Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 422

Chapter 421: Terrifying Psychic Power, Tearing the Ship Shield

When Gu Hang proposed to take the initiative to attack the greenskin fleet, he was opposed by Tillemans.

The Pegasus commander thought that since he had decided to play it safe, he should play it safe to the end. Taking the initiative to attack is risky. Now they are the only imperial naval force still in the eastern part of the entire Dragon Eagle Star Region, and they cannot afford to make mistakes.

Gu Hang thought what he said made sense and decided to continue the attack.

“Don’t be safe for the sake of being safe.” Gu Hang said, “The ultimate goal of being safe is to solve problems. Now, the opportunity is good. The severely damaged greenskin fleet is in a dilemma. We can seize this opportunity and strive to hit them hard in one fell swoop, which will greatly ease the situation. What’s more, we have the orbital defense system of Steel Wing Star behind us. If something goes wrong, we can retreat immediately.”

Tillemans thought for a moment and was persuaded by Gu Hang.

The fleet took the initiative to attack under their common command.

However, the greenskins’ response made Tillemans regret it soon.

The greenskin fleet, which was originally on the offensive but dared not to attack, saw that the human fleet was almost rushing out in full force, and its first reaction was to retreat.

Of course, they were unwilling to engage in battle when the human ships had orbital fire cover. Even if they lost two ships in order to temporarily break away, they ran more resolutely.

This first made Tillemans feel relieved, thinking that Gu Hang’s strategy was indeed good. He took advantage of the gap to expand the results of the battle and cause as much damage to them as possible while expelling the greenskin ships.

In this way, it can be regarded as a big victory!

Just thinking about it, I saw the rear team of the greenskin fleet suddenly rushed over!

Then, the front team of the greenskin fleet took cover, circled behind, turned around, and rushed up!

At this moment, the human fleet has left the orbital fire cover of the Steel Wing Star!

Obviously, the greenskins are not afraid of fighting with human ships at all. As long as the human ships dare to chase them out, they will dare to fight back.

Of course, the winning rate is not high. They have to bear the casualties of being chased in front and the casualties when changing formations. This will greatly reduce their winning rate, which was originally only 50%, to only about 30%. A

rational human commander would not do this, but the greenskins would.

The greenskins are not stupid, but very smart and cunning. But the only thing they lack is rationality.

If you can’t completely annihilate them, don’t force the greenskins to death, otherwise they will definitely bite back fiercely before they die;

you can safely set traps for the greenskins, even if they are a little rough, it’s okay, they can easily see it, but they jump in just for a fight, or purely because they are confident that they can win, and don’t care about casualties.

And these characteristics all mean that it is quite normal for the greenskins to act desperately despite the low chance of winning.

Now it’s his turn to be uncomfortable.

He estimates that he has a 70% chance of winning, but even so, he doesn’t really want to fight.

He doesn’t want to fight a fleet decisive battle. What if he loses in the 30% low probability event? Even if they win, what if the fleet suffers heavy losses under the crazy counterattack of the greenskins?

Tillemans was worried and even planned to change his strategy and retreat.

They are not far from the orbital firepower cover now, so they can retreat and make long-term plans.

Even if they will be bitten back and suffer some damage during the retreat, he will accept it.

If the greenskins dare to chase too fiercely, they can also fight back.

However, just as he was about to give the order, Gu Hang’s order came first:

“Fight!”

“Quinte, Concerto, Violin, Opera…” Gu Hang named several cruisers in a row, including Tillemans’ flagship “Opera”.

“Go forward! Target, enemy ship No. 1, fire at full force! Destroy it!”

Tillemans was a little confused.

What are you doing, kid? Are you

addicted to command?

I am the fleet commander!

Moreover, focusing fire on the other ship No. 1?

This is not a conventional way of fighting!

The so-called No. 1 ship is the number of many ships in the greenskin fleet. The unimportant ships behind that are very similar may not be easy to recognize, but Ship No. 1 is definitely easy to recognize: This is the largest and most powerful one among the greenskin ships, and it should be the flagship of the greenskin fleet.

You want to focus fire to destroy the other party’s flagship?

The idea is very good, but in a naval battle, this is quite unreliable.

