Chapter 1049 Cadian Steel
“If we hadn’t come, these guys would have started killing each other long ago.”
Colonel Acat was preparing to climb out of the Chimera’s top hatch , and then reprimanded his new adjutant:
“So we should abandon our mission and run around in front of the thugs?”
The adjutant seemed to want to take a step back, but the armored vehicle was small There is no place to retreat within the space.
"Of course not, Colonel."
"Very good. You should be lucky that the political commissar didn't hear these bastard words."
Originally, their political commissar had been killed, but soon they heard from the 22nd Regiment. Bian transferred over another trainee political commissar, who is now staying with Yilian.
“Forgive me, I—”
“We are Qadians, we are here, right where we belong, and we are here to make this Order is restored to the planet, and I will be damned if I stand by and watch the Emperor's will be enforced, allowing a world's population to self-destruct, and you'd better remember it."
"I solemnly apologize, Colonel, I made a slip of the tongue."
Colonel Acat snorted and climbed up to the top cabin.
The Chimera is at the forefront of the Cadian army, with only a few Leman Russ vehicles lined up in a wedge in front.
The marching speed was very slow, and the armored vehicles were not even faster than the infantry. Then he grabbed the radio microphone and gave the order:
"All tanks, speed up. I hope to reach the scheduled attack position before dark."
Silhouettes of fortifications and trenches filled the horizon, details blurred by distance.
Colonel Acat chose a low plateau, which was large enough to deploy troops and high enough to seize the initiative in the battle.
This plateau is also directly in the direction of the enemy's attack and Fortress No. 7. The images returned by the reconnaissance flight show that the rebels and cultists are marching like a storm.
Colonel Acat was filled with hatred when he thought of those rebels. He almost died at the hands of those armed militiamen not long ago, although in the end he commanded the tanks to crush all the traitors - literally.
But this was still not enough to relieve the anger in his heart.
Who gave these mud-legged bastards of the wild world the courage to betray the Emperor?
This is not a simple mental illness, or some randomly transmitted plague, there is some kind of motivation behind the rage.
Although the battle situation is quite unfavorable, Colonel Acat still has sufficient confidence. After all, they always have air and orbital advantages.
Currently, Fortress No. 7 has become the key to the problem.
As long as the remnants of the enemy inside are eliminated, the Dark Angel can use his hand to launch an airborne attack on the enemy's weak position, inserting a sharp knife into the enemy's heart.
Colonel Acat believed that the situation in the war would soon change.
Soon, the Kadian 99th Regiment rushed down from the position and plowed a road between the enemy tide.
The armored troops charge forward, like a huge mechanical sickle, followed by the infantry troops, who will cause more damage to the enemy.
If facing an enemy army that many times outnumbers our own on the plains, it will undoubtedly be difficult to exert the strength of the infantry. Colonel Acat decided to leave them to attack the fortress.
The first hour of the attack went as planned. The army took down the high ground occupied by the rebels. The Qadians were overwhelming, crushing the enemy along the way.
However, the enemy forces later gathered greater numbers and joined forces with the cultists.
The counterattack they launched was more fierce than Colonel Acat expected. He knew that these people were crazy, but their actions still surprised him.
The madman holding explosives rushed straight towards the Leman Russ tank, never taking a step back——
Even in the Green Skin, he had never shown such a risk of life and death. spirit.
The armored forces were forced to retreat on a small scale.
Most of the rebels did not have heavy weapons, and their light weapons were generally modified simple live ammunition firearms, as well as crude melee weapons, such as blades or clubs. They could do nothing but die in front of the Qadians.
But a very small number of local garrison rebels also joined the battle. They unleashed their fury regardless of friend or foe, and cut a bloody path across the plains, just to rush to the front of the formation and launch an attack.
Their weapons and equipment are not as good as those of the Qadi, but they should not be underestimated. As a result, casualties began to appear.
Colonel Acat stood at the hatch, personally supervising the battle and urging the tanks to shell.
Soon, more enemy troops poured into the Cadian position from all directions, like waves after waves, walls after walls, and nests of writhing maggots.
Colonel Acat didn't know if they were heretics, lunatics, or something else. They fought so feverishly that they looked sick.
These people seem to have no ideas and consciousness of their own, and only know how to attack with furious passion.
Some madmen are covered in blood, their skin and clothes are torn to pieces, but they are still howling, even foaming at the mouth, and have lost the ability to speak - although they are still identifiable human beings, their bodies are not Not subject to corruption or mutation.
Though these men's fervor threatens to tear the host's body from the inside, they still know how to use weapons.
The militiamen even formed a formation.
If they continued to defend, they would only be killed, so Colonel Acat decided to launch a counterattack.
He knew there was a risk in the orders he gave to the armored units, which would distance them from the infantry, but he believed the discipline and firepower would be enough for the soldiers to fight off the thugs, and that a gradual advance would only give the enemy time, Let more madmen rush in.
Ahead, his orders were carried out.
The engines roared and the heavy bombers fired continuously, but the tank troops did not speed up and the artillery remained silent.
"Armored Battalion."
Colonel Acat shouted into the radio:
"I have ordered you to speed up."
"We are speeding up, Colonel. But the enemy is coming Stop us."
"What to stop us? The enemy has no vehicles."
"Quantity."
The commander of the armored battalion sounded overwhelmed, and Colonel Acat couldn't help but curse.
"Damn it! Open a gap."
After giving the order, he turned to the driver.
“Drive to the front!”
The tanks in front drove to the left and right, and Colonel Acate filled the gap in a Chimera, only a hundred meters away from the forefront.
At this time, his jaw almost dropped.
The commander of the armored battalion was right, the enemy stopped the offensive based on their numbers alone.
The furious crowd kept coming and rushed towards the tank.
Right before his eyes, the vehicle was crashing into a solid wall of flesh and blood, and the sea of people stretched all the way into the distance.
The crowd pushed and trampled each other in their obsession to kill. In comparison, the impact on the flanks of the team was insignificant.
However, this is only temporary.
“What the hell, where did these people come from???”
Colonel Acat still doesn’t know about the Red Sand Mountains, let alone that someone opened a tunnel on the battlefield The portal directly transported the crazy people in the Red Sand Camp to the battlefield.
Such a teleportation requires a huge price in blood, and the person who has been teleported will go completely crazy.
He didn't know all this.
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