Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 227 04.0226: ‘Penetration Deployment’

"The designated location has been reached and landing is allowed."

The 'Skyraider' raided the Valkyrie cockpit at night. The Hainan Airlines lieutenant who served as the pilot and flight leader spoke into the cabin through the loudspeaker. Then he turned on the airborne indicator, and the lights in the cabin changed from red to green. The blue to black armor of the passengers blended into a cyanotic purple.

The power armor soldiers of the Chief Eagle Flag Battalion stood up from their seats one by one and lined up on the track one step wide.

Then the tail cabin slowly opened.

laugh! ——

The pulleys on the power boots began to rotate at high speed. The moment they raised their toes, the built-in self-sensing transmission device rushed outwards with extremely high horsepower.

Like dropping a string of depth bombs from the air, the Valkyrie fighter jets quietly deployed the Hell's elite soldiers to designated battle positions in the darkness.

The Valkyrie where Horatio was located also opened its tail cabin.

"Wow..." Judge Ravenor couldn't help but exclaimed as he looked at the black abyss below.

"Come on, Inquisitor. It's time to go down."

"You go first, I may need to make some mental preparations. You know, not everyone can accept such a high altitude. Even the Inquisitor is not completely without weaknesses."

"Of course, it's up to you."

Horatio and Louise, who were wearing helmets, gave each other a final check for air tightness.

Then he patted her shoulder and gave her a thumbs up.

She nodded, indicating she was ready.

Like a pair of uniform divers, the two jumped down with their weapons in hand and dived towards the endless darkness below.

"Young people today are so courageous." Judge Ravenor stuck his head out and looked at the two figures disappearing into the dark sky.

The Inquisitor then looked at the Astartes around him.

These noble Blood Angels, because the color of their armor is so scarlet, as deep as ink, that they look unexpectedly inconspicuous in the dark, and can even blend into the darkness.

Captain Afel put his hand on the power sword, looked back at his battle brothers through the green eyepiece, and nodded.

Then he jumped down without saying a word.

His battle brothers followed, including the blind monk and the heavyweight Centurion mecha operator.

The strike team positioned the Centurion mech in the center, firmly in place.

Each of them is equivalent to a combined parachute of the Centurion mecha, sending a steel man weighing a hundred tons in front of the enemy. This is a unique skill of the Blood Angels who like to jump and attack.

"It's time to go, Lord Ravenor." The woman holding the Eldar shuriken gun said standing behind the Inquisitor.

"Okay, okay. I'll take my time, and you guys go first."

The woman raised her eyebrows and glanced at the strong man with fists as big as sandbags beside her, as well as a retired naval sergeant with a hideous scar on his face.

The three of them hit it off immediately and stood behind the judge.

"Wait! Hey...ahhhhhh!!"

They kicked out together, kicking the Ravenor Inquisitor from the tail cabin of the transport aircraft, who was hesitant to face the high altitude and was not mentally prepared for a long time.

But this isn't the first time they've done this. The inquisitor himself, who was still afraid of heights, said, 'If I can't jump, you guys will kick me down. ’

Horatio and Louise, who had countless orbital skydiving experiences, expertly fell flat on their backs in the air. Their hands grabbed each other's arms in the sky, forming a circle.

In this way, it is very convenient to have the data pad on the arm to know the position of other team members and maintain balance.

"Height 1,000 above the ground." Louise reported.

Horatio gave her a thumbs up.

call! ——

The vector gravity umbrella behind the two of them started to operate. He and Louise adjusted their posture in mid-air, holding the hell gun, and stood straight in a 'feet on the ground' airborne posture.

"The oriole is in position."

"Attention all units, please be free to clear out surrounding threats after landing. Remember to act in a concealed manner and wait for the signal for the general attack."

"As you command, Centurion."

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Although followers of Khorne are brutal and violent, they are not fools.

For the important ceremony presided over by the 'Pope' level leaders, even though they suffered huge casualties on Sanguinius Day, they still assembled a large number of Blood Pact troops and cultist servants to closely guard the entire ceremony venue and even the surrounding area. Thousands of square meters of area.

But fortunately, this is the blurred boundary area between the middle and lower nests.

The poor and abandoned people live together in this land.

In the middle of the target is the abandoned ancient square. Next to it is the 'garbage building', which is the shanty town built by the Xiachao slums with the help of the buildings in the nest city. It only extends part of the square.

There are still so many people living here, but the complexity of the buildings is relatively a little better.

The square area in the middle is the main location for the planned firefight, which is a little better than fighting street fighting directly in the damn winding slums.

Of course, only a little bit.

The terrain here is as complex as the cabin of a battleship.

The old electrically driven doors that had existed since the hive's founding had long been damaged.

Corridors were divided into corridors by walls that were so old that they were moldy and black, forming an unknown space that was more complex and disordered than the cabins of Imperial Navy battleships.

No matter how "chaotic" it is, the design of battleship cabins must consider damage control and traffic efficiency.

Although it is messy and complicated, it is the crystallization of the wisdom of the warship designers, with order in the chaos.

But here, these slum shantytowns are different.

In order to find a place to live, the abandoned people of the lower nest can build their own "small homes" in any corner.

The structure is chaotic and disorderly, and the tragedy caused by landslides and fires often takes the lives of these poor people in their sleep.

The unstable environment structure and the chaotic and unknown combat environment hide many risks for any elite troops.

