Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 136 War Reporter "Jin" Appears

"I still don't think that we alone can completely block this place."

Calvin said to the people here after returning to the bridge.

"It's obvious." Tabers answered in the affirmative.

What about our reinforcements?where are you now?Calvin looked in Jin's direction, waiting for his answer.

"The war in Orpheus has temporarily stalled, and the fleet has been mobilized and organized. The support fleet can reach the star zone node here in five days at the earliest, and ten days at the latest."

After Jin once again confirmed the battle report in his hand, he raised his head and replied to the people present.

"Then count it as twelve days. The battle there is going well? The speed of their mobilization sounds very fast." Calvin asked.

"It didn't go well, but the loss of the fleet was not much. In fact, before the main force of the fleet arrived, the local Alien Tribunal had decided to abandon the counterattack on the Leyak star area, and the passage node leading there had been blown up." It was Kim's reply.

"...This is really regrettable news." Calvin said.

He doesn't know too much about the details of the Orpheus battle, but he had the opportunity to learn about the background of some battles when the Supreme Decree went to the Orpheus sector to support it decades ago.

The situation there is complicated, and more than one hostile force of the empire has been found to have traces of activities there.

Orcs, aliens, and chaos all regard it as their own paradise. Over the centuries, they have appeared in turn in the other direction of the large administrative area of ​​the empire centered on the Leyak sector and the Orpheus sector—— The edge of the Hassan star area.

It is difficult for the local defense military forces to cope with this situation, and they can only fight and retreat in the protracted war.

The reasons for such an anxious and continuous war situation are extremely complicated. Apart from the internal friction of the star region government itself, the main problem is the endless oppression of the Orpheus region by the empire.

In response to the pressure of the Empire on other battlefields of xenos in the Tempest field, the Imperial government has been drawing power from Orpheus for fourteen consecutive centuries.

The industrial capacity of the entire region, which has four star regions, hundreds of planetary worlds, and hundreds of mining worlds, has been continuously recruited.Under the continuous squeeze, the local population, both nobles and commoners, have been exhausted.

Without industrial output to export, there is naturally no profit.Without profits, there would be no money to invest in local infrastructure and defense, and the defense forces of the star sector would naturally slack off.

The local defense forces and the admirals of the star area also expressed their concerns on this matter many times, but under the guidance of the Storm Starfield authorities' principle of obeying the overall situation, they finally chose to remain silent.

There may not be a person named Murphy in this world, but the corresponding laws have not changed.

When something can happen, it must happen.

While the local defense officers were worried about the defense of the star area, the invasion from aliens and chaos really came.

The war started on the edge of the Leyak sector, in the form of a sudden rebellion by the local governor.

The local garrison arrived with the Chapter Astartes at short notice, and the rebellion was swiftly quelled.

But in the subsequent investigation, the personnel of the Inquisition Chamber found traces of the dual existence of Chaos and Alien.

Get rid of the evil and do your best, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

In the centuries that followed, continuous rebellions indeed appeared throughout the star sector.

The increasingly deteriorating defense situation left the local imperial army with no chance to rest and exhaust themselves in the continuous counter-insurgency.

Under the heavy alarm, the high-level eyes of the Storm Starfield finally fixed their eyes on this place, but it was still too late.

A large-scale orc invasion and chaos pollution appeared in more than a dozen planetary worlds in the two star regions of Leyak and Hasan at the same time.

The flames of war all over the place caused the soldiers of the empire to lose sight of one another, and finally under a long-planned ambush, the entire star sector combined fleet fell to the junction of the Hassan star field and the Leyak star field. ,

At this moment, the offensive and defensive momentum of the empire and the enemy, which had exhausted its mobile power, completely changed.

But the empire never gave up here. With the support of the empire, the Orpheus sector forcibly mobilized 2000 million star corps in a short period of time, and several Astartes battle groups did not order to go to support.

And the new Orpheus United Fleet was also re-established with the support of the entire Storm Star Field.

But the national power of the empire is limited after all, especially in 39K, after the entire empire has experienced disasters such as the Great Rebellion, the Beast War, and the Age of Apostasy. The declining national power does not allow them to spend as much as they did during the Great Expedition.

The new Orpheus fleet does not have many real large warships, it can only be hastily pieced together.New ships could only be delivered slowly over the next few centuries.

Here came the reinforcements Calvin hoped for:

A fleet consisting mainly of one Retribution-class battleship and six Lunar-class cruisers had just been built from Reza's iron ring, and was urgently transferred to the direction of Orpheus by the Astral Navy.

