The Emperor’s Angel of Death

#3269 - New Soldiers in Desperate Situation

Chapter 3273: A Recruit in Desperate Straits

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Seven scouts huddled inside a mountain cave less than a hundred meters deep, while hundreds of enemies swarmed outside like a flood, disregarding the heavy fire from the Space Marine recruits.

Mishina also regretted choosing this place as a temporary base, but they really had no better choice. After the destruction of the Chapter Monastery, they had completely lost contact with the Chapter. They had only escaped because they were conducting field combat exercises at the time. However, due to the lack of long-range communication equipment, they couldn't contact any local forces, nor did they know what was happening in the outside world. They were simply lost in the Hell Mountains, surrounded by Orks.

In this situation, Mishina, as a "veteran" of the Tenth Company, had to take responsibility for leading these recruits. He had served in the Tenth Company for some time, and he had also participated in the disastrous Third Company expedition. He was one of the few survivors. He had personally witnessed the Third Company Captain being killed by an Ork Warboss. His hatred for the Orks was deeply ingrained in his bones. After returning to the homeworld, he proposed that the recruits undergo simulated training against the Orks.

But now there was no need for simulation. In this desperate situation, he chose to lead the team in guerrilla warfare, believing that the Imperium's forces would counterattack.

To conduct mountain guerrilla warfare, they needed a safe base. Based on his past memories, Mishina found a relatively hidden cave, then established a guerrilla base. For more than a month, he took people out at night, under the cover of darkness, to search the ruins of the Chapter Monastery for useful supplies and equipment. At the same time, he scouted the Ork bases in the Hell Mountains and ambushed lone or small groups of Orks.

Initially, things went smoothly. The Orks didn't have much awareness of security, and they didn't pay much attention to a few missing.

But the problem was that they only paid attention to the Ork Boyz and didn't pay much attention to another group of things, namely the Gretchin.

Not long ago, during an exploration, a recruit accidentally found a stinky little bundle. After opening it, he found that it was all garbage, but there was also a lot of ammunition, so he directly took it. But he didn't expect that it was a Gretchin's treasure. They often made unique scent signals on their collections and followed the scent to find the Space Marine guerrilla squad's base, hence this scene.

Fortunately, the cave he chose had a characteristic: the entrance was small and the inside was large. Simply put, it was a bottle-shaped structure, and there were no additional entrances, only a few small cracks for ventilation. Therefore, when the Orks tried to attack them, they couldn't take advantage of their numbers and could only come in a few at a time, then be easily killed.

But the Orks weren't stupid either. After dozens of Boyz died, they brought a large number of explosives, directly blew up the entrance of the cave, and incidentally blew up a dozen Boyz who didn't believe in evil and wanted to watch the explosion up close.

Then came the fierce attack.

Although the cave was very safe, it also meant that they had no way to escape. Mishina realized that this might be their last battle and could only do their best.

They had knocked down many Orks, but the enemy's attacks came wave after wave. They ignored their dead and trampled the corpses into the blood-soaked rubble. Each roar brought a pungent stench into the cave. Mishina was familiar with the smell full of old sweat and fungal stench, which was more disgusting than rotten garbage.

Raising the sniper rifle in his hand, this famous marksman of the Chapter aimed at the largest, darkest-skinned Ork he could see and pulled the trigger of the silenced bolter.

The bullet accurately cut into the neck of the Ork Nob who was slapping his fellow and instantly severed the nerve bundles connecting the neck and head. The Ork immediately fell backward, causing the surrounding Orks to burst into exclamations, demonstrating his killing skills as a professional sniper.

But Mishina didn't have time to stop to admire the results, or even to think, but quickly shifted his target and aimed again. There was an Ork waving a hammer-like throwing bomb, its legs, as thick as a human torso, clumsily advancing, trying to cross the rubble and throw the grenade in.

"Only the Emperor, He is our protector and defender."

Chanting the Chapter's slogan in a low voice, Mishina fired, and a bolt hit the creature's sloping forehead like thunder. Although only half of its head was left, it was still running, even with its eyeballs hanging on its chin, until its heavy corpse fell heavily, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

Boom—

The Ork's throwing bomb exploded, setting off a storm of gravel and minced meat, killing a dozen Orks around.

But then another group rushed out.

"I'm out of ammo!"

A recruit shouted.

"Cover me!"

Then the newly modified warrior tore the last fragmentation grenade from his belt, pulled the pin, and threw it at the enemy.

At the moment of the explosion, he rushed out of cover and went straight to a Ork machine gun dropped on the ground.

Using alien weapons was a violation of combat regulations, but at this time, no one cared about the rules.

Just as the recruit picked up the machine gun, which looked like it was pieced together with steel pipes and iron plates, and grabbed the ammunition chain in a mess to retreat, a roar suddenly sounded on the battlefield. An Ork stepped on the corpse and jumped up, waving two cleavers in his hand, covered in skull ornaments, and looked like a fierce butcher.

The recruit didn't have time to wave his weapon to block. He tried to shoot but couldn't find the trigger of the gun.

Just as the beast's cleaver was about to strike, its head suddenly tilted back, and a hole was accurately opened in its forehead, blowing off its skull, causing its head to explode in a burst of red flesh and bone fragments.

The airborne corpse fell heavily, hitting a group of Boyz, causing a burst of curses.

"This thing works!"

After fiddling for a while, the recruit who picked up the Ork weapon shouted excitedly, then poked out of cover, and the weapon in his hand began to make a frantic哒哒sound, instantly knocking over a group of Orks.

But soon, a whistling sound interrupted his shooting.

"Rocket! Get down!"

Mishina shouted, then turned and shrank back into cover, only to hear a rumbling sound, and a huge impact and hot gale swept in from both sides of the cover.

When he looked up, he saw that the recruit who used the Ork weapon had been covered by rubble, the weapon had also flown to the side, and the whole person seemed to be seriously injured and motionless. At the same time, an Ork had broken through the blockade firepower and raised its battleaxe, seemingly to execute him.

"Damn it!"

Mishina wanted to raise his gun but found that he was out of bullets, so he pulled out his combat dagger and rushed over, directly stabbing it into the beast's back. The blade pierced through the Ork's ribs, and the guy immediately roared in pain, trying to turn around but found himself pinned by the blade in the flesh.

The unbalanced beast fell sideways, howling in pain, and as it fell, the wound on its body tore further.