Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 225 Reunion - Hydra's Doom

"The fleet is waiting for your order!"

"Please give the order!"

The voices of the adjutants and guards seemed to have a thick barrier, echoing in Hydera's brain with suspicious noise.

Roaring and trembling erupted from the "Tyrant", and the battleship's void shield revealed a specific eggshell form under the impact.

However, more firepower from enemy ships from two directions continued to lean towards it, and the index of the shield generator decreased visibly with the naked eye.

Mechanic-priests have done their best to maintain its performance, but with little success.

The alarms sent towards the bridge continued like snowflakes, but Hydera's brain was still down, and he failed to respond for a long time.

"grown ups!"

The guard approached Hydera to try to remind him, but the latter subconsciously grabbed him and threw him out.

But fortunately, his adventurous arrogance has not been let down.

Hydera, who finally got rid of the huge failure and self-doubt, raised his head and looked like a lone wolf at the end of the road, with dangerous and dark eyes patrolling the whole body, as well as the chief officers in the fleet communication channel.

It's a pity to leave, but after all, the general situation is gone.

Hydera thought like this, and then looked at the captains of the remaining three Hellfire-class cruisers.

The latter was pouring ineffective firepower on the Raptor King in vain at this time, and the opponent's shield generator was ten times that of an ordinary warship.

Whether it's a light spear or a macro cannon, those shields that were exposed to specific shapes by the impact ignored the impact and shrapnel of the flames and explosions, and remained motionless like a breeze blowing on the face.

The seven cruisers behind the Raptor also began to spread out to the two wings. Although the absolute encirclement has not been completed, the firepower of its side has entered a golden angle.

The smoke and dust from the explosion fragments brought up by the macro cannon hit the Chaos Fleet, exploding densely like raindrops.

Amidst the buzzing sound of concentrated shooting of light spears, the heavy patrols on both sides of the fleet fell into the struggle of self-preservation and had no time to care about others.

The collapse of the fleet seemed inevitable, and Hydera sighed, and then made a secret gesture to the guards behind him.

The pupils of the guard who received the signal shrank suddenly, and then quietly sandwiched a secret message into the fleet's global broadcast.

On the bridges of other warships in the fleet, several chaos internal assassinations and power seizures suddenly broke out in the next second.

Adjutants, bodyguards, mortal attendants, and even individual Night Lord recruits who have been transformed for nearly a century all woke up from deep self-hypnosis after receiving this message in their brains:

"Supreme Hydra!"

These "Dandelions" who had been infiltrated by the Alphas after self-hypnosis and had been lurking for hundreds of years suddenly burst into flames, shouting the name of their legion, and killed the original fleet chiefs one by one.

After taking over the command of the battleship, these people charged the encircling enemy ships with the suicidal mentality of dying with the enemy, and bought time for Hydera's flagship to escape.

"Want to run?"

Both Baltasar on the Raptor King and Lieutenant General Joseph of the Northern Fleet sensed each other's intentions immediately.

The two looked at each other in the communication channel they had just established, sensing each other's intentions.

Baltasar immediately ordered:

"Hammer of Order, Shield of Order accelerates immediately, intercepting the enemy flagship and maneuvering in the direction of Orpheus!"

Are there any reinforcements in the direction of Layak?
Before this thought had time to think, Lieutenant General Joseph's order was issued immediately:
"The Wrath of Justice, Endeavor is out of sequence! Initiate interception to the obscurity area!"

Four large cruisers, including two strike cruisers with firepower exceeding normal standards, immediately began to insert from the edge of the battlefield.

And the Tyrant in the center of the battlefield just finished adjusting its posture, and plunged into the depths of Layak with its back facing the big net.

"Hey! Good go!"

Reminiscent of Calvin's ship returning from the direction of Marus, Baltasar excitedly stood up from the anti-gravity seat.

