As a traditional imperial officer, Janik Duer, who has been fighting for thirty years from a small noble non-commissioned officer to the present, believes that there is no enemy that cannot be killed by the roar of tens of millions of artillery fire.
Similarly, as a senior commander of the Astra Militarum, he has faced many enemies, including savage greenskins, rioting cultists, and occasionally the Tyranids, but every battle with these enemies will be... Ending under a devastating barrage, each roar of artillery fire will turn any fallen world into a world of fire and smoke that belongs only to the Empire.
However, this was his first battle with the treacherous Eldar. The enemy had extraordinary speed and perception, and was always aware of their every move. On the first day of landing, they suffered a terrible attack at the landing site. The ambush killed more than half a million people throughout the expedition within six hours.
But this cannot stop the power and will of the empire. This beautiful and picturesque world should not be occupied by ugly aliens, it should become part of the empire.
Janik Dull plans to build a manor in this world after the war and put some alien skulls or trophies on it. When he retires, he will settle here and share the story of his lifelong devotion to the Emperor with future generations.
It's perfect, as long as you get rid of these annoying flies first.
Fortunately, thanks to the supreme commander of this pioneering expedition, Lord Commander Claudecher Gent Rois, as a planetary governor, he had prepared sufficient manpower for the expedition, even a loss of half a million troops. It was just a small part of the expeditionary army. Their real strength actually reached 7 million, and they also had a large number of heavy weapons and equipment. Although Claude Chel Gent Roya did seem to be a rather arrogant and extravagant person, guy, but at least he has the intention to contribute to the empire, and he really found such a high-value alien world with little defense power. This is definitely a feat of "picking up", and maybe he can do more in the future. Give him a few compliments.
After gaining a foothold, the Empire also thought of ways to fight these cowardly aliens.
They are indeed very fast and elusive, but their offensive is not strong enough, which proves that their number is not large.
In this case, as long as the imperial army advances steadily in a group, the enemy will have no opportunity to take advantage of it. Occasionally piecemeal attacks will not pose a threat to the imperial army as a whole. Although they will be very smart to assassinate the imperial army commander, the officers will also After learning the lesson, he stopped showing up on the front line easily. He simply stayed in a strong and safe bunker at the rear like Janik, protected by bodyguards and commanded.
At the same time, in response to the enemy's high mobility and difficulty in aiming, the officers used the Astra Militarum's specialty - coverage shooting.
To put it simply, they use artillery shells and rockets to push all the way over, and the infantry follows up under the cover of armor. When they encounter a suspicious target, no matter what it is, they directly fire a salvo.
Under such simple and efficient tactics, the imperial army that landed on the enemy's core homeland made rapid progress in three directions, and soon advanced into the enemy's central area, although in the process they burned a quarter of the world's forests and sparsely populated areas. Tree grassland, but this is not a problem. After all, most officers believe that there are too many trees in this world, and they must be cleared sooner or later to make it easier to build cities and farms in the future.
In their concept, only barbarians like Catachan like the jungle. Civilized people only need the sky, ocean and land that can be cultivated or built. Imperial people should live among steel and rocks. Of course, they, the higher-ups People can still enjoy the natural scenery, and this world is the best trophy.
60% of this planet that is not registered by the empire is ocean, and the land is divided into three parts. I don’t know where Governor Claude Chell got the information and confirmed the location of the alien central area. Therefore, the direction of the attack of the imperial army is always obvious. It only attacks one of the continents and pushes towards the core area of the enemy without caring about anything else. Although the aliens from the other two continents have been supporting them, they are blocked by the imperial air force and Fleet power is blocked by sea and air.
Victory is already within reach.
"Order to the 112th and 114th Artillery Regiments!"
After Janik put down the telescope, he turned around and yelled at the correspondent beside him, and punched the hard stones that formed the temporary fortification with his fist.
"In the direction of the attack of the 9th regiment, keep a distance of 500 meters. Xu Jin barrage, add 6 to the high and low, and move 20 meters to the right. I will give them a non-stop rain of fire!"
The artillerymen of both regiments hurriedly obeyed his orders and prepared to load the Earthshaker and Basilisk self-propelled artillery.
Soon, the sound of hundreds of artillery shells echoed in the air. Janik could even smell the smell of gunpowder in the wind. He smiled with satisfaction. This is the meaning of war. The taste of gunpowder smoke on the tip of the tongue... there is nothing like it. It makes him feel better.
Thinking of this, he touched the thing hanging on his belt with his hand. It was a string of dry pointed ears and soul stones embedded on them. There were a total of twenty, cut from those ugly alien corpses. Would be a very interesting spoil of war.
He picked up the telescope again, adjusted the focus and stared at possible enemies.
Until now, he had hardly seen a few living Eldar, but he had seen some broken corpses. They crudely imitated human shapes, but the lowly features of the aliens could not be erased.
In the telescope, a green tide accompanied the huge gray iron-colored tanks gradually advancing, passing through the bombing zone full of broken trees and bubbling swamps, screaming as the shells landed in front of them, and then Pillars of smoke and dust rose into the sky, mixing up various charred tree trunks and soil and throwing them into the sky.
During this process, flashing bullets can be seen constantly being fired from distant places, shooting down panicked soldiers one by one.
"I can't believe the aliens could survive this kind of firepower."
Not far away, a staff officer looked at the bullets fired in the smoke and murmured in surprise.
"There is nothing that cannot be believed. Aliens will always have unexpected and cunning methods, but these unflattering things can never compete with real steel and fire."
Janik said categorically. He gave the staff officer a hard look, then pointed at him and yelled:
"Put your mind on what you should do, rather than what those wooden aliens did or didn't do. Order the 4th Regiment to follow. This time, they are not allowed to retreat, or they rush into the place where they were trapped." The forest wrapped in mysterious power will all die on the road! Tell them, these are my exact words! If anyone has any objections, come to the headquarters to see me immediately!"
"Yes, sir!"
(End of chapter)
