Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 213 Multiple efforts, difficult defense.

The advance of the Grand Fleet continued, but the commander of the northern theater did not want to wait.

Lieutenant General Joseph has been at the fleet's front-line outpost for three days. The delay in the original front-line inspection schedule has already attracted dissatisfaction from the rear staff.

But he has no plans to leave here and return to the fleet.

On the contrary, he even wanted to mobilize the four capital ships of the entire Northern Fleet here.

Scouts traveling hundreds of astronomical units away to the Leyak starway had confirmed to him that Chaos' shipbuilding was drawing to a close.

Driven by the billions of enslaved people in the occupied areas regardless of casualties, the huge ship has already finished outfitting the final main armor belt, and it is only a hair's breadth away from the actual acceptance process.

Limited by the relationship between authority and distance, Joseph neither knew the arrival of the large fleet behind him, nor did he know what the enemy was waiting for.

But in the eyes of this general who is famous for his loyalty to the empire and his enthusiasm for war, there are really not many opportunities left for him to change the fate of failure in the northern theater.

Wait any longer, once the new force in the opponent's hands takes shape, the defense system built around the Katyn galaxy in the northern theater will surely face a great test!

He could almost imagine that the opponent would besiege Kating under the condition of absolute superiority in troops.

Then use their nascent weaponry to roll out fixed-position heavy artillery across the system, out of range of orbital defense weapons as much as possible!

Joseph is no longer willing to calculate the probability of this happening.

Because both he and the Chaos Fleet on the other side of the star sea clearly knew that Orpheus at this time absolutely had no extra fleet to support the battle.

No defense inside, no reinforcements outside.

In order to avoid a tragic defeat, Lieutenant General Joseph could only seek the possibility of actively breaking the situation.

He decided to dispatch all the fleets in his hands, and on the basis of trying to covertly bypass the ruins of the Leyak channel, deal a fatal blow to the forge world entrenched on the edge of the Leyak star area!
In fact, he has already done so.

According to the latest information he received, one of the opponent's 14 main ships had already returned to the rear of the theater.

According to some recent movements, another cruiser was also surrounded by several small frigates and headed back towards the occupied area.

He didn't know the reason for the strange behavior of the enemy.

But if there is still an existence in the occupied area that can cause trouble for these Chaos fleets, then he sincerely hopes that this existence can live as long as possible!

The enemies on the front of the star area have undergone two mobilizations and are now at their weakest.

Even though the enemy still had an absolute advantage in military strength, he was still unwilling to give up this rare opportunity.

Once this precious time window is lost, the possibility of trying to take a surprise from the opponent's large fleet will only be lower.

The fleet base of the main star on Katyn is already operating at full capacity, and the crew members who are on rest have also been called back urgently.

The mixed fleet consisting of one battleship and five cruisers is already all the chips that Joseph can get.

But in this game of losing more and winning less, he has no choice but to stud.

After a long journey, the battlecruiser Wraith Redeemer of the Gray Knights and the Star Labyrinth cruiser of the Tauren finally reached their destination.

After wandering for a few days in the several galaxies that had been completely destroyed by the war outside Leyak, they finally saw biological signs of large-scale life on the main star of the Marus galaxy.

The fleet, under the command of Tibers' sophistication, was not in a hurry to approach.

Instead, the troops were divided into two groups, one positive and one negative, and under the cover of two groups of comets returning periodically, they floated with static inertia to test whether the orbital defense here was still functioning normally.

As for the small fleet consisting of one cruiser and five frigates in orbit, it was not put in the eyes of Tabers, Yule and others.

After all, it is active to fight passive, dark to fight bright.

What's more, with the current powerful firepower of the Revenant Redeemer, it is definitely at the ceiling level in a cruiser.

Tibers could even pat his chest and promise everyone that as long as the four Nova Cannons output a round of firepower, the opponent's shield will definitely be overloaded!

This kind of medium-to-long-range sniping with mental calculation and unintentional is different from the short-range bow heavy artillery that only has a chance to hit with one shot.

The distance between the two sides will create a fatal battlefield environment for the enemy at this time, and the size of the main planet of Marus will make it take a long time for the opponent to get rid of the gravitational force, and there is no chance of escape!

In the outer space of Marus, a one-sided hunt has already begun.

As the capital of this industrial galaxy, another difficult and long war is also going on on the surface of the Marus Industrial World itself.

In the factory thousands of meters underground in Hive Capital No. 22, Calvin had already stood at the gate of the core furnace and stood firm for nearly a hundred hours.

After the other two attempts failed, the team that eliminated the false target finally arrived at the No. 10 industrial hive before the last batch of ore in the furnace production line was transported after a 22-day long-distance raid.

Needless to say, the hardships and difficulties along the way.

Just saying that in hive capital No. 3, escaped from the trap set by Alpha and the midnight lord's heavy troops, half of the casualties were caused by the curser's 9-man team.

The five-member team on the other side didn't fare well either.

Hive capital No. 41 on another continent is 9 kilometers away from hive capital No. 3000 when they set off.

And in order to be able to leave enough time for the failure of these two attempts, Calvin pulled 10 Astartes fighters from different origins within 4 days and launched hundreds of teleportations.

Now Calvin looks haggard, and his weight has dropped by more than one-fifth;

The state of several other Astartes fighters is also worrying - the consequences of the abuse of spiritual power are not only borne by Calvin himself, these Astartes known as supermen are also tossed and confused.

They had no time to recuperate after they met near Hive Capital No. 22, and plunged into the steel jungle of Hive Capital once again.

Hive capitals with different numbers naturally have different construction years; and the purpose of construction in different years also depends on the industrial needs of the entire industrial world.

It is different from the simple architectural structure brought by the early colonial technology of No. [-] hive city;
It is also different from the small scale of craft crystallization in hive capital No. 411 under the late economic recession of Malus;

Hive City No. 22, as the creation of the pinnacle of the Marus industrial world, it is the top existence among all 42 Hive City, whether it is the technical content represented by the internal equipment of the Hive City, or the scale created by the economic environment.

And it was the scale mentioned in the second half of the sentence that made Calvin and others suffer.

Can you imagine the existence of an industrial city with a diameter of tens of kilometers?

Can you imagine a nest tower that can theoretically break through the atmosphere and link with the orbital capacity of the star port with its own height?

The scale of the city is so grand that it is clearly visible from the tracks:

The iron-gray body it represents is clinging to the planet like a giant starfish with its pentagonal tentacles extending outward.

And it was such a huge city, and Calvin entered it with sufficient mental preparation.

It was only later that I discovered that the scale of the building hidden underground was the same as that on the surface!
This is not a parallel pentagram, but a three-dimensional multi-edged pentagonal cone!

　Second watch, please vote.

　　Toothache, unbearable.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)