Immortal, My Desperate Journey at 40k

Chapter 604 Prelude to the War
"This is a new Astartes transformation surgery arranged for the Dark Gods. We will discuss the details aboard the Sun Fortress later."

Wang Ming looked at Ryan in front of him. He nodded to the old lion, then took out a data tablet and handed it directly to Ryan.

"My brother, is this a little abrupt?"

Ryan looked at the data tablet in his hand and said to Wang Ming with a serious face that regarding the new Astartes transformation surgery, Ryan actually had some concerns in his heart. After all, this was not a technology belonging to their legion, but was independently researched by the 21st Legion.

Lion was still a little skeptical about this kind of thing that was different from the traditional Astartes transformation surgery. Although he could undergo the Primaris Space Marine transformation surgery, this so-called new Astartes transformation surgery was indeed a bit inexplicable, and it was hard not to have some doubts.

"I know, my brother, there is nothing wrong with the transformation surgery of the new Astartes. After all, all I have done was achieved with the approval of our father."

Wang Ming looked at Ryan in front of him. Although the old lion king had lost many of his previous characteristics, his suspicious character still existed. This was understandable, just like when Wang Ming recommended the new Astartes transformation surgery to other legions before.

Many legions have questioned this, even some of the imperial guards guarding the palace on Holy Terra. If Wang Ming did not have the emperor's endorsement, it would have been very difficult to push forward the plan for the new Astartes transformation surgery.

In fact, within the empire, the empire cares a lot about some conservative things, but in Wang Ming's hands, he doesn't care about these conservative things at all. All he wants is to improve the combat effectiveness of the empire and let those chaotic evil gods go to hell.

After Ryan heard what Wang Ming said, he was silent for a moment, then picked up the data tablet and looked at it. Finally, he nodded to Wang Ming, agreeing with what Wang Ming said.

Compared with this era and the Great Crusade era, he knew too little about this era. Although he already knew a lot of things, he still didn't know much about the 21st Legion. Apart from knowing the 21st Legion's terrible record, he knew almost nothing else.

Although he had stayed in the 21st Legion for a period of time, Ryan believed that he had not been exposed to some core things. This was the Lion's suspicion. In fact, during the time that Ryan was on the fleet, Wang Wangming had almost opened up the entire fleet to Ryan.

Apart from being worried that Ryan would be injured by the experimental subjects of the First Engineer Corps, Wang Ming did not stop Ryan from going to every corner of the fleet. Even the database was not locked to Ryan, so he could check all the information of the 21st Corps at will.

However, this suspicious lion still did not really trust Wang Ming. It could not be said that he did not really trust him, but he had an instinctive suspicion towards his other brothers. This was unavoidable, but it also proved Ryan's foresight and wisdom in some matters.

For example, when he was on Macragge, he had actually guessed what Guilliman would do. Before arriving at Macragge, he wanted to stop Guilliman, but after learning the specific situation, he still agreed with Guilliman's approach.

There is no doubt that the dark history that once existed in the empire, the second empire that once existed, is one of the wisdoms of the lion. Although no one wants to mention this, it is still something that really existed.

"I will arrange surgery for your legion as soon as possible. Now let's take a look at the war situation in this area."

Wang Ming looked at Ryan in front of him, and then told him about the situation of this war. Wang Ming and his other two brothers attached great importance to this war. After all, the scale of this war has reached a certain extent. Hundreds of billions of cultists are constantly slaughtering a large number of worlds, and the Empire's military force is limited in this area. If a large number of troops are to be deployed to deal with this area, then Guilliman and the traversers on Holy Terra will need to work overtime. Moreover, this area is not suitable for large-scale military deployment.

Although from the perspective of the battlefield, this area is indeed short of manpower, but from the perspective of Chaos pollution, continuing to increase those warriors will undoubtedly increase the strength of Khorne's faith.

This is also one of the troubles in fighting against chaos in this universe. That is, for chaos, in fact, the more troops are invested, the more its power will increase, because the generation of chaos and the source of its power come from the thinking of intelligent creatures. It can be said that as long as a human sees the devil for the first time, the human who sees the devil has become one of the sources of devil power and evil god power.

Chaos is so unreasonable. You want to fight against it, but you only know that it is the source of its power. There is no possibility of victory, but humans still fight, right? For the battle of their own race, for the battle of the human empire, for the battle of the Holy Emperor on the Golden Throne, humans will not succumb to chaos.

"Specifically speaking, the deployment of troops in this star region is relatively weak, but the attacks of the cultists here are quite fierce. Since there are a large number of demons appearing in this world, and a great demon has been born, we did not deploy a large number of troops here. We only deployed a large amount of orbital firepower to bombard the demons on the surface of the planet, but the effect was minimal."

On top of the Sun Fortress, an officer of the Dark Angels was describing their battlefield layout to Hu Jin. For them, this war was already very difficult to fight. A large number of worlds were at war and were being attacked by cultists all the time. Countless wars were raging on countless worlds. But for the traversers, this war was actually not too difficult to fight. Their enemies had not changed much and were still those chaotic demons.

"It's not a big problem. We will deploy a regiment of troops here, and then use this world to expand to the worlds affected by this star region. Using this world as a starting point, we will recapture this star region." Hu Jin looked at the holographic star map in front of him. He nodded to the Dark Angel officer, and then began to discuss the battle plan with the company commanders of his regiment.

