PFC Chapter 702 The peach pickers are coming
Chapter 702 The peach pickers are coming
Chapter 702 The peach pickers are coming
"Let's not deploy the Sisters of Silence yet."
Fu Qinghai walked quickly and said:
"Unless the beast shows up."
"Yes, Khan."
The attendant, covered in smoke and blood, followed beside him.
In the original novel of Beast Wars, the human empire didn't realize until the last expedition to Ullanor that the Sister of Silence could influence the Psycho Boy to kill orcs in large numbers. Almost all the previous battles were a war of attrition with the orcs, until the last battle, the decisive battle of the decisive battle, when all the orcs were wiped out in one fell swoop.
Although he has mastered this method and has gathered the exiled Sisters of Silence scattered across the galaxy in advance, Fu Qinghai does not plan to send them to the battlefield immediately.
Although from the setting, this is a loophole engraved in the orcs' genes, no matter what means the orcs take, there is no way to avoid it. It is not because of the existence of the Sister of Silence that the psycho boy's psychic power is out of control, but the psycho boy is prone to psychic power out of control, and the Sister of Silence just happens to take advantage of this and use the soulless force field to accelerate this process.
However, don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the eventuality.
If the Human Empire used this method now, it could certainly eliminate the orcs on the Battle Moon in large numbers and efficiently. However, if the Sisters of Silence were deployed in advance, the beasts far away in the Ullanor base would be on guard. No matter how they planned to defend themselves, letting the enemy know their trump card in advance was never a good thing for a war.
For the battle moon above Terra, fourteen Astartes regiments, ten regiments of Skitarii and five Knight families are more than enough. As long as they break through the gravity storm of the battle moon, they should be able to take it down even without the Sisters of Silence. Fu Qinghai plans to save the Sisters of Silence, a powerful weapon, for Ullanor and use it in the decisive battle.
"Khan, the Imperial Fists have found the gate."
The voice of Hermit Master Tristan sounded on the channel:
"We are currently fighting the orcs guarding the gate."
"Has the beast appeared?"
Fu Qinghai asked the question that concerned him most.
"Nothing has been found yet."
Tristan replied.
Why didn't the beast show up this time?
Fu Qinghai raised his right arm and looked at the holographic projection from the auspicious instrument integrated into the arm armor. Most of the internal structure of the battle moon has been outlined, and there are not many unexplored blank areas. The cave in the middle has the largest space.
"The battle will be over within an hour."
Fu Qinghai lowered his arm and gave the order.
"Roger that, Khan."
All the company commanders in the channel answered in unison.
Heavy footsteps accompanied by the tremors of the passage rang in his ears. At the top of the passage casually dug by the orcs, natural stones, simple ceilings and ventilation ducts were breaking and falling one after another, and several three to four meter tall robots squeezed in.
Fu Qinghai looked back.
The passage was blocked by huge figures crowded together.
"I will follow your orders, Qingshan Khan."
A message popped up in the eyepiece retina interface.
The intelligent control army sent by the Forge Commander is here!
The Cybertronic Corps, also known as the Cybernite Combat Robot Corps. Mars is the first forging world, and the Cybertronic Corps has the most complete models. In addition to the nearly humanoid Fortress-type, Fortress-type, and Domitar-type Cybertronic Robots, there are also strange-looking Vulture-type and Predator-type Cybertronic Robots. As for the Death-class Cybertronic Robots, the large siege-type Cybertronic Robots of the same size as the Knight Mechs may not be able to squeeze into this passage.
"Hello, Archibald, the Archbishop of the battlefield."
Fu Qinghai responded in the communication channel.
He recognized the source of the message. It was a specially modified Domita-type intelligent robot. The intelligent core had been removed and replaced with a certain technical priest's own biological brain and intelligence core, making him temporarily transformed into an intelligent robot, blending into the team and commanding other intelligent robots on the battlefield.
This special position is called "Battlefield Archbishop".
Kubik said that he would give a smart control army to Fu Qinghai to command, but in fact, each mecha battalion that made up the smart control army had a military priest in charge of command, as well as a matching set of dedicated machine servants and smart control machinists responsible for maintenance. Fu Qinghai could at most give orders to the military technical priests, but the specific actions of the mechas were not actually controlled by him.
"Seven mecha battalions have been deployed."
The technical priest's tone seemed to urge him.
"Immediately launch an attack on the alien subspace portal we marked on the map and paralyze it."
Fu Qinghai immediately issued the order.
"We will launch an attack on the subspace portal, but I disagree with your battle plan."
But the answer I heard was not what I expected.
"……What's the meaning?"
Fu Qinghai turned around and looked at the large group of intelligent robots behind him, his eyes fixed on one of the Domita-type intelligent robots. The Terminator Guards beside him also turned around.
