The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

Those grunts fought it out, they ran with two short legs in the high-altitude air current, and immediately pulled out their needle guns and plasma pistols to attract the attention of the hell dragon after reaching the bunker.Purple and green lights kept flashing, but neither needle bombs nor plasma clusters could do any effective damage to it, so I could only helplessly watch this thing rushing towards this side crazily.

Soha Lorami desperately suppressed the trembling of his hands. He locked the mechanical beast with the plasma launcher in his hand. On the aiming screen, Soha Lorami watched the monster charge into the crowd with the shot Jumping and stomping, flicking the tail to interrupt the Jigyals who circled behind, and every time they attacked, people were fragmented.

Suddenly, the thing turned its head and met Soha Lorami's eyes through the aiming device.

He felt breathless, his heartbeat missed two beats, and the rotation speed of the locking frame was surprisingly slow—but if he didn’t rely on the locking, Soha Lorami had no confidence that he could hit the target accurately with his trembling hands .

That second seemed like a century.He watched the monster rush towards him, and the locking frame also lit up at this moment, Soha Lorami screamed uncontrollably, and at the same time pressed the trigger with his finger.Four scorching plasma balls flew out of the gun, arced out and rushed towards the monster that had already lowered its body and started to charge, sticking to its head, chest and wing claws.

The monster didn't care about this, and continued to rush towards Soha Lorami, and the distance between the two quickly narrowed.Soha Lorami threw down the heavy plasma launcher without hesitation, turned around and ran away.Immediately afterwards, the plasma cluster exploded, and the catalyzed high-temperature plasma broke free from the shackles of the magnetic field, releasing its own power to everything around it.Under that terrible impact, the red and gold armor was burned, and the scorching hot air hit Soha Lorami's back, lifting him up slightly, and then fell to the ground.When he landed, he felt as if his back was scalded with blisters.

Soha Lorami rolled twice on the ground, struggled to stand up, and at the same time drew out the energy sword to prepare for the last fight, but what he saw was indeed a miserable picture - the explosion dug out several parts of the monster's body. Part of it, let it staggered to the ground, surrounded by the corpses of his subordinates and the fragments of the anti-aircraft battery.

The battle in the distance was still going on, he took a few steps forward in a sense of loss, and the follow-up troops were rushing up from the maintenance passage just now, preparing to fight these demons in the air.But in the next moment, the sun cast a shadow on everyone's heads, and at the same time, there was a terrible rumbling sound——

[Devil God - Lie Yan! ! 】

Seventeen minutes into the battle, Oregana successfully destroyed six air defense arrays on the port side of the Truth and Harmony at the cost of eight Hell Dragons, which caused the Truth and Harmony to lose one-fifth of its fire coverage area.Although the progress was slow because the opponent was increasing its troops, it still gradually gained the initiative in this battle.

On the other side, more than a dozen Guanhu transport boats are advancing according to the area marked on the tactical map.

"If it was "Super Robot Wars", the ship should have been sunk by now, right?"

"I don't know about "Machine Warfare", but if it's "G Century", it must have been done."

"Don't worry about that for now! The boss has opened a breakthrough! Avoid the enemy ship's firepower zone and cut in from the second position!"

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The battle revolved around the Truth and Harmony, and the soldiers fought in a very small area. In the first few 10 minutes, the Covenant suffered huge damage, but soon, their counterattacks also caused the soldiers of Tartarus to die. I suffered a lot.Liu Lizi also entered the front line with the evil spark on her back - the hanger used to hang the chicken was still there, but now that the evil spark is raised by one card, it is quite reliable.

This eliminates the need for electric welding to secure it firmly.

She looked at the rising number of casualties and sighed:

"It worked out like this in the end."

The team leader who also took on the task of attacking the fortress, the fox's Furenko Shinoda Yukino, fired a heavy bolter into the jungle where the Covenant soldiers were hiding, and said:

[Do you want to shout?When I contacted the Star Alliance, they said there was a flood there...]

Her voice faltered with the jitter of the shot, but it didn't sound like she had much of a message of her own to be taken into account.

"It will only have the opposite effect..." Liu Lizi shook her head, she didn't think that trying to communicate with the opponent during the battle would have any effect.

