Chapter 66 Exchange and farewell (5,000-character chapter)
Cruiser Sosaran, bridge.
Vlahos sat on the captain's chair with a big horse, resting his chin in thought.
After pondering for a while, he turned his head and asked:
"How much longer?"
The technical priest standing aside immediately replied:
"A quarter of an hour, my lord."
Frajos nodded, and then asked:
"Has there been any news from any of the teams?"
The attendant standing on the other side shook his head and said, "No, my lord."
"Including Qingshan's White Scars team?"
The attendant hesitated for a moment, not knowing why Frajos asked about the situation of this team alone, but he still replied:
"Yes, my lord. There is no news from them, either."
Frajos rubbed his chin, grinned, and thought: That's right, if the space fighters sent into the space hulk destroy the gravity siphon device of the space hulk, the spaceship will naturally get out of control.
Looking at Frajos, the technical priest reminded in a low voice:
"My lord, keeping the current engine thrust unchanged, the tail engine nozzle of the Sosaran will touch the space hulk in a quarter of an hour. Once the engine plasma channel crashes and melts, we will fight with the space hulk. The boat is completely integrated."
Frajos nodded, calmly said: "I know."
"Should we increase the engine output power, so that we can delay for a while." The technical priest suggested.
Frajos shook his head and said, "It's not necessary."
After thinking about it, he asked:
"Is the self-destruct protocol locked?"
"Ready, my lord."
Flajos stared ahead, was silent for a while, and said in a low voice:
"For the Emperor."
The attendant clenched his fist and saluted: "For the Emperor!"
The technical priest lowered his head slightly:
"For the Emperor, for the Om Messiah."
If anyone was standing by the porthole at the stern of the cruiser Sosaran at this moment, he could see it.
The huge asteroid behind the Sosaran is made up of dense scrap iron.
Already close enough to be seen by the naked eye.
...
The White Scars team circled around in the winding corridors, gradually approaching the target location.
More and more bodies on the ground can attest.
Fu Qihai carefully examined the wounds on the corpses of the Ultramarines and the Mortal Auxiliaries.
Many of them came from large-caliber energy weapons, and there were also two tragic corpses with people and armor squashed into meat paste, like beetles hit by a big truck. It was difficult for Fu Qinghai to judge.
The enemy changed again.
At least this time no more enslavers.
Fu Qihai was very sure in his heart that the enslavers would not cause such harm.
The White Scars team hurried through a corner, and saw a row of Ultramarines in dark blue armor, relying on some debris in the space hulk to build a temporary bunker, acting as an obstacle, and shooting at the enemies outside the bunker .
The Ultramarine in the middle heard footsteps from behind, turned around, and when he saw the White Scars team, he shouted excitedly:
"Qingshan, you are here!"
As soon as Fu Qihai heard the voice, he recognized it as his old acquaintance Guert.
At this time, a blue plasma beam shot past Guert's head, frightened Guert quickly shrank his head, bowed his waist and ran towards Fu Qinghai.
"Green Mountain." Guert said while running.
"Guert, what's the situation now?" Fu Qihai took off his helmet and asked.
"We have encountered hatred intelligence, Qingshan!" Guert came to Fu Qihai and explained the current situation concisely:
"Several squads of fighters who landed from different paths have gathered here. We can already hear the rumbling sound of the weird gravity siphon device when it is in operation, but a group of rebel intelligent control robots are guarding here. Damn it, their They are very powerful and very solid, but I can't make out their model."
Guert waved his hand and said:
"You came at the right time, Qingshan, you are a technical sergeant, maybe you know these guys."
Fu Qihai followed Guert to the side of the improvised bunker, and through the gap in the bunker, Guert pointed to the tall robot that was shooting at the Ultramarines in the distance.
"Look, it's those!"
Fu Qihai looked up and immediately understood.
Outside the passageway is an open and tall space, which seems to be the interior of a giant spaceship.
Seven or eight huge biped humanoid robots are holding their weapons against the volleys of the Ultramarines and slowly advancing towards this line of defense.
