Chapter 862: Attacking Kamirat Outpost (2)

The White Scars Fleet also opened fire one after another; macro-cannons, laser cannons, torpedoes... all kinds of heavy firepower flew toward the outpost's defensive installations.

The light of explosions flashed continuously around the perimeter of the outpost; every rising fireball meant the permanent silence of a defensive node.

"Left flank turrets three and four are silent!"

"Missile array launch silo three has been destroyed!"

"External sensor array suffering massive failure!"

Damage reports rang out continuously in the Command Center.

Travis's heart sank to the bottom bit by bit.

The enemy's firepower, armor, mobility, and especially the tactics displayed by the fleet, completely exceeded his understanding.

This was absolutely not some pirates or local rebel forces!

This was a well-equipped, highly trained Regular Army!

"Communications Officer! Has the signal been sent out yet?!"

Travis turned his head, his three bloodshot eyes looking at the Communications Officer.

A look of relief had just appeared on the Communications Officer's face.

"Of... Officer! The signal... the signal was barely sent out! Fengrao Starport should have received it!"

Almost at the same time, on the communications console, a reply from Fengrao Starport with an extremely weak signal came back, intermittent and broken!

Travis immediately walked over to answer.

However, what reached his ears was not the promised reinforcements he had expected, but a roar equally filled with anxiety, with the background of equally intense explosions and alarm sounds.

"... Watchtower! This is Fengrao Starport! We... we are also under attack! Repeat, Fengrao Starport is under heavy assault by an unidentified fleet! The enemy ship markings... are also the Golden Double-Headed Eagle! Exactly the same... as what you described! We cannot send reinforcements! We can barely save ourselves! Repeat, cannot provide support! Can barely save ourselves! Requesting... requesting..."

The communication stopped abruptly there, leaving only the crackling noise of electric current.

Inside the Command Center, there was dead silence.

All the officers had heard that communication; their faces lost all color, leaving only boundless fear and horror.

Travis froze in place, his brain a blank, that sentence echoing repeatedly in his ears.

"... The enemy ship markings... are also the Golden Double-Headed Eagle! Exactly the same... as what you described!"

"... We are also under attack!"

"... Can barely save ourselves!"

A chill surged from his spine to the top of his head, making him unable to stop trembling.

Not one fleet... it was at least two! Simultaneously attacking the Kamirat Outpost Cluster and... and Fengrao Starport?!

Fengrao Starport! That was one of the most important logistics hubs and military bases of the Feng Qi Xing Alliance in this region!

It was garrisoned with a considerable number of defensive fleets and ground troops!

To think... to think it was also being attacked, even to the point of "barely saving itself"?!

This... how could this be possible?!

Within the territory of the Feng Qi Xing Alliance, what force would dare to simultaneously and actively launch such a large-scale, merciless attack on multiple important targets?!

This was no longer a provocation; this was... this was war!

Which Star Alliance was it? Canaan? Ashes? No... their emblems were not the double-headed eagle either!

Which blind, emerging force was this, anyway?!

Travis had originally counted on reinforcements from the Starport, but now he discovered that even the Starport itself could barely save itself!

Just at this moment—

Boom!!!

A vibration far greater than any before shook the entire Command Center!

The ceiling lights flickered, and some instruments even sparked!

"Report! The enemy... the enemy's landing pods! They have forcibly landed on the outpost shell! They are cutting through the armor layer!"

On the main screen, one could clearly see several White Scars boarding pods nailed into the outer armor of the outpost, and scorching cutting rays were melting the thick metal walls!

It's over.

Only these two words remained in Travis's mind.

External defenses were being rapidly dismantled, the hope for reinforcements was completely shattered, and now even the most lethal inland battle was about to begin.

The Feng Qi Xing Alliance... seemed to have provoked an extremely terrifying enemy that should not have been provoked.

Every violent tremor meant another section of armor had been breached.

In the outpost's Core Command Center, the person in charge, Travis, had completely lost his composure, roaring in front of the snow-filled surveillance screens.

"Hold them off! All security forces, get those monsters out of the external corridors for me! Activate all automatic turrets! Release poison gas! Pump the coolant from the reactor area into the C Zone and D Zone corridors for me! At all costs!"

Outpost external connecting corridor A-7.

Accompanied by a sound of metal bursting, a cut-open hatch was blown away entirely!

Scorching heat waves and metal fragments swept inward!

"For the Khan! For the Emperor! Kill!"

White figures surged in from the breach.

The Bolters in the hands of the White Scars Space Marines spat out tongues of lethal fire, instantly turning the few Fengqi security soldiers who had hastily organized a defense line at the other end of the corridor into scattered chunks of flesh.

The Servo System of the Power Armor hummed, and the Chainswords roared.

They advanced rapidly in groups of three, providing covering fire for each other.

The bolts easily tore through the makeshift bunkers set up by the defenders and the light armor on their bodies.

The defenders' energy rifle fire hit the Power Armor, mostly leaving only charred marks.

"Retreat! Retreat! To the second line of defense!"

A Fengqi Military Sergeant roared, using the heavy energy machine gun in his hands to strafe, attempting to suppress the White Scar charging at the very front.

That White Scar Space Marine, Sergeant Sudan, charged into the hail of bullets, firing his Bolter in bursts to take down the two Fengqi soldiers beside the Sergeant, then threw a Hand Grenade!

Boom!

The Hand Grenade exploded among the defenders, sending severed limbs and arms flying.

Just as Sergeant Sudan rushed through the explosion's smoke and his Chainsword was about to swing toward that Sergeant.

"Watch out! Heavy weapon!"

A White Scar Space Marine behind him issued a warning.

From a maintenance hatch that suddenly opened on the flank of the corridor, a set-up Plasma Cannon, requiring two people to operate, revealed its muzzle!

Scorching blue energy was rapidly gathering in the muzzle!

Sergeant Sudan's pupils constricted as he dove to the side!

"Sizzle—Boom!!!"

A torrent of scorching Plasma grazed his shoulder armor, striking directly onto the chest armor of a White Scar warrior behind him.

That energy, capable of piercing vehicle armor, melted straight through the Ceramite Armor!

The warrior let out a muffled groan, slammed hard against the corridor wall by the immense kinetic energy, his chest armor a patch of crimson molten ruin, the horrific wound deep enough to see bone, even revealing the damaged mechanical structures and charred biological tissues inside.

He struggled to stand up, but had clearly lost the ability to fight.

"Kurgan!"

Sergeant Sudan roared, red light flashing violently in his eyes.

"Suppress that gun position!"

Sergeant Sudan bellowed.

The surviving White Scar Space Marines immediately covered that maintenance hatch with even fiercer firepower.

Bolter rounds riddled the area around the hatch with holes, the two Plasma Cannon operators were blasted into fragments, and the heavy cannon that had just completed one shot toppled to the side.

But the defenders' resistance did not cease.

More security forces surged from the end of the corridor, and they even pushed over a Mobile Multi-Barrel Laser Turret!

"For the Star Alliance! Kill these Heretics!"

A fanatical Fengqi officer brandished a power sword, attempting to boost morale.