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"The clones of each priest are already coming to us." Sevin's eyes flickered, and he was communicating with others remotely, "Then we will direct the battle together."
"Okay." Gray nodded.
"I will not participate in the discussion." Yaoen turned to look at Gray, "I will go to the front line to fight and find out the location of the enemy's top brass."
Gray nodded again.
The guards were already good at beheading tactics. As long as Yao En could find out the location of the enemy's top brass, they would all be killed in less than a day.
However, Yaoen's real purpose was not to prepare for beheading tactics, he wanted to perform his real duties in this war.
I'm sorry, brothers, something happened today. Someone stole something on the day I was on duty. I was investigated for a day and it turned out that it had nothing to do with me.
Just got home now
Chapter 173 New Tactics
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After the enemy fleet was expelled from the system and no more enemy orbital bombardments threatened the area outside the Void Shield, the already dominant Skitarii were finally able to leave the protection of the Void Shield and conduct normal warfare.
Under the cover of Titans and Knights, Skitarii ground troops charged towards the enemy positions, while reinforcements from Tyrone appeared behind the enemy positions to join the battle.
The situation did not change much on some battlefields where the enemy had a huge advantage. The Skitarii built positional defenses. The enemy attacked while deploying manpower to deal with the Tyron Army that suddenly appeared from the rear.
Only in the Forge World Arctic there is a different kind of war.
The Arctic region was entrusted to the Tyrone army by the priests responsible for its defense, so that the freed skitarii could be sent to other more intense battlefields.
The 44th Regiment is responsible for the war in the Arctic region.
The First Company, with a total of 30,000 men, was responsible for retaking the western region controlled by the enemy. In addition to fighting, they had another business, which was to test a new tactic.
Rather than being brought together to attack a position or fortress, entire company forces were dispersed into skirmish lines.
Grote, who had become the commander of the first company, was riding a command-type Leman Russ tank forward. Through the holographic image, he saw that his subordinates were scattered everywhere, and there were often only a few hundred people in a large area.
Grote got out of the car and looked around.
Two Ogryn guards wearing power armor walked on both sides of the tank, and the company commander's guard of 500 people also followed the tank. They were in small groups and looked very loose.
The entire company moved loosely on the battlefield.
Although the battlefield is located in Antarctica, there is no ice, snow or glaciers. The field of vision is dotted with various large and small industrial facilities.
Groat felt that this place was more like a city, completely different from the battlefield environment he imagined when he was preparing for the war on the celestial engine.
From time to time, several fighter planes flew past in the sky, and then a few flashes of light appeared on the horizon directly in front.
The artillery unit of the 44th Regiment was bombing on the edge of the battlefield, and Grote didn't know what they were bombing.
"Company commander, what are we doing?" The driver who was controlling the tank turned around and asked.
"I don't know," Grote replied.
This is not an impatient prevarication, but a truth.
Grote himself didn't know what he was doing. He only knew that the order he received was to advance, but he had never fought a decent battle.
The entire company of infantry looked more like an outing than fighting.
Grote knew that other infantrymen in the entire company who were out of his sight were also on the outing.
There was a sudden roar when Grote was observing his surroundings. He and his men turned their heads to look in the direction of the sound.
This sound was not the sound of soldiers from other areas encountering enemies and exchanging fire, but the sound of the giant war machines called Titans of the Mechanicus.
There are several "mountains" moving on the distant horizon. These are Titans.
The Titans were executing the transfer order given by the priest, heading towards the high-intensity battlefield where they were needed more. However, when passing by, they saw friendly forces from the Tyrone system, and then said hello in the Titan way.
When he saw these Titans, Groot felt that he was not much different from what they were doing, he was just moving forward.
After observing for a while, Groat retracted his body into the tank, and then continued to stare at the holographic projection.
Although everyone seems to be having an outing, the war is indeed going on.
The holographic projection shows all detected positions or fortresses previously captured by the enemy. Although they have not yet been attacked by infantry, they are still rapidly decreasing.
The benefit of the new tactics being tested by the First Company is obvious, that is, the ground troops can advance very fast.
Grote glanced at the overall situation and then looked at a field of red dots scattered in front of the infantry.
"We are about to face a battle, cheer up." Grote reminded the entire company on the communication channel.
The command Leman Russ tank drove forward for about ten minutes, and Grote saw a warehouse directly ahead.
The warehouse has been cleaned by artillery and fighter planes. The left half has collapsed, and there are remains of fortifications and corpses inside and outside.
The most difficult things here have been taken care of before, and there are only a few enemies left in the warehouse.
After discovering the Leman Russ tank arriving outside the warehouse, the survivors of the warehouse poured out with various weapons.
Grote observed them carefully and found that these enemies had various degrees of mutation. They had various weapons in their hands, and there were even some who were shirtless and carrying two axes. Their equipment was not even as good as that of the militiamen. The only advantage was that they They were all angry, and they were being driven forward by their anger, even if they were facing tanks and infantry all wearing power armor, they were not afraid.
The tanks and surrounding infantry had already opened fire while Grot was observing. Half of the enemies rushing out of the warehouse were killed by heavy bolters and laser rifles in just five seconds, but the remaining enemies were still charging forward. .
This is a battle without any suspense.
If the various artillery and fortifications here in the warehouse were not destroyed by the fighter planes that flew here before, it might still take some effort, but unfortunately there is no such thing.
