Chapter 552, ‘Blood Shark’ in Space

There is a reason why the flagship of the New Age Torch Chapter became chaotic and sluggish in the fierce battle: they were gang-hopping.

This sounds a bit strange. The flagship of a fully-fledged Space Marine Chapter has been gang-hopping?

Aren’t they usually the ones who help others?

And if it is another Space Marine Chapter that adopts gang-hopping operations, that seems to be somewhat acceptable.

In particular, this war group is still famous for being 'crazy'.

Bai Qifan, the commander of the alliance fleet, could not recognize what this gray-painted battle group was, but Wang Mengsong, the battle group leader of the New Age Torch, could.

Blood Shark Chapter.

This war group was completely unknown in the entire empire one hundred and thirty years ago. No one even knew that there was such a war group in the empire?

However, during the Redbud Rebellion one hundred and thirty years ago, the Blood Shark Chapter made its debut and participated in this 'counter-insurgency operation'.

However, the Blood Shark Chapter at that time was on the side of the 'Iron Fury Stone'.

When the political situation on Holy Terra changed and the three war groups of Redbud, Starbreaker, and Phoenix were found guilty, at first these three groups did not just surrender.

While the three war groups were fighting against the Iron Fury Stone in the Nepeta Star Territory next to the Queen's Star Territory - this was the original base camp of Redbud Flowers - they were also contacting good friends everywhere in an attempt to reverse the political situation on Holy Terra.

It cannot be said that it is not effective.

At least, as one of the founding groups, Phoenix was quite sympathetic to the situation suffered by its three sub-group brothers. It was not easy for them to end immediately, but they were prepared to do so. They continued to operate in Holy Terra, exerted their own political influence, and even sought a seat as Lords of the Supreme Council.

The seats at that time did not include representatives of the Space Marines. The Phoenix Chapter was trying to show off their face, kicking a high lord down and replacing themselves.

However, as these political mediations progressed rapidly and things began to gradually improve, the battlefield situation in the spider web domain suddenly changed drastically. The combined forces of the three battle groups, Redbud, Broken Star Blade, and Phoenix, were defeated on the frontal battlefield.

Objectively speaking, this is inevitable. The three Iron Furious Stone clans have the military strength to absolutely crush the Bauhinia and other groups.

But at that time, Tie Kai didn't dare to reveal too openly that he had so many supernatural beings - it was true that they didn't have as many people as they would have a hundred years later.

There is indeed a military advantage, and it is huge, but the Third Bauhinia Regiment also understands this. Since they have pinned their hopes and held on until the political environment changed, they also firmly implemented the relevant strategies and would not easily go out to fight.

It stands to reason that they adopt a flexible defense and focus on defensive strategy. After all, they still have three standard battle groups. If they cannot win, they will not collapse too quickly.

That was true at first.

Until the Blood Shark Chapter appeared.

They emerged from the gloomy darkness and called themselves the 'Blood Shark Chapter'. They claimed to have heard the call from the center of the empire and came to put down the rebellion.

Iron Fury Stone questioned their identity at first.

A war group that I have never heard of before. More importantly, this group of people doesn't like to communicate with the outside world. After meeting, they look even more solemn and even make people smell something vague. The smell of blood.

No matter how you look at it, it makes people feel suspicious.

However, they did issue a series of documents regarding the establishment, authorization, and mission description of their war group...

This series of documents is very old. This kind of thing is generally regarded by each war group as its own history and holy relics, so it is quite well preserved.

The think tanks of the Iron Armor Chapter studied it and believed that these documents were genuine.

However, the empire has lost relevant records and cannot compare them.

Tie Kai has never encountered this kind of situation.

But obviously, Iron Armor is not a rigid and rule-abiding war group. What's wrong with having someone come to help fight the war? Let alone a war group with unknown origins but a real identity, even if a group of renegade war groups did come to help, Iron Armor would probably still accept them.

And soon, the Iron Armor Chapter was pleasantly surprised by their decision.

The fighting power and fighting style displayed by the Blood Shark Chapter are so amazing and efficient that even Iron Armor is paying attention to them.

Their style can be summed up as a fast strike force.

They rarely engage in protracted combat of any kind, preferring to rely on extreme speed or stealth to get close to their targets and attack their enemies by surprise whenever possible.

