Chapter 347

The Waaagh force field temporarily lost its convergence node, and the Orks also lost their organization and discipline, but the level of chaos on the scene did not ease.

On the contrary, the bikers and speeding gangs of the Red Sun Mechanic Gang began to rush around like headless flies, hacking and killing indiscriminately, turning the entire stronghold into a mess.

Fu Qinghai threw his head away casually, stepped on the accelerator, and a long wake came out from the tail of the jet motorcycle, burning several orc boys and making them scream, and then the altitude increased again.

Shrapnel, body parts and bullets flew across the battlefield.

The Orks' long-range weapons have a limited range, and after the death of their warlord, their morale has collapsed and they are only concerned with escaping. The only threat to the jet bikes now is the vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft firepower from the Khorne Chaos Warband.

The quadruple laser cannons on the side of the Spartan tank and the twin heavy bombers on the top have very limited elevation and depression angles, from -32° to +55°, so they are nothing to be afraid of.

However, the Sky Reaper turret on top of the Mastodon tank is a dedicated anti-aircraft weapon. Its firepower is continuous and fierce, and its hemispherical shooting angle is large. The splashing ammunition chains chase the dense clusters of jet motorcycles in the sky.

The three Mastodon tanks were all shrouded in void shields. The jet motorcycle had a heavy bolter on the front, but its firepower was not enough to penetrate the void shield, and the thick adamantium armor on the body of the tank was completely immune to the bombing of micro-nuclear bombs - and the Space Marines did not deliberately launch micro-nuclear bombs at several armored vehicles.

This is the treasure that the chapter leader has set his eyes on.

However, the three turrets of only three Mastodon tanks were not enough to defend against more than two hundred jet motorcycles. The motorcycle cavalrymen in the sky automatically dispersed into several teams, flying back and forth above the stronghold, and quickly climbed up after a wave of dive shooting. The three anti-aircraft turrets could not catch up with so many jet motorcycles, and they could only shoot randomly.

Some impatient Chaos Space Marines directly opened the circular hatch on the top of the Mastodon Tank, leaned half of their bodies out, picked up the grenade launcher, and shot into the sky with roars.

This is the moment I've been waiting for.

Inside the communication channel, several motorcycle squads finished their tactical exchanges. Two jet motorcycles alternated in shooting cover, quickly dived down, and directly passed through the void shield. Several heavy bombs smashed the Chaos Space Marines that had poked out of the tank. The wingman quickly took off, followed by the leader. The Space Marine on the motorcycle, holding the power halberd in his hand, poked and poked downwards, and picked up the falling body out of the hatch.

Then an armor-piercing grenade was thrown in.

"boom--"

Flames and black smoke gushed out of the hatch.

The Skyreaper turret shut down.

The skilled and daring motorcycle riders were preparing to do the same thing again, but because they threw grenades, they flew too low and too slowly, and were hit by the anti-aircraft fire of another Mastodon tank. Heavy bombs and laser cannons hit the side of the vehicle, tearing the armor and melting the engine. The jet bike lost power instantly and fell down with black smoke.

The jet bike twisted and turned and crashed into the chaotic battle group of Orks and Chaos warbands, then exploded with a loud bang. The Space Marine riding the bike had already jumped out, rolled to absorb the impact and fell to the ground.

The Space Marine quickly turned over and got up, and quickly pulled out a pulse bolter from his back. This strange big gun had three coaxial protrusions on the barrel. As soon as it fired, it swept down a circle of greenskins around it. Its power was extremely strong.

"Boom, boom, boom…"

The sound of heavy footsteps came from behind.

The Space Marine just turned around with his gun.

A ferocious Khorne Steel Bull, carrying its Chaos Space Marine rider, is rushing towards this side with an indomitable momentum. The huge wind pressure accompanied by the pungent smell of burning sulfur is already approaching!

The Space Marine's eyes suddenly widened.

He saw with his own eyes in the air that the orcs' bullets, artillery shells and rockets did not cause any damage to this brass shell, but this terrifying Khorne steel bull only needed to push hard to knock an orc truck and its four passengers away, rolling more than ten meters high and then throwing it out of the city.

Finished...

The only thought in his mind.

"boom--"

At that moment, a dark shadow fell from the sky.

Smoke and dust gushed out in all directions, and a figure in black and gold power armor stood in front of him. The Space Marine slowly opened his mouth, and saw the Khan kneeling on one knee, holding a power Guandao in one hand and pressing the spike on the forehead of the Khorne Steel Bull with the other.

"Khan..."

The Space Marine was speechless with surprise.

The Khorne Bull rested its chin against the ground, its four sturdy hooves stomping frantically, shoveling up piles of dirt, and its nose with a ring spewing out hot, smoking, and flaming gas...

