Chapter 145: Warhammer: What Do You Mean You Conquered the Zerg

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

More than ten minutes passed.

Of Lei Ou's bodyguards by his side, fewer than ten remained.

The entrance was piled with corpses, the ice wall stained dark red by blood.

But the rebels kept surging in endlessly, filling the channel with their lives; every step forward cost them more than ten lives.

But they kept advancing.

The saw teeth of Lei Ou's chain sword had broken off more than half, and his bomb gun had long run out of ammunition.

He picked up a gun from a dead rebel, kept firing, and swapped for another the moment the magazine was empty.

The bodyguards beside him fell one after another.

No one shouted or begged for mercy; they just died silently, silently using their corpses to buy Lei Ou a few more seconds.

When the last bodyguard fell, he looked back at Lei Ou once.

There was no fear in that gaze, only regret.

Regret that he couldn't hold out a little longer.

Lei Ou stood alone behind that pile of corpses, gripping that notched chain sword, gasping for air.

At the entrance, the rebels were regrouping.

Seeing that he was alone, they began to slow their steps, like a wolf pack surrounding a lone male lion.

Lei Ou smiled.

He smiled very calmly.

"Come on," he said, raising that chain sword that was about to collapse.

Just then, dense gunfire suddenly rang out from behind the rebels.

Lei Ou saw those regrouping rebels thrown into chaos.

Some turned to shoot, some sought cover, and some fell directly.

It was the Vanguard Army!

More than a thousand Vanguard soldiers burst out from behind the rebels, with several familiar faces leading them.

Lei Ou knew them; they were company commanders of the Vanguard Army Second Legion, who had once fought side by side with him on the Forbidden Wall.

They charged into the rebel ranks, cutting through the formation like a knife.

No heavy equipment or vehicles, only flesh and blood and hearts full of hot blood.

Lei Ou wanted to shout something, but his throat felt blocked.

He could only watch those people charge, watch them fall one by one.

Because there were too many rebels.

At least five thousand remained outside, plus reinforcements rushing from the direction of the Forbidden Wall, and one Knight Mecha.

Those more than a thousand Vanguard soldiers held out for less than five minutes before being drowned by the rebels.

As Lei Ou watched the last Vanguard soldier fall, a surge of sorrow welled up in his heart.

But he couldn't go out; he had to live up to the soldiers' sacrifice.

Two minutes; they had bought two minutes.

Two minutes later, the rebels reorganized their offensive.

This time, they brought heavy weapons: light mortars and rocket launchers.

Explosions echoed in the valley, ice chips flew, and gravel scattered.

Lei Ou hid behind cover, poking out to shoot during the gaps between explosions.

His footwork was nimble; every time he fired, someone fell.

But those who fell were immediately replaced by those behind them.

His gun ran empty again.

He threw away the gun and picked up another.

At the entrance, seeing they still couldn't take down Lei Ou after so long, the rebels decided to charge in all at once.

Lei Ou took a deep breath and prepared to die in battle.

Just then, howls rose from all around the valley.

Not human howls, but Ice Beasts—the most ferocious predators on the Ice Plains, battle partners of the Wildmen.

Thousands of Ice Beasts surged out from all over the Ice Plains, with Brevis's Wildmen warriors riding on their backs.

They charged down from the slopes, burst out from behind the ice mounds, and launched attacks from every direction the rebels never expected.

The Ice Beasts' sharp claws tore through the fragile standard armor, and the Wildmen's bone spears pierced chests.

The rebel formation briefly collapsed.

The rebels without heavy armor simply couldn't withstand this kind of high-speed impact.

They tried to form ranks, tried to counterattack, but the Ice Beasts were too fast, and the Wildmen's horsemanship too superb.

Every charge took away dozens of lives.

There were also some Wildmen cavalry responsible for harassment; they divided into dozens of squads, weaving back and forth along the routes of the rebel reinforcements.

