Warhammer 40k Chaos Tyrant
Chapter 223: The drawbacks of the empire - bureaucracy. (1/2)
"My Lord Earl, how are you?"
The uninjured Midnight Lords Astartes gathered around and began to clean up the trench that had completely collapsed in front of them in a hurry.
Continuous explosions and violent vibrations were heard from time to time, which meant that many people stepped on landmines again.
Which madman would set up so many traps in his own trenches, including some mines that were so powerful that they were off the charts. This is really unimaginable.
As pieces of rubble were roughly pulled up and thrown behind, the trench that was just completely buried and covered was cleared up bit by bit. This place was actually not a trench, but a square accumulated by heavy stone slabs, but for temporary needs, those heavy stone slabs were dug up, and then the soil underneath was dug into this kind of trench, which was nearly two meters high.
But this kind of trench is obviously not for strong Astartes, because even the shortest Astartes is more than two meters tall.
When facing these giants as tall as iron towers, this kind of trench seems a bit useless.
However, when this kind of trench was designed, it was to enable the mortal legions to fight better.
After all, at this moment, the main force resisting the Chaos Demons in the entire palace is still the mortal legions that are not as tall as the trenches.
After lifting the last black stone, the gray armor below appeared in everyone's sight.
The armor of the Midnight Lord is actually not gray, but black. It's just that at this moment, because of the dirt on it, and the high temperature burned during the bombing not long ago, it looks a little faded.
Looking at the armor that looks intact, the surrounding Midnight Lord Astartes don't feel the slightest bit of joy in their hearts.
At this moment, the armor they are wearing is still Mark 3 power armor.
This is the standard armor worn by most Astartes of the Astartes Legion. Although each Astartes will make some minor changes to his armor, the armor worn by most Astartes is almost the same, but this does not include those who have outstanding achievements or the captains and commanders of the Great Company who are in high positions.
As the captain of the Great Company, although Pease was selected as the captain of the Great Company a few years before the rebellion began, his home planet is an absolutely wealthy agricultural planet.
And he is also a famous criminal on that agricultural planet, but that was only before. After he successfully passed the War of Atonement and put on this Astartes' clothes, he became a noble of his home planet and received absolute support from his home planet. Therefore, his armor is not a traditional Mark-type armor, but an armor specially designed and built by a certain forging world.
His armor was very strong, and he used a layer of refined gold that exceeded the regulations. However, on top of this layer of refined gold, he applied another layer of paint to cover up the golden light.
This was not a secret. His subordinates all knew that the armor on the Earl, the captain of the Dalian Company, was much more expensive than theirs.
And it was precisely because of this that Pease did not suffer any serious damage in the previous bombing.
However, at this moment, this set of priceless armor was not so complete.
Pease lost a leg, a right leg, which was the leg he had just stepped on the landmine.
Also missing was most of the flesh and blood tissue and armor on his other leg. Even through the blown-up area, one could clearly see the bones inside the flesh that had been broken into several pieces.
A little bit of pale blue blood quickly flowed out from the wound. The surrounding Night Lords Astartes quickly stepped forward and began to help him treat the wound... If nothing unexpected happened, even if he could survive, the result waiting for him was to be placed inside a certain dreadnought mech and stay in that tin can forever.
Of course, if they did not betray the Empire, they might be eligible for retirement after the war.
With the continuous rescue, Pease gradually regained consciousness. He took off his helmet and revealed his not very old face.
Of course, the most conspicuous thing was the two blood holes on his forehead that had not yet healed.
There were originally a silver nail and a gold nail nailed there.
The two nails were originally used to commend their silent loyalty to the Empire.
But with the rebellion of Horus, everything before was overturned, and the two nails were pulled out by Pease.
Grinning at the pharmacist, spraying the medicine on his wounds and bandaging them, a trace of fear flashed in Pease's eyes. However, he hid this emotion very well, and almost no one noticed it... Of course, it is also possible that this emotion has been noticed early, but the Ascarts around him were wearing their helmets, so Pease could not see the expressions on their faces.
"...Continue to complete your mission, Kabrem, you are responsible for helping me walk, and the others will immediately..." Pease struggled to stand up from the ground. With the help of an Astarte he trusted the most, he jumped to the relatively flat trench ground on the side.
It seemed that he wanted to make way for his teammates to pass by.
But at this moment, his relatively intact left leg suddenly made a sound of "Kacha".
Some looked at the ground in despair, and saw that under a piece of soil that had been blown up, there was actually a mine buried.
"Purgatory!" The moment this word was uttered, the mine on the ground exploded, and the blazing flames accompanied by the fiery red soil that was dissolved by high temperature and turned into magma in an instant quickly submerged the trench.
If the graceful resting disc is an anti-infantry mine specifically targeting infantry. Then the Purgatory mine is a deep mine specifically used for secondary damage. The fuse design inside it is very peculiar, and the safety will only be opened after experiencing violent vibrations (vibrations caused by violent explosions of other mines).
Before experiencing violent vibrations, it will not be activated, but will stay quietly in the deep soil, waiting for other mines above it to explode, and then cause serious damage to those who come to rescue, or enemies who are preparing to pass by for the second time.