This is true whether in fleet combat or in space marine combat.

Their ships also possess some lost special technology that can achieve a certain degree of invisibility and are difficult to detect in advance.

During offensive operations, they will work hard to quickly close on the enemy and engage in hand-to-hand combat, or unleash their firepower at close range. Therefore, in addition to their standard weapons, they also carry weapons such as chain axes and power axes, which are somewhat excessive by normal standards, to tear apart enemies in close combat.

Their fighting style is extremely efficient but also extremely cruel - their attacks are fast and violent, capable of causing the greatest possible damage in the shortest time. If an enemy survives, they will hide and disappear and then attack again, continuing to kill the enemy's surviving units until the opponent no longer resists and faces destruction. Once the enemy in front of them is slaughtered, they will move on to the next target without stopping, and repeat the process again and again until there is no living thing around them, only the remains of their slaughter.

The Space Marines of the Blood Shark are generally very taciturn, cautious and vigilant, but in battle they will show a marked transformation, displaying violent fits of extreme bloodthirst, frantically cutting down or blasting their enemies to pieces.

Commanders issued command orders through encrypted radio networks, and they would not speak a word to enemy or friendly forces during battle unless absolutely necessary.

This kind of silence forms a particularly sharp contrast with their violent fighting style of slashing and killing enemies, and even preferring to dismember their bodies on the spot, with their bodies splattered with blood. When they do this, there won't even be that kind of venting shouting, just silent axe-by-axe-cutting.

An eerie silence.

With the help of this elusive battle group who is very good at surprise operations, the battle situation that the Redbud Three Regiment was able to maintain was suddenly broken.

The sudden attack stunned the three battle groups.

They have never seen such a battle group or enemy, and they have never received any information about another battle group. In several raids, the blood shark achieved great results.

And every time they made a hole in the defense line, the Third Iron Fury Stone Regiment would rush in fiercely with superior strength.

After several similar battles, the Redbud Three Regiments collapsed and inevitably surrendered.

This also brought the Phoenix Chapter's political efforts to naught.

The target they wanted to save was already hopeless.

In general, the main factor in defeating the Third Bauhinia Regiment on the frontal battlefield must still be the absolutely superior strength of the Third Iron Fury Stone Regiment. Their strength was almost four times that of the Third Bauhinia Regiment.

However, no one can ignore the special role played by the Blood Shark Chapter. What is particularly impressive is their bloody and cruel fighting style.

Many war groups don't care much about the life and death of mortals, whether enemies, friendly forces, or civilians. But even among the Space Marines, the blood shark's performance on this point is particularly excessive. In the pursuit of military objectives, they have time and again shown complete disregard for the casualties among affected civilians. There would be no effortless help at all. If there were injured civilians lying on the ground where they were advancing and would be stepped on, they would not change their pace for this, and it would not be a big deal if they stepped on them.

This is also quite controversial.

It was not until later that the imperial scholars on Holy Terra, after in-depth study of some historical documents, found some information about blood sharks from some ancient battle cases, even myths, epics, ancient operas, and fables. evidence.

Nothing features them as the protagonists, but in the background panels of some stories, it is mentioned that about four thousand years ago, a war group called the "Blood Sharks" was established. They were sent to a space that was not connected by astral tunnels and could not communicate directly with astrology. They carried out endless voyages and slaughtered and ravaged the enemies of mankind. Show no mercy to traitors, aliens and turncoats, uprooting them from their turf.

Of course, there would be reports about them from time to time in various border star regions of the empire, but they were not very important and were ignored by the men on Holy Terra.

Although each of these documentary sources has somewhat low credibility, none is officially recorded history. However, these isolated works from about the same period mention the same thing, and have consistent descriptions of similarities in certain details of image information and battle group actions. For example, they all mention blood sharks. The Chapter displayed a ferocious but thoughtful cruelty, and a relatively consistent view of the missions for which they were founded and sent to perform...

All these elements are consistent with the Blood Shark Chapter's performance in the Redbud Rebellion, and from this perspective, the credibility is okay.

After all, it spans thousands of years and has a long history, and the empire has lost only one or two historical records.

As a result, the empire basically recognized the Blood Shark Chapter after that.

