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

"I'm here?...I don't think I know either."

The clear voice in his mind destroyed Zhang Ge's last shred of fantasy. He numbly asked the second question:

"What should I call the other four?"

"They are all me, so just call me Olivia."

"what?"

Chapter 189: Just an unknown group of passersby

After a conversation with Olivia, Zhang Ge discovered that it was not so much that she awakened the War Dog Titans, but rather that she extended herself into those Titans and turned them into a part of herself.

These parts cannot move too far away from Olivia, otherwise they will become inactive until a driver comes to control them or Olivia approaches and connects to them again.

After talking for a while, Zhang Ge finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Olivia had no intention of continuing to work on the wreckage of the knight mechas.

Was it that Ascalon wasn't interested in units below the Titan, or was there some other reason? Zhang Ge had no intention of delving into the matter, not even asking.

Some questions, once asked, are meant to be solved, so it's better for him to be a little confused.

Of course, the absence of the Resurrection Knight mecha did not dampen the enthusiasm of the crowd, especially the enthusiasm of the Mechanicus. Even though most of them had ended their brief celebration and returned to their respective positions to rest, the Mechanicus still prayed for several rounds, and finally dispersed reluctantly after Olivia left.

That night.

In the sky, a transport ship descended from the sky and docked at the temporary landing site.

She was the ship that had been used to transport these corps. After completing the task of delivering the landing troops, she had already returned to Tianying Port. Now she was returning according to the agreed time before leaving, fully loaded with supplies, reserve troops and other materials, and landed under the guidance of the ground troops.

At present, this agreed time is still off by about a dozen Terra hours compared to the actual time of breaking through the enemy's defense line - this is the result of the high-level commanders making the most optimistic estimate of the subsequent battle situation after the landing operation.

Large quantities of ammunition, fuel, medicine, soldiers, etc. were transported out of the ship, while seriously injured soldiers, wreckage, messengers, etc. were also transported onto the ship.

Soon, the brief replenishment was over and she took off again amid the whistling sound of the nozzle.

At the same time, this of course also means the end of this break.

Just as the various troops were preparing to set out, the Mechanicus finally reached a preliminary conclusion and conveyed it to the commanders of the Astra Militarum - mainly Zhang Ge, because he was the one who could not be avoided when it came to the Titan issue... at least that was the case for the Mechanicus at the moment.

Adhering to the attitude that it is best not to tamper with the program as long as it can run, the more important the Titan appears, the more the Mechanicus dares not to act rashly in this regard. The current manifestation is that they maintain a great degree of respect for Zhang Ge's current status relative to the Titan.

Back to their conclusion.

In short, the Adeptus Mechanicus has sent people directly to the Macronorth Sector to ask for help. Before that, the Skitarii, who were originally planning to escort the Titans away after rescuing the other Titans, will change their plans and move with the Astra Militarum until the reinforcements arrive or the problem in the Dead Forest Sector is resolved.

What else? Should he forcibly interfere with the Titans' operations, or demand that these Astra Militarum and Space Marines abandon their own plans and instead protect the Titans?

Most of them do speak directly and don't care much about other people's feelings, but they are not stupid. Moreover, before the reason for the appearance of Om Messiah is figured out, who dares to conclude whether it was the Titans themselves who caused the miracle or some action of the Titans that caused the miracle?

What if changing what Titan is going to do without authorization causes problems?

This kind of thinking is not uncommon, but rather classic. It becomes much more familiar when applied to a certain process: What if a process is arbitrarily modified, resulting in problems with the final produced machinery?

After seeing the news, Zhang Ge quickly figured it out and felt relieved.

He was really a little afraid that the priests would pull out some magical tools of the religion from their crotches, and then teleport a group of people from somewhere, forcibly dragging him and Titan to the back to squat.

It now seems that, leaving aside the non-interference actions, at least in terms of sending messages, their methods are still within our cognition. In the case of information interference, we still have to honestly send people to deliver the message.

In this case, the round trip should take a long time. By the time the people called by the Mechanicus arrive, Zhang Ge should have had a lively conversation with the Iron Warriors for quite some time, which would not affect his suicide too much.

Soon, under the direction of the Imperial Fist Champion, nearly 200,000 elite soldiers, followed by a Warlord Titan, a half-damaged Predator Titan, four War Dog Titans and six Knight Mechs, set off and headed to the rear of the Iron Warriors in the rolling dust.

Those traitors had already broken through the outer wall defenses and embedded themselves in the positions behind the wall. If nothing unexpected happened, their main force should still be fighting with the Imperial Fist defenders in the Dead Forest Section.

If we could strike them from the rear at this critical moment, even if we didn't win in the end, it would relieve a lot of pressure on the defenders.

Of course, compared to the several legions that were full of fighting spirit, the Iron Warriors who were targeted on the other side were not in a very good mood.

A battalion commander is enthusiastically commanding his troops to attack the Imperial Fist position - it should be noted that since the founding regiments of the Traitorous Space Marines inherited the Legion system, the number of people in a battalion or company far exceeds that of the later Traitorous regiments or the companies of ordinary Codex regiments, and their battalion/company commanders are also much stronger, and may even be equivalent to the chapter masters of ordinary regiments.

