Facing the praises and cheers that came to him, Huron just walked past with a confident smile, and did not even let the guards set up a cordon. He seemed not to be afraid of any assassins at all.
Another goal of him personally passing through the fortress was to stabilize the morale of the army. After all, the long-term attack was not enough, and the morale of the Angstrom battle group was already quite low, so he was very much needed to personally come out to cheer them up.
Even if it is just the lowest level cannon fodder, it must have some initiative to be more useful.
Although this is a fortress, there is also basic commerce. Huron even saw a human trading market. Most of them were slaves, and some were plundered from other parts of the empire. Some were used for work, some were used for sacrifice, and some Slaves used to vent the desires of cult leaders or some extremely depraved Space Marines, and some will suffer even more tragic fates.
After passing the outer area of the fortress, we entered a simple manufacturing area of the fortress, where a movable steel factory spewed out billowing smoke and steam through dozens of copper chimneys, and layers of ash slowly fell on those along the fortress. On the unlucky guy who set up camp on the noisy route.
It was a black mobile metal fortress, its interior illuminated by the glow of a furnace, and it rattled and left huge indentations in the ground as it was dragged along.
A dozen twisted and grotesque heavy weapon servitors surrounded this mobile building, guarding it as it moved forward slowly.
This is the property of a certain technological heretic. It is not a member of the Red Pirates. It is just attracted by the war and comes here to sell the weapons it produces in exchange for the materials, slaves, and even souls it needs.
Of course Huron didn't know the name of this weapons dealer, nor where he came from, but he would never interfere with such a person, because it was very likely that he was a subordinate or even an apprentice of a certain Dark Mechanicus sage. Huron was the last person he wanted to offend.
Once provoked, there will be no benefit, but only a mess.
But the other party obviously noticed him. A Mechanicus man in black robes walked out of the mobile factory. His face was covered by a swirl-like metal mask, and then he bowed slightly to Huron to show respect.
Huron also nodded politely.
Neither party spoke, because Huron knew that if the other party wanted something from him or wanted to trade with him, he would come to him himself.
Huron then moved forward through the hot smoke that glowed slightly with fire and the smell of sulfur lava, and came to the gate of the core area of the fortress.
The majestic horn sounded, and the Red Pirate Space Marines in front of the gate scrambled to make way like slaves. The steel gate in the core area of the fortress was made of thousands of curved steel sheets. When it slowly opened, a large amount of hot water was released. Flames shot out from above and on both sides of the gate.
Huron's soldiers stood in groups on the high spiked walls flanking the city gate, looking fiercely and silently at those who tried to watch.
The Black-Hearted King walked into the shadow of the fortress tower. Its vast scale was enough to make the eyes of any normal-brained human being hurt. The city walls made of steel, rock and bones seemed to be alive and breathing like fire. The defenses on both sides The fortification is composed of towering steel pillars and stone pillars, engraved with wild sculptures and ancient oaths of allegiance, and huge turrets slowly rotate on the stone pillars.
Entering the gate, a more disciplined and serious world emerges, with braziers burning above sentries, barracks, religious chambers and armories, and large banners of silk banners, cloth and the skins of countless creatures rising in the hellish sky. Floating.
The Chaos Space Marines holding weapons remained silent at their respective posts, and occasionally patrolling squads of red pirate mortal soldiers walked past in neat steps.
There are eight ring-shaped fortifications at the core of the Banestar Fortress, each of which is equipped with a high-power void shield generator and is managed by Huron's most trusted men. After all, this is the Red Pirate's capital in Angostor. Mu's most important offensive fulcrum is related to the entire Angstrom's offensive affairs. No matter how careful you are, you can't be too careful.
After entering the core area of the fortress, they first passed through a large forging area, which was in charge of the forging master of the Red Corsairs and the Dark Mechanicus priests he hired. Evil portraits made of strange shining metal could be seen on the walls of the forging factory. , a string of dozens of large and small chimneys emitting various alchemical smokes, some of which are filled with ash and black smoke, while others emit sparkling, colorful mist—— Those are various subspace raw materials extracted from demonic creations.
Not only can various blasphemous weapons be manufactured here, but also demon engines can be manufactured in small quantities. However, it is temporary after all, and the overall output is not high. The main source of equipment and materials for the Angstrom battle group still has to rely on rear transportation and casting from distant places. goods ordered by the world.
In fact, since Angstrom fell into the hands of Soshyan, Huron has become increasingly aware of the shortage of ordnance. The battle between the two sides has been going on for more than a year. Although the Red Pirates used troops everywhere, they also had some effect. The empire's The expedition has not progressed, but the consumption of supplies and ordnance has caused most of his warehouses to bottom out.
Although buying from those heretical forging worlds can alleviate the problem, on the one hand, they also need time. On the other hand, the prices of those stupid mechanical heretics are constantly increasing. It is obvious that Huron has taken advantage of Huron's lack of self-made ability.
During the war, Huron also sent some plundering fleets to various parts of the empire to fight the autumn wind to supplement the needs of the war, but Soshyan deployed the containment strategy very early, the White Scars and a series of sub-groups, as well as the Dark Angels A series of sub-groups operating near the Maelstrom, including some sub-groups of the Imperial Fists, are all on guard against the Red Pirates' plundering fleet.
In order to deal with the Imperial Expeditionary Force, Huron could not send a fleet that was too powerful. Therefore, those small plundering fleets did not achieve very good results. They only plundered some agricultural worlds. The hive worlds were of no help to this war. The population It's not a very valuable cargo, not to mention it has to pay a lot of cost, and they can't touch the valuable world.
Obviously, under the tremendous pressure of the expedition, the Red Pirates began to gradually lose their hematopoietic ability.
Therefore, Huron wanted to occupy Angstrom so urgently, not only to understand Badab's urgency, but also to persevere in this long-term war. Otherwise, even the empire would still not make any more progress. Pirates can also suffocate under the tremendous pressure and eventually fall apart.
In fact, as far as Huron currently knows, more than a thousand Chaos Space Marines and warbands have separated from the Red Corsairs during the expedition. If the war situation does not improve, this number will only get bigger and bigger!
