Chapter 916: Disaster Fleet
After arriving at the Southern Front, Martins did not stop for a moment and immediately engaged in a battle.
At this time, it was less than three hours since he completed the handover with the original commander of the southern front.
He actually didn't need a battle to establish his prestige, as his original reputation was already quite grand.
The Alliance Army was not an old-fashioned army, and there was almost no warlord style. It was more or less difficult to avoid factionalism, but it was not to the extent that the old troops would have resistance to sending a new commander-in-chief, and the handover went quite smoothly. The original commander handed over the baton smoothly. He will stay at the southern front headquarters, by Martins' side, to assist him for more than a year and help him take over the entire army better. After a year, he will return to the Angry Owl Star to report on his work and wait for the next appointment.
But Martins went ahead anyway.
Two levels of consideration.
On the one hand, it was his newly acquired strength, which was quite powerful after being tested in the training ground. However, the test was only a test after all, and it was not the same as actual combat.
Although he was already a fairly mature and stable man, the new power that continued to surge through his body made even him feel like he couldn't help but want to release it.
It would be particularly satisfying to release this power unscrupulously on the enemies of humanity.
On the other hand, there is a real need for him to go down and fight.
This world called 'Papalil' has experienced a severe outbreak of chaos corruption and is a world under close surveillance.
After initial orbital bombardment and ground troop intervention failed to resolve the problem, the Southern Command initiated an evaluation of the safe zone strategy.
Unfortunately, this world did not pass the safety zone assessment and was considered unworthy of establishing a safety zone. At the same time, since this world did not have particularly precious materials and did not have particularly significant strategic value, it was sentenced to extermination.
After half a month of evacuating as many residents as possible, the extermination order was implemented.
However, it was not successfully implemented.
The extermination order was intercepted.
This is not something that has never happened before.
The headquarters then activated the plan, dispatched ground forces, and began the attack. The plan was to dismantle and destroy those areas that might intercept the release of the extinction order weapons under the cover of the orbital fleet's firepower. After destroying them, the troops would withdraw and bomb again.
If they are intercepted again, it means that the ground clearance is not enough. On the one hand, the coalition military will increase its efforts to clear the area. On the other hand, some people may have to bear the responsibility. Is it because the intelligence department did not figure it out, or the army's reconnaissance efforts were not strong enough, or there were missed targets? They will deal with it as they should.
However, at this moment, a very powerful Chaos fleet suddenly rushed into the battlefield.
This is an old rival.
Since more than 20 years ago, the alliance has begun to encounter these enemies more frequently on all fronts.
They are different from the enemies that rushed out from the scarlet scars. The difference is even quite big.
The first is the different composition of the troops.
The enemies rushing out of the Scarlet Scar are mainly surreal demon armies. There are also some cultists and Chaos Space Marines, but not many, and they are not the main force. The leaders, if weak, will be some Chaos Army Vanguards, and the stronger ones will be big demons or demon princes.
But these enemies are basically Chaos followers, including a large number of Chaos Space Marines, and there are not many real Warp Demons, and most of them are summoned by some Chaos Warlocks. And among them, there are a large number of Demon Engines and Dark Mechanical Creations.
In the fleet, they are not the kind of corrupted flesh and blood ships. Their ships are more "conventional", at least they look more like human ships, made of steel.
However, there are twists. Its flagship is very large, and from the outside, it looks like a bunch of space wrecks spliced together. It has different shapes, but its combat power is not bad. Not only does it have very powerful firepower, its combat method is more like an aircraft carrier, it will release a large number of fighter planes, small and medium-sized, and even large warships.
This thing is pretty scary, and the Alliance has suffered a lot from it.
In addition to the composition of the army, another huge difference is the way of fighting.
Compared to the demons rushing out from the scarlet scar, or perhaps because the chaos corrosion is too severe, a large number of subspace cracks have appeared directly, and the entire planet is slowly separating from the real universe and is in a semi-subspace state. Endless demons can rush out. This group of chaos enemies does not seem to need to start from anywhere, nor do they need any place to have chaos corrosion to attract them.
They are like a human fleet, wandering in the universe.
Moreover, they should have mastered very mature subspace navigation technology, so that they can travel faster than light without going through the astral tunnel. This also makes their actions quite ghostly and unpredictable for human troops.
What is even more confusing to the human side is that the objectives of their actions are also quite bizarre.
They are often not limited to conquering and corrupting a planet. In other words, such actions are more like additional actions besides their own goals. If they can corrupt, conquer, and plunder, that's the best, but if they can't, they don't seem to care much. In other words, after conquering and corrupting a world, they will leave without mercy soon.
It was like a 'natural disaster' that came suddenly without any warning and left just as suddenly, leaving debris all over the world.
Because of this characteristic, the Alliance calls them the 'Disaster Fleet'.
There is more than one disaster fleet, but the exact number is unknown.
As for their real goal, according to the Alliance General Staff, after summarizing the action logic of the Disaster Fleet encountered on various fronts of the expeditionary force and even in relatively inland areas, the General Staff believed that the Disaster Fleet seemed to be "looking for" something.
The staff officers are trying hard to analyze what they are looking for and where they will appear next time.
There are already some clues at the moment, but to go further, more information and intelligence are needed.
All fronts of the Dark Side Expedition have received instructions. If they encounter the Disaster Fleet, they should try to capture the high-ranking figures in it. This is very important for the subsequent judgment.
And at this moment, Martins encountered such a disaster fleet.
(End of this chapter)
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