Chapter 217: Warhammer: What Do You Mean You Conquered the Bug Race

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

For these past two months, this Imperial Fleet had been like crocodiles lurking at the bottom of a river, always guarding the outer areas of the star system.

Their only mission was to intercept the Green Skin reinforcements rushing from the Dolido Star System and prevent them from attacking the Brevis Star System.

Apart from occasional small-scale skirmishes, they had almost never taken the initiative to attack, staying so quiet that the Green Skins on Kal II nearly forgot they existed.

If it weren't for the weekly waaaghGP points race keeping their appetite whetted, the bored grots would have long since grabbed their guns and charged out to fight the Shrimp to the death.

But this time, these "well-behaved" Shrimp played the dirtiest ambush.

They precisely timed it to the start of a new round of the waaaghGP points race, at which point more than one-third of the Green Skins on Kal II

were crowded in front of the various race tracks and live broadcast screens, their eyes all drawn to the racers on the track.

Even the defensive watchtowers on the front line were left with only two or three little cats.

The Imperial Fleet's main force first launched a feint attack head-on, drawing in the remaining defensive firepower.

At the same time, they dispatched a fast fleet to seize the necessary route from the race tracks to the various front-line ports,

pinning down the Green Skin grots who wanted to rush back to the front lines, blocking them dead in their tracks.

And their main fleet took advantage of the window of Kal II's empty defenses to directly break through the outer defense ring.

A large number of landing craft and escort ships charged straight in, rushing into Kal II's Middle Zone.

They did not seek glory by rushing in, thinking to storm Kal II's Core Area in one go.

Instead, they concentrated all their firepower on the core facilities of the space station.

Port after port was blown into space debris, and the front-line anti-air turrets were uprooted.

Recycling docks piled with ore and waste were blasted into fragments, and even the few remaining large Squig ranches on Kal II

were blown to bloody shreds by beams falling from the sky, with countless farmed Squigs turning to charcoal in the explosions.

For the Green Skins who lived off scrap manufacturing and stew pots, this kind of destruction was far more fatal than killing a few million grots.

The entire planet Kal II fell into unprecedented panic.

The Big Guys of the various clans roared madly for the grots to rush back to the front lines, but the route back was blocked dead by the Expedition Fleet.

The grots who charged up were blown into dust one wave after another by the Macro Cannons.

Sis, seated in the Core Area, snapped his eyes open from meditation the moment he sensed the explosions in the Middle Zone, and psyker fluctuations instantly swept through the entire Core Area.

Heedless of his body not yet fully recovered, he grabbed the staff at his side, preparing to personally strike and tear these invading Shrimp to pieces.

Just then, the Fire Shadow Clan's mobile force, which had been lurking at the edge of the outer areas, began to move.

Five hundred purple Fire Shadow Assault Boats were like five hundred ninjas lurking in the darkness.

Relying on noisy engines to interfere with the Imperial Fleet's long-range scans, and using the cover of the Xiao Xing Tai Dai, they silently circled around to the rear of the Imperial attack fleet.

That was their supply line, a troop transport convoy consisting of exactly ten escort ships.

It was continuously transporting ammunition and troops to the landing forces on the front line.

The Expedition Fleet's Commander "completely" did not expect that these Green Skins, who always only knew how to charge head-on, would actually play a tactic of circling around to raid the home base.

It was not until the noisy engines of the assault boats sounded in space, and the Void Shield of the first escort ship was blasted open by concentrated fire,

that they realized someone had already stabbed them in the backside.

"Open fire! Blast these Shrimp ships into scrap iron for me!"

Yaduoduo sat in the assault ship, holding an amplifier, and roared a battle cry at the top of his lungs.

Although he was just a fart grot, at this moment, with five hundred top-tier assault boats behind him, his back was also straight as a ramrod.

Five hundred assault boats opened fire simultaneously, and dense lasers and shells rained down on the Imperial escort ship group.

The firepower of these assault boats was built to top-spec standards to begin with, and the simultaneous salvo of five hundred boats even once suppressed the counter-firepower of the ten escort ships.

The Void Shields of escort ship after escort ship flashed madly under the crazy bombardment, finally dissipating into light particles.

The hulls were torn open with huge gashes by laser cannons, and the flames of explosions connected into one piece in space.

What made the Expedition Fleet even more despairing was the Fire Shadow Clan's Boarding Torpedoes.

These weapons, devised by Tech Boss grot Wo Xun Si, had a fifty percent chance of ignoring Void Shield interception.

Directly passing through the energy barrier, they randomly teleported the grots inside the torpedo into the hulls of Imperial ships.

As the alarms on the escort ships sounded, one Fire Shadow grot after another, howling and wielding machetes and pistols, appeared in the ship corridors.

The Green Skins' boarding battle was one of the tactics that made the Imperial Navy's scalp go numb the most in the entire Galaxy.

The grots did not care about casualties at all; their eyes held only waaaagh and battle.

They wantonly slaughtered the Shrimp on the ships, destroying the ships' control systems and engines.

And they did not encounter those terrifying Bug Race again inside the Imperial ships.

In just over ten minutes, three escort ships were completely paralyzed in space by this group of boarding grots.

No one knew that this exhilarating ambush was fought entirely with Lin En's own resources.

But he also knew the principle that you can't catch a wolf without letting go of the child.

Using the loss of a few escort ships and some supplies, he exchanged for the Fire Shadow Clan's prestige on Kal II.

The Imperial landing forces on the front line soon discovered the change in the rear.

The logistics supply line was cut off, ammunition and reinforcements could not be delivered, and the Green Skin reinforcement forces on the front line arrived one after another, beginning to counterattack madly.

If they continued fighting, they would be pincered from front and rear, and the entire army would be wiped out.

The Expedition Fleet's Commander could only grit his teeth and issue the order to retreat.

Originally a one-sided surprise attack, it was just like this that the Fire Shadow Clan reversed the situation with a single tactic of striking the rear.

When the Fire Shadow Clan's assault craft escorted a wrecked Imperial Guard Ship back to Kal II's port, the entire planet's Green Skins boiled over.

Those Big Guys who had previously mocked the Fire Shadow Clan as all show and no substance all fell silent at this moment.

The champion on the Racing Track could only make the Grots cheer, but the hero who drove back the Shrimps on the battlefield could earn the Green Skins' heartfelt awe.

The Fire Shadow Clan, overnight, became the most waaaagh clan in the mouths of Kal II's Green Skins, and for a time their limelight was unmatched.

On the day this battle ended, Luna impatiently initiated a communication with Lin En.

She thought Lin En's planned assault had completely failed, and as soon as the communication connected, she began mocking with a tone of schadenfreude.

"Yo, our 'Keli Feng' grand commander, is this your surprise attack?"

"You didn't even touch Kal II's Core District before being driven back by a bunch of Green Skins? I thought you were something impressive."

But she never expected that what came from the other end of the communication was not Lin En's voice, but a female voice so cold it had not a trace of emotion.

"Childish or not?"

Lena's voice came through the communication device, with undisguised contempt, and as soon as her words fell, she directly hung up the communication.

Inside the Precept Ruler on the other end of the communication, Luna stood frozen in place, the schadenfreude on her face instantly stiffened, then a flush of red light rose.

She had never heard this voice before, but the contempt in that tone made her both ashamed and angry.

Luna slammed a fist hard onto the control panel in front of her, gritting her teeth as she cursed:

"Damn Lin En..."