Chapter 842, Breath of Dragon Spear
"Twelve o'clock!" Modler's psychic communication was particularly clear amid the roar of the grenade launcher. When his sword pierced the wall, the desecrated reliefs suddenly let out a scream.
Tai Shichen quickly turned the gun around, and the under-slung heavy-bolter machine gun on his Terminator armor fired fiercely and accurately, tearing the green-skinned guys who were rushing over, along with several heavily armored warriors, into pieces.
At this moment, they had broken through the outer defense line of the greenskin mobile fortress and entered the interior.
The entire outer offensive did not last long, even though the greenskins deployed a lot of troops to block the attack. However, when humans deliberately put them into a dead end, surrounded the mobile fortress from all sides, and launched attacks from all directions, coupled with powerful orbital support, all the greenskins' troops outside the fortress were only worth dying.
The first troops to break into the fortress were those who followed Taishichen's orders and attacked the armored factory from the south.
They successfully completed their mission in Dragon Elephant fighters and organized a defense line on the spot, attracting many attacks from greenskin troops inside the fortress, and even Uru himself went there.
They certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to try to kill Ulu with their own isolated army.
After suffering a small number of casualties, they withdrew.
Although they were repelled, they not only destroyed the Greenskins' factory that was constantly producing new armored units, but also successfully created opportunities for other friendly forces to attack.
When they withdrew, the main force led by Taishichen, as well as more human troops from other directions, broke into the interior of this mobile fortress.
As they advanced towards the inner core of the mobile fortress, they fought against the green-skinned orcs who were resisting stubbornly and destroyed all the green-skinned facilities they encountered in the area they were currently passing through.
This act of destruction must have meaning.
This huge orc mobile fortress has fierce firepower and strong defense performance, and also serves as an arsenal. It is essentially a piece of machinery built by green-skinned orcs using many mechanical creation cores captured on the forge world.
It is incredible that it can move and even exert such a powerful combat power. But the orcs' technology is not perfect after thinking about it. On the contrary, under the fantastic ideas and magical logic, there are still problems of roughness and low reliability.
Damage its key parts and destroy its 'magical' parts, and the orc-manufacture will collapse quickly.
Not long after the human army broke in, it could be seen that some structures of this huge mobile fortress had been peeled off from the mobile fortress because important nodes had been destroyed.
Although so far there has been no serious damage, it has clearly revealed that humans are gradually dismembering this orc fortress.
Tai Shichen himself also arrived at the location of a very important war engine in the mobile fortress.
He could clearly feel the pulsation of the giant machine under his feet.
The part of the war fortress where the troops he led were at the moment should be a war engine modified from the heavy casting furnace looted by the greenskins. The orc technicians used crude welding technology to roughly connect the furnace to their war fortress.
It stands to reason that such rough welding would not be effective.
However, the green-skinned master thought about it for a while and felt that it was okay, so it was really okay.
The roar of the steam pistons was mixed with the screams of the human Skitarii. They were the Skitarii who had rushed in first and failed to complete their mission.
But it doesn’t matter, the historian is here.
His Terminator boots rolled over the broken mechanical tentacles of the Skitarii, and the adamantium armor plates under his feet sent disturbing tremors. The forges modified by the greenskins were operating at overload, and the orc technicians forced the Skitarii's neural interfaces into the reactor control system - at this moment, every twitching mechanical corpse was a living fuse.
"Prepare for directional blasting!"
The Tech Sergeant's incinerator melted the safety valve, revealing the wriggling green nematodes inside—biocables pumping fungal spores into the energy circuit.
Tai Shichen tore off the fungus-covered cable in the control panel, and the roar of the furnace suddenly turned into a beast-like roar. The entire cabin suddenly tilted 45 degrees, and the gravity field generator was transformed into a trap. Several soldiers who did not have time to fix the lock slid towards the slag discharge port.
This is a trap.
Above where they were, a large number of green-skinned orc ambushes suddenly appeared.
Who says the greenskins don't have brains? They used the Crucible War Engine as their target, causing the Skitarii who could have been freed long ago to scream deliberately, attracting the enemy, and then activating the trap.
They laughed, raised their weapons, and fired fiercely at the human troops below who had stepped into the trap.
The think tank director deployed a psychic shield to block a large amount of bombardment.
But at this moment, everyone saw hell - a lava waterfall with a diameter of 20 meters was surging below, and the green-skinned technicians transformed the reactor cooling system into a killing device.
"Emperor!" Modler cut his palm and smeared the blood on the long sword. The psychic flame burned in the opposite direction along the gravity field generator line. The whole furnace suddenly let out a wail like a dying beast, and the tilted cabin regained its levelness in the harsh friction of the stuck gears. The scream of an orc tech tyrant came from the ventilation duct - its spine had been welded to the control system.
Tai Shichen seized this fleeting opportunity and stuffed the hot melt bomb into the main energy pipeline.
The lava waterfalls that were supposed to roll over and drown them were now sent to higher places by the reversed pipes. The greenskins who were laughing just now were now roaring in fear, but they could do nothing and were melted in the lava one by one.
"Keep pushing forward!" Tai Shichen roared along with the grenade launcher in his hand.
He smashed the fragile nodes of the cooling system. Behind the collapsed shell, a terrifying structure of flesh and machinery was revealed - the green-skinned mecha had welded itself to the core of the furnace, and the fungal colony growing on its spine was transforming the entire reactor into a biological weapon.
When the Terminator Guards used their thunder hammer to break open the last blast-proof door, everyone smelled the bloody smell in their memories.
The cabin they had broken into was crawling.
The floor was a carpet of hardened fungus, and on the walls rose human skulls that opened and closed their teeth. Greenskin technicians had transformed the vocal organs of fallen Skitarii into sirens.