It is worth mentioning here that after Ryan returned, he reorganized the Dark Angels' legion, changing the main cities of the Dark Angels' army back to the strategic composition of the Great Crusade era. This will make it very convenient for him to re-manage the Dark Angels and organize the Dark Angels to fight.

Wang Ming was also aware of this situation. Seeing that other legions had restored the command mode of the Great Crusade era, Wang Ming was very happy. After all, compared to this era, those battle groups or the troop composition of the Great Crusade era were more capable of large-scale combat.

Legion and Chapter, these two concepts are not the same, the Astartes Legion is the real force that can conquer the galaxy, while the Astartes Chapter is just a restriction created by the things written by Guilliman, those things do limit the possibility of large-scale Astartes rebellion, but also completely cut off the ability of the Empire to launch an unprecedented large-scale campaign, there are pros and cons, but specifically speaking, after the Age of Heresy, this is indeed the best plan for a period of reform.

However, the empire regarded this as a tradition, which can only be said to be a wrong path.

"We will begin deployment in this world and deal with all the demons in this world at the same time. The specific battle plan will be determined two hours before we leave for that world. Do you have anything else to say?"

Wang Ming looked at the time travelers in front of him. He told them about the war process that they would have to deal with later. Wang Ming now planned to disperse all the remaining troops and recall the first regiment so that the time travelers could regroup and launch a huge battle.

"Report, there is no problem."

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

The time travelers looked at Wang Ming. They all felt eager for the upcoming war. This was the power of Khorne affecting their emotions, but in terms of boosting morale, this influence might have a very good effect. Anyway, the time travelers could not be corrupted by Chaos. Even if they set up an altar for the Chaos Evil God and pretended to believe in him, their emotions could not provide him with any power. After all, their souls were special and had been tampered with by the Emperor.

After finalizing the specific battle plan, Wang Ming led the time travelers into the battlefield. The first world they had to face was a feudal world. The local civilization level was not very high, and it was also a loophole in the Renaissance Expedition. The Renaissance Expedition would re-establish a complete civilization system on all the recovered worlds, but this world did not catch up with the east wind of the Renaissance Expedition.

Because when the Rejuvenation Expedition reached them, the Blood Expedition had already arrived. Before they could enjoy the civilization improvement brought by the Rejuvenation Expedition, they were directly involved in a huge war. The local planetary defense forces and local nobles, both big and small, were now forced to join the battle under the heavy pressure of the imperial authorities.

All military systems on this world have been disintegrated, and they have been replaced by the Empire's combat system. The Astartes have entered the battlefield, the Astra Militarum have descended on the earth, and the local armed forces, large and small, have all been reorganized into planetary defense forces.

They were equipped with weapons that were eliminated from the former Astra Militarum and joined the battlefield together with the Star Army. Compared with the battle-hardened Astra Militarum, these local armed forces were like a group of children with guns on this battlefield. In the war in this world, their average survival time was less than three hours.

Collapse, escape, suicide, and rebellion are common in the planetary defense forces organized by these local armed forces. It can be said that the number of deserters and traitors who need to be shot every day is actually more than those killed by the demons. This situation is actually very normal when the demons continue to wreak havoc on the planet and the local armed forces and the imperial troops are struggling to hold on.

After all, the only mortal warriors who can guarantee their fighting will in front of demons are those Astra Militarum warriors who are not afraid of life and death, and the mortal auxiliary troops of the 21st Legion. Apart from these, the only planetary defense force that can do this is probably Cartier's White Shield.

"Let's get this demon closer before we shoot him. Lasers are useless at this distance. We still have heavy weapons. Pay attention to the two heavy weapons on the body. Let them cross each other and maximize the firepower."

On the battlefield of this world, in the streets of the main city of Icadia, amidst the countless broken ruins, the local planetary defense forces, the Astra Militarum, and the Imperial Astartes are guarding the city, in a very small position within this city.

An Astra Militarum officer was defending a position with several recruits. They looked at the demons in front of them and clenched their weapons. They didn't actually have many heavy weapons. It was not because they did not have many heavy weapons, but a large number of heavy weapons had been destroyed by the terrifying demon that appeared on the battlefield in the first battle a month ago.

Their regiment originally had a large number of Leman Russ tanks and Chimera armored vehicles, but in that battle, most of these heavy armored firepower were destroyed by the big demon. The armored firepower they had left was still defending on the main street where the demons were attacking, and they only had some individual heavy weapons in their hands, but the firepower of these individual heavy weapons could not provide much.

After all, you can't expect to use two heavy bolters to defend against an entire street of demons attacking your position. If you can really use two heavy bolters to defend against an entire street of demons attacking your position, then you'd better take a good look in your own position to see if the Emperor has appeared in front of your position and sent you a living saint disguised as your comrade-in-arms. Otherwise, there is really no way to explain it.

The soldiers on this position looked at the demons in front of them. They didn't think they could stop them, but they should be able to delay time. Although their sacrifice would not delay much time, it could at least reduce some pressure on the large troops on the main street. You know, the armored forces of each regiment on the main street and the angels are struggling to support them. There are just too many of these demons and they are overwhelming.