Warhammer 40K in a box

Chapter 232 Worried
Although the offensive slowed down, Chen Xi was not idle either.

He asked each strike group to submit a list of meritorious personnel, intending to conduct a large-scale awarding ceremony.

The awarding ceremony is not only to commend those soldiers who have performed outstandingly on the battlefield, but also to boost the morale of the entire army.

After all, the morale of the expeditionary force has been greatly damaged by the fighting. The soldiers are physically and mentally exhausted after a long period of combat and are in urgent need of spiritual encouragement.

Victory on the battlefield depends not only on weapons and equipment and tactics and strategies, but the psychological state of the soldiers is also crucial.

A grand awarding ceremony not only makes soldiers feel that their efforts are recognized, but also enables them to strengthen their beliefs in the next battles, adjust their state, and face more difficult challenges.

At the same time, his request for reinforcements had already reached the sector capital.

Chen Xi knew that although the current battle situation was temporarily stable, the enemy's counterattack could come at any time, and the expeditionary force must replenish its troops and supplies as soon as possible to prepare for future battles.

After receiving Chen Xi's request for reinforcements, the star district government certainly did not dare to neglect it. The 500,000 star troops that were originally assembled as three batches of reinforcements were originally planned to be sent to the front line in two batches, but now they were urgently loaded onto ships and immediately set off for the front line.

And from the Mariupol forge world, a group of special reinforcements followed them to the Rostov sub-sector.

On the other side, the reinforcements sent by the Griya Forge World finally arrived at Rostov II.

These two reinforcement forces were the Titan Legion and the Crusader Army of the Mariupol Forge World that Chen Xi had requested from Christen before the war began. They also included some support that Chen Xi had requested from Kaul.

These reinforcements from the Mechanicum were supposed to arrive before the war began, but due to well-known Imperial logistics reasons, they were delayed by several months.

But even so, they still arrived at the battlefield in time.
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Perhaps because he had watched too many apocalyptic-level melee operations, Chen Xi felt extremely uneasy about the few million troops he only had.

These millions of people might be a considerable force in an ordinary interstellar conflict, but in a true apocalyptic-level war, they are like a drop in the ocean and are insignificant.

After all, in this vast galaxy, once a large-scale apocalyptic war breaks out, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of troops will be deployed.

A war of that scale has already surpassed any conflict that humans could imagine in the 3K era.

The flames of war engulfed the entire galaxy, planets were reduced to ashes in the artillery fire, fleets fought in space, and countless lives disappeared in an instant.

Chen Xi knew very well that the millions of troops under his command might not even be able to survive a day of fighting and would be devoured in the blink of an eye.

This sense of powerlessness and crisis made him always highly alert and wary of the Necrons.

The Necrons, one of the oldest and most mysterious races in the galaxy, possess technology and power far beyond human imagination.

Their fleets are elusive, their weapons are extremely destructive, and even their existence itself is full of unknown threats.

In particular, he always remembered that when he was playing a certain video game, the Thief's Air Combat Regiment had to sacrifice at least one company to blow up a Necron Tomb World that was about to awaken.

So when facing an awakened Necromancer tomb, Chen Xi felt genuinely uneasy.

He was always worried that the Necrons in front of him would take out some huge treasure from the tomb world that would make his eyes go dark and directly destroy the entire expeditionary force.

This isn't an unfounded worry, as the Necrons do have this kind of technology and equipment. For example, the Necrons' Hypercube Ark is one of their most dangerous ground vehicles.

The core of its vehicle is a singularity torn from the interior of a dying star. The hypercube ark will draw energy from this singularity to unleash a devastating blow - to put it bluntly, this thing uses a miniature black hole as its main gun.

The Ark itself is surrounded by a gravitational distortion field, which serves as both its mode of movement and a defense mechanism.

With the current military power of the expeditionary force, there is really no way to deal with this thing.

(Tesseract Ark, rare artifact)
Another example is the Sphere of Eternity, one of the ancient weapons used by the Necrons against the Old Ones in the War in Heaven.

This thing looks ordinary, but there is actually a star trapped inside it, and the ammunition fired by its main gun is star fragments.

(Out-of-print holy objects, rare items only available in the old version, these powerful weapons have been deleted in the new version of the military book)

If you really encounter these things on the battlefield, Chen Xi thinks it would be more realistic to run away quickly.

Not to mention that what has awakened now is only a core world of the Undead Dynasty in front of us, and its throne world and more core worlds have not yet awakened.

Just one core world made it so difficult for Chen Xi to fight. He didn't dare to imagine how much it would cost him to completely destroy the entire Undead Dynasty if it was awakened.

In particular, he was always worried that this Undead Dynasty might have the fragments of the Star God in their hands.

Although this legendary existence was nicknamed "Big Zongzi" by those Hammer fans who were keen on Warhammer culture in the 3K era, with a bit of ridicule and joke, Chen Xi knew very well that the fragments of the Star God were not something to be underestimated.

The Star God Fragments, as the remnants of power left behind by the ancient Star Gods, contain terrifying energy that is enough to shake the galaxy and tear apart time and space.

Its very existence is a symbol of power beyond mortal comprehension.

If the Undead Dynasty really possessed this weapon and used it on the battlefield, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Chen Xi could almost foresee that the expeditionary forces under his command, along with those seemingly powerful fleets in space, would be easily torn apart like paper under the power of the Star God fragments.

Neither ground troops nor space battleships could withstand that destructive force.

(The fragments of the Star God being released, this is the Superburner)
However, Chen Xi could never reveal any of his concerns to others.

As the supreme leader of the expeditionary force, he was well aware that every word and expression of his could affect the morale of the entire army.

He could not show any hesitation or fear, and he could not let his subordinates realize his uncertainty and deep anxiety about the future.

In public, he always displays strong confidence and a calm demeanor.

Whether he was facing a strategic meeting with top military officials or communicating with ordinary soldiers in daily life, his tone was always firm and his eyes revealed unquestionable majesty.

He needed to use this gesture to tell everyone that under his leadership, the expeditionary force would be invincible and any enemy would be defeated.

(End of this chapter)