In the clear night sky of Byzas, the great ship Pride of the Emperor had been quietly floating in the void near the low orbit.
But today, it seemed there were many uninvited guests around the voidship.
Those warships, which looked like scrap heaps, were now constantly approaching the Pride of the Emperor in the sky.
A huge warship, crudely and casually put together, that could still operate stably in the void.
It seemed that apart from Orks, Kasjia did not believe that any other creature could have this ability.
And at this time, it was also the time when the Orks were at their most rampant.
The great Ork super-warlord on Ullanor, Urlakk Urg, had not yet been killed by Horus, and the Ork empire was currently in the midst of a raging "Waaaaag!".
It was not surprising that a small Ork fleet would suddenly appear and attack their voidship.
And judging by the size of the other side's warship, it was not a small Ork fleet. It was very likely that there was even a Warboss on board.
"Quick! The interior of the Pride of the Emperor is empty right now. We have to get back quickly!"
Kasjia urged, and pulled Fulgrim's hand, quickly getting into the Firebird beside them.
Fortunately, they were all fully equipped for construction now.
If they had to go back and put on their power armor at this time... it would be a bit too late.
"Waaaaaaaagh!"
Countless Ork Boyz broke through the outer fire coverage of the Pride of the Emperor and successfully boarded the ship's interior.
With its almost perfect defensive design, the Pride of the Emperor should not have been boarded so quickly.
But the 28th Expeditionary Fleet was currently short of manpower, and a large number of Mechanicum Magi, mortal auxiliaries, and Emperor's Children were currently on the surface of Byzas, building fortifications.
This led to a serious shortage of manpower inside the flagship.
When facing the enemy warship's bombardment, they could still rely on the powerful void shield to defend and counterattack.
But when it came to facing the enemy's boarding action, the weakness of the Pride of the Emperor as an empty shell was instantly exposed.
More importantly, the remaining few hundred Emperor's Children were crucial to the future development of their legion.
If these five hundred men were to suffer any irreversible losses, then the Emperor's Children would, in the future, be like before, following behind Horus, spending a great deal of time to regroup and recover.
This battle was extremely perilous for Kasjia.
A large number of Ork Boyz, riding in their homemade big tin cans, were fired from cannon barrels into the ship's interior; or they were using flying drill machines to drill a big round hole in the flagship's beautiful wine-red hull to carry out their boarding.
In short, the Orks had their own methods and weapons that they had thought up.
But in Fulgrim's eyes, this was not a pleasant sight.
"My flagship!!!"
During the flight of the Firebird, she looked at the screen in front of her, at the Pride of the Emperor, which was being defiled by various damn xenos things, and Fulgrim was instantly furious.
This was the flagship that she had painstakingly built in the Jupiter shipyards for more than ten years!
A top-of-the-line, brand new Gloriana-class battleship that even she herself was reluctant to use to its full potential!!!
And it was being destroyed by a bunch of fools who had no idea what art was!
Her heart was bleeding.
"Let me at them!"
In a fit of anger, she snatched the weapon control system on the gunship and aimed at the Ork Bomma that was very close, blasting the Ork flyboy, who was laughing wildly with his head sticking out, along with his beloved ride, into smithereens.
"Damn you, xenos!!!"
"DIE!"
She quickly turned the gun barrel, roaring like a lioness.
As if she wanted to vent all the gloom and grievances she had suffered these past few days.
With her cannon fire sweeping up and down, many of the Ork Boyz's fighters were turned into ashes.
With the gradual reduction of the Ork fighters around the flagship, a place for the gunship to land was finally cleared near the flagship.
There were just too many Orks.
Even the Ork's cobbled-together Deffkoptas could swarm the Pride of the Emperor like a cloud of mosquitoes.
If it weren't for the fact that its outer material was strong enough, it would have probably been riddled with holes by these guys who could pass through the void shield long ago.
"Fulgrim, I'll go back to the flagship to command the battle first. You take some people and go for the head of their Warboss!"
As the First Lord Commander of the Emperor's Children, the interior of the Pride of the Emperor needed his coordinated defense.
But just defending couldn't solve this tide of crazed Orks.
