Chapter 905 The Needs of the Dark Mechanicus

"But we can overwhelm them with numbers, just like we did in the void, flooding the Imperial fleet with a large number of Degraded floating objects. The Empire will not deploy the vehicles you mentioned on every battlefield, but we can provide Degraded Titans to every unit."

"Damn it!" Delau cursed again, "It sounds like we are just like the damn Tyranid swarm and the rampant orcs!"

Although he was tough and disdainful, Delau knew that the huge number of Degraded bodies did make an outstanding contribution in the Battle of Cadia. These servants without souls and flesh and blood have become the favorite of many warbands.

Degraded bodies have already crushed mortal Chaos servants by a large margin just by not requiring maintenance and logistics, not to mention that their combat capabilities are far higher than the same number of mortal troops. As long as they overcome the cleanliness of the Grand Astartes in their hearts and don't mind the lifelessness of their warships and bases, they like to ask for more Degraded support from the Dark Mechanicus.

There is no such thing as a free lunch. The Dark Mechanicus used the act of selling the Degraded Body Army to demand an exaggerated number of living people from the Chaos War Gang.

These gear heads who are full of thoughts about technology and metal have recently been quite interested in living people, so much so that Drau thinks that the top leaders of the Dark Mechanicus are a group of Emperor's children who rely on slaves to serve them.

The second thing that the Dark Mechanicus is interested in is the Black Stone, but Abaddon is also very interested in this thing. Drau sometimes thinks that Abaddon can get the full support of the Dark Mechanicus because he secretly handed over half of the Black Stone mining rights in Cadia.

This is the task of the war blacksmith Drau, defending the No. 7 Black Stone Spire, which is the largest and easiest to mine on Cadia. If possible, Drau can choose to launch an attack with his troops to expand the results.

But Drau looked at the Imperial Army's position from a distance. It was a narrow corridor surrounded by dark walls. As long as you pass through the corridor, you will see a wide plain and countless fortresses that need to be destroyed.

But how easy is it to pass through the corridor? The area in front of the corridor had been processed by the Imperial Army. Various heavy machines pressed the ground solid and flat. There was no shelter at all, and it was difficult to make a crater. Even if they counted on the armored forces to cover the advance, the large army would be crushed by the dark wall. The Imperial artillery was happy enough to stay awake for three days and three nights when they saw such a large and difficult-to-move result.

Since it was difficult to fight, just defend it. Anyway, Delao was not the main attack area. The Cadia II Continental Shelf was the real main battlefield. The six Titan Legions of the Dark Mechanicus and the five Titan Legions of the Mechanicus were dealing with the mountains. Every day a mountain was wiped off the map, and every day a new gully appeared on the surface.

The scale of the Cadia War was really too large. Abaddon was thinking about crushing it with superior forces and winning a quick victory, and the Empire was also thinking about recruiting soldiers with the same idea.

Eight of the ten companies of the Space Marines are deployed in the Cadia War Zone, which adds up to 8,000 Space Marines. The Dark Angels, which brought their entire families, are even more powerful. Their combined number alone exceeds five figures.

Then there are the troops of the Ecclesiarchy. The armed lunatics of the nine Battle Orders and the fanatical believers who worship the Corpse Emperor are constantly praising the Emperor. The war cries they launch when they attack can only be countered by the gathered Noise Warriors.

Not to mention the vast Astra Militarum. As a fully armed fortress world, Cadia has men, women, and children who are all warriors fighting against the Chaos army. This adds up to 850 million soldiers, of which the most elite Cadia Blitzkrieg has 612 regiments. Adding the troops drawn from other worlds and war zones, Cadia's mortal army is likely to be close to the 1 billion mark.

It sounds like a lot of people, but it's just that. Delau once conquered a planet out of curiosity and research needs, and drove out more than 8 billion people from the global nests. Although millions of people died in the process of driving them out, Delau did not think of letting these people survive.

The neatly arranged living people were sent to a huge temporary factory, contributing their final value to Delau's problem on the cold and precise assembly line.

It took Delau more than 150 years to knead more than 8 billion people into a huge meat ball. This work is quite difficult and complicated. Just preventing the meat ball from dehydrating during the long processing process is a big problem.

And Delau also needs to solve the life maintenance of more than 8 billion people, so he prepared a large number of concentration camps on the surface of the planet to ensure that the residents will not starve to death, and adjust the amount of food from time to time to simulate other body types in society. The smart people who guessed something chose to commit suicide in the concentration camp, and Delau's iron hound would naturally send the fresh corpse to the filling area of ​​the factory.

What was the final number? As soon as this question came up, Delau's half brain replaced by a machine reported a number.

8.673215 billion people, in Drau's concentration camp, the planet's population has increased a lot in 150 years. But even with so many people, they squeezed together to form a big meat ball with a diameter of one kilometer, and the weight was only a few hundred million tons.

Drau was disappointed when he got this result. He looked at more than 8 billion people covering the entire plane. He originally thought that the final result should be more magnificent.

Since then, Drau has had no interest in the number of mortals. In his eyes, these things are far less real than a void cruiser.

There are many mortals, and there are many warships operating in the Cadia sector.

Abaddon's direct fleet consists of two Blackstone Fortresses, 7 battleships, 13 heavy cruisers, 23 cruiser squadrons and 30 frigate squadrons.

Typhons's Plague Fleet consists of 3 battleships, 3 heavy cruisers, 7 cruiser squadrons, and 7 frigate squadrons.

Drau was too lazy to remember the remaining warlords and champions with titles and certificates of destruction, and only roughly counted the total number of their fleets.

Excluding Abaddon and Typhons, there are 34 other fleets, of which only more than 20 battleships are worth Drau's attention. Some fleets even use space hulks, a combination of graves and garbage dumps, as flagships.

This behavior was so shameful that Delaunay asked himself if he could do such a thing.