Chapter 395: News of Victory

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The artillery positions in the rear began firing into the thick fog; the firelight produced by the explosions made the previously opaque fog a bit more translucent. Through the reflections cast by the fog, Lao Li saw the shadows of Zerg appearing within it, along with some fragments blown out of the fog by the shells.

"Is that the Zerg?"

Lao Li muttered to himself, adjusting the position of his laser gun to give himself a sense of security.

"New recruit, watch closely! Those aliens are coming! Prepare to fire!"

Seeing that Lao Li looked somewhat nervous, the Vittorian soldier said in a stern voice.

Soon, the fog spread to a position very close to the defensive line. The Zerg, having been baptized by the shells in the fog, already bore many scars. They let out bursts of hissing roars and charged toward the human defensive line, waving their sharp forelimb blades.

"Fire!"

Following Fang Kesheng's order, the Vittorian soldiers and Reserve Army soldiers on the defensive line opened fire on the Zerg charging toward them, and some Reserve Army soldiers threw fragmentation grenades.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sounds of explosions rang out within the insect tide, and laser beams shot out from the defensive line, harvesting the approaching Zerg.

The laser guns fired by the Vittorian soldiers were even more powerful than those fired by the Reserve Army soldiers, instantly blasting through a giant pincer insect, including its pair of massive pincers.

"Lao Du, did you see that! I killed that Zerg! Damn it! Watch out for that plasma bomb fired by the Zerg on the other side!"

Seeing a red plasma bomb flying toward them, Lao Li raised his head slightly and shouted loudly.

One second, two seconds—Lao Du did not answer Lao Li's words. The atmosphere of silence made Lao Li feel that something was wrong. He immediately looked toward his side and saw his comrade, Lao Du, who had by now become a charred corpse. Seeing this scene, Lao Li's heart was filled with anger and sorrow; he fired his laser gun continuously at the Zerg below, letting out an angry roar.

"Go to hell! You damn aliens!"

Just as the insect tide below was getting closer and closer to the defensive line, an armored unit broke out from the flank of the defensive line. Chimera Armored Vehicles covered Leman Russ Tanks as they charged into the battlefield, erupting with powerful firepower that tore a gap in the insect tide charging toward the line.

Suddenly, the pressure on the defensive line plummeted. The laser beams on the line quickly eliminated the Zerg that had approached the line. Seeing this, the Vittorian Second Lieutenant immediately gave an order.

"Follow the Modian armored unit and advance! For the Emperor!"

"For the Emperor!"

Vittorian soldiers clad in pitch-black scale armor walked out of the defensive line to advance forward alongside the Modian soldiers. The armored unit cleared the way in front, and the corpses of the Zerg were crushed, leaving behind tracks from the treads.

Fang Kesheng also led the Reserve Army soldiers to charge toward the insect tide. Some soldiers were pale-faced at this moment, shocked by the meat-grinder-like scene before them, but more Reserve Army soldiers let out roars, releasing their inner anger and fear along with the laser beams.

A Vittorian soldier was pounced on and knocked to the ground by a death-servant insect. Just as this death-servant insect was about to use its sharp forelimb blade to stab the Vittorian soldier's head, the Reserve Army soldiers in the rear opened fire on the death-servant insect. The laser beams hit the death-servant insect's thick shell, causing it to let out a hiss.

The sharp forelimb blade immediately changed direction, killing several Reserve Army soldiers who were close to the death-servant insect. The Vittorian soldier, having broken free from the restraint, raised his laser gun and fired a maximum-power laser beam, which accurately hit the death-servant insect's abdomen, burning a large hole in it.

The pained death-servant insect had just turned its head when a second laser beam hit its small head, which looked disproportionate to its massive body.

As the death-servant insect's head was blown apart, its massive body slowly collapsed to the ground.

Several death-servant insects tried to approach the Leman Russ Tank from the side, but they were shot dead by the heavy bolters fired by the covering Chimera Armored Vehicles. The powerful firepower made the death-servant insects' thick shells seem like paper, easily torn to shreds.

The plasma insect firing plasma bombs from afar was spotted by the Modian Lieutenant riding in a Leman Russ Tank, who immediately ordered the armored unit to advance toward that side.

Just then, the insect tide suddenly fell into chaos. This change made the Modian Lieutenant immediately realize something.

The aliens' offensive had fallen into chaos, which meant that the Emperor's Angel had successfully killed the alien leader.

"Advance! The alien leader has been killed by the Emperor's Angel! Victory is right before our eyes! Let us prove our loyalty to the Emperor with victory! Attack!"

However, before the armored unit could reach them, three Salamanders warriors appeared from the rear and opened fire on the plasma insect.

Bolter rounds flew easily into the plasma insect's body. Following a series of explosions, the plasma insect's massive body exploded instantly, and the splashing plasma wiped out a large area of Zerg in the vicinity.

The chaotic insect tide could no longer form an effective offensive. The ten Salamanders warriors who had destroyed the Hatchery also began to form a pincer movement with the armored unit on the main battlefield, hacking and killing the aliens that approached them one by one.

Finally, the two sides met officially. Kuayasi said to the Modian Lieutenant standing opposite him.

"Report the news of our victory to the Military District. This victory was brought to us by the Emperor!"

"Understood, Lord Astartes."

Looking at the battlefield littered with corpses, Lao Li felt his boiling blood gradually calm down. Touching the green Zerg blood on his body, his chest heaving, he said in a somewhat agitated voice.

"Lao Du! We won! We won! These damn Zerg! Did you see it?"

Lao Li's voice grew lower and lower; he felt happy for the victory, yet sad for the sacrifice of his comrade.

"We won!"

"Hahaha, thank the Emperor for the victory he brought us!"

The surrounding Reserve Army soldiers and Human Alliance soldiers shouted with equal joy. In this war, their Reserve Army had suffered the most casualties; battlefield experience is something one can only possess if one survives on the battlefield.

Infected by this group of excited soldiers, Kuayasi also said to the Modian Lieutenant.

"Let them enjoy the joy of victory for a few minutes before cleaning up the battlefield. These soldiers have already shed the identity of 'new recruit' by surviving this war."

"Yes!"

Ninth Defense Zone Military Region.

News of victory reached Lu Zhenda one after another. Lu Zhenda looked at the astonishing battle reports one by one; in the past, during the era of the Nine-Member Council, these battle reports would have been pure fantasy.

When Yingzhou was still just a soldier, he had already vowed to make the Alien Race pay in blood. At the time, Chief Ji Bu just took it as the hot-blooded talk of a soldier and did not take it to heart.

Yet today, Yingzhou had turned all of this into reality. On the main battlefield, the casualties of the Alien Race were dozens of times higher than those of the Humans!

"Chief Ji Bu, do you see? Yingzhou really did it! Humans no longer need to worry about the invasion of the Alien Race!"

Lu Zhenda gripped the battle reports in his hands tightly, his vision slightly blurred, and he said in a low voice.