When facing such a large Ork army, the best method was to kill the Ork leader. In this way, the remaining Orks, without the Waaaaagh command of their leader, would quickly fall into disarray.
"Alright!"
"It's a pity Arcur is on exchange with the Iron Hands fleet right now. If she were here..."
"Sigh, forget it. Notify the gunships behind us. Apart from the still-injured Abdemon, all other gunships will attack the enemy's flagship with me."
Although she didn't want to call that large space garbage dump a flagship, in the end, Fulgrim still chose to use a term that everyone could understand.
"Be careful."
Kasjia said, looking back as he leaped from the Firebird into the landing bay of the Pride of the Emperor.
"Mm, you too, Kasjia."
"Waaaaagh!"
Seeing a new big guy leap into the landing bay, the Ork Boyz, who had been waiting impatiently in the spacious cabin of the flagship, immediately swarmed him.
These Ork Boyz were not happy.
If there was anything worse than not being taken on a boarding action, it was boarding and not having a fight.
After seeing such a big prawn (referring to humans) warship right after transiting, the Ork bosses were Waaaagh-ing very hard!
We've been floating in the sky for so long, and we haven't found anyone to fight!
All of them are gutless grots!
This time we've finally met a big prawn flagship. We can finally have a good fight!
This thing is as big as our big ship, and it looks so shiny!
There must be a really big and Waaaaagh-y opponent inside. We'll definitely have a good fight!
Completely different from those space hulks with no prawns!
Waaaaagh! (excited)
But when this group of elated Ork Boyz, driving their favorite drill machines and big rock hoppers, entered the interior of the flagship, they found that there were no prawns here!
This big ship was almost empty!
Apart from a few prawns running around with their heads in their hands, there was almost not a single big guy here!
They had been tricked!
Waaaaagh... (dejected)
Damn prawns, to prevent them from having a fight, they actually played a trick!
They deliberately faked a warship, and there wasn't a single prawn inside.
Just to disappoint us!
Cunning prawns!
Just as this group of Orks thought they would be returning disappointed, a huge, purple-and-gold shield appeared in the vision of all of them.
Waaaaagh!!! (super excited)
BANG!
ZHEW!
Facing the approaching Ork Boyz, Kasjia's counter-strategy was not complicated.
After knocking down an Ork who was preparing for a jump-chop with a shield-bash, he pressed the disruption field and the retractable rod on the long spear in his hand.
And then, a horizontal sweep.
A few of the Ork Boyz who couldn't dodge in time met Gork and Mork (the Ork gods) under the treacherous move of this bad prawn.
"Come on! Keep coming!"
Kasjia shouted excitedly.
He had been playing a game of cat and mouse with that damn daemon in the Warp all these days and hadn't had a good fight to relax.
And this bunch of Orks dared to appear right under his nose. They were just asking for death!
Using the advantage of the extremely long attack range of the power spear in his hand, Kasjia quickly carved out a bloody path at the landing point.
But as he continued to advance, the situation became more and more grim.
Orks.
Orks everywhere.
With the lack of personnel arrangement inside the ship, this Ork attack could be said to have hit the ship's vital point.
"Hello! Eidolon, reply if you can hear me!"
"This is the First Lord Commander Kasjia. Report your status!"
Perhaps in normal times the Emperor's Children could get along well, but at this critical moment of a military operation, there could be no confusion about the chain of command.
"This is Eidolon. The main force of our ship is currently gathered on the upper deck for defense."
There was an unspeakable weariness in Eidolon's voice.
"There are still more Orks attacking the upper deck."
"The other parts have all been lost. Please, Commander, head to the upper deck to rendezvous as soon as possible."
For Eidolon to be able to evacuate the personnel to the upper deck in such a short time after being attacked, and at the same time, to repel several enemy attacks with the protection and firepower of the upper deck, was already an excellent performance.
But even a clever housewife cannot cook without rice.
With only so few people left in the legion, it was praiseworthy enough that she could defend the upper deck of the Pride of the Emperor.
Tactics could indeed play a certain role.
But for this bunch of fools who only had two ideas, chopping and bombing, the actual effect of tactics was not great.
If it were converted into a game, other xenos enemies might need to deal with related mechanics.
