Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 317 05.0316: ‘Sneak Blast’

As night fell, the snow on the streets of the fortress was thick enough to cover the thighs of ordinary people.

The snow was still falling, and no one could patrol on foot in such deep snow.

Some sentry towers turned on searchlights, but only on. No sentry was willing to operate the searchlights outside in the freezing cold.

After all, the enemy is still hanging on the track, so there is no need to suffer an impossible invasion in vain.

In the silent darkness, the hell soldiers were galloping through the snow on pulleys.

They don't need to have one foot deep and one foot shallow, running arduously in the snow like clumsy penguins.

The power pulleys under their feet that are specially adapted to snowfields can take them forward.

What was left on the snow were not footprints, but long and thin unknown tracks, which were covered by the wind. Even if they were seen, it would be difficult to identify what kind of traces these were.

The hell soldiers took advantage of the darkness to get close to the wall, used power weapons to dismantle the drainage hole grilles on the bastion wall, and carefully sneaked into them one by one.

The internal circulation breathing system isolates the stench in the sewer that even ice cannot suppress. The only good thing is probably that there is no serious blockage in the pipe. This is due to early detection.

No one used tactical flashlights for lighting. The thermal imaging and night vision devices on their helmets were enough to help them detect enemies and observe the environment.

The team infiltrated as planned. After traveling through an unspeakable sewer, they officially entered the fortress through a hidden manhole cover.

Horatio never puts his eggs in the same basket. Since completing any mission can result in fire support, it is obviously most effective to make multiple bets separately.

A small team will proceed to the climate control facility, and once they have completed their conditioning and sabotage missions, Imperial Navy carrier-based aircraft will saturate the entire area.

Horatio led another team to orbit to bombard the macro cannon. He planned to place a melta bomb on the gun mount to melt the transmission gear and turret seat.

This will not only prevent excessive damage to the gun itself, but also prevent it from rotating and aiming.

After the Astra Militarum lands, and when they occupy this place, they can send the Mechanicus Priests down to repair it and use it for subsequent planetary defense.

The three teams walked through the dim streets, lowering their bodies and hiding in the wind and snow.

Because of the heavy snowfall and the howling winds, many outdoor cables were broken due to heavy ice edges or collapsed supports.

Many infrastructure facilities in the city have lost their power supply. The most obvious one is that only a few places of the lighting system are still tenaciously emitting light that flickers on and off. The vast majority of the entire city is in invisible darkness.

This can be said to be even more powerful for the hell warriors who have the night as their friend.

Louise stood at the front, holding a gun and advancing with a roller skate. Horatio followed closely behind, and his shooting range made up for the blind spot of her firepower.

12 people clinging to the wall, like ghosts, flashing silently on the street.

This fortress is very large. The main roads crisscrossing the interior are several kilometers long, and there are countless winding paths.

The careful and extremely lengthy snow penetration lasted several hours.

Late at night, 1 am on Terra.

The rebel soldiers in the inner wall outpost yawned and lay stretched out on the couches made of military equipment boxes, wondering whether they should catch up on some sleep or relive the bloody pit duel last night.

No one would think that any imperial troops could reach the inner walls of this well-defended fortress on such a snowy night.

Hell's vanguard passed through the shadows near the sentry tower. Heavy snow covered the surveillance probe, and a thick layer of frost had already formed on the mirror glass, making it unnoticed.

After approaching the heavily guarded Tongtian building and the super cannon, the team dispersed as planned.

Horatio stepped into the belly of the steel mountain.

C.A.T drones and servo skulls probe the road ahead.

The internal routes of the entire huge launch site are intricate, and from here on, enemy patrols patrol regularly.

but.

Because the interior of this giant cannon is too empty and complicated, and it is not in the period of war preparation, only daily patrols are maintained inside.

Several six-person patrol teams were conducting daily inspections inside, passing by the top soldiers hidden in the shadows without noticing.

The ugly gas mask is sewn on the flesh, and he is lazily carrying a laser gun with a double-headed golden eagle on his shoulder. It is blasphemous and sinful.

"The principle of self-defensive fire." Horatio emphasized the combat instructions again.

The information obtained after spending a whole day in the freezing snow came in handy at this time.

They used drones to follow the changing gun crews to find a way directly to the fort without having to fiddle with it themselves. They spent months or even years wandering around in the steel structure hundreds of stories high.

They also calculated the patrol schedule and the distance between the defenders based on the patrol waves and frequency bands captured by the C.A.T drone hidden in the ventilation duct.

Horatio led the action team to hide in a dark corner, holding a pocket watch in his hand.

Sure enough, within a few minutes, a six-man patrol passed by them.

After they passed by, the sneaky eight people quickly passed through the passage and arrived at another hiding place.

