Warhammer 40 A New Hope

The sudden roar and attack caught the mutant soldiers and mutators off guard, so much so that the three members of the Homecoming Squad rushed very close to them and threw flash grenades.

Buzz——!

The strong light and shock wave caused confusion among the mutants in a small area, and the intensity of their shooting weakened.

Bang bang bang!

The suppressed Astartes immediately rolled out from behind cover and shot several of the nearest enemies.

Biu!

The sniper from the distant squad fired again, interrupting another mutant who was trying to attack Dick and the others, giving the three raiders enough time to hide in the bunker.

But he was also discovered by a mutant soldier and aimed at with a bazooka.

"grass!"

call out!

boom!

With a trail of white smoke, the rocket exploded in the building where he was, but he rolled away at the last moment and saved his life.

boom!

Astartes knocked a mutant soldier next to him to the ground with one punch, and emptied his last few bullets at a mutant, pinning him down behind the cover.

The three members of the other team had already hidden behind suitable cover and started shooting at the enemy.

Biubiubiu!

An entire magazine of the magnetic machine gun was used up, turning a bunker and the mutant soldiers hiding behind it into a sieve; another soldier used the magnetic shotgun in his hand, rushed to the vicinity of a mutant soldier, and killed him with close range fire.

boom!

The plasma grenade Dick threw rolled under the riot vehicle, and the subsequent explosion blew it up. Then he rushed towards his compatriots.

Duang!

The sharp blades at the front of the guns collided with each other, making a slight sound, and the two mutants began to wrestle.

"traitor!"

"I just didn't indulge in that illusory future and made the right choice!"

Dick was obviously stronger and knocked the weapon out of his compatriot's hand, then stabbed the blade in front of his gun into the opponent's chest.

At this moment, the seriously injured enemy mutant suddenly grabbed Dick's hand, and then another mutant behind him pulled the trigger at both of them.

Biubiubiu!

A large number of green beams pierced through the mutant's body, and one of the beams hit his shoulder, knocking Dick to the ground.

Seeing this, the only remaining mutant grabbed his weapon and rushed towards Dick.

boom!

Just as he was about to rush to Dick, there was a gunshot, and a headless body fell to the ground and slid a long distance away.

The Space Marine rescued Dick from the bottom and came to him.

Dick covered his wound and looked at the golden-armored giant in front of him who was taller than himself. He seemed to be thinking.

After a moment of silence, the Space Marine reached out his hand to Dick.

Looking at the outstretched hand, Dick also stretched out his still-moving hand and shook it.

"Thank you, my friend." Dick stood up and shook the hand of the 'golden giant' in front of him and thanked him.

"...You can call me Harald." In response to the alien creature's thanks, the Space Marine from the Imperial Fists responded.

The first battle of the mission is over.

41. Interference and rescue operations (IV)

The wilderness means there is no cover, and you can see everything clearly from a high place.

This is not a good thing for Catachan's soldiers, as it will greatly increase the difficulty of sneak attacks and ambushes.

But this is not a big problem for them - there are thousands of planets in the Warhammer world, with all kinds of environments and terrains, and the Catachans have experience in having to fight under disadvantages.

A six-man mutant team with a MEC robot in the team is patrolling in the wilderness with almost no vegetation.

Nearby human settlements have been checked one by one, and the people in them have been transferred to barracks.

The patrol team is now searching for possible escapees in the vicinity.

There weren't many rebels nearby, and a search of that scale wasn't something that ordinary people could avoid, so there was a high chance that their patrol would be fruitless.

That's how it should be...

A flock of birds suddenly flew up as if frightened, which alerted the patrol team.

The team quickly deployed, and the mutant soldiers, with the MEC as the center, began to move slowly and cautiously towards the direction where the bird took off.

The six-man team carefully walked around a large rock standing in the wilderness, and then they saw a corpse.

The body of a mutant captain was leaning against a large cactus, with his head tilted to one side.

At the signal from the team leader, a mutant soldier stepped forward to check the body, and during the inspection, he found an old-fashioned human walkie-talkie on his chest.

[Surprise! Alien bastard! ]

boom!

The explosion occurred from the corpse, and the soldier closest to it was blown away.

Then, the ground suddenly lifted up, and several wooden boards covered with dust and small stones were thrown at the mutant soldiers.

The temperature in the wilderness during the day was already high, and coupled with the carelessness of the patrolling troops, the mutant soldiers failed to discover the Catachan soldiers hiding underground.

Bang bang bang!

The Catachan soldier armed with a shotgun rushed directly towards the MEC, knocked it to the ground with his own body, and then fired all his bullets into it, destroying it directly.

The Catachan soldier, armed with a bolt pistol, charged forward while shooting at the enemy in front of him, and when he was close enough, he used the chainsaw sword in his hand to chop the panicked mutant captain to the ground.

The entire battle took less than a minute from start to finish, and the mutant patrol team, which had not even fired a few shots, was completely slaughtered.

The technological suppression coupled with the sudden attack left them with no room for resistance. The attacks by the Catachan tough guys were sudden, fast and deadly.

"Is anyone hurt? Tell us and make us laugh." The leading Catachan soldier shouted to his teammates while pulling out the chainsaw sword that was stuck in the mutant captain's skull.

"Damn! Those guys shot randomly and actually grazed my arm!" said a Catachan soldier.

After a round of communication and laughter, the Catachan team cleaned up the battlefield and began to move towards the alien barracks.

