Chapter 321: A Larger Raid
"The thirty-first."
Anato pulled out the bloody chainsaw sword from the chest of the fallen Sentinel mecha in front of him, and with his other hand, he held the grenade launcher and fired continuously, blowing Stefanos who tried to threaten him into pieces one after another.
After a moment, the magazine was empty.
This is the last one on him, and there are still many enemies.
But he wasn't nervous at all.
The chainsword was swung, and the other free hand was clenched into a fist, which also acted like a heavy hammer.
Anyone who is touched by the chainsaw sword will have their entire body torn into pieces, with flesh and blood flying everywhere. Under the chainsaw sword that is powerful enough to tear steel plates, the human body is extremely fragile; the same goes for the Space Marines' fists. Even without equipment such as gravity gloves and power fists, the strength of the Space Marines alone, combined with the output of the power armor, the iron gloves are enough to completely shatter any part of the human body that is hit.
Anyone who stood in his way or dared to approach him would be ruthlessly eliminated. Anato's entire body was soon stained with blood, but the blood was splashed on the flaming red armor, so it was not so obvious.
However, instead of trying to kill all the enemies when he ran out of ammunition, he chose to break out backwards.
Although there were many enemies, not many dared to stop him.
The death of the 'Knight' had a great impact on the fighting spirit of the remaining soldiers.
This was also the purpose of Anato's active attack. He wanted to kill the Sentinel mecha with one sword and destroy the resistance of this small group of enemies.
After achieving success, it is time to retire.
Even though his bolter had run out of bullets, it was still not difficult to retreat.
The remaining enemies are only ordinary soldiers.
Those with low morale had already collapsed and fled directly; the bravest ones could only shoot a few shots from a distance. Let's not talk about whether they could hit the target or not. Even if they did hit the target, even if the weapons in the hands of these palace guards were regular LR series laser guns, they would still have no effect on power armor.
Flashlight, everyone knows it.
Of course, this is a joke. The LR series laser guns are much more powerful than the G series live ammunition firearms.
Anato took good care of his armor. If it was damaged, it would take a long time to repair it. At present, Phoenix was not rich enough to give each of them a spare set. He did not want to be exposed to these "flashlights" too much, as the surface armor coating would be melted away, and severe metal fatigue would cause damage to the armor.
He dodged bullets, killed enemies around him, and quickly retreated to his own defense line.
Two combat brothers who were guarding the blown-up gate along with the wreckage of the building nodded slightly to him.
He returned the greeting briefly and then met a veteran commander behind him. He reported that the mission was accomplished and replenished some bullets from the ammunition box next to him.
After a quick glance, there were not many bullets left in the ammunition box.
If the fighting lasts any longer, everyone will be out of bullets.
This is exactly the dilemma they are facing now.
Before, after the team he led intercepted the Iron Curtain Queen Ispsi and her entourage, they did not evacuate with the captives, but instead returned to the core of the Kingdom of Stefano.
This is very obviously putting yourself in danger.
They haven't completely occupied the city yet. There are still 200,000 troops from the Kingdom of Stefano guarding here. Their queen has been captured and is still in the palace. It's easy to predict how the people of Stefano will react.
No matter what their purpose is, they will try every possible means and gather all their strength to win back their queen.
This is exactly the goal of the Space Marines - to use the Queen as a powerful bait to attract the enemy here.
After gathering two teams that had completed the destruction of the air defense system, Anatole and his team of twenty Phoenixes, guarding the center of the kingdom, began to fight against the countless enemies who came to rescue the queen.
Or it could be said to be a one-sided massacre.
The "brave Stefanos" mentioned by Ispsi were indeed not exaggerating. Those so-called "guard knights", that is, the kingdom's nobles driving sentinel mechas, led a large number of guards, and rushed forward one by one, risking their lives to break through the important roads guarded by the Space Marines to save their queen.
But they achieved nothing.
