Chapter 230: Boarding Battle in Space?

A few more days passed. During this time, Ivan Vanko tested all the materials brought over and fed the test reports back to Tony on Earth. It wouldn't take long before the armor of all weapons would be upgraded again, becoming materials more suitable for the current environment.

However, the time they had might not be much.

Alarm sounds began to echo on the asteroid. Rogers, in his sleep, jumped out of bed, grabbed his clothes, put them on, and rushed out of the room.

【Alarm, alarm, small-scale spatial quakes have appeared in the M13 region. All personnel holidays are terminated. Please enter combat readiness within ten minutes...】

Rogers listened to the sound in his ear, and his heart rate suddenly increased. The Chitauri were here!

In the asteroid command room, when Rogers passed through layers of review and entered, numerous marks had already appeared on the nearby star map in front of Korik.

"What is the situation now?" Rogers walked to Korik's side and asked.

"It should be an advance force." Korik's hand pointed at the map and slid gently. "The main spatial transmission area is in M13, but there are also spatial fluctuations in several nearby regions. Judging from the reaction of the fluctuations, this time the enemy's advance force should be mainly small warships and spaceships."

"Then what should we do?" Rogers's expression was a bit uneasy. Space warfare was an absolutely unfamiliar field for Earth; he had no idea what he should do.

"You don't need to worry, just wait here. The Mountain-class light space cruiser has already set off. They will build a suitable combat position and will pass back good news before long," Korik said with great confidence.

In the M13 region, the space here seemed to have turned into a water surface, with ripples spreading from various energy reaction points toward the periphery. After a brief wait, ship after ship squeezed out from the space of the energy reaction points.

Almost all ships, after leaving spatial jumping, immediately began to ignite and accelerate, and the gorgeous tail flames illuminated this pitch-black region.

When these ships sped up and scattered in all directions, the water surface seemed to have been hit by a rock. After a huge ripple spread, at the center point of the ripple, a relatively huge ship slowly appeared. The Mountain-class light cruiser had arrived at its destination through spatial jumping.

With neither side hiding, or rather, with no way to hide, they all discovered the other's existence and relative position.

The tail doors and flanks of the Mountain-class slowly opened, and spaceship after spaceship began to spread from the belly of the Mountain-class toward the surroundings under the control of intelligent programs and technical personnel.

After leaving the cruiser for a distance, these spaceships released fast fighters to occupy the surrounding area, and layers of defense networks were completely spread out, blocking the Chitauri's route to continue exploring forward.

"This is the Mountain-class captain's broadcast. All technical personnel, pay attention: blockade the route. Repeat: blockade the route!"

After the captain gave the order, the scattered combat units moved rapidly toward the assigned target points, but not a single ship or fighter fired throughout the process. Currently, the distance between the nearest enemy unit and the combat unit was over three hundred thousand kilometers. At this scale, the hit rate of most weapons was pulled very low; it could be said that hitting was basically up to heaven's will, so firing was completely unnecessary and purely a waste.

The Chitauri also clearly knew this situation and also didn't fire. However, their fighters had entered a high-speed movement state, and whale-like biological fighters scattered in all directions, looking for gaps not covered by the Mountain-class defense network.

Most wars in the universe are silent; the absence of air means there are no ear-piercing explosion sounds here, only rapid deployment and exchange like machine settings.

When the distance between the two sides entered fifteen thousand kilometers, the atmosphere of the scene changed suddenly. Laser weapons began to fire, and beams of lasers were emitted from the exciters, sweeping across the entire region like a sudden rainstorm.

Under the deterrence of the lasers, the Chitauri fighters began to turn and shift, moving toward the sides. When they left the fifteen-thousand-kilometer dividing line, the Asgardian weapons also stopped firing and entered a state of confrontation.

At the same time, several ships also arrived one after another on the important routes in this region. These routes were divided based on factors such as the gravity of nearby celestial bodies and the energy concentration in space. Navigating on them could save energy to the greatest extent while increasing conventional movement speed by at least thirty percent.

