Chapter 552, Blood Shark in Space

Chapter 552, Blood Shark in Space

There was a reason why the flagship of the New World Torch Regiment became confused and slow in the fierce battle: they were boarded.

This sounds a bit strange. The flagship of a complete Space Marine chapter was subjected to boarding?
Aren't they usually the ones who jump to help others?
And if the one resorting to boarding battle is another Space Marine Chapter, that seems somewhat acceptable.

In particular, this regiment was notoriously 'crazy'.

Bai Qifan, commander of the alliance fleet, could not recognize what this gray-painted regiment was, but Wang Mengsong, commander of the New World Torch, could recognize it.

Blood Shark Regiment.

One hundred and thirty years ago, this regiment was completely unknown in the entire empire. No one even knew that there was such a regiment in the empire?
However, during the Bauhinia Rebellion one hundred and thirty years ago, the Blood Shark Regiment made its debut and participated in this "counterinsurgency operation".

However, the Blood Shark Regiment at that time was standing on the side of 'Iron Fury Stone'.

When the political situation on Holy Terra changed and the three chapters of Bauhinia, Starbreaker and Phoenix were found guilty, these three chapters did not surrender at first.

While the three chapters were fighting against the Iron Rage Stone in the Nepeta Star Field next to the Princess Star Field, which was the original base camp of the Bauhinia, they were also contacting good friends everywhere, trying to reverse the political situation on Holy Terra.

It cannot be said that there is no effect.

At least, as one of the founding chapters, Phoenix was quite sympathetic to the plight of its three brothers. They could not leave directly, but they were prepared to leave, and continued to move in Holy Terra, exerting their own political influence, and even sought a seat as a lord of the Supreme Council.

The seats at that time did not include any Space Marine representatives. It was the Phoenix Chapter who was trying to show off their abilities and kicked a High Lord down and replaced him with their own.

However, as these political negotiations were progressing rapidly and things were gradually improving, the battlefield situation in the Spider Web Universe suddenly changed. The combined forces of the three regiments, Bauhinia, Starbreaker, and Phoenix, were defeated on the front battlefield.

Objectively speaking, this is inevitable. The three Iron Fury Stone regiments have military strength that is absolutely overwhelming to the Bauhinia and other regiments.

But at that time, Tie Kai did not dare to show too openly that he had a lot of reincarnations - they indeed did not have as many people as they would a hundred years later.

The military strength advantage is indeed there, and it is huge, but the Bauhinia 3rd Regiment also understands this. Since they hope to hold on until the political environment changes, they are also firmly implementing the relevant strategies and will not easily go out to fight.

Logically speaking, they adopted a flexible defense and focused on holding the strategy. After all, they had three standard battle groups. Even if they couldn't win, they wouldn't collapse too quickly.

That was indeed the case at the beginning.

Until the Blood Shark Regiment appeared.

They emerged from the gloomy darkness, calling themselves the Blood Shark Regiment. They claimed that they had heard the call from the center of the empire and came to quell the rebellion.

Iron Fury Stone questioned their identities at first.

A war group that had never been heard of before. What's more important is that this group of people don't like to communicate with the outside world. After meeting, they look even more solemn and murderous, and people can always smell a faint smell of blood.

It seems suspicious no matter how you look at it.

However, they did produce a series of documents regarding the establishment, authorization, and mission description of their regiment...

This series of documents is very old, and is generally regarded by each warband as its own history and sacred object, so it is well preserved.

The think tanks of the Iron Armor Regiment studied the documents and believed that they were authentic.

However, the Empire has lost the relevant records and cannot make a comparison.

Tie Kai had never encountered such a situation.

But it was clear that Iron Armor was not a conservative and rule-abiding warband. What was wrong with someone coming to help fight? Not to mention a warband with unknown origins but real identities, even if a group of renegade warbands came to help, Iron Armor would probably accept them.

Soon, the Iron Armored Regiment was surprised by their decision.

The combat effectiveness and fighting style displayed by the Blood Shark Regiment were so amazing and efficient that even Iron Armor was impressed.

Their style can be summed up as a fast-strike force.

They rarely engage in any kind of prolonged combat, preferring to rely on extreme speed or stealth to approach their targets, and to attack their enemies with the most surprising means possible.

