The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"The Meredith team uses Terminator equipment! Close combat!" Hanada said, she put on the helmet carefully, and put her two white furry pointed ears into the pre-set space in the helmet, where there is an extra A set of sound equipment, a four-channel audio system allows them to grasp the situation more clearly in battle. "Have you got the map?"

In another cabin, Monica Meredith flexed her wrist, and every joint worked well.The Terminator heavy power armor is very heavy, but not bulky. The excellent design and powerful power system allow her to wear this outfit to launch firm and swift attacks on the enemy.As soldiers of the guard, they must use the best equipment so that they can keep up with the speed of the Legion Commander's advance and watch her back.But because Oregana often takes the lead in attacking areas that have not yet been detected, everyone in this army values ​​​​temporary resilience to deal with battles where intelligence is insufficient.

Monica Meredith opened the mission briefing, and information about the attacking battleship 'Long Night' appeared in the small window in the helmet visor.

First of all, this is a warship with a length of 29 kilometers, which is ridiculously large, and its internal space is far larger than that of a medium-sized city.But apart from the appearance, there is almost no available information. The only thing that can be determined is the location of the hangar and the main power furnace, because one can be seen directly from the outside, and the other can be swept out through the energy warfare equipment.

"It's really concise... Where is the bridge?"

Hanada hangs the ammunition box of the chain gun on her waist, and the mechanical arm on the armor automatically completes the connection. She said referring to the atlas "Halo Spaceship Illustrated Book" provided by Scythe of War (the price is 256.00 yuan on the back, two volumes in total) and said :

"The bridge of the CCS class is in the bow, the CAS class is in the 'neck' part, and I think the CSO class should also be in the front half of the battleship. The main reactor is in the middle of the hull, the hangar is at the bottom of the rear, and the crew compartment is on both sides. At the edge of the ship—below the armor—the internal compartments add some sort of structural strength. At the end of the stern is a cathedral called the Temple of the Creator, where the Sangheili worship the Forerunners.”

Obviously, the game setting set of the different world is of course not detailed enough to fully meet the needs of gang battles, and what can be done is only some references—let you know the approximate location.But it's a pity that there are no CSO-level settings in this setting collection, which means that once you play it, you will still be blind.

It's like playing an old RPG game, walking back and forth in the maze, and then killing all the enemies that appear in front of you.This is basically the case for the first gang-hopping battle with the civilization I saw for the first time, which is why it is impossible to carry out teleportation strikes.When you don't know what structure is inside, God knows where a teleportation will go.

"Is that all the information?"

"That's all. But when you think about it, the Covenant doesn't know how we're going to get there, or how many troops we're going to throw."

If the opponent's equipment is the same as that of the troops on the ground, then our soldiers will have a great advantage in combat capability - those Sangheili warriors equipped with shields can still be considered good opponents, and the hunters can still fight , but the gnolls and grunts are just cannon fodder, and most of the Covenant forces are such 'cannon fodder'.

They did not rely on exquisite tactics, excellent individual qualities, strong fighting will and human beings to fight until now.The main composition of the troops is that the morale level of the Gulu people is at the same level as that of the thieves in "Riding and Blade". It is very strange to be able to fight back and forth with humans on the ground under a poor technical advantage.

In front of the Marine Corps of Tartarus, they don't have any technical advantages to be proud of - although the technology department has not yet figured out what the principle of the needle gun that can be traced is, but this mystery cannot make people holding needle guns What an advantage gun grunts have when it comes to shooting off marines with particle rifles.Not to mention the will to fight. Leaving aside the morale-locking clone warriors, there is no civilized unit in the Concord that would lose to the Covenant in terms of morale.

The reason is very simple. After a long battle with the Dark Worm, the soldiers in the civilized circle of the Ministry of Consolidation generally understand one thing. What they get in exchange for hard work may be glory, wealth, and a reward for getting ahead, but In the end, it is the safety and happiness of family and friends. I will become a barrier to block darkness and terror from the peaceful and warm world in which others live. For this goal, I will sacrifice everything I have.

