This newly completed settlement consists of 10,000 modular single-storey prefabricated houses and functional houses with more than two floors. It is located in the dense jungle of Beisher. A power station powered by a ship's fusion reactor powers these buildings. supplies the required energy.
Residential houses are distributed in a colonial grid from south to north, leaving a wide four-lane asphalt road and an airport for parking transport aircraft in the middle. From the air, it looks like a blue and white grid.
The cube-shaped house components were cast from concrete and lightweight alloys at Korhal IV's factory. The metal shells were painted with blue and white primer and spray-painted with Whip Grip Rings. The gold and red logo, the wolf head of the Mengsk family and the red gold star flag of the Korhal Dominion are flying on the command center, which is the tallest building.
The outer perimeter of the gathering place is a Presteel fortification wall more than 10 feet high. The jungle outside the wall has been flattened by plasma flamethrowers and forklifts, clearing the view for the soldiers standing guard on the protective wall.
To this day, the residents of the settlement are still skeptical about the role of this defensive wall. Rumors and scary stories began to spread among the uneasy colonists. They believe that those weird alien creatures seem to only need You can jump over high walls with a single leap and walk through walls like a ghost.
This colonial settlement, which was once thriving a month ago, was once full of hope. People temporarily forgot about the sadness of leaving their homeland and focused on building a new home.
Byshir is an excellent world for colonization, without even having to go through the lengthy process of terraforming to make it habitable. This will become the first new home of the wandering Korhal people, who will inherit the tenacious conduct of their ancestors to open up this primitive world.
That's how it should be.
Next to the command center are the military camp square and dispatch square, which are also made of prefabricated panels. There is about a battalion of revolutionary army soldiers in red power armor and nearly 3,000 people in dark gray military uniforms holding C-13 Gauss rifles at waist level. The poles stood upright in the dispatch square, and parked next to them were light reconnaissance vehicles produced by Keha Military Factory and armored heavy tanks equipped with a heavy machine gun on the roof.
The flag bearer held a bright red flag, and every soldier had a solemn expression on his face. All soldiers know very well that in this crisis-ridden world, they are the only wall between their families.
The ratio of military personnel among the Korkha people is close to an astonishing five to one. Except for the disabled and those working in special positions, men and women aged 16 to 50 are required to receive professional military training as a reserve force that can supplement the frontline resources at any time.
The composition of these soldiers, especially the personnel in the colonial fleet, is very complex. Among them are working-class people from the main city of Stillling, the capital, and fishermen from the ocean city.
"Calm down and stand at attention." Rick Kidd used the speaker inside his commander's power armor.
"We encountered strange creatures that we have never seen before. Those monsters are the most terrifying enemies that humans have ever encountered." Rick lectured in less than a minute.
"On this planet eight thousand light years away from Korhal, there are two highly evolved intelligent races living at the same time. This is a race that is full of malice towards us and refuses to understand and all peaceful communication. So what awaits us is life and death. war." He was only in his early twenties, but he already behaved like a majestic general.
The war and the cold killing as a sniper made Rick the coldest warrior among the demons in heaven. He would never allow himself to betray Augustus's trust or let him down. For this reason, all enemies standing in front of him All will be eradicated resolutely and without hesitation.
"No matter how long the battle lasts, there is only one final result. Either we completely kill these monsters, or we are exterminated by them. Gentlemen, tough guys of Korhal IV, war is calling." His voice was dispatching. Flying in the sky above the square.
"When you return in triumph, they will greet you like heroes."
"Fight for Korhal, we are the sons of Korhal," the soldiers immediately shouted in unison in response to Rick.
In the eyes of the Korhal people, the Sons of Korhal are not the name of a terrorist organization. Virtually every Korhal who warned themselves to remember the events of Korhal's Fall proudly called themselves a son of Korhal.
Tyranid Confederacy investigators will find that there is no information about the terrorist organization Sons of Korhal among the exiled Korhal, or that all Korhal are Sons of Korhal.
"Order all troops to set off from Alpha Gate, with tanks and Spitfire troops in front." Rick continued to order: "Let the bombers take off and prepare to drop incendiary bombs."
