Chapter 672 Initiative
Each legion has its own way of fighting, and each battle group has its own way of fighting.
Hope has never commanded a battle group of 2,000 people, but that doesn't mean he can't command one. Perturabo told him many examples of battles, and these battles often cannot deviate from a basic policy.
Give enough pressure from the front, and don't forget to stab the knife in the back.
The company veterans responsible for decapitation came to the command post of the combat battalion, and they were ready for decapitation.
The sound of the armor-piercing harpoon became the whistle of the attack. The company veterans opened fire at the same time, overloading the shields on the soldiers and killing them neatly.
"We were attacked. They should have used the sewer system of the nest city to get here."
"But this is part of the war, nothing to be surprised about."
Listening to the gunfire outside, the officers in the command post were not panicked. They continued to issue orders and let the soldiers complete their tasks.
If the command post is paralyzed, will the soldiers become headless flies?
If it were the old Astra Militarum, they would be like this. They have no culture and do not understand the basic rules of war operations. They would be completely in the dark without the roar of the political commissar and the news from the headquarters.
However, the soldiers recruited by the 37th Regiment must not be illiterate. They must learn the necessary knowledge under the sticks of the Krieg instructors.
The overall goal of the battlefield was told to all soldiers by the headquarters, so that even if the headquarters was beheaded by the enemy, they would continue to operate in an orderly manner.
But is the headquarters really so easy to be beheaded? It seems not to be the case. After all, they are not the old Astra Militarum.
The multiple Aegis shields set up by the engineers made the Destroyers feel powerless, and the veterans had to rely on the heavy boarding shields to approach the headquarters.
These huge shields can completely cover the body of the Space Marines, leaving only a shooting hole. The shields have built-in force field generators to enhance the defensive effect and become weapons to destroy the enemy in close combat.
Ion clusters and explosive lasers hit the shields, leaving pits and small burns.
Seeing that these shields could not hold out for too long under the attack of the ion group, the veterans quickened their pace.
The Space Marines who broke into the Aegis would conquer the rebellious enemies with sharp blades. They smashed a soldier's armor and bones with their shields, causing him to lie limp and die on the ground.
Hundreds of XVE-39 combat suits attacked the Weeper veterans. These combat suits, which were the same size and weight as the Space Marines, were the product of Odmayer's modified Tau Empire combat suits.
The detailed design of the left and right hands allows these combat suits to use infantry weapons for emergency. They have a thermal electromagnetic knife under each of their arms, which can effectively damage the armor while also having an electromagnetic interference effect.
The shoulder is a pulse ion cannon that can rotate 360°, with excellent flexibility, and the aiming and shooting are bound to the driver's line of sight.
After the Weeper veterans chop up the soldiers who block them, they need to face these combat suits.
The skills of the pilots inside were still a little inferior after all, and they could not be compared with the veterans who had experienced hundreds of battles. A weeper holding a power sword blocked the thermal electromagnetic knife of the XVE-39 combat suit and stabbed it into the torso of the combat suit with his backhand.
The tearing force field of the power sword quickly broke through the surface shield and iridium alloy ceramic steel composite armor of the combat suit, stabbing the driver inside.
But their killing speed was slowed down by the combat suit after all, and a decapitation mission as fast as thunder slid towards the bad direction of the melee.
There were too many combat suits, and they were too hard.
The veteran frowned, and he sensed more and more enemies approaching them from the servo skulls deployed around.
A combat brother was besieged by three combat suits. He used a power sword to chop open two combat suits, but was attacked from behind by the third combat suit. The thermal electromagnetic knife pierced his waist and abdomen and penetrated through the chest armor.
Both his heart and three lungs were injured, and the serious internal injuries greatly reduced his combat ability.
The veteran tried to save his brother, but the pulse ion cannon on the shoulder of the combat suit would not let him get close so easily.
Holding the boarding shield to block the ion group, the veteran suddenly realized that there was also a sign of enemy fire behind him.
He quickly drew his gun and turned back to shoot. He had done this action millions of times and it was smoother than his breathing.
A bomb hit the attacker accurately, but looking at the ripples of the single-soldier Aegis, the veteran rolled in an instant, and the ion group penetrated his shoulder.
He threw the remaining half of the shield and hit the sneak attacking soldier, turned around to dodge and chopped several ion groups with the power sword. He approached the combat suit that killed his brother and cut him vertically with just one sword.
But how long can he hold on?
This decapitation team composed of veterans totaled 20 people, and they caused amazing casualties around the headquarters.
The death of 80 combat suits and 2,400 soldiers was the result they got.
The veteran relied on his experience to avoid attacks that affected his body as much as possible. He endured the pain of being burned by the ion group and cut open five XVE-39 combat suits.
In the end, he died under the volley of explosive guns.
The failure of the decapitation operation had not yet reached Hope's ears. He was still commanding the battle at the forefront of the battlefield, trying to break through the Aegis position built by the combat battalion.
The dreadnought mecha, which was hailed as a living history in the regiment, collapsed under the bombardment of the gravity gun, and the nutrient solution and tranquilizer used to keep the life in the steel womb flowed all over the floor.
At this time, he should be angry, but Hope knew that anger could not change the fact that the battle was difficult. The mortal rebels in front of him were fighting with courage and tenacity worthy of respect.
There were no escapers, no cowards. Every soldier knew that they would only die after their shields were broken, but they still bravely leaned out and fought back as much as possible within the time of five bombs.
The assault force composed of two thousand Space Marines was not something that the mortal rebels in front of him could stop. The death of a Space Marine meant that his brothers would use more rebel blood to commemorate.
Hope and his men completely broke through the positions of the Hive Drop Zone and killed 20,000 people.
"How many people did we lose?"
"Five dreadnoughts and two Land Raiders are completely finished. I can't hear any sound from the machine spirit. The combat brothers have lost more than 500 people, and few of them can recover the complete bodies of the gene seeds." The technical sergeant answered with heartache, and Hope also looked at the wreckage of the Land Raider.
These battlefield giants have taken many hits. They are the key to the Space Marines breaking through the Aegis joint defense line. The 35 cm thick armor is full of pits and dents, with both collapse points after the gravity gun bombardment and deep pits dug by armor-piercing missiles.
However, it was not these weapons that stopped the Land Raiders. Hope had a deep memory of the powerful green lightning.
The Land Raiders, the Empire's particularly rare weapons, all have some metaphysical defense, such as the Three Blessing Runes and the Technology Runes, which are too similar to the Necromancer's stuff.