"It's the industrial world."

After some careful research, Fu Qinghai chose an industrial world that had just fallen and was still in the midst of war, and the name was "Dee No. 4".

The first step of battle planning: preset the battlefield!

"What's so special about this industrial world?"

Joshida asked, puzzled.

The commander of the first company took a closer look, whether it was an orbital defense facility or a surface defense facility, there was almost no difference between the Dee IV industrial world and the other planets in the Dee system, compared to the other thirteen industrial worlds.

"This planet has seas, big oceans."

Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes slightly and said.

"Ocean?"

The Moon Wolf Warrior frowned.

"Yes, bury the ocean of traitorous Titans."

Fu Qinghai nodded.

The industrial world is the world of factories where the entire planet is dedicated to manufacturing or mining. Because the vast majority of labor is performed by machinery, the industrial world is often sparsely populated.

While the industrial world may have ties to the Cult of the Machines, such as the Ni Deliner subsector, where the industrial world is used as a raw material producer for the Foundry world. However, the industrial world is not under the direct jurisdiction of the Cult of the Mechanicus, and the governance of the industrial world belongs to the planetary governor appointed by Terra. In addition, the technology and production capacity of the foundry world are usually greater than that of the industrial world, because the former has more scientific research power.

"Target Dee IV Industrial World, go!"

Fu Qinghai ordered.

……

Arkzburg was burned down.

The capital of the industrial world of Dee IV.

In the southern part of the peninsula's harbor, a raging fire burns. The spliced crystal windows of the sheds and warehouses are charred and cracked. The heavy iron door collapsed with a dull thud, leaving a tattered, empty, smoke-billowing opening.

Charred bodies and charred vehicles filled the rubble-strewn streets, and the vast majority of the dead were killed days before the fire arrived, but only now have they received the "dignity" of cremation. The pale plastic steel hoisting machinery melted in the heat, and with a groan of pain, it collapsed and poured into the polluted Larkesh Sea.

The fierce battle between the Legion of the Loyalists of the Titans and the Legions of the Rebel Titans easily destroyed the promethium refinery on the headland. So the fire began to spread, and the flames ignited the dock slums, all the way north to gnaw on.

Once a sordid stronghold of industry and trade, a staging post and distribution hub, Arkzburg has become a fortress of cultists and mutants as the evil beliefs spread in the shadows, often a prelude to Chaos invasions. Then, as expected, the fleet of the Cult of the Dark Mechanics descended here, and Arkzburg was turned into the Hell of Shura, and the madmen of Chaos finally took over the city completely.

A carnival ensued.

An of killing, sadism and plunder.

Although the flames continued to rage through the harbor, it did not dampen the fanaticism of the Chaos cultists, with black figures crouching on rooftops, weaving between weathered sheds, and even standing in front of the flames.

Some of them were hunchbacked, twisted creatures wrapped in unsheltered rags, and some were former Planetary Defense Force soldiers. Their faces were covered in ash and blood, and their carapaces were stained and bullet-ridden.

The distorted black oilman is directing the servants and slaves to carry supplies, and they are coldly watching the carnival of the chaos believers in the city, as long as they do not disturb their own plundering of the resources in the industrial world, these gangs of different cults and the Cult of the Dark Mechanicus are barely in the same camp.

"Kill! Chop! Burn! ”

Someone was burning, killing and looting, pointing butcher knives and guns at the remaining civilians or other gangs.

"Smash it, smash it!"

Someone is tearing and burning the Imperial Aquila banner through the flames, and the blood is smearing the statues of the Expeditionary Saints, symbols of the existence of the Terra government. They gathered around, pulling on ropes, shouting trumpets, and shouting loudly:

"One, two, three, pull!"

"Boom!"

In the square in front of the Doge's Palace, the giant stone sculpture symbolizing the human empire and the Cult of the Machine God collapsed with a bang, shattered into several pieces, and the smoke and dust filled the air, and the cultists laughed, stomped and poked the stones in vent, and then took off their pants to pee on the stones, and the yellow urine slipped down the eye sockets of the skull sculpture.

The flame has not been extinguished. These traitors raised their heads and shouted at the sky in the face of the flying ashes and thick haze, as a sign of their defiance.

For them, the greatest misfortune.

It was the sky that responded.

……

Searing energy, piercing down from the clouds.

Piercing through a thick cloud of lead from burning embers and toxic haze, golden light spread across the land, instantly vaporizing and vaporizing the crowd of revelers. Anyone who dared to look directly at this golden pillar of light would be pained and tearful with the naked eye, and instantly blinded, leaving only a blank field of vision, even if the mechanical prosthetic eye was also hot and overloaded, wisps of white smoke came out of the eye sockets.

Since the first golden light has fallen.

