Emperor's Bane
Chapter 225
Chapter 225
In the cold darkness of the universe, the dimmest stars reflected on the scarred outer walls of the battleship, like twisted gods in the blasphemous ocean, silently mocking the despair and greed of the world.
A huge fleet belonging to the human empire is traveling between the void and the wreckage. The hard bow of the ship savagely squeezes out the fragmented and twisted steel, arrogantly declaring its identity and glory as the winner.
This is exactly the wave formed by the followers of the Lord of the Second Legion, the No.20 III Expeditionary Fleet under the Emperor, who have just completed a great cause, in the name of the Lord of Humanity and the Primarch, in the distant In the dark Cornwall galaxy, an entire alien coalition army that was comparable in size and military strength was defeated and slaughtered.
Hundreds of Twisted Void Engines were torn apart by the light spears and macro cannons on the human battleships, throwing broken metal and embarrassing stumps and broken arms, like screaming beasts shedding silver-white plasma.
And those more stubborn and valuable alien warships ushered in a more tragic fate. Under the leadership of the mechanical priests and Astartes, a large number of cataract soldiers rushed to those priceless alien engines, Slaughtered all the guardians with the most efficient ruthlessness, brought the crystallization of human technology stolen by the aliens back to the glory of Omnissia, and carried out necessary purification and research.
And beyond these little guys, on the core battlefield of the war, the Queen of Glory and the powerful Mechanical Ark shredded their opponents at a faster speed. As the core combat force of the alien alliance, the Kroot warship became The most dazzling ruin in the entire galaxy, this nine-kilometer-long giant warship, harnessed by avian aliens, became the victim of a brutal murder, like a huge animal claw ripping out the upper body of a human being. Belly-like, an unimaginable gash ran right through the blasphemous giant, nearly splitting it in two, revealing the utterly destroyed Warp Engine and Plasma Drive.
This is the masterpiece of the Primarch, a part of her unfathomable power. The attack of the Lord of the Legion marks the end of the whole battle: the two main forces of the Alien Alliance, the Kroot and the Ada Pirates, Annihilated one after another in her smile and storm.
The former, together with their mothership, were completely destroyed by a devastating long-range psionic attack, and the residents of Comoros who rushed into the battlefield did not even really participate in the battle. There was a series of miserable and strange wailings that made people feel chills all over the body, and then they lost control one after another and crashed in the very center of the battlefield.
Therefore, when the fleet of the human empire sailed into the No.13 Terra standard of the Cornwall galaxy, the last alien ship that still had the will to resist was also reduced to ashes under thousands of gunfire, and the Second Legion The battleships gathered together again, and cheered to their genetic mother, while the losers of the battle will see in despair that the entire galaxy has been temporarily blocked by the Spider Queen's will, and the fate to meet them is only A relentless dissection by researchers from Reza.
The mechanical priests in orange-red robes became the busiest group of characters after the battle. They drove their ships and ran back and forth between every broken alien war engine, just like the green boys of the dead skull clan Like a carnival among the ruins, these Ryza drag onto their ships whatever interests them, whether it be precious instruments, xenos technology, or living creatures captured with the help of the Dawnbreaker. The experimental product, and the plasma driver on the Kroot ship, made the representative of Reza who accompanied the army smile, and repeatedly praised the value of the little double-headed eagle alliance.
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"We dealt with the Alien Alliance fleet faster than planned, although the pirates from the Aeldari were indeed an unexpected factor, but after the Primarch's own shot, they even fired a bomb No chance at all.”
Replacing Marshall, the chief commander who stayed in Avalon, Knight Bayar is now sitting on Morgan's right. As the narrator of the meeting, he is talking about the projection in front of everyone.
"And after annihilating the alien fleet, as we have deduced, the Gladstones are sending their main fleet to the Cornwall galaxy, and their every move is in the sight of our lurking personnel, And they themselves did not expect our speed to be so fast, so before Gladstone's fleet entered the Cornwall galaxy, we had enough time to complete the ambush."
"It was also at this time that the battle against Gladstone had officially begun. Our first step in our strategy was that the main fleet in Gladstone had just sailed into the Cornwall galaxy, and it was able to form a combat force or attack Gladstone. Before the mother star sends an alarm, completely annihilate it, thereby destroying the enemy's void power."
"In order to achieve this goal, we have made four preparations."
"First of all, we mobilized three-digit warships, including the Queen of Glory and the Mechanical Ark, forming an absolute numerical advantage."
"Secondly, our lurking force has initially infiltrated into the local fleet, and through substitution, threat and persuasion, it has left hidden dangers on a quarter of the enemy's ships."
"Thirdly, the Electronic Warfare Department specially established by the Primarch and Reza's mechanical priests have joined forces to use five different electronic waste codes and control viruses to ensure that they can be controlled and paralyzed at the first moment of the naval battle. Enemy communications and command structures."
"Finally, the small warp storms created by the Primarch himself will also fundamentally interfere with and disrupt the Gladstone fleet's psionic calling."
"And after we assembled all the above-mentioned preparatory activities, the Gladstone fleet also arrived in the Cornwall galaxy at the time we deduced, and encountered our electronic warfare offensive in the first place."
"At that moment, the battle began."
"At that moment, the battle can also be declared over."
"We resolved the battle within an hour. More than one-third of the enemy ships were destroyed by artillery fire, and the rest were completely paralyzed by the waste code offensive, or chose to surrender under the support of our army's lurking personnel."
"From the beginning to the end, the Gladstone parent star has not received even a signal for help, and even when we jumped directly to the central area of the Gladstone galaxy along the subspace route information of the enemy fleet, they did not Knowing you're being attacked."
"Our army destroyed the enemy's fortresses on the edge of the galaxy in the shortest possible time, controlled the Mandeville point, and ensured that large troops can enter stably. Afterwards, we sent a fleet to blockade the rest of the galaxy, and dispatched Asta The elite troops formed by the special forces and Mechanicus, with the support of the hidden personnel, stormed the orbital space station above Gladstone's home star."
"It wasn't until this time that the enemy realized that their home planet had been attacked."
"And it was also at this time that Gladstone's recovery operation officially began."
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"Battle space station VIII just sent back a message, Commander-in-Chief."
A cold voice woke Gladstone's Supreme Commander from his intermittent nap time, 40 years of military career urged him to open his eyes for the first time, accompanied by the attention-enhancing drugs that had been injected into his body in his veins Roaring, he woke up completely in the next second and looked towards the source of the sound.
It was an officer, and the rank on his shoulder indicated that he held a certain position in the high command of the army, but the commander-in-chief could not recognize him: most of the characters in this command wore a helmet. The specially processed closed helmet contains a string of special codes symbolizing identity.
The commander knew that this was the result of the struggle between the Carritt family and the three-headed alliance. The struggle between this super family and the three large families had been going on for thousands of years on Gladstone, and it had penetrated into every aspect of the entire world. It was just a lucky one selected by the Triumvirate from civilian officers, sitting in this sensitive position and maintaining a balance.
"What happened?"
The commander quickly came to his podium. Although he could already be called an old man, and he was not blessed with the rejuvenation potion monopolized by the Carrit family, he still habitually maintained a tough attitude. .
"What did space station VIII send back?"
"The space station sent back a bunch of random codes, without any possibility of translation and analysis. It contacted and sent more than 30 sets of codes within [-] seconds. The communication department hopes to get permission. Do you want to continue to accept it?"
"...Continue, and order them to open a new passage, and ask the two space stations adjacent to the No. [-] space station, have they found anything unusual?"
"Understood. In addition, the main fleet heading to the Cornwall galaxy has not sent back a communication for more than five hours. Do we need to make additional contacts?"
"No, it's the usual practice to send out a contact after another five hours."
The commander glanced at the officer a little strangely, he felt a little strange to the person in front of him, but the code read by his helmet assured him that this was a liaison adjutant who was directly responsible for him, and The person in front of me is indeed on duty today.
Maybe it was another newcomer to the Carrit family who came to gild it.
The commander couldn't help rubbing his brows, trying his best not to think about the political vortex that would drag him into it. He knew very well that the recent Gladstone is not peaceful, and there are more and more political violence that can be traced in the history books What happened one after another kept the Carrit family and the triumvirate in a strange confrontation.
The force that called itself the Empire of Humanity sent another large-scale delegation before, but encountered a large wave of unknown mobs on the surface. They all announced that the other party was the instigator.
For a time, the whole of Gladstone could be said to be undercurrents, and he, the titular supreme commander, couldn't help but be wary.
I just hope everything is going well, after all he's going to retire in two or three years.
He prayed secretly, and then planned to continue to take a nap for a while. With the sun shining on the other side of the world, the main city of Gladstone was drowsy at this time.
But just as the commander returned to his hard bed, and before he could close his eyes, an explosion several floors away pierced the air and entered his brain.
"what happened!"
