Chapter 149, Murder Jar
After Schneider killed the largest and greenest orc leader, the battle was almost over.
His other four battle brothers, together with the twenty-eight soldiers of the 'Storm Squadron' who are considered to be strong in the eyes of Space Marines, plus the fire cover of the infantry regiment, will accompany the green-skinned leader. All the forty or fifty orcs who charged were killed.
Needless to say, the abilities of the Space Marines. Except for the fact that he met a green-skinned leader who had been strengthened and was somewhat capable, and gave him a little exercise, his battle brothers basically didn't find any decent opponents.
When those ordinary green-skinned boys encounter the electromagnetic rifles in the hands of the special operations soldiers of the Storm Squadron, they can't stand up to the G9 rifles like they can. They will often die after being hit by a dozen bullets.
After making sure that all the greenskins were killed and no one survived to leak information about his group, he could finally rest assured.
They had no intention of taking action originally.
The 4th Infantry Regiment's proactive attack was originally intended to cover their actions. Being able to successfully eliminate all the greenskins in this area is of course the best. After all, as long as all the enemies are killed, that is the most perfect infiltration.
Even if the attack fails, it actually doesn't matter. After attracting enough attention, the 33-member task force was able to take advantage of the intense fighting on the front and bypass the side of the battlefield without anyone noticing.
In fact, that's what they planned.
However, after observing the situation on the frontal battlefield, their captain changed his mind and decided to implement the first strategy: kill all the enemies.
Schneider knew that it was their leader of the Martins Chapter who felt sorry for watching those mortal soldiers die and die, or because he was trying to cover their mission.
Of course, he didn't object. After all, as long as they kill them all and no greenskins come back to report the news, it will be fine. There seemed to be only a few dozen left, so it wouldn't be too much trouble to kill them all.
The key is to still have a hand addiction.
After the battle, Schneider took off his helmet, revealing his shiny forehead.
He felt a special gaze, so he turned his head and saw the red hat staring at him.
Usually, Schneider has always been dismissive and completely ignorant of these mortals. But at this time, he couldn't help but think of the red hat named Thaddeus, who had done what his dead brother could not do.
And the one in front of me, although he didn't achieve any great feats, was still fearless in the face of danger and could still maintain the dignity of a warrior in the face of death.
He is respectable.
He nodded to the red hat inexplicably, then turned and left.
Ryder Mesheko also came to his senses.
Surprisingly survived.
Looking at the fight between the space warrior and the greenskin just now, there is no doubt that if it were him, he would die eight hundred times.
It seems that there is still a big gap between a mortal like him and those monsters and monsters.
But regardless of this, the battle should be won.
Slowly putting down the gun in his hand, he turned back and found their leader.
They still need to clean up the position and bring back the bodies of the wounded and even dead teammates. Even if the death is relatively tragic, they must at least take away the armbands and badges that symbolize the identity of the soldiers.
After cleaning up the battlefield, they were about to retreat.
The position here cannot be maintained for a long time. The fortifications built by the green skins were already too stretched, not to mention that they were bombed. This place was far away from other friendly forces' lines, making it inconvenient to support them.
The combination of these problems makes it impossible for them to fight against the Greenskins' counterattack in the future.
But giving up this position does not mean that their attack is worthless.
In addition to providing cover for the special operations team, they were also able to effectively kill the enemy this time.
In this battle, almost five hundred of those greenskins died. Relatively speaking, the price paid by the human side was the casualties of more than 320 soldiers.
The damage ratio in this battle was even higher than that of their defensive battle.
Of course, there are also special reasons.
After all, the price on the human side is not only more than 300 lives, but also 600 rounds of heavy artillery shells.
If it hadn't been for the recent shipment of a batch of newly produced artillery shells from Wei Xing City, I would have been reluctant to shoot out so many in an hour.
