Chapter 42 A new cavalry has appeared
"The Seven-Winged Tribe welcomes your tribute. Let the warriors feast and let the future gradually take shape....."
—The Nameless Klute Shaper, speaking before the defeat of the 309th Landryan Light Infantry Regiment.
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Planet Kernak III, equatorial jungle.
Three jet motorcycles flew overhead in the dense forest canopy, the loud noise of the engines startled a group of birds, the waves of air from the wake blew ripples in the forest, the verdant branches and leaves shook, and the white miasma dissipated slightly.
Three jet motorcycles rose up with their heads up, soared high into the air, and joined up with the large force hovering above the clouds.
"How?"
Fu Qinghai asked on the communication channel on his unique jet motorcycle.
"Nothing was found."
The rider, who had just returned from reconnaissance at a low altitude, replied.
"Jet bikes are so noisy that it's very easy to startle them, so it's hard to find them."
Sutterfarran said.
"And the closer you get to the depths of the jungle, the higher the trees, the denser the vegetation, if the enemy sets up an ambush in advance......"
Karamanda said.
The two of them are very agreeable, the battlefield in front of them is not suitable for jet motorcycle combat, the dense jungle obstructs the view from the sky, and the motorcycle cavalry of the Iron Floating Slaughter Regiment is better to fight in a place with a good view.
Three hundred jet motorcycles, less is not a lot, not more, at least for the vast equatorial region of the entire planet, it is like a handful of water sprinkled in the sea, and the reconnaissance range is not enough to completely cover the entire equatorial jungle area.
Moreover, Fu Qinghai has tried to drive his motorcycle several times over the top of the canopy, and occasionally receives a hint from the Force that he has been targeted by some kind of long-range weapon.
But the other party did not choose to shoot in the end, and when he led people to land in the woodland to explore, he only saw a bunch of strange footprints, like some kind of reptile or some kind of bird, and wanted to track but repeatedly cut off the clues.
Obviously, this opponent, compared to the previous Slaanesh champion, is better at concealing his whereabouts, leaving no clues, and it is difficult to find them by relying on the two modified organs of taste detection nerves and gene detection nerves alone.
"How much fuel is left?"
Fu Qinghai asked.
"It's enough for us to get back, but not enough for us to keep going, Khan."
Joshida replied.
"Then let's go back."
Fu Qinghai ordered:
"The ground forces continue to expand the search area."
The coordinates of the network exit provided by the Barbarian Spirit Clan woman were very far away from the nest city, the supply line was a bit long, and the number and scale of the enemy were unknown for the time being, Fu Qinghai was reluctant to risk going deep into the jungle.
He had also considered that perhaps he could use the fleet to airdrop supplies, but the Combined Fleet was currently in orbit to suppress the remnants of the orc fleet, pursuing all the way into the galaxy, and launching a tentative attack on the war ball ships, temporarily unable to spare his hands to support the surface battle.
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In the dense forest of towering giant trees, it was dim and gloomy, and the sparse rays of sunlight sprinkled through the layers of leaves, forming thin pillars of light of the Tyndall effect in the white miasma-filled air.
"Katsa."
A large gray wolf's paw gently stepped into the soft and thick humus soil, sinking into a deep pit and making a subtle cucka sound.
Saloyan Scarson rode on the back of the Thunderwolf, vigilantly searching the surroundings, the red-haired warrior did not like the Storm Shield, he held the Thunder Hammer in one hand and the Frost Hell Axe in the other, one hammer and axe dual-wielding weapons, looking very fierce.
"Sir, I think we should probably speed things up, these areas we're exploring, Aoyama Khan's jet motorbike forces have already scouted them."
Li Hanxing next to him suggested.
The company commander of the Death Cavalry caught his horse's belly and accelerated a few steps to follow, but always kept the biochemical rider under his crotch at a certain distance from the gray giant wolf - although they were all carnivores, it was obvious that the thunderwolf was of a higher level in the order of the food chain.
This giant wolf often looked at the horses under the crotch of the death cavalry and the brute cavalry with a kind of food-looking eyes.
"Nope."
Saloyan shook his head and vetoed.
"The warriors of Aoyama rely too much on what they see, there is something else in this jungle......" Space Wolf sniffed, "I feel it." ”
With that, he took off his helmet, leaned down to the side of the wolf's face under his crotch, and asked in a low voice in Fenris:
"Do you feel it too, brother?"
Li Hanxing looked at this scene and frowned slightly.
He also has a good relationship with the war horse under his crotch, and there is no cavalryman who will not treat his mount well, but talking to his mount is such a thing...... It always feels a little weird.
If Li Hanxing knew where Fenris's wolves came from, he probably wouldn't have this kind of doubt—this thunder wolf might really have something to do with Saloyan.
