Chapter 67: The Palace Breakthrough Battle
Boom, the Thunderhawk gunboats roared over Augustgrad, hundreds of primordial Star Marines jumped from the gunboats and directly entered the enemy line, and the marines with blast shields, C14 electromagnetic rifles, and grenades were taken by surprise.
But as the elite defending the palace, they quickly reacted, and under the organization of the officers, they began to fire at the Space Marines in groups.
But the fighters who carried out the airborne assault operation would not let them go, and any Marines who began to fight back in a group were wiped out by the Space Marines in a lightning assault.
"Stand back! Back off! Re-establish a line on Street 12, and the raiders fire quickly......" Before the officer could finish speaking, a blast pierced through his helmet and visor, and with a bang, the officer's entire upper body was shattered by the activated deuterium core.
"Follow me, forward! Destroy all those who resist. "Adjutant Yuan Zhu brandished the heavy explosive pistol in his hand and commanded the soldiers to assault, and they called it like a sharp knife to easily pierce the weak part of the Imperial Palace's defensive line.
In less than 15 minutes, most of Augustgrad's outer defense nodes and fire support points were destroyed by the Space Marines.
"This is the Phoenix Squadron, starting to perform close-ground tactical masking."
A squadron of Storm Falcon gunboats began to approach Augustgrad, and after the Space Marines destroyed the nearby missile towers, the gunboat force was finally able to bombard the defenders with impunity.
One of the Emperor's sons piloted the gunboat to lock on to Thor, who was constantly firing at the Yumoyan Protectors, and then pressed the launch button, and a hot melt missile clicked off the pylon and quickly fired at Thor, followed by a second one.
Beep beep, with the continuous warning of the radar, Thor's pilot quickly spotted the missile flying over, but before he could intercept it, the hot melt missile hit Thor's shoulder, and the heat wave quickly spread and melted the superalloy armor, and then the whole arm fell off directly.
Then the second missile went directly into Thor's cockpit, and the hapless pilot was directly vaporized by the heat energy wave, and with the melting of the main structure, the huge Thor crashed to the ground.
Each round of air support like this was able to defeat several defensive nodes that supported the defensive line, and the palace guards lost a lot of heavy equipment, taking advantage of the opportunity for Valerian's troops and Rangers to advance rapidly and gradually occupy the perimeter of the palace.
In order to completely end this feud that has lasted for more than ten years, Renaud and Kerrigan personally led the vanguard to attack the palace.
Renault took his rifle and shot a round to kill the Imperial Marines who were exposing half of his body to suppress the fire, but before he could retract into cover, a grenade hit, Renault's pupils shrank, and he rolled directly to the ground.
Boom, the concussive grenade blew him up, "Fake, Rangers, fire suppression!" "Ordered in the Renault communication channel, which was blown to the ground.
After the Rangers reloaded, they began to fire alternately at the positions of the palace guards, and the continuous nine-millimeter steel nail rounds continued to suppress the raiders, and they still raised their barrel guns and fired as they advanced.
"Damn Tykes, you don't want to die!" Seeing Renault who was so fierce as Tykes, he hurriedly wanted to pull him back to cover.
"Don't be afraid, Brother Jimmy's firepower can't kill me, I'm going to give Mengsk a little color."
Suddenly, under the command of Tykes's desperate assault, some cavalrymen broke through a palace guarded barricade again, and just as they were about to continue their attack, a sniper rifle bullet from nowhere shot a ranger out of nowhere.
"Be careful! There are ghost agents. Renaud reminded loudly, and just as he was trying to find a way to deal with the ghost agent, another gunshot rang out, and one of the ghost agents hiding in the rubble fell to the ground.
"Don't worry, Renault, I'll take care of the ghost agent." It's Dr. Ariel Hansen, who chose to train as a ghost agent and a combat psyker after her swarm virus infection was contained, and she's no longer the weak scholar she used to be, she's now a deadly ghost agent.
With Ariel's help, the invisible Imperial Ghost Agents were eliminated one by one, and the weaponmen began to advance towards the palace again.
Arriving at the last line of defense, the rotational troops and rangers stopped, a ornate transport plane slowly landed, and Prince Valerian walked out with his escort.
"Are you ready to face my father?" Valerian asked.
"I've been waiting for this day for a long time, Prince." Renault said.
"Then let's get started, the Protector attack."
"The Rangers follow me." Renault flipped over cover and led the charge.
The first to enter the palace was a group of World Eater Space Marines, wielding power axes to cut the marines in half, a furious assault that scared even the elite palace guards.
"They're breaking in, fire! Where are our reinforcements? ”
"Ahh Don't come here! "Click.
The communication channel was filled with mournful howls and panicked cries for help, always accompanied by the roar of explosive bombs and the sound of powered weapons priing open cans.
At each such sound, some of the communications disappeared, and as time went on, the sound of gunfire and resistance in the palace became less and less.
Arcturus listened to the sound of gunfire that was getting smaller and smaller, but getting closer, and just calmly put down his wine glass, and then opened the drawer, where there was an ordinary pistol.
Soon, Renault and the others broke through to the door of the room, and looking at the closed door of the room, they stopped for a moment, because Renault was waiting for Valenrian, and they would face the Great Monsk together.
"Your Highness Valerian, the palace is safe, and His Majesty Arcturus is inside." Standing outside the gate, one of Yumoyan's officers said.
"I know, you guys stand down, the three of us can go in." Valenria waved his hand and motioned for the officer to stand outside the door.
The officer hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
"Let's go, Commander Renault, and Kerrigan, let's go meet my father!"
Kerrigan took a deep breath and then took Renault's hand, "Let's go." ”
The armored door slowly opened, and Valerian, Renaud, and Kerrigan entered, and they saw Arctursmunsk standing there without fear, cigar in his mouth and an ordinary pistol in his hand.
"What a surprise to me, Valerian, you would face me in person."