paranoianovel Chapter 257 The army presses the territory
Chapter 257 The army presses the territory
The fierce battle was resolved within ten Terra hours, and a few of the enemy's large number of small frigates and gunboats finally escaped. Intensive artillery fire could not stop all enemies bent on escaping. Even the shock wave of the People's Light could temporarily paralyze the machine soul, but after the mysterious mechanical talent of the Iron Warriors and the blasphemous consecration of the Dark Mechanicus, its damn ability to move was restored. .
There are too many of them and not enough of our warships.
"Okay, retreat, everyone, clean up the battlefield." Even if a call for help is received, it will take at least three Terran days for the Iron Warriors' support fleet to arrive from the main planet of the previous subspace channel. The Iron Warriors in the ship can't last that long.
The Iron Warriors are so good at breaking through enemy defenses that for them, a super soldier made of adamantium is no different than a Land Raider equipped with reinforced adamantium armor plates for defense. They didn't realize at first that what they saw in front of them was not the opponent's trump card, but the general Astartes warriors.
They were well-trained and brought in artillery and tanks to be used in subsequent sieges. They set up ambush in a wide area and planted bombs in the artillery area to explode. They used all means until each and every golden After the giant fell, more anti-psionic warriors emerged from all directions.
There were surrenders, and although the recruitment of the Primarch had greatly boosted their morale, after the silver-green power armor fell one after another, the few remaining Iron Warriors were on the verge of collapse.
In the battle barge of Yifeng Tiao Gang, there is a war blacksmith who will direct this battle.
Warsmiths are masters of all aspects of warfare, including tactics and strategy, logistics, construction engineering...
The commander of this unit firmly led his war gang guards to resist our attack. The enemy occupied a very special position. It was a warehouse where spare close-in defense cannons were stored. There were spare close-in defense cannons there that could smash the gang warehouses. , now used as a fixed fort.
Its terrifying continuous bombardment has killed two of our battle brothers. The inside of the adamantine armor is already a thick pulp of flesh and blood that has been shaken evenly, mixed with leaked Tau meningeal fluid and inner armor fragments, and falls at the door.
Yifeng's arrival boosted the morale of the attacking troops, but there was still no good way to attack.
"Division Commander, we need a position generator device, otherwise we won't be able to withstand the first wave of artillery bombardment."
"Have you determined the location of the enemy's fort?"
"Sure. There are three in total."
The approximate locations of three enemies appeared in Yifeng's tactical eyepiece.
"Brother, we are in the People's Light battleship. You can be more open-minded about your tactics."
The space manta ray directly entered the battle barge where the battle was not yet over, and its huge body began to swim below this deck.
Find a spot and start eating!
Is the enemy leveling the defense turret? I ate them off the floor to see what they could do.
The war blacksmith heard the strange noise below and shouted something bad in his heart. The remaining dozen Iron Warriors all held storm shields and bolters and quickly moved to the wall to form a shield wall.
This is useless. War Blacksmith knows very well in his heart that his men have used up all the melta bombs. There is only one way for them to win, which is to take advantage of the enemy's attack to attack the enemy's tactical eyepiece before the adamantine eyelids fall. Use armor-piercing bullets to penetrate the enemy's brains.
A flash smoke grenade bounced six times on the passage and jumped into the warehouse. In the dazzling light and the subsequent explosion of mixed-color smoke, the floor below collapsed suddenly and sank together with a pile of debris and bunkers. The world below.
The central area of the warehouse turned into a black hole. The two Iron Warriors jumped down resolutely, and their screams were heard on the communication channel after taking a breath.
The expected frontal assault did not appear. A large number of grenades were thrown into the hollow below. A dull explosion sounded on the storm shield. The arms of the Iron Warriors were numb. Inside the power armor, the hands holding the shield were dripping with blood.
The shock wave of the explosion blew away the smoke, and another flash smoke bomb came. The war blacksmith kicked the smoke bomb back into the hole in the middle with a hammer.
The sound of heavy footsteps made the war blacksmith feel deep in despair. There were at least four enemies. Without the battleship's close-in defense guns, it was almost impossible to defeat them.
"The enemy is coming, prepare."
All the Iron Warriors turned their shields towards the original entrance, gripping their bolters nervously.
The sound is getting closer, the golden arm is exposed, fire, fire!
A warrior walked into the battlefield with his arms covering his eyes, facing a large number of explosive bombs calmly. When he attracted the attention of the Iron Warriors, a "Red Guard" suddenly flew out of the central hole.
The smoke bomb just now raised clouds of smoke below.