The idea of ​​​​the clone warriors of Tartarus is simpler-the experimental subjects rescued from the laboratory swear allegiance to the super soldiers who reached out to help, because these people transformed themselves from 'experimental animals' back A person; children who are excluded by the whole society because of the disease think this is their home, because and they can cure this irreversible terminal disease, and they will not be discriminated against here, and no one will ever treat themselves as dirty again. Dirty untouchables; some races are raised from ignorance, nature is no longer an invincible enemy, old people are no longer abandoned, children do not have to be afraid all day long, ancient myths come true overnight, and even the wise The stories of the gods described cannot be compared with reality, so the warriors who have passed the trials will naturally go all out to protect these miracles, because they have experienced the drastic changes of the times and they know what a common destiny is.

But the Star Alliance is different. Although the Brutes and the elites believe in the banner raised by the Prophet and are extremely fanatical, the other races who are the main body of the army do not actually accept this. The gnolls fight for money. Realizing that their well-being and interests are determined by the superior race, and they cannot even participate in the parliament, this race decisively adopted a very practical method of protest-stealing resources to aid compatriots in exile, while cooperating with any race secretly Make money, even if they're enemies of the Covenant. (There is even a Gnoll tribe that cooperates with ONI)

However, the Guru people had to fight because of the despotic power of the upper race, and they were once brutally suppressed. Who is the large-scale artificial birth control race fighting for?They don't know it themselves, which makes them capitulators with no clear purpose. The main reason they prefer Sangheili over Brutes is that Sangheili don't eat Grunts.They once resisted, but what they got in return for their resistance was more violent oppression and the qualification to 'enter the army as cannon fodder'.

This is why there is always a large gap between the combat effectiveness and technical level of the Star Alliance. Against this level of caste system, it is still a battle of the hammer to allow slave soldiers to occupy such a terrible proportion of the army. (ridicule)

Destroying the Covenant was an act of kindness, no question about that.

Monica Meredith swore by the beautiful black down on the tip of her tail that she would be victorious, and she would offer the Blood God's unique blessing to any Covenant soldier who fell—for every death would bring The Covenant's push in the direction of destruction is beneficial to most people, whether it's humans or the Covenant.

On the other side, in the hydrostatic cabin of the strike cruiser Pied Piper of the Fist of Tartaros, the pilot Arnobert Chitty carefully controlled the progress of the battleship, and his eyes were full of explosions. fire.The dreadnought and the super flagship fired at each other at a distance of [-] kilometers, and the missiles landed on the shield of the Long Night again and again, but the huge purple ship remained calm.

It's really like an old Showa song, 'the indestructible steel castle'.

This sudden metaphor from the heart made Arnobert curl his lips. Everyone knows the final outcome of the fleet described in that song. Maybe the Long Night will go on that road in the end?

In the tactical command network, the head of the Oregana Legion has sent a schematic diagram.She'll use the titan to break through the shields and armor of The Long Night, and then it's up to herself and the marines on board to show off.The intrusion position of the Colorful Piper was arranged directly above the hull, so he carefully changed the position of the hull so that there would be no delay when the assault began.

"Get ready for the bombardment." He turned on the communicator, highlighted the screen on the tactical view and said to his colleagues around him, "Did you see those shield energy nodes?"

[You can see clearly. 】

In the scanning system, the external energy flow of the Long Night is very clear.Every time the weapon is activated, the shield on the outside of the weapon will be closed and then activated again, so the energy response of its shield activation is easy to identify, and it is easy to find the shield relay or generator on the outside of the node.There are more than sixty thousand similar devices installed on the hull, and together they maintain the integrity of the entire ship's shields.

This also shows that it is basically impossible to destroy the shield of the entire ship in one go, but it can be done if only temporarily turning off the partial shield generator.

