Chapter 132: Phalanx and Battle Moon
Grary Planet
After Omega's fleet annihilated the Ork fleet in space, they first conducted a round of orbital bombardment without landing on the ground, followed by another round of high-altitude hydrogen-bomb drops, causing the entire planet's surface to rumble violently.
The fleet began to land carefully.
Learning from his earlier lessons, Omega set up only three war bases in total, all built into superfortresses over a hundred meters high.
Around the super fortresses positioned, countless electromagnetic cannons and laser cannons fired in all directions continuously, launching countless missiles outward, and aircraft dropped bombs from high altitudes above.
With thunderous roars, millions of attacking Ork armies around them were continuously annihilated methodically.
On the command platform high in the core of the fortress, Omega carefully lowered his binoculars and nodded with evident satisfaction.
Orks were extremely warlike by nature. Often, as soon as they established a war base, they gathered a large army from thousands of miles away to attack immediately.
After several engagements with Orks directly, Omega now generally didn't seek out Orks actively but instead found good terrain to establish a war base defensively. Learning from the lesson on Aifei Planet specifically, he used hydrogen bombs to bomb it once before landing, transforming the war base into a fortress with astonishing defenses completely.
Seven days later, exactly, millions of Ork armies were annihilated entirely, their bodies on the ground piling up over ten meters high. Smoke billowed outside heavily, but this time, remarkably, the Alpha Legion's casualties were unexpectedly low overall.
In the command center high in the fortress, Bright and Skorr formally reported to Omega.
Omega smiled knowingly, looking at the fortress below him. "The battle damage ratio this time is below ten percent total. No wonder at all, the Imperial Fists' battle damage ratio in wars has always been so low consistently. Building strong fortresses for defensive operations indeed has its merits substantially."
He paused momentarily, his expression thoughtful. "I wonder if Alpharius's side is like ours currently. That way, there would be many fewer casualties suffered."
The few people behind him quieted down immediately upon hearing this. Captain Skorr softly said respectfully, "Primarch, Lord Alpharius might not adopt this defensive tactic specifically. On Aifei Planet, previously, he mostly used active offense and infiltration tactics behind enemy lines."
"I know that," Omega said softly in response.
Trench warfare was too similar to the Imperial Fists' style. Alpharius had just barely accepted the advantages of his bombing tactics recently, and now to accept Rogal Dorn's tactics as well was something he found a bit hard to accept willingly. Each Legion's tactics were marked and labeled distinctly.
These Gene-Seed Primarchs would fight only according to tactics they had personally invented. Winning with other Primarchs' tactics felt like admitting their superiority directly to the other Gene-Seed Primarchs.
Omega was entirely speechless about this mentality. On the battlefield, as long as it reduced casualties effectively, the tactics didn't matter at all. In his opinion, firmly and stubbornly sticking to one's own tactics was not advisable whatsoever.
Year after year, continuously, the Alpha Legion's war system became faster and more efficient. Their strength did not suffer in the war; instead, it grew steadily, and the pace of the war accelerated.
Divided into three massive fleets separately, the Alpha Legion's war data and casualty ratios showed differences clearly.
Alpharius indeed disapproved of the Imperial Fists' defensive combat style. Instead, he combined bombing tactics with infiltration and penetration operations. Although the results were brilliant tactically, his battle damage ratio was consistently higher than Omega's.
When facing other alien civilizations or human worlds, Alpharius's tactics posed no significant problem.
But the Orks were vast in number, inherently warlike by nature, incredibly tenacious physically, and fearless of death altogether.
Often, as soon as an infiltration operation began and caused a stir, they would be swarmed by the Ork army immediately, leading to significant casualties. The longer the time passed, the more casualties Alpharius's division accumulated compared to Omega's forces.
Nine years later, exactly, in the 989th year of the 30th millennium, the Ork Star Region of Alarand was completely swept and conquered by the Alpha Legion successfully.
As one of the vanguard Legions, they excelled in completing their mission perfectly. Other peripheral Ork Star Regions in the Tianlong Star Region were also being successively wiped out systematically.
Just as Omega and Alpharius were excitedly leading their Legions to join the great battle in the Celestian Star Region, they received an order directly from Lord Malcador.
In the Solar Sector, where the Sol System was located, anomalies of Rogue Traders and Feral Worlds infected with a strange virus appeared suddenly. The infected humans, though conscious still, would perform inexplicable and bizarre sacrificial rituals.
As it was too close to the Sol System itself, this task was immediately assigned to the Alpha Legion, who were skilled at dealing with this type of infectious virus.
In the dim space of a Star System, the star emitted eternal light and heat constantly. Four thousand Interstellar Fighters majestically floated in the starry sky, shimmering with the technological charm of giant warships under the sunlight.
Inside the spacious bridge of the Legion's flagship, the brightly lit hall gathered the high-ranking members of the Alpha Legion for discussion.
The two Primarchs needed to decide carefully who would resolve the virus infection in the Solar Sector and who would support the Emperor of Mankind's war in the Celestian Star Region. Both directions urgently required the Alpha Legion's effort, making a division of forces inevitable.
After ten years of continuous war, the Alpha Legion's Astartes numbers had dropped to around 100,000 total, including one-fifth new recruits. In terms of composition, Alpharius commanded 30,000 warriors, and Omega commanded 70,000.
The number of people following Omega reached twice that of Alpharius exactly, which caused the internal situation of the Legion to be somewhat delicate politically.
Ideally, both Gene-Seed Primarchs would lead 50,000 each, achieving a perfect one-to-one ratio.
The reality was that subtle differences in tactical choices during war, magnified over time, would inevitably lead to an imbalance, with one side inevitably having more personnel than the other.
