Chapter 169: War Hammer: What Do You Mean You Conquered the Zerg? Chapter 169

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

Lin En naturally knew this little trick couldn't keep fooling the grease monkey forever.

So Lin En volunteered to send someone to "help," staging that ritual of pretending to be gods and ghosts.

Make the smoke screen last a little longer, so they could be fooled for a while longer.

And Lin En had long since notified the informants: once they saw the ritual, stop tampering.

He just hadn't expected Luna to personally go up and perform.

Thinking of that scene, Lin En couldn't help but laugh while rubbing his forehead.

But the time had pretty much run out.

The Gothic-class cruiser at the spaceport would be repaired soon.

According to the plan, Lin En had never intended to compete with Luna for first place.

Let her go first, let her tackle that hard bone of Kal II first.

Anyway, by Lin En's reckoning, Luna absolutely couldn't take that space station in a short time.

Once she and the Green Skins had worn each other down, he would set out.

Fifteen days after the Upper City Meeting ended.

Luna's fleet finally completed preparations and officially set sail.

The Precept Ruler served as flagship, leading two other strike cruisers and twelve escort ships.

Plus twenty various transport ships and two mobile shipyards, they mightily sailed toward Kal II.

Since the distance wasn't far, the fleet chose not to enter the dangerous Warp, but sailed in Real Space.

Two days later, the fleet finally arrived at the Outer Areas of Kal II.

Luna stood on the Bridge, looking through the porthole at that huge space station in the distance.

The Green Skins had expanded it with scrap by at least double; now it looked like a haphazard pile of metal debris, its surface densely covered with turrets and docking hatches.

"Report." An officer walked over.

"An asteroid belt detected ahead, about two hundred thousand meters from Kal II."

Luna's eyes lit up.

Two hundred thousand meters.

This distance was exactly the extreme limit her main cannon couldn't reach,

if they could hide in the asteroid belt and send out a vanguard fleet to open a safe route.

Then they could use the Precept Ruler's ultra-long attack range to catch the Green Skins off guard.

"Very good." She said.

"Fleet enters the asteroid belt for concealment; two Moon-class cruisers lead six escort ships, advancing fifty thousand meters forward to probe a safe route for the Precept Ruler."

The order was issued.

Two Moon-class cruisers slowly detached from the Main Fleet, accompanied by three Sword-class frigates,

and three Turbulence-class frigates specially responsible for reconnaissance, advancing carefully forward.

The first thirty thousand meters were all normal.

Occasionally they encountered some Green Skin patrol ships or ships out scavenging scrap.

But all turned to dust under the Moon-class cruisers' secondary cannons.

A smile unconsciously appeared at Luna's mouth corner.

Advance another twenty thousand meters forward, and the Precept Ruler could enter its main cannon's precision range.

Then, first give Kal II a wave of ultra-long-range bombardment to consume their defensive strength.

But just then, the Precept Ruler's alarm suddenly sounded.

"En~~~e~~~my~~~ a~~~t~~~t~~~a~~~c~~~k~~~!!!"

Luna immediately opened the map near the Precept Ruler.

On the map, those dense "meteorites" around the fleet were moving.

Hundreds or thousands of boulders originally moving slowly to near stillness suddenly had tail flames spraying out behind them,

making those boulders rush toward the fleet at an unreasonable speed.

Behind every meteorite was welded a crude scrap thruster.

This was the Green Skins' first wave of "ramming ships."

"Intercept!"

Luna immediately issued orders.

Crew members from all departments on the ships began to act, revealing a panic.

The escort ships fired madly: laser cannons, macro cannons, torpedoes.

All usable weapons poured firepower onto those meteorites.

The Precept Ruler's air defense system also fully activated, the close-in firepower net weaving a death barrier around the ships.

Meteorites exploded one after another, gravel scattering in space.

But the number of meteorites was simply too many.

Those meteorites surged like a bug swarm; the firepower net formed by six escort ships and one cruiser simply couldn't intercept them all.

After one unlucky Cobra-class Destroyer had exhausted its Void Shield energy,

a giant rock struck its bridge head-on, instantly paralyzing the entire ship's command system, and it drifted in space like a dead fish.

The other escort ships were no better off.

Some were grazed, some were dented by impacts, and their Void Shields were all nearing overload.

The Precept Ruler also took several hits.

The Void Shield kept operating, shifting huge meteorites into the Warp, and the shield's energy storage dropped by eighteen percent in an instant.

Luna gritted her teeth, constantly steadying morale.

But the attack was far from over.

From deeper in the Asteroid Belt, over a hundred red airships charged out.

They were warships of an extreme design, if those things could even be called warships.

They looked more like a Green Skin War Vehicle that runs on the ground, painted entirely red.

Their tails spewed dazzling red and blue flames, their prows welded with huge rams that took up nearly one third of the hull.

Ramming Boats!

The Snake Bite Clan's Green Skin Door's favorite space airships.

Their only purpose was to ram into enemy warships at the fastest speed, while detonating everything explosive on board.

Letting the Snake Bite Clan's Grots experience a space version of "Speed and Passion" to the fullest.

Over a hundred Ramming Boats charged at the Precept Ruler.

Luna's face changed drastically.

"Left full rudder, full speed evasion!"

"All firepower intercept the Ramming Boats! Forget those meteorites!"

The Precept Ruler's huge body began to turn with difficulty.

The auxiliary engines output at full power, the thrusters spewing dazzling blue light.

But those Ramming Boats were too fast.

They were like a swarm of hornets whose nest had been stabbed, drawing chaotic trajectories in space.

Some charged in a straight line, or advanced in spirals, and even a few collided with each other in midair.

All just to change direction at the fastest speed, dodging Luna Fleet's intercepting firepower.

One Ramming Boat broke through the firepower net and slammed hard into the Precept Ruler's side.

Boom!!!

The flames of the explosion bloomed silently in the vacuum, then were devoured by the Void Shield.

Like a night-blooming cereus.

But the Precept Ruler's interior still shook violently, and the Void Shield's energy reading plummeted again.

Their speed and maneuvering were too extreme; more and more Ramming Boats flew in front of the Precept Ruler.

Impacts came one after another without cease.

Luna grabbed the control console and steadied herself.

Her eyes burned with anger and incomprehension.

Green Skins, this bunch of madmen whose brains only know fighting, actually set an ambush in advance?

She looked out the porthole at the Ramming Boats still charging madly, and at this Asteroid Belt hiding countless dangers.

A thought surfaced in her mind.

"Lin En!!!"

Luna's roar echoed within the bridge.