Chapter 427: Everyone Has Their Own Plans

"It's this industrial world."

After careful research, Fu Qinghai chose an industrial world that had just fallen and was still in the midst of war, named "De'e IV".

The first step of the battle plan: preset the battlefield!

"What's so special about this industrial world?"

Qiao Shida asked in confusion.

The First Captain took a careful look and found that there was almost no difference between the Deu IV industrial world and other planets in the Deu galaxy and the other thirteen industrial worlds, whether in orbital defense facilities or surface defense facilities.

"This planet has oceans, large oceans."

Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes slightly and said.

"ocean?"

The Moon Wolf Warrior frowned.

"Yes, the ocean that buried the traitor Titan."

Fu Qinghai nodded.

Industrial Worlds are Factory Worlds where the entire planet is devoted to manufacturing or mining. Because most of the labor is done by machines, Industrial Worlds are usually sparsely populated.

Although industrial worlds may maintain contact with the Adeptus Mechanicus, such as the model of the Ni-Drina sub-sector - industrial worlds are the production sites of raw materials for forge worlds. However, industrial worlds are not directly under the jurisdiction of the Adeptus Mechanicus. The governance authority of industrial worlds belongs to the planetary governor appointed by Terra. In addition, the technology and production capacity of forge worlds are usually greater than those of industrial worlds, because the former have more scientific research power.

"Destination: De'e IV Industrial World, let's go!"

Fu Qinghai gave the order.

…

Fort Yachters was burned.

The capital of the industrial world of Deutschland IV.

In the southern part of the peninsula port, a raging fire was burning. The crystal windows of the sheds and warehouses were charred and cracked. The heavy iron doors collapsed with a dull thud, leaving behind a broken, empty, and smoking doorway.

Charred bodies and charred vehicles filled the rubble-strewn streets, most of the dead having been killed days before the fire arrived, but only now were they given the "dignity" of cremation. Pale plastic-steel cranes melted in the heat, groaning in agony as they collapsed into the polluted Larkesh Sea.

Fierce fighting between the Loyalist and Traitor Titans easily destroyed the promethium refinery on the promontory, and the fire spread, igniting the dock slums and eating its way north.

Yaxburg was once a dirty industrial trade base, a transit point and distribution center. As the evil faith spread secretly, which was often a prelude to Chaos invasion, it became a fortress full of cultists and mutants. Then, as expected, the fleet of the Dark Mechanicus landed here, and Yaxburg turned into a hell of hell. The Chaos fanatics finally completely occupied the city.

A carnival ensued.

An orgy of killing, sadism and pillage.

Although the fire had not stopped and was still raging across the port, it did not affect the fanaticism of the Chaos believers in the slightest. The dark figures crouched on the roofs, shuttled between the weathered sheds, and some even stood in front of the flames.

Some of them were hunched, twisted creatures wrapped in barely-there rags, others were former Planetary Defense Force soldiers, their faces stained with dirt and blood, their carapaces stained and riddled with bullet holes.

The distorted-looking black oil man was directing the servitors to carry supplies. They watched the revelry of the Chaos believers in the city coldly. As long as they did not disturb their plundering of the resource reserves in the industrial world, these gangs that believed in different evil gods and the Dark Mechanicus could barely be considered to be in the same camp.

"Kill! Chop! Burn!"

Some people are burning, killing and looting, pointing their knives and guns at the remaining civilians or other gangs.

"Smash it, smash it!"

Some people were using the blazing flames to tear and burn the Imperial Eagle flag, smearing blood on the statue of the Saint of the Expedition, which were symbols of the existence of the Terran government. They gathered together, pulling the ropes, shouting slogans, and cheering loudly:

"One, two, three, pull!"

"boom!"

In the square in front of the Governor's Palace, the giant stone sculptures symbolizing the Human Empire and the Mechanicus collapsed and broke into several pieces, filling the air with smoke and dust. The cultists laughed and stomped and stabbed the stones to vent their anger, then took off their pants and urinated on the stones, with yellow urine sliding down the eye sockets of the skull sculptures.

The flames were still burning. The traitors raised their heads, facing the flying ashes and thick haze, and shouted and howled at the sky to show their defiance.

For them, this is the greatest misfortune.

It was the sky that responded.

…

The scorching energy pierced down from the clouds.

Penetrating the thick leaden clouds of burning embers and toxic smog, golden light spread across the land, instantly vaporizing the revelers. Anyone who dared to look directly at the golden light felt pain and tears in their eyes, and instantly went blind, with only a white vision left in their vision. Even the mechanical prosthetic eyes also became overheated and overloaded, with wisps of white smoke coming out of their eye sockets.

It starts from the moment the first golden light descends.

One after another, the thick clouds were shattered by the golden light pillars. The dark technology heretics and twisted mechanical servants who were busy transporting supplies did not even have time to hide in the shelter before they disappeared in the golden light.

