Warhammer: Empire Reboot

One hundred thousand green-skinned soldiers engaged in a brutal and breathtaking melee within a deck space of less than twenty square kilometers.

Meanwhile, Lawson's five hunting squads were active on the outskirts of this chaotic battle zone.

A ten-man squad led by Jia Yi.

Located on the southeastern edge of the Ironfang Territory, within a freight route that was partially destroyed in battle.

"Clearance complete."

Jia Yi reported to Lawson via his consciousness: "Four orc lads and 33 farts killed. No casualties."

"continue."

At the same time, Jia San's squad also carried out a brilliant ambush on the northern edge of Iron Fang's territory.

Using the immense noise generated by the battle between the Bonebreaker and Rotten Teeth tribes as cover, they deployed four high-explosive grenades and six suspended steel rods on the ceiling of a crossroads.

When a mixed orc force of nearly a hundred passed by, a series of explosions and steel rod strangulation killed more than thirty of them within three seconds.

Team A5 adopted a completely different strategy.

They scavenged along the edge of the battlefield, picking up the scraps of orcs and farts who were wounded and separated from their pack during the melee, unable to move but still alive.

A Katachon's Fang emerged from the darkness, slit a throat, and vanished.

The five squads, like five invisible knives, slashed at the edge of Ironfang territory on the outskirts of the Greenskin melee with sniping, assassination, and traps.

The enhanced Captain's advantages were fully demonstrated in this complex environment with high density and multiple threats.

Jia Yi's reaction speed allowed it to dodge and counterattack before the Orc Boy's large-caliber Death Gun could fire.

The coordination between the five squads was like a precisely operating killing assembly line.

A1 drove away the fleeing fart demons in the southeast direction, while A2 set traps along the escape route.

Team A3 creates noise to the north to attract attention, while Team A4 cuts in from the flank to harvest the scattered orcs.

Jiawu roams behind all the squads, responsible for clearing the battlefield, collecting scrap metal, and eliminating any lone enemies trying to follow other squads.

Chapter 45 The Death Squad Approaches a Thousand Men (Third Update)

Resources are being added at an astonishing rate.

Meanwhile, the Northwest Advance Force, personally led by Lawson, advanced approximately forty kilometers in four days.

The enemy density in this direction is much lower than in Ironfang Territory. Most of the greenskin tribes in the northwest area of ​​the Destroyer Ship are relatively small, with the largest numbering only two or three thousand.

A significant portion of these tribes have been conscripted by powerful warlords to the deep deck area, leaving the remaining forces even weaker.

Lawson's method of advancement was the bush-based approach.

Fifty meters ahead was the reconnaissance team, three assassins spread out in a fan shape, using the ventilation ducts and maintenance passages to conduct preliminary reconnaissance.

The main force was divided into three columns, advancing simultaneously along three parallel channels, maintaining a distance of no more than thirty meters between each other, to ensure that if any column encountered the enemy, the other two columns could provide fire support within ten seconds.

The rearguard was a ten-man elite team led by Jia Liu, responsible for counter-surveillance and rear security.

During the process, we encountered seventeen small green-skinned settlements.

Most of them are small tribes with only a few dozen ghouls and three or five orc boys.

Faced with a fully armed force of sixty men, these small tribes were crushed before they could even muster the will to resist.

Occasionally, when encountering a group of around a hundred people, it takes Lawson more than ten minutes to set up a standard three-sided encirclement formation.

With the enhanced captain and ample ammunition, all these battles ended with zero or very low casualties.

What truly put Lawson on high alert was an encounter with a gene thief.

When they reached the 35th kilometer mark, the reconnaissance team of Jiaqi discovered nest silk in a narrow auxiliary pipe.

Lawson immediately ordered the entire team to halt their advance and begin battle preparations.

Twenty minutes later, seven pure-blooded beings emerged from the other end of the pipe.

Purebloods operate in tactical teams of three, utilizing psionic networks to achieve near-telepathic coordination.

They attempted to outflank the Rosen forces.

But what they didn't expect was that there were five Class A captains in Lawson's troops.

At the moment the purebloods charged, Jia Liu drew his chainsaw sword with enhanced speed and, with a horizontal slash that was impossible for the eyes of an ordinary human to follow, severed the right arm of the leading pureblood along with his weapon.

