Warhammer: I am the Hammer of the Empire - #393 - Chapter 386 Only fight for eternity

The machine souls of dozens of heavy Land Raiders collapsed and dozens of brothers died. The bombardment by the Imperial Guard took only a few hours, but it caused huge losses that the Red Corsairs had not seen in hundreds of years, nearly half of the Space Marines. Huge numbers of the company were killed, and resentment and hatred ran rampant throughout the legion.

On the huge plain composed of muddy soil, the mighty Legion of Destruction was ready to go. At the same time, the Red Pirate Champion returned with his team members, but he received the cold eyes of many warriors.

Some warriors were dissatisfied because the Red Pirate Champion spared mortals. This stupid and ridiculous behavior may have caused them to lose hundreds of brothers, but Onius Praid forgave him because this matter boiled down to the final analysis. It was caused by his obsession.

Secondly, this huge army had to rely on force to subdue other brothers’ champions. The lack of any organization was fatal to a legion like the Red Pirates that lacked management capabilities. At the same time, he was reluctant to let this brother die after being sentenced to legion regulations.

And the champion warrior took a knee. “My brother, I made a stupid decision.”

“But this is for your faith and the gods, only this time, a special case, keep moving forward.” Onius Plaid’s words surprised the champion, but they tacitly acquiesced to this matter, and Onius Praid is now even more worried about how he will deal with the final line of defense of the Imperial Guard.

According to current intelligence, the fortress still has a dozen heavy artillery pieces, basilisk self-propelled artillery and Scorpion missile vehicles. At the same time, a large number of armored troops are intact. Nearly a hundred Space Marines from the Destruction Eagle are stationed there, and there are dozens more. An Imperial Infantry Regiment.

Although they are not inferior to the Empire in frontal strength, if they continue to fight like this, there will be very few troops left after defeating the Red Pirates. And if they need to occupy this fortress, they must try to maintain sufficient strength…

He had terrible thoughts in his heart, and this incident would also cause the hive city to fall into chaos, but it could easily disintegrate the impregnable battle line. He asked mortals to prepare the injection of Apothecary Gared and the gas grenade. This upper nest is completely falling apart, and he has to use the lowest number of people to defeat the mortal defense.

With his superhuman vision, he saw the illusory outline of the distant fortress, just like a dream. For him, this war was a dream. If he wanted to win, he must win.

And those Imperial Guards held a short funeral after the unstoppable rout. This is extremely difficult and rare. In such extreme circumstances as the battlefield, even the death of the commander has no time to mourn. People’s emotions have already melted. Made fragmentary symbols that are meaningless in this long man-made disaster.

This funeral was held only for the Astartes who saved tens of thousands of Imperial soldiers with one life. Everyone observed a moment of silence, but it only lasted for three seconds, and a simple memorial made of weapons and building materials. The tomb and even his comrades were unable to pay homage to him due to the severe defense tasks.

This ritual is more of a self-comfort, trying to use a clumsy ritual to fight for the poor soul of the loyal person who was taken away by the Lord of the Brass Throne, but the effect can be imagined.

In the command post, in addition to the brigadier general of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment of Gray Gallon who returned to the stronghold at full speed, there was also the captain of the fourth company of the Destroying Eagles this time. The tall giant looked like a giant statue from the ancient Greek era. Stand by and witness how mortals plan their defenses.

The officers were communicating in confusion. The enemy was already in front of them. Apart from the current fortress, they had no more defense. Facing tens of thousands of cultists and thousands of space warriors, no one dared He said that he was absolutely confident that he could survive, even if he was an officer here.

Their confusion was more a sign of despair for a war they couldn’t control, but the brigadier general shouted.

“That’s enough, Your Majesty the Emperor. We have enough supplies and thick walls. Even if the enemy has super heavy tanks, we have a chance. If the Destruction Eagle can use the assault force and the Stormbringer Army to contain the enemy’s Scimitar Tanks, ”

“At the same time, we also have a large number of anti-vehicle installations, such as the Empire’s proud armor-piercing missiles, which are enough for us to clear out most of the Land Raider heavy tanks, not to mention we also have powerful artillery support!”

The staff group in charge of intelligence countered. “The enemy has counter-artillery and bombing means, which are enough to withstand artillery fire for a long time, and enough heavy vehicles to break through our defenses!”