"Your plan is for efficiency and aims to destroy the battle moon in the shortest possible time, which is commendable. However, according to the agreement reached between the Forge Commander and you, we need to recover the alien technology on the battle moon. Your combat plan should ensure that these technological creations are not damaged so much that they completely lose their value for recovery and restoration."
The intelligent robot looked down at him from above.
He spoke in a neither humble nor arrogant tone.
Even the Imperial Fists did not question my battle plan.
Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes slightly.
Between the pillar-like steel giant legs of the intelligent robot soldiers, some figures in red robes bending over and busying themselves can be vaguely seen. The technical priests are directing the robot servants to dismantle, pack up and take away the surrounding machines and cables - the battle is not over yet, and the Mechanicus has already begun to recycle the Orc technological creations.
Are you afraid that someone will take away a piece of your scraps?
This way of eating is a bit too ugly.
"Of course, that's part of the deal."
Fu Qinghai nodded slowly, then leaned closer to the cervical armor and gave orders to all channels of the two legions:
"All space warriors, give up the front line and leave the cave deep in the battle moon to the Martian army."
"What? Repeat?"
"Qingshan, what does this mean?"
"We need more explanation, Aoyama."
"We wiped out three companies there!"
The communication channel was immediately filled with stunned inquiries, dissatisfied doubts and angry curses. The chapter leaders of the two different legions were extremely puzzled by this order.
"I'll repeat it again."
Fu Qinghai stared at the intelligent robot soldier, tilted his head slightly and continued to give orders on the communication channel:
"I am Qingshan Khan. All Space Marines will immediately withdraw from the frontline upon hearing this order. Rest and wait until new orders are issued. The Skitarii, Cybernetic Corps, and Knights have already landed. The rest of the battle will be left to them."
After saying this, he no longer paid attention to the noisy voices in the communication channel and looked up at the special mecha in the group of mechas:
"As you wish, sage."
"May the God of All Things protect you, Qingshan Khan."
Archbishop Archibald of the battlefield said:
"You are worthy of the skull and gears on your shoulders."
After saying that, the Intelligent Control Corps started moving forward again.
There was a rumble and tremor in the passage again.
After the two Space Marine Legion fleets withstood the Battle Moon's most powerful gravity storm weapons, suffered the heaviest casualties, and successfully landed on the surface and paralyzed the gravity weapons, they are going to hand over the honor and rewards of conquering the Battle Moon to others, to the Mechanicus who came to pick the peaches?
No Chapter Master could accept this. However, the White Scars' successors withdrew from the frontline immediately after receiving the order, and handed over the deepest cave to the Mechanicus troops. In the end, the Space Marines of the High Wall were somewhat hesitant, waiting for the direct order from the Legion Commander Kurland: fight or retreat? The Space Marines of the Black Templars complained the most, but after careful consideration, Bosimonde also chose to execute this order.
Fu Qinghai looked at the intelligent control army that passed him and advanced towards the depths of the battle moon, and he pondered silently in his heart:
There are currently only two types of intelligent robot soldiers in the Phaeton Forge World: the Vulture-type intelligent robot soldier, also known as the Voltarax intelligent robot soldier, which is the predecessor of the Plague Drone, and the STC comes from the seizure of the Zheras Space Station; the Fortress-type intelligent robot soldier, also known as the Castellan intelligent robot soldier, commonly known as "Dabai", the technology comes from Master Quinto, this is the most widely used intelligent robot soldier in the Mechanicus, many sages choose the Castellan intelligent robot soldier as a personal bodyguard, which is stronger and more reliable than armed servitors.
Mars has almost all types of intelligent robot soldiers.
And this may be the last time we see these models.
If you miss this village, you will miss this shop.
During the Horus Heresy, the major Forge Worlds were also in civil war. The warring parties made unscrupulous modifications and breakthroughs to the control programs of the cybernetic robots, which led to many loyal Forge Worlds generally believing that the cybernetic robots were "technological heresies" after the war. A large number of design blueprints of many types of cybernetic robots were destroyed, and only the oldest and most stable Castellan cybernetic robots were retained. In other words, in the cybernetic legions of the Mechanicus in the 40K period, there may only be one type of Castellan.
"I want to get this intelligence control army."
Fu Qinghai seemed to be talking to himself quietly:
"What can you do?"
"Give me a moment, Master."
Qing Ming's voice was the first to sound:
"The control codes of the intelligent control cortex of each intelligent control robot under the command of the military priest are different, and there are killing codes similar to firewalls. It will take me some time to break through."
"I don't need the time, Master."
