Chapter 651, Strange Road
September 10, 242, more than two years have passed since the victory at Alamita.
Battle Priest Seedorf is fighting to clear out the last important stronghold of the infected on Planet Strange Road VI.
He led the Alamita Army, the 147th Army, and the 301st Mechanical Division.
To be honest, Seedorf was not familiar with such a corps formation.
This was not how the Alfonzo sect organized its troops in the past.
The army part of Alfonzo's sect has a strong religious legion nature. It often adds many beautiful prefixes and suffixes, and then compiles them in binary machine language to give it a so-called mechanical beauty.
Within the Mechanicus, these characters with "mechanical beauty" are used to refer to each other and mobilize troops. To the outside world, the translated corps names are used, such as the ‘High-precision Worm Cavalry Regiment’, ‘The God of All Machines Glory Gear Corps’…
Such a name seems very confusing? So what, it’s the external command system anyway. Isn’t it normal that the army of the Adeptus Mechanicus cannot be commanded? If the command is not smooth, it will not be smooth. Who asked you to command? As long as the Mechanicum can be smooth internally, that will be all.
However, in today's situation, this approach no longer works.
Can the Alliance tolerate the Alaminta sect that it single-handedly supported, and the local troops it formed were so disobedient and inconvenient to command?
Taking advantage of the internal counterinsurgency in Alamita, the Alliance's Military and Political Department dispatched a large number of military and political commissars, and many Army officers were transferred to the newly formed Skitarii, and it was established in accordance with the Alliance Army's establishment, and the machinery was basically abandoned. Teach the original set of things.
This actually aroused a lot of dissatisfaction within the Alamita sect.
We, the Mechanicus, and the Empire have always been on equal footing. Isn’t one of the two-headed eagle symbols of the Empire our Mechanicus? Wherever there is a skitarii army, it should be reorganized according to the method of your army!
However, this is what I think in my heart, and the most I can say is, isn’t my body obediently and honestly acting in accordance with the alliance’s plan?
Seedorf was like this before.
After all, the alliance's home base is too far away from the Alfonzo star field. There are two star fields in between, and a trip takes at least four months. A little trade would be good, but does the alliance still want to directly rule the entire star field?
Don’t we have to rely on us in the end?
However, these ideas were greatly reversed after Seedorf participated in an ideological training arranged by the Union Military and Political Department.
He began to think carefully about faith, the future, people, technological development, personal ambitions...
These things kept churning in his mind, and finally made him think about 'What kind of future should we go to? ’ When I asked this question, I had a profound enlightenment.
You should just follow the alliance and Gu Hang!
That is the best expression of faith in the God of All Machines!
After thinking about this, Seedorf even felt that there was a lot of knowledge that he had not understood before, and he suddenly understood it.
In the past, his position in Alamita was 'Battle Priest', which was on the same level as Mechanical Priest.
Of course, people from the Mechanicus have nothing to do with kindness, but showing cruelty is not the same thing as being good at fighting. In fact, they generally don't like to personally participate in battles and wars. They usually give orders indifferently and have their own skitarii and followers to solve problems.
Like Seedorf, he is actually relatively more interested in combat and war command - at least more interested than his colleagues.
He is indeed one of the few people in the Mechanicus who are willing to join the army and command operations.
However, he must also admit that he cannot be compared with that kind of real general.
But it was after participating in the training of the Alliance Military and Political Department that he suddenly felt that something had come together in his mind, and even the machine soul in the built-in logic chip was cheering. A lot of military command knowledge that I didn't understand before was understood in a very short period of time.
Thank you to the God of all opportunities, and to Governor Gu.
Since then, he has become a staunch supporter of the alliance among the Alamita sect.
This status also allowed him to be promoted quickly.
If you have the right stance, you can play a huge role in this special moment.
He was quickly promoted to a 'division commander', and also obtained the status of an alliance lieutenant colonel. He commanded a skitarii army and was transferred to the planet Strange Road VI to participate in the battle.
