Chapter 176 The Emperor is Dead
Fu Qinghai spread out his short metal wings and flew in the air.
Under him were five Leman Russ tanks spread out in a linear formation on the wasteland, followed by five Chimera armored personnel carriers. Their tracks rolled over the wasteland, and the armored troops rumbled forward. As it stood, a long trail of smoke and dust was dragged behind the car.
The armored vehicles and fighter gunships of the Human Empire are basically divided into two lines: the Space Marine system and the Imperial Guard system. The main reason is that the former is larger and requires more internal space. At the same time, the neural reactions and extreme overload of the Space Marines also make They can fly faster specialized fighters, such as swordtail interceptors and stormclaw gunships (mortals wearing anti-German suits may also be able to fly them).
Such as the Land Raider and the Rhino troop carrier, these are a large family of vehicles with many styles, and both the Space Marines and the Imperial Guard have corresponding models. But the Leman Russ tank is a very typical one. It is an armored vehicle specially used by the Imperial Guard. As a space warrior, Fu Qinghai cannot enter the Leman Russ tank unless he uses a Pym ray pistol to reduce his size. of the cab.
But the Leman Russ tank is really a very good tank. Fu Qinghai's favorite design is not its main gun or armor or anything else, but the engine of the Leman Russ tank.
To exaggerate, if you throw anything you can find that can be ignited, such as alcohol, cooking oil, phenol, and coal, into the engine of a Leman Russ tank, it will burn (but not psykers).
The universal engine is so awesome. In terms of the meaning of total war, it is far more awesome than a powerful main gun or advanced armor.
The STC template of this type of tank was discovered in the Fenris galaxy, the home of the Space Wolves, so this tank was named after the Wolf King Leman Russ, who is just like the Wolf King himself, rough, tough, and unyielding. .
It has great power, is not easy to malfunction, and is easy to repair and maintain. It can be called the T-34 in Warhammer 40K.
Fu Qinghai swooped and flew next to the tank in the middle, flying almost close to the ground. Fu Qinghai turned to Cyril, who was leaning half of his body on the roof hatch, and said:
"Too slow, too slow! Increase the speed!"
"Sir!" The sound of the armored troops advancing was so loud that Cyril had to raise his voice:
"The Chimera armored personnel carriers are used to load soldiers and do not carry additional fuel. If they move forward at full power, the tank's own fuel will not be enough to return to the station."
Fu Qinghai shook his head and said only one sentence:
"Tank crews must learn to obtain supplies from the enemy."
After saying that, he flew back to high altitude and observed the situation in the distance.
Cyril, who was wearing a big felt hat, gritted his teeth, retracted into the cab, and ordered all the crew members on the communication channel:
"Boost the power and go full speed ahead!"
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The Second Schwerin Regiment, the "Walker" Regiment is stationed around Satellite City No. 1. The terrain here is undulating, crisscrossed with ravines, and densely covered with hills. Compared with tracked vehicles like the Leman Rust tank, it is more suitable for Sentinel mechas. This is a bipedal, single-person vehicle.
Cyril's armored troops advanced majestically along the broad and flat main road, and soon alerted the Schwerin Second Regiment in the garrison.
As black smoke spewed out from the vertical exhaust pipes, Sentinel mechas appeared one after another with big feet from the hills on both sides of the main road.
Fu Qinghai was far behind, commanding Cyril through the communication channel:
"Go up and negotiate with them."
"Yes, sir."
The Sentinel mecha is like a bunch of armor boxes mounted on two thick recurved mechanical legs. The two sides of the open-top armor box are not mechanical arms, but hard-connected long-range weapons. The legs appear to be large and the body is small, and the proportions are not very good. coordination.
After the sentinel mechas on both sides of the hill surrounded the armored troops in the middle of the road, in the middle of the main road, a sentinel mecha with a special earth-red paint walked slowly forward on hydraulic recurve mechanical legs.
Fu Qinghai, who was hiding in the ravine, took a closer look and saw a complicated symbol printed on the body of the Sentinel mecha - a mechanical claw tightly holding a flesh-and-blood arm, wrapped between ring-shaped tines.
Coat of arms of the Bentham family.
Fu Qinghai frowned slightly.
Why did he put his family crest on the vehicles of the Imperial Army?
This kind of behavior... is not to say that it is not allowed at all. The key point is that you only have a planetary garrison, and you are not an elite honorary corps. Why should you print your family's emblem on the equipment issued by the imperial army?
The driver of this Sentinel mecha is a vicious middle-aged man wearing a simple vest on the upper body and military trousers and boots on the lower body. His rough skin is covered with twisted blood vessels like earthworms, and the ugliness left after surgery can be vaguely seen under the vest. The sutures and cylindrical mechanical prosthetic eyes are embedded in the eye sockets, like red light bulbs.
Judging from his appearance, he is someone who is not easy to mess with.
He crossed his legs, put his thick military boots on the edge of the Sentinel mecha, held a Lahoye cigarette in his mouth, took a deep breath, took out the cigarette, and said leisurely amid the smoke:
"Yo yo yo, let's see, who is here?"
"The titular commander of the Schwerin Corps and the commander of the Chariot Regiment, Cyril Sommerfeld."
"What gust of wind brought you here, my old commander?"
Cyril steadily leaned out of the car's roof hatch, not caring at all about the vicious man's taunting words, and said calmly:
"Humphrey, I'm here to talk to you."
The vicious man Humphrey spat, looked at Cyril condescendingly, and asked fiercely:
"The first regiment is the private territory of Sommerfeld, and the second regiment is the private territory of our Bentham family. This has been clearly defined long ago. Cyril, today you drove all the tanks and mobilized the troops to rush there. What do you want to do when you come to my territory?"
