Chapter 1051: The Strong Iron Enemy
An hour passed. Although Colonel Acat was still at his post, there was still no news about the Astral Knights.
“Is there still no communication at the headquarters?”
“Yes. Yes, sir.”
“Don’t think something happened——”
Standing in the hatch of the command vehicle, the picture of the battle going perfectly could not calm Colonel Acat's growing uneasiness. He resisted the urge to continue asking the correspondent for information that did not exist, and instead fired heavy explosives and fired at the left tank. He opened fire in the gaps between them, exploding bloody spray in the sea of zealous people.
Suddenly, night fell, and then suddenly disappeared.
A dazzling white light appeared in the sky, and Colonel Acat was startled. He looked up and through the smoke, he saw flashes of explosions dancing between the clouds, but no thunder followed.
Colonel Acat stared at the horrific sight, his throat instantly became dry, and he could not even say the word "no".
The flash disappeared and the night briefly returned.
Then daylight fell again, and huge debris streaked across the sky, as bright as the sun, like a meteor shower trailing fire.
The white night was shattered, the light was shining, and some fragments fell several kilometers away from the queue. Along with the shaking of the earth, a thunderous roar finally sounded.
More light, a final light, an exploding fireball from the Wild Howl shattered into hundreds of pieces.
Colonel Acat let go of the heavy explosive bomb, fumbled for the radio receiver, and swallowed three times before he managed to make a sound.
“Everyone, pay attention to falling objects and don’t be nervous.”
There was nothing more to say, but the new commissar would keep morale up, no doubt shouting that nothing had changed from what the soldiers had seen just moments before.
Up to now he thought it was an imperial battleship.
The light generated by the death of the Wild Howl gradually faded away at the place where it erupted. The shells still fell, the jets of burning promethium cleared the front of the position, and the roar of the main guns also continued.
Suddenly, someone saw a huge blunt-bow aircraft falling from the sky.
“What!”
For a moment, Colonel Acat's hopes were absurd.
He stared at what appeared to be landing craft, as if they would miraculously take on a familiar color.
They don't.
There is no dark green or silver gray, only pitch black and iron gray, and disgusting heretical symbols.
He didn't know that it was the Brotherhood of Steel that appeared above him, but he knew that it was definitely not a friendly force.
"Fire at those spaceships!"
Colonel Acat shouted, and the gun crews all turned around the battery.
Before the opponent launched a rocket, the Hydra anti-aircraft artillery team took the lead in firing, and the sharp sound of the shells instantly tore the sky apart!
But this field air defense alone cannot stop orbital airborne landings.
After the black iron-shelled landing ship sank into the planet's atmosphere, it immediately accelerated and dived down, pouring destructive power onto the mud-filled plain.
Large armored vehicles, Land Raiders, and Predators swept out of the landing craft, carving deep grooves in the mud.
The deadliest of them all is the Waldo tank destroyer.
The Waldo tank destroyer is a tank destroyer based on the chassis of the Malcador heavy tank. A powerful neutron laser cannon is installed on the chassis - a weapon from the Dark Ages. With its technological heritage and relying on its powerful main gun, this tank is capable of fighting heavy tanks and even Titans that are several times larger than it. But this main gun is not without its shortcomings. Although it is more compact and consumes less energy than the larger volcano gun, installing it directly on the chassis of a Makado heavy tank is not enough for this tank. It is still a bit reluctant for a combat vehicle. For this reason, the original turret, front weapons and a side weapon rack had to be removed to install the neutron laser cannon and its power supply components.
This design is effective but has many unreasonable elements. For example, Malcador's chassis is not as large as the Shadow Sword to provide adequate safety protection for the occupants. If the neutron laser If something goes wrong with the gun's capacitor and power supply coil, the crew will be in catastrophe.
As a result, it is a powerful and dangerous vehicle - both for the enemy and the user.
The Waldo tank destroyer appeared relatively late. It was not until the Horus Heresy that it had a brief opportunity to show its skills. It was used in confrontations during the Horus Heresy and the subsequent Great Purge. The Land Raiders of the Traitor Legions and the Titan Legions of the Dark Mechanicus ensured that most of the Traitor Legions disappeared deep into the Eye of Terror, never to see the light of day again.
Originally, there were 20-30 Valdos sleeping in the arsenal of Vraks, unable to be used due to the lack of corresponding technology. However, when the Brotherhood of Steel arrived, they once served in the war of the Great Crusade. The blacksmiths awoke the tanks and took some with them during the subsequent evacuation.
And the number of this "part" is -
6!
However, this time the Brotherhood of Steel did not invest all the vehicles, but only invested 2. After all, they were too precious.
Not just for the Chaos Warbands, but for the Imperium as well.
Nowadays, the Waldo tank destroyer is a rare combat vehicle. Only a few forge worlds, including Mars, still have the ability to produce and maintain them. Those Astral Legions that are still equipped with Waldo are not themselves The long history is closely related to the red robe priests, such as the Cadian Legion.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Colonel Acat recognized these gray iron-colored vehicles at a glance through the telescope.
When he put down the telescope, only a few words came out from his lips and teeth.
"What the fuck -"
Before he could finish his words, his voice was drowned in the sound of exploding metal.
A red neutron beam hit the front armor of a Leman Russ fifty meters away from the left side of the Chimera command vehicle. In an instant, smoke and flames exploded outward, and the huge chassis was like It jumped up like an angry beast, and its turret slammed to the side in a cloud of smoke.
Colonel Acat immediately opened the microphone:
"Retreat! Release smoke barrages, all vehicles retreat!"
He realized that another Waldo destroyer must also be targeting, so he quickly ordered the armored formation to retreat and released the smoke grenades on the vehicle.
Soon, a smoke screen more than 500 meters long appeared on the front.
The Predators of the Brotherhood of Steel also began to advance and fire, and the heavy shots flashed as they hit the ruins around the command vehicle.
Colonel Acat quickly looked away.
“Let’s go, go to the back first.”
When he finished, the driver grunted in confirmation.
Then Colonel Acat took command of the infantry.
"All companies are ready for anti-vehicle operations! Armored rocket launchers and demolition teams are on standby!"
Suddenly, just as he was deploying, the gunner began to curse, and Colonel Acat turned his head Looking at him, his ears were filled with a series of curses.
“What’s wrong?”
Colonel Acat shouted, and the gunner stopped cursing.
"Sir, a vehicle of unknown type has circled to our right."
Colonel Acat quickly looked to the right with his binoculars, and he saw——
“Emperor——”
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(End of this chapter)