During this relatively short period of time, twenty Space Marines destroyed thirty Sentinel mechas and killed more than two thousand Guards soldiers.
The fragments of the mecha and the blood of the soldiers dyed all the areas that could be dyed red, and broken limbs and steel debris were scattered everywhere.
The Space Marines were unharmed.
Even the brave Stefano people inevitably lost their morale in the face of such a desperate contrast.
They had taken every possible measure and were completely fearless of sacrifice, but they still saw no hope of breaking through the defense line formed by 20 phoenixes.
They are still working on it.
After enough sacrifices and lessons learned, the Royal Guards and Kingdom soldiers who arrived later no longer charged recklessly. They kept shouting, asking ordinary soldiers to carry weapons and cover those who were carrying high explosives, and rush to the Space Marines.
It's a gamble on luck, and also on the fact that the Space Marines have limited bullets.
This is indeed the case.
The Space Marines have a strong carrying capacity, and their tactical backpacks are extremely well designed, leaving every inch of space possible so that they can carry as many supplies as possible.
However, the size of the explosive bomb is there, which is much larger than ordinary bullets, and the number that can be loaded is always limited.
Each Phoenix carried at least 600 rounds of explosive bombs, but after the previous battles and the long fight here, they were almost used up.
They have begun to consciously save ammunition in battle, but even for Space Marines, they cannot be forced to kill an enemy with every shot. Necessary fire suppression, fire reconnaissance, and misses during long-range shooting are all normal situations.
Not to mention, even if they could kill one enemy with every bullet, the number of enemies would still be greater than their bullets.
Faced with the new enemy's cowardly fighting style, Anato volunteered to take advantage of the end of the enemy's wave of attacks and kill them alone. He bypassed the field of vision, and then after the enemy discovered him, he took the firepower and destroyed the Sentinel mech hiding behind the command with a chainsaw sword.
After completing the goal, he did achieve his goal.
No matter how brave the Stefanos were, they could not hide the fact that this was a feudal army. Without the noble officers, the remaining ordinary soldiers were obviously at a loss and cowered.
At this moment, the Phoenix's defense can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Until the next group of enemies reorganizes, they should not need to be so tense, and the ammunition consumption problem can be slightly alleviated.
As for the future, the bullets will eventually run out.
But so what?
Anato looked at the panel built into the tactical helmet.
There are only a dozen minutes left until the scheduled time.
…
At this moment, whistling sounds came one after another in the sky above Stefano's capital fortress.
Hundreds of Falcon fighter jets arrived over the city.
Before this, Feng Falcon didn't dare to come.
Conventional anti-aircraft firepower is fine, and its efficiency is just so-so. If the flight altitude is raised and the speed is maintained, there will be no problem in bombing. Anyway, these local forces of Black Arrow Star are lame in air force construction. Although they also have wind falcons, there are only a dozen in a kingdom, and they dare not take off to fight.
However, they spent a lot of money to build a set of orbital defense system. The Defender live-fire air defense system, equipped with many precision air defense missiles, can guarantee a certain interception efficiency even for starship bombing on the ground, not to mention that the air force dares to fly over the city's airspace.
But now, the Space Marines' raid has destroyed the city's defense system.
The falcons can come here in a swagger.
They circled arrogantly at the top of the palace fortress. Those who were going to unload soldiers and ammunition went down first, while the rest fired their onboard missiles at any target that might pose a threat to the airborne landing, and even lowered their flight altitude and carried out dive shooting.
After the Feng Hun completed unloading, it flew up and took over their task, and the rest continued to unload personnel and supplies.
After four or five rounds of this, all the stuff was unloaded.
The whole process went smoothly.
The Space Marines worked reliably. Not to mention the anti-aircraft fire attacking them, the surrounding threatening areas had long been cleared, and there were not even a few ordinary soldiers shooting rifles into the air.
After the Wind Falcons had used up all their missiles and machine gun shells, they left contentedly.