He jumped up and grabbed the pistol next to the bed. The second thing he picked up was the communicator, but there was only a messy electromagnetic syllable in it. He pressed it twice, then threw it aside angrily, grabbed Made another spare, but still the same.
He staggered, put on his clothes again, and rushed out of his room. The sound of running back and forth and shouting in the corridor made him feel angry, but fortunately, the officer just trotted over.
"There is something wrong in the communication room! Commander!"
"what happened?"
"The specific situation is unclear. All communication equipment has become unusable. A fire broke out in the communication room. We are temporarily unable to enter, nor can we contact any department outside."
The commander was stunned for a moment, but decades of military career made him immediately understand what was going on. He pushed aside the officer in front of him, and rushed to his command room out of breath, looking like Looking at the various officers gathered here from all directions, seeing the bewildered and stupid faces on their faces, he grabbed the file on the side and slammed it on the wall to attract the attention of the group of people.
"This is an enemy attack! We have encountered the enemy's electronic warfare attack!"
"Re-establish the communication system immediately! Activate the spare communication room! Perform emergency protection and anti-virus on the communication system! Otherwise, look for those communicators that can still be used!"
"Tell them to put all regiments on the alert! Yes! All!"
"Turn on all the void shields! Use all means to contact our space station, deep space outpost, and fleet! Order them to send out their own void power! Call back immediately! Call back immediately!"
"Tell those elders! Wake them up! Tell them! I need the key to the central warehouse, and I need permission to start our genetic modification..."
"boom--"
Before the hoarse roar came to an end, a violent explosion that absolutely could not be surpassed by any creature's cry rose wantonly in everyone's ears. In the gradually quiet night sky, it was so abrupt and brutal , drove everyone in the entire command room into the predicament of temporary deafness. When the commander staggered and stabilized his figure, he heard an officer standing by the window shouting loudly with.
"Command center! It's the anti-aircraft intercept command center! My God! It's blown up!"
Before the words fell, there was another outrageous explosion sound, which quickly ignited in the shock of everyone. This time, the sound of the explosion was very close, and the flame even shone on every face in the command room. The earth shaking and mountain shaking that came together made everyone unable to stand still, reminding them of the strength of the attack.
"That's a generator! That's the void shield's generator!"
The voice by the window was still roaring hoarsely. Along with the loud shouting, the rumble of explosions followed one after another, and the crimson rays of light followed one after another in the silence of the night, like drops of bright red dye dripping drop after drop in a calm glass of water. For a moment, more than a dozen hideous clouds seemed to rise above the specially planned military base.
The commander's ears were left with blood, he opened his mouth, wanting to shout, or growl angrily, he wanted to continue to order the family children in front of him, or scold the idiot next to the window who kept yelling , but just before he could utter all the words, his teeth and ears were overwhelmed by a most horrific explosion.
This time, he heard clearly.
The explosion was right under his feet.
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Looking at the burning command center in the distance, Ezio couldn't help blinking.
He lowered his head, looked at his task list again, raised his head again, looked at the command center that he had never detonated, and fell into a brief silence.
Why did his mission target explode before he could do it?
In some kind of shock, the young shadow champion crouched at the feet of the panicked Gladstone soldiers, blinking innocently, his expression under his helmet like a bewildered Tibetan fox.
Suddenly, he felt a breath approaching extremely fast, and in the next second, he could tell who it was.
"Edward?"
Along with doubts, a cheerful figure landed beside the shadow champion. The champion looked at the trajectory of his movement, smelled his breath, and frowned.
"You stole my mission."
"You have three missions, Ezio, but I only have one, and I have nothing to do after completing it, and the sooner I destroy these things, the better, don't I?"
"You stole my mission."
"Okay okay, I was wrong."
Edward spread his hands in the shadows, his apology so insincere that Ezio's brow remained furrowed.
"Very well, now I have nothing to do, what shall we do?"
"I remember that the C-3 team is within our range of activities, and their mission seems to be a little overloaded."
"..."
"..."
"Together?"
"Together."
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"Under the electronic warfare offensive launched in advance, we pulled out several of the most threatening space stations before the Gladstone parent star could detect it, and while attacking the other several space stations, We have launched an offensive on Gladstone's surface."
"The first wave of surface offensive was completed by a large number of drones we ordered from Reza, accompanied by our land stealth force. The highest priority targets are the generator areas of each main void shield, the middle and high-level air defense command center, The main purpose of the radar station hub, as well as the air defense control and command communication system, is to destroy the main means of defense of the Gladstone army, as well as destroy their integrated strategic air defense system."
"Thanks to our extensive infiltration of Gladstone and thorough electronic warfare before the war began, we were able to destroy their communications well before our fleet arrived, which ensured that our first wave The offensive was unimpeded and destroyed all air defense centers and part of the generator installations within five minutes."
"In order to achieve this, we secretly stuffed a large number of Ministry of Internal Affairs fighters and mortal agents in the previous two visit teams, especially the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who infiltrated during the first visit. The disaffected masses were instigated during this visit, causing prolonged confusion and covering the infiltration of more of our forces into Gladstone."
"Before the battle started, the number of our Astartes fighters lurking in Gladstone had exceeded 1000, and there was even an overabundance of manpower in dispatching missions."
"It was under the hard work of these fighters that we completed our first goal as quickly as possible. At the same time, the competition for the remaining space stations also ended in victory."
"So far, only a few defensive guns, multiple laser cannons, small missile silos, and a few super-heavy anti-ship missile arrays are left that the enemy can pose a threat to our fleet. Under the premise that our electronic warfare has destroyed the enemy ship's communication network, these anti-aircraft firepower that cannot launch a joint offensive have lost most of their threats, and our main fleet has entered low-Earth orbit and can launch direct orbital bombing."
"If this is a purely alien world, the war can already be declared over."
"However, this is a human world, and its most precious resource is a complete industrial area and population. Therefore, we cannot carry out unscrupulous orbital bombing, and must carry out further landing operations."
"At this point, the second step of this war has begun."
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desert
aircraft.
missile.
bombing.
Sleepless.
The soldiers huddled in his trenches, this pit he had never counted on before, but became his only support now, because those demon bee swarms were hovering above his head, and any tall buildings and fortresses would become their first choice. Under the combined attack of endless firepower and those roaring missiles, the target was wiped out. Even the most stubborn and tall command fortress could not last more than a minute in the face of such a nightmare.
Yes, he is very sure, because he saw with his own eyes how the command fort fell apart under the joint attack of more than a dozen missiles, because he was the one who escorted the district defense chief and the inspector sent by the capital to retreat into the bunker One of the personnel, because he was staying at the door of the bunker at this moment, he could even hear the fierce quarrel between the district defense chief and the inspector in this old building.
He listened carefully to these quarrels, because he was eager to find something for himself to do, so that he could forget the voice of death whistling in the sky, and the countless lightnings that dragged the long figures.
From the time when the sky just began to fall into darkness, these deaths from beyond the stars began to flash on the sky, followed by the never-ending sound of explosions on the distant horizon, and those huge air defenses The weapon array was overwhelmed to fight back, and the tragic fate encountered one after another.
The first hour was the most difficult. The explosions and screams from all directions were like a summoning song from hell, and could even wake up the dead in the grave. The massacre was clean, and every second dozens of fatal blows rose within the range that the ears could catch.
And at a certain point in time, these continuous explosions suddenly stopped, leaving only the slight friction sound left by tens of millions of silvery white bee swarms across the sky, but the killing did not stop. The precision strikes in the distance continued. In the next few hours, until midnight, the intensified strikes never stopped. The sound of explosions only sounded every few seconds or even minutes, but they kept beating and surviving. The psychological defense line of the victims.
The soldier huddled in his post. He felt that there seemed to be comrades-in-arms around him, but they were in a hurry, and none of them stopped. The expressions on their faces were the same fear and bewilderment as his.
He raised his head, he saw a steady stream of silver-white bee swarms passing over his head, he saw the huge fire array shivering with him in the only remaining void shield in the distance, he saw officers walking constantly Entering the bunker, he heard the quarrel inside never stopped, and he saw one herald after another complaining in a low voice, using manpower to run to all fronts, passing one brand new order after another.
But he is still confused.
He didn't know how much power was left in the defense line in front of him. Under the threat of those silver-white gods of death, he didn't dare to walk around at will, and he didn't even dare to look at another corner around the corner of the trench.
He didn't even know if this line of defense existed, because when he evacuated here, he saw with his own eyes how a missile trailing its trail accurately hit a complete trench, causing hundreds of thousands of Soldiers howled in the flames and were reduced to ashes.
He raised his head, he looked left and right, he longed to find a true comrade in arms, but everyone was hurriedly walking under the urging of those silent gods of death in the sky, his pupils were filled with confusion and fear, it seemed that he was the only one in the whole world resisting those An unnamed opponent.
