In the deep subspace ocean, the Endless Jihad, which had returned first, was moving forward alone.
This Retribution-class battleship built on Mars had deliberate advantages in reactors and engines from the beginning of its design. It can be said that after the battle of James Moro, Calvin and others have taken advantage of it to the extreme.
Relying on its nearly half more energy supply systems than battleships of the same class, it only took Calvin and others a little more than five days to go back and forth between Moro and Hepper.
At the end of the fifth day, the fallen Word Bearers Legion, under the personal leadership of Chief Priest Erebus, had dropped their first evil mark on the ancient world of Moro.
On the Relentless Crusade, Calvin, who was still adapting to "Hyperion's Blessing", had not taken off his armor for three days.
In fact, in the current state of this armor, this function and concept have not been lost at all.
All the components of the "Original Heart" have been replaced by psychic liquid metal. After these psychic liquid metals are fully infused with Calvin's power, the original clothing, disassembly, and even manifestation and disappearance can only be seen on the original body. in a moment.
Even their original weight has disappeared, because after being saturated with psychic energy, as long as Calvin is willing, all parts of the power armor are equivalent to weightless.
But only the original body knew about this situation, so in the eyes of other Gray Knights, this was another manifestation of the original body's concern about the war ahead.
There was an endless stream of people who came to persuade him to take a proper rest. Even the veteran Tabers secretly advised Calvin after a war briefing meeting to understand how to maintain weapons when not in combat.
But Calvin did not resolve this misunderstanding, because in fact he was indeed worried about Molech's war.
After all, as the supreme commander of the Tribunal and even the empire in Jamorro, he should have been there to fight with the warriors of the empire at this time.
The surprise of receiving "Hyperion's blessing" has dissipated. In other words, like every qualified Imperial soldier, a personal gain is insignificant compared to the war in the entire sector.
The reason why the Relentless Jihad gave up traveling with Hepper's support and chose to return alone was precisely because of war considerations in the direction of Moro.
boom! boom! boom!
A dull explosion sounded from the defensive weapon base station in orbit. Against the backdrop of the boundless universe, the huge stars and planets seemed extremely small.
And between these seemingly small stars, two fleets as small as dust, like giant beasts with teeth and claws, poured out each other's artillery fire on each other with the efforts of countless people, and then gradually narrowed the distance. The oldest and bloody battle begins.
The fleet on the Imperial side, under the command of the Inquisition and the Astartes Chapter, was on the obvious defensive.
This was due to the commanders' remaining defensive intentions of relying on Moloch, and also to Calvin's deployment of the war before leaving.
The lack of a flagship was the most practical reason. Without the participation of the Relentless Jihad, the Hrafnkel was transferred to the Otto line. At this time, the Sea Wolves really had no idea of a decisive battle with the enemy.
But this kind of concession comes at a price. If the orbital garrison fleet adopts a defensive posture, it usually means that the attacker has a window to strike on the ground.
As for the Word Bearers Legion, which is the offensive side of the war, it is obvious that they will not and cannot give up this obvious loophole.
Thousands of transport boats began to gather in orbit, and dense fighter planes that looked like a swarm of piranhas were also released from the belly of the Word Bearers Legion's battleship.
These behemoths engraved with the emblems of depravity and corruption, after the main fleet forced the empire back, and when the only remaining orbital defense system on Moro was destroyed, they openly braved the intensive anti-aircraft fire on the ground and launched from space. Landing towards the ground.
The soldiers on the empire side could only watch them, but were unable to make other effective interceptions.
There are only 600,000 imperial soldiers stationed on Moro. The Tindalos Legion is already the main force, and the number of other auxiliary armies and Sea Wolves is even more limited.
Fortunately, this was part of their plan, because after this planetary world experienced the ravages of the Sons of Horus under the Warmaster, its valuable defense areas were originally limited to a few important areas. Place.
The Uta Terrace located in the temperate zone of Moro Planet, as well as the rocky canyon, Evergreen Hills, Lucapalia City and Sarika located on this huge wasteland, are the areas they are currently defending.
The first gunshot of the war was fired three hours after the successful landing of the Word Bearers. The Word Bearers, who had fully evaluated the status of the defenders, obviously gave the Tindaros Legion's front a very high evaluation.
They did not rush to bring down the main force of their legion. Instead, they used the fallen rebel legion as the main force and dozens of Knight Titans under the two knight families as the spearhead.
In the rear landing field, under the cover of the gradually prepared heavy artillery troops, the first wave of tentative attacks began towards Lucapaglia's front.
This is a war that belongs entirely to mortals, and both sides of the war belong to the Empire and Chaos.
On the main continent of Moro Star, the plains outside the Uta Platform were filled with millions of mortal soldiers. The entire empire's position, from the city of Lucapalia in the east to the Evergreen Hills in the west, was submerged in the rumble of artillery fire from the rebel legions. among.
However, it is also a battle of wills and discipline.
Although there is a huge difference in size between the two war beasts, the difference in will and discipline between legions naturally allows the soldiers of the empire to have faster reactions and more purposeful tactics.
The main position in the direction of Lucapaglia was after the rebel legion invested a huge main force and got into a ten-hour fierce entanglement with the defenders.
Ignoring the dissuasion of the Sea Wolves, the armored units of the Tindalos Legion on both wings completed the assembly within half an hour. Then, against the urgent dispatch of fighter jets in the sky, they brazenly outflanked the two wings in a pincer-like offensive.
The Sea Wolves have a rather complicated attitude towards this large-scale tactical counterattack:
From absolute denial in the meeting at the beginning, to amazement after learning that the tactical concentration of armored forces was completed in half an hour.
After the Tindalos legions showed resilience when their frontal position fell into ten times the enemy's attack and refused all support for ten hours, they began to have little confidence in this plan.
By the time they began to deploy behind the frontal positions, they could experience the special nature of the Tindalos Legion at close range.
It can be said that within a few hours, they had a subversive understanding of this mortal army.
It is not even an exaggeration to say that after a lapse of thousands of years, they finally saw a force that was equal to the auxiliary army during the Great Expedition in terms of average quality and thickness of equipment.
Six hundred thousand to one and a half million, this is the ratio between the Tindalos legion and the mutinous legion in this battle;
Six hundred thousand versus three million, this is the total force that both sides can mobilize on this planet.
What the Tindalos Legion did was to rely on the fact that all of its members had been brutally trained by the Inquisition and had the advantage of having equipment provided by the entire Industrial Manufacturing Alliance.
Before the even larger giant, the Fallen Legion, could react, he used the power of steel belonging to the empire to severely cut the half of his extended body in half!
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