Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 149

149. Chapter 149, Killing Jar

After Schneider killed the largest and greenest Orc leader, the battle was almost over.

His other four battle brothers, along with 28 Storm Troopers who were considered quite capable in the eyes of the Space Marines, and the firepower cover of the Infantry Regiment, killed all the 40 orcs that followed the greenskin leader. Needless to say, the

Space Marines were very capable. Except for the fact that he encountered a greenskin leader who was somewhat capable after being strengthened, which gave him some exercise, his battle brothers basically didn’t get any decent opponents. When

those ordinary greenskin guys encountered the electromagnetic rifles in the hands of the special forces soldiers of the Storm Troopers, they couldn’t resist the G9 rifles like they could. They would often die after a dozen bullets.

After making sure that all the greenskins were killed and there were no survivors who could leak the information of his group, he could finally rest assured.

They didn’t intend to take action originally.

The 4th Infantry Regiment’s proactive attack was originally to cover their actions. It would be the best if they could successfully eliminate all the greenskins in this area. After all, as long as all the enemies were killed, it would be the most perfect infiltration.

Even if the attack failed, it didn’t matter. After attracting enough attention, the 33 task forces could completely bypass the battlefield from the side while the frontal battle was in full swing, and they would also be unnoticed.

In fact, they had originally planned to do so.

However, after observing the situation on the front battlefield, their commander changed his mind and decided to implement the first strategy: kill all the enemies.

Schneider knew that it was their commander Martins who felt bad watching those mortal soldiers die to cover their mission.

Of course, he didn’t object. After all, as long as they were killed, there would be no greenskins running back to report the news. There were only a few dozen left, so it wouldn’t be a big deal to kill them all.

The key is that you can still have fun.

After the battle, Schneider took off his helmet, revealing his shiny forehead.

He felt a special gaze, so he turned his head and saw the red hat staring at him.

In the past, Schneider always disdained and ignored these mortals. But at this time, he couldn’t help but think of the red hat named Thadius, who did what his dead brother couldn’t do.

And the one in front of him, although he didn’t accomplish any feats, was not afraid of danger and was still able to maintain the dignity of a warrior in the face of death.

He is worthy of respect.

He nodded to the red hat for some reason, and then turned and left.

Reid Mesheko also came back to his senses.

He actually survived.

Looking at the fight between the Space Marine and the greenskin just now, there is no doubt that if it were him, he would have died eight hundred times.

It seems that there is still a big gap between a mortal like him and those monsters.

But no matter what, the battle should be won.

Slowly putting down the gun in his hand, he turned back and found their leader.

They also need to clean up this position and take back the bodies of the wounded and even dead teammates. Even if they died tragically, they should at least take away the armbands and badges that symbolize the identity of the soldiers.

After cleaning the battlefield, they will withdraw.

The position here cannot be defended for a long time. The fortifications built by those greenskins are already poor, not to mention that they were bombed once; this place is far away from the lines of other friendly forces, and it is not convenient to provide support.

These problems combined make it impossible for them to fight if they face the counterattack of the greenskins in the future.

But giving up this position does not mean that their attack this time is worthless.

In addition to providing cover for the special operations team, their killing of the enemy’s living forces this time is also enough.

In this battle, those greenskins died almost 500 people. Relatively speaking, the price paid by the human side is the casualties of more than 320 soldiers.

This loss ratio is higher than their defensive battle.

Of course, there are special reasons.

After all, the cost of the human side is not just more than 300 lives, but also 600 heavy artillery shells.

If it weren’t for the recent batch of newly produced shells from Weixing City, I really wouldn’t be willing to fire so many in just one hour.

Among the greenskins that were eliminated, at least more than half were killed in the previous bombardment. And among the remaining 200, more than 50 were killed by the special operations team. The real result of the Fourth Infantry Regiment was only more than 100 greenskins.

Of course, this exchange ratio of about 3:1 is actually acceptable.

But what can’t be ignored is the risks involved.

They won the battle and wiped out the opponent.

But what if they didn’t win?

If Mesheko hadn’t executed many officers with an iron fist when the whole army was shaken, and ordered instructors at all levels to maintain the discipline of the troops, and led the regiment commander to lead by example to boost morale, they would have been very likely to collapse at that time.

Once collapsed, the death toll would probably soar when escaping. Not only will they not be able to kill the greenskins, but their casualties may increase several times during the pursuit. If they are chased too hard, even if they return to their original positions, they may not be able to stop the collapse of the entire army, and then they will be in big trouble.

In a war, the winning side will always gain more.

In addition to killing a large number of greenskins, they also gained another point: the improvement of the army’s spirit.

This was a battle that was a bit hard, but they won in the end. Although there were twists and turns in the process, as long as they won, the morale, combat confidence, and combat experience of the entire army would be improved. The soldiers who had dealt with the greenskins head-on, since they survived, would not be so afraid when facing the greenskins next time.

When they were adventurers before, the shadows brought to them by those greenskins were too deep.

The greenskin phobia can be alleviated a little bit.

…

When the 4th Infantry Regiment was clearing the battlefield, the 33-man special operations team had already embarked on the journey again.

After that, there were no friendly forces to cover them.

But it was not necessary.

After passing through the densest enemy lines and arriving at the rear, in this urban ruins area with a width of 60 kilometers and a depth of nearly 100 kilometers, it was obviously impossible for those greenskins to have manpower in every place.

On the contrary, they only have tens of thousands of people, and this land that “belongs” to them is full of leaks.

Occasionally, some greenskins and fart spirits are seen, but it is not so easy to find their traces.

The stealth skills of the Space Marines are beyond reproach. Although they are wearing heavy power armor, when they don’t want to make a sound, there is really no sound when their feet fall. As for the 28 special forces, they are also well versed in stealth combat.

