Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
As more than a dozen space battleships of various sizes carried out intensive bombing in the planet's orbit, the densely packed Nurgle army on the ground was instantly torn to pieces by the explosion.
Before the demonic primarch, the Death Guard legions under Mortarion, had time to react, the Scourge, exuding coldness and death, fell from the sky like raindrops, performing a single act that had never appeared in this universe.
The magnificent spectacle of breaking through the atmosphere and performing orbital airborne landing.
Yes, you read that right, it is a single-person orbital airborne landing without any protective equipment, landing module, or landing craft.
Lich King Jaina directly released her power of frost, covering these men with a layer of crystal clear white ice, which not only successfully offset the high temperature caused by friction with the air during rapid descent, but also produced a violent explosion at the moment of landing.
Impact, causing splash and cryogenic damage to surrounding enemies.
When the bombing ended, the Scourge Legion descended from the sky and directly cut and surrounded the enemies on the battlefield hundreds of kilometers away, and then annihilated them on the spot at an unimaginable speed.
They don't even need to rush directly to those strong fortresses and fortresses, nor do they need to brave the dense firepower network. They only need to transport the jars filled with natural disasters and plagues into the areas where the enemy is densest and detonate them.
It won't take long before these enemies, covered with thick sores, rotting flesh and stench, will die suddenly within a few seconds, and then the corpses will be forcibly pulled up and transformed into members of the army of death.
Compared with Nurgle's biochemical army, Lich King Jaina's death army is obviously superior.
Not only that!
The broken corpses and mutilated rotten flesh on the battlefield are also gathered together at a speed visible to the naked eye under the dual effects of elemental magic and death magic to form giants several meters high, which can often kill Chaos Astartes warriors with just one kick.
Tread flat.
In addition, these Nurgle legions did not expect that they would be attacked from above. They were busy clearing the human empire defenders on the planet, and they completely collapsed in less than an hour and a half.
The number of the Scourge Legion has been directly expanded several times through this efficient killing.
Death knights with different appearances also directly replaced their guns with guns, slightly modified the power mechas and supporting weapons scattered on the battlefield and directly put them on themselves.
The spell-casting units transformed from psykers and demons directly used small spaceships with fast speed and strong maneuverability, and used the devices used by Nurgle's army to spread the plague to reversely spread the more lethal magical plague.
As a result, in the eyes of the defenders of the Human Empire, a horrific scene appeared that they would never forget.
The plague of Nurgle, which had originally brought it to its knees, fell into deathly silence in the face of these unknown and more terrifying new plagues. Billions of walking corpses and demons jumping out of the subspace actually appeared in swarms.
They fall down and turn into corpses, and then the corpses will come back to life to join the undead natural disaster and launch crazy attacks on previous friendly forces.
The tension and fear of not knowing whether the comrades around you will suddenly turn into enemies in the next second, even the humans watching the battle feel numb in their scalps.
Because this is completely beyond the scope of their cognition, it is even more frightening than the large-scale Tyranids invasion.
After all, the Zerg simply plunder, devour, and then continue to reproduce and expand.
But what about these undead creatures that suddenly appeared from nowhere?
They have subverted everything related to biological science in terms of physiological structure and existence form.
Through more than a dozen detection devices, including thermal imaging, the only thing humans know is that the flesh and blood on these undead bodies is not activated at all, but is driven by some unknown energy.
Some undead have even begun to evolve the terrifying ability to integrate with tanks, gunboats, and various vehicles and control them to fight.
Obviously, as the Scourge continues to grow, Lich King Jaina's projection in the subspace has begun to become more and more powerful, and the undead creatures under her command have begun to continuously derive new powers.
This is also one of the biggest features of this universe.
Especially the growing power of death, like a cold and biting black smoke, constantly eating away at the filth caused by Nurgle's invasion of the real universe.
Whenever Jaina completes the massacre and transformation of Nurgle's army on a certain planet, the ubiquitous plague, decay, and poison on the entire planet will all disappear.
What replaced it was a desolation and coldness that could not be described in words.
The priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus believe that the Scourge is some kind of powerful artificial intelligence technology, while the Astartes warriors believe that it is an infighting between the Chaos Gods of the Warp.
But no matter what, no one would think that this was an imperial reinforcement from Terra, so instead of relaxing their vigilance, the humans were paying close attention to the situation on the battlefield.
But what they didn't know was that at the same time as the airborne and ground operations began, another battle far away in space had already begun.
Relying on the powerful group teleportation magic, Lich King Jaina personally led a team to launch a gang-hopping war against the Nurgle fleet docked near the planet's satellite.
