Chapter 407: Phoenix has no secrets

Chapter 407: Phoenix has no secrets

Can the Planetary Defense Force stop the Space Marines?

Obviously that's not possible.

Even though they were traitors, Nidus—or rather Sidney Blevins and his seven battle brothers—were veterans with at least two hundred years of combat experience.

Their combat experience is extremely rich.

Blevins and his comrades, eight in total. One person did not get off the patrol ship in the sky, and there were seven people left. Two were following Blevins, and the other four were guarding their landing craft.

After realizing that something was wrong, they made a prompt decision, started killing people, and forced the Saturnians to transport the prepared supplies and slave labor to their landing ship.

How much luck there is.

As for those planetary defense forces who dare to attack them, they will kill them without mercy.

The Planetary Defense Force on Saturn is completely in line with the general impression of the Planetary Defense Force - it is real water. Perhaps among the Planetary Defense Force, they are also among those with poor equipment, training, and morale.

They neither broke through the Renegades' defenses and captured the forced laborers, nor did they destroy the spacecraft used by the Renegades to land on the surface.

After disintegrating the resistance of the Planetary Defense Force, the forced slave workers finally loaded all the supplies and themselves onto the landing ship.

"Those pirates...they're back again!"

I thought that after so many people died, the God of Death was finally sent away. Even if the Governor cursed people, let him just let him curse, at least no one would die.

By the way, in the process, individual missiles were also used to shoot down five aircraft.

Under this circumstance, the rebels also took the initiative to launch several attacks.

After the seven traitors killed more than a thousand Juetu soldiers in about twenty minutes, the remaining troops were completely too timid to attack.

In the distant desert, Azimba heard the report of his subordinate officers. He was desperate and angry. He broke down and cursed, saying that these traitors deserved a bad death and that they were traitors to the empire, and then cursed a few more times. The officers under his command were all a bunch of losers, and then they went on to scold the Alliance for pressing hard and refusing to let anyone live - even though the Alliance didn't have time to do anything from the beginning to the end.

But those killing gods are back, so that's not necessarily the case.

The Juetu soldiers who were reluctantly driven forward fired a few shots. After seeing their comrades around them being accurately named and killed one by one, they quickly retreated.

But with such an offensive, you can imagine how low the quality is.

It seems that no one can stop them now.

They first found a Planetary Defense Force command post, destroyed it, and killed the commander.

In the battle just now, they had left over a thousand corpses, and the result was that less than a hundred hijacked slave workers were killed. Those 'pirates' could not be said to be unscathed, at least. No shit.

The orders urged by Azimuba came one after another. The senior officers gritted their teeth and issued death orders to the grassroots teams. They must be killed. Those who failed to survive would be shot afterwards. Under such circumstances, they finally gathered their troops again and launched some attacks.

Although he was not the supreme commander—the commander was far behind—it still caused chaos among the frontline troops of the Planetary Defense Force.

The landing ship started to launch, with four Space Marines still guarding outside. They will jump on the spacecraft after the landing spacecraft has completed its startup and has even left about one meter above the surface.

The spaceship flew high into the sky.

Then, they took advantage of the chaos to destroy the artillery positions of the Planetary Defense Forces, eliminating the threat of heavy firepower to the transport team.

"They're flying back again!" There was no joy in the officer's voice, it was all fear.

"……what?"

However, at this moment, he heard the officer's report again.

What are they coming back for?

Azimuba was also thinking about this issue.

Are you here to kill me?

Just now he was yelling at the 'pirates' for escaping. Now that they were back, Azimuba was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat.

He quickly asked the driver to run away and take him to the nearest safe house.

But a few minutes later, new information came.

That was news from the star observatory. They observed that a naval fleet entered the Juetu Galaxy.

Several of them have the logo of the Imperial Pegasus Fleet, but most of the rest have the blue paint of the Alliance.

Due to the backwardness of observation methods, when they observed it now, the fleet had not only completed the interstellar shuttle, but had even reached a place not far from Saturn.

It will take up to four hours to reach the planet's orbit.

