Chapter 898 Breaking Through the Third Line

"Loading complete!" Matt, who was in charge of loading the Destroyer mortar, yelled. The battlefield outside was quite apocalyptic, and the situation inside the tank was not much better.

Demars silently and quickly controlled the mortar, trying to let this slow-loading weapon take away as many enemies as possible. He fired at a fortification that might be a bunker.

Boom!

The thunderous explosion echoed throughout the tank body, and the sharp hissing sound of the gun barrel spraying smoke out of the car filled the suffocating air, and countless spent shells poured down into the collection container. Lieutenant Terry was busy, processing a large amount of data and sending these well-thought-out results to other personnel.

The huge shells drew a slow arc, predicting the imminent death of people in an area. When you can see a black giant coming towards you, dodging and looking for cover are useless. To put it more bluntly, if your cover can run, he will definitely hide behind you.

But in a critical moment, the instinct of survival still prompted the dying people to take unnecessary actions. They ran out of the bunker, and the surrounding tanks pulled the reverse gear and retreated quickly.

Then the end of the world came.

The heavy shells smashed through the top floor of the bunker, the ceiling of the first basement, the ceiling of the second basement, and then the shells exploded. The flames and shock waves rushed through the complex structure of the bunker, just like a group of rugby players sprinting in your wooden hut.

No matter where you hide, you will be killed by the flames and shock waves. The process of releasing huge energy even destroys the foundation. The rubble and metal have dealt a second blow to the long-dead bodies.

The final explosion was shown on the top floor of the bunker. The smell of the evaporated corpses and the toxic smoke that could block the lungs were sprayed into the sky with the rubble, forming a mushroom cloud several tens of meters high.

At the same time, the surrounding reinforced land collapsed towards the destroyed bunker, involving the tanks that had not yet escaped too far.

"How many people can be killed with this attack? 100 people?" Matt did not forget to ask while he was busy loading the next shell. He was quite interested in this kind of kill data.

"That's not important. What's important is that there are still many traitors who deserve to die." Demars didn't care about these questions. He was looking for the next place worth destroying.

In the end, Lieutenant Terry took the time out of his busy schedule to say, "According to the organic matter test in the mushroom cloud, I think more than 500 traitors should have been wiped out."

Matt laughed after hearing this and worked more vigorously.

The creaking sound of metal echoed on the bottom plate. These poison blade super-heavy tanks that could easily crush space warriors into thin slices rolled into the complex trenches. The rough and thick tracks themselves were the best weapon for breaking fortifications. They could crush both metal and quick-concrete.

A subtle wailing sound sounded for a moment, and then the crisp cracking sound of bones was heard continuously. How many traitors were crushed to death during the poison blade breakthrough?

Bendict didn't care about this problem. He was only angry and sad about the casualties of his 101st Armored Regiment in breaking through the third line of defense. The 101st Armored Regiment was not the only armored unit that broke through, but they were indeed the only one at the spearhead.

Therefore, they also bore the most pressure from the AT70 Reaper tank group. Although the excellent quality of the Leman Russ tanks and the superb skills of the crew members allowed them to achieve an amazing exchange ratio, the number of cheap tanks like the AT70 Reaper was too much.

The five poison blade super-heavy tanks were not seriously damaged. The thickness of these tanks made it unlikely to be penetrated. The most likely situation for the poison blade super-heavy tank to lose its combat effectiveness is that the crew members cannot withstand the attack of the enemy's weapons and are killed by the shock wave with their bones and internal organs shattered alive.

And more than 150 of the 600 Leman Russ tanks that cooperated with the five poison blades were lost. If the third line of defense can reduce the combat forces of the 101st Armored Regiment by a quarter, will they be wiped out after breaking through the fourth and fifth lines of defense?

Bendict was a little worried, because the order he received was to break through the defense line and continue forward until the foot of Mount Lombard.

Shaking his head, Bendict knew that it was useless to think so much, so he should first consider the problem of breaking through the enemy's five defense lines.

The imperial troops continued to move forward over the bodies of the enemy and comrades, and continued to march in the smoke, fire, and wreckage.

The 20 mechanical beasts were still moving at full speed, with no intention of stopping. Some people might think that there was something wrong with the transmission device of these beasts, but Dimit, who had been monitoring the situation of the beasts, knew that they just had not reached the designated location yet.

Under the plan, these beasts will disintegrate on the fifth line of defense, and the flying carriages will cover the enemy's rear area, so that they can attack from the front and back with the troops attacking from the front.

But simulation is just a simulation after all. No matter how carefully the great sage Titus considers, the worst estimate of the enemy's deployment by the Cadia Command cannot be compared with the real battlefield.

These lines of defense were laid out too skillfully and fatally, and each heavy weapon position had a good firing range and could support each other. Since Demeter became a glorious Dark Angel, he had never seen a Chaos army deploy such a sophisticated position, and he felt that even if the Imperial Fists were responsible for the defense, they would not do better on this basis.

The first three lines of defense were like breakwaters, dispersing the power of the attacking tsunami formed by the imperial army bit by bit. The fourth line of defense was a barrier slightly lower than the weakened tsunami. Only part of the seawater could cross it and continue forward, and then crashed into the fifth high wall of despair.

The quagmire created by Nurgle sorcery in the middle of each line of defense made the attack even more difficult. Many heavy weapons carried by the imperial army could not be set up stably at all. After a while, they would sink into the pit together with the people and weapons.

And those seemingly solid grounds were also full of virus mines. Many soldiers who were anxious because of the difficult battle situation hurriedly moved their positions and tried to place the quadruple mortars over, but they stepped on the mines.

The virus that exploded quickly turned these soldiers into zombies without mercy and reason. Faith and duty dissipated with the rotten brain, leaving only a deep desire for fresh meat.

The imperial army needed to deal with the cunning and vicious rebels on the one hand, and on the other hand, they had to overcome huge psychological pressure to execute their former comrades.

Without these mechanical behemoths responsible for attracting a large amount of the enemy's attention, the attack would have turned into a suicidal operation.