Chapter 918: Defending the Church
The flames of chaos exploded on the church spire, signaling the climax of this desperate stand.
Tulsa, the commander of the 8th Banyan Lizard Company, was fighting on the spire. He needed to command the battle from a high place, but at the same time, he was also fighting.
He was an excellent marksman, and he had already used up the third magazine of bullets with his sniper bolter. Under his sniper fire, there were already more than nine Chaos Space Marines and many Chaos Cultists.
Of course, the enemy would not just sit there and wait and see. They had already discovered the threat of the church spire as a high point and had launched various countermeasures, but they were all dealt with by Tulsa and his men.
However, no matter what, the war situation is still getting worse step by step.
Three kilometers away, a tide of twisted metal was overwhelming the defenses of the 4th Armored Battalion.
Those Lion King tanks that originally belonged to the Empire now had bleeding boils on their turrets and their tracks crushed over the remains of humans.
These corrupted tanks had no advantage in the battle against the human armored forces. However, they still crushed the human defense line with an unstoppable momentum, just like tracks crushing weeds.
The reason is simple - there are too many enemies.
How many troops were there defending the church? In addition to Rong Xi's Primaris Company, there was only one Alliance division.
And what about the enemy? Just the current number is ten times theirs!
This is true whether it is the number of Chaos Traitors, the armored forces, or the number of Chaos Space Marines.
At the position of the 4th Armored Battalion, they had been under ruthless fire for a long time before they were ruthlessly crushed.
In fact, the troops could no longer hold on. The battalion commander made a report to his superiors, and the division headquarters agreed with tears in their eyes and reported it to Tulsa.
Then, the armored battalion launched a desperate counterattack.
They had no choice but to make such a decision. According to the battalion commander, they could not watch their armored vehicles and tanks being destroyed by the Chaos traitors' long-range firepower without firing a single shot. Even though they knew that they would never be able to return after attacking, they were determined to make those Chaos enemies feel their endless anger!
The battalion commander led the team in person, and finally they charged into the enemy after 30% of their troops were sacrificed under the artillery fire during the charge. However, they encountered a counterattack by the Chaos Army's armored forces.
Faced with enemies that greatly outnumbered them, they resisted resolutely and even eliminated some enemies, but the final result was still a complete annihilation without any miracle.
And this is the last part of the armored unit of this armored division that assists in defending the church.
At the position of the 4th Armored Battalion, there were only a few remaining kittens without tanks or armored vehicles.
When the Chaos Cult's tanks came, they had no means to fight back. The few remaining soldiers tried to use some individual anti-armor weapons, or even tied explosives to their bodies, ambushed in trenches and tunnels, and directly detonated them when the enemy passed by.
Very heroic!
But being heroic is of no use.
These heroic actions played a very small role in the overall situation. They were just a few ripples in the steel waves of the enemy's advance. They were not critical at all.
However, humans are not without the ability to resist.
The artillery battalions, which had been suppressed to the point of not being able to raise their heads in the previous artillery bombardment with the enemy and even dared not to fire at will and expose their positions, finally came out of hiding.
With several quick rounds of fire, 1,500 artillery rounds were fired at the enemy's attacking forces in two minutes.
The effect is still very obvious.
A large number of rebel tanks and soldiers were blown into the sky and suffered heavy losses during these two minutes of intensive carpet fire bombing.
Even with the Chaos rebels' abundant manpower, they would have to retreat and reorganize themselves before launching the next attack.
This undoubtedly bought some time again.
The price of buying time was that the artillery positions were discovered and Chaos' counterattack arrived.
Chaos' artillery completely covered the position of the artillery battalion that had no time to move. The Chaos fighter planes, which were speeding over, had complete control of the air and dropped bombs recklessly to complete the bombing.
Under the enemy's counterattack, only one in ten self-propelled artillery pieces of this artillery battalion were able to be withdrawn.
It's tragic, difficult, and unbearable to watch.
But in reality, all of this was expected in Tulsa.
Before the battle began, after receiving the order to hold the fort, he and the Union brigadier general had foreseen the current situation when they were discussing how to hold the fort. They also decided to use similar means to stop the enemy layer by layer.
They will bleed the enemy little by little.
But at the same time, he was undoubtedly losing blood.
They adopted this defensive posture, using their lives to withstand the enemy's attack and delay time in a limited space.
They knew that they could not hold the city by themselves. Their goal was to buy time at the cost of their lives until reinforcements arrived.
Come on, attack, and keep fighting the same way as before.
The Alliance Army's Skeleton Division still has 40% of its troops available; the Eighth Company of the Banyan Lizard still has 60 soldiers who can fight. They still have room and can fill it with their lives to block and slow down the enemy's advance step by step.
Until they bleed to death, they will remain steadfast in their battle goal of "defending to the death".
However, the enemy was not willing to let them defend like this.
Tulsa suddenly felt that the foundation of the entire church was shaking.
He thought that it was the enemy's artillery firing again.
Before this, the enemy had also tried to directly attack the church as a high point and base camp. Long-range artillery and fighter bombing continued.
However, their attack is not that useful.
Fighter planes flying over would be attacked fiercely by the anti-aircraft firepower deployed in the building complex. Anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft missiles could kill them.
There was no good countermeasure against the bombing of long-range artillery, but the solidity of the church complex was still quite reliable. Moreover, before the war, it had undergone emergency special reinforcement.
Even if some of the auxiliary buildings were blown down, so what? The collapsed buildings were still very useful as combat shelters. As long as people were not buried inside when the buildings collapsed, it would not be a big deal. On the contrary, it would be safer to place artillery, air defense, and wounded soldiers' camps in the ruins.
Let it tremble, anyway, after being hit by fierce firepower, the main building of this church has been able to hold on.
However, Tulsa soon realized that this was not an enemy bombardment.
No Chaos rebel fighters came over, and he saw no traces of Chaos artillery fire across the sky.
Soon, reports from his battle brothers let him know what had happened: three heavily armored Chaos Dreadnoughts broke through the alloy wall on the east side and charged in!
(End of this chapter)
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