Infinite Stream Metaverse

Chapter 340
Kalamanda had heard that the soldiers of Krieg's Death Corps were taciturn and died generously in silence.

And this Captain Han Xing Li was obviously an exception.

He talked a lot, even a little eloquently.

The nobles in the hive capital obviously had doubts about the two cavalry troops who came to support them-it's the space age, and anyone still plays cavalry?Are you two here to be funny?
Tariha from Attila is obviously not good at words, his strong body odor, his low Gothic accent are also very incompatible with the nobles of the hive world.

So Captain Hanxing from Krieg, a young and talkative Death Corps officer with a hideous face, began to talk about his cavalry philosophy to these nobles.

"This is a heavily genetically modified original Terran warhorse, which is now very different from its ancestors. They were designed to withstand harsher battlefield conditions and are much stronger than ordinary horses. Its hind legs can Go over the trenches and make your way through thick mud or rubble."

The young cavalry officer spoke eloquently:

"Many additional biologically modified organs enable it to survive in the most polluted or toxic environments. Under the design of the Mechanicus creature sages, these war horses are also equipped with sharp hoofed feet, permeable lungs, Subcutaneous organic armor and a fully integrated drug delivery system that includes analgesics, potent stimulants, and other palliatives."

First of all, it is necessary to reverse the stereotype of the nobles on war horses, and tell them that this is a biochemical product of the Mechanicus, with high technological content, not a weak and primitive ancient horse.

Hearing this, Tariha hastily added:
"It's the same with us."

The warhorse of the Krieg death cavalry is a biochemical beast that looks like a horse, while the warhorse of the Attila barbarian cavalry comes from the continuous improvement and selection of primitive horses for thousands of years.

There is still a certain gap, but it is not the same.

"Excuse me, Captain Lee."

A male nobleman asked:
"The functions you mentioned can be achieved by Sentinel mechas and various tanks. I still haven't been able to understand, what is the significance of the Death Corps retaining the cavalry establishment?"

"Uh."

Li Hanxing hesitated for a moment, then said:

"In fact, the Krieg Death Corps is not equipped with sentry mechas. The death troopers are our sentry mechas. If you have actually participated in the war, you can understand that logistics support is a complicated, serious and difficult discipline. In the right environment, the logistical requirements would be far less than what you're talking about with Sentinels and various tanks, and we're not helpless against armored vehicles."

No matter the tank or the Sentinel mecha, they have to burn promethium, while the biochemical warhorse only needs to eat meat and grass. In some environments, the requirements for logistical support are indeed a little smaller.

Tariha then added:
"We fought tanks, we fought a lot of tanks."

Kalamanda didn't interrupt, he just stood by, quietly listening to the discussion between the hive nobles and the two guard commanders.As a pragmatist, Kalamanda felt that it was extremely stupid to still discuss whether cavalry in the era of space warfare was useful at this time.Now that the Ministry of Military Affairs has sent two cavalry units over, it has become an established fact, the only thing that needs to be considered is how to use them.

Fight whatever soldiers you have.

How does discussing the significance of the existence of cavalry help in warfare?

"Cough cough."

Kalamanda coughed lightly, interrupting the endless questioning of several nobles about Li Hanxing. These guys who have no actual combat experience but like to talk about wars on paper have already made Captain Night Bat very tired.He looked at Li Hanxing and asked:

"Captain Li, what is the specific strength of what you call 'a full company'?"

Kalamanda only cares about this.

"My company has a total of 65 people, including a five-man command group and six ten-man squadrons, Kalamanda company commander."

Li Hanxing replied.

"What about you, Tariha... Colonel?"

Kalamanda looked down at the commander in leather gloves, boots, and leather robe, and thought that calling him "Colonel" might be more appropriate than "Chief".

"The 264th Attila Barbarian Cavalry Regiment has a total of [-] barbarian cavalry and a corresponding number of horses, Your Excellency Company Commander."