Cyril smiled and said:
"Humphrey, we are both soldiers serving the empire, so how can we say that your territory is my territory?"
Cyril knew that Fu Qinghai was eavesdropping, and what he said was high-sounding.
Humphrey said disdainfully:
"Stop being such vain people. If you have something to say, just say it, and if you have something to say, just fart!"
Cyril said:
"Have you heard about the Astropath?"
Humphrey raised his chin:
"heard."
Cyril asked:
"What does the Bentham family mean?"
Humphrey raised his eyebrows and asked:
"What do you Sommerfeld family mean?"
Cyril said righteously and solemnly:
"House Sommerfeld will always remain loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, and we will fight the traitor Horus to the end!"
"ha?"
Humphrey threw away the cigarette in his hand and said in surprise:
"You don't think that the legendary old guy will come back and re-canonize your family as planetary governor, do you? What are you daydreaming about?"
Humphrey kicked on the bulkhead of the mecha, sat up straight and said loudly:
"The Emperor is dead! The former Warmaster, Horus Luperkar, is the master of the Chaos Empire and the new master of the galaxy - the Astropath of the Great Library made it clear and clear that even the Zeddu family He didn’t dare to mess with us on such a big matter, even if he had some small thoughts, and the result was that we were inseparable. Even if the emperor was not dead, I guess he was seriously injured and disabled and fled in a hurry, haha."
Fu Qinghai, who was hiding in the distance and eavesdropping, immediately became happy when he heard this.
Hey, this guy, he really got half of his guess right.
The Emperor did indeed sit on the Golden Throne, severely wounded and crippled, but it was the traitors, not the Emperor, who fled in panic.
Cyril asked in a deep voice:
"Then according to your opinion, the Bentham family will welcome the new emperor to the throne and open the door to welcome the arrival of the Warmaster's fleet?"
"No."
Humphrey flicked his fingers and shook his head:
"Don't be so full of words. We will welcome whoever brings the fleet to the space orbit of the Schwerin Hive."
"well……"
Cyril was furious on the surface, but in his heart he was very satisfied with Humphrey's answer.
This guy Cyril knew that he had a Space Marine on his side, but he deliberately didn't say anything. He just pretended to talk to Humphrey, just to let the Bentham family say these treasonous things in front of Fu Qinghai. Profanity.
Fu Qinghai knew what he was thinking, but he didn't reveal it.
It just so happened that Fu Qinghai also needed a standout to show off to the Sommerfeld family.
This will prevent them from having any strange thoughts when they realize that there is no imperial fleet behind them.
Fu Qinghai emerged from his hiding place and quietly came to the back of several armored vehicles.
The sentry mechas surrounding the hills on both sides saw Fu Qinghai's appearance and were about to scream in surprise.
"boom--"
Fu Qinghai bent his knees, and the jetpack behind him erupted into a huge ring of air waves and radiating tail flames on the ground, and the whole person instantly rose into the air.
Fu Qing raised his Blue Teeth at a high altitude, raised his hands above his head, leaped over a group of tanks and armored vehicles, and slashed at the Sentinel Mecha in the middle of the road.
Give me a jump chop!
Humphrey faced the shadow that suddenly appeared in the sky, covering his entire cabin, and opened his mouth, dumbfounded.
"Keng!"
A flower of flesh and blood erupted in the convertible cabin. Humphrey Bentham, who looked like a cruel character, was beheaded on the spot in the cabin, and his bones and plasma were all over the cabin wall.
Before it was over, Fu Qinghai took advantage of the falling momentum of the jumping chop to grip the hilt of the chain sword and press down hard.
"Buzz buzz...buzz buzz, snap!"
The entire Sentinel mecha's cabin made a heart-wrenching sound of metal twisting, and sparks were flying everywhere, and it was actually split in half by the chain sword!
Fu Qinghai landed with a crash and stood firm, while the sentry mecha in front of him separated to both sides and fell slumped.
Fu Qinghai raised the chain sword with one hand, slowly looked around, and said coldly through the loudspeaker:
"Surrender or die."
The scene was silent.
"boom!"
A heavy explosive shell came from nowhere and hit Fu Qinghai's raised arm armor.
The impact of the heavy explosive bomb made Fu Qinghai lean back, and the ceramic armor on the arm armor was blown to pieces, revealing the complex structure of living metal inside.
Fu Qinghai put down his arm, revealing his scarlet goggles, and looked in the direction of the heavy explosive projectile.
"Fire."
Fu Qinghai ordered coldly on the communication channel.
"Fire!"
Cyril shouted, then retracted into the tank and locked the hatch.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The main gun of the Leman Rust tank, a thick and long battle cannon, the black muzzle suddenly spurted out hot fire, and the secondary weapon directly in front of the vehicle, the slightly smaller laser cannon, also shot out red heat. laser column.
The Leman Rust tank in the hands of the 1st Schwerin Regiment is a standard Ryza type. There are no secondary turrets installed on both sides of the vehicle body, but only the main gun and secondary gun are enough for the Sentinel mechas to drink. Yes.
Fu Qinghai moved around in the dense barrage of heavy explosive bombs and logging guns mounted on both sides of the Sentinel mecha, and rushed towards a Sentinel mecha. He swept out his sword horizontally, and the two hydraulic recurve mechanical legs were simultaneously Cut off, the fuselage tilted and fell to the ground, and the exhaust pipe was still spewing black smoke.
Fu Qinghai pulled out the chain sword from the cockpit, and the drops of blood were thrown away by the whirling saw teeth. He turned to look at the chaos filled with gunpowder smoke and flying shells.
The killing finally began.
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