Chapter 300 05.0299: "Strategic Planning for the Attack on Far Star"

a few days later.

"Thank you and your officers and men, Sir Peru. If you hadn't arrived in time, we would have been cut off from supplies." The commander of the Carl-Duniash fleet, also a brigadier general, said during the meeting with Captain Peru.

“It’s not easy for you to come here from the distant Extreme Star Region.

It is also difficult to intervene when the logistics support fleet is disconnected during such a long warp voyage."

"It almost led to tragedy, but now, at least we still have two-thirds of the supply ships. What is the next battle plan, Master Peru?"

"Break through the orbital blockade of Farr at an acceptable cost.

Next, we will take control of the planet's orbit, and you will go to Pandex to escort the Astra Militarum transport to Farr."
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Horatio Cochrane, the young chief officer of the flagship's aviation department, wearing a bicorne hat, was standing on the dedicated aviation command bridge, looking into the distant void through a monocular telescope.

The medals on the left chest swayed slowly along with the golden eagle ribbon and the gold tassel on the right shoulder.

It adds an extra sense of majesty and inviolability to the rather young face.

It is located right below the observation bridge. Although it lacks armored defense, it has a wide field of view and excellent observation effects.

As promised, the Carl-Duniyash fleet installed their latest aviation command system on the Indefatigable. The overall combat effectiveness has yet to be tested in actual combat, but according to Horatio's personal experience, the improvement in observation is indeed huge compared to the original one.

Judging from the images sent by the reconnaissance fleet, there is a lush planet ahead.

But in the surrounding airspace, there are countless steel ruins and mechanical wreckage floating like asteroid belts.

This seemed to be silently telling him that as a battleground for military strategists, there has never been a lack of war on the planet Far.

The planet's near-Earth orbit is heavily defended, with a huge and ferocious armed space station on standby. It's clear that the Chaos rebels also value orbital control of this strategic location.

Horatio also saw the "black fist on white" logo from the floating ruins, which had been severely faded by the fire.

As a time traveler, he knew.

During the Horus Heresy, this was where the rebel primarch Perturabo led the Iron Warriors in a fierce battle against the Imperial Fists task force.

Perturabo, with his hatred for Sigismund, personally commanded the raid.

In just 4 minutes, the Iron Warriors destroyed more than a dozen Imperial Fists ships, including battle barges, paralyzed more than 30 ships, and caused serious damage to 46 ships.

This devastating disaster destroyed 36 Imperial Fists companies almost instantly.

This battle is also known as the 'Battle of Farr'.

As a result, Sigismund was not on Farr at all due to a prior accident, which led to Perturabo's misjudgment, allowing most of the damaged Imperial Fists ships to successfully retreat, preserving a large number of manpower for the siege of Terra.

And this Sigismund, after the Horus Heresy, became the first Grand Marshal of the famous chapter 'Dark Templar'.

As a subsidiary group of the Imperial Fists, its influence once surpassed that of the parent group.

Many of the shipwrecks floating here are left over from that epic war.

There are also many debris left over from the void war that broke out here later.

But Horatio discovered that the larger void wreckage and the relatively intact void hulks were gone.

This may also explain why there is such a large fleet of green pirates here.

Just as Horatio was observing, a sharp and long whistle came from the sound array system above his head.

"Attention everyone, the captain has spoken." The chief boatswain shouted into the radio after blowing the whistle.

"I am Captain Edward Perroux, and I am here to inform all officers and men of the fleet that after nearly three months of sailing, we are approaching the planet Farr.

This is the end of our mission, but it is the beginning of the entire battle. The God-Emperor expects you to fulfill your duties and bring victory to the Golden Throne! "

"Yeah!!!" the crew shouted in unison, their morale high.

Two fleets, more than twenty large and small combat ships, formed in two columns and sped towards the distant green planet, with more logistical support and auxiliary ships following in the middle and at the rear.

The 25th Gothic Squadron has a Moon-class cruiser, a Doomsday-class battlecruiser with an aviation deck, three light cruisers, two standard four-ship Sword-class frigate squadrons, and a destroyer squadron consisting of four Cobra-class destroyers.

The flagship of Karl-Duniyash's 50th Squadron was a Mars-class battlecruiser.

The difference in armament from the experimental Indefatigable is that the torpedo silo and power ram at the bow have been removed and replaced with a huge nova cannon.

This is an extremely noble creation of Ohm Messiah, a super cannon with an overall size measured in kilometers.

The power is incredible. Just one shell can destroy the entire nest along with all the monsters and demons inside.

Even the greenskins' super cannons pale in comparison.

Of course, for the navy, the main role of the precious and slow Nova gun is to cause huge damage in the enemy fleet and create an advantage in the battle between the capital ships.

Therefore, based on this usage concept, the Imperial Navy stipulated that the effective and accurate range of the Nova Cannon is 3000 kilometers, or about 25000 void units.

But this range is only the limit of the Imperial Navy's shipborne sighting system and the effective combat range, not the limit of the Nova Cannon. The acceleration coil in the extremely long barrel can easily launch the powerful special shells at near light speed into the void tens of thousands of kilometers away.

The huge recoil force requires the battleship to boost its engines to at least the cruiser level to the maximum to offset it when firing.

