Warhammer: Starting with Industrial Revolution

It was only then that Ronin realized why the bomber formation had arrived a few minutes earlier than he had expected—it was all thanks to Governor Karl.

As the master of the city, Karl naturally had to report all troop movements in the city to Governor Karl.

When he saw Luo Ning's troop deployment plan, he understood why Luo Ning had hung up immediately when he connected. Clearly, Luo Ning's situation was very critical.

As Ronin's number one supporter, he could not accept that his savior Ronin was under any threat to his life.

He immediately went to the defense headquarters to oversee the preparation of the fighter jets.

When all the fighter jets were ready, but it was still a little before the agreed time, Governor Karl refused to listen to their explanations and simply forced them out.

This series of unforeseen circumstances resulted in the attack aircraft and transport aircraft departing a few minutes earlier than scheduled. These few minutes of advance departure successfully prevented Ronin from facing the dilemma of either forcing an attack to hold off the enemy or being forced to retreat, thus rendering the entire battle plan futile.

"Governor, you actually came in person! That was too dangerous." Ronin politely greeted Governor Karl as he ran over.

Governor Karl rushed toward Ronin, his expression suggesting that Ronin had already been devoured alive by the mutants.

"Luoning! Are you alright? Did those mutated monsters hurt you?"

"I am fine, please rest assured, Your Excellency."

Although he heard Ronin's answer, Governor Karl was still clearly not at ease. He hugged Ronin tightly and checked him over from head to toe before he felt reassured.

"Great! When the defense forces told me you'd discovered a massive mutant gathering, I was terrified. They even needed to call in reinforcements and air support. I told you you shouldn't have gone into this personally!"

Listening to Governor Karl's ramblings, Ronin could only smile helplessly.

"It's all thanks to you, Governor. Without your support, I'm afraid I would have really been in trouble."

He was genuinely grateful. He had thought that the disappearance of his patrol team was simply due to their poor training, but when he decided to lead the team himself, he still brought a total of one thousand people in twenty squads just in case.

After all, if they really encounter any danger, at least they will have the ability to fight back.

Who could have imagined that they would encounter such a massive enemy?

The enemy was extremely powerful and silently wiped out two of our squads.

Fortunately, Ronin wasn't so foolish as to lead the team at the front; otherwise, if his unfortunate squad had encountered the first wave of mutant ambushes, he would probably be dead by now.

What he discovered next shocked Ronin even more. At least when he lived in China, whenever there was discussion about Warhammer 40 online, everyone thought that mutant settlements were not a major disaster on the planet. But this time, they had gathered so many people silently.

"What are you planning to do next, Lord Luo Ning?" A cold, mechanical voice suddenly appeared in their ears, startling Luo Ning.

It was Victor! This chief priest of the planetary mechanical church usually had almost no interest in mortal affairs, but this time, he actually came along!

Ronin quickly bowed and said, "Lord Victor, I never expected you to come to a place like this in person."

Victor stared at the plaza not far away, which was now a scorched wasteland, littered with corpses, while some mutants were not quite dead yet, their painful groans echoing through the air.

"I heard that Lord Ronin discovered a large-scale gathering of mutants. Normally, mutant settlements don't exceed a hundred people. This is quite interesting." His eyes gleamed with a cold light, and his words revealed a deep interest.

"What are your thoughts, Father?" Ronin quickly stepped forward. This chief priest of the Mechanical Church could be considered an absolute master in dealing with heretics on this planet. The fact that he was interested meant that this place was clearly more complicated than Ronin had imagined.

With a wave of his hand, Victor released two servo skulls. Accompanied by the beeping of the anti-gravity device, the servo skulls flew straight out, heading towards the cave at the foot of the mountain.

"Being able to support such a large mutant settlement, they must have solved the problems of food and water. Perhaps, for Hive City, you have discovered a treasure."

He spoke slowly, but directly pointed out a rather crucial issue.

Indeed, food and water are always the reasons that bring people together, whether they are humans, monsters, or these mutants, without exception.

Looking at the data sent back by the servo skull on the data panel in Viktor's hand, Ronin was practically holding his breath.

The cave was much larger than expected, with a complex and crisscrossing network of tunnels. The detection of the servo skull did not go as smoothly as anticipated; it was shot down by the mutants after advancing less than a kilometer.

Looking at the kill information displayed on the data panel, everyone's attention was focused on Luo Ning at this moment.

That expression clearly asked him: What's the next step?

"My lord, do we still have any of our servo skulls?" Ronin looked up at Viktor, who simply shook his head. "Apart from the ones needed for the daily maintenance of the hive, you took everything else. The two I just saw were made by the priests below before I set off, but they were also shot down."

Ronin couldn't help but sigh. Servo skulls should be very cheap in the Warhammer universe, but in both fan fiction and animated films, they are very mysterious and almost always appear with priests of the Cult of Mechanicus.

Sometimes Luo Ning couldn't help but wonder if this thing was really as cheap as it was supposed to be.

However, at least in its own nest city, this thing is not cheap. Although the quantity is not small, it is by no means something that can be wasted casually.

After thinking it over, he decided to hurry up and develop a tactical plan.

The most important thing is to conduct reconnaissance of the entire mountain.

The helicopter unit scanned the entire mountain environment to prevent the mutants from having any other way out.

On the other side, the auxiliary forces were ordered to develop roads so that armored vehicles could drive in and, together with the infantry, form a defensive position in front of the cave to prevent the mutants from launching a counterattack.

Once this series of orders was issued, the troops instantly began to operate in an orderly manner, like a machine.