Chapter 1021 Taking the Initiative

Two days later, before the fleet arrived at the frontline, Lion had already begun to command the Imperial Astra Militarum to take the initiative to attack the Necrons.

Standing in front of the tactical table, the Imperial Warmaster was able to fully display his strategic talent with the help of the insight engine's meticulous information collection on the frontline situation and the fast communication facilities of the Talonians.

Lion had a deep understanding of every situation in the frontline war zone drawn by Guilliman. As he dragged and drew tactical maps on the tactical table, the garrison situation in the frontline war zone was quickly balanced, and the Astra Militarum in those war zones with a large number of garrisons was quickly withdrawn to launch an active attack on the star zones occupied by the Necrons.

After the military commander issued the combat order, the Astra Militarum generals on the front line formulated more detailed tactics based on the existing understanding of the Necrons and the tactical intelligence shared by the insight engine, and the 600 million Astra Militarum gathered in the New Orpheus sector began a large-scale joint operation.

Sanguinius and his Blood Angels Legion, who had previously arrived and stationed in the New Orpheus sector, launched an attack together with the mortal forces as a member of the Space Marines.

The Blood Angels, which have been expanding their manpower while undergoing legionary transformation over the past few decades, now have 60,000 Space Marines.

This is an incredible number for the Blood Angels.

The continuous communication between Baal and Talon has led to the introduction of genetic modification technology and advanced anti-radiation drugs, and the increase in healthy population, which is the basis for large-scale military expansion.

The legionary transformation plan formulated by Guilliman for the returning Primarchs, including Sanguinius, has also made the recruitment method of the Blood Angels more efficient.

Although the reduction of traditional elements in the recruitment method has caused many complaints within the Blood Angels, the intensity of the war in the galaxy is increasing, and these angel descendants must make the right choice.

The Space Marines ordered by the Lion to cooperate with the Astra Militarum in combat are not only the descendants of angels, but also the Space Wolves.

The Space Wolves regard the Astartes Codex written by Guilliman 10,000 years ago as waste paper, and they have never undergone a regimental transformation at all.

The Lion feels that two Astartes Legions, plus the elite of the Astra Militarum, are enough.

After completing the deployment, Ryan had nothing to do, but the Talonians had a way to skip this window period.

"Let the material engine increase the speed of time." Adam gave an order to his adjutant.

The order was transmitted and executed instantly as before, and then the material engine in the celestial engine accelerated the speed of time as Adam thought.

In order to prevent the manipulation of time from weakening the reality membrane of the real universe, and prevent the situation that the Coron Overlord abused the time control device to weaken the reality membrane and cause the invasion of subspace creatures during the Talon Defense War, this way of speeding up the flow of time is only subjective.

Everyone in the fleet can feel that the flow of time has accelerated. They are motionless in their positions, and time quickly passes to the moment when the imperial army in the front-line war zone officially launches the attack, which is equivalent to completely skipping the preparation time of the front-line army for the order issued by Ryan.

If someone idle at this time could observe the fleet near the fleet, he would find that everyone in the fleet had been motionless for several days. If it were not for the material engine anchoring the physiological state of everyone in the fleet, they would feel extremely hungry and weak after the time acceleration ended, just like people who had been hungry for a long time.

No matter what the secret of such technology is, for Ryan, who doesn't care at all, he skipped the window period of waiting for the front-line war zone to execute his orders.

At this moment, according to the information provided by the insight engine, the Astra Militarum and the Space Marines have launched an attack.

Ryan stared at the strategic star map presented on the tactical table.

In one second, the eyeballs of this Primarch turned more than a hundred times. Any changes on the strategic star map could not escape his observation, and he was also thinking about the characteristics of the enemy's military commander through the enemy's reaction.

Outside the New Orpheus sector, the fleets of the Imperial Navy and the Space Marine Corps evaded enemy ships based on the intelligence provided by their allies. The benefits of transparent information provided by the insight engine were enjoyed by everyone. Without any possible suspenseful void battles, the navy had already arrived at the world occupied by the Necrons but with weak defenses.

After the light spears and macro cannons swept away the void defense platforms, the ground forces were quickly deployed to one world after another.

Dozens of landing battles were carried out simultaneously.

On the barren and desolate world, the Astra Militarum and the Astartes fought against the clumsy Necromancers, and their weapons had been replaced with advanced individual weapons provided by the Talons.

Humans were decomposed into molecules by Gauss rifles and sucked into the gun body.

The bodies of Necromancers were turned into quicksand by atomic turbulence. The physical properties of living metals had been changed, and the rebirth protocol could no longer resurrect Necromancers on the spot.

Above the heads of the infantry of both sides, the Empire's fighters and the Necromancer's Death Scythe fighters fought.

The Titan Legion bombed the Obelisk with firepower, and the Knights' families loyal to the Empire fought against the Underworld Constructs.

Ryan on the flagship of the Tyrone Navy could not see every fierce battle in each world. He could only see the symbols representing the armies of both sides on the tactical table increase or decrease, a Celestial Army symbol with hundreds of years of glory shattered and turned into a stream of information like light spots, or a warrior legion that participated in the war against the Old Saints in the Necrons disappeared.

During the land battle, the previously avoided Necrons fleet was also rushing to the battlefield, but they were intercepted by many Tyrone fleets that had been rushed to the war zone before the Tyrone Navy's Invincible Fleet.

The beacon warships sold by the Tyrone Shipbuilding Company to the Imperial Navy were mixed in the fleet. When they encountered the Necrons fleet, they would light up the beacon. The Tyrone fleet on standby at the strategic point in the war zone would immediately jump to the location of the beacon and fight with the Imperial Navy.

"Everything is going well."

Azrael stood beside the Father of Genes and observed the strategic star map, and sighed optimistically with some relief.

Ryan was still very serious and stared at the star map without saying a word.

Azrael was right. Everything went very smoothly when the offensive began.

But Ryan knew the basis of this success. The enemy probably would not have expected that the weak humans would have the courage to launch an offensive. Outside the frontline star regions, the worlds that encountered human attacks were all worlds with scattered Necron forces. This was proof of that.

How would they react next and how would they counterattack?

Was their weak defense and carelessness a trick of the enemy's military commander?

Ryan had many questions in his mind and waited for the enemy's reaction.