Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 324 05.0323: ‘Orbital Landing’

As batches of war materials were delivered to the near-Earth orbit, the Astra Militarum began to prepare for a ground offensive.

Navy Captain Horatio, Lieutenant Collingwood, and Officer Louise arrived on the ground in the Skyhawk shuttle for officers.

This high-level military-grade shuttle has a spacious interior, good flight stability, and excellent protection performance. It is specially used for senior officials and is also a high-level special plane for naval officers when they are on duty.

As the head of the department, Horatio is of course qualified to ride, and Louise, as his secretary, and Collingwood, as his executive officer and deputy, can also sit together.

“What a beautiful plane, the coating is really new, and the red is as bright as fire.” Louise’s slender calves wrapped in black leather boots swung, the soles of her boots stepped on the pedals of the shuttle, and she looked inside the special plane.

The circular seats inside the fuselage are covered with black patent leather, and there is a circular glass window on the top, allowing the sunlight outside to shine softly through the appropriate angle and brightness.

"Hey, girl, do you know why this shuttle is called Skyhawk?"

A female pilot with dark skin as smooth as cream chocolate came over with her helmet.

She was tall, and her flight suit outlined her conspicuous curves clearly. The zipper of the flight leather jacket was pulled to the middle of her chest in a charming way, revealing part of her surging and plump northern hemisphere.

"I would like to hear more about it, Captain." Louise recognized the captain of the Navy Aviation who had met once before and saluted.

"Because when you look down at it, you see the shape of the Skyhawk."

The female pilot had slightly messy hair, smiled slightly playfully, and walked to her side with a casual style.

"Hello, Captain, I am the secretary of Commander Horatio." Louise introduced herself with a look of understanding.

"Hello, Secretary, where is the commander?"

Louise heard this and just turned around to call Horatio, a steady and upright figure walked out of the shadow on the other side of the shuttle.

"I'm here, Captain Fasha." Horatio smiled and walked with Archie to the shuttle boarding step.

"Commander, the escort formation is ready. I will be the pilot of your special plane and ensure that you are safely sent to the ground." The female pilot changed her expression when he and Archie just appeared, and now she was saluting in a serious manner.

In front of the "outsider", she did not make any frivolous moves, standing upright, with her eyes focused, looking very serious.

Just like she is, always like this.

Soon, after all the passengers were seated.

The Skyhawk shuttle took off and flew out of the shuttle apron.

A whole squadron formed two circles of cross-shaped escort formations and followed closely behind, guarding the shuttle carrying the flagship aviation commander in the center with three layers inside and outside.

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Swish——

As the pressure relief sound of the hatch came, Horatio, wearing a bicorne hat, a neat navy captain's uniform, snow-white trousers, and black short boots, put his hand on his officer's sword, and walked out of the shuttle with Louise and Archie in a respectable and luxurious manner.

The landing site where he was located had been hardened in advance by the engineering troops of the Star Army, and a field camp with material storage, field airport, landing site, and temporary garrison camp had been built nearby.

The guard troops deployed a few days ago deployed a cordon dozens of kilometers away in advance to prevent any enemy troops from infiltrating the landing site.

Horatio looked up at the sky, and a series of 'Devourer'-class transport planes dragged their huge bellies, and the projection cut the sunlight into pieces. These behemoths were slowly falling from the sky, one after another, in an endless stream.

Inside were the troops of the Southern Front Army who planned to be deployed in this battle, as the main force responsible for the offensive in the south of the continent.

The personnel are mainly composed of British people and some Mordians.

The total number of people, from the combat battalion to the reserve battalion, is as high as 230,000.

The air waves blew on the ground, rolling up layers of dust. The first landing aircraft landed steadily in the light wind and dust, and the nearly 100-meter-long fuselage landed on the hardened surface.

Each such huge landing ship is loaded with a company of people and horses.

Driven by the motor, the front pedal of the body slowly lowered, and the side ladder also stretched out and fell.

