StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 27 Loen Town
Before June 6th, the Warfield 20st Company where Augustus belonged performed quite boring tasks. For two days they stayed in the barracks for training, and for the rest of the time they were transferred to escort the soldiers from Polk. Supplies from Proud Star Port.

For a whole week, Riogusta's squad followed the container trucks around the city at high speed.

At this time, more than a week had passed since Augustus was promoted to the rank of associate sergeant, acting as the first squad leader of the third row.As far as Augustus knew, the squad leaders of the other recruits who came to the first company were now veterans of the first company.

Augustus soon realized that a new replacement might never arrive until he was promoted to corporal as full squad leader.

During the convoy, Augustus was always on guard against surprise attacks from the enemy, although Kel-Morian attacks never appeared.

The daily life of Augustus and others is the same. From the moment they wake up in the morning, they have to put on power armor and board the armored troop carrier.The Marines then spent most of the day in the armored vehicle.

During this period of time, Polk's Pride was in a kind of rare and usual calm. The Kelmorian and Tyrannian Federation troops were still facing each other at the Patrick River in the city center, but the frontline garrison did not fire a single shot.Only the artillery units of both sides would regularly fire at the enemy's positions, and the buildings and fortifications within range had already been razed to the ground.

In the past year, there has never been a large-scale battle involving more than [-] people on Turaxis II, and both sides each occupy half of the planet's land, and they seem to be satisfied with this.

Yet Augustus knew that this delicate balance was like thin ice hanging over a candle, and that sooner or later one of them would break it.

What Augustus is most worried about now is that if both sides regard Polk's Pride as a breakthrough point, the 33rd Ground Assault Division at the center of the war will face a brutal war.

Perhaps it was because the task of escorting the convoy to transport supplies had tired a group of young recruits, so on the morning of June 6, when Second Lieutenant Reagan, the leader of the third platoon, told them that their first company When he was about to go to a small town called Loen to perform a combat mission.Everyone except Augustus and Omo started cheering.

Second Lieutenant Reagan could only sigh at this. The first battle Augustus led this group of recruits to fight was so easy that they still did not regard war as a serious matter.

Perhaps they mature only after they have seen their comrades die, after their relatives and comrades have left them forever.

Near noon that day, Augustus led the first squad into the barracks with the badge of the giant wolf engraved on the wall.

It was the first time for them to use the power armor of the 33rd Ground Assault Division. Since this unit had been serving in the icy and snowy silver world of Sigmar before, their armor surface painting was also silver-gray commensurate with the environment.

Like everyone else's power armor, Augustus' armored breastplate features a prostrate gray wolf.

This set of power armor is still the old-fashioned CMC-200, and some traces of use can be seen inside, but overall it is much better than those in the boot camp.

According to the newly issued "Supplement to the 33rd Ground Assault Division Level-[-] Weapons Management Regulations", each member of the Augustus class also received an additional Gauss rifle gun-mounted grenade launcher.

In addition, the supply sergeant of the armory also distributed them an additional hellfire flamethrower and a pair of parallel-connected double-barreled liquid oil tanks, a pair of brand new CMC-230-XF heavy power armor, a seven Foot-long single-man rocket launcher and two large bundles of rockets, and a few people were assigned a honey whisperer heavy machine gun and four boxes of ammo boxes full of bullet chains.

Augustus noted that all of Warfield's company squads, including the medics, had been re-equipmented.Apparently, the upper commander of the 33rd Ground Assault Division intended to convert the entire [-]st Company into a main assault company.

Warfield's company has always been known as the steel company, and it has always been at the forefront of the charge. After several fierce battles, it often loses more than half.

There is nothing wrong with the [-]st Company receiving such honors, even the other fraternal companies think they deserve better equipment, because it also means that the battalion commander has a better reason to deploy them in the most dangerous places than other companies. people.

Although these weapons should be held by professional sergeants who have undergone professional training, it is obviously unrealistic to dismantle a full combat squad and send a group of people to receive training during wartime.

After discussing with Renault, Augustus decided to hand over the rocket launcher to Ward and the heavy machine gun to the tall Benjamin, with Omo carrying the ammunition box as his deputy.

The flamethrower was given to Harnack only because, according to Harnack himself, he loved playing with fire as a child, and it happened that no one else wanted to use such a dangerous and difficult to handle weapon.

Then Augustus divided the first squad into three firepower teams, each with Hanak and others who had been replaced with new equipment as the core.Among them, Augustus led the first team, the team members were machine gunner Benjamin Crandall, deputy Tom Omo, rifleman Curt Josephine and sniper Rick Kidd.

The second group was led by Raynor, and his subordinates were Pyroman Hanak Hanke, riflemen Ilya Kulovsky and Amy Brandon.The third team was led by Alain Rundstein and consisted of Rocketeer Connor Ward, Grenadier Xander Max and Lee Pachinyoung.

"Augustus, I think we still need a medical soldier." After the weapons were distributed, Renault said to Augustus.

"Our personnel and weaponry are already infinitely close to a standard 'special tactics and mission team', you can be satisfied." Augustus blushed: "Usually we call these special teams the elite among the elites." Elite, no matter what, these good things are not available to recruits who have only been in the army for a few months."

"Sooner or later we will be the best of the best," Renault said.

By the time the first squad of Marines had put on their new gear and boarded an APOD-46 transport plane, Augustus believed they were all brand new.

Hanak's change is the biggest. The CMC-230-XF power armor he is wearing now is the famous Firebat armor. This power armor was developed and launched by Proxion Industrial Group.

Compared with other models of CMC-200 to CMC-300, the Firebat power armor adopts thicker and stronger stainless steel armor, and the surface of the armor has a special heat-resistant coating to withstand the fire from the Hellfire flamethrower. The scorching hot high-temperature ion flow.

The additional stainless steel shields and insulation make the Firebat armor heavier and bulkier than normal power armor.The crimson body paint also makes the firebat look more dangerous. The chest and crotch armors are painted with the badges of the Proxion Industrial Group and the 33rd Ground Assault Division.

The Firebat armor of the 33rd Ground Assault Division has been repainted a silver-gray, resembling a large silver giant.

After some additional modifications to Ward's power armor, the armor plates on his shoulders were replaced with a larger and flatter model, which was used to mount the fixed straight rocket launcher.

A more accurate HUD missile targeting eyepiece was added to his helmet visor, and an armed belt with twelve self-targeting rockets and sharp-edged military thorns were tied around Ward's waist.

As the transport plane made its way to its destination, Augustus used the HUD display on his power armor shield to review the mission briefing.

The latest mission briefing showed that their destination, the small town of Loen, was fifteen miles away from the central city of Polk's Pride. Before the war broke out, the resident population was about 5000, but now it has shrunk to 2000.

This small town is still under the control of the Tyrann Federation army, but that area is located in the lower reaches of the Padik River that flows through the city of Polk's Pride, and only one Federation Army battalion is stationed there.

The army battalion couldn't monitor the defense depth of more than ten miles wide in real time, so from time to time, Kel Morian scout troops entered the federal control zone through the Patrick River.

The briefing's description of this mission was very brief—according to reliable information, this small town named Loen had surrendered to Kel Morian.The task of Warfield Company is to regain control of this small town and execute all the townspeople.

Seeing this, Augustus could not help but widen his eyes.

Yes, executions, not arrests.

(End of this chapter)