Chapter 440 Black and Red, the Plan in the Shadows (Twenty-Five) Battle of Otto

Here in the Moro world, Calvin is still stepping up his schedule. On the battlefield of the Otto and Padilla systems, the Space Wolves and Blood Ravens have entered the most difficult stage of the war.

After the last court meeting, the commanders of the two battlefields once again returned to the front line from their base camps in the rear. Under pressure, the rebels under the Word Bearers changed their past tepidness and began to turn the battle into a more intense and bloody battle. Lead in the direction.

The Imperial Fleet was now suppressed by the superior strength of the Chaos Fleet and gradually withdrew from the space in the center of the galaxy.

Being able to protect themselves and contain the main force of the Word Bearers' fleet is the limit of what they can do. As for the attack launched by the escort fleet on the ground battlefield, there is really nothing that can be done.

Therefore, air defense warnings and anti-orbital airborne warfare became the main theme on the battlefields of the Wild Wolves and Demon Hunters, especially the two battle groups focused on defending the capital of the galaxy. A large number of battleships were identified by auspicious devices, which made the commanders understand that high-intensity Orbital bombardment is inevitable.

The sixth day after the war began was also the first day that the Word Bearers truly began to appear.

The anti-air scanning array in the Fermara Mountains went crazy and screamed as usual, starting at two o'clock in the morning and continuing until the end of the day.

However, the soldiers at the air defense command post did not turn off these alarms as usual, because the orbit above the holographic projector was filled with dense figures of the Word Bearers' fleet.

From the equator with the best bombing angle to the climate dividing line, enemy fleets appear in every position that poses a bombing threat.

Meteors fall from time to time in orbit, and then decompose and burn under the friction of the atmosphere. These are the only remaining military stations of the empire in the space defense system, and now these last fires have also been turned into ashes under the attack of the enemy.

Anti-ship weapon base stations have entered a dormant and concealed state, and air defense arrays will only be activated to a limited extent when key nodes are hit.

Faced with the enemy's absolute air superiority, the two commanders chose the same strategy.

They all know that in the days without fleet support, the only remaining air defense force is equal to the opportunity to support the front at critical moments.

The traffic flow leading to the Fermara Mountains from the rear has almost come to a standstill. Only a few tracks with a depth of 100 meters are still running. The new supplies and troops draw a steep curve on the statisticians' reports, whether it is the wolf Ragnar or the Salvis knows:

From now on, all they can rely on is themselves.

The command posts of each theater in the communication channel gradually entered the pre-war silence, but due to the pervasive signal interference above the orbit, the noise and meaningless waste codes became more and more noisy.

The soldiers on the front line were ordered to leave the first line in the trenches and stay on standby in fortifications to defend against heavy artillery strikes. The only remaining sentry stood at the door of the fortification and looked nervously at the sky.

Boom...

The first thunder sounded from afar, followed by more thunder. Countless points of light in the sky were burning and falling, and dense explosions on the ground brought up towering smoke and dust.

The domes of the heavy fortifications were shaking violently, and the explosions ruptured the eardrums of the soldiers in the shallow fortifications. In the background of scattered debris and dust, the soldiers looked at each other's open mouths and tongues, but could not hear any sound...

The end of the world is nothing more than this scene, but this is only the beginning of the offensive.

Meteors as dense as raindrops set off patches of fire in the atmosphere, and death claws (Chaos drop pod models) dropped from the sky carrying weapons platforms and fallen angels.

The air defense array on the ground received the order, stretched out from the bunker and then fired intercepting barrages into the air crazily. After the fleet auspicious device received the ground signal, precise targeted strikes followed.

Every second, huge casualties occurred in both camps at the same time, and every second, more powerful counterattacks poured out from the ground and the sky.

The signals from the air defense weapon station and the anti-ship weapon base station were extinguished in pieces in the eyes of the ground command, but the commanders could only hold onto the weapons in their hands and ignore their sacrifices.

