Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 328 05.0327: ‘Star Army Offensive’

Two stars, one large and one small, hang high in the sky. In the cloudless weather for many days, the sun’s relentless direct sunlight gradually melts the snow on Highway 54, and the maglev track next to the highway gleams with a metallic luster in the sunlight.

But the snow on the surrounding fields is still very thick. The calf-deep snow is a big obstacle for any troops marching on non-mechanized ground vehicles.

According to frontier reconnaissance, the core area of ​​Far Star is divided into peripheral agricultural areas and planetary organic processing plant areas with a continental plate-level area.

The southern front is located in the middle of the orchard forest and large mechanized agricultural plains in the peripheral agricultural area.

The rebels on the planet have also learned about the news of the Star Army landing on the surface of the planet from orbit through various means. At this moment, the rebels’ planetary headquarters is deploying and dispatching tens of millions of troops.

Most of them are light infantry who lack vehicles, and even half of the guns in their hands are old-fashioned weapons such as automatic guns of the planetary defense forces.

The Astra Militarum's battle plan is to use its own higher degree of mechanization to advance the front line from five war zones, cut off the rebels into several forces, and then cooperate with the Imperial Navy's carrier-based aircraft and orbital bombardment support to complete the encirclement and annihilation.

26 kilometers away from the Astra Militarum landing site in the southern war zone.

The rebel garrison in the underground bunker group is pouring out from the small garrison point.

Although the Imperial Navy had destroyed one of their large ground military stations before, the remaining troops quickly hid in a small military station with an underground structure.

Relying on the reserve supplies inside, they escaped the overwhelming bombing of the Imperial Navy Air Force in the early stage of the campaign, completed the initial reorganization, and contacted the planetary headquarters.

Now, they have received orders to deploy defenses on Highway 54 at the spearhead of the attack in the southern war zone.

The rebel commander in this war zone is well aware of the importance of Highway 54.

It is the blood vessel for transporting agricultural products from the outer agricultural area to the inner organic industrial area. Its main road is extremely spacious. The road has been specially hardened and loaded, allowing a convoy of giant trucks with a single load of thousands of cubic meters to run over it and drag the trailers full of agricultural products into the organic factory, which is very suitable for mechanized warfare.

There are also six rows of train tracks next to the highway, which further improves the transportation efficiency and is an important transportation hub in itself.

The rebel commander inferred that with such a good transportation environment, the Astra Militarum should deploy their armored forces here as the spearhead of the attack.

The front line of Highway 54.

"Move! Pigs! Go bury anti-tank mines in the snow on the road."

A junior rebel officer yelled, kicking the rebel soldiers forward like livestock. He was waving a bloodstained broad machete, with a crude trophy rack stuck behind him, on which were scattered a few skulls with little flesh.

These officers were not the original owners of the worn-out uniforms, but their usurpers. The fanatical instigators among the heretic rebels often became commanders and gained some unique spoils of victory at the beginning of the riot.

These people's military command ability is far inferior to that of the officers of the Astra Militarum, but their incitement is truly outstanding and effective.

On the highway, hundreds of rebel soldiers are urgently deploying defenses.

They piled sandbags, erected breastwork baffles, laid barbed wire, and hid various real and fake mines in the snow.

There are also hundreds of people on both sides of the highway digging trenches on the snow and frozen soil, building defensive positions and minefields.

Although it is not easy to dig too deep in the frozen soil, it is better to have it than not.

The order they received was to block the attack of the Astra Militarum, consume its supplies and energy when the Astra Militarum broke through layer after layer of defense along Highway 54, and try to cause losses, and the combat purpose would be achieved.

Just as the rebel soldiers were busy setting up their positions, three vehicles with snow-resistant tires were speeding on the road in the distance, gradually approaching.

"I'm freezing to death, damn the corpse king's lackey! Ta!"

A rebel soldier who was leaning on a pickaxe and grabbing a handful of snow and chewing it in his mouth took the opportunity to curse, and looked up and saw three small black dots on the distant horizon.

"What is that?" He squinted his eyes and looked around in the fierce sunlight.

Soon, one of the armored vehicles stopped, and its image became more specific.

There seemed to be a long pipe on the car, which looked a little familiar. He seemed to have seen it before. It was very similar to the one driven by those arrogant lobster soldiers next door. What was it called...

The black barrel was aimed at him.

Bang!

Whoosh!

Boom!

A gust of wind whistled past, and within a tenth of a second, an explosion occurred on the snow beside the road, with ice, snow, and flesh flying.

The several traitors at the center of the explosion were also unevenly scattered across the entire position.

The eyeballs dragging a few strands of optic nerve tissue fell into the snow in front of the rebel officer with a snap, adding a touch of scarlet to the monotonous white.

"Enemy attack! Corpse King's lackeys!"

The sentry's sharp warning came from the crudely built sentry tower.

"Quick, quick, quick! Corpse King's lackeys are coming! Damn it! How can they be so fast! Damn it, the minefield is not yet set up! Pigs! Go to the gun position! Go to the gun position! Blow those iron turtles into scrap metal!"

