Warhammer: I am the Hammer of the Empire.

Chapter 361 Victory Belongs to the Emperor

The bright red flare rising like a star told the Imperial Guard an urgent and clear message that victory was coming.

And those demon monsters also acted chaotically after a while. To be precise, those demons originally attacked in an orderly manner, divided into several large groups according to their responsibilities, flanking and frontal breakthroughs, the division of labor was clear, and it also changed rapidly according to the situation. But now, It was as if they had lost their souls and intelligence, and seemed slow to the Imperial Guard's feints.

The demons rely on psychic communication and have an absolute superior-subordinate relationship. At the same time, this demon army is not large in scale. There is neither the overshadowing demon and his countless nightmares to form a complete fighting group, nor the gods themselves. Step down and instill your will into being loved here.

Psionics bring convenience to them, that is, the commander can use other demons conquered by him like an arm wielder, but there are also disadvantages, that is, sub-large-scale groups can't help but show their strategic intentions after losing their commander. of stupidity.

This is different from the green skinned people who like to go their own way, but it is also similar. Demons are originally created by negative emotions. Without a commander to suppress their stupidity, the demons became crazy and quickly attacked the Imperial Guard. , and at the same time, one after another.

To be precise, sacrificing the skull is more important to the individual demons than victory, so they now only choose to use the most destructive method to kill the enemy, regardless of the overall war advantage.

It's just that they don't know that the Imperial Guard has occupied most of the tactical depth and high-quality high ground. If those demons do not attack the high ground through large-scale left-right coordination and put those troops in a situation where they are attacked from both sides, it will be difficult to gain a real advantage.

The love for skulls and blood, as well as the worship of one's father and God without hesitation, and the lack of concept of death are extremely high-quality talents in war. In human civilization, it takes a lot of resources, luck and enough personal charisma to create something similar. Effect.

But without the commander, those qualities turned into a burden, a relentless burden, under the crossfire and high-altitude shooting of the Imperial Guard, the wide range of fire coverage and the constant anti-infantry fragmentation bombardment on the war platform.

Coupled with the loss of infantry-tank synergy, the elite Imperial Guard and Rune Warriors can easily use anti-tank cluster mines or melta bombs, or even melta guns to shoot at the vehicle's blind spot.

Without demons to hinder anti-vehicle behavior, mortals' firepower is not necessarily worse than tactical platforms at extremely close ranges.

At this point, hope came. Those weapons penetrated the demon's body and penetrated the demon engine. In the trenches and on the platform, they were shooting all the time. The Imperial Guard was like a clenched and charged fist, hitting the opponent's belly hard when it was exposed. He went down and punched the enemy with a sharp attack, who was bigger and more experienced, to death.

In the command room, the officers who had been suppressed for a long time showed smiles for a long time. However, they still did not dare to be careless in the face of an enemy like the devil, and approved the grassroots officers to use more firepower and more manpower to carry out more crazy suppression actions. and purge.

They were afraid. The crazy greenskins, the terrifying traitorous Space Marines, and even the Dark Eldar or the forged rune monsters. Those alien heretics who had tarnished the Emperor's light did not scare these tough guys. But today , those demons did it.

There is no special reason, it is just weird and difficult to deal with, and compared with other weird existences they have seen, this group of guys is particularly well-behaved, that is, there is an actual organization and organization.

That is to say, those demonic existences can be reproduced and exist almost infinitely in the dark side of the universe, human souls and haze...

Such fear is not cowardice, but the realization that those things are coveting the territory of the empire and the souls of mortals all the time, and after facing and witnessing those crazy and terrifying powers, their reason warns them that there is no such thing as this world. Absolute safety, dissipation of this.

They are more loyal to the emperor, and they also understand more clearly how valuable the sentence is, the only master of mankind in the sky.

They have become people who know what actually exists in this world. Demons are not lies, and the religious and mysterious nature of subspace is not false. Countless things from hell are spying on their flesh and blood souls, skull skin, and loyal will all the time.

It felt like the pores were pierced by densely packed tiny needles, and the blood flowed out of those holes and was locked by the skin, causing severe cerebral hemorrhage, but the person's skin only looked a little redder. Yes, if you don’t know, you won’t understand the harm behind this incident to people.

