Warhammer 40k: Collector of Terra

Chapter 22 The Final March
Without the protection of the void shield, the heavy firepower array mounted on the outer layer of the Blackstone Fortress was quickly destroyed.This also means that Blackstone Fortress has completely lost its ability to resist.

But the loyal Imperial warriors had no intention of surrendering the fortress.

Among the imperial troops stationed in Blackstone Fortress, there is one from the dead world [Krieg]!Thanks to their unique history, every Krieg is a natural master of positional warfare.

Under the cover of two Astra Militarum legions, the Krieg Legion gathered all the materials they could find and turned every passage inside the fortress into a place of death.

Relying on the defense line built by the Krieg infantry, the loyal Imperial soldiers began to carry out a bloody and cruel defense.

The roar of bolters, the roar of chainswords, the dying roars of loyalists... countless sounds intertwined and converged to create a desperate scene of death.

On such a tragic battlefield, "life" has become the cheapest thing.

In order to delay the time for the defense line to be breached, soldiers with high explosives strapped to their bodies shouted the name of the Emperor and rushed to the location of the betrayer without hesitation.

The scorching laser beam penetrates the body, and the roaring explosive bomb tears apart the chest!But loyalty and anger still drive this warrior forward.

Even though his body is dead, his soul is still burning.

boom! ! !
With a deafening roar, a red mushroom cloud rose from the traitor's position!Including the two Chaos Space Marines, all the traitors in the position were reduced to ashes at this moment.

The imperial warriors temporarily held their own defenses!But this "temporary" only refers to 5 minutes...

Every ground where the loyalists stood was stained with blood, and the heroic remains of the Imperial warriors covered every corner of Blackstone Fortress.

Human courage is a hymn of loyalty and sacrifice!

Even at the last moment of their lives, the loyal soldiers never flinched in their hearts.

The rotten and decaying human empire is like a machine that has been in disrepair for a long time. It is the flesh, blood and souls of countless heroic warriors that lubricate the rusty gears of this machine!Every moment the empire stumbles forward is filled with the ashes and blood of its warriors.

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At this moment, this tragic position battle has lasted for three full Terra days.

Even though the resistance of the Imperial soldiers was heroic and outstanding, in the face of the betrayers' overwhelming military superiority, the loyalists' defenses were inevitably retreating.

Including the Krieg Corps, the Ministry of Military Affairs has deployed a total of eight Astra Militarum Corps troops in Blackstone Fortress!But in the past three days, more than half of the corps has been wiped out.

There are only less than [-] surviving imperial warriors left, and what they have to face is a tide of betrayers as endless as the tide.

If no miracle happens, the core area of ​​Blackstone Fortress will be the burial place of these loyalists!

This is a war with no hope at all!But even if faced with certain death, the loyalists still do not intend to sit still and wait for death.

The steel-silent Kriegs once again built a solid defense line, but this time, the Death Legion did not choose to fight alongside other warriors.

As sinners who once betrayed the Golden Throne, the Kriegs have been wrapped in self-blame and guilt throughout their lives!Death is not the end for them, but a divine deliverance.

Faced with the tide of betrayers, the Kriegs behaved unusually calmly.

"Life is only for fighting, death is for sleep; life is for no glory, death is for redemption." The ancient Krieg death prayer echoed on the battlefield.With the Betrayer at hand, the Death Legion charges towards Chaos!This is the will of the Kriegs, and this is also the final march of the Death Army!

At this point in the war, there are only a few hundred Death Legion soldiers surviving.

The charge of an entire Astra Militarum regiment was not enough to threaten the betrayer. Facing the few hundred people of the Death Legion, the traitor showed a contemptuous smile on his face.

But soon, their smiles froze on their faces.

The Kriegs revere death, but they will never allow their death to be meaningless.

The silent Death Legion warriors were strapped with high explosives. The moment the Krieg advance approached the betrayers, the roar of high explosives also sounded.

The high temperature and shock wave generated by the explosion cleared an area with a radius of two kilometers. More than five figures of betrayers were reduced to ashes in this tragic explosion.

These warriors, who had been wrapped in guilt their entire lives, finally found eternal peace at this moment.

The Kriegs fulfilled their oath with their lives!May the great Golden Throne have mercy on the souls of these warriors.

The final march of the Death Army caused huge casualties to the betrayers!But unfortunately, this did not bring any change in the outcome of the war.

The betrayers stepped on the corpses on the ground and launched the final attack on the loyalists' front.

The defense line built by the Kriegs is indeed strong, but it still has limits!In the face of the heavy firepower of the traitors, which was as dense as raindrops, the loyalists' defense line soon crumbled.

The whole army seems to be wiped out, it seems that it is just around the corner!
The betrayer showed a ferocious smile!They will use the blood and heads of the loyal to please the Chaos Gods hidden in the depths of the Warp.

The loyalists clenched their weapons, and they were ready to fight the betrayers to the death.

But at this moment, an unexpected reinforcement arrived in the Blackstone Fortress.

That's the Astartes from the [Angels of Mourning] Chapter!

When Blackstone Fortress was attacked, the Second and Third Companies of the Death Angels Chapter happened to be performing missions on a nearby planet.

As soon as they received the news, the Angel of Death quickly responded to Blackstone Fortress' request for help!The Astartes drove two battle barges and arrived at the space area surrounding the Blackstone Fortress as quickly as possible.

When the Angel of Death arrived, the Chaos Fleet headed by the Endurance was still staring covetously outside the Blackstone Fortress.

Relying on extremely superb driving skills and a strong void shield, the descendants of Sanguinius finally successfully broke into the fortress after paying the price of destroying a battle barge.

The reinforcements that appeared on the battlefield cheered up the scarred loyalists.

While the Betrayer was stunned by the appearance of the Angels of Death, the Astartes and the Astra Militarum launched a simultaneous onslaught.

[Angels of Death] is a sub-group of the [Blood Angels] that was split off during the "Dark Founding" in the early six millennia of No. 30.

(End of this chapter)