"How do you feel, sir?"
Li Hanxing couldn't help but ask.
"We all smell the stench of aliens."
The corners of Saloyan's mouth curled, revealing his fangs.
At this moment, Li Hanxing couldn't say who was more like a beast between Saloyan and the giant wolf under his crotch.
The gray wolf's ears turned from side to side, then he lowered his head, sniffed with his nose on the ground, and suddenly got up and jumped in one direction with the space wolf warrior.
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The unkempt, stubble-covered head turned in his direction, and the xenomorph seemed to be able to hear the subtle noises coming from the Space Marine's power pack.
Through the crosshair of the blaster, Saloyan saw the beaked head, blinking its yellow eyes—staring straight at him.
This is the Klut people?
Saloyan thought to himself.
They have the appearance of birds, they look much taller than humans, they are about two meters tall when they stand up, they have protruding beaks and feathers on their faces, and they don't look strong.
But according to Aoyama, the klut's lean, sturdy body contained inhuman strength and speed.
Saloyan's heart moved, and the helmet eyepiece switched to the thermal imaging view, only to find that the Krut people in front of him were actually integrated with the environmental background in the eyepiece field of vision.
"I see, no wonder ......"
The Space Wolf Warrior muttered to himself.
No wonder Aoyama's jet bikes didn't spot them.
Kluts can shield their bodies from thermal radiation.
"Whoosh-"
The Klut disappeared from view.
"Prepare for battle!"
Saloyan put down his blaster and yelled.
An unknown alien language of a mixture of clicks, screams, and chirps resounded all around.
The Death Cavalry and the Barbarian Cavalry quickly approached and formed a circle, clenching their weapons and looking around.
"Coo, quack, grunt, grunt......"
In the jungle, there are many shadows, like ghosts.
"Huh!"
A black shadow fell from the canopy, catching people off guard.
A sharp blade deflected by only a fraction of a second, and as Li Hanxing turned around, it hit the trunk of the tree and plunged into it, blowing up a puddle of slag spikes. The naked eye of the young officer could not capture these swift alien figures.
Seeing the second sharp blade turn into a black shadow and snap down, Li Hanxing hurriedly raised his hunting spear to try to block it, his riding boots touched a thin and strong calf, and then he was kicked off the horse and fell into a.
"Uh...... Yes. ”
Li Hanxing crawled with difficulty.
He felt like his ribs were shattering.
Herod'...... Poof! ”
Li Hanxing heard the screams of the biochemical riders.
The Krut man feasted on his horse, and Li Hanxing crawled prostrately, listening to the terrible sound as he tried to reach into the holster. The Krut tore apart his horse, broke its bones, and devoured its remaining entrails...... His hand held the handle of the laser pistol.
I saw him turn around reluctantly, and when he raised his hand, he was shot, and a Krut man covered in blood was instantly beaten to a different place by the red pillar of light. Then his laser pistol was knocked out by a backhand blow, and then the butt of the rifle smashed into Li Hanxing's face, and his mouth was full of blood.
Dizzy, he realized that he had been dragged out from under the dead Krut, and he heard the clattering, whistle-like words of the aliens, his limbs gripped by the vice-like palms.
Li Hanxing felt that his thigh was bitten by a huge and sharp beak, and began to tear and eat, and the sharp pain came, and he couldn't help but snort. A Krut rode on top of him, scraping his steel cuirass with their beaks, and they tried to cut open his chest and devour his internal organs.
"Bang!"
The pressure on his limbs disappeared suddenly, the figure in front of him suddenly emptied, and the Krut people surrounding Li Hanxing were sent flying, and he only saw the alien birdmen torn apart under the swing of the Thunder Hammer. The Krut man who straddled him was bitten by a bloody mouth, the gray giant wolf's adamantite jaw was chewed twice, and Li Hanxing heard the crisp explosion of the crest pillar.
The Klut were bitten off, and blood rushed wildly.
With an eerie chirp, countless Kruts were maneuvering between the branches, their rapid pace dizzying, and from time to time they leaped long distances, leaping from one canopy to another.
A Klut man sprang up with a hook in his hand and tried to drag Saloyan off the thunderwolf, and the space wolf kicked it to death with a single kick, but the feedback from the soles of his feet showed that the alien was much stronger than he expected.
Their muscles stretch like metal cables, and they are so tough that even the wolves have to puff out their cheeks and chew hard.
On the other hand, the primitive and backward gunpowder guns in the hands of the Klut people could not penetrate the power armor of the Space Marines.
