Chapter 229: Phoenix's New Blood's First Battle
The so-called C7 area is not an urban area defined by the Polar Industrial City itself, but a part of the combat area divided by the Alliance Staff based on the map of the Polar Industrial City obtained by the nuns in the early stage when formulating the battle plan and its own combat habits.
As for the industrial city itself, this should be the location of a raw material warehouse somewhere in the polar industry.
At the same time, this C7 area was also a place that the nuns of Holy Lily of Mercy focused on during their preliminary investigations.
According to the intelligence obtained in the early stage, there may be a secret underground space beneath this area.
The nuns were basically certain that this was the headquarters of the original Angry Owl sect.
This group of cultists played a trick of hiding their true colors by building their headquarters underground in the storage center of Polar Industries.
Obviously, their penetration of the polar industry is quite good. After hiding for so long, even Pierre, the president of the group, didn't know about this space.
The nuns were able to obtain this information by digging it out from the mouths of high-ranking members of the original Angry Owl sect who had been captured many times in the periphery before.
Even so, there are still many areas of doubt, and it is not necessarily confirmed that it is this C7 area.
However, in the current raid on the Polar Industrial City, the resistance of Zone C7 was particularly resolute.
This determination has not changed even after Pierre spoke as the president of the group.
That's very strange.
After gradually wiping out the resistance in other areas, thirty combat nuns under Grit's command went into a team to conduct a brief investigation of the four areas that they had previously suspected to be the underground headquarters of the original Angry Owl Sect, but found nothing special.
There were indeed signs of cult activities there, and quite a few were even caught alive on the spot.
However, in terms of scale, it is definitely not the "headquarters". It is probably just a few areas set up for the purpose of confusion, plus some contact points.
To be honest, their ability to hide was so strong that the battle nuns could only confirm five suspected areas in almost a year of investigation and were not sure whether any one of them was real.
However...what's the point of hiding well?
All the means used by the original Angry Owl Sect to hide themselves probably never occurred to them that one day they would be in danger.
Who has the time to check which of your five possible areas is real and which is fake? If I break one, I'm afraid I'll alert the enemy and ask you to move away.
Directly take down the entire Polar Industrial City, and take it down before anyone can react. Block the way out of the city to transfer the base, and then the regular army will attack five areas at the same time.
Caught off guard, they could neither run away nor be wiped out in one fell swoop. The cultists, who had been hiding very secretly before, could no longer hide at all.
Area C7, as the headquarters, has been exposed.
They even tried desperate measures. Some cultists with special abilities put on blue robes openly and used some simple but useful storm magic to block the attacks of the Alliance soldiers.
If it weren't for these blue robes, the 31st Airborne Division would have been helpless here, and even left behind more than two hundred corpses, which made Lieutenant Colonel Drake very angry, and he even wanted to take over this place himself.
Of course, he was dissuaded by Thadius in the name of the commander-in-chief.
It's not completely impossible for the 31st Airborne Division to handle it. However, even with the assistance of the Air Force, if they reach the underground part, the complex indoor environment will still require the soldiers to go in and explore.
There is no need to waste soldiers' lives when facing cultists with sorcerous abilities.
Now, there is a more professional team in the Polar Industrial City to deal with this situation.
At this moment, there were four teams gathered at the blockade line of area C7.
There is only one unit belonging to the Alliance military: the 10th Brigade's special warfare elite.
This time, there were more than 500 of them.
It accounts for almost half of the entire 10th Brigade.
The remaining half was incorporated into the expeditionary force, and they are probably already at Black Arrow Star by now.
The remaining three, strictly speaking, do not belong to the Alliance military.
Not to mention the Battle Sisters, they can't even be considered members of the Alliance.
Twelve Phoenix Space Marines arrived.
In addition to the four century-old veterans who had experienced the Atonement Crusade, there were eight more, all new to the chapter.
At present, there are actually more than 30 new bloods of the Phoenix. But these new bloods were discovered and cultivated by the Governor one after another. The latter batches are not yet "mature" and the superhuman organs in their bodies have not yet grown fully.
Even for the first three batches, totaling twelve people, half a year had passed since they were implanted with the gene seeds, but still only eight of them had completed the full growth of superhuman organs.
Especially the 'black carapace', which is usually the last one to grow out of the 19 superhuman organs. The black carapace generates nerve bundles inwards, connecting with the brain and many different organs of the body; and outwards, it forms many insertion points on the body surface, which can be connected with the power armor.
This is why the Space Marines' power armor is called their second skin. In a sense, the power armor really grows with the Space Marines.
They control their Power Armor as if it were a part of their own body, and without the aid of the Black Shell, the Space Marines' Power Armor is almost completely useless.
Be it other mortals or elite troops like the Battle Sisters, none of them can use real Space Marine power armor and can only use adapted force feedback power armor.
These eight have grown black shells, indicating that they are mature new blood. Now they can wear the power armor that the Governor bought last time and have completed external painting, and fight side by side with their predecessors.
Martins brought them all with him on this mission.
He had to admit that the Governor's magical and even daunting way of training the new blood of the Chapter was extremely high in terms of pure technical and tactical level, even surpassing the level of the new recruits trained in the past during the heyday of the Chapter. (T1 level training)
However, no matter how mature the technical and tactical levels are, the experience of war, the instinct of war, and the mentality honed in countless battles cannot be achieved through any simple training.
Only those who have experienced blood and fire personally can do it.
Then let's experience the battle.
As for the fourth team, it belongs to a newly established organization of the alliance - the Heretic Demon Hunters.
A mysterious team of fifty people.
At present, the total number of personnel in the entire action team is about 600 people.
Chapter Master Martins Salas is the overall commander of the special operation, responsible for the final annihilation of the original Cult of the Wrath.
