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Chapter 866: Broken Bones Appear

Faced with the bastion's solid defense, Owei handled it quite well.

The three companies pushed forward and alleviated the threat of the King Kong to the City Breaker Mech;

The Second Company will destroy the waste piles and disrupt the Waagh energy support for the turrets on top of the bastion;
The artillery exerted direct suppression on the bastion batteries;
There’s nothing wrong with these responses.

But at this moment, Owei saw another bastion that looked to have been bombed to pieces. A rocket launcher array emerged from the top and was turning rapidly - that direction should be aimed at the three artillery battalion positions of the 223rd Division of the Alliance that were setting up heavy artillery.

"Colonel Maloney! Get your men out of area E7!" His roar made the communicator crackle. "Now! Immediately!"

But it's too late for some.

The vehicle towing the artillery was hit by a rocket as soon as the engine was started. The high-explosive ammunition exploded under the burning armor plate, causing an even more terrible disaster.

That artillery position fell silent. No damage report has been received yet, but it's likely to be heavy.

"Captain, the City Breaker's steel drill is ready!" The technical sergeant's voice finally came, "But we need to suppress the top turret and the Ork King Kong for fifteen seconds! Otherwise, when the steel drill is activated, the energy shield will not be able to maintain and will be destroyed!"

Owei put the phase sword back into the magnetic lock and held the grenade launcher with both hands: "First Company, follow me!"

The moment he jumped out of the cover, thirty Iron Fist Ambassador soldiers formed a shield wall, and the rest of the company of soldiers followed in the most standard fighting posture of the Iron Fist Ambassador, providing fire support and cover, and ready to break out of the shield wall at any time.

The mortal troops, who had been cooperating for a long time, followed closely behind.

The orcs' heavy machine guns weaved a barrage of bullets above their heads, with bullets hitting the large shield from time to time, and occasionally a bullet even slipped through and hit Ouwei's left shoulder armor.

But under his leadership, fresh troops joined the battle, and together with the three companies and mortal troops that had rushed over to support earlier, they launched fierce attacks on the rushing Go Mao Kong, preventing them from approaching the City Breaker Mech.

In the absence of heavy armored units of the same level, it is quite difficult to deal with something like King Kong.

Not to mention, the scale of one of them has reached that of a human warlord-level Titan - with the support of greenskin technology, the actual combat effectiveness of this thing is not much worse than that of the warlord level.

I can't just ignore it, so I have to go ahead with it.

The third company was the first to go up to support, but they could only block and pin down those annoying King Kongs, preventing them from causing too much damage to the City Breaker Mechs.

But this restraining effect seems to be a bit problematic at the moment.

The three companies fought very hard. They made great sacrifices. After they went up, they could not completely resist the firepower of Mao Jin Gang even with heavy shields.

On the contrary, their firepower was not very effective against this Titan-class war weapon, and only had a diversionary effect. However, those King Kongs could not completely ignore the firepower of the Space Marines, nor could they ignore the self-defense firepower of the City Breaker mechas. In addition, although the City Breaker itself was not powerful, it had strong armor after all, so it would be fine if it was hit by a few shells - as long as it was not directly bombarded by the bastion cannons above.

But now the bastion's cannons were firing.

At the beginning, there was still some suppression from human artillery, but when another bastion rocket artillery array appeared and destroyed the human artillery positions, causing the artillery suppression to weaken, the situation became much worse.

Of the twelve attacking city-breakers, six have now been destroyed.

But the greenskins still thought it was not fast enough.

There was a King Kong that tried to rush in aggressively and destroy the human siege mecha with more powerful melee weapons and higher efficiency.

However, this King Kong's reckless action brought him disaster.

He blew up the iron shield array of the Third Company and rushed in fiercely, but at the same time several melta bombs were stuck at his feet. Finally, he was paralyzed in the crowd of Space Marines. The posture cabin was blown up, and the angry company commander went up with two bodyguards and killed all the green-skinned technical masters in the driving crew inside.

It was a win, but the price was really high.

The orc infantrymen behind took advantage of the chaos and rushed forward under the fire cover of the remaining three King Kongs.

The timing was actually quite good this time. The Iron Shield array had not yet been restored, and in the chaos, the number of Space Marines was indeed decreasing rapidly.

The Third Company suffered heavy casualties.

At this critical moment, a great help eased the problem: the brave Union Army soldiers.

