Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 626: Bombing Terra (Request for Subscription)

All this happened too suddenly. Horus and his rebels directly crossed the hundreds of strong defense lines set up in the solar system.

The former Warmaster once again demonstrated his mastery of military strategy, and with the help of the Warp, he placed his fleet directly above the orbit of the Throne World.

A month has passed since the previous meeting between humans and the Eldar. Everyone feels that with the participation of the Eldar, everything will only develop for the better.

The rebels have fallen into the trap set by the Empire, and their forces are tied down in the area of ​​Neptune and Uranus, turning most of the uncertainties into known certainties.

At this moment, even Llane and Dorn were wondering whether their plan had already been seen through by Horus.

The reason why the other party asked Perturabo and Eichmand to attack the Twin Gates was to lower the vigilance of the imperial army and pave the way for their real killer move.

The Comet Temple has been hidden for too long, so long that even many commanders on the Empire's side did not think that this insignificant existence had any value.

After all, this has never been an equal war. The Dark Gods always stand on the side of Horus, which also leads to the Warp often coming up with some bizarre and abstract tactics that are unimaginable.

At least the Empire really did not expect that the traitors would be able to launch a warp teleportation under the Emperor's nose.

And it was such a large-scale fleet transmission.

Horus' fleet appeared directly in orbit between Terra and the Moon. The Warmaster directly divided two smaller fleets. One fleet went to Mars to liberate the Dark Mechanicus who were suppressed by the Empire.

The other group went to the moon, trying to win the support of the lunar genetic sect. Even if it meant losing everything, they would still try to plunder enough genetic seeds and other precious war materials from the moon.

But even so, Horus still controls overwhelming space power.

You must know that in order to fight against the large number of rebel warships on the front line, Ryan Johnson had already transferred most of the Empire's warships to the most tense war zone, including three Thundercloud-class planetary battleships, as well as the Indomitable Truth, Red Tears and other Queen of Glory-class battleships.

As the rear base, Terra can now mobilize only the Phalanx and defense fleet of the Imperial Fists, as well as the Emperor's Dream, a battleship that serves as the Emperor's mount.

The Space Wolves' Hercules had remained in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, relying on the space dock there for repairs, and the same was true for the captured Alpha and Radiance.

Horus accurately found the empire's loophole and led his large army directly to attack Huanglong.

A vast sea of ​​warships spread across the sky of Terra. Even Terra's orbital defense system could not withstand and resist the simultaneous attack of thousands of warships.

The Warmaster ordered his ships to destroy Terra's orbital defenses with a saturation fire bombardment, and forced the Imperial Fists fleet, including the Phalanx, to evacuate towards Jupiter.

The Phalanx of the Imperial Fists is the most powerful space battleship in the human sequence today, or it can be called a space fortress. With a size comparable to that of an asteroid, the Phalanx is definitely a nightmare for any enemy.

The Emperor's Vision was also a terrifying existence whose strength surpassed that of the Queen of Glory-class battleships. Horus knew that it would be too risky to destroy these two enemies, so it would be better to use the fleet to drive them away.

The Warmaster's purpose had been clear from the beginning: he did not want to defeat the Imperium, an idea that now seemed unrealistic. What Horus wanted was to force the Emperor to fight him face to face and put an end to it all.

The essence of this rebellion is not just a civil war among humans, but more of a war between Horus and the four gods behind him and the Emperor.

"Let's start the bombing. Give our father a small greeting gift."

"I want him to watch the empire he cherishes burn and collapse before his eyes, and the fools he deceived and bewitched die because of him."

Horus' appetite obviously would not be easily satisfied. In his opinion, the entire throne world was now in his hands.

As long as he could capture Terra and defeat the Emperor before the front-line troops commanded by Lion Johnson completely destroyed the fleet he brought, then everything would be over.

As long as the Emperor falls, even if the other Primarchs join forces, they will not be able to reverse the devastating future that Horus has brought. Horus only has the Emperor in his eyes, and only the Emperor is qualified to be his opponent.

The Warmaster's fleet and the fleet commanded by Perturabo completed the energy storage in a very short time, and then more than 5,000 warships launched an orbital bombardment on Holy Terra at the same time.

At this moment on Terra, all the troops and civilians were frantically evacuating towards the direction of the palace.

The piercing alarm sounded throughout the entire throne world, and endless panic and despair began to spread.

As early as when Horus teleported his fleet into Earth-Moon orbit, the Steward of Terra knew that there was no more choice and that he had to evacuate as many people as possible to the palace before the enemy launched the bombing.

Apart from the Imperial Palace, no place could withstand an orbital bombardment of this magnitude.

There was a time difference between the two sides, and Horus's fleet had to spend some time forcing the Phalanx and the Emperor's Vision to leave the vicinity of Terra, while Dorn took advantage of this time to mobilize all his troops to the vicinity of the Himalayas.

But not everyone made it to the palace in time. As the home planet of mankind, there were hundreds of giant hive worlds accommodating hundreds of billions of people. It was a complete fantasy to evacuate them.

These nests that have survived from ancient times are already so complex that no one can fully understand them.

Countless mutants, alien creatures, and even sub-space creatures live in the dark and gloomy bottom of the hive city, and even the Emperor's guards cannot completely wipe them out.

And now, when the mortals on Terra look up into the sky, they can see the overwhelming and dense fleets of the Traitor Legion.

Never before had so many warships taken up residence in the skies above Terra, but today, they came.

Because the space was too narrow, many warships even had to maintain an extremely dangerous distance. Their weapon systems were accumulating energy under the orders of the Warmaster, preparing to completely release their anger.

Densely packed warships were parked in orbit above, and the defense system here had been completely reduced to ashes.

All human beings can feel the fear and helplessness that seems like the end of the world.

On February 13th of the 12th year of the 31st Millennium, the Blitzkrieg of Terra began.

The rebels were the first to use live ammunition weapons. These attack methods with real mass can effectively overload the void shield. Therefore, they usually attack with macro cannons first, and then use weapons such as light spears for a second round of attacks after the void shield is offline.

The palace's [Aegis] protection system perfectly blocked the meteor-like shells. After a flash of hazy light, everything disappeared into thin air.

However, this was just the beginning. Thousands of warships launched their macro cannons and torpedoes. At this altitude, even dropping a piece of high-density metal could create a huge kinetic impact, and the power of the macro cannons was also greatly enhanced.

The earth was completely torn apart by the unstoppable force in an instant, and the nests outside the palace also lit up their own void shield defense systems.

But the bombing never stopped. The firepower coverage of thousands of warships could not be withstanded by the void shield of a mere hive city.

Those ancient hive cities were destroyed one after another, huge flames rose into the sky, and although the main structure of the hive city did not disappear, a large number of attached structures collapsed rapidly.

The human death toll quickly climbed to the billions, but the Empire had no ability to stop it.

Mountains were flattened, landforms were wiped out, and the dust and poisonous gases produced by the burning rose into the sky, even blocking the sun's rays.

Today is the end of Terra.

(End of this chapter)