As long as you die, you are invincible, but in 40K

"I'm here to discuss an early counterattack with you."

"Ahead of schedule? How early?"

"Right now, in twenty minutes."

"no problem!"

The girl answered so quickly that Zhang Ge couldn't help but wonder if she had really thought about this question.

After receiving a positive response, Amelia declined the other party's invitation to stay for a tea party. She had no intention of staying here any longer and said to Zhang Ge after leaving:

"It's hard to predict what will happen after the counterattack begins. Let's just focus on the first wave of convoys to break through. The second wave, used to expand the gap, won't have much breakthrough power and won't attract attention."

Not knowing the situation of the PDF stationed here, Zhang Ge naturally just nodded in agreement and had no intention of expressing his opinion.

After returning to the nuns' original station, Amelia said something to Sister Heloise. After Sister Heloise nodded, she turned to Zhang Ge and said:

"I will join the convoy, and command will be handed over to Sister Heloise."

Zhang Ge had anticipated this, and as he walked to the box next to Dominica, he said:

"no problem."

After testing the weight of the box and feeling that his body had fully recovered, Zhang Ge opened the box.

Among them, a set of armor with a faint blood stain was randomly placed. It looked like it was transferred from some wounded person...How come it seems that none of my current equipment was purchased by myself? And with this set of protective gear, wouldn't it become a humanoid suit?

Although he complained in his heart, Zhang Ge did not hesitate to take action. With the help of Dominica, he quickly put on the "new" armor.

Soon after, the footsteps outside became noticeably busier, and the other combat nuns, led by the head nun, quickly left. After about ten minutes had passed, Amelia said:

"Let's go to the convoy. The counterattack is about to begin."

Following the path they had taken before, the three of them quickly returned to the dense forest.

The place had been a bit crowded, but now it was empty except for the light armored vehicles and the guard vehicles. Amelia didn't ask who Isis was when she saw him, but Isis got out of the car instead, stood in front of Amelia, and said excitedly:

"Please, duel with me."

"?"

Amelia didn't want to pay any more attention to him. She walked around him and headed for the passenger seat, but he stood in front of Amelia again.

Seeing this, Zhang Ge, who was already in the driver's seat, said:

"Just don't kill me."

Isis thought she was talking to him and said dissatisfiedly:

"This is a duel with honor on the line. How can I hold back?"

But after a short pause he continued:

"...Okay, you, the kindness you've shown me, makes it acceptable to me."

Amelia took a step back in front of him, but she didn't respond to Zhang Ge. She simply asked him:

"Has it started yet?"

"Of course!"

The next moment, a muffled sound of metal rang out almost as Isis finished speaking. His entire breastplate was kicked out with a dent at that moment, as if it had been hit by a cannonball. He didn't even have time to raise his sword. His nearly two-meter-tall body flew more than ten meters away and rolled into the bushes in the distance.

Amelia, who had solved the problem, sat in the passenger seat. Ten seconds later, Isis stumbled back. After getting in the car, she just sat silently in the back seat next to Dominica, without mentioning a word about the duel.

Twenty minutes later.

Further back, like thunder exploding on the plain, a chorus of artillery fire suddenly rang out.

But then, amid the sounds of alternating gunfire that seemed to never cease, a low rumbling sound was heard, drowning out all other sounds.

It didn't take long for Zhang Ge, and everyone else, to realize the source of the sound.

In this woodland park, two 200-meter-long underground transport ships slowly rose under the power of thrusters that spewed blazing flames. A large number of ceramic steel plates were temporarily welded to their hulls for protection.

But even so, civilian ships were still too vulnerable to military weapons. After rising to a certain distance, these overly large and fragile targets were discovered and subjected to concentrated fire, and their external ceramic steel armor only lasted for less than ten seconds.

However, it is perfectly sufficient.

It is enough for these transport ships to transform from simply increasing their altitude to flying towards the enemy positions.

After another laser pierced through its hull, creating a series of heat melts and explosions inside the hull, as if this was a signal of something, the two transport ships suddenly disintegrated in a violent explosion from the inside out.

However, this is not due to the disappearance of inertia.

On the contrary, countless fragments of debris not only continued to fly towards the enemy positions under their own inertia, but were also rapidly accelerated by the shock waves generated by the explosions.

They dragged burning black smoke and trails, and the enemy's anti-aircraft fire that tried to intercept them only broke them into more fragments, which fell into the enemy's defense area like a meteor shower.

P.S.: Um...um...what does one plus one equal? ​​No, it's not two, it's you and me.

Chapter 77 No Mercy Required

Return your gaze to the ground for a moment.

This woodland park is between 7 and 8 kilometers long and 2 kilometers wide. PDFs have established a main defense line in this huge park, and opposite the defense line is an artificial river flowing with pure water from polar glaciers.

This artificial river is square in shape, enclosing the residential area of ​​the nobles where the park is located. Its existence is not only the most direct expression of their wealth, but also the main source of water for vegetation during the early period of the park's construction.

But now, this river has become the focus of the war here, serving as a barrier between the PDF and the Chaos side on the opposite bank. The two sides each occupy one side of the bank and the buildings on the bank, making it difficult to launch an effective offensive against the other side.

