Chapter 669: Defeat of the Northern Front Army

Qin Zhiping is sure that this is the biggest challenge in his career.

After joining the Xenophobia Inquisition and becoming an Inquisitor specializing in combating alien enemies, it cannot be said that he rose to prominence overnight, but at least he was promoted step by step.

He doesn't have any special background, he's just lucky - or unlucky.

Qin Zhiping always encounters some particularly serious alien incidents, but somehow, they are always resolved relatively smoothly in the end.

Although he paid the price of an eye, three fingers on his left hand, and his entire right arm, in the social environment of the empire, when his status and position were raised, these physical injuries were no problem. Installing mechanical prostheses and artificial eyes can solve the problem, and they may be even better than the original ones. If there are some requirements for appearance, then in addition to the mechanical limbs, a layer of finely crafted bionic skin can be put on, and then from the outside, it can look no different from a normal person.

Of course, most people are not worthy of such a set of things. However, when Qin Zhiping made a great contribution in these serious but successfully resolved alien incidents, and was promoted all the way, then as a rising star in the Anti-foreign Tribunal, the problem of not being able to afford it and not being worthy of it was solved.

As the backbone of the Inquisition, he led an entire corps of loyal stormtroopers with his longest-time assistants, and also had many inquisitor assistants... In this way, a top-notch team was formed, which served as one of the backbone forces sent by the Anti-Foreign Order to the northern legion.

In other words, when Marshal Le Roy, commander-in-chief of the Northern Front Army, held high-level military meetings, Qin Zhiping was able to sit in and listen because of his status.

While the Western Front reorganized and beat the Ironclad without a trace, support from all sides of the Northern Front also arrived. Some Chapters sent more Space Marine companies, the Black Crusaders sent a full fleet, and more Silver Watch from the anti-foreign order arrived on the battlefield... All of these greatly increased the strength of the Northern Front Legion.

They did indeed win crucial victories in Lefo and Jianmen star fields with great momentum, annihilating the main force of the Zerg that had been entangled with the Northern Legion in those two star fields for several years.

After ensuring that there were only some local Zerg threats on their rear roads and that there were no enemies in space that could harm them on a large scale, the Northern Front Legion crossed the border in high spirits and entered the Princess Star Domain.

At that time, everyone from Marshal Le Roux to Qin Zhiping and even ordinary soldiers believed that they would win the biggest medal in this major rebellion suppression war in the eastern border of the empire.

Then, the infected people in the rear were collectively eaten and digested. The swarms of insects that were originally thought to be scattered on various planets and posed no threat to the space army, "ascended to heaven".

It would be fine if the infected parts of a few worlds were digested and ascended to form hive ships, which would not be a big deal; but if there were hundreds or thousands of worlds like this, even if the amount of biomass gathered on a single planet was not large enough, it would be terrifying when gathered together.

More importantly, it was meaningless to turn back now. They could not disperse the enemy before they reunited. If another group of enemies rushed out from the Princess Star Region, they would be caught in a pincer attack.

Qin Zhiping really didn't expect that the speed of falling from heaven to hell would be so fast.

Things have come to this, there is no choice.

They could only bite the bullet and continue to charge into the core area of the Queen Star Region, hoping to capture Readuches, win the decisive battle with the Hive Fleet, and destroy the Queen. In that case, they would not only be able to resolve the crisis, but even turn defeat into victory. By then, the "greatest medal" would still be on them.

With such a 'fantasy' in mind, the shadow of the subspace enveloped them and they lost contact with the outside world.

Then, after arriving at Rheaduches, they began to attack the planet. At the beginning, their actions were relatively smooth.

They even found traces of the Queen of Insects!

Qin Zhiping suggested at that time to directly use the extermination order weapons, even if it would cause the troops that had already landed to be buried with them.

However, Leroy did not agree to his suggestion.

He had deployed more than 3,000 Space Marines on the ground, including 1,500 Black Crusaders and even warriors from the Infinity and Bat Chapters. He couldn't bear to do something like this that would also hit his own Chapter, and he was also worried that he couldn't afford to offend the two founding Chapters.

Another major factor is that the enemy's anti-orbital firepower and anti-aircraft firepower have not been destroyed. They don't have enough extinction weapons, and if they are blindly deployed, the probability of being intercepted is extremely high. If more are intercepted, they will be useless in the future.

Le Roux decided to first take down a few orbital gun fortresses on the ground that were occupied by the infected traitors, then destroy a few of the Zerg's anti-orbital bio-cannons, and then withdraw some ground troops, at least withdraw the Space Marines, and then try the Extinction Order weapon.

Until now, Qin Zhiping was very angry that Le Luwa did not listen to him and let him go.

Although the probability of the extinction order weapons being intercepted is as high as over 90%, they have missiles in reserve. Just bomb and smash them, just betting on this probability. As long as they hit the target and kill the Queen Insect, the war will be over!

With huge profits to be made, it’s definitely worth a gamble!
But subsequent developments perfectly illustrate the ancient Terran proverb 'Opportunity lost, never to be found again'.

A powerful hive fleet, gathered from all over the Princess Star Region, has taken shape and arrived in Rheaduches.

At this stage, the Northern Front Legion quickly lost in the orbital battle for Readuches. Although their fleet was also large, it was impossible for them to withstand the orbital firepower of the planet and then be beaten by a large-scale Hive Fleet. They could not win by attacking from both sides.

After giving up orbital rights, not only did they lose the opportunity to launch extinction order weapons, but the troops on the ground could not be withdrawn.

The Northern Fleet also tried to tangle with the Hive Fleet. Even if the ground forces could no longer easily call for orbital support, they should at least prevent the biological artillery of the Zerg from hitting their own ground forces.

However, even this soon became impossible.

They lost the space battle.

As the space battle became fierce and brutal, the morale of the human fleet collapsed. The first to collapse was the joint fleet of several star domain governments sent by the Devouring Star Domain. Many of their ships took advantage of the war and escaped from the edge.

Regardless of whether they escaped in the end, this set a very bad example!

(End of this chapter)