Fire Spirit has already begun to do something that will really work—she is trying to mobilize troops from Eridanus to suppress the Covenant Fleet. Four strike cruisers and two flagships are handing over missions, and they will be ready in 10 minutes at most. will appear in this galaxy.This battle has turned into what it is now. Apart from a series of mysterious operations by the opponent, our lack of consideration cannot be easily ignored.

She opened her mouth and explained to Shinoda Yukino:

"Either think we are lying, or think about the information we provide from the perspective of [heretics are afraid] or [there is a way to end the war]. We couldn't produce enough evidence to convince them, so we decided not to mention it at first. This is because of the fear of counterproductive effects and the opponent will increase their strength." The shelling of the shadow turret forced her to stop and evade, and waited until the turret was destroyed before continuing to say, "At least until now, the opponent just wants to kill us and not to kill us. Find some 'super weapon that humans are afraid of' in this ring."

[But we now have evidence. 】

"Eh?"

[I guess, they should know 'Master God Envoy', right?Even if the miscellaneous soldiers don't know it, should the senior commander know a little bit? ] She asked with a tentative attitude 【If we can let the 'Master God Envoy' meet with the commander of the opponent, what effect will it have? 】

"Ok?"

This is a good operation... However, the specific method still needs to be carefully considered, and the result will still need some deduction.An important part of this is determining the current status of the prophets used to judge who is 'heretical' and 'heretical'.In the best case, this 'intelligence' will not only affect the outcome of the immediate battle.

Just when Liu Lizi was deep in thought, two messages suddenly rang in her ears.

[Spatial response detected——it's the Pillar of Autumn Wind! 】

[This is Essex. Half a minute ago, the Star Alliance fleet entered the area around the Reach Star. The battle has already begun. Repeat, the battle has already begun. 】

"Oh my God……"

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Chapter 1034 Chapter 73: Stormy waves on the water surface and surges below the waterline

A missile fired by the enemy hit the shield of the flagship Truth Explorer, and the bursting plasma invaded the shield, and the heavy roar echoed in the battleship, even in the heavily protected bridge, raising El Vadami still felt the faint tremor.

Till Vadami had never seen this kind of weapon before, and the new things that kept appearing on the belt made him gradually realize an incredible truth——

"Missiles and fighter jets that have never been seen before, and things that don't look like the forerunners..." He murmured, "What exactly are we encountering here?"

"I guess not human."

Adjutant Piero Kusowai said vaguely.His voice was as low as Till Vadami's, and apart from the two of them, the other bridge members a little further away couldn't hear it.But both of them know that there is no time to discuss this matter now. The situation they are facing now is like the rock plate under their feet suddenly collapsed and a landslide happened when they were climbing a mountain. ——The feeling of feeling very dangerous in mid-air but unable to judge anything is very similar to now.

And bad things usually don't happen just one time, especially during a battle, once there is bad news, it's like gangsters fighting on the street, ganging up and rushing straight.

A correspondent reported:

"The Prophet lost contact in a facility, and the whole team is together." His voice was full of distress and indignation, and the object of the indignation was naturally self-evident, "The enemy's offensive is fierce, we need to deploy additional troops to find him, the truth The Harmony has not yet regained its rapid deployment capability..."

"We can only come by ourselves." Piero Kusaowai said sarcastically, "Guiding the prophet alone led the entire battle."

However, there was a slow-moving high-level San'Shim who seemed to have left the anti-gravity seat. The bad news just arrived, and he slapped the seat to show his prestige and presence——

"Commander," the communicator said again, "We have received a bulletin from the Prophet of Clarity - [The end is here, we will burn those damn pests]! The fleet has already left the anchorage and is launching a full-scale attack on the human hub galaxy! "

"What! I clearly said..." The super commander growled, "Can't they see that there is a possibility that there is a trap? Watumi, go and bring the prophet back!"

Special Operations Commander Artes Watumi immediately took command:

"I'm leaving right now."

His voice is calm and powerful, and the two energy swords hanging on his waist make Artes Watumi look very reliable.He is witty, brave, and powerful in combat, making him a rare warrior.The white battle armor is covered with scratches, which is a symbol of his honor, a carrier of glorious victories and moments of near death, all of which make Artes Watumi look so reassuring.