In the end, he huddled in the trench.Hour after hour, the only sounds that accompanied him were the ripping of wings against the sky, or the blast of a missile hitting another target in the distance.
He didn't even see a real enemy, yet again he seemed to have lost the battle.
Those gods of death in the sky don't seem to be interested in their troops on land. They are constantly leaping and chasing, destroying those more valuable targets. He feels that there may be millions of people hidden in these trenches and fortresses. The army, but now they are useless, they have no communications, no orders, not even a single enemy to shoot at, they are hordes of deaf and blind waiting for themselves in empty trenches death sentence announcement.
When did the war become like this?
The soldier gritted his teeth, trembling, and stroked his gun.
And at this moment, he heard the quarrel in the bunker rise to a whole new level, and he heard the chief of defense and the inspector screaming at the same time, ordering him to go in.
He was stunned, and only when the two sharp orders were transmitted clearly for the second time did he pick up his gun in a daze and walked into the command room.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw the two top officials facing each other across an extremely messy command table. At first, he looked at the defense officer opposite with contemptuous eyes.
The chief of defense is an old chief who has been followed by soldiers for more than ten years. It is said that he was also a big shot in the capital circle before, but after he refused to pay bribes and offended a big shot in the Carrit family, he was demoted here. Ten years.
"You are treason!"
The inspector was the first to speak, his voice was unbearably sharp, the son bared his teeth like a dog, his military uniform was modified, it looked like a military uniform, and also like a dress, It looks nondescript and makes people want to laugh.
"Soldier, go to the control room and turn on the void shield."
The defense chief was dressed in a simple military uniform. He glanced at the pistol tightly held in the inspector's hand, and walked slowly around the command table casually, as if it was an ordinary afternoon, and he issued another An ordinary order.
The inspector uttered an obscenity, and turned his gun on the soldier, and then on the chief of the defense, as if struggling with which character to threaten.And at this moment, the defense chief suddenly said a word.
"Did you know? Just two hours ago, I seized the opportunity when the communication was temporarily restored, and sent a message informing that the invaders would make a large-scale landing here. This message was not sent to the temporary command center. Instead, it was issued to the most powerful army regiments closest to us."
"At the same time, within the range they can detect, the enemy's fleet is indeed carrying out the most obvious landing operation. The location of the landing is the defense zone I am in charge of."
"Do you know what that means?"
"what?"
The inspector fell into confusion for a moment, his gun was habitually pointed at the soldiers beside him, and he didn't even see the soldiers quietly dodging away.
And at this time, the chief of defense suddenly made an attack, and rushed towards the inspector who was less than two meters away from him. After knocking down the son from the capital, the gunshot rang out and hit the light bulb, making the whole room suddenly flickering.
"Meaning your idiot's military academy is fucking for nothing."
The soldiers saw that a happy smile appeared on the face of the defense chief.
"Flat terrain, continuous marching convoy, tens of thousands of tanks and armored vehicles are crowded together, lacking sufficient air defense means and necessary cover, and the enemy still has a complete fucking air firepower advantage! The entire track is them warships! The entire sky is filled with their warplanes and drones!"
"Guess what's going to happen next?"
"Among them, if half of them can reach here alive, it is the gods who are blessing you idiots!"
"It's just that you guys who haven't even learned the basic theory, think that if you gather a large group of super heavy war engines or armored vehicles, you can be invincible and go on a rampage."
The inspector was knocked down to the ground, he was coughing extremely hard, his pupils contained a daze that made people want to laugh, but it didn't prevent him from biting the corner of his mouth, spewing out a mouthful of blood, and screaming fiercely.
"You idiot, you traitor, just wait, the Senate will execute you! And your bastards!"
"my family."
The Chief of Defense let out the most contemptuous laugh.
"They don't need you to worry about it."
As soon as he spoke, he stretched out his hand to the soldier. Although he was still a little confused about the situation in front of him, after more than ten years of obedience and orders, the soldier instinctively handed over the gun in his hand. He loaded the bullet, and then pointed at the inspector who finally sensed a hint of death crisis.
"you this……"
"Fuck you, I just want to protect my family."
"And just now, they have come to my side, right next door."
A crisp gunshot echoed in the small room for a long time. The chief defense officer looked at the inspector's head that had been blown off. He seemed to sigh softly, as if regretting that he had broken a certain obsession that he had stuck to for a lifetime.
After throwing the gun aside, he slowly removed the unique armband around his neck and put it on the table.
"All as you wish, my lord."
The chief of defense saluted the shadow next to the soldier. It wasn't until this moment that the soldier was shocked to find that beside him stood a soldier who looked to be two or three meters tall and covered in black armor.
"The empire will remember your contribution."
The man in black armor didn't say much, after the simplest encouragement, he slowly picked up the armband.
"I remember a friend of yours, who seems to be the garrison commander of the main hive capital?"
The Chief of Defense showed a bitter smile when he heard this.
"Yes, my lord. He is a comrade in arms of the same period as me. He was also affected by me. He was unwilling to testify against me with perjury, so he was kicked from the commander of the main force to that cold bench waiting to die."
"Very well, I want to know, can this thing make him believe my words?"
"You know, what the empire brings is kindness and security. We don't want to let more blood flow. Everyone in the hive capital is innocent in this battle."
The soldier saw a gleam of light flash in the defense chief's pupils.
"I can assure you, my lord, this is enough to make him think about everything, please do it! You are right, those people are innocent, we have already had enough of the Carrit family or other families rule!"
"very good."
The black-armored soldier didn't speak any more, and he quickly disappeared into the shadow again. The soldier looked at the shadow with disbelief, and even groped inside a few times, but he never saw the obvious black-armored soldier again. .
At this time, the voice of the Chief of Defense came again.
"Go, go and convey my order to order them to lower the void shield. This is a signal that has been finalized in advance. This war has nothing to do with us now."
"We're defeated."
"It's lucky, isn't it?"
The soldier didn't answer, but his pace of leaving became brisk. He walked into the control room, and in the midst of sighs and silent joy, he gave the order, and then walked out of the bunker step by step.
He stood at the door of the bunker again, sticking his head out from his trench, those silver-white gods of death were still passing over his head in groups, but at this moment, he really saw clearly, they It turns out that it is so far above the sky, so far away that it seems to exist in another world.
In his field of vision, bursts of yellow sand rolled up, dyeing the distant horizon a strange copper color. He listened attentively, but in the misty yellow sand, he heard a kind of summer thunder-like sound. heavy sound.
He carefully identified, and finally, in the thunderous sound, he heard countless armored engines torn apart, heard the sad sound of hordes of armies collapsing, on the horizon, in the distant Amidst the muffled thunder, there seemed to be a massacre.
But that has nothing to do with him.
Next, he stood there, standing there like that, looking into the distance, I don't know how long it took, maybe after an hour, maybe when the time had passed midnight and extended toward the second midnight, he finally saw those Huge meteors fell from the sky, shaking the heavens and the earth. He finally saw those legendary iron birds, from the distant stars, came to the outside of the sand dunes, and groups of warriors in silver armor walked from inside. out.
Under their seats, there were one after another, terrifyingly huge war engines that he had never seen before, and at the end of another field of vision, he saw something even more terrifying walking down from the stars, a group of Behemoths on the battlefield more than ten meters high, or even tens of meters high, just standing there silently is enough to make any army lose the courage to fight.
It was as if the god had thrown his weapon into this sad world, into this war that had no suspense.
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"In the second phase of the war, we have invested in a complete system of Shadow Sword, Stormblade and Land Raider, as well as dozens of God's Machines belonging to the Warlord Legion, and a certain number of Reza Guardians military."
"And before actually putting these ground forces into play, we conducted an induction operation against the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower and emergency measures. During the period from eight o'clock in the evening to midnight, our fighter planes dispatched a total of [-] sorties, including nearly [-] induced drones to test Gladstone's hidden anti-aircraft firepower points, or undetected backup military facilities."
"And once the enemy's hidden firepower equipment is discovered by us, within ten seconds, our sophisticated guided missiles will completely destroy it. Within four Terra standard hours, we have launched a total of more than six thousand Several missiles and belt bombs of various types completely destroyed the command centers and military installations in Glaston."
"At the same time, our electronic warfare has also entered a new stage, choosing to temporarily restore the enemy's communication network, giving them the illusion that they have destroyed our electronic offensive means, and allowing those who have been persuaded by us to Convincing enemy personnel can quickly convey wrong information back."
"And the purpose of everything we do is to move the enemy's main force away from the industrial and residential areas, and lure them to the desolate pioneering areas of this planet, so that the main battlefield will not harm what we need. Those elite areas, and at the same time, this tactic of avoiding the main living area will also allow us to encounter less resistance when we take over the planet later."
"After all, although there are a large number of people in these residential areas, it is difficult for them to launch a large-scale counterattack or hinder our advance without sufficient weapons and equipment, information and intelligence, and organization and scheduling. All our combat operations were completed overnight, and the main battlefield was concentrated in military installations and areas outside the city, and they simply could not receive more detailed information."
