Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 431 Black and Red, a Plan in the Shadows ([-]) Abandon
"This is the Gray Knight?" Hoffman, the leader of the sea wolf, was on the orbiting battleship, sighing in amazement at the planet on the holographic projector, with little silver lights flashing against the dark red background.

He didn't know much about this Astartes, and the only bit of knowledge came from a little narration of the wolf Ragnar.

In his eyes, a battle group that claims to be built against the supernatural power of the subspace is more like a beautiful bedtime story, but at this moment, he is intuitively feeling the gray knight's power by attacking the powerful scanning array on the cruiser. battlefield value.

Stability, this is the first impression the Gray Knight left on the Space Wolves.

Those silver light spots enlarged, diffused, and faded visible to the naked eye, and finally covered the land of Ballogo like a thin film of light.

The orbital communications that had been disturbed by subspace noise regained contact with the ground again, and the previously chaotic battlefield communications in Hoffman's ears also restored normal communication with the ground.

The wave of magic in the warp was calmed down by the psychic choir, and then suppressed more thoroughly by the will of the Legion with the huge and cold gestalt.

The fanaticism that countless fallen people relied on was broken, and reason returned to the brains of the crowd, accompanied by the fear of death.

The tsunami-like huge crowd began to conflict with itself, and the endless offensive like an ant colony was self-defeating and unsustainable.

A demon that has lost the power of subspace is like a big fish that was caught in the air after jumping out of the sea. After losing the blessing of supernatural power, it is recaptured by the physical rules of the real universe.

They struggle, they jump, but unlike before, they bleed now, they can die now.

This was the first role of the Gray Knights, who, with their banishment of the supernatural, reintroduced the realm of warfare into the realm familiar to Imperial soldiers.

Sharpness is the second quality displayed by the Gray Knight.

The gray knight's average height of more than 2.9 meters caught the attention of all the Astartes who participated in the battle as soon as they appeared on the stage.

In the ensuing battle, they were even more surprised by the pertinence they showed against the demons.

It is not surprising that there are psykers and demonologists per capita, just like the xenomorphists per capita in the Black Templar, this is the due quality of their special forces.

But what the rune priests couldn't understand was that after the blessing of the legion's will, they had almost no psionic laws with a cooling time.

The kind of psychic lightning that was covered with protective spells and then shot at the demon like splashing water really subverted the three views of the rune priests.

The per capita psyker is fine, but the per capita natural psyker above level β?This is a bit outrageous...

Guardian Department...

Breaking the law...

The destruction system even has an extremely rare combined spellcasting.

These gray knights, who were either in pairs or wandering alone on the battlefield, were not only incredibly strong per capita, but also in their seemingly lonely combat environment, they were often able to coordinate operations across space.

Although they are far apart on the battlefield, any demon who encounters them cannot use numbers to gain an advantage in battle.

After they are often baptized head-on by a saturated law, they must always guard against possible teleportation attacks behind them.

They have even seen a lonely gray knight. When they encountered a single powerful demon, they received the assistance of their comrades who were several kilometers away to jointly cast spells. Then, in the next second, several gray knights came out of thin air and besieged the demon to death. scene...

The mobility of the battlefield is completely reversed for them. Compared with it, I really don't know who is the subspace creature...

And their weapons are also very targeted. Enemies that can only be eliminated by hitting the vital points with chainsaw swords and bolt guns are often easily killed in pieces under the attack of the azure blue stand weapons.

Neither demons with obvious resistance to physical damage nor fallen ones endowed with extraordinary vitality could not withstand a fatal blow from the weapons of the Vengeful Valkyries.

Therefore, in the eyes of the commanders, whenever these gray knights appear on a new battlefield, they can immediately create a scene like mowing grass and fighting off demons.

"This is the Gray Knight." On the bridge of the Grafinkel, Ragnar the Wolf's tone was both sighing and sighing.

Even though he had known about the existence of this force, he still couldn't help sighing with relief when the last legacy left by these emperors to the empire, these enemies of Chaos composed of the most elite of all mankind, actually appeared.

"Clear out the remnants of the enemy and leave the frontal battlefield. You only have one hour. Hurry up."

Calvin's voice sounded on the Grafinkel through the transmission of the Unremitting Jihad. After being reminded, the alpha wolf Ragnar pulled away from his emotions, and then sent his orders to the frontline sea wolf through the chain of command. We convey.

This is an extremely heavy decision, because he knows that there must be uncontaminated people here.

This is also the first time he voluntarily gave up a world, because the enemy's footsteps are getting closer, and he has no time to deal with a deeply corrupted world.

He can't even sit back and watch their existence, because their existence and death are both fertile ground for the growth of enemy forces and sources of pollution that spread to more worlds.

Astropaths have brought warnings from the Jamero sector capital:
There were sporadic pollution incidents near the capital, while Padilla, Hess, and the shadow galaxy leading to Ultramar on the far side of the star sector had lost contact several hours ago.

The situation is critical, and Calvin must make a choice.

He either continues to waste time on this worthless planet, or takes his precious vitality to guard more important places.

Does he have a choice?No.

So he could only condemn his own incompetence in his heart, and then made up his mind to give the several planetary worlds in this galaxy a final relief.

"Aren't you going to fight anymore?" Marsh, who once again killed the crowd in front of him and held a chainsaw sword in both hands, was pulled back by his comrades behind him, and asked with a blank expression on his face.

"Stop fighting, the mission has been completed, and the wolf is calling us." The strange comrade-in-arms patted him on the shoulder, then raised his feet and walked down the hill formed by the piled corpses.

Looking at the heavy and quiet plain in front of him, Marsh finally relaxed.

He belatedly felt a sting in his eyes as the blood of the enemy dripped from his brow.

He tried to put down the weapon in his hand, but his hands, which had been waved a thousand times, were already dead, and he couldn't even open his hand to throw the weapon away.

Hastily wiping his eyebrows with the back of his hand, Marsh pulled his feet out from the pile of corpses,

The pharmacist was rummaging through the corpses in the trenches. In addition to taking away the corpses of his comrades, every survivor of the Defense Force was also on the rescue list.

The unaffected defense forces in the rear also received the order. Under the leadership of the chief, they searched through everything they could take away, and then evacuated to the tarmac on the top of the mountain holding the nameplate of the sacrificed comrade.

The wolves of the other two teams walked towards the high point of the position. Behind the operator's position of the heavy bolt gun there, only half of the body, the old Helm closed his eyes tightly and fell into a deep coma.

But fortunately, he survived, and to survive means hope.

Even if his injuries cannot be healed, leaving him with the fate of being placed in a dreadnought, this is still acceptable to Marsh.

Because if the old man died, then the team with only Marsh left would have no meaning of existence.

And Marsh, who became a "lone wolf", can only spend his years from a young wolf to teething alone before fulfilling the "Oath of Vengeance".

That is almost tantamount to death, because Fenris's thousands of years of history have been repeated, and there are very few people who can become "lone wolves" in the era of blood claws, and can complete the "Oath of Vengeance" and be accepted by the wolves again.

All of these people are born heroes with their own legends, and all of them have a rough fate that makes people cry.

Is Marsh such a hero?He didn't know, but what he knew was that he didn't want to be this kind of hero.

The group of silver-gray knights were also resting, and during the rest, they were holding on to their halberds and sharp swords, looking for any remaining threats in the trenches.

The roar of psionic bolt guns and the sound of the slashing of the Valkyries of Vengeance sounded in their direction from time to time, and many of them were the wounded who had just been rescued by the pharmacists.

Although not everyone among them can accept their fate, they are obviously used to and accept the existence of the Gray Knights.

So on the battlefield full of gunpowder smoke, everyone performed their duties in silence.

The scrutiny of the scrutiny, the transportation of the transport, the treatment of the treatment, the execution of the execution.

There is no questioning or guessing, because at the beginning of the battle, the coldest sword comes from the betrayal behind;
There is no sympathy or sorrow, because the war still makes them know that survival is a gift from the Emperor.

War is the best catalyst. A fierce war has made people here overcome barriers and learn to trust these giants made of steel;
Of course, war is also the best lubricant. When the people here already know the meaning of the existence of the Gray Knights, they also naturally understand what they should do when they silently appear next to the stretchers of their comrades. What can be done.

That should not be a judgment, but it is actually a kind of salvation...

Dots of aircraft are rising from the ground of Barlogo. It is a fleet composed of transport ships and storm eagles, and they are recovering the forces and equipment of the Space Wolves to the battleships.

Some scattered settlements that signaled for help were also found by the Astartes of other chapters. They were placed next to the defenders who fought side by side with the wolves, and left in transport boats after being screened by the Gray Knights.

When the flight decks of all warships were closed, and there was no distress signal on the land of Ballogo, many warships under the command of the Inquisition had reached the target equator.

Calvin stood on the bridge of the Indefatigable Crusade, overlooking the land of Balogo, and delivered his final verdict to the starry sky with the deepest heart:

"In the name of... the great Empire of Man, in the name of... the holy Emperor!

I... Calvin, the supreme lord judge of the Imperial Tribunal, on behalf of us incompetent people, announce the decision to give up to the following worlds with a deep heart..."

The huge cyclone torpedo was released from the open deck, and was captured by the gravity of the planet the moment it left the battleship, implying that the destructive warhead began to adjust its posture spontaneously, and headed towards the third continent of Ballogo with its mission .

Similar excommunication was also staged in the other four worlds, and the extermination order for the entire Barlogo galaxy was officially implemented by the supreme lord judge Calvin himself.

In the fleet of the Imperium of Man, all the crew members stopped their work, and the Primarch's self-blaming announcement was played in the corridors of all the warships.

A metal warhead weighing more than [-] tons descended from outside the atmosphere and accelerated under the acceleration of gravity. The highly frictional atmosphere ignited a crimson flame on the surface of the alloy metal, and the marked potential energy curve on the holographic projector was pulled up all the way. After finally becoming a shocking number, it pierced through the weakest position of the geological plate of the third continent, to the center of the earth...

rumbling...

The slight tremors turned violent in a short period of time, the molten flow from the center of the earth splashed wantonly under the cracked earth, the terrifying kinetic energy was transmitted upwards from the deepest part of the earth, and the towering beehive city collapsed in the sky full of smoke and dust , sink, and finally disappear.

All traces of the existence of human civilization on the surface of the earth are cleared at one time. Under the background of the failure of the gravitational field, the atmosphere of the entire planet is escaping outwards. The water vapor evaporated from the ocean flows between the galaxies after being cooled into a spherical iceberg, and the planet is red and hot. The blood of the blood was washed all over the entire planet in the violent plate shock...

A planet that human civilization has operated for tens of thousands of years has fallen, and a precious world that once could breed life has been barren.

Calvin stared at this place silently for a long time and then gave an order to let the assembled Imperial fleet advance to the Palpatine galaxy next door.

The prelude to darkness has sounded, so the real enemy must also be on the scene soon.

And since the opponent set the battlefield here, Calvin, as the invitee, needs a rear as stable as possible to face the next challenge.

The loss of the Space Wolves has been sorted out, and the entire three companies of the Astartes and the assault ships they took are left on this starry sky forever;
The losses of the Inquisition Chamber were equally heavy. Apart from the battle damage of the entire company of the Emperor's Spears, a company of the Dark Hunters only had 60 available troops left.

Fortunately, there is also Ragnar's Dalian Company, who joined the battlefield at the last moment before the subspace storm opened. Although this force was mobilized hastily, it still has the size of nearly five full companies.

Originating from the five battle groups of the Space Wolves, the Black Templar, the Exorcists, the Dark Hunters, and the Blood Ravens, there are a total of nearly 1500 Astartes fighters, which is the entire force of the Empire in the Jameiro sector. (Space Wolves had two reinforcements. After the first reinforcement, the Hoffman Sea Wolf Dalian Company dispatched all members, with a total of 300 people but lost more than 500. The second reinforcement came from Ragnar, the champion of Fenris Company, but due to the rush of mobilization, most of the troops that were executing the plan could not be recalled in time, so Ragnar only brought [-] wolf guards directly under him to the battlefield. The Emperor's Spear is not counted here. Their ships did survive the post-battle search, but the few remaining Emperor's Spear squads are no longer on combat missions in order to protect the recovered gene-seed.)
This is undoubtedly a powerful armed force capable of sweeping the star area, but there are cracks in it that are difficult to heal.

Calvin could not have expected them to become close comrades-in-arms fighting side by side in the next battlefield from the blood-feuding enemies who had just met each other on the last battlefield.

This is neither rational nor realistic.

He could only talk to all the commanders separately to make them understand the situation the empire was facing here, and at the same time try to prevent both parties from appearing in one mission at the same time.

Fortunately, the commanders did not resist Calvin, which was due to his special status and the performance of the Gray Knights on the battlefield.

They all expressed enough support for Calvin, so after a basic consensus was reached, a meeting to prepare for the invasion of Chaos was finally held.

Calvin's thinking is very clear:

The enemy is dark and we are clear, and the Jameolo sector has been confirmed to be cut off from the empire.

So the most important thing now is to occupy the key locations in the star area while preserving the existing power

The remaining 100 Sons of Calvin with the Primarch were sent out again, and they were sent in groups of two to the squads of these Chapters.

The remaining forces of the Inquisition in the Jamero sector were also mobilized, which was Lisetta's greatest cooperation with Calvin as the person to be punished.

With the help of the local Inquisition Court officials, the 50 tactical teams including the Gray Knights (2 Gray Knights + 5 Astartes, a total of 350 people) will go as fast as possible to Jaime Luo The capital is the center and sweeps outward.

And Calvin will lead his main force back to Jamolo, and wait for the enemy to appear after sorting out the personnel and administrative resources there.

　renew.How many chapters are you missing?Chapter four... woo woo woo woo...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)