Karamanda heard that the soldiers of the Krieg Death Corps were silent and died in silence.

And this Captain Hanxing Lee is obviously an exception.

He talks a lot, even a little incessantly.

The nobles of the nest capital are obviously suspicious of the two cavalry units that came to support - it's the space age, and there are still people playing cavalry? You're not here to be funny, are you?

Attila's Tariha is clearly a man of few words, and his strong body odor and low Gothic accent are very out of place with the nobles of the Hive world.

So Captain Coldstar from Krieg, a hateful-looking but young, talkative officer of the Death Corps, began to talk to the nobles about his cavalry philosophy.

"This is a massively genetically modified primitive Terra warhorse, which is now very different from its ancestors. They are designed to withstand harsher battlefield conditions, are much stronger than the average horse, and are able to cross trenches on their hind legs and advance through thick mud or rubble. ”

The young cavalry officer spoke eloquently:

"Many additional organisms have been modified to survive in the most polluted or toxic environments. Designed by the Cult of the Mechanics Bio-Sage, the horses are also equipped with sharp hoofed feet, permeable lungs, subcutaneous organic armor, and a fully integrated drug injection system consisting of analgesics, potent stimulants, and other palliative agents. ”

First of all, it is necessary to reverse the stereotype of the nobles about war horses, telling them that this is a biochemical product of the Cult of the Mechanicus, which is very high-tech, and is not a weak and primitive ancient horse.

Hearing this, Tazhha hurriedly added:

"Ours too."

The war horse of the Krieg Death Cavalry is a biochemical riding beast that looks like a horse, while the war horse of the Attila Barbarian Cavalry comes from the continuous improvement and breeding of primitive horses over thousands of years.

There is still a certain gap, in fact, it is not the same.

"Forgive me for taking the plunge, Captain Lee."

A male nobleman asked:

"The functions you mentioned, the sentry mecha and all kinds of tanks can do it, I still haven't been able to understand what is the significance of the Death Corps retaining the cavalry establishment?"

"Ugh."

Li Hanxing hesitated for a moment and said:

"In fact, the Krieg Death Corps is not equipped with Sentinel Mecha, the Death Cavalry is our Sentinel Mecha, if you have really participated in the war, you can understand that logistics support is a complex, serious and difficult discipline, the cavalry unit is in the right environment, the requirements for logistics support will be much lower than the Sentinel Mecha and various tanks you said, and we are not without the power to fight in the face of armored vehicles."

Whether it is a tank or a sentinel mech, promethium must be burned, while biochemical war horses only need to eat meat and grass, and the requirements for logistics support in some environments are indeed a little smaller.

Tazhha then added:

"We've fought tanks, we've fought a lot of tanks."

Karamanda didn't interject, he stood by and listened quietly to the discussion between the nobles of the nest capital and the two guard commanders. As a pragmatist, Karamanda felt that it was extremely silly to still be discussing the usefulness of cavalry in the era of space warfare at this time. Now that the Ministry of War has sent two cavalry units over, the only thing that needs to be considered is how to use them.

Wherever there are soldiers, they will fight.

How does discussing the meaning of cavalry's existence help in warfare?

"Ahem."

Karamanda coughed lightly, interrupting the endless questioning of Li Hanxing by several nobles, these guys who had no actual combat experience but liked to talk on paper had already annoyed the Night Bat Company Commander. He looked at Li Hanxing and asked:

"Captain Li, what are the strength of your so-called 'a full company'?"

That's all Karamanda cares about.

"My company has a total of sixty-five people, including a five-man command group and six ten-man squadrons, the Karamanda company commander."

Li Hanxing replied.

"What about you, Tazhha...... Captain? ”

Karamanda looked down at the leather-gloved, boot-wearing, and leather-robed commander, and thought it might be more appropriate to call him "Colonel" than "Chief".

"The 264th Attila Barbarian Cavalry Regiment has a total of three thousand barbarian cavalry and a corresponding number of war horses, Your Excellency the Company Commander."

Tariha replied sullenly.

