The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Chapter 1848 The Dilemma of the Red Pirate

Facing the compliments and cheers that rushed to his face, Huron just walked through with a confident smile, and didn't even ask the guards to pull up the cordon, as if he was not afraid of any assassins at all.

Another goal of his passing through the fortress in person is to stabilize the morale of the army. After all, the long-term offensive has failed, and the morale of the combat group on Angstrom's side has been quite low. It is very necessary for him to come forward to cheer people up.

Even if it's just the lowest level of cannon fodder, it needs some initiative to be more useful.

Although this is a fortress, there are also basic businesses. Even Huron saw a market for people to buy and sell. Most of them were slaves, and some were plundered from other parts of the empire. A slave girl used to vent the desires of a cult leader or some deeply depraved Space Marine, and some would suffer a worse fate.

After crossing the outer area of ​​the fortress, one entered a simple manufacturing area of ​​the fortress, where a movable steel factory spewed out billowing smoke and steam through dozens of copper chimneys, and layers of ash slowly fell on those along the On the unlucky guy who camped on the noisy route.

It was a black mobile metal fortress, illuminated by the glow of the furnace, and the rattling of dragging it along left huge indentations in the ground.

More than a dozen twisted and grotesque heavy weapon servants surrounded this mobile building, guarding it and moving forward slowly.

This is the property of a technological heretic, not a member of the Red Corsairs, but attracted by the war to come here to sell the weapons it produces in exchange for the supplies, slaves, and even souls it needs.

Of course, Huron didn't know the name of this weapon dealer, nor where he came from, but he would never interfere with such a person, because it was very likely to be a subordinate or even an apprentice of a dark Mechanicus sage. Huron was the last person he wanted to offend.

It won't do any good if you provoke it, but it will only cause a show.

But the other party obviously noticed him. A Mechanicist in black robe came out of the mobile factory. His face was covered by a metal mask like a whirlpool. Then he bowed slightly to Huron in respect.

Huron also nodded very politely.

Neither of them spoke, because Huron knew that if the other party asked him or wanted to make a deal with him, he would come to him by himself.

Then Huron walked forward through the hot smoke with the slight fire and the smell of sulfur lava, and came to the gate of the core area of ​​the fortress.

The magnificent horn sounded, and the red pirate space fighters in front of the gate were scrambling to get out of the way like slaves. The steel gate in the core area of ​​the fortress was made of thousands of curved steel sheets. When it opened slowly, a large number of hot Flames erupted from above and from both sides of the gate.

Huron's soldiers stood in groups on the high spiked walls flanking the city gate, looking fiercely and silently at the guys who were trying to watch.

King Blackheart stepped into the shadow of the fortress towers, its immensity enough to make the eyes of any normal-headed human ache, the walls of steel, rock, and bone breathing like fire as if alive, and the defenses on either side The fortifications are made up of towering steel and stone pillars, engraved with wild sculptures and ancient oaths of allegiance, and huge turrets slowly rotate on the stone pillars.

Entering the gate, a more disciplined and serious world emerges, with braziers blazing above sentries, barracks, religious chambers, and armories, and vast banners of silk, cloth, and hides of countless creatures in the hellish sky floating.

Armed Chaos Space Marines remained silent at their posts, while occasionally patrolling squads of Red Corsair mortal soldiers marched by in unison.

There are eight ring-shaped fortifications at the core of Calamity Fortress, each of which is equipped with a high-power void shield generator, and is managed by Huron's most trusted subordinates. After all, this is where the Red Pirates in Angostor The most important offensive fulcrum of Angstrom is related to the entire offensive of Angstrom, so you can't be too careful.

After entering the core area of ​​the fortress, they first passed through a large casting area, which was in charge of the foundry master of the Red Pirate and the priests of the dark mechanics he hired. On the walls of the foundry factory, evil portraits made of strange shiny metals can be seen A string of dozens of chimneys, large and small, spewed all kinds of alchemical smoke, some thick with ash and black smoke, others with shimmering, multicolored mist—that It is a variety of subspace raw materials extracted from demonic creations.

Not only can all kinds of profane weapons be manufactured here, but also a small amount of demon engines can be manufactured, but after all, it is temporary, and the overall output is not high. The main source of equipment and materials for the Angstrom battle group still has to be transported from the rear and cast from the distant fall. Goods ordered by the world.

In fact, ever since Angstrom fell into the hands of Soshyan, Huron felt more and more that there was a shortage of armaments. The two sides have been fighting for more than a year. The expedition has not advanced yet, but the consumption of supplies and ordnance has exhausted most of his warehouses.

Although buying from those heresy foundry worlds can be relieved, on the one hand, they also need time, and on the other hand, the price of those **** mechanical heresies is constantly increasing. Self-made ability.

During the battle, Huron also sent some plundering fleets to fight the autumn wind in various parts of the empire to supplement the needs of the war, but Soshyan deployed the encirclement strategy very early, the White Scars and its series of sub-groups, and the Dark Angels A series of sub-groups operating near the maelstrom, including some sub-groups of the Imperial Fists, are on guard against the plundering fleet of the Red Pirates.

And in order to deal with the Imperial Expeditionary Force, it is impossible for Huron to send a too powerful fleet, so those small plundering fleets did not achieve very good results, they only plundered some agricultural worlds, and the hive world was of no help to this war. It's not a very valuable commodity, not to mention that they have to pay a lot of cost, and they can't move the valuable world.

Obviously, under the tremendous pressure of the expedition, the red pirates began to gradually lose their blood-forming ability.

Therefore, Huron wanted to occupy Angstrom so urgently, not only to understand the urgency of Badab, but also to persevere in this long-term battle. Otherwise, even the empire would still have no more progress. Pirates can also suffocate to death under the tremendous pressure, and even fall apart in the end.

In fact, as far as Huron knows so far, more than a thousand Chaos Space Marines and warbands have left the Red Pirates during the expedition. If the battle situation does not change, this number will only increase in the future!

(end of this chapter)