Chapter 14: Tenacious aliens and a sudden brutal war.

During the Great Crusade, each legion had different characteristics, but basically they all acted as sharp knives to penetrate and gnaw at hard bones. The main body of the Great Crusade was always the so-called mortal auxiliary army.

Therefore, we have to face a very embarrassing problem, which is the dispersion of military strength.

When encountering some weak alien races or rebellious planets, the Space Marines, as the spearhead, can easily recapture the lost colonies or planets. But if they encounter a tough nut whose technology is not inferior to that of the Empire, then the losses will rise to an extremely high number.

After two years of rest, Black Watch's troops have reached more than 17000. Nearly 40 ship-borne auxiliary troops are equipped with T1 individual power armor, there is also an established knight mecha regiment, and a Titan detachment as ground support. However, compared with tens of thousands of soldiers in other legions, it is a bit not enough.

Whenever a world in need of recovery is discovered, the Black Light will draw fire from the front, and other regiments will charge at the target from multiple angles like a pack of wolves, implementing a pure large-scale legionary encirclement.

In the early stage, they used long-range attacks with light spears, in the middle stage, they used armored torrents to charge forward, and in the later stage, they used individual soldiers to rush in to clear the battlefield and never disperse their forces to attack multiple worlds at the same time. Even if the Emperor was dissatisfied with the slowdown in the expedition's speed, Hogg was determined not to divide his forces.

During the Great Crusade, humans had no shortage of Primarchs capable of conquering cities and fortresses. According to the plan drawn up by Hogg, after each complete area was recovered, they would rest and consolidate the colonized planets they had conquered, and escort the Imperial Government Department to establish the basic imperial order.

Although the Empire's behavior was comparable to that of a shampooer in the previous life, it was still a paradise compared to the cesspool of the Warp. In later generations, the rebellious Space Marines fought over even a sip of pure water in the Warp, and beat each other to death.

In Hogg's opinion, the Emperor's Great Crusade was too hasty. Perhaps it was for the future Webway plan, but it also left hidden dangers for subsequent rebellions in various places. Ten birds in the bush are not as good as a bird in the hand.

In six months, Blackwatch recaptured the galaxy's seven rebellious human colonies and all worlds except the Light Lizardman homeworld.

The Black Watch, with the Alicia galaxy as its rear base, employs a large number of wandering traders, and the huge amount of materials plundered from the conquered worlds are also used to support the construction of the galaxies around Alicia.

Doing so is actually quite immoral, and the Ministry of Political Affairs is extremely dissatisfied with this, but no one can control Hogg. The presence of the noble heir of the emperor in public is equivalent to the presence of the emperor himself.

The reason why Hogg did this was that in the near future, a planet would be teleported out near Alicia. Its name was Ullanor, which was later known as Armageddon.

In the future, a brutal greenskin war will break out here. If Alicia cannot be built into a complete fortress world during this period of time, countless greenskins will flood the nearby star regions and form a huge orc empire.

As Ayers was the last unrecovered world in the galaxy, Hogg decided to go there in person to let them see the power of the Primarch.

As the king of the Light tribe, Beost knows the history of his race.

In the distant past, the Wrights, who were still slaves, overthrew the local human rule and absorbed the technology left by humans. In the millennium of development, it has formed its current scale, but the former slave owners have returned.

A huge dark blue shield covered the capital of the Light tribe that covered half of the continent. Even the huge spear of light dropped by the Blacklight from the starry sky could not penetrate it.

The two sides could only engage in a so-called war of attrition, which basically eliminated the periphery of the heavy armed forces, and allowed the new recruits to train and clean up the remnants. The intensity of the war on the front line was so severe that even the veterans of the Black Guard would face death if they were not careful. The aliens also had war machines comparable to the Titans, and the Titan drivers of both sides began to bombard them indiscriminately.

In the battlefield where artillery fire roared, Hogg saw at a glance that the shield in front of him that he could not break was a product of the dark technology era. Perhaps the shield was still powered by the subspace. To break this shield, the only way was to cut off the energy source, but now Blackwatch did not have the ability to block the subspace channel of the entire planet. After thinking for a long time, Hogg decided to use the most classic attack method - digging a tunnel.

A tunnel shuttle used for planet mining was dropped to the battlefield by the air force. As if sensing Hogg's intention, the aliens began a more intense bombing and desperate attack, and a plasma group covering the sky and the sun was thrown at the position. The Titan Group began to charge, and plasma and lasers melted the earth, leaving traces of death.

The casualties of the auxiliary army began to surge, and some knight mechas were scrapped in batches. The first company commander Rossmandson ordered the previously captured Lizardmen to be pulled up to fill the line and serve as meat shields. The old, weak and sick aliens were forced by human soldiers to advance towards the position.

The alien warriors who rushed out could not imagine that humans would actually use such despicable tactics. Some alien soldiers collapsed and wanted to stay away from the battlefield, and were then shot by the supervision team in the rear.

Taking advantage of the interference of the alien captives and the more intense bombing, the Primarch, together with his Primarch Guards, all dressed in Terminator Armor, started the drilling machine in a hidden corner.

The drilling machine's plasma reactor began to roar, the huge high-temperature drill bit crushed the soil and rocks, and countless engineers began to reinforce the passage in the rear.

Under the continuous bombardment, countless ammunition of various types were consumed, and some gun barrels were even deformed. The boarding team led by Hogg finally arrived at the foot of the royal city. A layer of metal of unknown thickness was defending the underground.

The drill bit of the drilling machine finally ran out of durability, and Hogg, who had no time to replace it, jumped out of the warehouse and touched the metal with both hands. The emerald green lightning was thicker than ever before, and the rules of metal were distorted.

"Open it!!!" With a roar, a gap was torn in the nearly 100-meter-thick underground defense facility. The alien's terrified head appeared in front of everyone.

"Kill! Crush them!"

The huge roar of the drill could not be hidden at all.

As the ground was broken, the Lizardmen who had already established a defense line began a fierce artillery attack. The Black Watch that had just broken through the underground facility was covered in various plasma weapons, and a Lemanus was directly melted.

But at this moment, Hogg, wearing Raider power armor, flew out of the tunnel, and the firepower platform equipped with missile hot-melt gravity cannon began to overload. The ammunition was directly consumed in three seconds, and a gap was torn in the defense line in front of him. At the same time, Hogg in the air also attracted all the firepower on the scene, and the heavy plasma cannon began to concentrate fire on him.

Leila Lynn, who had no time to protect the Primarch, picked up the chainsword at her waist and teleported directly into the battlefield with 30 veteran guards wearing Terminator power armor, and roared:

"Protect the Primarch! Kill these aliens!"

Chainswords sawed through the armor, power swords tore through the flesh, and the roaring grenade launchers shattered one alien after another, and green scales and bright red blood were spilled on the battlefield.

Hogg, whose arm was melted off by plasma cannon fire, started fighting with his other intact power claw. Root-like tentacles sprouted from the cross-section of the broken limb and penetrated into the alien's body to absorb energy.

Watching his people being slaughtered by the monster in the middle and more human troops crawling out from underground, Beost let out a wail. The future of the Light tribe was gone.

(End of this chapter)