Chapter 24 Scars

Personal rest cabin, inside the bathroom.

Fu Qinghai dipped a sharp knife into the black sticky liquid in the bowl, then gestured on his face in front of the mirror.

Where should I scratch?

Fu Qinghai looked at his handsome face in the mirror and was a little hesitant to do it.

Think carefully about the handsome guys with scars on their faces that you know.

Scarface Ribery, the corner of his eye cut to his mouth? It was an accidental injury, he is not handsome in person.

Hatake Kakashi, through the entire eye socket? The eyelids are so thin, what if the poison blinds the eyeball?

Harry Potter, a Z on his forehead? What if he goes to JK Rowling's universe and is accidentally killed by the men of the bald, noseless man?

After thinking it over, Fu Qinghai finally made a shallow slanted wound right in the middle of his tall nose.

As soon as the black mucus on the blade touched the skin, a small hissing sound was emitted, and white smoke came out of the wound.

Faced with such pain that corroded his flesh and blood, Fu Qinghai, who had been mentally prepared, simply frowned.

The movement of holding the knife in his hand was still steady and precise, and was not affected at all.

After the scar was healed, Fu Qinghai looked at himself in the mirror and nodded with satisfaction.

…

The next day, Ogedei frowned and looked at the shallow scar on Fu Qinghai's nose with an unhappy look on his face, and said,

"Why, are you afraid of pain?"

Fu Qinghai chuckled and scratched his head without explaining. He knew that Ogedei would not dwell on such a trivial matter.

Ogedei said unhappily,

"Come with me to the war room."

The two men came to the small war room, which was empty.

Ogedei sat down casually and motioned Fu Qinghai to find a seat as well.

"Qingshan, you are now an official member of our team. I know you have many questions in your mind. I can also tell you about the goal of our operation and what happened before."

Fu Qinghai nodded.

Ogedei leaned back in his chair and said slowly: "This all started when we separated from the Death Guard warships in the Condax system..."

It turned out that Ogedei and his company, the Falcon Brotherhood, had many Terran members who were loyal to the Warmaster. They had suffered heavy casualties in the White Scars Civil War that broke out in the outer orbit of Prospero, and were no longer a fully staffed company. The Primarch Jaghatai Khan therefore assigned them a secret mission -

He left the large fleet and boarded a frigate alone to escort the geneticist and biological sage Master Quinto to Mars.

This is why there are no other White Scars fleets in outer orbit around the planet Cheslatan.

After the Battle of Ullanor in 544.M32, there were fewer large-scale battles between Humans and Orks, and most of them were purification operations against local planets. The White Scars, who were sent to the remote Condax galaxy by the Warmaster, were the last legion to have the opportunity to fight the Orks on a large scale.

The Mechanicum of Mars attaches great importance to the Orks, an alien race that once posed a major threat to the Empire, and has been researching and looking for ways to restrain the reproduction of the Orks. Quinto Anastasio is an alien expert specially sent by the Mechanicum to the Condax galaxy to study the Orks.

All of this was disrupted with the advent of the Horus Heresy.

Rebellion and suppressing it became the top priority of all legions, including Mars, which was also caught in a civil war.

As to why he had to escort Master Quinto to Mars, Ogedei was not clear.

Fu Qinghai recalled the bigwigs and factions in the academic and scientific research circles on Earth in his previous life. He guessed that Master Quinto was not alone on Mars, and must have his own disciples and old friends in the Mechanicus. He himself was a loyalist who supported the Emperor. Chagatai Khan might want to use his influence on Mars to tip the balance of victory towards the loyalists a little bit.

Never mind, protecting the emperor is not my job as a new soldier, Fu Qinghai thought.

"Then what?" Fu Qinghai asked. He was more interested in what happened next.

Ogedei took a deep breath and said, "When we were sailing to this galaxy, the auspicious array suddenly detected the signal of the Sons of Horus. A lone Firestorm-class frigate was heading towards an agricultural planet marked as 17-974 on the star map..."

