Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

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Imperial War Chronicles

M42.012

Fourth Battle of Damocles Bay

Writing unit: War Records Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs

Written by: Lieutenant Colonel Hoxson de Riddox

The war around the Gulf of Damocles was peaceful at first. The human and Tau forces were each in their own positions, confronting each other around their defense lines on the outskirts of the city. There were only sporadic exchanges of fire and small-scale test attacks. has happened.

This process continued for the next month, until the human command issued an order to concentrate and shrink. The troops originally stationed outside the city began to retreat urgently to the city. They were ordered to suppress the riots in the city.

What is unexpected is that when the Human Empire quelled the riots in the city, the Tau troops were quiet. They were busy with the mopping up and sweeping away the human strongholds outside the city, and had no time to pay attention to the rebellion of the supporters in the city. This led to the rebellion as the stars After the border army headquarters issued a retreat order, a large number of human troops withdrew into the city, and the rebellion was quickly suppressed.

After that, the war officially started. At first, everything was calm. The human soldiers squatted in the building for normal guard changes, lunch, and rest and chat. But in the afternoon, the calm was broken.

The Tau's artillery launched a series of large-scale artillery bombardments, and the air force also conducted large-scale bombings as a prelude to the attack. At four o'clock that afternoon, the Tau infantry launched the first wave of attacks. They thought that the human defenders The army had been wiped out in the previous artillery fire, but they were wrong.

The human defenders immediately entered the position and launched a powerful counterattack. The battle between the two sides on the outskirts of the city continued until the next morning. The Tau failed to break through the human defense lines and paid a heavy price.

The Tau infantry company commander recalled, "We launched three attacks, but the humans were never shaken. Our warriors fell one by one, like wheat being harvested."

The Tau command discovered serious underestimation of the enemy and made adjustments. They urgently dispatched armored forces and launched an attack from the west side of the city. The Tau's armored forces penetrated the first line of human defense, but failed The second path is stuck.

The Astra Militarum launched attacks from all sides, cutting off the connection between the Tau infantry and armored forces. The Tau armored forces successfully broke through at a heavy cost. When they arrived at the position, there were less than three tanks left.

On the third day, the Tau continued to attack, and the human coalition forces also continued to resist on the ground. The exchange of fire between the two sides continued for several days. Both sides paid a huge price. Finally, on the seventh day, the Tau finally broke through. They broke through the Astra Militarum defense line in the south and entered the city, but at this moment, three full days had passed before the scheduled breakthrough time.

After the Tau invaded the city, they thought victory was imminent. Their forward troops were once only three kilometers away from the city's central square, thinking that the human defenders had collapsed. But soon, the Tau discovered their serious mistake. The human troops Not only did it not collapse, but it launched an orderly counterattack.

The Tau's spearhead seemed to be caught in an iron pincer and unable to escape, forcing more troops to be thrown into it. The city turned into a meat grinder. The Tau paid a heavy price for this. The human defenders came from all over the city. The corner came out and fought back against them.

The defenders used certain important buildings as strongholds and built firepower networks around them, all connected by underground passages. The defenders moved through them and attacked the Tau troops that broke into the city from all directions.

Civilians in the city also formed several militia groups. As supplementary troops, they were deployed on various fronts and played an important role.

Among them, the building called "Constantine Fortress" by the humans is the most representative. It is the target of the Tau tribe's key attack. It is located at the observation point of the city highlands. No matter where it falls into the hands of, it will play an important role. The battle around here was particularly brutal.

The Tau invaded the building six times, and were pushed out by the human coalition six times. The two sides fought from day to night, and precise shooting was replaced by hand-to-hand combat. When the assault continued until the third day, the Tau could no longer hold on and withdrew from the city. the inner ring.

The Tau commander finally realized that a quick victory was no longer possible, and the war reached a stalemate. In the following days, the Tau launched a series of large-scale attacks, and the two sides fought fiercely around the outer urban areas of the city. Soldiers from both sides fought for each other in buildings after buildings. Often the Tau would occupy the living room in the morning, and the humans would retreat to the kitchen to hold on, and take it back at night.

Such battles are common in the city. An Astra Militarum sergeant recalled, "The company commander issued us submachine guns, grenades, as well as ordnance shovels and bayonets. Most of the time, the latter is more useful. ”

Each such street fighting group consists of sixteen infantrymen armed with submachine guns, coupled with a towed gun, as well as a number of Molotov cocktails, grenades, etc.