Due to the lack of equipment such as ferries, boats, and warships, the only means of transportation that can effectively transport troops for both sides is the several bridges built on the river. Naturally, the two sides have already had countless battles around these bridges, but so far no one has been able to achieve decisive results.

However, the purpose of this counterattack is to break the current deadlock.

In the dense forest, when the transport ships on the planet rose up, Zhang Ge and his team's convoy had already driven onto the road opened in the park and began to head towards the front line.

Through the car window, Zhang Ge saw trenches distributed between the trees on both sides, and there were a large number of camouflaged temporary bunkers at various key positions in the trenches. The soldiers coming and going were busy, constantly reinforcing these temporary positions.

Soon, the trees and other things on both sides of the vehicle gradually became sparse, until about one or two kilometers away from the front line, no vegetation could be seen at all.

Because as we got closer to the enemy, the number of craters increased, until the entire area was covered with craters of all sizes, with almost no gaps.

The ground that should have been filled with green plants was now covered with layers of soil turned up by the explosion. The charred marks produced by various explosives were mixed together, even making the soil look black.

There might have been broken trees and the like in the first hour or two, but by now they were just wood chips buried in the loose soil.

At this moment, in the sky within the reach of vision, bright flashes appeared, accompanied by rumbling sounds from top to bottom. Amidst the obviously dense and continuous explosions, Zhang Ge looked diagonally upwards and saw that the two transport ships, each equivalent to a seventy-story building, disintegrated in the air.

The carefully calculated shock wave of the explosion evenly scattered the wreckage across the opposite bank. The burning fireballs, trailing their wakes, even dyed the night sky here orange.

Countless shells and lasers collided with the wreckage in the air, making loud explosions, but the amount of wreckage was too large. Even if the infantry's laser guns were used, it would be just a drop in the bucket against the rain of fire.

Without the obstruction of vegetation, Zhang Ge could now see the general situation on the other side of the river.

He saw that most of the debris remained in the same shape as when it exploded, smashing heavily to the ground, either crushing a few sandbags and turning a few cultists into minced meat, or causing a secondary explosion, turning countless metal fragments into deadly arrows, killing dozens of unlucky people.

Seeing this scene, a slight doubt arose in Zhang Ge's heart:

It is very loud, but in terms of actual killing effect, isn’t it a little insufficient?

But new circumstances soon emerged.

From between the wreckage...or rather, from the small metal boxes wrapped in the wreckage, as the miniature directional explosives inside the boxes were activated, the small boxes with holes opened in them began to release deadly dark green poison gas at the same time.

The poison gas spread rapidly with the flow of air until the entire opposite bank was obscured by the green mist. Wrapped in the poison gas that could interfere with thermal vision to a certain extent, the enemy positions that were just hot suddenly fell into silence.

Although the two domestic civilian ships are slightly expensive, the results are extremely effective. These poison gases can not only cause casualties, but more importantly, they can obscure the enemy's vision to a considerable extent.

Dropping a large number of poison gas bombs onto the ground of enemy positions at the same time can prevent the poison gas from drifting towards one's own positions after being intercepted in the air. It can also form a poison gas wall in a short period of time to prevent it from being quickly diluted by air flow.

Moreover, if the wreckage is used for delivery, it may be too late for the enemy to find anti-gas equipment by the time they find it.

As shrill whistles sounded one after another, a large number of infantrymen in striking white clothes jumped out of the trenches. Some of them were holding automatic rifles, while others had no weapons at all and only wore simple breathing filters on their faces.

To be fair, if you only use a breathing filter, there is no difference between wearing it and not wearing it. To the Empire's poison gas, pores are still pores.

Is this the first wave? No, judging by the large number of vehicles still parked around, waiting to attack, it's not.

As Zhang Ge's convoy stopped behind the front-line position, the armed believers who had been injected with large amounts of stimulants... and even some banned drugs, had already rushed madly towards the enemy position.

Soon, any enemy heavy firepower that attempts to counterattack and exposes its position will be sniped by the laser cannon on its own position the next moment, but what if it does not fight back?

When those frantic believers rushed to the battlefield, their bodies became their last weapons. The plastic explosives fed into their stomachs exploded one by one. Amidst the rising dust clouds and orange-yellow flashes of the explosion, countless living bombs crushed the enemy's defense zone inch by inch.

Fierce gunfire and countless explosions rang out on the other side of the river, but the poisonous gas made it impossible to see what was happening.

At this moment, in front of everyone, on the road along the shore, some unusual horse hoof sounds were heard.

The biochemical horses that had undergone biochemical transformation and mechanical implants kicked out a dull sound. These giant beasts were about 3.5 meters tall, like small tanks, and their size alone was enough to compare with some battle armor.

Cavalry, this ancient type of soldier has been able to reappear on earth due to bio-transformation technology. More than 20 knights wearing gorgeous full force feedback power armor are carried by horses...but the more conspicuous one is the one in the front.

She was still wearing a gorgeous long dress and covered in jewels, spotless. She stood out from the entire battlefield and was extremely conspicuous.