They are not targets, so you can focus fire just like that? The greenskin frigates will concentrate their firepower to intercept and block the firing range; the other party’s flagship may retreat when it finds that it is being focused, or it may increase the strength of the energy shield at a high power, and it will not be easily broken.

The most important thing is that if you send out your main battleship, they will also bombard you.

An overly rash attack can easily lead to the situation that the other party’s main battleship is not destroyed, but your own main battleship suffers losses.

This is something written in the teaching plan of the Naval Academy. If you don’t understand it, don’t do it blindly!

Tillemans now found a big problem: at present, there is some confusion in the command of his side.

He instinctively wanted to refute and stop Gu Hang’s order, but he was worried about exacerbating the confusion.

He did not immediately order his flagship to follow the order, but he found that the Concerto, Violin, and Quintet all followed the order and went up.

This made him even more angry.

If they really followed Gu Hang’s order and went up together, then if there was any problem, they would at least be able to take care of each other. If he stopped it as the fleet commander at this time, some ships would listen to him and not go up, but some ships would have gone up and would not have time to withdraw, resulting in greater losses, which would be a disaster.

Many thoughts turned around in his mind, and when they were brought to reality, Tillemans seemed hesitant. In the end, his Opera neither followed Gu Hang’s order nor spoke out against Gu Hang.

Gu Hang, who was on the Concerto, did not react to this.

No matter what Tillemans would do, he had thought of it.

Even if the fleet commander wanted to make trouble, he would use the power of psychic energy to temporarily cut off and interfere with his communication channel.

And his not going up was also expected. Just let the other ships come up.

To be precise, just three ships will be needed.

Needless to say, the Concerto he was on had a lot of cooperation with him in recent years. The orders of Major General Du Shiliang had a great impact on the Violin. This ship was also the ship that stayed in the Tianma Star Region before, so it should also obey orders. The Quintet where Ye Lixia was on was also a ship that Gu Hang was very sure would cooperate with him.

He believed that Ye Lixia would believe him.

And the fact was indeed so.

Three cruisers, enough.

The three human main battleships that were exploring ahead were of course observed by the greenskins, and in an instant, a large amount of firepower came towards them.

But the multiple silver shield-class frigates belonging to the alliance played a role at this moment.

They blocked a lot of firepower attacking the three main battleships. On the one hand, they used their excellent interception firepower to block a considerable part of the greenskins’ artillery fire. On the other hand, they even used their bodies to hinder the firing range of the greenskin ships and withdrew before the shield was about to collapse.

Of course, most of the firepower hit by the greenskin ships was directly borne by the three cruisers. The reckless behavior directly caused the void shield to enter the dangerous red.

But at this time, the orc ship No. 1 was also exposed.

The three cruisers immediately opened fire.

Heavy firepower hit the opponent.

Tillemans, who had not caught up yet, was full of regrets.

He should have just blocked Gu Hang’s order!

It is impossible for the three cruisers to shoot down the opposite ship No. 1 with concentrated fire!

On the contrary, the Concerto, Quintet, and Violin were completely besieged by the enemy.

At this time, no matter how indecisive Tillemans was, it was time to make a decision.

He ordered the entire fleet to press forward.

Although this would lead both sides into a more intense close combat with a higher hit rate of naval guns, the greenskins’ boarding battle would become more threatening. But what could be done? The three cruisers that rushed forward had kidnapped the entire fleet.

However, the next moment, Tillemans saw a scene that made his eyes pop out: the shield of the Orc No. 1 ship inexplicably cracked!

The heavy artillery from the three cruisers, whether it was the Wrath of the Loyal Heir macro cannon or the Doomsday Light Spear Array, all penetrated the shield of the Greenskin No. 1 ship without hindrance and bombarded it!

The Greenskin No. 1 ship, which was hit by heavy artillery, exploded into flames!

The greenskin frigates that were supposed to be guarding them were trembling and twitching strangely.

What the hell was going on?

Tillemans’s rich experience in naval warfare could not make him understand what was happening in front of him.

But this did not prevent him from realizing that this was a huge opportunity.

The enemy’s No. 1 ship was of similar specifications to the human heavy cruiser. The seven cruisers of the Pegasus Fleet were strictly speaking light cruisers.

