Chapter 227 04.0226: "Infiltration Deployment"

"We have arrived at the designated location, landing is allowed."

In the cockpit of the Skyraider's night raid on the Valkyrie, the naval aviation lieutenant who served as the pilot and flight captain spoke to the cabin through the loudspeaker, and then he turned on the airborne indicator. The lights in the cabin changed from red to green, reflecting on the passengers' blue to black armor, mixing into a purple color.

The power armor soldiers of the Chief Eagle Flag Battalion stood up from their seats one by one and lined up on the one-step-wide track.

Then the tail compartment slowly opened.

laugh! ——

The pulleys on the power boots began to rotate at high speed, and the moment they lifted their toes, the built-in self-sensing transmission device carried the Hell's Vanguard outward with extremely high horsepower.

The Valkyrie fighter jets quietly deployed the Hell's Vanguards to their designated positions in the darkness, just like dropping a string of depth charges.

The Valkyrie that Horatio was in also opened the tail cabin.

"Wow..." Inquisitor Ravenno couldn't help but exclaimed as he looked at the dark abyss below.

"Come on, Inquisitor. It's time to go down."

"You go first. I may need to prepare myself mentally. You know, not everyone can handle being so high up. Even the Inquisitor is not completely without weaknesses."

"Of course, please help yourself."

Horatio and Louise, wearing helmets, checked each other's airtightness one last time.

Then he patted her shoulder and gave her a thumbs-up.

She nodded, indicating that she was ready.

The two of them jumped down with their weapons in hand like a pair of well-aligned divers, diving towards the endless darkness below.

"Young people nowadays are so brave." Inquisitor Ravenno stuck his head out and looked at the two figures disappearing into the dark sky.

The Inquisitor then looked at the Astartes around him.

These noble Blood Angels, because the color of their armor is so scarlet, so deep red like ink, that they look surprisingly inconspicuous in the darkness and can even blend into it.

Captain Afiel put his hand on the power sword, looked back at his battle brothers through the green eyepiece, and nodded.

Then he jumped down without saying a word.

His battle-brothers followed closely behind, including the blind brother and the heavyweight Centurion mecha operator.

The strike team positioned the Centurion mech right in the middle, securing it firmly.

Each of them is equivalent to the combined parachute of the Centurion mecha, sending a steel man weighing a hundred tons to the enemy. This is the unique skill of the Blood Angels who like to jump and attack.

"It's time to go, Lord Ravenor," said the woman holding the Eldar Shuriken, standing behind the Inquisitor.

"Okay, okay. I'll take my time. You guys go first."

The woman raised half of her eyebrows and glanced at the burly man next to her whose fists were as big as sandbags, and a retired non-commissioned officer from the Navy's boarding team with a hideous scar on his face.

The three of them hit it off and stood behind the Inquisitor.

“Wait! Eh… Aaaaaaaah!!”

They kicked together, using three kicks at once, to kick Inquisitor Ravenno, who was hesitant and unprepared at the height, down from the tail cabin of the transport plane.

But this is not the first time they have done this. At the beginning, the Inquisitor, who was afraid of heights, said, "If I can't jump down, you can kick me down."

Horatio and Louise, who had countless orbital skydiving experiences, fell in the air in a skilled prone position, their hands holding each other's arms in the sky, forming a circle.

This makes it very convenient to use the data tablet on your arm to know the position of other team members while maintaining balance.

"1000 meters above ground level," Louise reported.

Horatio gave her a thumbs-up.

call! ——

The vector gravity parachute behind the two began to work. He and Louise adjusted their posture in mid-air, holding the Hell Gun, and stood upright in a "feet on the ground" airborne posture.

"The oriole is in place."

"Attention all units, after landing, you are free to clear out surrounding threats. Remember, act in stealth and wait for the signal for the general attack."

"As you command, Centurion."
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Although the followers of Khorne are brutal and violent, they are not fools.

For the important ceremony presided over by a 'Pope'-level leader, even though they suffered huge casualties on the day of St. Gilles, they still assembled a large number of Blood Pact troops and cultist servant troops to tightly guard the entire ceremony venue and even the area of ​​thousands of square meters.

But fortunately, this is the blurred boundary area between the middle and lower nests.

The poor and the outcasts live together on this land.

In the middle of the target is an abandoned ancient square. The "garbage building" next to it, that is, the shantytown built by the Lower Nest Slums using the Nest City buildings, only extends a part of it into the square.

There are still as many people living here, but the complexity of the buildings is a little better.

The square area in the middle is the main location of the planned firefight, which will be a little better than fighting street battles directly in the damn winding slums.

Of course, it's just a little bit.

The terrain here is as complex as the cabins of a battleship.

The old electric transmission doors that had existed since the day the hive was built had long since broken down.

Walls that were old, moldy, and blackened divided the corridors, forming an unknown space that was more complex and disordered than the cabins of Imperial Navy battleships.

No matter how 'chaotic' it is, the design of a warship's cabins must at least take damage control and traffic efficiency into consideration.

Although it is messy and complicated, it is the crystallization of the wisdom of battleship designers, and there is order in the chaos.

But here, these slum shanties are different. In order to find a place to live, the abandoned people of the lower nest can build their own "little home" in any corner.

The structures are in disarray, and tragedies caused by landslides and fires often take the lives of these poor creatures in their sleep.

The unstable and chaotic environment structure and unknown combat environment pose many risks to any elite force.