"The reconnaissance plane arrived at the place where the Vulture Company sent out a call for help. It was twelve miles away from the August settlement and covered with dense virgin forest. In the complex ground environment, radar equipment could not function at all, and reconnaissance The aircraft's thermal imaging equipment can only detect captured fighters," his adjutant replied.
"Other than that, we did not detect any enemy forces."
Rick's adjutant is named Alan Philip. Like many officers of ordinary origins in the Revolutionary Army, Philip is just the son of a construction worker. When he was a student, he won a full-year scholarship to the Stillling Artillery Academy with his excellent grades. At the beginning of the Korhal War of Independence, he joined the Korhal Revolutionary Army right after graduation.
Just like this, Rick's officers had a variety of careers before joining the army. Some were pastry chefs or chefs, and there were many people from all walks of life, including primary school teachers, taxi drivers, art students, reporters... ....
Angus Mengsk, the chief speaker of the Korhal Council, once declared to his supporters that whether they were nobles or ruffians, they were willing to defend their homeland and country. This was the great and united Korhal people.
"They are waiting for help." Rick said: "They use the lives of their compatriots to force us to send rescue troops, and they try to provoke us, just to get us out of the city and into the jungle."
"Then, what awaits us is the brutal hunting of aliens." He said: "Just like the hunters on Korhal, they set traps, wait for deer or wild boars to walk into the trap, and shoot them one by one."
"That's good, I've been waiting for this opportunity. Our warriors desperately need to fight, to face the real enemy instead of shadows or fears. Otherwise, even if these damn monsters don't kill all our commanders, they will be isolated from each other. The city will slowly collapse."
"We became prey." Rick's adjutant Philip said: "Finally one day, humans also became prey."
"Let's go." Rick said as he took over from his adjutant the boatswain's sniper rifle that had been with him since the days of the Federal Marines. This sniper rifle was well maintained and shiny.
Worried about the enemy's ability to destroy the human air force, Rick did not dare to let all the soldiers march in transport planes.
Rick rode a Saber command vehicle from the Kailian War era and walked at the front of the marching column. The infantry were arranged in three columns. In the jungle with complex terrain, the troops marched at a speed of three miles per hour, with a head above their heads. The wing's Avengers and five Phantom fighter jets provided air support.
The first six miles were low and flat jungle, and the Revolutionary Army troops had been marching at a faster speed. When they got deeper into the jungle, as taller and denser vegetation appeared, Rick had to order the soldiers to abandon the cars they were riding in. Heading through the jungle with only supplies.
This is a green jungle world full of orchids, ferns and early angiosperms. In the corners covered by plants, there are ancient ruins that have been buried by time.
The grass-gray buildings with traces of weathering are engraved with mysterious and ancient symbols and characters. In the dark, these characters will shine with a fluorescent green mysterious light similar to fireflies.
Relics older than the entire history of mankind are buried in dense forests with lush foliage. Those majestic rectangular buildings seem to be the Mayan pyramids in Central America on earth, and the circular altar seems to be related to some kind of cruel and bloody sacrificial activities. .
In the distance, the terrazine gas springs that permeate the vast primeval forests and grasslands are like plumes of smoke rising straight upward, rendering the blue sky of Beisher into a magnificent purple.
If they pay attention to the sky, they will find that in the purple clouds and mist, they will occasionally find huge oar-shaped fins and the outline of a huge whale emerging from it, as if there is a group of floating whales swimming in the air.
To this day, humans have not discovered that strange life still exists in some peach orchard-like corners of Beisher.
As the forward troops of the Revolutionary Army gradually penetrated into the jungle, Rick also led a company equipped with power armor to advance on foot in the dense jungle of Baishel.
The dense canopy of broadleaf vegetation gradually blocked the sunlight above them, casting a dark shadow across the woodland. The silence in the jungle of Baishel is eerily silent. There are no sounds of birds and beasts, only primitive insects buzzing on the flowers.
The diamond-shaped leaves of the shrubs are still covered with a layer of wet moisture, and the uniforms of the Revolutionary Army soldiers gradually become damp. When the forward troops led by Rick are getting closer and closer to their destination, there is almost no path to follow in the dense forest. .
