Chapter 589: Collapse of the Western Front

Chapter 589: Collapse of the Western Front

What Gallardo declared in the sacred hall of the Supreme Council shocked everyone.

The high lords sat on their seats, with different expressions. Some looked serious, some clenched their teeth, and some couldn't help but lean forward...

"Speak carefully, I need to know the details." The one who asked the question was the Prime Minister of the Empire - Qi Bodu.

Whatever his mood, the expression on Gallardo's face was at least serious.

He recounted the entire intelligence.

Among the three battlefields of the entire Iron Armor War, if they were ranked in order of importance, the order would undoubtedly be west, north, and south.

The sudden entry of Alfonzo's fleet into the war suddenly increased the importance of the southern front.

But despite this, it can only be brought to a level similar to that of the northern battlefield.

Both of these fronts are inferior to the Western Front.

I won't talk about the Alliance on the southern battlefield. On the northern battlefield, the battle seemed to be very lively. There were two founding chapters, Infinity and Bats, and the Black Crusaders. In addition, many other chapters sent troops, and after being blocked by the Zerg aliens, they received help from the Inquisition. The special chapter, the Silver Watch, joined the battlefield...

However, in reality, only one company of the three most important pillars, Infinity and Bats, came, totaling about 200 people; the Black Crusaders came in large numbers, an entire squadron, with Marshal Mathieu Leroy leading a thousand Black Crusaders, forming the backbone of the force.

But that only adds up to 1200 people.

The Space Marines sent by other Chapters, including the Silver Watch, totaled only 500. None of them came in full force, but only to provide support.

The Inquisition sent fewer troops besides the Silver Watch, as they had too many other aliens to deal with.

In fact, the main forces of the conventional Imperial Navy and the Imperial Astra Militarum are mainly provided by the Star Devouring Realm behind the northern battle line.

Is the power of one universe enough?
A bit insufficient.

The Devouring Stars Domain is one of the two largest and richest cosmic domains in the northern border of the empire. But like all other cosmic domains in the empire, they also need to face some internal problems. In the Devouring Stars Domain, there is a rebel force spanning two star domains that has never been resolved. They are a group of traitors who believe in chaos. While indulging in pleasure, they have a particularly strong attraction, which has always been a headache for the cosmic domain government. Several times, the army was sent to quell the rebellion, but not only did it fail to solve the problem, but some troops were corrupted and defected. Some surrounding worlds always have internal rebellions.

If the Star-Devouring Universe was not just to the north of the Spider Web Universe, and had not already suffered an attack from the Iron Armor, they would not have sent such a high level of manpower, supplies, and fleets to fight southwards.

But even so, due to internal problems, they were unable to devote all their efforts to the south to wage war.

Unless founding regiments like Infinity and Bats show more determination and send more men, or unless Black Cross calls for another squadron... otherwise, there is really no possibility of much improvement on the northern battlefield.

On the contrary, it is different when looking at the Western Front.

Phoenix called on several sub-regiments to join the battle, and after they gradually increased their forces, the total number of people in this regiment had reached 700.

There were even two regiments, the Black Feather and the Devil Bird, and the entire army was mobilized.

Although they are not fully staffed, there are still 1,600 people in total.

Taking into account the seven successor regiments, each with 2 to 4 companies of support, the number of Space Marines fighting on the Western Front exceeded .

More importantly, the Inquisition, one of the three major inquisitions, was the most furious. After continuous reinforcements, they had at least 20,000 combat sisters from the Bloody Rose fighting here; at the same time, they also recruited the state religion sect that had a good relationship with them, not only sending fleets but also combat sisters.

The total number of combat sisters from various orders exceeds 30,000.

Together with the elite Inquisition stormtroopers and inquisitors, the Inquisition has deployed a considerable number of troops, determined to quell the largest internal rebellion in the Empire in nearly a thousand years.

In fact, the main force of the Iron Armor Regiment is also in the west, fully responding to the joint attack from the Phoenix and the Inquisition on the western front.

Not only was it responding to the attack, it was even pushing back. The Western Front was also the main attack direction of the Iron Armor.

What's more, the military force in the hands of Phoenix Lord Su Lie was the result of gradual increase in troops, not that so many people appeared all at once.

At the worst time, the Empire was even pushed out of the Spider Web Realm by Iron Armor and pushed to the Magre Realm.

It was not until reinforcements arrived from all sides and the Alliance launched an offensive from the south that Phoenix regained its foothold and began to push back.

Recently, the Phoenix has returned to the Spider Web Universe.

Although not fast enough, it is steady enough.

It is precisely because of this situation that the masters of Holy Terra are thinking about how to open up all three displays so that they can reinforce each other, fight together, and even mobilize troops to change the main attack direction...

As a result, Phoenix has now collapsed.

The collapse process is actually not complicated.

The Iron Armor on the opposite side suddenly gathered their forces and launched a fierce attack.

In the naval battle, more than twenty giant ships fought a fierce battle with Su Lie's fleet.

Su Lie had no intention of fighting a decisive battle. Seeing that the enemy was coming so fiercely, he fought and retreated, mainly to delay the attack, and sent out troops to attack Tiekai's rear and flanks.

Iron Armor's concentration of troops and fleets must have drawn on forces from other places.

Through this strategy, there should be a chance to break up Tiekai's fierce attack.

However, this time things were different.

Iron Armor, carrying the Rock Shield, launched a very fierce boarding attack.

Even among the enemies, there were some very... strange ones.

Those guys seemed to be just some ordinary mortal legions, accompanying the Space Marines to board the ship, but their physical strength was much stronger than that of normal mortals, and they looked different from ordinary people.

But the specific differences are unknown, as no further information has been received.

After that war, the flagship of the Phoenix Regiment, the Glory Queen's battleship 'Phoenix Crown', also disappeared.

After losing this ship, which was designed by the Emperor himself and built by Mars with all its strength, and which humans had completely lost the ability to build, the situation on the Western Front collapsed.

A large number of ships were destroyed, and the surviving ships had to flee in all directions; the transport fleet following behind had to deliver the troops and supplies on board to the surface of the planet as soon as possible before being destroyed, and then quickly escape...

After the brutal war, it was difficult to estimate the enemy's losses due to the lack of intelligence from the front lines.

But it shouldn't be light either.

The Imperial side that retreated to regroup had lost their regiment commander Su Lie and the Queen of Glory battleship. They only had two hundred Phoenix warriors left, commanded by a company commander. From all the other regiments combined, there might be around a thousand people left to regroup.

The losses of the Sisters of Battle were even more severe, with more than 10,000 killed or missing, and only 10,000 of the remaining 20,000 regrouped in the rear. The remaining Sisters of Battle, and an estimated 1,000 Space Marines, were scattered across the surface of various planets, with no certainty of their future fate.

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