StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 194 Sacrifice
At this time, the desolate canyon is still in the dark, but a pale belly has emerged in the east, and dawn is coming.

Duke kept his promise in terms of surrender, and the remaining 100 Alpha Elite Guard soldiers threw all their weapons to the ground and raised their hands.

Most of these are resocialized soldiers, obedient to the orders of the highest commanding officer.At this time, the disadvantages of large-scale resocialization appeared. When a senior commander defected, he could immediately order his subordinates to lay down their weapons or issue a ceasefire order.

And even if someone is holding a gun to a resocialized soldier's head, his commander will not hesitate to do so if he tells him to put down his weapon and stop resisting.

The instructions of absolute loyalty to the Federation have been written into the minds of resocialized soldiers, but they don't actually understand what loyalty is—after all, bombarding the Hall of Reason where the Tarsonis Federation Council is located can also be said to be a kind of loyalty .

"Don't play tricks on me, I know you have two ghost agents under your command." Augustus led his soldiers towards the Alpha Squadron soldiers who had put down their weapons, saying as they walked.

A few seconds later, two ghost agents with heavy sniper guns in their arms appeared.After a little hesitation, they also lowered their weapons.

Out of the dejected Soldiers of Alpha Squadron came Edmund Duke in his white commander's armor, a burly man with a golden eagle insignia on his armor.

"I hope your promise is worth the price." Duke didn't take off his helmet, but walked up to Augustus and threw his own gun together with the holster at the opponent's feet.

"I have issued an order to surrender to the channels of all the troops, but the Marine Corps may not necessarily obey my order. If the Marine Corps is unwilling to surrender, then I have no problem with you killing them."

"My promise always counts." Augustus looked at the soldier's Corporal Faraday, who immediately ordered the Revolutionary Army soldiers to collect the weapons of Alpha Squadron and ordered them to take off their power armor.

"Today, I made a big mistake." Duke said in a low voice, "I fell into your trap."

"And the trap isn't hard to see." Augustus said, looking at Duke, who didn't want to give a victor's tirade: "In the end, you've been treating the Revolutionary Army as a peasant rebel army with low combat effectiveness."

After speaking, Augustus ordered the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army to re-board the transport ship, and Duke was also escorted by Corporal Faraday to board the ship together.

The transport ship took off on the flat sandy ground, and the propellers whipped up the wind and sand. As it continued to rise, the horizon line shrouded in a layer of white light gradually turned into a curve.It was less than two miles away from the bottleneck fortress, and it didn't take long for Augustus to see the main battlefield that was still shining with light.

Duke didn't lie. Except for the exchange of fire in some areas, the main battlefield of the Desolate Canyon has calmed down again.

Judging from the information sent back by Renault, Rundstein and other troops, the federal army either laid down their weapons in a rigid manner, or surrendered under the leadership of officers, and there are still several brigade-level remnants of the federal marines still in the corner. recalcitrant.At present, the troops of Renault and others are concentrating superior forces against those remnants of the Federation who are still unwilling to surrender.

The Revolutionary Army defenders at the bottleneck position recognized the identity of the transport ship and did not open fire.Even so, the transport ship that Augustus was on couldn't find even a place to land, and could only temporarily land near a command center that had been bombarded so that only the steel frame structure remained.

Where the light of the transport ship can shine, bombed bunkers and simple modular buildings can be seen everywhere.Every bunker that was destroyed was like half a charred egg shell, and the alloy steel plate that was considered indestructible had already been shattered.

Here and there are discarded weapons, copper-plated bullet casings, railgun shell fragments buried deep in the rust-coloured sandy soil, and body parts Augustus couldn't bear to see, still clad in hot The power armor plates are available in both Alpha Squadron white and Revolutionary red.The blood melted into the red soil of Mar Sara, as if returning to its original body.

In bunkers and bomb craters plowed by cannons, corpses can be seen piled up everywhere. The power armor is riddled with holes. Beat into a sieve.Soldiers from the Alpha Squadron and the Revolutionary Army died in a strange way that was twisted, almost embracing but actually clashing with bayonets, and the dead were countless.

Augustus knew that a soldier who had been baptized by war might have already felt numb to such a scene.Augustus had seen much death, and death had taken his comrades and thousands of warriors from his hands, and all he could do was bury them.

It was Augustus who brought these young people out of their families. They thought that the pursuit of the Marshal would lead to light and hope, but in the end they were buried in a marginal world that they had never even heard of before. There is almost no resemblance to their warm and beautiful hometown, Keha IV.

When Augustus walked towards the transport ship, Duke had already been stripped of his power armor and his hands were tightly bound with ropes.He was shivering in the cold in nothing but a navy combat uniform of thin, malleable fabric, and a dark gray Revolutionary overcoat.

The revolutionary army in the spacecraft immediately rushed to the almost ruined position, searching for possible survivors in the collapsed bunkers and ruins of fortification walls.

Augustus could not hear even a cry or howl, and where the lights of the transport ship could shine, there was only death.

"There are people alive down there!" At this moment, Kerrigan emerged from her invisible state and directed the Revolutionary Army soldiers to excavate a collapsed ruin.Kerrigan's telepathic abilities can help her find survivors buried in the ruins. For her, even the activities of the unconscious mind can be detected.

The SCVs of the Revolutionary Army Engineering Corps who came to participate in the battle immediately started rescue work in their field of expertise. They used the melting gun of the space engineering vehicle to cut open the metal on the bunker, and then used power clamps to clamp out the survivors buried in themselves. .The SCVs in the engineering team are all skilled workers, all of them are between 40 and [-] years old, and there are few young people.

Whether in the Federal Marine Corps or the Revolutionary Army, the engineering teams SCV who can build modular buildings on various battlefields and weld tanks in the workshop are known as "the father who serves the diapers for the Marine Corps."

"It took me a lot of time to break through this damn fortress, and the rebels here are much more tenacious than I imagined." Duke standing behind Augustus said at this time: "Before this, I It is impossible to imagine any army whose morale is better than that of resocialized soldiers, which keeps them fighting after they have been nearly destroyed."

"Unheard of."

"My soldiers have firm beliefs." When Augustus saw the broken legs of the rescued revolutionary soldier, his heart immediately felt sad.Even though the soldier survived the pain, blood loss and infection, he would have to live with modified prosthetics for the rest of his life.

All Augustus could do was to send back more of the war-crippled warriors to Umoyan.The soldiers will train recruits and future officers at the barracks and military academy in New Steeling.

"Besides, every Kehal who loses his homeland is a ghost hungry for vengeance," Augustus said. "And you don't know that."

"Even if you want to destroy Tarsonis who gave birth to you, you won't hesitate at all."

The inexplicable Duke just wanted to refute something, when Tychus and Harnak in red armor brought a few Revolutionary Army soldiers with scars and burn marks on their armor to Augustus.

"We wiped out fourteen battalions." Harnack was a man of escape, but he couldn't hide his sadness at the moment.His tone was fierce, roaring like a lion.

"But I dare say the bastards of Alpha Squadron have killed far more men than we have."

"We've won, Hank," Augustus told him.

"Yo, Colonel Duke." Tychus looked rather happy, despite having just walked through the gates of hell.As soon as he saw Duke, he smiled and said kindly to him.

"Seeing you again, you viper. What an honor."

At this moment, the sun in Mar Sara rose slowly, and the morning glow dyed the sky red.

A crimson banner, blackened by smoke and fire, fluttered in the morning breeze from the canyon, a mighty arm wrapped around a whip.

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