Chapter 577, Blood Shark? Cute!

Silently retracting his axe, Arma Ewing still couldn't help looking to the side.

Fighting alongside him, in addition to the gray-armored warriors of the Blood Sharks, there were also some Space Marines in red helmets and red armor.

To be honest, this was not the first time the two sides had dealt with each other.

The "Bauhinia Rebellion" of that year was the first battle for the Blood Sharks to return to the Empire.

This was exactly Ewing's decision.

The Chapter had been fighting in the Outlands for a very long time. Most of the people in the Chapter, including himself, only knew that they belonged to the Empire and fought for the Emperor in the Chapter's historical scriptures and in the word of mouth of some old predecessors.

But what is the Empire?

They only have historical records, and only occasionally enter the Empire's territory to cooperate with some Forge Worlds that have limited cooperation with them in exchange for some resources, but they will return to the Outlands immediately.

After such a long time, when Ewing had been a blood shark for four hundred years and a warband leader for eighty years, he made a decision that went against his ancestors: to forcefully enter the empire and announce the return of the blood sharks.

He did not want to overturn the way of survival of the warband since its establishment. He just wanted to lead his fighting brothers to take a good look at what the empire they were fighting for was like; he wanted to bring the warband back into the public eye and let people recognize them again as a group of sharks that roamed outside the empire and silently fought for the empire.

So, the opportunity he chose was the Bauhinia Rebellion 130 years ago.

When he heard the call of the empire to suppress the rebellion, he brought the blood sharks to the empire's territory, responded to the call of the empire, and participated in the suppression of the rebellion.

It was also in this war that they recognized the Phoenix.

To be honest, Ewing and his sharks did not care whether the Phoenix and the other two warbands were really traitors. If the central government of the empire said yes, then it was done by fighting.

But to be honest, he didn't think that the warbands he encountered in the empire were that powerful.

They were not even as good as the real rebels they occasionally encountered in the dark outer domain.

In the eyes of the blood sharks, these space warriors who grew up in the "greenhouse" were different from them. Whether it was the Iron Armor and Fury Flame who were on the same front line with the blood sharks at that time, or the Bauhinia on the opposite side, although each of them looked more glamorous than them, and they paid attention to various techniques and tactics. But, if they really fought, how could they compare with the sharp teeth of the sharks?

The same goes for the Phoenix.

This is their impression of the Phoenix.

But today, he has to update his impression of this group of red-armored warriors.

The blood sharks are friendly forces in the battle sequence of the alliance. They recognize the authority of the empire, and naturally recognize Gu Hang, the commander-in-chief of the southern line appointed by the empire, and are willing to cooperate in the battle.

But they still stick to the identity of "friendly forces" and are not subordinates.

If there is a combat order, then follow it and secretly note it down for future rewards; if the order is unreasonable, then they will have the right to decide whether to do it according to their own situation.

Helping the three battle cruisers of the Alliance out of danger and attacking the Fury War Group by the way, this is what they are happy to do, so they did it.

However, they were opposed to this fleet decisive battle.

Although the opposition was invalid, they also followed to participate in the battle, but in fact, they always stayed on the edge of the battlefield, ready to evacuate immediately after the Alliance was sent to die.

It was even more unrealistic to hear that the Phoenix War Group was going to board the war ark flagship of the Mechanicus.

Ewing's understanding of the Phoenix still remained in the past. Judging from himself, even the Blood Shark was not sure that he could complete the order given by Gu Hang. It was impossible to board a core flagship of the Mechanicus with tens of millions of crew members and a very high degree of elite with a scale of hundreds of people.

In Ewing's view, this was a suicidal act.

Then, if even the blood sharks couldn't do it, wouldn't the phoenixes be even more unable to do it?

Wouldn't it be suicide to board the ship through psychic teleportation?

Then, the development of the battle was far beyond Ewing's expectations.

He didn't know what happened on the Alfonzo II, but the final result was clear: the war ark was destroyed from the inside, and before it was destroyed, it had lost most of its combat capabilities and was paralyzed.

Ewing was very familiar with this state of the ship. In his past combat experience, every warship that was boarded by the blood sharks and disintegrated from the inside was like this.

It was precisely because of this that Ewing was surprised.

Did the group of phoenixes really do it?

What the blood sharks couldn't do, the phoenixes could do?

Ewing was a little skeptical about this.

Belief is that the facts are in front of your face, and you can't deny it even if you lie with your eyes open;

Doubt is that you think there is any other hidden secret in this matter? For example, the oil guys on the War Ark were already in internal strife?

He couldn't figure it out, but he soon had a chance to see it with his own eyes.

After the enemy fleet was defeated and broken into pieces, the battleship targeted by the Alliance Fleet must be seized.

It seems that the Phoenix suffered some losses in the previous boarding battle, and there were not enough people in this boarding battle.

So, Gu Hang personally called the communication, hoping that Blood Shark would also take action.

Ewing agreed.

He personally led two hundred Blood Sharks, and entered the Retribution-class battleship through a special psychic transmission device a few minutes earlier than scheduled.

Then, he followed the instructions and began to seize some key target positions.

The Blood Sharks, including the Phoenix, were mainly tasked with leading the charge.

They needed to build a landing site to facilitate the subsequent landing force.

After all, it was impossible to really expect that only a few hundred Space Marines could wipe out the Mechanicus' crew and Skitarii troops on the entire ship, which numbered at least hundreds of thousands.

Let alone whether it could be done, whether it was necessary and worthwhile was a more critical issue.

There were important tasks that required a small but cutting-edge combat force to complete, and that was a good time to dispatch Space Marines; just because the Space Marines were stronger, letting them fight against hundreds or thousands of times more enemies was a disease.

