Chapter 171 Regaining Glory
The armored units were absolutely able to suppress the Nurgle zombies and the scattered Chaos Astartes who only dared to block the enemy in the roadside ruins. After the reinforcement, the heavy bombs and heavy flamethrowers of the Leman Russ cannons and side turrets on the nearly two-kilometer front line continued to roar, cutting off and evaporating the yellow-green tide.
The crossfire of the automatic guns and heavy bombs on the Chimera armored vehicles equipped with bulldozers is an important supplement to the main battle tanks. For ordinary Nurgle demons and zombies, there is not much difference between a heavy bomb and a howitzer. It is more important than anything else to pull out a large and dense heavy firepower network on both wings to fill the gaps in the infantry firepower.
The sound of the ceramic steel tracks rolling over the broken roadblocks was drowned out by the bursts of artillery fire from the rear. It was the extended bombardment of the petrified lizard self-propelled artillery from the self-propelled artillery battalion directly under the regiment headquarters. "Fire the shells, calibrate the landing point." Now it was John's turn to mark the highlighted traces in the infrared imaging system on the auspicious device and report to the regiment headquarters.
At a time when the entire planet's magnetic field collapsed in the fleet's orbital bombardment, primitive cable communication became the fastest and safest method. Although the legitimate psykers in the psychic combat group could also achieve psychic communication at this distance, when facing a battle with the Chaos Astartes, controlling the power of the Warp would be a very dangerous and irresponsible option.
Fortunately, they had both ground and air artillery fire. Facing the violent bombardment of 42 earth-shaking cannons, the ruins originally piled up by the wreckage of towers and fortresses flattened by the destructive impact once again turned into sunken basins in the terrifying flames.
Although this ancient self-propelled artillery was used by the WG classic army blind in "Imperial Armor" as the template of the British World War I artillery, it has a caliber of 132 mm, can fire 38 kg shells at a speed of 814 miles per hour, and has a range of more than 15 kilometers, which is an accurate and crazy garbage value.
But they are still equipped with the smoothbore cannons that Britain has been obsessed with forty thousand years. They are still the most commonly used and most powerful heavy artillery support force of the Imperial Guard (132mm heavy artillery, happy).
With a basic number of shells, these petrified lizards, dubbed earth-shakers, used terrifying firepower that did not match their small gun bodies to open up a burning path with a maximum width of more than seventy meters in the chaotic jungle of steel and concrete, which was wide enough for an armored attack group to deploy.
As the foundation of the human empire, the overlord of the galaxy, you can always believe in the power of the Lord of War artillery. A series of dazzling explosions and shocks directly cleared out hundreds of thousands of zombies nearby, as well as those human enemies who were mixed in and tried to block the advance of the Imperial Guard. Then the direct firepower of the armored company can easily clear out the remaining hostile targets.
Ten Leman Russ main battle tanks moved behind the Chimera equipped with a bulldozer to clear the way, and the heavy flames of promethium opened up a relatively safe path for the infantry following them. The vehicle bodies weighing dozens of tons rolled over the ground to compact the molten soil and steel debris.
Round after round of volleys from laser rifles slaughtered the zombies desecrated from death like harvesting wheat fields. From time to time, vehicle-mounted heavy bombs also joined their feast, competing with some strange individuals to see whether they were more sharp than steel propelled by flames or stronger than flesh soaked in the evil power of the warp.
Unfortunately, most people were not very skilled or were shy - too many people would not perform well, so the considerate heavy bombs sent them back to the warp to practice again. Without the command of the Black Legion, they were so weak that the blades tore through the fig leaves of these monsters in less than two hours.
Until the half-collapsed city gate, still wrapped in the void shield barrier, appeared in their field of vision. On the torn platinum door panel, bloodstains maliciously smeared into the pattern of a chaotic eight-pointed star could be vaguely seen. Next to it, a blood-stained battle flag tilted stubbornly. Everyone could see the blood sacrifice scene where the military flag was deliberately defiled and profaned.
The Cadian Blitzkrieg was enraged by the Black Legion's posturing. A beam of red light shot out from the edge of the ruins, melting through a piece of metal on the left track skirt of the Panzer IV tank and hitting the main armor plate of the Leman Russ. After a dazzling explosion, a large cloud of black smoke told of the tenacity of the Empire's main battle tank.
The auspicious instrument was silent, which almost confirmed that it was an attack from the Black Legion. Mortal traitors or demons did not have such skills, so they were hiding in solitude. "Flanking engagement, expected to be Chaos Astartes anti-armored squad, position 233-457, round fire, rapid fire three rounds!"
In war, it is important to recognize the difference between the enemy and ourselves. Just as light infantry should not look at Astartes, a small number of Astartes should not provoke a regular armored unit, especially in frontal combat. The explosion caused by the high-explosive main gun coverage attack instantly covered the suspicious area stretching for hundreds of meters. Even Chaos Astartes could not escape that extent of the attack area.
Amid the rough clicking sounds of hinges and gears, the high-explosive grenade that had been loaded was immediately pushed out of the barrel by the ignited flame. The blind shot had a large enough destructive range and did not require aiming at all. As for dodging and taking cover?
Ha, they have all gone to heaven.