The two purebloods following behind, while attempting to flank Jia Liu, were hit by precise explosive shots from both sides by Jia Qi and Jia Ba.

The battle lasted less than two minutes.

All seven purebloods were annihilated.

Only two of our regular soldiers sustained minor injuries.

Lawson used a very small amount of health points to heal the wounded, and then continued his advance.

[Biomass +210 points.]

This is the strategy of using war to sustain war.

The more enemies you kill, the more resources you gain.

The more resources you have, the stronger the warriors you can exchange for. The stronger the warriors, the more enemies you can kill.

A flywheel in a positive cycle is spinning faster.

When they reached the 42nd kilometer mark, Lawson found an ideal location for a second outpost.

It was an abandoned test chamber for the engine of an Imperial frigate.

In this space wreck made up of countless warship fragments, one can occasionally find large, relatively well-preserved enclosed spaces like these.

The test chamber has an area of ​​approximately 2,000 square meters, which is more than twice the size of the first base.

The bulkhead is made of double-layered reinforced armor steel, originally designed to withstand the impact of high temperature and high pressure during engine testing, but now provides an extremely good defensive foundation.

It took Lawson about four hours to complete the construction of the basic defensive fortifications.

Z-shaped roadblocks, crossfire points, tripwire mines, and steel bars suspended from the ceiling—all the defensive measures that had proven effective in previous battles were copied exactly as they were.

Meanwhile, the portable force field generator, which had been scavenged from the Iron Fang camp and was 70% repaired by Little Wrench, was installed inside the main hatch as the last line of defense.

The second stronghold was completed, codenamed Forge.

Lawson moved some supplies and personnel to the forge and ordered the two squads retreating from Ironfang Territory to use the forge as their new supply base.

At this point, Lawson's controlled area expanded from a single point to a line.

The distance between the first stronghold's anvil and the second stronghold's forge is about forty kilometers, connected by a patrol line of assassins.

Another important function of the forge is to house Lawson's ever-growing non-combat assets.

We've already captured more than thirty farts.

They were kept in a corner of the forge, enclosed in a fence made of scrap iron plates, and managed by a small wrench—if you could call the act of one fart kicking another thirty farts "management."

Little Wrench displayed a completely different attitude in front of this group of his own kind.

In front of Lawson, it was obsequious, humble, and always ready to lick his boots.

But in front of its kind, it was arrogant and domineering, and would often punch and kick, because it was the foreman appointed by the boss.

And it has the taste of Waaagh energy.

They instinctively regard the small wrench as something closer to the boss than themselves, so obedience becomes a conditioned reflex at the level of biological instinct.

Under the command of Little Wrench, the more than thirty fart demons were divided into three working groups: the dismantling group, the repair group, and the miscellaneous tasks group.

Two assassins were assigned to keep an eye on this group of scoundrels.

After being "bribed" by Waaagh energy, these fart spirits have almost no desire to escape, in order to prevent them from stealing things.

Overall, however, this team of laborers far exceeded Lawson's expectations in terms of efficiency.

Doing a good job earns you Waaagh energy rewards, while doing a bad job gets you a beating from the little wrench.

Their enthusiasm for work was unbelievable. Some of them even fought each other over who got to do the work.

Tools should look like tools.

a few days later.

Lawson sat on the command platform at the forge outpost.

Total number of suicide soldiers: 600.

[Enhanced Captain Rank: 60]

[Standard version of assassins: 540 people.]

[Organization: 60 squads of ten men each (each squad has one Class A captain and nine regular assassins).]

And his resource reserves:

[Life Points: 34000+]

[Steel: 9200+ cubic meters.]

[Subspace Energy: 5089 points.]

[Biomass: 780+ points.]

The efficient hunting and scrap metal collection over the past few days has resulted in an amazing accumulation of resources.

The Greenskin melee in Ironfang Territory was like an endless resource mine. Lawson's five hunting parties, which later increased to fifteen, tirelessly harvested lone orcs and fleeing ghouls on the edge of the melee.

The flywheel of using war to sustain war has accelerated to a considerable speed.

Lawson looked at the numbers on the panel.

We currently have enough resources to exchange for thirty squads.

With the existing 600 men, the total force will reach 900.

We are only one hundred short of a thousand people.

Lawson's intuition told him that a thousand was a threshold.

From the moment the assassin system was unlocked, it exhibited clear phased unlocking characteristics.