Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 100 The inevitable encounter
Regarding the last impression of the planet called Oman, Calvin and the others only stayed at the doomsday scene of the large-scale landing of the Titan Legion from the Forge World of Gria - the Morningstar Legion. .

He could probably imagine how furious these mechanical priests from the faction of Reza Forge World would be when they arrived and discovered the obvious traces of the ruins inside the valley being turned over.

And how these poor head snatchers deal with the consequences of such rage is not a question that Calvin can be responsible for.

All he cares about now is his own way home.

Noble and Dirty spent a full week traveling the other side of the course in the asteroid belt, including several close encounters with space pirates.

Like thieves and prostitutes, robbers, a traditional profession with a long history, are still active in the territory of the human empire in the interstellar era.

But unlike the old days, the pirates in the interstellar era had a very high threshold for employment, and it was no longer a career that ordinary civilians could achieve.

Their sources may still be varied and of varying quality.

However, considering that the lowest service target of this industry is the semi-military organization of the Imperial Merchant Fleet, the martial arts of the pirates naturally cannot be too bad.

Therefore, excluding some amateur pirates who occasionally work part-time when conditions permit, the "industry insiders" who can really survive in this industry for a long time often have their own unique side.

The traitorous interstellar navy is the lowest standard of practice in this industry, and it cannot be lowered.

Otherwise, when a group of "unarmed" pirates encountered a fleet of armed caravans, it was not certain who would be robbed.

It is not surprising to go further up such as the green-skinned orcs and the Ark Eldar, and it is not uncommon to find active traces of the renegade Astartes on some recognized dangerous voyages.

Interstellar pirates usually rely on certain special terrains or flight segments that the Imperial Navy cannot effectively cover.

The asteroid belt is an important gathering point and sales ground for interstellar pirates located near the rust belt.

The complex environment here naturally allows these small-scale armed forces to fully display their freedom of advance and retreat when encountering irresistible forces such as the Star Defense Fleet, the Forge World Exploration Fleet, and the Astartes Chapter Strike Cruiser. The flexible feature of gathering and dispersing at will.

But the list of forces that have an absolute deterrent effect on pirates absolutely does not include a single black ship of the Inquisition Court.

A single small pirate ship is indeed not very interested in the black ship, but the medium-sized and above interstellar pirates are slowly moving towards the black ship's route after the news of the former spread.

When their power is so great that they are not afraid of the retaliatory encirclement and suppression of the Inquisition Court afterwards, then the rare high-value target of the black ship is definitely a gluttonous feast that cannot be missed.

Noble and Dirty is such a situation.

After a relatively calm first half of their voyage, as time went by, they were inevitably targeted by some medium and large pirate groups.

The gray knights led by Calvin are not afraid of the threat of these offal from various sources. In their eyes, offal is just offal, and 1 more will still be offal.

However, the special terrain on the ship made him consider a lot. Whether it is the engine room, fuel room, bridge or ammunition depot, these strongholds are key nodes that cannot be abandoned in possible gang battles.

And the Gray Knights only have 15 people, even if they use the squad as a unit to conduct denial operations, the number is still not enough.

They are destined to make trade-offs on these key nodes in the upcoming battle.

After discussing with Mavi and his captain for a whole day, they finally reached an agreement with difficulty: the materials in the ammunition depot were dispersed throughout the ship in a planned way and then this node was abandoned.

The Gray Knights will be divided into two teams, one team will guard the core crew on the bridge protection ship, and the other team will be flexible.

As for the engine room and fuel room, the marines on board the black ship were responsible for defense.

Then in the possible gang battles, the black ship's close-in weapon array will consciously induce the comers to the direction of the ammunition depot.

In the hypothesis, after the formation of the basic defensive posture to withstand the pirates' first wave of jumping gang attacks, the mobile team headed by Calvin will cooperate with the defense forces of these key nodes in the ship to clear them one by one, and finally complete the defense. The purpose of the black ship.

The vision of the plan is good, but it will take some time whether it is the subassembly and transfer of the ammunition depot or the establishment of the fortifications of the remaining nodes.

Fortunately, these pirate forces have more than one enemy, and they also have scruples to guard against each other.

Before multiple pirate fleets stared at a target at the same time and failed to reach a consensus on the distribution of spoils, what Calvin and others had to face was only the sporadic tentative attacks of these pirates.

Moreover, the voyage of the black ship in the asteroid belt is not too long after all, and these pirate fleets can only follow behind the black ship to maintain a delicate dynamic balance with other pirates.

As the end of the voyage in the asteroid belt approached, the pirates who felt that their prey was getting closer and closer to real safety became more and more anxious.

The fragile balance between the pirates and their peers, who could not reach a tacit understanding in a short period of time, can no longer be maintained.

On the last day of Noble and Nasty's voyage out of the asteroid belt, a band of orc pirates finally exhausted all their patience and launched a desperate attack on them.

The long-awaited attack has finally arrived, which is in a sense a good thing.

After all, it wasn't just the patience of the pirates that was consumed by the long confrontation.

Also consumed to dangerous levels during the long wait for the second boot to hit the ground was the will to resist of the black ship's majority mortal crew.

