Chapter 191 Black and Red, Plot in the Shadows (Forty) Tindalos Counterattack
In the deep subspace ocean, the Endless Jihad, which had returned first, was moving forward alone.
This Retribution-class battleship built on Mars had deliberate advantages in reactors and engines from the beginning of its design. It can be said that after the battle of James Moro, Calvin and others have taken advantage of it to the extreme.
Relying on its nearly half more energy supply systems than battleships of the same class, it only took Calvin and others a little more than five days to go back and forth between Moro and Hepper.
And at the end of the fifth day, the fallen Word Bearers Legion, under the personal leadership of Chief Priest Erebus, had dropped their first evil mark on the ancient world of Moro.
On the Endless Crusade, Calvin, who was still adapting to "Hyperion's Blessing", had not taken off his armor for three days.
In fact, in the current state of this armor, this function and concept have not been lost at all.
All the components of the "Original Heart" have been replaced by psychic liquid metal. After these psychic liquid metals are fully infused with Calvin's power, the original clothing, disassembly, and even manifestation and disappearance can only be seen on the original body.
in a moment.
Even their original weight has disappeared, because after being saturated with psychic energy, as long as Calvin is willing, all parts of the power armor are equivalent to weightless.
But only the original body knew about this situation, so in the eyes of other Gray Knights, this was another manifestation of the original body's concern about the war ahead.
There was an endless stream of people who came to persuade him to take a proper rest. Even the veteran Tabers secretly advised Calvin after a war briefing meeting to understand how to maintain weapons when not in combat.
But Calvin did not resolve this misunderstanding, because in fact he was indeed worried about Molech's war.
After all, as the supreme commander of the Inquisition and even the Empire in Jamorro, he should have been there to fight with the soldiers of the Empire at this time.
The surprise of receiving "Hyperion's blessing" has dissipated. In other words, like every qualified Imperial soldier, a personal gain is insignificant compared to the war in the entire sector.
The reason why the Indefatigable Jihad gave up traveling with Hepper's support and chose to return alone was precisely because of war considerations in the direction of Moro.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A dull explosion sounded from the defensive weapon base station in orbit. Against the backdrop of the boundless universe, the huge stars and planets seemed extremely small.
And between these seemingly small stars, two fleets as small as dust, like giant beasts with teeth and claws, poured out cannon fire on each other with the efforts of countless people, and then gradually narrowed the distance.
The oldest and bloody battle begins.
The fleet on the Imperial side, under the command of the Inquisition and the Astartes Chapter, is on the obvious defensive.
This was due to the commanders' remaining defensive intention of relying on Moloch, and also to Calvin's deployment of the war before leaving.
The lack of a flagship was the most practical reason. Without the participation of the Enduring Jihad, the Hrafnkel was transferred to the Otto line. At this time, the Sea Wolves really had no idea of a decisive battle with the enemy.
But this kind of concession comes at a price. If the orbital garrison fleet adopts a defensive posture, it usually means that the attacker has a window for ground strikes.
The Word Bearers Legion, as the attacking party in the war, obviously will not and cannot give up this obvious loophole.
Thousands of transport boats began to gather in orbit, and dense fighter planes, like a swarm of piranhas, were also released from the belly of the Word Bearers Legion's battleship.
These behemoths engraved with the emblems of corruption and corruption, after the main fleet forced the empire back, and when the only remaining orbital defense system on Moro was destroyed, they openly faced the intensive anti-aircraft fire on the ground and launched from space.
Landing towards the ground.
The soldiers on the empire side could only watch them, but were unable to make other effective interceptions.
There are only 600,000 imperial soldiers stationed on Moro. The Tindalos Legion is already the main force, and the number of other auxiliary armies and Sea Wolves is even more limited.
Fortunately, this was part of their plan, because after this planetary world experienced the ravages of the Sons of Horus under the Warmaster, its valuable defense areas were originally limited to those few important ones.
Place.
The Uta Terrace located in the temperate zone of the planet Moro, as well as the rocky canyon, Evergreen Hills, Lucapalia City and Sarika located on this huge wasteland, are the areas they are currently defending.
The first gunshot of the war was fired three hours after the Word Bearers' successful landing operation. The Word Bearers, who had fully evaluated the status of the defenders, obviously gave the Tindalos Legion's front a very high evaluation.
They did not rush to bring down the main force of their legion, but instead used the fallen rebel legion as the main force and dozens of Knight Titans under the two knight families as the spearhead.
In the rear landing field, under the cover of the gradually prepared heavy artillery troops, the first wave of tentative attacks began towards Lucapaglia's front.
This is a war that belongs entirely to mortals, and both sides of the war belong to the Empire and Chaos.
On the main continent of Moro Star, the plains outside the Uta Platform were filled with millions of mortal soldiers. The entire empire's position, from the city of Lucapalia in the east to the Evergreen Hills in the west, was submerged in the rumble of artillery fire from the rebel legions.
among.
However, this is also a battle of will and discipline.
Although there is a huge size gap between the two war beasts, the difference in will and discipline between legions naturally allows the soldiers of the empire to have faster reactions and more purposeful tactics.
The main position in the direction of Lucapaglia was after the rebel legion invested a huge main force and got into a fierce struggle with the defenders for ten hours.
Ignoring the dissuasion of the Sea Wolves, the armored units of the Tindalos Legion on both wings completed the assembly within half an hour. Then, against the urgent dispatch of fighter jets in the sky, they brazenly outflanked the two wings in a pincer-like offensive.
The Sea Wolves have a rather complicated attitude towards this large-scale tactical counterattack:
From the absolute denial in the meeting at the beginning, to the exclamation after learning that the tactical concentration of the armored forces was completed within half an hour.
After the Tindalos Legion showed its resilience when its frontal position fell into ten times the enemy's attack and refused all support for ten hours, it began to have little confidence in this plan.
By the time they began to deploy behind the frontal positions, they could experience the special nature of the Tindalos Legion at close range.
It can be said that within a few hours, they had a subversive understanding of this mortal army.
It is not even an exaggeration to say that after a lapse of tens of thousands of years, they finally saw a force that was equal to the auxiliary army during the Great Expedition in terms of average quality and thickness of equipment.
Six hundred thousand to one and a half million, this is the ratio between the Tindalos legion and the traitorous legion in this battle;
Six hundred thousand versus three million, this is the total force that both sides can mobilize on this planet.
What the Tindalos Legion did was to rely on the fact that all of its members had been brutally trained by the Inquisition and had the advantage of having equipment provided by the entire Industrial Manufacturing Alliance.
Before the even larger giant, the Fallen Legion, could react, he used the power of steel belonging to the empire to severely cut the half of his extended body in half!