Countless sentry cannons opened fire on the incoming forces of Chaos. A rain of bullets from Vulcan's giant bombs descended on the forces of Chaos.

If there's a downside to the Vulcan Giant Bomb, it's its high degree of inaccuracy, but for a weapon that can create hundreds of square meters of explosive rain of death, the high accuracy often seems a little inconsequential.

Not to mention that the Astral Army now pursues the doctrine of superior fire, emphasizing the use of artillery fire rather than soldiers to defeat the enemy. Lives are at stake, but ammunition is cheap.

The infantry wins the firefight, the tank wins the battle, and the artillery wins the battle.

If one shell can't kill, let's have another one. Unless you can come to me in front of me with a hail of bullets, I won't fight you in hand-to-hand combat. This is the Astral Army's battle strategy of exploiting its strengths and avoiding its weaknesses.

Before the Chaos Warriors come to them under cannon fire, all the Astral Army needs to do is stay in the safety of the fortifications and pour fire on the enemy as quickly as possible through the weapons in their hands.

The heavily deployed Sentinel Cannon is one of the basic defensive structures of the Astral Army, and although they can effectively restrain enemy infantry units, the Astral Army also has many different types of ground defense weapons, which are used to make use of the characteristics of these weapons to carry out multi-layered defense deployments.

For example, a type of defense device that ionizes air to create lightning to attack the enemy, the Magnetic Storm Coil. Compared to the Prism Tower, it has a longer attack interval but is more destructive. If you hit the infantry, most of the time the infantry will be directly reduced to ashes, and if you hit the vehicle, it will also cause a lot of damage.

Powerful enough to kill almost any infantry in a single attack, powerful against tanks, and powerful against tanks, the Storm Coil can be charged with an additional power supply, making it even more powerful when charged.

The Prism Tower is an advanced ground defense structure, and unlike the Magnetic Burst Coil, the Prism Tower fires lasers at the target through a prism on the top of the tower. Prism Towers are not as powerful as the Magnetic Burst Coil, but they have shorter attack intervals and longer ranges.

Prism towers can also fire laser beams at other prism towers within range, which does not damage them, but instead increases the laser power of the target prism tower, allowing it to cause more damage.

Multiple prism towers together are very effective against heavy armored targets. Also, there is no upper limit to the number of tandem connections that a prism tower can have, which means that there is no upper limit to its theoretical power. It can theoretically destroy any vehicle.

Note that the prism tower emits lasers, so its range is very long, and as long as the power is in place, the range is also unlimited.

In addition to these newly developed war machines, the Astral Army also deployed a large number of battle-tested earth-shaking cannons.

As the standard artillery of the Astral Army, the Earth-Shaking Cannon has the ability to fire heavy high-explosive shells over long distances. These large-caliber heavy guns were usually deployed in rear artillery positions far from the front line, bombarding the enemy line indiscriminately.

The Earthshaker can also fire different shells as needed: smoke grenades, incendiary grenades, flares, and armor-piercing shells are all part of the Earthshaker's arsenal.

Countless artillery pieces controlled by the Astral Force or automatic weapon systems are indiscriminately bombarding the enemy. In a short period of time, the cannonballs fired by the Astral Army were enough for each of the demons and warriors of the Chaos forces.

But the chaotic firepower also made the Astral Army suffer.

The current chaotic air units are difficult to function under the three-dimensional defense network woven by the Astral Army, so the ground units of the Chaos Forces want to destroy some of the Astral Army's air defense facilities as soon as possible. Their heavy vehicles launched a fierce assault on the Astral Army.

Mounted on the skull cannon, the bloodlettes rumbled along with their armored mounts at the enemy, howling loudly with crude ecstasy and chanting eulogies in praise of the sadistic.

Like the sadistic Steel Bull, the Skull Cannon is a massive fusion of demonic souls and infernal forging machines. Their twisted and mutated veins burned with a thirst for blood and skulls, extolling the greatness of power and terror and crushing their enemies.

A large number of skull cannons lined up, spewing flames and blood into the weak points of the Astral Army's defenses.

Joining them in the assault on the Astral Army's defenses was a demonic engine that the Empire had never seen before.

It was a giant sadistic demon engine that resembled Terra's ancient scorpion, and the Commander of the Astral Force named it Brass Scorpion.