“Those methods require human life and cannot resist the shock wave of the explosion. In other words, the energy cannot be completely blocked. Such a shield is more similar to a large deflection shield and requires living people to consume it. In other words, We can project high-explosive incendiary bombs,” the brigadier said. This is the experience gained from the blood lessons of the Imperial soldiers. It seems to be unsolvable, but its shortcomings are unexpectedly obvious.

“Secondly, the fourth Skadi regiment is coming. They are ascending the ladder. They will enter the battlefield in four or five hours. They will be joined by the Emperor’s Baneblade and powerful Skadi warriors, as well as Catachan. We can easily seize the initiative.” The brigadier general made it clear that the goal of the war was to delay. They had no choice because the enemy was invading at this moment and could only rely on death and sacrifice to slow them down.

The officers discussed this matter, and they were still slightly dissatisfied with letting the Space Marines charge out to contain the Scimitar Tanks, because the powerful Death Angels should ensure the stability of the battle line rather than attack.

But the huge palm of the fourth company commander suddenly hit the officer’s strategy table. The huge force caused the long wooden table that had been in service for decades to instantly fall apart, turning into a cloud of dust and messy pieces of wood that were too hard to even use on a fire.

“Enough!” His voice was so deafening that the officers stopped and offered him the highest religious ceremony in the empire, the Eagle Salute, to try to calm the angel’s arrogant anger, but he continued to speak.

“The Eagle of Destruction soars in the sky. We are one of the few ASM (Assault Space Marine) troops in the entire Extreme Starfield who are good at using assault backpacks! The task of containing heavy vehicles must be ours!” This is not because of honor, but more because of it. Only they can shoulder this responsibility. As the Emperor’s blades, they have long been prepared to sacrifice.

Preparations for the war are now in full swing. Every war engine and artillery installation in the entire camp, and even the guards’ magazines have been filled. This war has mobilized a large amount of resources in the entire sector. If the Pangia sub-sector fails this time, In that short period of time, Alan Bair could no longer gather such a large-scale imperial power.

This short period of time is based on more than three hundred standard Terran years. Even according to the great reputation of the former Sun Lord, this sector will need three hundred years to recuperate. However, the bigger problem is actually that after this time, the Red Pirates will will rule here and turn Skadi into the new Badab, their new hometown.

In the face of absolute survival and conflicting beliefs, even if there are only humans left in this universe, wars will continue continuously. Under the premise that the two waves of people are doing their best to think about how to massacre each other, after the Space Marine scouts provide intelligence, one shot High-explosive incendiary bombs were projected from the pitch-black muzzle of the Earth-Shaking Cannon, and this was the beginning of a vigorous fight.

Of course, the Red Pirates are pressing down on the border. They are divided into three forces, one is an auxiliary attack team, one is the main attack team, and one is a fire-attracting team. The most conspicuous team is composed of a large number of Land Raiders, as well as a large number of believers who use word spirit magic to make The thick shield protected the seemingly intense engineering battle line.

They charged across the endless plains of soil, against freezing winds and slowing wet soil, cultists dying like expendables, and the Imperial Guard bombing.

Countless incendiary bombs fell like raindrops, burning with raging flames. Mortal believers could not dodge and were turned into a ball of pitch-black coke. However, most of them were unlucky, because although the deflection of the shield allowed the incendiary bombs to escape from the impact point, the large amount of saturation bombing caused the heat to ignite the mortals. robe.

The good news is that they are no longer cold. Flames often cover the entire ground. Only the area protected by the magic of the spirit is a rare unlit area. However, mortals are fragile, and the high temperature here is enough to shock them.

A dense incendiary bomb attack made the entire armored array afraid to move. At the same time, the commanders of the Imperial Guard collectively looked at the battle line. If those vehicles suddenly moved and abandoned those mortals, they would immediately switch to armor-piercing bomb bombing.

At the same time, the Imperial Guard discovered the second auxiliary attack group composed of Scimitar super-heavy tanks and Space Marines early. They were preparing to make a detour to destroy the front, while the Destruction Eagle conducted an airdrop strike through the Thunderhawk gunship docked in the fortress. Dozens of Space Marines descended in assault packs, followed by dozens of Storm Spawn in power armor and parachutes.

The sharpest blades of the Empire are gathered here, and the Thunderhawks hover over the enemy like demons. Even if the Space Marines try to attack with anti-aircraft weapons, they have little effect.