At least more than half of the greenskins that were eliminated were killed in the previous bombardment. Of the remaining two hundred or so, more than fifty were killed by the special operations team. The real results belonging to the Fourth Infantry Regiment were only more than a hundred greenskins.
Of course, this exchange ratio of almost 3:1 is actually acceptable.
But what cannot be ignored is the risk involved.
They won the battle and wiped out all their opponents.
But what if you don’t win?
If Mesheko hadn't shot many officers to death with an iron fist when the entire army was shaken, and strictly ordered instructors at all levels to maintain discipline in the troops, and led the regiment commanders to take the lead and boost morale, they would have probably been killed at that time. It collapsed.
Once it collapses, the death toll may soar while escaping. Not only will they be unable to kill those greenskins, but their casualties may increase several times during the pursuit. Even if they are chased too hard, they may not be able to stop the entire army even if they return to their original position. collapse, then there will be big trouble.
In wars, the winning side always gains more.
In addition to killing a large number of greenskins, they also gained something else: an improvement in the spirit of the army.
It was a bit of a tough battle, but ultimately won. Although there are twists and turns in the process, as long as you win, the morale, combat confidence, and combat experience of the entire army will be improved. Soldiers who have had direct encounters with green skins, now that they have survived, will not be so afraid when they face green skins next time.
When they were adventurers in the past, the shadow cast by those greenskins was too deep.
Green skin phobia can be alleviated a little bit.
……
While the 4th Infantry Regiment was cleaning the battlefield, the 33-man special operations team was already on the road again.
Afterwards, there will be no friendly forces to cover them.
But it’s not really needed anymore.
After passing through the densest enemy line and arriving at the rear, in this urban ruins area with a width of 60 kilometers and a depth of nearly 100 kilometers, it was obviously impossible for those greenskins to have manpower everywhere. On the contrary, there are only tens of thousands of them, and this place that 'belongs' to them can be said to be leaky everywhere.
Occasionally, I see some green skins and goblins, but it is not so easy to find their traces.
There is nothing to say about the stealth skills of the Space Marines. Even though they were wearing heavy power armor, when they didn't want to make a sound, there really was no sound when their feet landed. As for the 28 special operations team members, they are also well versed in stealth operations.
Only if they discover the enemy in advance, they are rarely discovered.
When deep behind enemy lines, they will try to avoid fighting, which helps reduce the probability of exposure.
But if they really encounter someone, they have to fight. For example, if they are really discovered, or if someone is on their route and it will take a long time to get around, then they will choose to take action.
Even if you do take action, try not to move the gun.
Approach quietly and attack quickly. Combat daggers and sabers have become the main weapons.
Martins' chain sword doesn't even make a roar, it just relies on its saw teeth to tear people apart.
There really was no target worth turning the chainsaw on.
In this way, they moved among the ruins for about a day and night. In between, there was only a few hours of rest.
They go as deep as possible and then expand the scope of investigation as much as possible.
It's a pity that greenskins are very difficult to communicate with, and they don't understand the language. They can't scratch their tongues to get the information they want through interrogation.
But they still made a big discovery the next afternoon.
They found a greenskin starting position.
At that location, which was sixty kilometers away from the front line, an action team from the Storm Squadron discovered a group of goons driving trucks and pushing pallets, gathering somewhere.
After they sent the information back, the entire team began to explore in that direction, and then they found the starting position.
The greenskin cleared a large open space here, where tens of thousands of greenskin creatures gathered noisily. A third of them were green boys, and there were almost twice as many grts.
Grots are also a kind of green skin, and they are also monsters that grow from green skin spores. They are shorter, thinner, and timid than the orc boys, but their cruelty is no less than that of the other orc boys. They bully the weak and fear the strong. When they encounter a powerful enemy, if there is no orc suppression, they will easily lose morale and disperse; but when the enemy is weaker than them, or far outnumbered by them, once the psychological advantage comes up, they will Incarnate into the cruelest executioner, especially fond of killing.