The battle there has reached a critical stage, the entire Leyak sector has been lost, and the existing imperial navy is defending the only channel from Leyak to Orpheus, struggling to resist the attack of the orcs.

The notification from the envoys of the Imperial Army is obviously the most timely battlefield information feedback. Calvin had no other choice but to believe in the case of limited channels.

Regarding the fall of Leyak, he was frustrated but there was nothing he could do. But from another perspective, the fact that the support fleet failed to really participate in the counterattack against the Leyak sector was a good thing for the war here.

At least after the troops led by Calvin completed the task of holding on, the reinforcements he could expect to arrive would be a complete fleet.

"This is our goal?"

Calvin stood in front of the porthole, and at the end of his field of vision, an irregular asteroid was hanging alone on the outskirts of the galaxy. A large number of fragmented meteorites and small satellites were bound by gravity to surround its orbit, forming a ring similar to Saturn. Same meteorite belt.

Occasional large ice structures in the meteorite belt suggested that a massive collision had occurred only recently; distant stars suggested to Calvin that the surface temperature here would be frighteningly cold.

What a bad battlefield, but also an ideal one.

Calvin looked at the surface of the planet with mixed feelings.The harsh natural conditions made Calvin worry about the combat effectiveness of the troops; but the desolate background minimized the destructiveness of the chaos pollution.

"Based on the information in our hands, it's here." Jin said behind him.

"So, do you still insist on going down with us? Forgive my offense, respected envoy. I have no doubts about your skills, but your envoy status is your greatest duty on this trip."

His gaze was still fixed on the distant planet, but the topic in Calvin's mouth had already turned to Jin beside him.

"This is not contradictory. Besides, keeping the closest distance to you is part of the envoy's work, isn't it?"

"That's it, I have no objection. But you may not be able to stay out of the battle on the ground. Please check your equipment. If you have any needs, you can talk to my adjutant Gavins. We will try our best to meet your requirements."

"Your will, then, see you on the ground."

"See you on the ground."

Calvin turned and left the porthole, while the envoy of the Imperial Army was still looking at the starry sky outside the window. In the distance of his line of sight was the direction of Orpheus.

Later, as the Wraith Redeemer approached the meteorite field in orbit, the two Thunderhawks were released silently.The target is the wreckage of the hulks inserted more than ten kilometers above the surface of the planet.

"Target confirmation! The hull in front! There are signs of energy operation, and I request the orbiter to crack it!"

"Received! Cracking in progress! Cracking completed! The password is being transmitted, and the flight deck has been unlocked. The Emperor blesses you, and I wish you good luck."

"The Emperor's Blessing!"

The Thunderhawk, flying quietly, ended the communication with the mothership before entering the atmosphere.

The coming violent turbulence caused by the air passing through the atmosphere, the driver in front also sent an alarm to the Thunderhawk's cabin.

The red warning lights in the dark cabin were lit, and the gray knights who got the reminder checked the status of their weapons again.

In the sight of the Thunderhawk pilot, the space hulks twisted and occluded each other, and their parts were inserted into the ground to an unknown depth, like a metal building with a strange architectural style, sitting on this wasteland;

Or a vicious, deformed, rusty metal dagger pierced into the round fruit.

Surprising news appeared, the energy supply of the hull at the top of the "building" has not failed, this is an unexpected harvest obtained by the bird divination instrument before entering the atmosphere.

The soul saviors on the track started targeted permission cracking as soon as they received the notification, and the later password transmission saved the Gray Knights a lot of effort to log in.

As the Thunder Eagle flew, the blurry hull in the distance was already clearly visible.

No traces of the original painting can be found on the mottled armor, only the huge metal gears and the holy skull on the gate prove that this was once a mechanical ark belonging to the Mechanicus.

But it is impossible to know whether it belongs to the current Imperial Society of Mechanics, or whether it came from the Black Mechanic Cult before joining Chaos after apostasy.

The flight deck of the spaceship was working normally, and the gate was slowly opened under the application of deciphering the password.The bearing, which hadn't been maintained for an unknown period of time, let out a tooth-piercing groan under the hydraulic press commanded by the servo.

Fortunately, the door opened smoothly, and before it was fully opened, the Thunderhawk that descended from the sky could not wait to get in.

"laugh……"

The Thunderhawk lightly landed on the unoccupied deck, and the front and rear hatches opened quickly with the release of steam.

