From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Inside the underground hangar of the "13" frontline base;

Various transport boats, attack boats and aerial gunboats are ready.

Ground crew members wearing engineering mechas or engineering mechanical skeletons, with the assistance of T-800 Terminators, carried out final inspections of all vehicles.

Four thousand elite guards belonging to the joint reconnaissance force, also wearing MacP power armor and holding hard-light firearms, entered the cabin of the transport boat one after another and stood by.

At the same time, Athena, holding the Spear of Victory and wearing golden armor, and more than 400 Greek minor gods also entered the corresponding transport boats.

The most eye-catching combat unit is undoubtedly the "alternative" Astartes, which also number 400 and have an average height of more than 2.8 meters, close to 3 meters.

Gray Knight.

The power armor of these Grey Knights is similar to that of medieval heavy knights, and is much heavier than the titanium power armor equipped by ordinary Astartes.

And this is the Aegis Terminator power armor that the Research Department "tailor-made" for the Grey Knights.

The Atlas Research Department, which had been reorganized as an "Imperial State-owned Enterprise", started the project of the Terminator Power Armor when it was developing the Titanium Tank Power Armor.

After Atlas successfully integrated the Terraria numbered "07", the Research Department incorporated a large number of dwarf craftsmen and used dwarf steel, which is stronger and more resilient than titanium alloy, to create Terminator-type power armor.

After several years of research, the Research Department has produced a variety of models, such as the Iron Cavalry Type, the Hades Type, the Unyielding Type, and so on.

The cost of these types of Terminators is equivalent to ten or even more than ten sets of Titanium 4 power armor, which is an extremely expensive equipment.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for the Human Empire to provide Terminators to various legions "for free".

The primarchs of each legion will submit orders for various models of Terminators to the Martian Foundry in the main universe, so that the elite troops of their own legion can exert stronger combat power.

Normally, only the company commander, company champion, or the glory guard directly under the primarch would be equipped with the expensive Terminator power armor.

As for the 4,000 Grey Knights, who are subordinate to the Inquisition but only obey the Emperor of Mankind, they are all equipped with Aegis Terminators.

Moreover, the holy shield-type external armor is all forged from the scarce mithril.

The four hundred Grey Knights in the underground hangar had Chinese characters engraved on their external armor, and some of the Grey Knights even had paper copies of the "Human Code" hung on their shoulder armor.

If you look closely, you will find that the paper copies of the "Human Code" emit a faint golden glow.

The weapons of these four hundred Grey Knights are parallel bolters on the left arm armor, and exclusive power spears, power halberds, or power hammers in their right hands.

They also need to board the Astartes' exclusive Thunder transport aircraft to accompany the main force composed of the Joint Reconnaissance Force and the Inquisition, deep into the territory of Hell shrouded by thick clouds, and reach the Gate of Hell located in Jerusalem.

However, according to the final form of all models of Terminator, they are actually capable of "instant teleportation".

That is, just mark a coordinate, and the elite soldiers wearing Terminators can complete short-distance instant movement.

The Research Department has attempted to improve and miniaturize the Ark transporter.

However, it is difficult to ensure the stability of the miniaturized Ark transport device.

When using D-level personnel to conduct miniaturized Ark teleportation experiments, most of the D-level personnel's bodies were either missing arms or legs, or half of their bodies were teleported to an unknown place after completing the instant movement.

If the Astartes were to do the teleportation.

Then the cost of non-combat losses is not something the Legion and the Primarch can afford.

In the end, the miniaturized Ark transport device was completely abandoned by the Research Department and sealed permanently.

Therefore, the Research Department could only wait for Dr. Catherine Halsey to reverse-engineer the Forerunner's technology and then directly adopt the Forerunner's short-distance instantaneous transmission technology.

In this way, both security and stability will be guaranteed.

The Grey Knights' Aegis Terminators are also "semi-finished products" without short-distance transmission devices, so they must ride on Thunder Transport Boats and act together with the main force.

As for the absolute main force of this raid on Hell's Gate, the 1st Company of the Dark Angels, all members were deployed in the company fleet in low-Earth orbit.

