Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 231 Reconnaissance Operation
"Yo."

Dantioch had just walked out of the room and onto the corridor outside when he heard someone calling him from the corner on the right.

Turning around, he saw Qin Xia, the Primarch guide of the 12th Legion and head of the White Knights think tank.

When he saw Qin Xia, Dantioch's face had no expression, as always, but he was somewhat happy in his heart.

This is not just because he was saved by Qin Xia.

"What's the matter?" Dantioch asked in a cold voice with an expressionless face.

To Qin Xia, the sound of Dantioch's voice sounded like someone hitting a piece of solid steel with a tool. No matter how much force was used, there was not much echo.

"It seems that you don't get along well with your battle brothers." Qin Xia said with a smile.

“I didn’t get along well with anybody,” Dantioch said. “But I didn’t have much self-awareness, so I didn’t know why I didn’t get along well with them.”

Qin Xia did not answer and just looked at Dantioch quietly.

In his impression, Dantioch was a tough man both inside and out, cold and strong.

Whatever Dantioch himself thought, he was more of a piece of steel than his genetic father.

Thinking of this, Qin Xia opened his mouth to speak, but stopped himself. In the end, the topic that was originally about to continue in his mouth suddenly changed to something else: "I need to go to the planet below to do something. I need some people who are good at building a stubborn stronghold. I need some people who are good at defensive warfare. When I realized what I needed, the first person I thought of was you and you guys."

"Stubborn stronghold?" Even Dantioch, who didn't like to find fault, was puzzled by Qin Xia's choice of words.

A stronghold should be described with words like tenacious or solid, not stubborn.

Qin Xia realized Dantioch's question and took the initiative to answer: "I need a base that can survive on that planet no matter what. This is unreasonable, so I used an inaccurate adjective."

Dantioch nodded.

"Are you sure it wasn't a slip of the tongue, and you just let it go for the sake of your own face?"

Another Iron Warrior came over.

When Qin Xia looked at him, he recognized at a glance that this was Dantioch's Terran friend.

At the same time, Qin Xia also recalled one thing, that was when he was on Novsendak 5, he followed Angron to find Perturabo to discuss some things, and then he was isolated in a dark room by the Iron Warriors.

After coming out of that room, he cursed the Iron Warrior named Lando Egg.

By the way, he also scolded the Terran Space Marine in front of him.

"Why have you suddenly become gentle recently? I heard from the other Tridents about you. When you were talking to the Lord of Steel and even now, you rarely cursed."

Said the Terran Iron Warrior.

"I was prepared to be scolded by you. After all, I just jumped in and interrupted you suddenly, and exposed your shortcomings."

"..."

Listening to the Iron Warrior's insulting words, Qin Xia smiled and looked around, licked his lips, and said softly: "After all, this is on the flagship of your Iron Warrior Corps. As a guest, I have to give you some face."

The Terran Iron Warrior walked up to Dantioch.

Although the two had a disagreement when they were mourning Lando Egg in the room just now, their friendship of many years cannot be broken by a few harsh words.

"If there is any special mission, count me in." The Terran Iron Warrior said, "Lando Aegor is a complete idiot and bastard, but he is still my battle brother, connected by blood to every warrior of the Fourth Legion. I want to avenge him."

Hearing this, Qin Xia nodded silently.

The Terran Iron Warrior walked towards Qin Xia and extended his hand, greeting Qin Xia and introducing himself with an ancient Terran etiquette: "Stoke."

"Qin Xia." Qin Xia held the hand of the Terran Iron Warrior named Stoke.

The two people who had met each other a long time ago finally got to know each other truly.

"When are we going to the planet below?" asked Dantioch.

"In fact, we can go down now. We don't need a transport plane. We can just teleport down directly." Qin Xia said, subconsciously turning his head to look at the void outside, but the Iron Warriors' warships didn't have portholes, so he turned his head back and asked, "How many people can you bring?"

"My power is limited by the Lord of Steel. I can only bring 500 people, but I guarantee that they are all elite." said Dantioch.

Qin Xia smiled and nodded.

"enough."

……

Somewhere on the surface.

In a deep crater left by an orbital bombardment, some fully armed warriors walked out of the sudden and spreading snowstorm.

Qin Xia walked in the front, wearing the gorgeous and powerful armor made for him by the Primarchs, holding a spear in his hand that could be used as a staff, a book hanging around his waist, and many pendants on his body whose meanings were unknown but which you would know were very useful if you thought about it.

Even the compartments in Qin Xia's armor were filled with useful things.

And on his finger was a ring.

The ring of Mad King Tark.

Dantioch and Stok followed with 300 Iron Warriors.

The former could originally mobilize 500 people, but Qin Xia felt that the scale of this operation should not be too large, so he only let Dantioch take 300 people and promised that these 300 people would definitely be safe.

Dantioch was the main commander of these Iron Warriors, with his close friend Stok as his second-in-command.

Apart from these people, no one else will arrive on the surface of this planet as aid for the time being.

But although their number is small, each of them has unique skills. If they are placed on other battlefields where the difficulty of the war is not too high, these people are enough to conquer a galaxy.

"Before coming here, I suggested setting up our base underground." Dantioch looked at the surroundings.

Before being teleported to the surface here, while walking in the pitch-black snow, Qin Xia talked about his plan, which was to build a base here for research, reconnaissance, and to provide a transit point for subsequent infiltration or certain sabotage operations, and it could be expanded into a military station if necessary.

At that time, Dantioch also quickly gave his own opinion, which was to build the stronghold underground, taking advantage of Qin Xia's ability to use psychic power to teleport his men everywhere, and simply drive a nail into the place where there were the most greenskins and most controlled by them.

Dantioch also has the confidence that he can hold on.