"After successfully transferring away the main force of these Gladstones, leaving their city defense forces in a predicament of insufficient manpower, the occupation of the urban and industrial areas also began."
"We have also begun to invest heavily in the Stormbird Squadron, equipped with elite infantry units and psyker squads, to test and occupy various important key nodes."
"Facts have proved that the special mobile unit composed of elite infantry and psykers can fully achieve a relative balance of firepower, mobility, and concealment in this type of operation."
"Smart power is enough to replace inconvenient heavy firepower equipment. We only need [-] squads, a total of [-] soldiers, to successfully trick the enemy's temporary command center into thinking that we have formed a main front with more than [-] soldiers. , thereby greatly consuming and disintegrating their power."
"On the other hand, the results of our experience in combat also proved that our decision to install enough drones for each special operations team as air support firepower was extremely correct. The hundreds of drones we sent out None of the squads were systematically destroyed, and the number of casualties was limited to less than [-]. The sufficient fire support of the drones allowed them to take a considerable initiative when attacking and retreating."
"And the only cost of this approach is that the loss of drones has reached an astonishing level. We lost half of the tens of thousands of drones we customized from Reza overnight."
[But it's worth it, isn't it? 】
A chuckle from Morgan briefly interrupted Bayard's narration.
She glanced at her children, and found that they lowered their heads in shame, as if they didn't dare to look at her, while others raised their heads subconsciously at the moment her gaze caught them, as if they wanted to Show more heroism.
[After this battle, I once collected your battle testimonials or review papers from you. Got to something I missed earlier. 】
[For example, several teams indicated that when they were attacking the hive capital, they encountered a counterattack from a militia team organized by an officer, and this counterattack even caused us casualties. 】
【Did that officer die in battle?Bayar? 】
"No, mother, he was knocked out by an explosion in the battle that followed, and was finally captured alive by the cathars. One of our soldiers recognized him, and he is now in prison."
[A commander who can organize the crowd to repel the Astartes in such chaos, he should appear in our auxiliary army, not in the prison. 】
【Are you right? 】
"Your will, mother."
[Very well, it can be seen that my children, with such excellent people joining our auxiliary army, our auxiliary army will become even stronger in the future, and with the assistance of such an army, We will also shed less blood on the battlefield. 】
[This is what I care about. 】
[I see that many of you have mentioned it in the book. I seem to attach great importance to this war and make extra preparations. Many people think that a thousand soldiers are invested just for latent activities. It was an act of waste to put the Stormblades and God Machines on such a scale in the State Warriors, and later in the landing operations, but let me tell you, my children. 】
[If I lose a hundred Stormblade tanks, I can go to Reza and ask them to build another hundred for me. 】
【How I lost a hundred warships, I can visit countless shipyards, let me have a hundred warships again. 】
[I even said, oh, this sounds a bit exaggerated: Even if I lost a hundred machines of God, although it would be enough to cause the world to shatter, but it is not irreversible, I can travel all over those forging worlds, and use countless In exchange for favors, one hundred titans willing to fight for me. 】
[But, but, if I lose a hundred fighters, if I lose a hundred fighters who inherit my blood, if I become distressed because of a small loss, let my fighters use their lives to replace those bombs What can be done with Huo Yan, to accelerate the arrival of the so-called victory, is irreversible. 】
[I can lose a hundred war engines, I can lose a hundred warships, I can even lose a hundred god machines, for me, these things are not irreplaceable, I can always use more Find more supplements in the world. 】
[But if I lose a hundred children, then I really lose them forever, even if I go back to the end of time, even if I walk through every star and every world in this galaxy, I will lose them forever. I can't find them anymore, and I can never get any of them back to me. 】
[Therefore, my children, don’t tell me why I wasted my psychic power in such a war, and don’t think that my preparations for the war are too detailed. I would rather fight for the simplest war. A thousand drills, ten thousand deductions, just like we spent such a long time in order to capture Gladstone, using the war compass to start over again and again. 】
[It took us less than fifteen hours to win, and for all of this, we spent fifteen days repeating any possibility we could encounter, or any kind of resistance, just to let one more fighter Can return to the bridge of the battleship. 】
[If you want to ask, then I can answer you now. 】
[Yes, the next war, the next war, until the last war we can experience, as long as I can do it, I will definitely do it, I will definitely use abundant intelligence, complete preparations and The tireless deduction and real-time grasp are in exchange for your life, even if there is only one. 】
[Don't underestimate yourselves, you are just soldiers to the empire, but to me, you are also my children. 】
[The empire requires you to win, and I ask you to come back alive. 】
[So, I chose to hand over the victory to the empire, and when all the victories have been finalized, as a genetic mother, can't I be greedy for my own interests, so that my child can even have one more, see To the tomorrow of victory? 】
[This is my war, children, this is the war I will bring to you. 】
[Prepare for everything. 】
[A tireless plan. 】
[Speak with firepower and mobility. 】
[Everyone is united. 】
【at last. 】
【you. 】
[To come back alive. 】
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Bayard hummed briskly.
He threw his companions away, and then again, and they never kept up with his speed and rhythm, any more than the enemy's bullets and psychic powers could keep up with his footsteps and blades.
Many times, he even has doubts from the bottom of his heart: why is he so powerful?Why since he had this awareness, he seemed stronger than everyone he met?
With this kind of doubt, Bayar couldn't help but look back at the road he just walked, the narrow and long bloody road, in the corridor of the hive capital of several kilometers, there are hundreds of people lying in disorder at this time. Gladstone's elite fighters, around machine guns, artillery, and even a war engine, formed a fortress strong enough to stop thousands of people from attacking.
Fifteen minutes ago, they were living in the hundreds, until Bayard, humming his out-of-key lilting ditty, came before the fortress with two swords, one long and one short.
Yes, he didn't even carry a pistol. Bayar never disdained these long-range means, and the blade in his hand was enough to solve everything he encountered.
Bayar hummed a little tune, he turned and moved, like a snow-white whirlwind that couldn't be caught, jumping back and forth on the frontier positions, he never stayed in each trench for more than ten seconds, And when he finally leaves, he'll be left with a bloody throat.
He dodged those shells and shrapnel that hurt friendly troops. Like a brisk swift, he tossed and turned in those violent explosions, clearing out those unsightly artillery and machine gun positions one by one.
So terrible, relentless, and swift were his fights that the tank commander, who had opened the top cover to expose his head, was killed by Baya before he could even huddle inside the safety of his armor. Er grabbed his head and pulled it out. After stabbing him to death, he took the explosives that another defender tried to kill him, and threw it into the war engine.
By the time the engine of war blew up with the help of friendly forces, Bayar had killed all life in the next trench, and by the time his somewhat lost song hummed to the end, he had reached his own Before the final destination, there were a lot of dead bodies left behind. Their bodies were all intact, except for a simple but fatal wound on the throat or heart.
As always, when Bayar turned his head, he heard a brazen bell-like wild laughter coming from the distant clouds.
I don't know when it started, that arrogant laughter seemed to like to follow his footsteps, every time he swung his sword and collected blood, it always came as promised.
But this time, Bayar wasn't paying attention to it, his vision had been taken away by something else.
He smiled.
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Its daybreak.
Morning came.
The war is over.
Bayar knew this, for he saw the signs of it all, for he had been overshadowed by the Primarch's might.
Moreover, at this moment, in the hive capital of Gladstone, among the burning ruins and misty yellow sand, those defenders who are still resisting, those invaders who are shrewdly calculating their own attacks, when When they chose to raise their heads, when they unanimously looked at the sun peeking out from the foot of the mountain, they saw everything without exception.
Without exception, they saw the silent deterrence floating slowly amidst the Spider Queen's hidden laughter, and they saw the power and words of the Lord of the Second Legion.
No one knows when it came to Gladstone's sky, but when they saw it, it had already proudly occupied the position the sun had, and with the help of the gradually bright and dazzling light, the terrifying The giant cast its shadow over every Gladstone.
Those residents who have some knowledge can recognize that it is their battleship, which is already scarred and obviously destroyed. The various battleships that once belonged to Gladstone, they were ruthlessly captured by a stubborn force, and then Stitched together again by their unimaginable invisible power, their once indestructible metal shells are howling in pain at this moment, being forcibly twisted together.A terrifying artistic image was pieced together.
It was a terrifying creation assembled by dozens of warships.
An eternal shadow that will forever haunt the hearts of Gladstones.
It was a rogue Primarch using her strength and will to the silent warships and stations of Gladstone.
formed.
supported by.
floating in the sky.
that blocks the sun.
Hanging high, the Imperial Aquila.
I'm really not good at writing this kind of thing to get the war scene done in one go, and I may not write in such detail for a long time in the future.
But anyway, the war scene is over, and now we can finally go to Ultramar!Prince Regent here I come!
