Chapter 136: An unnecessary show of force
“It seems that this brother of mine does not welcome my arrival.”
Angron said in the encrypted communication channel.
Only Qin Xia and the army officers could hear it.
The officers said nothing.
"But I don't understand."
"How did I offend him? Even if I offended him, what's the need for him to do this?"
"In addition to the future of fighting side by side, Apart from being unhappy, what else can he get?"
Angron said.
The officers remained silent.
Having fought alongside the Iron Warriors, they knew Perturabo relatively well.
To be honest, they were not surprised at all when Perturabo came. Sometimes no one could figure out Perturabo's thoughts and purposes.
Kiel once witnessed Perturabo grabbing an Iron Warrior who was kneeling with his head bowed and kneeling as he spoke at the war meeting. It was clear that the latter did not talk back or resist the order at all, but He was still beaten until his orifices were bleeding.
This behavior seems to be random, it all depends on which Iron Warrior is unlucky.
So the officers didn't speak, because they didn't know what Perturabo was thinking.
Maybe... I'm not in a good mood.
But this reason is really difficult to explain in this situation when facing one's own original body.
However, in front of Angron, the emotions derived from what is on his mind are far better at letting Angron know what a person is thinking than just talking.
The doubts in the officers' mood about Perturabo's confusing behavior had been known to Angron.
“Don’t go to my weird brother to send a message, you stay here.” Angron suddenly said to Dantioch, “I know what will happen if you really go to send a message.”
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Dantioch put his hand on his chest and saluted.
"It seems that there are still my descendants on this planet." Angron turned his head and looked down at Kil.
Kiel saluted: "It should be that after those of us who met the original body left, other people from the Twelve Legions were dispatched here to assist the Iron Warriors in the battle."
"Fifty thousand people Around."
Someone reported the number of people who were drawn from other war zones to assist the Iron Warriors in continuing the fight after Kiel left with 10,000 people.
But the person who reported the number of people was not anyone in the Twelve Legions, nor was it Qin Xia who was thinking about how to deal with the matter, but Dantioch, who was standing alone in front of many people.
“After the commander of the Kiel Army led 10,000 people to leave, 50,000 people who were transferred from the 12th Army came here to fight so far. They are being watched by my brothers and are prohibited from coming to the landing site to see them. You." Dantioch continued.
"This is a provocation." Kiel said to the Primarch, "If your offspring violates joint combat discipline or fails to exert its efforts, the Iron Warriors must produce corresponding evidence before they can monitor or deal with your offspring."
Angron nodded.
Kiel looked at Dantioch again: "Can you, the Fourth Legion, provide evidence to prove that my battle brothers should be under your care, instead of coming here to see their genes? Father?”
Under the cold gaze of the commander of the Twelve Legions, Dantioch was silent for a few seconds.
Then the Iron Warrior spread his hands.
"Then why did the Lord of Steel treat my battle brothers like this?" Kil asked again.
Dantioch didn't react at all this time.
"It's incredible that the people of the Twelfth Legion can be watched. Your Fourth Legion is quite capable." Qin Xia smiled.
"That's because they know that their genetic father has come to this planet, and whatever they do next must obey the orders of their owner." Kiel said, "Those who are not lucky enough to meet you People, they were transferred here to take over the responsibilities of the lucky ones like us, and now they are waiting for the orders of the original body."
Angron can already imagine what it is like in other places.
After Kiel led 10,000 people to leave, another 50,000 soldiers from the Twelve Legions were transferred here to replace Kiel and the others.
They were waiting for the good news from the Legion Commander, and for the day when they would be honored to meet the Gene Father, but they were now being guarded by the Iron Warriors.
Of course they will not accept the supervision of the Iron Warriors, but they already know that the original body has come to this planet, and as weapons, they should obey the original body's orders on how to act next.
The two sides are at war with each other.
"Two solutions." Qin Xia said in the encrypted communication channel, "One, I use psychic energy to teleport Perturabo over. Second, we don't go to see Perturabo and directly Return to the flagship to command the battle, and the others will directly join the battle."
