"They can't retreat, because anyone with a little bit of insight can see that if we don't do everything we can to stop this thing, there's a chance that the Balaton World will be transformed from a Forge World to a Khorne Demon World. God's Chosen, do you have any ideas?"
Liang Feifan shook his head and rejected Abathur's proposal. Just as he turned around and continued to let his bean sprout deliver the food with a sad face, the thoughtful expression of the Chosen One was reflected in his pupils.
"I'm wondering, are we constrained by our habitual thinking? We can't win in a head-on fight, but we don't have to fight head-on. In the GW story, there are also several Titans that were killed by other means."
"You mean? Boarding?"
After hearing the words of the Chosen One, the Hammer guys came to their senses one by one - they were indeed too obsessed with using head-on combat to defeat this Khorne Demon-engined Predator Titan, so much so that they had forgotten the true soul-based warfare methods of the 40K universe!
"Yes, my advent chess piece can use some radical methods to jump over if given the opportunity. For example, I can use the fast mobile units or vehicles in Liang Feifan's bean sprout chess piece to get close to them."
"...My pawns are going to suffer heavy losses again, aren't they?"
After some calculation, Liang Feifan was surprised to find that, apart from Pai Gu and Tai Lun, among the chess pieces that came this time, only some units among his own Bean Sprout chess pieces could mannedly board the Titan.
"Relax, Liang Feifan, think about it, for the Empire, the battle between the Aliens and Chaos, with heavy losses on both sides, is so pleasant and beautiful - we have pulled out so many bean sprouts this time, and it is also clearly stated that this world has a webway connected to an Ark World. If most of them are not killed after the battle, I think the Empire may not be able to sleep well at ."
Amidst the various jokes and mumblings of the Hammer guys, they gradually arranged the key points and plans for this wave of battles, and also realized that this plan was really their only way to have a great chance of killing this demon engine. After all, although this demon engine-based plunderer titan looks very subspace, its core must be only a small piece. As long as this core area is sent away, then the entire demon engine-based titan will definitely collapse in the physical world due to the loss of subspace support.
Boarding + beheading, this fits the beauty of the 40K world view so well!
That is, what made them a little helpless was that after repeatedly deducing various military formations and considering the possible reactions of those serious people on the Empire side to this matter, the Hammers realized that they must bring along the Wolf Group elder brother, the Galilean Wolf, for this boarding operation - after all, the other four start-up groups seemed to have invested manpower and material resources to carry out this operation that was likely to be a one-way trip even if it succeeded, so they had no right and no reason not to arrange a Wolf Group member in the team - assuming they really did this, then...
If this goes wrong, this guy will never cooperate with these four groups until he dies! Who knows, something worse may happen!
"God's Chosen, keep an eye on him and don't let him rush too fast. Everyone else, set the priorities of the chess pieces."
"No problem. Even if I have to die in my descending form, I will bring Brother Wolf back alive."
God's chosen one is solemnly pledged.
43. The Galactic Wolf Talking to 'Ada'
The Aida aliens are an alien race that the Empire is relatively easy to encounter in this galaxy. At the same time, they are also a more troublesome opponent for the Empire.
In the eyes of the Galilean Wolf, although this alien race has good warriors, powerful weapons, and the characteristic of being "more communicative" than most aliens, their cowardice and betrayal are engraved in their bones. From the battle records of the Empire that he knows, it is not uncommon for the Aida aliens to cooperate with the human Empire for a short period of time for some reason, but they will abandon the troubled Imperial troops and run away in the middle of the cooperation, or attack the exhausted Imperial troops when the cooperation is about to end.
The Imperial forces are basically just a regular 'performance' of the Aida aliens in cooperation.
Therefore, before today, although the Galilean Wolf had told his wolf cubs and the rune priests that they could treat these Aida aliens as "non-existent" due to the endorsement of the other three original groups and a Raven Guard veteran, he had always been vigilant against these non-human guys in his heart - and as the cooperation between the two sides deepened in some senses, his vigilance also increased - who knew whether these Aida aliens had greater demands for so much manpower and material resources? Who knew whether they would stab the Empire at a critical moment?
