Chapter 139: War (1) Destruction and Perseverance

The breach in the subspace has lasted for at least a year, and it is unknown how many demons have walked out of it.

It is unknown how long the ruins in the distance can hold out, but Calvin does not have much time left.

Just as Calvin was worried about this, the orbit he was waiting for finally arrived.

"Have you seen the doomsday scenes created by those mechanical dead things? I have seen it."

A demon who was lucky enough to survive the orbital strike said so.

The weapon array of the Soul Redeemer is not particularly powerful. Its performance is quite good among the same level of strike cruisers, but the gap compared with battleships is not a little bit, let alone the essence of human industrial civilization like the Queen of Glory.

But a battleship is a battleship. Even the smallest cruiser, its firepower is by no means comparable to that of surface weapons.

The macro cannon shells as thick as a locomotive are five rounds in a wave. After the sights of the gunners on the cruiser are locked, the power of destruction is accurately brought down from the orbit.

The huge warhead easily created a huge sonic boom and shock wave in the atmosphere with only its own kinetic energy and weight. Five extremely conspicuous airways appeared from the sky and descended in a precise semicircle around the periphery of the Webway Ruins.

The senses of demons are far stronger than those of mortals. When the low-frequency vibration in the air was transmitted from the air first, the demons on the entire battlefield raised their heads and looked at the sky at the same time.

What was waiting for them was the light spear that dropped from the sky first.

The high-energy laser column with a thickness of more than ten meters was originally designed for those steel Leviathans that were also warships. But it was unexpectedly useful when facing these flesh and blood bodies.

The light column descended from the sky and instantly vaporized the demons that were unfortunately covered. Even the demon engine that was five meters high melted into a ball of scrap iron at the moment of irradiation, and then left a glass-like depression in the original place.

The high-energy explosion effect followed one after another, and the survivors around them experienced what "the enthusiasm of the industrial age" was in the next second. Hundreds of demons were turned into ashes in this attack, and thousands of demons were killed and wounded in this instant.

Then, when they just recovered from this unexpected blow, the macro cannon's shells arrived.

Unlike surface weapons that are limited by gravity, the kinetic energy required by warships in space to launch shells is much less than that on the ground, so the proportion of explosives in shells is also much higher than similar products on the ground.

The damage caused by the explosion of more than 40 tons of shaped explosives is no different from that of small tactical nuclear bombs in a sense.

Boom boom boom boom~!

The violent explosion sounded throughout the battlefield, and several big demons in the back were also deterred.

The crater tens of meters deep was only the first wave of kinetic energy release, and the subsequent gunpowder explosion sent the air that exploded to 3000 degrees and the instantaneous high-temperature shock wave to the farthest 1.5 kilometers away. The bodies of the demons who were unfortunately affected were instantly shattered, and they had no choice but to roll back to the subspace from which they came.

The ground shook violently under the force of destruction, the sky was pierced by this terrible force, and a mushroom cloud slowly rose from the center of the explosion. Under the power of five macro cannon shells, almost no life within the 30 square kilometers surrounding the ruins could be spared.

And this just happened to clear a clean landing site for the subsequent airborne landing of the mortal troops.

In the center of the battlefield, the big demons also realized that new enemies had arrived in the sudden attack.

A large number of Valkyrie fighters landed on high points everywhere with elite vanguards, and then the airdrop cargo holds and troop transports appeared at the end of the sky like raindrops.

But these unexpected attacks and the subsequent appearance of humans did not make the demons retreat. On the contrary, in the eyes of the demons, the boring consumption of the ruins barrier is far less attractive than the killing of intelligent creatures.

The champion of Khorne doesn't care who comes, as long as there is blood left, it is a tribute to the Lord of the Skull. It joyfully pointed the five-meter-long bloody sword in its hand at the mortals' positions, and its ten-meter-tall red copper-like body roared out the famous war cry in a low voice: Blood sacrifice to the blood god! Skulls for the skull seat!

In response to him, more bloodletters and Khorne warhounds came out of the cave behind them, forming new legions and rushing forward in groups.

Tzeentch's great demon also obeyed his master's words, and six eyes full of tricks and conspiracies kept turning on its twisted face like a bird's head.

It smiled evilly and waved the scepter in its hand. One after another, portals appeared at the junction of the mortal troops' positions, and countless fire demons and screamers walked out of them.

Nurgle's favorite was happy to see life and spread diseases to them. Its body full of scabs and cracks was huge and bloated.

Countless maggots drilled in and out of it, and rotten flies and Nurglings surrounded his feet. The huge fungal carpet covered every inch of land that he and his children stepped on. Even other demons were unwilling to set foot in it and could only avoid it.

The champion of Slaanesh was the most unique here. It was still immersed in the pleasure of its senses. Even the destruction from the sky could not delay its enjoyment.

After this round of attacks, the chosen one of Slaanesh just looked at the mortals in front of him, and then waved his hand in boredom, symbolically sending a group of cultists to the front of the line.

The Chaos demons have all appeared. This is a very rare Chaos coalition, most of which are composed of demons, with only a few Chaos Space Marines appearing in it.

The demons all over the mountains and plains once again attacked like a tide, and there are more behind them.

In the eyes of Calvin in the distance, the previous orbital strike was like awakening a giant beast, destroying a large number of demons while attracting more.

The soldiers of the mortal auxiliary army were unexpectedly calm. After the vanguard walked out of the Valkyrie fighter, they launched an attack on the edge of their respective positions with a clear goal under the fire support before the fighter returned.

The heavy logging guns began to roar impatiently after they were in place, and the flamethrowers and special grenades in the hands of the approaching soldiers poured towards the oncoming fire demons as if they were free.

Hundreds of soldiers died with the enemy in the first exchange of fire, but the soldiers who followed up remained calm. They took over the gaps left by their comrades in silence and continued to fight these demons in close combat, delaying the precious deployment time for the main force that landed later.

Their goal was so clear that they treated the Khorne army and the other two demons that rushed over head-on as if they did not exist, and they were too lazy to even look at them.

The goal of the Great Demon Tzeentch was achieved. He cast a spell to teleport his followers and vassals to these key positions in order to disrupt the deployment rhythm of these mortals, leaving them no chance to gain a foothold and thus set up a solid position.

But humans also have their own calculations. Their calmness and neglect are based on fearlessness.

Just as they were fighting fiercely with Tzeentch's followers, and the warhound vanguard of the Khorne army had crossed a distance of thousands of meters and touched the front of the position, the second round of firepower from orbit arrived.