StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 37 Camorian Labour Auxiliary

Augustus ordered his men to advance in three four-man fire teams, and then followed the marines in front of them with Gauss rifles in their hands and began to charge.

In front of him, at least several hundred silver-gray armored [-]th Brigade Marines were running at the same time.

Several Federal Air Force Avenger fighter jets passed by hundreds of feet above their heads, and the missiles mounted under the wings fell on the distant Kel Morian position with dense smoke trails in a few seconds. , setting off a series of dazzling orange-red light spots.

Just in front of Augustus on the left, an artillery emplacement is still firing here, and a few electromagnetic artillery shells landed in the middle of a row in front of him, bringing up several bloody stumps, broken arms or even belts and bones helmet.

But when Augustus stepped over a fallen marine, a deafening explosion came from the direction the shells came from.Under the concentrated attack of the federal bombers, the Kelmorian artillery position immediately went silent.

Since the warnings issued by the scouts and reconnaissance planes of the Tyrann Federation had not been passed on to the commander of the fourth brigade in time, everyone thought they were just heading towards an unguarded town.

Many people even naively thought that there, in the destination town of Valinor, the local residents had already boiled hot water, and they were just waiting to enjoy the local food.They would then sleep through the afternoon in the comfort of their wooden huts in order to attack in the early hours of the next morning.

Unexpectedly, there is only a group of crazy Ke Morians in the town of Valinor.

The chain of command in the Marine Corps was somewhat disorganized at first, but soon the battalions and companies knew where their positions should be taken or provided cover for that fraternal and friendly force.

"Where are those son-of-a-bitch Kel-Morians? Don't let me catch them!" Raynor asked as he ran over the comm channel of Squad [-].

"I'm going to smash their heads off!" Ward yelled over the comm channel.

"What happened? The mission briefing clearly said that there should be no Kel Morian army here." Omo said.

"But here it is, Tom," said Augustus. "Follow me, follow your leader. In front of us, there are two battalions approaching 1000 men. When they rush to the high ground, we just have to Just need to go up and congratulate them."

"Don't charge too far, it won't do you any good, or any of your comrades in arms, understand?"

"Yes, squad leader!"

"No problem, boss." There was a burst of affirmative answers on the communication channel.

The soldiers of the first squad followed closely behind their squad leader. Facts proved that what Augustus said was not wrong. As early as when their squad was still trekking in the jungle, a battalion of the vanguard of the fourth brigade had already opposed the squadron. Z-103 Highlands launched an attack.When they rushed to the foot of the high ground, the red and blue flags of the Federation had already been raised.

Lieutenant Reagan was not far from Augustus at that time, with the second squad of the third platoon.So the third platoon quickly assembled under the high ground. Under the order of the platoon leader, this force bypassed the Z-103 high ground and marched towards the town of Valinor in the northeast direction.

At this time, the several positions established by Kelmorian relying on the high ground have been captured by the Federal Marine Corps, and part of the Kelmorian army withdrew from the high ground at the last moment and fled towards the town behind the high ground.At this point Augustus' task became to pursue these fleeing enemy troops.

The third platoon entered the town of Valinor along a country gravel road that was only 10 feet wide. On the way, they also didn't even see a Kelmorian figure, and one after another, the squads and platoons of the Federal Marine Corps were surrounded by them. caught up.

Augustus had only seen a few Kelmorian corpses, and this was the first time he had seen a regular Kelmorian army other than assault cavalry, not a holographic projection in a boot camp.

Unlike the uniform CMC-200 power armor of the federal army, just as these Kemerians used all the materials they could find to build heavy tanks and tanks, their armor and weapons were almost none of them exactly the same.

Among these Kel-Morians, only the tallest, strongest and most valiant people wear power armor that is highly similar to CMC power armor.At first glance, the power armor of the Kel-Morians was no different from that of Augustus, except that a layer of black paint had been painted on top of the original paint.

The berserk modification of the Ke Morian style is almost all over the body of this armor, such as the one in front of Augustus, every part of its power armor is nailed with sharp copper nails, and the two bladed Turasis The hunter's dagger was directly welded to his shoulder armor, and the black armor was painted with messy graffiti with white paint.

All Augustus could recognize was the distinctive insignia of the Kel-Morian Ripper he had learned at boot camp—a spiked hex hammer that burst through a window with shards of glass.The rest were even more eccentric, with animals and symbols of unknown meaning, which Augustus guessed were the crests of the Kel-Morian warrior's family or guild.

As for Augustus, he knew that those who were generally eligible to wear power armor had to be at least elite veterans or foremen of the Ky Morian guild and above.

As for the other Kel Morian fighters, their equipment was much poorer. More than half of the soldiers only wore blue-green woolen uniforms and used smaller Kel Morian electromagnetic rifles as weapons.Some were wearing suspenders and jumpsuits, pocket-packed uniforms more workwear than military.

Others were more luxuriously equipped, wearing round helmets with a central ridge and goggles, with the two capital letters "KM" running vertically from top to bottom, and visors.

In addition to their uniforms, these soldiers wore rough battle armor sewn together with kinetic armor plates and thick leather pads.This kind of armor is far inferior to the federal CMC series armor that can provide power, and the armor coverage rate is also very low. It can cover the calf and forearm if it is better, and only the part from the torso to the thigh is worse.

The proportion of such soldiers in the Ke Morian army is much higher than that of Rippers who can wear power armor. Before they took up arms and set foot on the battlefield to fight the federal army, they were just factories in the mines of various guilds. miners.

After the Battle of Kailian broke out, these people were recruited by the guild government.This is the Kel-Morian Labor Auxiliary Army formed by a group of miners. They lack armor, but they have a tenacious and tenacious will.

As Augustus's squad moved forward, they saw more bodies, including some Union soldiers killed by landmines.The fighting in Valinor town has subsided, and charred houses can be seen everywhere. Federation soldiers are dragging corpses of Kemerians to the center of the town, loading them on trucks and transporting them to other places for burial.

In the afternoon, Augustus and the soldiers in the squad huddled together in a residential house they were assigned to rest, preparing for the general offensive tomorrow morning.All the houses were filled with sweaty Marines, and many more pitched tents in town.

No one knows where the aborigines in Vilino have gone.

(End of this chapter)