Chapter 382: Expedition Road: Joe Goris's Eagle
Hot laser beams and bright decomposition beams intertwined and flew in the air. The walls were filled with holes. A large number of debris and concrete residues were flying everywhere like snowflakes. The clanging sound of the impact was accompanied by the roaring sound of gunshots. echoed throughout the street.
The red laser beam suddenly hit a piece of gravel, and the concrete fragments on it suddenly sprayed out, like raindrops, splashing on the white scar Sumani Zhiman who poked his head forward. On the company commander's face, he subconsciously closed his eyes to prevent dust from splashing into his eyes.
The company commander opened his eyes again after a moment and looked towards the end of the street where artillery fire was flying. In the wide square in front of the dock leading to the star port, there were countless Dark Eldar and their mercenary allies lying behind the bunker, using their hands to The destructive weapons were aimed at this side and fired fiercely.
The roaring rain of bullets cut through the shadows between the tall buildings on both sides, shattered walls, interrupted street lights, and left corpses all over the street in the explosion.
Captain Sumani looked at the star port gate that was almost within easy reach, but his subordinates could no longer move forward. They fought all the way from the detention area and finally came to this place of salvation after paying a heavy price. In front of the gate, but here they also ran into the iron wall of the Spirit Clan that had been prepared for a long time.
The wall caused the escapees to have their heads bruised and bloody. The whole street was covered with corpses. Although there were also Eldar among them, most of them were human. The corpses of mortals were left in patches. On that dark street, the constant gunfire overhead illuminated the surface of the armor, illuminating the corpses scattered all around.
"Company Commander! I bring bad news!"
From the corner of the street that was shattered by artillery fire and unable to raise its head, a white-scarred warrior wearing a white armor and a unique braid on his head ran from the side, holding a handful of A machete roughly made of old metal, followed by another White Scar warrior.
They buried their heads and bent their bodies to fire from behind the ruins piled up on the side. Eye-catching beams of light continued to pass by their sides. There were also a limited number of mortal warriors standing on the ruins, holding the weapons of the Eldar. It fired back at the outside, but the strength of its counterattack was quite limited.
Sumani saw with his own eyes an Astra Militarum soldier wearing a gray-green training uniform. He just picked up a gun and jumped out of the ruins bunker in front of him. In an instant, he was hit by a roaring laser, and the decomposition ray blinked. In an instant, its upper body was decomposed in the fluorescent light, and the flesh and blood melted rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. The white bones were also instantly powdered after the flesh and blood tissue disappeared.
The corpse of the Astra Militarum suddenly fell to the ground, and glowing powder flowed from the gap in the disappeared upper body. The skull that had not completely disappeared slid along the powder to the refugees hiding in the ruins on one side, which immediately attracted the attention of women and There was a scream from the children.
Their voices were harsh, as if they were scratching the glass with a knife. Sumani had a displeased expression on his face as he listened to the screams.
"I've heard enough bad news today, so another one won't make any difference." Captain Sumani turned his back, leaned against the ruins, and turned to look at Bai Scar coming up from the side. He slid and stopped next to the company commander.
The soldier crouched down, buried his head and dodged another firing line. "Struk and I found a large number of alien enemies approaching us on the left wing street. They were preparing to surround us. Company Commander, it’s too late if you don’t leave!”
"I also know that we have to leave quickly, but the current situation...damn it!" Captain Sumani leaned on the gravel. He looked at the white-scarred warriors who were leaning around him. Most of them were not What decent weapons? The so-called weapons are just simple self-defense weapons made from reinforced concrete or scrap armor from the ruins.
This makes them look more like a group of greenskins than a group of Space Marines. Only the power armor they wear can prove their identity, or at least they can barely prove it until the power armor is broken.
Sumani looked around at the soldiers around him. He leaned against the ruins because of the continuous laser strikes from behind. He subconsciously lowered his head and then raised it again, "Didn't there three of you go? Why did you two come back?" ?”
"Isda Khan is dead, company commander." said the second White Scar who followed him. Sumani looked at the soldiers he looked around at, looking at the dusty faces.
"Where is Sergeant Leok?" "Report, Sergeant Leok is also dead." "Your Majesty, the Emperor! Are there any officers alive?!"
"I am the company commander." From the ruins on one side, a helmeted soldier came closer. From the logo on his shoulder armor, it can be seen that he is a sergeant. The Emperor is above. This is no longer a soldier. Is he the last "officer" besides himself?