This planet is quite close to the forging world-Feng'ao. After Feng'ao was destroyed by the Extermination Order, the uninfected loyalists of Qi Lu VI finally stopped wavering and tried their best to break through the obstacles and get in touch with the alliance.
This newly formed Skitarii Corps to which Seedorf belongs is the people who are here to assist in the battle on the local planet.
Strange Road VI is not a very big, very rich planet. This is a resource star, with a large number of power plants built on it. By collecting star light energy, converting it into electrical energy, it is then converted into energy crystal blocks.
The energy factory is the largest industry of Qilu VI, and everything else is built around this.
The total population of the planet is only about 700 million.
Three Alliance armies and two Alamita Skitarii army groups, with a total of 46 million troops, were deployed. With the orbital support of a destroyer, they helped the local army within two years. The survivors turned the tables.
Now, the war situation has been roughly stable.
Although the number of infected people is estimated to be at least 300 million, the liberated survivors have also armed an army of tens of millions. Those infected are not strong in terms of equipment and the strength of individual mutations. The number alone does not mean much, and their outcome is to be slaughtered by the Alliance Army and the Skitarii.
There are still more than 200 million survivors. In addition to recruiting a large number of troops, the remaining people have begun to restart various energy factories, and the entire planet is gradually rebuilding and regaining production.
As long as this situation continues, the threat will become smaller and smaller, and Chit Road VI will eventually return to calm.
Seedorf has experienced it all firsthand over the past two years.
He was very proud of it.
Ever since he changed his mind after training at the Alliance Military and Political Department, he now feels that he is on the road to implementing his ideas. This made him feel very satisfied, and he became more convinced and pious about all this.
But starting from this morning, he always felt a little uneasy, as if something big was about to happen.
He was a little suspicious.
He and his troops are on a mission to enter an occupied factory area and eliminate all infected people in the area.
He has performed this kind of mission many times in the past two years. There are risks and difficulties, and you often have to face enemies that are many times more numerous than your own... However, in terms of equipment and training level, they are not something that the infected can defeat. They are always able to accomplish more with less.
That wasn't even a victory worth bragging about.
Will there be an accident this time?
Is the information wrong? The number of enemies is more than the 'no more than 150,000' mentioned in the data? Or are there a large number of advanced infected bodies among the enemies? Or do they have equipment above the norm?
I have a drum in my heart, and I naturally need to be cautious when performing tasks.
He arranged for the troops to slow down their marching speed, and actively sent out many reconnaissance companies, driving reconnaissance tanks, or secretly walking, and extended far away to ensure that they would not be ambushed along the way; at the same time, they also wanted to reconnoiter the target area. situation, and constantly report the situation. Once an unexpected powerful enemy appears, they must prepare and plan in advance. However, nothing happened.
It's a bit scary to be quiet.
On the way of the large army, not even a few infected people were seen.
The intelligence that the investigation company kept sending back also said that they saw nothing.
Extremely abnormal.
It stands to reason that in an area with about 150,000 infected people, you will definitely encounter scattered infected people in a large area on the way. It is unlikely that it will always be so quiet.
What went wrong?
He asked the troops to slow down even further, and even asked two infantry regiments to deploy defense lines on the spot to ensure the stability of the rear route.
At this moment, the reconnaissance company that rushed forward sent back information that made Seedorf's hair stand on end.
The scouts said that they finally saw the enemy in the target factory area.
There are surprisingly many of them, but also surprisingly few.
The so-called few means that there are only ten to twenty thousand infected people with guard roles around them.
The scouts managed to get around and saw at least two hundred thousand infected people gathered together. They were densely packed and jumped into the temporarily built 'water pits' one after another in an orderly manner.
These puddles are turbid in color, with thick green and red liquids mixed together. The 'person' who jumped in floated and floated for a while, then was silently dissolved and disappeared. Those dissolved biological fluids are transported to an undetermined area along with the peristaltic pipes. That direction is the hive area with the largest number and densest concentration of Qi Lu VI infected people.
