Chapter 42: Battle Plan
I don't have to wait for her to answer, I already know the answer from her face.
Are you pigs or are your leaders pigs? Even if it's all pigs, there must be at least three or five thousand pigs to start such a ship, right? Why can't you even defend a single bridge?! If there was a commissar here, without the enemy's hands, the commissar himself would shoot all the officers in the crew, and by the way, set a precedent for a commissar to shoot a nun.
I scolded her in my heart, but on the surface, I waved my hand and changed the question, "You better introduce the battle situation from the beginning." Say as you go. ”
Naturally, Aishvarya didn't know the way, but fortunately, Sylvia was very familiar with the luna-class cruisers, even if the internal structure of different warships was not exactly the same, but there was always no mistake in the general direction. Occasionally encountering a dead end, she can pinpoint the weak points of the wall and then use the power sword to cut a path.
Near the outer walls of the battleship were relatively minor compartments, such as the crew's quarters and the storage of survival supplies. Even these less important positions were guarded by a small force of Chaos, which shows how comprehensive Chaos' occupation of this ship has become. In order to avoid summoning the enemy's main force, we try to solve the small-scale enemy instantly, and if we encounter a little more, we will take a detour. The meandering corridors and cabins that can be found everywhere provide an extremely complex battlefield environment, and with my psionic sense, we can launch a covert and fierce surprise attack, often with three to five grenades to sweep a cabin or a corridor clean, even if a few lucky people can catch the first wave of grenades, it is difficult to escape the pistols and chainsaws that clean up the battlefield next, and finally those who first think of escaping when they see a bad situation are sawed off or their heads blown out of the air by the nun. Luckily, all we met along the way were pagan cannon fodder, and we didn't see a single Chaos Space Marine, so maybe they were all in those more important places.
During this time, I was very impressed by Aishwarya's fighting skills. Most of the corridors are low and narrow, and in this small environment, it is said that it is not conducive to her kind of light and high-speed troops, but she still dares to start the rocket backpack and fly up to chase the enemy, almost every time she is flying against the top wall of the corridor, but she never hits her head. She has an almost paranoid interest in the head, and each attack is almost as high as firing a blaster pistol at the top of an enemy's head, or splitting her head in half with a chainsaw, rather than slashing her neck, as normal people are more accustomed to. In the narrower cabins, she sometimes didn't even need to use a pistol or chainsaw, and the tail flame flew directly over the enemy's head and could scorch a group of people. If she had paid more attention to coordination, she would have been a perfect assaulter.
Well, cooperation, that's her biggest problem. She often forgot to give advance notice during takeoff, causing Sylvia and I to find cover to avoid her tail flames. On the battlefield, the tail flames of recoilless guns and bazookas are already very annoying, and the fire from the rocket backpack is many times more blazing than a small rocket. After a few battles, the lieutenant's neat uniform had many burn marks, so she looked at the nun even more unpleasantly.
The almost inexhaustible grenades on my body also aroused the nun's curiosity, and seeing that I couldn't hide it, I pulled Sylvia into a small room with no one, and when I came out, I not only refilled the pocket of my tactical vest with grenades, changed the set of armor, but also put on Sylvia's body, so as to cover the burned holes in her clothes, and by the way, I also replenished the nun with some explosive bullets. Sylvia explained empathetically that there are often similar small cabins on ships for storing food or weapons and .........ammunition.
Fight while walking, and listen to the nun introduce the previous battle situation by the way. After walking for half an hour, advancing about three or five hundred meters through the winding corridor, and killing no less than a hundred infidels, I began to have a general understanding of the situation.
The battle had started a day earlier. At that time, the Redemption of Heresy had just completed the subspace voyage from Holy Terra to the Melved system, and as soon as it left the subspace, it was attacked by the artillery fire of the Chaos warships ambushed here, and the shield was quickly exhausted, and then the enemy ships were attached to launch a continuous landing, and in just one hour, a large force of almost tens of thousands of people was sent over, and most of them were accurately teleported to the key positions of the battleship. Now, Chaos has taken over almost the entire ship, and the crew and Inquisitor's servants are divided and surrounded, losing contact with each other, holding on to a few cabins for the last resistance.