The ruins were flattened in an instant. The Death Guard who was hit did not even treat the damaged limbs in wartime, but continued to fire at the main battle tank with his deadly anti-armor weapon. He just sat on the ground and endured the coaxial felling gun's sweep. The close-range hot melt tore open the armor of the damaged tank, causing the Leman Russ to suddenly stop moving and paralyzed in the open space.
The gunner then used the main gun to lock onto these superhuman warriors who had completely lost their mobility. Before they tried to fire again, the third round of high-explosive grenades swept through the two plague warriors first. Limbs and mud were thrown into the air by the shock wave, and scattered fragments hit the tank armor, making a noise of metal collision.
A Leman Russ was destroyed.
The molten metal penetrated by two direct hits turned her interior into a steel mill furnace. If the war could be won, her best treatment would be to dismantle her main gun, tracks and other usable parts, be purified for at least a hundred Terran days in the nano-incense and baptismal chants of the technical sergeants, and then wait to be revived on another engine.
The yellow-green tide was driven to the broken gate of the bastion. This large steel door panel, engraved with brass and obsidian with dozens of fierce battles on the Sun Makayathus, was once the symbol of the oath of the 31st Regiment of Cadia. Today, this is the fortress they are about to break through, and the glory they are about to take back!
Chapter 172: Traitor Falls, Eagle Flag Rises
More and more zombies and Nurgle demons gathered here under the guidance of the Black Legion Plague Marines. One hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, five hundred thousand... It was a sea of blasphemy that even John, standing on the Victor of Leman Russ, could not see the end of. The adjutant's whisper rang in his ears, "My lord, they are everywhere."
“Then let's fire everywhere!” He raised his head and saw about thirty red trails falling from the sky. “Look, the Emperor's angel of death is with us, the Emperor's glory is shining on us, don't be stingy with our artillery fire!” The Cadians will never surrender. Today we will either die or get glory!
The trajectory of the airdrop pods passed through the sky above the bastion, and everyone in the expeditionary force noticed these unexpected reinforcements. Although in theory there were mortal troops who would use airdrop pods, generally speaking, they were the symbol of the Emperor's Angel of Death - the wielder of the God-Emperor's light, the savior and destroyer of countless worlds, the Astartes!
The passionate battle cry instantly rang out from every corner of the bastion. Although there have been rumors that it is not a good thing to see the Astartes coming to support in the Apocalypse-level battlefield, no one can deny that their mere appearance has boosted the morale of the Imperial Guard beyond imagination.
"The traitors fell, the Eagle flag was raised!" Thousands of soldiers followed closely on both sides of the armored forces, and the volleys of laser rifles carved out bright passages in the square formation of the zombies. The heavy bombs and automatic cannons on the vehicles sprayed hot flames to tear the bloated bodies of the Nurgle demons crazily, until the last drop of coolant was consumed in the burning steam.
The most courageous warriors held the extremely dangerous flamethrowers and filled the gaps in the array with the flames of promethium. The demons and zombies ignited by the flames could only struggle and roll in the flames. They tried their best to bury the twisted bodies under the mud, but the result was only a pile of charred wreckage that slowly drifted away.
The artillery fire from the armored and artillery units extended further forward, crushing all the ruins and trenches that had been shattered once in the path. Incomplete bodies and severely damaged weapons were scattered in the destroyed defensive positions. Under the cover of the main battle tanks, the Cadian Blitzkrieg Army raised their bayonets and launched another charge towards the broken bastion gate.
The living did not hesitate to step over the fallen dead and wounded, holding laser rifles and rushing through the smoke, jumping over trenches and stepping over ruins. Nine main battle tanks roared and rushed to the center of the zombies at the same time, without any intention of slowing down. The heavy logging guns and main battle cannons continued to pour deadly fire on the demons and the zombies, and the adamantine tracks were covered with smelly demon debris.
The shrill laughter of Nurgle demons clanged, endless dead stood up from the ground, and the silent army was constantly devouring the flesh and blood of the Cadia Blitzkrieg, even though each Cadia warrior could destroy dozens of times the number of enemies.
The breath of despair was like a thorn in the side, until those strange black huge "airdrop pods" cleverly avoided the weak counterattacks on the ground that were too sparse to be called anti-aircraft firepower, and only briefly slowed down the claws of fear and smashed straight into the chaotic army. The small mushroom clouds raised by the claws designed for boarding blocked the sea water and the waves.
Those were dark reefs in the tide.
The Dreadclaw was the most advanced and powerful assault boat in the Empire, and it is still the most advanced and powerful. The blasted hatch revealed the short attack of countless heavy bombs, and the remaining lives within a radius of hundreds of meters were wiped out at this moment. Before the surging waves of zombies filled these gaps again, these ancient warriors from Caliban finally set foot on this land.
Each Terrorclaw, which was much larger than a regular Imperial airdrop pod, carried a Dreadnought and a small team of Dark Angel Knights, without exception. Twenty-nine Terrorclaws meant that nearly three companies of 290 Dark Angels and twenty-nine Dreadnoughts were urgently deployed in this slaughterhouse.
