Warhammer 40K in a box

Chapter 37 Let the boys see blood
After killing at least 20 skinners, Chen Xi and Guterres also exited the sewer and returned to the surface to take a breath.

Although given the properties of the Inquisitor and Master Forge chess pieces they used, staying in this almost harmless sewer for a month would not be a problem.

But for Chen Xi and Guterres, who were just ordinary people, the sewer environment was still a bit dark and cramped. The high-intensity nervous tension and the battle with the Skinners made both of them feel a little mentally exhausted.

So come back down to earth and take a break.

After returning to the ground, the two people put away their private casualness and each entered into their role.

"Governor!" Rachel saw Chen Xi coming out of the sewer entrance and hurried to meet him.

This palace minister, who was a former political commissar, has been very busy recently. Not only does she have to deal with the daily affairs of the planet, but she also needs to preside over the blockade of relevant areas, which makes her so busy that she has almost no time to rest.

This made Chen Xi notice that the young lady from the palace had thick dark circles under her eyes.

But in the Warhammer world, not sleeping for a few days is not a serious problem.

In 2077, workers can be forced to work overtime for 72 hours straight through various drugs, and it will be even more exaggerated in the Warhammer world.

Of course, right now, Miss Gong Xiang doesn't have to rely on drugs to stay awake to complete various tasks. She just doesn't get enough rest.

"Master Guterres and I have already cleared out some of the Skinners. You send people down to bring up the remains of these aliens. The nun team will assist you." Chen Xi did not show any sympathy or anything like that, but just gave Rachel a new task.

Miss Gong Xiang naturally didn't say much. She nodded and turned around to arrange people to carry out Chen Xi's orders.

"We have cleared about one-third of the area. Judging from the current situation, the number of aliens is more than expected." Guterres and Chen Xi pretended to talk about the Skinners.

"I think the number of aliens has dropped to an acceptable level. Let the defense forces clean up the rest. They need some exercise."

Next to them, General Gregory of the Defense Force was wearing a shell armor and listening to their conversation attentively.

As one of the few veterans of the Defense Force who had retired from the Astra Militarum, General Gregory was no stranger to various alien forms and was familiar with how to fight them.

But the guys in the defense force are not the elite of the Star Army back then. The Star Army can execute the same tactics without any problem, but the defense force will have many loopholes.

General Gregory was naturally aware of such problems. After all, he was a veteran of the Astra Militarum who had fought in many battles. Those who could survive to retirement in the Astra Militarum, where the average survival time was no more than 15 hours, were not easy to deal with.

So facing Chen Xi's decision, the old general simply said: "Boys, it's time to see some blood."

While the original settlers of Rostov II were retired veterans of the Astra Militarum, the defense forces they trained were a bunch of raw recruits with no experience in actual combat. "Rostov is a sparsely populated, desolate planet. For decades, we old hands have barely seen a single riot, let alone a war! These guys have only fought minor opponents like rebellious prisoners, making it difficult for them to gain combat experience," General Gregory said with some resignation. "Sending them into the sewers to fight the aliens will certainly result in some casualties, but it's far better than throwing them directly onto the battlefield to die!"
We all know how many enemies the Empire faces. The peace on Rostov II is just a beautiful illusion. If they cannot defend their homeland, then the flames of war will soon ignite on this planet. By then, they will only learn how to be a qualified soldier with more blood and the destruction of their homeland.

General Gregory is a typical Valhallan. Valhalla was once beautiful, rich and scenic, but a meteorite impact pushed it off orbit, causing global freezing, and the greenskin invasion almost destroyed the planet. The tenacious Valhallans defended their homeland with their firm will and bloody sacrifice.

So for General Gregory, it is not a bad thing to let the new recruits of the Planetary Defense Force see some blood.

When measuring whether a unit is capable of fighting, the level of training and weapons and equipment are certainly important, but in addition, whether it has rich actual combat experience is also an important criterion.

After all, soldiers who have never been to the battlefield may have good training and excellent performance in normal times, but when they face death on the battlefield, they are scared and at a loss as to what to do.

Therefore, how to enable a unit to accumulate sufficient practical experience has become an important issue facing the unit's leaders.

In the Warhammer world this is usually not a problem, after all, there are always endless enemies of the Empire to kill, and some of them are enemies that give you experience.

Back then, Political Commissar Yarrick was able to lead a group of hive workers and gangsters to fight against the Bone Crusher's orc army, thanks to the massive sacrifices and continuous actual combat that he had accumulated rich combat experience.

Although the PDFs on the Rostov II had received training from the Valhalla Ice Warriors, they had never experienced actual combat.

The level of training is indeed sufficient, but no one can guarantee what it will be like in a fight.

Although the former veterans of the Astra Militarum on the Rostov II wanted to find some actual combat for these PDFs, due to the remoteness and marginality of the Rostov system, there was really nothing that could be called actual combat.

Although going into the sewers and fighting the Skinners face to face was a life-threatening thing, in General Gregory's opinion, these young men who had never seen blood really needed to be tempered by the fire of war.

"In that case, the remaining two-thirds of the area will be handed over to the defense forces. I hope that General you can give a satisfactory answer." Chen Xi did not object when he heard General Gregory say this.

After all, to be honest, according to the standards of the Warhammer world, his behavior of taking the elite troops to deal with the Skinners himself was actually wrong.

The action a normal planetary governor should take is to fill the entire sewer with the flesh and blood of the planetary defense force, and then solve the alien problem with massive sacrifices and efforts.

This has always been the empire's strategy, rather than using enough elite troops to reduce casualties.

But Chen Xi was obviously still not used to this high-cost fighting style, so while agreeing to let General Gregory take over the next battle, he still sent out the combat nuns.

However, it was not the team of nuns around him that had already been completed with 10 people, but the first group of nuns who had begun to receive training as combat nuns.

(End of this chapter)