Chapter 1832 Ascension Festival Offensive (Part 1)
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Deckard Bruce Galaxy, Planet Glory VII, Hive Sartusa
This is the last stronghold of the Red Pirates in the Decabulus system. Glory Seven was once a prosperous trading planet before the Badab War. However, the cruel war eventually destroyed it into ruins and most of the nests were destroyed.
For the sake of the Iron Ruins, most of the original residents became scavengers and nomads, or barbaric gangs surviving in the Death Hive.
After the return of the Red Pirates, this world became a paradise for pirates because of its key location close to the Badab system. Huron even rebuilt the capital of Glory Seven and renamed it Sartosa, but it did not restore civilization.
It simply became a lair for pirates and smugglers.
The pirates can use the facilities of the hive city and even live safely in the upper levels of the hive city. They only need to pay a certain percentage of taxes to Huron, the ruler of this world, on a regular basis. The red pirates maintain order in the upper levels of the hive city, almost as normal.
There is no difference between the imperial hives, so the pirates who live in the upper levels of Sartosa are also called pirate lords.
The middle and lower levels of the hive belong to the relatively low-level pirates and the local residents of the planet who have become bandits. Huron does not care about their survival, but just allows them to fend for themselves, and occasionally selects outstanding ones to supplement their own legions, pirate lords.
They also often put their fights against each other in the next nest.
Therefore, the hive of Sartosa is almost a savage forest, with mutants, killers, robbers, cannibals, and wizards everywhere, but to some people, it seems to be no different from the empire's hive.
Some pirate lords privately believed that even after breaking away from the Empire, Huron still seemed to be subconsciously carrying out the actions he did when he was an Astartes, imitating the Empire in establishing his own order.
But today, this pirate paradise has come to its end.
After four months of hard work, the imperial army swept all the way to the orbit of Planet Glory 7 and easily defeated the orbital defenses. Then, within a week, a strong wind swept away most of the planet's ground strongholds like falling leaves. In the end, the two million troops swept from four
Direction surrounds Sattusa Hive.
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As a hive city that Huron personally ordered to rebuild, Sartosa Hive City is not only a hive city, but also an out-and-out military fortress. It not only builds super-standard multi-layered void shield generators, but also deploys dense
For defensive firepower, the hive spire even has a hell dragon lair, and the lower level of the hive hides a sealed warehouse of demon engines.
Therefore, even though they are in dire straits, the red pirates still intend to fight to the end. Not only them, but also the pirate lords who did not escape, and even the "residents" of the nest city do not intend to abandon their home.
After several rounds of orbital bombing with little success, the Chapter Commander of the Tien Lion Chapter in orbit issued an order for a ground attack. It happened to be that the Emperor's Ascension Festival was approaching in the new year, so the attack was also named "Ascension"
Offensive".
Just half an hour after the attack order was issued, the brutal attack began accompanied by the uniform thunder of the imperial artillery and the hymns chanted loudly by the chaplains accompanying the army.
"Don't stop! Keep moving forward, everyone! The enemy's machine gun will soon——"
While trudging through the ruins with a pistol raised, the voice of Creed, the leader of the 8th Cadian Regiment, echoed everywhere and was transmitted to the communication beads on the helmets of each soldier through the communication broadcaster on the vehicle behind the infantry.
Before he finished speaking, a vicious curse came from the ruins ahead.
"Imperial Dog! Go to hell!"
"Get down!"
Creed's voice was drowned out by the sound of shells exploding around him, knocking the strong Cadian aside and blasting one of the soldiers guarding him into a shower of bloody fragments.
Creed, who was almost deafened, rolled several times on the ground, panting in the suffocating smoke. Blackened building fragments and human remains were scattered on him, still carrying the hot residual heat from the explosion.
"It's okay!"
Jaran Kyle rushed over and pulled Creed up and took him to a bunker. At this time, the enemy's machine guns had begun to fire, forming dense firepower in the smoke. At the same time, shells continued to fall at the front of the queue, and the soldiers had to crawl.
As we moved forward, many people had cuts cut by sharp rocks or metal.
"fine."
Creed shook his head. Although the explosion was very close to him, what was very rare was that he was unscathed.
"These shellings are not from the enemy."
From the impact point of the shells, he immediately judged the actual situation of these shellings.
He was a Cadian, like all of them, who lived to die in battle.
However, he may have hoped that the shells that killed him would come from the enemy rather than badly off-target shots from a small platoon of poorly maintained heavy weapons behind the front line.
"Signal Corps!"
Soon, a communications soldier carrying long-distance communication equipment came to Creed. He reached out and picked up the microphone behind him and pressed a few buttons.
"Selim, you stupid dogs have missed the target! It extends forward half a kilometer!"
After hanging up the phone, Creed scrambled to his feet before his ears stopped buzzing and looked around to see what the others were doing.
It was obvious, even without his shouting, that the Cadians were still charging, toward the tarnished yellow-and-white wall in front of them - the outer wall of Sartosa's lair.
This is not just "a wall", the milky white surface is not local stone, nor is it a decorative carved pattern.
The wall was made of human bones, the bones of the millions who had sacrificed themselves for the Emperor in long-ago battles. Huron used the bones of the loyal to pile up the walls as a pledge of his loyalty to the God-Emperor and the Emperor.
Imperial contempt.
Blasphemy, outright blasphemy.
Creed looked up at the hive's skyline of spiers, towers, and boulder settlements in the distance, and he felt the urge to take it back from his enemies, but before any Cadian could fight in the streets and alleys,
Before the traitors fight, they must first break through the city's defenses.
So now, they have to run through the waste pile created by the artillery, and then the wall of bones that looks vaguely ominous and pale to the outside world.
After this, before the Cadians could reach the inner walls of the Middle Nest, there was still a very vast area filled with heavily armed fortresses.
These require a huge cost of life to break through.
A total of thirty-two regiments of the Cadian Lightning Army formed the Cadian First Battle Group to participate in the attack in this direction. The 8th Regiment, as the main regiment, was naturally responsible for the main attack.
Correspondingly, Creed also has priority to support the artillery regiment directly under the battle group.
Soon, the artillery fire began to extend to the rear, and basilisks, wyverns, and even manticores all participated in the bombardment.
In the suffocating high-intensity bombing, the imperial artillery blasted the enemy's nearest machine gun bunkers and heavy forts into smoking ruins, and dismantled the crude blockades piled on the gates of the outer wall by the enemy.