Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 163

163. Chapter 163, Fleet Commander

Genie Crazy Fang, personally led his most elite combat boys to board the Quintet and personally participate in the battle. There are many reasons for that.

The sudden appearance of the Quintet made the battle that they had originally won a sure victory suddenly become extremely disadvantageous. The casualties of a destroyer and a frigate caused by the sneak attack directly tilted the balance of victory to the other side.

In the subsequent naval battle, the Quintet showed powerful firepower and strong defense.

If it continues like this, it will be dangerous.

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 will carry out a concentrated, all-out firepower strike to achieve key results.

You can also use the so-called “hunting group tactics”, through excellent ship maneuverability, more numbers, dispersed, and conduct three-dimensional turning operations, avoiding maintaining a relatively balanced speed with the Quintet, but using instant acceleration and deceleration to make the relative speed of both sides produce large and frequent variables, reducing the firepower that is hit in advance and accurately locked.

Or, just like what the greenskin fleet is doing now, the so-called “close-in tactics”, rushing against the firepower, rushing to the face, firing at full speed at close range, no room to dodge, no chance to intercept, most of the firepower must be taken hard, and the battle is about who has a strong ship and a powerful gun, and who has more ships.

However… there seem to be many options, but in fact very few can be implemented.

The “hunting group tactics” are not suitable for the greenskin fleet. To execute the “hunting group 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 guys who like to use this kind of “hunting group tactics” the most are those who call themselves Eldar. Crazy Fang hates such opponents the most. He can’t catch up, can’t hit, and is bombarded by others in vain. But as long as he seizes the opportunity to hit hard, he will have a decisive result.

As for the “close-in tactics”, the greenskins are doing it. Even crazier, the last order left by Crazy Fang before leaving his flagship to board the ship was to require the fleet to turn off the power and energy protection after approaching, overload the firepower system, and blow up the “Quinte”.

But looking at the current situation, they are afraid that they can’t rush in, and they don’t know how many ships will be blown up on the way. The remaining ones who can rush in may not have as strong firepower and protection as the “Quinte”.

In order to make the crazy plan of close-in tactics and full firepower successful, he personally led people to board the ship.

Although he is the fleet commander, in terms of the characteristics of the greenskins, no matter what group it is, the one who can become the boss and leader must be the strongest one among them.

Gurney Crazy Tooth was no doubt the same.

He was also worried that if the landing capsule was destroyed by the interception firepower during the attack and before it could enter the shrimp ship, it would be destroyed.

This was very likely, even if many bait capsules were invested and a lot of waaagh power was used to camouflage and silence the landing capsule, making it difficult to be locked, but these were not 100% guaranteed.

However, now that he had successfully boarded the ship, the remaining problems were simple.

Who of those human shrimps could be his opponent?

In his past combat career, he had killed countless shrimps, even some of them were big guys wearing cans, and he had also chopped them to death.

The group of big shrimps wearing yellow cans left a deep impression on him. 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 precisely because of that merit and that fierce battle that he became bigger, greener, and stronger, and was favored by the warlord Kuro Irontooth, the boss of the Irontooth clan, and served as the commander of the 10th Plundering Fleet.

And today, there can’t be a bunch of big shrimps in this ship, right?

Without that kind of powerful stuff, he is confident that under his leadership, his most elite troops, even if they are not many, will definitely be able to kill through the entire starship.

In fact, it is indeed the case.

After boarding the ship, Kuangfang 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 encountered no obstacles.

On the contrary, it was the most elite troops on the Quintet who came to intercept him.

The Quintet can recruit a maximum of 30,000 armed forces, of which 10,000 are regular marines. This is a group of T4-level troops with good weapons and equipment. They don’t even look at the G-series live ammunition rifles. They use either L-series laser rifles or HS-series electromagnetic rifles.

After realizing that they were attacked by elite greenskin troops, the commander of the Marine Corps had already ordered the most elite troops under his command to bring the most sophisticated weapons to participate in the battle.

The two most important weapons are the Wanderer tank and the Foxhound-class infantry combat mecha.

I won’t talk about the former. The reason why it is not equipped with larger vehicles than the Wanderer tank, such as the Lion tank, is because the combat environment inside the starship does not allow the Lion to drive 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, it is essentially a “person”, a servitor, and a product of the Mechanicus. During the mechanical transformation, in addition to removing part of its brain to turn it into a mechanical servant that only obeys orders, it also underwent a very large-scale body transformation. From the outside, it no longer looks like a human, and almost all of its body has been mechanized. It looks like a half-standing hound, with purely mechanical recurved knees in its legs. The head structure that holds the brain is shaped like a dog, and integrates a large number of sensors.

