Emperor's Bane

Chapter 146 Infiltrate
For Shadow Champion Ezio, what happened on Taxus V was not a battle that made him feel at home or even slightly comfortable.

The impact of the warp space storm on the empire is actually greater than many people imagined. At the very least, for some fleets that were already scattered or with few troops, this storm almost destroyed their organizational system and logistical supplies. Many fighters had to fight with insufficient equipment.

This is the case with Ezio. Although the First Legion does not lack his ammunition and regular supplies, the loss caused by the lack of combat brothers is difficult to make up for.

In people's usual thinking, shadow combat seems to be a very simple concept, something that an assassin can accomplish with a dagger or a silencer pistol, but at least for the shadows of the Second Legion, Their tactics were far less crude.

After more than a century of continuous exploration and experimentation, [The Cause in the Shadow] is far more complicated than anyone imagined. The Fourth Fleet of the Second Legion only has about [-] Astartes fighters, but their The diversity of tactics can be disdainful for many legions.

In addition to the simplest guerrilla, assassination and infiltration operations, Ezio and his comrades also know including but not limited to high-speed assault, orbital delivery, ambush operations, material interception, asymmetric operations and low collateral damage siege warfare, etc. Many arts of war, some of the most dangerous of them even learned part of the essence of terror tactics and verbal deterrence from the bloody executioners of the Eighth Legion, and how to use high-speed vehicles and aircraft in the atmosphere is very important to the shadow champions. That said, it is also a compulsory mastery course.

Of course, the most dangerous characters in the Second Legion will always only exist in the Third Fleet. God knows what kind of new attitude those psykers who are brave enough to explore the subspace will meet their long-lost combat brothers.

In this way, the shadows have been carrying out their own exploration, even the split of the legion did not stop their footsteps, which made many other Astartes legion warriors complain about them, for those who are keen on confrontation and endless For followers of honor, the attitude of some of Morgan's sons crouching in their own shadows, not caring about any honors and titles, made them very uncomfortable.

But that's their business.

The shadows never cared.

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Ezio stopped in his tracks, and he waited for about ten seconds until every temporary teammate had come up behind him.

The Shadow Champion sat silently and gestured to his comrades to look at the wreckage of the fortress in front of them: Obviously, it has been reactivated there, and the patrolling soldiers belonging to Ran Dan are walking on high places, and those big and small Behind the cracks and ruins, you can also vaguely see the purposely covered muzzle of the gun.

Here is J-47, the first target of their mission, and the place where they plan to find more friendly forces: but obviously, the resisters here did not last until the arrival of reinforcements.

Hector stretched his gaze out of the shadows, carefully sizing up the ruined fortress, and followed the shadow champion back and forth on the surrounding commanding heights.

"27."

After a while, Hector told what he had found, all the firepower points and threats in the open and dark places.

Ezio shook his head.

He held up three fingers, twice.

But then, his fingers stopped in mid-air, as if hesitating whether to add another one. He was silent for a while before turning his head and whispering to Hector.

"I'll sneak in first, you and your people wait for my signal."

Hector nodded.

The next second, before the Nova of the Second Legion even caught it, Ezio's figure had disappeared into the shadows.

Hector touched his face, and seemed a little annoyed that his reaction speed was still not up to standard. He wanted to eat candy, but he quickly suppressed this desire.

He turned around and sneaked all the way under the commanding heights. His team has a hidden temporary base here, allowing them to rush into the ruins from the nearest gap at any time.

This shadow was enough to squeeze four Astartes warriors, but when Hector returned here again, he found that it had become a bit crowded.

Because right now, there are five people here.

A new warrior had arrived with his Jaeger squad while he and Ezio were out scouting, apparently having cross-identified with the experienced ancient warrior Kairon.

"A recruit to Third Fleet...a literal recruit."

Teacher Kailong's words sounded in the private communication channel of the two of them. Hector nodded, walked forward quietly, and shook hands with the uninvited battle brother.

"Hector."

He said hello first, and the new battle brother also shook his hand enthusiastically. He didn't look handsome, his face was a bit long and thin, but his body did exude a faint spiritual energy: this This aura is even stronger than that of Salieri, who officially became a think tank earlier.

He smiled, with a smile on his face that belonged to those young warriors who didn't know much about the world.

"Eris."

He introduced himself like this.

"Just call me Eris."

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Above the sky, the seemingly endless fleet battle is still going on. Compared with when the battle for the Turks airspace just started, the fleet of the First Legion has been reduced by almost one-fifth, but their results are indeed true. Extraordinary splendor: At least ten times the size of their fleet, Randan battleships were unable to survive under their tenacious sniper attacks. The menacing offensive of the alien fleet has shown some kind of decline, and the bloody war on the ground is also coming to an end. The effective means to break the stalemate has gradually degenerated into a bloodletting tank that does more harm than good to Ran Dan.