It is said that the legendary mechanical arks of some Mechanicus sages, with the assistance of unearthed ancient equipment and forward-looking observation ships, are capable of accurately hitting mobile targets 5,000 or even 10,000 kilometers away. It is so terrifying.

The rest of the warships of the Karl-Dunjash Squadron were not as gorgeous as those of the Gothic Fleet.

Most of them are light cruisers, and most of them are old dreadnought-type.

When the officers of the Karl-Dunjash fleet stepped onto the Gothic Fleet's new Voss-class light cruisers for a look, they were full of praise for their design.

Especially the Voss-class Defiant-class light cruiser carrier.

This specialized warship that could carry an entire air wing surprised the officers of the Karl-Duniash fleet.

In pursuit of cost-effectiveness, they used various merchant ships of the empire to tinker with fighter carriers and escort aircraft carriers, but all of them were thin-skinned and large-stuffed, and were not up to the task of fleet combat.

They had never imagined that there was such a professional light cruiser carrier that used a shuttle apron instead of the main gun array and used the ship's spine lance gun as long-range support firepower.

This is simply their ideal ship. A Defiant with a frigate squadron is enough to suppress the threat of pirates and alien invasions in several star regions.

This is equivalent to several star regions only needing to support one light cruiser and a frigate squadron.

For the extremely vast extreme star region, this is a very cost-effective deal in terms of cost performance.

It is much more cost-effective than maintaining an aircraft carrier cruiser or several dreadnought light cruisers.
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"Captain, according to reports from stealth destroyers and furious reconnaissance aircraft, the Chaos rebels have laid a minefield in orbit around the planet.

By deciphering the communications we intercepted, it is confirmed that the starport is currently in the hands of Chaos rebels, and the orbital defense platform is on high alert because they were attacked by the greenskin raiding fleet not long ago.

After visual reconnaissance, it was confirmed that the outer orbit of Farr planet, at the coordinates of 053.176, was breached by the greenskins. Although the minefield was urgently redeployed, the density is still lower than the orbits in other directions. "Horatio reported to the captain.

"A good breakthrough. Those green-skinned aliens used their insignificant and blasphemous lives to level the minefield for us."

Soon, the firefly hidden in the 1-kilometer dark void began to turn and head towards the loophole in the planet's defense.

In the hangar, although the ship has not yet issued a level one combat alert, the pilots are already ready to attack.

According to the combat plan, the two fleets will hide outside the enemy's maximum detection range, first use the Nova cannon to clear the minefield in advance, and then send out the Fury interceptor group to clear the surrounding broken branches and leaves to open a safe path for the fleet.

This was a suggestion made by the Karl-Duniyash fleet, which makes good use of carrier-based aircraft. Such tactics can minimize the risk of minefields and orbital defense platforms to the fleet.

Next, the strategy proposed by Brigadier General Peru.

When the minefields are cleared, the fleet will break through in column formation and attack and board the orbital defense platforms.

Considering possible follow-up threats, the Imperial Navy does not intend to simply blow up most of the orbital defense platforms.

The goal is to recapture it, purify it, and then point the gun at the enemy.

Therefore, in order to prevent the star fortress from causing excessive damage to the ship's hull, armed forces of tens of thousands will conduct organized cluster boarding.

Quickly seizing control of the star fortress is particularly important in this operation.

“Until the armed forces completely capture the star fortress, our fleet will have to keep eating shells.

But we must get through this dark moment because this is the price we must pay for the battle against Hong Kong.”

The brigadier general of the Dunyash fleet looked at the battle plan and sighed for the upcoming losses that would have to be endured.

The Imperial Navy lacked the Adeptus Mechanicus's special electromagnetic pulse (EMP) shells to temporarily disable defensive platforms.

However, for a star fortress of this size, even the electromagnetic pulse shells of the Nova Cannon would not have much effect.

"Perhaps the Hell Snipers could be of use, Captain," Horatio suggested.
"To minimize the losses, the entire boarding attack on the Star Fort must be as clean and sharp as a scalpel and as fast as lightning.

Since the star fortress is a fallen Imperial creation, I think the Hell Sniper could be useful in taking down the enemy's Combat Intelligence Center (CIC)."

"You are right, Mr. Horatio." Commodore Peru looked at the commander of the Brothers Fleet and said:
"Commodore Andrew, our Gothic Fleet has recently established a naval special warfare unit, which is also the actual test unit of this evolution squadron. All of these people have received professional training at the level of the loyal stormtroopers.

But the strength of this type of naval special warfare lies in the fact that all of their personnel were born in naval academies, each of them is a ship expert, and they are well-equipped. Their anti-ship penetration and destructive effects far exceed those of the Zhongji Stormtroopers.

Using them to launch lightning strikes, quickly paralyzing the Star Fortress artillery observation system and destroying the combat intelligence center, making it impossible for the enemy to obtain accurate shooting parameters and orders, which may help us reduce losses. "

As Brigadier General Peru was explaining in front of the holographic image, a lieutenant from the Communications Department came to report:
"Commander, the frigate reported that the green-skinned pirates who attacked the planet before have launched another round of attacks on the planet's orbital defense facilities."

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