Alpharius also insisted on recruiting recruits exclusively from Terra. Terra's culture and the Alpha Star Region's were fundamentally different, leading some Alpha Star Region recruits to reject Terra-born recruits privately.
Alpharius glanced at Sage Russell in red robes beside him, then calmly said, "The virus infection in the Solar Sector is for me specifically, and the Celestian Star Region is for you."
Omega smiled indifferently in response. "Good enough. I've never seen the Emperor take action personally. This time, I must witness it directly."
Alpharius looked amused, "The battle situation there is far worse than in the Alarand Sector; it wouldn't be attacked by the combined forces of the Emperor of Mankind, Horus, and the Imperial Fists, three Legions together."
When Alpharius mentioned the Imperial Fists specifically, He gave him a meaningful look. These past few years, Omega's tactics had been too similar to the Imperial Fists' style.
Soon after, Alpharius led a fleet of a thousand warships and departed for the Solar Sector directly. Omega contacted the Emperor, who was fighting on Celestian Star, and the Emperor ordered him to lead his Legion there immediately.
The core planet of the Celestian Star Region was Celestian Star itself, serving as the core planet within the core Star Region of the surrounding Ork Star Regions. The scale of the Orks there reached a terrifying total of billions.
The power of the Ork Boss, Uggug Urk the Conqueror, was beyond imagination entirely. Tianlong Star's moon was a super-large war weapon artificially created by the Orks.
Unlike the Alpha Legion's attack on Aifei Planet in the Alarand Sector, where the surrounding Star System's Ork fleet could not arrive in time to support them, the Conqueror Boss was widely renowned throughout the Ork Empire.
When the Human Lord, the Emperor of Mankind, led his army to attack, the entire Star Region's Ork army sent its fleets through the Warp to provide support, making the war on Celestian Star extremely brutal.
Omega led three thousand Interstellar Fighters to jump out of the Warp and arrived in the dim space of the Tianlong Star System.
The scene that unfolded before them was unforgettable for everyone present. Tens of thousands of enemy and allied Interstellar Fighters filled the entire Star System completely, engaged in a massive battle across the entire starry sky. Countless Interstellar Fighters filled their vision entirely. Within one light-year of the entire Star System, there was no place untouched by the fires of war, and all seven planets were engulfed in conflict.
Countless dense laser beams and explosions illuminated the entire Star System brightly. The fleet was attacked by a large number of Ork Interstellar Fighters before they could even react properly, and the captain skillfully counterattacked in response.
Bright looked at the model of a giant warship, over a thousand kilometers long, and exclaimed, "What in the world is this exactly?"
Omega commanded while exclaiming with a smile evident, "The Phalanx of the Imperial Fists! It's rumored to be a great creation from the Dark Age of Technology, an invincible space fortress. This is my first time seeing it in person. What an eye-opener, truly!"
In space before them, the legendary space fortress Phalanx, over a thousand kilometers long, displayed powerful combat capabilities in Rogal Dorn's hands. Compared directly to the Phalanx, the Imperial Fleet warships were like elephants to ants, and the Interstellar Fighters seemed as tiny as dust particles. Its immense size granted it terrifying combat power.
With the Phalanx as its flagship and the Legion's warships as its sub-ships, the entire Imperial Fists Legion poured endless firepower onto the Ork warships and Interstellar Fighters in all directions, filling the space of Tianlong Star with the fires of war.
Facing the Phalanx directly was a Battle Moon, several thousand kilometers in size, belonging to the Ork Empire. The moon bore a striking, massive Ork emblem.
On the Battle Moon surface, Luna Wolves and Imperial Fists boarding parties were seen battling countless Orks ferociously.
Beside them were the Emperor of Mankind's Custodes and Sisters of Silence. The presence of the Sisters of Silence rendered Ork psychic power completely ineffective, but the sheer number of Ork armies still made the landing operation extremely difficult.
From time to time, the terrain on the Battle Moon would shift violently, with hundreds of kilometers of land directly collapsing, crushing countless auxiliary human forces beneath.
Boom loudly!
The giant Battle Moon unleashed an incredibly powerful gravity bomb outward. The surrounding Human Fleet and Interstellar Fighters were all swept away by the gravitational wave. Warships were damaged by the gravity severely, and the humans inside were directly crushed to death by their own weight.
The Phalanx stubbornly resisted the Battle Moon's gravity bomb. Like moths to a flame, large numbers of Space Marines and Imperial Army continuously boarded the Battle Moon.
Behind them, Omega led three thousand warships, demonstrating an exceptionally high level of command artistry. Countless Ork Interstellar Fighters and Ork warships were continuously destroyed methodically, and the Data Repository was busy updating information in real-time.
The entire Legion moved as one unit, constantly changing formations in space, cutting down and annihilating the Ork's combat power systematically.
The Alpha Legion, like an efficient killing machine in space, left behind countless wrecks of Ork Interstellar Fighters and warships.
Joining this battlefield, they unleashed an unprecedented surge of combat power across the entire Legion. Because the Emperor of Mankind was ahead, they had to fight and charge forward to reach his side.
Omega felt this emotion from his subordinates and was slightly surprised by it. He issued several warnings to prevent hundreds of Imperial Army sub-fleets from recklessly charging forward, thereby ensuring they cooperated obediently with the entire Legion's operations.
The entire Legion moved further and further forward in space, becoming surrounded by countless Ork Interstellar Fighters and Ork warships, falling into Omega's trap of luring the enemy.
Ten gravity bombs flew out simultaneously, exploding violently in the middle of the Ork fleet. The powerful gravitational shockwave instantly formed a strong gravitational pulse, paralyzing a large number of Ork Interstellar Fighters and Ork warships within its range.
Alpha Warriors then skillfully engaged in boarding actions, eliminating wave after wave of Ork combat power systematically.
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