What were left behind were thousands of special warfare elites of the 10th Brigade wearing exoskeletons, and enough ammunition supplies for them to carry out a whole day of high-intensity combat.
After the Feng Falcons returned, they would load up another batch of soldiers and supplies and come back again. Taking into account the time for loading and the journey, the next time they came would not take more than eight hours.
On the ground, the three special operations battalion commanders of the 10th Brigade, three major battalion commanders who had just landed, gathered in front of Martins.
Wearing exoskeletons, they saluted in awe to the tall and majestic Chapter Commander in front of them, who was wearing Terminator power armor.
After Martins returned the gift, he started assigning them tasks without further ado.
Soon, each unit took its men and went in all directions.
Martins gazed at the entire city.
It was a hasty and chaotic process, with war raging everywhere.
He was very familiar with this scene, as he had been doing this for the past hundreds of years.
The Space Marines do always have to deal with all kinds of monsters and demons. Those powerful enemies are the most memorable. But if you dig deeper into your memory, those ordinary counterinsurgency missions, dealing with weak enemies, are actually the most frequent battles.
Sometimes he couldn't understand it. Obviously, his regiment, whether at its peak or during the later Atonement Crusade, had been divided into companies of dozens of people, constantly running around in the starry sea, responding to requests for support from planetary governors and the Imperial military at the ends of the earth. Most of the battles were to help various planets quell rebellions.
They really didn't have much time to rest, but the planetary governor always said that requesting Imperial reinforcements, especially requesting support from Space Marines, was an unattainable thing, and by the time the opportunity came, the Space Marines still didn't show up.
The two are contradictory and often confuse Martins.
He always felt that as the Emperor's angel of death and the most powerful warrior of the empire, their enemies should be those aliens, demons, and the great enemies of mankind. But most of the time, their opponents were just humans, and they just kept suppressing rebellions, suppressing rebellions, and suppressing rebellions.
Of course he knew that it was because the territory of the empire was too large. Even if the regiment tried its best to run around, it could only conquer one area at a time.
But what he really didn't understand was why there were rebellions everywhere? Even more, why did the rebellion that they had just put down start again just a few years later?
He had a long life, but his life was always a battle, and he hardly had enough time to think about this problem.
But now, it seems that there is another person who is thinking about this problem for him.
On the Angry Owl Star, he not only witnessed but also participated in the process of Governor Gu Hang unifying the world. He was originally indifferent to this because he had helped too many worlds to unify and suppress rebellions.
But he seldom saw that when the so-called unification really came, every single person and every group of people who were brought under the rule of Governor Gu obviously lived a much better life than before; those who did evil were also truly punished.
He knew what the situation was like when Gu Hang first arrived at the Angry Owl Star, so he felt that everything he had done seemed to be truly valuable.
At least, he couldn't see any sign of a large-scale rebellion on the Angry Owl Star.
This situation was also confirmed on Black Arrow Star. The Luman Kingdom also quickly calmed down after being conquered.
Although the speed of its development was not particularly exaggerated because it was not local and the political system had not been completely changed, we did not see people starving or freezing to death.
Martins knew that he did not have any particularly sharp political thinking, but based on his shallow and simple understanding, he felt that the Lumans would not rebel.
The Governor-General, to whom he had sworn allegiance, had more complete thoughts and specific methods on the questions of 'why people rebel' and 'how to eradicate rebellion' than he, a soldier who only knew how to fight.
Then let's take a look.
He had to admit that after swearing allegiance to Gu Hang, although the chapter flourished and showed signs of recovery, he still had some thoughts in his heart: "I once pledged allegiance to the Emperor, the Empire, and humanity, but now I am only loyal to one person. How shameful."
Sometimes, he even asked himself whether it was worth it to sacrifice the honor of the chapter for the continuation of the chapter.
And now, his inappropriate sense of shame is gradually fading away with what he has seen and heard.
"Then let me wait and see."
He whispered, raised the gun in his hand, and walked towards the battlefield in front of him.
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