For this reason, it was completely unnecessary to sacrifice a large number of Space Marines.

Ewing would never take on such an irresponsible task.

Their goal at this moment is mainly to ensure the safety of an area, to destroy a certain amount of enemy interception firepower, and even directly cut off the coordinated command capability of the interception system, so as to create conditions for the subsequent landing of large forces.

They did a good job.

The blood sharks are good at this kind of assault war. Under their rapid attack, although there are many elites in the Skitarii, and some units are not even weaker than ordinary Space Marines. But under the bloody slaughter axes of the blood sharks, they were still quickly resolved.

Of course, if there were only two hundred warriors of their blood sharks, the development of the war would be difficult to be so easy. After all, their number is small, and there are too many targets to conquer. If they are too dispersed, there will really be a situation where some places may not be taken down, or even the entire team will be damaged.

However, with more than 300 Phoenixes joining in, it will be different.

Not only did they greatly make up for the problem of insufficient blood sharks in terms of quantity, but also gave Ewing, the commander of the war, the opportunity to observe what is special about these Phoenix Space Marines.

Well... nothing special.

There are no special tactics, nor any special weapons that are incomprehensible. Everything is normal.

They are just very good at fighting.

In the 130 years since the Purple Gold Flower Rebellion, although Ewing's main activity area is still in the dark outer domain, the number of times and time he has entered the empire is much more than in the past. During this period, he has also seen many different Space Marines.

From then on, he has a more comprehensive positioning of the strength level of his Blood Shark Regiment: they are very strong, much stronger than most of the regiments.

Maybe it's a problem of gene seeds? Maybe it's because they have been in the dark outer domain for many years, and have more and more brutal combat experiences than those regiments guarding one side in the empire?

These may be the reasons.

Ewing is often proud of this, and even a faint disdain for those regiments in the empire has risen in his heart: they are just so-so!

However, the phoenix he saw today completely subverted his cognition.

The average strength level of this group of phoenixes is very strong.

The two hundred blood sharks that he selected were all very elite veterans in the regiment. If we look at the level of the New World Torch Regiment that was beaten by them before, it is not a problem for these two hundred blood sharks to defeat five hundred torches.

However, even if he doesn't want to admit it, the red-helmeted and red-armored warriors in front of Ewing are stronger than the blood sharks.

In terms of average strength, two hundred against two hundred, his own winning rate may not exceed 20% - this is the result of his calculation that slightly weighted his regiment in his mind.

Not only did Ewing see this, but almost every one of the two hundred warriors of the Blood Shark Regiment saw it.

The blood sharks have never been used to cooperating with friendly forces, and are better at fighting alone. At the same time, because they have been wandering in the outer domain for many years, they have very little contact with other forces in the empire, and they have relatively strong strength, so the blood sharks have gradually cultivated a kind of arrogance, not caring much, and not looking down on anyone else.

However, they have to change their views now.

If they can't beat them, why are they arrogant?

Moreover, it was not only this that made them look sideways.

Is the Phoenix the only strong force of the Alliance?

No.

When they completed the construction of the landing site and greatly weakened the fire interception system of the Retribution-class battleship, a large number of Alliance landing ships arrived with a large number of Alliance troops.

The battle sisters of the Holy Lily, the Alliance Marines, the airborne troops of the Army, the independent Glory Guards... a series of military forces that are more numerous and more suitable for large-scale operations have all arrived.

These are all mortal troops.

However, even these mortal troops have made the blood sharks look at them with new eyes.

Putting aside the battle sisters, after all, these female warriors blessed by divine arts are often compared with space marines.

But even those other serious mortal armies are very powerful.

Especially the Glory Guards.

It’s not a big deal that all members are wearing feedback power armor. Blood Shark has seen some wealthy mortal troops before.

Even if a fool puts on power armor, it doesn't change his nature.

But the key is that these Glory Guards are not much worse than ordinary Space Marines in some characteristics, such as psychological quality and technical and tactical level. At most, they don't have extraordinary physiques and nerve control power armor like an arm.

Those Glory Guards, if there are more than ten of them, can make a blood shark feel difficult; if there are twenty or thirty, it is hard to say whether the blood shark or the Glory Guard will win.

However, the total combat power that the Blood Shark Corps can now bring out is only less than 700, and their regiment is rarely in full strength.

At this moment, the number of Glory Guards that Ewing saw landing on the enemy ship alone has exceeded 15,000.

Is this the entire Glory Guard force of the Alliance?

I'm afraid not.

Not to mention, those airborne corps and marines of the navy, which were subordinate to the army, were not so exaggerated, but they were still inferior to the blood shark auxiliary army selected by the blood shark from cruel trials and actual combat.

The equipment rate of feedback power armor for this level of troops exceeded 20%, which was even more than the poor blood sharks could not even covet.

The blood sharks finished their work in silence, and then acted with the alliance troops in silence.

Silence was originally their style. The alliance troops that boarded the ship, including the Phoenix, were informed of this in advance. Moreover, the alliance troops were also warned to stay away from these vicious sharks. In the few battles of the blood shark regiment, they all showed extreme indifference to friendly forces, especially mortal friendly forces.

If there are friendly troops blocking their guns, they will shoot without hesitation; if there are friendly troops delaying their rapid march, they will really step over without hesitation, not caring about the lives of mortals.

The Alliance soldiers who boarded the ship were more or less frightened, and followed their superiors' instructions carefully.

But after all, they were fighting in the same place, and they would definitely fight side by side.

After contact, the Alliance soldiers soon became less nervous.

They felt that these blood sharks, apart from not being talkative and liking to make the scene bloody, seemed... nothing special?

Looking at the dark gray helmet and the blood red on the forehead, why do they feel a little cute?