The rebel officer with blood-colored paint on his face had a distorted expression and waved his machete in anger.

The cultist rebels dropped their engineering tools and jumped into the built trench shelter.

The heavy weapons team also got into the unfinished gun emplacement. Although the defense here was also crude, it was better than nothing.

"Shake faster! Aim at the enemy armor!"

The rebel gunner shouted, using binoculars to look at the enemy soldiers on the road to confirm the situation and measure the gun range.

Buzz! ——

The incoming armored fighting vehicles dispersed from the road, and smoke generators on the side sprayed out large amounts of thick smoke, which soon covered the entire road. Only the roar of the engines could be heard in the fog.

Bang!

Bang!

For a moment, the laser cannons and cannons on the position began to fire towards the place where the smoke spread.

The rebels fought very hard. Energy block groups and cannon shells were stuffed into the battery slot and the gun barrel one after another.

"Cease! Cease fire!" shouted the rebel officer who sensed something was wrong. He looked at the other end of the road with his binoculars, but found that there was no return fire.

However, his voice was drowned out by the roaring sound of the artillery, and the nervous gunners were still firing mechanically.

After a while, as the messengers ran to all the gun positions, the officer's order was spread throughout the entire front, and the gunner gradually stopped what he was doing. At this moment, there was only an eerie silence on the position.

Thick white smoke still filled the snowfield road, obscuring all sight lines. The rebel artillery officer could not confirm the shooting effect, nor did he know whether the enemy vehicle had been destroyed.

The rebel front was at a loss for a long time in the tense state of war.

The wind is not strong today, the smoke on the opposite side has not yet dispersed, and the pervasive silence brings a heavy sense of oppression.

Everyone knew that the Imperial Army would never give up just like that, but they knew nothing about what would happen next.

Their confusion and ignorance did not last long, as terrifying screams fell from the sky.

"Enemy bombardment!"

Before the desperate screams could end, dense mortar shells of various sizes and self-propelled ground-propelled artillery shells fell into the rebel defense positions like raindrops, stirring up circles of snow and dust that towered into the sky.

4 kilometers behind the Astra Militarum front line.

The towed quadruple launchers of the three mortar squads of the rifle company, as well as the six launch squads of the Arion-type Basilisk that had been deployed in the forward artillery position ten kilometers away, and the 12 earth-shaking cannons were deployed together. There was an overwhelming volley.

(If the tracks are replaced with large eight-wheel wheels, it will be an Arion-type basilisk.)

A dense rain of bullets roared down from the sky, with no warning before the attack. It was obviously a coordinated salvo fired by the artillery of the Astral Military Battalion attacking this front.

The rebel soldiers heard the roar of the artillery shells, but it was already too late. The supersonic flying artillery shells were already approaching, and they had no time to hide in the bunkers.

The sudden artillery shells landed on the position where the firepower point was already exposed. The explosion caused by each shell brought bloody flying snow, broken limbs, and broken internal organs.

Screams and wails echoed throughout the forward blocking position for an instant, and were mercilessly covered by deafening rumbles.

Those rebel infantry who were lucky enough not to be affected by the shrapnel hid in bunkers.

However, the Astra Militarum attacked too quickly, the trenches on the frozen soil were dug too shallow, and the baffles were not fully fixed, so they could only cope with it.

The Astra Militarum artillery observers in the distance watched the first round of bullets rain down from the sky, and huge explosions of snowflakes rose from the ground, mixed with splashes of earth and rocks.

The loose soil accumulated around the trench seemed to have been scooped up by a huge shovel and pushed into the trench again.

Many rebel soldiers hiding inside were buried alive in the ground. Even if they did not die for a while, other heretics who were holding their heads to avoid the bombardment could not care about these people and had no time to rescue them.

Many parapets on the highway have only been dragged to their intended installation locations, but have not had time to be fixed.

The huge shock wave of the earth-shaking cannon shell directly overturned the thick steel plate. The steel plate weighing several tons tilted and fell, killing many heretics hiding behind.

The rebel officer hiding in the cat's ear hole finally came to his senses at this moment and understood that the three wheeled tanks just now were conducting fire reconnaissance to expose their own gun positions.

However, the defenses he set up were more than just what was in front of him.

"Blow up their mortars for me!" The rebel officer gritted his teeth and shouted into the communication microphone, conveying the order to the opposite rear mortar position.

"yes!"

The rebel mortar positions, which maintained a safe distance from the forward defense positions, became busy.

The heretical technical estimator with a black spiderweb-like metal heat dissipation net inserted into the back of his head began to estimate the location of the Astra Militarum mortar position through ballistic trajectories.

Jiong!

Suddenly, a beam of high-energy laser shot out from the surrounding snow-covered fruit trees and shrubs.

The heretical rebels' first blocking defense line on Route 54, a mortar position built 1 kilometer behind, was measuring the incoming ballistics and preparing for artillery counterattacks, but was attacked with cold fire.

The weapons team members who were still waiting for data and orders were dumbfounded when they saw the ballistic estimator lying down in a daze.

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