishia did not cheer. That was too unstable and not what a captain should do.

But she still couldn’t help but waved her fist vigorously.

This green-skinned warship that was bombed was actually the first actual naval battle achievement in her captain’s career.

And this achievement is enough to surpass the careers of many captains in the Pegasus Star Region.

Since the establishment of the Pegasus Star Region Fleet, there have been few experiences of being mobilized by the Imperial Navy as a support force to form a larger fleet for combat. In addition to those old captains who went out to form a temporary joint fleet, the other younger and less experienced ones, that is, within the scope of the star region, at most, they can eliminate some interstellar pirates in multiple surrounding star regions.

What can those interstellar pirates do? At most, a pirate ship with a frigate level is considered quite good. Many of them even use ordinary spaceships to rob and rob, and dare to touch some ultra-small caravans at most.

In the past, Ye Lishia had never even achieved such an achievement of exterminating small pirates, which was one of the reasons why she was ridiculed in private.

But from now on, no one can laugh at her.

Even if they were transferred to other high-intensity war zones and experienced big scenes, not every senior captain had the record of destroying an enemy destroyer.

Getting an assist is something that can be boasted for many years.

But today, she, a brigadier general who has always been said to be a relative and whose rank has risen, has done it.

Not only is it not an assist, but it is also the only main force.

What’s wrong with a sneak attack?

This is called tactics!

However, after the initial excitement, Ye Lishia immediately regained her composure.

The destruction of one of the three enemy destroyers is certainly a heavy blow to the entire greenskin fleet, but they have many ships and strong capital.

This battle is still to be fought.

Especially now that the advantage of the first-hand sneak attack is gone, without the advantage of the surprise attack, it will not be so easy to achieve the same results as just now in the next round of firepower.

The orc fleet has already discovered their traces, so they will not let them attack without any defense. The early ship maneuvers will cause more artillery to miss; the short-range anti-aircraft firepower is on full alert, and some macro cannons will be intercepted or deflected halfway.

Of course, as a main cruiser, the “Quinte” is well-equipped, especially the two L-class “Wrath of the Loyal Heir” macro cannons, which have devastating power for ships of the frigate level.

As long as they are hit once, the energy shields of those frigates will be directly overloaded.

The slaves and technicians on the Quintet have begun to work very quickly to load shells for the next round of artillery fire; the Thinker array is working hard to observe and lock on those ship targets that are actually moving rapidly.

Firepower strikes require preparation time.

Before that, the Quintet will first face a round of enemy fire.

The ‘Defender’ rapid-fire cannon and the ‘Reflector’ interception laser began to operate to resist the firepower of the orc ships. At the same time, large patches of blue light appeared around the cruiser.

That was the scene when the void shield took effect when the ship was attacked.

The naval battle has entered a white-hot stage.

The previous results of destroying a destroyer and overloading the energy shield of a frigate seem less important at this moment.

At this time, Ye Lixia couldn’t help but turned her head to look at the man standing not far behind her.

She sighed and said, “Gu Hang, if we lose, you will really hurt me badly.”

Gu Hang smiled and said, “If you win, then this is the starting point of your glorious road.”

(End of this chapter)