They are a full five meters tall, a huge and solid main body, fixed on the bipedal chassis through a short and thick main shaft, on both sides of the main body are wide shoulder armor plates, protruding from under the shoulder armor plate There are two huge mechanical arms, and a rectangular device with a muzzle is fixed on each arm. Two thick black cables are connected from the two iron box devices to the power reactor behind it.
The head of the robot is in the middle of the main body, with an ellipsoidal head and three circular detectors on one side of the head. Their heads are not located on the shoulders like other humanoid robots, which makes them look like a group of A stocky hunchback with big arms.
This design is a feature of Warhammer 40K. All humanoid mechanical units of the Empire of Man, from intelligent control mechs, knight-level Titans, to the indomitable Emperor-level Titans, have their heads placed in the middle of the fuselage, not on top. It makes them both look like big humpbacks.
There is also a thick giant cannon on the right shoulder of these robots. As they advance slowly, the muzzle of the cannon continuously fires plasma or heavy explosive shells in the direction of the Ultramarines.
"Dormita-type intelligent control machine soldier, with additional long-range weapons on the shoulders."
Fu Qihai said in a deep voice.
He judged the enemy's model at a glance.
Gurt asked: "So these are all products of Mechanicus? Then why haven't I seen them in the intelligent control army following us before?"
The Mechanicus has three major military forces: the Skitarii, the Cybertronics and the Titans.
Skitarii generally stay behind in the foundry world to protect the safety of the production line.
The Intellectual Control Legion and the Titan Legion are the Mechanicus troops that followed the Space Warrior Legion on the Great Crusade.
The intelligent control corps are various types of mecha soldiers, on the basis of not violating the crimson protocol that restricts artificial intelligence, intelligent war robots are manufactured.
The Titan Legion is a giant war machine controlled by a human driver. The size is often hundreds of meters high, and it is responsible for the fire support of each legion.
Fu Qihai turned his head to look at Guert, and snorted: "This model is the most advanced model that began to be installed in the troops in the late period of the Great Crusade. Of course, the Warmaster will not give priority to the Ultramarines."
Gourt understood right away.
Like the MK4 extreme power armor, the Domita-type machine soldier is also the most advanced weapon and equipment of the Mechanicus. The war commander who has long been conspiring to rebel, using his supreme military commander's power to allocate supplies, must give priority to these good things. The own legion and other traitor legions are enlisted.
Guert spat, scolded He for being bald and shameless, then turned around and asked:
"Then Qingshan, as a technical sergeant, you must know the weaknesses of these intelligent control mechs, right?"
"..."
Looking at Guert's eyes full of expectation, Fu Qihai didn't know how to explain to him for a while.
"Gult, do you think... space fighters have weaknesses?" Fu Qinghai asked.
"No!" Gurt shook his head firmly, "Space warriors are the most perfect killing weapons carefully designed by the emperor, and it is impossible for him to set up weaknesses and short boards for us."
You could tell he was very proud of who he was.
"Then..." Fu Qihai said seriously: "The Mechanic Cult has the same attitude towards intelligent control mechas."
Fu Qihai said it very euphemistically, but Guert understood, he showed embarrassment, pointed to the corpses lying in disorder outside the bunker and said:
"You see, we once rushed to the vicinity of the gravity siphon device before, but were forced back by this group of intelligent control mechs, and now they are going to launch a countercharge against us, the temporary bunker here cannot last Too long."
The implication is that whether the task is completed or not is another matter. If they don't retreat, everyone will be killed here by these robots.
The intelligent control machine soldiers are very strong, and it can be seen from the number alone: a space warrior army has hundreds of thousands of space fighters, but only a few thousand to tens of thousands of intelligent control machine soldiers.
The cost of a large intelligent control machine is worth several space fighters.
Hearing this, Fu Qihai also felt that the problem was difficult.
He turned his head to look outside the bunker at the intelligent control mechs who were advancing neatly towards the defensive line, and then looked up at the towering dome where the top could not be seen at a glance. The rumbling sound of large machines operating echoed in the huge empty space.
Fu Qihai said loudly: "To deal with this group of intelligent control robots, the power of the bolt gun is not enough. I need a melta gun, a plasma gun and a deflagration weapon. Where is our heavy fire support team?"