Following closely behind was the pillar of light that seemed like divine punishment from heaven.

It is a meteor shower with meteors drawing arcs.

"Swoosh—Boom!!!"

Mud and gravel flew everywhere, and the drop capsule slammed heavily onto the ground, with half of its end buried in the earth.

"Shhh—pop!"

White steam gushed out and the hydraulic crank made a sound.

Eight hatches opened with a slam, smashed into the ground and embedded into the soil, and black-gold Space Marines holding pulse bolters and Fat Man launchers rushed out along the steel stairs outside the hatches. Before the Chaos believers could recover from the attack of light spears, the blinded cultists were instantly penetrated and exploded by the electromagnetically accelerated bombs, bursting into a ball of blood and broken bones.

"Jiu——"

A thin red beam of light flashed by, and a black grease man just stuck his hood out from the ruins was immediately hit by the thin red line. Slag, black ash and flames spewed out of the breathing valve of the twisted mask. He hugged his body and began to roll around, turning into a rolling human-shaped flame along with his black robe.

Qiao Shida put down the explosive assault rifle.

Look around at the burning ruins of the streets.

"Clear this city completely!"

The first captain raised one arm and roared loudly:

"Hurry up! We only have less than twenty hours to build a city defense line, a defense line that can hold off the Titan Legion for fifteen minutes!"

According to the plan, the Space Marines of the Iron Pagoda Regiment needed to quickly eliminate all the remnants of the Chaos forces in Fort Yakz, and then use less than a standard Terran day to build a line of defense based on these city buildings, reinforce the original defense facilities, and build a line of defense. And the requirement for this line of defense is:

to be able to withstand a Titan legion for fifteen minutes.

The Titan Legion is a battle fleet on land. It is extremely difficult to use the ruins of a city to resist a Titan Legion for fifteen minutes. Faced with this strict requirement, Qiao Shida is unsure, but he believes that his warriors can accomplish it.

This job should be left to the Imperial Fists.

Qiao Shida pursed his lips and thought to himself.

Although we don't have the Imperial Fists...

But we have the Iron Warriors.

Thinking of this, the first captain turned his head and looked. The last Space Marine walked out of each airborne capsule one after another. Their power backpacks were larger, and there were additional auxiliary aiming instruments installed on the side of the helmet eyepiece. As they stepped out of the hatch, four or five mechanical arms unfolded behind them like an octopus.

All the technical sergeants of the regiment were dispatched.

The first batch of Space Marines who arrived on the surface in airdrop pods quickly cleared the area around the Governor's Mansion. They quickly cleaned the ground in the square in front of the Governor's Mansion, and then six Thunderhawk gunships landed there. The belly hatch opened, and there was the rumble of armored tracks. Spartan tanks, Mastodon tanks, Predator tanks, Land Raiders...

Six Thunderhawk gunships constantly traveled back and forth between orbit and the surface, transporting the regiment's armored vehicles. Soon, the regiment's only armored company, the "Vanguard Brigade", was deployed.

There are also many construction machinery.

It didn't take long for the Space Marines to clear out the Chaos Cultists in the entire Yakzburg, as well as the Black Oilers who came to plunder resources. They were no match for the local defense facilities, and tried to repair the land-based macro cannons and void shield generators that were damaged in the previous war, dig some tunnels, set up some roadblocks, and set traps using gates, bridges, and canals...

It is almost impossible for these things to cause damage to the Titan Legion, but their purpose is not to rely on these fortifications to kill the Titan Legion, but to delay time as much as possible.

The second step of the battle plan: lure the snake out of its hole.

…

The Hive World of Exelos II.

In the outer space of the planet, very far away from the orbital defense facilities, there are a number of fleets belonging to the rebels, including both the Chaos Cruiser Fleet that came to support and the transport fleet of the Untamed Lord Titan Legion after the rebellion.

They have surrounded the hive.

Originally, the rebels were ready to attack the hive world, but the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the Ni Deline sub-sector - an Astartes battle fleet, temporarily slowed down their pace of attacking the hive.

Prepare to see what this chapter has in mind.

Originally according to the rebels' estimation, this regiment must be here to rescue the Imperial army trapped in the Hive World. They have made sufficient preparations, concentrated all their forces and deployed them around the Hive World, waiting for the other side to arrive.

In the Ni-Drina sub-sector, the rebels had a local military advantage. Under this situation, one side was trapped in the hive world, one side surrounded the hive world, and one side tried to come to the rescue. If they fought well, they could form an "inside and outside cooperation", but if they fought badly, it would become a "siege and attack". In general, because they had a military advantage, both the navy and the army were much stronger than the imperial army, so the rebels were not very anxious and were ready to wait for the Astartes regiment to come to their doorstep and eat up the hive world and the regiment fleet together.

