Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 442: Break and Strike
It's not just the Astartes engaging in boarding operations who are fighting in space. In fact, those huge warships are powerful iron boxers themselves.

With void shields and solid hulls as armor, and macro cannons and torpedoes as fists, the fight between space battleships is a real fist-to-flesh fight, a complete competition of hard power.

The number of warships assembled by the rebels in this galaxy is more than twice that of the White Scars fleet. Although there is no giant ship that can match the Sky Eagle, a large number of ants can still kill an elephant. The White Scars' warships seemed to be stuck in a quagmire and had to engage in a tangle of battles with the enemy.

The small number of enemy troops that boarded the Sky Eagle did not cause any trouble. If all the boarding troops sent by Ashurden landed, the White Scars would probably have to spend some effort.

But after several rounds of weakening, only one-third of the Astartes managed to board the ship, only to have to face the encirclement and suppression of the White Scars Astartes who had been on high alert for a long time.

The Khan's Qiexue Guards led the charge. Although these warriors, wearing heavy Terminator armor, had slight shortcomings in speed, their advantages were magnified to the limit in such a confined space as the battleship's deck passage.

After just a few minutes of exchange of fire, only a few Gastlin Terminators were left on the battlefield, still fighting stubbornly.

These elite veterans carrying position shields fought and retreated in the battleship, using the terrain and chaos to detonate the melta bombs they carried with them, trying to lurk in the battleship's complex lower decks and pipes.

Their understanding was simple. Since failure was inevitable, they would fight guerrilla warfare on this huge battleship, constantly harassing and destroying the White Scars' mothership.

But as the remnants of the Sons of Horus fell through the hole created by the melta bombs and onto the lower deck of the battleship, they froze.

There was no complicated and dirty pipe system and dark corners like on their Spirit of Vengeance. Everything was so clean and tidy, and the narrow pipes were simply unable to accommodate creatures of human size.

The roar of the large equipment caused the Leman ears under the tactical helmet to instinctively begin to filter out the noise. The Sons of Horus observed everything they saw. The style of this armor was completely different from the Empire's warships.

The Gastlin Terminators instinctively thought of the creations of the human pocket empire that the Sixteenth Legion had once wiped out.

However, there was no time to think about it, as many powerful arc weapons suddenly appeared on the lower deck. The hot plasma directly penetrated the Terminator Armor and vaporized the Gastlins who were resisting stubbornly. The firepower far more fierce than that of the White Scars instantly attacked and wiped out the group of rebels in just a few seconds.

Qin Xin stood in the hole created by the melta bomb, leaned over and looked down, only to see some charred black corpses. He immediately shook his head helplessly.

Do these idiots really think that all warships are as backward and barbaric as the past empires? Every corner is under the control of the intelligent computer, where can they escape?
With so many defensive weapons controlled by the intelligent computer, it is extremely easy to kill a few Astartes. If you fight them one-on-one up there, you may be able to die in a decent way.

The war within the Sky Eagle has temporarily subsided, but the larger void naval battle is becoming increasingly fierce.

The will and fighting power of the Sons of Horus lived up to their reputation. Even in the face of the overwhelming power of the Sky Eagle, not a single warship chose to flee.

They even gave up their defenses under the commander's orders, and swarmed forward to try to destroy the most threatening enemy ship.

"Ramp her! Keep her no matter what!" roared Viren Ashurden, the commander of the Sons of Horus. He had realized that the forces he had left in Zeta Garmon could no longer withstand the counterattack of the Imperial fleet.

Then let everything be destroyed!
Three battleships over ten kilometers in length started up their engines and reactors at full power, and rushed towards the Sky Eagle with an almost overloaded attitude. If they were really hit by these battleships of terrifying mass, even the Thundercloud-class planetary battleship would definitely suffer serious damage.

When such massive objects collide, the destructive power of the explosion is no less than that of a collision between planets and celestial bodies.

The battleship's strongest attack mode is not its cannonballs and light spears, but its huge size and mass.

"Courageous, but useless," Chagatai Khan commented. "Horus, you have failed your children."

In fact, this Primarch, who was once very good friends with Horus, felt very uncomfortable when he saw the Sixteenth Legion fighting bravely in desperate situations and even risking their lives.

As long as Horus had no connection with the Warp, Chagatai would really be able to follow Horus' lead.

Unfortunately, now the two of them can only take two completely opposite paths. Horus has his persistence, and Chagatai also has his position.

The Sky Eagle's bow star-destroying cannon completed charging, and under the calibration of the intelligent computer, it destroyed two Sons of Horus battleships at a tricky angle.

Under the endless high temperature of plasma, the ceramic steel and plastic steel armor of the warships were ruthlessly stripped away. The crew members inside were naturally vaporized to death in an instant. The continuous nuclear reaction explosions completely destroyed these powerful warships.

"We are of the same root, why are we so eager to harm each other?" Chagatai silently recited a poem from the ancient Terra period.

He had no choice, and neither did the Sons of Horus; both sides had to fight until one was completely dead.

The last enemy ship was rushing towards them, and the captain of the enemy ship shouted the name of Warmaster Horus, vowing to be loyal to the sun in his heart.

But the next second, Chagatai once again ordered the Sky Eagle to start instant acceleration.

The opened void shield covered the outside of the battleship. Originally, the speed of the enemy ship's collision would not trigger the defense of the void shield, but speed is relative, and the active acceleration of the Sky Eagle caused the void shield to be triggered.

The battleship directly hit the void shield, the steel and the subspace energy continued to rub against each other, red and blue sparks exploded continuously on the contact surface, the battleship was literally reduced to ashes, and countless broken hull fragments flew in all directions under the impact.

The Sky Eagle seemed to be really like Chogorius's war eagle, pressing the battleship under it. The Void Shield rubbed the opponent's body like an eagle's claw, and it was like a terrifying crusher that completely crushed the enemy.

Chagatai faintly heard the roar of the warship's machine spirit, and its high-pitched neighing declared that she was the winner of this war.

In the blink of an eye, the endless dazzling explosions finally disappeared after spreading and gushing out. The enemy ship completely disappeared and was broken into particles by the void shield and sent into the subspace.

"We failed." Ashurden said unwillingly in his command room.

When the outcome of the space naval battle is decided, the war on the planet's surface is actually insignificant. As long as the empire's army is willing to completely abandon this living planet, it can completely destroy all living things with continuous orbital bombardment.

This was exactly the case at Isstvan III, when the diehard loyalists from each legion were selected and deployed to the surface. What awaited them was not the enemy, but the backstab from their own people.

"Report to the Warmaster that his brother Chagatai, loyal to the false emperor, is standing in the way of our great cause."

"Only a Primarch can fight a Primarch."

(End of this chapter)