Just as the battalion commander issued an order that he felt satisfied with, he received news that there were hundreds of thousands of elite enemy troops and a Titan warrior behind him.

A few days later, before he could even confirm the authenticity of the news, the subordinate who brought back the news also lost the battle and fled back, bringing back only a small group of surviving Space Marines, and almost all of their heavy equipment was lost.

These two situations happened at the same time, which made him even suspect at first that the other side had lost the battle and lost too badly, so in order to appear less embarrassed, they deliberately exaggerated the enemy's military strength.

However, after opening the other party's accompanying Space Marine's skull in front of him and eating the brain in the skull raw, and experiencing the memories stored in it, the captain of the large company realized that the other party had been conservative.

Cadia, Ultramar Auxiliary Forces, Titans, Unknown Landships.

Although there seems to be an unknown group of passers-by, even if we put this aside, the number of remaining elite troops is definitely not small.

An interesting and noteworthy opponent, but not yet a threat.

The battalion commander evaluated it in his mind and thought so.

ps: Fixed an error. The Iron Warriors Legion is organized as a battalion instead of a company.

Chapter 190: What? The information is fake?

ps: Change the company commander Tie Yong in the previous chapter to battalion commander.

Amidst the ignited interest, the thoughts of the battalion commander could not help but fluctuate slightly, and he even inadvertently drifted back to ten thousand years ago, so that he finally began to miss the time before the civil war split the legion.

At least at that time, there were still quite a few veterans of the Great Expedition among the brothers, and there would not be such useless officers under their command.

Of course, in glorifying the past, he naturally overlooked the fact that the loser in front of him was also one of the "veterans", otherwise it would be difficult for him to entrust him with important tasks.

But in just a moment, his thoughts returned to the real world again.

As the highest-ranking commander in this area, he had abundant military forces at his disposal. Facing the army group attacking his rear, he thought about it and decided to dispatch two hundred Space Marines and six million cultist auxiliary troops.

This legion is equipped with conventional heavy equipment, but it is not enough. They will also receive additional support from a super-heavy tank unit. In addition to a large number of ordinary super-heavy tanks, this tank unit also includes two Shadow Sword super-heavy tanks from the Great Crusade.

The main guns of the two super weapons are both composed of a volcanic cannon, which has a devastating impact. A single shot is enough to directly damage a conventional War Dog Titan. If two can fire at the same time, if they hit the target completely, it is even possible to directly destroy a War Dog Titan in one round.

Even for a Warlord-class Titan, such a terrifying killing effect is enough to be called a fatal threat.

This is understandable, after all, Shadow Swords have often been used as Titan Killers since their birth, and after these two Shadow Swords fell into Chaos, the inevitable warp interference further enhanced their power.

If paired with an experienced crew, even without the cover of other super-heavy tanks, two Shadow Swords would be enough to compete with the War Titan in the first round of shooting.

Two hundred elite soldiers, six million auxiliary soldiers, a large number of super-heavy tanks and the ultimate killing weapon, plus a trustworthy officer.

The battalion commander really couldn't imagine how this legion could lose when facing a mere few hundred thousand people. Even if the enemy's few hundred thousand people also had a War Titan, there was absolutely no possibility of winning.

Unfortunately, however, a mobilization of this scale will also affect the attack on the Dead Forest Festival area, allowing those inferior golden turtles with unchanging aesthetics to live for a while longer.

Thinking of this, the battalion commander even hesitated for a moment and wanted to reduce some of the mobilized troops, but finally gave up this irrational idea.

At a command, a huge army corresponding to the paper strength was mobilized in the Iron Warriors' position with the efficient operation like gears meshing. In addition to those on the establishment, there were also a large number of demons among these millions of people, which made their strength even greater.

in the desert.

Two armies, one large and one small, were marching towards each other, and both sides had no doubt that they could win.

Of course, the confrontation between them did not begin on the ground, but quietly unfolded in the sky.

In the airspace above the two armies, the Chaos Fighters and Sky Demon Engines, which had an absolute advantage in numbers, first launched an attack on those enemy fleets that seemed vulnerable.

However, after the initial crushing success, they soon realized that something was wrong.

How come it is that while we are fighting in the front, the early warning mainframe and data center used for detection in the back are always destroyed by an enemy plane that comes from nowhere?

What about the fighter planes responsible for the escort? Are they eating military rations for free?

However, the escort aircraft were no longer able to respond to them.

Most of the time, when the escort aircraft discovered the enemy aircraft that showed no radar characteristics at all, it had already shot down two or three escort aircraft through incredibly accurate shooting, which was a fatal blow to a escort team that usually consisted of four or six aircraft.

What’s even more terrifying is that even if they react, the remaining three or four fighters will usually all crash in the first few rounds.

This situation did not improve even after the escort formation was increased to twelve or sixteen aircraft. It only increased the number of aircraft crashing each time.