"How did you get here?"

Karamanda continued.

Want to see if there is more naval power.

"Aboard two Imperial transports."

The conclusion is no.

"Hmmm......"

Kalamanda was thinking about how it should be arranged.

At this moment, a blind and thin old man walked quickly into the banquet hall, he was the star whisperer of this nest capital, the old man walked up to the governor of the planet and whispered a few words.

The Planetary Governor's eyes lit up when he heard this.

Then he turned to face the crowd and announced loudly:

"Good news, good news, guys."

"The commander of the Iron Float Regiment, Aoyama Khan, personally came to support us on an Emperor-class battleship, we have been saved, and the planet Kernak III has been saved!"

The nobles present cheered and celebrated.

Khan is coming?

Karamanda was stunned for a moment, then looked at the Star Whisperer.

The Starwhisperer nodded, and said to Karamanda:

"Lord Karamanda, please come with me."

…………

Pankalis sub-sector, the Kellnak system.

The Suzheng arrived in this galaxy faster than expected, because of the blessing of the relic technology "Subspace Sextant", and another reason-

Tracy the Navigator broke through to become a Gamma-class Psyker, which is one of the reasons the Navigator Ambassador authorized the Gray family to bring her back to Terra.

With Tracy's age and her psionic level, it would not be an exaggeration to say that she was a genius, if during the Great Expedition, she was even qualified to be the navigator of the Queen of Glory-class battleships, but unfortunately there were not many Glory Queen-class battleships anymore.

The battleship sailed at sub-light speeds and headed for the target planet.

Fu Qinghai stood on the bridge of the ship, looking at the huge white ice ring outside the armored porthole, and first had a preliminary understanding of the complex space orbit environment of this nest capital world.

It's a planet with ice rings.

The white ice ring, which has a diameter of more than 300,000 kilometers and an average thickness of 4,500 meters, is mostly composed of white and brilliant ice crystals, mixed with gray meteorites of different sizes, surrounding the entire planet, like a huge crown.

Beyond the white ice ring, there is a slightly sparse asteroid belt, slowly rotating around the planets, and there are still irregular collisions and squeezes between them.

The battleship Suzheng first joined the cruiser Warhorse, which had been forced to withdraw from low-earth orbit, on the periphery of the asteroid belt.

"What's going on now?"

Fu Qinghai looked at the other Space Marines in the holographic projection and asked, they were in charge of staying behind to guard the Warhorse strike cruiser, which was not far from the Suzheng at the moment.

"Khan, the apophobic Chaos Warband, has an Underworld-class heavy cruiser with shields and firepower above ours, and its name is the Warbringer."

"That orc fleet from the Evil Sun Clan has two Basha-class light cruisers, five Meng-class assault ships, and an unknown number of orc monoliths."

"In addition, there is a battleship-sized alien warship, moored on the other side of the planet, and the Ronin Traders in the Hive City say that it is a Krut ship, called ......"

"It's called a war ball, I know."

Fu Qinghai said.

The Klut people, a kind of space birdmen with alien (devouring assimilation) ability, one of the most famous titanium allies under the Kamigami Good Way, the Titanium Empire did not exist at this time, but the Klut people have existed for a long time as well-known cosmic mercenaries, and their history is much longer than that of the Titanium Empire.

The War Ball is a strange spaceship, no one knows how the Krut people, who are not very technologically advanced, created this spaceship, some say it is related to the fallen orc ship, some say it is a gift from an unknown race.

Except for the appearance of eggs.

This type of ship also has the following features:

Large, nine to twelve kilometers in diameter, comparable to the length of the battleships of the Reich of Man, and much larger.

The movement speed is slow, but the steering speed is said to be fast, perhaps because it is a ball shape.

Capable of subspace jumping, they use a subspace engine unknown to the Cult of the Mechanicus.

Has the ability to land on planets - this is the most incomprehensible black technology in Fu Qinghai, such a huge spaceship can actually land on the surface of the planet?

It is said that the Klut drove the war ball ship to the surface and used it as a colonial outpost.