(End of this chapter)
In the cold darkness of the universe, the dimmest stars reflected on the scarred outer walls of the battleship, like twisted gods in the blasphemous ocean, silently mocking the despair and greed of the world.
A huge fleet belonging to the human empire is traveling between the void and the wreckage. The hard bow of the ship savagely squeezes out the fragmented and twisted steel, arrogantly declaring its identity and glory as the winner.
This is exactly the wave formed by the followers of the Lord of the Second Legion, the No.20 III Expeditionary Fleet under the Emperor, who have just completed a great cause, in the name of the Lord of Humanity and the Primarch, in the distant In the dark Cornwall galaxy, an entire alien coalition army that was comparable in size and military strength was defeated and slaughtered.
Hundreds of Twisted Void Engines were torn apart by the light spears and macro cannons on the human battleships, throwing broken metal and embarrassing stumps and broken arms, like screaming beasts shedding silver-white plasma.
And those more stubborn and valuable alien warships ushered in a more tragic fate. Under the leadership of the mechanical priests and Astartes, a large number of cataract soldiers rushed to those priceless alien engines, Slaughtered all the guardians with the most efficient ruthlessness, brought the crystallization of human technology stolen by the aliens back to the glory of Omnissia, and carried out necessary purification and research.
And beyond these little guys, on the core battlefield of the war, the Queen of Glory and the powerful Mechanical Ark shredded their opponents at a faster speed. As the core combat force of the alien alliance, the Kroot warship became The most dazzling ruin in the entire galaxy, this nine-kilometer-long giant warship, harnessed by avian aliens, became the victim of a brutal murder, like a huge animal claw ripping out the upper body of a human being. Belly-like, an unimaginable gash ran right through the blasphemous giant, nearly splitting it in two, revealing the utterly destroyed Warp Engine and Plasma Drive.
This is the masterpiece of the Primarch, a part of her unfathomable power. The attack of the Lord of the Legion marks the end of the whole battle: the two main forces of the Alien Alliance, the Kroot and the Ada Pirates, Annihilated one after another in her smile and storm.
The former, together with their mothership, were completely destroyed by a devastating long-range psionic attack, and the residents of Comoros who rushed into the battlefield did not even really participate in the battle. There was a series of miserable and strange wailings that made people feel chills all over the body, and then they lost control one after another and crashed in the very center of the battlefield.
Therefore, when the fleet of the human empire sailed into the No.13 Terra standard of the Cornwall galaxy, the last alien ship that still had the will to resist was also reduced to ashes under thousands of gunfire, and the Second Legion The battleships gathered together again, and cheered to their genetic mother, while the losers of the battle will see in despair that the entire galaxy has been temporarily blocked by the Spider Queen's will, and the fate to meet them is only A relentless dissection by researchers from Reza.
The mechanical priests in orange-red robes became the busiest group of characters after the battle. They drove their ships and ran back and forth between every broken alien war engine, just like the green boys of the dead skull clan Like a carnival among the ruins, these Ryza drag onto their ships whatever interests them, whether it be precious instruments, xenos technology, or living creatures captured with the help of the Dawnbreaker. The experimental product, and the plasma driver on the Kroot ship, made the representative of Reza who accompanied the army smile, and repeatedly praised the value of the little double-headed eagle alliance.
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"We dealt with the Alien Alliance fleet faster than planned, although the pirates from the Aeldari were indeed an unexpected factor, but after the Primarch's own shot, they even fired a bomb No chance at all.”
Replacing Marshall, the chief commander who stayed in Avalon, Knight Bayar is now sitting on Morgan's right. As the narrator of the meeting, he is talking about the projection in front of everyone.
"And after annihilating the alien fleet, as we have deduced, the Gladstones are sending their main fleet to the Cornwall galaxy, and their every move is in the sight of our lurking personnel, And they themselves did not expect our speed to be so fast, so before Gladstone's fleet entered the Cornwall galaxy, we had enough time to complete the ambush."
"It was also at this time that the battle against Gladstone had officially begun. Our first step in our strategy was that the main fleet in Gladstone had just sailed into the Cornwall galaxy, and it was able to form a combat force or attack Gladstone. Before the mother star sends an alarm, completely annihilate it, thereby destroying the enemy's void power."
"In order to achieve this goal, we have made four preparations."
"First of all, we mobilized three-digit warships, including the Queen of Glory and the Mechanical Ark, forming an absolute numerical advantage."
"Secondly, our lurking force has initially infiltrated into the local fleet, and through substitution, threat and persuasion, it has left hidden dangers on a quarter of the enemy's ships."
"Thirdly, the Electronic Warfare Department specially established by the Primarch and Reza's mechanical priests have joined forces to use five different electronic waste codes and control viruses to ensure that they can be controlled and paralyzed at the first moment of the naval battle. Enemy communications and command structures."
"Finally, the small warp storms created by the Primarch himself will also fundamentally interfere with and disrupt the Gladstone fleet's psionic calling."
"And after we assembled all the above-mentioned preparatory activities, the Gladstone fleet also arrived in the Cornwall galaxy at the time we deduced, and encountered our electronic warfare offensive in the first place."
"At that moment, the battle began."
"At that moment, the battle can also be declared over."
"We resolved the battle within an hour. More than one-third of the enemy ships were destroyed by artillery fire, and the rest were completely paralyzed by the waste code offensive, or chose to surrender under the support of our army's lurking personnel."
"From the beginning to the end, the Gladstone parent star has not received even a signal for help, and even when we jumped directly to the central area of the Gladstone galaxy along the subspace route information of the enemy fleet, they did not Knowing you're being attacked."
"Our army destroyed the enemy's fortresses on the edge of the galaxy in the shortest possible time, controlled the Mandeville point, and ensured that large troops can enter stably. Afterwards, we sent a fleet to blockade the rest of the galaxy, and dispatched Asta The elite troops formed by the special forces and Mechanicus, with the support of the hidden personnel, stormed the orbital space station above Gladstone's home star."
"It wasn't until this time that the enemy realized that their home planet had been attacked."
"And it was also at this time that Gladstone's recovery operation officially began."
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"Battle space station VIII just sent back a message, Commander-in-Chief."
A cold voice woke Gladstone's Supreme Commander from his intermittent nap time, 40 years of military career urged him to open his eyes for the first time, accompanied by the attention-enhancing drugs that had been injected into his body in his veins Roaring, he woke up completely in the next second and looked towards the source of the sound.
It was an officer, and the rank on his shoulder indicated that he held a certain position in the high command of the army, but the commander-in-chief could not recognize him: most of the characters in this command wore a helmet. The specially processed closed helmet contains a string of special codes symbolizing identity.
The commander knew that this was the result of the struggle between the Carritt family and the three-headed alliance. The struggle between this super family and the three large families had been going on for thousands of years on Gladstone, and it had penetrated into every aspect of the entire world. It was just a lucky one selected by the Triumvirate from civilian officers, sitting in this sensitive position and maintaining a balance.
"What happened?"
The commander quickly came to his podium. Although he could already be called an old man, and he was not blessed with the rejuvenation potion monopolized by the Carrit family, he still habitually maintained a tough attitude. .
"What did space station VIII send back?"
"The space station sent back a bunch of random codes, without any possibility of translation and analysis. It contacted and sent more than 30 sets of codes within [-] seconds. The communication department hopes to get permission. Do you want to continue to accept it?"
"...Continue, and order them to open a new passage, and ask the two space stations adjacent to the No. [-] space station, have they found anything unusual?"
"Understood. In addition, the main fleet heading to the Cornwall galaxy has not sent back a communication for more than five hours. Do we need to make additional contacts?"
"No, it's the usual practice to send out a contact after another five hours."
The commander glanced at the officer a little strangely, he felt a little strange to the person in front of him, but the code read by his helmet assured him that this was a liaison adjutant who was directly responsible for him, and The person in front of me is indeed on duty today.
Maybe it was another newcomer to the Carrit family who came to gild it.
The commander couldn't help rubbing his brows, trying his best not to think about the political vortex that would drag him into it. He knew very well that the recent Gladstone is not peaceful, and there are more and more political violence that can be traced in the history books What happened one after another kept the Carrit family and the triumvirate in a strange confrontation.
The force that called itself the Empire of Humanity sent another large-scale delegation before, but encountered a large wave of unknown mobs on the surface. They all announced that the other party was the instigator.
For a time, the whole of Gladstone could be said to be undercurrents, and he, the titular supreme commander, couldn't help but be wary.
I just hope everything is going well, after all he's going to retire in two or three years.
He prayed secretly, and then planned to continue to take a nap for a while. With the sun shining on the other side of the world, the main city of Gladstone was drowsy at this time.
But just as the commander returned to his hard bed, and before he could close his eyes, an explosion several floors away pierced the air and entered his brain.
"what happened!"