The complexity is far more troublesome than the dense residential areas faced by the US military in the street battle on the 6th of Fallujah - at least the US military is not facing this kind of three-dimensional nest city megastructure.

But for the well-equipped and skilled Imperial Navy pioneers, the difficulty can only be considered average.

Their equipment design has been specialized for such terrain from the beginning, and is born for indoor close-range combat.

As early as the process of descending with a gravity parachute from high altitude, Horatio quickly scanned the ground terrain from the air and used the processor in the helmet to quickly build a three-dimensional model.

"Everyone, analyze the terrain below immediately and upload the data to the regional network."

The scanning command was also sent to other Hell Pioneers.

The people in the air used the micro-thinker processors in the armor to construct the terrain below for the terrain near them.

One piece, two pieces, as the pioneers gathered the modeling data to the tactical combat network, each modeling fragment was like a puzzle, piecing together the three-dimensional terrain of the entire area into a whole.

Well, now the terrain is only an obstacle to the enemy, but it is the companion of the pioneers.

They are like returning to their own home, knowing where each intricate alley leads to and how much space there is behind each wall.

In addition, many of the second batch of reinforcements are from the ship assault department, just like Louise.

They are experts in close combat, and have stronger confidence than the Storm Loyal Heirs in close combat in narrow terrain.

The hell gun in his hand was also changed from the original standard of the stormtroopers to the new Reza Carbine hell gun.

And the overall length of the gun was shortened by a full 40 centimeters compared to the standard Reza hell gun.

Although this would reduce the number of barrel focusing lenses, thereby weakening the effective range of armor-piercing damage.

But the shortened gun body is more suitable for close-range environments such as alleys and indoors.

In this environment, the effective armor-piercing range of up to 800 meters is obviously not needed.

The scouts adjusted the jetpacks with gravity parachute functions in mid-air, and the vector engine took them to glide in the air for a short distance to accurately land at the designated location.

According to the combat arrangement of Horatio Centurion, they would first hide on the roofs of the surrounding houses near the middle nest area, or in the alleys of the lower nest area.

Fortunately, because the 'Lord of Meat' was going to 'generously donate' today, he rarely distributed delicious 'meat' to the hungry people.

Therefore, the streets were empty, and people gathered in the square excitedly, waiting for the 'gift from heaven'.

This provides the Hell's vanguards with the opportunity to secretly "break into the house" and ambush, greatly reducing the risk of being discovered by residents and exposing themselves in advance.

Horatio, who is at the commanding height, looks at the video signal transmitted by the helmet telescopic camera and the bustling crowd in the distance.

Roughly estimated, there are already tens of thousands of hungry people gathered here, and when the crowds from all directions behind are fully gathered, there may be far more than 100,000 people.

According to the action plan, the goal of this operation is to strike accurately, not to massacre.

So they must catch the "Meat Lord" before he distributes the meat corrupted by the evil god, and take him away from the scene.

But this difficulty is no less than arresting the state church priest in front of a group of fanatics.

For these poor people and abandoned people in the middle and lower nests, this "generous" meat lord is the benefactor who gives them meat.

And they have not even distributed the meat, and they want to take him away in front of so many people, which is bound to provoke fierce resistance.

Therefore, Horatio, Inquisitor Ravenno and the Captain of the Blood Angels discussed and decided to "capture the king" first and then maintain stability.

Inquisitor Ravenno will lead the agents to approach the "Lord of Meat" with the help of the Black Wing Society's lurkers.

Once the battle starts, the Hell's Vanguard and the Blood Angels will be responsible for quickly dealing with the vassal army and the Blood Pact army, and the Inquisitor will lead people to capture them.

As soon as the target is captured, a Valkyrie on standby in the air will immediately descend to the ground and pick them up.

After that, a thousand naval infantry task forces will come to the scene in landing craft to reinforce and maintain stability.

If necessary.

The Navy will implement "Plan No. 3" and requisition star port food transport ships to distribute food to these hungry people and calm their emotions to avoid provoking possible violent struggles involving tens of thousands of people.

What makes Horatio curious is that the Inquisitor said that someone he knows may be able to help them stabilize the crowd.

But he kept it a secret and did not reveal who he is.

The above is the best outcome under the most ideal circumstances.

Horatio understood that the most difficult part of the whole thing was not to attack the Blood Pact Army, nor to arrest the "Meat Lord", but how to deal with the crowd on the verge of losing control, and to prevent this loss of control from expanding to the point of killing all of them.

When a common man gets angry, blood will splatter a hundred steps away.

No matter how weak the abandoned people are, as long as their number is large enough, they will use up all the ammunition and supplies they carry with them, and completely overwhelm Horatio and the Hell Vanguard Centurion.

Of course, there are also the Inquisitor and his attendants, and even overwhelm this Astartes strike team.

Although the subsequent Imperial Army will eventually win the uncontrolled rioting crowd in the air-ground integrated combat.

But he does not want to see another wave of blood and rain today.

Moreover, the first battle of the Chief Eagle Flag Battalion, which evolved from capturing the cult leader to "massacre of hungry people", is not a glorious thing.

It may even hit the morale of the battalion, shake the soldiers' beliefs, and make them question the real purpose of the existence of the Hell Vanguard.

For this reason, he and others made three emergency plans in advance and left them in the Navy Department, hoping to ensure that this operation is within the controllable range as much as possible.