Chapter 951, Fighting for Life
Lu Baigang had already realized that his journey would not be easy, but it would be fine in the front.
The hot melt incendiary bombs dropped by the air force must have been valuable to open up a path for them. Before the bone vines grew too much, the alliance's army suddenly increased its speed and rushed forward a long distance.
During this journey, the enemy tried to harass us, but it was basically in vain.
Without the bone vines as the foundation of the maze, the ecological environment created greatly reduced the threat of the enemy. The few ratmen sent out to test were just cannon fodder, unable to even get close, and were easily mowed down by machine guns at a distance.
However, the difficulty increased in the second half of the journey.
The bone vines had grown a lot quietly. The thin mist filled the air again. It was a bit troublesome to block the view, and the visibility was only one or two hundred meters. At this distance, many artillery pieces of the human side were at a disadvantage. For example, many tank guns could directly fire at a distance of two kilometers; in the armored regiment, there were also some armored self-propelled artillery pieces that could normally fire at a distance of thirty kilometers.
However, in fact, artillery units of this type with a strike range of tens of kilometers do not rely on visual observation and aiming to attack.
It couldn't be seen at all.
It mainly relies on the front-line troops to provide positioning, and then calibrate and fire directly, which is a great test of artillery technology.
However, the frontline troops can only see a limited distance, with a visibility of one or two hundred meters, so it is difficult to go directly to the rear and detect the enemy's precise position. But it doesn't matter, just look at the direction where the ratmen rush out of the fog, give a range of two hundred to one thousand meters, and bomb them in a comprehensive manner.
Of course, it is not as accurate as under normal circumstances, but it still has a lot of effects.
However, the tank guns and machine guns were a bit difficult to deal with, and they could only face the direction of the charging ratmen and madly fire bullets and artillery shells into the fog.
The efficiency was obviously not high enough. There were still many ratmen rushing from various directions to places within 200 meters visible to the naked eye.
It would not be easy to launch a fire attack. Although the weapons of the ratmen were rotten, at a distance of 100 to 200 meters, it was inevitable that humans would suffer some damage under the shooting.
Especially for some of the Rat Trolls that appear, they have strong resistance to attacks. At this field of view distance, the anti-tank weapons in the hands of tank guns and supplementary soldiers may not be able to hit them quickly.
If the rat trolls rushed into the soldiers' positions, it would be a massacre. The damage that mortal soldiers could cause with laser guns at close range was still quite limited.
Often at this time, we can only rely on the Space Marines to roam around the positions and deal with these high-threat targets as quickly as possible.
It is quite dangerous for a single Black Hammer warrior to fight against a Rat Troll. The probability of killing the opponent without any damage is only about 50%. It is easy to get injured or even die.
At the same time, a team of three people is needed to ensure the rapid and safe elimination of the enemy.
Facing the interference of bone vines and the obstruction of countless insect swarms, the entire army struggled forward in the fog.
And finally, after paying a lot of sacrifices, they finally arrived at the stage target location.
It was a tunnel. According to intelligence, this tunnel could lead directly to a place very close to the mission target area.
The good news is that the tunnel is still there. Although the entrance is blocked by bone vines, once they find the target, they can activate the melta incinerator weapon and burn it.
But the bad news is that this underground main road has been eaten away by ratmen. The alloy tunnel marked as a "safe passage" in tactical intelligence has become extremely fragile and has poor passability after they actually arrived, although the road has not changed.
At least, the human army's heavy armored forces, especially several Titan units and heavy tanks, were really difficult to get through.
Only some small light armored vehicles could barely get through.
This situation was also expected. The main force of the operation was still the Black Hammer Space Marines, accompanied by a small number of troops from the armored regiment, including some elite companies, sentinel mechas, and light armored units.
A total of less than two thousand people entered this underground passage, which was actually quite large in scale.
The remaining troops will be outside the entrance of the passage. While on standby, they will also be responsible for providing support and ensuring the safety of the troops when they evacuate.
The troops that entered the passage also began their actions.
