Chapter 1025 Ancient Tactics
On the position in charge of the second company of the White Temple, company commander Arash was holding his helmet and staring at the far end of the battlefield.
He is a veteran who has served for nearly three hundred years. He is the person who has served the longest in the group except Randall. One of the important reasons for this is because he did not transplant the deteriorated gray marrow.
And he is also one of the very few soldiers in the White Temple who became the company commander without transplanting the gray marrow, which shows his personal ability.
After he entered the command level and learned all the secrets of the White Templar's past, he became a very staunch legionnaire.
Not long ago, Arash received an order that they should block the enemies heading to Fortress 7 from here for three hours, and then they could retreat to the next line of defense.
The number of enemies is large, perhaps hundreds of times their number, and the only two nearby friendly forces are busy dealing with the rebellion of the local militia and have no time to support them.
But Randall promised that support would arrive when necessary.
"Company Commander, the enemy has entered the range."
Suddenly, an adjutant reported, which caused most of the soldiers to raise their bolters and prepare for the imminent charge. army of heretics.
"Put your gun away."
Arash put on his helmet and gave new instructions.
“The first wave of enemies must be cultists, save ammunition, use spears and shields, brothers, form a nine-bow formation, Lomon team, use projectile grenades to kill enemies in the distance.”
The White Templar not only preserves much of the culture of the original legion, but also retains the phalanx tactics of the legion era.
The position they were responsible for was built by mortals and was mainly built with parapets and trenches. Arash estimated that he opened a gap of about 100 meters, like a flood outlet on a dam, attracting the enemy to the direction of their formation.
When the roaring crowd rushed toward them, the White Templar Second Company calmly tied the bolter to his waist, raised his shield, and drew a short spear from his back.
This short spear is a power weapon, but unlike most power spears in the Empire, it has a round weighted ball at the end, which is also the energy source of the force field generator. location.
As the soldiers turned on the switch, the power spearhead crackled instantly, emitting blue light.
When the soldiers lined up, a battle flag also appeared behind them.
The White Temple uses a special battle flag called "Kavi". This battle flag is square with an eagle emblem on the top. The battle flag is inlaid with symbols made of gold.
"Charge!!!"
Soon, the overwhelming army of cultists swept across the front of the position, and then instinctively rushed towards the only gap.
What happened next was like a storm hitting a cliff. The cultists in the front row fell in pieces in front of the unbreakable shield, and the power spears penetrated this group of crazy fallen cultists. In the group, when 3 or 4 cultists were impaled on their spears, the Space Marines would skillfully use the edge of their shields to flay the corpses, and then continue to plunge their spears into the crowd.
Countless pagans were killed instantly, but Arash always stood on the front line, holding his shield high and fighting in the bloody storm.
During the long battle, the Second Company was surrounded by the crazy roars of bloodthirsty cultists, their blood-red eyes and twisted faces filled with hatred, but they soon became powerless in pain and twitching. 's fallen.
"Forward!"
Arash roared, and the phalanx began to move.
The second company advanced very quickly. The shields were covered with broken bones and flesh. The spears swept through the dense cluster of cultists, and the iron boots ruthlessly trampled the corpses of the cultists. These madmen bring eternal peace.
But the seriously injured cultists lying on the ground who were not dead were still shouting the name of their master.
When they advanced a hundred meters, they had left a road littered with dead bodies behind them.
A little further away, a team was holding a grenade launcher, causing the cultists further away who were still trying to attack to rush into a sea of fire.
Their firepower directly split the cultists into several segments, preventing them from launching continuous attacks.
There are also some smart guys who try to climb over the parapets on both sides, but often at this time, the soldiers in the second and third rows will shoot them down one by one with single bursts to ensure that the flanks of the formation are not protected. Enemy harassment.
Soon, under the massacre, the enemy also changed their tactics.
At first there were a few laser beams, then bursts of gunshots, and then the deafening roar of logging guns.
Gradually, the gunfire around them became louder and louder, but these were very low-level weapons, including logging guns made by low-level gunsmiths, as well as automatic guns and laser guns snatched from the armory.
When the die-hard cultists joined in, a large number of weapons fired from the position.
The concrete parapet around the second company was immediately shattered by intensive firepower.
"Cavalry formation." Arash ordered decisively.
"Attack!"
After roaring in unison, the soldiers threw their spears at the oncoming cultists. The spearheads went straight through the heads of the cultists and nailed the groups of cultists to the ground. He neatly removed the bolt gun that was hung magnetically on his waist.
"May the Emperor grant us speed and precision! Make sure to fire one enemy at a time!"
The warriors mounted their bolters on their shields, relying on their helmets and the bolts on their bolters. Aim the system and start shooting accurately at the enemy troops rushing to the position.
The ruthless bullets shattered one cultist after another, shooting down a large number of gunmen, and the fierce firepower even suppressed those enemies who were hiding in the trenches and shooting coldly.
Although the battle went smoothly, the enemy's change of tactics made Arash realize that the real enemy was approaching.
Without guidance, these cultists are nothing more than a bunch of lazy, bloodthirsty maniacs wandering among countless victims, but if there are Chaos Space Marines around them, then these cultists will show off. Develop a certain degree of organization and discipline.
As time goes by, the bolt gun ammunition is gradually exhausted.
It had been more than three hours, and when Arash was considering whether to retreat, the noise of gunfire suddenly disappeared, and all the cultists began to turn around and flee, in a position filled with madness and death. There was an echo that could not dissipate for a long time
"Ceasefire."
Arash immediately ordered.
"What's going on?"
The adjutant put down his gun. The sudden disappearance of enemy firepower was disturbing, and the dying groans of the cultists were ignored.
“What does this mean?”
“It means something is about to appear.”
Suddenly, Arash's eyes twitched, and something he saw fell from the sky.
The next second, he could feel himself leaving the ground ten kilometers away.
The explosion spread silently, and the pillar of light rose straight up into the dirty and filthy sky. It shone like water, and Arash could see through it the expanding smoke column with thousands of small particles. Dance in the middle.
He blinked, and then realized that these particles were people: tens of thousands of cultist armies, and countless demons.
The light distorts and overlaps, and the dark particles expand and explode like soap bubbles. Silence rolled out, as if all sound had been swallowed up by the destruction he had witnessed.
When the broken reality touches the sky, these few seconds are eternity.
Then it collapsed and everything ceased to exist.
"It turned out to be an orbital bombing——"
At this time, Arash's communicator suddenly sounded, and then Randall's voice came.
"Second Company, you rush to the third line of defense immediately. You must hold on for five hours this time."
"The third line? What about the second line of defense?"
"Give up."
"Why?"
"The Kadian 22nd Regiment was defeated."
Arash was stunned for a moment. This was the main force of the Astra Militarum, and it was actually defeated.
Obviously the war situation is not optimistic.
Then Randall's words made his worries rise to a higher level.
"The Dark Angel's attack was also not going well. They encountered some trouble."
(End of this chapter)