paranoianovel Chapter 160 The ground war is about to begin
Chapter 160 The ground war is about to begin
The last Khorne cruiser was blasted to pieces by the battleship Infinite Loyalty, and the Khorne fleet in the entire galaxy was basically wiped out.
The battleships eliminated the remaining forces of Khorne as quickly as possible. At this time, the Moon-class cruisers drove straight into the depths of the galaxy to pursue the remaining forces of the Tau.
The Nicassar people also suffered heavy losses. When they saw it, they thought, why are the troops coming? They couldn't stand it anymore, so they abandoned their troops on the spot and ran away.
The Nikasars don't like to fight, they are explorers.
The remaining dozen or so Tau warships have no fighting spirit, and their morale has dropped to the bottom, because the Ethereal Elder Tuqilo has now been divided into five parts.
A Chaos Champion teaches you how to be a good person.
The characteristic of the Tau is that after the Ether arrives, they will fall into a frenzy due to pheromones and hypnosis. However, once the Ether is killed, the morale of the Tau will fall to the bottom.
The Nicassar held a device containing Tuccillo's head and hurriedly ordered the fleet to retreat at full speed.
Some Tau warships that were still moving searched for life capsules in the wreckage, but sometimes some Khorne warriors were released from the life capsules, causing heavy casualties to the crew.
Eventually, the Tau warships paid little attention to the life pods that had no signal.
The Vitora system was lost, and behind it was the Tau's third line of defense, which was laid out along the Gulf of Damocles. If it was breached there again, the surrounding world would be completely out of Tau control.
Just leave?
Are moon-class cruisers so easy to talk to?
A few Nova Cannon shots were aimed at it, and the enemy's raised psychic shield barely blocked a few shots. However, one shot hit a defender cruiser, and the numb Tau people watched another fireworks.
The Tau navy has withdrawn, and there is really only one out of ten.
Khorne does great things.
In the subspace, where the Tau star corresponds to the subspace, the Tzeentch demon who came all the way looked around in confusion. Why hasn't the force of Khorne come yet?
Isn't it a joke that a Daemon of Khorne can discover a Daemon of Tzeentch? Of course it was a flaw deliberately exposed by the demon Tzeentch.
Tzeentch used a plan to kill people with swords and deceive the Khorne forces, allowing them to cut down the Secret Cult and be done with it.
At this time, the Tzeentch demon looked around, not even seeing a single hair in the dark area of subspace.
What's wrong?
Go back and look for it.
Youzaiyouzai turned back and saw three injured Moon-class cruisers, dragging the Mother of Tears battle barge and a Khorne force's strike cruiser, slowly moving towards a forge world.
The Tzeentch Demon was about to take action, but when he looked forward, he saw that there was a lightly damaged battle barge in the forefront that was obviously the Son of Sanguinius.
Forget it, it's not that difficult to corrupt the Son of Holy Les.
Others have been corrupted by Chaos, and in a hurry, they call themselves the Corpse Emperor. It just depends on their luck.
These guys are anxious. Once the Black Fury is activated, I will most likely be beaten back to the Crystal Maze. Whether I can reshape my body depends on Lord Tzeentch's mood. I will be unhappy or not.
So the Tzeentchian demon went home to report.
The good-for-nothing Khorne not only has no brains, he has never even fought before.
The Tzeentch demon returned and reported that the deceived Khorne army had failed to defeat a group of heirs of Holy Leth, and was defeated.
Tzeentch was actually quite curious, because Carlos said that there were so many Astartes fighting Khorne this time, including Space Wolves, White Scars, Ultramarines, Iron Warriors, Iron Hands, Imperial Fists, and Holy Blood. Angels, Luna Wolves, Word Bearers, Death Guard, Emperor's Children and other warriors, as well as the scions of the Raven Guard were on the side.
Carlos, the big devil, has two heads, one head always tells the truth and the other always tells lies.
When Tzeentch heard this, he knew that this was a lie, and he was leaving the Great Crusade here.
Then the demon who came back reported that Khorne's chop had never beaten the angel's chop.
Okay, anyway, Astartes definitely didn't go to the Tau family for tourism. It doesn't matter whether Astartes spread the secret religion or Khorne spread the secret religion.
What? Where did the Word Bearers, Death Guard, and Emperor's Children come from, you ask?
Two hundred black shield warriors find out.
Tzeentch didn't care much about this matter. What he cared about more was how the wise Emperor would handle the situation at hand.
There are a lot of Khorne forces in the dark side of the empire, killing them everywhere. Why?
The empire is openly led by Nurgle, and it is even said that this black expedition is supported by Nurgle.
A certain regent fought an Indomitus Crusade, so forget it. The key is that you ran to Nurgle's garden, and the Emperor showed up, wounded Mortarion, a Nurgle general, and set the garden on fire. It was burned, and Nurgle himself suffered injuries that would never heal. When he looked back, he saw that Nurgle's pot had also been smashed.
