Chapter 84: Landing Point
With the help of the Black Stone Fortress, the Imperial Fleet took only three days to pass through the subspace storm area around the planet Davalo, and then opened up a track to the Fallen Knight World in the ruins, destroying several defense warships of the Mandela Knight family.
A large number of solid defense fortresses were built on the planet Davalo and the Forged Moon Ω-3. The void shield covering the entire continent can effectively resist the bombing turrets and light spear arrays of the Imperial warships.
In order to control this planet or create conditions for the implementation of the extermination order, it is only possible to rely on ground warfare to occupy the defense fortresses and destroy the planetary void shield.
The light spear array fired by the Imperial Fleet cleared a safe area in the synchronous orbit of the planet Davalo. A large number of frigates were arranged around the channel to guard against possible enemy ships in the ruins.
This safe area will serve as a temporary port for the Imperial warships, and a landing point will be established at the junction of the mountains and the desert below.
The reason why the area at the junction of the mountain and the desert was chosen as the landing point was, on the one hand, because this location was far away from the fortress of the Chaos enemy, and the mountain could be relied on for defense when encountering an enemy raid. On the other hand, the complex mountain terrain of Davarro was actually not conducive to the deployment of the landing troops. The surrounding desert area was relatively flat, which was conducive to the operation of the Knight Titan troops.
A few days later, the huge transport fleet arrived at the temporary port one after another. In addition to military supplies, the transport ships were mainly Imperial troops dispatched from the surrounding star systems by the Military Affairs Department, with a total of ten Astra Militarum Corps and five Knight Families.
The Glaudor Spear attack cruiser and two frigates of the Void Trident also arrived at the temporary port after the transport fleet.
The vanguard troops to establish the landing point were the Rift Lords (ten companies), the Necromancer Falcons (the first, fourth and seventh companies) and the Astartes (the fifth and eighth companies) of the Void Trident. These three chapters were all Primaris Space Marines established during the Extreme Army Founding.
The Rift Lord Chapter Captain Astarte, the First Captain of the Necromancer Falcon Chapter, Zantus, and the Fifth Captain of the Void Trident Chapter, Annis, immediately held a one-hour military meeting to determine the details of the landing point establishment operation.
Two hours later, the bombing turrets of multiple warships fired dense shells like clouds. These shells all had guidance systems and deceleration systems. After entering the planet's atmosphere, they flew towards the enemy fortress on the ground.
"Boom boom boom!"
The anti-aircraft guns above the fortress poured bullets to intercept these threats that might penetrate the void shield.
After the enemy's anti-aircraft artillery fire was attracted, dozens of airdrop pods streaked across the sky like a meteor shower and hit the selected landing site.
At this moment, the Chaos War Gang on the planet Darova had guessed the landing site chosen by the Imperial forces based on the location of the Imperial warships. They quickly went to the destination and tried to disrupt the Imperial forces' landing plan.
The green drop pods of the Rift Lords were concentrated in front of the mountain, the blue and white drop pods of the Death Eagles and the dark blue drop pods of the Void Trident were distributed on both sides of the mountain, and they looked like three dense scatter plots from the sky.
After the hatch of the drop pod was opened, the Astartes holding the bolt gun walked out of the drop pod to meet the enemy. They shouted the battle cry of their respective regiments:
"Guard the gate and hunt the beasts of hell!"
"For the Emperor, occupy this area!"
"No one can escape our wrath!"
The loyal Astartes of the Empire used the drop pod as a cover, and the three regiments cooperated with each other and quickly eliminated the first wave of enemies, the Chaos Space Marines of the Night Hunters.
After ensuring the safety of the landing point, the Astra Militarum and Knight Titans landed on the surface one after another, and a steady stream of Imperial troops began to meet the army composed of the Fallen Knight Titans and Chaos believers.
The barrage of bullets lit up the night sky of the Davarro world, and the bloody ground war began.
After the Imperial fleet passed through the subspace storm, the Tianyuanfang Black Stone Fortress started the plasma engine and successfully passed through the subspace storm area.
The defense warships of the Mandela Knights family only discovered the Tianyuanfang Black Stone Fortress at this moment. The enemy immediately realized that it was the Black Stone Fortress that made the subspace storm disappear. Three enemy ships left the ruins and attacked the Black Stone Fortress directly.
"Grand Master, there are three enemy ships approaching!"
The navigator Yin Lishabe in the command center reminded that when the Trinity Anti-Psychic Turret is running, other Psychic Turrets cannot be used.
"God Emperor, this saves us from looking for them."
After Tai Yue finished speaking, he signaled Varda to close the Subspace Negative Energy Field Turret and start filling the Void Lightning Psychic Turret.