Chapter 287 05.0286: "Reclaim the Beacon"

Under the command of the armed command, Louise directed the various assault teams to methodically clear out the aliens entrenched in the megastructures.

In the images that the camera was currently sending back, Horatio only saw the fart spirits.

Although they held strange-looking, crudely made objects that resembled the 'Liberator' pistols of World War II.

Relying on their blind accuracy, they did cause some casualties to the armed forces, but overall the battle was one-sided, and these little guys were easily defeated when facing the elite navy.

The team led by Louise came to the main control panel. The smell inside was terrible. All the original operating tables were destroyed beyond recognition. Solid and semi-solid filth was everywhere, as if it was swallowed by a vast ocean of feces.

Human bones can be seen inside the remains.

"We have arrived at the control room and are restoring beacon control."

With the help of the servo-skull, Louise ensured that the main control console was back under Imperial control. The doors of the cabins no longer needed to be broken open by armed forces, and officers and soldiers could enter directly after verification.

"It's too quiet, Louise, Farida, stay alert. Simple fart spirits won't produce so many residues." After the main control console was regained, Horatio took control of all the closed-circuit televisions inside the megastructure that were still functioning normally. He looked at the hundreds of CRT split screens in front of him illuminated by white candlelight, and said thoughtfully.

Farida held the power sword tightly and kept alert to her surroundings.

"Waaaaaaaaaagh!!"

Suddenly, a powerful roar came from nowhere.

boom!
The heavy ceramic steel door at the end of the corridor was kicked open, and a group of fully armed green-skinned orcs rushed over waving a variety of weapons.

They were wearing steel armor made up of various things. Looking at the complexity of these things, it would take a while to assemble them. No wonder these big guys were nowhere to be seen just now.

"Fight line! Hold the line!" Farida raised her sword and looked at the monsters rushing towards them. They were nearly 2 meters tall on average, with muscular body, and weighed at least 5 kilograms. At first glance, they were taller than Space Marines.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
When a group of these big guys rushed over, it seemed as if the entire deck was shaking.

"You shrimps! You're running wild in our territory! Waaagh! Come on! I want to kill these blue shrimps for a snack!"

The ranks of the naval armed forces remain stable.

Like Louise, they have undergone specialized training against green-skinned orcs in the psychic training room.

"Fire!"

All of a sudden, all kinds of bullets were fired at the orcs.

Lasers were no match for the thick-skinned orcs clad in ceramsite armor plates that had come from the naval garrison that had once guarded the beacon.

But live ammunition weapons such as naval bombs can have a good effect.

Louise pulled the trigger of the Navy's bolt rifle, and the orc rushing towards her was hit in the head by her, but even with half of its skull gone, it was still roaring and rushing forward.

It didn't stop until its upper body was completely smashed.

But the orcs behind him were already approaching.

The shield guard picked up the jumping shield and walked to the front of the queue in time.

These orcs picked up the crude machine guns in their hands and fired indiscriminately while continuing to advance forward.

At this distance, even though the orcs' blind fire had a hit rate of less than half, the large-caliber bullets that splashed like water forced the shield guards to retreat continuously, and some armed sailors behind them had to help them hold up the shields with pits on the surface.

Rebounds and stray arrows flew everywhere in the narrow corridor, and many people were hit by the debris and suffered minor injuries, but they were still able to continue fighting.

The orcs were very interested in the bolt rifles that this task force was equipped with in large numbers. They also knew that not everyone could afford such a powerful and waaagh toy.

These people must be elite and must be good at fighting. If we snatch the things from them, they will be more useful!

In their frenzy, the greenskins screamed and launched a more fierce charge.

"Retreat! Retreat! We need support!"

"Captain, the task force has come under fierce attack from green-skinned orcs."

"Let each ship continue to send out detachments, and equip them with bolt rifles and revolving cannons. Let these aliens see that we are more than just the weak laser guns."

The cruisers and light cruisers of the 25th Squadron began to mobilize the armed forces, and within 15 minutes, the first fully prepared task force rushed towards the beacon megastructure on shark assault boats.

For a moment, the entire giant structure was filled with gunfire.

"Steady alternating fire. First row! Fire!"

After the team led by Louise retreated to a relatively safe distance and stabilized their position, they raised their swords and shouted while directing the line to fire.

It was an old-school tactic, but there was a reason why Imperial armies were still trained in line formation in the 41st millennium.

When faced with a vast ocean of Gestalt creatures like the Greenskins and the Tyranids, once the shooting becomes chaotic, morale cannot be maintained, and the battle line collapses, the mortal troops will only suffer a devastating disaster when faced with an enemy with an absolute numerical advantage.