What are these infected people doing?
Seedorf is not an ignorant person. As a mechanical priest, he has a lot of knowledge. In the era of the Alfonzo Sect, the most popular and popular knowledge in the entire sect was the knowledge related to the Void Zerg.
He wasn't very interested in it, but he was also familiar with it.
The answer to this current phenomenon is clear: the infected person has been summoned by genes and is actively being digested. Those thick liquids should be the so-called biomass.
The biomass is being concentrated through the pipes and concentrated into the core area of the central hive.
As for what do these infected people do with such a huge amount of biomass?
Seedorf really couldn't have imagined this answer.
What is biomass used for? As far as he knew, infected people could not directly use biomass, they could only turn themselves into biomass. Only Zerg with the ability to hatch can use biomass to build biological weapons.
But Seedorf struggled for two years on Strange Road VI and never saw a serious Void Zerg. According to the intelligence, there should be no Void Zerg on this planet.
In this case, what would the infected person do by turning themselves into biomass?
While reporting the detected intelligence to his superiors, he thought carefully for a while and made a decision.
No matter what the enemy is trying to do, just stop them.
Biomass is always easier to deal with than infected people. No matter how weak the latter is, it still needs a bullet. The opponent may have a few broken guns in his hand, and his side may suffer some casualties. As for biomass? It's just a lump of organic liquid. Once it's burned by fire and the temperature drops, a large piece of it will be completely inactivated.
Taking advantage of the dense gathering of enemies and the small number of guards, wouldn't it be enough to bombard them and cut off the biomass transmission channel?
The artillery was deployed and began a ferocious bombardment of the factory area. The artillery regiments and artillery companies affiliated with each regiment were all mobilized. More than a thousand cannons of various calibers fired wildly at the factory area.
Those huge steel and concrete buildings are very strong, but they will still be damaged and collapse under intensive shelling.
When one collapses, a digester is destroyed.
At the same time, the infantrymen ride on armored vehicles and rush in quickly. Under the cover of artillery fire, they will eliminate the guards, and finally blast the buildings one by one, or enter the building to attack the unarmed infected who are waiting to be digested. Kill them all and destroy the digester.
At the same time, the reconnaissance company that arrived first also applied for action.
When the battle started and even became fierce, these hidden scouts also cut off the pipelines buried in the ground that transported biomass to the distant central hive.
The whole battle ended quite smoothly. They eliminated this group of enemies without any difficulty.
However, Seedorf was not happy.
Instead, he felt a little anxious.
New orders from superiors soon arrived.
His troops were canceled the rest period scheduled after the mission, and his superiors asked him to continue moving forward immediately, and the target was still a digester.
Over the next 72 hours, Seedorf's 301 mechanics rarely stopped. Each regiment and each company can only take a few hours' rest at most. Several logistics battalions are already busy, constantly transferring ammunition and field food supplies from the rear to ensure the supply of frontline troops for operations.
They have brought down many digesters, large and small, of various types.
Moreover, we also met some other friendly troops in the middle and found that they were all doing similar things.
The battle was easy, but fast and tiring, and the troops suffered some unnecessary casualties. Some commanders were still dissatisfied and did not understand why this was happening, and suggested that the troops be allowed to rest.
But on the one hand, the orders from his superiors were pressing him very urgently, and on the other hand, Seedorf himself could sense that something was wrong, so he suppressed all these opinions.
Turns out, he was right.
While once again personally leading the division guard to conduct a combat attack, Seedorf heard muffled sounds coming from the distant infection center area.
The ground shook slightly.
Seedorf found a high place and looked there, only to see biological ships one after another rising from the ground and flying towards the dusky sky!
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I'm guilty... I finished writing last night and wanted to rest for a while before continuing, but I fell asleep...
I'll write another chapter later to make up for yesterday's broken promise.
(End of chapter)