Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 213 Fire Wheel: "Modian's Iron Guard"

Gregorio lightly tapped the holographic projection with the gauntlet on his right hand.

He zoomed in on a strange building and said to Mikhailovsky beside him.

"It's hard to tell what a human hive city looks like from an orc fortress. The hive towers have been demolished and used as materials to build the strange buildings of the greenskins."

Unlike Gothic architecture, which is long and narrow, tower-shaped buildings taper at the top, giving them a spire-like shape.

The green construction machine was even more robust and bizarre, like a junkyard pieced together from scrap metal, gears, chimneys and other oddities.

Mikhailovsky laughed, “They can be considered towers too.”

"In the documents my father distributed, they were called Waaagh Towers."

"They are like generators, able to add Waaagh energy to the orcs, making their bodies full of power, and making the Daka and Tutu turrets even more powerful."

"Although I don't understand all of this yet, these are the buildings that should be destroyed first after we break into the fortress."

Gregorian looked at his friend: "It sounds like you already have a complete offensive plan."

Mikhailovsky said confidently.

"That's right. We'll deploy our forces and launch an attack on the Greenskin Fortress from four directions simultaneously."

"Since Waaagh Tower can boost the Greenskins, let's break through from the south where they are least affected."

"Once we break through, the orcs will surge south, and we can take the opportunity to break through in other directions."

The second company commander turned off the holographic image and explained his strategic deployment.

"My second company will launch the main attack from the south, while your third company will launch the offensive from the north."

"Send a request to the Fifth Battle Group, instructing them to launch attacks from the west and east respectively."

The Primarch authorized the Third Chapter to lead the offensive against Planet Two, and Lord Carlo of the Fifth Chapter deployed his forces according to Mikhailovsky's plan.

Mikhailovsky stepped out of the temporary tent and boarded his Vostochny Rhino armored command vehicle.

The Vostonia Rhino is a variant based on the Deimos Rhino armored vehicle. Compared to the original model, it is longer, wider, and taller, allowing the Order Shadow vehicle it carries to be equipped with a jump pack.

Around the 2nd Company Commander's command vehicle, the Shadow Order members were already waiting in armored vehicles.

After the Third Regiment established itself in Modian, the biggest change in the reorganized regiment by Bukayo was that the entire regiment was armored.

The factories in Vostonia, built according to standard construction templates, produce a large number of vehicles to support the Chapter's transformation.

The first regiment of the "Modian Iron Guard" was led by the Macado Defenders, followed by the Vostonia Rhinoceroses.

Bringing up the rear were the first and second companies, the fearless assault troops, totaling fifty-two units.

The First Company suffered the greatest losses in the conquest of Mordian due to Samir's disobedience. Many of the experienced veterans were buried in the Fearless, and they accompanied Mikhailovsky to the Wheel of Flames.

The orc fortress had just appeared within range of the "Modian" First Regiment's oracle when shells, trailing black smoke, began to fire towards the area of ​​the black heavy tanks.

Boom boom boom!
Most of the shells were too far away and too inaccurate, so they crashed into the steel torrent, kicking up clouds of dust.

Several shells luckily struck a few Macado Defender vehicles.

After the loud bang, the car body was simply left completely black.

The Defender is the most unusual and effective variant of the Macado; it is a true mobile fortress used against enemy strongholds and fortifications.

The Macado defenders raced through the artillery fire, the "Modian Iron Guards" unaffected by the explosions, breaking through tanks until they were truly terrifying crushers at close range.

The Deathskull Clan technicians, who were commanding the orc fortress, saw the shrimp's black clappers lined up in a row, getting closer and closer like waves.

The young technician, with a string of teeth hanging around his neck, jumped to the highest point and shouted.

"The shells of shrimp are too hard, I'll crack them one by one!"

The greens yelled and turned their cannons to point in the direction he was pointing.

Dozens of cannons fired simultaneously.

With a loud bang, the cobbled-together orc cannon exploded, sending black smoke billowing into the sky.

The technician and a dozen or so fart-headed guys were blown away, and a gap several meters wide was blasted into the city wall.

Boom boom boom!
Several shells hit the target, penetrating the armor of the Macado Defender, and four of the eight crew members were instantly killed.

The escape hatch opened, and the other four crew members, their bodies engulfed in flames, screamed as they crawled out of the furnace-like interior.