One by one, the thick clouds shattered between the golden pillars of light, and the dark technological heretics and warped servants who were busy transporting supplies disappeared in the golden light before they even had time to hide in the bunker.

Immediately after the heavenly punishment of the pillar of light.

It's a meteor shower that cuts across an arc.

"Boom !!"

Dirt splattered, rubble exploded, and the airborne capsule slammed into the ground, half submerging its end into the ground.

"Whew!"

White steam gushes, and the hydraulic crankbar snaps.

Eight hatches slammed open and smashed into the ground and embedded in the soil, and the black gold space marines with pulse blasters and fat launchers rushed out along the steel stairs outside the hatches, and before the Chaos cultists could recover from the light spear blow, the blind cultists were instantly blown up by the electromagnetic acceleration of the explosive bomb, exploding into a cloud of blood droplets and broken bones.

“Jiu——”

A thin red line of light flashed, and a black oilman just poked out of the ruins with his hood, and was immediately hit by a thin red line, and the breathing valve of the twisted mask spewed out slag, black ash, and flames, and began to roll around his body, turning into a tumbling humanoid flame along with the black robe.

Jostard drops the Burst Assault Bolt.

Take a look around at the burning ruins of the streets around you.

"Purge the city completely!"

The commander of the first company raised one arm and roared loudly:

"Hurry up! We have less than twenty hours to build a city defense, enough to hold off the Titans for fifteen minutes! ”

According to the plan, the Space Marines of the Iron Float Warband need to clear out all the remnants of the chaos forces in Arkz Fort as soon as possible, and then use less than a standard day of Terra to rely on these city buildings to strengthen the original defenses and build a line of defense. And the requirements of this line of defense are:

Can withstand an army of Titans for fifteen minutes.

The Titan Legion is a battlefleet on land, how difficult it is to use the ruins of a city to resist a Titan Legion for fifteen minutes, in the face of this strict demand, Josda has no bottom in his heart, but he believes that his warriors can complete it.

This kind of work should be handed over to the Fist of the Empire.

Joshida pursed her lips and thought to herself.

Although we don't have the Fist of the Empire......

But we have Iron Warriors.

Thinking of this, the commander of the first company turned his head to see that the last Star Marines had come out of each airborne capsule one after another, their power backpacks were larger, and there were additional auxiliary aiming instruments on the side of the helmet eyepiece, and as they stepped out of the hatch, four or five robotic arms spread out behind them like octopuses.

All the technical sergeants of the regiment were dispatched.

The first Space Marines to arrive on the surface in an airborne capsule were soon cleared of the area around the Governor's Mansion, and they quickly cleared the ground in the square in front of the Governor's Palace, and then six Thunderhawk gunboats landed there, and the belly hatch opened, and there was the rumble of armored tracks, Spartan tanks, mastodon tanks, Predator tanks, Rand raiders......

Six Thunderhawk gunboats continued to travel back and forth between the orbit and the surface, transporting the armored vehicles of the wargroup, and soon the only armored company of the wargroup, the "Advance Boarding Group", was deployed.

There are also a lot of construction machinery.

It didn't take long for the Space Marines to clean up the entire Chaos cultists in Arkzburg, as well as the black oil guys who came to plunder the resources. Then he began to lay out the city's defenses according to local conditions, trying to repair the land-based macro cannon and the Void Shield generator that had been damaged in the previous war, digging some tunnels, setting up some barricades, and using gates, bridges, and canals to set traps......

These things are almost impossible to damage the Titan Legion, but their purpose is not to rely on these fortifications to kill the Titan Legion, but to delay as much time as possible.

Step 2 of the battle plan: lure the snake out of the hole.

……

Aixlos II nests are all worlds.

In the outer space of the planet, very far from the orbital defenses, there are many fleets belonging to the rebels, including the Chaos Cruisers who came to support them, and the transport fleets of the untamed Titan Legion after the mutiny.

They have surrounded the nest.

Originally, the rebels were ready to attack the hive world, but the sudden reinforcements from the Ni Deliner sub-sector, an Astarte wargroup fleet, made them slow down the attack on the hive for the time being.

Get ready to see what this warband has in store.

Originally, according to the rebels' estimates, this wargroup must have come to save the imperial army trapped in the nest world, and they had made full preparations and concentrated all their forces around the nest world, waiting for the other party to arrive.

In the Ni Delina sub-sector, the rebels have formed a local superiority in strength, in this case, one side is trapped in the nest capital world, one side surrounds the nest capital world, and one side tries to come to the rescue. In general, because of the superiority in troops, whether it is naval strength or land strength, it is much more than the imperial army, so the rebel side is not in a hurry, and is ready to wait for the Astarte wargroup to come to the door and eat the nest capital world and the wargroup fleet together.