Only they can discover the enemy in advance, and they are rarely discovered.

When they are deep behind enemy lines, they will try to avoid fighting, which helps to reduce the probability of exposure.

And if they really have to fight, for example, they are indeed discovered, or someone is on their route, and it takes a long time to bypass them, then they will choose to fight.

Even if they do fight, try not to use guns.

Quietly approaching, quickly assaulting, combat daggers and sabers have become the main weapons.

Martins’s chainsaw sword does not even make a roar, just relying on the teeth to tear people apart.

There is indeed no target worth twisting the chainsaw.

In this way, they moved in the ruins for about a day and a night. In between, there were only a few hours of rest.

They went as deep as possible and then expanded the scope of investigation as much as possible.

Unfortunately, the greenskins were very difficult to communicate with, and they couldn’t speak the same language. They couldn’t catch their tongues to get the information they wanted through interrogation.

But they still made a major discovery on the afternoon of the second day.

They found a starting point for the greenskins.

Located 60 kilometers deep from the front line, an action team of the storm squad found a group of fart spirits driving trucks and pushing carts, gathering somewhere.

After they passed the intelligence back, the whole team began to grope in that direction, and then they found this starting point.

The greenskins cleared a large open space here, where more than 10,000 greenskin creatures gathered in a noisy manner. One third of them were greenskin boys, and there were almost twice as many fart spirits as them.

Fart spirits are also a kind of greenskin, and they are also monsters that grow out of greenskin spores. They are shorter, thinner, and more timid than the orc boys, but their cruelty is no less than that of the other orc boys. They bully the weak and fear the strong. When they encounter a strong enemy, if there is no orc to suppress them, they will easily lose morale and scatter; but when the enemy is weaker than them, or far less than them, once they have a psychological advantage, they will become the most cruel executioner and love to kill.

In the greenskin society, fart spirits usually exist as slaves, servants of the orcs, and even rations.

In this starting position, the number of enemies alone is already a lot. Putting aside the fart spirits, there are more than 3,000 orc boys alone. This is almost more than any other greenskin orcs faced on the front line.

Moreover, there are continuous reinforcements, gathering here from all over.

No one knows how many they can gather in the end.

What’s more, the greenskins gathered here are not only numerous, but also well-equipped.

We won’t talk about the armed pickup trucks and iron barrel cannons that have already appeared. Martins and his team also saw two other big guys.

One is an armed truck.

Although it is called a truck, the rear compartment is actually sealed with armor plates, and it provides a shooting position that extends outward, so that the entire truck compartment has a rather awkward shape. There is also a machine gun on the top of the front of the car, and a bulldozer is also installed on the front of the car. The entire appearance looks chaotic, wild, and unreasonable.

However, this is the true nature of greenskin technology. No matter how unreasonable it looks, the greenskins think it is reasonable, that is, this thing can move, and it is quite useful.

The other thing adheres to the same style, but it makes everyone present feel a little heavy: is it… ‘power armor’, ‘war mecha? ‘?

Whatever it is, it has appeared in many greenskin clans. Humans call it a ‘killing can’.

A fart spirit or a disabled greenskin is stuffed into a tin can. Due to the greenskin’s shocking technology, this is obviously not a wearable or uninstallable thing, but immortality is integrated with this machine.

The mechanical structures extending from the upper and lower sides of the water tank are the limbs. The arms of the upper limbs are equipped with close combat or long-range weapons, and there are large-caliber machine guns on both sides of the tank.

This thing has appeared on many battlefields where greenskins are rampant. They are not the main armored units of the greenskins, and the greenskins have bigger guys. However, when such a thing that stands three meters tall appears on the battlefield and can move flexibly on the battlefield where many armored vehicles cannot move, its armor level and firepower will make human infantry feel desperate.

Even the Space Marines cannot ignore such opponents. A few more shots from the machine guns on both sides of the water tank are enough to break the power armor; the double-fired rocket launcher that can be held in one hand and can automatically load the gunpowder also has a good lethality, and being hit by the big axe will be fatal.

Of course, in general, Space Marines win more in a duel. Each of the five veterans present had at least blown up five or more killing tanks.

But that was a career achievement, not a one-time victory. If they were really besieged, they would not need five, two or three would be too much.

And right now, in this greenskin army that was still gathering, they saw ten such killing tanks.

As more greenskins gathered later, it was unknown whether there would be more.

Armed trucks that could match the Wanderer armored vehicles, killing tanks equivalent to the beggar version of power armor, more than three thousand greenskins gathered, among which there were many powerful leaders, or “tough guys” who were much stronger than ordinary greenskins…

Such a force, going to the front line and launching a direct attack on any place, would result in devastating consequences.

Unprepared humans would almost certainly be crushed directly.

Fortunately, they had discovered it.

Since they had already known the intelligence, things would be easy to deal with.

They did not alert the enemy. After marking the coordinates, they quietly left and reported the intelligence to the Governor.

They did not carry any communication equipment, nor was there any need to. The power armor worn by the Space Marines was integrated with the corresponding communication module, and was also connected to the wireless communication channel of the front-line command post. The communication tower erected at the front-line command post did this job. When facing the greenskins, there should be no need to worry about the threat of radio monitoring.

They could not control how the Governor would treat this information later.

The subsequent instructions they received were to continue the exploration and find the base camps of the greenskins, their arsenals, their “farms” and hatcheries according to the predetermined goals. They

might have been a little lacking in clues before, but now it is easier.

Two Space Marines were left with a few Storm Troopers to watch the large number of greenskins at the starting point, while the rest of the people followed the route of the greenskins and went in the opposite direction to explore the source.

(End of this chapter)