The sound was loud enough to overwhelm the vibration and the sound of the giant device when the intelligent control machine soldiers stepped on the floor not far away.
The various assault tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of the Space Marines cannot be driven into the space hulk, but the Space Marines generally have a fire support team equipped with heavy long-range weapons to provide anti-tank or anti-fortification support.
Gurt also responded loudly: "Dead, or the ammunition is exhausted. On the way here, we fought a group of psychic jellyfish, and broke through various bulkheads of the space hulk along the way to open the way. It took a lot of money. Too much ammo."
"If Commander Frajos hadn't anticipated this situation in advance and sent a group of mortal auxiliary troops to send us some supplementary ammunition, we wouldn't even be able to fire our double-barreled melta guns now!"
Damn it, you guys actually used your precious melta guns and plasma guns to blast and cut the bulkheads of space hulks... Fu Qihai felt a deep pain when he heard this: I led the team and encountered a hatch that the welding torch couldn't open And the wall is a direct detour. I didn't expect you to use heavy weapons to break the door. How deep are you?
It's no wonder that the Ultramarines all arrived at the target location first. It turned out that they had opened the way violently along the way, and there was no such thing as a detour.
Guert was waiting for his suggestion, and the White Scars team members behind him were waiting for his order, but Fu Qihai was at a deadlock at this time—how could he fight without heavy weapons?
Seeing that Fu Qihai couldn't think of a way for a while, Guert turned around and walked back to the defense line, shouting in his mouth:
"Ultimate fighters, form an array!"
Except for a few Ultramarines who were armed with heavy weapons, they were lying on the bunker and firing, while the Ultramarines who did not have heavy weapons in their hands quickly gathered in a row, and the jumping shields, which were as square and thick as the door panels in their hands, all smashed to the ground. .
"Boom!" There were heavy and uniform voices.
The Ultramarines quickly formed a tight shield wall.
Bolt guns protruded from the L-shaped gap on the side of the jumping shield, turning the shield into a thorny hedgehog.
This is ready to resist, Fu Qihai watched this well-trained scene.
This shield wall of the Ultramarines is firm, fearless, and full of courage.
But he knew it was all futile.
Fu Qihai knew the box-like device fixed on the arm of the Domita fighter. It was a gravity hammer, a terrible weapon that used gravity shock waves to crush the enemy into meat paste at close range.
The long-range weapons on the shoulders of the mechs are additionally modified. This is a kind of assault-type intelligent control mecha. Its real battlefield positioning and function is not to stand far away and shoot cannons, but to rush into the enemy's line and use The gravity hammer on the arm hammered the enemy's armored vehicles and fortifications into patties with one punch.
This shield formation couldn't hold a single punch.
"Guert!" Fu Qihai shouted to the commander behind the shield formation.
Gurt turned around in surprise.
Fu Qihai said: "I have a solution."
Guert came over and asked, "What way?"
Fu Qihai said:
"Think about it carefully, what is our goal?"
Gourt was taken aback.
Without waiting for him to answer, Fu Qihai said in a deep voice:
"Our mission goal is not to fight head-to-head with this group of intelligent control mechs, but to destroy the weird device behind them and relieve the crisis of the Sosaran."
Guert suddenly said, "You mean..."
Fu Qihai went on to say:
"I counted, except for the one whose legs were destroyed by you just now and couldn't move, there are a total of seven Domita fighters here. The gravity siphon device is bigger than a house, and seven fighters can't defend it. We have a total of sixteen people here, and we can break them into pieces, disperse them, detour and attack and destroy this device from other directions. As long as the operation of this device is destroyed, our goal will be achieved. We don't need to We must destroy these intelligent control mechs."
Guert was overjoyed when he heard the words, just as he was about to say such a good idea, why didn't you say it earlier, when he saw that Fu Qihai's face was still heavy.
Guert is not an idiot, he immediately realized the problems in the plan proposed by Fu Qihai.
First of all, someone needs to stay on this line of defense to attract the attention of the intelligent control fighters, and those who stay behind are almost certain to die.