But today, feeling that he had seen the end of his own fate, the Galilean Wolf felt that he could readily admit that even if it was a nonsense thing like the Ada Alien, some of them still had some courage and bloodiness.
Since the Raven Guard veteran who was chosen by God required a short period of recuperation before boarding the Demon Engine Predator Titan, the current Galilean Wolf did not fight on the front line with his battle brothers, but temporarily retreated to a place behind the front line.
In this area, Gary saw the oil man who was doing the final inspection of the equipment of some other Astartes who were going to participate in the boarding operation. He saw the vehicle fleet that had been lined up and was about to serve as the key bait to attract the Demon Engine Predator Titan. He also saw the Aida Eldar vehicles parked in the open space, and the Aida Prophet who was standing silently next to these vehicles, who was called Liang by the ancient sergeant.
With the idea of figuring out why these Adas are so brave, Gary walked up to the Ada prophet chess piece, tilted his head slightly, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and spoke.
"Alien... Ida, I thought that after you found out that our troops didn't have a good way to deal with that thing, you would choose to retreat from the webway and not return to the Morton Hess system. According to the records of the Empire, this is in line with your style."
"It is easy for flowers to fall, but difficult for them to bloom again."
Seeing that Gary the Wolf actually came to talk to his Ada Prophet chess piece, Liang Feifan, who was arranging his Emperor Fist chess piece, decisively began to control the Ada chess piece to respond - fortunately, he had prepared some riddles recently, so Gary did not think there was anything wrong with this Ada Prophet.
"If you can change the way you speak and use more common words to describe what you want to tell me, I think I can buy you a glass of wolf wine, Ada."
Hearing the riddle that Liang Feifan blurted out, Gary's brow twitched. He stretched out his right hand, hesitated for a moment, and did not take the picture.
"We retreat, then what? Our great enemy will take control of this world. They can follow the scent of the Webway and 'smell' the location of my Ark airship in the vast universe. As long as we choose to retreat this time, we will not have the opportunity to regroup. The fate of my Ark will only be destruction."
After a few seconds of awkward silence, Liang Feifan controlled his chess piece and gave the prepared reasons to Galihanlang in plain words.
"Ha... this reason is really simple and direct. Well, Ada, you told me the answer in plain words. I should have kept my promise and treated you to a glass of Fenris wolf wine. Unfortunately, I left them all in Sosekhi and didn't bring them to the front line."
"Heh... not now? Then keep it in your debt. When this battle is over, you can buy me a drink."
Through the vision of Ada's prophet chess piece, Liang Feifan stared at the face of the Gray Hunter, which was full of expressions like "Sorry, I just got it for free, what can you do to me, an alien?" for a long time, and then his eyes turned and he suddenly thought of an operation that was very Ada's.
"I'm sorry, Ada, I can't do that."
Having understood the various tactical details of this boarding battle, Gary felt that his fate had already pointed to a magnificent death, so he shook his head and told the Eldar prophet chess piece that he could not return to treat him again. Then, Gary saw, or rather, felt, the face of the Eldar prophet hidden behind the mask, maybe he was smiling?
"No, you can do it."
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"Okay, if we arrange it this way, the first round of firepower will forcibly overload the void shield of that damn thing, and the second round of firepower will at least make a hole in it. It will basically be no problem - Liang Feifan, don't let your Douya have problems with command efficiency! If you have problems, the whole operation will be ruined, and we can only tie up those guys from the Empire and force a retreat from Balaton!"
On the Queen of Glory, the Hammers used a simulated holographic map to repeatedly simulate the boarding operation that was about to take place. After repeatedly confirming that this tactic would be able to stuff at least 80% of the chess pieces into the belly of the demon engine as long as all the chess pieces operated normally, they immediately ordered Liang Feifan, who was most likely to be disconnected - to be precise, Liang Feifan's Eldar chess piece - to come. Naturally, Liang Feifan gave a manly answer.
"No problem. I have already given the order to my Ada pieces. They will just charge forward towards the hole in the demon engine."
"Very good, very good. What about the Ada ship that the wolf group brother wants to step on? How can you ensure that he will not be the one to be eliminated?
