Chapter 626, Adversity

Chapter 626, Adversity
Gu Hang stood in the very center of the Storm God Kingdom, his consciousness spread throughout the entire Storm God Kingdom.

In this nearly eternal battle of attrition, who will be the final winner?
Your swarms are endless, and my heroic spirits are infinitely resurrected.

But in reality, nothing is truly infinite. What about the Warp Shadow? Does it really vacuum up the Warp? To put it bluntly, isn't it just a force that belongs to the Zerg mapped into the Warp?

If they really fight according to this kind of mutual consumption, the invading Zerg swarms will be constantly killed and eliminated, which actually means that the shadow of the subspace is constantly being weakened.

When this weakening reaches a certain level, the Warp Shadow may no longer be able to continue.

But the same thing applies to Gu Hang.

Those invading swarms of insects were destroyed by the thunder from the sky, and that thunder was also consuming the power of the Kingdom of Storm God; if the swarms of insects destroyed the heroic spirits, then when the heroic spirits were resurrected again, it would also be a consumption of the power of the Kingdom of God.

If too much is consumed, the Storm God Kingdom may collapse.

But no matter which result it is, this consumption will be a very long process. It will take until the end of time before a result is achieved.

Who will win and who will lose in the end?
Gu Hang didn’t know, at least he didn’t have a clear answer at the moment.

But Gu Hang did not forget how this "eternal" war in the subspace happened: it served the confrontation between the fleets of both sides in the real universe.

According to the current trend, no matter who will win in the end, at least the naval battle in the real universe is definitely over.

So what is the current situation of naval battles in the real universe?
It looks like the alliance is at a disadvantage.

In the absence of psychic intervention from either side, the Alliance Fleet was indeed inferior to the other in terms of strength and scale.

Judging from the conventional naval battle situation, the Alliance had problems in this battle. The strength of the fleets was originally somewhat different, and when the enemy crossed the warp point, the Alliance did not have a good grasp of the opportunity to take the initiative, and was suppressed by the continuous and smooth small combos arranged by Varuk.

The most dangerous moment of crossing the astral tunnel and reaching the jump point has been overcome by Varuk's fleet. Now, the two sides are fighting with their own firepower, so what is there to fear from the mechanical fleet?
Although the Alliance has an Emperor-class ship, are the other side's two mechanical arks vegetarians?
A few years ago, among the three mechanical arks of the Alfonzo sect, the Alfonzo II, which was the most war-oriented, was destroyed. The two remaining ones were regular mechanical arks.

An ordinary mechanical ark is certainly not inferior to a war ark in terms of ship specifications, but an ordinary mechanical ark will have more production and scientific research functions. After all, generally speaking, a mechanical ark is not simply created for war.

But despite this, their combat effectiveness is still good. They are a whole level larger than ordinary battleships and can accommodate ten times the number of regular crew members. Although they seem a bit cumbersome due to the encumbrance of other non-combat equipment, the number of heavy artillery crammed in is there.

Maybe one mechanical ark is not as good as an Emperor-class one, but two are definitely better than one Emperor.

Not to mention, there are also Retribution-class battleships and battlecruisers next to them, and their number is greater than that of the Alliance.

In the fleet decisive battle, the Alliance was inferior in firepower, armor and shields.

If the battle continues in this conventional way, the Alliance Fleet will be the loser in the end.

In fact, the alliance also realized the problem.

After consulting Gu Hang and learning that they might not be able to count on the support of psychic power in the short term, the alliance adjusted its strategy in a timely manner.

They no longer continued to concentrate their firepower on bombarding the enemy's main battleships. Without the support of psychic power, directly focusing fire on the giant ships was not something the weaker side should do.

A mechanical ark was targeted, but so what? This kind of core giant ship stayed at the core of its own fleet array, surrounded by many other ships as a barrier.

What are frigates for? Not only does the short-range firepower of the giant ship itself intercept the enemy's artillery fire, but these frigates will also do the same thing.