Under the protection of barbarian soldiers, the technical personnel left the energy shield of the spaceship, and portable magic equipment threw magic materials into the universe. These materials were mainly some crystal fragments, coming from various mines in Asgard. After special processing, they became their current appearance, and they belonged to the highest-level controlled items.

When the materials entered the route, the high-concentration energy on the route stimulated the activity of the materials, and twisted force fields began to form. After these materials formed their own force fields, they began to provoke the gravity of the planets, with the goal of turning this region from stable to extremely unstable.

Force fields with different vectors would indiscriminately affect all units passing through this path. Rapidly changing forces could tear armor, destroy engines, and even directly destroy warships.

After the technical personnel confirmed that the materials had reached the predetermined positions, the light of magic was released from their bodies. This magic power shuttled between the twisted forces, and after meticulous pre-calculation, it fell onto every piece of material.

Strands of magic power like silk threads fixed the materials onto the route. The duration of this fixation was at least one week or more.

When the blocking force field was constructed, the force field engine of the spaceship stopped completely, and it began to start the fuel engine, relying on the combustion of fuel to maintain basic power. This method of killing one thousand enemies while suffering eight hundred losses oneself was not common in the universe.

In addition, Asgardian warships actually couldn't be considered advanced in the universe; after all, their main means of war was not confrontation between fleets, so they basically didn't point much of this technology tree.

The technology currently used by the Mountain-class and many spaceships was still old technology obtained by Asgard from other civilizations hundreds or thousands of years ago and transformed.

The only self-developed technology that developed relatively quickly was the force field-related technology that the technical personnel had just placed.

Currently, Asgard, when needed, could completely twist the spatial force field of a small planetary system in a short time, making all types of warships unable to rely on the gravity that was everywhere in the universe.

As everyone knows, stellar gravity, as the cleanest, easiest-to-use, and easiest-to-obtain energy in the universe, is one of the main sources of power for most civilization warships.

Losing this energy, the movement speed and flexibility of the warships would be significantly reduced, and the power and hit rate of ultra-long-range weapons would also appear to decrease due to force field changes.

In this way, Asgard could pull its opponents into a field they were familiar with to compete.

Boarding battle!

That's right, Asgard had developed for so many years, and the most proficient space combat method was still the boarding battle.

Perhaps it was because beyond-visual-range strikes didn't conform to the bravery worshipped by Asgardians, or perhaps it was because this part of the technology tree simply wasn't pointed.

In short, Asgard's classic tactic was currently: warships and technical personnel were responsible for blockading routes and transporting combat personnel, building a battlefield mode capable of boarding battles, and then Asgard's elite soldiers launched a surprise attack.

Regardless of whether the surprise attack was through high-speed close-range landing ships or magic teleportation, the goal was only one: directly occupy the enemy's warships to obtain final victory.

Don't look at this combat method as if it were very backward—actually, it was very backward—but it was sufficiently useful.

Asgard had relied on this tactic to crush I don't know how many large fleets. It was just playing the rogue; if pushed to the limit, they would directly use the Bifrost to play a boarding battle. Are you afraid?

Moreover, this tactic was actually quite effective against the Chitauri.

Asgard's technology was indeed not very profound, but the Chitauri were even more trash.

The Chitauri's technology tree was all pieced together bit by bit. Whatever technological remnants the civilizations Thanos slaughtered had, they used; they basically didn't have much self-developed technology.

Moreover, Asgard at least had its own magic tree and martial arts tree, which could continuously provide suitable warriors and mages, but the Chitauri were even more lagging in these two aspects than in technology.

They didn't exist as their own ability tree at all; so-called abilities were just some simple, durable genetic modifications and super-ability stimulations.

If Asgard was a lame person walking, then the Chitauri's lower body was all wood.

On the Mountain-class, after the spaceship blockaded all the main routes, the cruiser began to rapidly screen targets, looking for the flagship of the enemy's advance force.

Soon, through energy residue and activity trajectory analysis, the flagship of the Chitauri advance force was directly exposed to the Mountain-class.

Ultra-long-range data intrusion began...

Asgard found some attack means from its outdated data attack library and sent them to the enemy flagship tentatively.