This is a very insidious mine, but because of its powerful lethality and difficult to detect characteristics, his enemies call it purgatory.
"How many mines have you laid?"
Due to the shortage of personnel, Louis Meg, the highest commander of the Third War Zone, was forced to become an internal affairs officer. He led a large number of mortal troops to transport batches, bundles, and bundles of explosives and mines, as well as various equipment, weapons and ammunition to the trenches at the front.
Listening to the sound of mine explosions that continued to blast like firecrackers in the distance, Louis Meg swallowed a mouthful of saliva speechlessly.
"I'll use as many batches as you bring in." Lu Yindor looked at the motionless Midnight Lord Astarte tied to the wall, curled his lips, raised his hand and was about to kill this gene brother with a punch, but suddenly remembered that Linda asked him to help collect gene seeds, so he suddenly stopped his palm flying forward, took out a dagger, and roughly cut the body of the gene brother in front of him.
Looking at the empty space inside the body of this gene brother, Lu Yindor curled his lips and cut his throat with the dagger in his hand.
This guy is another "bare egg"... The so-called bare egg refers to those Astartes who have removed the gene seeds.
You must know that each Astarte will only produce one gene seed inside the body. And the gene seeds produced in each Astarte's body are also equivalent to their reproductive organs.
"It looks like you have bad luck!" Louis Meg also shook his head, "However, why do I feel that these guys have all had their gene seeds removed before the battle."
"It's not a feeling!" He casually commanded his subordinates to pack up the body of this gene brother and put it away. Lu Yindor wiped the blood from his hands, "The gene whiskers inside these guys' organs have not completely atrophied, which means that they really just removed their gene seeds not long ago."
"You are so cunning! Okay, I will deliver all the equipment, weapons and ammunition to you, and the rest of the things here are up to you. The lord asked me to tell you that when you encounter an unbeatable enemy, run back."
"Don't worry!" Lu Yindor put on his helmet, "Do you need me to arrange a guard to take you back?"
"There is no need for that at all!"
Coming out of the trenches at the front line, Louis Meg led his personal guards and quickly shuttled back and forth in the complex trenches that were like a maze.
If there was no veteran leading the way, even he, the commander-in-chief, would not be able to successfully walk back from the maze-like trench without the projection map.
What's more, at this moment, the insidious guy Lu Yindor has laid all kinds of mines throughout the trench network.
These mines don't distinguish between friendly and enemy forces. As long as you step on them, it's almost a dead end.
"Your name is Paul, right?" Looking at the veteran who walked silently in front of him without saying a word, Louis Meg cast an admiring look in his eyes: "I have seen your resume before. You are a qualified soldier and commander. I admire your achievements in this battle. If nothing unexpected happens, I will be your recommender after you survive successfully, and let you be promoted to the rank of brigadier general and create your own legion."
Such a promise made Paul pause for a moment. He didn't expect that Louis Meg would say such words in public. Although Paul has made many military achievements and killed countless enemies, and because of his long-term battles with Chaos Demons, he has more combat experience against these Warp Demons than ordinary commanders.
But he has only been a lieutenant colonel so far. It is a small matter to jump two levels to the rank of brigadier general in one breath. It is a bit exaggerated to create his own legion. You should know that there are a lot of brigadiers on Terra, but those who can really create their own legions and even garrison there are all lucky ones.
You should know that being able to create your own legion means having the right to garrison those other planets. At this moment, if the Empire wins the final victory and Horus is defeated.
Then what will be left to the Empire is definitely a dark Milky Way, and countless planets that have already established order will definitely need to be reclaimed.
According to the unspoken rules formulated in the early days of the Great Crusade, the legion commander responsible for reclamation will often immediately transfer to become the governor of the corresponding galaxy after reclaiming it, and become a big man who really controls the entire galaxy!
Such a promise made Paul, a mortal who has become an emotionless killing puppet due to long-term killing, feel hot.
Such a promise is too precious. If someone else, even a senior official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said these words to Paul, he would not believe them at all.
But the one who said these words at this moment was the commander of the Third War Zone, the general that the Marshal relied on the most. In the current empire, Louis Meg can represent the Marshal, and the value of the Marshal's words has far exceeded that of some gene primarchs to a certain extent at this moment.
"Thank you, Commander!" Paul said this in a slightly hoarse voice.
"Don't thank me, this is the honor you fought for... What's wrong!" Louis Meg looked at Paul who suddenly stopped in front of him, and a hint of ominous premonition flashed in his heart.
"Be careful, sir!" Paul threw Louis Meg behind him and threw the high-explosive grenade on his waist.
"Boom!" With a deafening explosion, a green figure was blown out of the trench in front and fell heavily on the wall of the trench.
Louis Meg, who was covered in ashes, looked at the body covered with green pustules and wearing the uniform of an imperial soldier, and immediately understood that there should be an ambush on this road.
As if to confirm his guess, the surrounding walls suddenly began to wriggle, and green pus-covered palms quickly stretched out from the wall.
This is an important turning point in the trench. Through here, you can go directly to the palace behind. At this important turning passage, these Nurgle poisonous corpses will naturally be ambushed, which means one thing.
"Not good, where was breached but no report was made, these... damn imperial bureaucrats!"
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