Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

"How many times have they counterattacked?"

Vito asked.

"This is the 19th time this month, and I think it will soon be the 20th time. They are a tenacious enemy, but they are not very smart and have been attacking from the front here."

"I think there's nothing we can do about it, Commander. The east side has been wiped out by the divine soldiers of the Mechanicus."

Vito explained to the commander of the Imperial Army, who saluted him and reiterated his assurance that he and his men would fight off the 20th xenos counterattack until the Emperor's final victory came.

But Vito isn't worried about that.

Most of the orcs have been wiped out in the past month. They are indeed very tenacious. Even now, they are still launching counterattacks. The war attracts them.

But this no longer poses any problem. Although they are fanatical, the greenskins have very little power left. Their armies have been exhausted in successive battles. The war beasts produced in the factory are also fighting against the Titans of the Mechanicum. They were defeated one by one in the duel.

This war was supposed to be protracted, lasting a year, or even several years.

But it only lasted a month under Vitor's command, and this was due to their lack of Astartes support, otherwise they would have been faster.

Vito returned to the tent between the camps. His tent was a large war tent with a red canopy. It was completely different from the tents of the surrounding Imperial Army, Skitarii, and Navy.

Most of them were small, and each tent housed members of a squad. Many of them were empty. Imperial Army soldiers were constantly leaving or returning, and tanks rumbled and roared in the camp.

The Imperial Titan stood in the distance, behind Vito's tent, his majestic barrel standing in the sun, surrounded by the Hound Titans. The Knight Titans should have been here too, but they left to sweep the west. The remaining greenskin fortress in the basin.

There were several Stormtroopers guarding outside the tent, and Vito passed between them and walked in.

Everyone else is waiting for him here, Ragnar and Lancelot, Olaf and Eisenstein who just returned with the Emperor, and Jarek who returned from the east. He has returned to the command post. .

Yeta is also here. The young red-haired girl is still wearing the robe of the wild Eldar. The snow-white color makes her look tall.

Vito still remembered what he told the half-eldar wearing a mirror mask when dealing with the problem of the wild Eldar.

"I can hand over this planet to you. It is no longer useful to the empire anyway, but there is one condition."

He said.

"You need to be loyal to the Empire."

Of course, the leader of the Wild Eldar tribe refused. He said that the empire massacred his people many years ago and reduced the world to scorched earth by raining fire or orbital bombardment. He would not be loyal to the murderer.

Vito told him that he should be grateful for the mercy of the Inquisition, which has not eradicated them all for so many years, because you allowed human blood, and after Omega's inspection, the blood content was acceptable to the empire. species, and the Empire is now an ally of the Eldar.

And for personal reasons, you helped Yeta, my lieutenant and goddaughter.

Now he gives these alien descendants a chance to swear loyalty to the Empire. He does not ask them to believe in the Emperor, let alone send those stupid idiot bureaucrats from the Ministry of Administrative Affairs, but they need to be loyal.

The leader of the Savage Spirit Tribe hesitated for a long time, turned around and discussed with his tribesmen for a while, but finally nodded.

"We are willing to take the oath."

After that, they left. They had been helping the Imperial Army diligently these days, and they did a good job indeed. With the help of the Wild Eldar, the Imperial Army attacked on multiple fronts, bypassing the greenskin defenses and achieving great success. Less victory.

Vito returned to the tent and began the meeting.

On the side of the holographic map, Jarek told Vito that the battlefield in the east had been calmed down, the orc resistance there had been bulldozed, and the remaining greenskins had been driven back to the core factory area.

Olaf's team also completed their mission. They successfully defeated the greenskin armored forces after several days of fierce fighting. Now all the greenskin's mobile forces and heavy armored forces were turned into burning wreckage.

Ragnar and Lancelot have just returned from the "Iron Peak". They leveled the orc mountain camp there. The forts that had been threatening the empire's advance a while ago have all been eliminated. The greenskins killed were pressed by Ragnar. In Na's words.

countless.

