Chapter 1946 Bad Things (Part 1)
Although the Red Pirates retreated, his remaining poison in the Angstrom system has not been eliminated. Before Huron left, he massacred all the people left in the system. The cultists used their lives and blood to turn the occupied planets in the galaxy into forbidden places where evil spirits were rampant. Those huge fortresses were also turned into demon nests. In order to ensure that the future production of the forging world would not be disturbed, Soshyan could only stay for a while longer to clean up the chaos pollution in the planet. Of course, this matter was mainly led by the Gray Knights, after all, they were more professional.
With the battle of Angstrom basically over, the subspace fog created by the Chaos Wizards that shrouded the galaxy gradually dissipated, and news from the outside world soon poured in to Soshyan like a tidal wave. .
There are four most important things, and each of them gives Soshyan a headache.
The first thing came from the Badab War Zone. Helbrecht led the army to spend a lot of time and effort to finally solve all the defenses of the Badab System, including the demon world, but then attacked Badab Prime encountered huge obstacles. According to Helbrecht's personal narrative and video data submitted by the messenger, the entire Badab Prime has almost become a demonic world, and Honso may have summoned a Tzeentch. Not only were the orbital bombings ineffective, but the extermination weapons they launched, such as bipolar torpedoes, turned into some kind of weird living creatures before they entered the atmosphere. Some battleships gradually had controllers who suddenly went crazy and turned on the air. Gates, and shooting commanders or riot situations.
Although the Tianshi Chapter, the Lamenters, and even the Red Hunters who came to help had think tanks, together they could only barely resist the powerful malice from Badab Prime. In the end, the fleet had to leave Badab's orbit and could no longer Perform extermination and bombing missions.
Now Badab has become an unstable bomb. If it is not dealt with, it may make a big noise at any time, but if it is dealt with, it may explode into bloody pieces.
According to military common sense, the optimal solution at this time is to ignore it and throw it aside.
But the report sent by Herbrecht emphasized two points in particular.
First of all, there are a lot of red pirates defending Badab, and they are relatively elite. If they escape, it will definitely cause huge trouble or even a strategic crisis, and the navy and the Astra Militarum alone need to guard them. It is absolutely not enough, which means that the execution of the siege plan requires the consumption of a large number of precious mobile forces - Space Marines.
Secondly, the person defending this place is a Chaos Lord named Honso.
This guy Soshyan is naturally familiar, but according to Helbrecht, Honso may have returned to the Fourth Army, because there were still Iron Warriors during the siege of Badab. The battleship is trying to break through the edge of the galaxy and enter Badab. If Hongso is allowed to stay here, there may be a steady stream of Iron Warriors warbands joining the battle in the future. Once it reaches a large scale, Hongsuo will definitely try to counterattack, and I am afraid that more troops will be needed. many.
Looking carefully, Soshyan knew that Helbleich's idea was very clear - Badab must be fought, and the fight must be quick. The longer it is delayed, the harder it will be to fight.
In fact, he basically agrees with this idea. The main reason is that the Fourth Legion is really a huge variable, which he did not expect before. After all, it is already very difficult to deal with the Red Pirates. If there is another rebel legion, even if there is another rebel legion, Just a small part of it was enough for Soshyan.
I originally thought that capturing Angstrom would trap Badab's defenders to death, but now I think it was too idealistic. But the question is, how to fight?
At least according to Helbrecht's description, there is no good offensive method against Badab at all. However, Soshyan is not there now. I don't know the specific situation. He and Helbrecht have been together these days. Judging from my experience after getting along with him, this Black Templar Marshal has a very firm and even cold heart, as well as a very fanatical heart for his faith. Since the other party has this tactical intention, there should be corresponding tactical arrangements. In the end, he just gave He gave a guidance -
Act with camera and fight cautiously
In addition, Helbrecht also had a request, that is, he hoped that the Gray Knights could help in the battle, so Soshyan immediately contacted the Grand Master, and the other party expressed his willingness to carry out the task. Then the Eighth Brotherhood immediately set off for Badab, and also brought a large number of Angstrom transport ships, which were filled with forged materials. weapons, equipment and military supplies produced in the world.
The second thing came from Salamanders, mainly brought back by Erlian who returned from Endymion.
But in fact, the news came first from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, then from the logistics organization of the expeditionary force, then from the messy hive nobles, and finally from the Salamanders.
Roughly speaking, when Salamander was cleaning up the mess in Endymion and reorganizing its army to prepare for war, its logistics supplies were "deliberately delayed", and even the soldiers' rations were in short supply, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Logistics All parties say that they have provided sufficient supplies in accordance with the indicators and data requirements, so what is the problem?
In Tu'shan's report, he angrily accused Endymion's many hive rulers and nobles of "starving all their people to death while hoarding food in private warehouses awaiting high prices." "Sell", and told Soshyan that a famine was spreading throughout the Maelstrom area. The prices of various major food products had increased ten times compared to last year. Large-scale cannibalism had already occurred in some hives. He really couldn't bear it. Seeing so many people starving to death, we had to provide a large amount of military supplies to help the hungry people.
What Tu'shan said was very serious and scary, but Soshyan didn't believe it. Although the Maelstrom was prone to frequent wars, due to the large amount of trade activities, it was actually a relatively prosperous area in the empire as a whole. Although the Demon Prince destroyed many agricultural worlds before, most of the empire's residents couldn't eat those foods, so synthetic foods should still be enough.
He speculated that Endymion may have accumulated a large number of troops, and military logistics and transportation occupied part of the private trade routes, which caused food prices to rise and a small supply problem occurred. , Salamander is famous for caring about people, so he has the illusion that the situation is serious.
As for the virtues of those hive rulers and nobles, Suoshiyang naturally knows very well, but how to put it, in a sense, they are the lowest level managers of the empire. There are some things that even he, who is in great power, cannot do. Change was determined by the empire's national structure, and he could also understand Tu'shan's anger.
But even if Tu·'shan kills those people, it will not be of any use, so the key point now is not to let the conflict between the two continue to intensify.
Soshiyang personally wrote a letter to Tu'shan. On the one hand, he sincerely comforted the other party. He did not blame Tu'shan for misappropriating military resources privately. He just hoped that he would consider combat issues first. He also explained the current situation and told the Salamander Chapter Leader that they were Space Marines after all. It was not their responsibility to govern the empire, and some things could only be seen out of sight.
But while doing this, Soshiyang already regretted letting Tu'shan serve as a theater-level commander. People said that Ci is not in charge of troops, so maybe it would be more appropriate to let Seth go. Bar
(End of this chapter)