Warhammer 40: Gods Of Mortals

Chapter 173 New Tactics

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With the enemy fleet driven out of the system and no enemy orbital bombardment threatening areas beyond the Void Shield, the already dominant Skitarii were finally able to conduct normal warfare outside the protection of the Void Shield.

Skitarii ground troops charged the enemy positions under the cover of titans and knights, while reinforcements from Tyrone appeared behind the enemy positions to join the battle.

On some battlefields where the enemy already had a great advantage, the situation did not change much. The cataract army built defense positions, and the enemy army deployed manpower to deal with the Tyrone army that suddenly appeared from behind while attacking.

Only in the Arctic region of the foundry world is there a different war.

The priest in charge of defending the Arctic region entrusted Tyrone's army to send the vacated cathars to other battlefields with higher intensity.

The 44th regiment is responsible for the war in the Arctic.

The 3st Company, with a total of [-] men, was responsible for retaking the western region controlled by the enemy. They had another task besides fighting, which was to test a new tactic.

The entire company's force was not concentrated to attack a position or fortress, but was dispersed into skirmish lines.

Grote, who had become the commander of the first company, was advancing in a command Leman Rus tank. Through the holographic image, he saw that his subordinates were scattered everywhere, and there were often only a few hundred people in a large area.

Grote got out of the hull and looked around.

Two Ogryn guards in power armor walked on both sides of the tank, and the company commander's guard of 500 people also followed the tank. They were in groups of three or four, and they looked very loose.

The entire company marched loosely on the battlefield like this.

Although the battlefield is located in the Antarctic, there is no ice, snow or glaciers here, and there are various large or small industrial facilities in the field of vision.

Grote felt that this place was more like a city, completely different from the battlefield environment he imagined when preparing for the battle on the celestial engine.

From time to time, a few fighter planes flew over in the sky, and then a few flashes of light appeared on the horizon directly ahead.

The artillery units of the 44th were bombing on the fringes of the battlefield, and Grote had no idea what they were bombing.

"Company commander, what are we doing?" The driver who was manipulating the tank asked back.

"I don't know," Grote replied.

This is not an impatient prevarication, but a truth.

Grote himself didn't know what he was doing, he only knew that the order he had received was to advance, but he had never fought a decent battle.

The infantry of the whole company was more like an outing than a battle.

Grote knew that the rest of the infantry throughout the company, out of sight, were also on the outing.

While Grote was looking around, there was a sudden roar, and he and his subordinates turned their heads to look in the direction of the sound.

This sound is not the sound of soldiers in other areas encountering enemies and exchanging fire, but the giant war machines called Titans of Mechanicum.

There are several "mountains" moving on the horizon in the distance, which are Titans.

The Titans were carrying out the transfer order given by the priest, heading towards the high-intensity battlefield that needed them more, but when they passed by, they saw friendly troops from the Tyron galaxy, and then greeted them in the way of the Titans.

When Grote saw these titans, he felt that he was not much different from what they were doing, just moving forward.

After observing for a while, Grote's body retracted into the tank, and then continued to stare at the holographic projection.

Although everyone seems to be on an outing, the war is indeed going on.

The holographic projection shows all detected positions or fortresses previously captured by the enemy, which have not yet been attacked by infantry but are still rapidly decreasing.

The benefits of the new tactics being tested by the first company are obvious, that is, the ground troops can advance very fast.

Grote glanced at the overall situation and looked at a patch of red dots scattered in front of the infantry.

"We are about to face a battle, cheer up." Grote reminded everyone in the company on the communication channel.

The command Leman Rus tank drove forward for about 10 minutes, and Grote saw a warehouse directly in front of him.

The warehouse has been cleaned by artillery and warplanes, the left half has collapsed, and there are fortification wreckage and corpses inside and out.

The most difficult things here have been dealt with before, and there are only a few enemies left in the warehouse.

After discovering the Leman Ruth tank that had arrived outside the warehouse, the surviving people in the warehouse rushed out with various weapons.

Grote observed them carefully, and found that these enemies had various degrees of mutation. They held a variety of weapons, and even carried two axes shirtless. The equipment was not even comparable to that of the militia. The only advantage was that they They were all angry, and were being driven by anger to charge forward, even if they were facing tanks and infantry all wearing power armor, they were not afraid.

The tanks and surrounding infantry were already firing while Grote was observing. The enemies that rushed out of the warehouse were killed by heavy bolts and laser rifles in just five seconds, but the remaining enemies were still charging forward. .

This is a battle without any suspense.

If the various artillery and fortifications here in the warehouse were not destroyed by the fighter planes that flew here before, it might take some effort, but unfortunately there is no such thing.

The scanning device integrated in the power armor worn by each infantryman was still working during the battle. After the latest scan, a red mark appeared on the map in the HUD. This mark was approaching from the east at a very fast speed.

Grote immediately assigned his men to defend the east, and all the weapons on the tank turned over.

After making all preparations, Grote put his eyes on the observation mirror to check the situation in the east.

Soon, a space warrior wearing crimson power armor and holding two axes appeared in Grote's field of vision. He shuttled back and forth between various objects that could be used as cover, approaching at an extremely fast speed.

The heavy bolters on the tanks and the infantry around them opened fire.

The space marine continued to walk between the bunkers, rushed to the tank and chopped off the heads of two infantrymen with an axe, then raised the corpses to use as shields and approached the tank.

"Lute!" Groat called to his Ogryn guards.

The one named Lute has already rushed over with his arms raised, his heavy body being assisted by the transmission device of the Ogrym armor to rush forward. The space warrior he took as the target did not dodge but immediately swung his axe, smashing the blade of the axe. Lute's arms also smashed down while the power armor was activated.

The sound of power armor shattering sounded, and the space warrior's head and helmet were smashed to pieces, and even his shoulders were smashed to the level of his waist. The severe deformation of his body and power armor was simply horrible.

"I...I killed three big ones...I'm... the best!" Lute raised his blood-stained arms and cheered loudly.

Grote wanted to remind Lute that he killed not three but one, but just as he was about to speak, he found that the blood on the battlefield was pooling and fading away.

"what's going on?"

"Blood..."

The infantry who had just wiped out all the enemies noticed this strange situation, the blood was flowing and converging, and then disappeared as if being evaporated.

"We have to report this situation." Grote took a picture of the strange phenomenon in front of him and transmitted it to the guard.

　had a bad day
　　It should be fine tomorrow, I will get up early to update

　　
　
(End of this chapter)