Chapter 196: Encountering the Enemy, the Beginning of a Lonely Journey
"Should we ambush them?"
Claudia asked worriedly, looking at the meteors in the sky in the distance.
No one in the team replied, they all knew that the battle sister was not asking them.
Just like this sister who always used irritability to cover up her kindness, she was not worried about herself.
"No." Calvin gave a negative answer.
His eyes were still fixed on the traces of the warship hiding the real operator of this battle in the night at the end of the sky.
The voice of the nun came from behind him, and it also could not occupy the mainstream of his thoughts.
He turned his head to look at the four people present, brewed four tiny seeds with his psychic power, and then gently attached them to their foreheads in the puzzled eyes of the four people.
"From now on, all communication channels are prohibited. Rely on gestures for close-range cooperation, and use it to summon me directly in extreme situations at long distances."
Calvin looked at them, his mouth did not move.
But the clear voice bypassed their instinctively driven hearing and appeared directly in their minds.
"Is this psychic power?"
Claudia looked at Calvin in disbelief, and her voice was transmitted to Calvin's mind through the seed.
"Concentrate your thoughts, you have too many distracting thoughts, Sister!"
Calvin's admonition came soon, and his concerned eyes responded.
In order to explain this order, he turned his head and transmitted his voice to the minds of the four people at the same time:
"We must give up the existing communication channel, because the power armor as a single-soldier equipment, all its encryption energy levels and channel ranges are a joke in front of the battleship's auspicious instrument. If you don't want to die too ugly, don't use similar equipment."
"Understood." The four nodded at the same time.
"Let's talk about tactics next. It's been 5 minutes since the enemy ship was in place, and 1 minute and 30 seconds since the enemy planes started to land.
The warship's auspex is not fully open, don't ask me how I know.
Note that the scanning range of a single array auspex is 5 square kilometers, and the cycle is 15 minutes. We are ten kilometers away from the landing site in a straight line, which means..."
"We are not in the scanning range for the time being, but we may be found in 10 minutes at most!"
Taros followed Calvin's train of thought and continued.
At the critical moment of life and death, he no longer cared about keeping secrets.
Facing Calvin's encouraging eyes, he continued his speculation on Calvin's tactics.
"First of all, we won't ambush at the landing site?"
"Yes."
"Stay away from the outpost to prevent the war from spreading to mortals?"
"Yes."
Encouraged again, Taros became more confident and began to speak faster:
"Can't we choose the opposite direction to prevent the enemy from thinking in reverse?"
"Yes."
"Then..."
He looked up at the mountains at the end of the plain in the distance, and then said decisively:
"It can only be there! Only there can we play our advantages!"
"Wait!" Claudia could hardly keep up with the thinking of these professionals.
Their battlefield logic has always been simple, with only two questions-where am I and where are the heretics. This is also the essential difference between the front-line troops fighting externally and the second-line troops maintaining stability internally.
Suddenly forced to cooperate with these Astartes who have been baptized by professional tactics for hundreds of years, her mind was instantly filled with various judgments and hidden information behind them.
The initial concerns about the mortals in the outpost had been forgotten at this time. She now had only one question:
"We still have an advantage? How come I didn't know?"
"Yes."
Valk suddenly spoke from the side, and under Calvin's encouraging eyes and Claudia's questioning expression, he gave all the Astartes accustomed to the answer that made the battle sister laugh and cry:
"We are few in number!"
"I fucking%￥...&,"
Claudia resisted her desire to complain and decided that she would never ask a question next time.
If she asked another question, she would be raised by Ogryn!
Against the background of the battle sister rolling her eyes, Calvin continued the topic as if nothing had happened:
"Okay, this is the general plan. Wait for them, and then retreat to the mountains after the enemy. You are responsible for traction, and I will do the cleaning work! Is there any problem!"
"No!" The four answered in unison, and then under Calvin's eyes, they walked to the edge of the plain in a hidden march.
When the last figure also disappeared from Calvin's sight, he looked up at the sky, and then gradually dissipated in the coverage of psychic energy.
The place where the five people just stood was now empty, leaving only the night wind blowing through the vegetation on the ground, leaving the echo of the rustling...
The battle started on time at the edge of the mountain three hours later. Talos was the first person who was deliberately discovered by the Chaos Warband of the Emperor's Son.
In his ambush, at least two Emperor's Sons died on the spot.
Then, before the warband Astartes assembled, he coordinated with the positions of the other four people, led the team to the ambush circle and eliminated them, and then fled deep into the mountains.
"Is this clearly a trap for us?"
Several non-commissioned officers gathered together and stood beside the dead Chaos Astartes.
While looting the wealth of these comrades, they also identified their wounds by the way, so as to know the details of the enemy's weapons.
Trixi, the former company commander and now the warband lord, led the remaining troops and came from the direction of the landing site.
He looked at the corpse at his feet without any heartache, but his anger was aroused.
"How big is this satellite! I don't believe there are more servants of the false emperor here! Chase! Bring me their heads!"
Several sergeants looked at each other, then turned and left.
The Chaos Astartes began to pursue in four directions, leaving the remaining three squads to defend the warband lord.
"who!"
The sentry in the distance shouted loudly, but was immediately taken away by a white ghost.
The bullet casings that landed at his feet were still emitting residual heat, causing the sergeant who arrived the next moment to frown.
“Sir, the enemy’s strength is not in line with our expectations.
Lord Adrano, I'm afraid the situation is in danger. "
Trish's heavy footsteps sounded in front of him, the Terminator's servo vibrated at a low frequency, and what was even heavier was the oppression of the war gang lord:
"So? You want to refuse my order?"
He maliciously kept his hand away from his weapon, seeming to seduce the sergeant to see if his authority would now work on the latter.
"That's not what I meant!"
The Chief lowered his head in obedience.
"but……"
"No buts!" Trish looked at the subordinates who had followed him for thousands of years in front of him and lowered his voice:
"We can only win this time, otherwise even if we don't die here, those brothers in the sky will not let us go."
"Understood."
The Master Chief replied, then turned and walked towards his subordinates who were on guard.
The escape route was cut off, and he already understood that only one party could leave alive.
If they cannot use a clean victory to deter those brother warbands who are good at adding insult to injury, then even if they return to the sky, what awaits them will still be a naked annexation.
Behind a hill in the distance, Calvin casually threw the dead emperor's son at his feet.
He could have killed all these traitors just now.
But in order to prevent the bats watching the battle from being scared away by him and losing the opportunity to board the ship.
He must endure his anger and control the speed of his killing.
"Come on, come on, I've laid the stage and I'm waiting for you to come."
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Another note: I'm not in good condition today, I'm a little stuck. Three updates will be added tomorrow.