This fleet had crossed the star tunnel between the Red Arrow and Saturn at least two days ago, but they only observed it now...

At the same time, it also proved that the fleet coming from the Red Arrow Star came right behind Nides and the others. Nides and the others arrived at Saturn. Less than five hours had passed since they sent out the landing spaceship. As a result, the fleet from the Pegasus sector arrived.

No wonder, 'Needs' asked him to prepare all the supplies in such an urgent manner. His relationship would be over if he slowed down a little bit, right?

Combining this information, Azimuba guessed the purpose of the traitors' return: they knew that they could not escape the encirclement and suppression of the Alliance Navy in the star sea, so they did not plan to run away. But obviously, it doesn't look like they want to hold on and fight desperately. They should be hiding in their planet of Saturn, playing hide and seek with the alliance in the vast desert.

So what should I do next?

Azimuba's eyes were rolling, and thoughts were coming to his mind one after another. He had to find a suitable reason, explanation, and excuse to deal with it.

how to say?

He conceived one theory after another, and at the same time asked the driver to take him to the capital.

The spaceships returned by the pirates did not land in the city, but went to other places. He was not afraid of being shot when he returned.

The Alliance Navy arrived faster than the people at the stargazing station predicted. I originally thought it would take four hours to arrive, but in fact, in less than three hours, the huge spacecraft had already arrived in the orbit of Saturn. And the orbit is so close that under clear weather on the surface, the naked eye can see the virtual shadow in the sky.

Soon, news fell from the sky.

"This is a joint operation between the Pegasus fleet and the Alliance convoy, which is on a mission to pursue pirates. We have definite evidence that a criminal pirate group has landed on the surface of the planet Juetu, and we suspect that Juetu and this pirate group There was an illegal connection.”

"We request a meeting with Governor Azimuba of Jue Saturn and hope that the government of Jue Saturn will cooperate with the investigation."

The words were quite polite, 'request' and 'hope', as if Azimuba's approval was really needed.

But in fact, the alliance did not wait for a response from Saturn at all. Dozens of landing spaceships fell from the sky and headed straight for the capital city of Saturn.

Azimuba, who was still considering the wording of his response, didn't even dare to let out a fart. Don't think about any kind of response, just add a message of 'agree' and 'willing to cooperate', just to make up for it. Then, he rushed to the landing field on the outskirts of the city.

There were more than thirty landing ships in this wave, and even the landing sites on the outskirts of the city couldn't accommodate them. But they didn't choose, they just chose a few flat sandy areas in the surrounding areas and landed on them all.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds to thousands of soldiers disembarked from each of these landing ships. They carry the uniform logo of the Astra Militarum on their bodies, as well as a Legion emblem. The former is a golden winged skull symbol, while the latter is a giant bear bathed in a thunderstorm.

This legion is not as well-known as some legions whose reputations are famous all over the world, but with the end of the Battle of Koroja and the passing of the battle report, at least people around the Pegasus sector know about this legion with the name of 'Raging Bear' The named legion is an elite force that is even more powerful than the Dragon Eagle Legion.

Accompanying them were the roaring self-propelled artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, Wind Falcon and Kirin fighter jets...

This posture made Azimuba frightened: Are you here to catch pirates?

At the same time, there was a smaller group of people who disembarked, but they were more elite in terms of equipment. There is no symbol of the Astra Militarum on them, only the symbol of the Alliance - a five-pointed star stacked in the middle of the outstretched wings, surrounded by a ring of steel stars. These three elements have their own meanings. The outstretched wings are part of the empire's eagle symbol; the five-pointed star is the symbol of the alliance; and the surrounding solid steel star ring symbolizes an unbreakable alliance.

Each of them has at least exoskeleton armor, and a few wear power armor.

On the first spaceship, fifty tall space warriors wearing power armor came down directly!

At first glance, Azimuba thought it was Nides and his gang coming again, and he almost thought he was dazzled. But once you take a closer look, you can tell it's different.

