"My understanding of the Assault Squad is that they will descend from the sky and descend on the traitor enemies as judgement angels, let the jumping backpack become their wings, let the roar of its engine become a hymn of punishment, let the chainsaw sword become their scepter to uphold justice, and every blow, its harsh sound sings happily, the Assault Squad will revenge heresy, the Traitor and all aliens who dare to invade the Emperor's territory, so the Assault Squad will become hunters and regicides, their armor is filled with the blood of the defeated, and everyone will be proud of their names."
——"Astadt's Holy Book", by Robert Kiriman.
"Hold your weapons tightly, birds."
Talos's voice echoed in the communicator.
"We're going down!"
As the Thunder Eagle hatch opened, the sky reflected in Bahram's eyes was a dirty grid mixed with tracery bullets and flames.
The flames passed through the sky, and the black smoke from the burning buildings twisted in the wind, and the crackling flames hungrily devoured all wooden and stone buildings. The thunder eagle lowered the jets generated by the combustion of the engine and began to dive to a low altitude and slide across the ruins.
Everyone stood up with a slam, and there was an extra jet pack on them.
The 11th Company is not just a reconnaissance company. Not to mention anything else, at least Talos would not let the Eighth Legion's ability to airborne assault disappear in the minds of these new recruits.
"Walk!"
After a roar, Sabrin, who was on the same plane as Bahram, jumped out suddenly, and his jet pack was ignited the moment he left the hatch door, turning his falling posture into a gliding.
Bahram followed closely behind.
At this time, the fortress had basically fallen, and the enemy's ocean surrounded the 11th Company, but they were obviously not prepared for the sudden appearance of Astart, so when the screams rang through the sky, many cultists who were closer were stunned.
The soldiers flew through the burning night sky like birds of prey, and the explosive guns and plasma in their hands kept firing downwards, killing a large number of concentrated enemies.
As the soldiers landed and picked up melee weapons, a mocking voice appeared on the communications network.
"Try not to die here, brothers, I'm not in the mood to go to the training ground to change a few more sandbags."
Bahram heard that this was Li Lin's voice.
He really couldn't appreciate the special black humor of the Eleventh Company. He raised his hand to smash the three highly mutated cultists, and the explosive bomb hit the flesh and blood to pieces.
“Wow!!!!”
Suddenly a cultist with an extra arm rushed towards him, waving a whole group of combat weapons composed of sharp mining equipment.
Bahram squatted down and avoided the drill bit that was thick as his thighs, drew out the short sword, and stabbed the opponent's big mouth full of sharp teeth. The blade penetrated the already contaminated brain without any obstacles.
"Prioritize the attack on enemy commanders."
Sabrin always remembered the importance of the mission, and began to move while shooting several cultists with explosive bombs.
The layers of corpses turned the flat ground uneven. They killed many cult soldiers when they fell to the center of the enemy formation, and those who were some distance from the landing site were still fighting against the enemies in the distance in the smoke.
"Birds, remember, we won't fight attrition."
Talos repeated what he said during the action briefing.
"If we have to fight a head-on battle, then we're dead."
Like all troops, Chaos Space Marines, despite physical transformation and excellent training, will also be greatly hit by losing the command chain on the battlefield. Therefore, their primary goal is to destroy the enemy Chaos Space Marine Commander.
"It's not fun to land at all, right?"
Li Lin stabbed into the eye socket of a cult with tentacles on his hand, and ended a relaxed duel with a chuckling.
“No main target was found.”
But Bahram's
All his attention was placed on his internal monitor, and he continued to track the gradually expanding gap between the teams.
"More?"
He called, but no response, distance and interference were a disadvantage.
Bahram then stabbed a cult behind him in the neck, but did not cut off his head.
"More, answer me."
Bahram kicked the enemy's body away and switched to different visual modes to try to find the team on the battlefield.
About ten seconds later, a sound mixed with white noise sounded.
"I'm in your direction at 10 o'clock, about three hundred meters."
Moore's voice came.
"The target cannot be confirmed, the battle here is too fierce."
"I'm too far from my target."
Another voice sounded.
"So too."
"I'm... a little... busy!"
"Nothing can be seen, fighting."
Bahram used a bomb gun to advance in the ocean of thrusting drill bits, interlaced sword blades, wielding heavy punches, and a laser gun fire net.
Suddenly, something hit his helmet. He raised his detonator and fought back in the direction of the enemy's fire, destroying the threat caused by whatever it was. Then he cut off one enemy's arms with a sword. The pottery steel boots stepped on the right half of the other fallen man's body, grabbed the broken limbs on the ground and pierced the enemy's lungs.
He almost didn't stop for a moment. While the power sword drew an arc in the air to cut one enemy in half, the blast gun in the other hand fired three blasts, blowing the heads of the other three enemy troops.
The cut off cult still stretched out his hand to grab Bahram's leg. The Space Marine didn't even look at it, and directly stomped on the other party's head.
“What a wonderful time!”
Li Lin called out to him:
"I feel like we're starting to have similarities."
Bahram was too lazy to answer him.
He took half a second to look at the direction of Talos and found that their company commander had gone to everyone again.
"For the power of darkness!!"
A cult who was attacking shouted and raised his grenade and rushed up. Bahram directly blew the other party's head with a bomb, ignoring the explosion and continuing to move forward.
Soon, they collided with the enemy's real main force, Chaos Space Marine.
Of course there was nothing to say on both sides, and there was a rain of bullets immediately.
The number of Chaos Space Marines is about thirty or forty, which is not much smaller than the eleventh company, but they are all veterans of the hundred battles, but they have one disadvantage that they cannot make up for.
Colonel Stryk, with the 183rd Regiment of Katachang and the remaining militias, with the help of his understanding of the fortress' terrain, quickly seized several commanding heights and fired condescendingly with rapid-fire cannons and heavy bombs.
This caused great trouble for the Chaos Space Marines. What's more fatal is that they did not consider the air raid in this attack, so the firepower brought by the Thunder Eagle caused them to suffer heavy losses at the first time.