As the monotonous voice of the servitor sounded, the Thunder Eagle turned sharply to the left. Makarov, the newly joined battle brother of the second company, stared carefully at the scene outside the window, the messy and wrinkled orange landscape of the planet Korkria III.
In front of the Space Marines, there is only one huge city group, which is the hive city. As for the rest of the land that can be seen, there is only an endless network woven by red scars.
"Lots of open pit mines."
As soon as he opened his mouth, a figure rang out beside him.
"Because this planet is rich in cobaltite."
The young Space Marine turned around and saw his company commander Ustad speaking, and blinked.
"Ah, please forgive me, company commander, but there shouldn't be any enemies here, right?"
"Although most of the mortals who have surrendered to the Red Pirates have been centralized and sent to the mines, there are still many fools who are still fighting against the empire, and there are also many gangs in the hive that are attacking the garrison or causing damage."
"The Astra Militarum can handle these things. Wouldn't we be more useful elsewhere?"
There was a hint of wounded pride in the young warrior's voice, and Ustad replied with a smile:
"There are not necessarily only fragile mortal traitors there. Chalcobaltite, which is crucial for the production of electronic components, is like a moth to a flame, seducing greedy weak souls. We cannot let mortals stand guard for it, let alone count on them.
Fight back the traitors cursed by the Warp and prevent them from destroying the wealth of the Imperium. The Chaos Space Marines have attempted to sabotage the mines several times in the past week, and they have succeeded twice."
The Thunderhawk passed through the vortex, its fuselage rumbled, and Robin sitting at the end said lightly:
"Find the enemy, kill the enemy, nothing else needs to be said."
Makarov carefully shut his mouth. Except for Captain Ustad, the second company's most respected person was Robin, because he was the undoubted champion, and there were many recruits who admired him.
When they arrived at the designated area of the hive, the other members of the company were already waiting there. As the core battle company of the Astral Knights, the Second Company not only has a full complement of battle brothers, but also a large number of vehicles, including Lan
German Raiders, Predator tanks, Sikaran battle tanks, and even Javelin speed attack boats, which are currently relatively rare in the war group. There is also a tactical team equipped with iron cavalry terminators, which basically combines penetration, assault and propulsion.
function.
Ustad then summoned the officers in charge of the area and learned that the vanguard had set out to surround a hidden stronghold where the "evil" was located.
The evil thing is the code name they call that target, with contempt and a little fear. Since the nest was controlled by the empire, that thing has been launching attacks continuously. Its attack methods are various, sometimes making everyone in an outpost panic.
They went crazy and killed each other, sometimes turning the atonement miners in the mines near the hive into twisted and depraved monsters, sometimes sneaking into some poorly defended command posts and turning all the officers inside into pieces of meat.
The frontline encirclement and suppression troops have tried many methods, but have not been able to solve this problem. Even because of the activities of the evil creatures, it has gathered a large gang, with reportedly tens of thousands of people, and is weaving an even more evil conspiracy in the bottom nest.
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When the report was sent to Soshyan, he speculated that it might be a Chaos Sorcerer, or even better, a sorcerous Chaos Space Marine, or the Thousand Sons.
Now that Kayon is not here, Soshyan can't tell whether it is, but according to the worst plan, if it is really a Thousand Sons, then the trouble it can cause is definitely beyond imagination, so he sent the Second Company to arrest or
Annihilate this guy.
The Second Company is currently the company with the highest proportion of gray marrow warriors in the war group except for the First Company. Soshyan believes that it should not be difficult to capture a wizard.
The key point is not to let the other party run away.
Therefore, after determining the opponent's position, Ustad will arrange for the mortal troops to attack first, so that the opponent can be careless - of course, the attacking mortal troops may suffer relatively large losses.
To put it simply, the attacking force is the bait, and Ustad is betting that the guy will be a little arrogant and will not be as cautious as in the past because he has succeeded so many times.
Therefore, they were able to rush to the battlefield as quickly as possible.
Just as the Second Company rode various vehicles to attack the location of the evil creatures at lightning speed, the Astra Militarum responsible for attacking the area also encountered big trouble.
They fought on the lands they had conquered a month ago. Even though these lands had long belonged to the empire, the land in these places was now soaked in blood, and the ground was littered with the bodies of the fallen.
The three infantry regiments responsible for the attack were all locally recruited troops from Maelstrom. They were not excellent, but they were not terrible either, with a total number of more than 20,000.
What they were besieging was a small town in Bottom Nest, which had been occupied by a mutant tribe in the past. The Red Pirates didn't bother to take care of this place. The residents here didn't even know that things had changed. Even after the empire occupied the nest, they didn't bother to tell Bottom Nest.
There are too many actions, because going there is equivalent to being exiled. Soshyan only asked to clean up the people in the hive, not including the bottom nest, so many people fled to the dark and desperate bottom nest to survive.
Afterwards, the evil creature took over this place as a stronghold, and the original residents were twisted into terrifying slaves. After that, a large number of residents of the original hive city came to defect after hearing the news.
Another reason why they hate the empire so much is an order from the high command of the expeditionary force.
All those in Colkeria who betray the empire will be deprived of all identity and property. These properties, including houses, land, etc., will be distributed to those meritorious soldiers after the war.
To the imperial soldiers who came to encircle and suppress them, these people were not only traitors and heretics, but also weeds to their future homeland.
Because the officers got the news earlier, they had already begun to use various means to carve up the assets and real estate of Zhongchao and Xiachao, especially wineries, cigarette factories and bars that could be immediately profitable. They were even more sought-after assets, and soldiers
They also dream of owning their own house, or a bakery, or a store, but first they have to "deal with" the original owners of these things.
The hatred brought by both sides is not only caused by their positions, but also caused by their interests.
The darkness of the bottom nest is constantly torn apart by flares, and there are sounds of fighting, gunshots, dying screams, and monster screams everywhere.
The imperial army fought, bled, died, and won step by step in the smoke that smelled of gunpowder smoke, carrion, and blood. In the ruins of the burned town, there were corpses of traitors in shabby clothes everywhere, including men, women, and children.
The last thing of value they have will be taken away from them.
There is no mercy, only killing.
Bit by bit, meter by meter, the imperial army kept advancing.