He has lost patience with the battle in front of him, and is determined to inflict the most complete destruction on these stubborn warships!
"Focus on! Break through their engines! We need to end this war as soon as possible!"

Under Joseph's thoughtful gaze, the four cruisers were biting the Chaos flagship and headed towards Leyak.

The remaining 14 warships launched a fierce offensive against the 11 chaotic warships that lost their command system and fought on their own!
As the centerpiece of the fleet, the Raptor King is the first to launch an attack on enemy ships within range.

Compared with battleships, the mobility disadvantage of interstellar fortresses is extremely obvious; but on the contrary, the firepower of fortresses far exceeds the specifications of ordinary battleships:

The light spear arrays on the Raptor King interstellar fortress were fully activated again, and the same number of light spear arrays were arranged on the outer space several times larger than the battleship.

Every time the strike group composed of more than a dozen light spear arrays flashes once, the concentrated energy strike composed of huge beams of light is enough to overload the shield of a battleship;

And when the shields of these warships are penetrated, the other Astartes warships that have been trained for a long time will follow in the footsteps of the King of Raptors, using light spears and macro cannons to penetrate the engines of enemy ships.

And when these battleships lost their ability to move and completely became lambs to be slaughtered on the battlefield, a scene that shocked both the Northern Fleet led by Joseph and the fleeing Hydera appeared:

After the battleship was destroyed by a wave of macro artillery and torpedoes, the main armor on the surface was destroyed.

The 6 Astartes warships centered on the King of Raptors began to sprinkle fireworks on these chaotic warships, and simultaneously launched hundreds of landing torpedoes!

Not a few, not dozens!
In the eyes of Joseph and Hydera, the Chaos Fleet at this moment is suffering a large-scale jump attack consisting of more than 150 landing torpedoes in total!

"How many Astartes fighters are these? Even if one-third is used to transport the accompanying ammunition supplies, the total number of people attacked this time must be in the thousands, right?"

Seeing the landing torpedoes swarming towards the enemy ship like a school of fish and plunging into the deck, Joseph really wanted to ask this question to the commander of the fleet.

But at this time, Baltasar had personally led the team off, and the throne that belonged to him was empty.

There was no one on the other side of the screen except the silent mortal captain, and Joseph's question had to be kept in his mouth.

Hydera, who was fleeing in the distance, was even more heartbroken when he saw this devastating scene.

Unlike Joseph of the Mortal Legion, as a legion veteran who survived the Great Crusade era, he knows the number of people represented by those torpedoes very well!

More than 17 companies from at least four different chapters were marked in those torpedo strike groups!

And each company's similar marks appeared in his eyes at least twice!

How could there be so many Astartes warriors!

How can he, Hydera Hod, be worthy of such standard treatment?

Are the Astartes Chapters in the Tempest sector all doing well?

How could anyone be able to call on so many battle groups to launch such costless assistance to a mere Orpheus theater?

Huge doubts and apprehensions filled the heart of the alpha warband lord, but before he could think about it, the warship's alarm system was activated again!
"Strong subspace response in the front left! A large ship is about to appear!"

Before the navigator's mournful cry was over, Hydera saw in despair:

With four imperial cruisers still chasing after him, two strike cruisers clearly belonging to the Astartes jumped out from the jump point ahead!
Among them, the leading strike cruiser is obviously bigger. Even if Hydera glanced at it temporarily, he knew that the length of the hull was almost the same as that of his own ship!
And this silver cruiser, after jumping out of the subspace, can't wait to show the urgently modified huge golden mark on its hull:

The special mark composed of the Roman letter "I", the double-headed eagle of the empire, and the sawtooth skull made Hydera, who knew the empire well, even more puzzled.

High Lord?High Lord of the Inquisition?
what is this?Is the royal conquest in person?
In addition to the Sun Lord, since when did the high lords of the empire have the habit of leading troops out to fight instead of guarding Terra?
He, Hydera, is really overrated...

　Second watch, take a little rest, there will be more at night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)