Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 588 Meat Grinder

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"Two flowers bloom, each showing its own beauty."

"In the Battle of Sotha, the fiercest battle for Horus reached its peak as brave and fearless soldiers wrote hymns of praise for mortals."

"The Lord of the White Knights is about to join the battle for Horus. The think tank troops under his command can already be called a legion, a psychic legion. Let us witness..."

The contracted demon belonging to Varis floats in the secret room.

Those little creatures with eyes surrounded Varis's contracted demon, listening to things that Varis could not understand for the time being.

Varis couldn't understand what nonsense the contracted demon was talking about.

He only knew that his contracted demon was completing a ritual, and a necessary step to complete the ritual was to tell stories to those small eye-like creatures.

"Let's observe the situation on this side of the Battle of Horus."

After saying this, the contracted demon gently waved his arms.

All the eye-like creatures disappeared into the secret room.

Varis saw these creatures through his psionic vision throughout the galaxy.

This is what the ritual does: it drives these eye creatures to observe the entire galaxy, giving the friendly side a temporary advantage in gaining insight into the enemy's information.

"When I was a compass, I was telling them stories about the Lord of the White Knights."

The contracted demon floats to the master's side.

Varis walked out of the secret room and along the corridor to the command deck, saying to the demon, "The way to drive them is to tell stories?"

The demon nodded slowly: "Only I can drive these observers, because the entities derived from my navigation concept have a conceptual connection with them."

A man and a demon were walking in the corridor.

The contracted demon is invisible to the mortals passing by.

Varis walked all the way to the command deck and saw that the top leaders of the entire think tank were there.

The commander of ten Think Tank battle companies, the director of the Great Library, the Supreme Grand Master of the Think Tank Mentor Department, the Secret Hunter, and the White Knight.

Regardless of whether it is a department that was destined to be used in combat from the beginning of its establishment, or a department such as the Great Library and the Tutor Group that is not involved in combat by nature, all of them must participate in the next battle.

Outside the command deck porthole.

Two fleets are passing through the rift in the pocket universe.

The Ultramarines fleet is located to the side of the Librarian fleet.

After being sent out by Guilliman to participate in the Battle of Horus, this fleet was found and captured by Qin Xia on the way forward, and then brought all the way to the galaxy to participate in the battle.

They will serve as the main force in void warfare, assisting the think tank forces that are not good at void warfare to attack the enemy fleet.

"Lord of the White Knight."

A holographic image of a friendly force appeared on the command deck. It was the commander of the Ultramarines fleet and an old friend of the World Eaters - First Chapter Master Marius Gage.

Gage's holographic image saluted Qin Xia, and then said: "According to the order of the Lord of the Five Hundred Worlds, I will obey your command."

"The Ultramarines will be responsible for the void battles, and the Space Marines will be used for the boarding battles."

Qin Xia had a blank expression and cold eyes.

Gage glanced back at the information presented on the tactical table.

The think tank fleet shares intelligence on the entire galaxy.

Intelligence shows that there are at least 30,000 Space Marines of the 11th Legion on the planet.

"The Think Tank forces total one thousand men. Lord of the White Knights." Gage turned around and said.

"Ha. One thousand think tanks against thirty thousand people..." Qin Xia smiled, with the right corner of his mouth raised exaggeratedly, "The military investment is seriously over-exploited."

Gage remained silent.

"The mentor team will stay here to assist the fleet in the void war, and the others will be deployed on the ground." Qin Xia turned around and gave the order, "The primary task is to rescue Horus. The secondary task is to cause as many casualties as possible to the 11th Legion, which can also be regarded as a test of the results of the think tank's transformation."

The think tank leaders saluted with their chests touched.

The next second, all the think tank leaders were teleported out of the command deck.

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No warship went beyond the planet's orbit to drop a drop pod.

Not a single transport or gunship flew into the atmosphere to deploy a cabin of Space Marines.

In the eyes of mortals without psychic talents, the think tanks appeared on the planet silently.

Strategic communication was completed in an instant.

The think tanks reached a consensus and chose the decapitation tactic.

The 11th Legion's command system is highly centralized, and the decapitation tactics that were extremely effective against the greenskins in the Battle of Ullanor are also effective against them.

Command sub-individuals are in command vehicles, landing points, or captured fortresses, coordinating and detailing orders from higher-level sub-individuals or even the Primarchs. Elite think tank battle teams will appear directly near them.

However, those think tank teams, which were not elite and whose members had not participated in many wars, appeared where the 11th Legion was attacking or defending. It seemed that they were launching a massive attack with only a few people, but in fact they were playing a restraining role for the elite combat teams to implement decapitation tactics.

