Protoss in Warhammer

Chapter 388 376. Have an idea

Tug of war.

This word is very familiar to every commander, and it is also the situation that every commander hates to be in.Whether it is the attacker or the defender, once they enter a tug-of-war, what awaits them is likely to be hundreds of kilometers of trenches and barbed wire, astronomical numbers of artillery shells, and constant consumption of soldiers.

This is also a problem for the Imperial Expeditionary Force. After all, judging from the current situation, they are the party that least wants to engage in a tug-of-war.Although the imperial regional government has stated that new reinforcements will arrive, they will not arrive until at least one Terran month.Moreover, the mental state of the soldiers has begun to decline, and the original morale of wanting to conquer the heavenly world has begun to disappear.

The Inquisitor never dreamed that such a beautiful planet without any danger could successfully lower the morale of the Astra Militarum to a level similar to fighting a demon.They have several castles, and they can't even leave where they are now because their enemies are everywhere in the blue ocean and emerald green islands.

Especially on those lush islands, soldiers must always be on guard against enemies, because they don't know whether they are enemies or ordinary trees around them. Those damn aliens relied on the powerful tree terrain to fight back.Although the Imperial Navy conducted indiscriminate bombings every day and even risked using chemical agents for "weeding", only a few areas were affected by the situation. In other cases, the trees basically started to grow again the next day.

Rieston never dreamed of why he turned into such a ghostly state. Could it be that this is Catachan?No, this place should be even weirder than Catachan, because at least the trees there didn't turn into tree men carrying bio-plasma and power swords to chop them down!
Even the Death Watch's first reaction after seeing their opponents was one of shock. Although they had eliminated many plant-based aliens and fungus-based aliens, this was the first time they had seen something like this.After some discussion, the Death Watch and the Inquisitor finally came up with a more reasonable explanation:

Considering that they found traces of the Eldar on this planet, it is possible that there are shrines of those alien gods here. If they really have them, it means that they should be able to make a large number of trees and at the same time stop them. attack.

In fact, the guesses of the Inquisitor and the Death Watch are very close. There are indeed followers of Aisha here. The Peremans naturally inherited the religious beliefs of the Eldar, but now that Aisha has been imprisoned by Nurgle, She has very little power left.The reason why this is possible is that the Mawei people, as mentioned before, wherever they take root, there are lush forests everywhere.

The roots of the Mauvells and the plants they planted have already penetrated hundreds of kilometers underground, and some of them have even broken through the earth's crust and begun to absorb the heat of the underground magma. If you want to eradicate the trees on this planet, you must Their roots were dug out.

Although the tree people are not as fast as the green skins to take root, and it may take hundreds of years to completely take root in every corner of the planet, but once they have settled here, it will be too difficult to drive them away. .If the empire really wants to eradicate all the tree people on this planet, it is recommended to organize a special breakthrough team to sneak into the planet's surface to dig bit by bit or directly issue an extermination order.

The problem doesn't stop there. The most uncomfortable thing now is that the enemy's supply line is much shorter than theirs. If there are reinforcements, they will come soon. As for why the enemy's reinforcements have not arrived yet, it can only mean that they The strategy is correct.But now there is a problem with the tactics. The only way is to pray that the light of the God Emperor can quickly pull the reinforcements out of the subspace. Otherwise, by the time the enemy fully reacts and prepares for rescue, it will be too late.

Relston could already imagine that if he failed to complete the task, he would be hung on a cross coated with sulfuric acid, his limbs would be nailed with silver nails representing atonement, and then burned to death with a fire.It must have been an uncomfortable feeling. Although he had burned thousands of people to death, he didn't want to be the next person to be burned on the stake.Thinking of this, Relston became even more angry in his mind, but anger and fear would only make him misjudge the current situation, so the inquisitor could only continue to suppress his anger.

On the battleship, the Inquisitor kept wandering back and forth. His table was already filled with mocha coffee, coffee cups after drinking, and a lot of papyrus, on which he wrote the attack plan he envisioned and the possible results, but in the end None of them satisfied him.The original beautiful murals have been taken down and replaced by a huge war map. Once luxuriously decorated with paintings, only the most ordinary emperor icon remained.Whenever Relston felt that he was about to collapse, he would kneel down before the Emperor's face and cry out about his experiences, praying for understanding and enlightenment.

Now, with red eyes and black eye sockets, the inquisitor was wearing a coat and staring at the real-time data on the battlefield, hoping to find a place where he could break through.After nearly dozens of days of fighting, the only progress made was the fortresses in the sky, most of which had been occupied by the Astra Militarum legions.Since these fortresses have little or no tree roots, humans and Peremans alone are unable to withstand the empire's steel offensive. According to the original defense principles, the fortresses that are least likely to be captured are the first to be taken down. Breached.

But the defenders obviously prevented these turrets from being used to attack the surface in the first place, so they, like those turrets in space orbit, could only fire at targets above them.

So these became a big problem.If you protect it, it will consume too many troops. If you don't protect it, it may be occupied by the enemy at any time.For the expeditionary force, these things are currently a big trouble. They are of no use for the time being. If they are not occupied, they will become even bigger troubles.

Leerston thought hard for several days, but still couldn't figure it out, even now.He sighed and picked up a book. This book was written by Calgar after the Battle of the Gulf of Damocles, based on the memoirs of many commanders, in order to make it easier for future imperial officers to Be able to learn from it.

Relston flipped through the above content boredly. There were hundreds of books of this type around him, ranging from battle minutes from the Great Crusade era, to information from the Markarian Sun Crusade, and of course, including his current Looking through something.After all, the judge still knows how much he weighs. If he wants to say something reasonable among such a group of soldiers and generals, he must do some homework. He can't let himself become one of the few that hinders the entire expedition. Inquisitors who only know how to shout slogans will generally not survive until the end of the expedition. Most of them are directly kicked to the front of the chain of command and die. Planet, if you can’t do it well, just get out of the frying pan and go to the cross.)
While Relston was rummaging around, he suddenly discovered something that immediately gave him an idea.Because this method can not only solve the current problems of the floating fortresses, but also solve the problem of why there is no way to continue to advance.

Thinking of this, the inquisitor quickly jumped on his meditator and said loudly

"Prepare to convene a special meeting. We are preparing to enter the next stage of the war!"

(End of this chapter)