The complexity is far greater than the densely populated residential areas that the U.S. troops faced during the street fighting in Fallujah on the 6th - at least the U.S. troops were not facing this kind of three-dimensional nest megastructure.

But for the well-equipped and skilled Imperial Navy vanguards, the difficulty is only average.

Their equipment was designed from the beginning for this type of terrain and is naturally suited for close-range indoor combat.

As early as when he was descending from a high altitude with a gravity parachute, Horatio quickly scanned the ground terrain from the air and used the processor in his helmet to quickly perform three-dimensional modeling.

"Everyone, immediately analyze the terrain below and upload the data to the local area network."

The scanning instructions were also sent to other Hell Soldiers.

The people in the air began to construct the terrain below using the micro-thinker processors in their armor based on the terrain near them.

One piece, two pieces, as one vanguard after another aggregates the modeling data into the tactical combat network, each modeling fragment is like a puzzle, piecing together the three-dimensional terrain of the entire area into a whole.

Well, now the terrain is just an obstacle to the enemy, but it is an ally to the vanguards.

They felt like they were back home, knowing where every intricate alley led to and how big the space was behind each wall.

In addition, many of the second batch of reinforcements, like Louise, came from the ship assault department.

They are experts in close combat and are more confident than the Storm Heirs in close combat in confined terrain.

The Hell Gun in his hand was also changed from the original standard Stormtrooper equipment to the new Reza Carbine Hell Gun.

Moreover, the overall length of the gun is 40 cm shorter than the standard Riza Hell Gun.

Although doing so will reduce the number of barrel focusing lenses, thereby weakening the maximum range of effective armor-piercing damage.

However, the shortened gun body is more suitable for close-range environments such as alleys and indoors.

In this environment, the effective armor-piercing range of 800 meters is obviously not necessary.

The pioneers adjusted the jet packs with gravity parachute function in mid-air, and the vector engine carried them to glide a short distance in the air so that they could land precisely at the designated location.

According to Centurion Horatio's combat arrangement, they would first hide on the rooftops near the middle nest area, or in the alleys of the lower nest area.

Fortunately, the 'Lord of Meat' is going to be 'generous' today and distribute delicious 'meat' to the hungry people, which is rare.

Therefore, the streets were deserted and people gathered in the square excitedly, waiting for the "gift from heaven".

This provides the Hell's Vanguards with the opportunity to secretly "break into empty houses" and ambush, greatly reducing the risk of being discovered by residents and causing chaos and exposing themselves in advance.

Horatio, who was at a commanding height, watched the video signal transmitted by the telescopic camera on his helmet and looked at the bustling crowd in the distance.

According to rough estimates, there are already tens of thousands of hungry people gathered here. When the crowds from all directions gather here, the number may be far more than 100,000.

According to the action plan, the goal of this operation is precision strike, not massacre.

Therefore, they must catch the 'Lord of Meat' and take him away from the scene before he distributes the meat corrupted by the evil god.

But this is no less difficult than arresting a state church priest in front of a group of fanatics.

To the poor and abandoned people in the middle and lower nests, this "generous" meat lord is the benefactor who gives them meat.

Moreover, they hadn't even had their share of meat yet, and they wanted to arrest him in front of so many people, which was bound to provoke fierce resistance.

Therefore, Horatio, Inquisitor Ravenno, and the Captain of the Blood Angels discussed and decided to "capture the king" first and then maintain stability.

Ravenno Inquisitor will lead the agents, with the help of Blackwing lurkers, to approach the 'Meat Lord'.

Once the battle begins, the Hell's Vanguards and Blood Angels will be responsible for quickly dealing with the vassal armies and Blood Pact armies, while the Inquisitors will lead their men to capture them.

As soon as the target is captured, a Valkyrie on standby in the air will immediately descend to the ground and pick them up.

Afterwards, a thousand naval infantry task forces will arrive on the scene in landing craft to provide reinforcements and maintain stability.

if necessary.

The Navy Department will implement Plan No. 3, requisitioning star port grain transport ships to distribute food to these hungry people and calm their emotions to avoid provoking a possible violent fight involving tens of thousands of people.

What makes Horatio curious is that the Inquisitor said that someone he knows might be able to help them calm the crowd.

But he kept it a secret and did not reveal who he was.

The above is the best outcome under ideal circumstances.

Horatio understood that the most difficult part of the whole thing was not to attack the Blood Pact Army, nor to arrest the 'Meat Lord', but how to deal with a crowd on the verge of losing control, and to prevent this loss of control from expanding to the point of killing all of them.

When a common man gets angry, blood splatters a hundred steps away.

No matter how weak the abandoned people are, as long as their numbers are large enough, they will use up all the ammunition and supplies they carry with their human tide and completely overwhelm Horatio and the Hell's Vanguard Hundred.

Of course, there was the Inquisitor and his retainers, overwhelmed even this Astartes strike team.

Although the imperial army that came later will eventually win the battle against the out-of-control rioting crowd through integrated air-ground combat.

But he didn't want to see another wave of blood and gore today.

Furthermore, the Chief Eagle Flag Brigade's first battle, which evolved from capturing a cult leader to 'massacring starving people', was not a glorious thing.

It may even undermine the morale of the brigade, shake the soldiers' beliefs, and make them question the real purpose of the Hell's Vanguard.

To this end, he and others prepared three emergency plans in advance and kept them in the Navy Department, hoping to ensure that the operation was as controllable as possible.

(End of this chapter)