Chapter 159 151. Have you seen that death shroud?
The roaring drop pod tore through the dry air of the vast mining star, the flames enveloped the fine steel, the luster flashed across the sickle blade, and death came with them.
In the small space that was shaking violently, Hades sat silently on his seat, and the obituary lay quietly in his hands.
He will be the first batch of Death Guards to land, following the main airborne force of the Iron Warriors to the rear of No. 03.
Due to the mutual incompatibility between Mortarion and Perturabo, Perturabo firmly decided that the Iron Warriors would be the first wave of ground landing troops.
The Lord of Steel believed that the Pale King was provoking him, so he sent his steel as the vanguard.
Mortarion, on the other hand, did not receive Perturabo's point at all. Mortarion just chose the wave of drop pods that he could land the fastest.
Due to the dissuasion of other Death Guards, Mortarion gave up his plan to land as the first group of Death Guards. Instead, he landed after a wave of Death Guards landed and the local terrain was mastered.
Hades still remembered that several Death Guards found him at that time, hoping that he could persuade Mortarion not to rush too fast.
At that time, during the Battle of Galaspa, the scene where the original body abandoned the army and rushed directly into the enemy army was still too impactful for the Death Guard.
For the legion, the original body has greater symbolic meaning than the individual combat capabilities, so Mortarion was decisively persuaded to come down.
Following the Iron Warriors' airdrop, the first wave of airdropped Death Guards was naturally led by Hades.
"BANG!"
After a brief violent shaking, the air roared into the cabin, the dazzling sunlight and wind and sand tore in together, the blade was unsheathed, and the bullet was loaded.
Hades strode out of the drop pod and directed the first batch of death guards to join the battlefield through the channel.
[The first team of Death Guard all arrived at the target point. ]
There was a neighing sound in the public communication channel, and Hades said to Dantioch, the commander of the Iron Warriors.
Realizing that the first batch of reinforcements had arrived, Dantioch breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and opened a landing point for the first batch to land. personnel, he is under a lot of pressure.
Perturabo gave him only enough men to occupy the landing site.
As the Death Guard, who were obviously more numerous than the Iron Warriors, joined the battle line, they immediately took a lot of pressure off the Iron Warriors.
Fire spewed from the muzzles of the Death Guard's guns.
Dantioch was a little surprised to realize that compared to his brothers who could shout war cries, these white and green warriors silently joined the battle line, side by side in the makeshift trenches built by the Iron Warriors, except for the sound of gunfire and dull footsteps. The Death Guard did not make any sound.
The occasional sound of electricity coming from the channel reminded the Iron Warriors that these Death Guards had opened a public communication channel.
But...no sound.
Only when necessary will brief messages be passed around the Death Guard to remind the Iron Warriors.
But Hades, the commander of the Death Guard, was not as silent as most of the Death Guard. Clear Gothic language sounded on the channel, reporting the current situation of the Death Guard and information about the enemy.
[Well done, brothers. ]
[Now let's take over the battlefield. ]
Hades's voice sounded.
【good. ]
Dantioch agreed simply and neatly.
Originally, the main force in this landing battle was the Death Guard, but under Perturabo's insistence, they became the first batch of Iron Warriors to land.
The performance of the Iron Warriors led by Dantioch in winning the airdrop point after the first batch landed was enough to prove their strength.
There was no need for them to continue to struggle. Compared to Perturabo who didn't care about the number of casualties, Dantioch hoped that every drop of blood would be valuable.
What's more, when Dantioch was about to enter the drop cabin, he remembered the communication sent to him by a brother who had just returned from Mars. In that short communication, the brother told him that he must hand over the Death Shroud on the other side. Dis, and as long as you fight together with the other party, you don't have to worry about the running-in problem, because this Death Shroud has a good temper?
Dantioch was surprised. Judging from the time when this brother returned from Mars, the Death Guard named Hades climbed to the top of the Death Guard in a very short time after returning from Mars? !
No matter how you think about this kind of person, he will be an extremely talented warrior, but what outsiders say about him is that he has a good temper?