Sumani sighed, then looked at the corporal, "How many battle brothers do we have left?" "Twelve people, company commander, before entering this passage, three more brothers died. Our situation is not good. "
The corporal had obviously known this for a long time, and told the company commander the bad news almost immediately. The latter looked around at the surviving battle brothers. Since the breakout, the White Scar Platoon, which originally had 30 people, had only Less than half of the people were left, and most of the brothers died on the way to the breakout.
At first, the White Scars could attack the Dark Eldar quickly by taking advantage of the sudden outbreak of riots, dealing them a heavy blow in close combat, and rushed out with the mortal soldiers and civilians behind them. They did hit them at a long distance by relying on their speed.
But as the Dark Eldars reacted again and mobilized enough interception forces to besiege them from all sides, the White Scars, who lacked any effective weapons, began to suffer serious casualties, and the number of their survivors dropped almost precipitously until now.
"We must break through. Can the firepower of the mortals provide us with another short-range assault cover?" Sumani turned his head and asked the corporal, who was squatting on the side and rear of the ruins. The dust shaking down from his head made him look like he had just crawled out of the ruins.
"It's tough, Captain. We didn't capture many Eldar weapons to begin with, not to mention the ones that were discarded after the ammunition ran out. It's hard for mortals to suppress the Eldar at any time."
"Not to mention protecting the refugees! They're just causing more trouble." On the other side, a White Scar warrior lying on a broken wall added loudly, his tone full of complaints and helplessness.
Sumani turned his head and looked to one side, and found that he was right. The refugees who survived several rounds of massacres behind the ruins were panicked. Many of them were already frightened birds, hiding hysterically under the sound of gunfire and bullets, screaming and shouting.
The priests of the state religion who were supposed to comfort them with faith and prayer went crazy earlier than anyone else, and their madness was even stronger. Their red robes were already filthy, but they still knelt on the streets full of ruins and ashes, hysterically reciting prayers to the dark night sky above their heads. Their speed of speech was so fast that it didn't seem like they were praying at all, but just the crazy talk before death.
In front of them, there were not many mortal soldiers who had experienced countless wars and were tempered to be extremely calm and composed. They performed very well in the previous breakout, even by the standards of Astartes monks, they were very good. They calmly snatched the weapons of the Eldar, and then mastered those weapons with amazing understanding and proficiency.
They helped the White Scars rush here. Without them, Sumani and his warriors would never have come here alive, but only one in ten of these outstanding mortal soldiers remained. Most of them had no weapons and were suppressed by the fierce artillery fire from the opposite side, and they couldn't even raise their heads.
"Captain, if we still want to leave here, we must break out before the Eldar surround us from both sides." The soldier who came back from reconnaissance said, squatting in front of Sumani. Sumani looked at him and knew that he was right. They must break out as soon as possible, the sooner the better.
While Sumani was thinking about this problem, the Eldar were impatient and began to urge him to make a decision. The way they urged him was to bombard the ruins on one side with a whistling blaster beam, which instantly blew a big gap in it, and several Astra Militarum and Navy soldiers behind it were blown into pieces.
Sumani and the White Scar soldiers around him turned their heads and looked at the huge gap. The captain immediately stood up and lay on the ruins to peek out. He saw the source of the firepower. A hover tank was slowly driving in from the square at the end of the street.
The heavy armored floating behemoth smashed the walls at the end of the street on both sides and slowly drove into the street amid the collapsed rubble. Large pieces of debris falling from the air hit its armor, and the front armor slope of its front part pushed away all the ruins blocking the road and drove forward.
The rotating turret slowly lifted up, and the heavy muzzle fired another shot at the end of the street. The blaster beam suddenly whistled and blasted another ruined bunker of the White Scars that was close at hand.
Thick smoke billowed, dust flew, and the Astra Militarum and the Navy shouted loudly to each other to move to both sides, while the refugees screamed in fear, howling like a group of frightened birds, the sound mixed with the harsh sound of tanks scraping through the ruins and the continuous gunfire turned into an unbearable chorus of wail.
The white scars turned their heads to look at the mortals in chaos, and then were attracted back by a heavy punching sound. The soldiers looked at the company commander on the side. Sumani's fist hit the ruins on the side, and he stuck his head out to look at the tank with a fierce look, like a prairie wolf forced into a desperate situation.