The Dark Angels' 1st Squadron's fleet consists of one Carthage-class supercarrier, two Valiant-class super-heavy cruisers, six Paris-class and twelve Feddes-class frigates, and one Phoenix-class support craft.

Excluding nearly a thousand adult Dark Angels, the 1st Regiment's auxiliary forces, crew members, engineering and maintenance personnel, ground staff and logistics, etc., the total number of people reached a huge number of .

If we include mindless biological weapons such as Terminators, Hunters, and Clones, the scale is approximately between 25 and 30.

After all, the first company of each legion represents the "face" and combat effectiveness of the legion.

What's more, although Leon seems to be indifferent to all matters on the surface, in fact, Leon is very willing to treat his "offspring".

Before the establishment of the empire, Leon used various "reasonable and legal" means to gain more benefits for the Dark Angels.

As for the 1st Company of the Dark Angels, once the main force of the front-line base has penetrated deep into the territory of Hell by means of various transport vehicles, they will lower the altitude of the fleet until they descend into the atmosphere to join the battle.

It is mainly the cloud covering the territory of Hell, which has an isolating effect similar to psychic energy.

Normal communication, detection and scanning methods will be ineffective.

Therefore, in order to provide fire support as soon as possible, the company fleet chose to descend into the atmosphere.

now.

Almost all the ground troops boarded the transport vehicles, and Serin, wearing a one-piece combat suit and a face-covering helmet, entered a Thunder transport boat under the escort of two Gray Knights.

Wait until everything is ready.

All ground crews evacuated the parking spaces in the hangar and waved to the pilots in the cockpit.

Then, the top gates of the underground hangar opened one after another.

Soon, the pilots in the cockpit could observe the cloudy sky outside the hangar through visual vision.

See this scene.

The pilots immediately controlled their respective vehicles, left the parking positions, and went out through the opened gates.

After hundreds of transport boats, attack boats and aerial gunboats formed a flying formation that was truly like covering the sky and the sun, they began to move towards Jerusalem in the southeast direction.

The pilots sitting in the cockpit can also see that the area where the front-line base is located has been completely improved and transformed by the Pure Flower.

The area around the front-line base is no longer lifeless and filled with poisonous fog, but is now filled with a large amount of green vegetation.

Even the air near the front-line bases will allow ordinary people to carry out their daily work and life without wearing filtering masks.

The elite guards and staff responsible for guarding the base waved their arms and blessed their fellow comrades who were about to join the battle after seeing the huge flying formation moving away.

After a while.

The flight formation sank into the turbid clouds, and the pilots could no longer visually observe the front-line base in the rear.

Seeing this, the pilots immediately used their helmet screens to control the flight of their respective vehicles.

"Attention everyone, this is Colonel McTavish."

At this time, Soap's command sounded on the communication channel of all personnel, and it was heard:

"It is now 10:9 on October 16th, local time. The 36th Front Base has officially launched a general attack on the Hell Forces in this universe.

According to known intelligence, local sovereign states such as the Holy Roman Empire and the Tsarist Empire have organized large numbers of troops to engage in battle against the forces of Hell in early October.

Furthermore, since our human empire has occupied several frontier towns that were raided and besieged by the forces of Hell, we have also captured a large number of Knights of the Order and Sisters of the Church.

Therefore, the investigators who infiltrated the Holy Roman Empire indicated that the Holy Roman Empire had great hostility towards us, but it was only because the forces of Hell suddenly launched a full-scale attack that they were unable to engage in a confrontation with us and try to retake the border towns controlled by us. "

Having said this, Soap paused, then emphasized his tone and continued:

"The purpose of our human empire is to put people first, but in this general offensive mission, if we encounter the local human army that has also penetrated deep into the hell territory, and the local human army attacks us.

Each unit has the authority to open fire freely and launch counterattacks.

After all, the top leaders of the local universe have long been controlled by God and the forces of heaven, and our human empire will sooner or later purge them.