Thinking of Hades' previous private communication to him, and Hades' report after that, Dantioch became more curious about this rather sturdy Death Shroud.
Hades also performed very competently, sharing the latest intelligence on the battlefield in a timely manner, commanding the Death Guard to gradually take over the Iron Warriors, and his chosen tactics also put safety first.
At present, the experience of cooperation with Hades can be ranked in the top three of "Dantioch most wants to cooperate".
Hades's command was impersonal, no nonsense, extremely dense in information, and the tactics he chose were in line with Dantioch's preferences.
In cooperation with other legions, some commanders talk a lot, and Dantioch doesn't like this very much.
What Dantioch didn't know was that Hades would praise the Iron Warriors even more during the report afterwards. If he knew this now, he would definitely put Hades on the list of "Dantioch most wants to cooperate with" "top of the list.
The Death Guard began to slowly but surely advance the battle line, and the Iron Warriors who withdrew from the front began to build trenches.
Their current landing point is behind a hill behind the Necron Underworld forging group. The Iron Warriors relied on the terrain and a wave of air fire support before their landing to stop here.
The soldiers who landed here need to attack between these tall black stone buildings, find and try to destroy the shield system on the opposite side, and then call for a second wave of precision fire support.
Before they entered the complex, Perturabo calculated that the Iron Warriors' aerial forces could provide them with a bombardment of firepower, opening a gap for the Death Guard and Iron Warriors in the densely packed Necron infantry.
After this bombardment, Mortarion would land with a second wave of Death Guard and lead them to capture the target point.
But so far, the Storm Birds of the Iron Warriors are still fighting with those sickle-shaped aircraft in the air, and their competing metal bodies are exposed from time to time in the yellow sand in the sky.
After the Iron Warriors briefly gained air superiority and covered the landing of the airdrop pod, the seat in the sky quickly changed hands.
Both sides are fiercely competing for air supremacy, and the side that successfully holds air supremacy for half a standard time can launch a large-scale fire bombing on the ground.
Therefore, the imperial troops on the ground must have trenches that can avoid bombing. Dantioch commanded some Iron Warriors to start digging trenches, while other Iron Warriors continued to fight.
The good news is that it won't be long before the Iron Warriors dominate the air again.
On another battlefield, the Iron Warriors and Grae's Skitarii are fighting hard. They will hold back the Necron's main force and armored forces. At the same time, the vanguard will try to join the airborne troops and open up a path for the airborne troops. Evacuation route.
【Prepare for close combat! Get sick! 】
At present, most of the enemies faced by the airborne troops are still Necron infantry, and the best solution for dealing with Necron infantry is close combat.
Seeing that the number of Necrons coming to attack began to decrease, Hades decisively commanded some Death Guards to come out, rush out of the trenches under the fire cover of the remaining Death Guards, and meet the enemy in close combat.
Hades didn't waste any words. He rushed out first with his scythe. His body, which was originally taller than others, was extremely flexible at this moment. The finely crafted backpack behind him spurted bullets and plasma beams, allowing Hades to easily block attacks from a distance. .
The breath was long and steady, Hades turned the sickle and cut, metal collided, and the teeth-searing sounds came one after another. The obituary touched the body of the undead metal, and a burst of sparks flew up.
The Dark Domain is of no use to them.
Hades observed the Necron that he had chopped off, but his mechanical body and stiff expression told him that this kind of creature had no soul.
really.
Realizing this, Hades no longer wasted his brainpower on it. He observed the battlefield situation while harvesting the enemy.
However, at the moment when Hades had just come into contact with the Necrons -
deep in the tomb, Gathros, who was talking to himself at the moment, suddenly looked up.
"I said, of course I will defeat him in the end."
"Nas, you are wrong."
But Nas could no longer hear the king's words. The Necron ship he led was floating slowly at the moment. In space.
The weak Star God fragment message was cut off.
Nas looked at the detector and thought silently.
The last location where this information existed was
the Fourth Knight, which was being prepared for the second airdrop under the protection of a group of Iron Warriors and Death Guard ships.
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