The only way for those tough men to deal with such fear is to kill, that is, to use all the capable and powerful things they know to blast, shoot, and kill again and again, and to drive those demons away from their eyes, and only then can they feel a faint sense of peace of mind.

This subconscious also represents the choice of the brave to face fear, the weak to escape, the ordinary to go crazy, and the brave to face it. In the fierce shooting and close combat, every trench, every slope, and every depression has become ruthless. The combination of the meat grinder, the smell of blood and sulfur, and the malicious wind became a terrifying nightmare symphony.

Under the endless shooting, explosions, tumbling rubble, broken sandbags, dissipated souls and demonic wails, fear was dispelled, leaving only desolation.

This is what the empire is doing now. As long as they witness the existence of demons, the people of the empire will react instinctively to the unknown, fear, and cowardice, and then attack them crazier than exterminating heretics and aliens.

This is caused by the pain buried in the human genome. It is also the result of the source of all the suffering of human civilization from the beginning of the Dark Age of Technology to the present day when the Imperial people are riddled with holes.

Either you believe in those powers crazily, or you kill those things. This is why extremist organizations such as the Tribunal, the Gray Knights, and the Chamber of Assassins appear again and again, and grow in disorder, until they have swallowed up most of the empire.

However, there is still a calm person in this place, and that is the young man, the second lieutenant. He has organized enough logistics. About half of the troops, a full 1 elites, are included in all the vehicles that the Imperial Guard can find now.

Most of them are vehicles in the hands of the enemy, as well as a large number of PDFs. The responsibility of this highly mobile infantry unit is also very difficult, which is to block the demon portal area and eliminate all the demons that appear next. , waiting for the arrival of the Destruction Eagle Chapter.

This decision is smart and fast. If the demons again send a high-level demon who can serve as a commander, if the Imperial Guard cannot control the situation, those things will come back. And if the Imperial Guard sends too many troops, the talisman stationed here will Wen warriors can also be a threat.

The commander of those troops who left was the reliable Chief of Staff of the Fourth Skadi Infantry Regiment. He had rich experience, sensitive senses, and had systematically studied the ordinary Skadi command and had not been exposed to too much imperial militarization. theory.

He is smart and sensitive, and the troops arrived at the destination after overwhelming defeat. This place was entered into the officer's personal terminal early, and there were also a large number of demons blocking the way. However, the stragglers were not threatening, and the demons were not masters of guerrilla warfare.Of course, their individual strength is not weak, but when they are scattered, they tend to wander rather than attack. Probably considering that they do not want to return to the boring life of the Supreme Heaven so early, those demons appear slightly timid and deliberately avoid the Imperial Guard. , allowing the Emperor's warriors to reach their destination without losing any blood.

And when the chief of staff saw the strange mansion at that destination, he could sense that soldiers should not enter it. He arranged for troops to be stationed, dig bunkers, trenches, and lay out sandbags and barbed wire.

It's clever, when demons appear out of thin air, the space where those physical worlds exist feels torn apart, crackling purple electricity and bright red muscles appear, a vampiric ghost emerges.

Intensive firepower then cleared this poor thing. The temporary portable generator ensured that the Imperial Guard would not be short of short-term firepower. The deflagration gun was as good as the enhanced version of the Imperial Guard laser weapon, but the cost was too high and it could not be densely distributed in the area. The empire has hundreds of billions of Imperial Guards, otherwise the enemies of the empire will be defeated.

However, Khorne's plan was completely ruined at this moment, and the rune warriors also left their original positions. They went to chase the traitor. Their current leader seemed to have endless hatred, and the Imperial Guard naturally wanted to pursue those The enemy has been eliminated, but now they are also short of food, clothing, and ammunition.

The lieutenant had no choice but to bypass those things, and they would disappear in this star area wisely, but probably only temporarily. Today's Skadi people are as tired as the Empire, and they have no strength, but they cannot eradicate the evil. .

Captain Kenny, who only had the pdf, expressed his displeasure at the man's departure, because he was the one who saved his troops, otherwise even if they could send supplies to the manor, they would be too dead to effectively organize the troops.