The Contemptor Dreadnought's Havoc Missile Launcher sounded the call for the carnage, a precursor to the massive Havoc Missile Launchers used by the Banelord Class Chaos Titans, only fitted to a few Contemptor Dreadnoughts during the Great Crusade.
When this ancient weapon, long lost in the long river of history, once again burst into dazzling flashes, a huge group of dazzling, almost pure white light formed a chain on the flat ground, and any area not affected was like darkness under the strong contrast of light. It was like a blow from a scaled-down Nova Cannon, and absolute destruction was the only thing the Dark Angels could give.
Twin heavy bombs, deflagration cannons, heavy flamethrowers, multi-barreled melta, plasma cannons, conversion beams, a series of common or long-lost technologies in the hands of the Dark Angels can tear through the enemy's front. Fortunately, even the Dark Angels are not crazy enough to use super killers such as phosphide missiles in the presence of friendly forces.
The knights in black armor and white robes gathered under the command of the Knight-commander and the Knight-captain. Just like the heavy cavalry forming an unstoppable shield wall charging on ancient Terra, the power blades intertwined into a dazzling silver wall in the old-fashioned yet gorgeous swordsmanship.
Any existence that touches this illusory yet real blade storm will be split and chopped by several war blades shining with decomposition! Every step of the knight phalanx will tear Nurgle's evil creatures into pieces, and the sharp power blades and storm shields form a smooth line that cuts and divides the Chaos army.
The fearless mechs splattered destruction and death wantonly as they marched forward, and the steel and fire bit by bit crushed and burned the dirty plague of rust. If any ignorant person really rushed into the side of these majestic engines, the impact drills that were powerful enough to destroy the city walls with one blow or the power fists that were bigger than the Astartes' heads would tell the cheaters what is righteousness.
——The way of smashing the head into the chest is called "righteousness".
The bloody fight at the bastion gate lasted less than 20 minutes, and the gunshots, roars and screams of the wounded gradually faded. When the Cadia star passed over the Imperial fleet and cast the setting sun, the Cadia Blitzkrieg raised the flag of the st Regiment on the ruins of a bunker, and the Imperial Guard successfully smashed a gap several kilometers wide in the last line of defense of the Black Legion.
Hundreds of thousands of Chaos remnants were driven out of the protection range of the Bastion's Void Shields, and were no longer within the scope of the Imperial Army's work. The Imperial fleet's macro-cannons roared and razed the Seven Hills to the ground. A Nurgle Great Daemon that was dragged into the physical universe was fed with macro-cannon volleys and rolled back to the knees of its loving father Nurgle and cried bitterly.
Finally, the cleansing spear of light will once again baptize this polluted and desecrated land, the mire full of fungi and plague will be burned into a large crystal glass basin, and the corrupted seven hills will be restored to the original molten steel hills and dust in the endless flames. The flag of the empire will fly above the planet again.
Chapter 173 I'll Change It Now
ps: (belly showing meow) The reader is right, learn the virtues of yellow chicken, I will change it now. Finish the remaining two chapters before three o'clock.
ps: Can you give me more posts? I want to copy your posts.
Kaleisus, Cadia Sector Military Affairs Department
Salmin reached out and lit up a corner of the star map. That was the last gap in the First Star Chain's defense system. "How is the reconstruction of Sun Makayathus going?"
A year ago, he had sat in the front row of a similar black room and rehearsed with the Grand Marshal of the Black Templar how to fight against the destruction brought down on Cadia by the Great Predator. Now, in this conference room, apart from the projection of the Lion King on the other side, there were only him and his ship girl. A loyal and powerful brother, and a wife who had signed a sacred contract.
Three months after the attack on the Eye of Terror, when he hastily assembled his forces and severely damaged the Thousand Sons Legion, the fleets that had been deployed to recapture the Dreadshield sector finally gathered again. The most elite fleet forces of the Imperium of Man and Chaos were now gathered here.
Apart from Comrade Kronstadt who was guarding the second battlefield of Volgatok, and Saratoga who was assisting the Lion King in fighting behind enemy lines, the entire Cadia, the Dread Shield navy and army, as well as the top leaders of the Mechanicus and the Ecclesiarchy were gathered in this small black room.
The red-haired ship girl on the left stood up and said, "Commander, the orbital defense of the Sun Makayatus, including its Void Auspex array, has been incorporated into the defense system of the First Star Link, but the reconstruction work on the ground is limited to the repaired four bastions due to the severe damage to the atmosphere. In a high-intensity war, we need to be prepared to issue an extermination order."
That was the Monarch, not the Mind Flayer from Baldur's Gate, but the Admiral of the Lord of the Cadian Sector, the Beta-type Glorious Queen-class battleship Monarch belonging to the royal family. As the supreme commander of the Cadian Shield Battle Fleet, he was responsible for the defense of the First Star Chain of Cadia after the Super Battle Fleet was transferred away.
After shedding her self-destructive tendencies in her eagerness to prove her superiority, the Monarch is indeed the most suitable ship girl for the boring defensive work under him. The commander-in-chief of the defensive battle really needs a general with a maximum stress resistance attribute, and there are indeed few ship girls who are as stubborn as Rogal Dorn. Maybe Enterprise can give it a try? (Pirate Boss clicked a thumbs down)
The value of one country, one ship.