Twenty percent less? "
"I'll arrange for the Wolf Group brother to board the Bose airship - I'll say that there's no room for him to hang outside on other ships - I guess the Wolf Group brother won't find it strange."
"Not bad - besides, what you just said to the wolf group brother, are you giving him a vaccination?"
"Well, just in case. After all, who knows, our chess pieces might be wiped out. In this case, if only Brother Wolf survives, he will collapse. Having Ada to vent his anger at least gives him a way to vent."
"Indeed - then, we'll start work in half an hour?"
"I have no opinion."
"Okay - in half an hour, let's give that demon engine a little boarding shock!"
44. Battle against Balaton - The Return of the Ida Prophet
Smooth, soft, and seemingly fragile, yet every detail reveals the precision and lethality of a weapon of war.
This was the first feeling that the Galilean Wolf had when he followed the Chosen Ones and boarded the Wave Serpent airship of the Eldar. He had about the internal structure of this alien airship, which he had never thought he could legitimately be a passenger on. And after he sat down, more Eldar warriors boarded the ship, which surprised him even more.
"Aida, you should know that this ship is the ship of death."
Watching these Aida warriors carrying various weapons sitting down one by one, Gali Wolf, who realized that these Aida were not just here to take a look, couldn't help but speak - and, without him realizing it, when he said this, there was a slight hint of Aida's style.
"Following the orders of Prophet Liang, we will continue to provide you with firepower cover until you successfully enter the killing weapon of your race that has been contaminated by the traces of the original destroyer's power."
Hearing Gary's question, Liang Feifan, who had been monitoring Gary's words and actions using the Ada Eldar pawns active near Gary, immediately contacted the captain of the Ada combat team he had sent on the Bo Snake airship, and answered Gary Hanlang in plain language with the specially adjusted "Ada tone" with ups and downs and gritted teeth.
"Oh? It seems that your prophet really takes this matter very seriously, but why are you willing to fight for it?"
Gary raised his eyebrows after receiving the unexpected answer, a hint of doubt emerging in his tone.
"Our prophet has long seen through the path of fate. This is our destiny."
Liang Feifan, who was not panicking at all, asked the captain of the combat team to sit down, and changed his tone to one of respect. Just as Gary was about to say something else, he had not yet uttered the new questions in his mind, because these Ada mentioned fate, and he thought of the conversation between him and Liang Xianzhi before, when the Ada prophet seemed to smile and told him, "You can buy me a drink after the war."
"Can your prophet really see through fate?"
The only response he got was silence, just like when the Wave Serpent airship took off, a feeling completely different from that of an Imperial aircraft taking off.
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"Om——"
“Sizzle, sizzle—”
"Crack-"
These are the most common sounds in the earphones of the frontline troops of the Empire. Under the crazy disturbance of the subspace power stirred by the demon engine, the physical properties of the real universe in the area of the battlefield have changed slightly, and directly caused this war zone to fall into a strong radio interference mode - but with the desperate debugging and prayers of the oil man chess pieces, plus the secret interference of the ribs chess pieces hanging in the sky, the Empire has not yet fallen to the point of using messengers to command like the black oil man before. The Imperial Star Army Officers, including the Lord of Maldius, can still use the holographic battle situation to command and let the frontline troops maintain the battle line as much as possible.
However...all the Astra Militarum officers, including Lord Maldiush, realized that time was not on the side of the Empire.
"The strength of the void shield of this desecrated divine machine is extremely abnormal. So far, it has not reached the critical value of overload - damn, this strength is far beyond the strength that a predator-level Titan should have..."
Looking at the data that kept jumping on the hologram, which was increasingly unfavorable to the Empire, the brows of the Lord of Maldiush were already furrowed. According to the combat strategy discussed by the Empire, in addition to the super-heavy equipment such as the Shadow Sword of the 51st Regiment that would be deployed on the front line of the battlefield, the core task of the other Astra Militarum in this battle to eliminate the last Titan was to use all the heavy artillery at hand to bombard the already demonized Predator Titan at all costs, and to cooperate with the Shadow Sword, the curved blade super-heavy tanks of the Imperial Fists Astartes who rushed to the battlefield through the webway, and other war machines representing the Emperor's wrath, and the large weapons of the Aida aliens, to overload the void shield of this Titan that had fallen into chaos, forcing it to stop moving and squat in place to charge with part of its firepower, creating a suitable opportunity for boarding.
however!
