A huge steel beast crashed out of the smoke screen and appeared in Colonel Akater's sight.
It was once active in the battlefield of the Great Expedition and crushed countless enemies.
It was also a major veteran in the Horus Rebellion, playing his own role in that tragic war.
It has a very resounding name-
Sparta.
The design of the Spartan Assault Tank was developed based on the famous Rand Raiders. The original purpose of designing the Spartan Assault Tank was to cross the Ring of Death on Mars. At that time, the standard Rand Raiders could not transport the Terminator. The plasma defense system of the Ring of Death was so powerful that even if the Spartan Assault Tank was used, only a small number of Terminators were expected to survive the battle.
The original Spartan assault tanks were equipped with standard Rand Raider weapons—two double-double laser cannons, but heavy blaster guns and heavy flamethrowers were also installed on the turret. This design was widely spread after the Horus Rebellion but disappeared after the standard Rand Raider was designed to transport the Terminator.
As a large ground vehicle, Sparta can transport 25 Space Marines wearing power armor or 10 warriors wearing Terminator armor at one time. It is the largest dedicated transport vehicle in the empire except Gorgon armored personnel carriers and mastodon tanks. In addition, despite its size, due to the mystery implicit in its power system, it is still much faster than other Land Raider variants.
Currently, Spartan assault tanks mainly appear in battle groups with many Terminator troops, such as the Taurus Chapter, while Chaos Space Marines are still using Spartan assault tanks that can be traced back to the Great Expedition. Most of these ancient vehicles belong to the rebellious startup regiments.
When the Iron Brotherhood split from the Legion, it plundered a Spartan assault tank called "First Will".
Now, it appears on the battlefield of Pai Shangxing.
In front of Colonel Akat's eyes, Sparta's front opened with the push of the piston, and then he saw something moving inside, flashing with a dim gloss in the flames.
For a moment, Colonel Akater was wondering if the tank had some malfunction, but the burning figure rushed out of Sparta.
There were ten, ten nightmares cast from ceramic steel and artificial fibers, warhammers, battle axes and power claws emitted lightning in their hands, and curved armor plates raised on their shoulders, and when they ran, they were like a pile of muscles made of iron plates.
At first Colonel Akater was just staring at them, his eyes locked on the flashing eyes of their metal faces, and he felt his mouth moving silently, saying a word he had heard but now realized that he had never really understood.
Terminator-
Suddenly, a beam of energy slashed through the narrowing gap. Colonel Akat couldn't close his eyes, and the outline of an armored figure shone on his retina.
The turret's laser cannon fired again and again.
"I think I killed one."
The gunner said with a breath, Colonel Akater forced himself to open his eyes and shook his head.
"No, I'm afraid not."
The hit Terminator just shook it in place, with a few black ablation marks on his body, and then continued to sprint.
Chimera's firepower is indeed not good!
At this time, the Terminators had reached a place forty meters away, and fired while advancing, and the ground under their feet was stirring up with their steps.
Colonel Akater's vision was filled with explosions and muzzle flashes. The infantry tried to stop it, but were ruthlessly trampled on the ground and trampled into a pool - their target was not ordinary soldiers at all, they were just for Colonel Akater!
“Retreat!”
At Colonel Akater's urging, the driver pulled back the joystick. After Chimera's tracks screamed and paused for a second, he struggled to start accelerating and rolling, leading them back.
Terminator continued to move forward, and now Colonel Akater was able to see the polished skull on their chest and the shells that fell from the multi-tube blaster.
The gunner fired another shot, but the beam spread out.
When a bomb flew overhead, Colonel Akater retracted back into the cabin very wisely and covered the hatch.
Suddenly, the driver braked the left track, and Chimera glided and rotated under the right track, and then the driver pushed the joysticks on both sides, and the vehicle began to rush forward.
Back in the cabin, Colonel Akater could only use a periscope to observe the outside.
Now there is no sign of the enemy. There is rubble and ruins in front of him. All vehicles are retreating, and explosions are heard outside from time to time.
Suddenly, the gunner left his seat and hurriedly turned to the rear to observe the crack.
"where are they?"
"I can't see them."
Colonel Akater turned around in his seat and looked back instinctively.
When he turned back, he happened to see a chest wall, and they were about to bump into it.
Chimera rushed away the broken stones, slid up, and then rushed down, and Colonel Akat couldn't help but fall forward.
For a moment, everything calmed down, only his own breathing sounds.
Then he realized they stopped.
He reached out to pass the microphone and said:
"Who can see--"
Bang!
Suddenly, the impact sounded in Chimeran like a gong shattered, and then the top armor bent inward, and everyone could hear the sound of the armor rubbing against each other.
The gunner shrank into a ball behind his seat, and the driver was at a loss, and looking at the depression above, Colonel Akater thought of the lightning attached to the Terminator's weapon.
He could never imagine that a Terminator actually jumped to Chimera's top!
The steel giant stood up straight with the hissing of oiled joints and the servo, and it was usually difficult to make a jump in such a bulky Terminator, but the creature in iron armor was not a human - he was a space warrior, and the armor wrapped in his flesh and blood was created to pass the fire of war and the coldness of the void.
With the help of a gentle slope and a sprint, he directly crossed the height and distance of several meters!
The Terminator held a huge warhammer in his hand, and his hammer head flashed with blue light in the air.
The Iron Warrior looked down for a second, his eyes glowing with electronic green light at Chimera's armor plate, and then raised his warhammer.
The first time, a heavy sound rang out, the whole car trembled, and the outer armor broke first.
Soon, he lifted the hammer again.
This will have a high probability of smashing the armor directly, and then the fragile flesh and blood wrapped inside will feel the taste of steel.
This Iron Warrior thought so, but before his hammer fell, everything was empty.
Whoosh ———~
A half-human-sized stream of plasma suddenly hit the Terminator, hitting him out of the car.
He fell while twisting, and the armor still maintained its original shape the moment before it dissolved. Then the porcelain exploded under heat, and in his armored cage, the flesh and blood of the steel warrior turned into smoke and steam.
"Um?"
Colonel Akat, who had already taken out the grenade and was about to fight desperately, found that there was no movement, so he boldly opened the hatch and poked out his body.
He saw the burning Terminator, and the thing that saved them-
A Shikaran battle tank was driving rapidly, with the double sword badges on it shining brightly in the smoke and flames.
The Knight of the Astrology is here!
The largest armored battle in the Battle of Pai Shangxing is about to break out!