Even so, it still couldn't break free from Qingshan Khan's one-handed suppression. The entire huge bull head was pressed firmly to the ground by one hand, and it struggled desperately.

What a shocking scene!

Even the rider on the bull was stunned.

Fu Qinghai suddenly exerted force, pressed the bull's head with one hand and rolled it on the ground to push it away, and with the other hand, he tightly grasped the power Guandao and stabbed it hard into the eyes of the Khorne Steel Bull, then twisted his wrist to stir the handle.

The resistance in my arm disappeared.

The heavy Khorne Steel Bull fell to one side, and its riveted brass guard plate slammed heavily to the ground, raising a cloud of dust. The Chaos Space Marine on its back leaped up, holding the buzzing chainsaw axe tightly in both hands, raised it high above his head, and chopped it down fiercely.

"Blood sacrifice to the Blood God!"

Leowen Ukris roared.

"Shua——"

Fu Qinghai, who was kneeling on one knee, twisted his waist and rotated backwards. The powered Guandao drew a bright and dazzling full moon arc in the air, and cut off the opponent's axe-holding wrist with a clang.

"With your blood, too."

Fu Qinghai said coldly.

The out-of-control chainsaw axe flew down with the two hands holding the axe handle and stuck into the ground.

Leowin Ukris, Chaos Lord of the Fifteen Fangs Warband, stood on the corpse of the Khorne Steel Bull, staring blankly at the neatly severed wrists in front of him that were constantly spurting blood.

"Are you ready for the blood sacrifice to the Blood God?"

The voice from the loudspeaker was hard as iron.

Fu Qinghai held the knife in one hand and raised his arm, with the tip of the knife flashing with an arc of disintegrating force field, pointing directly at the opponent's face.

"Ahhh—"

The Chaos Lord opened his mouth and roared.

"Swish!"

Then he was beheaded with a single blow.

…

The battle is over.

The satellite city outpost was in a mess inside and out.

The fleeing green-skinned orcs were surrounded and pursued by Attila's Savage Riders and Krieg's Death Riders - this is what they are good at. Except for a few scattered fish that escaped the net, the Red Sun Mechanic Gang from the Evil Sun Clan and the Exploding Skull-Splitting Tribe from the Snake Bite Clan were declared completely destroyed today.

The Iron Pagoda Regiment and the two cavalry units were carefully cleaning the battlefield, looking for those who had not yet died, rushing to rescue their own wounded, and finishing off the enemy soldiers.

Attila's Barbarian Cavalry was very busy, cutting off heads one by one, whether they were Chaos Space Marines or Orks - this was a special request from Qingshan Khan, and these grassland barbarians were very good at and happy to deal with this kind of thing.

Normally, the Imperium of Man would not accept the surrender of the Greenskins and Chaos, and of course the latter would almost never surrender. Originally, there should not be any prisoners in this battle, but according to the requirements of the Chapter Master, living Greenskins and Chaos Space Marines in suspended animation were packed up and brought back to the Hive.

Fu Qinghai strolled in the stronghold.

There is no living person here anymore.

The Chaos warbands that believe in Khorne do not know what escape and retreat mean. They will only fight to the death, otherwise they will be spitted and cursed by the Blood God. In the places ravaged by the Chaos warbands of Khorne, there will be almost no living mortals.

There was no time to pray or mourn for these poor mortals who had been turned into neatly stacked skull sacrifices. This fucked-up universe was like this, you'd just get used to it. Fu Qinghai was checking the condition of the Spartan tanks and the Mastodon tanks to see if they were intact.

not bad.

Break off and weld the metal spikes with rotten human heads stuck in them, clean the internal space filled with sticky blood several times, ask the Mechanicus to perform a few electronic exorcisms, and finally it can be put back into the armored sequence of the regiment.

Fu Qinghai thought about it silently.

The Chapter's current armoured units include Land Raiders, Rhinos and Predator tanks (captured from the Iron Warriors), Typhon heavy siege tanks (captured from the Night Lords), and Spartan and Mastodon tanks (captured from the World Eaters).

There seem to be many types, but the number of each type of armored vehicle is only in the single digits.

In fact, it's not bad. It can already form a mixed armored vehicle brigade.

Just like the "Dreary Brigade" of the Night Lords, a variety of armored vehicles are mixed.

Of course, to those Space Marine Legions that specialize in armored cluster warfare, such as the Iron Warriors, the Night Lords' "Dreary Brigade" is a joke.

In horizontal comparison, what is the concept of the armored vehicles possessed by the Iron Pagoda compared to those of other Space Marine chapters?

In the 30K period, the most powerful Ultramarines Legion had more than 2,000 armored vehicles of the same type, which could be concentrated and used in large-scale tank battles.

