Outside the bridge window of the Iron Justice are two Behemoth-class battlecruisers a few miles apart. The armor plate on the hammer-shaped bow reflects the light of the middle-aged sun of the Cable Rock Galaxy, and the spectacular and dense turrets
Like a forest of swords.
The orange-red plasma flame behind the cruiser's thruster still leaves the space fluctuations and curtain-like wake left after the hyperspace jump. In the distant deep sky behind the battleship is a dark brown asteroid.
Alpha Squadron's flagship Norad 2 was in front. When it opened fire with its sister ship Napoleon, Augustus standing on the bridge of the Iron Justice could only initially see dense light spots.
The flames of the laser cannon turret and the plasma tail flames of torpedoes and missiles in the sky complement each other in the dark deep sky. In the blink of an eye, an orange laser beam more than ten feet wide plowed a path on the armor under the bridge from far to near.
Dark carvings. These are the densest and strongest materials currently used by mankind. They quickly vaporize, like melting ice.
Each attack will cause the battleship to tremble slightly. The surface of this city-like steel fortress is bathed in the light of stars and laser weapons, and splashes of gorgeous, fleeting bright firelight.
Most of the battlecruisers built before the Battle of Kailian failed to add energy shield technology, so the Iron Justice could only rely on thick decks to resist attacks from the enemy.
"Reinforce decks No. 6 and No. 3, and repair the No. 2 auxiliary engine. Notify the hangar and send all the Avengers and Wraith fighters out of the launch bay. Tell the Marines that all their vacations are cancelled. Everyone must gather on the lower deck. We
There are tough battles to be fought.”
Amid sirens buzzing on the bridge, Warfield's second-in-command, Major Charles Chuck Horner, calmly gave orders.
This stubby borderline colonial man is one of the few remaining members of Arcturus' Imperial squad after the war. Although he is still rude and arrogant, he has long since washed away his brilliance and grown into a reliable commander.
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Augustus's face was illuminated by lasers from his own turrets and enemy warships from time to time. Even so, he still had time to straighten his collar that was wrinkled by running. In the eyes of Kerrigan and others,
Augustus' cold gray eyes stared motionless outside the bridge window.
"Major Charles, are you unable to establish a communication link with the Hyperion?" Augustus looked at Charles and said.
"The signal has been interfered with. Our technicians are trying to re-establish the connection...Okay." For a moment, Charles thought his old boss Arcturus Mengsk was standing there, but the young man
The appearance is already the same as it was ten years ago.
It took Charles a few seconds to realize that although the young man in front of him had the cold gray eyes and gray hair of Arcturus, he was completely another person. The Mengsk family seemed to be born
Possessing a leadership temperament, they are pioneers, leaders or generals in any era.
"Augustus, how are you doing there?" Reno's face appeared on the main screen of the Iron Justice bridge. The worry on his face disappeared after seeing that Augustus was safe and sound.
"We encountered a little trouble." As Augustus spoke, Reno probably saw that the deck was still shaking under his feet.
"Jim, turn on the fleet-wide radio channel."
"Okay, open the channel of the entire fleet, our general is going to issue an order." Renault looked to the side: "Swan, find a way to make this old ship drive faster... You can do it."
"I am Augustus Mengsk, and I am on the Iron Justice. Now, the entire fleet is rallying to me!" His voice rang on the channel of the entire fleet, and he received an immediate response.
Jim Raynor's Hyperion had already accelerated towards the Iron Justice the moment the Federation fleet appeared. More than twenty frigates, destroyers and Umoyan cruisers formed a sharp dagger formation below the Hyperion, with hundreds of
The small and medium-sized ones were designed to surround the battleship, and the battleships at the front and rear were more than two miles apart.
"Haha - a bit like your brother Arcturus." Major Charles seemed to be joking: "If he didn't have to go to the edge world to dig crystal mines, he would be in this position now.
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"Both Dai and I found it incredible at the time, but no one could convince him."
"Arctus has always been like this. Sometimes even his mother can't convince him. Only Dorothy can make him change his mind." Augustus replied.
"What's going on? Brother Warfield, anyone with a discerning eye can see that these bastards are coming after you." At this time, Tychus on the side was holding his own sweet-talking persuasion machine.