The alloy walls oozed an oily sheen in the dim light, a mark of digestive fluid secreted by living vines. The air was as thick as a shroud, and the strong smell of humus and decayed flesh and blood filled every helmet filter grille.
At first there were only sporadic clumps of fungus that rolled down from the occasional bone vines, making popping sounds and spraying mucus.
But when they stepped into the middle section, the dome suddenly peeled off large pieces of wriggling scarlet flowers, and hundreds of ratmen rushed towards them like a filthy waterfall!
They did not roar, only the "squeaking" sound of their joints rubbing against each other at high speed, and the obscure and unpleasant sound of the inferior weapons in their hands firing bullets.
The human forces' counterattack was launched later but was the first to arrive, sweeping the surrounding enemies frantically. The roar of the heavy bombs instantly tore through the fungal tunnels, and the bombs tore the remnants of the ratmen into a muddy bloody paste.
Every time the plasma pistol charges and roars, it can evaporate a straight line of rats. The high temperature burning of the plasma can even temporarily carbonize and solidify the fungal blanket.
The rusted metal walls on both sides suddenly softened, and vines stretched out rapidly. Blue runes lit up on them, and teleportation lights flashed. Groups of elite ratmen were sent into the crowd.
The engineer rats were teleported to the side of the Space Marines and the human armored forces. The existence of these engineer rats caused considerable trouble to the human forces. The electromagnetic wave bombs they brought with them caused the engines of heavy armored vehicles to groan and shut down in the thick fog, and the sentinel mechas were also severely interfered with. Even the Space Marines' power armor had a strong anti-interference ability, but the sound array communication inside the helmet would also have a lot of noise, which was extremely uncomfortable to the ears.
The suicide rats that were teleported in not only suffered heavy damage from the direct explosion, but the strong acid spores in their bodies also vaporized and spread in the explosion. The corrosive yellow-green smoke quickly obscured the field of vision and was also highly toxic.
The Space Marines could only shrink their formation, and their chainsaw swords formed a jungle of blades to strangle any rats that escaped the explosive net.
But when some crazy battle rats rushed over, although they were not even as big as the Space Marines' knees, they were like real rats, taking advantage of their own kind being slaughtered, and quickly rushed to their feet and climbed up. They stuck out precision drills from the gaps in the power armor and frantically chiseled the joints of the armor!
The joints of a warrior's power fist were penetrated by the liquid metal solvent and became useless. As more and more rats surrounded him, he could only swing his chainsaw sword to cut off his entangled left leg at the knee to break free. This restored his freedom and allowed him to quickly kill many rats that were close to him, but in the end, he was still drowned.
"Abandon the vehicle! Forward! Charge!"
Lu Baigang shouted the order through the communication channel inside the helmet.
The soldiers began to force an assault on the base of the signal tower. The heavy bomb team continued to suppress the rat tide under the cover of their comrades, but every step forward was stepped on the corpses of the ratmen that continued to advance.
After exiting the tunnel, the view suddenly became clearer, and the base of the signal tower was clearly visible, but the square surrounding the base was completely covered by thicker and bulging bone vines. What was even more terrifying was that these vines were still shrinking, like a heart.
When the leading team stepped into the edge of the square, the "heart" suddenly contracted violently! The bottom of the square suddenly collapsed, forming a bottomless pit of flesh and blood. Many soldiers fell into the pit without warning! At the bottom of the pit, gelatinous digestive fluid was secreted, and the rats above fell like raindrops!
The Space Marines' strong bodies and power armor were enough to resist the tearing, but the corrosive slime at the bottom of the pit was dissolving their foothold at a terrifying speed.
Lu Baigang had to reluctantly abandon these comrades who were trapped in the pit, but as they moved forward and got closer to the base, they felt that everything was more and more terrifying.
Lu Baigang felt that this entire area was a maze trap!
This so-called signal tower has long been a hollow shell infested by insects, and the giant vine organism underneath it is the key node that supports the transmission channel.
"Everyone blast, focus fire on the base!"
Lu Baigang's order was filled with a sense of despair.