Under the personal leadership of a major political commissar, the most elite squad of the commandos rushed forward and cut off the space for the greenskins to pour in. Although almost all of them died in the end and no one survived, they attracted the firepower of King Kong and temporarily blocked the charge of the greenskin infantry, giving the third company a precious opportunity to adjust.

At this time, the first company led by Ou Wei himself finally rushed to the battlefield.

Owei personally faced an orc boss, who pounced at him waving his power claws, but Owei noticed it in advance and shot him twice, temporarily blocking him. He then unsheathed his phase sword, cut open his larynx and chopped off his head.

"Raise your shield! Charge!"

"Follow up, city breaker!"

He roared, and the heavy shieldmen of the first and third companies began to speed up their charge. With their heavy shields in front, they charged forward with all their might, crushing and knocking away any enemies who blocked their way.

Owei, his personal guards, and the captains of the first and third companies, formed the sharpest assaulters, and attacked together with the heavy shield warriors. As long as they found threats that could block the array assault in advance, such as some high-threat orc heavy armored bosses and death iron can armor, they would be dealt with first. Once the heavy firepower of King Kong covered them, the heavy shield warriors would take the lead and take the initiative to block the firepower - although this would often shatter the shields, it could effectively block the range of the explosion and reduce the impact on other fighting brothers.

In this desperate charge with courage as spear and sacrifice as shield, they broke through the enemy's defense line head-on and came close to the remaining three King Kongs.

Owei's respirator smelled of blood, but he could hear the sound of victory.

"Metal Team!" He only had time to shout this before he, wearing heavy Terminator armor, and without hesitation, together with his bodyguards, took the lead in attacking a King Kong and successfully attracted its attention.

The huge fist of King Kong smashed down, almost half the size of him. A Terminator Heavy Shield Guard stood in front of him and was knocked away by the fist, lying on the ground unable to move. But the fist, with its power reduced and its angle shifted, failed to hit him.

However, Owei used a fierce shoulder charge to prevent King Kong from retracting his fist, and then used the phase sword to make a fierce series of slashes, and actually cut off the huge King Kong fist from the extended wrist!
The Melt Team arrived in time, and when King Kong was slightly off balance, they crossed the energy shield, placed the bomb, and blew up the King Kong.

When he looked up again, Ou Wei saw that his third company commander had died at the feet of another King Kong. However, his sacrifice and that of his company commander's command team created an opportunity for another unit, and that King Kong was also destroyed.

Without time to feel sad, Ouwei set his sights on the last King Kong.

But this King Kong is smarter.

Under the cover of the Ork infantry, it retreated while bombarding the Space Marines with long-range firepower.

At the same time, the cannons and rocket nests on the bastion began to direct their firepower towards the Space Marines and human soldiers.

The city-slayers, who were slow and belated, finally approached the city walls and metal gates.

The concussion bomb with the drill was fired, softening the target, and the drill at close range began to impact.

The red light stream cut into the metal and concrete walls softened by the shockwave, and the molten metal poured down like a waterfall. Owei saw the gate begin to deform, but the rocket launcher on top was still pouring fire.

The orcs also knew that the battle had reached its most critical moment. They frantically bombarded the Space Marines and the City Breakers. Finally, the King Kong overturned a City Breaker mecha and was destroyed by Ouwei and his men.

Looking around, the firepower on the top of the enemy's bastion was still fierce. Half of the city-breakers had been destroyed, and the city walls were being destroyed. With the two companies of his own attack, only remnants were left, and the mortal army soldiers were blown to pieces.

"Karion!" Owei's roar almost drowned out the explosion, "How long will you take??!"

He was calling his second company commander.

At this moment, purple psychic lightning suddenly exploded in the southeast corner.

The think tanks that acted with the Second Company finally succeeded.

Led by Captain Carrion, they rushed out of the scrap heap and came to support the main battlefield.

Behind them was the disintegrating waagh force field generator.

The readings from the auspicious instrument linked to Ouwei's tactical eyepiece became clear in an instant. He saw that the weak point of the gate structure was "jumping", and the firepower of the deadly cannons and rocket launchers on the top of the bastion was reduced by more than half at once.

"Everyone retreat!" He grabbed two combat brothers who were still shooting, "It's going to explode!"

After the drill of the City Breaker mech hit the gate for who knows how many times, the accumulated kinetic energy finally broke through the critical point. The heavy alloy gate shattered like glass, and the flying metal pieces knocked down many orcs who were fighting in the melee and wanted to attack the City Breaker, as well as the human soldiers and space marines who were defending the City Breaker. Few people were able to get up again.