In Fu Qinghai's view, the war ball ship is a space city village built with massive armor plates that can be used for interstellar voyages, and it contains a complete tribe of Krut people-cosmic mercenaries who go out to work collectively. The defense is strong, and the firepower is also strong, but there is not much technical content except for the ability to land on planets.

Naval battles in space are for the air supremacy of the planets.

There is no need to say much about how important air supremacy is in war.

Fu Qinghai did not rush to order the landing, but stood on the bridge and seriously thought about how to fight this space naval battle.

"I guess the three of them didn't fight before I arrived, right?"

Fu Qinghai asked.

"Yes, Khan. The war ball ships hovered over the planet's low earth orbit, and the orcs and chaos warships hid in the asteroid belt, maintaining a standoff, and according to our reconnaissance, the orcs were still hurrying to build more orc boulders. ”

The Star Marine, who served as the captain of the ship, replied.

The Orc Monolith is essentially a hollowed-out asteroid equipped with a variety of weapons, propulsion systems, and targeting arrays, and the Orc Monolith cannot travel subspace, but can only fly from one planet to another within a galaxy.

Why did Fu Qinghai decide that the three families did not go to war?

The reason is simple, the strength of the three fleets is very different: the orc fleet is the largest but not of high quality, the Krut warball ships are of the highest quality but slow to move, and the warships of the Chaos Wargang are in a position that is not embarrassing in terms of firepower and tonnage. In short, no matter which two families start a war first, there is a possibility that a third one will take advantage of the fish.

And the key point is that the special and complex environment over the planet's orbit provides cover and concealment, which brings more uncertainty, making it difficult for the three parties to let go.

The addition of the Emperor-class battleship heralded the arrival of a fourth force, an Emperor-class battleship and a conventional cruiser were not a force to be underestimated - even if the Emperor-class battleship did not have a single carrier-based aircraft.

"The Kruts are a bunch of cosmic mercenaries who have no position, and may be waiting to be sold at the moment. The Evil Sun Clan is not a Bloodaxe Clan, there is no possibility of negotiation, and there is nothing to talk about between us and the Aliens and Chaos, both of which are 100% our enemies. ”

Fu Qinghai analyzed.

"Do you want to fight then, Khan?"

Joshida asked.

"Nope."

Fu Qinghai shook his head:

"Ground war first."

Even if the Klut remain neutral, both orcs and chaos are enemies of the warband, and if they choose to attack either side, they will likely be caught between two sides - orcs and chaos are not stupid.

What's more, Fu Qinghai didn't want the Suzheng to go deep into the asteroid belt to fight hand-to-hand, the orc battleship was shoddy, and it just exploded one by one far away.

Approaching the Jump Gang, there is nothing to gain, not to mention, the Void Shield can't defend against the collision of warships, and take the precious warband flagship to be hit by the kamikaze of the orc-broken ship?

That's not going to work.

"The Suzheng and the Fierce Horse keep a tentative attack, don't let the orcs and traitors live too comfortably."

Fu Qinghai ordered:

"All the Space Marines of the First Company, get on a jet motorcycle, and land on the surface with me!"

"Yes, Khan!"

……

The star choir room of the nest capital.

Through the news of the Star Whisperer, Karamanda is communicating with Xia Hao aboard the Suzheng.

The old star whisperer relayed Xia Hao's words:

"Company Commander Karamanda, Aoyama Khan has ordered you and Company Commander Sutterfaran to lead two companies to alternate defenses, use the teleportation deck to return to the battleship Suzheng, and then each Space Marine's jet bike will land on the planet's surface again."

"We've got a jet motorcycle!?"

Karamanda was startled at first, and then immediately responded:

"Tell them I've received it."

……

When the Suzheng finally reached the planet's orbit, Karamanda and the battle barge no longer needed to communicate through the star communication, and directly established communication contact.

The Space Marines of the 5th and 6th companies teleported back to the teleportation deck one after another, and then set off again on a jet motorcycle, returning to the world of the nest.