In this case, Rick and his warriors had to use spurs to chop down small trees and the tough vines entangled between the trees. Because soldiers' vision was obscured by their surroundings in dense jungle, Revolutionary Army officers had to use radio equipment to confirm the location of their units.
Nearly 3,500 soldiers were scattered in the dense jungle, advancing in a search formation. The distance between soldiers was three to five meters. Every ten minutes, the revolutionary army's marching column would briefly stop and close up. The officers report to the commander whether there are any unexplained disappearances in their troops.
Soldiers wearing crimson power armor walked on the outermost edge as the backbone of the team, while more soldiers wearing ordinary military uniforms carried Gauss rifles, gas flamethrowers and heavy machine guns as cover.
When he was less than a mile away from his destination, Rick sent out another team of elite scouts, but the pair of scouts quickly lost contact with him after more than ten minutes.
Rick and his men immediately realize that the enemy is nearby.
At this moment, the breeze was blowing the plants under the feet of the Revolutionary Army soldiers, and the leaves rustled. Unknowingly, sweat began to break out on Rick's face and body.
"There is still no news from Sergeant Noed. The positioning device in their power armor shows that it has not moved for more than twelve minutes." When Rick's power boots stepped on the slippery grass, his helmet A captain's report came from inside, and a dozen adjutants and guards in power armor stood nearby, walking forward step by step.
The soldiers glanced left and right, using thermal imaging devices in their power armor visors to watch for signs of movement in the jungle. As Rick's most elite troops, their masks are equipped with sophisticated anti-stealth equipment.
Since the Terran Federation’s human army does not have large-scale stealth equipment, equipping a large number of anti-stealth equipment is unnecessary and wastes resources. If Augustus hadn’t given his battalion-level and above-level headquarters to deal with the Federation’s ghost agents, Equipped with anti-stealth tactical eyepieces, invisible enemies are almost invincible to today's colonists.
The function of this detection equipment is limited. Soldiers using it can only observe enemies within the field of view with the naked eye, which means that their detection has a fatal blind spot.
Holding the boatswain's sniper rifle, Rick seemed to be able to hear his own heartbeat. He couldn't help but think of the first time he held this gun - he was a human psyker with level five psionic powers. When he concentrates, the passage of time slows down.
In Rick's eyes, even the shaking of the leaves seemed to have slowed down, but his thinking was still clear. Listening to the rustling branches swaying, rustling sounds can be heard from time to time in the grass in the dense forest.
Rick has been thinking about where he would attack if it were him——
Suddenly, Rick suddenly raised his head and looked at the sky, and suddenly found a vague figure standing on a tree that looked like a banyan tree in front of him to the right, judging from his long dreadlocks and sparkling scarlet eyes. Look, this should be the same creature as the monster they killed before.
He (it) is using a strong arm to wrap around the leaning branch, and the other hand is holding a scarlet light blade about five feet long, with both feet propped up on the thick trunk, as if it were a tree. Just prepare the eagle that is descending in a swooping attitude.
"Pay attention to the tree at ten o'clock, on the treetop!" Rick shouted immediately.
Sensing that Rick had spotted him, the creature jumped from the tree, while the rest of the surrounding soldiers opened fire on him.
However, nail bullets that could easily tear an adult into pieces bounced off as soon as they landed on it, and a circular shield avoided all damage.
He advanced with graceful steps amidst the rattling gunfire, and while running, he easily beheaded a revolutionary soldier who was closest to him, and then cut off a lieutenant in half with a horizontal blow. Red blood immediately fell from the sky like rain.
Powered armor is as fragile as a block of tofu.
With absolute calmness, Rick used his highly decorated sniper rifle to aim at the opponent's head and fire one shot after another, while his loyal men ran forward desperately, firing while blocking the enemy's head. among his own commanders.
The alien monster walked along the way and chopped down twelve Revolutionary Army soldiers in power armor. It cut the adjutant Philip in front of Rick into two with a knife before being hit by a grenade and staggering down. On the ground.
When the alien creature roared in a strange language, Rick could only guess that the other person was talking dirty words from the perspective of judging others.
At the same time, Rick shot the opponent's face one after another until he stopped moving.
"Can you speak English?" he said to the dying creature in a tone filled with hatred.
