Emperor's Daughter of the Red Sands

Chapter 144 Iron Man’s Secret ([-])

After leaving the command center, Elaine took Kahn straight to the mechanical tower.

When they arrived at the scene, what they saw was not much different from when they first arrived. This was also the scene that the Word Bearers soldiers stationed here had been witnessing for nearly half a month——

The roar of the bolts and the raindrops of lasers intertwined with each other, constantly tearing apart any Iron Man living corpses that tried to break out of the fire net, and also gradually changed the surrounding desert terrain into a terrifying appearance filled with high-temperature crystals and Iron Man remains, and the smoke gathered into a The thick dark clouds even lingered for a long time.

A silent war, a long protracted war, and a challenge to face the unknown.

To this day, the huge army of Iron Man zombies is still rushing towards the Word Bearers' firepower network, as if there really is an inexhaustible energy source in the tower that can continuously produce these mechanical zombies. The same - and in contrast, the human empire's increasingly depleted ammunition reserves, as well as the nearly stacked mountains of Iron Man remains on the battlefield, even gradually changed the surrounding terrain.

No one knows how long this war will last, just like no one knows how many iron zombies will emerge from that damn mechanical tower. What the Word Bearers' Astartes and mortal auxiliaries can do The only thing left to do was to fire at them day and night, against the exhaustion and gradually heating up of the barrel.

Even though almost no soldiers died in the hands of those outdated weapons, they still had to check the status of the weapons in their hands at all times and check whether its durability was approaching the limit to avoid being suddenly exploded. Blinded by gun fragments.

However, even this weird situation is not too weird when the human empire faces various aliens in the stars, and it is even relatively good.

In the vast majority of cases, it's much, much worse than this incomprehensible level.

Although the tentacles of Chaos cannot easily touch reality through the curtain of warp, there are too many worlds in this galaxy that are on the verge of destruction due to the ignorance of psykers and the cruelty of alien empires. The long old night has almost destroyed these worlds. Humans have forgotten the transcendent status of their race, which troubles the human empire that wants to save them from aliens and psykers.

Among them, the mortal auxiliary army felt the most profoundly. As soldiers fighting on the front line with the Legion of Astartes, they often had to face cruel wars that were almost unimaginable to ordinary people.

Destroying the will and breaking down the sanity, these are the normal crises faced by the vast majority of the mortal auxiliary armies. In the countless dangerous lost worlds recovered in this great expedition, these heroic mortal warriors all flowed. blood, and the various crises involved are almost countless.

Nowadays, the Word Bearers and their mortal auxiliary army are facing an extremely serious problem——

That is the supply problem under such high-intensity consumption of ammunition.

Although Colchis had temporarily carried out comprehensive industrialization during the emergency period and transformed several existing large city-states into industrial cities with the help of the Dark Angel, the short-lived transformation was far from enough to establish a city capable of feeding an entire nation. A military factory engaged in a high-intensity war of attrition. Although the intensity of this battle is not high, the consumption of resources is still ongoing.

What's more, the previous Colchis was just a remote and backward religious world. It did not have the foundation to put into production as quickly as the foundry world of Salem. Neither raw materials nor population were far enough to make up for the needs of the war. The gap, not to mention the immediate mobilization of a huge expedition like Elaine, although it can be used as a recruiting homeworld for the Word Bearers Legion, it cannot be used as a logistics world for the Legion.

Although the large-scale Word Bearers do have a large number of logistics worlds and forging worlds, the Word Bearers, who have never been interested in large-scale wars, have not actually developed those worlds very much, even the tithes turned over to Terra. The tax is only at a mid-to-lower level and is sufficient to maintain operations, so there is no need to mention the matter of supporting the home planet.

What's more, due to the special nature of the area where the Primarch's home star is located, even the nearest forging world is hundreds of light-years away in the star region, and the Taiping Star Territory, which is not too developed, does not have anything like the Extreme Star Territory. The intricate trade routes provide supplies.

If the Word Bearers' supplies are completely exhausted, then they will have to choose to engage in dangerous hand-to-hand combat with these iron men who will never be able to kill them all.Therefore, Zhuang Sen's initial concerns were actually not unreasonable.

According to the characteristics of these iron men who are almost invincible, even if their technology is only slightly more advanced, they can already pose a very high threat to a backward and remote religious world like Colchis - even today. A tug-of-war of attrition is enough to bring down this extremely weak Word Bearers parent group after being split and reorganized.

Of course, it may also be because the Colchis galaxy is currently shrouded in an inexplicable subspace storm, and it is almost impossible to effectively communicate with the outside of this star system.

Even if contact is made, the transport ships coming to assist will be blocked by the subspace storm like a chasm and unable to enter.

The luckiest thing among misfortunes is that these iron men did not start to evolve as Zhuangson had guessed.

Of course, it may only be because their current activities have been suppressed by covering firepower that they are unable to show the learning ability of omnic life forms - otherwise, the Word Bearers may have to face more than just one The Iron Man relics have risen from the ruins, but they are a flourishing Iron Man civilization.

What appears in front of Elaine now is such an unmanageable mess - the unknown but endless Iron Man military strength, dwindling logistical supplies, and the strength of only one tactical team he carries.

"...To a certain extent, it's really a standard assault mission."

Looking up at the towering mechanical tower in front of her, Elaine sighed and waved to Kahn and the Astartes to get ready.

"In 5 minutes, the Word Bearers will briefly cease fire, creating a gap for us to break into this tower - very simply, that 'exit' is the only 'entrance'. "

"Attention, although the combat power of these iron men does not pose any threat in general, everyone should proceed with caution. I don't want to see one of you missing when I come back."

"Next, we're going to go in and find out."

"Follow closely, my warriors."

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　Ironman copy, start!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)