"If we are sure to die here, then I will never wait to die like a sheep! I will die on the way to the attack, and I will never let the blood of the Khan be shamed!"
Sumani turned his head to look at the soldiers behind him. Everyone surrounded the company commander and gave him his own answer with a firm look. Sumani looked at the soldiers in front of him and had never been so proud of his brothers.
"Su Tai, rush up with me to kill the tank, and the others will attract fire to cover us! Now, action!" Sumani stood up with a roar. He stood up and crossed the ruins in front of him. The scout Su Tai who was squatting in front of him immediately followed. .
Behind them, all the White Scars stood up, howling as they strode out from behind the ruins, using their bodies to attract the fire from the advancing tank and the enemy behind it. The Astra Militarum and naval soldiers in the ruins, seeing the Astartes rush out of the bunker, also immediately rushed to the ruins, and began to shoot with their guns to provide cover fire without any orders.
Fierce artillery fire roared from both sides, but Sumani strode towards the tank in response to the incoming artillery fire. He kept changing his steps and strode around the ruins dumped on the street. ran through.
On its side, a white-scarred warrior who was charging forward with him was hit by a shot. His helmet was penetrated by the decomposition ray, leaving a huge hole in the back of the helmet and fell to the ground. .
But that didn't make the company commander stop. He continued to stride forward, and when he rushed past the sacrificed brother who fell on the street, he pointed at his body, "Su Tai! Pull out the energy tube from his power backpack." Come out and throw it to me! I'll turn that tank into scrap metal!"
"Obey the company commander!" Su Tai shouted loudly, following closely behind him, and then used a sliding shovel to avoid several rays that had been shot, and suddenly slid to the side of the soldier who was lying on the ground. He almost stopped after He immediately started to open the power backpack on his back.
Su Tai's fingers wearing power armor quickly slid to the upper side of the backpack, and after snapping it open, the surface of the power backpack was opened. The armor in the center quickly slid open to both sides, exposing the complex pipelines connected underneath. When the instrument was displayed, Su Tai grabbed the display interface and pulled it off roughly.
As the display screen was pulled out, the cables and lines behind it were pulled out together. Afterwards, they were broken and sparks danced and fell around. Among the falling pipes, there were also exposed There is a circular metal card slot with a cylindrical object inserted into it.
"I'm sorry, brother, although we can't take away your gene seed, we will let you regain the glory in the name of Khan once again." Su Tai said and buried his head, dodged a fired beam and immediately He reached out and clasped the end ring of the cylinder, turned it sideways and pulled it out with a burst of unlocking air.
The cylinder was pulled out of the backpack, and a strong light shone under the blue fluorescent glass. Su Tai sat on the ground, and with a sudden swing of his arm, he threw the luminous cylinder to the company commander in front.
The latter fell from a block above his head, and suddenly hit the broken wall in front of him and rolled over. The moment he landed, he turned sideways to avoid a roaring decomposition ray. The company commander shook back and stepped fiercely towards Stride forward.
He rushed towards the advancing floating tank at lightning speed. The latter rumbled amid the rays that were constantly intersecting on both sides. The commander standing on the turret put his hands on the armor. He looked at the large tank. The interstellar warrior who rushed forward also looked at the reaction tube in his hand and his eyes widened.
The commander lowered his head and roared loudly at the shooter below, "Kill him! Fire and blow him to ashes!"
The commander's order was executed immediately. The gunner's finger slid in front of his face, and the holographic fire control system quickly responded to the entire vehicle. The turret slowly turned around under the operation of the automatic motor, and the thick black hole muzzle was aimed at The company commander quickly rushed forward amidst the gunfire.
"Fire!" the commander suddenly waved his arm and shouted. As he waved his arm forward, the black muzzle suddenly lit up with a striking red light. The light quickly became brighter, and in the blink of an eye, it Shining like a rising sun.
The blaster beam hit the ground with a bang, and the instantaneous explosion raised a huge amount of dust and ash that covered the entire street. The commander raised his arm in front of him to block the particles of dust that were raised and spread by the explosion. , the tiny particles in the dust hit the commander's face, causing his face to sting.
The commander raised his arms, but his eyes peeked forward from below. He kept scanning the situation around him, but as the explosions around him continued to rise, all he could see was a puff of smoke.