The part of the airspace that maintains the landing operations has become a rather obvious weakness in Ran Dan's large fleet. The fleet of the First Legion is almost staring at Ran Dan's transport ships, constantly destroying Ran Dan who was immobile in order to protect these transport ships. The Dan escort fleet, this kind of half-baked air supremacy has greatly affected the advancing operations of the Alien Legion on the ground. Although they have invested a large number of troops regardless of the cost, relying on endless artillery fire to push all the way, but when such an offensive When getting closer to the center, I encountered an invincible obstacle.

The Primarch of the No.18 Legion, Lord of the Fire Dragon, Vulcan himself, the Lord of the Nocturne Star, accurately grasped one of the most critical passes on Randan's way forward, and deployed the strongest defense here:
Vulkan himself, leading his Primarch Guard and at least [-] carefully selected Salamander warriors, stationed in this plaza that was already full of corpses. Tens of thousands of alien corpses were already under his feet. Pile up like a mountain, at this moment, this most merciful Primarch is just holding his hammer tightly with no expression on his face, like a demon god who brought the underground purgatory to the human world.

Ran Dan's huge offensive here has never stopped, but it has never made any actual progress. They even spent a lot of money to assemble an armored group, but after seeing how the Fire Dragon Lord relied on his hands and the ultimate The sheer force overturned the entire Ran Dan Empire's largest land war engine, and no armored vehicle dared to rush in front of him anymore.

The offensive on land fell into stagnation and consumption, and the battle above the sky was almost exactly the same: after paying an unimaginable price, the alien army finally tore through the firepower net of the First Legion, and jumped cruelly. Gang battles began to be carried out on the largest warships of both sides, but gang jumps aimed at the empire's core warships were always unsuccessful.

Ran Dan has assembled a large number of elites, their transmission technology is far more advanced than the human empire imagined, enough to safely transmit a battle group to the bridge and deck of the human battleship in one go.

In the very beginning, these gang jumping operations will be very smooth, and the entire deck will change hands in an instant under the fierce offensive, but soon, a few people who call themselves [Inner Ring] or [Tan Xiangxiu] will emerge from the deeper depths of these battleships. A familiar face from the meeting...

In this way, whether it is under the sky or in the void, the two sides seem to have fallen into a strange stalemate, but no one thinks that this stalemate will last forever, because Ran Dan's successor fleet is still in constant stream. Emerging from the warp, although a large part of them will suffer various non-combat attrition in the shortest time: the most notable of which is the presence of psykers on the battleship discovered by a spider queen who controls the overall situation, Howling, struggling and self-destruction involving everyone is the only ending for these alien wizards.

But despite this, Ran Dan is still moving forward, and the resistance of the human empire has significantly delayed their progress: but it has not been completely stopped, and as more and more huge alien warships continue to pour into this galaxy, Ran Dan invaded The real core force of the army seems to be planning to join this war, playing a real decisive role.

Even at the very edge of what Morgan could perceive, those two auras that made her feel uneasy seemed to be only a few feet away from this galaxy.

The real pressure is coming soon.

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But for Ezio, these things have nothing to do with him for the time being.

Three minutes after leaving Hector, the shadow champion was lurking in the core part of the ruins of the fortress, counting what he had just gained: seven secret whistles and one bright whistle.

Hiding in the shadows, he quietly placed the Randan alien he had just killed, keeping it in its original posture, but immediately after, he felt some uneasy aura.

His eyes quickly swept across the already cold corpse of the alien, and the shadow champion discovered something was wrong in the next instant: a nearly transparent microelectronic device was buried in the thin eyelids of the alien. When he saw it, he found that the light of this device is going off.

Damn.

Without the slightest hesitation or thinking, Ezio subconsciously turned his body and rolled aside on the ground.

Almost at the same time, he felt a flash of lens flashing across the air in front of him, followed by a violent gunshot, the special bullet pierced the ruined wall, and directly blasted the alien's body in two.

Ezio raised his head, and according to the flash of light just now, he had already determined the location of the No.30 four Randan aliens: that was indeed an incomparably brilliant hiding place.

The wind blew, and he heard gunshots beyond the ruins: apparently, his temporary comrades were not idle.

Ezio raised his head again, he squinted his eyes, listening to the footsteps of those Ran Dan aliens who heard the sound.

He felt everything, everything in the shadows and everything outside the shadows.

The light, the sound of the wind, the crackling sound of bullets piercing the air, and the sound of urgently replacing the clips.

The distance is enough.

Time is enough.

The idea of ​​temporarily retreating flashed through his mind, and he was suppressed. Ezio simply estimated his situation: According to the sounds outside the fortress and the results of his battle just now, he still needs to face eighteen more battles. The enemy, and the sniper, he still had the confidence to avoid three shots.

……enough.

The sound of footsteps getting closer was the first signal that the enemy was coming.

The shadow champion took a breath, he temporarily left the shadow, and temporarily put away his black blade.

Although, he pulled out a new weapon from behind him.

An old throwing axe.

(End of this chapter)