The scanning device integrated into the power armor worn by each infantryman still operates during the battle. After the latest scan, a red mark appeared on the map in the HUD. This mark was approaching from the east at a very fast speed.
Grote immediately assigned his manpower to defend the east side, and all the weapons on the tank were turned around.
After being fully prepared, Grote put his eyes on the observation mirror to check the situation to the east.
Soon a Space Marine wearing crimson power armor and holding two axes appeared in Grote's field of vision. He shuttled back and forth between various objects that could be used as bunkers, approaching at an extremely fast speed.
The heavy bolters on the tank and the surrounding infantry opened fire.
The Space Marine continued to walk between the bunkers, quickly rushed to the tank and chopped off the heads of the two infantrymen with an axe, and then raised the corpses to use as shields and approached the tank.
"Lute!" Groat called to his Ogryn guards.
The man named Lute had already rushed forward with his arms raised. His heavy body was assisted by the transmission device of the Ogryn Armor and rushed forward. The Space Marine he targeted did not avoid it but immediately swung his ax. When he activated his power armor, Lute's arms were also smashed down.
The sound of shattering power armor sounded. The Space Marine's head and helmet were smashed to pieces, and even his shoulders were smashed to the level of his waist. The severe deformation of his body and power armor was horrific.
"I...I killed three big ones...I...are the best!" Lute raised his bloody arms and cheered loudly.
Grote wanted to remind Lute that he had killed not three but one, but just as he was about to speak, he noticed that the blood on the battlefield was gathering and then disappearing.
"What's happening here?"
"The blood is..."
The infantrymen who had just wiped out all the enemies noticed this strange situation. The blood was flowing and gathering, and then disappeared as if it was evaporated.
"We have to report this situation." Grote photographed the strange phenomenon in front of him and transmitted it to the guards.
Having a really bad day today
Things should be fine tomorrow, I'll get up early and update
Chapter 174 Analysis
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Blood is flowing out of every corpse, from organs such as the eyes and mouth, and even from the pores of the skin. This kind of bleeding phenomenon is obviously abnormal for a moving corpse whose heart has stopped beating.
These streams of blood pool on the ground and then evaporate.
This is video data sent from Grote. Yaoen, who is wearing a guard power armor, is squatting in a factory in enemy-occupied territory to carefully review this data and then analyze it.
But because this phenomenon was so weird, Yaoen couldn't analyze anything after watching it for a long time. He only knew that it was supernatural and abnormal.
This phenomenon also appeared in the war with the heretical sect Lord of Wisdom a few years ago. Almost all the guards had witnessed similar phenomena, but only Yao En knew what this phenomenon represented.
"Ritual." Yaoen muttered to himself as he checked the image.
This should undoubtedly be a sacrilegious ritual. Its function may be to strengthen the isolated heretical armies in the forged world, or it may allow demons to break through the veil between subspace and reality and come to the material universe...
Groat was not the only one to discover the strange phenomenon about blood. Many people in the Tyron army who were fighting in the Forge World also witnessed it.
Yao En then looked at the images.
Some images show that on the battlefield, the blood of both the enemy and the enemy is gathered together, rising into the sky and turning into a blood ball about eight meters in diameter.
Some images show blood gathering together to form a bloody man, and then the bloody man yells at the soldier who took the video, saying various incantations that people cannot understand but can perceive the ferocious and terrifying concept. .
There are various other images as well.
These images were uploaded to the guards by the soldiers who captured them. Yao En believed that Gray should have seen these images, but Gray should just find it strange and tell the soldiers to be more careful, because he did not know about the evil gods about subspace. knowledge.
Nothing useful can be found from the analysis of a single image, but the combination of many images allows Yaoen to realize that these strange phenomena about blood are not irregular.
The bioprocessor installed in Yaoen's brain is different from those installed by other guards. This special bioprocessor can process information about Chaos Corruption more properly.
When the bioprocessor sensed a flash of an idea about a pattern in Yaoen's mind, it immediately pursued the idea and assisted Yaoen in his analysis through technical means.
First, a map was displayed in front of Yao En, and then the location of the soldier who sent the video data was marked on the map. At the same time, the content of the video data was also highlighted with the most important paragraphs.
Yaoen stared at the map and analyzed it. He found that the strange blood phenomenon photographed by people at the southernmost and northernmost point of the Forge World was the slightest, and at most it was a bit supernatural.
The most serious phenomenon was photographed by people near the center of the forging world. The image of a bloody man made of condensed blood and roaring at the photographer took place here.
When Yao En thought of this, the bioprocessor marked a large circle on the map, which was the location near the equator of the forging world, and all information about this location was also displayed.
[Areas included in this location: Engine Foundry (giant), Wild Ass Foundry (large). 】
[The ruling sage of the forge world of Agrippina once deployed defenses in the engine foundry (source of information: No. 1 Guard Gray)]
[There were still a small number of troops in this area who could contact the priests of the forging world two days ago, but no new contact signals have been sent out for fifty hours (information source: No. 1 Guard Gray)]
Some of this information was known to Yao En when he first came to the Forge World, some was investigated by him in the past few days, and some was shared by Gray in the database after learning more detailed information from the priests.
The bioprocessor also performed an evaluation based on conjecture and information.
[Possibility of the source of chaos corruption: 83%. 】
"Eighty-three percent..." Yaoen looked at the evaluation results with some embarrassment.
The bioprocessor has been conducting many analyzes and evaluations these days. It has marked many areas in the Forge World that are considered to be the source of chaos corruption, but the evaluation results are not high.