But the Orks were different.
They were the purest stat-checking machines.
In a fight with the Orks, the one who can fight wins!
Other tactics basically have little effect.
(Of course, like in the War of the Beast, where they just didn't even pretend and cheated openly, that doesn't count.)
No matter what means you use to bypass their advantages, they can always think of a corresponding counter-strategy.
In the end, the only way to defeat the Orks is to fight them head-on.
"Do you know where the leader of the boarding party is now?"
"α-6 district, the staircase leading from the middle deck to the upper deck. But Commander, it's too risky!"
"With you alone, you can't get past so many Orks, who are like a tide, to defeat their leader!"
"He's also a Warboss!"
The Orks who had boarded the ship naturally had their leader.
As long as he could kill this Ork leader, the remaining Orks would fall into infighting to "elect" a new leader.
And at that time, it would be the best opportunity to launch a counterattack against them.
But an Ork of the Warboss level was an extremely tricky existence for many Space Marines.
As Fulgrim's favorite person, Eidolon hoped to protect him here.
"Understood. You all stay on the upper deck and try to hold out without being defeated."
"When I reach the destination, follow my instructions and launch a pincer attack from the upper deck on the forces below."
Kasjia continued to advance alone towards the Ork's location inside the flagship.
As he opened the next hatch, a bunch of idle Orks saw him and their eyes instantly lit up.
"Waaaaagh!"
They shouted the same war cry and rushed towards Kasjia.
The Orks' war cry was always monotonous.
But to defeat enemies coming from all directions in such a small space was actually very difficult.
But Kasjia had thought of a good way.
Door-camping.
Standing behind the hatch, Kasjia held his shield high and blocked the attacks of the long-range shooting boyz.
The bullets, made of some unknown material, made a pleasant clanging sound on the purple-and-gold, door-sized shield.
And then, he reactivated the disruption field on the long power spear in his hand.
Standing behind the door.
Thrust!
The Orks were famous for playing dirty.
When the Orks couldn't beat the other side, the Mekboyz could always think of some strange little inventions.
But when I, Kasjia, use the invincible shield-thrust (door-camping version), how will you respond?
Even the fearless Orks, who took pleasure in fighting, had to stop their charge when they met a bad prawn like Kasjia.
Dis prawn don't fight wif honor!!!
Wot happened to da fun of da fight? Wot happened to da good Waaaaagh?
Why can I only see a big shield like a door, and a long power spear that's constantly extending and retracting?
"Waaaaagh!!!" (angry)
But being angry was useless.
After most of the Orks in the room had been陰死, Kasjia switched to his bolt pistol and carried out the final cleanup of the cowards who were unwilling to come forward and fight him.
What a bunch of garbage. They don't even dare to fight my shield-thrust!
And you dare to call yourselves Orks?
I, Kasjia, will now clean house for Gork and Mork!
"Waaaaagh!!!" (enraged)
Perhaps enraged by Kasjia's dirty fighting style, some of the dodging Orks charged at him desperately.
What?!
You really dare to come at me?
Kasjia raised his large shield again and, with his strength that was even greater than that of the Orks, he blocked their attack.
And then he sent them to meet Gork and Mork with his retractable power spear.
After Kasjia had played like this back and forth a few times, one cabin after another was cleared by his steamrolling combat.
Steady.
But after all, it was just Kasjia alone, so the efficiency was still a bit slow.
"Gunship landing on Byzas, reply if you receive."
"Received. Apart from the recovering Commander Abdemon, the remaining five have all boarded the Stormbird gunship and are heading towards the flagship."
"There are more mortal auxiliaries and Mechanicum behind us. Support will be arriving at the flagship soon."
"Good. I'll send you my current coordinates. Rendezvous with me at the nearest landing site."
Good news.
The Emperor's Children on Byzas were also on their way to him.
As soon as the reinforcements arrived, everything would be alright!
Kasjia thought optimistically.
But it seemed the problem... was far more complicated to solve than he, Kasjia, had imagined.
Looking out the floor-to-ceiling window at the side, a slender, sail-like warship of Eldar style had, at some point, also appeared near their flagship.
"Damn it, is there no end to this!?"
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