Warhammer: Empire Reboot

But Ding's shrewd combat style was fully displayed at this moment. Under his command, the arrows of the three squads changed direction and cut into the arc that the remaining Tau fleet was trying to retreat along.

He gave the remaining fleet no chance to escape, and after several rounds of artillery fire, the entire fleet was annihilated.

A communications call came in from a squad leader: "Your Excellency, why did the Seal Bearer suddenly transfer us all here? Did these blue-skinned aliens provoke him?"

Dante shook his head: "I don't know, but we don't need to know why. We just need to follow the orders of the one who holds the seal."

"Who cares why!"

Over the communications channel, Seth, the leader of the Flesh-Tearers Chapter, let out a cold chuckle. "Since we're already here, should we have the macro-cannon array fire a couple of shots at their disgustingly clean city? We don't like the look of them."

Dante glanced at the data stream on the surface of Tau on the screen, which was about to boil over, and calmly suppressed Seth's killing intent: "The surface of Tau is a private hunting ground personally designated by the Marksman. Our mission is simply to lock the sky and not allow even a fly to escape."

Upon hearing that the one who had personally taken charge was the one in charge, the commanders of each battle group instantly dropped all their arrogance and responded in unison, "Understood!"

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On the surface of Titan, the tranquility of the planet was shattered by air raid sirens.

Most Tau citizens never heard that sound in their entire lives, except during training exercises.

The Tau Empire's high command reacted swiftly, forcibly severing the runes on the holographic projection and replacing them with a line of blood-red evacuation instructions.

Then, within eleven seconds, Shui took over all civilian communication channels and broadcast evacuation routes. At the same time, the entrances to the underground bunkers on Titan opened, revealing sloping passages leading 300 meters underground.

At the twenty-ninth second, Tu activated the planetary deflector shield, and eighty-six shield generators started simultaneously. The energy field expanded at the top of the atmosphere, forming a light blue dome that covered the entire continent.

In the war room of the High Dome Council, Osham, the supreme commander of the Fire Clan, quickly issued various orders.

"Activate the full air defense matrix. Independent firing authority for the first to seventh defense zones is delegated to the battalion level."

"The entire city is in crisis combat suits taking off, with formations at an altitude of three to eight thousand meters, and a three-layered staggered deployment."

"Manta heavy bombers move into launch positions. Target priority: orbital landing capsule, followed by low-altitude transport units."

"Sever all main transportation routes in the capital region and activate the energy network. Fengshi Port Area is under lockdown."

"Notify the garrison fleets of the Second, Third, and Sixth World Domains to assemble on Titan at top speed."

From a strategic perspective, this response is flawless.

In the entire Milky Way, the only civilization capable of reacting to this extent in such a short time is the Tau Empire.

After giving the final order, Osham looked up at the main screen in the war room.

The human fleet has occupied the orbit, but to convert orbital advantage into ground control, ground troops must be deployed.

The deployment process is vulnerable. The landing capsule is a sitting duck inside the atmosphere, and the transport aircraft needs at least a four-minute deceleration window.

His air defense net will tear them all apart in those four minutes.

Osham breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as we buy some time, reinforcements will arrive.

However, Lawson did not give him time.

The "XV25 stealth combat suits" that had been silently lurking beneath the shield generator, energy hub, and command tower suddenly activated their static force fields.

Countless channels of static force fields suddenly opened up within the internal organs of Titan.

A breathtaking torrent of steel surged out of the tunnel, the first to appear being combat armor that had been modified and upgraded in the dark side of the Empire.

This includes the most powerful fighters, Wolverine and Sabretooth.

The defense forces of the Tau planet reacted extremely quickly, and a squad of genuine Tau "XV88 Broadblade Combat Suit" soldiers immediately set up heavy railguns and aimed at Wolverine as he charged out.

The original versus the modified version: the most brutal contrast unfolds at this moment.

The Tau warriors' broadsword combat suits opened fire, and the heavy railguns unleashed devastating kinetic energy.

But with the help of the Empire's Dark Side assassins' swarm connection and the anti-gravity fine-tuning ring, Wolverine actually performed a side step that, in the eyes of the Tau, completely defied the laws of physics!

Not only did it dodge the railgun's direct hit with incredible smoothness, but its short-range nozzles on its back also suddenly burst out with flames. The nine-meter-tall mech, like a real mad wolf, dashed close to the ground and rushed in front of the Tau mech!

"This is impossible! How could the Broadblade chassis go so fast?" the Tau driver screamed in terror.

His response was a plasma cutting blade, gleaming with extremely high heat, that Wolverine flicked out.

Stab it!

With a single swing of his blade, Wolverine effortlessly cleaved the bulky original Tau armor, along with its pilot, in two!

The armor that the Titanium Clan is so proud of is as thin as a sheet of paper in the face of the cutting blade of the Golden Age craftsmanship!

Even more horrifying scenes unfolded in the energy hub.

A top-of-the-line Tau XV104 Torrent Combat Suit has just activated its heavy deflector shield in an attempt to block the intrusion.

In front of it, an 18-meter-tall saber-toothed tiger roared with a deafening engine roar.

The saber-toothed tiger activated its "Beast Hind Leg Burst Skeleton," and its massive body leaped into the air, grabbing the neck of the Torrent Combat Suit with its thick "Fusion Claw"!

Click!

The double-layered shield was instantly neutralized by the repulsive field of the Golden Age, and the saber-toothed tiger's plasma blade pierced into the reactor of the Torrent Combat Suit.

The Tau Clan's ultimate mech was like a sick cat whose throat had been bitten by a tiger; it was instantly paralyzed and flung away like scrap metal.

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Lawson's mech force not only possesses "absolute strike" capabilities in individual soldier performance, but also boasts an immeasurable number of soldiers.

