Warhammer III

A few months later, the endless hunger drove the vanguard tentacles of the Nautilus Hive Fleet to the Hive World Caprae. The vanguard tentacles consisted of more than 20,000 Hive Ships, completely covering the sky of the Hive World Caprae.

According to the normal sailing speed of the Hive Fleet, the guerrilla tactics of the Cross Blade Fleet basically did not slow down the advance of the Hive Fleet, although the Cross Blade Fleet destroyed thousands of Hive Ships during the guerrilla process.

Tai Yue gave the command of the Blackstone Fortress to Sisela. He did not choose to stay in the Blackstone Fortress to participate in the space naval battle, but joined the ten teams of the Ninth Brotherhood to fight against the endless swarms that were about to land on the ground.

When the first batch of dense airdropped spores fell from the sky and arrived on the surface of the Caprae planet, the Caprae Defense War officially began.

The Imperial forces on the surface immediately launched a comprehensive counterattack against the landing point of the Tyranid Zerg, trying to annihilate more Tyranid creatures with all their strength before the enemy gained a foothold.

A huge number of knife bugs and gun bugs surged from the landing site to all parts of the hive world like a tide. The Tyranid swarms raged and expanded on the surface, ruthlessly killing and devouring the imperial troops standing in front of them.

In less than a month, these main battle swarms almost slaughtered the mobile forces on the planet, surrounded all the fortresses on the surface of the planet, and launched a bloody fortress attack and defense battle with the imperial troops.

The fortress fortress was built temporarily for more than a year to strengthen the defense of the imperial troops. The defense strength of different fortresses fortresses varies greatly. Small fortresses fortresses only have walls made of barbed wire and arsenals consisting of hundreds of laser guns, while large fortresses fortresses have defensive weapon arrays and tank armored vehicles.

In the face of some fortresses fortresses that have been difficult to attack for a long time, the hive consciousness then sent out auxiliary troops composed of Tyranid giants, sand pythons and digging pythons, which are specially used to destroy the fortresses' fortifications, and then let the endless swarms of insects pour into the fortresses fortresses.

These giant Tyranids kept digging tunnels and trenches, drilling into the base of the fortress, destroying the shield generator inside the fortress, and gradually breaking through the defense line of the fortress fortresses.

The leadership of the Ninth Brotherhood and the priests of the State Church are now in the command center in the Economic and Trade Port. This was originally the stronghold of the planetary governor and the hive nobles. After further transformation and strengthening, it has become the most solid fortress fortress on the entire planet.

The fortress fortresses around the Economic and Trade Port are defended by the Nachmond Guard. If these fortress fortresses fall, it means that the extermination order should be executed.

"God Emperor, only the warriors who fight to the last moment are qualified to return to the Golden Throne!"

The State Church priest Bulwell is encouraging the morale of the imperial troops through the radio. His shouting made the defenders of each fallen fortress not give up resistance, but go deep into the underground bunkers to continue fighting, vowing to fight the invaders to the last moment.

Tai Yue and others gathered in front of the Thinker computer, and the full picture of the hive city was projected in the air.

There are thirteen hives on Caprae, mainly distributed around the equatorial belt. Each hive has dozens of neighboring hives, and each hive has hundreds of fortresses.

The important fortresses on the planet are connected to the command center. The information on whether the fortress has fallen is marked with different colors. Red means fallen, green means defending, and yellow means requesting support.

"The Tyranids hatched by the Nautilus Hive Fleet are not only more tenacious, but also more rapid in action. The battle loss ratio between the Imperial Forces and the Tyranids is much higher than the previous record."

Captain Nelson reported the preliminary analysis results to Tai Yue. The combat data of the Imperial Forces and the Tyranids are being sent to the analytical meditator next to him.

Tai Yue nodded in agreement. He also found that the combat effectiveness of the single Tyranids here is stronger than that of the Tyranids encountered in the Tiamat galaxy. One-fifth of the fortresses fell in less than a month.

"The Licats we killed in the agricultural world have evolved powerful psychic powers. The brains of several Licats are much more swollen than those of other Licats, and part of the brain is exposed without chitinous head armor protection."

Jerome added that he is now worried that not only Licats, but other Tyranids may also have powerful military and psychic powers at the same time.

These characteristics undoubtedly represent the evolution of the Leviathan Hive Fleet, which is likely related to the green-skinned orc genes absorbed and deciphered by Queen Norn.

After a preliminary understanding of the characteristics of the Nautilus Hive Tentacles, Tai Yue made a strategic deployment:

Nelson commanded eight teams to support the Yellow Fortress, each team was equipped with one hundred silver-armored servants, and after the crisis of the Fortress was resolved, it would be re-marked with a green logo.

As special operations forces, Bruce's Think Tank Team and Adrian's Fearless Team will lead two hundred silver-armored servants to kill the Tyranid node creatures.

Tyranid warriors, digging pythons, brain worms, executioners and other powerful node creatures are their targets. By killing node creatures, they can disrupt the Tyranid swarm and reduce the defense pressure of the fortress.

Taiyue and Jerome went to hunt down the commander of the Tyranid swarm, the Hive Tyrant. Killing the Hive Tyrant will have a chance to defeat this wave of Tyranid creatures.

The connection between the Hive Tyrant and the Hive Will is so close that Taiyue quickly discovered the trace of the Hive Tyrant through his special psychic power.

In a hive mothership, the Norn Queen is breeding a new Tyranid beast, the Norn Messenger. She already knows that Taiyue and Jerome have appeared on the battlefield again.

These newly evolved Tyranids, Norn Heralds, are even larger than Hive Tyrants, combining brute strength with psychic power to outclass them.

They evolved for the sole purpose of preying on gifted enemy commanders or kidnapping knowledgeable prey from heavily guarded strongholds.

Once released into battle, Norn Heralds will stalk their targets, using their psychic power to prevent any prey from escaping their pursuit.

If necessary, Norn Heralds can also use psychic power to compress their size to the point where they can pass through narrow rifts, causing many Imperial commanders to realize their carelessness only when they died.

The Norn Heralds' targets are Taiyue and Jerome, who were realized to be dangerous by the Hive Mind after the destruction of the Tiamat Psychic Lighthouse by the Ninth Brotherhood.

Taiyue has strong combat power and outstanding command ability, and Jerome can still use powerful psychic power under the interference of the Warp Shadow.

When the Norn Queen instilled in them all the knowledge they needed to successfully complete their mission, the two Norn Messengers awoke from their slumber.