The captain himself didn't hold any illusions of success. After all, let alone fighting other civilizations, just the Dark Elf civilization of the Nine Realms, after being beaten to a pulp for so many years, could crush Asgard in data-related offensive and defensive battles.

It was only because all of Asgard's warships were dual-controlled by magic and technology systems that they dared to appear within the scanning radius of the opponent's warships.

But this time, the captain was surprised to find that their data attack had actually taken effect.

The Chitauri advance force flagship suffered severe data interference, and the operating mode of the engines was directly messed up.

A large amount of thrust appeared to have internal consumption, canceling each other out, and the speed of the flagship dropped with a *swish*.

"My God King... just how trash is their data defense system?" After confirming multiple times that the attack effect wasn't fake news, the captain muttered to himself.

Soon, the Chitauri flagship engines went out, and they began to restart the power system. Once this kind of muddled operation came out, the captain's face almost stiffened from smiling.

During the time the opponent's power system was restarting, the accompanying mages directly disintegrated the opponent's anti-magic detection shield, locking the power of magic across space onto the opponent's flagship.

"A merit delivered for free, how can I not pick it up?"

The captain cleared his throat. "First Combat Group, pay attention: target the enemy flagship, prepare for a boarding battle!"

On the Mountain-class, a barbarian assault team of one thousand people entered combat status. Roaring and berserking were directly activated, and blood flowed rapidly, making their surface skin become incomparably red.

Beams of magic power shot out from the flagship's magic network. After adjustment by the technical personnel, several large spatial portals gradually appeared in the cruiser's bottom-level combat preparation area.

*Roar! Roar! Roar! *

After three roars to boost morale, the combat personnel began to set off.

The squad leader took the lead, holding two giant axes, and directly rushed into the portal.

As soon as he went out, the squad leader directly threw the axes in his hands. The axes spun and cut in the air, directly slashing the enemies in front into two sections.

With a leap, the squad leader rushed into the enemy crowd, hooked the axes stuck in the wall with his right hand, opened his mouth, and...!

Sound waves were emitted from his mouth. Instantly, the circle of Chitauri soldiers around him fell into a state of dizziness, becoming lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

Severed limbs and broken components flew all over the sky. The squad leader directly killed a channel by himself, allowing his soldiers to enter better.

After discovering that the Asgardians had entered the warship, the Chitauri vanguard officer instead breathed a sigh of relief.

This kind of scene seemed a bit more familiar to the vanguard officer. After all, usually, they were an army mainly focused on landing operations within planets.

After a brief panic, the control chip issued an order, and Chitauri soldiers gathered rapidly toward the direction of the portal, preparing for close-quarters combat with the Asgardian barbarians.

Thousands of Chitauri surrounded the area where the barbarian squad was located, and every barbarian who could pass through the passage had personnel stationed there.

After the fight started, the barbarian squad leader found that this group of enemies was truly a group of paupers.

In the past, when boarding battles were fought with Dark Elves, they had to be careful of the opponent's black hole grenades and mass-produced self-defense weapons; if they weren't careful and couldn't open enough space in time, they would be beaten back to the other side of the portal by the Dark Elves.

But now it was different. Most Chitauri soldiers just had a set of armor, a ray gun, a thermal melt gun, and other weapons; they had nothing else.

This kind of equipment dared to jump in front of the barbarian elites?

See these axes? Just the enchantments alone number seven!

See this armor? Just the constant blessings alone number no less than five types!

A bunch of paupers!

After confirming this point, the squad leader fought even more vigorously.

Equipment shining with magic brilliance constantly flashed in the Chitauri soldier group, and every flash meant at least one group of soldiers fell completely.

Soon, under the fierce offensive of the barbarians, the control of the area where the portal was located fell completely into the hands of the barbarians, and the Chitauri were forced to transfer to other areas, gradually consuming the barbarians' effective strength.

However, this flagship was only so big, and the space for transferring was limited; they couldn't transfer out of the warship.

In the face of the huge strength gap between the two sides, the result of this boarding battle was self-evident. ===== CHAPTER 231 =====