Chapter 552, Blood Shark in Space

There is a reason why the flagship of the New World Torch became confused and slow in the fierce battle: they were boarded.

This sounds a bit strange. The flagship of a complete Space Marine Chapter was boarded?

Aren’t they usually boarding others?

And if the one who boarded was another Space Marine Chapter, it seemed a bit acceptable.

In particular, this chapter was famous for being "crazy".

Bai Qifan, the commander of the Alliance Fleet, could not recognize what this gray-painted chapter was, but Wang Mengsong, the commander of the New World Torch, could recognize it.

Blood Shark Chapter.

This chapter was unknown in the entire empire 130 years ago, and no one even knew that there was such a chapter in the empire?

However, in the Bauhinia Rebellion 130 years ago, the Blood Shark Chapter made its debut and participated in this "suppression operation".

However, the Blood Shark Chapter at that time stood on the side of "Iron Fury Stone".

When the political situation on Holy Terra changed and the three chapters of Bauhinia, Starbreaker and Phoenix were found guilty, the three chapters did not surrender at first.

The three chapters fought against Iron Fury Stone in the Nepeta Star Region next to the Empress Star Region, which was the original base of Bauhinia, and contacted friends everywhere to try to reverse the political situation on Holy Terra.

It cannot be said that there was no effect.

At least, as one of the founding chapters, Phoenix was quite sympathetic to the situation suffered by its three brothers. They could not leave directly, but they were prepared to leave, and continued to move in Holy Terra, exerting their own political influence, and even sought a seat for the Lord of the Supreme Council.

The seats at that time did not include Space Marine representatives. It was the Phoenix Chapter that sold its face everywhere, kicked a high lord down, and replaced itself.

However, when these political mediations were advancing rapidly and things began to gradually improve, the battlefield situation in the Spider Web Universe suddenly changed. The combined forces of the three regiments of Bauhinia, Starbreaker, and Phoenix were defeated on the front battlefield.

Objectively speaking, this was inevitable. The three regiments of Iron Fury Stone had military strength that absolutely crushed the Bauhinia and other regiments.

But at that time, Iron Armor did not dare to show too openly that he had a lot of super-births - they did not have so many people at that time as they would have a hundred years later.

There is indeed a military advantage, and it is huge, but the three regiments of Bauhinia also understand this. Since they hope to hold on until the political environment changes, they are also firmly implementing relevant strategies and will not go out to fight easily.

In theory, they adopt a flexible defense and focus on the strategy of holding on. After all, they have three standard regiments. If they cannot win, they will not collapse too quickly.

This was indeed the case at the beginning.

Until the Blood Shark Regiment appeared.

They emerged from the gloomy darkness and called themselves the "Blood Shark Regiment". They claimed that they heard the call from the central government of the empire and came to quell the rebellion.

Iron Fury Stone questioned their identity at first.

A warband that had never been heard of before. More importantly, this group of people didn't like to communicate with the outside world. They looked even more solemn after meeting each other, and even always made people smell a faint smell of blood.

No matter how you look at it, it makes people feel suspicious.

However, they did produce a series of documents about the establishment, authorization, and mission description of their warband...

This series of documents is very old, and this kind of thing is generally regarded as its own history and sacred objects by each warband, so it is well preserved.

The think tanks of the Iron Armor Warband studied it and believed that these documents were real.

However, the Empire has lost the relevant records and can't compare them.

Iron Armor has never encountered such a situation.

But obviously, Iron Armor is not a conservative and rule-abiding warband. What's wrong with someone coming to help fight? Not to mention a warband with unknown origins but real identities, even if a group of defector warbands really came to help, Iron Armor would probably accept them.

And soon, the Iron Armor Warband was surprised by its decision.

The combat effectiveness and fighting style shown by the Blood Shark Regiment are so amazing and efficient that even Iron Armor is surprised.

Their style can be summarized as a fast-strike force.

They rarely engage in any kind of protracted battles, preferring to rely on extremely high speed or stealth to approach the target and attack the enemy as unexpectedly as possible.

This is true whether in fleet battles or in Space Marine battles.