No matter how good-tempered my loving father is, he can't bear it.
As a result, Nurgle's forces supported Abaddon in launching a war, and the Empire was full of Great Unclean Ones leading their armies to spread gold everywhere.
Occasionally, the forces of Slaanesh are mixed in and confused everywhere.
And a certain old six forces stir up trouble everywhere.
Tzeentch's tentacle pressing on the crystal ball suddenly trembled.
Oh, the emperor took action? The Cursed Legion is dispatched, and the fun begins.
Yifeng and the Tau don't know what happened to the Empire on the surface. They only know that the Tau were defeated in the battle of Vitora Galaxy.
Of course, this is for the Navy.
The army hasn't surrendered yet, and Viteora's world defenses are pretty good.
Because it is a family world and the main colony of the Tau, (the total population of the Tau is less than that of a hive), the ground defense here is extremely strong.
The local world has learned from the experience of previous planetary battles. Those pleasant wonders and lush forests have been cleared away, leaving only the minimum threshold for ecological maintenance, and replaced by a large number of anti-aircraft shields and automatic turrets.
But Yifeng had to launch an attack here.
The Tau seemed to have discovered Yifeng's strategic intentions.
Do you think our planet can't build ships? Do you think we can't threaten your transportation lines and rear?
As a result, the Tau have stored a large number of space shipyard facilities here. Within a few months of Yifeng's troops leaving, their advanced launch vehicles can lift off all the prepared parts and assemble the space shipyard and Battleship.
(To be precise, armaments and dismantled shipyards from other abandoned worlds were moved here)
A large number of automated facilities and sufficient drones can allow the Tau to achieve amazing productivity in a short period of time.
This is a hedgehog, no, a time bomb, it will explode if you don't care.
Also a big treasure.
The warehouse here is packed to the brim, constantly seducing Yifeng's heart.
Otherwise, have a fight?
The Everlasting Mountains and the Serious Alert circle the planet Vitora.
In a sense, "man" is almost dead.
On the ground, an etheric noble (not a esoteric cultist) stood on the highest and hardest Viteora Supreme Council building, looking worriedly at the sky.
It was ordered to stick to the world of Vitora, die with the enemy, or quickly start space construction after the enemy left.
However, looking at the current situation, it may be the former.
The first thing to start is still the orbital bombing.
It's a battle between ground-based turrets on the planet and battle barges in the sky.
Large bombs that can destroy a city fall like a violent storm. Every bombing position has been carefully calculated. The planetary shield is "sparkling". Beyond the beautiful picture is a devastating explosion.
Under the planetary shield, there are densely packed small shields protecting various facilities.
When a slightly larger object falls into the shield, a large number of Tau missiles will immediately fly from all directions to intercept it.
But the Tau's shield, like most shields, can only protect against energy weapons and super-fast impacts.
They cannot bear the impact of large objects.
So wouldn't it be enough to smash them down with something large that their missiles can't hit?
For example, the Dark Angel Legion once faced a world with extremely outrageous planetary shield defenses, and they desperately blocked the First Legion's offensive.
In the anger of the Dark Angel, we will not dismantle the planetary shield generator!
Part of the Extermination Order weapons cannot be thrown due to the existence of the shield, and other low-speed weapons cannot be deployed due to the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower.
The Dark Angel was cruel and installed a large planet-level engine on a satellite of that world, and then pushed it towards that world.
Total destruction.
Does our war group have a planetary engine? No, but there are a lot of them in this galaxy.
A large number of warship wreckage are floating in the galaxy. Khorne's warships are not willing to jump gangs and do not mind ship-to-ship collisions.
There are a large number of battleships broken into two parts in the galaxy.
Ever since, the Red Torrent Chapter made a very waaaaagh move.
The soldiers of the 10th and 11th companies carried vehicles, crammed into half of the battleship, and smashed directly towards the planet.
Of course, there were more than a dozen other large battleship fragments smashed together.
These things were originally warship armor that required "concentrated firepower" to break through a large number of Tau navy ships. Their current appearance caused the local air defense system to collapse directly.
The Tau did not know that the Astartes were hiding inside, they just thought it was an attack, and the enemy wanted to use the wreckage of the battleship to hit the Tau's defense facilities.
The local etheric leaders are even more convinced that this is a group of greenskin-like barbarians.
It didn't matter, they knew that the Astartes were hiding in the wreckage of the battleship, which only made them more certain that the Astartes were as barbaric as the greenskins.
The arrival of these warship wreckage also disrupted the plans of many Tau troops hiding in special terrains, such as those hiding in the forest to prepare for an ambush, hiding in the mountains and digging tunnels to prepare for the assassination, and setting up decoys in the desert terrain to prepare for concentration. shelled...
