Chapter 475: Let me show you the corpse
The first fatal problem Titus encountered was not being hunted by humans, but an internal rebellion.
Actually, it is not accurate to call it a rebellion. In the greenskin culture, there is not much concept of "betrayal".
They always put the strong in the upper positions and the weak down.
The same was true of Titus himself.
For the Iron Tooth Clan, he was certainly a man sent from heaven. With a gun, a hand cannon, and a battle axe, he killed his original boss, and then killed the warlord who ruled them, becoming the leader himself, and then unified his own planet, and later boarded a starship and unified the entire Iron Tooth Clan.
He is also one of the few rational people among the greenskins. After completing the unification, he was able to suppress the restlessness of all parties and calmly farmed in his old nest for several years, trying his best to make the brutal infighting as mild as possible, and accumulated some elite guards - the kind of chieftain's guards who are super heavily armored and can fight back and forth with cans.
I have also collected a lot of green mechas, even a green statue King Kong that can compete with my Titan.
Not to mention the fleet.
His original plan was to save up for a few more years, but the proactive attack by humans four years ago still caused trouble for his plan.
The greenskin society is a powder keg. It is remarkable that he sits on it and uses his big butt to suppress the inherent tyranny. This is something that many orc leaders cannot do.
However, humans' attack ignited the powder keg.
If he couldn't suppress it, then there was no need to suppress it anymore. He led his army to fight back against the human attack and attacked on all fronts.
Victory, victory, victory, a grand waaagh ignited the passion of the entire Irontooth clan and pushed his prestige to its peak.
But the prestige brought by war will also be lost because of war.
The thinking of the greenskins is actually very simple, they don't have the concept of loyalty or betrayal. If you say you are strong, then you should show it, kill the current boss, and you will be the boss in the future; then, if you can lead us to fight and win, then you are a good boss, and we will all follow you.
But if you can't win, don't blame the greenskins for starting to complain.
This has been the case for the past two or three years, since the arrival of the Fury.
The victorious momentum of the invasion was brought to an end.
Of course, it was okay at that stage. Although the battle line could not be pushed forward, the goal of Waaagh announced by the chief was right in front of them. The place where Jindi Star and Yunluo Star were fighting with them was not far away. Moreover, everyone had very intense and interesting fights to fight. With those shrimps, there were wins and losses.
But in recent months, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse.
Lose the battle, run away; lose the battle again, run away again…
Lose one, two, three games, no problem, Brother Mao taught us to be both cruel and cunning. We can regard temporary failure as a strategic necessity, as temporary forbearance for a greater victory, and as a cunning strategy to lure the enemy into the trap.
But if you keep losing, that won’t work.
What's more, Titus was not only losing, but also constantly running away.
This is the most annoying behavior in the nature of the green orcs.
No matter how much talent and strategy you have, and how much you have to endure for the sake of the overall situation, if you run away and fail to bring a victory in time to let the greenskins know that this is cunning rather than cowardly behavior, then don't blame your prestige for continuing to plummet.
Once the prestige drops, then some problems will naturally follow.
First up is the challenger.
Picking up the warhammer, Titus looked at his subordinate, whose body was already beaten to pieces, with an expressionless face.
This was the third challenger he had killed in the past two days. Each of them was an important subordinate he had relied on, and each of them had the title of a general or a king.
During these two days, the three of them stood in front of him one after another and said they wanted to challenge him.
Titus gave them this honor and brought death upon them with his own hands.
However, that is not the end of the story.
The three challengers, who could be said to be "law-abiding", engaged Titus in an open duel.
However, how could the power struggle among the greenskins be so rule-abiding?
While he was killing the second challenger and facing the third, a rebellion broke out on the battle moon where he was.
Two leaders, with their personal guards, each mobilized a large number of young men and launched an attack on the area where Titus was.
The number of instigated orc boys actually accounted for half of the entire battle moon.
The guards loyal to Titus fought a desperate battle with these traitors, or power contenders.
Titus also participated in the battle in person.
He felt weak.
The three leaders who had challenged him three times in a row and dared to challenge him directly were of course the three most powerful leaders in the Iron Tooth Clan besides him. Although he won the battles in a row, it was not without cost. He was also injured and spent a lot of energy.
Before the battle to quell the rebellion was over, everyone felt that the battle moon they were in suddenly began to tremble violently.
That was because the greenskin warlords and kings who were sailing outside also began to challenge in their own way.
Killing Titus in a one-on-one duel will allow you to take his place;
If he leads an army and kills Titus, he can also seize his position;
With the fleet, we can destroy Titus's vehicle, the battle moon, and seize his position;
At this moment, the civil strife of the Iron Tooth Clan broke out completely in the most disorderly manner.
But in the end, Titus did not die.
But it was impossible for him to continue to sit on the position of chief.
One third of the main army corps and fleet of the entire Iron Tooth Clan, which was originally under his leadership, were destroyed in this battle, and his battle moon was also destroyed. The internal rebellion and external bombardment turned this super war weapon into pieces. It was at the last moment that Titus boarded a spaceship and escaped to another ship loyal to him, thus avoiding being buried with the battle moon.
One third of them, led by a famous orc warrior, went south to fight the pursuing Fury of Flame. King Muru was now known as the new chieftain of the Irontooth Clan. He received a lot of support because he wanted to lead the greenskins to stop running away, and declared that Brother Gomao had blessed him and they would win the battle.
Of course this is impossible.
Titus knew that by catering to the warlike and passionate nature of the greenskins, M'uru would actually only lead the elite force of the Irontooth Clan to destruction.
They could not succeed without supplies and reinforcements.
But it's okay this way.
Muru's actions actually also played the role of his rearguard.
