On the position in charge of the Second Company of the White Temple, company commander Arash was holding his helmet and staring at the far end of the battlefield.
He is a veteran who has served for nearly three hundred years, and is the person who has served the longest in the Chapter except Randall. One of the important reasons for this is because he did not transplant the deteriorated gray marrow.
And he is also one of the very few soldiers in the White Templar who has become a company commander without transplanting gray marrow, which shows his personal ability.
After he entered the command level and learned all the secrets of the White Templar's past, he became a very determined Legionnaire.
Not long ago, Arash received an order that they should block the enemies heading to Fortress 7 from here for three hours, and then they could retreat to the next line of defense.
The number of enemies is very large, perhaps hundreds of times their number, and the only two nearby friendly forces are busy dealing with the rebellion of the local militia and have no time to support them.
But Randall promised that support would arrive when necessary.
"Company commander, the enemy has entered the shooting range."
Suddenly, an adjutant reported, causing most of the soldiers to raise their bolters, preparing to face the incoming heretic army.
"Put your gun away."
Arash put on his helmet and issued new instructions.
"The first wave of enemies must be cultists. Save ammunition and use spears and shields. Brothers, form a nine-bow formation and Lomon team, and use projectile grenades to kill enemies in the distance."
The White Templar not only preserves much of the culture of the original legion, but also retains the phalanx tactics of the legion era.
The position they were responsible for was built by mortals and was mainly built with parapets and trenches. Arash estimated that he opened a gap of about 100 meters, like a floodgate on a dam, attracting the enemy to the direction of their formation.
When the roaring crowd rushed toward them, the Second Company of the White Templars calmly tied the bolter to their waist, raised the shield, and drew a short spear from behind.
This short spear is a power weapon, but unlike most power spears in the Empire, it has a round weighted ball at the end, which is also the energy source of the force field generator.
As the soldiers turned on the switch, the power spearhead crackled instantly, emitting blue light.
When the soldiers finished lining up, a battle flag also appeared behind them.
The White Temple uses a special battle flag called "Kavi". This battle flag is square with an eagle emblem on the top. The battle flag is inlaid with symbols made of gold.
"Come on!!!"
Soon, the overwhelming army of cultists swept across the front of the position, and then instinctively rushed toward the only gap.
What happened next was like a storm hitting a cliff. The cultists in the front row fell in pieces in front of the unbreakable shield formation. The power spears pierced into this group of crazy fallen cultists. When the spears
After inserting 3 or 4 cultists on them, the Space Marines would skillfully use the edge of their shields to flay the corpses, and then continue to drive their spears into the crowd.
Countless heretics were killed in an instant, but Arash always stood on the front line, holding his shield high and fighting in the bloody storm.
During the long battle, the Second Company was surrounded by the crazy roars of the bloodthirsty cultists, their blood-red eyes and twisted faces filled with hatred, but they soon fell powerlessly in pain and twitching.
"go ahead!"
Arash roared and the phalanx began to move.
The Second Company's advance was very fast. The shields were covered with broken bones and flesh and blood. The spears swept through the dense crowd of cultists. The iron boots ruthlessly trampled the corpses of the cultists, bringing permanent death to these lunatics.
peaceful.
However, the seriously injured cultists lying on the ground who were not yet dead were still shouting the name of their master.
When they advanced a hundred meters, they had left a road littered with dead bodies behind them.
A little further away, a team was holding a grenade launcher, causing the cultists further away who were still trying to attack to rush into a sea of fire.
Their firepower directly divided the cultists into several sections, preventing them from launching continuous attacks.
There are also some smart guys who try to climb over the parapets on both sides, but often at this time, the soldiers in the second and third rows will shoot them down one by one with single-shot bursts to ensure that the flanks of the formation are not disturbed by the enemy.
Soon, under the massacre, the enemy also changed their tactics.
At first there were a few laser beams, then bursts of gunshots, and then the deafening roar of logging guns.
Gradually, the gunfire around them became louder and louder, but these were very low-level weapons, including logging guns made by low-level gunsmiths, as well as automatic guns and laser guns stolen from the armory.
When the die-hard cultists joined in, a large number of weapons fired from the position.
The concrete breastworks surrounding the Second Company were immediately shattered by intensive firepower.
"Cavalry formation."
Arash ordered decisively.
"onslaught!"
After roaring in unison, the soldiers threw their spears at the oncoming cultists. The spearheads went straight through the heads of the cultists and nailed the groups of cultists to the ground. Then they uniformly removed them and hung them on their waists with magnetic force.
Bolter between.
"May the Emperor grant us speed and precision! One enemy at a time, fire!"
The soldiers mounted their bolt guns on their shields, and relied on their helmets and the aiming systems on their bolt guns to accurately shoot at the enemy troops that were swarming into the position.
The ruthless bullets shattered one cultist after another, shooting down a large number of gunmen, and the fierce firepower even suppressed those enemies who were hiding in the trenches and taking cold shots.
Although the battle went smoothly, the enemy's changing tactics made Arash realize that the real enemy was approaching.
Without guidance, these cultists are nothing more than a bunch of lazy, bloodthirsty lunatics wandering among countless victims, but if Chaos Space Marines appear around them, then these cultists will show a certain degree of organization and
Discipline.
As time goes by, the bolt gun ammunition is gradually exhausted.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It has been more than three hours. Just when Arash was considering whether to retreat, the noise of gunfire suddenly disappeared, and all the cultists began to turn around.
Escape, long-lasting echoes echo between the battlefields filled with madness and death.
"Ceasefire."
Arash immediately ordered.
"what happened?"
The adjutant put down his gun. The sudden disappearance of enemy firepower was disturbing, and the dying groans of the cultists were ignored.
"What does it mean?"
"It means something is coming."
Suddenly, Arash's eyes twitched, and he saw something falling from the sky.
The next second, he could feel himself leaving the ground even ten kilometers away.
The explosion spread silently, and the beam of light rose straight from the ground into the dirty, filthy sky. It shone like water, and Arash could see through it thousands of small particles dancing in the expanding smoke column.
He blinked and realized immediately that these particles were people: tens of thousands of cultist armies, and countless demons.
The light twisted and overlapped, and the dark particles expanded and exploded like soap bubbles. Silence rolled out, as if all sounds were swallowed up by the destruction he witnessed.
When the broken reality touches the sky, these few seconds are eternity.
Then it collapsed and everything ceased to exist.
"It turned out to be orbital bombing——"
At this time, Arash's communicator suddenly sounded, followed by Randall's voice.
"Second Company, you rush to the third line of defense immediately. You must hold on for five hours this time."
"Third line? What about the second line of defense?"
"give up."
"Why?"
"The 22nd Cadian Regiment was defeated."
Arash was stunned for a moment. This was the main force of the Astra Militarum, and it was actually defeated.
Obviously the war situation is not optimistic.
Then Randall's words made his worries rise to a higher level.
"The Dark Angel's attack was also not going well. They encountered some troubles."