He jumped up and grabbed the pistol next to the bed. The second thing he picked up was the communicator, but there was only a messy electromagnetic syllable in it. He pressed it twice, then threw it aside angrily, grabbed Made another spare, but still the same.
He staggered, put on his clothes again, and rushed out of his room. The sound of running back and forth and shouting in the corridor made him feel angry, but fortunately, the officer just trotted over.
"There is something wrong in the communication room! Commander!"
"what happened?"
"The specific situation is unclear. All communication equipment has become unusable. A fire broke out in the communication room. We are temporarily unable to enter, nor can we contact any department outside."
The commander was stunned for a moment, but decades of military career made him immediately understand what was going on. He pushed aside the officer in front of him, and rushed to his command room out of breath, looking like Looking at the various officers gathered here from all directions, seeing the bewildered and stupid faces on their faces, he grabbed the file on the side and slammed it on the wall to attract the attention of the group of people.
"This is an enemy attack! We have encountered the enemy's electronic warfare attack!"
"Re-establish the communication system immediately! Activate the spare communication room! Perform emergency protection and anti-virus on the communication system! Otherwise, look for those communicators that can still be used!"
"Tell them to put all regiments on the alert! Yes! All!"
"Turn on all the void shields! Use all means to contact our space station, deep space outpost, and fleet! Order them to send out their own void power! Call back immediately! Call back immediately!"
"Tell those elders! Wake them up! Tell them! I need the key to the central warehouse, and I need permission to start our genetic modification..."
"boom--"
Before the hoarse roar came to an end, a violent explosion that absolutely could not be surpassed by any creature's cry rose wantonly in everyone's ears. In the gradually quiet night sky, it was so abrupt and brutal , drove everyone in the entire command room into the predicament of temporary deafness. When the commander staggered and stabilized his figure, he heard an officer standing by the window shouting loudly with.
"Command center! It's the anti-aircraft intercept command center! My God! It's blown up!"
Before the words fell, there was another outrageous explosion sound, which quickly ignited in the shock of everyone. This time, the sound of the explosion was very close, and the flame even shone on every face in the command room. The earth shaking and mountain shaking that came together made everyone unable to stand still, reminding them of the strength of the attack.
"That's a generator! That's the void shield's generator!"
The voice by the window was still roaring hoarsely. Along with the loud shouting, the rumble of explosions followed one after another, and the crimson rays of light followed one after another in the silence of the night, like drops of bright red dye dripping drop after drop in a calm glass of water. For a moment, more than a dozen hideous clouds seemed to rise above the specially planned military base.
The commander's ears were left with blood, he opened his mouth, wanting to shout, or growl angrily, he wanted to continue to order the family children in front of him, or scold the idiot next to the window who kept yelling , but just before he could utter all the words, his teeth and ears were overwhelmed by a most horrific explosion.
This time, he heard clearly.
The explosion was right under his feet.
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Looking at the burning command center in the distance, Ezio couldn't help blinking.
He lowered his head, looked at his task list again, raised his head again, looked at the command center that he had never detonated, and fell into a brief silence.
Why did his mission target explode before he could do it?
In some kind of shock, the young shadow champion crouched at the feet of the panicked Gladstone soldiers, blinking innocently, his expression under his helmet like a bewildered Tibetan fox.
Suddenly, he felt a breath approaching extremely fast, and in the next second, he could tell who it was.
"Edward?"
Along with doubts, a cheerful figure landed beside the shadow champion. The champion looked at the trajectory of his movement, smelled his breath, and frowned.
"You stole my mission."
"You have three missions, Ezio, but I only have one, and I have nothing to do after completing it, and the sooner I destroy these things, the better, don't I?"
"You stole my mission."
"Okay okay, I was wrong."
Edward spread his hands in the shadows, his apology so insincere that Ezio's brow remained furrowed.
"Very well, now I have nothing to do, what shall we do?"
"I remember that the C-3 team is within our range of activities, and their mission seems to be a little overloaded."
"..."
"..."
"Together?"
"Together."
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"Under the electronic warfare offensive launched in advance, we pulled out several of the most threatening space stations before the Gladstone parent star could detect it, and while attacking the other several space stations, We have launched an offensive on Gladstone's surface."
"The first wave of surface offensive was completed by a large number of drones we ordered from Reza, accompanied by our land stealth force. The highest priority targets are the generator areas of each main void shield, the middle and high-level air defense command center, The main purpose of the radar station hub, as well as the air defense control and command communication system, is to destroy the main means of defense of the Gladstone army, as well as destroy their integrated strategic air defense system."
"Thanks to our extensive infiltration of Gladstone and thorough electronic warfare before the war began, we were able to destroy their communications well before our fleet arrived, which ensured that our first wave The offensive was unimpeded and destroyed all air defense centers and part of the generator installations within five minutes."
"In order to achieve this, we secretly stuffed a large number of Ministry of Internal Affairs fighters and mortal agents in the previous two visit teams, especially the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who infiltrated during the first visit. The disaffected masses were instigated during this visit, causing prolonged confusion and covering the infiltration of more of our forces into Gladstone."
"Before the battle started, the number of our Astartes fighters lurking in Gladstone had exceeded 1000, and there was even an overabundance of manpower in dispatching missions."
"It was under the hard work of these fighters that we completed our first goal as quickly as possible. At the same time, the competition for the remaining space stations also ended in victory."
"So far, only a few defensive guns, multiple laser cannons, small missile silos, and a few super-heavy anti-ship missile arrays are left that the enemy can pose a threat to our fleet. Under the premise that our electronic warfare has destroyed the enemy ship's communication network, these anti-aircraft firepower that cannot launch a joint offensive have lost most of their threats, and our main fleet has entered low-Earth orbit and can launch direct orbital bombing."
"If this is a purely alien world, the war can already be declared over."
"However, this is a human world, and its most precious resource is a complete industrial area and population. Therefore, we cannot carry out unscrupulous orbital bombing, and must carry out further landing operations."
"At this point, the second step of this war has begun."
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desert
aircraft.
missile.
bombing.
Sleepless.
The soldiers huddled in his trenches, this pit he had never counted on before, but became his only support now, because those demon bee swarms were hovering above his head, and any tall buildings and fortresses would become their first choice. Under the combined attack of endless firepower and those roaring missiles, the target was wiped out. Even the most stubborn and tall command fortress could not last more than a minute in the face of such a nightmare.
Yes, he is very sure, because he saw with his own eyes how the command fort fell apart under the joint attack of more than a dozen missiles, because he was the one who escorted the district defense chief and the inspector sent by the capital to retreat into the bunker One of the personnel, because he was staying at the door of the bunker at this moment, he could even hear the fierce quarrel between the district defense chief and the inspector in this old building.
He listened carefully to these quarrels, because he was eager to find something for himself to do, so that he could forget the voice of death whistling in the sky, and the countless lightnings that dragged the long figures.
From the time when the sky just began to fall into darkness, these deaths from beyond the stars began to flash on the sky, followed by the never-ending sound of explosions on the distant horizon, and those huge air defenses The weapon array was overwhelmed to fight back, and the tragic fate encountered one after another.
The first hour was the most difficult. The explosions and screams from all directions were like a summoning song from hell, and could even wake up the dead in the grave. The massacre was clean, and every second dozens of fatal blows rose within the range that the ears could catch.
And at a certain point in time, these continuous explosions suddenly stopped, leaving only the slight friction sound left by tens of millions of silvery white bee swarms across the sky, but the killing did not stop. The precision strikes in the distance continued. In the next few hours, until midnight, the intensified strikes never stopped. The sound of explosions only sounded every few seconds or even minutes, but they kept beating and surviving. The psychological defense line of the victims.
The soldier huddled in his post. He felt that there seemed to be comrades-in-arms around him, but they were in a hurry, and none of them stopped. The expressions on their faces were the same fear and bewilderment as his.
He raised his head, he saw a steady stream of silver-white bee swarms passing over his head, he saw the huge fire array shivering with him in the only remaining void shield in the distance, he saw officers walking constantly Entering the bunker, he heard the quarrel inside never stopped, and he saw one herald after another complaining in a low voice, using manpower to run to all fronts, passing one brand new order after another.
But he is still confused.
He didn't know how much power was left in the defense line in front of him. Under the threat of those silver-white gods of death, he didn't dare to walk around at will, and he didn't even dare to look at another corner around the corner of the trench.
He didn't even know if this line of defense existed, because when he evacuated here, he saw with his own eyes how a missile trailing its trail accurately hit a complete trench, causing hundreds of thousands of Soldiers howled in the flames and were reduced to ashes.
He raised his head, he looked left and right, he longed to find a true comrade in arms, but everyone was hurriedly walking under the urging of those silent gods of death in the sky, his pupils were filled with confusion and fear, it seemed that he was the only one in the whole world resisting those An unnamed opponent.
In the end, he huddled in the trench.Hour after hour, the only sounds that accompanied him were the ripping of wings against the sky, or the blast of a missile hitting another target in the distance.
