In less than a minute, Armin arrived at the scene with three people.
They then compared the coordinates with the tactical map and found that they were only about one kilometer away from the target, which was completely acceptable.
"Enemy reinforcements have been coming down the street from this direction."
"Ignore them for now."
Armin waved his hand.
"We have to go west. We have to get there before the fortress falls."
All the captains nodded, and then Armin addressed the recruits.
"Everyone, prepare for action and stay vigilant. We don't have a pharmacist here. Anyone who loses will have to endure it."
Wordlessly the team rose from their cover and walked west down the street, their bolters searching for targets in the surrounding rubble.
The Oscar brothers walked in front together, and Robin and three other team members were at the end of the line.
Farther away, the gray walls of Explorer's Keep towered above the smoldering ruins, and beyond that forbidding barrier, orange and black smoke hung heavily over the entire complex, giving it a nightmarish feel. a feeling of.
Haoma smiled bitterly in his helmet, this didn't seem like a place worth dying for.
The Tenth Company rushed along the narrow streets towards the southern stronghold of the fortress, killing as many rebels as possible along the way to relieve the pressure on the defenders.
The sounds of battle between the Astartes Squadrons and the Chaos Rebels echoed through the ruins, growing in intensity as the enemy began to react to the danger in their midst.
Not only did the vibrations of autocannons begin to appear in the air, but the roar of bolters could also be heard.
"Take the next bend south."
Armin shouted to the recruits.
"The enemy fire point should be four hundred meters further on from the intersection, somewhere to the left."
"receive."
The Oscar brothers ran to the corner and leaned their backs against a burned-out storefront, bolters slung across their chests.
Then, Zod slipped to the top of the wall and looked out from the corner.
"There are two Chaos Space Marines on guard at the top of the building."
Zod's sign language clearly told everyone the situation ahead.
Armin then made a gesture, and the two recruits immediately took out the armor-piercing rocket launchers carried on their backs, walked around to the buildings on both sides, and aimed through the windows at the Chaos Space Marines on alert on the roof.
call out--
Two seconds after the rocket was fired, the two black-armored Chaos Space Marines disappeared into a blizzard of rubble and steel fragments.
Billows of dust and smoke surrounded the intersection and billowed down the street toward the other team members.
The team reflexively spread out to find cover, some huddled behind piles of rubble, or clung to the walls of buildings.
In less than a minute, Hauma emerged from the smoke, his armor covered with brown dust.
"There's another panting guy here."
He found a guy who was not dead in the ruins, so he dragged it out and placed it next to the broken porch.
Armin also stood up from the bunker and trotted forward to look.
Hao Mo reached out and fumbled with the helmet of the Black Legion heretic. One side of the ceramic helmet was partially crushed, the right eye was shattered and torn from crown to neck.
"Hey, everyone come and see."
Haoma threw the broken helmet across the street. The impact on the skin of this guy's right face left deep scars, and even the bones were peeled off in some places. His right eye was already a pool of blood, although Asta had It has super self-healing ability, but wounds of this level are not easy to solidify.
More importantly, one of his legs was blown off.
The recruits gathered around and looked curiously at the heretics on the ground. This was their first close look at the rebels.
"He has disgusting tattoos all over his face."
"Kill him!"
"No, his limbs should be cut off and thrown to the roadside to die!"
The Chaos Space Marine glanced blankly at the Imperial Space Marines surrounding him and blinked his good eye.
"Oh, the Corpse Emperor's bastards."
The heretic in the pool of blood gasped contemptuously:
"I'll be waiting for you in hell."
Armin stepped on the opponent's face, crushed the intact part into the dust, and said in a deep voice:
"Heretical wild dog of the Black Legion, repent, and I will give you a pleasure."
"no way!"
With a pop, the other person's head exploded like a fruit under the sole of Armin's boot.
He turned around, looked at the recruits and said:
"Remember, there is no mercy towards the enemy, but correspondingly, we are not perverted butchers. Cruelty and torture are meaningless to us and will only poison our hearts."
"yes!"
"Go ahead and expand the alert area."
It took the team ten minutes to get through the partially collapsed building. The Oscar brothers dug through the rubble to find a way out. In some places, they also reinforced the damaged structural supports so that the team could survive without collapse. Next move on.
They passed through a narrow, filth-filled alley and entered the shell of another building.
The building almost completely collapsed, and the Astartes had to crawl through huge piles of rubble to reach the other side.
At this time, Armin heard the rumble of the engine idling and the sound of commands coming from the distance.
He walked to the top of a pile of rubble near the far corner of the building and crouched down, Robin and Homo beside him, looking out from the top of the pile.
At this time, their armor was covered with dust and was almost invisible against the background of the ruins. Instead, the enemy's position could be seen from the high broken window frames in the corners of the ruins.
A black and gold Chaos Predator tank sat in the center of another intersection, its sides surrounded by debris, four armed trucks behind it in a loose formation, and bunkers deployed on both sides of the street.
At the other corner of the intersection, there stood a dilapidated tower with a large hole on one floor, and the flames greedily devoured the hole.
This is the southern stronghold of the fortress.
"Oscar, have your men ready for melta, everyone else, wait for orders."
Although the Tenth Company is a company of new recruits, due to the adjustment of the structure of the Astral Knights, they also have the armament and firepower of a general tactical company, especially plasma and melt weapons that are relatively easy to carry.
Brother Oscar climbed out of the rubble. Behind him were two new recruits armed with melta guns, aiming at the side of the tank.
The rest of the team climbed the slope, weapons at the ready.
Then, the two melters glanced at Oscar and nodded.
"Fire!"
The two melta guns let out a hissing, steaming scream at maximum afterburner, and then the swirling stream of heat hit the side of the Predator tank and the fuel tank next to it.
For an instant, the molten armor plates and tracks were spinning in the air. Half of the body of a Chaos Space Marine standing next to the Predator was melted in an instant, and then Armin stood up suddenly.
"For the Emperor!"
With a loud cry, the angels loyal to the Golden Throne climbed down from the rubble and rushed out of their hiding places, their bolters roaring.
The cultists fell to the ground one after another, and the three black legion heretics who were set on fire first were "taken care of" by more than a dozen guns. They were shot to death before they had time to resist, while the light armor of the remaining mortal servants could not be seen at all. There was no way to resist such firepower.