This is true whether in fleet combat or in Space Marine battles.

Their ships also possess some lost special technology that allows them to achieve a certain degree of invisibility, making them difficult to detect in advance.

During an attack, they strive to close in quickly on their foes, engaging them in hand-to-hand combat or unleashing their firepower at close range, so in addition to their standard weapons, they carry a plethora of Chainaxes, Power Axes, and the like, to shred their foes in close combat.

Their fighting style is extremely efficient but also extremely brutal - their attacks are fast and fierce, causing the most damage possible in the shortest time. If there are any enemies left, they will simply disappear and attack again, continuing to kill the enemy's surviving units until the enemy can no longer resist and faces destruction. Once the enemy in front of them is slaughtered, they will move to the next target without stopping, and repeat this process again and again until there is nothing left around them but the remains of their slaughter.

Blood Shark Marines are generally very silent, cautious and vigilant, but in combat they can show a marked change, displaying bouts of extreme bloodthirsty violence, frantically hacking down or blasting their foes to pieces.

Commanders issued their orders over encrypted, blocked radio networks and would not speak a word to the enemy or friendly forces during combat unless it was extremely necessary.

This silence formed a particularly sharp contrast with their violent killing of enemies, and even their preference for dismembering, chopping bodies, and splashing blood on the spot. When they did this, they didn't even yell in a venting manner, but just chopped silently with one axe after another.

An eerie silence.

With the help of this regiment that was elusive and very good at surprise attacks, the battle situation that the Bauhinia Third Regiment could have maintained was suddenly broken.

The sudden attack stunned the three regiments.

They had never seen such a regiment and enemy, and had never received intelligence about another regiment. In several raids, the Blood Sharks had achieved great results.

And every time they made a breakthrough in their defense line, the Third Iron Fury Stone Regiment would rush in fiercely with superior forces.

After several similar battle situations, the Bauhinia 3rd Regiment was in complete disarray and inevitably surrendered.

This also made the Phoenix Legion's political efforts come to naught.

The person they wanted to rescue was already beyond saving.

In general, the main factor in defeating the Bauhinia Blossom Third Regiment on the front battlefield must be the absolute superiority of the Iron Fury Stone Third Regiment. Their strength is almost four times that of the Bauhinia Blossom Third Regiment.

However, no one can ignore the special role played by the Blood Shark Regiment. What is particularly impressive is their bloody and cruel fighting style.

Many Chapters don't care much about the lives of mortals, whether enemies, friends, or civilians. But even among the Space Marines, the Blood Sharks are particularly excessive in this regard. In the process of pursuing military objectives, they have repeatedly shown a complete disregard for the casualties of civilians affected. They will not help at all, and if there are injured civilians lying on the ground where they are advancing and being stepped on, they will not change their pace for this, and it is no big deal to step on them.

This point is also quite controversial.

It was not until later that the imperial scholars on Holy Terra, after in-depth research on some historical documents, found some evidence about blood sharks from some ancient battle examples, and even from myths, epics, ancient operas, and fables.

Nothing is about them as the protagonist, but in the background of some stories, it is mentioned that about four thousand years ago, a war group called "Blood Shark" was established. They were sent to the space where there was no astral tunnel connection and could not communicate directly with the star language, and they made endless voyages to slaughter and ravage the enemies of mankind. They had no mercy on traitors, aliens and traitors, and uprooted them from their own territory.

Of course, there were reports about them from time to time in the various border star regions of the Empire, but they were not very important and were ignored by the masters on Holy Terra.

Although the credibility of each of these sources is a bit low and they are not official historical records, these isolated works from almost the same period mentioned the same event and made consistent descriptions of the similarities in certain details of the image information and the actions of the regiments. For example, they all mentioned that the Blood Shark regiment showed a ferocious but thoughtful cruelty, and the missions they were established and sent to perform were also relatively consistent...

All these elements are consistent with the performance of the Blood Shark Regiment in the Bauhinia Rebellion, so from this perspective the credibility is acceptable.

After all, the empire has a long history of thousands of years, and it is not a big deal for it to lose one or two historical records.

