Warhammer: Lord of the Endless Monsters

Chapter 241: First entry into the subspace, encounter with the Space Shark Warband
After the two men discussed various relevant matters, Guilliman took his leave. He had to prepare the army overnight and mobilize the mortal troops near Ultramar.

Prepare two more Ultramarines companies for Rhodes. The Ultramarines are still very wealthy now, and each combat company has a strike cruiser.

Recently, 300 original Space Marines from the Legion era have just joined. Guilliman has mobilized two companies of combat troops for Rhodes. Their main task is to contact the Blood Angels.

Originally, Guilliman wanted to arrange elite companies like the 1st or 2nd Company, but according to Rhodes, these two companies were not used for fighting.

Guilliman then arranged for the 3rd and 4th Companies to bring their strike cruisers and mortal auxiliary forces to follow Rhodes into the battle.

In addition, the visible support forces also include members of the Black Templars. Now, all of these more than 150 Black Templars have been injected with Rhodes' gene seeds.

In addition, the Primaris Super Space Marines were transformed and upgraded, and Rhodes also transferred 1500 people from his own legion.

The Black Temple has a tradition of veterans leading new recruits, so you can lead 10 new recruits each! If it weren't for the Black Temple's Grand Master Marshal Avarrich saying that a veteran can lead no more than 10, Rhode would have wanted to arrange 15000 people to go.

Every veteran of the Black Templar was promoted to non-commissioned officers, and the non-commissioned officers were promoted to company commanders. Avarrich himself was directly appointed by Rhodes as a deputy legion commander.

The number of troops under your command in the future will be 10, so you can slowly accumulate troops! This war against the Tyranids is a good opportunity to train troops.

The soldiers under Rhodes all have very good combat experience. They are not completely new recruits who have never been on the battlefield. They have received various trainings during their cryosleep period and have fought a battle with orcs before.

Time flies, and three days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Guilliman also completed the assembly of the army. It was not difficult to recruit a mortal army. There were tens of millions of mortal auxiliary troops just in the Macragge galaxy.

"This number is a bit too much!" Rhodes said as he looked at the dense army in front of him and the fleet hovering above the planet.

Isn't it? Rhodes made a quick count of these mortal auxiliary troops and found that Guilliman had recruited a total of 160 million, 60 more than what he promised to Rhodes.

More than 40 battle barges have also arrived! More than a dozen more than agreed.

"My original plan was to send you one million mortal troops, but the number of people sent by those planetary governors was a bit too much." Guilliman shrugged helplessly.

After all, this was the first time that the Primarch had summoned a mortal army, and the planetary governors from all over the world wanted to show up and perform well in front of the Primarch.

So if Guilliman wanted 15 troops, they would give him 20 or even . If they asked for two ships, they would only send three, and this was when Guilliman carefully selected them.

Otherwise, the number might reach 200 million or even 300 million. The empire's mortal auxiliary troops are really worthless, and basically they can be had as many as you want.

"Forget it. They are just here to make up the numbers. I'll clean up the battlefield when the time comes." Rhodes waved his hand and said.

Next, as the Emperor's chosen one, Rhodes began to review the army with Guilliman.
Among all the people present, only a few battle sisters, the high-ranking mortal generals of Macragge arranged by Guilliman, and the Space Marine troops truly knew Rhodes' identity.

This time, the mortal army just thought that they were following an emperor's chosen one to fight, and they didn't even know that there were 60 Primaris Super Space Marines hidden in Rhodes's space fortress.

In order to boost morale, Rhodes also released the Emperor's incarnation. As soon as the huge Emperor's incarnation appeared, all the mortal soldiers present immediately knelt down and began to worship the Emperor's incarnation in front of them.

And there is no longer any doubt about Rhodes' identity as Emperor Chosen.

After the review, Guilliman took the stage and delivered an impassioned speech to boost morale. Then Rhodes, as the commander of the army, gave a speech to the mortal soldiers.

As for Rhodes' declaration, it was a draft written in advance by Guilliman, and Rhodes only needed to read it.

After an impassioned speech, the morale of all the mortal armies had soared to the extreme. This time they were marching under the watchful eye of the Emperor, following the Emperor's Chosen One and the orders of the Primarch, and they would surely gain the final victory.

Following Rhodes' order, all the assembled troops began to board the transport boats and enter the battle barge.

On Rhodes's side, an astropath was placed in the bridge, responsible for communicating with the various ships.

