Chapter 950, Blood Rose Maze
Veselani claimed that the Dark Eldar had the power to destroy all of Commorragh.
I don’t know if it’s true or false.
Because it's hard.
During the human attack on Comoros, they evaluated the destructive effects of the extermination weapons on Comoros and were not very optimistic.
Not to mention that the extermination order will be intercepted, and after the extermination order is issued, their own troops will also suffer losses within Comoros.
Just looking at the destructive effect, whether it is the Burning Sky Torpedo or the higher-level Earth-Burning Star Destroyer, I am afraid that they cannot achieve their due effect.
The core of the Burning Sky Torpedo is to ignite the atmosphere of the planet and burn everything on the surface of the planet, leaving only a layer of lava on the surface, which then slowly extinguishes and eventually becomes desolate.
Although Comoros also has an atmosphere, the characteristic between the curtains is that the atmosphere is artificially created and separated.
Even if the Burning Sky Torpedo ignites in an area, it is very likely that it will not spread for long.
There is no need to even think about cutting them off, as each 'city area' or 'block' is inherently discontinuous.
The same is true for the Earth-Exploding Planet Destroyer. This thing is essentially a terrifying earth-penetrating super bomb that drills through the planet's outer shell and detonates from the planet's mantle layer. The huge and special energy is transmitted to the core of the earth, causing a terrifying internal reaction, and then collapsing and exploding from the inside out, achieving the effect of destroying the entire planet.
Like the Burning Sky Torpedo, although the Earth-Blasting Star Destroyer is much more powerful and has a much higher technological content, it is essentially the same as destroying the structure of the planet itself to achieve the effect of "destroying the planet".
Comoros is not a celestial structure. If a ground-explosive star destroyer is released, the effect will be like a large bomb, and it will be an uncontrollable bomb, which may destroy one or two city districts? But that is a drop in the bucket for Comoros as a whole.
Even after humans conquered part of the Comoros region, their understanding of this city built between the veils became clearer and clearer.
Comoros may not even be a whole in the physical sense, but more like a city assembled from countless discontinuous urban areas and blocks.
This combination and assembly technology seems like a mysterious book to humans and cannot be understood for the time being.
At present, whether it is the Great Sage Kaul, or the scholars and technical experts of the Alliance, there is a general consensus that with the current human technology, there is basically no way to effectively destroy Commorros. At most, it is to use some star-killing weapons to destroy a single city.
But even if that's the case, it's not very realistic.
The cost is too high.
Even the cheapest Burning Sky Torpedo has a very high manufacturing cycle and cost.
And there is no guarantee that detonation will be successful.
Not to mention the possibility of being intercepted or accidentally hurting one's own people, even if it is successfully delivered, the probability of a successful detonation would probably be less than 30% because the atmosphere of a single block or urban area is completely different from that of an entire planet.
The combination of multiple factors almost makes it impractical to try to destroy the Comoros with this type of weapon.
It is precisely because even if we do not consider the resistance of the Dark Eldar, the human side cannot find a suitable way to completely destroy Comoros, so scholars and researchers will naturally wonder whether the Dark Eldar are bluffing?
It is also very likely that they themselves do not have the ability to destroy Comoros.
Pretended.
But first of all, we must take this matter seriously. We cannot just believe that everything is just bluffing, and then blow up the Comoros when we are really pushed to the point of a crisis of genocide.
At that time, it was really a waste of effort.
Not only will they not be able to obtain the most desired benefits, but the heavy military forces invested by the Alliance in Comoros will also suffer.
Secondly, Ambassador Dexa directly presented the detailed process by which human scholars proved that the Dark Eldar did not have the ability to destroy Commorros.
Even if the Dark Eldar sneered at him, saying that it was because humans were short-lived and had limited knowledge, and that the Dark Eldar must have this technology, Dexa would have to adopt an attitude of "No matter what you say, I just don't believe it."
Otherwise, could this black man really take the destruction of his hometown and the fight to the death as a condition for controlling humans?
If you have the guts, just destroy yourself, and then the entire race will be destroyed.