Their ships also have some lost special technology that can achieve a certain degree of invisibility, making it difficult to be observed in advance.

During the attack, they will try to quickly approach the enemy, engage in hand-to-hand combat with the opponent, or unleash their firepower at close range. Therefore, in addition to their standard weapons, they will also carry weapons such as chain saw axes and power axes, which are a bit too much by general standards, to tear the enemy apart in close combat.

Their fighting style is extremely efficient but also extremely cruel - their attacks are fast and violent, capable of causing the greatest possible damage in the shortest time. If an enemy survives, they will just hide and disappear and then attack again, continuing to kill the enemy's surviving units until the opponent no longer resists and faces destruction. Once the enemy in front of them is slaughtered, they will move on to the next target without stopping, and repeat the process again and again until there is no living thing around them, only the remains of their slaughter.

The Space Marines of the Blood Shark are generally very taciturn, cautious, and vigilant, but in battle they will show a marked transformation, displaying violent fits of extreme bloodthirst, frantically cutting down or blasting their enemies to pieces.

Commanders issued command orders through encrypted radio networks, and they would not speak a word to enemy or friendly forces during battle unless absolutely necessary.

This kind of silence forms a particularly sharp contrast with their violent fighting style of slashing and killing enemies, and even preferring to dismember their bodies on the spot, with their bodies splattered with blood. When they do this, there won't even be that kind of venting shouting, just silent axe-by-axe-cutting.

An eerie silence.

With the help of this elusive battle group who is very good at surprise operations, the battle situation that the Redbud Three Regiment was able to maintain was suddenly broken.

The sudden attack stunned the three battle groups.

They have never seen such a battle group or enemy, and they have never received any information about another battle group. In several raids, the blood shark achieved great results.

And every time they made a hole in the defense line, the Third Iron Fury Stone Regiment would rush in fiercely with superior strength.

After several similar battles, the Redbud Three Regiments collapsed and inevitably surrendered.

This also brought the Phoenix Chapter's political efforts to naught.

The target they wanted to save was already hopeless.

In general, the main factor in defeating the Third Bauhinia Regiment on the frontal battlefield must still be the absolutely superior strength of the Third Iron Fury Stone Regiment. Their strength was almost four times that of the Third Bauhinia Regiment.

However, no one can ignore the special role played by the Blood Shark Chapter.

What is particularly impressive is their bloody and cruel fighting style.

Many war groups don't care much about the life and death of mortals, whether enemies, friendly forces, or civilians. But even among the Space Marines, the blood shark's performance on this point is particularly excessive. In the pursuit of military objectives, they have time and again shown utter disregard for the casualties among affected civilians. There would be no effortless help at all. If there were injured civilians lying on the ground where they were advancing and would be stepped on, they would not change their pace for this, and it would not be a big deal if they stepped on them.

This is also quite controversial.

It was not until later that the imperial scholars on Holy Terra, after in-depth study of some historical documents, found some information about blood sharks from some ancient battle cases, even myths, epics, ancient operas, and fables. evidence.

Nothing features them as the protagonists, but in the background panels of some stories, it is mentioned that about four thousand years ago, a war group called the "Blood Sharks" was established. They were sent to a space that was not connected by astral tunnels and could not communicate directly with astrology. They carried out endless voyages and slaughtered and ravaged the enemies of mankind. Show no mercy to traitors, aliens and turncoats, uprooting them from their turf.

Of course, there would be reports about them from time to time in various border star regions of the empire, but they were not very important and were ignored by the men on Holy Terra.

Although each of these documentary sources has somewhat low credibility, none is officially recorded history. However, these isolated works from about the same period mention the same thing, and have consistent descriptions of similarities in certain details of image information and battle group actions. For example, they all mention blood sharks. The Chapter displayed a ferocious but thoughtful cruelty, and a relatively consistent view of the missions for which they were founded and sent to perform...

All these elements are consistent with the Blood Shark Chapter's performance in the Redbud Rebellion, and from this perspective, the credibility is okay.

After all, there are thousands of years and a long history, and the empire has lost only one or two historical records.

As a result, the empire basically recognized the Blood Shark Chapter after that.