In greenskin society, grats usually exist as slave labor, servants of orcs, and even as food rations.
In this starting position, the number of enemies alone is already very large. Putting aside those bastards, there are more than 3,000 orc boys alone. This was almost more greenskin orcs than were faced anywhere on the front line.
Moreover, there is a steady stream of reinforcements, gathering here from all over.
No one knows how many they will be able to gather in the end.
What's more, the greenskins gathered here are not only large in number, but also very well-equipped.
We won’t talk about the armed pickup trucks and tin barrel artillery that have already appeared. Martins and the others also saw two other big guys.
One is armed trucks.
It is said to be a truck, but in fact the rear compartment is sealed with an armor plate and provides a shooting position that extends outward, so that the shape of the entire truck body is quite awkward. A machine gun is also placed on the top of the front of the vehicle, and a bulldozer is installed on the front face of the vehicle. The whole appearance looks chaotic, wild and unreasonable.
However, this is the true nature of green-skin technology. No matter how unreasonable it seems, if the greenskins think it is reasonable, then this thing can move, and it works pretty well.
The other thing followed the same style, but made everyone present feel a little heavy: that was...'power armor', 'war mecha'? ’?
Whatever it is, it appears among many greenskin clans. Humans call it the 'killing jar'.
An iron can is stuffed with a fart or disabled green skin. Due to the green skin's shocking technology, this is obviously not a wearable or detachable thing, but an eternal life integrated with this machine.
From the upper and lower sides of the water tank, the mechanical structures protruding are the limbs. The arms of the upper limbs are equipped with melee or long-range weapons, and there are also large-caliber machine cannons on both sides of the tank.
This thing has appeared on many battlefields where greenskins were raging. They are not the main armored unit of the greenskins. The greenskins also have bigger guys. However, when such a thing that stands three meters high appears on the battlefield and can flexibly travel on a battlefield where many armored vehicles cannot move, its armor level and firepower will make human infantry despair.
Even space warriors cannot ignore such an opponent. The machine cannons on both sides of the water tank fired a few more shots, which was enough to break the armor; the double-fired rocket launcher held in one hand, which could also be automatically charged, also had good destructive power. It was hit by the big axe, and even more It will kill you.
Of course, generally speaking, Space Marines win more. Each of the five veterans present had exploded at least five murder jars in their hands.
But that is a career achievement, not a one-time achievement. If you really want to be besieged at once, you don't even need five, two or three will be too much.
And now, in this green-skinned army that was still gathering, they saw ten such murder jars.
As more greenskins gather later, I don't know if there will be more.
An armed truck that can compete with the Walker armored vehicle, a murder canister that is equivalent to a beggar's version of power armor, and more than three thousand greenskins gathered together. There are many powerful bosses among them, or they are much stronger than ordinary greenskin boys. Tough guy' boy......
If such a force goes to the front line and launches a direct impact anywhere, the results will be devastating.
Humans who are unprepared will almost certainly be destroyed.
Fortunately, they have discovered it.
Now that the information is known, it's easy to talk about it.
They did not alert the enemy. After marking the coordinates, they left quietly and reported this information to the Governor.
They didn't carry any communication equipment, and there was no need for it. Corresponding communication modules are integrated into the power armor worn by the Space Marines, and are also connected to the wireless communication channel of the frontline command post. The communication tower erected at the frontline command post does this job. When facing the greenskins, there should be no need to worry about the threat of radio monitoring.
They have no control over how the governor will treat this information later.
The follow-up instructions they received were to continue their exploration and follow the predetermined goals to find the greenskin base camp, their arsenal, and their 'farm' and hatchery.
I might have been a bit clueless before, but now it's easier to handle.
Two Space Marines and several members of the Storm Squad were left behind to stare at the large group of greenskins at the starting position. The remaining people followed the path of the gathered greenskins in the opposite direction to explore the source.
(End of chapter)