Chapter 455: Black and Red, Schemes in the Shadows (Forty) Tindalos’ Counterattack

In the deep sea of ​​the warp, the Unremitting Crusade, which was returning first, was moving forward alone.

This Retribution-class battleship built on Mars had advantages in reactors and engines that were deliberately left at the beginning of its design. It can be said that after the great battle of Janmoro, it has been used to the extreme by Calvin and others.

Relying on its energy supply system that is nearly half more than that of battleships of the same class, Calvin and others only took a little more than five days to go back and forth between Moro and Heper.

And at the end of the fifth day, the fallen Word Bearers Legion, led by the chief priest Erebus, had already cast their first evil mark on the ancient world of Moro.

On the Unremitting Crusade, Calvin, who was still adapting to the "Blessing of Hyperion", had not taken off his armor for three days.

In fact, with the current state of this set of armor, there is no function or concept of taking it off at all.

All the components of "Original Heart" have been replaced by psychic liquid metal, and after these psychic liquid metals were fully infused with Calvin's power, the original armor, disassembly, and even manifestation and disappearance were only in the mind of the Primarch.

They even lost their original weight, because after being saturated with psychic energy, as long as Calvin wanted, all the power armor parts were equivalent to weightless.

But only the Primarch himself knew this situation, so in the eyes of other Grey Knights, this was another manifestation of the Primarch's concern about the war ahead.

There was an endless stream of people who came to persuade him to take a proper rest, and even the veteran Tibers, after a meeting on the war situation, implicitly advised Calvin to understand the maintenance of weapons in non-wartime.

But Calvin did not resolve this misunderstanding, because in fact he was indeed worried about the war in Moro.

After all, as the supreme commander of the Inquisition and even the Empire in Janmoro, he should have been there to fight with the Empire's soldiers at this time.

The surprise of "Hyperion's Blessing" has faded, or like every qualified Imperial soldier, compared with the war in the entire star zone, a personal gain is insignificant.

The reason why the Unremitting Crusade gave up traveling with Heper's support and chose to return alone was precisely because of the consideration of the war in the direction of Moro.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The dull explosion sounded from the defense weapon base station in orbit. Against the backdrop of the vast universe, the huge stars and planets seemed extremely small.

And between these seemingly tiny stars, two fleets as small as dust, like giant beasts with bared fangs and claws, poured out their artillery fire on each other with the efforts of countless people, and then started the oldest and bloodiest battle in the gradually closing distance.

The fleet of the Empire was in a clear defensive position under the command of the Inquisition and the Astartes.

This was due to both the commanders' reliance on the remaining defense intentions of Moro and Calvin's deployment of the war before leaving.

The lack of a flagship was the most realistic reason. Without the participation of the Unremitting Crusade, the Hrafinkel was transferred to the Otto front. At this time, the Sea Wolves did not have the idea of ​​a decisive battle with the enemy.

But this concession came at a price. If the orbital garrison fleet took a defensive posture, it usually meant that the attacker had a window to attack the ground.

As the offensive side of the war, the Word Bearers Legion would obviously not and could not give up this obvious loophole.

A large number of transport boats began to gather in orbit, and dense fighters like piranhas were released from the belly of the Word Bearers Legion's warships.

These behemoths engraved with the emblem of depravity and corruption, just after the main fleet forced the Empire to retreat, took advantage of the moment when the only remaining orbital defense system on Moro was destroyed, and landed from space to the ground under the dense anti-aircraft artillery fire on the ground.

The soldiers on the Empire side could only watch them, but had no ability to make other effective interceptions.

The number of imperial soldiers stationed on Moro was not much. The 600,000-strong Tindalos Legion was already the main force, and the number of other auxiliary troops and sea wolves was even more limited.

Fortunately, this was already in their plan, because after the ravages of the Sons of Horus under the Warmaster, the valuable defense areas of this planetary world were originally limited to those important locations.

The Uta Plateau in the temperate zone of Moro, as well as the rocky canyons, Evergreen Hills, Lucapalia City and Sarika located on this huge wasteland, are the main areas they are defending now.

The first shot of the war was fired three hours after the successful landing of the Word Bearers. The Word Bearers, who had fully evaluated the status of the defenders, obviously gave a very high evaluation of the Tindalos Legion's front.

They were not in a hurry to surrender their main force, but took the fallen rebel legion as the main force and the dozens of knight titans under the two knight families as the spearhead.

In the rear landing field, under the cover of the gradually prepared heavy artillery troops, the first wave of tentative attacks began towards the Lucapallian front.

This was a war that belonged entirely to mortals, and the two sides of the war belonged to the Empire and Chaos.

On the main continent of Moro, the plains outside the Uta Terrace were filled with millions of mortal soldiers. The entire position of the Empire, from Lucapalia City in the east to Changqing Hill in the west, was submerged in the rumbling artillery fire of the rebel legion.

However, this was also a contest of will and discipline.

Although there was a huge gap in size between the two war beasts, the difference in will and discipline between the legions naturally allowed the soldiers of the Empire to have a faster response and more purposeful tactics.

In the main position in the direction of Lucapalia, after the rebel legion invested a large main force and was caught in a fierce entanglement with the defenders for ten hours.

The armored forces of the Tindalos Legion on both wings, regardless of the dissuasion of the sea wolves, completed the assembly within half an hour, and then brazenly surrounded the two wings with a pincer attack against the fleet of fighter planes that were urgently dispatched in the sky.

The Sea Wolves had a rather complicated attitude towards this large-scale tactical counterattack:

From absolute denial at the beginning of the meeting to amazement after learning that the tactical assembly of the armored forces was completed in half an hour.

After the resilience shown by the Tindalos Legion in the front position when it was attacked by ten times the enemy and refused all support in ten hours, they began to have a little confidence in this plan.

To their deployment behind the front position, they experienced the uniqueness of the Tindalos Legion at close range.

It can be said that they had a subversive understanding of this mortal legion within a few hours.

It is not an exaggeration to say that after a lapse of ten thousand years, they finally saw a force that could be equal to the auxiliary army during the Great Expedition in terms of average quality and equipment thickness.

600,000 to 1.5 million, this is the enemy ratio of the Tindalos Legion to the Rebel Legion in this battle;

600,000 to 3 million, this is the total force that can be mobilized by both sides on this planet.

What the Tindalos Legion did was to rely on the fact that all its members had undergone brutal training by the Inquisition and had the advantage of equipment supplied by the entire Industrial Manufacturing Alliance.

Before the Fallen Legion, a much larger giant, could react, the iron power of the Empire was used to ruthlessly cut the half of his body in half!

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