He didn't even see a real enemy, yet again he seemed to have lost the battle.
Those gods of death in the sky don't seem to be interested in their troops on land. They are constantly leaping and chasing, destroying those more valuable targets. He feels that there may be millions of people hidden in these trenches and fortresses. The army, but now they are useless, they have no communications, no orders, not even a single enemy to shoot at, they are hordes of deaf and blind waiting for themselves in empty trenches death sentence announcement.
When did the war become like this?
The soldier gritted his teeth, trembling, and stroked his gun.
And at this moment, he heard the quarrel in the bunker rise to a whole new level, and he heard the chief of defense and the inspector screaming at the same time, ordering him to go in.
He was stunned, and only when the two sharp orders were transmitted clearly for the second time did he pick up his gun in a daze and walked into the command room.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw the two top officials facing each other across an extremely messy command table. At first, he looked at the defense officer opposite with contemptuous eyes.
The chief of defense is an old chief who has been followed by soldiers for more than ten years. It is said that he was also a big shot in the capital circle before, but after he refused to pay bribes and offended a big shot in the Carrit family, he was demoted here. Ten years.
"You are treason!"
The inspector was the first to speak, his voice was unbearably sharp, the son bared his teeth like a dog, his military uniform was modified, it looked like a military uniform, and also like a dress, It looks nondescript and makes people want to laugh.
"Soldier, go to the control room and turn on the void shield."
The defense chief was dressed in a simple military uniform. He glanced at the pistol tightly held in the inspector's hand, and walked slowly around the command table casually, as if it was an ordinary afternoon, and he issued another An ordinary order.
The inspector uttered an obscenity, and turned his gun on the soldier, and then on the chief of the defense, as if struggling with which character to threaten.And at this moment, the defense chief suddenly said a word.
"Did you know? Just two hours ago, I seized the opportunity when the communication was temporarily restored, and sent a message informing that the invaders would make a large-scale landing here. This message was not sent to the temporary command center. Instead, it was issued to the most powerful army regiments closest to us."
"At the same time, within the range they can detect, the enemy's fleet is indeed carrying out the most obvious landing operation. The location of the landing is the defense zone I am in charge of."
"Do you know what that means?"
"what?"
The inspector fell into confusion for a moment, his gun was habitually pointed at the soldiers beside him, and he didn't even see the soldiers quietly dodging away.
And at this time, the chief of defense suddenly made an attack, and rushed towards the inspector who was less than two meters away from him. After knocking down the son from the capital, the gunshot rang out and hit the light bulb, making the whole room suddenly flickering.
"Meaning your idiot's military academy is fucking for nothing."
The soldiers saw that a happy smile appeared on the face of the defense chief.
"Flat terrain, continuous marching convoy, tens of thousands of tanks and armored vehicles are crowded together, lacking sufficient air defense means and necessary cover, and the enemy still has a complete fucking air firepower advantage! The entire track is them warships! The entire sky is filled with their warplanes and drones!"
"Guess what's going to happen next?"
"Among them, if half of them can reach here alive, it is the gods who are blessing you idiots!"
"It's just that you guys who haven't even learned the basic theory, think that if you gather a large group of super heavy war engines or armored vehicles, you can be invincible and go on a rampage."
The inspector was knocked down to the ground, he was coughing extremely hard, his pupils contained a daze that made people want to laugh, but it didn't prevent him from biting the corner of his mouth, spewing out a mouthful of blood, and screaming fiercely.
"You idiot, you traitor, just wait, the Senate will execute you! And your bastards!"
"my family."
The Chief of Defense let out the most contemptuous laugh.
"They don't need you to worry about it."
As soon as he spoke, he stretched out his hand to the soldier. Although he was still a little confused about the situation in front of him, after more than ten years of obedience and orders, the soldier instinctively handed over the gun in his hand. He loaded the bullet, and then pointed at the inspector who finally sensed a hint of death crisis.
"you this……"
"Fuck you, I just want to protect my family."
"And just now, they have come to my side, right next door."
A crisp gunshot echoed in the small room for a long time. The chief defense officer looked at the inspector's head that had been blown off. He seemed to sigh softly, as if regretting that he had broken a certain obsession that he had stuck to for a lifetime.
After throwing the gun aside, he slowly removed the unique armband around his neck and put it on the table.
"All as you wish, my lord."
The chief of defense saluted the shadow next to the soldier. It wasn't until this moment that the soldier was shocked to find that beside him stood a soldier who looked to be two or three meters tall and covered in black armor.
"The empire will remember your contribution."
The man in black armor didn't say much, after the simplest encouragement, he slowly picked up the armband.
"I remember a friend of yours, who seems to be the garrison commander of the main hive capital?"
The Chief of Defense showed a bitter smile when he heard this.
"Yes, my lord. He is a comrade in arms of the same period as me. He was also affected by me. He was unwilling to testify against me with perjury, so he was kicked from the commander of the main force to that cold bench waiting to die."
"Very well, I want to know, can this thing make him believe my words?"
"You know, what the empire brings is kindness and security. We don't want to let more blood flow. Everyone in the hive capital is innocent in this battle."
The soldier saw a gleam of light flash in the defense chief's pupils.
"I can assure you, my lord, this is enough to make him think about everything, please do it! You are right, those people are innocent, we have already had enough of the Carrit family or other families rule!"
"very good."
The black-armored soldier didn't speak any more, and he quickly disappeared into the shadow again. The soldier looked at the shadow with disbelief, and even groped inside a few times, but he never saw the obvious black-armored soldier again. .
At this time, the voice of the Chief of Defense came again.
"Go, go and convey my order to order them to lower the void shield. This is a signal that has been finalized in advance. This war has nothing to do with us now."
"We're defeated."
"It's lucky, isn't it?"
The soldier didn't answer, but his pace of leaving became brisk. He walked into the control room, and in the midst of sighs and silent joy, he gave the order, and then walked out of the bunker step by step.
He stood at the door of the bunker again, sticking his head out from his trench, those silver-white gods of death were still passing over his head in groups, but at this moment, he really saw clearly, they It turns out that it is so far above the sky, so far away that it seems to exist in another world.
In his field of vision, bursts of yellow sand rolled up, dyeing the distant horizon a strange copper color. He listened attentively, but in the misty yellow sand, he heard a kind of summer thunder-like sound. heavy sound.
He carefully identified, and finally, in the thunderous sound, he heard countless armored engines torn apart, heard the sad sound of hordes of armies collapsing, on the horizon, in the distant Amidst the muffled thunder, there seemed to be a massacre.
But that has nothing to do with him.
Next, he stood there, standing there like that, looking into the distance, I don't know how long it took, maybe after an hour, maybe when the time had passed midnight and extended toward the second midnight, he finally saw those Huge meteors fell from the sky, shaking the heavens and the earth. He finally saw those legendary iron birds, from the distant stars, came to the outside of the sand dunes, and groups of warriors in silver armor walked from inside. out.
Under their seats, there were one after another, terrifyingly huge war engines that he had never seen before, and at the end of another field of vision, he saw something even more terrifying walking down from the stars, a group of Behemoths on the battlefield more than ten meters high, or even tens of meters high, just standing there silently is enough to make any army lose the courage to fight.
It was as if the god had thrown his weapon into this sad world, into this war that had no suspense.
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"In the second phase of the war, we have invested in a complete system of Shadow Sword, Stormblade and Land Raider, as well as dozens of God's Machines belonging to the Warlord Legion, and a certain number of Reza Guardians military."
"And before actually putting these ground forces into play, we conducted an induction operation against the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower and emergency measures. During the period from eight o'clock in the evening to midnight, our fighter planes dispatched a total of [-] sorties, including nearly [-] induced drones to test Gladstone's hidden anti-aircraft firepower points, or undetected backup military facilities."
"And once the enemy's hidden firepower equipment is discovered by us, within ten seconds, our sophisticated guided missiles will completely destroy it. Within four Terra standard hours, we have launched a total of more than six thousand Several missiles and belt bombs of various types completely destroyed the command centers and military installations in Glaston."
"At the same time, our electronic warfare has also entered a new stage, choosing to temporarily restore the enemy's communication network, giving them the illusion that they have destroyed our electronic offensive means, and allowing those who have been persuaded by us to Convincing enemy personnel can quickly convey wrong information back."
"And the purpose of everything we do is to move the enemy's main force away from the industrial and residential areas, and lure them to the desolate pioneering areas of this planet, so that the main battlefield will not harm what we need. Those elite areas, and at the same time, this tactic of avoiding the main living area will also allow us to encounter less resistance when we take over the planet later."
"After all, although there are a large number of people in these residential areas, it is difficult for them to launch a large-scale counterattack or hinder our advance without sufficient weapons and equipment, information and intelligence, and organization and scheduling. All our combat operations were completed overnight, and the main battlefield was concentrated in military installations and areas outside the city, and they simply could not receive more detailed information."