So far in the exchange of fire, the Empire has lost a Shadow Sword and several other vehicles, and the front artillery positions have also suffered casualties. The Aida Alien side has also lost their Nether Titan, but the void shield of this demon engine is still strong! - Admittedly, even if the void shield of this demon engine Titan is not overloaded, the boarding operation can still be carried out, but this means that most of the people attached to the Aida spirit
The carefully selected Astartes monks who went to board the Titans by means of their own clan vehicles had to endure more than half of the additional losses before they could get on top of the Predator-class Titans - there was no doubt that such losses would have an immeasurable negative impact on the success rate of the boarding operation.
"We will dispatch all the infantry units currently on standby to the front line. The light and heavy firepower they carry can pose additional threats to the enemy's void shield. At the same time, they can attract the attention of the blasphemous object to a certain extent, buying additional attack time for the 51st Regiment's Shadow Sword Formation and the Astartes Brothers' heavy vehicles."
The Krieg officer, who was temporarily promoted by the Lich Army to become the highest commander of Krieg in this operation because he was indeed incapable of commanding a battle of this level, spoke in a calm tone something that terrified the Lich King who was acting as a sculpture next to him.
"...Cadia's infantry team will also follow, which will buy us at least an extra ten minutes and a chance to overload its void shield."
Before the Lich King could rack his brains to come up with some Krieg-sounding words to persuade the Krieg officer not to do this, Castle Lord Maldiush nodded in agreement with the Krieg officer's suggestion and made additional suggestions that almost made the Lich's brain short-circuit.
"Okay, let's..."
"Will you listen to us?"
However, before the two imperial officers could reach a new battle plan, a psychic wave spread throughout the entire combat conference room. Liang Feifan's Skywalker prophet model, which most often appeared in front of these imperial people, entered the conference room with a soul prophet and another prophet, and at the same time spoke up to seize the right to speak for the imperial side.
"Ada...go ahead."
Having witnessed the sacrifices made by this group of Eldar in order to help the Empire recapture the Forge World of Balaton, neither the Lord of Maldius, other officers of Cadia, nor officers of Krieg were angry. After seeing the situation suppressed, the Lich King who had asked Liang Feifan to save the situation breathed a sigh of relief.
"The power of the original destroyer has infected your creations. Some of its operations no longer conform to your common sense. Let your soldiers continue to stand by. Leave what you need to do to us."
After saying this, which Fort Maldiush and his men could understand but not comprehend at all, Liang Feifan immediately controlled his prophet models to leave. However, before leaving, Liang Feifan suddenly realized that if he operated according to his own ideas, these Eldar prophet chess pieces would definitely enter a very long redeployment CD. Liang Feifan, who didn't know whether it was out of bad taste or something else, made the Skywalker Prophet stand still, turned around, and told Fort Maldiush another sentence.
"Please tell that...Space Wolf warrior that my fate has come to an end. He asked me to give the wine to other living people of my tribe. They will take it back to my tribe's Ark, where I can drink it."
"???"
However, facing the confusion of the people from the Empire, Liang Feifan's chess pieces did not speak again, and collectively left as they had just entered.
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"It's over, it's over. Liang Feifan, you gave away the prophet chess piece. The wolf group brother's outlook on life is going to be ruined. It is very likely that he will kneel down and cry when he comes back."
"I say, Liang Feifan, your move is quite amazing. You told that Wolf Group brother that you would come back alive to buy me a drink, and now you are ready to blow up your own prophet chess piece?"
"We have to bomb them. Those Imperial IGs will really use themselves to fill the line. Not to mention that they will sacrifice a lot, you all have an idea of what will happen if the war machines are killed by the power of Khorne."
"...Indeed, but why do I feel that after defeating the Wolf Group, the old man is no longer just at the level of doubting his life and crying on his knees, I'm afraid it's not..."
