Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 460 Black and Red, Planning in the Shadows (45) Faith
The war started again, and this time the imperial soldiers guarding the Evergreen Hills faced the overwhelming demon army and the main force of the Word Bearers.

The Corrupted Knight Family Gortez led a large number of demons striding forward. The demon engines, the Titan Legion, and even the armored troops of the Word Bearers leaned towards the Empire's position with unimaginable artillery fire.

Relying on the echeloned three-dimensional defense line established by the mountains, one by one the defensive barriers were overturned by heavy artillery shells, and one after another firepower points in the forward positions were just exposed, and they were concentrated and penetrated by deflagration weapons and plasma weapons.

The artillery fire intercepted by the soldiers of the Tindalos Legion hardly posed a threat to the knights of Gothys, and in the hidden fortifications located underground, the knights and titans belonging to the Forged World of Hepper were anxiously waiting for the order to join the battlefield .

"Wait a little longer, wait a little longer." A veteran soldier wearing a black combat uniform smiled and rejected the application of the leader of the knight family, and there were traces of gunpowder smoke on the ground battlefield in his eyebrows and eyes.

Although the two knight families were very dissatisfied, they showed amazing respect for the old man.

Because the old man in front of him is the leader of this mortal legion, and this little-known mortal legion has used their rare will and strong strength to win the guards of the Mechanicus in the past week of war. their respect.

"Your soldiers are bleeding and dying." The leader of the Shaffer family said seriously.

"And our intention is only to join this war." The leader of the Ponte family continued the words of the former.

"No, it's not yet time, please trust them." The old man patted the dust on his body and explained to the two, then plunged into the ground again under the guard of the guards.

The representatives of the two imperial military aristocrats could do nothing about it, they could only helplessly return to their assembly place after looking at each other.

"Rush! Pierce them! Tear them apart! Let us use the iron and fire in our hands to tell them that destruction is the only truth!"

The knights of Godez were roaring crazily, and the guarding knights and mechas were also responding.

The process of their charge was too smooth, everything within their field of vision was burning in the previous artillery fire, those mortals who served the empire seemed to have collapsed, at least within ten kilometers of the hunting group composed of knights and titans, there was nothing that could threaten them target appears.

"Hunger! Blood! Killing! Soul!" The demons around him were all kinds of strange things, and they were endowed with various twisted and hideous appearances in the process of descending into the real universe.

And their desires are so unified, the overlapping echoes of their profane and non-human voices are finally condensed into these four words that can be understood and represent their core desires.

At a distance of ten kilometers, the heavy footsteps of the Knights and Titans can already be felt, and the roar of the devil's tide amidst the subtle tremors of the ground is like a chaotic noise;
At a distance of five kilometers, the black and red demons had already entered the range of direct vision, and the imperial front at the bottom of the mountain was quiet and suffocating except for the craters left by the heavy artillery and the flames all over the field of vision;

With a distance of three kilometers, the Knight Titans had passed the most tense stage and had already begun to relax.

The lunatics in the Iron Throne began to urge the machine soul under their feet, and the twisted machine soul also responded, and the heavy footsteps began to change from slow to fast. Drops of blood and death.

And at the moment when they left the magic tide sequence, countless black figures appeared from the trenches, and more individual anti-equipment threats appeared on the screen in front of the fallen knight.

At a distance of one kilometer, the knights who were still frantically accelerating their pace had not had time to react. These silent legions, which they had only seen in their lives, were completely different from all imperial legions, and began their long-planned counterattack.

No battle cry, no call sign;
No fear, no hesitation.

In this way these silent mortals launched a brave and deadly counterattack against them from the broken positions, and they did not even groan when they were hit by artillery fire and died.

No status, no honor;
No name, no fear.

These mortal troops, which are unfamiliar to the traitors, can only hear cold orders and a series of meaningless numbers from the communication channel under the deciphering of the battlefield communications by the fallen.

A commander was hit by a stray bullet and fell to the ground, and the subsequent commander stood up from the trench. A high-ranking general was killed by concentrated fire, and another mid-level officer immediately took his place.

The Fallen swore they had never seen such an army, nor had any of them seen one, a military organization that treated the sacrifices of its members so equally.

So much so that this group of ancient families known for their tyranny would also feel a faint coldness and fear from the bottom of their hearts while fighting.

Rows of mechanical servants were knocked down, the formed demon cavalry was killed, the tall attendant knight mechs were killed by the soldiers dug out of the trench holding bombs, and the seemingly invincible knight Titan also died in this cold, non-discriminatory death He stopped in front of him.

And this is the purpose of the Tindalos Legion. What they hope to achieve after paying such heavy casualties is to block the spearhead of the enemy's offensive-the armored group headed by the fallen knight Titan.

It was at this time that those imperial knights who had been ready for a long time finally saw the gate open in front of the bunker they were hiding in.

And the leaders of the two knight families saw more clearly that at the end of the field of vision outside the front gate, a young school officer picked up a communicator from a familiar and broken body and sent them messages since the war began. The first cry:
"It's now! For the emperor! For mankind! Go!"

"For the Emperor?"

This battle cry seemed a little strange to the ears of the two nobles who lived in the forge world and obeyed the rule of the Mechanic Order.

They have almost forgotten how long it has been since they shouted such slogans, and they even forgot what they fought for the interests of the foundry world time and time again.

But who cares?Does it matter?
In this situation, these knights who were more loyal to the Mechanicus than the Empire were finally completely shocked by the soldiers of the Tindalos Legion.

They finally let go of their pride in mortals, and began to look squarely and reverently at these warriors and the empire they represented.

"For...humanity! For the emperor!" The unfamiliar battle cry could not conceal the strong fighting spirit of the knights, and behind the battle cry that had been accepted by them was their newly understood belief!
The imperial knights, who were far fewer than the fallen knights, descended from the heights of the Evergreen Hills, and began to shoot fatal attacks on the fallen ones in a gradually accelerating charge.

The distance between the two armored groups was shortening rapidly, and the fallen knights who were originally on the charge side retreated in embarrassment under the attack of the Tindalos Legion and the Imperial Knights.

The tide of demons behind is still approaching, and the golden imperial eagle emblem on the evergreen hills belonging to the empire is also shining.

The lives of the two different camps are swaying their lives on such a narrow battlefield because of their loyalty and courage, greed and tyranny.

And if the perspective of the entire battlefield is pulled away, the two sides of the war at this moment, against the background of their respective forces, the movement and stillness of the impact and counter-impact, become an eternal picture in the countless wars between the Empire and Chaos .

　Two more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)