Another Klute leapt down from the top of his head, his slender and hard fingers digging into the throat of the Space Marine, and Saloyan picked up an axe and cut him in half, the ice-blue blade seemed to contain some strange technology, and the corpse was instantly covered in frost, turning into two pieces of ice and shattering.
The thunderwolf ran wildly, Saloyan Scarson wielded a hammer and an axe, and went on a killing spree in the jungle, the thunderwolf cavalry was not numerous, but all of them were experienced in a hundred battles, and the Kruts took the initiative to ambush the two Imperial Guards, but they were killed by the thunderwolf cavalry with strange screams, hasty escape, and corpses scattered all over the field.
Until, several behemoths parted the bushes and bushes and appeared in front of the tactical team.
Several Kluts ride on some kind of gigantic beast with two feet and two claws, and these strange beasts are just like the Klut, with a large serrated beak in front of their faces, and thick black stubble standing on the back of their heads, and it is not difficult to imagine that they are related to the Klut people on their backs.
Maybe like the Space Wolves and Fenris Wolves.
"Quack quack...... Roar! ”
The cavalry of the Kruts roared.
Sarloyan hung the Frost Hell Axe back into the magnetic latch, and a dark shadow fell beside him, and the Space Wolf Warrior didn't look at it, but grabbed a slender neck full of bast and stubble, he felt the alien break in the palm of his hand, and as his fingers slowly clenched into fists, the razor-sharp teeth of the Krut were squeezed out.
"Call for support."
Saloyan coldly spat out a few words.
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Deep in the equatorial jungle.
In the cracks of the vast mountains, a strange building is hidden in the dense vegetation, the whole body is snow-white, very hard, like stone and jade, that is, the legendary spirit bones.
In front of this temple-like building, a group of barbarian spirit cavalry stood here, they looked incomparably gorgeous, those polished spirit bone helmets were millions of years old, but they still shone like the sparkling waves in the platinum pool, and the silk ropes on the spears floated like smoke. The mutant carnivorous dinosaur was terrifying and majestic, and its rider wore a cape made of native bird feathers.
The patriarch of the Savage Spirit Clan himself came here.
And in front of them, the Krut people all over the mountains have completely surrounded this group of spirit cavalry, whistles and whistles are heard one after another, the meat eaters of the Krut people are already hungry, if it weren't for the leader of the shaper has not given the order, this group of Kluts would have swarmed up and feasted.
"What should I do?"
The Spirit Clan patriarch asked the Howling Banshee.
"According to my father, although the Klut people like to eat corpses, they are actually an intelligent race, and their leadership class is called the Klut Shaper, and it is not that there is no possibility of negotiation, but ...... The gap in our forces is too great. ”
Shalamand Uslan whispered.
"We must dedicate a portion of our forces to guard the entrance to the net, or we won't be able to go back to Separil."
The patriarch of the Barbarian Spirit Clan said.
Shalamander shook his head.
Separil's savage spirits, who had not fought for too long to make such a low-level mistake, the Howling Banshee turned around and said in a serious and serious manner:
"We shouldn't divide the troops, if we join forces, we will have enough strength to get that thing, even if the exit of the network is occupied, we will have enough strength to fight back, but now the soldiers are divided into two ways, we take care of one and lose the other, we can't beat either side, the temple can't be captured, and the network can't be defended."
When the Spirit Clan patriarch heard this, he felt that this was indeed the case.
"Shalamand, daughter of the Prophet, you are worthy of being a disciple of the Assurman, and in your opinion, how can we break through the encirclement of these Kluts now?"
Shalamander thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice:
"The Kluts have poor long-range weapons, and their flying units are relatively weak, I have a jet motorcycle, and I will mobilize the troops near the network after breaking through alone, you must hold this place, and you must not let them touch the temple."
The Spirit Clan Patriarch nodded in agreement:
"This is Kane's path, Shalamande, you are a courageous tribal blade, and Asoyan bless you with your safe return, and I will hold on to it until help comes. After this battle, all of Separil's Savage Spirit Clan will also move to the world of Usvi's Ark. ”
Salamander put on the Banshee Mask, nodded his head and said nothing, turned over and rode on his fiery red jet motorcycle, and with a soft roar, he shot straight into the sky.
In the formation of the Kluth, seeing this, seventeen or eighteen Klut carnivores with bat wings immediately flew up, and a large area of black and black swooped towards Shalamande.
"The Reborn Financial Giant"
The jet bike spat out a series of black star darts from the front end, shooting down several Krut Carnivores, and then Shalamander raised the power scimitar in his hand, and several knives were as fast as lightning, and between the knives and the knife fell, several more Klute Carnivors had their wings cut off, and the Howling Banshee easily broke through the encirclement of these flying Klut people without using psionic screams.
Gallop all the way and fly into the distance.
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