And he also expressed his trust in the Imperial Guard, and at the same time took the remaining troops to take the initiative to maintain the security of the industrial elevator, in order to prevent the flowing demons from entering the residential areas of the Middle Nest and causing chaos and distortion.

The second lieutenant just looked at this responsible man. He shouldn't be so depressed, but he also chose to do this. For him, his home is the most important thing, and such soldiers should not be buried here. .

And he can only report it to Alan Bair. As the true ruler of Engili, it is self-evident what the future of this dazzling soldier will be.

After bidding farewell to those brave soldiers, just as the Imperial Guard's cleanup work of nearby demons was coming to an end, the Catachans returned to the manor in the darkness of night. All of the soldiers were injured, and burns and cuts were common. The field priests and field doctors bandaged them urgently. Although they were far inferior to the medical nuns of the state church, they were still better.

At the same time, the Catachans themselves also have abundant emergency medicines, and those wounds are properly bandaged to stop bleeding or burned and disinfected before secondary treatment and injection of anti-inflammatory drugs and disinfectants.

There was only one person excepted, and that was the Catachan chief. The man who killed the demon was severely burned all over his body, and his body was covered with a large amount of rotten matter, which aggravated the ulcers on his body, and the effect of secondary disinfection was not good. As good as it was, anti-inflammatories didn't help, although that was partly because the best first aid was wasted on the ride back to camp.

But most people understood that it was because of the large-scale pouring of demon blood that had a certain impact on his body, as well as the influence of the Skullreaper Champion's spiritual energy that had been cursing Sergeant Catachan before being expelled.

However, his will is still clear. His once resolute face is now wrapped in sterile bandages, and his powerful body lies on the unit price used by patients. However, his spirit has withstood the high fever and physical pain, and he clearly looks at each of his comrades. .

When the second lieutenant arrived, along with his good friend, the Letling boy, the soldier still seemed magnanimous and calm.

"How about it, Crying Face, I killed a demon. Brothers, give me some amset and sprinkle it on the wound. Everything will be fine." His tone was much weaker, and he still struggled to hold up his upper body. Leaning on the makeshift medical bed.

The second lieutenant didn't say a word. The Letling kid was so sentimental and righteous that he was already crying. Although he was also a frontline soldier, as a sniper, his pain was incomparable to that of the former Catachan noncommissioned officer in special operations. His hairy palms Put it in front of the sergeant's bedside and say.

"Why, didn't you mean that you must have left later than me? You know, the average life span of Letling people is higher than that of Imperial people."

Sergeant Catachan said bravely. "The average lifespan of the Kokatachan is higher than that of the Letlings!"

The ensign spoke now. "Isn't that what the Ministry of Military Affairs said, that Catachan is actually a demi-human?"

At this moment, the three of them couldn't help but laugh, and there was a long silence afterwards. They didn't know how to deal with this situation. The separation between life and death on the battlefield usually lasted only a moment, but Sergeant Catachan could probably last ten years in a situation like this. It lasted for half a month, and it was slow and unbearable.

The poor medical standards in the battlefield and the hive were unlikely to allow him to recover, and the wounds continued to fester.
The sergeant couldn't help but say that it felt like he was having a flashback at this moment. "It's a pity that the head disappeared quickly after I fired the flare. Those demons left nothing behind, just like ghosts or ghosts!" His words became powerful again, and this feeling also affected the second lieutenant. His sensitive Feeling like things are not that bad.

He also spoke. "Of course, according to my opinion, those guys are similar to spiritual beings, and they are all supreme heavenly creatures. Everything about them is false and made..." The second lieutenant's knowledgeable answer was something he learned on the battlefield during this time. thing.

The second lieutenant said again. "But there are exceptions, such as demon weapons, armor, and the terrain changes they cause. Those things are caused by interference substances and actually exist."

As he spoke, he saw the presence of the Letling boy again, as well as Sergeant Catachan's gradually improving condition...

"Psychic, untouchable..." he muttered.

"Okay, okay!" His mood suddenly improved and he said. "The Lytling boy is untouchable, and your body is affected by demonic energy. In theory, as long as the Lytling boy is still by your side, your problems may be suppressed..." At this moment, the emperor mercifully gave New opportunities for the winners.

(End of this chapter)