Warhammer III

Chapter 16: Local Advantages



After the hive consciousness discovered that an unknown super giant fortress appeared in the orbit of the planet and prevented Tyranids from entering the hive world to feed, a large number of biological spaceships accelerated towards the Blackstone Fortress.

These long and narrow bioships pour out long-range firepower such as biochemical plasma, kinetic energy spikes, and pyrotechnic shells as they move forward. Some bioships even eject boarding hatches similar to living torpedoes from the holes in their specialized chitin carapace.

The front end of the boarding hatch nest is a single-molecule collision horn made of chitin. A large number of Tyranid organisms inside it rapidly mature. If the boarding hatch nest crashes into the interior of the Blackstone Fortress, the Tyranid troops inside will board from the ship. The eggs broke out of the hatching nest and carried out a bloody massacre inside the fortress.

Suddenly, the biological spacecraft and the fleshy cannon fire they fired hit the wall of high-temperature fire. The biomass instantly vaporized, and the water evaporated directly. After the chitin carapace was twisted and deformed, only the charred skeleton was left, and finally turned into carbonized powder.

Burnt biological residues gradually accumulated in the orbit and slowly floated into the planet's atmosphere. Black rain composed of Tyranid corpse ashes continued to fall for several days.

This high-temperature fire wall is a spherical defense wall produced after the flame field psychic turret is activated. From the surface of the planet, it looks like a very close star.

The biological spacecraft that went to follow up formed a gray-white behemoth that swallowed the sun, but it could not swallow the Blackstone Fortress from any angle. The flesh and blood of the Tyranids could not withstand the high-temperature flames of the psychic turret.

"The God-Emperor can still fight bugs like this!"

Renus was walking back and forth excitedly around the projection in the command center. He now wanted to kiss the psychic turret on the Blackstone Fortress. All the alien weapons in the black vault of the Watch Fortress could not match the power of a single psychic turret.

"Master, the subspace energy stored in the Flame Domain Psychic Turret is almost exhausted. Do you want to stop attacking, or activate the Void Lightning Psychic Turret to continue attacking."

Varda's inner voice came.

"Don't stop, and don't use other psychic turrets. The hive mind will not allow this hive tentacle to consume biomass for a long time. Their attack should stop soon."

Taiyue analyzed the battlefield situation, and he could sense Varda's worries.

These psychic turrets are currently disposable weapons. After the subspace energy is exhausted, it is difficult to recharge in the shadow of the subspace environment. If the Blackstone Fortress is jumped by the Tyranids, this war will become passive. , so make full use of each psionic turret.

The Tyranid fleet's charge lasted for half a day. Facing the impeccable psychic defense turrets of Blackstone Fortress, the Hive Fleet finally stopped its suicidal attack.

But they did not retreat. Instead, they bypassed the Blackstone Fortress and occupied the orbital space on the opposite side of the planet. The hive consciousness decided to give priority to replenishing biomass!

The flame domain psychic turret also exhausted the subspace energy at this moment, and the bright blue light emitted by the turret was completely extinguished, but the Tyranids' biological spacecraft did not attack the Blackstone Fortress again.

Soon after, the Nestos Defense Force, which was fighting against the gene stealers on the surface, sent new information:

On the other side of the planet, airdropped sporangia fell from the sky. They were orbital airborne vehicles used by the Hive Fleet to transport Tyranids.

After the airdropped spore sacs landed, countless Tyranid creatures rushed out. Tyranid warriors bared their teeth and claws, poisonous whip beasts released poisonous spores, and snakes dug tunnels.

The airdropped sporangia themselves are also a type of Tyranid creature. After completing their troop transport mission, they also began to wander around the battlefield, covering the successful landing of more sporangia on the ground.

Tyranid flying creatures such as Gargoyles, Tyranids Shrikes, Sky Demons and other aerial troops flew through the sky, searching for prey over a wide area.

After the landing Tyranid forces have established a foothold on the surface, the Tyranid invasion will enter the third stage. A large number of Tyranids ground troops and air troops will storm the Imperial forces defending the planet, destroying and tearing apart all resistance.

The Nestos Defense Force now not only has to face the Genestealer Cult, but also the Tyranid forces. It is only a matter of time before they are defeated.

Taiyue summoned everyone in the command center to immediately hold an emergency meeting to determine the next action plan to deal with the Tyranid invasion.

The emergency meeting took only thirty minutes from start to finish. After the meeting, the Tiamat Expeditionary Force began the second phase of operations.

In order to prevent the hive tentacles from continuing to invade the hive world, the void lightning psychic turret of Blackstone Fortress was activated. The powerful psychic lightning cut the hive fleet into two pieces, and any biological spacecraft that came close to the attack range was paralyzed in the void. middle.

The twenty warships carried on the Blackstone Fortress then left the turret port one after another, heading to the opposite side of the planet to encircle and annihilate the biological spacecraft in orbit, further cutting the Tyranids between the ground and space.

"With the blessing of the God-Emperor, we have now gained a local advantage. The Tiamat Expeditionary Force goes to the surface and must recapture this planet before the insect nest tentacles break through the defenses of the Blackstone Fortress!"

After receiving the order from Taiyue, Nelson and Della immediately left the command center and went to the one-way teleportation psychic turret. They will lead the Ninth Brotherhood, Astra Militarum, Skitarii and Knight Titan to teleport to the surface to expel Tyranids.

"Grand Master, what are we doing as a killing team?"

Renus suddenly asked that the Taiyue mentor had not yet assigned a mission to the killing team as alien hunters, which made him feel that he was despised by the Ninth Brotherhood.

"Your Majesty the God Emperor, let's go to the ground to capture the Tyranid Node creatures alive!"

After Tai Yue finished speaking, Renus was stunned. This mission was more dangerous than killing those aliens, which also made the unhappiness in his heart disappear.

Although the task of capturing Tyranid Node creatures alive was extremely dangerous, the killing team did not miss it. Inquisitor Kliptman once sent Watch Captain Bannon to lead the killing team to capture the Tyranid Zerg scout Licat alive.

In the later stages of the Third Tyranid War, in order to lead the Leviathan Hive Fleet to the Orc planet, more killing teams received the task of capturing node creatures alive.

After confirming the action plan, Taiyue once again drove his Thunderhawk gunship, carrying Jerome and the killing team to the surface.

"What kind of Tyranid creature is our first target? Likarts and Tyranid warriors are relatively easy to capture alive. Node creatures such as Hive Tyrant and Cerebrate have no record of being successfully captured alive within the Death Watch."

Renus asked curiously, and he found that the great mentor Tai seemed to know a lot about the Tyranids.

"The leader of the Genestealer Cult!"

Tai Yue said without looking back. He used his psychic powers to perceive the psychic network of the Genestealer Sect and found the core of the psychic network - the Chicken Thief Clan Leader.


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