They did not linger in battle; they struck and fled, then returned to strike again, keeping the Rebel Army's reinforcements pinned down and unable to advance.

Lei Ou recognized those Wildmen as elites of the Ice Fang Clan.

How could they have come?

A Wildman cavalryman charged up to him, dismounted in one motion, and said in stiff Gothic:

"The Divine Envoy says, the Ice Lord's friend is in trouble."

"So we have come."

Lei Ou understood.

Ice Lord was the Wildmen's honorific for Lin En.

But Lin En was at the Main Hive; how had he managed to get the Wildmen of the Ice Plains to cross hundreds of kilometers to rescue him?

The Wildmen cavalry's charge bought more time.

A few minutes later, the ground began to tremble.

Outside the valley, the frozen soil at the bottom suddenly split open, and more than ten enormous Ice Lotuses burst from the earth.

The petals bloomed, and a blue flood burst forth.

Cold Soldiers, tens of thousands of Cold Soldiers.

They engulfed the Rebel Army like a tide.

Those rebels who had still been resisting were instantly swallowed by the blue ocean.

Gunshots and shrieks, along with the Bug Race's excited roars, intertwined into one.

Lei Ou stood in the valley, listening to the sounds outside, wondering what he was thinking.

He knew of the existence of Cold Soldiers, and had witnessed their killing, until he knew just how terrifying they were.

Lin En had told him they were "kin of the Frost Dragon," warriors of the Ice Plains.

So he knew the scales of this battle had already tilted.

But the rebels clearly had not given up.

Behind the rebels, Aiden's Knight Mecha was struggling to pass through the narrow Valley Entrance.

It had just squeezed half its body in when the ground suddenly shook violently.

A huge monster burst up from underground.

It was an Excavation Python.

Over twelve meters long, covered in thick Chitinous Carapace, its forelimbs were a pair of enormous Bone Blades, skilled at digging.

It usually disguised itself as an Ice Lotus, responsible for opening passages for the Cold Soldiers, but now it had to strike.

The Excavation Python's movements were swift and agile, but it could not break through the Knight Mecha's Ion Shield.

Aiden's Gatling Cannon opened fire madly, a rain of bullets pouring down on the Excavation Python.

The carapace shattered, green bodily fluids sprayed out, landing on the snow and emitting white smoke.

But the Excavation Python did not give up; it simply kept launching charges, blocking Aiden's advance.

Finally Aiden found an opportunity; the missile pod on his shoulder fired a large quantity of Storm Missiles, stunning the Excavation Python.

Then the Death God Chainsword came down, and the Excavation Python was cut in two at the waist.

The huge Green Skin Body crashed to the ground, twitched a few times, and no longer moved.

But its mission was complete.

Those tens of seconds of entanglement allowed more Cold Soldiers to surge out of the Ice Lotuses, causing the rebels' formation to collapse completely.

Aiden's eyes turned red.

Killing Lei Ou was the death order he had received.

No matter what happened, no matter the cost.

He piloted the mecha, trampling over those Cold Soldiers, trampling over those Wildmen, trampling over everything in his way, charging madly into the valley.

A large quantity of firepower poured onto the Ice Wall, and the Knight Mecha forcibly smashed open a road.

The mecha's Power Core ran overloaded, the Ion Shield flickered unsteadily, and the Gatling Cannon's barrel glowed red-hot.

But he did not care; he had to complete the mission.

The valley was finally forced open by him into a passage wide enough.

Aiden's mecha charged into the valley, raising its Gatling Cannon, aiming at the figure standing on the pile of corpses.

Suddenly, with a boom!!!

A silver-blue figure descended from the sky.

A huge shockwave shattered the ice on the ground, kicking up white giant waves.

The silver-blue Knight Mecha landed between Lei Ou and Aiden, its right arm's Thunderstorm Power Fist already preheated.

Quinn Sheng Jia Lu Si, makes his entrance!