Warhammer: I am the Hammer of the Empire - #384 - Chapter 377 The Power of Engili Port

Few people can catch up with their father, and even fewer people can surpass him. Most people are trying their best to achieve their father’s achievements and walk the same path they have walked. –From “Odysseus”, from the mouth of Athena.

All the gods or emperors took the time to witness this chessboard game, with two war beasts standing in the void, the sound of engines coming and going. Such a spectacular appearance is not unique in the long history of the empire, and is included in the huge green tide that once invaded the empire. , several battle moons appeared at the same time, but for any mortal, even a space warrior, such a war is a real legend.

The empire’s long history and terrible technological lapse have led to many of the miracles of the Great Crusade becoming legends. The two planetary engines, in today’s riddled empire, maybe after this crazy war is over, the empire will Countless wars collapsed at the end of this crazy forty thousand years, but for the countless people who still exist in this sector, their empire will not disappear because of this invasion, but will become stronger.

Even if the body is destroyed and the soul is shattered, those things still exist. In the world where humans were born, on the Golden Throne above Terra, the light of the star torch is still vivid, flashing among the stars, guiding the way and hope.

Under those guidance, Alan Bair’s will was the brightest among countless stars. In that noble will, the Imperial Navy abandoned their honor, sacrificed their lives, and retreated behind what they swore to defend to the death.

As a planetary fortress or deep space platform, Engili Spaceport is not invincible. It is not militarized, and its firepower is slightly lower than that of a real Imperial planetary fortress. Its mobility and planetary void shield are not enough to face countless enemies wantonly. Condition.

In order to relieve those burdens, the Imperial Navy has sacrificed everything, and now it is time to repay those heroes. After Alan Bair walked into the new governor’s residence in the Middle Nest, the servants respectfully led the hero into the governor’s room. This is also the core area for controlling Ndjili Port.

Just like the structure of an imperial warship, this behemoth is controlled by hundreds of agencies to control all its defense capabilities, and its main control room is here. Under the protection of countless PDFs and private mercenaries, mansion-level void shields and digital Among the unknown firepower, there were even several Lemanus that belonged to the governor alone.

This powerful man, a former soldier wearing a gorgeous governor’s uniform, has been waiting in the main control room for a long time. He was once a proud imperial lieutenant general, a noble queen, and the legendary captain of the great Bordeaux.

This old man who has dedicated his life to adventure has now turned white in beard and hair, but is in better spirits. The sequelae of the curse that tortured him have made him like this, but the days that have disappeared in the past have made him infinitely useful. If you just look at him With such vitality, no one would think that this gentleman cannot live to be five hundred years old.

He spoke. “I have been waiting for a long time, thank you for your hard work, my friend, brother, and my master.”

Alan Beyer retorted. “You and I are not master and servant.” He looked at this dispatch room, with a large number of holographic projections and unpaved floors or walls. It looked like a bunker on a battlefield. At the same time, they were racing against time to turn this place from Profile of the former palace of Bandertal that was moved here.

And he emphasized again while looking at the intricate pipelines on the ground. “You and I are by no means a matter of simple obedience and orders. We are comrades-in-arms and brothers. The trip in Bordeaux can be said to be the happiest year of my military career.”

“It has been almost ten standard Terran years since the grudges with the orcs to the warp space or the emperor’s great willpower that started to pay attention to us on that trip that belongs to us.” He was a little unsure. , he has been away from the earth for too long, and the sun and moon are different in each world.

Although the hive world is strictly based on Terra’s sun and moon, 24 hours and 365 days, these two numbers that are sparse and common in Terra, represent one of the few connections between the entire human race.

It’s very interesting. The concept of the sun and the moon, which Alan Bayer once didn’t care about at all, is the real starting point of human civilization and the core of maintaining this huge star empire. However, among this weird stars, just maintaining this concept is incomparable. It’s difficult. Now, Alan Bair, a real “Terran”, has forgotten those times, let alone the captain.