With so many interceptions, the firepower that could hit the giant ship itself was already very small. The mechanical ark was large enough, with strong void shields and armor, so it was not easy to destroy it. Although it was called concentrated fire, the firepower that actually hit it was so small that it was not enough to do anything to it.

Even if they were unlucky and their interception efficiency could not be improved for a while, and they were hit, and their void shield even showed signs of being overloaded, as long as they had more frigates or even cruisers, and moved directly in front of the giant ship to form a shield, they could also prevent their own giant ship from being destroyed or eliminated.

The weaker side adopting this tactic is a bit like gambling with their lives. Unless they are really lucky and some unexpected situation occurs on the battlefield, causing their firepower to really penetrate all kinds of defenses and quickly destroy one of the enemy's giant ships, thus reversing the balance of power on the battlefield, otherwise, they will not get any results after fighting for a long time, which is a big loss!
It would be better to attack the small boats. If you destroy a frigate, the enemy will have one less barrier; if you destroy a cruiser, the enemy's firepower will also be reduced a little.

Such changes are indeed effective.

The mechanical fleet began to suffer losses.

Even if some small boats were destroyed, it would still be a loss.

But under the same conditions, the alliance lost more small boats.

Because the other side also fights like this.

In addition to this, the Alliance has other attempts: Space Marines.

Although, without the help of psychic power, it is impossible to reach the enemy ship quickly, smoothly and with a high success rate. However, psychic teleportation has never been the only way to conduct coordinated operations.

It's not that you can't board without psychic powers. In fact, a considerable number of wargroups, their think tanks do not have the ability to carry out large-scale teleportation with the team, but when everyone is fighting, isn't that how they get through?

Landing spacecraft, boarding torpedoes, boarding cabins... these more traditional methods can also be used.

What's more, the alliance also has a Zhuge-class aircraft carrier on the scene. This giant ship can also play a significant role in landing operations.

That's what the Alliance did.

The New World Torch volunteered, even though they lost more than two hundred people in the battle to attack Alamita, but at this time, they were still willing to take the main attack, even though they knew that there would be great sacrifices in boarding operations in the current disadvantageous naval battle, they were still willing to do it.

Wang Mengsong's previous actions eased the relationship between the Atonement Camp and the new regiment, and also made some of the old torch's ideas and culture acceptable, and the tactics were no longer so reckless. However, the thought of "washing away sins with sacrifice" derived from the entire regiment did not change.

Rage had similar ideas, but not as strong as Torch. They also volunteered.

Ye Lisia approved their attack, but did not allow them to really go out in full force.

Let's try it first. Most of Gu Hang's energy is now focused on the confrontation in the subspace. It's good that he can occasionally spare some energy to take a look at the situation of the naval battle, but he can't spare the time to make decisions. Otherwise, the current balance of confrontation in the Kingdom of Storm God may be broken, and it will be a big loss.

Stripping away Gu Hang's spiritual power is not a professional in terms of naval command, so it should be left to Ye Licia to handle.

The New World Torch and Raging Flame regiments each sent out two hundred soldiers to board the ship.

At the same time, she also activated her high authority and mobilized another hidden force: the Shadow Corps created with phoenix seeds.

Of course, she didn't know what the Shadow Corps was. No matter how much Gu Hang trusted her, she couldn't tell her about such things.

But that did not prevent Gu Hang from telling her that it was just a powerful force whose average quality was much stronger than the other two regiments, and could be used when necessary.

that's the truth.

Due to the potential limitations brought by the gene seeds, the two regiments, Fury and New World Torch, which used the "Secondary Infinite Warrior Seeds", only trained 2% to 3% of company champions; while this ratio for Phoenix seeds can fluctuate up to 10% to 15%.

In this shadow regiment, the number of company champions has reached more than one hundred, which is enough to form a champion company.