This demonic engine is one of the largest the Empire has ever encountered, but this beast is large in size, but fast and agile in movement, and adept at attacking static defensive positions and fighting infantry entrenched in the trenches.

Its arms are a pair of giant hydraulic scorpion pincers that can directly tear vehicles to shreds, or wipe out entire infantry teams in a single sweep.

And as the war continues, based on the analysis of information from the front, the Astral Army has discovered that there are various variants of the Brass Scorpion, some of which resemble the Slayer, while others are more twisted and eccentric.

They also vary in size, ranging from tanks to small Titans. The Astral Army is unsure if these variants are deliberately improved to better adapt to different combat environments, or if they are simply a manifestation of the Chaos Warp.

Second only to these brass scorpions are the Blasphemers, who are also a type of demonic engine and the most common of their kind.

It was created by the Dark Mechanics of the Forge World of Xara-II in preparation for the First Black Expedition under the orders of the Great Marauder Abaddon.

The blasphemer's torso is supported by 6 piston-driven limbs, and its shell supports a massive turret that houses the main weapon of this infernal machine.

While the Desecrator typically wields dense arrays of weapons such as the Reaper Autocannon and the Havoc Missile Launcher, its main firepower comes from a combat cannon that resembles an Autocannon.

In addition to firing dense fire to take down enemies, the Desecrator can also intimidate opponents with melee combat. When the Desecrator is thrown into battle, the sorcery that keeps the bound demon in a "stable" state will be lifted, allowing the Chaos Demon to truly enjoy the battle.

These blasphemers are also surrounded by a large number of slayer demons, who are a profane variant dedicated to the Blood God of Sadism.

Many sadistic warriors will attempt to carve runes into the throats of these Hellcraft, thus linking them to sadistic will and rage. The competition for riding such a beast is fierce, and although there are many attempts, few succeed.

Behind the Chaos forces are mostly super-heavy Chaos vehicles known as Doom Blasters.

By the time the sound of the Doomblaster's clumsy, sluggish vibration on the ground approached beyond the horizon, the listener was already under the menace of its four massive mortars.

In a thunderous bombardment, a dense barrage of quadruple mortar guns will blow up all targets in the landing area beyond recognition, leaving nothing but bleeding wreckage.

At the front of the vehicle, the Doomblaster is also equipped with two heavy explosive bombs and two giant tomahawks, tearing to shreds those fools who try to destroy the Doomblaster at close range. On the vehicle's shell, the Doomblaster also has a Sadistic Rune drawn to defend against psionic attacks.

Along with the Doomsday Shockers, there are a handful of Skull Towers that provide firepower to the apocaustic forces.

They are massive demonic engines forged entirely from subspace abilities with brass and black iron, and filled with the essence of countless dead souls, making each tower powerful enough to rival a small army.

Beneath the Sadistic Seat, there are a total of sixty-four towers of skulls, each named after the bloody name of the sadist's favorite gore. Legend has it that in the desert outside the Blood God's Fortress, they fire artillery bombardments in the name of terror, harvesting the souls of their enemies and allies.

The Tower of Skulls is perhaps the most well-armed of all the demonic engines the empire has ever encountered. This great and terrifying war machine is loaded with weapons from the chassis to the top.

The main thing is the Balema cannon at the front, a powerful ballistic weapon. Further up is a set of anti-vehicle skeleton cannons. At the top, two Doomsday Fire cannons and twin skullsmasher cannons are used against the infantry.

In addition to ranged weapons, the tower's massive blade-like weapons at the front of the chassis can directly crush the vehicles and infantry in front of it, and with the sound of artillery fire and the roar of the engine, only a sea of corpses and blood will be left behind the tower.

For those who attempt to summon the Tower of Skull, a truly large-scale massacre will be sufficient to extradite them to real space, and when the Tower appears, the Followers of the Blood God will see it as the best evidence of their favor in terror.

The battle with them would turn into a slaughter on an unimaginable scale, and the only hope was to destroy the tower before the situation deteriorated, but it was not an easy task. Each soul in the Tower of Skulls is the fuel for its function, and can even repair itself if it is severely damaged.

Then there's the terrifying giant demon engine of the Skull Lord, armed with a variety of heavy weapons, and the Skull Lords born from the Hellforge are on a mission to destroy their enemies.

In addition, there are many other demonic engines of the apocalist forces that appear in this battle, and I will not repeat them here.