The space manta swung its tail and threw Yifeng up from below. The cross sword flashed in the air, hidden in the flames and mixed smoke of the blaster muzzle, and instantly pierced the head of an enemy.
Yifeng flipped his body in the air, made an elegant mid-air turn, and then slammed into the opponent's formation.
The enemy's mouth was already chapped, but now it was even more difficult to hold the shield, and the formation was smashed through by Yifeng in one fell swoop.
The two swords flew, the golden power sword smashed the enemy deeply into the wall behind, and the cross sword completely split the Mark IV power armor. The traitor's blood dripped into the exposed wires, and the flashing electric light smashed the scarlet The blood burned into curls of black smoke.
The war blacksmith raised his power hammer and charged towards Yifeng. He was desperate and full of strategies, which turned into a joke during the enemy's dimensionality-reducing attack. After fighting in the subspace for so long, he had seen countless demons and monsters. At this time, he spoke the last words of his life to the red-armored giant in front of him.
"Interstellar Evil!"
Ha, it’s a bit familiar, so I’ll give you the same treatment as it.
Yifeng chopped off the war blacksmith's head with a knife and wanted to throw it into the ashes. After hesitating, he threw it next to the body.
Keep it, maybe it can be used to anger the enemy later.
The battle in the battleship finally ended. With the speed of the Astartes, he killed several times in the battle barge and finally cleared the enemy.
Yifeng walked out of the battleship. Instead of the dark starry sky above his head, he saw the bright lights and silver ceiling of the People's Light.
"All units report casualties."
The casualties in this battle were very high. 239 soldiers died on the enemy warship. There are always surprises in gang-hopping battles, such as the unexpected explosion of macro artillery shells, enemy city-breaking tanks bombarding the interior of the warship, and continuous high-yield suicide bombers. attack...
The number of enemies annihilated was also very large, up to 3144 Iron Warriors. This force may be the main force responsible for advancing in one direction.
This number of Astartes placed in the Empire can launch several small expeditions, but in the Fourth Legion, there can be at most one expeditionary force.
They still used the ancient tactics from the Great Crusade, and Perturabo still madly regarded his own Astartes as high-level soldiers to carry out the most difficult offensive battles.
"Scatter all the active Ambition-class cruisers out and use them as reconnaissance ships. If necessary, use them as bait to lure the enemy into taking the bait."
"Quickly contact the surrounding Imperial Navy and share information. We need more enemy movements. Where is the Inquisition? Can we still be contacted?"
The People's Light quickly jumped out of subspace and returned to its home planet, where another 100 million people were floating in "space coffins". They were eaten by the People's Light in one bite, and there were already a large number of people in the shipyard. of adamantine keel.
People stepped off the battleship in an orderly manner and floated in space for a few days. They thought they had arrived at a nearby world, but something felt wrong as soon as they got off the ship. Why is the space homeport directly connected to the hive? Don’t you even need to take the space elevator?
The doubts did not last long as they invested in the new factory. A large number of basic products spit out by the space manta rays needed to be artificially processed into war weapons, because our only space manta rays were busy devouring the next battleship and repairing the flagship. A huge crack outside.
Yifeng was thinking about whether to abandon the entire battle group's home planet and completely transform into a space guerrilla warfare mode, but after listening to the wishes of the people, Yifeng gave up this idea.
The entire Chapter's home planet began to drill holes into the deepest strata below, striving to build a large number of underground bunkers that could withstand early battleship bombings and virus bombs that completely destroyed the planet's surface ecology.
The network below extends in all directions, and there is a tunnel battle with the Iron Warriors.
The newly established fortress already has the intention of giving up. The only thing there that can be called the core is a planetary void shield. It is not a big problem to fight against the Blood Legion, but it is not enough in front of the massive Iron Warriors.
At this time, Perturabo was marching toward Cintila, the capital of the Calixis sector.
"Can you say that again!"
"The 3082-0001 fleet disappeared into the subspace. According to the report of the evacuated gunboat, they encountered a super huge warship. The moment they came into contact with the opponent, the void shield and machine soul were severely damaged, and then the enemy warship opened Opened several huge gates, flew out more than twenty enemy ships, and swallowed all our warships."
"Bang~" A blood shadow flew out of the hatch. The Iron Warrior's body could not withstand the angry punch of the original body at all, and it had already been torn apart after being hit.
The soldiers standing around stubbornly refused to look at the dead messenger.
"Is this your first battle? Waste, a bunch of waste. Go investigate immediately. There is no record of any impact?"
