One after another, the Astra Militarum evacuation ships carrying a large number of Imperial remnants gradually rose towards the sky above the hive city.
Many Thunderhawk transport planes from the Raven Guard also carried the Astartes and quickly evacuated toward the sky.
Soon after, more and more ‘Sun Shark’ bombers arrived in the sky above the nest city, and launched a continuous fire bombing.
It also completely announced the fact that the Agrelan Hive was completely lost and the human side suffered an unfortunate defeat.
And above the planet's orbit.
The Raven Guard and White Scars, as well as the mixed fleet of the Imperial Navy, are having an even fiercer battle with the large-scale Tau fleet.
After a large number of evacuated ships and Thunderhawk transport aircraft successfully returned to the fleet.
The mixed fleet on the human side quickly got rid of the continuous entanglement of the Tau fleet, and launched a breakout operation towards the depths of the cold void without looking back.
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Avenger battle barge.
The interior of an ancient palace with a huge statue of Corax, the Crow King.
Rorschach, wearing pale gold power armor, had just met with all the Raven Guards and successfully reached a consensus that benefited both parties.
The Raven Guard recognized Rorschach as the Primarch.
Rorschach will lead them to continue fighting in the name of the 22nd Primarch and the Crow King brothers.
"Lord Primarch, all your Terminator Guards have evacuated to the ships of the White Scars. Their third company commander, Hunting Master Corsaro Khan, also welcomes the arrival of Primarch. However, from the Black Templars,
Ten of our battle brothers unfortunately died in the rearguard mission, and only half of their gene seeds were recovered, while the rest of the battle brothers basically evacuated to our ships."
At this moment, Severax, the leader of the Raven Guard Chapter, said to Rorschach with a solemn expression.
Rorschach, who was listening carefully, pondered for a moment.
His eyes fell on the pale face of the Chapter Leader, and he said in a deep voice:
"Severax, what do you think about the failure of this hive battle?"
"Lord Primarch, it's not that I want to shirk responsibility or make excuses, but when we Raven Guard arrived on the battlefield, the local imperial commanders had given up their belief in continuing to fight, plus those traitors who had defected to the alien side.
Being familiar with various defense facilities, even if another battle group is replaced, it may not be able to turn the entire battle situation around."
At this moment, Severax seemed to take a deep breath.
Facing the original body's question, he slowly expressed his opinion.
"Moreover, the unfortunate loss of this important gateway world to the Dorval system now also means that the defense forces of the entire galaxy will gradually react and come to provide us with more support. Coupled with the existence of the original body,
We can definitely regain everything we lost!"
"Very good, I hope you can keep this fighting spirit."
"Now, take me to the bridge. I want the Raven Guard to contact all available imperial forces to regain command authority for this war!"
Rorschach narrowed his eyes and stared at the Chapter Leader in front of him.
He ordered to the other party without any hesitation.
And as Chapter Master Severax slowly moved his head.
The other party quickly activated the power armor and led the original body towards the outside of the ancient palace.
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The fall of the hive world Agreland.
Indeed, to a certain extent, the war council on the human side fell into a state of uncontrollable anger.
So, a general lord from Cadian led a large number of Cadian guards.
Together with a family of Knights and many Free Blades, and with the assistance of more Adeptus Mechanicus ships, they joined the counterattack against the Tau invasion.
At the same time, Rorschach, who successfully obtained command authority of the Raven Guard fleet and the White Scar fleet, also arrived at an important node for the Tau's next attack.
This is a mineral world called Prefetia.
And this planet has only one planetary fortress and has not been mined on a large scale.
It contains a large amount of precious minerals that are enough to support the progress of the Tau's conquest.
Therefore, it became an important place on the planet that the Tau expedition force led by the Tau commander "Shadow Sun" and the Ether "Andu" must capture.
So, after the mighty Tau fleet successfully occupied the hive world.
Then they quickly launched a series of ferocious attacks on Prefitia and the surrounding planets.
However, Rorschach, who originally wanted to organize a large-scale imperial fleet to launch a counterattack, did not fully obtain command authority over all imperial forces.
Even if Raven Guard Chapter Master Severax vouched for the reputation of the founding Chapter, there is absolutely no question about Rorschach's identity as the Primarch.
But only the Astartes Chapter, including the White Scars, were willing to believe this statement.
As for the War Council of this system, they cited the inability to identify the authenticity of the original body as an excuse.
Continuing to follow their war plan, they launched a series of wars with the Tau.
In response, Rorschach could only lead two Astartes warbands, the Raven Guard and the White Scars.
He independently launched an ambush and hunt for the Tau Ether 'Andu'.
Rumble——
The near-earth defense platform located above the orbit of the mineral planet continuously erupted with laser beams, shooting towards the depths of the cold void.
The terrifying light spears and space torpedoes from the Raven Guard fleet also continuously bombarded several Tau hero-class cruisers.
The constant threat of firepower forced them to move their huge metal hulls to reduce more direct damage.
At the same time, a White Scar strike cruiser successfully penetrated the gap between the Tau fleets with its excellent propulsion speed.
One after another, landing assault boats carrying Astartes and gang torpedoes quickly launched a large-scale gang battle against the Tau ships.
And as time goes by slowly.
A Hero-class cruiser was completely paralyzed by repeated attacks from within, and after losing its shield system, it was completely torn into a large amount of metal debris floating everywhere by the saturation attack of the Astartes fleet.
However, at this time, several Tau killer whale-class transport aircraft successfully entered the icy void just before the Hero-class cruiser was about to explode, and landed rapidly toward the surface of the mineral planet.
The communication channel from the Astartes gang immediately rang with the deep roar of the hunting master Kosaro Khan.
"Everyone, listen to me, the Tau's aether is inside one of the Orca-class transport aircraft! We can't let it escape!"
"Lord Primarch! Raven Guard! The rest of the battle is left to you!"
The next second, with the end of Kosaro Khan's words that have not yet dissipated.
Right on the flight deck of the Revenge battle barge.
Thunderhawk transport planes loaded with Astartes quickly took off and rushed into the cold void one after another!
These Raven Guards suffered from the shadow of the failed battle.
Under the personal leadership of the original body Rorschach, the shame of the past will be washed away with the blood of the Tau ether!