Secondly, other people have to disperse into groups that are more dispersed than the seven intelligent control robots, or even a single person, to destroy this device, so that the seven robots can't take care of it.
The intelligent-controlled mechas will naturally spread out to defend. A group of people form a tight defense line, and they can still fight against the intelligent-controlled mechas. The person who is unfortunate enough to meet is tantamount to death.
This is in exchange.
Use the inevitable sacrifice of some people in exchange for the achievement of the mission goal.
Guert, who had figured this out, immediately fell into hesitation and entanglement.
Who to send to stay behind? Who to send to disperse?
Fu Qihai didn't wait for him to come to a conclusion, and said directly:
"Give me all the heavy weapons that can be used, and I will be responsible for staying on this line of defense."
Guert was surprised: "You?"
Fu Qihai nodded: "Yes. By the way, do you have phosphating grenades or phosphating bombs?"
Gurt shook his head: "That kind of weapon is only equipped by the Death Guard."
Phosphating weapons, like plasma, hot melt, and deflagration weapons, are excellent anti-heavy armor unit weapons. They claim to be able to burn everything, but the disadvantage is that the pollution is extremely serious, and areas where phosphating weapons have been used cannot be reused for thousands of years .
It was originally a subspace garbage dump, so there was no psychological burden to use the phosphating weapon Fu Qihai on the space hulk.
It's a pity that the Sosaran does not have such a weapon in its arsenal.
Guert did not expect that Fu Qihai would choose the most deadly task.
If you choose to disperse to destroy the gravity siphon device, there is still a chance of life. This is a competition of luck. Whoever is unlucky and encounters an intelligent control machine soldier, once the gravity hammer falls, no one can hold it, and it will be difficult to survive.
But if you stay here, you have to hold back the intelligent control mechas to buy time for others to detour, so it is basically inevitable to sacrifice.
Fu Qihai didn't wait for Guert to get entangled, and said directly:
"That's it, let's go, the White Scars are also scattered, and everyone looks for ways to destroy the gravity siphon device from other directions."
Fu Qihai patted Guert on the shoulder.
Guert's eyes were red, he pursed his lips tightly, took a deep look at Fu Qihai, nodded, said nothing more, and turned around to convey the order.
And Albus Lang, who stood behind and listened to the whole conversation, also nodded at Fu Qihai and said:
"Take care, Qingshan. I believe you can come back alive."
Then there was no nonsense, and he led Aaron and another white-scarred warrior to turn around and leave quickly in other directions.
Seeing that both of them had left, Fu Qihai turned around and said to Chen Xue behind him:
"You stay here and follow me."
Actually, to be honest, it was embarrassing for Fu Qihai to make such a decision.
The others are Astartes, soldiers of the Empire, obeying orders, dying in battle, is the bounden duty of soldiers, they have no choice.
But Chen Xue is just a reincarnator. Although she belongs to the emperor's camp, there is no need to put her life on the line for a native NPC.
But Fu Qihai had no choice, the only thing he dared to stay was Chen Xue.
Taking advantage of the feature of the Magic Dimension Gate ignoring the direct cutting of armor, Fu Qihai still has a chance to fight the Domita fighters, and at least he can at least deal with it.
Without Chen Xue, Fu Qihai wouldn't be able to last a second.
Fu Qihai gave this order to Chen Xue with great difficulty, but he did not expect Chen Xue to listen to him.
If you want to leave, just leave.
Unexpectedly, Chen Xue behind her just nodded slightly and didn't say much.
It was such an easy decision to stay.
Goult walked back, handed a double-barreled melta gun and two plasma pistols of different models to Fu Qihai, and said:
"These are anti-vehicle weapons with ammo."
After speaking, he led the Ultramarines to turn and leave.
He didn't even look at the mortal auxiliary standing behind Fu Qihai.
Fu Qihai took the weapon, looked down at Chen Xue who was wearing the uniform of the mortal auxiliary army, wearing a helmet and a mask, and said in a low voice:
"Come on, follow me over there to have a look."
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In order to highlight the main character in this chapter, Gurt is a little bit subdued, and the Ultramarines are written like a platform boxer. I will spray myself first, so that you can’t spray me, ∠( ∠)_