The Cadia Shield battle fleet is now the largest single fleet under Salmin, and perhaps the largest fleet in the human empire. During the reconstruction, division and expansion, it has reached the terrifying scale of three Gungnir-class Queen of Glory battleships; two Warlord-class super battleships, one Arbiter-class super battleship, and two Damocles-class super battleships; four Annihilus-class battleships, four Agamemnon-class battleships; two Mars-class battlecruisers, 2 Overlord-class battlecruisers; 1 cruiser squadrons; and 2 escort ship squadrons.
Not counting the monarch itself, there are a total of three Glorious Queens, five super battleships, eight battleships, and fifty-one battlecruisers and cruisers. A total of sixty-seven main battleships were deployed without any dispersion on the twenty-light-second defense line of the First Star Link. This density of fleets even far exceeds the defense of the Throne World Terra!
This density of defense, combined with the rapid response fleets scattered among the many interstellar fortresses of the First Star Chain, can be described as an unbreakable alliance... er, an unbreakable iron wall. The bad news is that it is too strong, and the Chaos Alliance cannot break through it, so Salmin has to shrink its defense and create the illusion of being strong on the outside but weak on the inside.
He didn't dare to feign defeat to lure the enemy. Mortarion was not stupid. He didn't dare to underestimate any Primarch. If the feigned defeat turned into a real defeat, he would be the fool. But he not only had the courage to lure the enemy into a trap with false intelligence, but also a lot of it. If Chaos wanted to win, it had to break through Kaleisus, where the Webway City was located, and his carefully arranged Kaleisus would drain the last of Chaos' mobile forces.
At this point in the war, both sides were almost fighting with their cards open. Basic intelligence, true or false, filled the desks of the top leaders of both sides, and tons of parchment were covered with the hard work of the Alpha Legion. However, just as Salmin was testing Mortarion's trump card, Mortarion was also spying on his support.
After defeating Magnus, Mortarion had been eager for a victory to prove himself. Although he had scaled back his offensive after being blocked many times, his need for core intelligence had only intensified, to the point where he wanted to award the Alpha Legion thirteen gold medals in a row.
The more a dog wants to bite, the less it barks. Given Mortarion's silence on the battle front and his urging of the Alpha Legion, Salmin had no doubt that as long as Alpha's spies conveyed to him intelligence that was still within his control, Mortarion would not miss this opportunity to win glory and victory for him.
Warfare is all about deception. Deception is a normal tactic. For Salmin, the most important thing is the result of stopping the Great Rift from opening. Not to mention the illusory glory, even the process of victory can be ignored. But since it is a joint operation, considering allies is also an important part of the strategy.
The ship girls participated in this war for the future of mankind because of him, so naturally they would not have any objections to his arrangements. There was only one person he needed to consider. Salmin gestured to the stereoscopic image on the other side, "Your Highness the Lion King, what do you think?"
"I have no objection, but in this case, your army and the Alpha Legion will have to endure too many unnecessary battles, and may even risk encountering multiple ascended demon primarchs. If the decisive battle is based on the planet Cadia, I can bear this risk."
Salmin noticed the Lion King's overly gorgeous shield. There was no doubt that this shield from the Emperor himself was the material basis for the Lion King's proposal to fight two enemies at once. However, the Lion King was still too old. Unlike Guilliman who was still being greased in the stasis position, ten thousand years of slumber had completely destroyed his body.
"No, the power of the Primarch is necessary, but war is not a gamble. I have left enough redundancy in every link. If everything goes well, Your Majesty the Lion, I need you to intercept Mortarion and delay him for at least two days. It would be best if you kill him on the spot to destroy the Death Guard's command system. Saratoga and the Alpha Legion will be with you."
"Moreover," Salmin shook his head, "Cadia is more important than you think, even as important as the Terra Palace back then. The return of the Primarch will inject new vitality into the Empire, and whether this vitality is used to revive the human empire or to keep a dead corpse jumping around depends entirely on the safety of Cadia."
He has said it many times, but he still wants to emphasize that the human empire has already lost after the Great Rift opened up - the four gods of the warp are too lazy to use the blue-green modifier to cheat a little, and directly connect the warp with the physical universe, in other words, they have opened the wind spirit and moon shadow. Oh, I won't pretend anymore!
It is indeed impossible to do it without using cheats now, but if He doesn't 'ding' when the time comes, it will only be because they don't want to, and they are afraid that another player who has RP in his head and thinks he is a paper man will overturn the table in anger and stop playing.
After instilling the connection between the Necrons, the Cadian Blackstone Array, the Eye of Terror, and the Scarlet Road into the Lion King once again, he also received the Lion King's guarantee. The now reorganized 36,200 Dark Angels and their fleet will set off immediately and attack Fremas within 15 Terran days.
Since Guilliman had not yet returned, the Lion King used the Codex as toilet paper with a wave of his Meow Fist and rebuilt the Astartes Legion with a clear banner. Including the Alpha Fleet, the huge Dark Angels Legion attack group, consisting of three Glorious Queens, 36,000 Astartes and 37 battleships, was expected to appear directly behind the Chaos Fleet, totaling more than 2,600 warships.
