The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Chapter 3188 The Red and Green Controversy (Part 1)

Just as Iktomia was almost declared to have fallen, the situation on the ground was not optimistic either, because the Greenskin's(Greenskin: Orcs) scrap ship crashed directly through the orbit and slammed into the planet's surface. Fortunately, their positioning was not very accurate, and it eventually landed in an ancient city ruin far from the capital of the forge world.

The good news is that the Greenskins(Greenskin: Orcs) did not directly give the Forge Director a big one.

The bad news is that they got a lot of junk, or rather materials, so when the Adeptus Ministorum and combat servitors(combat servitors: machine man) swarmed to destroy the invaders, huge Greenskin(Greenskin: Orcs) war engines rose from the ground, responding to the coldness of the God Machine with roaring anger.

The overall scale of the invading Greenskins(Greenskin: Orcs) is actually not that large, about ten or twenty million, and half of them were eliminated in the naval battle. One-third of the remaining half stayed on the satellite, which means that the Greenskins(Greenskin: Orcs) on the ground of the forge world only number five or six million at most. This, placed on other battlefields of the Imperium, could be easily resolved by a dozen Astra Militarum regiments.

But the problem is that Alathemos is not strong enough, not even as strong as the nearby Macand II forge world in the Obscurus Sector.

At the same time, the Hunter Clade was bogged down in the battle on the satellite and could not support the ground, and the situation deteriorated to a dangerous point. But the reinforcements of the Imperium cannot arrive as soon as they are called.

"Retreat! Retreat!"

On the Death Mire, guns and cannons boomed, shouts of killing shook the sky, and the air was filled with gunpowder smoke and inhuman roars.

Red and green collided on the gray earth, and then red began to dissipate rapidly.

Greenskins(Greenskin: Orcs) holding various crude weapons broke through the defense line and climbed onto the ridge. Among them were various killing machines pieced together from the wreckage of sacred machines, violently smashing the defenses of the Adeptus Ministorum.

Chaplain Karlis could see the battle line disintegrating around him. Originally, as long as they could maintain the infantry line and pull the artillery and other long-range units back, they could resist for a while.

But once they were caught in a melee, their forces were too weak, and the enemy's forces were several times their own.

The breakthrough of the battle line evolved into a rout. Although the Adeptus Ministorum retreated in turn according to instructions, the Greenskins(Greenskin: Orcs) were too fast. They were constantly knocked down by crude battleaxes and machetes, and trampled into meat paste by the iron hooves of beasts.

A combat servitor(combat servitor: machine man) carrying a heavy plasma cannon on its shoulder let out a final roar, piercing a killing machine, and then was submerged by the beasts, overturned on the ground by angry hooves - they hated these machines to the bone.

"Alpha 16! Close to me!"

While issuing instructions to the Alpha commander of the Adeptus Ministorum, Karlis raised his orbital long gun and blew up a crazy off-road vehicle with a precise shot.

Then, when a boss wielding a half-man-high chainsword axe and wearing a spiked iron helmet rushed towards the Chaplain with earth-shattering steps, a beam of light shot into the Greenskin's(Greenskin: Orcs) transparent chest. It staggered, and then continued to rush forward for more than ten steps under the effect of inertia before falling down screaming, black filthy blood and steam spewing out of its open jaw.

Immediately, a group of green ugly little creatures swarmed up, noisily dividing up the relics of their former master, even the helmet was not spared, while the surrounding Greenskins(Greenskin: Orcs) continued to roar and charge.

Although he killed a boss, Karlis's heart was calm. His tactical statistics instrument only added +1 to 32. The Greenskin's(Greenskin: Orcs) boss can die at any time, and can also be produced at any time, unless the biggest one is killed, but it is not realistic.

The situation is still collapsing rapidly. Now they must gather together. This situation can still be salvaged with an orderly retreat. This opportunity is fleeting.

Suddenly, a shell exploded beside him. Although his personal protective force field prevented him from being injured, the violent shock wave still knocked him to the ground, and when he was about to get up, a roaring Greenskin(Greenskin: Orcs) had already arrived in front of him, raising his battle axe to chop down.

At the critical moment, an Adeptus Ministorum soldier slammed into the beast from the left, and the two fell to the ground and wrestled together.

The Chaplain quickly got up. His surroundings were filled with the sound of clashing weapons. His soldiers were being massacred. He picked up his weapon from the ditch on the ground, covered in blood and mud.

The creature that attacked him and an Adeptus Ministorum soldier rolled together, both trying to insert their thumbs into each other's eyes and strangle each other.

The Chaplain raised his gun, and a flash of light pierced the twilight, and the twisted, fanged face exploded, covering the surroundings with blood and brain tissue.

"GV114514, get up quickly, they are everywhere."

When the Adeptus Ministorum soldier was still lying on the Greenskin's(Greenskin: Orcs) corpse, Karlis reached out and turned him over, only to find that the helmet of this Adeptus Ministorum soldier, who had served the Omnissiah for ten years, had been torn open. Where his face should have been, there was only a bloody mess... The beast's fangs had actually stirred up the metal helmet, and the broken fangs were deeply inserted into the Adeptus Ministorum soldier's face, leaving a piece of flesh and bones reflecting the dim light of the night.

The Chaplain dropped the body of the Adeptus Ministorum soldier. He could hear the sound of many beasts approaching quickly.

After several consecutive shots, he stood on the other side of the ridge. When he took in the entire battlefield, his tactical simulator told him that the attack had evolved into a disaster.

The Dominus Magos(Dominus Magos: Master of the Forge) formulated a four-sided siege plan, which was no problem. Although they could not overwhelm the opponent in number, they could in firepower. The Adeptus Ministorum still had an absolute advantage in terms of data.

The Dominus Magos(Dominus Magos: Master of the Forge), as the main military commanders of the forge world, often regard war as a simple numbers game, but this is often the root cause of a war failure, because some things cannot be measured by data, and war is not always a simple numbers game.

For example, the dirty psychic shamans of the Greenskins(Greenskin: Orcs), and those sneaky lurkers.

The former directly destroyed half of the combat servitor(combat servitor: machine man) legion with terrifying psychic power, and the latter attacked the missile launch site, creating an explosion that killed two Magos(Magos: Master) and dozens of priests.

So a gap appeared in the siege, and the Greenskin's(Greenskin: Orcs) boss very cunningly seized the opportunity to launch a raid with those huge war machines, directly breaking through the siege line, and then attacking on both sides. The Dominus Magos(Dominus Magos: Master of the Forge), facing the sudden change in the situation, could not be said to be flustered, but was also somewhat caught off guard, and his choice was to mobilize the surrounding troops to try to block them, waiting for him to re-plan the tactical route.

But the orders were issued, but the speed of action of the various troops was completely different, which gave the Greenskins(Greenskin: Orcs) the opportunity to seize the opportunity and continue to pursue and beat in one direction. In just ten hours, eight Adeptus Ministorum clusters were completely annihilated, more than one hundred Chaplains were killed in battle, and tens of thousands of war machines and combat servitors(combat servitors: machine man) were destroyed.

Karlis's troops are now the only Adeptus Ministorum cluster that is besieging the Greenskins(Greenskin: Orcs), but it is more like a delay than a siege.

Because it is impossible!

No matter how his tactical logic module operates, he cannot come to a second result.