Tariha replied in a muffled voice.

"How did you get here?"

Kalamanda continued to ask.

Wanted to see if there was more naval power.

"Aboard two Imperial transports."

The conclusion is no.

"Um……"

Kalamanda is thinking about how to arrange it.

At this time, a blind and skinny old man walked into the banquet hall quickly. He is the astropath of this hive city. The old man walked to the governor of one of the planets and whispered a few words.

The planetary governor's eyes lit up after hearing this.

Then he turned to face the crowd and announced loudly:

"Good news, good news, everyone."

"The leader of the Iron Buddha Chapter, Aoyama Khan, personally came to support us on an Emperor-class battleship. We are saved, and the planet Kernak III is saved!"

The nobles present cheered and celebrated.

Khan is here?

Kalamanda froze for a moment, then looked at the astropath.

The astropath nodded and said to Kalamanda:
"Lord Kalamanda, please follow me."

…………

Pankalis sub-sector, Kernak galaxy.

Suzheng arrived at this galaxy faster than expected, because of the blessing of the relic technology "subspace sextant", and another reason——

Navigator Tracey broke through to become a gamma-level psyker, and this is one of the reasons why Navigator Ambassador authorized the Grays to bring her back to Terra.

With Tracy's age and her psychic level, it is not an exaggeration to say that she is a genius. During the Great Crusade, she would even be qualified to be the navigator of the Queen of Glory class battleship. Unfortunately, there are not many Queen of Glory class battleships now. up.

The battleship travels at sub-light speed, heading for the target planet.

Fu Qinghai stood on the bridge, looked at the huge white ice ring outside the armored porthole, and first had a preliminary understanding of the complex space orbital environment of this hive world.

This is a planet with ice rings.

The white ice ring with a diameter of more than 30 kilometers and an average thickness of 500 meters is mostly composed of bright white ice crystals, mixed with gray meteorites of different sizes, surrounding the entire planet, and looks like a huge crown.

Outside the white ice ring, there is a slightly sparsely arranged asteroid belt, slowly rotating around the planet, and irregular collisions and extrusions are still occurring between each other.

The battleship Suzheng first met the cruiser Warhorse, which was forced to withdraw from low-Earth orbit, at the outer edge of the asteroid belt.

"What's the situation now?"

Fu Qinghai looked at another interstellar warrior in the holographic projection and asked, they were in charge of guarding the battle cruiser Warhorse, which was not far from Suzheng right now.

"Khan, the Chaos warband who believes in Khorne, owns an underworld-class heavy cruiser, with shields and firepower above ours, and the name is 'Warbringer'."

"The orc fleet from the evil sun clan has two Basha-class light cruisers, five assault-class assault ships, and an unknown number of orc boulders."

"In addition, there is an alien warship with the size of a battleship, parked on the other side of the planet. The Rogue Trader in the Hive City said that it was a spaceship of the Kroot, and it was called..."

"It's called a warship, I know."

Fu Qinghai said.

The Kroot, a kind of space birdman with the ability to devour and assimilate, is one of the most famous Titanium Alliance forces under Shangshandao. At this time, the Tau Empire did not exist, but the Kroot, as a well-known universe Mercenaries have been around for a long time, much longer than the Tau Empire.

The war ball ship is a strange spaceship. No one knows how the Kroot people, who are not very technologically advanced, made this spaceship. Some say it has something to do with the fallen orc spaceship, and some say it is a gift from an unknown race. .

Except it looks like an egg.

This ship also has the following features:

Large, with a diameter of nine to twelve kilometers, comparable to the length of a human empire battleship, and even larger.

It moves very slowly, but is said to turn very fast, perhaps due to its spherical shape.

Capable of warp jumping, they employ a warp engine unknown to the Mechanicus.

Ability to land on planets - this is the black technology that Fu Qinghai can't understand the most. Such a huge spaceship can actually land on the surface of a planet?
The Kroot are said to have smashed the warball to the surface and used it as a colonial outpost.

