In the third month of his stay in Towatsk, Soshiyan received a message from the distant Badabu sector. After half a year of brutal siege, the expeditionary forces finally broke through the last underground stronghold of the Red Pirates defending Badabu. As Soshiyan expected, Honso finally chose to escape.
Marshal Helbletcher of the Black Church originally planned to complete the battle in two months, but it eventually turned into a flesh-and-blood tug-of-war, which also made the already fragile main star Badab almost submerged by the blood of both sides of the enemy and us. However, even so, there is no world that will never be colonized in the future, which is still important to the empire.
First, it represented the empire's re-control of the order of the Badab sector and destroyed the pirate strongholds that had long plagued the Great Whirlpool route, burning Huron's century of efforts.
Secondly, as the core of the Badabu sector, the Badabu main star has far exceeded its role as a residential planet. It only needs to restore its orbital facilities, and its superior position determines that it will flourish again soon.
Finally, and most importantly, it is its symbolic significance, because when the High Lord granted the position of commander-in-chief of Soshiyan Expeditionary Force, the core combat goal he set was the Badabu sector, which means that the restoration of the empire's rule in the Badabu sector means that the most basic victory of this expedition has been achieved. Regardless of whether Huron can be eliminated in the end, Soshiyan can already explain it, and the Expeditionary Force can also openly declare to the outside world that it has achieved a decisive victory.
For the military and civilians of the Great Vortex who have been dragged by the expedition, this is definitely a shot of a heart-warming shot because they can see the dawn of victory.
Of course, the price of victory is very heavy. The death of more than 24 million soldiers also made the Badabu siege the most casualties in the Great Vortex Expedition. Correspondingly, the empire also annihilated more than 100 million Chaos slaves (including the machine servants) and countless subspace demons. (If you are interested in the future, you can add a separate article on the Badabu siege. I personally prefer to write the details of the offensive and defensive war)
But no matter what, this is a great victory, not just the Empire's victory over heresy, but more than 500 steel warriors could be found in this battle, so it is also considered another victory for the Empire's Fist against his former enemy, which is worthy of a special book.
Soshiyang stroked his pen and wrote a commendation notice for the besieged troops of the Badabu war zone.
However, there are also some dissonant notes in the song of victory. Malakin seems to have a serious conflict with Hulblet. In a private letter to Soshyan, Malakin accused Hulblet of being a "cold-blooded butcher" who wasted a large number of soldiers' lives in a nearly squandering way. Due to his "impulsive" and "reckless" strategy, many avoidable sacrifices were caused.
The commander of the Tianshi Battle Team also had some complaints about Hulblet. Although he was both the son of Dorn, he called the other party more like a "cruel war blacksmith" and Hongsuo were "chess opponents". In a sense, this accusation was more serious than Malakin's, which means that he was so cold that he was like a heretic.
However, Hulblett did not make any defense or complaints in the war report. He always only talked about the numbers and progress, which was also very consistent with Soshiyan's impression of him.
For these, Soshyan, in his position as the commander-in-chief of the expedition, had no reason to accuse Helbletcher, because the opponent had won and made sure that the Fourth Legion would no longer have the opportunity to intervene in the war unless they were willing to assist the Red Pirates, not the man Honsso.
Soshiyan's choice was to transfer Malakin to the direction where Arash was and to let the group of the Badab War Zone clean up the situation as soon as possible and go to the Marg Star Group to assemble.
Because the decisive battle may come soon.
According to Okam's latest information, Soshyan finally knew what Huron was shrinking his strength.
He is trying to control a mysterious waste ship he just obtained.
The origin of this waste ship is very confidential, and even Occam cannot be used, but it is very different from those ordinary waste ships. It seems to have all the functions that normal warships should have. After obtaining this waste ship, the number of demon engines in Huron's army has increased rapidly and has increased by at least twice.
According to Okam's description, if this abandoned ship really moves, the empire may need to dispatch Queen of Glory or several battleships to fight.
However, the ship seems to have not been fully controlled yet. Occam learned through the informant network that had been built inside the Red Pirates that Huron had temporarily organized a skull feast, which was located on the mysterious waste ship. The reward was that the winner would receive the title of commander of the waste ship called the Savage Crucible.
But in fact, he wanted to send some disobedient people into the abandoned ship because it was filled with all kinds of terrible aliens and subspace creations. However, under this huge temptation, many ambitious Chaos Space Marines still chose to join in.
However, the result is probably that there will be no return, and Huron should not keep his promise, although he never broke his promise.
Soshiyan attaches great importance to this, not only because of this mysterious abandoned ship, but also because this incident represents a new force supporting Huron.
In addition, Huron seemed to have noticed something and once again strengthened the defense of the Blackstone Fortress. Now there are at least three thousand Chaos Space Marines and a large number of mortal soldiers stationed there. Combined with the strength of the Blackstone Fortress itself, it is a very difficult hard to crack.
Soshiyan also talked with Veronica about this, but Veronica was not too worried about it. More than three thousand Chaos Space Marines seemed to be many, but they knew nothing about the structure of the Blackstone Fortress and did not need to destroy them all on the spot. As long as they were drawn away and controlled the Blackstone Fortress, she could activate the internal defense mechanism and strangle them all into the Blackstone Fortress.
When Soshiyang thought about it, it seemed that the same was true. After all, the goal was to take away the Black Stone Fortress. As for the enemies inside, there was still time to cook slowly.
After knowing that Huron was preparing for a decisive battle, Soshiyan also decided to speed up. At this time, the Red Pirates' stronghold of the Marg Cluster had basically been swept away by the Dark Angels, so he sent the flesh-torner to assist the White Scar and his sub-group to clear the bloody skull galaxy.
As an important mining area in the Great Vortex, the Bloody Skull Galaxy has a large mineral world. The characteristics of those worlds are desolate and have a large number of underground mines. In a sense, they are independent fortresses. It is really troublesome to fight one by one, but it is not enough to not fight. On the one hand, the casting world urgently needs raw materials supply, and on the other hand...
Not long after Soshiyan signed an agreement with the Short Man Alliance, they provided the goods on time and also provided mercenaries.
It is naturally difficult to repent from the mining rights promised to others.