Then, Ogedei got carried away.

The loss of brothers in the White Scars Civil War broke the man's heart. A full two-thirds of the casualties were inflicted. He had never lost so many Space Marines when facing the Orks, who were ten times his number, in the Condax galaxy.

Furthermore, these warriors did not die on a glorious battlefield, but died in acts of rebellion that brought shame to the Legion.

Ogedei blamed it all on the rebellion of the Sons of Horus.

Talar repeatedly advised him to put the mission first, but Ogedei insisted on teaching the traitors a lesson.

As frigates, the Firestorm-class frigate has a size and firepower configuration far exceeding that of the Broadblade-class frigate (the Dagger is a Broadblade-class frigate). The people on the Dagger knew at a glance that it could not fight in space naval battles.

Not to mention that there is an important figure, Master Quinto, on board. Even without taking Quinto into account, in comparison with the number of light spears and the macro cannon array, the Space Battle Dagger is unlikely to defeat the Flamestorm-class frigate of the Sons of Horus.

So the stubborn Ogedei made a bold decision. He handed over the command of the Gladius to Talar and personally led a tactical team to conduct a torpedo boarding!

This is the choice of many Space Marine Legions to risk a small fortune when fighting in space naval battles.

But it is also very dangerous. The danger of torpedo boarding is far greater than that of tactics such as orbital airborne landing, and it can be said to be the combat operation with the highest casualty rate.

An uncharged torpedo can carry two Space Marines. After being launched, it must pass through the blockade of multiple laser arrays and macrocannon arrays and accurately penetrate the enemy ship. The Space Marine team boarding the ship must also fight their way out of the encirclement of the enemy's anti-boarding forces and destroy the enemy ship's power core.

This process sounds fraught with difficulty.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Another thing to mention: boarding torpedoes do not have recovery devices.

Therefore, unless the enemy ship can be completely captured, torpedoing the enemy ship is basically a desperate battle with no return.

But Ogedei succeeded, despite the loss of all his tactical team members and his own legs.

At that time, the Dagger frigate took advantage of its first-mover advantage of discovering the enemy first, hiding in the asteroid belt outside the planet Cheslatan, quietly approaching the frigate of the Sons of Horus, and suddenly attacked when the opponent was about to launch a landing craft, catching the opponent off guard.

Instead, he fired a few random shots, launched the torpedoes, and then slipped away, hiding back in the asteroid belt, waiting for the result of the boarding trip led by Ogedei and the tactical team.

The warships of the White Scars Legion were specially modified by the Mechanicum according to the requirements of their Primarch Jaghatai Khan. They reduced some of the ammunition and firepower configuration and increased the output power of the engine. Therefore, the White Scars' warships are faster than those of other legions and are very suitable for raids.

After Ogedei and his men desperately destroyed the power core of the Firestorm-class frigate, the frigate fell into the atmosphere under the pull of the planet's gravity.

It was located in space above the colonial outpost and fell not far from the Richeslatan colonial outpost.

This led to subsequent events.

Fu Qinghai finally understood.

It's really full of twists and turns.

As they were talking, other Space Marines came in one after another.

After everyone took their seats, Ogedei in the wheelchair said in a deep voice:

"Everyone, Marco Van Lier just gave me news that the subspace storm covering this area has weakened. It is expected that subspace jumps will be possible within the next two weeks."

Upon hearing this, the White Scars warriors were stunned at first, and then cheered.

After drifting in the vast and empty universe for two years, I can finally speed up.

Ogedei also smiled and continued:

"Compared to the subspace storm covering the entire star region, this is just a gap, but by seizing this brief gap, we can quickly approach our destination. We are getting closer and closer to the area where the traitors are active. Everyone, be prepared."

Everyone responded in agreement.

"Let's go." Ogedei patted Fu Qinghai and walked out of the operations room.

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(End of this chapter)