No matter what kind of troops are hiding, if a metal thing thousands of meters long falls down, you have to turn around and run.
Large craters visible to the naked eye appeared on the ground. Under the cover of the rising dust and huge shock waves, the soldiers of the reconnaissance company moved towards various areas. Their mission was simple, to find out where the planetary shield was. Where.
All actions are meaningful, and based on feedback from orbital bombardments, the Chapter has determined the approximate location of the planetary shield.
Due to technological reasons, the Tau's planetary shield generator cannot be hidden underground and can only be camouflaged with some buildings. As long as it avoids the unmanned detection of soldiers and bees, the location can be easily determined. Of course, for the Astartes It's simple.
It is obvious that the Tau people do not know Yifeng's habits. There are no important facilities near these shield generators. The Tau people are afraid that if an arsenal or something is built next to them, and an accident occurs, the arsenal will explode and the shield generators will be destroyed. It's fun to blow up.
If there really is a strategic warehouse, our Yi, the Great Predator, Maple may not be willing to blow it up, but if there is no such thing, there will be no taboos.
So, after the scouts left, the battle group pulled in a bunch of warship fragments.
Come on, let's see if you have more anti-aircraft missiles or if the warships here have more debris.
Several large pieces of the battleship smashed towards the planetary shield launcher. No matter what technology or quantity you have, you can defeat all methods with one force.
From the heavy railgun bombardment at the beginning to the near-air explosion of large bombs just to deflect the warship fragments, the Tau's ground troops gradually became desperate and even began to hate the useless navy. They couldn't defeat others and indirectly helped them. They broke through our defenses.
There were also accidents. When the second half of the battleship was smashed down, the engine that was still intact exploded, directly annihilating the area dozens of kilometers around the planetary shield launcher.
In the end, all the planetary shield launchers were breached and buried by battleship debris, making it impossible to send people in for repairs for a while.
They don't have the time either.
After the scouts hid in a remote mountainous area, the Red Torrent Chapter launched an indiscriminate orbital bombing of the area.
At this time, small shields were clearly revealed, like Gardens of Eden on the vast scorched earth, with flames filling the sky outside the shield and green trees and red flowers inside.
All Tau troops are on alert. They are hiding in shields and hiding in deep underground bunkers everywhere. Once the bombing is over, they will rush out of the bunkers immediately.
In the areas protected by the shield, there are already countless fighter planes in those airports ready to take off, and a large number of armored vehicles and troops are already in place next to the military base.
Two TAU frontline observers were sighing as they looked at the giant bombs that kept falling outside the shield.
"Aren't our bombs... not very powerful?"
"The Greater Good loves peace and will never be like these technological barbarians who frantically develop such weapons that destroy the environment. Our goal is the Greater Good and the unity of all races in the galaxy!"
The Tau warrior who just asked casually looked at the pulse rifle in his hand, and then looked at the big bomb falling from the sky.
It turned its head silently and looked at the brother who just spoke nonsense. The brother looked straight at him, looking solemn and upright, and then pointed to his heart.
Immediately, the Tau Alliance soldier understood.
"That's right, I am the Supreme Being and have always convinced others with my virtue. This group of barbarians will never be able to defeat us. We have a fundamental ideological dimensionality reduction attack!"
A patrolling drone silently put away its pulse cannon and continued to the next outpost.
The Tau Alliance soldier breathed a sigh of relief.
It turned back gratefully, wanting to thank the brothers next to it. When it turned around, it saw a super big man, smashing the head of its comrade into pieces with one hand, and suppressing the gun with the other hand.
Their eyes met, with a hint of shyness in their embarrassment.
In this life, the last thing I look at is you.
The signature tactic of the Red Torrent, the large bombs that seem to be constantly falling are actually used to cover a large number of Astartes warriors.
No one could have imagined that among so many bombs trailing down with long tails of flames, Astartes landing pods were hidden, and no one could have imagined that when the ground was subjected to such high-intensity bombings, anyone would dare to land there. Where there is a shield, invade the shield area on foot.
This is the benefit of the integration of the battle group and the navy. In this high-risk operation, the orbital bombing positions have been carefully calculated. Even every bombing projection port is now operated by the Astartes personally.
This outrageous tactic is typical of the Luna Wolves.
The scouts moved forward among the ash raised by the huge shock wave, sneaking into the area under the enemy's shield.
There is a saying that the Tau's extensive use of drones does give them an advantage over the Empire in terms of field of view control and information collection.
Only a few minutes after these Tau soldiers disappeared, an amber alert was sounded in the area.
The sentry is missing, maybe because the shield is flashing, and the power of the bombing has reached here.
Soon, the quick reaction force approached here. These elite Fire Caste veterans and Kroot people wearing XV48 and XV49 cautiously approached here and saw two corpses hit on the head by rubble.