Calvin stood directly behind the cabin door, and stepped out the moment the shutter hit the ground.

The eight gray knights on both sides behind him followed the directions on both sides of him, formed a small group of four, and began to observe the surrounding environment while they were on guard.

The empty deck was shrouded in darkness, and no sound could be heard except the breathing of the gray knights.

The infrared light above the head and the tactical light on the gun penetrated the darkness, but dissipated feebly not far away.

When the dust on the deck brought up by the Thunderhawk passed through the beam of light, it fell silently like snow.

At the end of the field of vision, only a handful of emergency lighting flickered on and off in the far corner.

Calvin half-kneeled on the ground, picked up a handful of dust, and gently rolled it on his fingers with the light of Thunderhawk behind him. After sniffing it close to his nose, he found that the dry ingredients had nothing to gain except the fragrance of the soil itself.

The hatch behind the Thunderhawk fell, and the three Heaven's Punishment Fear Knights, under the vigilance of the four gray knights, walked slowly and heavily, curled up and walked out of the hatch.

There is no way, if you want to carry a weapon of this specification with the size of the Thunder Eagle, you can only wrong these steel giants, squatting in the more spacious rear cabin of the Thunder Eagle in the posture of mortal excretion.

Oh, and Jin, our Custodian envoy, is here too.

He just took advantage of the burst of inspiration to sketch "The Gray Knight's Punishment Fear Knight Preparation Picture", under the silent gaze of the Gray Knight's 7 pairs of eyes, he calmly put away the pen and paper in his hand, and leaned against his side Picking up the halberd on the weapon rack, he quickly walked to the front of Thunderhawk to meet Calvin.

Calvin, who heard the footsteps, just turned around and saw his figure.

"It's such a nice place. I can even smell the soil from the orchard on the planet I was born on." Calvin said to Jin who was walking beside him while looking up at the vague dome above.

"Indeed, this is at least a good start, right?" Jin said with a relaxed tone.

"Indeed, at least it means that this is not the target of Chaos. At least we have a safe landing point. Let's go, time is short, we need to find that device."

Calvin replied.He issued an order to the entire team in his psionic channel:

"Everyone is there, turn off all light sources! The baby carriage is ready to transfer, and stand by! The rest of the people follow me, explore the formation and move forward! Execute immediately!"

Among the six gray knights in front, four gray knights wearing optical camouflage cloaks nodded silently to Calvin, and walked quietly into the darkness first.

The remaining two gray knights also advanced in a hexagonal shape with Calvin and Jin at the center after the four comrades in arms at the rear took their positions.

This silent war machine started so suddenly and quietly, their silent tacit understanding and details of various positions moved even the imperial guards who had always thought highly of themselves.

In Jin's eyes, the whole team was still in a state of alert for one second, and in the next second they began to perform their duties in an orderly manner and began to change their formation and explore and move forward.And he never heard a single order or communication during this process.

psionic?

The concept of this natural pain for the Custodian crossed Jin's mind again, but to his well-read knowledge, he was unaware of any psychic power that could be used with such luxury on a tactical level.

Or, is this the special thing about the person next to him?

In the records of the Throne Court, each Primarch does have their own unique abilities.

Jin secretly looked at the giant beside him again. The Primarch of the Gray Knight was good at psychic powers, and there was nothing strange about this kind of thing logically.

"Hey, I really want to remember it!"

Jin's grip on the Guardian's spear tightened and tightened, and he finally gave up on the dangerous act of making a small report in the presence of a Primarch and his honor guard.

He decided to use his brain to see and listen as much as possible during the rest of the journey, to write down the details of the battles of these distinctive Gray Knights, and then write it into a manuscript after returning to Terra.

An exceptionally detailed account of the Primarch of the Gray Knights, and his Honor Guard!

fresh!first hand!

"Ah sneeze!" Calvin sneezed hugely, as he is as strong as he is, naturally he will not suffer from the mortal troubles of respiratory diseases.

He thought about it suspiciously, and then under the premonition of spiritual power, he looked around suspiciously, and finally settled on the only guy who was not his own.

Sensing Calvin's gaze, Jin's palm holding the spear was slightly moist, and he decided to shift the focus away before the incident happened.

So he met Calvin's gaze and asked cautiously:
"Have you always fought like this? I mean, it's not like the Gray Knights I've seen before."

　Two in one, update, ask for votes.

　　In addition, I would like to thank Zhuxia's privet boss for her support, it was a waste of money.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)