Chapter 140: War Begins (2) The Rain Stops, and the Bloody Battle Begins

"The first round of strikes is in place, and the effectiveness is being evaluated..."

"The killing radius is being recalculated, and the data correction team is on standby..."

In the weapon array command room of the Soul Redeemer above the orbit, the calculation officer group and the observation and aiming group are working together attentively.

In the weapon array room in the middle of the battleship in front, the ready loaders and gunners are nervously looking at the gunnery sergeant, waiting for his instructions.

The huge sound of the shelling forced them to work only with soundproof headphones. They could not hear the instructions and operated through the gunnery sergeant's hand order.

The sergeant did not have this treatment. He had to keep in touch with the command room at any time, so the eardrum perforation and bleeding accompanied by the shelling was a common occurrence in his position.

At this time, his raised right hand was attracting the attention of everyone in the gun room, and his left hand was tightly holding the communicator receiver on the wall, waiting for feedback from the command room.

"Data correction completed, second round of strikes ready, waiting for orders..."

"Permitted to fire!"

"Permitted to fire! I order! 3-2-1! Fire!"

As the command room's orders arrived, the sergeants in each weapon room swung their right hands vigorously, and the gunners also stepped hard on the trigger.

With a huge roar and gunpowder smoke filling the entire cabin, the macro cannon's shells left the muzzle under huge kinetic energy and smashed straight to the ground with their hatred.

After a short period of vacuum, the shells entered the planet's atmosphere, and the ceramic steel on the surface of the warhead quickly turned red and hot under the intense burning air.

The air tried to prevent the passage of these foreign objects, but the sonic boom and shock wave of being penetrated proved its failure;

The great demon of Tzeentch tried to lock the trajectory of these destructive forces with his eyes, but the demon-breaking inscriptions on the shells and the increasingly fast speed denied its attempt.

None of them could stop the coming of judgment. In just 1 minute and 40 seconds, the malice from the Redeemer of the Dead Souls, 100,000 meters above the ground, once again accurately descended on this group of demons.

Boom boom boom boom!

Five macro cannon shells, which had been corrected for damage data, once again penetrated deeply into the hard soil layer on the surface after a long-distance attack.

The highly condensed silicon molecules were as soft as plasticine under this powerful kinetic energy impact.

A crater of more than ten meters and dust of the same height were formed at the same time. The huge shock wave and the explosion that followed changed the color of the entire battlefield.

At this moment, the transparent air violated the laws of nature and became visible to the naked eye. The shock wave transmitted the kinetic energy carried in it to the surroundings at an extremely fast speed.

The loosely structured change spirits and Nurglings were torn apart and evaporated by the air at this moment, and even the remains were not left. The same was true for the rare mortal cultists.

The bloodletting demon's bronze-like body withstood this wave of impact, but before it could regain its footing, the physical shrapnel and the 3,000-degree high temperature that followed broke through its body's defense, crushing its body in the real universe and driving away its filthy soul.

The smoke and dust brought by these huge waves spread all around, stopping just in front of the positions of the mortal auxiliary army. The heat wave and gunpowder mixed with the smell of burning blood made those with a keen sense of smell sneeze a few times.

The light spear descended again, and after the laser of more than ten meters vaporized all the covered demons, the plowed land was like glass melting and emitting hot bubbles.

The strike position this time was carefully selected. After the last correction feedback, it extended towards the direction of the demon camp, which was an effective supplement to the macro cannon's blocking shooting.

The airdrop warehouse in the sky has landed, and under the escort of transport ships and fighters, thousands of mortal legions finally appeared at one end of the battlefield.

This battle seemed to have reached its climax at the beginning, but everyone present knew that whether it was the demons who had been preparing for a long time or the humans who had just appeared, the power in their hands was only the tip of the iceberg.

What they and they will face next is the beginning of a bloody battle.

The demons don't care about this loss. In the past year, how many of them have come out of the seal, I am afraid only they themselves know.

But the ammunition storage of the Soul Redeemer is limited. After all, it is not a warship specially prepared for orbital strikes.

Apart from most of the conventional armor-piercing and armor-piercing shells prepared for attacking similar ships, the ammunition depot of the Soul Redeemer, which can really be used for killing ground unarmored units, will not exceed 30 bases at most.

Assuming that each round of artillery fire can create a little more than 1 minute of firepower blockade for the ground forces, it will only take half an hour to finish the thirty bases.

But the data is not calculated in this way. The Soul Redeemer must leave at least 5 bases of artillery shells for emergency situations to deal with emergencies.

So the time they can really provide cover for the ground forces will not exceed 15 minutes.

And these 15 minutes are the precious time window for the mortal troops to enter orbit with almost zero damage.

After this time, the troops that enter later will definitely suffer from ground attacks and losses caused by the anti-aircraft firepower of the demon army that reacts.

The light spear is not trustworthy. The natural disadvantage of this penetrating strike weapon in terms of killing range is infinitely magnified here. Unless it is to attack a single target, the killing of the light spear is meaningless in front of the demons here. But from the ground application to the arrival of the orbital strike, how can a single target stand there stupidly for it to hit?

Therefore, the light spear is not trustworthy. They can only trust themselves.

15 minutes later, the infantry and armored troops in the first batch of landing troops were advancing to the second-line battlefield in full swing, and put down the front shovel of the armored vehicle to shovel a row of trenches for the infantry to serve as temporary trenches.

After each trench was plowed, the soldiers of the mortal legion could not wait to pick up the engineer shovel in their hands and began to modify and prepare as soon as the shovel truck left.

One by one, a huge supply airdrop warehouse was opened, and under the load of the troop carrier, these ammunition were quickly and effectively deployed at various nodes of the position.

The subsequent large troops also began to enter the hidden place behind the trenches in an orderly manner to assemble, preparing for subsequent support or counterattacks.

With the help of the servitors, the technical sergeants of the legion seized every opportunity to deploy automatic weapon platforms and other equipment.

The engineers drove the minelayers at full speed, walked through the busy crowds towards the front-line positions, laid anti-personnel mines one by one, and then returned to the rear of the positions before the end of the fire blockade.

A full 30,000 soldiers and their weapons were deployed on this less than 20-kilometer-long front line in the first wave of delivery by the Soul Redeemer at all costs.

This is also the transportation limit of the Soul Redeemer after several hours of advance preparation. After all, these vanguard troops are also the elite of the mortal legion.

The troops behind will not be able to have this treatment.

The inventory of orbital airdrops has been completely delivered, and the deck inventory of the cruiser has been used to the limit. They need more time to prepare before they can organize the mission requirements of spacecraft and transportation again.

The ground troops need to hold on for at least 3 hours before they can see the arrival of the next batch of reinforcements. During these long three hours, they have no one to rely on, and they can only rely on their own strength to find a way to survive.

Wave after wave of demons died on the way to the charge, but more demons appeared in the camp behind.

The servants of Khorne cheered and roared for the blood they saw. The smell of sulfur in the fierce smoke and the stink of burning blood made them so excited that they could hardly control themselves. If it weren't for the natural deterrence of the great demon, they really wanted to rush forward regardless of everything.

Either kill or die in killing, this doesn't make much difference to low-level demons.

Chaos has begun to appear in the corners of the camp, and some uncontrollable demons have begun to point their butcher knives at their own camp. But under the slaughter of the great demon, these chaos are still barely acceptable.

When the time is close to zero, the shells of the macro cannon have not landed again after an explosion, and the light spear array has also been overloaded due to heat after continuous shooting and needs to be cooled.

When the originally loudest main theme of the front battlefield began to come to an end, the great demons on the Chaos side knew that their time had come.

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