From a rational point of view, it is definitely worse than unconditional surrender, and can only be regarded as a bargaining condition. What humans have to do is not to bargain with the Dark Eldar on it, but to firmly deny the authenticity of this condition.
Unless the Dark Eldar present their trump card that can destroy Commoros to the Alliance as solid evidence.
But if that is the case, it also tells the alliance how to deal with it.
In the situation where the Dark Eldar are unwilling to prove themselves, and even if they do prove themselves but the Alliance does not accept or recognize it, destroying Commorros can only be regarded as an ultimate means, which cannot be used.
Apart from this, their only core bargaining condition is one: they can cause unbearable losses to humans on the battlefield.
At this point, on the battlefield, the Dark Eldar are trying to demonstrate their value.
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In the battlefield inside Comoros, humans had launched a wave of offensive frenzy in the previous two or three months. Not only did they eliminate the black guerrillas in several urban areas, but they also expanded the battle line forward for a distance. In fact, they were not far from capturing the next port.
Although the next port is only a small port, and the throughput of the Curtain Spirit Gate that can be opened at the same time is less than one-fifth of the Queen Rose Port, it is still meat, and will further speed up the speed of the alliance to deploy troops and transport supplies.
In fact, the current shortage of troops is still a relatively small problem. The more important problem is that in order to maintain a high-intensity offensive posture, the human army needs a large amount of logistical resources to replenish. From fuel, energy, to consumables such as shells, to food replenishment... There are currently more than one billion human troops fighting in the Comoros, and the amount of supplies consumed every day and every hour is simply astronomical.
In fact, a large proportion of the Queen Rose Port's capacity is now used to transport and store these supplies. A large number of second-line troops have also been sent up, and they have to be responsible for a lot of logistical work, delivering various military supplies to the front-line battlefield.
In short, as humans advance rapidly on the battlefield, the Dark Eldar will have fewer and fewer bargaining chips.
But it was at this time that the human troops encountered a huge problem in the main attack direction.
The 'Blood Rose' maze node, and the rats.
This name was told to humans by the diplomat Weiselani. When she described this thing, her expression was full of pride.
As for its efficacy, Veselani would never say. She just claimed that it was an "unbreakable line of defense."
Many of its functions have been explored by humanity's frontline troops at the cost of the blood of countless soldiers.
The so-called "maze" is not a physical building in the traditional sense, but a war machine built by the Dark Eldar technical department under the control of Victor.
This huge living structure, which occupies several urban areas, has countless mutated bone vines as its skeleton, and flesh and blood pipes woven into intricate corridors. The internal environment simulates the ecological field created by the ancient elves.
There are three core functions of the maze.
First, the bone vines wrapped with dark runes are movable, and once you step into them, the whereabouts of the human troops are completely uncontrollable. During a support mission, the path that the previous person walked on was passable, but the next person walked on it and it was blocked; the entire army was advancing, but unknowingly, with the movement of fog and vines, the troops were cut off and dispersed.
In this environment, human troops are very likely to suffer the disadvantage of being outnumbered in local environments and be quickly eliminated by the Dark Eldar troops who are good at cutting, ambushing and raiding.
Secondly, these bone vines can also form special patterns and shapes at key locations to form a kind of psychic rune, activating the high-speed psychic transmission channel hidden in the 'maze'. The troops can use this thing to move quickly.
Thirdly, the scarlet flowers that cover every corner have the ability to perceive information and transform energy. The energy characteristics and movement trajectories of anyone who enters will be recorded and analyzed, which will make the battlefield one-way transparent to the Dark Eldar.
Fourthly, the Blood Rose Labyrinth, as a war weapon that can cover an entire city, is an absolute energy consumer. However, the creatures that die in the labyrinth will be captured by the vines, and then quickly digested and fed back to the labyrinth as energy reserves. Especially when the battle begins, the inevitable pain of the creatures at the moment of death is an excellent nutrition.
The entire Blood Rose Maze is both a living trap and a fortress that provides almost unlimited battlefield support for the defenders.
The ratmen army trained by the so-called "Shadow Eater" family was a force specially cultivated for this environment.