In this tedious and boring sneaking process, dawn breaks, but the sky outside is still dark in the black wind and snow.

Of course Horatio could not have foolishly taken the enemy's elevator up.

A change of guard may suddenly come in on any floor. If you encounter them in the elevator, you can only face them head-on and expose yourself.

So he planned to go up through the maintenance channel.

That's a shaft.

The hell warriors will first fly to the corresponding height of the inspection channel within one minute of the backpack's lift-off limit, and then grab the handle and continue to climb up.

Although it will take a long time, they will be able to appear unnoticed on the outer periphery of the turret ring and place the bomb at the calculated point.

After confirming safety, Louise took the lead and flew up to 170 meters, then grabbed the ladder and started climbing up.

Horatio followed closely behind, operating his servo skull to spy higher above Louise.

The only sound in the shaft was the collision of metal armor and iron ladders.

8am.

"Damn, I'm so sleepy. I have to get some more medicine from the old doctor. Unfortunately, I don't have enough skulls. Alas." A changing rebel sentry walked out of the camp directly below the turret.

As he passed the maintenance passage, he seemed to hear something coming from the shaft next to him.

The confused rebel soldiers walked to the shaft and moved the heavy baffle.

He walked to the mouth of the black hole-like well and looked down. All he saw was darkness. He listened carefully and found that except for the whistling of the wind and snow pouring into the wellhead, there was silence in the shaft.

With the idea that it would be okay to hit something, the rebel soldiers on a whim picked up the laser gun and pointed it downwards. They just wanted to fire a round to vent their frustration of not being able to go out in the blizzard.

An iron hand suddenly grabbed his ankle from the darkness, pulled hard, and took him off guard into the darkness.

The baffle of the shaft closed, covering up the darkness and the increasingly ethereal screams that echoed in the shaft.

After another climb, Horatio pushed open the cover at the top of the maintenance shaft, which was located on the outer perimeter of the raised 'back head' armor at the rear of the turret.

The entire turret is very huge, covering an area of ​​hundreds of square kilometers.

They climbed out one after another and were on the maintenance channel. Separated by a thick steel ring structure, not far below was the turret's transmission gear.

Although it was created by a traitor, the entire turret structure showed only a kind of solemn simplicity.

Apart from the necessary facilities, there are no extraneous features or decorations.

The top soldiers stepped lightly on the suspended corridor paved with steel plates, with bottomless abyss on both sides.

This thing is not so much an artificial building as it is a high-altitude metal mountain.

Like a sharp sword piercing the sky, it stands majestically in the center of the city, looking down at all living beings coldly.

The huge secret alloy transmission gear exudes the luster of brass, driving the continuous bearings, and a faint rumbling sound can be heard from deep.

Horatio found a transmission tooth, which is the transmission component between the turret weighing base and the gun rim. As long as this key transmission tooth is blown down, and then a large abnormal gap is blown out of the gun rim, the rebels can It took several months to repair.

However, judging from the location of the landing site planned by the Astra Militarum hundreds of kilometers away and the estimated speed of advancement, even if the rebels repaired it, it would only be given to the Imperial Army in vain.

However, how to place the artillery shell on this huge and dangerous remote mechanical structure became a problem.

"Which of you gravity parachutes still has enough energy?"

"Although you can jump over, it's difficult to fly back." Louise made some distance calculations and came to a not-so-good conclusion.

"Our gravity parachute can fly continuously for more than a minute at most. In addition, it has been used to climb up before, and there is not much energy left. It is very risky to fly back and forth now. Once it falls, it will be dead."

Horatio thought, looking around and analyzing the routes around him.

Normally, the Mechanical Sage would leave the work of repairing these giant structures to the Cherubim. If something goes wrong, try to find a way to use a large floating vehicle to fly over.

"Hey, servitor, how do guys from the Adeptus Mechanicus usually get close to this thing?"

"My lord, what is your will?" the maid asked in a beautiful and sweet girlish voice without emotion.

"I'm going to plant a melta bomb on it, and I need you to get us there using the Adeptus Mechanicus."

"Understood my lord, I can complete this task for you."

"Finish?"

"Please deliver melta bombs that meet the standards of Codex Guilliman into the hands of your servants."

Horatio signaled a soldier wearing a 'Strike' type heavy force feedback power armor to hand over the heavy melt bomb loaded on the mechanical exoskeleton to the servitor.

The servitor was seen loading the bomb behind him, lying on the ground, and its limbs immediately spread out, forming an almost 90-degree angle with the ground in an inhuman posture.

Then……

It actually used its hands and feet to crawl up like a spider. It was firmly attached to the wall through the magnetic suction devices on its limbs, and climbed up the cliff that was difficult for the hell soldiers.

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