He'd get it done, Artes Watumi would come back with the Guide Prophet in good order, as always, not even forgetting his anti-gravity chair.

"Leave a few warships to block the channel. After bringing the Prophet back, we have to go back immediately..." How to persuade the Prophet to give up investigating the ring is a troublesome thing just thinking about it, but if not, the situation may still be difficult. It's going to get worse - and even Tire Vadami doesn't know if it's too late now.If the fleet does fall into the trap (as it did at the Battle of Serpens), then it's all over. "Hopefully in time. Are reinforcements from the City of Charity on their way?"

"It's rushing here, and the estimated time of arrival is seventy time units later."

"It's still too slow..."

The moment he finished speaking, the third piece of bad news came to this galaxy along with a wave of spatial fluctuation——

"A new human warship has arrived! The energy response comparison is complete, and it is the one seen by the scout ship before it was sunk!"

The root of everything, the warship that induced the entire battle without knowing it, finally came long overdue.

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Twenty thousand kilometers away from Reach, more than a hundred UNSC spaceships have assembled at the Zulu assembly point: destroyers, frigates, three heavy cruisers, two aircraft carriers, and three space repair stations for cover...

Essex Grumman, head of the Fist of Tartarus, stood on the bridge of a Wyvern-class battleship aircraft carrier. Four data cables were connected to the back of her neck, directly reading the situation of the entire battlefield.

The UNSC space repair station floated across her line of sight, spread out ahead of the fleet like three giant shields.This reminded her of the shield that Gamilas developed and used so far during the war with Gatarantis - that thing is not only a very high defensive strength (it can withstand one or two rounds of Molo before cooling down) The particle beam fired by the main gun of the dreadnought-class ship), and can interfere with the space within a certain range in front of the shield, preventing jumping in and out directly in front, it is quite a powerful thing... although it is not easy to carry.

To this day, although Gamilas does not have the various interceptor ships that Tartaros is equipped with in large quantities, they are still one of the few civilizations that have installed a large number of wide-area space interference equipment in the Consolidation Department-the specific operation is to let a dreadnought The ship (such as the one that Demel used to be the flagship) has eight rebound shields floating on both sides, so that it can rebound around the surroundings, and it will not be able to defeat it for a while without flagship-level firepower, because It was originally designed for the flame direct blaster of Gatarantis, so it mainly strengthened the performance of kinetic energy deflection and thermal energy divergence, and it also has quite good protection against the conventional deep dark worm's biological laser cannon.

Of course, UNSC's space repair stations don't have this kind of function. Their only advantage is that they are big, so they can eat more plasma torpedoes... They are definitely impossible to defend against.The other more than 150 warships were basically like this. The captains regarded death as home, and a heavy emotion was brewing in the communication channel.

There are already more than [-] Star Alliance warships around the Reach Star, and they ended their jumps at a considerable distance from the Reach Star. Their jump engines were indeed affected by the gravitational well, but the impact was very limited—these jump engines The accuracy is outrageously high.

But I don't know if it's because of conservatism, or because I don't know how to use the excellent performance of the leap engine. After the fleet has assembled in the distance, it slowly advances and starts to attack at a distance of 100 kilometers.More than two thousand purple plasma torpedoes swept across the starry sky, and sparks like flares bloomed in the universe.Immediately afterwards, the UNSC fleet and magnetic accelerators also launched an attack. More than [-] white-hot shells pierced like spears, and deadly metal bullets and plasma energy beams intersected each other.At this moment, the night of Reach Star began to boil.

Essex looked at the tactical view, and noticed that the Protos fleet commanded by Serrandis was already on standby beside the precious magnetic accelerator cannon, she nodded lightly—the Protos warships are good at attacking friendly forces. The support and firepower are powerful at the same time, as long as they are still there, the rail turret will not be easily attacked by surprise.

[This is Executive Serrandis. 】The voice of the executive officer rang in my ear【The aircraft carrier has arrived near the magnetic acceleration gun to assist in the defense - I need the enemy's coordinates, and the carrier-based aircraft can be launched at any time. 】

Well, it's time.

