Chapter 2095 The battle group gathered
After sending Veronica away, Soshyan returned to his post and devoted himself to preparations for the decisive battle.
He made a systematic response to Huron's plan.
First of all, it is to increase the defense force on the Moon of Destruction. This place will need to face the magical space hulk that Occam said. Since there are not many weapons deployed on the planet, time is limited. It is not allowed, so it can only be used as a temporary airport for fighter planes, and the Red Pirates will definitely launch a large-scale gang-hopping operation. Due to the large size of the planet, it is definitely impossible to fully defend it. Fortunately, Soshyan has already let The Adeptus Mechanicus excavated complex tunnels beneath the planet, and in order to limit the operations of the Chaos Space Marines, all tunnels were made to specifications slightly smaller than an adult.
In other words, the defenders there will all be mortals!
Their mission is to use a complex network of tunnels to stop the enemy's Chaos Space Marine offensive with flesh and blood.
This is also the result of Soshyan's long consideration and collective discussion with all the chapter leaders who participated in the war. There is only one main reason -
Short soldiers, or Asta Very few.
After the arrival of the White Templars, except for the Red Hunters who continued to perform patrol missions in the Bloody Skeleton System and the Raven System, all chapters participating in the Maelstrom Expedition arrived at the Kara System, except for the Astral Knights In addition to himself, it also includes Ascetics, Ranger Warriors, Nova Warriors, Imperial Fists, Sons of Dorn, Iron Knights, Black Templars, Crimson Fists, Celestial Lions Chapter, White Scars, Reavers, Destroyers, Berserkers, and Mantises. Champions, Storm Lords, Lamenters, Flesh Tearers, Crimson Blades, Blood Swords, Star Dragons, Salamanders, Dark Angels, Devotees, Disciples of Caliban, Star Phantoms, and the Minotaur Chapter, A total of 27 battle groups!
In the history of the empire, since the Apostasy Rebellion, only the Abyss Expedition of the Cursed Founding Army had more than twenty war groups participating. This time, 27 war groups gathered at the same time, which can be said to have been the empire for nearly five thousand years. Come to the largest gathering of Astartes ever.
Although most of the Chapters are part companies, and a considerable number of Chapters suffered serious losses in previous battles, even so, the number of Space Marines gathered in and around the Kara system still reached 6,112!
Six thousand Astartes, in any previous battle, would be enough to sweep away the opponent. There is very little power that can block this blow.
But what they have to face is the second largest Chaos Group after the Black Legion, and a Chaos Giant who is almost forced into a desperate situation. The strength of the opponent's desperate struggle must not be underestimated.
So the power they have, especially the power of the Astartes, is extremely valuable. It is obviously not cost-effective to invest in the tug-of-war of the Destruction Moon. Almost all chapter leaders agree to let mortals cooperate to protect Teach the army a plan to defend the Moon of Destruction.
To this end, Soshyan also specially selected the troops that have performed well since the expedition from the many Astra Militarum troops participating in the battle, including the legions from Cadian, the legions from Mordian, and the There are legions from a series of well-known fortress worlds such as Krieg, Catachan, and Tallarn. They have all created brilliant achievements, or they have persevered until the last moment in the hellish battlefield.
Of course, in addition to these well-known legions, Soshyan also mobilized some locally recruited legions, and they all performed very well. There were even some that were created from cannon fodder regiment specifications, but achieved unique results that many elite regiments have not achieved. Infantry regiment.
The total number of all the troops is 3.5 million, and they are coordinated by more than one million skitarii, armed servitors and combat robots. What they have to face, according to estimates, may be Are 3000-5000 Chaos Space Marines and millions of Chaos servants who follow them, twisted Daemon Engines. The pressure on the defenders may be great, but due to time constraints, the Mechanicus cannot continue to dig more underground space to accommodate more troops. They can only let these troops grit their teeth, carry forward their style, and dare to fight tough battles.
To this end, Soshyan also convened the regiment-level commanders of these troops and held a mobilization meeting.
On the one hand, he explained to these officers the hardships and difficulties of this battle, but everyone was high-spirited and stated that they would fight the enemy to the end and never take a step back.
On the other hand, he also announced that all troops participating in the defense can receive luxurious ordnance supplements. In short, in addition to large armor and heavy artillery, they can directly apply for any equipment they want, regardless of category. Whether it's plasma, melt, armor-piercing rockets, or even automatic turrets, as long as they apply, logistics will send them to them immediately. Of course, the quantity is limited.
After that, he also met with a group of outstanding young commanders, including Arni Morales, the son of old Morales. Originally, his troops were supposed to carry out suppression and war in the Bloody Skeleton Galaxy. Although he was assigned to the public security combat mission, he completed the combat mission ahead of schedule and was later transferred here.
To be honest, his cannon fodder regiment was a bit eye-catching among this group of elite troops, but because of this, Soshyan could not help but have some interest in this unit.
When seeing Arni, Soshyan also remembered another thing. He had been considering personnel appointments and land arrangements in the recovery area for some time. There were many planets and vacancies in his plan. The land is used as a settlement place for local recruited soldiers after the war. Of course, it refers to those soldiers who are unwilling to return to their hometowns, as well as new colonies for civilians who have lost their homes or become impoverished due to the war. In order to ensure that this plan can be implemented in the future, Soshyan must personally arrange managers, which inevitably involves personnel appointment issues.
Logically speaking, he, as an expedition commander, should not be involved in the appointment and dismissal of the planetary governor, but the empire's huge laws and rules are like a sieve, full of loopholes and loopholes.
As the leader of the war zone, Soshyan happens to have the power to temporarily appoint planet managers, and the source of this power can be traced back to an authorization agreement between the Sun Lord and the High Lords Council during the Macarius expedition. Although in principle This authorization agreement is only for the Sun Lord alone, but what the empire values is that as long as there are precedents to follow, the latter can also imitate. After all, in the empire's huge and bloated bureaucratic structure, the power of convention and tradition can most of the time override above the express terms.
But how to appoint and who to appoint is another question. Those worlds that are not critical or have been destroyed are easy to say, but some key worlds are more involved. It is not who he wants. Whoever comes can sit still. After all, if there is no background, he will inevitably be overthrown by other people using various means after he leaves.
The most critical and conspicuous position is naturally the Governor of the Badab System.
(End of this chapter)