Finally, when the number of fighter planes used to guard the large aircraft exceeded 20 and reached a bloated and huge 26, such attacks were finally stopped to a certain extent... She finally would not destroy the escort fleet in passing, but would appear from nowhere and at some unknown time, and then destroy the large aircraft guarded by the fleet with lightning speed, and then quickly disappear from the sight of the fighter planes trying to pursue her.

But later on, the Chaos side finally didn't have to worry about this problem, because the mainframes that could serve as detection and information nodes were extremely precious, and they were all lost in a short time if they continued to fight like this.

In this situation, most of the Chaos fighters in the airspace were equivalent to having one eye gouged out. After fighting for a while with the Empire fighters, which were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of their numbers, they ended up in a draw - this draw meant that the Chaos side suffered far greater casualties than the Empire side.

At the same time, this also brought a secondary impact:

The Iron Warriors were unable to mobilize their Space Marine forces through the Air Force...it couldn't be said that they were unable, but rather that they dared not.

Because a covert Thunderhawk gunship was discovered and destroyed by the Sky Ghost for some reason. At that time, the Thunderhawk gunship was carrying more than 30 Space Marines and at least one Dreadnought... No one knew the exact number. The last young man who asked the commander this question was simply turned into two uneasy corpses.

More than one-tenth of our brothers were lost before there was even a direct encounter, and the Air Force has not yet gained any advantage. These are obviously not good news.

But bad news aside, the Iron Warriors are still very confident of their ultimate victory.

The failure that is happening in the sky, at the moment, is just a failure to gain an advantage... Even if we take a step back and say that those flying deer are unreliable, what does that have to do with my mighty army?

Rather, wouldn't it be better if there weren't those bugs to steal the credit? Let them watch us make great military achievements, and then go back to receive promotions and reach the pinnacle of life.

This thought continued until the advance troops ran back to the corps in fear, and only one in ten of the tens of thousands of elite cultists originally sent out survived.

According to their intelligence, the other party deployed at least six Titans in the first batch.

Watching the video and hearing the news, the commander's eyes darkened, and only one sentence remained in his mind:

Who wants to frame me?

Chapter 191: Coincidence of Two-Way Travel

Zhang Ge's side.

After marching for a while, the troops finally encountered a large enemy ground force.

Even with the help of land ships and artillery, the six Titans plus the Knight Mechs easily wiped out this army of only 10,000 people, and the other troops couldn't even catch up.

But this does not mean that subsequent battles will be so easy.

No, looking at it from another angle, it would be better to say that the number of advance cannon fodder sent by the enemy to explore the way and die has reached 10,000, which further illustrates what kind of brutal battle will be faced next.

With this mentality, the troops did not act rashly after realizing that they were about to encounter the enemy's main force. Instead, they tentatively divided into several small groups and launched several small-scale attacks towards the enemy.

In theory, the purpose of these attacks is not to win victory, but to get as close to the enemy as possible and obtain intelligence about its deployment, composition, etc.

But... the gap between the reality and the plan on paper seemed to be revealed from the very beginning.

Many troops reported the following situation:

They were clearly only carrying out some low-intensity feint attacks, but even so, the enemies who had an absolute numerical advantage could only hold out for two or three rounds before retreating and giving up their positions.

Moreover, more importantly, none of the small units sent to the front line were hit by the enemy's heavy firepower - considering that the enemy should have known that the Empire had a new War Titan deployed on the battlefield, the troops they sent to intercept could not have been without sufficient heavy weapons. In that case, where did the heavy firepower go?

As more similar intelligence gathered at the command post, several senior officers who were holding a brief combat meeting on the situation pieced together the information and ultimately came to a somewhat absurd conclusion:

Although the enemy had an absolute advantage in numbers and was commanded by Iron Warriors who were always good at attacking, they still gave up the idea of ​​attacking for some reason and adopted a passive defensive posture towards our army.

Is it the threat posed by the Titans? But in the face of a Titan, wouldn't sitting still kill us faster? That doesn't make sense. Does the enemy have some other plan we haven't anticipated?

However, the truth was far less complicated than the staff who were racking their brains imagined.

This is a misunderstanding caused by information asymmetry.

After discovering that the so-called "one Titan" in the intelligence had turned into six, the Iron Warrior commander of this legion decided to treat the intelligence as toilet paper.

No, a thing that is so tall and big, its shots can be heard dozens of kilometers away. Even in this situation, they can make the mistake of mistaking six for one. How credible can you expect the other content to be?

As a result, the intelligence speculation that the number of enemies should not exceed 400,000 was completely overturned.

Based on the reality he faced, this brave commander made a conclusion that he believed was more realistic:

He was facing an enemy force that was no smaller than his own, much more elite, and reinforced by a large number of Titans and Knights.

If this imaginary enemy replaces the hundreds of thousands of people mentioned in the previous ridiculous intelligence, then many problems that were originally difficult to explain will make sense.

Damn, a bunch of bugs.

He was thankful for his own perceptiveness in noticing this before a large-scale battle, and he also quickly adjusted his battle plan accordingly.

What happened next further confirmed the Iron Warriors Commander's conjecture:

Several front-line positions at different locations and far apart were attacked by the enemy at the same time.

The first wave of attack covered such a large area at the same time, it seems that the enemy is indeed extremely large in scale.