Two city-breaking machines also fell.

But they have accomplished their most important mission.

Ouwei was hit by another bullet or explosion fragment from somewhere, which seemed to have pierced through his power armor. He could feel himself bleeding.

But he still stood firm.

"Occupy the passage!" He replaced the magazine for the grenade launcher. "Follow up! Follow up! Hurry up! We have to fight up there and destroy the turret!"

As they rushed into the bastion, they didn't care about the foul air at all. Owei used his phase sword to split the temporary iron fence blocking the road, split the orc guards who came, and led the team to rush in.

The second company arrived first, and the subsequent support troops continued to follow up under the artillery fire.

"Captain! Three o'clock!" Captain Carrion warned, it was a heavy machine gun nest.

Ouwei rolled to avoid the first round of gunfire, and the grenade launcher failed to penetrate the bulletproof steel plate even after its magazine was empty.

He saw a group of elite soldiers wearing feedback power armor trying to flank the enemy, but they were chopped into six pieces by the chain axe of the orc boss on duty. Then two iron-fisted ambassadors used melta guns to kill the boss, but they themselves were also blown away half of their bodies.

"Use the meltacasters! Burn these aliens!"

After the heavy machine gun fire position was eliminated, they were about to continue their assault upwards.

But the greenskins are also crazy.

They actually placed a huge number of bomb traps inside their own bastion!

But fortunately, the technical sergeant was alerted in advance and issued a warning, so the casualties were not particularly heavy.

Ou Wei was blown six meters away by the air wave, and his helmet display shattered into a spider web shape.

He took off his helmet and looked forward, only to see that the upward passage had been blown down.

There was no road to go on, but that was no obstacle.

The surviving city-breaker mechas were expanding the gap outside. When it was large enough, they would be able to come in and clear the obstacles.

If you stay in the bastion, you won't be bombed.

"Commander!" The voice of a Union Army colonel suddenly appeared on the communication channel, "My engineers have found the energy lines! They are laying out explosives!"

This is an extra surprise!
A new mark appeared on the tactical chain. A remnant of the 257th Division actually opened up an underground pipeline on the northwest side!

"Blast! Blast it with confidence!" Ouwei didn't care that the explosion might harm the troops he brought into the bastion, including himself.

Victory is the most important thing.

In the loud explosion, the entire bastion suddenly tilted 15 degrees. Ou Wei heard the groaning sound of metal breaking. The overload explosion of the bastion's energy core caused inevitable damage to the entire building.

Some soldiers were buried under the rubble, but the passage that had been blocked reappeared.

Owei led the remaining men and continued to charge upwards. Despite being blocked by the greenskins guarding the artillery on the top of the bastion, they still managed to destroy the artillery.

Even though there were still remnants of greenskins resisting stubbornly outside the city, and even though there were still a large number of greenskins coming to support from behind the bastion, Owei knew that he had succeeded.

Without the suppression of the bastion cannons and rocket launchers, human troops can also quickly provide support.

His reserve forces are also quite sufficient.

The 257th Division has basically collapsed, but there are still ten divisions behind it; if that is not enough, there can be ten more divisions!
More city breakers will come up and push down the city walls in pieces, expanding the advance route to the point where heavy tanks can drive in.

The achievement of being the first to break through the fourth ring is within reach, and it can even be said that it has been achieved!
Although the Chapter suffered heavy casualties, it was still an undoubted victory.

However, the attack on the third ring of the fortress will have to be slowed down a bit.

He had to wait for Titan's support to arrive.

If he had a few Titans to call upon in the battle just now, the battle wouldn't have been so difficult.

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard a sharp alarm suddenly piercing all communication channels.

His helmet was broken and he couldn't see through the tactical eyepiece, so he could only look to the side and ask, "What is that?"

His second captain, Carrion, said in a somewhat stiff voice: "A biological signal of enormous mass has been detected..."

But soon, Ou Wei didn't need anyone to tell him.

Standing on top of the burning ruins of the bastion, Owei could see with his naked eyes that a huge orc figure, holding a huge battle axe, was emerging from a green tide and heading towards the ruins of the bastion. The roar it made shocked Owei, a veteran with hundreds of years of combat experience, to the depths of his soul.
"Is that... broken bones?"

(End of this chapter)