No matter how weak or incompetent they are, they are still one-third of the main force of the greenskins. With this wave of power, they can definitely stop the Fury of Flame and the group of oil-oiled men of the Mechanicus for quite a long time.
And he could take advantage of this opportunity to escape back to the Jiang Meiyu star area.
He still controls one-third of the greenskins' main force; among the four major star regions of the Iron Teeth's lair, there is also Jiang Meiyu, a place that has not been swept.
After returning there, he will manage the entire star region well. On the one hand, he will suppress the internal unrest, and on the other hand, he will build fortresses on each planet.
He predicted that after achieving victory in all aspects, humans would free up their hands and would definitely pursue the victory and exterminate them.
At that time, he will be in Jiang Meiyu, taking advantage of the home field, dragging those shrimps into the quagmire of war and seeking development in the war.
He still has a chance to make a comeback!
…
The first half of the story was just as he thought.
One-third of the greenskin main force, whose morale was boosted, launched a fierce battle with the human army in the two star regions of Leilong and Leisu under the leadership of King Muru.
The intensity is very high.
Although the force was less, Muru adopted a full-scale offensive posture, leaving no room for maneuver. The fighting power that erupted in this way was also quite terrifying.
The human pursuit force was caught off guard, and the two most aggressive companies of the Fury Regiment were even wiped out.
Erso, Chapter Master of the Fury, was furious.
It would definitely not be pleasant to be bitten back by a cooked duck.
He boarded the mothership of the regiment's fleet, a battle barge equivalent to a battleship, and personally joined the battle.
Normal battles come and go fiercely, but end quickly.
King Muru was defeated in the naval battle, and his fleet was almost destroyed; the planet where he was located was also attacked by the Fury of Flame, led by Casimir Erso himself. In this decisive ground battle, although the greenskins were numerous and well-equipped, they were ruthlessly annihilated after losing orbital control.
Muru himself was beheaded by Erso himself.
However, Erso was still unhappy.
He wanted Titus's head, not Muru's. This guy called himself the Great Chieftain, but in the past few years of war, the situation of the greenskin leaders had been basically figured out by humans. Erso knew that although this guy had a high status, he was actually just a general and a "king".
He originally thought that the greenskins turned around and fought him to the death, which was a desperate counterattack by the great chief Titus, but it turned out not to be the case.
Combined with the information he received about the civil unrest among the greenskins, he can now almost confirm that Titus has escaped.
Moreover, because of Muru's obstruction, no matter how fast Erso tried to eliminate these greenskins, it still took him two months.
In these two months, the distance between the two sides has widened greatly.
I'm afraid Titus has already run back to his old nest?
This speculation was very likely to be true, which made Erso even more angry.
Chief Irontooth fled back to his lair. This group of greenskins still had a part of their remaining fleet, and they had the support of ground orbits on planets that were completely under their control. And there might be tens of billions of greenskin troops on those planets.
No longer in an expeditionary state, the greenskins will no longer be restricted by supplies and reinforcements, and their war potential will be maximized.
On the contrary, the human side became an expeditionary force. Although the main battlefield of the entire star field was won, the invasion of hundreds of planets by greenskins has not ended. The number of greenskins on these planets varies, but with their characteristics, they are the stubborn disease of the planet, like psoriasis. Only after a long-term battle and governance can the threat of greenskins be finally eliminated.
As a result, the newly recovered planets can only provide limited help to the human expeditionary force. In some places, Erso may even have to send troops to help them solve the problem.
In this situation, Erso could imagine that it would become extremely difficult to take down the Irontooth Clan one planet at a time and capture and kill the great chief Titus.
It's not impossible, but it will take a long time and be very costly. It will take a lot of blood and money to achieve the goal.
But is it okay not to do it?
The Fury Corps in front has already shed so much blood, are they going to give up at this time?
The costs incurred earlier are truly sunk costs.
bother!
Annoyed!
This is how Erso feels now.
He was annoyed that he missed the best opportunity to eliminate Titus during the pursuit; the endless troubles that followed made him feel even more scalp-tingling.
However, at this moment, Gu Hang's communication request came.
This is normal.
Since the end of the Temir War, the alliance has changed its past style and started to communicate with him frequently. Although they still don't obey orders, there is some tacit understanding.
The best example is that the Alliance did their best to block the support from the Greenskins' lair to the south, and set fire to the Greenskins' lair, destroying the Greenskins' war potential and leading to their full retreat. Only then was Erso and the Mechanicus able to pursue and expand the results of the battle and win the victory on the front battlefield.
Secondly, during the process of the Fury of Flame Regiment chasing the greenskins, the Alliance also blocked the escape routes of many greenskins to the north, forcing the greenskin legions to escape a long way along the Thunder Dragon and Thundersu star regions, giving the Fury of Flame Regiment and the Bright Sun Sect ample space to pursue them.
Because of this, Erso had been more polite in recent exchanges.
Just some.
Every time he would criticize the Alliance, asking them to release the detained Fury Regiment company as soon as possible, and threaten the Alliance, accusing them of disloyalty.
At most, the wording is slightly milder.
But today, it's a little different.
The person who made this call was no longer the diplomat who had been communicating with Erso, but the supreme leader of the alliance: Gu Hang.
Erso has always been unhappy about not being able to talk to Gu Hang directly.
In addition, the war was not going well and Titus escaped, which made Erso feel very bad.
He won't give any face today:
"Governor Gu, right? You coward, you didn't continue to hide behind me and suck my breast today. You dare to talk to me face to face?"
Hearing this direct and malicious remark, Gu Hang had no intention of arguing with him. Instead, he smiled and informed Erso of the news:
"We have eliminated Titus. Do you want to see his body?"
(End of this chapter)
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