Chapter 2021 Evil things are causing trouble
“Land in five minutes.”
As the monotonous voice of the servitor sounded, the Thunder Eagle turned sharply to the left, and the newly joined battle brother Makar of the second company Rolf stared carefully at the scene outside the window. The messy and wrinkled orange landscape of the planet Corkria III appeared in front of the Space Marines. There was only one huge city group here, which was the hive. As for other things that could be seen The land that has been reached is just an endless network woven by red scars.
“There are many open-pit mines.”
As soon as he spoke, a figure rang out beside him.
"Because this planet is rich in cobaltite."
The young space warrior turned around and saw his company commander Ustad speaking, and blinked.
“Ah, please forgive me, Captain, but there should be no enemies here, right?”
“Although most of the mortals who have defected to the Red Pirates have been centralized and sent to the mines, But there are still many stupid people who are still fighting against the Empire, and there are also many gangs in the hive that are attacking the garrisons or causing damage."
"The Astra Militarum can handle these things, wouldn't we be more useful elsewhere. ”
There was a hint of wounded pride in the young warrior's voice, and Ustad replied with a smile:
"There are not necessarily only fragile mortal traitors there. Hui, who is crucial to the production of electronic components, Cobalt attracts greedy weak souls like moths to a flame. We cannot ask mortals to stand guard for it, let alone expect them to repel the warp-cursed traitors and prevent them from destroying the wealth of the Imperium. The week before There have been several attempts by Chaos Space Marines to sabotage the mines, and they have succeeded twice."
The Thunderhawk passed through the vortex, its fuselage rumbled, and Robin sitting at the end said calmly. Said:
"Find the enemy, kill the enemy, there is no need to say anything else."
Makarov closed his mouth cautiously, and the second company, except for the company commander Ustad, The one that everyone fears the most is Robin, because he is the undoubted champion, and there are many people who admire him among the recruits.
When they arrived at the designated area of the hive, the rest of the company was already waiting there. As the core battle company of the Astral Knights, the Second Company not only has a full complement of battle brothers, but also a large number of vehicles, including Lan German raiders, Predator tanks, Sikaran battle tanks, and even Javelin speed attack boats, which are currently relatively rare in the war group. There is also a tactical team equipped with cavalry terminators, which basically combines penetration, assault and propulsion. function.
Ustad then summoned the officers in charge of this area and learned that the vanguard had set out to surround a hidden stronghold where the "evil" was located.
The evil thing is the code name they call that target, with contempt and a little fear. Since the hive was controlled by the empire, that thing has been launching attacks continuously. Its attack methods are various, sometimes making a Everyone in the outpost goes crazy and kills each other, sometimes turning the atonement miners in the mines near the nest into twisted and depraved monsters, sometimes sneaking into some poorly defended command posts and turning all the officers inside into pieces
The frontline encirclement and suppression troops have tried many methods, but have not been able to solve this problem. Even because of the activities of evil creatures, it has gathered a large-scale gang. It is said that there are tens of thousands of people, and they are weaving more in the bottom nest. for an evil conspiracy.
When the report was sent to Soshyan, he speculated that it might be a Chaos Sorcerer, or even better, a Chaos Space Marine with sorcery, or the Thousand Sons.
Now that Kayon is not here, Soshyan can't tell whether it is, but according to the worst plan, if it is really a Thousand Sons, then the trouble it can cause is definitely beyond imagination, so he sent the Second Company to arrest or Annihilate this guy.
The second company is currently the company with the highest proportion of gray marrow warriors in the war group except for the first company. Soshyan believes that it should not be difficult to capture a wizard.
The key is not to let the opponent run away. Therefore, after determining the opponent's position, Ustad will arrange for the mortal troops to attack first, so that the opponent can be careless - of course, the attacking mortal troops may suffer relatively large losses.
To put it simply, the attacking force is the bait, and Ustad is betting that the guy will be a little arrogant and will not be as cautious as in the past if he succeeds so many times.
Therefore, they were able to rush to the battlefield as quickly as possible.
Just as the Second Company rode various vehicles at lightning speed towards the location of the evil creatures, the Astra Militarum responsible for attacking the area also encountered big trouble.
They fought on the lands they had conquered a month ago. Although it was logical that these lands had long belonged to the empire, the land in these places was now soaked with blood, and the ground was littered with the bodies of the fallen.
Three infantry regiments were responsible for the attack. They were all troops recruited locally from the Maelstrom. They were not excellent, but they were not terrible either, with a total number of more than 20,000.
What they were besieging was a small town in Bottom Nest, which was occupied by a mutant tribe in the past. The Red Pirates didn't bother to take care of this place. The residents here didn't even know that things had changed, including after the Empire occupied the nest. , and did not take much action against the Undernest, because going there is equivalent to being exiled. Soshiyang only asked to clean up the people in the Nest, not including the Undernest, so many people fled to the dark and desperate Undernest to survive. .
Afterwards, the evil creature took over this place as a stronghold, and the original residents were twisted into terrifying slaves by him. After that, a large number of residents of the original hive city came to defect after hearing the news.
Another reason why they hate the empire so much is an order from the high command of the expeditionary force.
All those in Colkeria who betrayed the empire will be deprived of all identity and property. These properties, including houses, land, etc., will be distributed to those meritorious soldiers after the war.
For the imperial soldiers who came to encircle and suppress them, these people were not only traitors and heretics, but also weeds to their future homeland.
Because the officers got the news earlier, they had already begun to use various means to carve up the assets and real estate of Zhongchao and Xiachao, especially wineries, cigarette factories and bars that could be immediately profitable. It is a sought-after asset, and soldiers also dream of owning their own house, or a bakery, or a store, but first they have to "deal with" the original owners of these things.
Both sides not only have hatred brought about by their positions, but also hatred brought about by their interests.
The darkness of the bottom nest is constantly torn apart by flares, and there are sounds of fighting, gunshots, dying screams, and monster screams everywhere.
The imperial army fought, bled, and died in the smoke that smelled of gunpowder smoke, carrion, and blood, and won step by step. In the ruins of the burned town, there were corpses of traitors in shabby clothes everywhere. There are men, women, and children, and at the same time the last thing of value will be taken away from them.
No mercy, only killing.
Little by little, meter by meter, the imperial army keeps advancing.
(End of this chapter)