The old fellow spoke. “Indeed, it has been so long, but this time has been more valuable than my decades of service. The Emperor’s miracles have been demonstrated many times, and great successes have been repeated again and again. I have seen the unity of the Empire. I have seen The miracles that humans can create, my brother, friend, comrade-in-arms.”

“Let’s do it again. With this fortress passed down by my family from generation to generation, with the last honor of the Feng family, I want to prove that everything we have is far better than that damn Ark of Omen!” He spoke fiercely and knelt down on one knee. , just because those who once took away everything from him, those heretics and villains, the anger that comes from his blood, but also from his father, his sister, his relatives…

Those close relatives of flesh and blood urged him to complete those great achievements and wash away all the grievances of this ancient family that regarded honor as everything. At this point, the romantic, cynical, free and casual, and aristocratic temperament of the Imperial Navy in this old man had all disappeared. , leaving only a man tortured by the cruel world, but he is not in pain.

Those false shells collapsed, leaving only this poor man, but he was not weak or crazy. Instead, he realized what he could pursue in the rest of his life, which was to regain the honor of his kin.

Alan Bair gently held up his body at this moment, recognizing his loyalty and piety. As the Lord of Skadi sighed weakly, he looked at the outermost holographic projection, where the damn heretic traitors were. Something to carry.

The war started, and he spoke to the others in the control room. “Guys, can you fire your weapons?”

Those officers and command staff or the mechanical wise men of the empire spoke at the same time. “Ready.”

“The volcano cannon is aimed at the enemy’s core area. The structures of the Ark of Omen are different, but based on the internal scanning information of the Meroon that we defeated last time, the lower right side of this behemoth should be the core area. The auspicious device discovered it. Similar energy response.”

Alan Bayer said, but he didn’t know if it could be penetrated. That kind of place usually has a void shield as a defense. Even if it breaks through the planet-level heavy defense, the enemy’s internal structure is still unbreakable.

However, compared to the first time they faced the behemoth Ark of Omen, the Astra Militarum already had a lot of vital information, such as their approximate firepower intensity or core location.

The intelligence obtained at the expense of countless people was not useless. They no longer feared this enemy this time, and did not need to escape. Countless artillery fire from the Engili space port began to attack continuously, and countless light spears and macro cannons came one after another. Like a grand ballad, venting the anger of the empire.

The Ark on the opposite side continued to shine with the light of the void shield, and at the same time, the countless muzzles of the Omen Ark opened fire. During the violent shooting, the entire space domain became brighter. Its intensity far exceeded the previous battleship shooting, like two shields covering the sky and the sun. The giants are beating each other among the stars.

Their one punch is enough to destroy the warships that countless people have worked for a lifetime to forge. Those towering iron engines are instantly turned into scrap metal. The heat they generate is enough to provide warmth for a planet for several days. The remaining waves can destroy millions of animals. Living things instantly turned into disordered biomass.

The battleship group that once represented the greatest will of the empire could only stare blankly at this war that was far beyond the capabilities of ordinary humans. Every flash of the void shield and every ray of the giant cannon was enough to take away the soul of a mortal.

In the next few hours of mutual bombing, the entire Engili Port fell into a long-term power outage. All energy was mobilized into void shields and fire control equipment. For ordinary people, this was a rare rest. Factories were shut down and work pause.

For criminals, the darkness of the long night and the chaos caused by this time are like sweet candies. Even if most people understand that their destiny is not in their own hands, for those who have today and no tomorrow, They say that robbing and killing is everything to them.

Murders increased rapidly, robberies, and robberies occurred. The lights of firearms flashed in the wealthy areas. The bailiffs drove vehicles and searched everywhere with bright giant lumen balls. At the same time, the operations in the underground clinic were forced to stop due to lack of power. , people who are dying are dying because oxygen cannot be supplied, and only the incubator with the baby in the corner is the last trace of humankind’s care for future generations.