However, in the later stages of the Purple Flower Rebellion, when the war was basically over, the Blood Sharks and the Iron Armor Chapter had a series of conflicts.

The Blood Shark Chapter is cruel, bloodthirsty, ruthless... but very poor.

This is quite understandable. As an 'expeditionary battle group', a ship-based battle group, there is no world of conscription and no fixed income. It also wanders around the known universe and the dark universe outside the empire's territory every day on endless expeditions and voyages. Is this possible without being poor?

But they were poor in style.

Ordinary equipment and even ammunition supplies are quite scarce. There are also very few battle group servants and mortal auxiliary troops, but there are quite a lot of cutting-edge equipment. Even the models of power armor are of various types, some are new, but most of them are of various types. An old, archaic model with an extremely inconsistent style.

The Chapter collects the equipment it needs through the "grey tax", that is, by using technological relics found in the outer world, and exchanging the equipment and ammunition needed by the Chapter with the Mechanicum or other industrial worlds.

The war group supplements its soldiers and mortal auxiliary troops and servants through the "red tax", which is to pick a planet to capture able-bodied men. The war group has always been relatively poor, and the warriors' armor has been pieced together in various ways.

After fighting for the Iron Armor War Group, Blood Shark should collect "gray tax" and "blood tax".

At first, Iron Armor expressed his willingness to pay.

Compared with other people's military exploits, what's wrong with giving some money?

However, Blood Shark has its own rules. They collect money according to the proportion of the planets they conquer.

The number is a bit too much, beyond Iron Armor's expectations.

Iron Armor tried to negotiate, but Blood Shark didn't know what negotiation was.

This is not a reward, not a transaction, but a "tax".

Do I have to discuss with you before collecting taxes?

There is no need to use people to collect taxes, just do it yourself.

Grab equipment, rob spoils, rob people, directly conscript a large number of people on some planets that Iron Armor cares about, and conduct a recruitment activity with a very high mortality rate...

Iron Armor was irritated, and some conflicts broke out between the two sides.

In the end, the Blood Sharks retreated with a number of taxes that they were not satisfied with, and returned to the darkness.

…

In the 130 years since the Bauhinia Rebellion, the Blood Sharks seem to have appeared more frequently. But it may also be that after becoming famous, people pay more attention to them and care more about them.

They still do their own thing, act in the outer domain, occasionally appear in the empire, and their whereabouts are uncertain, doing some business with different Mechanic Churches, and collecting some blood taxes in different worlds. In addition, they just cause trouble for the grudge Iron Armor.

After the outbreak of the Princess Rebellion six years ago, the Iron Armor has been on guard, whether this grudge, occasionally troublesome, but strong and cruel to the point of being thrilling, will emerge and become an enemy.

But for six years, they have not made any movement.

Until today.

The unlucky one is not the Iron Armor, but the New World Torch.

The Torchlight was boarded by the Blood Sharks. As the flagship of the war group, there are 400 New World Torch warriors on board. Through some unstoppable and even unpredictable psychic transmission technology, the blood sharks that boarded the ship quickly attacked multiple key parts of the ship.

For a moment, Wang Mengsong couldn't even figure out how many blood sharks had boarded his ship!

Before he gathered his men to surround and kill these boarders, multiple firepower centers, artillery locations, and ship control nodes of the ship were attacked. Those places soon lost their vitality, either lost or were blown up from the inside.

This is also the reason why the entire Torchlight was half paralyzed not long after the battle began.

But after all, the ship was not scrapped, and the main force of the Torch Warriors on the ship were still there.

However, as time went on, the situation eased.

Wang Mengsong urgently deployed troops, and the auxiliary army and space warriors on the ship were chasing and intercepting, and the blood sharks that boarded the ship were roughly divided into five or six areas.

However, it is hard to say whether the Blood Sharks were forced to split into five or six teams, or whether this was their original organizational situation.

In particular, there was a Blood Shark team that was ‘separated’ near the core engine compartment, which was particularly worrying.

If they were carrying any high-energy bombs and detonated them in the core engine compartment, the consequences would be disastrous.

Wang Mengsong personally led people to encircle and suppress them.

————

4k

Still owe 116