If they really had to fight, the two musician-class ships might not be able to defeat the greenskin flagship.

There were two such flagships on the opposite side, plus five or six ships of similar specifications to the human light cruisers.

That was the main force of the greenskin fleet!

Don’t look at the previous few months, the battle was lively and both sides lost a total of 100 ships, but in fact, most of the explosions were the lowest-level patrol ship-level things. There were few frigates, and no destroyers were lost, not to mention the core of the fleets of both sides, the cruiser level.

This is a great opportunity!

The enemy lost a heavy cruiser, which meant that a huge gap suddenly appeared in the firepower of the central part of the greenskin fleet array. The lack of heavy artillery like the L-type cannon could not be made up by any number of low-level artillery.

No matter how indecisive Tillemans was, he could not continue to hesitate under such an opportunity.

Gu Hang had already fed him the meal!

At this time, Gu Hang received another new order: “Focus on the second ship.”

The so-called second ship was the other of the only two heavy cruisers in the greenskin fleet.

Governor Gu issued this order. Could it be that the previous method could be used again?

“Attack! Attack! Break through the center line!”

Tillemans’ order was then conveyed to the entire fleet!

…

On the bridge of the Concerto, Gu Hang stood on the observation platform with his hands behind his back, looking at the battlefield in front of him, which was shining and constantly exchanging fire.

Under the awe-inspiring gazes of the bystanders, his eyes were filled with misty blue light, and his psychic power continued to echo in the void.

Gu Hang normally has the level of an S-class psychic, not to mention that this time, in order to ensure stability, he has torn open a hole in the void that connects the Kingdom of Storms to the real world.

Although the hole is not big, it also allows him to obtain the blessing of the subspace essence from the Kingdom of Storms, so that his psychic level can be raised to a higher level, reaching the level of S+.

On his ship, there is also the assistance of half of the Storm Mage Corps. The psychic array they formed is connected to Gu Hang, and Gu Hang can take over their own power, even the power that they cannot control as psychics.

In this case, as long as the distance is shortened, Gu Hang can completely tear open the energy shield protecting the outer periphery of a green-skinned heavy cruiser.

Of course, the actual situation is not that simple. There are some orc shamans, psychic boys and the like in that ship No. 1, which has a deeper layer of ‘waaagh’ energy protection. When the ship is affected by Gu Hang’s psychic power, these energies also immediately react to counterattack.

However, the level difference between the two sides was quite large. Gu Hang spent some effort and consumed about one-third of his spiritual power, and finally quickly tore open the shield of Ship No. 1.

The characteristics of the glass cannon of the greenskin ship became more prominent after the protection of the energy shield was removed. The poor and inferior hull structure made it impossible for them to really withstand the fierce bombardment of human heavy artillery.

Without a shield and a poor ship structure, the orc flagship naturally exploded into real space junk in a round of attacks.

Of course, if it were just like this, the situation might not be so smooth. The greenskins don’t just have one ship, they have a whole fleet of ships, and those small frigates and destroyers are responsible for protecting the main ships.

And for them, Gu Hang also has a way to deal with them.

Since the cracks in the Kingdom of Storm God have been torn open, why not tear it open more violently.

On those greenskin frigates, Gu Hang opened the Kingdom of Storm God from the inside. In the Kingdom of God, a large number of Heroic Spirits descended directly onto the ships, especially in the bridge, control room, captain’s room and other places.

The greenskins had previously invested 70 million troops to smash into the surface of Steel Wing Star. With so many people gone, the greenskin ships that should have been crowded became much emptier. When they were invaded by this special boarding, their resistance was not as strong as expected.

Although, attacking so many escort ships at the same time, it was not possible to rely on the Heroic Spirits to destroy these greenskin ships from the inside. But just disrupting their actions and preventing them from performing escort actions at critical moments was enough.

After the destruction of Ship No. 1, it also means that the enemy’s psychic boys and orc shamans are all dead or injured. It will be easier for Gu Hang to tear open the shield of the next greenskin ship.

Gu Hang naturally set his sights on the greenskin ship No. 2.

(End of this chapter)