They protect their children with an almost indifferent maximization of interests. Compared with those sick people, in extreme cases, babies are the source of future value. This has been the case for a long time, and the Imperial people are not short-sighted, they are just used to it. of cruelty and despair.

Now, for the empire, it is just a shot, a light spear, to resist the enemy’s attack. For the civilians here, it is chaos, death, and pain, just like the Dark Eldar extract the soul pain from the intelligent creatures of other races to sustain themselves. Isn’t it that the human empire is now squeezing the flesh and blood of its own compatriots to maintain this devastated world?

It can be said that there is no clear difference between humans and aliens in this era. In extreme cases, humans are aliens, humans are heretics, and humans are monsters.

After a rapid shot of a shell ejection gun, the door lock of the black clinic was violently opened, because drugs have a very high priority among the resources that the hive city lacks. Even if the black doctor is attached to the complex forces in the hive city, as long as there is no Kill the doctor and get whatever else you want.

At the same time, the baby’s incubator is also a high-value product, and its parts can be used to produce many things. When the gun butts of those thugs hit the heavy glass shell of the incubator, which had little value, there was a baby’s cry and blood stained on the ground. The fragments vividly outline the suffering of the empire today.

After the new life dies, his short life ends. It is a loss for the empire, but is it not lucky for this soul?

Now every battle in the void represents the death of countless residents. Alan Bair stands at the core of the main control room, completely ignoring those things, and the nominal owner of those poor people, the governor here, and the captain also have indifferent faces. to this situation.

They have no choice. This universe will make people become like this. Under high pressure and extremes time and time again, just living will make people try their best. What’s more, the despair here is obviously caused by the badness of human beings themselves.

Alan Bair just looked at the enemies in the holographic projection. The shield of the Ark of Omen was disintegrating, and so was the Engili Port. It was difficult to distance these two huge machine spirits because they were both too huge. Stars are an extremely deadly attack for ordinary warships, and they cannot even scratch through the thick fine gold layer of their outer skin.

However, in the continuous attacks, the melted areas accumulated over time, and the planetary engine would also collapse. At the same time, the enemy continued to approach, and Engili Port had no ability to distance itself. It was not a battleship and could only move backward slowly. The enemy was ready to join forces. , which is no different from Alan Bair’s judgment. They need to win. Once the final decision is made, they need to complete the gang jumping before the void shield collapses.

The huge Ark has a much stronger hull strength than Engili Port. They have no advantage in close combat and are disrupted by jumping gangs. As long as such a battle lasts for a few days, the empire will definitely be defeated, and the battle of the planetary engine is long. This is actually commonplace for several months, and the enemy is already prepared for a long battle.

On the contrary, if Engili successfully fires the volcano cannon, and the continuous shooting can melt the core area of ​​the enemy, then the victory will be reversed. At this fatal moment, the void shields of the two behemoths are collapsing.

“Insufficient energy, the strength of the void shield has dropped by 20%…” the mechanical sage reported without emotion.

“What’s the enemy’s situation like?” Alan Bayer asked.

replied the captain. “10%. The engine of the Ark of Omen has subspace magic and protection. It is a kind of command that is completely controlled by the powerful rune blacksmith. The enemy is as natural as his arm in operating the warship. We can’t compare!”

Alan Bair suddenly shouted. “Reduce the energy input of the void shield, switch to the weapon system, and shoot with all your strength!”

In an instant, the entire fire control system roared continuously, roaring and shooting out countless flashes of heat. Most of the enemy’s energy was on the engine. They did not expect this situation at all. The entire shield system collapsed completely, but it was not serious. The void shield was of the highest quality. The best thing is that the restart can be completed in a short time.

The time it took for the Empire to shoot the Ark of Omen was actually only a sad moment of half an hour. For such a huge fortress, the wounds during this time were worthless.

But Alan Bayer had an absolute trump card. He saw the enemy’s shield collapse and spoke immediately. “Fire the volcano cannon with all its strength, mobilize all the energy, and tear apart those traitors! For the sake of the empire!”