Chapter 1832 Ascension Day Offensive (Part 1)
Standard Terra Calendar 966.M41
Dekabulus Galaxy, Planet Glory Seven, Sattusa Hive
Here It is the last stronghold of the Red Pirates in the Decabulus system. Glory Seven was once a prosperous trading planet before the Badab War. However, the cruel war eventually destroyed it into almost a ruins, and most of the nests were also reduced to ruins. In the Iron Ruins, most of the original residents have become scavengers and nomads, or barbaric gangs surviving in the death hive.
After the return of the Red Pirates, this world became a paradise for pirates because of its key location close to the Badab System. Huron even rebuilt the capital of Glory Seven and renamed it Sartosa, but it Instead of restoring civilization, it simply became a lair for pirates and smugglers.
The pirates can use the facilities of the hive city and even live safely in the upper levels of the hive city. They only need to pay a certain percentage of taxes to Huron, the ruler of this world, on a regular basis. The red pirates maintain order in the upper levels of the hive city, almost as normal. There is no difference between the imperial hives, so the pirates who live in the upper levels of Sartosa are also called pirate lords.
The middle and lower levels of the hive belong to the relatively low-level pirates and the local residents of the planet who have become bandits. Huron does not care about their survival, but just lets them fend for themselves, and occasionally selects the outstanding ones to supplement them. In their own legions, the pirate lords often put their fights against each other in the lower nest.
So the nest of Sartosa is almost a savage forest. Mutants, killers, robbers, cannibals, and wizards are everywhere. But in the eyes of some people, this seems to be incompatible with the empire. The hive is no different.
Some pirate lords privately believe that even after breaking away from the Empire, Huron still seems to be subconsciously carrying out the actions he did when he was an Astartes, imitating the Empire to establish his own order.
But today this pirate paradise has come to its end.
After four months of hard fighting, the imperial army swept all the way to the orbit of the planet Glory 7 and easily defeated the orbital defenses. Then, within a week, a strong wind swept away most of the planet's ground strongholds like falling leaves. In the end, the two million army swept from four The direction surrounded the Sattusa Hive.
As a hive city that Huron personally ordered to rebuild, Sattusa Hive City is not only a hive city, but also an out-and-out military fortress. It not only built a super-standard multi-layer void shield generator , and also deployed intensive defensive firepower. There is even a hell flying dragon lair in the hive spire, and a sealed warehouse of demon engines is hidden in the lower level of the hive.
So even though they are in dire straits, the red pirates still intend to fight to the end. Not only them, but also the pirate lords who have not escaped, and even the "residents" of the nest have no intention of abandoning their homes.
After several rounds of orbital bombing with little success, the Chapter Commander of the Tiens Chapter in orbit issued an order for a ground attack. It happened to be that the Emperor's Ascension Festival was approaching in the new year, so the attack Also named the "Ascension Day Offensive".
Just half an hour after the attack order was issued, the brutal attack began with the uniform thunder of the imperial artillery and the hymns chanted loudly by the chaplains accompanying the army.
"Don't stop! Everyone keep moving forward! The enemy's machine guns will soon——"
While trudging through the ruins with a pistol raised, the voice of Creed, the leader of the 8th Cadian Regiment, echoed everywhere , transmitted through the communication broadcaster on the vehicle behind the infantry to the communication beads on the helmet of each soldier.
Before he finished speaking, a vicious curse came from the ruins ahead.
"Imperial Dog! Die!"
"Get down!"
Creed's voice was drowned out by the sound of shells exploding around him, knocking the muscular Cadian aside and blasting one of the soldiers guarding him into a shower of bloody smithereens.
Creed, who was almost deafened, rolled a few times on the ground, panting in the suffocating smoke. Blackened building fragments and human remains were scattered on him, still carrying the heat from the explosion. Remaining warmth.
"Is it okay!"
Jalan Kyle rushed over and pulled Creed up and took him to a bunker. At this time, the enemy's machine guns had already started shooting, and a dense formation formed in the smoke. The firepower, and at the same time, shells continued to fall at the front of the queue, the soldiers had to crawl forward, and many people had cuts cut by sharp rocks or metal on their bodies.
“It’s okay.”
Creed shook his head. Although the explosion was very close to him, what was very rare was that he was unscathed. "These shellings are not from the enemy."
From the impact point of the shells, he immediately judged the actual situation of these shellings.
He was a Cadian, like all of them, who lived to die in battle.
However, he probably hoped that the shells that killed him would come from the enemy rather than badly off-target shots from a small platoon of poorly maintained heavy weapons behind the front line.
"Communicator!"
Soon, the communication soldier carrying long-distance communication equipment came to Creed. He reached out and picked up the microphone behind him and pressed a few buttons.
"Selim, you stupid dogs are out of control! Extend half a kilometer forward!"
After hanging up the microphone, Creed crawled before his ears stopped buzzing. Get up and look around to see what others are doing.
It was obvious, even without his shouting, that the Cadian men were still charging, toward the tarnished yellow-and-white wall in front of them - the outer wall of Sattusa's lair.
This is not just "a wall", the milky white surface is not local stone, nor is it a decorative carving.
The wall was made of human bones, the bones of the millions who sacrificed themselves for the Emperor in long-ago battles. Huron built the wall with the bones of the loyal ones. Declaring his disdain for the God-Emperor and the Empire.
Blasphemy, naked blasphemy.
Creed looked up at the hive's skyline of spiers, towers, and boulder settlements in the distance. He felt the urge to wrest it from his enemies, but before any Cadian could do so, First break through the city's defenses before fighting the traitors in the streets and alleys.
So now, they have to run through the waste pile created by the artillery, and then the bone wall that is vaguely ominous and pale to the outside world.
After this, before the Cadians could reach the inner walls of the Middle Nest, there was a vast area filled with heavily armed fortresses.
These require a huge cost of life to break through.
The Cadian Lightning Army has a total of thirty-two regiments forming the Cadian First Battle Group to participate in the attack in this direction. The 8th Regiment, as the main regiment, is naturally responsible for the main attack.
Correspondingly, Creed also has priority to support the artillery regiment directly under the battle group.
Soon, artillery fire began to extend to the rear. Basilisks, wyverns, and even manticores all participated in the bombardment.
In a suffocating high-intensity bombardment, the Imperial artillery blasted the enemy's nearest machine gun bunkers and heavy forts into smoking ruins, and dismantled the crude blockades the enemy had piled on the outer gates.
(End of this chapter)