The Mordian Iron Guards did not slow their pace; the Macado Defenders ruthlessly smashed through the wreckage and continued their advance.

Three Macado Defenders were destroyed in succession, but the black torrent of steel was like a cold machine, simply rushing forward without wasting a single unit of firepower.

The first row of Crusher cannons only fired their shells when the city wall came into effective firing range.

Unlike the orcs' scattered attacks, fifty cannonballs struck within a 200-meter radius of the breach.

Rumble!
The continuous explosions tore through the green city walls, widening the breach until the wall, tens of meters wide, collapsed with a deafening roar. The steadily advancing Mordian Iron Guards, like bloodthirsty sharks, pounced on the breach.

The green-skinned cannons were aimed at the city walls below, unleashing a hail of bullets.

One, two, three.

The first Macado Defender charged through the breach, and the green-skinned vehicles surged in like a tide.

The Macado Defender replaces the horizontal turret, with five modified heavy bomb guns hissing as they fire, covering a 360-degree radius.

The barrage of comments was overwhelming, tearing apart the green flesh.

The defenders of Makador were unstoppable; orcs fell in droves as they charged savagely through the rift and into the city.

Inside the green fortress, hundreds of large muzzle-loading machines spewed fire, which lashed against the black armor.

The Macado defenders continued their advance with faltering steps.

The cramped interior of the car was like a blazing furnace.

The Macado Defender is equipped with five heavy bomb guns, with additional weapons mounted on both sides, forcing the commander to also act as a heavy gunner.

He loaded the shell into the breech, surrounded by green armor, and fired without aiming.

Just as he was about to reload the shell, a stray bullet suddenly pierced through the hole and entered.

The commander slammed to the ground with a thud, and the soldier on the front left side of the vehicle immediately dropped his heavy bomb gun, handing over the defense to the gunners below who were using flank weapons.

He quickly picked up the shell, loaded it into the cannon, and fired it at the enemy.

The green-skinned soldiers noticed that the firepower on the left side of the shrimp's black gun had weakened, and they charged over shouting.

The gunner on the left fell, and the gunner on the right took his place.

The Macado Defender charged nearly 100 meters alone before being destroyed, and the Modian Iron Guard killed thousands of Greenskins before his death.

The second, the third, the fourth.

Four Macado Defenders were destroyed, their wreckage burning fiercely.

More black tanks poured in, becoming reaping killers in close-quarters combat within the city.

After the "Modian Iron Guard" ruthlessly pierced through the orcs' defenses, the second company of the third battle group unleashed a thousand shadowy figures of order from the Vostonia-type rhinoceros armored vehicles.

The shadowy figures of order, trailing trails of flame, leaped onto the city walls and charged towards the young members of the Dead Skull Clan.

They worked in an orderly and focused manner, eliminating the firing points on the city wall one by one.

Three hours after the green walls were breached, the defensive line was already on the verge of collapse.

The orcs inside the fortress surged wildly toward the south wall.

On the north wall, Gregorio was directing the Vostonia-type Rhinoceros, relying on its advanced and superior machine spirit to launch repeated attacks on the wall.

After drawing the Greenskins' gunfire, they quickly retreated.

After repeated charges and attrition against the orcs, Gregor finally discovered a breach in the orc fortress's defenses.

"attack!"

At the command of the third company commander, armored vehicles launched a massive attack on the green fortress.

The blinding grenade launcher automatically locked onto the life signal ahead, took off, and struck the city wall.

The blinding grenade exploded, releasing a blinding burst of light.

The greenskins scattered in panic, and the Destroyer cannons of the Second and Third Regiments of the "Modian Iron Guard" approached the city walls, spraying shells everywhere.

The artillery fire relentlessly pounded the walls of the orc fortress on the north side, while the rain of bullets from the Stormblast guns pounded against the walls.

The firepower of the "Modian Iron Guard" suppressed the Greenskin defenders.

Just then, the three Waaagh Towers in the city roared loudly.

A green mist rose in the minds of the green-skinned men, and they shouted in unison.

"Waaagh!"

Countless orcs surged onto the city walls, operating turrets to attack the black tanks below.

Waaagh's shells were incredibly powerful, screaming as they tore through the steel bodies of the Macado defenders.

Thousands upon thousands of green-skinned soldiers jumped off the city walls and rushed madly into the black torrent.

Their pistols unleashed a barrage of Waaagh bullets.

(End of this chapter)