Angron thought the same, and he even considered more - the possibility of 62,000 legion soldiers plus auxiliary troops defeating the Iron Warriors. sex.
But he felt that it was inappropriate to break out a civil war in any case. No matter how many of the Iron Warriors disapproved of Perturabo, a Dantioch who did not need to show his power, none of them would Damned in an internal conflict between two legions.
Using psychic energy to teleport Perturabo will only intensify the conflict, but for another method, Angron and Qin Xia have the same idea.
"Fight." Angron said, "But I will not return to the flagship. I will fight with you."
Kiel saluted.
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The positions built by the Iron Warriors on Novshendak No. 5 are spread over mountains and plains.
Since Kil left with 10,000 people, the Iron Warriors have conquered several planets one after another. Now the fifth planet is the last lair of the alien enemy.
A kind of arthropod creature attacks the defense line built by the Iron Warriors. They look far more majestic than the defense line, but not because they are huge and thick, but because there are many of them.
This hive-mind alien race can maintain an uninterrupted attack.
The armies of the Human Empire maintain their defense lines here not only by those huge and extremely stable fortresses, but also by those artillery with astonishing caliber, which fire continuously.
The artillery group will bombard every hour, and then conduct a larger and faster bombardment at noon, coupled with the orbital bombardment of the fleet, and this terrifying attack is Like a whistle or an announcement - humans in the defensive line are about to break out of the defensive line and start an active attack.
Now humans are about to attack again.
In the middle section of the defense line that suffered the most violent attack from the aliens, the 36th Company of the Twelve Legions was facing off against the Iron Warriors.
The commander of the Thirty-sixth Company, with his own guards, stood in front of the soldiers holding a chain ax and a bolt pistol, with the muzzle pointing forward.
The Iron Warriors guarding them blocked the entrance and exit of the fortress.
The number of people on both sides is about the same.
The atmosphere was suffocatingly tense.
But the only one who was tense was the Twelve Legion. The Iron Warriors held their weapons, but did not aim their weapons at the soldiers of the Thirty-sixth Company of the Twelve Legion.
The men of the Thirty-sixth Company are waiting for orders from the original body. If the original order was for them to kill the Iron Warriors in front of them and go to the landing site to meet him, then the Thirty-sixth Company would do so without hesitation.
And if the Primarch orders them to swallow their anger, they do so reluctantly, but nonetheless.
This fortress is like a powder keg. A word from Angron can ignite it and detonate it, or allow this powder keg to continue to accumulate power.
Not only here in the middle fortress, but also in other places on the defense line, the soldiers of the Twelve Legions and the Iron Warriors guarding them are in the same situation.
The 50,000 Twelve Legion warriors scattered on the defense line were not lucky enough to be taken away by Kil to meet the primarch in Nuceria. They were transferred from the expedition fleet to Novshandak by the Emperor to assist. The Iron Warriors of the Fourth Legion fought, and while fighting, they fantasized about what their original body looked like and what their personality was.
They want to see Angron.
But now he is blocked by people who fought alongside him in the past.
If they hadn't learned that Angron had arrived in the Novshendak system, and that as weapons they needed orders from their masters, they would have done terrible things long ago.
As for the Iron Warriors, they are more determined to implement the orders of the Gene Father, as well as some helplessness.
"Leave the defense line after the orbital bombardment and launch an attack on the enemy."
Every company commander of the Twelve Legions heard the voice of the legion commander echoing in the communication channel.
This is not an encrypted communication, nor is it an internal communication within the legion, but a larger communication that can be heard by everyone on the Iron Warriors side.
The thirty-sixth company commander located in the middle of the defense line stared at the Iron Warriors in front of him. After the teeth of the chain saw ax in his hand stopped turning, he said to the Iron Warriors in front of him: "We are going to fight. In the legion's Disobeying orders is a capital offense in discipline. Should we kill you all before going to fight, or should you get lost?”
The Iron Warriors were silent for a while.
The officer known as the "War Blacksmith" replied: "We need to ask the Lord of Steel for instructions, and then get his response before we respond."