In just one hour, the enemy had launched hundreds of attacks, and hundreds of them were defined as requiring direct intervention from the command headquarters.

And this is just the beginning, because the auspices of the ground command are sending out piercing alarms. Farther away from the imperial defense line, swarms of dark cloud-like Titan Arks are descending, and when these wars that once served the empire are The appearance of giant beasts on the battlefield is the real beginning of destruction and death.

Legion Wars.

This ancient word appeared in the mind of the imperial commander, and the irony was that this supreme blade, which once belonged to the empire and was later abandoned, was now in the hands of the enemy.

As for the empire, at this time, it could only use the weak and backward organizational method of the war group to barely resist the all-pervasive attack from the enemy thousands of years after the legion model was invented.

This is the case with the Alliance of Chapters in Savillian's hands. Compared to the comprehensive and vertical command system of the Word Bearers, the command system between several chapters is already bloated enough, let alone the alliance with the Astra Militarum and the Home Defense Force. Communication efficiency.

The situation of the wild wolves is slightly better, but after losing the protection of the fleet, their already obvious numerical disadvantage became particularly obvious with the collapse of the local defense force.

Yes, the essence of war is a comprehensive confrontation between two systems. The result of a comprehensive confrontation is that under the transmission of pressure from layer to layer, the most vulnerable parts will bear the greatest pressure.

The defense forces were the weakest in this battle, and naturally became the first to collapse due to the pressure.

For these forces established for the security station, the offensive of the Astartes Legion obviously exceeded the limit of their imagination, and their garrisoned positions often lost sight of one thing and another after two or three feints.

After the firepower structure was involved in chaos, the company-level fallen Astartes would use the unit firepower density that made them desperate, like a red-hot spike, to pierce the former's weak and scattered defense line.

Yes, unit firepower density, this is the difference between Astartes warriors and mortal troops, and it is also the reason why the legion warriors were able to stand at the pinnacle of the empire's military power during the Great Crusade.

Power armor brings them heavier armor, and large-caliber, heavy-duty individual weapons bring more powerful firepower;

Specialized biological transformation gives them a sharper reaction speed, and the servo scanning array and visual enhancement nerves bring more precise gunmanship;

The life span of a hundred years allows them to have a more tacit tactical coordination, and the weakened pain and enhanced thinking give them a more resolute offensive will;

All-round, real-time individual-level communication gives them a stronger battlefield perception, and the century-old battlefield memory absorbed from the gene seed gives them richer war experience from the beginning...

Any of these advantages is enough to make the Astartes hit any mortal army with a dimensionality reduction effect;

And when these conditions are summarized into one unit and appear on the battlefield in an organized manner according to their respective division of labor, that is the beginning of the enemy's nightmare.

There is no room for reaction. As long as the mortal troops fail to complete the firepower integration at the first encounter with them, they will only be directly disintegrated and divided by the mercury-like attack under the impact of the face-to-face impact.

Even if some legions have relatively strict discipline and can complete the firepower integration in the first time, the Word Bearers who have complete air superiority will increase the stakes on the already precarious front again, using groups of fighters to bomb close to pave a bloody road for their raid.

Fortunately, this was expected by the commanders of the Empire. Neither Ragnar nor Salvis deployed these troops in key positions.

The nodes of the defense line are always under the responsibility of their direct troops, and because of this, a few hours after the war reached its climax, the core troops of both sides finally started a close-range head-on decisive battle.

Update.

Recommend a wave of books on managing the Imperial Guards in my group, "Warhammer: Golden Dreams"

The brain hole expansion generated by the book friends when bragging and arguing when waiting for updates, when a friend of the Imperial Guard wakes up and finds himself in the Warhammer 40K universe, which is famous for the Shura Field of Transmigraters, where should he go? How long can he survive? What if he travels through time and becomes an Imperial Guard?

Also known as "Warhammer: Starting from the Custodes", "Warhammer 40K Survival Guide: Custodes", "The Bizarre Adventure of Golden Corn", "Three Questions about the End", the author updates slowly but the quality is guaranteed