Arnobert Chitty cracked his knuckles and gripped the joystick hard. He filled his lungs with the warm buffer, held his breath, and exhaled it with a long exhale, moving the Let go of your own tension:

"When the Tiamat opened the way, everyone immediately fired at the node." He paid attention to the positions of all the warships, and clicked on a ship that was close to the bottom. "Attention the Wild Hunt——"

【Yes! 】

The pilot of the Wild Hunt is an Ipum named Balam Storm Shortbow. For a clone warrior born in Ipum, he did not join the Blood Ravens but joined the Fist of Tartarus. It's a strange thing, but the reason is not complicated - because when he was studying at the Naval Academy, he had a campus romance with Lillian Hook, a mad doctor from the Fist of Tartaros, and then followed the standard procedure to report to the warden. The regiment sent a resignation application, and the chapter masters Mida and Essex agreed to the application and expressed their blessings to the two, which was a happy thing for everyone at the time.

And Balam Stormbow itself is an excellent pilot. He once shined as a member of the Angry Ravens in the Battle of Char, and after that, he drove the assault landing ship on a rampage in the asteroid belt for a long time. Marines thrown into a pirate's lair perform like circus acrobatics.Out of trust in him, Arnobert Chitty decided to entrust him with the task of breaking into the hangar.

From the perspective of the flagship assault announced by Oregana, the location of the hangar is out of reach of the flagship's firepower, and only by handing it over to a master can you feel at ease.

"Your task is to break into the hangar at the bottom of the ship," he said. "When the boss assaults, it will cause a strong impact on the entire shield. Take advantage of the fluctuation of the shield to get things done, understand?"

【learn! 】

"Okay, let's start!"

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The enemy is being massacred. Although the battle situation is still stalemate, the balance of victory is still shifting towards Luo Bratmi.

Humans have dozens of capital ships, and more than twice as many small ships—this is an incredible fleet for humans, and those ships are even equipped with shields, which is the first time they have encountered it.If it was in the past, a fleet of this size could cause a lot of damage to the regular Covenant fleet, and if they had an excellent commander, the situation would be even worse.But it's different now.

The Long Night is an extremely powerful battleship, one of which is equivalent to the combat effectiveness of a fleet, and even stronger.If humans can't break through its shield, then until the end of this battle, there won't be a single scratch on Long Night's armor, and there won't be any loss at all.Humans are different. Although they have shields, these shields are as fragile as paper under the long night of artillery fire. Up to now, the opponent has lost two capital ships and more than two dozen auxiliary ships. .

Undoubtedly, this is the planet where humans conduct pioneer technology development and experiments, and it is also an industrial center, so there are so many new warships.But it's a pity that these warships will become their own military exploits if they can't achieve a little glory on the battlefield.Thinking that he had the good fortune of defeating mankind with one blow, and even witnessing the turning point of this protracted war with his own eyes, Luo Bratmi felt a burst of joy. He looked at the constant explosions outside with satisfaction, and sighed:

"Why do human magnetic accelerators seem so weak?"

Humans are accustomed to equip their warships with huge and inconvenient large electromagnetic guns. Although these weapons are primitive and brutal, they are indeed effective in fleet battles, and they are basically the only weapons that can pose a threat to Covenant warships.But the warships in front of them are not equipped. Although they are indeed firing electromagnetic accelerators, the electromagnetic accelerators are too small...

They are mounted on turrets around the hull and fire shells at great speed.In terms of power, although they are far weaker than the heavy bow guns used by capital ships, they can still exert a certain degree of pressure on the conventional Covenant shipboard shields from the calculation results. The speed and the arrangement of sixteen guns on a battleship, once the scale is formed, can rely on a powerful fleet salvo to cause heavy damage to a capital ship in a short time.

However, this also caused them to be completely unable to shake the thick shield of Long Night, just like the rapid-fire weapons developed for infantry are as weak when they encounter chariots.

It will become like this, it can only be said that luck is on my side.