As soon as the think tank troops joined the battle, Qin Xia in the battleship observed everyone. The Lord of the White Knights set his sights on a decapitation team composed of Caliban think tanks.

The Caliban think tank team teleported to an 11th Legion command vehicle. They wanted to appear directly at the bottom of the command vehicle instead of the top floor. Their target was not the senior officers on the top floor, but they wanted to completely destroy the entire command vehicle and paralyze the 11th Legion command chain in the entire area.

The psychic light flickered, and ten think tanks appeared.

Even the step of teleportation has tactical arrangements.

The seven full-time combat think tank team members appeared first, evenly distributed in a circle. When they appeared, they held up a psychic barrier and released psychic spells.

Fire, lightning... a series of attacking psychic spells wiped out hundreds of enemies nearby. No matter whether they were Space Marines or the 11th Legion's alien auxiliary forces, they had no power to resist the psychic spells.

After the area was cleared, the three remaining think tanks in the team appeared in the center of the team, surrounded by other team members distributed in a circle.

The three core think tanks are not the team's command level, but functional think tanks who are proficient in three different types of psychic spells.

Prophecy, biochemistry, and mind.

After all team members were in place, the think tanks began to summon the "guardian spirits".

The Warp creatures found an anchor point due to the resonance between themselves and their master's souls, penetrated the veil, and descended into reality.

These think tank servants follow their masters.

The squad moves forward.

Go to the upper level from the lifting platform on the bottom floor of the command vehicle used to deploy troops.

The platform rises and reaches the second floor.

A thick adamantium gate stood between the Librarian team and the second level they were trying to destroy.

The prophetic think tank found a hint of the future in many abstract images and realized that there were a large number of enemies who had already deployed defenses behind the gate.

This information was shared.

The captain of the think tank team completed his thinking and decision-making in an instant, and also shared his ideas through psychic power.

Then the Psychic Librarian at the center of the team took a step forward and stretched out his hand toward the back of the gate.

Among hundreds of Space Marines, those with weak wills were selected.

The more powerful will corrodes the weaker will through the psychic energy that seeps into the fabric of reality.

Finally, the selected enemy Space Marine suddenly lowered his grenade launcher and detonated all the explosives on his body.

The explosions heralded the coming of battle.

The captain who was good at offensive psychic spells stepped forward and gently touched the gate, and the adamantine gate was melted by the high temperature.

Before the Librarians could advance with the psychic barrier, the guardian spirits skilled in combat rushed out from their masters and started killing the Space Marines of the 11th Legion in front of them.

With the help of several offensive psychic spells, in the blink of an eye, only one person was left alive among the hundreds of Space Marines.

The team continued to move forward.

In the center of the team, a think tank who was skilled in biochemical psychic spells came to the survivor and healed all the wounds on his body.

The Psychic Think Tank takes advantage of the survivors when they are injured and their wills are weak.

The survivors got up from the ground and ran to other places ahead of the think tanks, spreading false information everywhere, prompting the hostile defense personnel in the command vehicle to make various failed decisions.

The think tank team continued to advance on the second floor.

Destroy a facility.

Kill enemies that are dozens of times their number.

Return to the lift platform to go to the third level and start the cycle again.

The 11th Legion commander in the command vehicle had already noticed their presence, but when facing these think tank invaders, they could not even gain the advantage in numbers, because there were two combat teams outside the command vehicle that were tying down the nearby 11th Legion forces.

The entire command vehicle could only be slowly destroyed in despair.

The chain of command in the entire area was completely paralyzed.

And that's just what's happening in one region of the planet.

Thousands of think tank troops are active in every corner of the planet, completing a mission with unstoppable momentum and can move to the next location in an instant without any transport vehicles.

The landing troops of the 11th Legion, which were fighting the greenskins, were in a passive position. Troops in one place could not contact troops in another place, and even the Space Marines fighting on the front line did not know whether their superior command individuals were still alive.

If the real elites in the White Knights' think tank, those White Knights led by Varis to fight against the Nurgle army, can also deal with the 11th Legion, then the 11th Army will gradually collapse.

A thousand think tanks.

The size of an army composed of such a large, powerful and stable number of psychic Astartes is only equivalent to a war group in the 40th millennium ten thousand years later.

But if there is a chapter composed entirely of think tanks ten thousand years from now, this chapter can easily decide the outcome of an apocalyptic-level battle.

For ordinary Space Marines who have no anti-psionic means and no psionic talents, the situation against the Think Tank is not much different from that of mortals against Space Marines.

Qin Xia thought that if the Webway Project could succeed now, he should let the Think Tank troops support Sosa, and he would participate in the war for Horus alone.

The Librarians were able to slaughter all attackers on Sotha, including the Emperor's Children, just as the Space Marines slaughtered mortals.

(End of this chapter)