Around Soshyan, the fighting was raging.
A heretic slashed Mark, nearly detaching the wrist of the company commander. Mark responded with his war hammer, and the opponent's body spattered a blood stain on the floor like a star map.
Talos smashed a heretic to the ground and crushed the opponent's helmet with his chainsaw.
Robin killed the enemies quickly and effectively, knocking down many of them before they could get close. Farzad even crushed the neck of a heretic with his hands. The guy fell heavily to the ground and struggled to exhale the last breath. tone.
"Chapter Master, that door."
Ustad kicked the body of a heretic off the blade, and then walked next to Soshyan.
Soshiyang raised his head silently. The thick door blocking the front was huge, as wide as the corridor, and made of a whole piece of reinforced alloy. It could be seen with the naked eye that it was thicker than the armor of a tank. .
There is no doubt that the heart of the Black Legion, Abaddon's command post, is behind this.
"Blow it up."
The melta bombs were deployed quickly, and the heavy door was quickly divided into several pieces in the dazzling flames and collapsed, making a deafening noise.
Then, two roars mingled with the noise.
Soshyan looked towards the source of the roar and saw a huge creature approaching from the smoke.
No, that is not a living thing, that is a creation, a creation made of flesh, blood, skeleton and metal that looks like an apex predator.
This thing was almost as big as the Daemon Engine that had appeared on the battlefield earlier, crawling around on four clawed feet, with a black armored shell and sharp crystals scattered across its body and forelimbs, and exhaust pipes emerging from it. Its shoulders stretched out, and its face was a distorted silver skull with fangs. It didn't look like an animal or a human. Two other faceted crystals were stuffed in its eye sockets.
It twisted and roared again, but did not open its mouth, dripping oil and liquid.
"It's the Demon Engine again."
Talos said something beside Soshyan, and then the thing lowered its head and rushed towards them.
"Back off!"
Soshyan shouted, without anti-armor firepower, this thing would be difficult to deal with with individual weapons alone.
"But don't stop attacking!"
The soldiers quickly distanced themselves from it and then opened fire on it, the bombs exploding on the solid shell and spraying debris and oil on the ground.
That thing had no intention of stopping.
It fell straight into the middle of the queue of the slowest Terminators, exuding the putrid smell of death and splattering oil, then swung out a claw, tore open the abdomen of one Terminator, and knocked another into the barricade. The Terminators' melta and assault cannons tore off chunks of demonic metal and crystal from its body.
Soshyan also aimed at its eyes and the flesh between the armor and shot, and heard Talos shouting in Nasturm.
"Go back to hell!"
The Prophet slashed deeply into its forelimbs and face with his chainsaw, the blade's teeth ricocheting into bone and metal, sending shards and oil flying.
The creature staggered back, its limbs unfocused, and it looked like it was going to topple over.
But the thing suddenly roared again and slapped Talos flying with its huge claws.
At this time, Suoshiyang had already rushed to the front of the demon engine with the Holy Flame Sword.
It swung a huge claw and tried to cut him open. Soshyan ducked to avoid the attack, but the claws still grazed his backpack and tore off a piece of sparkling metal.
Then he drove the sword deep into the creature's skull, up to the hilt.
The monster twitched and roared, throwing Soshyan backwards so that he fell to the floor.
"Well--"
When the demon engine struggled and fell to the ground, spraying oil and sparks around, Soshyan stood up. His armor was now in a mess, and his left shoulder was almost torn open by the thing's claws.
At this time, the heretics of the Black Legion appeared again and opened fire. Soshyan then pulled Talos on the ground into the bunker behind the roadblock.
"Soshyan, our troops and ammunition are not enough to support our attack here,"
Talos's voice was disturbed by the fierce sound of gunfire, and was buried by the shouts and shouts of killing.
He was hiding behind the roadblock. The wound on his waist seemed to be serious and was bleeding. He himself had been injected with too many painkillers and sedatives, so that all the colors he saw in his eyes flickered and his skin seemed to be on fire. As hot as fire.
"This can't go on like this."
He explained his opinions to Soshyan in a hoarse voice.
Soshyan took a look behind the bunker. Talos was right. Although their previous attack was indeed successful, they also suffered a certain amount of casualties. More than thirty brothers had to withdraw from the battle, and most of the combat robots also suffered. Withdrew from combat for various reasons, and their ammunition consumption was huge.
And on the enemy side——
At least what he could see was that there were nearly three hundred heretics blocking the door behind the blast.
There are some wizards among them, which is quite a problem.
Although they could hit the enemy's heart once they passed through that door, there would only be more enemy defenses between him and the door to the command core.
Subsequently, Soshyan summoned Technical Sergeant Rogris.
"Get me Chapter Master Randall."
Soon, communication was established, but it was fraught with interruptions.
"Chapter Master Randall? I am Soshyan."
"Copy that, I'm Randall."
Although the communicator was filled with white noise, Soshyan could still hear the gunfire of the secret code.
"How's the situation over there?"
"The enemy resisted resolutely! The sacrifices of the soldiers were great! Vehicles and heavy armor cannot be used underground, and our progress is very slow!"
"Where have you advanced?"
"Probably the area D12-D13."
Soshyan opened the tactical map and glanced at it, and found that this distance was indeed not ideal. It had been seven hours since the battle was launched, and the White Temple had only advanced a distance of nine kilometers.
He then contacted the Ranger Warriors, Ascetics and Dark Angels, and found that everyone's progress was very unsatisfactory.
Among them, the Ranger Warriors had the smallest number and the weakest strength. Although they had the assistance of the two Cadian regiments, they only advanced five kilometers, and the Dark Angels only advanced thirteen kilometers.
As they had previewed, once the fighting went underground, the Empire's greatest air and fire superiority would be erased, and the Black Legion's superiority in Space Marine numbers and quality would be magnified.
Although the previous series of battles on the ground had seriously weakened the Black Legion's combat effectiveness, it was only when the opponent retreated underground that Soshyan realized that the weakening was not enough.
The underground environment is much more complex than the ground. When they attack, the deeper they go, the more they must deploy sufficient power in the passages on both sides and rear to prevent the enemy from using secret passages to carry out surprise attacks and backstabbing. Although the Astral Knights There are also a small number of 400 people, but now there are only less than 200 people who can actually participate in frontal breakthrough operations.
It is no longer possible to attack with all the troops like the previous attack on the Plague Temple, unless Soshyan is willing to risk being attacked by the enemy.