"The tactical chain is connected, and the space coordinates are uploaded—the carrier-based aircraft is dispatched!" Essex waved the short staff in his right hand, "The guerrilla fleet has started the first round of attack."

When various carrier-based aircraft ejected from their motherships with completely different styles and immediately delivered, the first round of shots from both sides had already hit.The Star Alliance has noticed the bizarrely large "human warships", so many plasma torpedoes are aimed at the super flagship that Essex is on board.

Below the Titan ship, the Feilong-class battleship aircraft carrier has the strongest shield defense capability.Considering the abnormal locking and tracking performance of the Covenant's plasma torpedoes, plus the fact that the internal cleaning of the Long Night has not been completed so far, it is impossible to study it, and of course the complete performance data has not been obtained. Take the risk of being accurately sniped at places such as the hangar exit, so I chose the Dragon class with a higher fault tolerance rate and higher security before the defense collapses.

A dozen or so plasma torpedoes struck the shield, flickering red and incandescent, then turning bluish white, and then disappeared in the flash of the shield in an instant.In the next moment, a large number of transition reactions appeared around the Covenant warships, and then the Iron Cavalry carrier fleet and Protos unmanned interceptors appeared in the fleet, shuttling between the torn beam gaps, using particle cannons and Missiles slammed into Covenant warships.

At this time, the warships of the Star Alliance had just released their carrier-based aircraft. Although the performance of the 'Seraphim' fighter jet was not bad, it was snatched first.The Grammer fleet swooped down from above, and the shells fired by the high-speed anti-armor automatic guns swept like long whips. The moment the Seraphim fighter jets separated from the mothership, they were strafed, and together with the pilot, they became hot. crumbs.

Immediately afterwards, the magnetic accelerator shells had arrived, and they passed through the Covenant array, sending sparks everywhere.After a shell from the Super Magnetic Accelerator hit the Covenant ship, the energy shield disappeared immediately, and the remaining impact hit the hull of the spacecraft, and the armor and most of the hull were instantly shattered into countless pieces.But usually the magnetic acceleration cannon fired by the spaceship can only offset the energy shield of the Covenant ship, and it usually takes two or more shells to destroy their spaceship.

And this is enough, the fighter group will not let go of this opportunity, a small team of Grammer aimed at the heavy frigate that had just been fired, lost its shield, and fired dozens of starbursts from the side. Rocket.Dots of flames immediately covered the huge spaceship, and it burned violently, slowly heading towards destruction.The purple hull shone and broke apart from the middle section. The bow was still intact and continued to fly forward, but soon began to spin due to the internal explosion.

Then, the remaining plasma torpedoes finally climbed to their target—just the first salvo, more than thirty Tartaros produced, and the anchored fortress guns equipped with long-range particle cannons were hit by a large number of plasma torpedoes. The cannon was scrapped in an instant, followed by the platform itself, which glowed a terrible red light under the astonishing heat, as if soaked in a sea of ​​​​fire.On the other side, the maintenance station used as a shield completely vaporized after withstanding dozens of plasma beams, leaving only a cloud of metal ions.

Immediately afterwards, the CAS-class attack aircraft carrier located behind the Covenant fleet began to attack with energy projectors. The turrets above and below its hull flashed white light, and the three UNSC spaceships exploded in an instant—a ray shot as thin as a needle. After the UNSC heavy cruiser, it directly penetrated the entire spaceship, passed through the shield next to the engine, and then moved laterally along it, cutting a tens of meters wide opening. In the process, the main reactor of the battleship With a single cut, the out-of-control reactor instantly destroyed the entire battleship.

In front of the energy projector, the UNSC's grade A titanium alloy armor plate is as useless as cardboard.But it's another matter for the Protos mothership - the super-conspicuous ship of Serrandis was sprayed by another attack aircraft carrier several times without breaking the defense. She did not hesitate to use the purification beam to nourish I went back... and didn't break the defense.The two sides continued to attack like welding torches, but the energy projector still lost to the purification beam in terms of continuous output performance. When it stopped, the purification beam was still attacking, and the shield would not be able to withstand it. , the warship was forced to make a tactical leap away from the array to evade the attack.

But it is not the only warship that is making a tactical leap at this moment.

