Chapter 62: The Plan for a Decisive Battle
Do you have to wait for help for a while? I don't really like this kind of task. It's easy though.
I now have enough men, a lot of firepower, and enough ammunition to fight a big fight. If such a strong force is placed here and does not do anything else, it is simply a dereliction of duty and a crime.
And, as if too many corpses had fallen on the road to frighten the infidels, and the fact that I had not been attacked again while I had waited only made my guilt even worse.
And, after ten minutes of silent waiting, not far from us, the door of Hangar No. 1 facing outward opened, and although we could not see it directly, I could see clearly those who had been blown into space outside the battleship by the violent air current. Most of them were infidels, and a few were crew members who joined me in the gang jumping. The infidels without breathing apparatus quickly stopped struggling in the vacuum, and even the Chaos Space Marines who could survive in the vacuum could only fly farther and farther away from the battleship and disappear into the distance in despair. The crew turned on the jets and flew back slowly.
"The 4th and 5th commandos reported that we have cleared Hangar 1 and opened the gates to welcome the follow-up troops. We don't suffer many casualties, over. "Good news came from the Commando Channel.
The previous wait was in vain, and this good news brought me a further blow.
"You didn't wait for reinforcements?" I'm a little confused.
"If we wait for reinforcements, we will die a long time ago, or if the reinforcements can come, we will probably die too." The leader over there said.
"How do you open the door?" I don't think they have any mechanical priests on their side.
"Flip a few power switches randomly, and the door opens inexplicably."
Well, now the emperor's blessing belongs to them. The people on my side also found the distribution box early, and tried all kinds of knife wrenches one by one, and finally came to the conclusion that there was no electricity at all.
"Lieutenant Colonel Ilshan, I'm afraid you'll have to wait a little longer. Hangar No. 2 has been abandoned for many years, and to open the door, several annual generators need to be repaired and activated...... "Sylvia's message is long overdue.
I'll rub it! I'm only now aware that there is no light in the hangar, and the only light available is from the flames from the flame rifles of the Battle Nuns and the lights of the Sacrifice Chariots.
Since there's no point in being trapped here, can I lead the team out? Anyway, there was a sacrificial car here, and the nuns alone could almost hold the hangar.
"Add, are you there?" I didn't use the communicator this time, I thought it to myself.
"I'm here. Any questions? Add quickly replied.
It's not a nice feeling to be constantly monitored by psionic scans, even if it's an acquaintance or even a brother. However, this is not the case in combat, radio communication is not very stable after all, and it is reassuring to have an additional means of communication to let me know that I am not alone.
"Tell me about the current situation on the battlefield." I say.
After a while, Eddie gave me the answer. It wasn't a verbal description, but a three-dimensional holographic image of a battleship projected directly into my mind. Anyway, when I walked inside the battleship, although I also felt very complicated, I was far from expecting it to be so complicated, and the distribution of various corridors, cabins, pipelines, power systems, control systems, etc., which made me feel a headache when I could only understand the floor plan - this is too messy, right?
I can't help but envy Sylvia's memory, how she can find the right path in such a complicated environment.
Eddie then zoomed in on a portion of the image, accompanied by the caption: "Now your position is here in the bow, another assault team is here, and you are very close. The only group of enemy forces in your vicinity is the Emperor's Son of Hangar One......"...,
"Wait, I remember there's a garage nearby, and there's a bunch of dreadfuls in it. Was that summoned by the Thousand Sons or the Whisperers? I interjected.
"In Hangar Four are the lackeys of the Whisperers, whose heretics have lost their organization after the Whisperer Lord's defeat, and Ah Wei and her Stormtroopers have just dealt with them and are heading for Hangar One...... Well, now Hangar 1 doesn't need support now, what about you, are you going to wait for Captain Lem's people? ”
"No, Hangar No. 2 has lost its value of holding on, and now that No. 1 is open, we don't need to waste our excess strength to open No. 2. There are no threats nearby, so I want to take my men and your nuns to take the initiative and take out the remaining enemies in one fell swoop. ”
"This is difficult, the enemy has understood that the current situation of the battle is not in their favor, and has begun to abandon the main passage, and instead guard some remote cabins, where the logic engine cannot monitor. The subspace is so polluted that I can't confirm their location. Now that Captain Lyme is leading his crew to gradually regain control of the ship, you'd better wait for him to arrive and follow him. He needs your force, and you need them to lead the way. ”
It sounds great, but I feel a little strange. Since the start of the battle, the enemy has always had an advantage, but until now there has been no formal decisive battle at all, and the enemy's main force has not yet appeared large-scale battle damage, why is it hidden? I can't tell you the style of the emperor's son, but can you swallow the world...... Sadistic lackeys have a very easy way of behaving, they will only roar and attack face to face, and they have absolutely no habit of temporarily avoiding the edge and looking for flaws in the enemy.
