Chapter 2816 Killing the enemy and protecting the people will never end with bloodshed (3)
In the smoke, three towering executioners rushed out, trampling their little compatriots into meat pies. These terrifying siege creatures used their huge claws to stab everything around them, their own kind, enemies, and even bunkers.
They are huge beasts made of muscle, chitin, claws and spines, literally moving hills, and their thick alloy-like carapace can withstand all weapons in the hands of the militiamen.
Not only the militia, it is also the nightmare of the Weeper. Even Space Marines have to use heavy weapons to deal with these creatures, and its claws can easily tear through the armor of Terminators and Dreadnoughts. There are at least 12 warriors in the Third Company.
He died under the executioner's claws.
They are real butchers.
Behind the executioner were swarms of warrior bugs, and further away stood a giant creature that shocked even Sullivan.
It was a huge four-legged creature, as tall as a knight mecha, with a mouth big enough to swallow a Leman Russ. The mouth was surrounded by countless tentacles with mouthparts, which kept sucking the things on the ground.
The corpse was rolled up and thrown into the huge mouth of a meat grinder. The two rows of pipes behind it continued to discharge high-temperature smoke.
As this giant monster approached, its foul smell made every militiaman's teeth rattle and tremble.
"It's over! Run!"
Finally, the morale of the militiamen collapsed completely, and they began to abandon their weapons and flee backwards.
"No! Just stay here!"
Sullivan could only shout in despair:
"We'll stop them right here! Form a formation!"
Suddenly, a sharp claw slammed down, and the rubble splashed onto Sullivan. He staggered to the side and saw a soldier in the company being pierced by a sharp claw, struggling hard, and shooting at the executioner.
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"Live up to...Sanguinius..."
Sullivan immediately rushed over and stabbed the executioner's waist with his sword, making a one-meter-long gash. The painful monster turned around and roared, stretching out its other two claws to try to stab him.
The Weeper Captain stepped aside and swiped his sword across its ankle. The executioner could only stagger back and throw out the warrior on his claws, but the warrior was killed by two warriors before he even hit the ground.
The insect tore into several pieces in mid-air.
"Company Commander! There are too many, we will not be able to stop them soon!"
"But the refugees at the back -"
Just when Sullivan was thinking about fighting for every second, the ground shook like never before, and the feeling was different from before.
"Damn it!"
He turned his head suddenly, staring with blood-red eyes, and saw streams of ominous smoke rising from the take-off area of the airport.
"Sanguinius..."
Inside the airport, the residents who had escaped from farms and cities were still in shock. They never thought that the so-called doomsday would be like this. Before the Devourer from distant deep space appeared, the entire planet fell into a trap created by gene stealers.
There were riots, everything was in chaos, and the planet's own weak management capabilities aggravated the situation.
As one of the most distant frontiers of the empire, the high lords are obviously unable to carry out any level of management of these worlds that are almost outside the Light of the Star. Therefore, according to past experience, these distant colonies will be classified as archdioceses.
within the range.
The difference between the so-called archdiocese and the general dioceses is that the state religion here is the dominant one, not only a religious organization, but also a management organization. The archdiocese is generally equivalent to the star district divided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but it usually does not bear the tithe.
Responsibilities, and the highest lord is usually a patriarch, and the sector capital is usually a religious world. All lords there are vassals of the state religion and pay religious tithes to the state church. The reason for this system is that Terra does not
They are willing to invest any cost in such a distant world, and simply treat it as a tradable political privilege in exchange for some benefits from the state religion.
However, the archdiocese is not without limitations. First of all, the state religion cannot break through the taming edict, so the archdiocese cannot form a formal army and naval fleet. Each world can only have the most basic security forces. At the same time, the archdiocese cannot build large-scale industrial facilities, so it can only
There are some basic industries, so most of the parish worlds are agricultural worlds, garden worlds, and cemetery worlds. In this case, the armed forces of the archdiocese are very weak and rely heavily on the armed forces of the empire, which can be regarded as a high-level leader.
The means by which the Lords restricted the state religion.
But if this weakness is placed too far away, it will become a fatal flaw, just like what happened when the riots occurred on Sondheim 5. As an agricultural world that specializes in supplying food to the religious world of Saint Casparen, here it mainly
It is ruled by a joint group composed of the state church and local noble lords. Not only is its reaction speed slow, but some nobles are even infected, causing the situation to fall into an unextricable chaos. The weak lord army is simply unable to quickly suppress the rebellion, and the number continues to increase.
The gene stealers naturally attracted their true masters.
The attack was one-sided. If the Weeper hadn't arrived, immediately taken over the planet's defense and organized an evacuation, none of the two billion people would have been able to escape.
But even so, more than a billion people died in the first three days of the attack. In order to evacuate civilians, the Weeper Chapter had to find ways to delay the insect wave on the battlefield, causing them to pay huge casualties. Many
The company had suffered more than half casualties, and the third company was more serious, losing three-quarters.
But no one in the company said they would withdraw, and the weepers fulfilled their oath with blood——
We die with honor for those we hold dear!
But the reality is always cruel. They tried their best to save only the next few people, and the fleet in orbit has been struggling in the endless sea of worms for a long time. In order to cover the escape of the transport ships, two-thirds of the war group's ships have been lost.
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What's even more frightening is that they have to continue fighting.
It may even be that their rescue is in vain, because the orbit has been basically occupied by Tyranids, and only a small number of transport ships that broke out from the planet can survive the tentacles of the Tyranid biological battleships, but there is no other way. It is absolutely impossible to stay on the ground.
Death, as an agricultural world, this planet is completely undefendable. If you try hard in orbit, you still have a chance of surviving.
It's not that the Lamenters have never thought of sending a signal for help, but the terrifying aspect of the Tyranids is that their appearance directly blocks all Astropath signals, and no information can be transmitted.
Perhaps only by the evacuation of the last batch of residents can they escape from this bloody battle, and this will take time.
But time is not necessarily reserved for everyone. For example, in the airport defended by the Third Company, while the Space Marines were fighting bloody battles in the front, a situation they could not imagine occurred in the rear.
First there was something strange in the sewers. At first there was sparse movement, which was mistaken for rats, but soon someone discovered some weird small insects crawling out of the iron bars, or pouring out of the sewers, culverts and cracks in the walls.
Their long bodies have a pair of immature sharp claws, their heads are separated from their abdomens, and their bellies are covered with sharp disemboweling hooks and bone ridges. Their mouths are larger than their bodies when they open, and are filled with sharp teeth.
What the horrified residents didn't know was that these creatures had a terrifying name, tearing bugs.