"I have no way to teleport underground on this planet. Remember what enemy we are dealing with? They should have psychic means to counter insight." Qin Xia poked the ground with the wind from his spear, "But we can dig down."

Dantioch remained silent, squatted down and picked up some slightly vitrified dust, and let the dust dissipate with the storm caused by the harsh natural environment on the planet's surface.

After thinking for a while, Dantioch turned to look at the others.

The people present were either his close friends or his subordinates. Everyone was very familiar with Dantioch and naturally knew what he wanted to do.

So without any clear orders coming from Dantioch's mouth, everyone began to act.

The Iron Warriors ship launches a drop pod towards the coordinates marked on the surface.

The airdrop capsule dropped from the sky and landed with a loud bang.

It is a special airdrop pod made by the Iron Warriors, used to build fortifications during wartime. Many kinds of engineering devices are integrated inside the airdrop pod, and the specific device can be customized.

The device inside the airdrop capsule was quickly activated and roared. A large drill appeared at the bottom of the airdrop capsule, and then flames were released from the nozzle at the tail of the airdrop capsule, pushing the drill to dig underground.

The others waited silently, and the drop capsule quickly dug out a passage.

Dantioch turned and looked at Qin Xia.

Qin Xia used his psychic power to explore the situation inside the channel, but in the psychic perception of a psychic, the underground of the entire planet connected to the channel was completely unknown.

There is no way to accurately describe that feeling, in short, it is unknowable.

"No matter what kind of enemy is lurking underground on this planet, it is absolutely extremely powerful." Qin Xia sighed, and then led the way into the passage dug out by the airdrop cabin.

The Iron Warriors followed silently.

"Our two legions have never launched live ammunition at this planet because it is predicted that this planet will bounce the live ammunition back." Stock muttered, "But no matter whether it is an airdrop capsule, a certain type of aircraft, or some kind of miniaturized artillery shell, none of them have been bounced back."

"So you think the prophecy is false?" Qin Xia asked, turning around.

Stock smiled and shook his head: "I don't think the prophecy is false, because many things in the prophecy have been confirmed, confirmed by each of our own eyes. I just think that part of the prophecy is not as serious as he said."

"In my opinion, bouncing back live ammunition attacks is a defense mechanism to prevent planetary destruction. I think it exists, but its effect is limited." Qin Xia said as he walked.

"Not all attacks that can destroy this planet are carried out with live ammunition." Stocker seemed to have a good understanding of planet-destroying weapons and was quite interested. "Your 12th Legion always has a defense platform moving around with the fleet. The attacks of that defense platform are not real ammunition, but the energy it projects every second is enough to destroy a planet."

Qin Xia shook his head and remained silent.

He was not speechless because of what Stoker said, but was thinking about this issue seriously.

Previously, someone from the 12th Legion had proposed using the orbital defense platform's planet sculpting tools to directly destroy the planet, but Qin Xia objected.

The reason is that Qin Xia believes that the owner of this planet does not want it to be destroyed, so whether it is a live ammunition attack or an energy attack, as long as they want to destroy this planet, there will be terrible consequences.

While he was thinking, Qin Xia had already reached the end of the passage with the others.

A fart spirit was standing next to the airdrop capsule, dismantling various high-tech materials from the capsule. When it saw humans appear, it jumped up in fright and fled into the distance driven by its instinct.

These weak creatures only follow their instincts, and they are not smart at all, they are very stupid. Because their brains are small, the greenskins don't think that small-brained beasts are smart.

Hissing Fart, a super fart spirit who can serve as a military strategist, is an exception, and he was not born naturally.

"Shoot." Dantioch ordered his best friend.

Stock raised his pistol and shot the fleeing fart monster.

The bullets fired from his pistol were not explosive, so there was no explosion.

His pistol itself could hardly even be called a weapon, it was just a tool launcher in the shape of a pistol.

The fart monster's body was pierced by a sharp device, which unfolded inside its body, then drove the fart monster away and nailed it to the wall.

The device that unfolded inside the fart spirit's body was a detector, which began to release scanning waves. Then the structure and landscape of the entire underground space were intuitively displayed in the tactical eyepieces of all the soldiers.

The armor on Qin Xia's body cannot share information and intelligence from the 4th Legion, but Qin Xia has observed the entire underground space through psychic power.

This isn't some kind of cave.

It was completely different from the natural environment that Qin Xia and Dantioch saw the last time they embarked on their cave adventure.

The entire underground space is full of a sense of technology, of course, the rough technology of the greenskins, with a large number of unnatural creations everywhere.

The edge of the entire underground space is not a rock wall, but a piece of metal plate pieced together.

No matter which direction you look in the underground space, you can only see huge metal plates spliced ​​together far away.

The same is true even under your feet.

There was no ground under their feet, only spliced ​​metal plates that could be seen several kilometers below. However, no one fell down, including the fart spirit just now and the airdrop capsule that had been dug here before. None of them fell down because there was nothing under their feet.

"Some kind of sleight of hand?" An Iron Warrior squatted down and touched the ground with his hand. He clearly felt that he touched some solid object, which meant that there was not nothing under his feet as it seemed.

"This is real." Qin Xia said, "Maybe it's some special technology, or maybe it's some special psychic magic. In short, there is still a road here, but we humans can't find it."

Stock slapped his head fiercely. "It turns out that what the wizard from the 15th Legion said about the entire planet being hollowed out was completely literal, not an exaggeration."

"Let's keep going." Qin Xia looked around, "I'll pick a good place to set up a base."

"Wait a moment." Dantioch suddenly took out a device. The Iron Warriors recognized that it was the invention that Perturabo had given to Dantioch. It was a device used to detect whether there were psychic orcs around.

(End of this chapter)