Two teams of Pengkun-class battleships suddenly jumped into the Star Alliance fleet. They overloaded their shields and bombarded them in all directions with powerful particle cannons—the purpose of the guerrilla fleet was only to disrupt the opponent's attack posture rather than sink it. On this point, they did a very good job.The Star Alliance fleet gradually lost its formation, and the Nymph-class formation two astronomical units away also started shooting at this time, and then immediately left the original shooting position to prevent being pursued.

After a burst of flames and jets of molten metal, the commanders of the Star Alliance—at least some commanders finally chose to retreat the fleet to avoid the attack of the fortress artillery group, but the carrier-based aircraft fleet and guerrilla fleet still clung to the Star Alliance. Allied fleets until they were severely damaged by plasma torpedoes fired at close range.The six Pengkun-class battleships were destroyed by plasma torpedoes during the pursuit, the battle damage rate of the cavalry carrier-based aircraft reached one-sixth, and the damage rate of the fortress guns reached an astonishing four-fifths.

One hour and 44 minutes after the fighting began, the fighting sides disengaged.

The UNSC lost 23 warships, [-] warships were severely damaged and could not continue to fight, while the Star Alliance fleet had more than [-] warships left here, the warships that were severely damaged by the guerrilla fleet and the sniper fleet are still unable to fully grasp the situation .But no matter what, judging from the current stage, this has caused a certain degree of damage to the Covenant fleet, like a heavy punch directly on the bridge of the nose, which made the opposing commander dizzy.

However, Essex noticed one thing during the command process-the Star Alliance fleet did not seem to have a unified command, which was not obvious at first, but in the second half of the battle, when part of the Star Alliance's forces When choosing to retreat, the other part continued to move forward with all their strength. Even though they brought the greatest damage to UNSC in this battle, they still fell into the bait of the fortress artillery and the UNSC fleet in the end.

This is an interesting phenomenon. She thought about how she should take advantage of this. At the same time, she ordered the engineering troops to immediately replenish the new turrets and strike cruisers to capture those Covenant warships that could not move. These tasks must be completed as soon as possible.Sensors indicated that the Covenant had no intention of retreating, they were simply retreating to the edge of the galaxy, and then using long-distance comms to almost call their companions.This battle is a victory, but the battle is not over, and the opponent plans to come to the second battle.

But they won't have the chance to play the third game. If they don't want to eat up the other possible nearby Covenant fleets, then they don't even have the chance to fight the second wave.And now, the first battle gave the Covenant the impression that [it just needs to work hard enough to push this place away].

Then they will really step up.

"Battleship formations stand ready," she said over the comm, "when Covenant reinforcements arrive, launch an immediate attack to group them up."

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When Oregana was leading the team to launch an attack on the Star Alliance warship on the 'Beach', Liu Lizi and the team members boarded the landing craft and began to move towards the Star Alliance warship.The close combat that took place on the battleship made the battleship itself overwhelmed, and it was already difficult for it to free up its hands to effectively intercept the approaching troops.Unlike other troops, the purpose of Liulizi's team is not to defeat the Covenant troops, but to directly reach the sealing cabin, stop the Prophet there, and then carry out a plan——

After meeting the Prophet, let Guilty Spark tell him the truth.Based on available information, it is quite possible that the average seer also did not know what the pilgrimage really was.Then if he can defeat his faith, it is possible for him to do something - in the Star Alliance, the San'Shium's social rank is higher than that of the Sangheili, and it would be great if he could win a San'Sh'im but.

Don't ask him to change anything, don't ask him to become 'our man', as long as he suspects something, what he says inside the Covenant, that's enough.

Of course, if he is a deadhead—or a 'foolish loyalist', or even he himself knows the truth about the pilgrimage, then kill him directly, and then replace the target taught by Mr. Evil Spark with a white armor, Red armor, or gold armored Sangheili.If that doesn't work, then simply... kill everyone who can breathe, and then help Guilty Spark seal the entire facility together.

The primary goal is to solve the Flood problem, and the secondary goal is to continue to insert a 'wedge' into the Star Alliance. It is enough that the main goal can be completed, and the dimensional goals follow fate. (nod)

After landing, the Guilty Spark became restless—

"They've arrived and I'm mobilizing 'attacker' sentries to intercept them. But there's a lot of resistance."