After all the personnel had gathered, with Rhodes' order, the space fortress tore open the subspace rift and then sailed into the subspace channel with a huge fleet.

This was the first time that Rhodes entered the subspace channel and sailed in a colorful world.

After entering the subspace, the Geller force fields on each spaceship immediately began to take effect and protect the ships. Rhodes' space carrier hovered above the fleet.

A huge energy shield was released, covering more than 40 battle barges. Rod's space fortress was modified by Belisariukal.

Therefore, an energy shield can be released, which will also contain some Geller force fields to better resist accidents in the subspace.

"Listen to the order! All fleets maintain their formation and do not rush out of the energy protection field of our mothership.

This time I don't want any navigation accidents to happen in the subspace, causing several ships to disappear." Rhodes said in the command hall. "Yes, sir! This is like the order notified to you by the entire fleet." The astropath standing next to Rhodes nodded and said.

After Rhodes and his men entered the Warp, Guilliman and Sanguinius also began psychic communications and assigned targets to the fleet, asking them to head to the Baal system that could no longer be covered by the Astronomican.

The navigator on Rhodes' ship quickly discovered the navigation target and began to guide the fleet forward.

Unless there is any emergency this time, there is no need for Rhodes to expose his ability to be a navigator.

"Order the combatants of each ship to be on standby at all times. We have now entered the warp space.

There may be some demons on board who have escaped the net. Once they are found, they must be eliminated immediately. "

"Commander, notify the entire ship immediately!"

Rhode's first warp voyage did not encounter any strange warp storms. This voyage can be said to be quite smooth, and even some of the navigators of his ships felt that it was too smooth.

What they didn't know was that, although there was no guidance from the Emperor's Astronomical Torch, there were two lesser gods personally leading the way, one escorting them in the Warp and the other in the real universe. This voyage was extremely safe.

After sailing for more than ten days, they had already penetrated deep into the Warp and were about to arrive at the Baal galaxy. Rhodes' fleet encountered a small-scale Warp storm.

Rhodes's space fortress's protective shield was fully activated, and each ship maintained the tightest formation.
With the power of the two lesser gods, the warp storm soon subsided without any accidents.

But this warp storm brought an uninvited guest, an Imperial ship that was lost in the warp. The radar of Rhodes's ship discovered the other party, and the other party also discovered Rhodes' huge fleet.

"Lord Rhodes! I received a new astropathic communication," said an astropath with shining eyes.

"Oh! Which imperial barge is it? A merchant ship or a combat barge?" Rhodes asked.

"It's a large combat barge, sir! And the other party has a bad reputation." The astrologer in charge of communications said with a frown.

"Bad reputation?"

“My Lord, they are the infamous Carcharodon Warband, also known as the Space Sharks.

They should be active in the fringe of the Milky Way, and they might have been blown here by a subspace storm." The Astropath said.

Rhodes was stunned when he heard this. Damn, this regiment is really famous!

It is said that their third captain is using the gene-seed of the rebellious Space Marines World Eaters.

According to the records of the Empire, this regiment is basically like a ghost, and it is extremely poor. It also collects red taxes and gray taxes privately, so its reputation has always been bad.

"Do they need anything?" Rhodes asked, stroking his chin.

This regiment is very powerful, but extremely poor. It can even be said that it is outrageously poor, but its combat effectiveness is strong enough.

Moreover, the gene-seed within the Chapter is extremely mixed. The Chapter Master, Tiberus, is a terrifyingly large Space Marine whose height is almost as high as that of the Primarch.

This regiment can find a way to turn around! Anyway, you don’t care whose gene seed it is, as long as the gene seed is strong enough. My gene seed is definitely strong enough.

"Lord Rhodes! They requested to leave the warp with us and asked which Imperial army we were from." The Astropath said.

"Tell them that I am Rhodes, the Emperor's Chosen One, and I am leading my army to support the Blood Angels' home planet of Baal.

There is an invasion by the Tyranids there, ask them if they are willing to go over and provide support." Rhode said.

"This, Lord Rhodes, I understand!" Although the astropath was a little hesitant, he still obeyed Rhodes' orders and initiated an astropathic communication with the opponent's ship.

"Lord Rhodes! They said they can help, but asked if we can pay them some compensation, such as replenishing them with weapons and equipment, power armor bolt guns and the like."

"Tell them that I have prepared generous rewards for them, including a large amount of power armor and some bolter weapons." Rhodes said with a smile.

Come on! Come on! Baby Shark, get in the bowl.

Come to Daddy.

(End of this chapter)