They were so close to destroying this engine of war.
At this moment, Modler's psychic sword suddenly pierced into the ventilation duct, pulling out a screaming fart scout. This little monster with data plugs all over its body was smashed into a meat paste by the gravity hammer before it could explode.
The think tank director noticed the shining metal box on its spine - it was a communicator modified from a human skull.
He closed his eyes, opened them again after a moment, turned his head and said to Taishichen:
“Uru knows we’re coming.”
"Just as I meant." Tai Shichen raised his hand and ordered the troops to stop destroying the war engine.
When Taishichen entered the mobile fortress, his main target was the orc general Uru.
It is true that destroying the war engine is important, but when facing enemies like the orcs, killing their leader is a higher priority.
After killing Ulu, the rest of the things happened naturally.
It is not impossible to not kill Ulu and just destroy the key parts of the fortress one by one. Anyway, according to the advantages that humans currently have, victory will always belong to them.
However, to fight like this, bit by bit, would require the sacrifice of many troops.
To attack such a powerful mobile fortress, even with a ten-fold advantage in force and unilateral orbital support, there would still be huge losses.
If they wanted to mitigate the losses, the only thing they could do was to kill Ulu.
After losing their leader, the orcs' fighting power would drop sharply. They might even start fighting among themselves, or flee from the fortress and deal with the greenskins outside, which would naturally make it much easier to deal with them.
On the contrary, for Uru, his first mission was to protect his mobile fortress and maintain the offensive capability of his army. It was natural for him to come personally when a key location like the furnace engine was attacked - just like he personally led the team to deal with the Space Marines that broke in from the south.
If Tai Shichen destroyed the furnace engine too early, Uru, who had lost his target to protect, would certainly be in pain, but he might not come.
Therefore, keeping this furnace engine is the key to "hooking" Uru over.
And Uru arrived as expected.
At the same time, he also brought the most elite force he had.
His Black Orc Guards, his heavy-armored bodyguards, his 'Little King Kong' group...all followed him and arrived here.
The most elite troops between humans and orcs engaged in a brutal battle at the furnace engine.
Every heavily armored warrior possesses combat strength at least equal to that of a Space Marine; those Black Orc Guards can easily fight against a veteran fully equipped with Terminator armor alone; those little Kongs even have bodies that are even larger than the Dreadnoughts among the Space Marines, and they rampage on the battlefield.
The elite Crusaders who followed Taishichen into battle suffered heavy casualties. It was only after the Space Marines joined the battle that the situation on the field changed, allowing the two sides to tend toward a balance in this local battlefield.
But at the same time, after Uru personally joined the battle, the balance of victory shifted drastically towards the orcs.
His individual strength was too strong. No Space Marine could be a match for him. Often, in a single encounter, whether it was a veteran or a Terminator veteran, or the accompanying Mechanicus or Alliance Army Knight Mechs, they would be quickly destroyed.
This is the meaning of being an unparalleled warrior.
However, he personally took action and pointed out the target for Taishichen and Modler.
After killing the enemies in front of them respectively, the two looked at each other, acted at the same time in tacit understanding, and went after the terrible beast.
The Glory Guard of the Dragon King's Spear Captain took the lead and deliberately separated the black orc guards around Uru, creating opportunities for Tai Shichen and Modler.
In Uru's claws, he was holding half of the body of a Space Marine dripping with blood.
He turned his head and looked at Tai Shichen, threw the body away and sneered, "You're here to die again!"
The green-skinned warlord's sonic weapon made the steel beams rustle, and the dark green liquid sprayed from the rocket fuel pipe on his back spontaneously ignited in the air, forming a fire net that covered the entire space.
Modler's psychic power arrived at the right time to help the captain block the attack.
But the orc warrior insidiously took out the cover of the firepower network and launched a fierce magnetic chain, breaking the psychic protection of the think tank director and smashing towards Taishichen without slowing down.
Tai Shichen's attention was still very focused. The phase sword in his hand cut off the oncoming magnetic chains.
At the same time, he suddenly turned off his jet pack and fell freely, launching a close-range attack on Uru in a sudden manner.
The sword light he swung out in a state of weightlessness was deflected by the battle axe of the orc commander.
The two men exchanged blows fiercely several times, and the seventeenth collision in a very short period of time shattered the floor.
Uru's power claws left five melt marks on Taishichen's breastplate. When the captain rolled to avoid it, the ejected melta bullet grazed the greenskin's left rib.
At this moment, both sides can clearly realize the strength of the other side.
Uru was completely excited.
Meeting a strong opponent who is equally powerful as himself is indeed something that makes orcs excited.
The pleasure of fighting even briefly overwhelmed the anger at the already extremely unfavorable situation of the war.
Ulu now only wants to have a good fight.
The historian's face was solemn.
He now understood why Ricardo's final assault on the orc general had failed - his third captain was no match for this orc general.
Even if it was me, if it was a fair duel, my chances of winning would probably be only about 30%.
This orc warrior is indeed powerful.
but……
Who wants to challenge you in a one-on-one duel?
Even though Tai Shichen felt that his personal strength had become even stronger with the help of some mysterious power and he had made sufficient progress recently, he was still not a war maniac.
He only pursues victory, not the form of victory.
Modler's psychic chains suddenly shot out from the shadows and wrapped around Uru's ankles. The think tank director was bleeding from all seven orifices while maintaining the psychic confinement. The chains were being corroded by the greenskin blood and turned into green smoke.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Tai Shichen not only retreated, but also created some distance. Then he tore off the dragon tooth pendant hanging on his chest - the sacred object of the chapter, [Breath of Dragon Spear], was sealed inside!
(End of this chapter)
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