“Land in five minutes.”
As the monotonous sound of the servant sounded, the Thunder Eagle turned sharply to the left. Makarov, a new combat brother who joined the Second Company, stared carefully at the scene outside the window. The messy and wrinkled orange landform of the planet Korcreya III appeared in front of the Space Marines. There was only a huge urban cluster, namely the nest capital. As for other lands that can be reached, there was only an endless dense net woven by red scars.
“Many open-pit mines.”
As soon as he spoke, a figure rang beside him.
"Because this planet is rich in Huicobalt ore."
The young Space Marine turned around and saw that it was his company commander Ustad talking, and blinked.
"Ah, please forgive me, company commander, but there should be no enemies here, right?"
"Although most of the mortals who defect to the Red Pirates have been centrally managed and sent to the mines, there are still many fools who are still fighting against the empire, and there are also many bandits in the nest that are attacking the garrison or causing damage."
"These things can be handled by the Astral Army. Wouldn't we be more useful elsewhere?"
The young warrior's voice showed a hint of self-esteem and hurt, Ustad replied with a smile:
"There are not necessarily only fragile mortal traitors in it. The raycobalt mine, which is crucial to the production of electronic components, seduces greedy weak souls like a moth to a flame. We cannot let mortals stand guard for it, and we cannot expect them to repel the traitors cursed by subspace and prevent them from destroying the empire's wealth. There have been several attempts by Chaos Space Marines to destroy the mine in the week before, and they have succeeded twice."
The thunder eagle passed through the vortex, and the fuselage rumbled, and Robin, who was sitting at the end, said lightly:
"Find the enemy, kill the enemy, nothing else needs to be said."
Makarov shut his mouth cautiously. Except for company commander Ustad, everyone respected Robin the most because he was the unquestionable champion, and there were many people among the recruits who admired him.
When they arrived at the designated area of ​​the Cundu, the rest of the company had already been waiting there. As the core battle company of the Astral Knights, the Second Company not only had a full battle brother, but also a large number of vehicles, including the Rand Raiders, Predator Tanks, Sikaran Combat Tanks, and even the javelin speed attack boats that are currently rare in the battle group. There is also a tactical team equipped with the Iron Cavalry Terminator, which basically has the functions of interspers, assaults and propulsion.
Ustad then summoned the officers in charge of this area and learned that the vanguard had set out to encircle a secret stronghold where the "villain" was located.
The evil creature is the code name they call the target, with contempt and a little fear. Since the nest was controlled by the empire, it has been constantly attacking. Its attack methods have been diverse, sometimes causing everyone in an outpost to go crazy and kill each other. Sometimes it makes the atonement miners in the mines near the nest become twisted and fallen monsters, and sometimes sneak into some command posts with slackening defense and turns all the officers inside into pieces of meat...
The front-line encirclement and suppression troops tried many ways, but they were unable to solve this problem. Even because of the activities of evil creatures, it had gathered a large gang of bandits, which was said to be tens of thousands, and were weaving a more evil conspiracy in the bottom nest.
When the report was sent to Soshyang, he guessed that it might be a Chaos Wizard, or go further, a Chaos Space Marine who knows witchcraft, or... Qianzi.
Now that Kayang is not here, Soshiyang cannot tell whether it is, but according to the worst plan, if it is really a thousand son, the trouble it can cause is definitely beyond imagination, so he sent the Second Company to arrest or annihilate the guy.
The Second Company is currently the company with the highest proportion of gray warriors in the battle group except for the first company. Soshiyan believes that it should not be difficult to capture a wizard.
The point is that you cannot let the other party run away.
Therefore, after determining the opponent's position, Ustad will first arrange the mortal troops to attack first, so that the opponent can be careless - of course, the attacking mortal troops may suffer relatively large losses.
Simply put, the offensive troops are bait, and Ustad just bet that guy succeeds so many times, he will be a little arrogant and not as cautious as before.
Therefore, they were able to arrive at the battlefield as fast as possible.
Just when the Second Company was on various vehicles and rushing straight to the evil creatures, the Star Army responsible for attacking the area also encountered great trouble.
They fought on the land they had conquered a month ago. Although it was logically the place had long belonged to the empire, the land in these places was now soaked in blood, and the bodies of the dead were everywhere on the ground.
The three infantry regiments were responsible for the attack, all of which were recruited locally by the Great Vortex. They were not outstanding, but they were not very bad. The total number exceeded 20,000.
They besieged a small town in the bottom nest. In the past, it was occupied by a mutant tribe. The Red Pirates were too lazy to take care of this place. The residents here didn't even know that the sky had changed. After the empire occupied the nest, they did not do much to deal with the bottom nest, because going there was an equivalent of being exiled. Soshiyang just asked to clean up the people in the nest, not including the bottom nest. Therefore, many people fled to the dark and desperate bottom nest to survive.
Later, evil creatures occupied this place as a stronghold, and the original residents were twisted into terrifying slaves by him. After that, a large number of residents from the original nest came to join him after hearing the news.
Another reason they hated the Empire so much was an order from the Supreme Command of the Expeditionary Force.
All those who betray the empire in Korkria will be deprived of all their identities and possessions, which, including houses, land, etc., will be distributed to those who have made contributions after the war.
For the imperial soldiers who came to encircle and suppress, these people were not only traitors and heretics, but also weeds in their future homeland.
Because the officers got the news earlier, they had already started to use various means to divide the assets and real estate of the middle nest and the lower nest, especially wineries, tobacco factories and bars, which can make profits immediately, are even more popular assets. The soldiers also fantasized about owning their own houses, a bakery, or a shop, but first they had to "handle" the original owners of these things.
Both sides not only bring hatred from their positions, but also from their interests.
The darkness of the bottom nest was constantly torn apart by flares, and there were the sounds of fighting, gunfire, dying screams, and... the screams of monsters.
The Imperial army fought, bleed, died, and won step by step in the smoke filled with smoke, rotten meat and blood. Among the ruins of the burnt town, there were corpses of worn-out traitors, both men, women, young and old, and at the same time, the last little valuable thing on them would be taken away.
There is no kindness, only killing.
Chapter completed!