Their hunched spines were covered with some crude armor, and their overall size was similar to that of a human child of about ten years old. Low-level ratmen were cannon fodder units, and generally had a considerable amount of brain structure knocked out during the genetic modification process, replaced with biological neural nodes that could receive maze instructions.
When the human army entered the maze district, these "rats" silently seeped out from sewage outlets, ventilation shafts and even cracks in the walls. They used the maze's perception network to accurately predict the human firepower axis, and then used their endless numbers to frantically overwhelm the human troops.
They appear in groups in the belly of armored vehicles or on the flanks of infantry phalanxes, and their destruction mode is primitive and efficient. After all, not all of them are cannon fodder, there are also some "special troops".
Suicide rats carrying highly corrosive slime spores gnaw at the armor seams with acid and explode after being killed. They don't care whether they will kill their own units in the middle of the journey. Skaven units are worthless anyway, no matter how expensive they are. Engineering rats equipped with dimensional jammers paralyze vehicle engines and communication arrays. Hundreds of violent combat rats use the bioelectricity of the maze to stimulate nerves and tear the throats of lone soldiers at an alarming speed. The few rat trolls that appear are more than five meters tall and have strong vitality. They can withstand the bombardment of the tank's main gun without immediate death, and their terrifying power is enough to overturn the tank!
The vines in the maze became their best cover and transportation belt. Every fallen human corpse provided more energy to the maze, catalyzing more twisted rat shadows.
In the early stages of encountering such a harsh war environment, humans suffered huge casualties, and the offensive was forced to stop in several urban areas covered by the Blood Rose Maze.
After trying to storm and destroy the bone vines, but finding that the casualties were too great and the bone vines were ineffective in destroying them, humans began to study the Dark Eldar's war weapons and try to find ways to crack them.
The two hundred soldiers from the 4th and 5th Companies of the Black Hammer Regiment were responsible for this task.
This regiment was a newly established Blood Angels Primaris Chapter after the Blood Angels Chapter was incorporated into the Alliance. All of them used the Blood Angels Primaris gene-seed, and their overall level was quite high. Even though they were not as strong as the Blood Guards, and could not be considered an elite Chapter, their strength was still stronger than that of a regular Chapter.
On the battlefield, two hundred Black Hammer warriors and four armored infantry regiments struggled to advance into the core area of the "Splitting Skull Cross City" in this living hell. Their mission goal for this experimental operation was to capture the landmark signal tower.
The tower base is wrapped in a labyrinth energy core, and destroying it would theoretically paralyze a vine-generating channel.
According to the tactical map, we quickly approached the target location. There should be an alloy passage here that leads directly to the tower base.
But on the way to the tunnel, they found that the bone vines had changed the environment and roads, which was very different from the previous intelligence.
To avoid getting lost in the maze, they had to spend a lot of time eliminating the bone vines and scarlet flowers that they could see.
Of course, they don’t have to do it themselves.
Not long after the call, the human air force arrived. Fighter planes and bombers dropped a large number of incendiary bombs on the area, burning almost every inch of land, just to clear the way for them.
But it's still a bit difficult.
The vines were tough and could not be burned without a flame. They had to be burned with a high temperature like a melt jet. Incendiary bombs could burn some of them, but some still stubbornly remained.
Moreover, after this area is burned, new ones will extend from other places. What's more terrifying is that many bone vines are hidden underground and in the walls. After the area is burned, they will extend again.
After an area was cleared and people walked over, it wouldn't take long for it to be clear again.
The scarlet flower is easy to destroy, but in fact it is easy to hide in corners and crevices, and it is easy to miss it if you are not careful.
Even if we use carpet burning to clean up, and really use hot melt to burn every inch of land and wall clean, after a while, the bone vines will extend again to dominate the area, and new ones will grow on the vines again.
There is no choice but to keep moving forward.
On the way forward, vines had already sprouted from the charred air raid area that was still emitting residual heat from the burning.
The captain of the Black Hammer's 4th Company, Lu Baigang, had already anticipated the difficulties of this journey.
(End of this chapter)
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