The Suzheng's Gnaku was open, and the jet bike was like a dense group of unsightly sesame black dots, burrowing out of the hangar, bypassing the beautiful vast ring of brilliant ice, slowing down into the planet's atmosphere, and disappearing one by one.

……

Nest capital, spire area.

With a sword at his waist and a helmet in one hand, Fu Qinghai strode through the richly decorated passageway, followed by Jostar, Karamanda, and Satterfran, and the sturdy and heavy iron boots of the Space Marines stepped on the immaculate bluestone floor, and the sound of neat and sonorous footsteps echoed throughout the passage.

Push open the door to the conference room.

Fu Qinghai glanced at the people inside.

The commander of the local planetary guard, the commander of the Imperial Guard from two different legions, and the planetary governor himself, all stood behind the conference table.

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to the latest order of the Ministry of War, from now on, I will be the supreme military commander of the Planetary Kelnak III Theater, do you have any questions?"

Fu Qinghai asked calmly.

"No problem, sir!"

Li Hanxing and Ta Riha stood up and saluted together.

The commander of the planetary defense force, who was obviously from an aristocratic background, didn't know if he was shocked by Fu Qinghai's momentum or what, he was actually stunned for a moment, and then remembered to salute together, and said "No problem, no problem" in his mouth.

This is a relational household.

The four Space Marines immediately reached a consensus: no need to take his opinion into account in any tactical deployment after that.

"I've heard that there's also a Space Wolves tactical team coming over to support, where are they now?"

"Report to the sir, according to the Star Whisper, they are on a scimitar-class frigate, and they have just arrived at Mandeville Point on the outskirts of the galaxy at this moment, and they are coming at full speed."

Li Hanxing replied quickly.

"Okay."

Fu Qinghai nodded and said:

"Tell me about the situation."

Sutter Farran behind him took a step forward, stretched out his hand and connected a few times on the table, the holographic projection of a planet rose, the crow guard soldier waved his palm, rotated and magnified the holographic projection, pointed to the continent where the nest capital city was located, and said to Fu Qinghai:

"Khan, look."

"We are currently in the interior plains of the planet's northern hemisphere, the largest nest city on planet Kernak III. This is the area where the orcs operate, and this is where the traitors landed, and it is now known that ......"

With the introduction of Sutter Farland.

The situation on the planet is gradually becoming clearer.

There is only one continent on the planet, and near the equator is a miasma-grown, swampy, jungle-dense decaying rainforest. The Orcs of the Evil Sun Clan are numerous and have a large range of activities, and there are reports of sightings in the vast plains and hilly areas around the nest capital. The Chaos Gang, on the other hand, occupies a small satellite city and has been cowering there without moving.

Fu Qinghai pinched his chin and looked down in thought.

The Chaos War Gang, who believes in fear and sadism, doesn't come out to hunt for skulls and sacrifice skulls, what is the matter with hiding in a stronghold and shrinking?

The Evil Sun Clan needs to be dealt with as soon as possible, the more rags, the stronger the orcs, the more battles, the stronger the orcs, and there can be no delay...... But it's best to be able to find them directly, the decapitation tactic is always tried and tested for orcs.

According to previous information, there are also people who have seen the insignia and banner of the snake bite clan, where are they?

"Not enough."

Fu Qinghai shook his head and said:

"There is no intelligence at all."

The available intelligence is not sufficient to support any tactical decisions.

Fu Qinghai raised his head and looked at Li Hanxing and Tariha:

"The good news is that we now have cavalry."

Fu Qinghai ordered:

"Attila Barbarian Cavalry Regiment, Krieg Death Cavalry, leave the Hive Capital to investigate, I want to know the distribution range, activity area, number of personnel, and firepower of the orc convoy...... By the way, take a look at the latest movements of the Chaos Gang. ”

"Roger, sir!"

The two responded in unison.

Fu Qinghai looked at Sutter Farran:

"I'll give you a tactical squad all equipped with jet motorcycles, and you go find the war boss."

"Understood, Khan!"

…………