Warhammer: From the Devouring C'tan Fragments

"Sir Supreme King, get out of the way!"

A patrol knight mech quickly rushed to Richard's side and knocked him away heavily. As soon as the Domination-class knight mech driven by Richard staggered back two steps, a thick earthquake cannon accurately landed on the patrol knight mech.

"Boom!" The earth-shattering explosion sounded again, and the 10-meter-tall Cruiser Knight mecha was directly destroyed by the terrifying explosion of the earthquake cannon.

The aftermath of the explosion directly blew away the Overlord-class Knight Mech, which had no plasma shield protection, and it fell heavily to the ground.

If it weren't for the Patrol Knight Mech coming to rescue Richard, he would have been hit directly by the earthquake cannon at his previous position.

If a Dominant Knight mecha is not protected by a plasma shield and faces an attack from a seismic shell, it will be destroyed just as easily as a Patrol Knight mecha.

"The Supreme King!"

Accompanied by exclamations, the other two patrol knight mechas rushed over as fast as lightning. Their movements were agile and precise, and they worked together to slowly pull up the Overlord Knight who had fallen to the ground.

"Retreat!" Richard, who had just been helped up, did not hesitate at all. He sat in the cockpit and shouted at everyone with a serious expression.

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly turned around in his Overlord-class Knight Mech and rushed away like an arrow.

It was obvious that after the mecha lost the vital plasma shield protection, Richard knew that continuing to fight would be extremely risky.

At this moment, the most urgent thing for him is to ensure the safety of the family's property. After all, this is the precious wealth accumulated by the family over generations.

As for how to break through the heretics' defensive positions, we can only wait until we return and leave it to the Mechanicus and the top brass of the naval fleet to rack their brains to find a solution.

"Dong dong dong..."

Following Richard's decisive evacuation, the remaining nine patrol knight mechas and the ten surviving squire knight mechas followed without hesitation.

For a moment, the ground shook violently, as if the entire battlefield was trembling. These steel behemoths took heavy steps and rushed back together, gradually moving away from the area bombarded by the defenders' astonishing heavy artillery.

"Lord Argento, the Knight Family has retreated. Should we continue the attack or...?"

Zuckerberg stared with wide eyes and astonishment at the Storm Riders family that were speeding away.

He could never have imagined that the knight mecha, which was usually so majestic and powerful, could burst out at such an astonishing speed when escaping.

Argento frowned, staring at the scene in front of him with a serious look.

They had sent out more than 500 elite Space Marines for this operation, but under the fierce heavy artillery bombardment of the defense forces, there were only less than 400 left.

What's worse is that without the Knight Mechs as a cover barrier, it would be a pipe dream for these Astartes Space Marines to forcibly break through the death zone covered by heavy artillery fire.

Argento gritted his teeth and squeezed out a cold word: "Retreat!"

"Yes!" Zuckerberg responded without hesitation.

Zuckerberg couldn't help but feel relieved in his heart. He was very afraid that Lord Algento would get angry and continue to charge with the remaining Astartes regardless of the consequences.

Following Algento's order, all the Astartes Space Marines belonging to the Brass Dragon Chapter quickly took action, following their Chapter Master, and rushed to the rear at the fastest speed, away from this death zone that was still being bombarded by heavy artillery.

At the same time, in the defense army position, Wu Mu, who was in charge of the battle, noticed that the enemy began to collapse and flee. He made a quick decision and shouted loudly to the Apocalypse tanks that were still firing and the artillery units in the rear:

"Stop shooting!"

The deafening roar of artillery fire suddenly stopped, and the entire battlefield fell into a brief silence.

"Captain Wu Mu, those pseudo-emperor's lackeys are now exposing their backs to us. This is a great opportunity to annihilate them in one fell swoop. Why don't you continue to attack?"

The squadron leader was very confused about the order given by Ebony. This was not the style of the defense forces at all.

"This is the order from the company commander. We are told to stop the attack after repelling the attack of the pseudo-emperor's lackeys."

Ebony responded in a deep voice.

"Why?" The squadron leader continued to ask in confusion, obviously very puzzled by the company commander's order.

When Wu Mu heard the squadron leader's question again, his face suddenly darkened and he gave him a displeased look:

"I want to know why, too. How about you ask the company commander on my behalf?"

"Uh...! Never mind. I won't ask. We'll just do whatever the captain tells us to do."

When the squadron leader heard Wu Mu asking him to ask the company commander in person, he immediately thought of the company commander who was as strong as a beast. He immediately became intimidated and responded to Wu Mu with a wry smile.

"Since there are no more questions, let's continue to be vigilant!"

Ebony gave the order in a deep voice.

"Yes!" The squadron leader responded to Wu Mu solemnly and quickly left the command room.

General Vilov of the Astra Militarum Army became extremely solemn after receiving the news that the Storm Knights' attack had also failed.

What Vilov did not expect was that even though the Knight Family was powerful, they could not break through the heretics' defensive positions, which forced Vilov to change his offensive strategy again.

But faced with the information that the Storm Knight family requested military support, Vilov had to consider it carefully.

Obviously, the Knights and the Emperor's Angels alone cannot break through the heretics' defensive positions. They need more heavy firepower units to assist in order to have a chance of taking down the heretics' defensive positions.

Vilov once again sent several transport ships towards the planet Jesta, preparing to test the air defense capabilities of the heretics again.

The reason why Vilov made this decision was that the information provided by Richard indicated that they were not attacked by heretics during their retreat.

This made Vilov think that the weapons and ammunition of those heretics were seriously consumed, otherwise they would not have missed such a good opportunity when the knight mecha lost the protection of the plasma shield and retreated.

Under the careful control of their pilots, several transport ships successfully landed on the surface of Jesta without suffering any attacks along the way.

After receiving this news, Vilov was immediately ecstatic. It seemed that his guess was correct. The weapons and ammunition of the heretics were seriously depleted. Now was the opportunity to send a large number of interstellar troops to land on the planet Jesta.

At Vilov's command, a large number of transport ships carrying countless Astra Militarum soldiers landed on the planet Jesta.