But he didn't know which direction he should shoot.
"Duke probably caught up with you two weeks ago, but never launched an attack. Not only did you know nothing about it, you also obviously exposed the location of the assembly area."
"Now it seems that Alpha Squadron has been following us closely, and their communication channels are always silent... Maybe the communication between us has already been monitored." Warfield's face was as deep as water.
, he realized that this was his huge mistake.
Although Edmund Duke has always been shown to be a violent, reckless and lacking strategic vision, his current position is not entirely due to the prestige of the Duke family, the founding family of Tarsonis, and his unique personality.
Different, I like the rare courage to move forward in everything.
While Warfield was still charging on the ground, Duke was already leading the fleet to cruise in the Koprulu sector. In terms of fleet warfare, Warfield, who was born in the Marine Corps, was an amateur after all.
"It sounds like that Edmund has tricked you, but after all, their people have spent half their lives in space." Tychus was rarely comforting, but his voice sounded very excited.
"I've long wanted to punch his old face~"
"He thinks he is sure of victory, but we still have the Hyperion and other battleships, and the current strength comparison is two to two." Warfield is not panicked by this incident. He has experienced far more dangerous scenes than this.
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As if in response to Warfield's words, three more battlecruisers of the same level appeared on the radar chart on the Iron Justice star chart, accompanied by more than two hundred escort battleships and various types of spacecraft. Suddenly the Lieutenant Colonel's picture
His dark face seemed to turn green.
"It's hard to say." Tychus lit a cigar as usual. He exhaled the smoke into his armor and said: "It's five to two now. If you say a few more words, we will kill ourselves."
Accept your bad luck."
"Mengsk, what can you do." After he said that, he looked at Augustus: "We can't just stand here and wait. Getting beaten is not what I like to do."
"Major Charles, can you get close to Alpha Squadron's flagship Norad 2 and find a way to dock in the port?" Augustus said.
"Honestly, it would be extremely difficult if the other party doesn't cooperate." Charles said calmly: "It depends on whether our pilots are highly skilled and can cut into the enemy fleet as accurately as a scalpel.
, control the giant battleship one-third of a mile long to parallel the enemy ships and aim at the port amid the dense enemy barrage."
"Unless Duke has this intention too."
"Then please tell me whether the pilot of the Iron Justice can complete this mission." Augustus said.
"Of course, we have the best pilot in the entire Federation." Charles said on the command channel of the Iron Justice: "Starboard 15°, move forward at full speed, charge the main gun immediately, and aim the entire gun crew at Nora, the flagship of Alpha Squadron.
Germany No. 2. Everyone should put on their space combat suits and fasten their seat belts."
"Prepare for impact!"
"To welcome the impact?" Tychus looked at the porthole in confusion. By comparing the position of the star and other battleships, he could find that the Iron Justice was heading towards the Norad 2 at an extremely fast speed.
As the Iron Justice moved forward at full speed, Avenger fighter jets passed quickly from underneath the battleship, like a stray arrow. The retreating fighter jets sprayed out ice-blue wakes, like disappearing starlight.
"Don't tell me you want to play bumper cars."
To Tychus's expectation, Duke's vehicle Norad 2 did not make any tactical evasive maneuvers. It seemed that the battle-experienced captain of the fleet did not think that the Iron Justice could survive the firepower of his own fleet.
to get close to his own bridge, or he was more willing to clash bayonets with the enemy.
"How arrogant, Duke."
"I will command the combat troops - I will personally defeat Edmund Duke." After saying these words, Warfield turned and left the bridge.
"He didn't know that Duke's fleet was following him." After Warfield left, Kerrigan walked to Augustus and whispered: "I can see the hatred for the federal government in your heart.
, but Warfield is not loyal to you or your father now, he is just extremely disappointed with the federal government."
"There is no doubt about Warfield, he will always be my friend." Augustus then said to Charles: "Major, you will be in command here."
"Anyway, this is my duty." Charles looked at Augustus and said, "Although I am more willing to charge with a gun."
"I almost forgot what you used to do."