"After successfully transferring away the main force of these Gladstones, leaving their city defense forces in a predicament of insufficient manpower, the occupation of the urban and industrial areas also began."
"We have also begun to invest heavily in the Stormbird Squadron, equipped with elite infantry units and psyker squads, to test and occupy various important key nodes."
"Facts have proved that the special mobile unit composed of elite infantry and psykers can fully achieve a relative balance of firepower, mobility, and concealment in this type of operation."
"Smart power is enough to replace inconvenient heavy firepower equipment. We only need [-] squads, a total of [-] soldiers, to successfully trick the enemy's temporary command center into thinking that we have formed a main front with more than [-] soldiers. , thereby greatly consuming and disintegrating their power."
"On the other hand, the results of our experience in combat also proved that our decision to install enough drones for each special operations team as air support firepower was extremely correct. The hundreds of drones we sent out None of the squads were systematically destroyed, and the number of casualties was limited to less than [-]. The sufficient fire support of the drones allowed them to take a considerable initiative when attacking and retreating."
"And the only cost of this approach is that the loss of drones has reached an astonishing level. We lost half of the tens of thousands of drones we customized from Reza overnight."
[But it's worth it, isn't it? 】
A chuckle from Morgan briefly interrupted Bayard's narration.
She glanced at her children, and found that they lowered their heads in shame, as if they didn't dare to look at her, while others raised their heads subconsciously at the moment her gaze caught them, as if they wanted to Show more heroism.
[After this battle, I once collected your battle testimonials or review papers from you. Got to something I missed earlier. 】
[For example, several teams indicated that when they were attacking the hive capital, they encountered a counterattack from a militia team organized by an officer, and this counterattack even caused us casualties. 】
【Did that officer die in battle?Bayar? 】
"No, mother, he was knocked out by an explosion in the battle that followed, and was finally captured alive by the cathars. One of our soldiers recognized him, and he is now in prison."
[A commander who can organize the crowd to repel the Astartes in such chaos, he should appear in our auxiliary army, not in the prison. 】
【Are you right? 】
"Your will, mother."
[Very well, it can be seen that my children, with such excellent people joining our auxiliary army, our auxiliary army will become even stronger in the future, and with the assistance of such an army, We will also shed less blood on the battlefield. 】
[This is what I care about. 】
[I see that many of you have mentioned it in the book. I seem to attach great importance to this war and make extra preparations. Many people think that a thousand soldiers are invested just for latent activities. It was an act of waste to put the Stormblades and God Machines on such a scale in the State Warriors, and later in the landing operations, but let me tell you, my children. 】
[If I lose a hundred Stormblade tanks, I can go to Reza and ask them to build another hundred for me. 】
【How I lost a hundred warships, I can visit countless shipyards, let me have a hundred warships again. 】
[I even said, oh, this sounds a bit exaggerated: Even if I lost a hundred machines of God, although it would be enough to cause the world to shatter, but it is not irreversible, I can travel all over those forging worlds, and use countless In exchange for favors, one hundred titans willing to fight for me. 】
[But, but, if I lose a hundred fighters, if I lose a hundred fighters who inherit my blood, if I become distressed because of a small loss, let my fighters use their lives to replace those bombs What can be done with Huo Yan, to accelerate the arrival of the so-called victory, is irreversible. 】
[I can lose a hundred war engines, I can lose a hundred warships, I can even lose a hundred god machines, for me, these things are not irreplaceable, I can always use more Find more supplements in the world. 】
[But if I lose a hundred children, then I really lose them forever, even if I go back to the end of time, even if I walk through every star and every world in this galaxy, I will lose them forever. I can't find them anymore, and I can never get any of them back to me. 】
[Therefore, my children, don’t tell me why I wasted my psychic power in such a war, and don’t think that my preparations for the war are too detailed. I would rather fight for the simplest war. A thousand drills, ten thousand deductions, just like we spent such a long time in order to capture Gladstone, using the war compass to start over again and again. 】
[It took us less than fifteen hours to win, and for all of this, we spent fifteen days repeating any possibility we could encounter, or any kind of resistance, just to let one more fighter Can return to the bridge of the battleship. 】
[If you want to ask, then I can answer you now. 】
[Yes, the next war, the next war, until the last war we can experience, as long as I can do it, I will definitely do it, I will definitely use abundant intelligence, complete preparations and The tireless deduction and real-time grasp are in exchange for your life, even if there is only one. 】
[Don't underestimate yourselves, you are just soldiers to the empire, but to me, you are also my children. 】
[The empire requires you to win, and I ask you to come back alive. 】
[So, I chose to hand over the victory to the empire, and when all the victories have been finalized, as a genetic mother, can't I be greedy for my own interests, so that my child can even have one more, see To the tomorrow of victory? 】
[This is my war, children, this is the war I will bring to you. 】
[Prepare for everything. 】
[A tireless plan. 】
[Speak with firepower and mobility. 】
[Everyone is united. 】
【at last. 】
【you. 】
[To come back alive. 】
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Bayard hummed briskly.
He threw his companions away, and then again, and they never kept up with his speed and rhythm, any more than the enemy's bullets and psychic powers could keep up with his footsteps and blades.
Many times, he even has doubts from the bottom of his heart: why is he so powerful?Why since he had this awareness, he seemed stronger than everyone he met?
With this kind of doubt, Bayar couldn't help but look back at the road he just walked, the narrow and long bloody road, in the corridor of the hive capital of several kilometers, there are hundreds of people lying in disorder at this time. Gladstone's elite fighters, around machine guns, artillery, and even a war engine, formed a fortress strong enough to stop thousands of people from attacking.
Fifteen minutes ago, they were living in the hundreds, until Bayard, humming his out-of-key lilting ditty, came before the fortress with two swords, one long and one short.
Yes, he didn't even carry a pistol. Bayar never disdained these long-range means, and the blade in his hand was enough to solve everything he encountered.
Bayar hummed a little tune, he turned and moved, like a snow-white whirlwind that couldn't be caught, jumping back and forth on the frontier positions, he never stayed in each trench for more than ten seconds, And when he finally leaves, he'll be left with a bloody throat.
He dodged those shells and shrapnel that hurt friendly troops. Like a brisk swift, he tossed and turned in those violent explosions, clearing out those unsightly artillery and machine gun positions one by one.
So terrible, relentless, and swift were his fights that the tank commander, who had opened the top cover to expose his head, was killed by Baya before he could even huddle inside the safety of his armor. Er grabbed his head and pulled it out. After stabbing him to death, he took the explosives that another defender tried to kill him, and threw it into the war engine.
By the time the engine of war blew up with the help of friendly forces, Bayar had killed all life in the next trench, and by the time his somewhat lost song hummed to the end, he had reached his own Before the final destination, there were a lot of dead bodies left behind. Their bodies were all intact, except for a simple but fatal wound on the throat or heart.
As always, when Bayar turned his head, he heard a brazen bell-like wild laughter coming from the distant clouds.
I don't know when it started, that arrogant laughter seemed to like to follow his footsteps, every time he swung his sword and collected blood, it always came as promised.
But this time, Bayar wasn't paying attention to it, his vision had been taken away by something else.
He smiled.
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Its daybreak.
Morning came.
The war is over.
Bayar knew this, for he saw the signs of it all, for he had been overshadowed by the Primarch's might.
Moreover, at this moment, in the hive capital of Gladstone, among the burning ruins and misty yellow sand, those defenders who are still resisting, those invaders who are shrewdly calculating their own attacks, when When they chose to raise their heads, when they unanimously looked at the sun peeking out from the foot of the mountain, they saw everything without exception.
Without exception, they saw the silent deterrence floating slowly amidst the Spider Queen's hidden laughter, and they saw the power and words of the Lord of the Second Legion.
No one knows when it came to Gladstone's sky, but when they saw it, it had already proudly occupied the position the sun had, and with the help of the gradually bright and dazzling light, the terrifying The giant cast its shadow over every Gladstone.
Those residents who have some knowledge can recognize that it is their battleship, which is already scarred and obviously destroyed. The various battleships that once belonged to Gladstone, they were ruthlessly captured by a stubborn force, and then Stitched together again by their unimaginable invisible power, their once indestructible metal shells are howling in pain at this moment, being forcibly twisted together.A terrifying artistic image was pieced together.
It was a terrifying creation assembled by dozens of warships.
An eternal shadow that will forever haunt the hearts of Gladstones.
It was a rogue Primarch using her strength and will to the silent warships and stations of Gladstone.
formed.
supported by.
floating in the sky.
that blocks the sun.
Hanging high, the Imperial Aquila.
I'm really not good at writing this kind of thing to get the war scene done in one go, and I may not write in such detail for a long time in the future.
But anyway, the war scene is over, and now we can finally go to Ultramar!Prince Regent here I come!
(End of this chapter)
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