And at a height with thin air, the fourth company commander’s superhuman vision easily locked onto the enemy’s location. The huge Scimitar tank was very conspicuous. At the same time, he pulled the gunboat with one hand, leaned out almost all of his body, and carefully observed the enemy’s location. battle front.

He said into the communicator in his helmet. “Brothers, the enemy’s hidden troops have been found. They want to bypass the fortress gate and enter from the weakly defended rear. Now is our battle time.” He jumped from a high place, and when the assault backpack burned sizzlingly, countless The Astartes fell like meteors, while the Imperial Stormtroopers dropped…

In the command post, the officers saw that the plan was proceeding normally, and they were very satisfied. The war was proceeding according to the emperor’s will. They had fulfilled their duties. Although their fatigue was not worse than that of the Astartes and the front-line troops, They did not relax because the defense on the front line was going smoothly, but suddenly they heard a “bang bang bang” sound.

“What?” asked the Brigadier, to which the Imperial Guard Scout replied. “It looked like a grenade, but it didn’t explode.”

the brigadier scolded. “Damn it, put on the gas mask, it’s a gas grenade!”

It was only at this moment that the city defense soldiers noticed that the grenades projectors were small vehicles carrying many weak mortals. They relied on their mobility and the cover of large troops to avoid the eyes of the defense troops. Most people’s eyes were fixed on those vehicles. Attracted by the explosion flames that stretched tens of thousands of meters, the two small cars were too inconspicuous…

The soldiers who were close to the grenades began to fall one by one. Many veterans put on gas masks immediately, and some even began to insert the empire’s standard antidote, but with little effect.

Black skin ulcers began to appear on the bodies of those fallen soldiers, and blood began to flow out. To be precise, it looked like it was carbonized. It was better to say that they died from poison gas, but it was more like they were burned to death by flames, until part of their skin was carbonized, and Those people died in extremely painful ways, suffering from shock due to suffocation and massive acute internal bleeding, but they remained conscious and felt that their life force was being deprived of them.

Onius Praid, on the other hand, looked at the countless landing Space Marines and Stormtroopers, and then received notification of the success of the battle from the modified communicator commanding the Land Raiders.

And he smiled bitterly, because this virus grenade is an ancient demon transformed by the virus called anthrax on ancient Terra. It has received the gift of subspace caused by fear in human history for thousands of years. It is the main ingredient of the crucible of the loving father…

In other words, the soil here will be inhabitable for tens of thousands of years, and anyone who stays here will die, no matter what. Even if the Astartes can barely resist the virus, but there is no Gared Chief Pharmacist’s vaccine, those viruses will destroy everything.

He didn’t want to use this thing, because once it collapsed, the entire Port of Engili would lose value, but he had no choice, and he also believed that his soldiers could kill all patients.

He immediately gave the order. “Everyone is prohibited from approaching the fortress, except for some vaccinated soldiers. Our goal now is to annihilate the soldiers of the Destruction Eagle, and wait for the artillery fire inside the fortress to stop!”

At the same time, the officers inside the command post also began to have skin ulcers. The field doctors injected all known stimulants and antidotes. If they didn’t have fully enclosed carapace on their bodies, they would probably have been infected.

Looking at the fallen officers and the collapsed defense system, the chief physician suddenly spoke. “Damn, this virus has a part we don’t know the shape of, similar to anthrax, but different, our antidote can’t clean up those things…”

The Empire is not afraid of just anthrax. Things spread out from the human home planet are too fragile for this universe, and the Empire’s antidote can theoretically solve the toxins of countless demons and monsters, just like nanomachines, because of the source of this thing at stc.

At this moment, the doctors could only look at the officers who were unable to save themselves, but soon, heavy footsteps appeared, flashing light and neat footsteps stepped in here. They were the think tank of the Destruction Eagle, and there were also soldiers wearing carapace armor and fully armed. Skadi soldier, officer.

shouted the second lieutenant of the Fourth Skadi Regiment. “We are here to take over the chain of command here! Our officers will conduct field command!”

The think tank sergeant checked the disease status, he judged. “It’s a weak spiritual energy. Call a loyal field priest to pray devoutly while injecting an antidote. It can alleviate the disease and restore part of the combat effectiveness!”

Soon the entire camp began to operate in an orderly manner under the command of the Skadi and the Heroic Think Tank, and all of this can only be said to be the blessing of the Emperor…