Although he was unable to contact the Dark Angel in time, Soshiyang immediately dispatched reinforcements to support and blocked the Black Legion's offensive in time.
What happened next began to tilt the war in favor of the Empire.
First of all, the Gray Knights lived up to their mission and closed the underground subspace rift in Attica. In particular, the Gray Knights Grand Master Diego killed twelve Black Legion champions by one man in a fierce battle, catching Abaddon off guard.
Secondly, the elite troops led by Abaddon were attacked by an unknown force on their way to attack the Dark Angels. However, Soshyan did not know the specific details. All this came from high-altitude reconnaissance reports. At that time, an aircraft was on the battlefield. The Storm Crow patrolling the sky just happened to capture some pictures.
It was a group of warriors who also wore black armor and had flame patterns on their bodies. They numbered about two hundred people. The leader was a warrior wearing a Terminator.
It was the man who engaged in a roughly three-minute confrontation with Abaddon the Despoiler.
The entire scene lasted only two minutes, but many details in it made Soshyan very uneasy.
The first is the man wearing the Terminator. Its armor is strikingly similar to Abaddon's. The two seem to be mirror images. They both have an amber one-eye on their chests and a pair of terrifying claws on their left hands. But Abaddon was holding the prestigious magic sword, and that man was holding a huge war hammer.
And its helmet is shaped into a very unique three-headed vicious dog.
When Talos saw this picture, he said directly.
"Isn't this Horus?"
But then the prophet shook his head.
"That's not right. Who is he?"
How can Soshyan answer this question? It is estimated that only Sevita can answer it.
In the picture, this man and Abaddon were tens of meters apart. The big predator seemed to be saying something and kept pointing his sword at each other.
Then the screen disappeared.
The reason was that the Storm Crow gunship had an engine failure for some unknown reason and had to find a place to make an emergency landing, so it was unable to continue tracking.
But what Soshyan knew was that Abaddon retreated, abandoning his plans to besiege the Dark Angels.
All the troops of the Black Legion retreated underground.
This is a good thing for Soshyan. Although there will be many difficulties in attacking underground, it also means that the enemy loses room to move around.
As long as they work hard, they have a chance to completely crush the Black Legion and completely eliminate Abaddon!
But just as Soshyan was quickly planning the next offensive, bad news came——
The main fleet of the Black Legion is here!
The Spirit of Vengeance is also here!
Now all the empire's warships, including the fleets of the Astartes Chapter, are heading to the edge of the galaxy to fight the opponent. There are only the Dark Angels monolithic fortress and a few frigates in orbit, which are not convenient to move.
This is undoubtedly a signal.
Abaddon is probably going to run away!
Realizing that they were racing against time, Soshyan did not make too many detailed plans and only roughly deployed all aspects of the offensive force.
And he has only one order for all the Imperial forces.
attack! attack! Attack at all costs!
Destroying the Black Legion and capturing Abaddon alive became everyone's slogan.
As always, Soshiyan personally led the chapter into the underground attack, and the area they were responsible for was the passage where the Plague Marines had originally controlled. These Nurgle followers even built a huge temple underground.
The Plague Temple is a huge room made of black iron and rock. A large number of rotting corpses hang from the dome, casting long and dark shadows on the bodies of the Astral Knights as they rush towards the corridor at the core of the underground passage.
The heavy boots made a loud echo as they ran past the inoperable elevators and cranes and approached the enemy. Beside Soshyan, Talos and Mark, who had been injured and treated urgently, were also running. They were like two extra shadows, closely connected. The ground followed Soshyan.
Because the underground environment is relatively narrow and harsh, Soshyan did not let the nuns participate in the attack, but asked Velez to lead her sisters to continue cleaning up the remaining enemies on the ground.
Likewise, this also allows him to focus more on his battles.
The rest of the Chapter were hidden by smoke and darkness, but Soshiyan could still hear them running and fighting, the light of their bolters illuminating the dark surroundings.
Every breath he took smelled like stagnant water and blood.
The place was so corrupt that a constant hum echoed from the mouths of the squirming corpses.
Here, zombies and cultists are everywhere, pushing and shoving like a tide.
Most of them were originally residents of Attica, and some of the leaders wore cloaks made of shredded human skin, with bone spurs embedded in their skin.
But not everyone is like this.
In close combat, Soshyan also saw workers and tech-priests, but all loyalty was wrenched from their bodies and replaced by the corrupted fate carved into their skin.
To survive, they make changes.
It's sad but inexcusable.
The sigh echoed in Soshyan's ears when he inserted his sword into the chest of a cultist. The traitor was wearing a red uniform, and all the patterns of gears and gauges that should have been painted on it were scratched out and new ones were sewn on. , hateful pattern.
"Praise the Father!"
The man roared, blood gushing from his blue cracked lips.
Soshyan drew his sword and let the body fall to the ground.
"go ahead!"
He shouted into the communicator:
"In the name of the Emperor!"
On the battle line, every company roared and broke through the Heretic's defense line.
The shout echoed in the rotten temple, full of lumps and nodules, and reached overhead.
Approximately four hundred Astartes and battle droids were scattered throughout the vast underground temple. Each one is fighting.
"It embraces us! It soothes us!"
In front of Soshyan, a dozen plague warriors poured in from the door of the corridor. They are the guards here. Although the lord has died in battle, they still firmly defend this place.
The heretic quickly set up a simple bunker and directed the mortals to set up the weapon sets.
The next moment, the bullet grazed the floor and Soshyan's head, the sound was like a winter storm.
"Clear a path, Mark."
Nothing is more suitable for attacking in small terrain than the Terminator. First Company Commander Mark quickly mobilized several veterans. They armed with melta guns and began to attack the corridor.
Exploding bullets dyed the air around him gold as Maximilian cleared a path to the gate and the heretics guarding it, and the floor cracked beneath his feet as the heavy Terminator walked across.
He let out a cry of joy as he pulled the trigger on his storm bolter, reducing the nearest heretic to bloody smithereens.
Some of the mortals began to scream and then began to run away, but running was of no use in front of these superhuman beings.
The Terminators ignited their melta weapons.