The operators didn't have the leisurely lament that Luo Bratmi did. They were already trying their best just to control the weapon system.Although the firepower of a battleship of this size is ferocious, the weapon system has the same ferocious complexity as the firepower. The Sangheili soldiers concentrate on their cooperation. It was clear for a while that these fighters were well-trained-only after a long period of training and grinding can they achieve such a level.

but……

Luo Bratmi stared at the images from everywhere, muttering:

"It's weird..."

Why did humans choose to fight here?It is too far away from the human planet, so far away that the magnetic acceleration cannon on it can't aim at the Long Night.Abandoning those powerful defensive firepower, deliberately jumping out of the air control circle and risking one's life here to fight, this is completely different from the cowardly behavior of human beings who used to use everything available to fight.Now they fight bravely, fighting to the death like the Sangheili...

This is not normal... there must be something wrong...

But before he could think clearly, the navigator suddenly yelled out, startling him——

"Space Response! On the port side!" the soldier yelled like an uneducated Kirahani savage, spit on the control panel. "Something's coming!"

Although the enemy's jumping technology has also shown an unprecedented level, but the navigator's flustered appearance is too ugly. Luo Bratmi showed a dissatisfied expression, but now is not the time to teach the soldiers. Unrelated actions have to wait until after the battle.He ordered in a majestic and firm voice:

"Then knock it out, port battery ready."

"Yes!"

Seven plasma turrets aimed in that direction, purple sparks of energy flickered in the hollow barrel - this would be devastating for any human warship, although it is not known who will enter the battle soon, but they immediately It will be wiped out.The turret spat out dazzling lightning bolts, reaching the collapsed space distortion almost instantly...

Undetectable sparks splashed on a huge arc.

It was like a majestic and magnificent dome, the thick armored surface was criss-crossed with ornate gullies, and the eight arrow-shaped reliefs extended from the central ring to the edge of the 'dome'.Its dark red shell seemed to be covered with uncooled magma, and a strange fuzzy feeling covered the outside of the shell, flickering like the ripples of flowing water, and the translucent light bands flickered like air heated by flames Generally intimidating.

Then, this thing began to approach quickly.

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Oregana was sitting in the tube fox transport boat, holding her usual chopping ax firmly in one hand, and the hilt of the elite energy sword was hanging on her waist—some samples were being researched by the technical department, and the Austrian Regina will personally test the effectiveness of this weapon in combat.The battleship is advancing at high speed under the control of the shipboard AI, and the broadcast echoes in everyone's ears——

【Collision warning—three, two, one...】

It was followed by a violent shaking.Even though the inertial stabilization device was fully functioning, the ship was still trembling due to the violent collision. The sound of metal tearing and deformation and the terrible vibration swept the entire battleship in an instant.

The Tiamat's dimensional distortion field came into contact with the shield of the Long Night, and after a violent impact, the opponent's shield flickered and then went out.The sparks of overload immediately spread from the top of the Long Night's tail to the whole ship. The opponent's helmsman was very dexterous, and at the moment the shield touched, he controlled the Long Night to descend to avoid the impact, but the Tiamat continued to move forward. The translucent light The belt slammed hard against the upper part of the side of The Long Night.The opponent's evasion turned the direct attack that should have directly crashed into the interior of the ship into a collision like a landing, and the Tiamat slammed into the roof of the long night sideways, and slid forward with a violent momentum.

It moved forward at a speed of hundreds of meters per second, and everything in front of it disappeared without a trace as if it had been chewed off.The armor was twisted and torn from the main body, completely shattered in the sparks and disappeared in the translucent light band. The roar generated by the impact swept across the interior of the battleship, and the deformation caused by the armor and structural damage squeezed the internal air. The resulting detonation pressure, like the impact of a bomb explosion, swept across the rear compartments and passages in an instant, and any soldiers without sufficient protection within a few kilometers were terribly hit, no matter how high or low.

Many people died on the spot with their bodies cracked, blue and purple blood sprayed on the ground, and because of the decompression and boiling caused by the cracking of the cabin, only dry bloodstains remained in place.