The same is true in the eyes of the enemy.

On the other side of the river, the laser cannon lit up before firing, and a red light flew away at high speed in an instant.

But the next moment, the light beam that was powerful enough to penetrate the armored vehicle collided with the psychic shield that flashed and appeared beside the girl. The red light that exploded with high energy failed to hurt the girl at all. Not even the dust could penetrate the shield. Only a slight shock wave blew up her carefully styled long hair.

Amidst the lingering dust and mist raised by the laser explosion, the inconspicuous metal fragments floating around the girl gradually coalesced in her hands, revealing a two-meter-long lance. Her disdainful voice, amplified by psychic energy, spread throughout the battlefield:

"If, after the battle, any of the smaller cavalry's breakthrough progress is more than half as slow as my cavalry, then the officers will be executed, and the entire unit, down to the company level, will be executed with one-tenth of the soldiers."

"At the same time, the family offers a reward of one hundred throne coins for each enemy's head. I hope you, a bunch of scum, come to me to collect the bounty, not to pollute my sight with the blood of cowards."

ps: I got up late today, so the update is about ten minutes late, but I believe that since my readers and I have such a deep relationship, they will definitely forgive me.

Chapter 78: Various tactics, this is...

After she finished speaking, the explosions on the other side of the river gradually subsided.

But this does not mean the end of offensive preparations.

What followed was an offensive salvo from the rear artillery against the enemy's front-line positions. The fuel-air bombs fired by the artillery at the same time before also fell almost at the same time. Rows of explosions advanced like a wall. The advancing barrage of bullets rhythmically and systematically spread outward and far, like ripples, gradually clearing the enemy's important defense areas.

In addition, several rounds of artillery fire also covered several large bridges on the river. The fuel-air bombs were not enough to burn through the bridges, but they were enough to detonate the mines deployed by the enemy on them.

It was not until this round of artillery fire ended that the noble girl who had ridden her horse to the center of the front position turned her horse's head and slowly made the golden light on her chest float slightly.

As the psychic power applied to this small piece of gold gradually increased, it began to shake violently and rubbed against the air to produce a sharp sound. It was not like a whistle, but like a racing car or an airplane flying past at high speed. The pitch of the sharp sound was raised several times, and it seemed as captivating as some kind of tuning fork.

This highly recognizable sound was amplified by psychic energy and transmitted outward, entering everyone's ears indiscriminately, even including the enemy troops on the other side of the river.

The moment the signal for the general attack was given, the warhorse under the noble girl also began to accelerate. Amid the dull clatter of the hooves of more than twenty biochemical horses, the officers' loud shouts like curses, the sound of the tracks of the armored vehicles as they began to move forward, and the battle cries of the soldiers through their gas masks, all these sounds rang out at the same time.

The position, which was originally quiet compared to the constant explosions, suddenly became noisy.

But the fastest ones are not those on the ground.

In the sky, several Valkyries flew over everyone's heads, almost touching the spires of the buildings, with the sound of tearing the air apart. When the ground troops just started, they had already broken through the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower, which was countless times thinner, at low altitude, and threw the elite airborne PDFs carried inside to the bridgeheads of various bridges.

The paratroopers wearing fully enclosed armor jumped out of the cabin with their legs together, and plunged into the area covered by the poisonous gas at high speed during free fall. They only opened the gravity parachute at ultra-low altitude after ensuring that their bodies were covered by the poisonous gas.

This kind of reckless military atmosphere makes it difficult to tell who is being invaded.

As the first echelon, Zhang Ge and his convoy also accelerated forward after the general attack was launched, following behind Leman Russ, the spearhead of the assault, and drove onto the bridge.

When he was about to enter the range of poisonous gas, Zhang Ge put on his armored helmet again and adjusted it to a closed state. Just like when he entered the bottom nest before, his obviously obstructed breathing made him feel a little uncomfortable.

By the way, Zhang Ge reminded the people in the back seat:

"Dominica, find a gas mask for Isis in the back."

Soon, the convoy entered a thick poisonous gas, and the vision was obscured to the extent that they could only see less than two or three meters around them. The entire convoy had to slow down, and the connection between the front and rear vehicles could only be achieved by following the sound source.

The footsteps of friendly troops could be heard from time to time around us, but we did not encounter much resistance.

Come to think of it, although there are 40,000 enemies on the other side of the river, most of them are servants who have been forcibly corrupted. In the absence of military training, it is not certain how many people will be left alive on the position after this set of processes are completed, not to mention reorganizing effective resistance without the ability to obtain visual information.

But the poison gas only covered a small area in the front row of the entire defense zone. As the convoy drove out of its coverage, the firefight in front became increasingly intense.

By the time Zhang Ge's light armored vehicle drove out of the range of the poison gas, the two sides had turned into streets again. He saw that the captain of the guard's front car had stopped in front of an intersection. He and several guards had gotten out of the car, using the car body as cover, and were pointing their guns across the street.

Although no enemy was visible now, the wreckage of a Leman Russ tank was burning fiercely in the middle of the intersection, obviously having been attacked.