271: Chapter 272 Baby Bus's Firepower

When the Baby Bus, painted with cartoon livery, was fully operational, the combat power it unleashed was terrifying and astonishing!

Because the players of the Baby Bus guild were typically frugal farmers, they took into account the difficulty of resupplying ammunition during long-distance voyages.

Therefore, most of the weapon systems mounted on this 1.5-kilometer-long void ship were energy weapons that did not require physical ammunition.

The ship's main battery consisted of six triple-mounted Mass-Energy Conversion Cannons;

On its broad wings, a row of high-frequency ion cannons was installed on each side;

And in the gaps on the deck and other structures, automated laser cannon arrays were deployed for short-range air defense.

This pure energy weapon configuration of the Baby Bus was practically a dimensional strike when dealing with light units that lacked shields—it was a guaranteed kill!

As for those enemy capital ships equipped with heavy Void Shields,

the players also had specialized tools for breaking shields!

That was a heavy spinal railgun, manufactured by the Gorgon industrial world, which ran from the bow of the ship all the way through to the keel at the stern!

As well as a lance generator installed at great expense on the bottom of the ship's hull!

According to experiments, the railgun's powerful kinetic impact, combined with the lance's continuous high-frequency, high-temperature bombardment, could force the opponent's Void Shield nodes to overload and collapse in a very short time.

At this moment.

The radar emitted a shrill alarm.

Those eight Rogue Trader Cobra-class destroyers, which had charged over with full engines relying on their first-mover advantage, had already approached the Baby Bus's close-defense perimeter!

These destroyers were clearly habitual raiders.

While maneuvering at high speed, they opened their ventral launch tubes one after another, casting a massive amount of plasma torpedoes like a fishing net!

In interstellar naval battles, these torpedoes typically relied on their dense numbers to forcibly breach the shields of large warships.

Once a gap was torn in the shields, these agile small destroyers would pounce like a pack of wolves.

At extremely close range, they would use physical Macro Cannons and plasma cannons to precisely destroy the target warship's propulsion engines and command bridge defenses.

This was to create conditions for subsequent boarding actions, rather than sinking the target directly.

Faced with this net of torpedoes flying across the sky,

although most of the Baby Bus players had no practical experience in interstellar naval warfare, as long as they didn't panic or give reckless orders, they could rely on their firepower advantage to fight steadily without any problems.

"Activate close-defense arrays! Fire at will!"

Under the coordinated command of a well-paid native veteran advisor on the bridge,

the massive metal body of the Baby Bus shuddered violently, and it began a ferocious counterattack!

"Zzzzt—!"

The dense laser cannon array instantly wove into a tight web of deadly fire!

Those plasma torpedoes attempting to approach were like ignited fireworks in space, all precisely detonated and intercepted outside the safe distance!

Immediately after,

the plasma cannons on the ship's wings began to hiss!

Beams of blinding, high-temperature plasma tore through the pitch-black void, blasting toward the oncoming enemy destroyers!

However, to the players' great surprise and astonishment,

"What the f***?"

The player in charge of fire control shouted,

"These crappy ships don't even have the most basic civilian shields? Are they all just naked iron coffins?!"

This was entirely the players' preconceived notion; after all, not everywhere had a production artifact like a Matter Constructor.

Since the opponent had no shields, the Baby Bus would certainly not hold back!

"Stop wasting power on plasma! Use the Mass-Energy Conversion Cannon!" Dog Brother roared from the command console.

Metal units without shield protection were no different from paper toys in front of the black technology of the Mass-Energy Conversion Cannon, which decomposed matter directly!

"Hum——"

When the Mass-Energy Conversion Cannon fired, it was silent in space, without even a dazzling muzzle flash.

But the damage it inflicted on the target was a devastating catastrophe!

You have to know, even for those thick-skinned, kilometers-long Tyranid heavy cruisers, if they took a solid hit from a Mass-Energy Conversion shell, their hull would be instantly blown into a large hole, leaving them half-crippled!