The people of the Thirty-sixth Company Crush the Iron Warriors blocking the way and get out of the fortress.
The same is true for the entire defense line.
Fifty thousand men of the Twelfth Army left their shelters on the defense line and came to the outside world, preparing to launch an attack.
Orbital bombardments have fallen from the sky.
The battleship's light spear tore through the mountains and destroyed the plains, and also wiped out most of the aliens attacking the defense line.
There is so much plasma in the planet's air that it triggers aurora phenomena, making this disgusting planet full of lairs and slime mire finally look a little better.
The aliens will soon fill the deep pit in front of the defense line again, but not before the Twelve Legions, who are adept at attacking, will attack.
Fifty thousand soldiers were ready to attack, and before they stepped out of the defense line, a number - 31 - appeared on the tactical eyepiece.
"The killing of mortals is never allowed."
Kiel's command sounded again.
The fifty thousand people on the defense line have already launched an attack.
The commander of the Thirty-sixth Company led the soldiers across the deep pit left by the orbital bombing and rushed towards the menacing swarm of insects.
The Storm Eagle gunboats lined up and flew over the head of the Thirty-sixth Company. They were not flying very fast because of their huge cargo.
The gunboat covered the alien swarm in front with firepower, and slowly fell until it dropped one poison blade tank after another, and then changed direction and flew away.
The company commander saw a device under the gunboat that he had never seen before. There was no connection between the device and the Baneblade tank mounted underneath, but it could still lift the tank.
Probably a miniaturized gravity control technology.
The gunboats and Baneblade tanks are painted in white and blue, which is the color of the Twelfth Legion.
After being deployed, the Baneblade tanks immediately opened fire forward. The hatch of the first tank among them opened, and a Space Marine came out and looked back.
"Keptra!" The captain of the Thirty-sixth Company was pleasantly surprised to see an acquaintance.
The space warrior in the tank nodded and got back in.
More war machines are being deployed to the battlefield.
The next wave of flying gunboats once again covered the large insect swarm in front of the 36th Company with firepower. This time they dropped not tanks, but knight mechas.
A total of forty Knight mechas were deployed in front of the 36th company and around the poison blade tanks.
They look different from the knights of the common knight families. They have a uniform white and blue color scheme, and the shapes of their weapons are also uniform. This means that they belong to an organization similar to a legion, rather than a family that can show their personality.
The experienced company commander immediately realized that such a concentrated deployment meant that the area in front of the middle defense line would become the most intense battlefield.
The addition of some companies coming from other places once again supported the company commander's judgment.
But the deployment is not over yet.
When those strange aircraft without tail flames dived into the surface, a large number of mortal soldiers that the company commander had never seen poured out of the aircraft cargo bay. They were wearing strange silver decorations.
Another round of aircraft arrived, this time the 8th Assault Company emerged from it, and they also wore the same silver decorations.
Just when the company commander was curious about what it was, new weapons were deployed around the 36th company.
Buzz——
The sound of the horn resounded across the battlefield.
That is the non-verbal command transmission method used by the Twelve Legions. It is issued by a large vehicle. This horn sound will replace the communication channel to convey superior orders when the communication array is affected.
And that horn belongs to a series of horn sounds that are less commonly used - pay attention to avoid the giant war machine.
A crack with a height of about thirty meters appeared in the open space further ahead.
The ground began to tremble, and ice and snow suddenly spread.
A twenty-five-meter-tall war machine walked out of the crack.
Two people stood on the thick armor that seemed to bend the spine of the war machine.
One of them, a psyker, lowered his hand and the rift in the ice and snow suddenly closed behind him.
Beside the psyker stood the Primarch of the Twelve Legions.
The Thirty-Sixth Company, which was not lucky enough to go to Nuceria to meet the original body, and the other companies that broke out of the defense line did not know what the original body looked like.
But.
When their eyes saw the majestic figure holding a chain saw ax on the huge war machine, or even just saw the vague outline of the slow-moving giant like a mountain, they were all stunned. They knew in an instant that it was their original body.
Angron.
(End of this chapter)