Chapter 440 Black and Red, Plans in the Shadows (Twenty-five) Battle of Otto
Here in the Moro world, Calvin is still stepping up his schedule. On the battlefield of the Otto and Padilla systems, the Space Wolves and Blood Ravens have entered the most difficult stage of the war.
After the last court meeting, the commanders of the two battlefields once again returned to the front line from their base camps in the rear. Under pressure, the rebels under the Word Bearers changed their past tepidness and began to turn the battle into a more intense and bloody battle. Lead in the direction.
The Imperial Fleet was now suppressed by the superior strength of the Chaos Fleet and gradually withdrew from the space in the center of the galaxy.
Being able to protect themselves and contain the main force of the Word Bearers' fleet was the limit of what they could do. As for the attack launched by the escort fleet on the ground battlefield, there is really nothing that can be done to help.
Therefore, air defense warnings and anti-orbital airborne warfare became the main theme on the battlefields of the Wild Wolves and Demon Hunters, especially the two battle groups focused on defending the capital of the galaxy. A large number of battleships were identified by auspicious devices, which made the commanders understand that high-intensity Orbital bombardment is inevitable.
The sixth day after the war began was also the first day that the Word Bearers truly began to appear.
The anti-air scanning array in the Fermara Mountains went crazy and screamed as usual, starting at two o'clock in the morning and continuing until the end of the day.
However, the soldiers at the air defense command post did not turn off these alarms as usual, because the orbit above the holographic projector was filled with dense figures of the Word Bearers' fleet.
From the equator with the best bombing angle to the climate dividing line, enemy fleets appear in every position that poses a bombing threat.
Meteors fall from time to time in orbit, and then decompose and burn under the friction of the atmosphere. These are the only remaining military stations of the empire in the space defense system, and now these last fires have also been turned into ashes under the attack of the enemy.
The anti-ship weapon base station has entered a dormant and concealed state, and the air defense array will only be activated to a limited extent when key nodes are hit.
Faced with the enemy's absolute air superiority, the two commanders chose the same strategy.
They all know that in the days without fleet support, the only remaining air defense force is equal to the opportunity to support the front at critical moments.
The traffic flow leading to the Fermara Mountains from the rear has almost come to a standstill. Only a few tracks with a depth of 100 meters are still running. The new supplies and troops draw a steep curve on the statisticians' reports, whether it is the wolf Ragnar or the Salvis knows:
From now on, all they can rely on is themselves.
The command posts in each theater in the communication channel gradually entered the pre-war silence, but due to the pervasive signal interference above the orbit, the noise and meaningless waste codes became more and more noisy.
The soldiers on the front line were ordered to leave the first line in the trenches and stay on standby in the fortifications to defend against heavy artillery strikes. The only remaining sentry stood at the door of the fortification and looked nervously at the sky.
Boom...
The first thunder sounded from afar, followed by more thunder. Countless points of light in the sky were burning and falling, and dense explosions on the ground brought up towering smoke and dust.
The domes of the heavy fortifications were shaking violently, and the explosions ruptured the eardrums of the soldiers in the shallow fortifications. In the background of scattered debris and dust, the soldiers looked at each other's open mouths and tongues, but could not hear any sound...
The end of the world is nothing more than this scene, but this is only the beginning of the offensive.
Meteors as dense as raindrops set off patches of fire in the atmosphere, and death claws (Chaos drop pod models) dropped from the sky carrying weapons platforms and fallen angels.
The air defense array on the ground received the order, stretched out from the bunker and then fired intercepting barrages into the air crazily. After the fleet auspicious device received the ground signal, precise targeted strikes followed.
Every second, huge casualties occurred in both camps at the same time, and every second, more powerful counterattacks poured out from the ground and the sky.
The signals from the air defense weapon station and the anti-ship weapon base station were extinguished in pieces in the eyes of the ground command, but the commanders could only hold onto the weapons in their hands and ignore their sacrifices.
In just one hour, the enemy had launched hundreds of attacks, and hundreds of them were defined as requiring direct intervention from the command headquarters.
And this is just the beginning, because the auspices of the ground command are sending out piercing alarms. Farther away from the imperial defense line, swarms of dark cloud-like Titan Arks are descending, and when these wars that once served the empire are The appearance of giant beasts on the battlefield is the real beginning of destruction and death.
Legion Wars.
This ancient word appeared in the mind of the imperial commander, and the irony was that this supreme blade, which was once exclusive to the empire and then abandoned, was now in the hands of the enemy.
As for the empire, at this time, it could only use the weak and backward organizational method of the war group to barely resist the all-pervasive attack from the enemy thousands of years after the legion model was invented.
This is the case with the Alliance of Chapters in Savillian's hands. Compared to the comprehensive and vertical command system of the Word Bearers, the command system between several chapters is already bloated enough, let alone the alliance with the Astra Militarum and the Home Defense Force. Communication efficiency.
The situation of the wild wolves is slightly better, but after losing the protection of the fleet, their already obvious numerical disadvantage became particularly obvious with the collapse of the local defense force.
Yes, the essence of war is a comprehensive confrontation between two systems. The result of a comprehensive confrontation is that under the transmission of pressure from layer to layer, the most vulnerable parts will bear the greatest pressure.
The defense force was the weakest in this battle, and naturally became the first to be unable to withstand the pressure and collapse first.
For these troops established for security stations, the offensive of the Legiones Astartes obviously exceeded the limits of their imagination, and their garrisoned positions often failed to make one move or another after two or three feints.
After the firepower structure is involved in chaos, the company-level Corrupted Astartes will use their desperate unit firepower density to pierce through the former's weak and scattered defense line like a red-hot pointed cone.
Yes, unit firepower density, this is the difference between Astartes warriors and mortal troops, and it is also the reason why Legionnaires can stand at the pinnacle of the Empire's force during the Great Crusade.
Power armor brings them thicker armor, and large-caliber, heavy individual weapons bring more powerful firepower;
Specialized biological modifications give them sharper reaction speeds, and servo scanning arrays and visual enhancement nerves bring more precise marksmanship;
A life span that can last up to a hundred years allows them to have more tacit tactical coordination, weakened pain perception and strengthened thinking, giving them a more determined offensive will;
All-round, real-time individual-soldier-level communications give them stronger battlefield awareness. The centuries-old battlefield memory absorbed from their gene seeds gives them richer war experience from the beginning...
Any one of these advantages is enough for the Astartes to carry out a dimension-reducing strike against any mortal force;
And when these conditions are summarized into a unit and appear on the battlefield according to their respective divisions of labor, that is the beginning of the enemy's nightmare.
There is no room for reaction. As long as the mortal troops do not complete the integration of firepower the first time they encounter them, they will only be disintegrated and divided by the mercury-like attack under the impact of a face-to-face attack.
Even if individual legions have relatively strict discipline and can complete the integration of firepower as soon as possible, the Word Bearers, who have complete air superiority, will increase their efforts on the already precarious front and use groups of fighter planes to approach and bombard themselves. The raid opened a bloody road.
Fortunately, this was expected by the imperial commanders. Neither Ragnar nor Sarvis deployed these troops in key positions.
Each node of the defense line is always under the responsibility of their direct troops, and because of this, a few hours after the war reached its climax, the core troops of both sides finally began a close-range decisive battle.
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