Chapter 22: Chapter 22 Final March
Without the protection of the void shield, the heavy firepower array on the outer layer of the Blackstone Fortress was quickly destroyed. This also meant that the Blackstone Fortress had completely lost its ability to resist.
But the loyal imperial warriors had no intention of giving up the fortress.
Among the imperial troops stationed in Blackstone Fortress, there is a troop from the death world [Krieg]! Thanks to its special history, every Krieg is a natural master of positional warfare.
Under the cover of two Astra Militarum regiments, the Krieg Regiment collected all the materials they could find and turned every passage inside the fortress into a place of death.
Relying on the defense line built by the Krieg infantry, the loyal imperial warriors began a bloody and brutal stand.
The roar of grenade launchers, the scream of chainswords, the dying roar of loyalists... countless sounds intertwined and converged to create a despairing scene of death.
On such a tragic battlefield, "life" has become the cheapest thing.
In order to delay the time for the defense line to be breached, the soldiers, with high-energy explosives tied all over their bodies, shouted the name of the Emperor and rushed towards the direction of the traitor without hesitation.
The burning laser beam pierced through his body, and the roaring bomb tore his chest apart! But loyalty and anger still drove this warrior forward.
Even though his body was dead, his soul was still burning.
Boom!!!
With a deafening roar, a red mushroom cloud rose from the traitors' position! Including the two Chaos Space Marines, all the traitors in the position were reduced to ashes at this moment.
The imperial warriors temporarily held their defense line! But this "temporarily" only meant five minutes...
Every bit of ground the loyalists stood on was stained with blood, and the heroic remains of Imperial warriors littered every corner of the Blackstone Fortress.
Human courage is a hymn of loyalty and sacrifice!
Even at the last moment of their lives, the loyal soldiers did not even think of retreating.
The rotten and decaying human empire is like an old and dilapidated machine. It is the flesh and blood and souls of countless brave warriors that lubricate the rusty gears of this machine! Every moment when the empire stumbles forward, it is covered with the ashes and blood of the warriors.
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By this point, this brutal positional battle had lasted for three full Terra days.
Although the resistance of the Imperial warriors was heroic and outstanding, facing the overwhelming military advantage of the traitors, the loyalists' defense line was inevitably defeated.
Including the Krieg Corps, the Military Affairs Department has deployed a total of eight Astra Militarum Corps in Blackstone Fortress! But in the past three days, more than half of the corps have been wiped out.
There are less than 20,000 surviving imperial soldiers left, and what they have to face are endless traitors like a tide.
If no miracle happens, the core area of Blackrock Fortress will be the burial place of these loyalists!
This is a war with no hope at all! But even in the face of certain death, the loyalists still do not intend to sit and wait for death.
The steel-silent Kriegs once again built a solid defense line, but this time, the Death Corps did not choose to fight alongside other warriors.
As sinners who once betrayed the Golden Throne, the Kriegs were wrapped in self-blame and guilt for their entire lives! Death was not the end for them, but a sacred relief.
Faced with the traitors who were coming like a tide, the Kriegs remained unusually calm.
"Life is only for fighting, and death is for rest; life has no glory, and death is for redemption." The ancient Krieg death prayer echoed on the battlefield.
When the betrayer was within reach, the Death Legion launched a charge towards Chaos! This was the will of the Kriegs, and this was also the Death Legion's final march!
At this point in the war, there were only a few hundred surviving Death Legion soldiers.
The charge of an entire Astra Militarum Corps was not enough to threaten the traitor. Facing the mere hundred men of the Death Legion, the traitor showed a scornful smile on his face.
But soon, their smiles froze on their faces.
The Krieg worship death, but they will never allow their death to be meaningless.
The silent Death Legion soldiers were strapped with high explosives, and the roar of high explosives was heard as the Krieg's advance approached the betrayers.
The high temperature and shock wave generated by the explosion cleared an area within a radius of two kilometers. More than five digits of traitors were reduced to ashes in this tragic explosion.
These warriors, who had been wrapped in guilt all their lives, finally found eternal peace at this moment.
The Kriegs fulfilled their oath with their lives! May the great Golden Throne have mercy on the souls of these warriors.
The final advance of the Death Legion caused great casualties to the betrayers! But unfortunately, this could not change the outcome of the war in the slightest.
The betrayers stepped on the corpses on the ground and launched a final attack on the loyalists' line.
The defense line built by the Kriegs was indeed strong, but it still had its limits! In the face of the heavy firepower of the betrayers, the loyalists' defense line soon became shaky.
Total annihilation seems imminent!
The betrayers reveal a hideous smile! They will use the blood and heads of the loyalists to please the Chaos Gods hidden deep in the Warp.
The loyalists gripped their weapons tightly, ready to fight to the death with the betrayers.
But at this moment, an unexpected reinforcement arrived at the Blackstone Fortress.
That's an Astartes from the Angels of Mourning Chapter!
When the Blackstone Fortress came under attack, the 2nd and 3rd Companies of the Angels of Mourning were on a mission on a nearby planet.
As soon as they received the news, the Angels of Mourning responded to the Blackstone Fortress's call for help! The Astartes drove two battle barges and arrived at the space area around the Blackstone Fortress at the fastest speed.
When the Angel of Mourning arrived, the Chaos fleet, led by the Endurance, was still lurking outside the Blackrock Fortress.
Relying on extremely superb driving skills and solid void shields, after paying the price of a battle barge being destroyed, the descendants of Sanguinius finally succeeded in breaking into the fortress.
The appearance of reinforcements on the battlefield greatly encouraged the wounded loyalists.
While the betrayers were stunned by the appearance of the Angel of Mourning, the Astartes and the Astra Militarum launched a fierce attack at the same time.
The Angels of Mourning are a sub-Chapter of the Blood Angels formed during the Dark Founding in the early 36th Millennium.