In terms of temperament, these people are more high-spirited now, with their heads held high, without the sense of vicissitudes of the Nieders group;

In terms of equipment, all of them are very new, bright red paint, shiny and beautiful. They are not like the Nides group, which are battle-damaged versions of power armor, which looks a bit tattered.

On the logo, the imperial symbol of a winged skull is clearly hung on their chests; on their shoulders, a flying bird with a white background and a red background holds its head proudly.

These all mean that they are truly Emperor's Angels and Space Marines who are widely respected within the Empire.

But it was when he saw them that Azimuba truly confirmed that the previous Nides group should be the renegade Space Marines.

He even had a deeper suspicion.

The paintings of the Emperor's Angels in front of me are a bit too similar to those of Needles' group before, right?

The main body is bright red, with white edges on the borders of different parts such as the breastplate, shoulder armor, belt, and knees. The same seems to be true for Nieders' group. After removing the Imperial emblem and Chapter emblem, the two are almost identical.

Azimuba kept this question in his mind and quickly approached the leader, a leader wearing Terminator power armor that was taller than the average space warrior.

"I am Azimuba, the governor of Jue Saturn." He introduced himself.

"Martins, Master of the Phoenix Chapter. Where have those pirates gone? I want to know their exact location."

"This... we don't know either. They were forced back after taking off and disappeared into the horizon, perhaps hiding in the desert..."

"Okay, I understand. From now on, the Raging Bear Legion and the Alliance Army will temporarily take over all defenses of Saturn until all threats are removed. During this period, you must unconditionally cooperate with all our requests."

"This……"

Azimuba found it hard to accept that this was his planet! This is not the alliance's territory!

Seeing his hesitation, Martins continued: "We now have evidence that there is some illegal cooperation between Jue Saturn and the Red Eye Pirates. Governor Azimuba, your suspicion has not been cleared."

"This is absolutely impossible!" Azimuba retorted subconsciously, but he immediately realized that if the leader of the Martins Chapter said this, he must have evidence, and it is not just a few sophistry.

He immediately relented: "Captain Martins, there must be some misunderstanding about this matter. My family has been loyal to the empire for eleven generations, and there is no way it has any contact with the enemies of the empire! I will fully cooperate." Due to your actions, I also want to quickly eliminate the enemies of the empire who once sacked Saturn. But...after that, you should leave, right?"

"It depends on the outcome of the investigation."

"Captain Martins, please forgive me for being rude, but... I have met Nides, the leader of that group of pirates. Perhaps there is some secret of the Phoenix Chapter here?"

There was some threat hidden in his words.

This is a very risky behavior, but he must seize every opportunity, otherwise it will be too late if he is really convicted of any crime.

Obviously, his words aroused Martins' interest.

The chapter leader, who had been looking around, lowered his head for the first time and looked at Azimuba.

It seems that there is a play, this sentence is indeed useful...

As soon as this thought came to his mind, his vision suddenly blurred, and then he felt like he couldn't breathe - he was picked up by Martins' neck and lifted up like a chicken.

Martins stared into his eyes and said, "The Phoenix has no secrets."

He wanted to speak, but nothing came out. The force he felt on his neck became stronger and stronger, and soon his vision went dark and he completely lost consciousness.

In the surrounding area, Governor Azimba's cronies all reacted when the Governor was just mentioned. They subconsciously took out their weapons and pointed them at Martins, but no one dared to fire.

How to fire? There were only one to two hundred armed men in total who came to greet the visitors from outside. But in front of me, there were already tens of thousands of people disembarking from the landing spacecraft, and their equipment was a hundred times better than theirs, not to mention there were space warriors.

They could only watch as their governor's body was thrown aside like rags.

Martins ignored these natives. He waved to the side and ordered to his mortal officers:

"Completely take over the entire city and isolate all the Jedi who participated in the battle and witnessed the group of 'pirates'."

At this point, he hesitated, and then added: "We must not let go of any possible witnesses, and we must not allow anyone to leave the isolation camp. This is for necessary review, and the demon hunters will be responsible for the review and Screening work.”

(End of this chapter)