The remaining warriors poured the last of their heavy weapons fire onto the base.
Under the bombardment of high-explosive bombs and melta rays, the fungal blanket rolled and turned black, but what was exposed underneath was not the imagined energy core, but countless twisting giant rat fusion embryos. They were connected to the fungal blanket with countless tubes, like a deformed heart parasitic on this death maze!
The strong attack firepower only temporarily interrupted its pulse, but could not really solve the problem.
On the contrary, countless rats "hatched" out from the pulsating "heart" and rushed towards Lu Baigang's troops.
The edge began to collapse and expand, and more Space Marines and soldiers stumbled to the ground.
"Evacuate! Abandon the target!" Lu Baigang issued the order at the last moment when the communication was interrupted. The remaining soldiers detonated the preset thermal bombs to create a fire wall to temporarily block the tide of rats, and dragged each other to retreat to the twisted passage behind.
However, at the entrance of the passage, the troops responsible for picking them up were unable to pick up the people they were supposed to pick up in the end.
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Two hundred Space Marines, appearing at the same time in a single operation, is actually a considerable investment. Moreover, the two armored regiments are also the elite of the Alliance Army. There are sentinel mechas, Titans, heavy armored tanks, and a large proportion of the soldiers are equipped with power armor.
This is definitely an elite force.
It's not that the Alliance can't deploy more strength, such as more troops, or have all its members be Space Marines.
But that wouldn't make much sense.
If all Space Marines were deployed, for example, two or three fully staffed Chapters, they would probably be able to take down that target. However, even though the Alliance had a large number of Space Marines, there were only a few dozen Chapters fighting here. Space Marines were needed everywhere as the backbone of the battle line to hold the position. Although so many people were forced out to take down this city, the price paid in other places would probably be even greater.
Overall, the alliance is now encountering this maze of flesh and blood, and the war is not going smoothly.
On another battlefield, the alliance was also suffering.
The Dark Eldar have opened up a new battlefield in the real universe.
Of course, not a head-on confrontation.
After all, in a head-on confrontation, in their hometown of Comoros, they have to rely on living war weapons such as the maze to barely resist the attack of humans, not to mention going to the real universe and the territory of the alliance to confront the alliance.
However, they don't need to do that.
The Dark Eldar had accumulated a large number of Veil Gates in various places in the universe over the long years, but the ones found by the Alliance were only a few.
They came out of unfamiliar areas and went to the alliance's ruling area, specifically looking for some non-core planets, and launched raids with a few warships.
Elite Dark Eldar commandos eliminated and massacred the Alliance's planetary government officials, plundered the population and resources, and then wreaked havoc.
All actions were very quick, they fought and then ran away.
Even worse, they also released biological weapons on several agricultural planets. The effect of this thing is different from the manifestation of human extinction weapons, but the effect is similar. Within a few days, it spread rapidly through the air and water, infecting all organisms with genetic plagues, destroying the planet's ecology and causing the deaths of more than a billion people.
This is also a blow to the alliance.
The Alliance's remaining troops and fleets were deployed everywhere to capture the Dark Eldar, but these dark-skinned creatures were slippery and hard to catch.
This forced the alliance to deploy more manpower and disperse its defenses everywhere.
However, the Dark Eldar's guerrilla strategy was so difficult to implement that even though they had deployed a force a hundred times greater than that of the enemy, they still suffered heavy losses from time to time.
This was undoubtedly a clear proof of the warning issued by the Dark Eldar diplomat Viselani.
The Dark Eldar are not made of clay. Even if we look at the long term, perhaps they will eventually be destroyed. But before that, the Dark Eldar who fight for their own survival with all their might will also bring immeasurable losses to mankind.
Peace talks, this issue was once again put on the table.
Gu Hang received two reports. The Alliance Military General Staff and the Alliance Government had seriously discussed the conditions of the Dark Eldar. They believed that accepting peace talks was not something that was completely unacceptable.
As long as the conditions are right, the benefits will be sufficient.
(End of this chapter)
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