Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 139 Start of War (1) Destruction and Persistence
The gap in the warp has been going on for at least a year, and it is unknown how many demons have come out of it.

I don't know how long the ruins in the distance can persist, but there is indeed not much time left for Calvin.

Just when Calvin was worried about this, the orbit he was waiting for finally arrived.

"Have you seen the doomsday scene created by those mechanical dead things? I have."

Said one demon who had been lucky enough to survive an orbital strike.

The weapon array of the Wraith Redeemer is not particularly powerful, and its performance is not bad among strike cruisers of the same level, but the gap is not 01:30 compared with battleships, let alone Queen of Glory, the essence of human industrial civilization. .

But a battleship is a battleship, even the smallest cruiser, its firepower is definitely not comparable to that of surface weapons.

The locomotive-thick macro-cannon shells took five rounds as a wave, and after the sights of the gunners on the cruiser were locked, they accurately dropped the destructive power from the track.

The huge warhead easily produced a huge sonic boom and shock wave in the atmosphere only by its own kinetic energy and weight. Five unusually conspicuous airways appeared from the sky, surrounded by a precise semicircle Descending to the periphery of the webway ruins.

The senses of demons are far stronger than those of mortals. When the low-frequency tremors in the air came from the air, all the demons on the battlefield raised their heads to look at the sky.

And what awaited them was the light spear that dropped from the sky one step earlier.

Since the beginning of the design, the high-energy laser column with a thickness of more than ten meters was originally prepared for those steel Leviathans who are also battleships.But it's also surprisingly useful against these flesh and blood.

The beam of light descended from the sky, instantly gasifying the demon that was unfortunately enveloped. Even the five-meter-high demon engine melted into a mass of scrap iron at the moment of irradiation, and then left a glass-like depression on the spot.

The high-energy deflagration effect followed one after another, and the surrounding survivors realized what is called "enthusiasm of the industrial age" in the next second.Hundreds of demons were turned into fly ash in this blow, and thousands of demons were killed and wounded in this instant.

Then, when they had just recovered from the unexpected blow, the shells of the macro artillery also arrived.

Unlike surface weapons, which are limited by the gravity environment, warships in space need much less kinetic energy when firing shells than on the ground, so the proportion of explosives in shells is also much higher than similar products on the ground.

The destruction caused by the explosion of a shaped explosive of more than 40 tons is no different from that of a small tactical nuclear bomb in a sense.

Boom boom boom boom~!

The violent explosion resounded throughout the entire battlefield, which made the several big demons in the rear deterred.

The tens of meters deep crater was only the first wave of kinetic energy released, and the subsequent gunpowder explosion sent the air deflagrated to 3000 degrees and the instantaneous high-temperature shock wave to a distance of up to 1.5 kilometers.The bodies of the demons who were unfortunately affected were instantly shattered, and there was no other choice but to roll back to the subspace where they came from.

The ground trembled violently under this destructive force, and the sky was pierced by this terrible force. A mushroom cloud rose slowly from the center of the explosion. Under the power of five macro cannonballs, a long strip of 30 square meters surrounding the ruins Almost no life within kilometers was spared.

And this just happened to clear up a clean landing field for the subsequent airborne landing of the mortal troops.

In the middle of the battlefield, the big demons were also under the sudden blow, and belatedly realized that a new enemy had arrived.

A large number of Valkyrie fighter planes brought elite vanguard troops and landed towards high points everywhere, and then the airdrops of supplies and troop carriers also appeared at the end of the sky like raindrops.

But these unexpected blows and the subsequent appearance of humans did not make the devil retreat. On the contrary, in the eyes of the devil, the boring consumption of the enchantment of the ruins is far less attractive to the killing of intelligent creatures.

The champion of Khorne doesn't care who comes, as long as there is blood left, it is a tribute to the Lord of the Skull.It joyfully pointed the five-meter-long blood sword in its hand towards the positions of mortals, and its ten-meter-high crimson copper-like body roared out the famous battle cry in a deep voice: Blood sacrifices to the blood god!Skull offering skull seat!

In response to him, more bloodletting demons and Khorne Warhounds came out of the cave behind themselves, forming new legions one by one and rushing forward.

Tzeentch's great demon also obeyed his master's way, and six eyes full of scheming and conspiracy kept turning on the twisted face like a bird's head.

It smirked and waved the scepter in its hand.One portal after another appeared at the junction of the positions of the mortal troops, and countless fire demons and screamers came out of them.

The Beloved of Nurgle rejoices in the sight of life and spreads its disease to them, its scabbed and breached body bulky and bloated.

Countless maggots drilled out of it and drilled in, and swarms of putrid flies and Nurglings surrounded his feet.The huge creep covered every inch of land that he and his children stepped on. Even other demons were unwilling to set foot in it, so they could only go around far away.

The champion of Slaanesh is most unique here, and he is still immersed in the pleasure of his senses. Even the destruction of the sky cannot delay his enjoyment.

After this round of blows, the Chosen of Slaanesh just looked at the mortals in front of him, and then waved his hand in boredom, symbolically sending a group of cultists to the front of the line.

So far, all the demons from the Chaos side have appeared. This is an extremely rare Chaos coalition army, most of which are composed of demons, and only a few Chaos space fighters appear here and there.

The demons all over the mountains and plains once again hit the tide, and there are more behind them.

In the eyes of Calvin in the distance, the previous orbital strike was like waking up a giant beast. While destroying a large number of demons, it attracted more.

The soldiers of the mortal auxiliary army were unexpectedly calm. After the vanguard stepped out of the Valkyrie fighter jets, they targeted and attacked the edges of their respective positions with the fire support of the fighter jets before returning.

The heavy logging guns began to roar impatiently after the position was in place, and the flamethrowers in the hands of the approaching soldiers poured down on the oncoming fire demons like special grenades for free.

Hundreds of soldiers died together with the enemy in the first exchange of fire, but the faces of the fighters who followed up did not change their faces. They continued to fight these demons in the gap of their comrades in silence, thinking that the delay of the main force landing later was precious. deployment time.

Their goals are so clear that they treat the Khorne army and the other two demons that are rushing forward, as if they don't exist, and they don't even bother to take a look.

Tzeentch's goal has been achieved. He released spells to transport his subordinates and vassals to these key positions, just to disrupt the deployment rhythm of these mortals, so that they have no chance to gain a foothold, and thus arrange a solid position.

But humans also have their own calculations.Their calmness and neglect are nothing to fear.

Just as the battle between them and Tzeentch's kin was in full swing, and the vanguard of the Khorne army's war dogs had crossed a distance of several thousand meters to the front of the position, the second round of fire from the track arrived.

(End of this chapter)