Chapter 708 The Fall of the Valkyrie
Standard Terra Calendar, 943.M41
Planet Armageddon, Subcontinent, Gray Serpent Camp
The long-awaited Valkyrie Arms The transport plane finally arrived. Bahram, Haomo and the rest of the people walked to the tarmac together. Not long ago, they had a not-so-lively Emperor's Ascension Festival. Before arriving, they never imagined that they would be on this planet. Stay for more than half a year.
The operation to support the Hades Hive is about to be launched. Randall previously promised that both the White Templar and the Astral Knights would send a small team. This may not be a problem for the White Templar, but the Astral Knights have basically the same combat power. They all followed Soshyan underground.
At this time, Armin suddenly proposed that he wanted the new recruits to go to the cruel battlefield to really hone their skills.
At first Randall refused, because Hades was too dangerous. The first batch of recruits, the Star Knights, were Soshyan's treasures, and he did not dare to use them like this.
But unable to withstand Armin's insistence, and considering that Soshyan was also near Hades, and that the Astral Knights did not have any extra troops, Randall could only agree to this plan.
However, the team of Astral Knights was the last to set off, which was Randall's only request.
The support teams of the White Templars and Blood Angels will fly into the air in Thunderhawks under the cover of fighter jets. They will attract most of the attention of the Green Skins, while the Astral Knight team will fly in the atmosphere. The Valkyrie with better performance can break through from low altitude at night, so the safety factor will be very high.
Although the Valkyrie transport aircraft is not as sturdy as the Thunderhawk, as the preferred vehicle of the Astra Militarum airborne troops, it has a feature that the Thunderhawk does not have, which is the low noise in silent mode, which makes it useful in night airborne operations. It often works wonders.
"Come! Hurry up!"
Bahram and Haomo boarded the plane first, climbing onto the deck one after another. Oscar was still holding on to his communicator. Bin followed silently.
Although the Valkyrie is not prepared for Space Marines, fortunately they do not wear power armor, and a Valkyrie only seats 5 recruits, there is enough space in the cabin to accommodate them all It can even fit everyone and all their equipment easily.
But after all, they are still much larger than ordinary people, and it is still uncomfortable to ride in this kind of armed transport aircraft.
But Bahram wouldn't complain, and neither would anyone else.
After placing the seat panel on the leg frame, everyone quickly took off their helmets and placed them on the seat panel, and then all sat on the helmets.
This is the first lesson they learned after fighting the greenskins. These aliens will shoot at anything that moves, including Valkyries.
They once heard from veterans of the Astra Militarum that someone was hit by a hail of bullets that passed through the deck under his legs. The person was not killed, but his lower body was basically disabled.
“Make some time for me.”
Hao Mo said as he squeezed in front of Bahram. The other party muttered and moved his position, but he didn't make much room.
Actually, it's not that Bahram is stingy, it's that he really can't make room, because next to him is their only heavy weapon, a heavy explosive bomb.
In addition, Hao Mo was the biggest among them, so much so that Oscar once called him "Ogryn" - but in private where Hao Mo could not hear him.
Now even Oscar does not dare to provoke Hao Mo, especially after the opponent has won several unarmed fighting championships.
“You are trying to squeeze me to death——”
Hao Mo couldn't help complaining,
"Your butt is too big, we can't get up."
Zod also started to complain from behind, and they were pushing and shoving in this complaint. The Valkyrie was pushed up, while the other two were already ready and took off.
The idling Valkyrie was like a furnace, and everyone's nerves were in a state of being easily ignited. Robin was the last one to come up. After he found his position, he turned around and put the Valkyrie in the air. The hatch was slammed shut, and he sat in the position of the heavy bolter mounted on the hatch.
Haoma took out a greasy rag from somewhere and wiped his face, which made his face even dirtier.
The two brothers Oscar and Zod whispered, not knowing what they were discussing.
Just like that, they were finally leaving the camp.
Then, the two engines of the Valkyrie began to roar, the cabin shook violently with the whirlwind blown by the aircraft when it took off vertically, and dust flew around.
When they lifted off, Bahram could only glimpse the stars on the ground getting further and further away from them through the firepower of the guns on the door.
After hovering in the air for a moment, the pilot began to advance horizontally. The instant acceleration caused him to hit Bahram's hard shoulder heavily, but he didn't think his comrade would care about this.
The camp they took off from was only five hundred kilometers away from the nest, so it didn't take much time.
The Valkyrie was flying at low altitude to avoid the green fighter planes patrolling at high altitude. It was late at night, and the wind blowing from the gun port on the door felt so refreshing and pleasant, and everyone relaxed. After coming down, the solemn feeling in the cabin gradually disappeared.
Through the noise of the engines, Bahram could hear the sound of gunfire in the distance. Perhaps the vanguard of the Blood Angels had already set off, and the greenskins were squandering their ammunition to try to fight this time. Airborne. In a sense, this is a good thing, at least their fragile vehicle does not need to take bullets.
“I have to kill at least a thousand greenskins this time, a thousand.”
Haoma continued his rhetoric before setting off.
"Then use their tusks to decorate the helmet I'm about to wear."
"To be honest, I don't think it's very aesthetically pleasing and makes you look like a person full of bad taste. "The Chaos Heretic"
"Then decorate it on the shoulder armor"
"The greenskins may regard you as the same kind."
Everyone seemed to be in a relaxed state, and Robin was leaning against the cabin, humming an unknown tune.
All this ended until something hit the Valkyrie.
Bahram guessed that they must have been right on top of a pile of greenskins, and they were just pouring firepower wantonly into the sky, but it stands to reason that the light weapons they had on hand could not hurt the Valkyrie. .
So Bahram guessed afterwards that the war gang happened to have heavy weapons at that time.
Anyway, they're out of luck, that's all.
All he could remember was that a screaming fireball suddenly appeared in the cockpit of the Valkyrie armed transport aircraft, and the entire aircraft began to fall from the sky, with exclamations accompanying the wind through the cabin.
“Fuck!”
Hao Mo almost fell off his chair.
Robin calmly grabbed the cable next to him, and then tried his best to reach towards the cockpit, while Bahram, who was closest to the cockpit, had already begun to tear apart the door.
With Robin's help, they finally tore open the door in two seconds.
I saw a mess inside. Only the upper part of the driver's body was still tied to the chair. The broken glass cover was covered with blood and broken flesh.
"I'll do it."
Robin didn't say anything, just tore off the driver's body and threw it out of the window, and began to work hard to pull the operating lever back.
In a few heartbeats, the Valkyrie corrected her posture - at least she did not continue to fall. At the same time, bullets continued to pass close to their sides and the machine below.
They are already less than a thousand meters above the ground, and the Hades nest is right in front of them. At this moment, this city that once had a population of more than three billion now only has large ruins and crumbling buildings. spire.
"We have to make an emergency landing!"
After a brief exchange with Robin, Bahram said to his comrades in the cabin:
"We can't hold on to the scheduled landing site!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a bright shadow, as bright as the sun, shot toward the sky from the dark earth below.
“Beast stuff.”
Robin cursed under his breath, and then pressed the control lever hard.
The Valkyrie began to twist, an action so violent that every bolt, every deck screamed in agony.
After that, the second bright spot passed them quickly with a scream like a wild lion.
"Damn! Green-skinned missiles! We don't have time!"
Seeing more and more bright lights rising below, Robin could only push the operating lever forward to let The smoking Valkyrie rushed towards a relatively gentle area——
(End of this chapter)