"No, it is said that all the machine souls were paralyzed at that time. This is the memory image data obtained from the soul torture of the crew."
Before the speaker finished speaking, a hail of laser cannons blasted him away again. This time the original body did not move his fists, and the Iron Warrior survived.
"The Warp will deceive you. Do not trust psychic powers to retrieve memories... and release images."
Screens of light flashed across the holographic projection, and Perturabo felt like he was watching a madman's dream.
"This information is useless. Send out a reconnaissance team. We don't need ambiguous information. The main fleet's course remains unchanged."
The front of the Fourth Army advanced in a trident pattern.
The main fleet led by Perturabo attacked the world of Cintila, and a mixed fleet dominated by the Dark Mechanicus attacked the sub-star of Severis, which is a notorious mineral world with a hellish mining environment and one of the world's most powerful mining fleets. An important source of minerals in the sector.
The third fleet advanced towards the next door sector, the Ixanid sector, as the vanguard to open the way. The junction of these two star sectors is also the location of three of the ten home planets, including ours.
The Scarus sector contains several of our other home planets and is not in great danger for the time being because it is also very remote.
The location of the Red Torrent Mother Star is very critical. It can be said that it is the only way for the enemy to attack the Hazy Star Territory. Now, this army has assembled about 500 warships. After all, this is just the enemy's vanguard.
Under the leadership of sixteen war blacksmiths, these ships blossomed in all directions and quickly captured more than a dozen worlds along the main channel of subspace.
After nine Terra days, the enemy vanguard army that captured several planets along the way encountered the Calixis Sector Fleet, a powerful fleet. They assembled temporarily and defeated the forces entrenched on a loyal world. Sixteen enemy ships.
The commander of this navy had extensive experience fighting heretics, and he was confident without realizing the exact number of enemies.
Three warsmiths come together and they ambush the Calixian fleet.
The lack of experience in very large-scale naval battles caused the imperial commanders to make wrong judgments. More than 20 imperial main ships made an emergency jump into the subspace without much delay.
Our army of Ambition-class cruisers appeared at this time, and they aggressively scouted the forces in orbit around the local world. These enemies were enjoying the fruits of victory after defeating the Imperial Navy - waiting to receive sufficient supplies from this agricultural world. .
The entire world was plundered. This small agricultural world was not taken seriously by the Iron Warriors and became one of countless regretful worlds.
Discovering our small fleet that could threaten their safety, the three war blacksmiths quickly led their battleships to outflank us from three directions. After a brief battle, our battleships maintained an orderly formation and withdrew. subspace.
Two of the Warsmiths pursued our fleet from the front, while a third sped through the turbulence of the warp, trying to get around to our front.
What's ahead?
Yes, that’s right, our People’s Light.
Yifeng was preparing to cooperate with the decoy fleet in an ambush. The People's Light opened its optical curtain and floated in the void of space. The Mandeville point on the side flashed with light, and a small fleet came out.
As soon as this fleet entered this galaxy, they immediately headed towards the outermost interstellar dust belt. This galaxy had no human colonies and was completely an undeveloped and barren world. They drove at a rapid speed to the most suitable place for an ambush in this galaxy. One - beside the People's Light.
Then stop talking nonsense and get started.
The optical curtain suddenly tore open, and the majestic octagonal ship suddenly appeared behind the enemy's butt. The majestic fort blasted out cannonballs, and densely packed space manta rays lying on a huge scar flew out one after another at this time, in the broken void shield. After the ripples rippled, it headed towards the enemy's small ship.
Yi Fengling, there are always small gunboats running out of our ambush recently, and the manta rays eat them.
A force led by a war blacksmith jumped on the sixteen ships that our tenth chapter had just completed emergency repairs. Then they cooperated with the decoy force to launch a counterattack against the other two fleets.
In this beautiful, boring, step-by-step ambush battle, the Red Torrent Chapter used its understanding of this sector to deal with about a hundred enemy fleets.
This caused great alertness to the enemy's vanguard, which quickly gathered all the ships and released a large number of reconnaissance boats. This was a reconnaissance measure that was rejected for the sake of the speed of the raid, because these boats sailed in subspace. The speed is far inferior to their large battleships.
The big ship entered one world and released the small spaceship to scout the next world. As a result, the big ship easily took over this world and sailed to the next world. The small ship has not yet flown here. Isn't this a waste of time?
But now the situation has changed. The disappearance of more than ninety battleships and three war blacksmiths makes them afraid to send out separate main battleships. The gunboat that escaped back still said the same thing. The enemy was very big and would eat the boat.