However, in the later stages of the Purple Flower Rebellion, when the war was basically over, the Blood Sharks and the Iron Armor Chapter had a series of conflicts.

The Blood Shark Chapter is cruel, bloodthirsty, ruthless... but very poor.

This is quite understandable. As an 'expeditionary battle group', a ship-based battle group, there is no world of conscription and no fixed income. It also wanders around the known universe and the dark universe outside the empire's territory every day on endless expeditions and voyages. Is this possible without being poor?

But they were poor in a unique way.

Ordinary equipment and even ammunition supplies are quite scarce. There are also very few battle group servants and mortal auxiliary troops, but there are quite a lot of cutting-edge equipment. Even the models of power armor are of various types, some are new, but most of them are of various types. An old, archaic model with an extremely inconsistent style.

The Chapter collects the equipment it needs through the "grey tax", that is, by using technological relics found in the outer world, and exchanging the equipment and ammunition needed by the Chapter with the Mechanicum or other industrial worlds.

The war group uses the "red tax" to replenish soldiers and mortal auxiliaries and servants, which is to pick a planet to catch strong men. The war group has always been relatively poor, and the armor of the soldiers has always been patchwork.

After fighting for the Iron Armor Chapter, the Blood Sharks had to collect 'gray tax' and 'blood tax' as a matter of course.

At first, Tie Kai expressed his willingness to give.

Compared to other people's military exploits, what's wrong with giving them some money?

However, blood sharks have their own rules. They charge money based on the proportion of planets taken down.

The number was a bit too much, beyond Tie Kai's expectations.

Tie Jia tried to negotiate, but Blood Shark didn't know what negotiation meant.

This is not a reward, not a transaction, it is a 'tax'.

Do I need to discuss tax collection with you?

There is no need to borrow people to collect taxes, you can just do it yourself.

Get equipment, grab loot, grab people, directly recruit a large number of people on some planets that Iron Armor attaches great importance to, and conduct recruit selection activities with a very high mortality rate...

Tie Kai was offended, and some conflicts broke out between the two sides.

In the end, the Blood Sharks returned with a batch of tax refunds that they were not satisfied with and returned to the darkness.

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In the one hundred and thirty years since the Redbud Rebellion, the Blood Sharks seem to have appeared more frequently. But it's also possible that after becoming famous, people pay more attention to them and care about them more.

They still go their own way, operating in foreign lands, occasionally appearing in the empire, and their whereabouts are also erratic, making deals with different Mechanicus and collecting blood taxes in different worlds. Other than that, it's just to cause some trouble for Tie Kai, who has a grudge against him.

Since the outbreak of the Princess Rebellion six years ago, the Iron Armor Chapter has been vigilant to see if this vengeful, occasionally troublesome, but powerful and shockingly cruel war group will emerge and become an enemy. .

But for six years, there was little movement from them.

Until today.

The unlucky thing is not the iron armor, but the New Age Torch.

The Torchlight was attacked by blood sharks. As the flagship of the Chapter, there are four hundred New Age Torch Warriors on board. And through some kind of psychic transmission technology that could not be blocked and even had no warning, the blood sharks jumped in and quickly attacked many key parts of the ship.

For a moment, Wang Mengsong couldn't even figure out how many blood sharks jumped to his boat's aid!

Before he could gather his manpower to surround, rob, and kill these gang-hopping gangsters, the ship's multiple firepower centers, artillery locations, and ship control nodes were raided. Those places quickly became inhabited, either lost or blown up from within.

This is also the reason why the entire Torchlight was partially paralyzed not long after the battle started.

But after all, the ship was not scrapped, and the main force of the Torch Warriors on the ship was still there.

However, as time went on, the situation eased.

Wang Mengsong urgently deployed his troops, and the auxiliary troops and space warriors on the ship chased and intercepted them, and roughly divided the blood sharks that jumped in into five or six areas.

However, it's hard to say whether the Blood Sharks were forced to be divided into five or six teams, or whether this was their organizational situation.

In particular, there is a blood shark team that is 'separated' near the core engine room, which is particularly worrying.

If they carry any high-energy bombs and detonate them in the core engine room, the consequences will be disastrous.

Wang Mengsong personally led people to encircle and suppress them.

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(End of chapter)