However, what they didn't expect was that the Astarte wargroup did not come to the rescue of the Hive World, but found an industrial world by themselves, and after quickly recovering the industrial world, they began to strengthen their defenses on the spot, putting on a stubborn posture, and at the same time taking advantage of the opportunity of all the rebels' forces concentrated around the Hive World, this fleet began to constantly harass other industrial worlds that had fallen into the hands of the rebels, preventing them from plundering and transporting resources...... But just don't fight with the main rebel forces.

What is this behavior?

To leave somebody in the lurch?

The commander of the Chaos Fleet, Thortarn Wall Bron, analyzed the current situation and was very puzzled.

Aren't they worried that after the fall of the nest world, they will be eaten by turning their own troops?

Thortarn was a war blacksmith, nicknamed "The Forge of Stone", who was a soldier in the forty-fifth battalion of the Iron Warriors during the Great Expedition and the Great Rebellion. He was a master of civil engineering, and his understanding of rock materials was so profound that it was rumored that he was able to talk to the stones, let them confide all information about him, and become a geological wonder under his tools.

In the view of the war blacksmith, since the other party does not plan to join forces, then it is simple, his side uses the advantage of strength to break one by one, first eat the imperial army in the nest world, and then go to kill the Astarte warband, this is the safest way, and it is also very in line with the war philosophy of the Iron Lord Peturabo - to concentrate superior forces to overwhelm the enemy.

However, what he didn't expect was that the representatives of the Cult of the Dark Mechanicus raised very fierce objections.

They said that the resources in the Eye of Fear were extremely scarce, and the various casting worlds under the Dark Mechanic Cult were waiting to be fed with their mouths wide open, and plundering the rich resources in the Ni Deliner sub-sector was the main purpose of this operation, not to kill the lackeys and loyal servants of the Puppet Emperor.

The blacksmith of war was suddenly caught in a dilemma.

As a high-ranking officer of the Chaos Space Marine, he wants to make great achievements, he wants to humiliate the lackeys of the Puppet Emperor to please the four gods of Chaos, but he must also take into account the opinion of the Dark Mechanic God Cult - because the other party has the Titan Legion.

If the Black Oilers don't cooperate, remove the Titan Legion, and the overwhelming military force on the ground will cease to exist. Moreover, if you want to develop in the Eye of Fear for a long time in the future, it is also very necessary to have a good relationship with the Dark Mechanic Cult, otherwise where will the weapons, vehicles, and warships come from? It can't be created in a vacuum.

"Tsk...... That's a lot to ask. ”

Sotarn frowned and said secretly.

I feel that serving the Lord of Steel is not so troublesome to serve these black oilers, pointing fingers all day long.

If the rebels give up encircling the Hive Capital World to deal with the Astarte War Band, it is obviously not appropriate, because in this way, the Imperial Navy, the Titan Legion and the Imperial Guard in the Hive Capital World will all run away, and that side is just an inconsequential wargroup fleet, and this side is a coalition of three entire forces, which is more important, and the war blacksmith can clearly distinguish which is more important.

"Then divide the troops."

The war blacksmith thought for a moment and said:

"They seem to be building fortifications...... Hmph, building fortifications in front of the Titan Legion is really beyond my strength. Send a group of Untamed Lord Titans to deal with them, and I'll send three strike cruisers to cover the landing of the Titan Legion. ”

The arrangement was complete, but a sense of unease haunted the war blacksmith, and after thinking about it, Sotarn added:

"The Marauder Knights of the Vixtris family, follow the Untamed Lords Titan Legion to Dee IV."

"Yes, sir."

The lion fights the rabbit, and also uses all his strength. A Titan Legion and a Knight Family together to deal with an Astarte Warband, no matter what tricks you have, the War Blacksmith thought to himself, in the face of absolute power, it is impossible to make any waves.

Two Titan Legion's transport cruisers plus three Chaos Fleet's regular cruisers, five battleships do not have an overwhelming naval battle advantage for three strike cruisers led by a battle barge, but it is enough to cover the Titan Legion's landing on the surface, because the other warships will continue to besiege the Hive World, and the Titan Legion will decide the winner on the ground.

Plan to pass!

The war blacksmith compromised.

The black oil guy was satisfied.

With the renegade Titans in order, the Fallen Knights lined up, and the five warships broke out of the encirclement and sailed quickly towards the Dee system, ready to completely wipe out the outrageous Astarte warband, so that they would have a minimum of reverence for the gods.

……

Dieux IV Industrial World.

On the shore of the narrow peninsula, at Arkzburg, the technical sergeants of the warband are still in full swing to strengthen the defenses of the entire city, and far away from here, two imperial transport ships have docked on the coast at some point.

Two behemoths slid down the open hatch at the stern of the ship into the ocean known as "Larkesh", smeared with waves full of highly toxic chemicals, undulating and disappearing into the ocean.

…………