The Iron Warriors' advance slowed.
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Guilliman has just gathered a force of more than a thousand battleships in the rear of the Obscure Star Territory, preparing to fight the Blood Legion again. At this time, he received two messages.
The Tyrant's Brain Trust...an urgent request for help from the Tribunal of Calixis. A huge chaotic fleet of thousands of warships is heading towards Cintila. It has observed the Iron Blood, the flagship of the Iron Warriors Legion. .
Red Torrent's urgent request for help, it was observed that there may be about 800 Iron Warriors fighting out of the subspace rift torn open by the Tyrant Star. The remnants of the Tenth Chapter are trying their best to block it, requesting support, appendix, that lady is with us, you hurry up.
The first message was clearly told to Guilliman. His brother appeared. Perturabo, the "big brother" of the Fourth Legion, began his plan to defeat the Imperial defense line and killed himself from behind.
The second message clarified the direction of Guilliman's support forces. The army must move quickly towards the Red River Chapter's home planet.
This time, Guilliman didn't even go to the stern of the ship to ask about the twenty heads... to degrade Caul's consciousness. The Regent handed over the people who blocked the Blood Legion to the Chapter Master of the Nemesis Chapter, Hawkdir. The order was to delay the enemy's attack as much as possible until he killed his brothers and came to help.
More than a thousand Imperial warships marched towards the home planet of the Red River Chapter at Guilliman's order, and the reinforcements from the Taiping Starfield also moved forward quickly.
The contemporary Grand Master of the Gray Knights refused to go with Guilliman. He led the Gray Knights back to the battlefield where they fought against the Blood Legion, accompanied by several Sisters of Silence.
The Ecclesiarchy surrounds Guilliman with fanaticism, and the Sisters of Battle stand ready to die heroically for the Emperor.
Everything is within the plan of the Lord of Change.
Apart from.....
Many of the thousand battleships that were hastily assembled were urgently recruited. The quality of the crews varied, and some mutants and guys contaminated by gene stealers were also recruited.
Although mutants are regarded as non-human by the empire, they are positioned as "slaves" and not destined to die. As long as you are willing to work for a lifetime, you can be guaranteed to be safe for the rest of your life.
This is what the empire does, and it seems more grandiose on the surface, but it just "tests your loyalty" and it takes a little long.
After a lot of messy money and power transactions, these mutant slaves mixed with the genestealer's hybrid recruits entered the lower deck of the battleship.
They are doing a very good job, working very seriously and very efficiently, except for the deformed Emperor's icon and a religious group that is gradually forming.
The "noble" missionaries of the State Church will never go into the dirty lower decks. They only serve high-ranking naval generals and a certain second generation from various star regions.
The commissar rarely went below deck, but wasted a lot of time in a lot of meaningless naval meetings and exchange banquets. The number of troops gathered this time is extraordinary. It is a good opportunity for various navies to make connections. There is no better way to meet than to fight side by side.
When a drunk political commissar savagely pressed the wrong button on the transport ladder and went down to the lowest deck, what he saw when he went out was a large number of mutant slaves.
The place is clean and tidy. The stench of excrement and the mixed smell of sweat have been cleaned up by the genestealers long ago. There is only the smell of condensation and holy oil from war weapons.
This made the drunken political commissar, who was walking randomly, think that he had returned to his beloved war cabin. He held a broom and caressed it as his beloved bolter for a long time, then tilted his head and fell asleep on the bottom deck.
The second batch of pure-blood chicken thieves has just been born. He is the descendant of the fourth generation of gene stealers and mutants. The howl of his birth awakened the political commissar, and the mutants had to kill him.
The disappearance of a political commissar was not discovered for several Terra days. His soldiers looked at the banquet invitations piled on the table and shook their heads helplessly, thinking that he was drunk on someone's white lap.
When the soldiers finally realized that their political commissar was missing, the Genetic Cult had taken over the entire lower deck and began to spread throughout the fleet.
When the ships stopped in a system for food supplies and had offline meetings with commanders, they came to more warships through transport ships.
The war began, a battle within the fleet. The alien inquisitors left the black ship and boarded one ship after another, with laser pistols flying over everyone's heads.
Several powerful people asked Guilliman to stop the fleet and complete internal cleansing before moving forward, but Guilliman forcefully rejected all proposals.
"The entire army maintains the highest sailing speed," Guilliman said seriously. "You should solve those problems on your own. If you did not handle these problems before arriving at the world of Oslossa 24, then you should atone for your sins." The tone left no room for doubt.