But then again, if I were the commander of Chaos at this time, I would probably have temporarily reduced my forces and gathered my soldiers to prepare for a decisive battle.
Although Chaos seems to be outnumbered, only the more than 200 Chaos Space Marines really have combat power, and the rest of the heretic cannon fodder are really useless. But if you want to control such a large battleship, it is not possible to do without heretics, in order to avoid the infidels who act sporadically by us with elite or superior forces, the Chaos Space Marines have to be sent out to protect them, and the scattered Chaos Space Marines are also easy to take out - in general, scattered actions are very disadvantageous to the Chaos who is inferior in terms of strength.
So, Chaos needs a decisive battle to annihilate our main force, and then calmly pick up the rest of the crew. Even if the infidels were to die in the process, it wouldn't have much of an impact on the tide of the battle - they could have converted the rest of the crew into heretics. They have this ability, but they prefer to kill people more than they do to capture slaves.
As for us, our forces have always been scattered, although these scattered combat forces still have an overwhelming advantage over the sporadic infidels, but what should we do when we encounter the main forces of Chaos? With two company-sized Chaos Space Marines staring at each other in the shadows, how can we rest easy to restore control of the battleship?
Gathering troops for a decisive battle is also what we need. And I don't worry about the success or failure of the battle, a hundred tons of shells is my greatest confidence, even if one ton is distributed to each of them, it is almost enough - the big deal is that we don't want the heresy redemption, and we all go home on the Merved Picker.
And now, we have to guard against how to avoid being broken by the enemy's main forces in the process of assembly. Before we complete the build-up, we will have the most dangerous period.
"Add, do you have enough people over there?" I asked.
Eddie understood what I meant, "Enough, my battle nuns have basically been assembled, although the battle damage is severe, but the logic engine room is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and a company's strength will definitely not be able to break through in half an hour." As for the bridge, although there are not enough troops, there is a safe passage from there to the logic engine room, which can be withdrawn at any time. ”…,
The bridge and logic engine room are on the upper aft level. Although the internal passage of the battleship was very chaotic, there was still a wide main road, along which we could get from the bow to the stern in less than ten minutes.
Since it's safe and secure, it's our people who need to be considered. Occupying Hangar No. 2, we had more than twenty jumpers from the Melved Picker, plus five Battle Nuns and a Sacrifice Chariot. There are two commandos in nearby Hangar No. 1, estimated at thirty people, and a second group of more than four hundred marines from the Melvidsuff will also land later, and by then our side will have overwhelming forces and firepower, even if it is not a problem to fight a company of Chaos Space Marines alone.
Although the enemy actually had two companies, no one would consider the possibility of the World Eater and the Emperor's Son appearing at the same time.
"I think it's not too late for us to concentrate our forces and find the enemy's main force for a decisive battle, and then restore the function of the cabin. What do you think? "The battle plan is best decided after many discussions, and there will be blind spots in a person's thinking.
"Hmm...... Okay," Eddie seemed even more undecided about tactics, "let the people from Hangar One go to your side?" ”
"No, it's inconvenient for me to land here, so let's go to Hangar No. 1 and assemble." Anyway, there weren't many of us on our side, so we ran for a while and rushed over.
"There's a problem. Hangar One is now open, and you and your strike team are equipped with breathing apparatus to survive there, but Avi and Captain Lem don't have any. "Eddie found a loophole in my plan.
I couldn't help but be speechless. I really missed this question.
And it's a very strict question. There are only more than thirty people in Hangar No. 1 at the moment, and if it is attacked by the main forces of Chaos, it will definitely not be able to hold out for too long, and in order to ensure the smooth landing, the landing ground must be protected.
"It's not a problem." Silvia's voice suddenly sounded in the heart-to-heart exchange, "You can assemble outside Hangar One, there is enough space to spread out a lot of people, and it can also serve as a protection for the landing field. ”
It's a second-best option, but it's not bad.
Moreover, it was an eye-opener for me that Add's psionic energy could support this multi-person communication mode.
Soon, an old, thick male voice and a husky female voice that I heard a little familiar sounded in favor of the plan. The latter should be Ah Wei, the one in front of him, probably Eddie's so-called Lyme Daddy.
So I explained the plan to the people around me.
"But what about our monastery chariots? We can't afford to leave these relics behind, and even more so Chaos will come and steal them at any moment. The nun's squad leader objected.
Where is there such a perfect plan? If you can't take anything with you, you should throw it away, in fact, it is better to destroy it on the spot, but the nun obviously won't agree. In fact, with my strength, I was able to tow the car away easily, but I thought about it and gave up.
"Remove all ammunition and drain the oil. We will be back soon to pick it up. "I finally came up with an idea.
That's all there is to it.