Sister Grit is the highest advisor.
The other teams were all under the command of these two.
If necessary, Martins can contact the campaign commander Brigadier General Thadius at any time, who will do his best to meet all of Martins's requirements.
And now, Martins and Grit were standing at the front of the team, chatting about something.
"I didn't expect that you have such a strong ability to persuade people." Martins showed a slight smile on his face.
Grit responded seriously: "No, I never showed off my eloquence when I was facing President Pierre. I just told him the actual situation. He is not an incurable fool. When all the facts were laid out before him, he made the right choice, that's all."
"But that's the point, isn't it? Being able to weave the facts into a reasonable way and present them to reasonable people is an outstanding ability in itself."
Grit glanced at him sideways: "Captain Martins, do you really have to flatter me today?"
"Hahaha!" Martins said with a smile, "I'm not exaggerating. I'm just stating the facts one by one."
Grit also smiled: "Thank you for being so honest."
Suddenly, a slight "beeping" sound rang in the ears of both of them at the same time.
This is the signal that the time for action agreed upon earlier has arrived.
They both suppressed all the emotions on their faces and put on their helmets. At this point, the only temperament left in them was ice and fire.
"Action...begin!"
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"Action...begin!"
Hearing the orders from the chapter leader in the communication signal inside the helmet, Anato waved his hand coldly and led the team forward.
To be honest, this was his first actual combat.
Although he had personally experienced in past training that he was completely different from the skinny little boy who had fled from the Qinggu area, he was still nervous.
However, no matter how nervous he was, he would not show it at all in his expression, his words, or his actions.
He is the Phoenix, he is the Emperor's Angel of Death, he is the Governor's most powerful warrior.
He deserves the best!
At this moment, fighting together with him were thirty elite special warfare soldiers wearing exoskeleton armor and three demon hunters wearing special leather armor.
They were the first vanguard team to advance.
He rode forward and rushed to the front.
Once a certain line is crossed, the enemy's counterattack begins immediately.
The storage building ahead was about five to six meters above the ground, with many shooting windows from the inside. The traitors who were entrenched inside should have temporarily built shooting platforms in those places.
After noticing that the Alliance had launched another attack, many of the shooting platforms opened fire.
Some kind of homemade heavy machine gun was firing with a "da da da" sound.
These tight shooting windows had caused a lot of casualties to the soldiers of the 31st Airborne Division a few hours ago.
But at this moment, in front of Anatole, it was meaningless.
He had already observed these shooting windows, and when he vaguely saw figures flashing inside, the grenade launcher in his hand fired the bombs into those windows first.
The sound of "bang bang bang" of bullets exploding made seven or eight shooting windows completely silent in an instant.
And the remaining flames, even if they fell on him, would never be able to penetrate the protection of the power armor.
On the contrary, the gunfire pointed out the direction of their attack.
Anato didn't even need to do anything. The elite special forces following him took out the individual rocket launchers that had been prepared long ago, and while the Space Marines in front helped them attract firepower, they mercilessly fired the rocket launchers into the shooting holes.
The enemy's troublesome counterattack window was completely blocked.
With quick steps, Anatole arrived in front of the closed door.
This place had been hit by the company-level firepower of the 31st Airborne Division. Currently, the Alliance has been promoting the distribution of heavy grenade launchers as fixed firepower points to company-level units.
Heavy bombs and 88-caliber mortars have bombed here. This was originally the side door of the storage building, which was blown up, but now it is blocked tightly by many debris.
But there's nothing to worry about.
Anato ran quickly to its side and placed a hot melt bomb on the edge of the building wall.
Bang.
After a flash of orange light, an irregular hole measuring 4×4 meters appeared where the hot melt bomb had touched.
At this moment, another wave of comrades came up, also led by a Space Marine.
Anatole knew him.
That was Kalia Gabriel, a new recruit who was accepted into the chapter a month later than him.
The two men nodded to each other, and then in tacit understanding, they threw tactical grenades into the cave, one to the left and the other to the right.
When the explosion was heard, Anato entered first, pointing the gun directly to the right.
In an instant, he found seven or eight targets.
He stepped forward to avoid blocking his battle-brothers from following up, firing as he moved.
His brain quickly analyzed the threat levels of these seven or eight targets, and instantly colored each of them with different colors through the built-in eyepiece of the tactical helmet.
Then, the grenade launcher targeted these enemies one by one according to the analysis results.
The first to be killed were the three blue robes. The intelligence mentioned that they had the ability of storm magic, which might threaten the power armor;
Secondly, there are enemies who try to pull out grenades or have individual rocket launchers. Heavy firepower is also a threat.
And those who were confused and holding ordinary guns were placed at the end.
However, although these things seem long to talk about, in reality they all happened in almost just a moment.
From the perspective of the cultists, they saw a red giant coming in. Before they could recover from the explosion of the tactical grenade, he quickly took three or five steps forward and fired eight times from his grenade launcher. Eight of them who dared to show their heads fell down directly.
The same thing happened on the left side of the broken hole.
The two Space Marines expanded their forward position on the spot. They occupied both sides of the cave entrance, found temporary cover, and used grenade launchers to suppress anyone who might threaten the hole in the wall.
At the same time, elite special forces and demon hunters poured into the cave.
When enough people came in, they began to expand inward, slaughtering everyone who dared to appear in their sight.
At this moment, five additional explosions were heard in succession from five other places in the warehouse.
The same situation as here happened in five other places.
Under the leadership of the Space Marines, who could be considered the most elite group of people in the Alliance, they broke through the warehouse defense line that had previously caused the 31st Airborne Division a lot of trouble with an unstoppable momentum and entered the interior.
The casualties in this process were minimal.
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