Chapter 1135 Ending (Part 2)
Around Soshiyan, the battle is heating up.
A heretic slashed Mark, almost detaching the wrist of the company commander. Mark responded with his war hammer, and the opponent's body spattered a blood stain on the floor like a star map.
Taros smashed a heretic to the ground and crushed the opponent's helmet with his chain halberd.
Robin killed the enemies quickly and effectively, knocking down many of them before they could get close. Farzad even crushed the neck of a heretic with his hands, and the guy fell heavily to the ground. , struggling to exhale his last breath.
"Leader of the Chapter, that door."
Ustad kicked the body of a heretic off the blade, and then walked next to Soshyan.
Soshiyang raised his head silently. The thick door blocking the front was huge, as wide as the corridor, and made of a whole piece of reinforced alloy. You can see that it is too thick just by looking at it with the naked eye. armor of a tank.
There is no doubt that the heart of the Black Legion, Abaddon's command post, is behind this.
“Blow it up.”
The melta bombs were deployed quickly, and the heavy door was quickly divided into several pieces in the dazzling flames and collapsed, making a deafening noise.
Then, two roars were mixed in with the noise.
Soshyan looked towards the source of the roar and saw a huge creature approaching from the smoke.
No, that is not a living thing, that is a creation, a creation made of flesh and blood, skeleton and metal that looks like an apex predator.
This thing is almost as big as the demon engine that appeared on the battlefield earlier, crawling on four clawed feet, with a black armor shell and sharp crystals scattered on its body and forelimbs , exhaust pipes protrude from its shoulders, its face is a distorted silver skull with fangs, it does not look like an animal or a human, and two other faceted crystals are stuffed in its eye sockets .
It twisted and roared again, but did not open its mouth, dripping oil and liquid.
“It’s the Demon Engine again.”
Talos said next to Soshyan, and then the thing lowered its head and rushed towards them.
“Back off!”
Soshiyan shouted, without anti-armor firepower, this thing would be difficult to deal with with individual weapons alone.
"But don't stop attacking!"
The soldiers quickly distanced themselves from it, and then opened fire on it. The explosive bombs exploded on the solid shell, splattering fragments and oil on the ground.
That thing has no intention of stopping.
It fell directly into the middle of the queue of the slowest Terminators, exuding the putrid smell of death and splashing oil, then swung out a claw, tore open the abdomen of one Terminator, and tore apart the other. It crashed into the barricade while the Terminators' melta and assault cannons tore chunks of daemonic metal and crystal off of it.
Soshyan also aimed at its eyes and the flesh between the armor and shot, and heard Talos shouting in Nasturm.
"Go back to hell!"
The Prophet slashed deeply into its forelimbs and face with his chainsaw, the teeth of the blade bouncing and biting into bone and metal, splattering splinters and oil. .
The creature staggered backwards, its limbs losing focus, and it looked like it was about to fall.
But the thing suddenly roared again and slapped Talos flying with its huge claws.
At this time, Suoshiyang had already rushed to the front of the demon engine with the Holy Flame Sword.
It swung a huge claw and tried to cut him open. Soshyan ducked to avoid the attack, but the claw still grazed his backpack and tore off a piece of sparkling metal.
Then he thrust the sword deep into the creature's skull, up to the hilt.
The monster twitched and roared, throwing Soshyan backwards and causing him to fall to the floor. "Uh-"
When the Demon Engine struggled and fell to the ground, splashing oil and sparks around, Soshyan stood up. His armor was now in a mess, left The side shoulder was almost torn open by the thing's claws.
At this time, the heretics of the Black Legion appeared again and opened fire. Soshyan then pulled Talos on the ground into the bunker behind the roadblock.
"Soshyan, our troops and ammunition are not enough to support us to break through here,"
Taros's voice was disturbed by the fierce sound of gunfire, shouts and shouts of death. Buried.
He was hiding behind the roadblock. The wound on his waist seemed to be serious and was bleeding. He himself had been injected with so many painkillers and sedatives that all the colors he saw in his eyes flickered. It felt like my skin was on fire.
“This cannot continue.”
He explained his opinions to Soshyan in a hoarse voice.
Soshyan took a look behind the bunker. Talos was right. Although their previous attack was indeed successful, they also suffered a certain amount of casualties. More than 30 brothers had to withdraw from the battle. , most of the combat robots also withdrew from combat due to various reasons, and their ammunition consumption was huge.
As for the enemy side -
At least what he could see was that there were nearly three hundred heretics blocking the attack behind the blown-open door.
There are some wizards among them, which is a big trouble.
Although they could hit the enemy's heart once they passed through that door, there would only be more enemy defenses between him and the door to the command core.
Subsequently, Soshyan summoned Technical Sergeant Rogris.
"Get me Chapter Master Randall."
Soon, communication was established, but it was full of interference.
"Chapter Master Randall? I am Soshyan."
"Roger, this is Randall."
Although one end of the communicator was filled with white noise, Soshyan could still hear the gunfire of the secret book.
“How is the situation over there?”
“The enemy resisted resolutely! The sacrifices of the soldiers were great! Vehicles and heavy armor cannot be used underground, and our progress is very slow. !”
“Where have you advanced?”
"Probably the area of D12-D13."
Soshiyang opened the tactical map and glanced at it, and found that this distance was indeed not ideal. It had been seven hours since the battle was launched, and the White Temple had only advanced nine kilometers distance.
Then he contacted the Ranger Warriors, Ascetics and Dark Angels, and found that everyone's progress was very unsatisfactory.
Among them, the Ranger Warriors had the smallest number and the weakest strength. Although they had the assistance of two Cadian regiments, they only advanced five kilometers, and the Dark Angels only advanced thirteen kilometers.
Just as they had previewed before, once the battle went underground, the Empire's greatest air and fire superiority would be erased, and the Black Legion's superiority in the number and quality of Space Marines would be amplified.
Although the previous series of battles on the ground had seriously weakened the Black Legion's combat effectiveness, it was only when the opponent retreated underground that Soshyan realized that the weakening was not enough.
The underground environment is much more complex than on the ground. When they attack, the deeper they go, the more they must deploy sufficient force in the passages on both sides and rear to prevent the enemy from using secret passages to carry out surprise attacks and rearrangements. Thorn, although the Astral Knights also have a small number of 400 people, there are currently less than 200 people who can actually participate in frontal breakthrough operations.
It is no longer possible to attack with all the troops like the previous attack on the Plague Temple, unless Soshyan is willing to risk being attacked by the enemy.
(End of this chapter)