The whistling drop capsules tore through the dry air of the vast mining planet, flames wrapped around the fine steel, the light flashed across the sickle blade, and death came with them.
In the violently shaking narrow space, Hades sat silently in his seat, the obituary lying quietly in his hands.
He will be one of the first Death Guard to land, following the Iron Warriors' main airborne force to land behind No. 03.
Due to the mutual hostility between Mortarion and Perturabo, Perturabo firmly decided that the Iron Warriors would be the first wave of ground landing forces.
The Lord of Steel believed that the Pale King was provoking him, so he sent out his own Steel Warriors as the vanguard.
However, Mortarion did not receive Perturabo's order at all. He just chose the wave of airdrop pods that could arrive the fastest.
Due to the advice of other Death Guard, Mortarion gave up the plan to land as the first group of Death Guard, and instead landed after a wave of Death Guard had landed and had a grasp of the local terrain.
Hades still remembered that several Death Guards came to him and hoped that he would persuade Mortarion not to rush too fast.
The scene in the Battle of Galaspar when the Primarch abandoned his troops and rushed directly into the enemy was too shocking for the Death Guard.
For the Legion, the symbolic significance of the Primarch is greater than the combat capability of an individual soldier, so Mortarion was decisively persuaded to stop.
After the Iron Warriors' airdrop, the first wave of Death Guard airdrops was naturally led by Hades.
"BANG!"
After a brief and violent shaking, the air hissed into the cabin, the dazzling sunlight and sand tore in together, the blade was unsheathed, and the bullet was loaded.
Hades strode out of the drop pod and commanded the first batch of Death Guard to join the battlefield through the channel.
[The first team of Death Guard has all arrived at the target point. ]
A hissing sound came from 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. As one of the first people to land and open up the landing point, he was under a lot of pressure.
Perturabo gave him only enough men to capture the landing site.
As the Death Guard, who were obviously more numerous than the Iron Warriors, joined the battle line, they immediately relieved a lot of pressure on the Iron Warriors.
Flames burst from the muzzles of the Death Guard's guns.
Dantioch was a little surprised to realize that compared to his brothers who would shout out battle cries, these white-green warriors joined the battle line silently, standing shoulder to shoulder in the makeshift trenches built by the Iron Warriors. Apart from the sound of gunfire and dull footsteps, the Death Guard made no sound.
The occasional sound of electricity in the channel reminded the Iron Warriors that these Death Guards had opened a public communication channel.
But. No sound.
Only when necessary would brief communications be transmitted within the Death Guard to remind the Iron Warriors.
But Hades, the commander of the Death Guard, was not silent like most of the Death Guard. Clear High Gothic sounded in the channel, reporting the current situation of the Death Guard and intelligence about the enemy.
[Well done, guys.]
[Now we take over the battlefield.]
Hades' voice rang out.
[good.]
Dantioch agreed without hesitation.
Originally, the main force of this landing battle was the Death Guard, but at Perturabo's insistence, the Iron Warriors became the first to land.
The performance of the Iron Warriors led by Dantioch in taking over the drop point after the first batch of landings was enough to prove their strength.
There was no need for them to continue to fight. 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, Dantioch remembered the communication from a brother who had just returned from Mars when he was about to enter the drop chamber. In that brief communication, the brother told him that he must make friends with the Death Shroud Hades on the opposite side, and as long as they fight together, they don't have to worry about the problem of running-in, because this Death Shroud... has a good temper
Dantioch was surprised. According to the time when this brother returned from Mars, this Death Guard named Hades climbed to the top of the Death Guard in a very short time after returning from Mars? !
This kind of person must be a warrior with extremely outstanding skills, but outsiders describe him as having a good temper
Thinking of the private communication Hades had given him before, as well as Hades' report afterwards, Dantioch became even more curious about the rather sturdy Death Shroud.
At present, the cooperation experience with Hades can be ranked in the top three of "Dantioch's most desired cooperation".
Hades's command was impersonal, no nonsense, extremely high information density, and the tactics he chose were in line with Dantioch's preferences.
In cooperation with other legions, some commanders talk a lot, which Dantioch doesn't like.
What Dantioch didn't know was that Hades would praise the Iron Warriors a few more times during the subsequent report. If he knew this now, he would definitely put Hades at the top of the list of "Dantioch's most desired collaboration".
The Death Guard began to slowly but surely advance the front line, and the Iron Warriors who withdrew from the front began to build trenches.
Their current landing point was behind a small hill behind the Necromancer forge group. The Iron Warriors relied on the terrain and a wave of air fire support before their landing to stay here.
The soldiers who landed here needed to attack between these tall black stone buildings, find and try to destroy the opposite shield system, and then call for a second wave of precision fire support.
Before they entered the complex, Perturabo calculated that the Iron Warriors' air forces could provide them with a fire bombardment, opening a gap in the dense Necron infantry for the Death Guard and Iron Warriors.
After this bombardment is over, Mortarion will land with a second wave of Death Guard and lead them to capture the objective point.
But so far, the Iron Warriors' Stormbirds are still fighting with those sickle-shaped aircraft in the air, and their competing metal bodies are occasionally revealed among the yellow sand.
After the Iron Warriors briefly gained air superiority and covered the landing of the airdrop pod, the seat in the sky quickly changed hands again.
Both sides were fighting fiercely for air supremacy, and the side that successfully occupied the air supremacy for half a standard hour could launch a large-scale fire bombing on the ground.
Therefore, the Imperial troops on the ground must have trenches to avoid bombing. Dantioch commanded some Iron Warriors to begin digging trenches, while other Iron Warriors continued to fight.
The good news is that it won’t be long before the Iron Warriors once again dominate the skies.
On another battlefield, the Iron Warriors and the Skitarii of the Graeae are fighting hard. They will hold back the main force and armored forces of the Necrons. At the same time, the vanguard forces will try to meet up with the airborne forces and open up a route for the airborne forces to evacuate.
[Close combat preparation! Get your sickle ready!]
Currently, most of the enemies that airborne troops face are still Necron infantry, and the best way to deal with Necron infantry is close combat.
Seeing that the number of attacking Necrons began to decrease, Hades decisively commanded some Death Guard to step out of the line, and under the cover of fire from the rest of the Death Guard, he rushed out of the trenches and engaged the enemy in close combat.
Hades didn't waste any words. He rushed out first with a scythe in his hand. His body, which was originally taller than others, was now extremely flexible. The sophisticated backpack behind him spewed bullets and plasma beams, which helped Hades easily block the attacks from a distance.
The breath was long and steady. Hades turned his sickle and cut. Metal collided and the teeth-grinding sound came one after another. The obituary came into contact with the metal body of the undead, splashing sparks.
The Black Domain is useless to them.
Hades observed the Necron he had cut off, but the other party's mechanical body and stiff expression told him that this kind of creature had no soul.
really.
Realizing this, Hades no longer wasted his brain energy on it. He observed the situation on the battlefield while reaping the enemies.
However, the moment Hades came into contact with the Necrons—
Deep in the tomb, Gaserlos, who was talking to himself at the moment, suddenly looked up.
"I've said it before, of course I'll be the one to defeat him in the end."
"Nas, you are wrong."
But Nass could no longer hear the king's words, as the Necron ships he led were now slowly floating in space.
The faint information from the Star God fragments was cut off.
Nas looked at the detector and thought silently.
The last location of this information is -
The Fourth Knight was preparing for a second airdrop under the protection of a group of Iron Warriors and Death Guard ships.
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