Therefore, the Empire basically recognized the Blood Shark Regiment after that.

However, in the later period of the Purple Gold Flower Rebellion, when the war was basically declared over, a series of conflicts occurred between the Blood Sharks and the Iron Armor Regiment.

The Blood Shark Regiment is cruel, bloodthirsty, and ruthless... but very poor.

This is easy to understand. As an "expeditionary regiment", a fleet-based regiment, it has no conscription worlds, no fixed income, and it spends every day in the known universe and the dark universe outside the empire's territory for endless expeditions and voyages. How can it not be poor?

But they are poor in a unique way.

Ordinary equipment and even ammunition supplies are quite scarce, and there are few chapter servants and mortal auxiliary troops. However, there are quite a few cutting-edge equipment. Even the models of power armor are varied. There are new ones, but more are various old and ancient models, and the styles are extremely inconsistent.

The Chapter collects the equipment it needs through the "Gray Tax", that is, by using the technological relics found in the Outlands to exchange the equipment and ammunition needed by the Chapter with the Mechanicus or other industrial worlds.

The warband replenishes its soldiers and mortal auxiliary troops and servants through the "red tax", which is to capture able-bodied men from a planet. The warband has always been relatively poor, and the armor of the warriors has always been pieced together.

After fighting for the Iron Armor Regiment, the Blood Shark naturally had to collect "gray tax" and "blood tax".

At first, Tiekai expressed his willingness to give it.

Compared to other people's military achievements, what's wrong with giving them some money?
However, Blood Shark has its own rules. They charge money according to the proportion of the planets they take down.

The number is a bit too much, beyond Tiekai's expectations.

Tiekai tried to negotiate, but Blood Shark didn't know what negotiation was.

This is not a reward, not a transaction, it's a 'tax'.

Do I need to discuss with you before collecting taxes?

There is no need to use others to collect taxes, just do it yourself.

Grab equipment, loot, and people. On some planets that Iron Armor values, directly recruit a large number of people and conduct a recruitment activity with a very high mortality rate...

Tiekai was irritated and some conflicts broke out between the two sides.

In the end, the Blood Sharks retreated with a number of taxes that they were not satisfied with and returned to the darkness.

……

In the 130 years since the Bauhinia Rebellion, the Blood Shark Regiment seemed to appear more frequently. But it could also be that after becoming famous, people paid more attention to them and cared more about them.

They still act as they please, operating in the outer realms, occasionally appearing in the empire, but their whereabouts are uncertain, doing business with different Mechanicus, collecting blood taxes in different worlds. Other than that, they just cause trouble for the Iron Armor who has a grudge against them.

After the Princess' Rebellion broke out six years ago, the Iron Armored Regiment had been on guard to see if this vengeful, occasionally troublesome, yet incredibly strong and cruel regiment would emerge as an enemy.

But for six years, they have been quiet.

until today.

The unlucky one was not Iron Armor, but the New World Torch.

The Torchlight was boarded by blood sharks. As the flagship of the war group, there were 400 New World Torch Warriors on board. Through some unstoppable and even unpredictable psychic transmission technology, the blood sharks boarded in and quickly attacked several key parts of the ship.

For a moment, Wang Mengsong couldn't even figure out how many blood sharks had boarded his boat!

Before he could gather his forces to surround and kill the boarders, the ship's multiple firepower centers, artillery locations, and ship control nodes were attacked. Those places quickly became lifeless, either lost or blown up from the inside.

This is also the reason why the entire Torchlight was half-paralyzed shortly after the fight began.

But after all, the ship was not scrapped, and the main force of the Torch Warriors on board were still there.

However, the situation eased over time.

Wang Mengsong urgently deployed troops, and with the siege and interception of the auxiliary troops and space warriors on the ship, he was able to divide the blood sharks that had boarded the ship into five or six areas.

However, it is hard to say whether the Blood Sharks were forced to split into five or six teams, or whether this was their original organizational situation.

In particular, there is a Blood Shark Team that is 'separated' near the core engine compartment, which is particularly worrying.

If they were carrying some high-energy bomb and it exploded in the core engine compartment, the consequences would be disastrous.

Wang Mengsong personally led people to encircle and suppress the rebellion.

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