The sight of the army marching towards the terrorist enemy was enough to make people flee before the battle.

As scarlet doom marches, the thrilling clarion call to war is deafening.

On the horrific banner, the names of the slaughtered mortal warriors are prominently listed. When the blood of the dying warriors is shed, the names on the battle flags are written in their blood.

Some of the battle flags were covered in entrails and flesh, which was creepy. The ornaments came from the countless corpses torn apart by the Skull Lord's legion, changing the color of the mortal realm. The blood-soaked flags have a pungent smell and a coppery red color.

The army of the Blood God is bathed in terrifying glory.

There are also countless sadistic believers marching with these sadistic demons. For example, the various warbands and chaotic mortal forces under the command of the Fear of Abuse.

Since the disastrous Battle of Skalathrax, the World Eaters have split into large and small warbands, and have rarely fought as a unified legion since.

But in this battle, they often appeared on the battlefield in Spartan assault tanks and RAND raiders.

There are also many Brutal Blade Super Heavy Tanks, Machete Super Heavy Tank Destroyers, Typhon Heavy Siege Tanks, and many other super heavy tanks that were widely used by the Legion during the Great Expedition. and the Storm Hammer Super Heavy Tank, piloted by the Chaos Mortal Forces.

Most of their weapons, armor, and designs are different, but they all share one thing in common – firepower that is powerful enough to make enemies desperate.

There is also a large amount of armor corrupted by the forces of chaos and the mind consumed by madness and fury, known as the Hellbeast of Chaos Dauntless. Vent your anger in some of the Astral Army's defenses.

The Hellbeast was flanked by the other Terrible Men, for it was a mad beast of flesh and blood, and these Hellbeasts would vent their mad wrath everywhere they went.

Sometimes these Hellbeasts will attack their teammates with despair and anger, as well as a creepy madness. In fact, they are just as likely to attack their allies as they are to attack their enemies.

"Blood sacrifice to the blood god, skull sacrifice to the skull!"

Sadistic forces are constantly approaching the Astral Army's defenses. But with every meter of advancement, countless soldiers and vehicles from the abusive side were destroyed. However, the Astral Army is not without damage, and the firepower of the Horror is not at the level of small firecrackers.

The two sides went back and forth, and before they really saw each other's faces, they first exchanged artillery greetings.

Behind the apodox forces, the capital of Lapol was bombarded by space warships incessantly, and the deafening explosions never stopped. And in front of the astrology forces, the countless cannons of the Astral Army let out a rumbling roar in unison.

As for the array of the abusive forces, there are constantly shells of the Astral Army falling, like raindrops. The rumbling explosions were incessant.

Many columns of black smoke exploded into the air like a whirlwind on the uneven sandy ground that was several meters wide in diameter.

Beside a Chaos Space Marine, a Chaos Storm Eagle fell from the smoke-filled sky, a shockwave that sent the Chaos Warrior several meters away, and the remains of the Storm Eagle burned like a candle.

In the distance, two other aerial vehicles of the indistinguishable model of the Terrorist Torture were shot down by the anti-aircraft fire of the Astral Army.

One fell straight down with a ball of fire like a dead star, while the other circled around a few times, emitting black smoke and swirling, and finally exploded in mid-air like a string of firecrackers in the distance.

In the formation of the Torture side, those demon engines with heavy firepower, super heavy vehicles, and all kinds of artillery are also rumbling. Brass Scorpion's Destroyer Cannon, Scorpion Cannon, Skull Tower's Balema Cannon, Boiling Blood Cauldron's main cannon, and more.

"Invincible Begins with Sacrificing to the Ancestors"

Their cannonballs whistled through the air and landed on the Astral Army's fortresses and defenses, delivering a devastating blow.

The forces of terror and the Astral Army played a magnificent music with guns and cannons. It is a scene of destruction, commotion, and magnificence.

In such a battlefield full of artillery fire, there is almost no difference between the Astral Army and the Space Marines. If the defense of the Astral Army in the face of artillery fire is like a piece of paper, then the defense of the Space Marine is like a piece of paper folded in half.

Even some Sadistic Demons, or some Primitives, can't guarantee that they will survive smoothly in this kind of battlefield full of artillery fire. The intensity of firepower that can kill them abounds on the battlefield at this time.

What genetically modified super soldiers, what elite soldiers of the Empire, what powerful subspace creatures...

Cannons are the true kings of war!