The Tiamat tore a horrific three-kilometre-long gash in the Long Night's hull, taking a chunk of its structure with it.After passing through the dimensional distortion field, these substances are ejected from both sides of the rear in the form of high-energy charged particles. It looks like a large number of light particles form red flying wings in the rear, and the distance reaches more than thirty kilometers.

After a short period of panic, all the firearms on the Long Night that could reach Tiamat started firing almost at the same time, but they disappeared without a trace as soon as they came into contact with the dimensional distortion field.But this alone is not enough. In order to achieve a multi-point assault, enough damage must be done on the hull of the Long Night, and if it does not pose a big enough threat to the opponent, it is impossible for the gunners to concentrate their firepower on On the Tiamat—if the artillery fire hadn't been attracted by the Tiamat, it would have fallen on the strike cruiser.

Therefore, Tiamat quickly made a choice——

[The dimensional distortion field is closed. 】

The band of light covering Tiamat disappeared, and the Spear of the Five Luxes turned towards the direction of the long night, bursting out with green light.

But the particle beam didn't have the desired effect.All the five Lux spears bounced off their impact points, as if a high-pressure water gun sprayed onto a metal wall, and light particles sprayed in all directions, leaving only a burn mark with a diameter of several meters.It has to be said that the Long Night does have a reliable protective ability, even if it is hit directly by the Lux Spear at close range, it cannot penetrate smoothly, but she will not give up easily——

['Abuser' enhanced battle module starts. 】

Warp energy is extracted by the power core and enters the various subsystems of the hull.In an instant, a crazy and morbid red color like half-coagulated blood spread across the entire battleship like a creeper.In this state, the energy pipelines are all under high-intensity loads, and the distortion effect of the warp energy is channeled to reduce the damage caused by the overload.The particle beams blasted out again turned dark red, and they pierced obliquely into the purple top armor of the Long Night, blasting a large hole of tens of meters in it.

"It's now! Start moving forward!" Oregana ordered in the command link, and then said to the guards and Tiamat, "Let's go too!"

【clear!The transport boat departs! 】

In the hail of bullets, light tube fox transport boats rushed out from the hangar exit behind the bow. Below them, the hull of the ship that was split by Tiamat's impact formed a black sea with jagged edges. The abyss, coupled with the red light produced by the high temperature around the interior, looks like the blood-stained mouth of a huge monster.This battleship has not made any modifications to the gang battle, at least from here, there are no fixed turrets or similar things everywhere——

The Star Alliance once lost ships because of the UNSC's gang-jumping assault, but that situation is not common. In most cases, the Pelican transport plane really can't reach the warship, so the Star Alliance has not conducted a gang-jumping battle. What special modification... In most cases, they used naval guns to beat up the UNSC ship, or jumped a bunch of people onto the UNSC ship and killed all the people on it.

This is even more so as the super flagship of the fleet. The Long Night itself has enough shipboard troops. Even if a small group of troops sneak in, they can be defeated directly by the troops carried by the battleship. There is no need to do anything special. modification.

Even now it doesn't make sense.The damage caused by the impact caused massive equipment failure throughout the area, and there was not even a light below, let alone the internal battery.Descending into the gap, the Marine Corps jumped out of the transport boat and began to approach the surrounding gates, but just after floating out for less than three seconds, the lower part flashed everywhere, and suddenly burst out purple plasma beams and Lots of needle bombs.

A few Sanheilis in full body armor and sealed helmets were shooting upwards at a broken passageway. Their reaction was quite quick, and their courage was commendable—in their eyes, the Tiamat was like A huge wall stands in the distance, and you have to lift your neck to the limit to see the top when you look up. It is like a huge mountain, and I am standing at the foot of the mountain, watching the flashing thunder on the top of the mountain, braving The deadly hot particles splashed in all directions to shoot at the human landing force.

Oregana made some evasive maneuvers, but she quickly discovered that she could dodge the plasma beams, but she couldn't dodge the guided needle bombs.They crackled and hit the shield, but none of them could penetrate the shield. They all bounced to the side and exploded around-this is a very vicious weapon. If it is hit, it will kill people. Explode in the body, and even the best doctor can't help it.