As for the number of enemies, the nun's answer to me was an almost 10,000 infidels force, two companies of Chaos Space Marines from the World Eater and the Emperor's Son Warband, led by a Sadistic Champion and a Salis Champion, plus a Chaos Warlock. This warlock is not from Chiko, who is the best at using psionic powers, but from the Empire's Voicekeeper, who is known for his propaganda and incitement abilities, and many of his crew members have already defected under his temptation, and if it weren't for Aedilius casting a spell to protect the minds of most people, and finally facing him and losing both, the entire battleship might have been in the hands of Chaos.
Was Add a psyker in the psychic realm? I see, otherwise, in the face of such a superior enemy, the nuns may be able to fight to the death, but ordinary sailors definitely do not have that will, maybe they don't need the lure of the Bearer to surrender and rebel quickly. But now that Add is down, the danger of a defection in the crew is once again the primary problem before us.
As for the number of enemies in the tens of thousands, I don't believe it, the loser likes to exaggerate the strength of the enemy to hide his incompetence, and I have seen this a lot. The Chaos battleship is indeed huge, but it can't fill all the space with soldiers, right? Not long ago, I killed 35,000 people on that boat with a single earthquake shell, could it be possible to fit three regiments into that boat?
People who have never been officers do not understand the horror of people once they form a scale, not to mention the 15,000 people in three regiments, even if a small regiment of light infantry with three or four thousand people is not satisfied, the logistics materials required every day are already an extremely terrifying number just for training, and if they want to support the war, the deployment of materials can make the quartermaster so worried that he pulls his hair and turns himself bald. The heretics are not Chaos Space Marines or demonic creatures, they also eat and drink Lazar's. In my opinion, the 10,000 men that ship could fit into it was almost the limit, and the number of people who landed on the Redemption of Heresy was probably only 5,000 to 7,000 - that is, the size of a regiment.
Just a regiment of infidels cannon fodder is not too much of a problem for me. Even if I only have one person, I don't have any pressure to deal with them. After all, I now also have the combat strength of a regiment. Even if I can't use too strong psionic energy at this time, I can still top a company just by relying on the skills of the warriors and a few small tricks. Heretics, who can fight me in such a narrow corridor?
The more troublesome thing is the two companies of Chaos Space Marines. Although the company of the Space Marine is not as small as the defense army, it is as small as four or five hundred or more than a thousand, but even if it is a company of 100 people, it is a very terrifying scale. In this kind of pitted environment inside the battleship, it is not possible to deploy troops on a large scale, it is not possible to dig trenches, repair forts, bury mines and lay barbed wire in advance, it is impossible to use armored troops, it is impossible to summon artillery fire support, and it is impossible to summon airdrop supplies and reinforcements. And in such an environment, the advantages of the individual combat effectiveness of the Chaos Space Marines can be fully exploited. Even if I was given a regiment of troops, I was not confident that I would be able to withstand a company of Chaos Space Marines. …,
As for myself? In my current state, I would have to attack in a different direction when I encountered four or five Chaos Space Marines, and whether I could go along the lines was another question.
After listening to her general introduction, I was already in a very bad mood. If this continues, even if Sylvia's people can come in time, it is estimated that it will not help the battle situation.
Sylvia remained largely unmoved, continuing to lead us in the direction she had chosen.
"Where are we going?" I finally couldn't help but ask.
"Go and retake the bridge."
"What's the use of that? The battleship was full of enemies. This time it was Ashwarya who asked.
Silvia didn't confront her as usual, but explained very seriously: "There is a very tight wired communication system inside the battleship, but no one can directly communicate from one place to another without communication through the bridge. So, only by recapturing the bridge can we regain the command structure, and then I will have the ability to coordinate and organize a counterattack. ”
Looking at her expression, it was more like an explanation to me.
So I followed her and said, "Those of you who are trapped inside the ship have no way of knowing the news from the outside, so we will first communicate the situation of the battle when the communication is restored." At present, the enemy ship has been destroyed, all the infidels who remained on the enemy ship have been eliminated, the enemy can no longer get more reinforcements, and our reinforcements, a regiment of the Imperial Defense Army, have been boarded, and another regiment of marines will come to support later. Our victory is at hand! ”
Speak like a real officer, so powerful and decisive that I almost believe it myself. And it worked really well, and it raised my morale a little bit.
For those who don't know, the news should be a complete cheer for them.