Calvin, who had spent his whole life as a low-level military officer in his previous life, could clearly smell the growing oppressive atmosphere on the ship.

The alarm for defensive operations was sounded as soon as the orc landing ship was discovered, and the combatants of the entire ship began to march towards their pre-designated area in an orderly manner and reported their equipment status one by one.

The communication team of the temporary command post on the bridge also began to get busy in an orderly manner.

When the battle really came, Calvin went into a relaxed state instead.

The battle plan had been drawn up five days ago, and all they had to do now was to implement it according to the predetermined plan.

Calvin, who had escaped from the perspective of the commander who was closely watching the morale of the entire ship, breathed a sigh of relief, and then he only needed to be responsible for himself and his team.

"Alert! Found an orc ship!"

"Alert! The distance is 50 kilometers!"

"Alert! The distance is 30 kilometers!"

"Enter the effective range of the macro cannon's firepower, apply to fire!"

"Approved to fire!"

The macro cannon on the side of the black ship started firing, and the huge shells caused waves of waves under the opponent's Waaaah force field.

All kinds of strange and different pipes on the opponent's storm-class assault ship started to work, and after a burst of black smoke, these so-called "cannons" also launched a counterattack at the black ship at the cost of one-tenth of their own explosion.

Most of these shells drew various strange Brownian motion lines after leaving the barrel, and then disappeared into the universe around the black ship.

Only a few shells reached the surface of the black ship after many hardships, testing the condition of the black ship's shield.

Both sides in the first round failed to cause losses to each other, and the distance between the two sides was still getting closer.

After determined to fight a deterrent battle, the black ship no longer tried to escape, but used its own mobility to ensure its side fire advantage in naval battles.

The orc pirates' iconic onslaught-class assault ship only has the thick-skinned feature on the front, so the opponent does not have too many tactical options. They can only approach it with the firepower of the black ship facing the enemy.

The gunnery sergeants of the black ship angrily urged their subordinates to speed up the loading speed. After the mechanical priest ignored the protest of the machine soul and loaded the shells, they shot at the opponent again.

But the orcs didn't care about the results of their cannonballs at all. In their opinion, as long as these big pipes can hear a sound, they are fucking waaaah, and it would be even better if they can kill people.

The role of this thing in the eyes of the boys is more of a prelude before starting Waaah, it is best to have it, and it is fine without it.

Anyway, relying on the disproportionately thick front armor and void shield of the onslaught-class assault ship, as long as it can advance to a certain distance, the rest will be left to the Hem Ha jumping boat...

As long as they can climb onto each other's battleships, the Dirty Gun Boss and the Slash Boys will let each other know what the (best) bang bangs and the most Waaah fucks are!

As for what would happen if it exploded, who knows.Let's survive first...

After five rounds of bombardment, the void shield on the orc's assault ship finally failed, and a loud explosion announced the end of the mission.

And the distance between the two sides has also narrowed to the limit allowed by the jumping gang battle.

Following the action of the orc warship like throwing garbage, the orc's jumping boat and jumping torpedo brought some debris that seemed to be broken parts, throwing the parts and rushing towards the black ship.

And the black ship's close-in defense weapon array also joined the roaring ranks after the next round of macro artillery roared.

At least half of the orc jumping gang vehicles were wiped out under this round of near-fire attack.

However, the opponent's number of flies still inevitably penetrated the maximum carrying value of the melee weapon.

After the first batch of jump boats penetrated the deck of the black ship with the help of the orc's then ineffective bow fuselage, the crew on the ship knew this fact:
The last thing they wanted to see, the most tragic gang battle in the naval battle, inevitably came.

Everyone on the bridge stared at the holographic diagram showing the status of the entire ship.

The rapidly increasing red marks on the hull are notifying the decision-makers at the scene of the landing point of the entire battleship.

The relatively concentrated alarms near the ammunition depot proved that their original plan was at least half successful.

"Let the soldiers who bombarded the array withdraw, their mission has been completed." Calvin couldn't help but reminded.

"Withdraw? Where to withdraw. If we give up the close defense array now, there will only be more orcs landing later."

Mavie, who always appeared as a businessman and a good old man, taught Calvin a good lesson.

The other party's almost cold attitude at this time reminded Calvin of the position of the Alien Tribunal that he had almost ignored.

"Don't feel sorry for me, and don't mourn for them. The Emperor, how much I love them, how much I hate them when I am truly loyal to the empire. I know this, and they know it too. If you don’t believe me, just ask them and tell them to withdraw, will they withdraw?”

Calvin didn't speak anymore, just watched the bright spots on the hologram representing the weapon array dim one by one before his eyes.

He knew that this was their glory.He has no right to deprive.

And there is not much he can do, just to live up to the sacrifices of these people.

The first wave of gang-jumping strikes has ended, so since the opponent did not take "special care" for the bridge, Calvin's here is of little significance.

He tightened the warhammer in his hand, stared deeply at the commanders present and said:

"Then it's our turn to come on stage."

　Ask for a ticket! ! !
　　
　
(End of this chapter)