The Eldar captain looked at the light that kept flashing in the smoke. It was the light and shadow of rays flashing through the thick fog. The sound of gunshots was heard in the surroundings, the shouts of killing and the collapse of the outer walls of the building. The sound accompaniment under its huge curtain disrupted the commander's senses and made him unable to see everything around him.
But suddenly, in the thick smoke, the commander heard a burst of rapid footsteps, followed by the sound of heavy iron hoofs on the ground, as if a war horse was leaping in front of the chariot.
The commander squinted slightly and looked at the billowing smoke in front of him. Suddenly he saw that thing. The flying horse showed its outline in the smoke and dust. The shadow quickly approached the surface of the thick fog. The front hooves of the horse stepped out of the thick fog, jumped through the air, and stepped on the turret in front of the commander.
He raised his head and looked at the tall horse standing in front of him. It was a golden horse that was dissolved and blurred. The horse's brand was imprinted on the chest of the burly giant, but even after being burned by the high temperature, the horse's head was still clear. Incomparably, he stared at the commander below with his steel-like eyes, and stared at himself along with a pair of eyes above the horse's head.
Captain Sumani kicked the commander, and he pushed him against the flip-up turret. The commander's head was completely squeezed on the cover behind him, and his face turned sideways was raised with his eyes. Looking at the white-scarred warrior in front of him, he held the reaction tube in his hand, raised it high, and then suddenly crushed the outer glass.
Not only was the glass crushed, but the four cooling tubes extending upward along the glass wall below it were instantly broken. The white smoke in the tube instantly gushed out, mixing with the shining blue light inside it. In the blink of an eye, a strong chemical reaction broke out in it. The entire small tube was as bright as day in the hands of Captain Sumani, making him look like he was holding a sun.
Sumani threw it into the turret fiercely. The overloaded nuclear reactor hit the commander's thigh, then rolled forward and fell into the turret along his knees. When the cylinder fell, it hit the gun bolt and energy ammunition rack in the turret, and fell on the plate under the commander's feet after bouncing left and right.
Sumani kicked the tank commander in the chest, and the latter hit the turret cover and slid into the turret mouth weakly. The company commander took a step forward and slapped the back of the cover, throwing it on the turret and locking the entire turret. Amidst the desperate screams, Captain Sumani stepped on the edge of the turret and jumped up from the floating tank.
Sumani knelt on one knee on the ground. Behind him, a huge explosion instantly rose from the street. The sky-high fire cloud illuminated the back of the company commander. He slowly raised his head and looked at the pirates in front of him who were shocked. They raised their heads and looked at the turret flying over their heads. The incomplete wreckage hit the square behind them, and the barrel was directly inserted into the ground.
Everyone was startled and slowly turned their heads to look at the White Scar Captain in front of them. The latter also slowly stood up and clenched his iron fists. The fingers of the power armor crackled inwards and tightened. Amid the loud collision, all the pirates at the entrance of the square raised their guns and aimed at the captain in front of them.
Sumani faced the enemies in front of him and raised his head fearlessly at the rows of black muzzles. He looked down at the alien enemies in front of him and raised his head proudly. Just as the captain was about to welcome his final heroic end, a whistling bomb shot past his ear and the head of a standing Eldar exploded directly.
The Eldar's skull shattered under the bombardment, and the brains splattered all around as if they were crushed. The Eldar and their mercenaries standing around looked at the splattered brains in surprise, and then all stepped back, but the closest people were still splattered with a lot of blood and flesh debris.
They held their guns in surprise and looked up at the direction of the artillery fire. Captain Sumani also turned his head in confusion. He was sure that it was a bullet fired by a grenade launcher, but... they didn't have a grenade launcher?
Sumani looked at the smoke raised by the tank explosion behind him, and the smoke with a faint flame burning on the wreckage of the tank. The fire danced in the dust, just like a curtain of a shadow play, lighting up any shadow that would appear on it. Soon, a shadow appeared on it, a huge shadow.
There was also a vague sound, a vague shout that seemed distant and distorted in the gunfire. The sound was getting closer and closer, and the shadow gradually had a clearer outline with the gradually clearer sound.
Sumani looked at the shadow, and gradually seemed to recognize the owner of the shadow. Only one thing had that outline. The captain stared at the huge shadow that was completely formed on the smoke with wide eyes, listening to the deafening war cry in it.
This is a waaaaaaaagh.