Eisenstein, on the other hand, did not have so many exaggerations of the battle. He went straight to the point and directly explained that the Mechanicus Skitarii, with the help of the Emperor-class Titans, had completely swept away the city group in the hive city. Among them, the green skins who were still resisting were either Run away or be killed.

Some Greenskins tried to escape into the underground network of hive tunnels and continued to resist. The Adeptus Mechanicus poured promethium fuel into them and then ignited them, burning them all to death.

Cole also participated in the meeting remotely, bringing news that the Imperial Navy had taken complete control of the skies.

"It seems like everything is going well for everyone, so that's all that's left."

Vito said to the core factory on the map.

"This is the last fortress of the orcs. If we capture this, the war will be over."

Olaf affirmed.

"Indeed, but now there is also trouble here."

Eisenstein stepped in and enlarged the map to show the area of ​​the core factory.

The factory has turned into a real fortress, with high walls and turrets everywhere. There are a large number of weapons in the factory and a large number of orcs who have withdrawn into it.

The underground structure of the entire factory is also extremely complex. It is the location of the core furnace of the local foundry. It is dotted with a large number of mine pits, underground railway transportation lines that avoid the dangerous environment on the surface, high-temperature fuel flow channels used by the furnace, and huge underground production workshops. etc.

After the greenskins took over, they expanded the place. Those aliens made it more complex and confusing, so that the factory structure diagram they now have is completely useless.

"How do we get it?"

Ragnar asked.

"This damn place looks as tough as a bastard. A strong attack would be in vain. How about orbital bombing?"

He shrugged.

"Anyway, there's nothing left on this planet, so why not blow it up into ashes and clean it up, so that the green leather robes are not everywhere and we have to clean up again later."

Cole rejected this suggestion. He pointed to the factory in front of him, and something new appeared with his finger.

"The greenskins have built a protective shield here. Bombing is useless."

"My aviation squadron tried it before. They tried to cooperate with the stormtroopers to launch an attack. As a result, all the missiles were blocked by the shield. The energy of the shield was extremely strong. I don't even know how the green skins used it. Built.”

Cole said helplessly that he even asked the Infinite Frontier to fire a cannon directly. The huge power of the macro cannon blew up all the surrounding mountains, but the factory remained unscathed.

The conclusion is that orbital bombing is useless. If the entire surface is destroyed, the factory will still be there.

Eisenstein also expressed his approval. He claimed that the Mechanicus had also tried it before. The main gun of the Emperor-class Titan bombarded the factory, but the doomsday cannon that leveled the entire city was completely useless in front of the factory shield.

Then everyone began to discuss how to destroy the factory. Ragnar suggested blowing up the entire land and throwing the factory into the void of space.

He had obviously forgotten Vito's promise to the Savage Eldar, but there was no point in blowing up the entire planet and throwing it into the void, and the greenskins didn't need food or water.

Lancelot suggested concentrating firepower and trying to see if the blockade could be broken at a certain point.

Yeta's opinion is to surround them. Anyway, the green skins have nothing to fight for and are more miserable than anyone else. It is simply torture for these aliens. It is better to surround them and let them come out to fight on their own.

The discussion finally ended with Vito's opening. He kept looking at the factory structure diagram, thinking thoughtfully, and finally came up with a method.

"Blow it out of the ground."

Vito said, pointing to the structural parts beneath the factory, down to the deepest foundations.

"Sneak in, put on a bomb, detonate it from the ground, and blow up the foundation of the entire factory."

"There is a huge amount of ammunition inside. After the explosion, it will be enough to blow up the entire factory and all the underground tunnels, sending all the orcs inside to see Brother Gomao."

Cole frowned worriedly and held his chin.

"But it requires an explosion with a large enough yield. Storm torpedoes or death missiles can do it, but they are too big. Even if they only carry warheads, they are smaller than a car and are limited. It is impossible to infiltrate with them."

“What kind of explosive is easy to carry but powerful enough to destroy an entire factory?”

Cole asked, causing everyone to fall silent and think, while Vito stood up with a smile and gave everyone the name of the thing.

he himself.