In Fu Qinghai's view, the warship is a village in a space city built with a large number of armor plates and capable of interstellar navigation. Inside, there is a complete Kroot tribe—cosmic mercenaries who collectively go out to work.The defense is strong and the firepower is fierce, but apart from being able to land on planets, there is not much technical content.

Naval battles in space are fought for the supremacy of the planets.

How important air supremacy is in war needless to say.

Fu Qinghai did not rush to order to land, but stood on the bridge and seriously thought about how to fight this space naval battle.

"I guess the three of them didn't fight before I arrived, did they?"

Fu Qinghai asked.

"Yes, Khan. The warship is hovering over the low-earth orbit of the planet. The orc and chaos warships are hiding in the asteroid belt, maintaining a confrontation. According to our reconnaissance, the orc is still building more orc boulders .”

The captain of the Space Marine replied.

Orc Monolith is essentially a hollowed-out asteroid, equipped with various weapons, propulsion systems, and targeting arrays. Ork Monolith cannot travel through warp space, but can only fly from one planet to another within the galaxy.

Why is Fu Qinghai sure that the three families did not go to war?
The reason is simple, the strength of the three fleets is not bad: the orc fleet is the largest in number but not high in quality, the Kroot warships are of the highest quality but move slowly, and the warships of the Chaos Warband have the same firepower and tonnage. awkward position.In short, no matter which two companies take the lead in fighting, there is a possibility that the third company will reap the benefits.

And the key point is that the special and complex environment above the orbit of the planet provides cover and concealment, which brings more uncertainties, making it difficult for the three parties to let go of the fight.

The addition of the Emperor-class battleship heralds the arrival of the fourth force. An Emperor-class battleship plus a conventional cruiser is not a force that can be underestimated—even if this Emperor-class battleship does not have one carrier aircraft.

"The Kroot are a bunch of cosmic mercenaries, they have no position, maybe they are up for sale at the moment. The Xie Sun clan is not the Bloodaxe clan, there is no possibility of negotiation, and we have nothing to do with aliens and chaos That said, those two are 100% our enemies."

Fu Qinghai analyzed.

"Do you want to fight then, Khan?"

Joe Star asked.

"Do not."

Fu Qinghai shook his head:
"Fight the ground war first."

Even if the Kroot remain neutral, the Orcs and Chaos are the enemies of the warband, and if they choose to attack either side, they may be flanked by two sides—the Orcs and Chaos are not stupid.

What's more, Fu Qinghai didn't want the Suzheng to go deep into the asteroid belt for hand-to-hand combat. The orc warships were crudely built, and they could just blow up one by one at a distance.

Get close to the Datiao Gang, not to mention that there is nothing to gain, the void shield can't defend against the collision of battleships, and use the precious flagship of the battle group to be hit by the kamikaze of the broken orc ship?

That doesn't work.

"The Suzheng and the Fierce Horse maintain a tentative attack, and don't let the orcs and traitors live too comfortably."

Fu Qinghai ordered:

"All the space fighters of the first company, board the jet motorcycle, and land on the surface with me!"

"Yes, Khan!"

……

The star language chorus room in the hive capital.

Through the message of the astropath, Kalamanda is communicating with Xia Yu on the Suzheng.

The old star whisperer relayed Xia Yu's words:
"Commander Kalamanda, Qingshan Khan ordered you and Captain Satfaran to lead the two companies to alternate defenses, use the teleportation deck to return to the battleship Suzheng, and then each space soldier will drive a jet motorcycle to land on the surface of the planet again."

"We got jet bikes!?"

Kalamanda was surprised at first, and then immediately responded:

"Tell them I got it."

……

When the Suzheng finally reached the orbit of the planet, the Kalamanda and the battle barge no longer needed to communicate through astronomical messages, but established a direct communication link.

The space fighters of the fifth company and the sixth company teleported back to the teleportation deck one after another, and then drove the jet motorcycle to set off again, returning to the hive world.