The line formation allows mortal soldiers to form a human wall with great courage to block the advance of the greenskins and Tyranids. At the same time, officers command soldiers to shoot alternately, which can maximize both output firepower and firepower sustainability. Each volley can also continuously boost the morale of the soldiers in the line formation.

All the armed sailors equipped with laser guns retreated to the rear to protect the team from being attacked from the side by the fart monsters.

The laser gun is not effective against armored orcs, but it is more than enough to fight these unarmored fart monsters.

The armed sailors in the front are all equipped with naval bolt rifles and sword bayonets. This bolt rifle is somewhat similar to the Godwin-Diaz bolt rifle of the battle sister, but the barrel is longer, a bit like the underwater rifle of the 3K era.

If necessary, the sailors could draw their swords and bayonets and engage in a desperate fight with these big guys.

Buzz! Puff! Puff!

The communications department led by Horatio quickly locked the direction of the call signal.

With precise intelligence support and guidance, the second batch of armed boarding teams that came to support the battle line managed to hold on in time from the assault boat that crashed into the giant structure.

This group of troops was fully equipped with bolters and revolvers, and used extremely fierce live ammunition firepower to suppress the orcs' charge.

"These shrimps have powerful guns! They are not ordinary shrimps!"

The orcs screamed. Under the fierce bombs, even these stupid creatures felt fear.

Fear of dying in an unprofitable battle and losing the chance to win the favor of Big Brother Gosh in a bigger and more powerful Waaaaghh in the future.

"First row, stand up and advance!" Louise shouted, standing between the first and second row soldiers.

The armed forces quickly recovered from their initial surprise and began to counterattack in depth.

The fierce live-fire exchange made the steel plates inside the building rattle, and the flying fragments and stray arrows were like deadly arrows.

The further you go inside, the more disgusting feces you'll see.

"Louise, have the engineering troops burn this feces. There are their spores in it. If we don't handle it properly, new greenskins will continue to appear in the megastructure. If we want to maintain control of this beacon, we will need to send a large number of armed forces to garrison.

We don’t have that many people left here.”

Horatio saw through the probe's display screen that clusters of pointed cone-shaped mushrooms grew on the feces, like park ground lights emitting a dim green light.

Soon, Leidos, who worked in the engineering department, led a damage control task force, holding flamethrowers and carefully burning the feces covered with fungal spores in the room.

While cleaning, they also have to control the fire to ensure that they do not burn down the entire building, so their equipment includes both flamethrowers and firefighting foam.

This is a job that requires a lot of patience and skills.

Burning is fine, but not indiscriminate. The Navy is much more cautious about using fire than the Imperial Guard.

After a hard battle with the savage aliens for three Terra hours.

"Each unit reports on the cleanup situation."

"The lower part is clean."

“Clean in the middle”

"The top is clean."

"Team Seven, plant explosives and destroy the target alien creation."

Soon, with a loud bang, the entire giant structure began to tremble slightly again.

"Captain, the alien surveillance post has been confirmed destroyed, and the armed forces are awaiting instructions on the next step." Horatio asked the captain after receiving the report from Louise.

"Leave 200 people on the Lord Darros to garrison and check the safety of the surrounding airspace, and the others return to their ships." Captain Edward Peru gave the order.

"Sir, there is an unidentified object floating in the distant void... It seems... not a meteorite..." The lookout officer sent a signal from the highest tower.

The officer was dumbfounded, especially when he observed the black debris floating in the void with his own eyes through the optical observation equipment: "I think those are ship fragments and wreckage."

"Are the observation results confirmed? How could the wreckage of a ship be broken into such small pieces?" Captain Peru picked up the monocular telescope. The mechanical device inside helped him capture a picture of the 'asteroid', and he immediately made a sound of doubt.

The Imperial Navy's rudder emblem is clearly visible on the fragment, and its color scheme is exactly the green and blue color scheme of the Carl-Duniyash, the Ultima Star Region headquarters fleet.

"Captain, we also found the wreckage of a Chaos rebel ship in the void. The rebels also suffered heavy losses here."

"God-Emperor, have these aliens expanded to this extent? Lieutenant Horatio, telegraph the frigates to conduct reconnaissance." Commodore Peru gave the order.

"Frigate squadrons, immediately disperse in a star-shaped battle formation and provide perimeter reconnaissance for the Indefatigable." Horatio issued deployment orders to the two frigate squadrons.

"Frigate received."

The eight frigates immediately spread out in the shape of an octagonal star.

Protect the larger ships in the fleet in the center.

Horatio continued to listen to the void signals, trying to see if he could intercept enemy ship communications.

Suddenly, the signal bird array in front of him received a faint distress message.

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