Ye Lixia did not really smash it down. It would be too painful to lose some of this kind of troops during the boarding process. She just sent out 200 people, and put in champions in the normal proportion.

Six hundred Space Marines assembled in batches on various warships, boarded landing ships and boarding torpedoes, and were launched.

In the initial stage of flight in space, the risk is relatively low. It is far away, small, and not as noisy as light spears, missiles, and macro cannons, so it is not easy to be discovered and intercepted at a long distance.

When they had flown about half the distance of the battlefield and were about to enter the enemy's key short-range fire interception area, the Eagle Horse made its move.

Before this, its presence was a bit low. Basically, it would just release the Kirin fighters to cooperate with its own fleet firepower targets, catch some cruisers and destroyers to attack, and play a harassing role. The Dragon Elephant fighters and even the suicidal patrol ships had to be effective when released, otherwise it would be a big loss. But in fact, it was difficult to have such opportunities in previous battles.

But now it's time for it to come into play.

The target was directly aimed at the two Draco-class battlecruisers among the Mechanicus warships.

These two warships were exactly the targets of the Space Marines.

The Eagle Horse launched a patrol ship and more than twenty fighter planes of various levels towards the two targets.

After these deployed firepower were in position, they pulled out full firepower, ignoring the threats from the frigates and the battlecruisers themselves, and poured out as much firepower as possible.

The damage caused is relatively clear.

Especially after being thrown at the face, some firepower can penetrate the void shield and directly hit the ship.

The two Serpent-class battlecruisers each suffered a lot of real damage.

However, it was a pity that the ship could not be destroyed, and it would not have any clear impact on the battle situation.

At this time, the Space Marines' boarding torpedoes arrived one after another.

The ships and fighter planes deployed by aircraft carriers are secondary in causing damage. The most important thing is to disrupt the deployment of enemy ships and attract attention through surprise attacks.

They still accomplished their goal.

When the boarding torpedoes and landing spacecraft arrived, the enemy's intercepting firepower was not fully utilized as its attention was attracted by the ships launched by the aircraft carrier earlier. It was unable to temporarily divert firepower to intercept these boarding torpedoes and spacecraft.

There were a lot of boarding vehicles deployed. A considerable number of them were empty, or only had a small number of army and marine corps. To put it bluntly, they were indeed cannon fodder.

If they succeed in landing, they will work with the Space Marines to provide assistance, but their biggest role is to serve as a distraction during the flight of the boarding vehicle.

At most only one in ten boarding vehicles had Space Marines on board, the rest were either empty or loaded with cannon fodder.

Even though the enemy's short-range firepower was drawn away, in fact, one-third of the boarding vehicles were still destroyed. This was because the flight trajectory and formation of the boarding vehicles were specially arranged, and most of those destroyed were actually cannon fodder.

All in all, the number of Space Marines who died in the boarding process did not exceed a hundred, only about seventy or eighty.

The rest have basically completed boarding the ship.

Boarding torpedoes and spaceships slammed into the ship. The Space Marines and some surviving "cannon fodder" Marines rushed into the ship and engaged in combat with the Crusaders in the two Serpent-class battlecruisers.

As we were playing, I began to feel that something was wrong.

The enemy is not just the Crusaders. All the biologically and mechanically modified units mentioned in the previous battle reports are present.

These monsters were still no match for the Space Marines and were eventually defeated.

However, not all Space Marines were able to achieve their combat objectives.

They were certainly not here to seize the ship, as there were no conditions to do so now.

They are here to destroy the ship.

Whether it is destroying the bridge part which serves as the brain of the ship, making the entire ship lose its command center, or destroying the engine part, making the ship lose power, or even detonating in the ammunition depot or fuel depot to directly destroy the ship from the inside... In short, the goal is to make the ship lose its combat effectiveness.

And it has to be done quickly. What's the point of taking a day or two to finish it? I'm afraid the naval battle has already entered its final stage, or even ended.

(End of this chapter)