The armored units were absolutely able to suppress the Nurgle zombies and the scattered Chaos Astartes who only dared to block the enemy in the roadside ruins. After the reinforcement, the heavy bombs and heavy flamethrowers of the Leman Russ cannons and side turrets on the nearly two-kilometer front line continued to roar, cutting off and evaporating the yellow-green tide.
The crossfire of the automatic guns and heavy bombs on the Chimera armored vehicles equipped with bulldozers is an important supplement to the main battle tanks. For ordinary Nurgle demons and zombies, there is not much difference between a heavy bomb and a howitzer. It is more important than anything else to pull out a large and dense heavy firepower network on both wings to fill the gaps in the infantry firepower.
The sound of the ceramic steel tracks rolling over the broken roadblocks was drowned out by the bursts of artillery fire from the rear. It was the extended bombardment of the petrified lizard self-propelled artillery from the self-propelled artillery battalion directly under the regiment headquarters. "Fire the shells, calibrate the landing point." Now it was John's turn to mark the highlighted traces in the infrared imaging system on the auspicious device and report to the regiment headquarters.
At a time when the entire planet's magnetic field collapsed in the fleet's orbital bombardment, primitive cable communication became the fastest and safest method. Although the legitimate psykers in the psychic combat group could also achieve psychic communication at this distance, when facing a battle with the Chaos Astartes, controlling the power of the Warp would be a very dangerous and irresponsible option.
Fortunately, they had both ground and air artillery fire. Facing the violent bombardment of 42 earth-shaking cannons, the ruins originally piled up by the wreckage of towers and fortresses flattened by the destructive impact once again turned into sunken basins in the terrifying flames.
Although this ancient self-propelled artillery was used by the WG classic army blind in "Imperial Armor" as the template of the British World War I artillery, it has a caliber of 132 mm, can fire 38 kg shells at a speed of 814 miles per hour, and has a range of more than 15 kilometers, which is an accurate and crazy garbage value.
But they are still equipped with the smoothbore cannons that Britain has been obsessed with forty thousand years. They are still the most commonly used and most powerful heavy artillery support force of the Imperial Guard (132mm heavy artillery, happy).
With a basic number of shells, these petrified lizards, dubbed earth-shakers, used terrifying firepower that did not match their small gun bodies to open up a burning path with a maximum width of more than seventy meters in the chaotic jungle of steel and concrete, which was wide enough for an armored attack group to deploy.
As the foundation of the human empire, the overlord of the galaxy, you can always believe in the power of the Lord of War artillery. A series of dazzling explosions and shocks directly cleared out hundreds of thousands of zombies nearby, as well as those human enemies who were mixed in and tried to block the advance of the Imperial Guard. Then the direct firepower of the armored company can easily clear out the remaining hostile targets.
Ten Leman Russ main battle tanks moved behind the Chimera equipped with a bulldozer to clear the way, and the heavy flames of promethium opened up a relatively safe path for the infantry following them. The vehicle bodies weighing dozens of tons rolled over the ground to compact the molten soil and steel debris.
Round after round of volleys from laser rifles slaughtered the zombies desecrated from death like harvesting wheat fields. From time to time, vehicle-mounted heavy bombs also joined their feast, competing with some strange individuals to see whether they were more sharp than steel propelled by flames or stronger than flesh soaked in the evil power of the warp.
Unfortunately, most people were not very skilled or were shy - too many people would not perform well, so the considerate heavy bombs sent them back to the warp to practice again. Without the command of the Black Legion, they were so weak that the blades tore through the fig leaves of these monsters in less than two hours.
Until the half-collapsed city gate, still wrapped in the void shield barrier, appeared in their field of vision. On the torn platinum door panel, bloodstains maliciously smeared into the pattern of a chaotic eight-pointed star could be vaguely seen. Next to it, a blood-stained battle flag tilted stubbornly. Everyone could see the blood sacrifice scene where the military flag was deliberately defiled and profaned.
The Cadian Blitzkrieg was enraged by the Black Legion's posturing. A beam of red light shot out from the edge of the ruins, melting through a piece of metal on the left track skirt of the Panzer IV tank and hitting the main armor plate of the Leman Russ. After a dazzling explosion, a large cloud of black smoke told of the tenacity of the Empire's main battle tank.
The auspicious instrument was silent, which almost confirmed that it was an attack from the Black Legion. Mortal traitors or demons did not have such skills, so they were hiding in solitude. "Flanking engagement, expected to be Chaos Astartes anti-armored squad, position 233-457, round fire, rapid fire three rounds!"
In war, it is important to recognize the difference between the enemy and ourselves. Just as light infantry should not look at Astartes, a small number of Astartes should not provoke a regular armored unit, especially in frontal combat. The explosion caused by the high-explosive main gun coverage attack instantly covered the suspicious area stretching for hundreds of meters. Even Chaos Astartes could not escape that extent of the attack area.
Amid the rough clicking sounds of hinges and gears, the high-explosive grenade that had been loaded was immediately pushed out of the barrel by the ignited flame. The blind shot had a large enough destructive range and did not require aiming at all. As for dodging and taking cover?
Ha, they have all gone to heaven.
