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

It was a large, angular, metallic-looking clamp that was holding the arm of the Atonement Engine.

The gears engaged, the pistons pushed and rolled, the torque locked, and in this brief stalemate, the Redemption Engine slammed sideways, using its shoulder to push, and the collision pushed the Demon Engine to the side and upwards, so that the flesh and blood barrel growing on its "face" was pointed to the sky, and the shell that was ejected from the barrel in the explosion naturally missed.

Although the price of doing so was that the arm that had just been severed was torn off, leaving behind sections of pipes emitting sparks, but amid the struggle and roar of the engine, and the sound of metal twisting as its forelimbs rubbed against the armor.

The Atonement Engine took advantage of the Demon Engine's imbalance, thrust its remaining arm into the gap, and poured the Holy Fire into the blasphemous mechanical body.

This was one of countless encounters, and overall, the advance of the Engines of Atonement was hampered by the introduction of this type of enemy into the battlefield.

But this does not mean that the overall offense is hindered.

Just as another demon engine had torn apart the believer on the chest of the Atonement Engine and was about to step on him to deliver the final blow, an infantryman appeared.

The fanatic raised the monomolecular bayonet under the laser gun and stabbed it into the interior of the demon engine armor.

The result was naturally and undoubtedly that it was smashed to pieces.

However, immediately afterwards, the second and third infantrymen rushed up.

Although these infantrymen did not pose any real threat due to the lack of weapons such as melta guns, the remaining combat consciousness of the Demon Engine discovered that as the number of corpses smashed around them increased, their own strength actually declined.

This slowdown became an opportunity for the Redemption Engine to turn defeat into victory.

After the Atonement Engines tore through the enemy infantry lines that had survived the bombardment, their own infantry kicked and pulled the torn gaps wider and entangled with other enemies.

Whether in a building or in a green belt somewhere, these fanatical light infantry led by priests became the second spearhead of the breakthrough.

Even if an entire team was wiped out, the survivors would grope for the signal gun from the bodies of their comrades and struggle to shoot a red signal into the sky.

His arms fell limply as he was surrounded by the surging enemy troops.

But what fell were not only the arms of the survivors, but also the shells that broke through the air.

Being blocked means that the defense here is still strong, and a strong defense will of course attract heavy hammers that are specifically sent to break the hard shell.

This was an alternative attack, a barrage of slowly advancing barrage, paved with flesh and blood, crushing forward inch by inch amidst countless sacrifices, like a blood-stained millstone, crushing any enemy that got in it inch by inch.

P.S.: Because it's the start of the school year, many of my readers must have classes in the morning, so the update time for the first chapter of each day has been changed back to 12:30 p.m. What? No, I'm not trying to give you guys time to read the latest chapters. I'm not caring about my readers!

Chapter 94: Damn, this time I really became a war hero

Although the battle zone where Zhang Ge is currently located is small in scale, and is just a battle for a small area at the top of the tower, the location is of great significance to both sides. For a time, both sides focused their attention here.

The Chaos side was surprised that even though the ring fortress was surrounded by their defenses, this remote hive was still able to create a complete armored force somewhere else on the spire.

Most of their elite troops were used to besiege ring fortresses or attack spearheads.

After all, normally speaking, other places in the spire would at most be populated by some noble private armies or PDFs, not to mention that this was just a remote hive.

Of course, this is also because their military strength is stretched thin. Even if a frigate is fully loaded with tens of thousands of ground combat forces, it would still be too thin when spread out across the entire spire, so it would be better to concentrate their forces.

What's more, although the defense line is composed of only a small number of cultists and a large number of rebellious civilians, if the goal is simply to delay them, it is completely sufficient. After all, it won't take them long to break through the defense line on the void shield side.

But this also led to their current dilemma. It was difficult for the Chaos side to withdraw enough troops to fight against another elite force in a short period of time. When the Space Marines were needed for offensive operations, they could only concentrate as many demons or vehicles as possible.

Most of its troops are still composed of rebellious civilians, who are no different from paper to an elite breakthrough force.

As for the hive city side, they were of course amazed at the efficiency of their friendly forces, but when the fire burned themselves on the top of the tower, the nobles did not have the trick of remaining unmoved when their friendly forces were in trouble.

Even if the hatred between nobles is so deep that it is common for them to kill their parents, at least their enemies will not sew their parents who were cut into pieces together with their souls to revive them, then dance a courtship dance to catch them, increase the sensitivity by a thousand times, and then use R18G silver handkerchiefs together.

Therefore, when Zhang Ge launched a counterattack, other areas also started large-scale counterattacks one after another, sticking to the Chaos forces opposite them, using this method to contain and support them, making the already scarce elite Chaos forces even worse off.

In this situation, although the total number of Chaos troops here is more than ten times that of Zhang Ge, almost five or six hundred thousand, most of them are just rebellious civilians temporarily gathered. Even if the surrounding defense lines are drained, there are only about ten thousand elite cultists.

In the seemingly thick defense line, even the rebellious PDFs have become elite main forces.

Before the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment even got its turn to actually engage in combat, over 10,000 fanatics, aided by over a hundred artillery pieces of various types, had already forcibly broken through the Chaos' first few lines of defense.