Connected by the portal, countless undead creatures rushed into the cabins of space battleships like a tide, and fought endlessly and cruelly in narrow passages. Every second, both sides had massive cannon fodder fighting fiercely.
The ashes fly away into smoke.
Especially the opponent's flagship, a super giant ship built in the solar system during the Great Expedition - the Glory Queen-class battleship. It is like a city floating in space, with a length of more than thirty kilometers and densely packed turrets.
, torpedo tubes and tentacles that have been eroded by Nurgle, and the cysts and rotten flesh make it look unusually large and bloated.
A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a length of three to four hundred meters cannot even compare to the barrel of a main gun in the face of such a space behemoth.
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Sometimes a gang-hopping war can last for weeks or even months.
Of course, the gang-hopping battle here is completely different from the kind in the Age of Discovery when two wooden sailboats came close to each other, and then the sailors jumped onto the opponent's deck with the help of cables and hooks to fight hand-to-hand.
And it's not like you have enough long-range firepower to use it, you have to use this primitive and backward method.
Quite the opposite!
Gang-hopping is a tactic that will inevitably be derived after the protection system develops to a certain extent.
Not to mention anything else, the void shield used by humans alone can greatly reduce the damage caused by long-range firepower.
During the Horus Heresy, the void shield above the Imperial Palace of Terra withstood the orbital bombardment of the rebel fleet for a long period of time.
As for wars with other races...
It cannot be said that it is completely useless, it can only be regarded as better than nothing.
The human fleet wants to play long-range shooting with the Necrons, who possess the most powerful technology in the physical universe?
I'm afraid I don't even know how he died.
The bloody Hundred Days, the Battle of Amalur has proven that these ribs can press humans to the ground and rub them repeatedly during long-range fire exchanges.
The Orcs, on the other hand, just drive into your face with a tattered warship that is immune to all long-range attacks with the "Power of My Thoughts" and the "WAAAGH Force Field", and start playing gang-hopping raids with you without saying a word.
In the fight against the forces of Chaos, Khorne and Slaanesh can still play some role.
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The explosion of any gunpowder magazine is considered light, so it might be better to just turn the muzzle of the gun and start bombarding friendly forces.
Khorne simply has amazing protection against long-range anti-personnel weapons. Even the super fortress cannons on the walls of Terra will cause minimal harm to it.
However, when the Eldar tried to teleport through the webway, the opponent's entire fleet disappeared before the human fleet could break through the solid shield.
As for the Tyranids, although the long-range firepower of the space fleet played a certain supporting role, what really determined the outcome was the meat grinder-style defense battle on the ground, which forced the bugs to fight until they felt they were losing money before retreating.
Perhaps the situation of large-scale fleets engaging in long-range shooting will only occur when the human empire quells internal rebellions, or to deal with the Tau tribe, whose technological level is far inferior to that of humans.
Since the fleet's long-range weapons are so useless, of course the empire must give full play to its own advantages.
So what is the greatest advantage of the Human Empire?
Of course the endless human resources and powerful Astartes Space Marines.
Therefore, gang-hopping warfare naturally came into being.
As early as the Great Expedition, each battleship began to be equipped with specialized gang-hopping combat troops to break into enemy ships to complete beheading operations when necessary.
However, unlike the Human Empire's gang-hopping operations that rely on the powerful combat capabilities of the Astartes warriors, Lich King Jaina's gang-hopping operations are more bizarre and dangerous.
As a talented mage, her attainments in the field of teleportation magic are at the pinnacle.
Coupled with the fact that the Helm of Domination can accurately control every undead creature and observe the surrounding situation through their eyes, Lich King Jaina can theoretically lead the elite death knights around her to attack every natural disaster on the entire battleship.
Initiate teleportation in the area.
This allows enemies who want to use the complex space and terrain inside a battleship to carry out successive attacks often find themselves in the dilemma of being attacked from both sides.
As the supreme commander of the Fourth Plague Company among the seven companies of the Death Guard Legion, the "Heart Eater" is a high-level demon from the subspace.
At this moment, he was standing in the command room of the bridge. Through the electronic display that had been corroded by filthy flesh and blood but was still functioning normally, he was watching his originally invincible army being defeated step by step, with a look on his face.
It was an expression of shock and disbelief.
This guy couldn't believe it at all. The power of the plague given to him by the great loving father Nurgle was wiped out by a group of undead that exuded the aura of the dead. It had no effect at all from the beginning to the end.
What's even more terrifying is that thousands of Chaos Astartes legions and demons summoned from the warp are dying in patches, and are then pulled up by the enemy to join the mighty army of the dead.
To be continued...