Let alone these old, fragile destroyers in front of them that only knew how to charge blindly.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

As several blindingly bright balls of light erupted one after another in space,

in just a fleeting moment, those eight Cobra destroyers, which hadn't even touched the enemy ship's armor, were as if erased by an eraser, blown to pieces without a single complete piece of metal wreckage left!

However, the Baby Bus, with its eyes red from the killing, showed no signs of stopping fire.

On the bridge, Dog Brother grabbed the communicator and shouted orders over the ship-wide channel:

"Brother Bear! Take your hundred-plus boarding brothers! Get into the rocket launch pods immediately! In a moment, we're boarding that largest Sword-class frigate flagship opposite us! Dead or alive, it doesn't matter!"

"Penny! Go to the bottom hold immediately, take your Desert Boat combat vehicles and the ground combat brothers, and get ready for an airdrop! As soon as the ship enters the low orbit of Sardin Planet, drop directly to support the natives of that Shanhai Family down there!"

"Jiaobu! Tell the pilot to push the main engines to the critical point! Speed up! We're charging straight through the asteroid belt and ramming that Sword-class frigate to a halt!"

Excited roars immediately came from the channel: "Received!"

Dog Brother put down the communicator.

He turned his head sharply and shouted at the native operator controlling the main gun next to him:

"Is the spinal railgun main battery charged yet?! Aim at the butt of that flagship opposite us! Hit it directly!"

Just as he finished speaking,

accompanied by a chilling electromagnetic hum that approached from afar,

"Boom——!"

three incredibly heavy solid projectiles, carrying terrifying kinetic impact, roared out from the Baby Bus's keel main battery!

Drawing three straight afterimages in space, they blasted directly toward the enemy Sword-class frigate flagship in the distance!

Just as Penny expected,

this Sword-class frigate, which served as the facade of the Rogue Trader, was indeed equipped with expensive military-grade Void Shields.

However, under the continuous physical bombardment of the three super-heavy railgun shells,

the originally transparent Void Shield energy layer instantly erupted with violent ripples, faintly showing signs of facing node overload and collapse!

The next moment,

on the belly of the Baby Bus, which was accelerating and approaching, the lance generator began to operate.

A thick, orange-yellow high-energy beam, like a laser knife cutting tofu, continuously pressed against the Sword-class frigate's shield for heating bombardment.

Under such unreasonable double strikes, just a few minutes later, with a muffled "bang,"

the Sword-class frigate's Void Shield completely overloaded and extinguished!

After losing shield protection, the Baby Bus's lance beam began to wantonly conduct precise destructive bombardment against the Macro Cannon weapon array on the side of the enemy hull!

Seeing their flagship in danger, the remaining privateer ships in the enemy fleet wanted to turn around and rush over to rescue it.

But they were all firmly blocked on the periphery by the storm-like pouring of plasma cannons and Mass-Energy Conversion Cannons from the Baby Bus!

Although due to the lack of familiarity with fire control, many of the fired energy beams did not hit precisely.

But it couldn't be helped that the firepower flying all over the sky was just too fierce!

Just getting grazed once meant death!

And the opponent's firepower had absolutely no effect on the Baby Bus, which was covered in two layers of shields.

After suppressing the enemy formation,

the Baby Bus's armor plates popped open one after another.

More than a dozen heavy assault rocket pods, equipped with blue Deflector Shields, ejected while spitting tail flames, like a dozen sharp swords, fiercely piercing into the battered armor shell of the Sword-class frigate.

The boarding battle officially began!

At this moment, the Baby Bus instantly fully demonstrated the terrifying military-industrial foundation and strength of the Spark Alliance!

Just this single ship had beaten this fleet of reckless, indiscriminately firing interstellar pirates into a state of having no power to fight back, fleeing in panic.

Meanwhile, other parts of this star system were also in chaos.

Although this suddenly appearing Rogue Trader fleet had a very large number of ships, it seemed to lack a unified command brain.