"When an old friend comes, of course we must treat him well," Tychus said to Charles before leaving with a heavy machine gun.
"This is how the revolutionary army treats guests."
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Since the last minute, such tremors and shaking have become more and more ordinary. The surface of this giant steel ship armed with heavy armor and heavy guns is covered with black marks, and the molten deck has re-condensed in the cold space.
As the No. 6 armor attached to the ground-attack laser cannon group on the port side was completely penetrated, the explosion ignited the oxygen in the crew rest cabin, and a hot and brilliant open flame vented out. The crew members who were sucked into space were killed in a few seconds.
After a few minutes, it turned into an ugly corpse covered with ice crystals.
When engineers arrived and carried out emergency repairs, the flames had disappeared due to the extreme reduction of oxygen, and the air was filled with a burning stench and toxic gases, making it difficult to breathe.
As the Iron Justice swayed forward, sirens could be heard in all channels. Charles kept ordering engineers on the channel to repair various cabins or to have the crew take refuge in safe cabins.
The Kohal Revolutionary Army's fighter jets flew over the dense barrage at high speed and launched a suicidal attack on the Federation fleet. Among these fighters were civilian airships with no armor and only small-caliber laser cannons, as well as Avengers from the Tyranid Federation.
With the Wraith Fighter.
Fighters converted from civilian spaceships have no chance of surviving if they are hit, but they are superior in number and speed, with more than 2,000 of them.
Driving these fighter planes are the young people on Korhal 4 who are called the most desperate generation. They all come from families with more than one child. Before boarding the battleship, everyone was fighting for themselves on Korhal's satellite Canni.
He dug a grave and buried his suicide note.
Courage and unparalleled will could not protect these "Sons of Korhal". As they approached Norad 2, they were shot down in pieces, turning into bright balls of light that suddenly appeared.
The pilots on the fighter plane were either vaporized in the laser beam along with the fighter plane in an instant, or died in a pain that could make even the strongest person scream before the flames burned out the air.
These people were told that their deaths would bring new life to Korhal 4, so they died generously.
Umo Yang's "Wraith Fighter" version of the Edge Fighter has attracted more attention from the federal fleet with its classic inner curved wings and plasma thrusters. These faster and more agile fighters rely entirely on the pilot.
The reaction is with the most cutting-edge optical reactor and intelligent auxiliary program to dodge the dense barrage.
In the field of R&D and manufacturing of small combat aircraft, especially unmanned carrier-based aircraft, Umo Yang is expected to surpass the Federation of Terra.
In the space battlefield intertwined with brilliant light and death, the Iron Justice, a battlecruiser with many damaged tails and flaming tails, still rushed towards the Norad 2 under the cover of the Hyperion and its attached fleet.
At this moment, the internal corridors and elevators of docking bay No. 2 were filled with rows of Marines wearing silver-gray power armor who were running forward.
The paint on the armor of these Marines is different from that of the Federation era, replaced by the eagle and wolf head logo, which has now become a symbol of these traitors.
Wearing the same powered armor, Augustus, Warfield, Tychus, and Kerrigan holding a C-10 rifle walked from the docking bay to the docking port. The warning signs in white characters on the wall told Augustus
Beyond the airlock door in front of him was space.
Violent tremors kept coming, and Augustus seemed to be standing on a boiling furnace.
At a certain moment, the tremors seemed to subside for a moment, and then Augustus felt the battleship speed up again.
"Activate the gravity generators of the power boots and grab hold of walls, handrails, and anything else you can!" Warfield said loudly on his command channel.
"Prepare for impact!"
Augustus immediately grasped the armrest, his other hand tightly clasping Kerrigan's.
Accompanied by the dazzling light spot that Augustus couldn't see and the harsh friction sound coming from the main structure of the battlecruiser armor and the tremors like the earth shaking, Augustus realized that the steel
The Justice was clinging to the side of the Norad 2, grazing the enemy ship's armor as it moved forward, like two pieces of soap that were making a piercing scream.
"All preparations." When the Iron Justice stopped again and stood still, Warfield said while looking at the docking port exit airlock door that was slowly opening.
"Come on, come on, I can't wait." Tychus chewed his cigar.