Its overall size is more than two meters high, equipped with heavy machine guns and hard ceramic steel armor. Even if a space warrior 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 Gurney Crazy Fang rushed inward, the first batch of elites assembled by the Marines included 80 Foxhound mechas, 30 Walker armored vehicles, more than 1,000 Marines, and 2,000 armed sailors.

As a result, their defense line was penetrated by Crazy Fang.

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 of him alone was already at its maximum.

Moreover, he was not fighting alone. During the previous advance, many greenskins who landed from other places gathered around instinctively after smelling the boss’s scent. Now, the number of greenskins following Crazy Fang has exceeded a thousand.

Moreover, the greenskin guys following behind him were elite. Not only were they all particularly tall among the greenskins, they also had strong armor, larger caliber, more violent guns, and plenty of explosives.

Moreover, compared to the small infantry mechas, the killing cans among the greenskins, as well as the larger death cans, were 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 positions of the mechas, and then personally charged to the short range, fired another round of rockets, and then picked up the axe to chop wildly, the greenskin walking mechas and elite infantry behind him also rushed up.

The scale of the battle may not be particularly large, but it was full of blood.

After losing all the infantry and all the infantry fighting vehicles, the elite Marines who were blocking the road fought for another fifteen minutes and more than 60% of their troops were slaughtered. Then, the collapse of the armed sailors triggered the collapse of the whole army.

In fact, it 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 for a while, and it can’t change the outcome.

Of course, the greenskins also paid a big price. At least 400 greenskin orcs and more than 30 greenskin armors of various types also died in the battle.

Both sides lost a total of hundreds of various machines and nearly 3,000 lives, and all this happened in about 20 minutes, on a battlefield no more than 800 meters in front, back, left and right. The corpses and mechanical wreckage are no longer as simple as everywhere. There are not enough corpses per meter, and they are piled up layer by layer. The greenskin army had to step on the broken limbs and debris to move forward.

Crazy Fang himself was fine.

With him and the remaining 600 greenskins, their fighting power was still there and they could continue the assault.

But on the contrary, the Marines could not gather a wave of troops comparable to the previous one in a short time to stop them.

Along the way, there were only some small-scale troops. The brave soldiers tried to delay the advance of the greenskin boarding force with their lives and buy time for the friendly forces.

However, Ye Lishia, who was on the command bridge, fell into panic.

Through the intelligence transmitted back from the front line, she recognized that it was the boarding led by the orc warlord himself. She immediately realized that with only the battle preparations on the “Quinte”, nothing could stop this orc warlord.

On the one hand, she was incredulous at the recklessness of this orc warlord. In her opinion, how could the commander-in-chief and fleet commander of a fleet personally lead a team to conduct a boarding raid? It was too easy to die in the interception fire without knowing why, and such a death would be meaningless.

But on the other hand, reality was like a slap in her face. The terrible advantage brought by the strong individual strength on the battlefield was magnified to the extreme in the special environment of the starship.

This was not an open ground battlefield. All the battles took place inside the starship. Even if the place was open, it was limited. It was impossible to deploy a heavy artillery group dozens of kilometers behind to attack the enemy. Under the limited environment, an invincible orc warlord equipped with heavy armor, invulnerable to swords and guns, and with full single firepower was 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 it was heading towards the core area of the starship-the power engine center.

Once it was killed there, what would happen was 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 was further shortened. The Quintet was attacked by the boarding force, and many firepower platforms were silent. This caused the bombardment to be slightly weaker. The void shield of the own side had also turned red. More firepower began to penetrate the void shield and directly challenged the armor of the cruiser.

Similarly, those green warships were also under greater pressure. The L-class “Wrath of the Loyal Heir” was still terrible.

When the bayonet was drawn, if the Quintet was stabbed harder, the ship’s power would fail, and the weapon system and void shield would have problems. It would be devastating in an instant.

What to do?

What else can stop the beast?

The last straw was Gu Hang.

The planetary governor not only brought 20,000 soldiers, but also four space warriors.

She immediately contacted Gu Hang, who had already left the bridge to mobilize troops, through the communication system.

“You must solve this problem immediately! We are on the same ship. If the Quintet is destroyed, none of us will survive!”

Gu Hang’s voice quickly responded on the communicator, with a simple sentence:

“I know, I’m here.”

His voice was quite steady.

Ye Lishia felt more at ease.

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 let Gu Hang on the ship.

…

Gu Hang did not fool Ye Lishia, his troops were indeed in place.

It was not just him, and it was not just the four Phoenixes. Relying solely on their strength was not enough to stop an army.

Following him were the first and second battalions of the Wind-Quening Brigade, and a regiment of the Second Infantry Division.

He had already known the shocking news that the Marine Corps unit 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 did not want his troops to face such a brutal battle.

But this is war.

In war, there is no choice.

(End of this chapter)