Indeed, while the shield can block violent explosions, it cannot block slower-moving debris.
This group of Fire Caste warriors looked at the Tau Alliance in front of them speechlessly. How unorganized they must be to be hit on the head by the "slowly" flying gravel.
At this time, these elite Fire Tribe soldiers felt that they were outnumbered, so the observation posts here were replaced by Wasps, preparing to close the team.
But a Fire Caste veteran raised a question, if the gravel flies in at the extreme speed that can pass through the shield, can it cause such tragic injuries when it flies here?
One of their Tau wearing an XV33 customized comprehensive crisis combat suit stood up, and it took about a minute to scan the two corpses.
At this time, an earth-shattering explosion occurred in the base behind them.
The shield system was burning with raging fire, the ion wind was blowing in all directions, and then it became a pile of scrap metal.
The alarm was raised to red alert, and all the Tau troops immediately ran for their lives and rushed straight into the underground bunker. The shield was gone. A bomb dropped would kill someone.
To their surprise, when all the troops rushed into the underground bunker, the orbital bombing did not fall in this area.
Just kidding, strategic warehouse!
The Astartes smashed a number of automatic turrets and "secured" the exits of various underground passages.
Then the troops with involuntary transfer of strategic resources began to do their job.
The munitions warehouse... is full of a bunch of outdated aircraft. Take some things apart and hey~ they even have identification recognition and automatically turn on, so they should explode.
What's that? Oh, the food warehouse, it doesn’t matter, wait, where are Tenos’s works? Tuck it all in.
What is here, the material warehouse... Brothers, work!
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Far away on Tau, the home world of the Tau.
In the top-secret palace of Tau, a ceremony is being held.
A middle-aged etheric noble was being tied up in the center of the altar. It was very scared now and didn't know what it was going to face. It just came to the conference hall to wait under the order of the supreme leader, but was tied up by the guards.
At the highest point of the altar is Tuccillo's head in a stagnant position.
Different from those dirty chaotic rituals, the ceremony at this time looked solemn and solemn. The surrounding walls were bright white, engraved with the sayings of the Greater Good and the deeds of the great etheric (esoteric) leaders of the past dynasties.
The altar in the middle is large and spacious. In addition to mysterious patterns, there are also psychic props of different colors.
The Nicasars gathered around the altar, gathering their spiritual energy.
Gloomy blue spiritual energy lit up in a circle around the altar, and then branched out into several filaments, connecting Tucillo's head and the unlucky etheric middle-aged man.
All the psychic props lit up, emitting colorful colors and blooming like fireworks.
The etheric middle-aged man suddenly let out a scream of extreme pain, his eyes were bloodshot, his face was distorted beyond the physiological limit, and his whole body was shaking uncontrollably.
The entire sacrificial hall echoed with the sound of howling and bursting with psychic energy.
After a while, the ceremony was over, and Tuccillo's head had been burned to ashes.
The creature in the middle stood up slowly and said: "Nikassar people, I will faithfully deliver your reward, if the higher good can withstand this disaster."
"It seems that the memory copy and pasting was successful. You should be careful to stay away from anti-psionic things."
"I know, it's not the first time." The brand new Tucillo put on the black hood and walked slowly towards the depths of the hall. It wanted to discuss with the secret cult leaders as soon as possible. Now it was a real matter of life and death. critical moment.
It was still the quaint round table, and there were still many secret sect leaders on it, but the situation had taken a turn for the worse.
The man in black No. 2 is still very strong, but the supreme leader of Ether is no longer irritable.
Tucillo explained what had happened to the others, but none of them expected the Khorne fleet's attack.
The Warp is also unable to predict the actions of certain Daemons of Khorne, whose nature is impermanence.
The Esoteric Cult attributed this incident to bad luck.
But the battle still had to be fought, and they still had to fight the "Imperial Fleet" which was almost undamaged.
The navy is already depleted, and even if the shipyards work overtime, it is impossible to restore a navy large enough to fight the enemy.
At this point, the secret sect's only trump card is its own powerful battleship.
That old ship has never moved since the 32K era when it sent them all the way to escape.
It is now buried deep under the Tau planet, under the hall of the Tau Supreme Council, and has not been touched for nearly 10,000 years.
Can that one battleship alone turn the tide of the war?
No, the power of the "empire" must be weakened. If the navy cannot do it, the army will have to come.
We have to find a way to force the enemy to keep fighting our army.
"Dong Dong Dong~"
While he was thinking, the courier knocked on the door with the latest confidential information.
The "Empire" attacked the world of Vitora, and they started a land battle with us.
Almost at the same time, all the secret cult leaders' eyes lit up, and they issued orders in unison to the ether who sent the message.
"All worlds will copy the world model of Vitora's family and force the enemy to engage in land battles."