Only the melodious flute and the beating of the snare drum sounded, and the tune was a bit like the "Grenadiers March".

Under the shouting of the red-coated officers, the soldiers in line and the neat armored vehicles slowly drove out of the body.

"Attention everyone! Line up! Guns on the shoulders!" Under the slogans of the lieutenants and second lieutenants, the captain of the company watched the rows of soldiers who had just got off the plane line up on the open space on the left side of the body, arranging into square formations like tofu blocks cut by knives and axes.

Empty! Empty!

With the sound of uniform stomping, these young and energetic soldiers raised their brown Carterel laser rifles with bayonets to their shoulders.

These British Line privates wore uniforms similar to those of the British Army during the Napoleonic era.

The upper body was a high-top Shako hat with a bowl-shaped helmet and tassels, a scarlet uniform with wingtips protruding outwards on the shoulders, and red bulletproof armor and elbow pads.

The lower body was white or light beige linen trousers with knee pads, leather shoes or short boots on the feet, covered with long boot covers made of black velvet, and a black ceramic steel armor plate on the front of the shoe cover to protect the front of the calf.

The shoe covers covering the legs and the instep make them look like boots on the surface, but they are actually a practical marching kit that protects the calves, reduces the dirt on the trouser legs, and acts as a legging.

This outfit cannot be said to be exactly the same, but it can be said to be a completely consistent uniform style.

Horatio couldn't help but wonder if the people on this planet were the descendants of British immigrants from the dark technology or strife era of ancient Terra.

Accompanied by the flute players and drummers composed of children, three tall flag bearers stood at the front of the queue with flags dignifiedly.

They held the regimental flag, company flag, and royal flag respectively.

This is a symbol of glory.

Judging from the gold embroidery on the regimental flag, they belonged to the 79th Armored Reconnaissance Regiment of Britain. It was the unit of Lieutenant Colonel Wellesley.

The company flag was embroidered with "Line Infantry Company B".

The Queen's flag was based on a golden sun pattern, and the side profile of a woman wearing a crown was embroidered in black thread in the center of the circle.

That should be their queen. From the pattern, she looks young, with long eyebrows and a beautiful and pointed chin.

Below the queen's head is embroidered with the words "God Emperor bless your noble and pious queen" wrapped in a laurel wreath in high Gothic cursive.

Although it is called the Line Infantry Company, in the 41st millennium of the Empire, the Line Infantry is not the ancient Line Infantry on Ancient Terra that formed a dense formation and then fired at the enemy.

Although they will do so when they encounter specific enemies such as the Tyranids.

Line Infantry is the most "classic" template organization in the Imperial Astra Militarum.

Its troops are mainly composed of a part of mechanized infantry equipped with infantry fighting vehicles, and most of the motorized infantry equipped with trucks.

Other Astra Militarum logo template troops with classical names include light infantry and heavy infantry.

Although there are standards set by the Empire, the troops of this type produced by each conscription world are not exactly the same.

Soon, the company's Arion infantry fighting vehicles and four-wheeled and six-wheeled light armored trucks slowly drove out of the big mouth of the "Devourer" transport plane.

Horatio looked at the eight-wheeled infantry fighting vehicles they called Arion, and always felt a little familiar.

After thinking for a moment, his eyes lit up.

[Isn't this the product of a one-night stand between the Chimaera crawler and the Pegasus wheeled fighting vehicle after getting drunk? ]

The Arion infantry fighting vehicle is the body of the Chimaera, but it uses the wheeled transmission of the Pegasus infantry fighting vehicle, and it has changed from four wheels to eight wheels.

There is almost no difference from the Chimaera in other places.

(If the Pegasus body is lengthened and two pairs of wheels are installed, it becomes Arion [Eight-legged Divine Horse])

Considering that this is the organization of the armored reconnaissance regiment, the use of eight-wheeled infantry fighting vehicles is obviously a reasonable choice.

Then, the second and third "Devourer" transport planes landed safely.

A group of soldiers wearing the same green uniforms but with different shades of green walked out.

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