The ruins were flattened in an instant. The Death Guard who was hit did not even treat the damaged limbs in wartime, but continued to fire at the main battle tank with his deadly anti-armor weapon. He just sat on the ground and endured the coaxial felling gun's sweep. The close-range hot melt tore open the armor of the damaged tank, causing the Leman Russ to suddenly stop moving and paralyzed in the open space.
The gunner then used the main gun to lock onto these superhuman warriors who had completely lost their mobility. Before they tried to fire again, the third round of high-explosive grenades swept through the two plague warriors first. Limbs and mud were thrown into the air by the shock wave, and scattered fragments hit the tank armor, making a noise of metal collision.
A Leman Russ was destroyed.
The molten metal penetrated by two direct hits turned her interior into a steel mill furnace. If the war could be won, her best treatment would be to dismantle her main gun, tracks and other usable parts, be purified for at least a hundred Terran days in the nano-incense and baptismal chants of the technical sergeants, and then wait to be revived on another engine.
The yellow-green tide was driven to the broken gate of the bastion. This large steel door panel, engraved with brass and obsidian with dozens of fierce battles on the Sun Makayathus, was once the symbol of the oath of the 31st Regiment of Cadia. Today, this is the fortress they are about to break through, and the glory they are about to take back!
Chapter 172: Traitor Falls, Eagle Flag Rises
More and more zombies and Nurgle demons gathered here under the guidance of the Black Legion Plague Marines. One hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, five hundred thousand... It was a sea of blasphemy that even John, standing on the Victor of Leman Russ, could not see the end of. The adjutant's whisper rang in his ears, "My lord, they are everywhere."
“Then let's fire everywhere!” He raised his head and saw about thirty red trails falling from the sky. “Look, the Emperor's angel of death is with us, the Emperor's glory is shining on us, don't be stingy with our artillery fire!” The Cadians will never surrender. Today we will either die or get glory!
The trajectory of the airdrop pods passed through the sky above the bastion, and everyone in the expeditionary force noticed these unexpected reinforcements. Although in theory there were mortal troops who would use airdrop pods, generally speaking, they were the symbol of the Emperor's Angel of Death - the wielder of the God-Emperor's light, the savior and destroyer of countless worlds, the Astartes!
The passionate battle cry instantly rang out from every corner of the bastion. Although there have been rumors that it is not a good thing to see the Astartes coming to support in the Apocalypse-level battlefield, no one can deny that their mere appearance has boosted the morale of the Imperial Guard beyond imagination.
"The traitors fell, the Eagle flag was raised!" Thousands of soldiers followed closely on both sides of the armored forces, and the volleys of laser rifles carved out bright passages in the square formation of the zombies. The heavy bombs and automatic cannons on the vehicles sprayed hot flames to tear the bloated bodies of the Nurgle demons crazily, until the last drop of coolant was consumed in the burning steam.
The most courageous warriors held the extremely dangerous flamethrowers and filled the gaps in the array with the flames of promethium. The demons and zombies ignited by the flames could only struggle and roll in the flames. They tried their best to bury the twisted bodies under the mud, but the result was only a pile of charred wreckage that slowly drifted away.
The artillery fire from the armored and artillery units extended further forward, crushing all the ruins and trenches that had been shattered once in the path. Incomplete bodies and severely damaged weapons were scattered in the destroyed defensive positions. Under the cover of the main battle tanks, the Cadian Blitzkrieg Army raised their bayonets and launched another charge towards the broken bastion gate.
The living did not hesitate to step over the fallen dead and wounded, holding laser rifles and rushing through the smoke, jumping over trenches and stepping over ruins. Nine main battle tanks roared and rushed to the center of the zombies at the same time, without any intention of slowing down. The heavy logging guns and main battle cannons continued to pour deadly fire on the demons and the zombies, and the adamantine tracks were covered with smelly demon debris.
The shrill laughter of Nurgle demons clanged, endless dead stood up from the ground, and the silent army was constantly devouring the flesh and blood of the Cadia Blitzkrieg, even though each Cadia warrior could destroy dozens of times the number of enemies.
The breath of despair was like a thorn in the side, until those strange black huge "airdrop pods" cleverly avoided the weak counterattacks on the ground that were too sparse to be called anti-aircraft firepower, and only briefly slowed down the claws of fear and smashed straight into the chaotic army. The small mushroom clouds raised by the claws designed for boarding blocked the sea water and the waves.
Those were dark reefs in the tide.
The Dreadclaw was the most advanced and powerful assault boat in the Empire, and it is still the most advanced and powerful. The blasted hatch revealed the short attack of countless heavy bombs, and the remaining lives within a radius of hundreds of meters were wiped out at this moment. Before the surging waves of zombies filled these gaps again, these ancient warriors from Caliban finally set foot on this land.
Each Terrorclaw, which was much larger than a regular Imperial airdrop pod, carried a Dreadnought and a small team of Dark Angel Knights, without exception. Twenty-nine Terrorclaws meant that nearly three companies of 290 Dark Angels and twenty-nine Dreadnoughts were urgently deployed in this slaughterhouse.