Although the casualty ratio is not very good, everyone's sacrifice is meaningful. A virtually fragile breakthrough has been formed, and at the same time, the corpses of thousands of devout believers have weakened the power of the warp here.

The 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment finally launched the attack, and the main force led by Zhang Ge rushed towards the opened gap.

As the sound of tracks rolling on the road became more and more frequent, one armored vehicle after another gradually ran over the corpses in various postures on the ground, stabbing down like a sharp sword.

It's not that there weren't some cultists trying to stop the convoy, but the guns of Leman Russ and the Punishers easily eliminated the various pre-set heavy firepower points, and the originally sturdy barricades were reduced to ashes under the direct impact of the shells.

At the same time, with the help of various fighter planes such as Valkyries, a total of two to three thousand people, including the initial hundreds of elite infantry, were transported to the upper floors of the buildings on both sides.

Using auspicious devices, these assault troops cleared the buildings on both sides of the convoy moving forward in the middle of the road from top to bottom, thus preventing the enemy from launching attacks from both sides under the cover of the buildings.

One side was responsible for removing the strong fortifications and barricades on the front, while the other side was responsible for covering the weak positions on the flanks, with tanks and infantry advancing alongside.

Although it sounds simple and plain, it contains extremely strong organizational and coordination capabilities. Any disconnection between the two parties may lead to serious losses, not to mention that this is at night and there is no instant communication.

Looking back at all the wars in the history of Zhang Ge's side before he crossed over, there had never been a single instance of a situation like this: tens of thousands of infantry and tanks making an efficient and coordinated nighttime advance in high-intensity street fighting.

Not to mention tens of thousands of people, even the coordination between battalion-level units is often disconnected. What's worse, some professional troops cannot even achieve the most basic street fighting infantry-tank coordination between teams.

Only the elite of the Star Army can deliver this pure and simple attack. It may seem ordinary, but it is like a mountain collapsing. The real strength is there. It's not that Chaos doesn't want to stop it, but it simply can't do it.

It’s like when you’re boxing and your opponent comes into the ring with an alloy power fist on his right hand. Does that mean he doesn’t want to win?

The demons and enemy vehicles that emerged from everywhere were crushed into ghosts under the tracks. Zhang Ge was in the middle of the convoy, sitting in a light armored vehicle that was dug out from the ruins of the first floor of the tower. He didn't even feel the pause in the driving.

He watched those psychologically furious demon engines rush out, and then be carried away in physical anger, with an expressionless face.

When you're in an atmosphere of high morale, you can feel it even without having direct conversations.

From the cheering fanatical wounded soldiers on both sides at the beginning of the attack, to the tank commanders who even opened the turret hatch, leaned half of their bodies out, and then inserted the flag with his portrait on it behind the turret.

No matter which faction you belong to, no matter whether you were just a vase pushed out before, as long as you can lead them to capture a glimmer of hope of victory in this storm and let them see the meaning of their sacrifice, they will not mind trusting you.

This even caused the image of Zhang Ge and Titan, which was originally basically bound together, to be separated in an unexpected way. After all, even without Titan, he still brought victory.

In other words, oh no, now it seems like he has really become a war hero.

Zhang Ge realized this.

But now that things have come to this, he can only keep a straight face to prevent it from looking so ugly, and at the same time look forward to the company commander appearing out of nowhere and giving him a little surprise.

But as the troops advanced inch by inch to the rear, crushing the cultists' defenses bit by bit, the expected beheading never came, so Zhang Ge had to consider the worst-case scenario.

What if, Zhang Ge meant what if, is there a better tactical option for the Chaos side?

In other words, that person did decide to behead, but he decided to let it go here directly, and then concentrate the Chaos Space Marines and lead this small force to assault the Void Shield control area and behead the control system.

As for the other troops, let them be surrounded and cut off. Even if they all die, as long as they can complete the mission, unplug the key control system, and then escape from the hive with his Space Marines, they will be able to make a comeback soon.

ps: Awesome py time, I am the master of traffic (? ).

Chapter 95: Beheaded

As the front troops advanced at a high speed, the enemy's outpost used for supply was already within reach.

Meanwhile, although the offensive was now progressing and the number of cultists encountered was increasing, no Chaos Space Marines were encountered again.

This is not difficult to understand. Perhaps in the Legion era, throwing thousands or tens of thousands of Space Marines into a place at once could allow these elites to perform static defense, but now... even if there are hundreds of Space Marines in one place, it is already considered a huge scale.

If you stay in the bunker foolishly, the survival rate of the Space Marines will not be much higher than that of mortals in the face of the enemy's ground-clearing offensive artillery fire, so either use these elites for decapitation, attack, etc., or even if you are defending, you must use dynamic defense and choose to attack actively.

In other words, if no enemy Space Marines appear at the most intense moment of the battle, it is highly likely that such troops are not deployed here at all.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ge said to Amelia beside him:

"I'm a little worried. Are those Chaos Space Marines planning a concentrated assault on the Void Shield? It would be meaningless even if we annihilated these troops."