Another voice sounded in my heart:
"I can immediately possess and control these half-mechanical, half-biological things, and do it silently and without anyone noticing. This is my strength and talent. Qingming has never seen such a thing. She is a silicon-based life form. Does she understand what an intelligent control cortex is? Even if she does, how can she ensure that the intelligent control machinists and technical priests will not be alerted during the breakthrough process?"
"I guess someone is saying bad things about me right now."
Qing Ming said calmly in the private channel:
"Some disgusting lump of purple plasticine."
"You are the plasticine."
A dark purple twisted face bulged up on the side of Fu Qinghai's cheek, and he retorted to the neck armor communication channel:
"You're even worse than plasticine. You didn't even have a body originally. You were just a bunch of data codes. You used tricks and schemes to build a body for yourself without telling your master. Now you're suddenly crazy? What qualifications do you have to laugh at me?"
On Fu Qinghai's retina screen, a mocking expression composed of tiny pixels immediately popped up:
"Haha, the master has already forgiven me, why are you complaining about me? You nosy bitch. You always claim to be a high-dimensional creature. You are a piece of trash who can't survive without parasitizing others. I am much more advanced than you and more useful than you!"
"Okay, okay, be quiet."
Fu Qinghai had no choice but to speak up to stop him.
Although Qingming and Qinghun bickered on a daily basis, they did bring out some key points worth noting:
In previous civil wars within the Mechanicus, there have been cases of using killing codes to seize control of the opponent's intelligent control machines, or disrupting the control programs of the opponent's intelligent control machines, causing the machines to indiscriminately kill each other indiscriminately. Therefore, Qingming's use of electromagnetic signals to break through the firewall and seize the intelligent control cortex controller is a traditional approach, and the Mechanicus is on guard against this approach. Even though Qingming is a super artificial intelligence with superior technical capabilities, it is difficult to guarantee that this process will be "quiet" enough so as not to arouse the vigilance of the technical priests and intelligent control machinists.
After all, we haven't completely broken off relations with Mars yet.
The two sides are still nominally friendly units.
But Qinghun is different. Qinghun is a symbiote, and an extremely rare symbiote that can parasitize electronic machinery. It does not hack through electromagnetic signals, but directly absorbs and integrates into them, and then decides who has the dominant control over the body based on the strength of the host's mental will.
Qinghun may not be able to control the body of a technical priest, because it is uncertain whether the technical priest's spiritual will is strong or not. However, there is no suspense in controlling a smart robot. Because of the restrictions of the Crimson Protocol on silicon-based artificial intelligence, the smart robot's smart cortex is actually a biological organic plastic as a "brain-like" and a bionic gray matter tendril as a "nerve" control structure. The intelligence level that this smart cortex can provide can be close to that of a beast AI that is good at hunting and fighting. Controlling a beast is no pressure for Qinghun.
"So what if I can control a robot?"
Qingming poured cold water on Qinghun's idea:
"Control it to leave the Cybernetic Corps and then swagger into our regiment? Can the oil men agree to this? Isn't this obviously a break with Mars?"
“Indeed, it may take an opportunity.”
Fu Qinghai raised his chin and thought to himself.
……
At this time, the battle is deep in the moon.
The orcs dug and built three wide spiral tunnels with a diameter of hundreds of meters, leading to the subspace portal deep in the battle moon, for the transportation of large equipment and supplies.
Only these three wide passages can allow the Knight Mechs to pass through. The Space Marines originally dispatched the few armored vehicles from each regiment to fight against the Ork armored forces in the passages. Now they are gradually withdrawing from the frontline positions and handing the battlefield over to the approaching Knight Mechs and intelligent control robots.
"House Taranis, the First Spearhead, is in place."
The knight pilot in the mecha spoke.
He sat in the mechanical throne, surrounded by complex machine components and fluorescent screens, and looked down. The detectors and sensors on the mecha skull were synchronously moving downward. He saw the Space Marine standing on the top of the tank, and the expression on his face did not seem very friendly.
The knight pilot ignored him and raised his head to continue controlling the Rage Knight forward. He stepped over the makeshift bunkers and trenches dug by the orcs in one step. These obstacles could not stop the knight from moving forward. The Land Raider and Predator tanks beside him looked so small.
"The second spearhead is in position."
The voices of other pilots began to be heard over the communication channel.
"The third spearhead is in position."
The tall and broad knight mechas led their thin and agile squire knights through the temporary defense positions built by the Space Marines, continued to move towards the depths of the battle moon, and arrived at the designated attack locations one after another. In other smaller passages, the Skitarii and the intelligent control mechas were also in place.
"Attack."
The Sage Commander conveyed his orders directly to all the Chief Knights, Intelligent Mathematicians and Alpha Crusaders on the front lines in the form of thought messages. The army of the God of All Machines began to speed up and launch an attack towards the depths of these passages.
