Chapter 2816 Killing the enemy and protecting the people without ending the blood (3)
In the smoke, three towering executioners rushed out, trampling their little compatriots into meat patties, these terrifying siege creatures Using their huge claws to stab everything around them, their own kind, enemies, and even cover, they are huge beasts made of muscle, chitin, claws, and spines. They are literal moving hills, and they are so powerful. The carapace, which is thicker than the alloy, can withstand all weapons in the hands of the militiamen.
Not only the militia, it is also the nightmare of the Weeper. Even Space Marines have to use heavy weapons to deal with these creatures, and its claws can easily tear through the armor of Terminators and Dreadnoughts. Three At least 12 soldiers from the company died under the executioner's claws.
They are real butchers.
Behind the executioner were swarms of warrior bugs, and further away stood a giant creature that shocked even Sullivan.
It was a huge four-legged creature, as tall as a knight mecha, with a mouth big enough to swallow a Leman Russ. The mouth was surrounded by countless tentacles with mouthparts, which kept sucking the things on the ground. The corpse was rolled up and thrown into the huge mouth of a meat grinder. The two rows of pipes behind it continued to discharge high-temperature smoke.
As this giant monster approached, its foul smell made every militiaman’s teeth rattle and tremble
“It’s over! Run!”
Finally , the morale of the militiamen completely collapsed, and they began to abandon their weapons and flee backwards.
“No! Just stay here!”
Sullivan could only shout in despair:
"Let's stop them here! Form a formation!"
Suddenly, a sharp claw slammed down, and the The gravel splashed onto Sullivan. He staggered to the side and saw a soldier in the company who was pierced by a sharp claw, struggling and shooting at the executioner.
"Live up to Sanguinius."
Sullivan immediately rushed over and stabbed the executioner's waist with his sword, making a one-meter-long gash. The monster was in pain. He turned around and roared, extending his other two claws to try and stab him.
The Weeper Captain stepped aside and swiped his sword across its ankle. The executioner could only stagger back and throw out the warrior on his claws, but before the warrior could even hit the ground, he was killed by two warriors. The insect was torn into several pieces in mid-air.
"Company Commander! There are too many, we will not be able to stop them soon!"
"But the refugees behind-"
Just when Sullivan was thinking about how to While fighting for one second, the ground shook like never before. This earthquake felt different from before.
“Damn it!”
He turned his head sharply, staring with blood-red eyes, and saw streams of ominous smoke rising from the take-off area of the airport.
Inside the "Sanguinius" airport, the residents who had escaped from farms and cities were still in shock. They never thought that the so-called doomsday would be like this. The Devourer from the distant deep space would still be there. Without appearing, the entire planet fell into a riot caused by the gene stealers, and everything was in chaos, and the planet's own weak management capabilities aggravated the situation.
As one of the farthest outskirts of the empire, the High Lords are obviously unable to carry out any level of management of these worlds that are almost outside the Light of the Star Torch, so based on past experience , these distant colonies will be placed within the scope of the archdiocese.
The difference between the so-called archdiocese and the general dioceses is that the state religion here is the dominant one, not only a religious organization but also a management organization. Archdioceses are generally equivalent to the star districts divided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but it Usually they are not responsible for tithes, and the highest lord is usually a patriarch. The capital of the sector is usually a religious world. All lords in the area are vassals of the state religion and pay religious tithes to the state church. This system is The reason is that Terra is unwilling to invest any cost in such a distant world, and simply uses it as a tradable political privilege in exchange for some benefits from the state religion.
However, the archdiocese is not without limitations. First of all, the state religion cannot break through the taming edict, so the archdiocese cannot form a formal army and naval fleet. Each world can only have the most basic security forces. At the same time, the archdiocese cannot build large-scale industrial facilities. There are some basic industries, so most of the parish worlds are agricultural worlds, garden worlds, and cemetery worlds. In this case, the armed forces of the archdiocese are very weak and rely heavily on the armed forces of the empire, which can be regarded as a high-level leader. The means by which the Lords restricted the state religion.
But this weakness can become a fatal flaw when placed too far away, as it did during the riots on Sondheim Five, which was dedicated to supplying food to the religious world of Saint Casparen. The agricultural world here is mainly ruled by a joint group composed of the state church and local noble lords. Not only is its reaction speed slow, but some nobles are also infected, causing the situation to fall into an unextricable chaos. The weak lord army cannot quickly To suppress the rebellion, the increasing number of gene stealers naturally attracted their true masters.
The attack was one-sided. If the Weeper hadn't arrived, taken over the planet's defense immediately and organized an evacuation, I'm afraid none of the two billion people would have been able to escape.
But even so, more than a billion people died in the first three days of the attack. In order to evacuate civilians, the Weeper Chapter had to find ways to delay the worm tide on the battlefield, which cost them a lot. The casualties were huge. Many companies had suffered more than half of their casualties. The third company was more serious, losing three-quarters.
But no one in the company said they would withdraw, and the weepers fulfilled their oath with blood——
We die with honor for those we hold dear!
But the reality is always cruel. They tried their best to save only the next few people. The fleet in orbit has been struggling in the endless sea of worms for a long time. In order to cover the escape of the transport ships, the battle group's ships have already Two thirds were lost.
What’s even more frightening is that they have to continue fighting.
It may even be that their rescue is in vain, because the orbit has been basically occupied by Tyranids, and only a small number of transport ships that broke out from the planet can survive the tentacles of the Tyranid biological battleships, but there is no way. Staying on the ground means absolute death. As an agricultural world, this planet is completely undefendable. If you try hard in orbit, you still have a chance of surviving.
It is not that the Lamenters have never thought of sending a signal for help, but the terrifying aspect of the Tyranids is that their appearance directly blocks all Astropath signals, and no information can be transmitted.
Perhaps only by the evacuation of the last batch of residents can they escape from this bloody battle, and this will take time.
But time is not necessarily reserved for everyone. For example, in the airport defended by the Third Company, while the Space Marines were fighting bloody battles in the front, a situation they could not imagine occurred in the rear.
First there was something strange in the sewers. At first there was sparse movement, which was mistaken for rats. But soon someone found some weird small insects crawling out of the iron fence, or out of the sewers, culverts and walls. gushed out of the cracks.
There is a pair of immature sharp claws on their long bodies. Their heads are separated from their abdomens. Their bellies are covered with sharp disemboweling hooks and bone ridges. Their mouths are larger than their bodies when they are opened. Full of sharp teeth.
The frightened residents did not know that these creatures had a terrible name, tearing bugs.