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Chapter 326 Strike
The troops attacking the east side of Blackwater Fortress were making a feint to attract firepower. In order to ensure its mobility, although the total number of this team only accounted for a quarter of the total number of troops, 80% of them were equipped with motorcycles, armored vehicles and flying vehicles.
Some of the vehicles were painted in brightly colored colors, breaking away from the inherent gloomy tones of the Astra Militarum.
Because these vehicles are not all equipment in the Astra Militarum arsenal, a large number of them are private property of the noble lords of Karenya.
Under the dual threat of interests and the Crimson Sword, most of the nobles obediently handed over all their troops. Not only these spaceships, motorcycles and armored vehicles, but many of the soldiers fighting on the battlefield might be the personal guards of these noble lords, and those officers in command might be related to these nobles.
Looking down at the entire battlefield from a high altitude at this time, you can see that the infantry of the first human army had already dug trenches and set up defensive fortifications within the buffer zone in advance. Then the mechanical troops first broke through the buffer zone in a narrow column and entered the orc-controlled area and engaged in a firefight with the orcs on the periphery.
However, after engaging the enemy, the team did not continue to advance, but instead spread out along the edge of the buffer zone, reducing the intensity of the firepower but expanding the range of the firepower strike.
Such a spread of attacks quickly succeeded in angering these warlike aliens. They did not even think about whether this was a trap set by humans. Under the stimulation of war, more and more orcs flocked to the site of the exchange of fire.
When the surging green tide came with unstoppable force, the guards of these nobles had no intention of fighting, but chose to retreat immediately. They sped towards the fortifications, and only a few had the courage to fire a few bullets behind them while retreating.
But even so, these mechanical troops could not escape the orcs. The last ones were caught up by the orcs' speedy boys or flying boys. The speedy boys waved their tattered swords and harvested the dull flesh and blood with laughter.
The soldiers flying fighter planes in the air were slightly better. Most of them were pilots who had returned from the first general offensive. Their combat skills were far better than those of these temporary private guards. They were not afraid even when facing the orcs filling the mountains and seas. They dealt with, collided with and destroyed the orcs' fast guys in the air. It was thanks to the fearless fighting of these pilots that the losses of the ground forces were reduced to a minimum.
After losing about one-fifth of their mechanical forces, humans finally lured the orcs into a pocket position set up in advance. The Astra Militarum soldiers who were ambushed there emerged from their hiding trenches, set up machine guns and artillery, and began to block the rushing orcs.
The seemingly endless green tide was resisted, and orcs began to accumulate at the forefront of the battlefield. Their numerical advantage even allowed some orcs to escape the encirclement and begin to move towards the rear of the human encirclement, launching a counter-encirclement.
At this time, in a synchronous orbit 50,000 kilometers away from the surface of Karenya, Esrick was looking at the psychic map in front of him and quickly judging the situation in his mind.
The dark clouds and psychic interference prevented reconnaissance satellites from detecting effective images, but the psychic interference itself provided information on the density and movements of the orcs.
A few hours ago, when the First Army was exchanging fire with the orcs, the area on the psychic map representing the psychic fluctuations of the orcs in the east of the Blackwater Section suddenly began to boil, as if someone had thrown a handful of sand into an already turbulent lake.
Then, this boiling ripple began to spread from the east, eventually spreading to the entire Black Water Festival area.
Now, the level of psychic fluctuations in the east of the Blackwater Festival area has far exceeded the average, and even areas outside the Blackwater Festival area have seen unprecedented orc psychic fluctuations.
In contrast, the spiritual energy fluctuations in the west of the Black Water Festival area were unprecedentedly calm.
On the screen of the command center, the level of psychic energy fluctuations in the east of the Black Water Section continued to rise, while the percentage of psychic energy fluctuations in the west continued to fall. However, whether it was rising or falling, the speed of their changes had slowed down significantly and reached a bottleneck.
Esrick manually marked a point on the electronic map: "Activate the light spears, and prepare the torpedoes."
Inside the Blackwater Fortress, a temporary human stronghold.
The Governor's communication three days ago boosted everyone's morale, and Esrick later gave him the attack plan.
They have not been abandoned, they are not discarded.
During these days, with the help of Arthur and others, Molvi temporarily reorganized the soldiers trapped here. The companies that were short of personnel were replenished and their combat effectiveness was restored. The number of companies was also reduced from hundreds to seventy-six ordinary companies and one reinforced company.
The reinforced company is composed of the Eldar and the Sisters of Silence represented by Charandi.
The Eldar were their allies who risked their lives to rescue them, and they were the ones who helped humans through their most difficult times. Regardless of their motives, out of gratitude, Molvi chose to incorporate them into the strongest and safest company.
Then there are the Sisters of Silence. The four Sisters of Silence are precious assets of Karenya and even the Empire. During the first general offensive, these Sisters of Silence who were originally planned to support and wait for the arrival of the Space Marines to fight together had suffered huge losses. For the remaining four Sisters of Silence, Molvi must ensure that they can return to Blackwater Fortress safely, so they were also incorporated into the reinforced company. Although it still took Molvi a lot of effort to persuade these taciturn Berserkers to conserve their strength to join the evacuation team.
Long before the dawn of today, all the humans and elves in this stronghold had ended their sleep. They began to pack up and organize their already repaired weapons and equipment early in the morning, preparing to do a big job when the sky was fully bright, and completely vent the frustration of the past few days.
Arthur's team was sent out again after being replenished. This team with rich experience in fighting against orcs quickly cleared out all the orcs around and occupied all the high ground. Although they could do so in the past few days, such a large-scale massacre would inevitably alert the orcs and discover the temporary stronghold of humans.
But today is the day of revenge, and they don't have to swallow their anger anymore.
Arthur's team was lying in ambush on the garbage mountain. He heard the roar of the orcs advancing layer by layer from far to near, so he knew that the attack from the other side had begun.
But the signal of their breakout did not appear here.
Just as he was waiting anxiously, a row of light spears pierced through the clouds and shot into the earth, carving a burning gully several kilometers long on the ground, and all living things in it died.
Immediately afterwards, dozens of torpedoes landed on the ground. Arthur looked in the distance in the direction of the bridge they had blown up. The orc arsenal was directly penetrated by the torpedoes and exploded from the inside, turning into fragments.
This is the attack of the Crimson Sword. This old war machine of the Empire is using artillery fire to guide the human soldiers in the Blackwater Section back home.