But no matter how good the aftereffect is, it is meaningless as long as it cannot penetrate. Oregana accelerated and landed there, and at the same time raised the C-14 rifle and fired in a burst. The [-]mm needle bomb hit the elite in front. Then he threw his rifle at the other as if it were a heavy javelin.This series of powerful counterattacks threw the elites into disarray. The rear firemen seized this opportunity, and the chain cannon silently spewed out flames in the vacuum. A series of powerful armor-piercing shells swept across the entire passage and beat the two elites into pieces. The slag fell, and the plasma weapons in their hands were still firing blindly until they fell.

She pounced on one, smashed it with her fist to break the other's shield, and then used it as a shield to smash into the other. The Sangheili soldier who had just escaped the chain gun was knocked back a few steps, trying to pull out He used the energy sword to fight at close range, but suddenly found that the opponent was also holding a Sangheili energy sword in his hand at some point.The burly warrior in red armor was holding on to the half-dead Sangheili—the poor soldier panicked as his helmet cracked, but he soon stopped panicking.

In front of his companions, Oregana cut off the Sangheili soldier's neck cleanly with the energy sword, and then strode towards the last survivor holding the energy sword tightly.The last elite in red armor draws his energy sword and roars at the human super-soldier audibly only to himself.The opponent is very powerful, but I should never retreat - the opponent has an energy sword that God knows where he got it, but since he intends to fight like this, then he should fight, this is the dignity of being a sword master, even if he Defeated and killed, this is also a decent death.

He threw away the plasma pistol, focused his attention on the sword on the opposite side, and put on a posture to receive the offensive from the opposite side.Oregana is also in a fighting posture. She holds the sword in her right hand and points to the opponent with her left hand. This is obviously a posture of preparing for close combat.

On the constantly trembling narrow battlefield, Oregana said softly:

"Come on, Sangheili..."

The other party seemed to understand what she meant, poured strength into her feet, stomped on the floor and rushed over, her posture without any unnecessary movements was as clean as the most experienced Putuo Temple fanatic... Then Oregana's left arm Green light burst out from the glove - a series of heavy particle light bullets crackled and hit the elite's chest. The shield suffered a few heavy blows, but was pierced in the end. on the gate.

The cunning coward! ! !

When he was dying, he only had anger and unwillingness in his heart, but even if he wanted to curse, he didn't have the strength to speak again. He could only watch helplessly as he raised his arms upwards, then bent his arms, and the armor plate on his chest opened to reveal some kind of arms.He fixedly stared at the muzzle until everything melted into the scorching light.

A big hole was blown open in the gate, and the air inside burst out instantly, blowing the mutilated corpses on the ground into the abyss behind.The guard soldiers landed beside them, holding heavy firearms and strafing the dark room. The enemy's sparse return fire did not pose a threat.Orange tracer bombs and purple plasma beams intertwined, but it didn't take long for the opposite side to misfire.Soldiers who have just endured the shock brought by the super-flag assault, whose bodies have not yet returned to normal, and whose armor level is one level lower, cannot fight against the heavily armed heavy-duty Terminator.

They walked forward through the metal dust floating in the air, and the shell casings of the machine guns were continuously ejected from the receivers, floating in the nearby air with high temperatures that could burn people-the artificial gravity fields of the two warships interacted here. The impact caused problems in the direction and magnitude of gravity in many places, but as long as the distance is close enough, there is no need to care about the deviation of the ballistic trajectory due to gravity.

"The gate has been breached! The follow-up troops will advance immediately! The strike cruiser will immediately start receiving the ship!" Oregana put away the energy sword - this thing seems to be able to lure the opponent to fight with her, which is quite good, but the glove The same structure is still not very easy to use.She drew the chopping ax from the weapon hanger on the back waist, and said loudly, "Assault with all my strength! The first priority is to find the suppression of the bridge!!"

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