Their 'hunt' is far from over.

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call out!

A rocket with several [transuranic cores] attached to it was fired and exploded on an alien armored vehicle, causing the entire vehicle to flip over.

A mutant heavy-armored soldier who was under mind control rushed uncontrollably towards his teammates with a grenade with the safety pin pulled out. Soon after, an explosion was heard.

Biubiubiu!

The beam rifle in the mutant's hand fired green beams one after another, hitting the psychic shield of [Templar] Quarles, causing ripples but failing to break it.

At this moment, Quarles, who was charging with a psychic shield, had already arrived in front of the mutant, and the psychic blade in his left hand appeared and stabbed out.

Duang!

The mutant blocked the purple psychic blade with his thick arm armor, while he grabbed his weapon with his other hand and stabbed at Quarles.

Duang!

The cross-shaped psychic shield once again caused ripples, but was not broken through by the mutant, and the two began to wrestle.

Just as the mutant tried to overwhelm the human in front of him with his huge body, a large amount of purple electric light appeared on the latter's body.

It's sizzling!

boom!

The powerful psychic lightning will instantly paralyze the mutant. Taking this opportunity, the purple psychic blade will knock the gun out of the mutant's hand, and the purple psychic blade will then pierce the chest of the mutant in front of him.

More enemies gathered around, and in response, Quills gathered his vast psychic energy and released it violently into the sky.

[Psychic Storm]

Furious and powerful psychic energy began to wreak havoc around, and purple psychic lightning bolts fell, engulfing and tearing apart all the surrounding enemies.

Soon, the battle was over.

[Psionic Team], at the cost of two people being injured and Quarles's psychic energy being exhausted, almost wiped out the alien soldiers in the convoy transporting humans and took control of the trucks used for transportation.

After pacifying the people who were forcibly locked in the trunks of the cars, they drove the cars towards the outpost.

A few dozen minutes later, they arrived at the proposed outpost established by the Avengers Team.

Dozens of ordinary people rescued by the [Returning Home Team] and the [Returning Home Team] who came back to rest have gathered here.

"Looks like things are going well?" said the returning team member.

“Not only that.”

The people in the truck compartment were unloaded and gathered together with those who arrived earlier, ready to be transferred to the Avenger spacecraft behind.

According to the intelligence collected, almost at the same time when the aliens began to gather their forces, they also began to abduct ordinary people around them, and the reason was unclear. Some people said that their residence was attacked by unknown reasons, forcing them to leave their residence and then be captured by the alien troops.

It was initially speculated that they might want to detain a large number of ordinary people in the barracks to prevent possible attacks from the Astra Militarum and large-scale orbital bombardments.

Even if the Astra Militarum did not attack there in the end, these people would still be a good group of experimental materials.

Except for some human settlements on the outermost periphery, the people in the inner settlements have basically been captured.

After exploring two villages and towns in vain, the [Avengers Team] tried to move deeper into the depths, but encountered a large number of alien patrols along the way and had to retreat.

And on the way forward, the Avengers also saw a large number of riot vehicles, armored vehicles and alien tanks that only appeared during the full-scale invasion.

These suspended heavy tanks, some of which have large energy shields, usually appear with several [Destroyer] bipedal machines and a large number of infantry. Often such a group can wipe out an entire human armored battalion or occupy a small city from the ground.

After the full-scale invasion, these heavy machines began to disappear, replaced by a large number of riot vehicles equipped with heavy magnetic turrets and a small number of alien armored vehicles.

Perhaps due to the reduction in human resistance forces and the so-called "Incarnation Plan", these heavy and super heavy units are no longer needed and have been sealed up, but it does not mean that the elders have given up on these things.

Now, due to the sudden appearance of Zhang Yi and his troops, these "mechanical monsters" have been reactivated. After maintenance and adjustments, they are ready to be deployed on the front battlefield again.

According to what the Avengers saw, the alien forces seemed to be collecting and transporting various materials to build something like heavy artillery, but it is not yet known whether this is the case. However, this also means that the gathering of alien soldiers will continue for some time.

Today, only about a hundred ordinary people have been rescued, and most have been taken away by aliens.

There is a high probability that their actions have been discovered, and the next actions will only be more difficult.

The mission has reached this point and can no longer be carried out relying on these people alone.

The rescue operation cannot proceed unless we find a way to bypass those patrol troops.

"Damn it!" A rebel soldier who was sent here slammed the table. "These damn alien bastards."

Mutant Dick heard the sound and looked over.

"I didn't mean you, sorry."

"It's okay." Dick said nonchalantly. "We've encountered similar things over there..."

"Even with the soldiers sent by the rebels and new allies, there are not enough to launch a surprise attack on the well-defended alien camp to rescue those humans." Dick continued. "We can only abandon those people."

Indeed, in the current situation where they are already one step too late, it seems impossible to continue rescuing people, and continuing to force their way deeper will only result in the sacrifice of the few veterans who are already there.

"not necessarily."

At this time, a Space Marine who had rarely spoken, Harald, came over and said.

"There are thousands of ordinary people in this area, if not tens of thousands," he said. "It's impossible to transport all of them back at once, given the huge number."

"You mean..."

"They should have a transit station, a place to temporarily hold captured humans."

Then, everyone looked at the map, and finally all eyes were focused on the largest town nearby - Town X.

About a thousand people once lived there, not far from the alien barracks.