[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starting-from-warhammer-to-raid-the-all-heavens":3,"chapter-starting-from-warhammer-to-raid-the-all-heavens-starting-from-warhammer-to-raid-the-all-heavens-chapter-105":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starting from Warhammer to Raid the All Heavens",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2277878,4456,"Chapter 105: Hive City Defense Battle","starting-from-warhammer-to-raid-the-all-heavens-chapter-105",105,"\u003Cp>Perfectly fitting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A classic reserved ritual, named after the God-Emperor, enforcing conscription.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From centenarian elders to ten-year-old children, no matter who you are, as long as you can still breathe, you’ll be dragged onto the battlefield to fill the lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What? You refuse?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Excellent. The Fawu Force will immediately sentence you as a heretic, then shoot you dead to uphold the canonical law!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the Emperor, purge the heretics!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the greatest justification for “forced conscription”—you don’t even have the right to object.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because being born in the Hive City as a human is the Emperor’s greatest grace to you, and now it’s your turn, you worthless trash with no contribution, to offer a trivial sacrifice for the Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if this “sacrifice” is utterly meaningless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their only value is to serve as cannon fodder, slowing the heretics’ advance as much as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But clearly, that senior Planetary Defense Force officer didn’t care about their lives at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we can’t hold back the heretics, we all die!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Better to preserve the Planetary Defense Force’s strength and delay until reinforcements arrive from surrounding star regions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for how many innocent, untrained Hive City civilians would be slaughtered by being forcibly thrust into this horrific battlefield, it wasn’t even in his consideration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After issuing the order for forced conscription, each person was issued an old-style basic laser rifle and a few cluster grenades—no body armor was provided—and then forcibly pushed forward by rear-line troops tasked with overseeing the advance into the frontlines, where artillery roared, smoke choked the air, and corpses littered the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alvin, who had barely managed to crawl back from the heretics’ side under the defense force’s own artillery fire, was instantly reassigned as a member of the provisional 177th Regiment defending the Hive City—this lightning-fast shift in status left him both amused and exasperated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a personal standpoint, Alvin certainly didn’t want to be dragged into the cannon-fodder line and die uselessly on the battlefield—but… he had no choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind them, vast numbers of Planetary Defense Force troops, acting as oversight squads, had already trained their guns—and even heavy artillery—directly on them; any step backward would be met with immediate, merciless fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if… we kill the oversight squads and flee into the Mid-Hive?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the moment this thought surfaced, Alvin crushed it decisively—not only would such an act collapse the Planetary Defense Force’s frontline and hand the heretics an opening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just the dozens of heavy defense cannons mounted along the Upper Hive’s walls would be enough to turn him into paste!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those things’ power… wasn’t a joke!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single shot could reduce everything within a few hundred meters—including life—to ash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless you were a Zeta-class or Epsilon-class psionic, trying to stand firm against these heavy anti-air cannons was pure fantasy—better wash up and go to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to that, defending the Hive City seemed almost safer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his bio-armor and the fact that the heretics’ weapons were mostly outdated logging rifles and obsolete laser guns, if he stayed cautious, he wouldn’t face much danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For now, I’ll follow orders…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alvin had no better option—the oversight squads behind him were watching him too closely, leaving no chance to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only hope to find an opportunity on the battlefield to activate his armor’s stealth mode and slip away… As he pondered this, someone jabbed the muzzle of a gun hard into his back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to see a Fawu Force law enforcer pointing a bolter at him, roaring: “Move forward, or I’ll shoot!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unconsciously, Alvin realized he’d fallen behind the crowd—he could only grip his old laser rifle and hurry to rejoin the stream of conscripts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Position B-17 lay at the edge of the Mid-Hive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The good news was, near a destroyed residential building, the collapsed rubble provided natural cover against heretic lasers and bullets, and a mixed force of defense troops, law enforcers, and enforcers had already established a defensive line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the bad news was… they were the first line of defense!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over a thousand men, hastily assembled into the provisional 177th Regiment, were forced by the oversight squads to form the front line directly facing the overwhelming tide of heretics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Listen to my order—grip your rifles tightly!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The commander of the provisional 177th Regiment drew his bolter, stood atop a pile of heretic corpses, and shouted: “For the God-Emperor, slaughter these heretics!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A shell landed precisely amid the heretic mob.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, flesh and blood flew everywhere, limbs blasted dozens of meters away, blood mixed with acrid smoke flooded their nostrils—like the most potent stimulant, making every heart pound wildly, eyes gradually turn bloodshot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was… the smell of war!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smell of slaughter!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a barrage of artillery fire, entire residential blocks collapsed; countless bloody limbs and severed bodies rained down like a storm, corpses piled into mountains—by rough count, at least a thousand!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet even after such horrific devastation, the heretic fanatics charged forward without hesitation, faces twisted in rage, eyes blazing red, as if utterly insane, reforming into a relentless tide that surged toward the position!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suffocating!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Terrifying!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Horrifying!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Appalling!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of the provisional 177th Regiment were untrained civilians; faced with the heretics’ suicidal charges and the gruesome spectacle of exploding corpses, many lost their minds and turned to flee toward the rear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang! Bang! Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the rapid gunfire reminded the terrified conscripts of reality: take one step back, and the oversight squads would slaughter them without mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For the God-Emperor!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 177th Regiment commander barked: “Fire! Fire! Fire!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three roars shattered the paralyzing fear—realizing there was no retreat, everyone screamed wildly, aiming their rifles at the heretics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, countless laser beams lashed out at the heretic fanatics!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But most had never held a weapon before, and these old laser rifles had countless flaws—so the heretics suffered little loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take cover!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the 177th Regiment commander’s teeth nearly ground to dust: “Damn it, you idiots! Aim before you fire! If you don’t want to die, look clearly!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But untrained civilians, no matter what, couldn’t organize effective offense in such a short time—just keeping their sanity was already impressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 177th Regiment commander was desperate, but he knew these civilians were useless except to give the exhausted defense troops a brief rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 177th Regiment commander suddenly noticed, on a small forward position slightly to the left of the entire line, someone had organized disciplined resistance: they’d not only halted the heretic charge but, aided by artillery cover, eliminated hundreds of heretic fanatics!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the chaotic positions elsewhere,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They clearly had a commander—groups of three, hiding behind rubble and trenches, forming perfect crossfire networks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And all were divided into two waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the first wave finished firing, the second wave behind them immediately took over, maintaining continuous suppressive fire, creating a flawless rotation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the advantages of trenches, cover, and rear artillery support, they inflicted heavy casualties on the charging heretics, holding firm against the pressure on their local sector.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Talent!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This discovery made the 177th Regiment commander’s eyes gleam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he needed most right now wasn’t cannon fodder—he needed someone with command ability who could maximize their value!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Communications soldier! Go to that position!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 177th Regiment commander pointed excitedly: “Find the person in charge, and tell him… he’s now a company commander. Take full control of the front-line battle!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dear lords, please cast a monthly vote and subscribe—I need the energy to keep writing! I’ll reward you all with extra chapters later—wouldn’t that be wonderful?\u003C\u002Fp>",1284,"2026-06-20T00:45:41.385Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","c01a174ff41c6e305c5024c1fda1fc285fa048e12e83bd083673694e4fa765bb","starting-from-warhammer-to-raid-the-all-heavens-chapter-106","starting-from-warhammer-to-raid-the-all-heavens-chapter-104",588,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-from-warhammer-to-raid-the-all-heavens-cover.jpg"]