The Contemptor Dreadnought's Havoc Missile Launcher sounded the call for the carnage, a precursor to the massive Havoc Missile Launchers used by the Banelord Class Chaos Titans, only fitted to a few Contemptor Dreadnoughts during the Great Crusade.
When this ancient weapon, long lost in the long river of history, once again burst into dazzling flashes, a huge group of dazzling, almost pure white light formed a chain on the flat ground, and any area not affected was like darkness under the strong contrast of light. It was like a blow from a scaled-down Nova Cannon, and absolute destruction was the only thing the Dark Angels could give.
Twin heavy bombs, deflagration cannons, heavy flamethrowers, multi-barreled melta, plasma cannons, conversion beams, a series of common or long-lost technologies in the hands of the Dark Angels can tear through the enemy's front. Fortunately, even the Dark Angels are not crazy enough to use super killers such as phosphide missiles in the presence of friendly forces.
The knights in black armor and white robes gathered under the command of the Knight-commander and the Knight-captain. Just like the heavy cavalry forming an unstoppable shield wall charging on ancient Terra, the power blades intertwined into a dazzling silver wall in the old-fashioned yet gorgeous swordsmanship.
Any existence that touches this illusory yet real blade storm will be split and chopped by several war blades shining with decomposition! Every step of the knight phalanx will tear Nurgle's evil creatures into pieces, and the sharp power blades and storm shields form a smooth line that cuts and divides the Chaos army.
The fearless mechs splattered destruction and death wantonly as they marched forward, and the steel and fire bit by bit crushed and burned the dirty plague of rust. If any ignorant person really rushed into the side of these majestic engines, the impact drills that were powerful enough to destroy the city walls with one blow or the power fists that were bigger than the Astartes' heads would tell the cheaters what is righteousness.
——The way of smashing the head into the chest is called "righteousness".
The bloody fight at the bastion gate lasted less than 20 minutes, and the gunshots, roars and screams of the wounded gradually faded. When the Cadia star passed over the Imperial fleet and cast the setting sun, the Cadia Blitzkrieg raised the flag of the st Regiment on the ruins of a bunker, and the Imperial Guard successfully smashed a gap several kilometers wide in the last line of defense of the Black Legion.
Hundreds of thousands of Chaos remnants were driven out of the protection range of the Bastion's Void Shields, and were no longer within the scope of the Imperial Army's work. The Imperial fleet's macro-cannons roared and razed the Seven Hills to the ground. A Nurgle Great Daemon that was dragged into the physical universe was fed with macro-cannon volleys and rolled back to the knees of its loving father Nurgle and cried bitterly.
Finally, the cleansing spear of light will once again baptize this polluted and desecrated land, the mire full of fungi and plague will be burned into a large crystal glass basin, and the corrupted seven hills will be restored to the original molten steel hills and dust in the endless flames. The flag of the empire will fly above the planet again.
Chapter 173 I'll Change It Now
ps: (belly showing meow) The reader is right, learn the virtues of yellow chicken, I will change it now. Finish the remaining two chapters before three o'clock.
ps: Can you give me more posts? I want to copy your posts.
Kaleisus, Cadia Sector Military Affairs Department
Salmin reached out and lit up a corner of the star map. That was the last gap in the First Star Chain's defense system. "How is the reconstruction of Sun Makayathus going?"
A year ago, he had sat in the front row of a similar black room and rehearsed with the Grand Marshal of the Black Templar how to fight against the destruction brought down on Cadia by the Great Predator. Now, in this conference room, apart from the projection of the Lion King on the other side, there were only him and his ship girl. A loyal and powerful brother, and a wife who had signed a sacred contract.
Three months after the attack on the Eye of Terror, when he hastily assembled his forces and severely damaged the Thousand Sons Legion, the fleets that had been deployed to recapture the Dreadshield sector finally gathered again. The most elite fleet forces of the Imperium of Man and Chaos were now gathered here.
Apart from Comrade Kronstadt who was guarding the second battlefield of Volgatok, and Saratoga who was assisting the Lion King in fighting behind enemy lines, the entire Cadia, the Dread Shield navy and army, as well as the top leaders of the Mechanicus and the Ecclesiarchy were gathered in this small black room.
The red-haired ship girl on the left stood up and said, "Commander, the orbital defense of the Sun Makayatus, including its Void Auspex array, has been incorporated into the defense system of the First Star Link, but the reconstruction work on the ground is limited to the repaired four bastions due to the severe damage to the atmosphere. In a high-intensity war, we need to be prepared to issue an extermination order."
That was the Monarch, not the Mind Flayer from Baldur's Gate, but the Admiral of the Lord of the Cadian Sector, the Beta-type Glorious Queen-class battleship Monarch belonging to the royal family. As the supreme commander of the Cadian Shield Battle Fleet, he was responsible for the defense of the First Star Chain of Cadia after the Super Battle Fleet was transferred away.
After shedding her self-destructive tendencies in her eagerness to prove her superiority, the Monarch is indeed the most suitable ship girl for the boring defensive work under him. The commander-in-chief of the defensive battle really needs a general with a maximum stress resistance attribute, and there are indeed few ship girls who are as stubborn as Rogal Dorn. Maybe Enterprise can give it a try? (Pirate Boss clicked a thumbs down)
The value of one country, one ship.