After appearing, they ran around and fired everywhere in the orbits of the three planets like headless flies.

And fortunately,

the main defense fleets of the other two of the three major families finally received the attack warning.

They appeared from the shadows on the other side of the battlefield and immediately launched a fierce encirclement attack on this unidentified pirate fleet.

Although the fleets of these three major families were not equipped with outrageous black technology weapons like the Mass-Energy Conversion Cannon.

But after all, they were Knight families that had been passed down for nearly ten thousand years, and their foundation was still deep.

Relying on their superb driving skills and tacit formation coordination, they immediately presented an overwhelming advantage in the overall battle situation.

This inexplicable star-filled melee actually did not last long.

Because, when Wu A Level Combo, leading over a hundred howling Fourth Calamity players, successfully boarded the interior of the enemy flagship via assault pods, the ending of this farce was already completely doomed.

Inside the sturdy command bridge of the Sword-class frigate.

When this group of battle-hardened Rogue Trader guards raised their Bolters, preparing to defend to the death.

The heavy metal blast door was directly torn apart by bare hands by a giant bear over two meters tall, its whole body erupting with violent blue biological electricity!

Everyone was stunned!

A big bear that could use high-level lightning psychic powers?!

Moreover, this bear strolled leisurely in the rain of bullets, and the Bolter rounds were deflected by electric currents before hitting him.

With a casual wave of its paw, carrying terrifying chain lightning splash damage, it directly slapped a guard captain wearing precision heavy armor, along with his armor, into two smoking halves!

Is this a war that humans can fight?!

The enemy Rogue Trader leader, a one-eyed man in a magnificent coat, saw this horrifying scene and was scared out of his wits.

He threw down his power sword without hesitation, fell to his knees with a thud, and raised his hands to indicate unconditional surrender.

But although the people on the flagship surrendered, the other privateer ships outside, fighting on their own, didn't care about that at all.

Seeing their boss captured and knowing they couldn't beat these ships with abnormal firepower, the remaining pirate captains

immediately scattered decoys everywhere, pushed their engines to full throttle, and fled in all directions, preparing to jump into the Warp to run away.

...

On the bridge of the Baby Bus.

The alarm was cleared, and the lights returned to normal.

Dog Brother held the communicator, listening to the battle report coming from inside.

On the other end of the communicator, Penny was sitting in the cockpit of the Desert Boat, shouting excitedly:

"Holy crap! Dog Brother! These three major families are definitely not simple! We really guessed right!"

Penny panted,

"Just now at the ground defense line of this planet, to resist the landing pirates, they actually drove out more than twenty knight mechas from the underground warehouse, of all models. Although the firepower is just so-so, they are really cool!"

"That scene! It was so f***ing spectacular! Those pirate private armies that originally wanted to loot the ground were all stunned on the spot when they saw twenty knight mechas raise their cannons at the same time, and they were instantly shot into sieves!"

Dog Brother listened and praised with a smile:

"Well done, Penny! Just stay on the ground, help the Shanhai Family clean up the mess, and by the way, get close to their high-level officials! I also have a piece of great news for you: Brother Bear and the others succeeded in the boarding! We didn't lose anything; in fact, we captured a frigate for free!"

Several hours later.

The plasma fire flying everywhere in space finally gradually subsided, and the chaotic situation completely stabilized.

Although this battle was very sudden, it allowed Dog Brother, who remained on the bridge to coordinate the overall situation, to collect a lot of very useful practical combat data information.

He discovered that the space power of these three major families was not as invincible as everyone had imagined beforehand!

The warship maneuverability and firepower projection displayed in this melee could only be said to be standard.

Even their ship's main battery accuracy was not much different from that of the Baby Bus, which relied entirely on fire control assistance for aiming.

This meant that these Knight families' ships were not equipped with strong artificial intelligence with abnormal computing power like the Men of Iron for fire control assistance!

After keenly capturing this key information.

Dog Brother immediately connected to the private communication channel of the ground warehouse: