Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 455 Black and Red, A Plan in the Shadows (Forty) Tindalos' Counterattack
In the deep ocean of subspace, the Unremitting Jihad, which was returning first, was moving forward alone.

This Retribution-class battleship built on Mars had deliberately left advantages in reactors and engines at the beginning of its design. It can be said that Calvin and others had taken advantage of it to the extreme after the great battle of Jamolo.

Relying on its nearly half more energy supply system than battleships of the same class, Calvin and others only took a little over five days to go back and forth between Moro and Hepper.

And at the end of the fifth day, the fallen Word Bearers Legion, led by the chief pastor Erebus, dropped their first evil mark on the ancient world of Moro.

On the Unrelenting Holy War, Calvin, who was still adapting to "Hybrion's Blessing", hadn't taken off his armor for three days.

In fact, with the current state of this set of armor, this function and concept have not faded at all.

All the components of "Original Heart" have been replaced by psionic liquid metal, and after all these psionic liquid metals have been infused with Calvin's power, the original cloaking, dismantling, and even manifestation and disappearance can only be done in the body of the original body. in a moment.

They even lost their original weight, because after being saturated with psionic energy, as long as Calvin wanted it, all power armor parts were equivalent to weightless.

But this situation is only known to the Primarch himself, so in the eyes of the other Gray Knights, this is another manifestation of the Primarch's worries about the battle ahead.

There was an endless stream of people who came to persuade him to take a proper rest, and even the veteran Tibers secretly advised Calvin after a battle briefing meeting to understand how to maintain weapons when they are not fighting.

But Calvin did not resolve this misunderstanding, because in fact he was indeed worried about the war at Molech.

After all, as the Supreme Commander of the Inquisition and even the Empire in Jamolo, he should have been there to fight with the soldiers of the Empire at this time.

The surprise of obtaining "Hybrion's Blessing" has dissipated, or like every qualified imperial soldier, a personal gain is insignificant compared to the war in the entire star area.

The reason why the Unrelenting Jihad gave up Hepper's support and chose to return alone was also out of war considerations in the direction of Moro.

boom!boom!boom!
A dull explosion sounded from the orbiting defense weapon base station. Against the backdrop of the boundless universe, the huge stars and planets seemed extremely small.

And between these seemingly insignificant stars, two fleets as small as dust, like monsters with teeth and claws, poured their artillery fire on each other with the efforts of countless people, and then gradually narrowed the distance The oldest and bloodiest battle ever started.

The Imperial fleet, under the command of the Inquisition and the Chapter Astartes, was on the obvious defensive.

This was due to both the commanders' reliance on Moloch's remaining defensive intentions, and Calvin's deployment of the battle before his departure.

The lack of a flagship is the most practical reason. Without the addition of the Indefatigable Jihad, the Hrafinkel was transferred to the Otto line. At this time, the sea wolves did not have the idea of ​​a decisive battle with the enemy.

But this kind of concession comes at a price. If the orbital garrison fleet adopts a defensive posture, it usually means that a window for attackers to attack the ground appears.

But the Word Bearers Legion, as the offensive side of the war, obviously will not, and it is impossible to give up this obvious loophole.

Swarms of transport boats began to gather on the track, and dense fighter planes, like piranha swarms, were also released from the belly of the battleships of the Word Bearers Legion.

These behemoths engraved with degenerate and corrupt emblems, just after the main fleet forced the empire back, took advantage of the destruction of the only remaining orbital defense system on Moro, and majesticly faced the dense anti-aircraft artillery fire on the ground, from space. Fall to the ground.

The soldiers on the empire's side could only watch them, but they were unable to make other effective interceptions.

The Tindalos Legion, with only 60 soldiers stationed on Moro, is already the main force, and the number of other auxiliary troops and sea wolves is even more limited.

Fortunately, this was in their plan, because this planetary world, after experiencing the ravages of the Sons of Horus under the command of the Warmaster, its valuable defense area was originally limited to those few important ones. Place.

The Uta Terrace, which is located in the temperate zone on Moro Planet, and the rocky canyons, evergreen hills, Lukapalia City, and Salika on this huge wasteland are their main defense areas now.

The first shot of the war was fired three hours after the Word Bearers landed successfully. The Word Bearers, who had fully assessed the status of the defenders, obviously gave the Tindalos Legion a very high opinion.

They were not in a hurry to bring down the main force of their legion. Instead, they used the fallen rebel legion as the main force, and the dozens of knight titans under the command of the two knight families as their spearheads.

In the rear landing field, under the cover of the heavy artillery unit that was gradually preparing, it began to move towards Lucapaglia's line and launched the first wave of tentative attacks.

This is a war that belongs entirely to mortals, and the two sides of the war belong to the Empire and Chaos.

The main continent of Moro Star, the plains outside the Uta Terrace were filled with millions of mortal soldiers. The entire position of the empire, from the city of Lucaparia in the east to the Evergreen Hills in the west, was submerged in the rumbling artillery fire of the rebel army. among.

However, this is also a contest of will and discipline.

Although there is a huge disparity in size between the two war behemoths, the difference in will and discipline between the legions naturally allows the soldiers of the empire to have quicker responses and more purposeful tactics.

The main position in the direction of Luka Palia, after the rebel army invested a huge main force, and fell into a ten-hour fierce entanglement with the defenders.

Regardless of the dissuasion of the sea wolves, the armored troops of the Tindalos Legion on the two wings completed their assembly within half an hour, and then brazenly outflanked the two wings with a pincer attack against the fleet of fighter planes dispatched urgently in the sky.

The Seawolves have quite complicated attitudes towards this large-scale tactical counterattack:

From the absolute negativity in the meeting at the beginning, to the amazement when I learned that the tactical build-up of the armored forces was completed in half an hour.

After the Tindalos Legion fell into ten times the enemy's attack in the frontal position and refused all support within ten hours, it began to have a slight confidence in this plan.

Until they began to deploy behind the frontal positions, so as to experience the particularity of the Tindalos Legion at close range.

It can be said that within a few hours, they had a subversive understanding of this mortal army.

It is not even an exaggeration to say that after a lapse of tens of thousands of years, they finally saw a unit again that was comparable to the auxiliary army during the Great Expedition in terms of average quality and equipment thickness.

60 to 150 million, this is the ratio of the Tindalos Legion to the Rebel Legion in this battle;
60 versus 300 million, this is the entire force that can be mobilized by both sides on this planet.

What the Tindalos Legion did was relying on the advantage that all of its members had undergone brutal training from the Inquisition and had equipment supplied by the entire Industrial Manufacturing Alliance.

Before the even bigger giant of the Fallen Legion could react, he used the steel power belonging to the empire to sever half of his protruding body in two!

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