The TIA's Barracuda fighter jet has just completed its climb.

This is the Tau Empire's best air superiority unit, with a top speed of Mach 2.7, excellent mobility, and a fire control system that can lock onto twelve targets simultaneously.

They collided head-on with a Raptor fighter jet, which was traveling at Mach 4.5 and was 45 meters long.

With unified fire control based on swarm intelligence, all 8,000 fighter jets share the same target allocation algorithm, ensuring that no two Raptors will attack the same target within the same second.

In just the first aerial contact, two-thirds of the Barracuda formation disintegrated in mid-air, and the remaining third was overtaken from the side and rear while attempting to evade.

In the low-altitude region, the Flying Bear heavy motorcycle pressed down like a dark cloud, crashing into the TIA drone formation with a sonic boom.

The marker drones were rendered useless by this sheer mass; they were simply smashed to pieces, the wreckage flying forward with the motorcycle.

The debris spikes poured out in rows from the launch pods on the side of the motorcycle, landing in the ground defenses.

Further down, there's a hurricane.

Three million Eldar jet motorcycles cut along the ground, weaving through streets, plazas, and maglev tracks, slicing the newly deployed Fire Clan ground forces into pieces.

The entire planet Tau, the most important capital of the Tau Empire, was in complete chaos, like a pot of boiling molten iron.

This marked the official start of Lawson's decapitation operation against the Tau Empire.

Chapter 279 Titanium Allied Forces and Tithe

As the stasis field glowed with a deep blue light at the core nodes of Titan, this emerging empire, renowned in the Milky Way for its rationality and efficiency, displayed astonishing resilience.

The four clans resisted in completely different ways, yet they all ended up sliding into the same abyss of despair.

The most professional, and also the most futile, was the Huo family.

Senior Commander Osham stood up from the messy bunker.

Just forty minutes ago, he witnessed the Tau race's proud armored formations being torn apart like paper by the Empire's dark side mechs on the plains. After the shock, with his amazing tactical skills, he decisively completed the tactical transformation, abandoning field firefights and switching to guerrilla warfare in the urban ruins.

"Break up the crisis combat suits into smaller groups of three and disperse into the lower levels of the building!"

The Fire Clan warriors demonstrated exceptional execution capabilities. They pre-planted directional explosives and precisely calculated the tilt angle of the load-bearing columns, causing the hundreds-of-meters-high building to collapse with a deafening roar, crashing precisely onto the path that the Lawson mech forces were bound to take.

They cut off the city's energy supply, pulled out the superconducting coils of the maglev track, and laid electromagnetic traps at street corners powerful enough to burn out the underlying logic of the mechs.

Osham's tactics were effective.

In the extremely fierce street fighting, the Fire Clan's ambush team sacrificed their lives to achieve victory, destroying seventy-four Imperial Dark Side mechs amidst collapsing buildings and electromagnetic traps.

This was the only time the dark side of the Empire paid a concrete price during this invasion.

However, Osham's tactics only worked for ten minutes.

Because his premise for setting the trap was the assumption that the enemy had a "route of travel".

But the swarm network's forces have no routes at all.

As the Fire Clan warriors hid behind cover, preparing to finish off the disabled mech, a faint blue light suddenly shone directly behind their cover.

Through the static passage opened by the stealth mech, new assassins and intact mechs were "refreshed" directly behind the trap.

This is practically a face-to-face massacre.

The Turks' resistance was a tragic finale. Large numbers of unarmed engineers were driven to the brink of desperation. They modified high explosives used in mining into anti-armor explosives, forcibly connected industrial fusion cutters to overloaded external power supplies, and even strapped high explosives to drones used to build cities, turning them into suicide weapons.

A production line supervisor who had spent his entire life drawing blueprints in a laboratory and had never even touched a pulse rifle, grabbed a buzzing fusion cutter and leaped off a second-floor platform, rushing towards a rampaging saber-toothed tiger like a moth to a flame.

When he was still three meters away from the mech, he was violently slapped by the saber-toothed tiger and sent flying, his sternum shattered, and he crashed against the wall like a rag doll.

But the fusion cutter in his hand grazed the saber-toothed tiger's calf the moment he was knocked away.

Shila-

A fist-sized crater was indeed burned into that invincible armor.

This charred hole proves that the Turks' physical design was correct, and that their wisdom was sufficient to find the weakness in the Empire's Dark Side armor.

However, faced with Lawson's unreasonable static delivery, they simply didn't have time to mass-produce this solution.

As masters of diplomacy and linguistics, the Shui family was the only group that could understand and fully comprehend the profound meaning of that broadcast from the sky.

The Wind Clan's sole objective is to send the core members of the Ether Council off this devastating planet.

They prepared several evacuation plans.

The first plan involved using a rail elevator, but as soon as the elevator doors opened, a row of XV25 stealth combat suits with their guns already fully charged stood inside.

Another option is to activate the backup underground launch silos.

However, just as the ten-meter-thick armored manhole cover slid open a crack, thousands of meters in the air, a Raptor fighter jet swooped down at a near-vertical angle, and a heavy "world-shattering nail" accurately smashed into the manhole opening, turning the entire launch channel and the shuttle into lava.

The final plan involved a high-speed shuttle disguised as an ordinary cargo hold, which forcibly took off from the most secret runway under the polar ice cap. Thanks to its extreme speed, the shuttle actually broke through the atmosphere and sped through space for four thousand kilometers.

Just when the driver thought he had escaped death, a dazzling spear of light, bright enough to blind the eyes, mercilessly shot down from the flagship of the Holy Blood Angel.

The shuttle that carried the hope of escape was directly vaporized into elementary particles in deep space, turning into a thin cloud of blood mist.