However, what they didn't expect was that the Astartes Chapter did not come to rescue the Hive World, but instead found an industrial world of its own. After quickly retaking that industrial world, they began to reinforce the defenses on the spot, putting up a defensive posture. At the same time, taking advantage of the opportunity that all the rebel forces were concentrated around the Hive World, this fleet began to constantly harass other industrial worlds that had fallen into the hands of the rebels, preventing them from plundering and transporting resources... but they just refused to fight the main force of the rebels.

What kind of behavior is this?

To watch someone die without helping him?

The commander of the Chaos Fleet, Sotan wal-Brown, analyzed the current situation and felt very puzzled.

Aren't they worried that after the hive world falls, they will turn around and eat them too?

Thortan was a warsmith nicknamed "Forgestone" who served with the 45th Battalion of the Iron Warriors during the Great Crusade and Heresy. He was a master of earthworks, with a deep understanding of rock materials, so much so that it was rumored that he could speak to the stones, causing them to reveal everything to him and become geological wonders under his tools.

The War Blacksmith thought that since the other side had no intention of joining forces, the situation would be simple. They could use their superior strength to defeat them one by one, first devour the Imperial army in the Hive World, and then kill the Astartes Regiment. This was the safest way, and it was also in line with the war philosophy of the Lord of Steel Perturabo - concentrate superior forces to overwhelm the enemy.

However, what he did not expect was that the representatives of the Dark Mechanicus raised very fierce objections.

They said that resources were extremely scarce in the Eye of Terror, and all the Forge Worlds under the Dark Mechanicus were staring wide open and crying for food. The main purpose of this operation was to plunder the rich resources in the Ni-Drina sub-sector, rather than to kill the running dogs and loyal servants of the false emperor.

The War Blacksmith was suddenly in a dilemma.

As a high-ranking officer of the Chaos Space Marines, he wanted to make great military achievements, he wanted to humiliate the false emperor's lackeys and please the Four Chaos Gods, but he had to take the opinions of the Dark Mechanicus into consideration - because they controlled the Titan Legion.

If the Black Oiler doesn't cooperate and the Titan Legion is removed, the overwhelming ground military force will no longer exist. Moreover, if you want to develop in the Eye of Terror for a long time in the future, it is also very necessary to establish a good relationship with the Dark Mechanicus. Otherwise, where will the weapons, vehicles and warships come from? They can't be generated out of thin air.

"Tsk... that's a lot to ask."

Sotan frowned and thought to himself.

I feel that serving the Lord of Steel is not as troublesome as serving these black oil guys, who are bossing me around all day long.

It would obviously not be appropriate for the rebels to give up the siege of the hive world and deal with the Astartes Chapter, because in this way, the Imperial Navy, Titan Legion and Imperial Guard in the hive world would all run away. Over there is only an insignificant chapter fleet, while here is a coalition of three entire forces. The War Blacksmith can clearly tell which is more important.

"Then divide the troops."

The Warsmith thought for a moment and said,

"They seem to be building fortifications... Humph, building fortifications in front of the Titan Legion is really overestimating their own capabilities. Send some Untamed Lord Titans to deal with them. I will send three strike cruisers to cover the Titan Legion's landing."

The arrangement was completed, but a sense of uneasiness still lingered in the heart of the war blacksmith. After thinking for a while, Sotan added:

"The plundering knights of the Vixtris family will follow the Untamed Lord Titan Legion to Deu IV."

"Yes, sir."

A lion fights a rabbit with all its might. A Titan Legion and a Knight Family fight against an Astartes Chapter. No matter what tricks you have, the Warsmith thought, in the face of absolute power, it is impossible to make any waves.

Two Titan Legion transport cruisers plus three Chaos Fleet conventional cruisers, five warships, do not have an overwhelming naval advantage over three strike cruisers led by a battle barge, but they are enough to cover the Titan Legion's landing on the surface, because the other warships will continue to besiege the hive world, and the Titan Legion will decide the outcome on the ground.

The plan worked!

The Warsmith compromised.

The black oil guy was satisfied.

The rebellious Titans were reorganized, the fallen knights were lined up and ready to go, and the five warships broke out of the encirclement and quickly headed for the De'e system, ready to completely annihilate the overconfident Astartes regiment and make them have a minimum of reverence for the gods.

…

Deue Industrial World No. 4.

On the coast of the narrow peninsula, in Yakzburg, the technical sergeants of the regiment were still busy reinforcing the defense facilities of the entire city. Far away from here, two imperial transport ships had docked on the coast at some point.

The two huge monsters quietly slid into the ocean called "Larkesh" through the hatch that opened at the stern of the ship. The waves filled with highly toxic chemicals were surging and the huge monsters disappeared into the ocean.

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(End of this chapter)