After hovering over the battlefield for nearly fifteen minutes, the Thunderhawk gunboats had to leave the war zone and return to the hangar to replenish their ammunition.

There were already tens of thousands of corpses of insects lying in front of the first line of defense, but under the command of the mother worm on this planet, countless insects were still fierce and continued to charge towards the excavation base.

Under the continuous onslaught of the insects, even with the support of the Space Marines, the troops guarding the base had to abandon the first line of defense, and after retreating to the position of the bridges on both sides, Zemol detonated the bombs buried in the trenches.

In a series of violent explosions, a worm was also forced to retreat.

"Count the number of people quickly, and immediately enter the defensive position, or it won't be long before the bugs attack again. How many people have we lost? Zemmor asked the detached officers.

"The retreating infantry platoons lost about two hundred people, one Riemannus tank was destroyed by the poison blaster, and the other was wounded."

At this time, there was a piercing sound of friction on the alloy deck of the bridge, and dozens of jumping insects rushed onto the bridge through the smoke generated by the bomb.

Suddenly, in a burst of gunfire from revolvers and Gauss rifles, the jumping insects that rushed onto the bridge deck were swept away.

Jim Renault walked up to Zemmor in his special CMC power armor and asked, "How long will it take to get all the refugees out?" We're afraid we won't be able to do it for long. ”

"Hold out for at least another hour, Commander Renault." Zemol sighed, "It's a good thing that the open space in the mine is very large enough to accommodate more transport planes, otherwise we would have held out much longer. ”

On the Opalon-class battleship, Horus watched Masala through the porthole, and as the mother worm began to attack, a large number of fungus blankets began to grow on the surface of the planet, and even in orbit were visible to the naked eye.

"This planet is hopeless," Horus said to Thor standing beside him, "and after the civilians are removed into orbit, the extermination order will be enforced." ”

Extermination Order! Thor is no stranger to this order, he had given it back during the Great Expedition, but was it really necessary to destroy the planet in front of him?

Horus saw Thor's confusion and pointed to the planet and said, "We don't have enough troops to protect the humans here, and the Tyranid Empire will not send reinforcements here. Then all we can do is evacuate the humans here and destroy it, and the humans can't get it, and the insects don't even think about it! ”

With that, Horus turned and headed for the bridge, where he stood to issue an extermination order, an atmospheric incendiary torpedo was being prepared, and at the first command, Masala would be silent.

The battle on the ground continues, and after retreating to the communication bridge, the human warriors will be held out of the base by relying on the bunkers built before the battle.

The attacking mother seemed to have lost patience, and the thunderbeast, the most powerful weapon of the Zeg swarm, was thrown into the battlefield.

Like a siege chariot, the Thunderbeast rushed towards the non-firing bunker with an unstoppable momentum, and the continuous automatic artillery bombardment could only leave a pitch-black mark on his diamond-shaped chitin carapace, and even the laser cannon used for anti-tank was helpless against this behemoth, and the genes called extra organs allowed the Thunderbeast to withstand deadly attacks and still keep moving.

Eventually, a thunderbeast rushed to the bunker, and the terrifying monomolecular blade tore through the bunker's alloy shell, and the soldiers inside who could not escape in time were crushed to death by the collapsing alloy plates.

Zemol watched the behemoth in front of him and began to act, and now most of the legionnaires had undergone the Primordial Casting Surgery to become even more powerful Primordial Space Marines.

But Zemore didn't fail to upgrade, so he was able to continue using the old jetpack, and the turbo engine continued to push, allowing Zemore to fly into the sky.

Driven by the jetpack, Zemol headed straight for the Thunderbeast, and after approaching the Thunderbeast's head, he landed directly on the Thunderbeast's head.

The thunder beast found the little dot on his head, and he kept waving his head, trying to get rid of the little man on his head, but Zemol had already inserted the battle knife into the horns of the thunder beast, and it was impossible to break free easily.

After standing firm, Zemol pointed the Seiko hot melt pistol in his hand at the thunderbeast's eye, and as he gently pulled the trigger, a blazing light erupted from the barrel, and a powerful beam of heat energy pierced through the thunderbeast's eye to destroy its brain.

After losing its primary brain, the thunderbeast's movements became sluggish, and although the secondary brain was still able to support the thunderbeast's operation, its travel speed was greatly slowed down.

"I'm the commander of the Zemol company, the heavy artillery company, and immediately fired an armor-piercing grenade at my position." After downloading the order, Zemol immediately activated his jetpack and flew back to his position.

After a while, several shells smashed into the battlefield with a long trail, and the slow-moving thunderbeast did not have time to get out of the range of the shelling.

After two rounds of shelling, an armor-piercing grenade perfectly hit the back of the thunder beast, and the high-hardness alloy warhead allowed the armor-piercing grenade to penetrate the shell of the thunder beast, and then the deuterium warhead was detonated, and the powerful after-effect directly blew the inside of the thunder beast into a mess.

In a hissing of pain, the terrible beast fell to the ground and could not get up again.

Although several attacking thunder beasts were disposed of, the defense line on the human side was still losing ground one after another.

"Is the transport ship gone?" Renault asked loudly as he opened fire, holding a Gauss rifle.

"The transport ship has been successfully evacuated, the artifact has been taken away, and our mission has been completed, Commander Renault." Zemol, who had just pinched a jumping worm to death, replied.

"It's time to retreat." Zemol said, looking at the sky.

"That's right, my ship has arrived." Renault also looked at the sky.

A Behemoth-class battlecruiser jumped directly into the atmosphere, and the laser array in the cruiser's belly immediately opened fire on the swarm of insects on the ground, and the blazing laser ignited the swarms of insects.

In the communication channel, a righteous voice came, "The rescue has arrived, are there any living people down there?" ”

It was the Hyperion in the sky, and the owner of the voice was the captain of the Hyperion, Matt Horner.

"It's just in time, Matt" Renault's face was full of smiles, but the smile immediately stopped, as a shadow covered the entire excavation base and the Hyperion.

The Opal Dragon battleship in orbit also did not dodge, and the eight-kilometer-long behemoth sailed directly to the orbit near the excavation base.

"Lord Horus's flagship has also appeared, waiting for you above him, let's get out of this hellish place."

"Oh my God", Renault stared blankly at the shadow cast by the Angel's Tears.