"Waaaaagh—"
At the same time, the Orks had almost physically cleared the cluster mines that the Space Marines had laid in the passage when they retreated, and limping green-skinned guys with big guns and combat trucks with crooked and broken tracks swarmed out with noise.
"First Spearhead, follow me and attack."
The chief knight gave the order to attack skillfully. The body of the Angry River Knight stumbled heavily, and a large amount of waste heat and exhaust gas sprayed out of the exhaust pipe. His mechanical legs strode forward at an even faster speed. His left arm burst into evil light and shot out a red beam wrapped in multiple rings of red halos. It swept across and instantly ignited the rows of orcs, turning them into running human torches. Then he swung the Hundred-Armed Siege Claw on his right arm, easily clamped a combat truck and flipped it over.
"Too weak, these greenskins."
Behind the Angry River Knight were four Ranger Knights, who marched quickly and surpassed the Angry River Knight from both sides, brandishing their Reaper Chainswords and Thunder Fists to cut or smash the bouncing killing cans, then set up heavy logging guns and melta cannons to sweep down or melt the groups of orcs.
“I don’t know why they are fighting for so long.”
The knight pilot still had time to speak while operating.
"They" obviously refers to the Space Marines.
With knight mechas and cybernetic robots as the main force and ten regiments of Crusaders as the auxiliary, the Mechanicus quickly pushed the front line inward to the deepest cave in the battle moon. The Space Marines also fought here for a time, but retreated under the order of Qingshan Khan.
After the team of knight mechas with the fastest advancement speed entered the cave, they immediately saw the green fire gate in the center of the cave. The four or five hundred meter tall alien creature was shaking unsteadily in the violent energy fluctuations, white light kept flashing, and batches of orc boys appeared on the platform, howling.
"Target found, target confirmed."
A Broadsword Servant walking in the front said, while all sensors and detectors were scanning the green fire gate and transmitting the information obtained from the scan back to the Mechanical Ark.
"All units are not allowed to attack the target until the Tech-Priest has collected sample information related to the target."
Soon an order was sent back from the Mechanical Ark, requiring the army of the Mechanicus to protect the green fire gate.
The Knight Mechs and the Intelligent Control Robots used their fierce firepower and solid steel bodies to wipe out the orcs in the cave, but did not damage any of the ancillary facilities around the gate. The center of the blazing green fire gate lit up white light again, and a giant figure emerged in the white light.
"Be careful, the orcs' Titan units are coming."
The Chief Knight reminded calmly:
"Second spearhead, third spearhead, form a formation."
Several knight mechas quickly stepped forward to form a formation.
Just as they were on full alert, the white light in the gate dissipated, and then a giant battle axe as big as an excavator bucket flew out from the dissipated white light and hit the ranger knight in the front row right in the face. Amid a loud bang that pierced the eardrums, the battle axe instantly split the knight's top hatch and embedded itself into the cabin.
"This is!?"
The chief knight's eyes widened.
The Knight Ranger had stood still, no matter how his companions called out on the communication channel. Black oil and red plasma slowly flowed out of the cracks.
"Roar---"
The "Orc Titan Unit" roared to the sky, then lowered its body and rushed towards the Knight Mech with its arms swinging. Its full appearance appeared in the sight of all the Knight pilots present:
It is more than ten meters tall and as wide as a city wall, covered with layers of steel plates. The collision of the armor plates makes a harsh noise, and when it runs at full speed it is like a train rushing towards you.
"Oh!"
A Jealous Knight was knocked over in an instant.
The "Orc Titan Unit" swung the huge claws on its arms, cutting a slender Handle Ring Attendant in half, and then rolled over with incredible agility and flexibility to avoid two Reaper Chainswords slashing from the side, stood up and grabbed the top impact spear of a Lancer Knight next to it, and with the backhanded hand stabbed the spear into the chest of another Styx Knight.
It was only then that everyone could see the details clearly.
It's not an Orc Titan unit at all.
But it was a super giant orc!
"Waaaaaagh—"
More orcs rushed out from the green fire gate.
Staring with scarlet bloodthirsty eyes and bulging green muscles, he rushed into the red-robed soldiers at the feet of the knight's mecha and collided face to face with the Crusaders.
The Mechanicus' army fell into chaos in the blink of an eye. The formation of the knight mechas was shattered, and even the tall intelligent mechas were submerged by the green tide.
Outside the cave, a servo skull floated in the air, its red electronic eyes calmly scanning everything below and transmitting all the images back to the battlefield command center.
"The opportunity has come, hasn't it?"
Fu Qinghai stared at the picture on the screen and whispered.
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