By the 42K period, the Ultramarines had split into more than 500 sub-regiments, and sub-regiments of sub-regiments. On average, each regiment had only four or five armored vehicles of the same type, especially the unique relics like the Mastodon.

No wonder Space Marines became special forces units and withdrew from the frontal battlefield - with so few tanks, how could they fight a decisive battle?

Fu Qinghai is already satisfied with the current number of guys he has.

...

Hive city, upper nest area.

It was still that dark and damp prison.

Kalamanda stood quietly in the cell. On the rack in front of him, hung a Space Marine with his limbs cut off.

The other man had an ugly, pale, swollen face, black lips, and sunken eyeballs. He grinned, revealing a circle of sharpened teeth inside, like a shark.

There were some coagulated blood scabs on the Chaos Space Marine's forehead, where sharp keratin once grew, but they had been pulled off one by one by Kalamanda with pliers.

Just put it on the tray next to it.

"You can't bring me to my knees, Batboy."

The Chaos Marine chuckled:

"You and your poor and pathetic Primarch, the methods of your Eighth Legion are just like tickling an itch."

"I have more painful things waiting for you."

Karamanda was not annoyed at all and said calmly:

"Are you sure you don't want to tell me?"

"Haha, keep going, keep going, I like it very much."

The Chaos Space Marine laughed wildly.

His tongue had been split into several pieces and his laughter was unclear, a masterpiece of Kalamanda.

There is no need to worry about the Space Marines biting their tongues to commit suicide. They will not die even if they bite their tongues off.

Kalamanda seemed very patient. He pointed to a kettle beside him and asked:

"Would you like some water?"

"Oh, no, I am the son of Angron. The sons of Angron drink only blood, not water."

The Chaos Marine said.

"Really?"

Kalamanda smiled.

"Oh... I have already sunk my feet into a pool of blood. If I don't wade through it any further, the way back will be equally tiresome."

The Chaos Space Marine shook his head and even began to recite poetry.

Although the pronunciation was unclear, the tone was still ups and downs.

"Do you understand, Bat? The gift of the gods will not come easily. You must offer blood and heads for it. Blood enough to drown the stars and countless heads."

Kalamanda looked at him quietly.

The idea is indeed a bit tricky.

It seems that it is time to use my psychic abilities.

Captain Nightbat thought to himself.

It wasn't only when Sartrefaran and No. 56 underwent a completely new and alienated transformation that their psychic talents were awakened.

Finally I found someone worth investing in.

...

Hive world, spire area.

Fu Qinghai and Qiao Shida were talking as they walked.

"In the entire Satellite City Outpost, including the surrounding area, only seven Khorne Steel Bull corpses were found."

Fu Qinghai walked quickly, saying,

"This is wrong, you know, Old Joe. It's totally wrong."

"What's wrong with that?"

Qiao Shida turned his head and asked:

"Isn't it normal to find a few bodies?"

"The numbers are wrong."

Fu Qinghai explained:

"It's either eight, eighteen, or eighty-eight. It can't be seven. Seven is the sacred number of Nurgle. The number of Khorne's Steel Bulls cannot be exactly seven."

The two were walking towards the meeting room.

Suddenly, Kalamanda emerged from the passage beside him like a ghost and stopped the two men.

Fu Qinghai and Qiao Shida stopped.

"Any results?"

Fu Qinghai asked.

Captain Nightbat nodded:

"A Word Bearer and a Dark Apostle escaped. I don't know when they ran away. The sacrificial ceremony in the stronghold and the Khorne Steel Bull were all his work."

The Dark Apostle is a special unit of the Word Bearers Legion after its corruption, similar to a dark version of the Chapter Priest. Ari Bass and Kor Halon are both Dark Apostles.

"snort."

Fu Qinghai snorted coldly:

"I knew it wouldn't end."

Then he asked again:

"So what is their purpose here?"

"Looking for something."

Kalamanda said:

"He couldn't say exactly what it was. It was a secret communication between the Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers and the Chaos Lord of the Fifteen Fangs Warband. You know that, Khan."

Kalamanda shrugged:

"In Chaos... the internal strife is very serious. If you kill the boss today, you will be the new boss tomorrow. In short, there are many things that the boss will not tell his subordinates."

Fu Qinghai nodded slowly:

"I understand."

Suddenly, he raised his head and looked towards the sky.

The spire area of ​​the hive city is located above the clouds, and even though it is night time, the dark and boundless space is still visible.

"What's wrong, Khan?"

Joe Star asked.

Fu Qinghai frowned:

"I seemed to see a flash of light just now."

What would that be?

Could it be that... the light spear opened fire?

...

(End of this chapter)