Chapter 768 City Breakdown
The defensive wall position of Tower City has basically fallen. The greenskins poured into the Tower City along the ruins like swarms of nest ants. They used flamethrowers and bombs regardless of casualties. Grenades clear every passing position and bunker before continuing the advance inside.
The squad of Astral Knight recruits retreated along the entrance hall of the Governor's Mansion toward the deeper galleries.
Hao Mo has used up the ammunition of the heavy logging gun, and now he holds the barrel of the gun upside down and uses it as a club. This strong warrior is covered in scars and was shot several times while marching to the rear. Blood flowed along his muscles, but the Space Marine's superior physique made these injuries appear not to be fatal.
Bahram shoots cautiously as always, saving every round of ammunition. Their company commander Armin must personally protect the safety of political commissar Yarik, so they can only rely on themselves.
"Be careful!"
Feeling the hot change in the air, Bahram immediately yelled.
Then tongues of fire suddenly came from behind him. Fortunately, he had already quickened his pace and barely avoided it.
The greenskins have caught up behind them and started shooting.
A stray bullet hit Bahram in the shoulder, and the Scout's standard shoulder armor blocked the blow for him.
In the light of the fire, he saw the swaying figure of a green-skinned creature, so he gritted his teeth and jumped up from the ground and rushed towards the opponent.
The anger caused him to burst out with unstoppable power, and the power sword crashed deeply into the alien's chest.
He couldn't even hear whether the other party screamed, he didn't care now.
While pulling the weapon out of the green skin's body, a grenade suddenly rolled in front of him.
"Grenade!"
Oscar warned him loudly, and Bahram quickly fell down, and then the grenade exploded.
A sharp and burning pain hit him. Bahram raised his hand and saw that it was covered with his own blood.
At the same time, after a roaring sound, a huge explosion also occurred in the gallery behind him, with fire and dust everywhere.
He no longer knew where to go.
At this moment, a familiar figure rushed out from the thick smoke, it was Robin.
He pulled Bahram up from the ground and shouted in his ear:
“Go back across the square!”
Another shell exploded thirty meters to his right. Opened, the shock wave knocked Bahram to the ground again, and Robin pulled him up again.
He stared closely into Bahram's eyes to ensure that the other party could understand what he meant.
“Company Commander’s order! Go back! Quick!”
As he shouted into Bahram's ear, another shell hit the wall of the mansion.
In the chaos, the Astral Knight recruit team retreated as far as possible through the gallery. They chose to take the side road, using the blackened tree stumps as cover.
Finally, three minutes later, they retreated to a bunker made of the ruins of a public toilet in the middle of the square and joined a combat group composed of fifteen other soldiers.
Bahram knocked a small hole in the wall so that he could observe the movements in the southeast corner of the square.
Then he saw a green tank, which should have been modified from a captured Chimera, although it was impossible to tell its original appearance from its appearance.
It was continuously bombarding the crumbling bunker with its huge-caliber main gun.
As early as when they broke through the protective wall, the defenders detonated the explosives that had been laid in advance when the green skin armor detachment passed the preset point. Most of the green skin armor was destroyed, but there was still a small part. Entered the city.
Bahram must find a way to deal with this thing, because he knows that the mortal defenders have no good way to deal with it. "Haoma, can that thing still be used?"
"Of course!"
Hao Mo nodded firmly. He held a melta gun in his hand, but it was not something in the armory, but a personal modification of Loken. He obviously did a lot of heretical things to this melta gun. The modifications made it very unreliable to use.
But there is no doubt about its power and range.
“Are you sure it can be used?”
Bahram is still a little worried. He is familiar with the Mechanicus Priest Loken, and that guy always gives people an unreliable feeling.
“No problem!”
Haoma replied firmly.
"I'll go with you."
Bahram patted him on the shoulder, while the heavy bolter from the bunker above began firing at the enemy tanks with precise short bursts. Draw the enemy's attention.
Haomo and Bahram took advantage of this gap to jump to the ground. After a while of dodging, they arrived at a position about a hundred meters away from the tank.
Hauma then picked up the melta gun, aimed and fired.
The next moment, the overloaded hot melt flow from the muzzle caused the surrounding air to distort, and even Bahram felt the heat hitting his face on his cheek.
The hot melt flow burned a bowl-sized hole in the armor plate of the green tank, directly burning through the engine room, followed by a violent explosion.
The explosion directly collapsed the crumbling ruins above the two men. During the hasty retreat, Bahram felt something hit the top of his head, as if he had been hit by a hammer. .
Staggering and almost falling, he suppressed the dizziness and returned directly to the original bunker.
When he returned, he discovered that something had made a dent in his helmet.
But destroying a piece of armor does not change the situation of the battle.
The greenskins chose their own attack route among countless bomb craters and barbed wire fences, passing over countless corpses, vehicle wreckage and destroyed positions to attack the last defenders.
Yarrick made the final arrangement. He designed the square as a death trap. After the enemy completely poured in, the soldiers jumped up from the bunker and poured all their firepower on them. on the enemy.
For the greenskins who got into the pocket, the defenders' firepower was so deadly that it completely overwhelmed them.
In the blink of an eye, the square was lit up by a fire network of laser beams, autocannon shells, heavy explosive shells and grenades.
The crossfire swept through the influx of greenskins like autumn leaves, and the enemy twice tried to break out but both ended in failure.
Yarrick knew very well that his troops would be driven to the square sooner or later, so he set up an encirclement in advance to prepare for any eventuality. Unexpectedly, it really worked.
The green skins that rushed into the square were completely destroyed by the heavy weapons team, but then the green skins' counterattacks followed.
Laser cannons and demolition charges tore apart crude bunkers and bunkers, and the troops hiding inside were quickly wiped out.
“Never give in! Hades will never fall!”
Yaric has always been directing the battle in the most dangerous places on the front line, with soldiers in shell armor standing by his side to protect his safety.
But everything became in vain when the huge green-skinned warlord Bonecrusher appeared on the battlefield - the largest beast Yarrick had ever seen in his life.
(End of this chapter)