The Cadia Shield battle fleet is now the largest single fleet under Salmin, and perhaps the largest fleet in the human empire. During the reconstruction, division and expansion, it has reached the terrifying scale of three Gungnir-class Queen of Glory battleships; two Warlord-class super battleships, one Arbiter-class super battleship, and two Damocles-class super battleships; four Annihilus-class battleships, four Agamemnon-class battleships; two Mars-class battlecruisers, 2 Overlord-class battlecruisers; 1 cruiser squadrons; and 2 escort ship squadrons.
Not counting the monarch itself, there are a total of three Glorious Queens, five super battleships, eight battleships, and fifty-one battlecruisers and cruisers. A total of sixty-seven main battleships were deployed without any dispersion on the twenty-light-second defense line of the First Star Link. This density of fleets even far exceeds the defense of the Throne World Terra!
This density of defense, combined with the rapid response fleets scattered among the many interstellar fortresses of the First Star Chain, can be described as an unbreakable alliance... er, an unbreakable iron wall. The bad news is that it is too strong, and the Chaos Alliance cannot break through it, so Salmin has to shrink its defense and create the illusion of being strong on the outside but weak on the inside.
He didn't dare to feign defeat to lure the enemy. Mortarion was not stupid. He didn't dare to underestimate any Primarch. If the feigned defeat turned into a real defeat, he would be the fool. But he not only had the courage to lure the enemy into a trap with false intelligence, but also a lot of it. If Chaos wanted to win, it had to break through Kaleisus, where the Webway City was located, and his carefully arranged Kaleisus would drain the last of Chaos' mobile forces.
At this point in the war, both sides were almost fighting with their cards open. Basic intelligence, true or false, filled the desks of the top leaders of both sides, and tons of parchment were covered with the hard work of the Alpha Legion. However, just as Salmin was testing Mortarion's trump card, Mortarion was also spying on his support.
After defeating Magnus, Mortarion had been eager for a victory to prove himself. Although he had scaled back his offensive after being blocked many times, his need for core intelligence had only intensified, to the point where he wanted to award the Alpha Legion thirteen gold medals in a row.
The more a dog wants to bite, the less it barks. Given Mortarion's silence on the battle front and his urging of the Alpha Legion, Salmin had no doubt that as long as Alpha's spies conveyed to him intelligence that was still within his control, Mortarion would not miss this opportunity to win glory and victory for him.
Warfare is all about deception. Deception is a normal tactic. For Salmin, the most important thing is the result of stopping the Great Rift from opening. Not to mention the illusory glory, even the process of victory can be ignored. But since it is a joint operation, considering allies is also an important part of the strategy.
The ship girls participated in this war for the future of mankind because of him, so naturally they would not have any objections to his arrangements. There was only one person he needed to consider. Salmin gestured to the stereoscopic image on the other side, "Your Highness the Lion King, what do you think?"
"I have no objection, but in this case, your army and the Alpha Legion will have to endure too many unnecessary battles, and may even risk encountering multiple ascended demon primarchs. If the decisive battle is based on the planet Cadia, I can bear this risk."
Salmin noticed the Lion King's overly gorgeous shield. There was no doubt that this shield from the Emperor himself was the material basis for the Lion King's proposal to fight two enemies at once. However, the Lion King was still too old. Unlike Guilliman who was still being greased in the stasis position, ten thousand years of slumber had completely destroyed his body.
"No, the power of the Primarch is necessary, but war is not a gamble. I have left enough redundancy in every link. If everything goes well, Your Majesty the Lion, I need you to intercept Mortarion and delay him for at least two days. It would be best if you kill him on the spot to destroy the Death Guard's command system. Saratoga and the Alpha Legion will be with you."
"Moreover," Salmin shook his head, "Cadia is more important than you think, even as important as the Terra Palace back then. The return of the Primarch will inject new vitality into the Empire, and whether this vitality is used to revive the human empire or to keep a dead corpse jumping around depends entirely on the safety of Cadia."
He has said it many times, but he still wants to emphasize that the human empire has already lost after the Great Rift opened up - the four gods of the warp are too lazy to use the blue-green modifier to cheat a little, and directly connect the warp with the physical universe, in other words, they have opened the wind spirit and moon shadow. Oh, I won't pretend anymore!
It is indeed impossible to do it without using cheats now, but if He doesn't 'ding' when the time comes, it will only be because they don't want to, and they are afraid that another player who has RP in his head and thinks he is a paper man will overturn the table in anger and stop playing.
After instilling the connection between the Necrons, the Cadian Blackstone Array, the Eye of Terror, and the Scarlet Road into the Lion King once again, he also received the Lion King's guarantee. The now reorganized 36,200 Dark Angels and their fleet will set off immediately and attack Fremas within 15 Terran days.
Since Guilliman had not yet returned, the Lion King used the Codex as toilet paper with a wave of his Meow Fist and rebuilt the Astartes Legion with a clear banner. Including the Alpha Fleet, the huge Dark Angels Legion attack group, consisting of three Glorious Queens, 36,000 Astartes and 37 battleships, was expected to appear directly behind the Chaos Fleet, totaling more than 2,600 warships.
