On the position in charge of the Second Company of the White Temple, company commander Alashzhen held his helmet and stared at the far end of the battlefield.
He is a veteran who has served for nearly three hundred years, and is the person who has served the longest in the Chapter except Randall. One of the important reasons for this is because he did not transplant the deteriorated gray marrow.
And he is also one of the very few soldiers in the White Templar who has become a company commander without transplanting gray marrow, which shows his personal ability.
After he entered the command level and learned all the secrets of the White Templar's past, he became a very staunch Legionnaire.
Not long ago, Arash received an order that they should block the enemies heading to Fortress 7 from here for three hours, and then they could retreat to the next line of defense.
The enemy was outnumbered, perhaps hundreds of times their number, and the only two nearby friendly armies were too busy dealing with local militia rebellions to support them.
But Randall promised that support would arrive if necessary.
"Company Commander, the enemy has entered range."
Suddenly, one of the lieutenants reported, causing most of the warriors to raise their bolters, preparing to face the incoming horde of heretics.
"Put your gun away."
Arash put on his helmet and issued new instructions.
"The first wave of enemies must be cultists. Save ammunition and use spears and shields. Brothers, form a nine-bow formation and the Lomon team, and use projectile grenades to kill enemies in the distance."
The White Temple not only preserved much of the culture of the original legion, but also retained the phalanx tactics of the legion era.
The position they were in charge of was built by mortals and consisted mainly of parapets and trenches. Arash estimated that he opened a gap of about 100 meters, like a floodgate on a dam, attracting the enemy to the direction of their formation.
When the roaring crowd rushed toward them, the White Templar Second Company calmly tied the bolter to his waist, raised his shield, and drew a short spear from his back.
This short spear is a power weapon, but unlike most power spears in the empire, it has a round weighted ball at the end, which is also the energy source of the force field generator.
As the warriors turned on the switch, the power spearheads crackled instantly, emitting blue light.
When the soldiers finished lining up, a battle flag also appeared behind them.
The White Temple uses a special battle flag called "Kavi". This battle flag is square with an eagle emblem on the top. The battle flag is inlaid with symbols made of gold.
"Come on!!!"
Soon, the overwhelming army of cultists swept across the front of the position, and then instinctively rushed towards the only gap.
What happened next was like a storm hitting a cliff. The cultists in the front row fell in front of the unbreakable shield array. The power spears pierced into this group of crazy fallen cultists. When the spears After inserting three or four cultists, the Space Marines would deftly use the edge of their shields to flay the corpses, and then continue to drive their spears into the crowd.
Countless pagans were killed instantly, but Arash always stood on the front line, holding his shield high and fighting in the bloody storm.
During the long battle, the Second Company was surrounded by the crazy roars of the bloodthirsty cultists, their blood-red eyes and twisted faces filled with hatred, but they soon fell powerlessly in pain and twitching.
"go ahead!"
Arash roared, and the phalanx began to move.
The second company advanced very quickly, with broken bones and flesh splattered on the shields. The spears swept through the dense crowd of cultists, and the iron boots ruthlessly trampled the corpses of the cultists, neatly and neatly bringing permanent death to these madmen. peaceful.
But the seriously injured cultists lying on the ground who were not dead were still shouting their master's name.
When they advanced a hundred meters, they had left a road littered with dead bodies behind them.
A little further away, a team was holding a grenade launcher, causing the cultists further away who were still trying to attack to rush into a sea of fire.
Their firepower directly split the cultists into several segments, preventing them from launching a continuous attack.
There are also some smart guys who try to climb over the parapets on both sides, but often at this time, the soldiers in the second and third rows will shoot them down one by one with single bursts to ensure that the flanks of the formation are not attacked by the enemy.
Soon, under the massacre, the enemy also changed their tactics.
First there were a few laser beams, then bursts of gunfire, and then the deafening roar of logging guns.
Gradually, the gunfire around them became louder and louder, but these were very low-level weapons, including logging guns made by low-level gunsmiths, as well as automatic guns and laser guns snatched from the armory.
And when the diehard part of the cultists joined in, the position instantly erupted with fire from a large number of weapons.
The concrete parapet around the Second Company was immediately shattered by intensive firepower.
"Cavalry formation."
Arash ordered decisively.
"onslaught!"
After roaring in unison, the soldiers threw their spears at the oncoming cultists. The spearheads went straight through the heads of the cultists and nailed the groups of cultists to the ground. Then they removed them uniformly and hung them on their waists with magnetic force. bolter in between.
"May the Emperor grant us speed and precision! One enemy at a time, fire!"
The soldiers mounted their bolt guns on their shields, and relied on their helmets and the aiming systems on their bolt guns to accurately shoot at the enemies who were rushing into the position.
The ruthless bullets shattered one cultist after another, shooting down a large number of gunmen, and the fierce firepower even suppressed those enemies who were hiding in the trenches and shooting coldly.
Although the battle went smoothly, the enemy's change of tactics made Arash realize that the real enemy was approaching.
Without guidance, these cultists are nothing more than a bunch of lazy, bloodthirsty lunatics wandering among countless victims, but if there are Chaos Space Marines around them, then these cultists will show a certain degree of organization and Discipline.
As time goes by, the bolt gun ammunition is gradually exhausted.
It had been more than three hours, and when Arash was considering whether to retreat, the noise of gunfire suddenly disappeared, and all the cultists began to turn around and flee, echoing among the positions filled with madness and death that could not be dissipated for a long time. echo
"Ceasefire."
Arash immediately ordered.
"what happened?"
The lieutenant lowered his gun, the sudden loss of enemy fire unsettling and the death groans of the cultists ignored.
"What does it mean?"
"It means something is coming."
Suddenly, Arash's eyes twitched, and something he saw fell from the sky.
The next second, he could feel himself leaving the ground even ten kilometers away.
The explosion spread silently, and the beam of light rose straight up into the dirty, filthy sky. It shone like water, and Arash could see through it thousands of small particles dancing in the expanding smoke column.
He blinked, and then he realized that these particles were people: tens of thousands of cultist armies, and countless demons.
The light twisted and overlapped, and dark particles expanded and exploded like soap bubbles. Silence rolled out, as if all sound had been swallowed up by the destruction he had witnessed.
When the broken reality touches the sky, these few seconds are eternity.
Then it collapsed and everything ceased to exist.
"It turned out to be orbital bombing——"
At this time, Arash's communicator suddenly sounded, followed by Randall's voice.
"Second Company, you rush to the third line of defense immediately. You must hold on for five hours this time."
"Third line? What about the second line of defense?"
"give up."
"Why?"
"The 22nd Qadian Regiment was defeated."
Arash was stunned for a moment. This was the main force of the Astra Militarum, and it was actually defeated.
Obviously the war situation is not optimistic.
Then Randall's words raised his worries to a higher level.
"The Dark Angels' attack was also not going well. They encountered some trouble."