Human tactics are like this. First, infantry artillery blasts open the first floor of the building. Commandos enter, throw grenades and strafe, and flamethrowers set the basement on fire. In the building, assault infantry has already blasted the ceiling and started from the attic. Overlook.

As a result, every building is constantly contested. Brutal hand-to-hand combat was staged in the city. Both sides paid a heavy price, but the Tau were the victors. In urban street fighting, heavy weapons were useless. The air force also dropped bombs horizontally, often with an error of a hundred meters. However, soldiers on both sides are often less than twenty meters apart, which makes the air force completely useless.

In the ruins of the city, human snipers are everywhere, looking for Tau officers to kill. This makes the Tau miserable. They call the battle in the city the Rat War.

Faced with the stalemate in the city, General Qingquan of the Tau tribe made redeployment. He withdrew the useless tanks from the streets and reinvested them in the attack on the city's gentler eastern industrial zone. Here, they were attacked They were also blocked by the Astra Militarum Leman Russ tank force, which was also ordered by Commander Vito to stand ready.

The human defenders invented a new method of warfare. They hid the tanks in the factory, with only the barrels exposed and disguised as debris in the ruins. They only opened fire when the Tau tanks approached. First, Leman Russ would Destroy the tanks leading by the Tau, and after destroying the tanks at the end, leave the Tau convoy on the street, and then eliminate them one by one.

The immovable Tau armored forces became a living target. Flames burned in the wreckage. The eastern industrial area turned into a sea of ​​​​fire. In the south, the Tau who made the earliest breakthrough continued to invest troops and expand the results. One month after the start of the street fighting, In the end, the Tau only advanced less than six kilometers, and for every kilometer they advanced, they had to pay an inestimable price.

The Tau slowly advanced along the streets and approached the riverside of the city. The Astra Militarum also invested a large number of troops to fight back. A bloody tug-of-war was staged in various buildings. At its most intense, a building would change hands several times a day. Ten times, each building captured became a major victory in the Tau's words.

General Qingquan understood this time that he seriously underestimated humanity's will to resist and its combat effectiveness. It was useless to persuade them to surrender here. They would only return bullets and shots. After fighting for the second month, the Tau finally paid heavy casualties. Progress was made, and their vanguard finally reached the riverside.

According to the recollections of the officers of the vanguard, they could even see the golden Eagle statue on the top of the planet's government tower. The desire for victory rose again in the hearts of the Tau, and they decided to launch another assault.

The Tau army launched what was known as the "Weekly Offensive" along the river. A week later, the Tau could not even advance more than one kilometer. Here they ran into the Valhalla 597th led by Colonel Castin. Regiment, the soldiers of the Ice and Snow Legion relied on the station opposite the railway bridge as a stronghold to block the Tau's offensive edge.

On the fifth day of the offensive, the Tau had already suffered more than 2,000 casualties in front of this station. They tried to use heavy artillery to blow up the station, but with little success. The defenders still shot out tongues of fire from everywhere. Intercepting the Tau, the open space on the tracks in front of the station became a veritable death zone.

The Tau were unwilling to give up the results of the attack, and immediately launched a new regiment to launch the attack. Under the cover of tanks, the Tau once invaded the station and occupied the station, but at night, it was recaptured by the Ice Warriors.

Both sides suffered heavy casualties in this small place, but neither side was willing to give up their stronghold and continued to invest their troops. In the end, the human defenders successfully launched a pincer offensive on both wings, forcing the Tau back to the other side of the river, and even The Astra Militarum also launched a counterattack, led by Markarian super-heavy tanks, and Leman Russ tank companies launched an assault along the factory area, once driving the Tau in this area out of the city.

The Tau's week-long offensive failed to achieve any results and cost the lives of more than 20,000 soldiers. The two sides continued to confront each other across the river. On the other side, the situation was not so optimistic.

In the central area of ​​the city, General Qingquan gathered all the Kroot in his hands, launched a large-scale offensive, and successfully broke through the central defense line of the Astra Militarum, approaching the location of the Astra Militarum's central command headquarters. , the situation is critical.

At this moment, the Mordian Iron Guards, who had just left the frontline battle and suffered heavy casualties, launched an interception at all costs. They launched a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the Kroot. The entire regiment suffered casualties until only one platoon remained, but in the end they finally Delayed the Tau offensive and supported the arrival of reinforcements.

The acting commander of the Mordian Iron Guard died in the line of duty, and all the officers of the regiment died. The organization was later disbanded, but their sacrifices paid off. As reinforcements entered the position, the Tau's offensive stalled again.

The Tau will not give up their hard-won gains and continue to invest troops. The tug-of-war between the two sides is still going on.

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