Suzheng’s gantry is open, and the jet motorcycles are like a group of dense black sesame spots that can’t be seen. They drilled out of the hangar, bypassed the beautiful and vast bright ice ring, and entered the planet’s atmosphere at a reduced speed, disappearing one by one. not see.

……

Hive Capital, Spire Area.

With a sword on his waist and a helmet in one hand, Fu Qinghai strode along the ornately decorated aisle, followed by Joestar, Kalamanda, and Satterfaran. On the bluestone floor, the sound of neat and sonorous footsteps echoed throughout the passage.

Pushing open the door of the conference room.

Fu Qinghai scanned the people inside.

The commander of the local Planetary Defense Force, the commanders of the two Imperial Guards from different regiments, and the planetary governor were all standing behind the conference table.

"Everyone, according to the latest transfer order of the Ministry of Military Affairs, from now on, I will be the supreme military commander of the Kernak III planetary theater. Do you have any questions?"

Fu Qinghai asked calmly.

"No problem, sir!"

Li Hanxing and Tariha stood at attention and saluted together.

The commander of the Planetary Defense Force, who was obviously from aristocratic background, didn't know whether he was intimidated by Fu Qinghai's aura or what.

This is a relationship.

The four space warriors immediately reached a consensus: any subsequent tactical deployment does not need to consider his opinion.

"I heard that there is also a space wolf tactical team coming to support, where are they now?"

"Report sir, according to the astronomical message, they took a scimitar-class frigate, and they have just arrived at the Mandeville point on the outskirts of the galaxy, and they are rushing at full speed."

Li Hanxing hurriedly replied.

"Ok."

Fu Qinghai nodded and said:

"Tell me about the current situation."

Sutterfaran, who was behind him, took a step forward, reached out and tapped a few times on the table, a holographic projection of a planet rose up, and the Raven Guard warrior waved his palm, rotating and enlarging the holographic projection, pointing at the continent where the hive city is located, and said to Fu Qinghai :

"Khan, please look."

"Currently we are in the inland plain area of ​​the northern hemisphere of the planet, the largest hive city on the planet Kernak III. This is the area where the orcs are active, and this is the place where the traitors landed. The known situation is ..."

With the introduction of Satterfaran.

The situation of the planet gradually became clear.

The planet has only one continent, and near the equator is a circle of rotting tropical rainforest with miasma, swamps, and dense jungles.There are a large number of orcs in the Xie Sun clan, and they have a wide range of activities. There are sighting reports in the vast plains and hilly areas around the hive capital.The Chaos War Gang occupied a small satellite city, and it has been shrinking there without moving.

Fu Qinghai held his chin and lowered his head in thought.

What's the point of hiding in a stronghold if the Chaos Gang, who believe in Khorne, don't come out to hunt and sacrifice heads?

The evil sun clan needs to solve it as soon as possible, the more broken, the stronger the orcs, the more battles, the stronger the orcs, there can be no delay... But it is best to find their war boss directly, the beheading tactic is always tried and tested for the orcs.

According to previous intelligence, some people have seen the badge and flag of the Snakebite clan. Where are they?

"not enough."

Fu Qinghai shook his head and said:
"Information is not enough."

Existing intelligence is insufficient to support any tactical decision.

Fu Qinghai raised his head and looked at Li Hanxing and Tariha:

"The good news is, we now have cavalry."

Fu Qinghai ordered:

"Attila Barbarian Cavalry Regiment, Krieg Death Cavalry, leave Hive Capital to investigate. I want to know the distribution range, activity area, number of personnel, and firepower of the orc convoy...by the way, observe the latest trends of the Chaos Warband .”

"Received, sir!"

The two answered in unison.

Fu Qinghai looked at Satterfaran:
"I'll give you a tactical squad fully equipped with jet bikes, and you go find the war boss."

"Understood, Khan!"

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(End of this chapter)