Chapter 156: What’s up with those black boxes?
When Gu Hang received the news, the battle was already over.
The 1st Battalion of the Quiet Wind Brigade set out early in the morning and advanced rapidly under the command of Perbov. They soon discovered the group of greenskins who were still fighting among themselves and had no intention of covering their tracks.
They were divided into several groups and fought each other.
Pobov was in no hurry to provoke them.
There was no need for that. These greenskins were fighting so fiercely, so let them fight. It would be best if more of them died, or even if they all died. He would not be so stupid as to sit back and watch the enemy kill each other while risking the lives of his own soldiers to fight.
He passed the message back and sent out some action teams to search for the missing special operations team. The main force stayed in the distance, patiently monitoring the place from afar.
A few hours later, the second and third battalions also arrived.
After gathering three combined battalions, nearly two thousand men, and seeing that the greenskins were about to be defeated, a big guy was about to unify, and some orc boys were even fleeing in all directions, Perbov chose to take action.
He didn't want to let some of the greenskins who were still alive run away, which would increase the difficulty of the subsequent cleanup.
Before taking action, Perbov asked for artillery support from the rear.
If it had been earlier, the artillery would not have been able to help them. They had just loaded the towed artillery onto the truck and arrived at the designated artillery position late last night.
As a result, early this morning, before I had time to catch my breath, I received a request for artillery support from him.
There were not many shells left and the artillery brothers were very tired. They could only pull out about twenty cannons at this moment. They fired five rounds and dropped a hundred shells.
But it's enough.
The group of greenskins who were fighting each other just now had no time to build any anti-artillery positions and were bombarded to pieces.
After the bombardment, the three mechanized combined battalions began to charge.
Perbov's battalion took the lead, while the second and third battalions surrounded the enemy from the left and right.
They have the advantage in numbers and a fully mechanized team. Except for the artillery units that were left in the joint artillery positions at the rear, they have tanks, armored vehicles, and infantry brought by troop transport trucks. Their overall combat effectiveness is quite strong.
On the other hand, the greenskins, who originally had a thousand men, had a large number of deaths in the internal fighting. Many of the most threatening killing tank walkers were destroyed in the internal fighting, and many were also blown up in the artillery fire.
The rest still pose a threat when facing armored vehicles and tanks, but they have also become the main targets of attack.
Fortunately, the killing can is different from the powerful Death Can or even the heavy-armored Ork Warlord, which has a defense comparable to the strength of Space Marine power armor. When the killing can is much smaller and thinner, facing the bombardment of at least ten double-barreled machine guns at the same time, the dense machine guns will cause the metal armor to deform continuously, and eventually be broken and torn apart.
In addition to the machine guns on the armored vehicles, the 76mm smoothbore gun on the domestically produced Challenger tank, combined with the machine gun on the Wanderer, can cause considerable damage to the killing tank with just one shot.
If they had unified command and sufficient armored forces, relying on the strong physique of the green-skinned orcs, they might really be able to break out.
But apparently, they didn't.
Greenskins will not surrender, but they will run, charge without thinking, and fight on their own...
It won't be a problem to wipe out these green-skinned orcs.
Casualties are inevitable, but this should be the last organized group of green-skinned orcs.
This is the last battle before victory.
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After the battle was over and the battlefield was being cleaned up, Perbov received a message from the people who had been sent out to search for the special operations team.
They found the Space Marines.
The Chapter Master of the Phoenix requests to see the commander here.
Then, Perbov met Martins with a grim look on his face.
The two did not communicate much. Martins only told Perbov and mentioned the underground space where they had hidden before.
Previously, Martins had ordered several soldiers from the Storm Team to conduct an in-depth investigation there. The original intention was to find other exits, prepare a way out, and avoid being attacked. But unexpectedly, the Storm Team soldiers gained something else.
It turned out to be a research institute that did some biological research from the prosperous days before the destruction of the Wrathful Owl. The information contained there might reveal the origins of these strange, fast-growing green-skinned orcs in the ruins of the tower.
However, since they were mainly engaged in combat at the time, they did not conduct further exploration. Martins suggested to Major Perbov that he should take good care of the place and protect it in preparation for the subsequent exploration work.
After saying this, Martins took his four brothers, including the bodies of two combat brothers, asked for a troop transport truck, and left.
The two Space Marines carried the two corpses and headed towards Renaissance City.
They had completed their mission and it was time to leave.
And Martins went straight to the rear to find Governor Gu.
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Gu Hang met Martins on the way to the pre-war research institute.
Beforehand, he had received information feedback and roughly knew what had happened before, especially that two Space Marines had been killed.
To be honest, this is not what Gu Hang wants to see.
He had thought about it before. After all the Space Marines died, he would use the gene seeds granted by the "Phoenix is dying" event to mass-produce his own superhuman warriors.
But regardless of whether this thing is done in a mess or not, if you want to say that it can be done, then it shouldn’t be now.
Not only did the grace points cost a lot, but he also couldn't find a place to buy power armor.
He had already felt the role of the Space Marines, a super soldier, in war. The Phoenix Regiment led by Martins had always cooperated well with him, and they had never refused his mission requests, and they did what they were told.
Isn't that good? Gu Hang wouldn't expect them all to die.
Even when two people died, he felt very sad, just like he felt when two of his elite men died.
After meeting Martins, he comforted the leader who had lost his brother, and then said that he could tell him if he needed anything in the future. For example, he had asked someone to buy the equipment suitable for gene seed surgery mentioned earlier.
This was not a lie to Martins. In fact, he had contacted a merchant from the Imperial Chamber of Commerce through Ye Lisia. The caravan had agreed to slightly adjust the trade route and pass through the Angry Owl Star. It would probably not take long to arrive.
However, despite hearing what Gu Hang said, Martins' expression did not improve much.
Since he came to see Gu Hang, he was already prepared to talk everything out.
"Governor, your secret research institute...what's the matter with those black boxes?"
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I worked overtime until ten o'clock and then came back... That's it for today. I'll stay up a little longer at night and then resume the regular updates at noon.
(End of this chapter)
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