With a bang, the hot melt breaker on the head of the landing craft ripped open the metal of the hull.
The subsequent inertia caused Jacob to slightly hit the seat behind him, and then the seat belt suddenly closed, saving him from the inertia punishment caused by the landing craft's retro rocket launch.
The lights of the landing craft went out one by one, making the surroundings darker and darker, but through the optical parts on his eyepiece, the tenth company's non-commissioned officer could still see the clear outlines of the nine recruits. They were wearing seat belts and squeezed around him, each of them completely wrapped in silver-gray power armor. The new coating on the surface of the armor and the battle group logos occasionally reflected the light of the flashing state lights in the cabin.
With their weapons tightly in their hands, ready to hit the enemy like a ferocious beast, Jacob could feel the confidence of the recruits surging.
In fact, strictly speaking, he is still a new recruit, which is slightly bigger than these "little guys", because they were all transformed in the Great Vortex Expedition, and he was at least a "veteran" who had participated in the expedition.
Naturally, he became their leader.
What they were going to deal with was a passenger ship full of people and the remnants of gene stealers hiding inside.
A few months ago, their company commander Bahram began to conduct practical training after finishing the environmental training of the recruits, so he used two cruisers to bring Ten Corps to the Ben Tosen Galaxy near the Nesson Galaxy.
The galaxy has two colonial worlds. One of them, a planet called Tosen-1, had a gene stealer riot broke out. Although the scale was not very large, because the gene stealer had developed for many years and had sufficient armed forces, the local guards could not handle such a problem at all. They could only stick to the undefeated area to temporarily limit the gene stealer to one range.
If it develops at the regular pace of the empire, since "the matter is not serious", it is very likely that the planet will not receive any support, and even if a spacemarine accidentally learns about this, it will not care. Until the planet's governor finds a way to solve the problem himself, or is solved by a gene thief, and the entire planet is approaching to fall, the empire's armed forces may notice this, send troops or intervene.
But the planetary Governor Tosen-1 was very lucky. He happened to encounter the Knights of the Star Realm coming out for "training". When Bahram and his troops appeared on the Governor's spire, the Governor of the Planet kneeled down excitedly and praised the emperor and was almost kowtowed.
After all, gene thieves have been making trouble for two years before. The Governor has not known how many resources and troops have been smashed, but they are always suppressed. The poison gas is released, the fire is scattered, blocked, even sitting, curfew, and scorched earth strategies are used. Perhaps more civilians have been eliminated in this process than gene thieves, but they cannot be eradicated. Instead, the other party spreads in the bottom nest like wildfire...
Why exactly?
The Governor scolded his officers over and over again, but it was useless.
Seeing that the tith tax payment cycle is about to come, if it cannot be calmed down, their tith tax collection in this period may not be carried out in time, and the consequences are quite serious. After all, there are many people watching the position of the governor...
Just when the governor was so anxious that he was about to bald, the savior finally arrived.
Bahram didn't say nonsense, and directly asked the other party to give him the military command completely. Of course, the governor accepted it. Not to mention the command, it would be fine to give all his wives to the other party!
Things will be very simple afterwards.
Bahram knew the activity patterns of gene stealers very well. After reviewing the battle process of the Planetary Guards for two years, he immediately discovered the problem.
The Governor did timely close the roads, pipelines, shafts and most passages that can be accessed by a large number of people, but facilities can still be connected between various regions, that is, huge pipelines, which are often integrated pipelines that provide energy and electricity for those giant facilities. Although the interior is crowded, it is enough to allow gene stealers to act as flexible as biological activities.
In fact, the Governor may not have no idea, but this is the matter of the Mechanical Cultivation Council. In addition, the Mechanical Cultivation Council has ensured that it is already full of high-voltage current, and it is impossible for the living creature to pass through smoothly, so he didn't care much about it.
However, Bahram refuted this view on the spot. The electric current in the comprehensive pipeline channel of the mechanical teaching may not be able to die immediately. The physique of the gene stealer is far stronger than that of normal humans, especially the pure blood among them. The body covering the chitin shell is extremely resistant to arcs.
Almost all the cases of the planetary guards being attacked behind the scenes were launched by pure blood, which shows that the opponent is absolutely capable of passing through the integrated pipeline channel.
So Bahram immediately ordered the Mechanical Cultivator to close all the integrated pipelines in the occupied areas, and then roughly analyzed the locations of several of their possible "nests" from the activity trajectors. The fastest way to deal with gene stealers is to destroy their patriarchs and elders first.
Then Bahram planned a grand hunt, first letting the planetary guards launch a full-scale attack to attract the attention of gene stealers, and then taking out the Governor's most elite guard to launch a feint attack on the suspected targets. According to the strength of the gene stealers' reaction, they quickly locked their three nests.
This is the disadvantage of Gestalt creatures. Many of their actions are almost instinctive, especially those that are concerned with the top level.
Bahram immediately ordered the 10th company to start a raid.
Soon, the whistling sound of the Rand speed attack boat and the javelin speed attack boat were heard in the deep and dark bottom nest shantytowns and the complex ruins. At the same time, hundreds of rapacious vulture-type aircraft affiliated to the 10th Company were also released to the battlefield. These flight machinery are important objects of Bahram's new tactical exercises and are also projects that Soshiyan told him to carry out.
Under the control of the mechanical priests who accompanied the army, these flying aircraft quickly collected battlefield information and fed back to the frontier soldiers as soon as possible. When the opponent needed to raid a certain target, they would immediately launch a raid in a small cluster.
Each team leader can call for support from the Vulture Veterans, and their relatively small size also facilitates them to move around the bottom nests where the pipes are crisscrossed.
The gene stealer obviously did not expect that the Space Marine would participate in the battle. Although this was the first time the recruits fought this alien, they had enough training, and everyone strictly followed the instructions of the team leader and methodically killed monsters that were filthing human genes.
Their offensive was like a storm. The explosive bombs pierced the deformed heads, the chain saw tore open the fallen flesh and blood, and the iron boots trampled on the sticky internal organs and blood.
Chapter completed!