The latter thought for a while and replied:

"No, your safety is the most important thing right now. From a strategic point of view, Titan is more important than Void Shield."

Even the two triple-mounted laser incinerator secondary guns on the shoulders of the Warlord Titan are enough to melt two super-heavy tanks at the same time in a short period of time, not to mention the volcanic cannon and plasma cannon.

The hive city has no void shield but still has an outer shell. How can the attacking side attack after its heavy artillery and armored units have been killed? Should they use dozens of millimeters of infantry guns to poke the outer shell of the hive city?

Without the tens or hundreds of billions of basic units of troops that the Tyranids had, it is basically a pipe dream to consider using basic infantry to overwhelm a fortress like the Hive City.

Therefore, even from the perspective of defending the nest, after annihilating most of the enemy units and ensuring internal security, it doesn't matter if the enemy is allowed to decapitate the void shield control system.

It was originally designed to resist the enemy's heavy firepower. Even if it is gone, wouldn't it have the same effect if we just dismantled your heavy firepower?

They can't just keep dropping warships or launching orbital bombardments. After already being breached once, how could the Imperial Navy still leave such a big defensive loophole every day?

Zhang Ge thought about it and it seemed to be true. He was speechless for a moment and couldn't find a second reason to hit him.

Amelia continued following Zhang Ge's lead:

"Also, I suggest that after you've completed your command, you fly to a safer location before the enemy realizes this as well."

"Where is there a safer place than this now?"

"fortress."

Zhang Ge was about to say something, but suddenly realized something:

"In this case..."

Just as they had uttered a few words, the noble girl in the back seat of the car interrupted their conversation in a serious tone:

"I felt a psychic energy sweeping through. It was a targeted investigation."

She spoke rapidly, but the change had already occurred before she finished her sentence.

The first thing that happened was a layer of white frost that quickly condensed, and the second thing that happened was the sudden feeling of weightlessness.

This is not an illusion.

The entire light armored vehicle and the five people inside were thrown upwards.

Amidst an extremely uncomfortable feeling of oppression, visible pale white psychic energy fluctuations enveloped the vehicle.

In this feeling of weightlessness, Zhang Ge was the first to realize what was happening.

Amelia's previous statement was based on the fact that Chaos had no prior knowledge of her connection with the Titans, but judging from the fact that they had specially arranged a Chaos Space Marine to guard Zhang Ge, this premise obviously did not exist.

This means that the enemy is also aware of Zhang Ge...or that the Titan poses a greater threat than the Void Shield.

However, Zhang Ge was only one person after all. If the attack went smoothly, it wouldn't be too late for Chaos to deal with the Void Shield first and then deal with him, so they didn't choose him as the first target.

But now the overall battle failed, so the assassination that Zhang Ge expected at the beginning became a reality, and they really came.

In the back seat of the car, the noble girl had a painful expression on her face, and was obviously trying her best to fight against this psychic power, but her level was far from that of a Chaos Wizard, and she was unable to break the enemy's control at all.

Then... then nothing happened.

The scene was awkward for a moment.

The psychic energy continued to roll, clearly trying to press inward and crush the light armored vehicle, but it did not have the effect the Chaos Wizard had expected.

Although the slightly distorted structure on the outside of the vehicle proved that the psychic energy was indeed crushing it, only the wizard himself knew that whenever he tried to let the psychic energy approach Zhang Ge, these gathered subspace forces would lose their effect without warning, making it impossible for his ability to reach the interior of the vehicle.

So extravagant as to use black stone to make armored vehicles?

With his mind working at high speed, the Chaos Wizard could only guess this possibility.

However, this unexpected change only delayed the enemy's decapitation operation for a moment.

The next moment, a speeding black shadow quickly enlarged in everyone's eyes.

In his right hand he held a power sword surrounded by lavender lightning and halo, behind him were several impaled heads, and his body was even larger than that of a Space Marine.

The power armor on its body that spews out pink flames reveals its identity.

The reliefs on the armor plates are dancing wildly, the shell background is entangled and wailing, and it is overflowing with forked tentacles that occasionally poke out from the gaps between the joints.

Chaos Space Marine Captain.

Although there were no obvious markings, the large number of blessings that made their presence felt at all times undoubtedly highlighted the other party's identity as a senior military officer.

Driven by the Chaos Wizard's psychic power, he flew out like a cannonball and smashed into the light armored vehicle that was also pulled off the ground, without concealing the intention of this decapitation action.

Rather, his action was not only to restrict Zhang Ge's escape route, but also to attract the attention of the soldiers below, so that more people could see what was happening here.

He not only wanted Zhang Ge to die, but also wanted to reverse the downward trend. Undoubtedly, beheading Zhang Ge in front of the soldiers who were full of vigor and momentum was a good option.

As for the difficulty of killing that mortal?

The Captain hadn't considered this. If there were five Space Marines in the vehicle, he might have taken it seriously, but... four semi-mortals? Even on the ground, tied together, they wouldn't be able to stop him for even a second, let alone a targeted assassination.

This thought continued until the decisive sword strike was made, and a sense of obstruction brought by a flash of silver-white sword light arose.

ps: This is the first update today, and it is also the first time I think of you every day.