Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

"The first round of strikes is in place and the effectiveness is being evaluated..."

"The recalculation of the killing radius is in progress, and the data correction team is on standby..."

In the weapon array command room of the Revenant Redeemer above the orbit, the calculation officer team and the observation team are working together attentively.

In the weapons array room located in the middle of the battleship ahead, the ready loaders and gunners were nervously looking at the gunnery sergeant, waiting for his instructions.

The loud sound of the shelling forced them to wear sound-isolating headphones to work. Unable to hear the instructions, they operated through the orders of the gunnery sergeant.

The sergeant major does not have this kind of treatment. He must maintain constant communication with the command room, so eardrum perforation and bleeding accompanied by shelling are commonplace in his position.

At this time, his raised right hand was attracting the attention of everyone in the gun room, and his left hand was holding the communicator receiver on the wall, waiting for feedback from the command room.

"The data correction is completed, the second round of strikes is ready, waiting for orders..."

"Permission to launch!"

"Permission to launch! My order! 3-2-1! Release!"

As the order from the command room arrived, the sergeants in each weapons room waved their right hands hard, and the gunner also stepped on the firing trigger.

With a huge roar and gunpowder smoke that filled the entire cabin, the macrocannon shells left the muzzle with huge kinetic energy, and smashed straight towards the ground with their hatred.

The cannonball entered the planet's atmosphere after shuttling in a short period of vacuum. The ceramic steel on the surface of the warhead quickly became red and hot under the violently burning air.

The air tried to prevent the passage of these foreign objects, but the sonic booms and shock waves that penetrated proved its failure;

Tzeentch's archdemon tried to lock its gaze on the trajectory of these destructive forces, but the demon-breaking inscriptions on the cannonballs and the increasing speed negated its attempts.

None of them could stop the judgment from coming. In just 1 minute and 40 seconds, the malice from the Redeemer of Dead Souls 100,000 meters above the surface accurately fell on this group of demons again.

Boom boom boom boom!

The five macro-cannon shells, which had been corrected with the damage data again, once again traveled a long distance and dug deeply into the hard soil on the surface.

Under the impact of this powerful kinetic energy, the highly condensed silicon molecules become as soft as plasticine and can be kneaded.

A crater of more than ten meters was formed at the same time as the dust of the same height. The huge shock wave and the explosion that followed changed the color of the entire battlefield.

At this moment, the transparent air violated the laws of nature and became visible to the naked eye, and the shock wave transferred the kinetic energy carried in it to the surroundings at an extremely fast speed.

The loosely structured changelings and nurglings were torn to pieces and evaporated by the air in this moment, leaving even their residual limbs, and the same was true for the few mortal cultists.

The blood-letting demon's copper-like body withstood this wave of impact, but before they could regain their footing, the physical shrapnel and the 3000-degree high temperature that followed broke through its body's defense, leaving it in the real universe. The body in it was crushed and its dirty soul was driven away.

The smoke and dust brought by these huge waves spread around and stopped just in front of the positions of the mortal auxiliary troops. The heat wave and gunpowder smoke mixed with the smell of burning blood made those among them with a sensitive sense of smell couldn't help but sneeze a few times. .

The light spear lowered again, and after the laser of more than ten meters vaporized all the covered demons, the plowed land was molten like glass and filled with hot bubbles.

The strike position this time was carefully selected. After the last correction and feedback, it extended in the direction of the demon camp. It was an effective supplement to the interrupting shooting of the macro cannon.

The airdrop pod in the sky has landed. Under the escort of transport ships and fighter planes, thousands of mortal legions finally appeared at one end of the battlefield.

This battle seemed to have reached a climax from the beginning, but everyone present knew that whether it was the demons who had prepared for a long time or the humans who had just appeared, the power in their hands had only revealed the tip of the iceberg.

What they and they will face next is the beginning of the bloody battle.

The demons don't care about this loss. I'm afraid only they themselves know how many of them have come out of the seal in the past year.

But the ammunition storage of the Revenant Redeemer has its limits. After all, it is not a battleship specially prepared for orbital strikes.

Except for most of the conventional armor-piercing and armor-piercing shells prepared for attacking similar ships, the Revenant Redeemer's ammunition arsenal contains no more than 30 high-explosive shells that are truly suitable for killing unarmored ground units.

Assuming that each round of shelling can interrupt the firepower of the ground troops for a little more than one minute, then it will only take half an hour to complete the thirty bases.

But that's not how the data works. The Revenant Redeemer must leave at least 5 bases of shells in stock for emergencies to deal with emergencies.

Therefore, the time they can really provide cover for ground troops will not exceed 15 minutes.

And these 15 minutes are the precious window of time during which mortal troops can enter orbit with nearly zero damage.

After this time, the troops that enter later will not only bear the ground attack, but also bear the losses caused by the anti-aircraft firepower of the Demon Legion.

Light spears are not trustworthy. The natural disadvantage of this penetrating strike weapon in terms of damage range is infinitely magnified here. Unless it is to hit a single target, the killing of the light spear is meaningless in front of the demon here. But from the time the ground application was made to the arrival of the orbital attack, how could any single target just stand there and let it be hit?

Therefore, light spears cannot be trusted. The only one they can trust is themselves.

In 15 minutes, the infantry and armored units among the first batch of troops to land were marching toward the second-line battlefield in full swing. They lowered the front shovels of the armored vehicles and dug out ravines to serve as temporary trenches for the infantry.

After each trench was plowed, the soldiers of the Mortal Legion eagerly picked up the engineering shovels in their hands and began to decorate them as soon as the forklift left.

Huge material airdrop bins were opened one after another, and loaded on personnel carriers, these ammunition were quickly and effectively deployed at various nodes of the position.

The subsequent large forces also began to assemble in the hidden places behind the trenches in an orderly manner to prepare for subsequent support or counterattacks.

The legion's technical sergeants, with the help of servitors, seized every moment to deploy automatic weapon platforms and other equipment.

The engineers drove the mine-laying vehicles at full speed, walked through the busy crowd towards the front-line position, laid down anti-personnel mines one by one, and then returned to the rear of the position before the fire interception ended.

A total of 30,000 soldiers and their weapons were deployed on this line of less than 20 kilometers long in the first wave of delivery by the Revenant Redeemer regardless of cost.

And this is also the transportation limit of the Redeemer of the Dead after several hours of preparation. After all, these vanguard troops are also the elite of the mortal army.

Later troops will not be able to receive this treatment.

All the inventory of orbital airdrops have been delivered, and the cruiser's deck stock has been used to its limit. They will need more time to prepare before they can organize the spacecraft and transportation mission requirements again.

The troops on the ground need to hold on for at least 3 hours before they can see the next batch of reinforcements arrive. During these long three hours, they have no one to rely on, and they can only rely on their own strength to find a way to survive.

Wave after wave of demons died on the way to the charge, but more demons appeared in the camp behind.

The servants of Khorne cheered and roared at the blood they saw. The smell of sulfur in the fierce smoke and the stench of burning blood made them so excited that they could not control themselves. If it were not for the natural deterrence of the great demon, they would really want to risk everything. rushed forward.

Either kill or die from killing, this doesn't make much difference to low-level demons.

Chaos has begun to appear in the corners of the camp, and demons who are unable to control themselves have begun to point their butcher knives at their own camp. But under the slaughter of the big demon, these chaos are still at a barely acceptable level.

As the time approached zero, the Macro Cannon's shells did not land again after one explosion. The light spear array also became overheated after continuous firing and needed to be cooled down.

When the loudest main theme of the frontal battlefield began to come to an end, the big demons on the Chaos side knew that their time had come.

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