Finally, I wish all the guys who participated in this general attack a perfect demon hunting experience! Military merits and rewards are waiting for us!

For the empire!

For the Emperor!"

"For the Empire!"

"For the Emperor!"

Instantly, the communication channel was filled with the battle cries of various units.

At this time, the flying formation had already flown hundreds of kilometers away.

Sitting in the cabin of the Thunder Transport, Serin looked down at the surface of the Hell Territory through her electronic eyes and the monitor of the transport.

It can't be said to be a hundred forms.

It should be quite simple and "lifeless".

There is not a single green vegetation, only a thick poisonous fog that permeates the surface.

The turbid sky blocks the sun's rays, causing the surface temperature of the hell territory to be relatively low, making it difficult for ordinary creatures to survive in such an extreme environment.

but--

? ?

But Serin discovered that about twenty kilometers northwest of the flying formation, there was a town with a strong "smoky atmosphere"?

As soon as she discovered the town, Serin used the monitors of the Thunder transport boat to focus on it.

It was seen that almost all the "human" residents living in that town had undergone severe deformation.

Either the face becomes increasingly uglier and grows a large number of asymmetrical eyeballs, or the skin ulcers and the arms are replaced by bone spurs.

There was even a huge ship of the Order, anchored in the center of the town.

But that giant structure that combined a church, an auditorium and a dormitory, with an ultra-large tracked chassis, grew bloody bone spurs, as well as a large amount of human bones and flesh.

This shows that the knights living and stationed here have "abandoned the light and turned to darkness", and either voluntarily or forced themselves to join hell.

In short, the whole town is full of corrupt and degenerate guys.

So after confirming that there was no exploration value in that town, Serin directly marked it on the thumbnail map of all pilots.

next moment--

Shua~——! !

An escorting gunboat, the Vulture, fired a metal hydrogen missile with tactical power at the town.

then

Ri~——咻——! !

An extremely dazzling miniature sun appeared "out of thin air" in the center of the town and directly swallowed up the entire town.

The miniature sun is fleeting.

Then, shock waves and mushroom clouds began to sweep rapidly around.

The power of extremely high temperature and extremely high energy physically purified the area for a short period of time.

Boom——! ! !

After the deafening explosion, the aftermath began to gradually dissipate.

As for all the turbid things in the town, they also dissipated with the aftermath.

The flight formation continued to move towards Jerusalem.

Along the way, he destroyed and razed dozens of corrupt towns and cities, as easy as an ordinary person stepping on a few bugs while walking on the side of the road.

There is no way. Even though there are hell and heaven in the universe of "Trench Crusaders" and there are monsters and demons rampant, it is ultimately a "low-end civilization" that has not left the earth.

For the human empire, which can use nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs individually, it would only take a few minutes to destroy the Earth in "Trench Crusade".

The reason why the general attack on the Gate of Hell was launched only now was for the purpose of "preaching".

After the 13th Front Base occupied several border towns, it freed up a large amount of manpower and material resources in order to ensure that the local residents had enough food and clothing in the shortest possible time, so that they no longer had to work hard for basic survival.

In addition, Athena, the Grey Knights and the Greek minor gods will frequently appear in the field of vision of local residents, and personally teach them how to adapt to life under the rule of the Human Empire. They will also help allocate jobs to local residents, etc.

In just one month, almost all the local residents in the border towns gave up their faith and fear of God and Heaven, and instead became "devout believers" of the Human Emperor and the "Human Code".

After all, no matter how ignorant and uneducated the local residents are, they can still tell who keeps them well fed and well watered, and provides them with reasonable jobs so that they can continue to earn the same reasonable wages for themselves and their families with their own hands.

The most important thing is that those border towns have gradually entered the stage of modernization as the engineering teams started the "infrastructure frenzy".

Basic supplies such as electricity and water are absolutely guaranteed, and even every household is equipped with an old-fashioned TV. As for the Internet, it will take some time before it is fully popularized.

The Human Empire provides televisions to residents of border towns at extremely low prices so that they can "see with their own eyes" how the Dark Angels and the Inquisition annihilate the army of Hell.