"Um... let's talk about the rest later. I'll first control these three Eldar Prophet chess pieces to blast the void shield at close range - hey, hey, hey, except for the units I have, you all have to cooperate well. The moment I start to blast, I will order my vehicle group to charge, don't let me down!"
"No problem, no problem - go ahead and don't worry. As for the matter with the Wolf Group brother, we can just let Gu handle it. Wait, where is Gu? He's not going to sneak in and prepare to join the gang, is he? "
"No, he was checking his Nether Titan - and seemed to be secretly trading with Big E. I have reason to suspect that he used the Titan to chop up Gou Tai and picked up something that dropped."
"Not bad - I'll ask Big E about Gu when I get back - since Gu didn't join the gang, maybe the task of comforting the Wolf Group brothers will fall on him - Liang Feifan! I'm ready!"
"OK! My prophet chess piece will arrive at the battlefield in three minutes - Lich King! Inform the castle lord and your subordinate Krieg, three minutes later! I want to see the maximum artillery fire of the Astra Militarum! Sister Political Commissar! Can your shadow sword be fierce?"
"No problem, I told you I'm ready."
"give it to me."
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anger.
anger.
Infinite anger, infinite rage.
The machine soul that has been contaminated and controlled by the devil roars under the great power of the warp, pouring endless destruction on the battlefield. The devil fire accompanies it, and death goes with it.
However, what made it feel strange was that, although it had destroyed many things and caused many kills, the hunger in its heart was only satisfied a little bit - as if most of the things it killed were not flesh and blood, but some soulless products.
Just as this killing machine, which was craving for blood and bones, continued to violently fire ammunition and swing its battle axe, three forces that made it feel a little uncomfortable appeared beside it without any warning. Following its own feelings, the demon-engined plunderer Titan looked up at the sky and found three beings, probably the Eldar, quietly floating there.
“——————?”
Instinctively realizing that the three creatures floating in the air might be the Eldar, they were definitely not here to die, but to do something to him. The Demonic Machine Soul of the Reaver Titan immediately controlled the anti-aircraft equipment on his body and blasted a series of ammunition with the emblem of the Lord of Skulls painted on them, and even with evil fire rolling in their direction - there was no doubt that as long as they were hit by these ammunition, the victims would be doomed to eternal damnation in Khorne's blood and fire territory.
only...
Before the ammunition reached their destination, the three Aida Prophet chess pieces, which had completed their maximum psychic burst under Liang Feifan's command, collectively raised their weapons, causing a golden psychic storm to suddenly take shape around the polluted Predator Titan. The Emperor's power surged, causing the demon engine to briefly stop moving for just second - and what followed was!
"*……*＆(＆!" (Ada: For Big E!)
With this spellcasting war cry that could make anyone who could understand the Eldar language drop their jaws, the golden psychic storm hovering around the polluted plunderer titan quickly gathered inwards, instantly staining the plunderer titan's invisible void shield with a touch of gold. At the same time, the bodies of the three Eldar prophet chess pieces that had driven this wave of psychic hurricanes also dissipated in the sky like bubbles. Then, above the Queen of Glory, in the storage tray next to Liang Feifan's hand, the three Eldar prophet chess pieces that had lost their color fell into it with a clang, entering a long waiting time for redeployment.
"Keep your balance steady, we are about to quickly lower our altitude and enter the range of its close-range anti-aircraft weapons!"
At the moment when the void shield of the demon-engined plunderer Titan was weakened by the Emperor's psychic impact guided by the three Eldar prophet chess pieces with their own essence, Liang Feifan's Eldar chess piece on the Wave Serpent airship also warned the Galli Wolf at the same time. Realizing that the battle he was waiting for was about to begin, the Space Wolf man, who had no idea that something had happened, took a deep breath, reached out and grabbed the guardrail next to the seat, grinned, and smiled slightly.
"Go ahead and speed up your descent, Ada. I'm ready."
45. Battle against Balaton - Boarding raiders
(Sound of the Bosher airship diving at high speed)
(Sound of weapons equipped on it firing)
(Sound of the Titan's outer armor being torn apart by the Eldar armed forces)
