Chapter 917, Stopping the Disaster

The arrival of the Disaster Fleet made the situation in the world of Papalil worse.

The world had already encountered such a terrible crisis that the safe zone strategy could not be implemented, and the only option was to issue an extermination order - and then the extermination order was intercepted.

Now, the Disaster Fleet has intervened again.

The situation has become extremely urgent.

The Alliance Fleet, which was attacked suddenly, even had to temporarily avoid the attack. In order to avoid being hit, it urgently evaded the position, allowing the Disaster Fleet to smoothly obtain half of Papalil's orbit, and the Alliance Fleet gave way to the back of the planet.

The fleets of both sides began to fight for the planet along its orbit.

But to be honest, the fight wasn't particularly intense.

The Alliance troops here are indeed the headquarters of the Southern Front Army, but not all of them are here. When the Front Army is fighting, each unit is divided into many detachments. The Front Army will formulate the overall combat objectives for multiple star regions, and during this period, each detachment will do its job according to the overall objectives and the strategic details given by the Front Army Headquarters.

This is to improve efficiency.

Unless they encounter a particularly difficult situation that requires multiple detachments or even the entire front army to fight collectively, they will gather together. Otherwise, they are normally dispersed.

Papalil said the situation was critical, but in fact, before the disaster fleet appeared, it was just a problem in one world, and it was not to the extent that other detachments needed to be recalled to strengthen the force. With the strength of the commanding fleet, it was more than enough to solve the problem.

Until the arrival of the Disaster Fleet, everything changed.

The size of the human fleet is only about a hundred warships; in this star region, there are more than five hundred ships belonging to the commander's fleet. They have received the news and are rushing here at full speed.

Before they arrived, it would be difficult to engage in a fleet decisive battle with the Disaster Fleet with the one hundred warships on hand.

The number of the enemy is far greater than ours.

Correspondingly, the Chaos enemy on the opposite side did not necessarily chase after the Alliance ships and annihilate them just because they were larger in size and stronger in strength.

On the contrary, after occupying half of the orbital space of the planet Papalil, the first thing they did was to deploy troops to the ground.

Their target area is quite obvious.

It was a church located in the middle area of a hive city that was occupied by the Alliance Army. Its original purpose was to serve as a ground base and a temporary settlement for the Alliance to evacuate the surface residents to the sky before the first Extermination Order strike.

Civilians will be examined here for a period of time to confirm that they do not carry any viruses or chaos corrosion, and only then will they be safely transferred to the rear.

Later, after the failure of the Extermination Order, the human forces returned to the surface and this place was reoccupied. Its responsibilities were still to identify the civilians and further try to evacuate more civilians. In addition, it also played another role as a forward military base to attack the Chaos rebels' air defense position 70 kilometers away.

This place is important, and it has some strategic value. That is why the Alliance troops stationed a full-strength Skeleton Division here and nearby, plus a company of Space Marines from the Banyan Lizard Regiment.

The Banyan Lizards are a sub-group of the Dragon Legion. Their brown and dark green two-tone paint makes them look like an old banyan tree. They have a history of 1,600 years and have been understaffed for a long time. It was not until they joined the Dark Side Expedition of the Alliance that the Banyan Lizards were reborn. Now, in addition to less than 300 veterans, the remaining 700 newly added warriors are all Primaris recruits.

The 8th Company of the Banyan Lizards here is a Primaris Company.

Their original duty was not to guard the church, but to gather here as the main force to attack the air defense position. Now, with the ground invasion of the disaster fleet, their most core mission naturally turned into on-site defense.

In fact, they didn't intend to defend to the death at the beginning.

The value of this church is that it serves as a gathering place for attacking the enemy's air defense positions. But now, the alliance obviously does not have the strength to continue the attack, and the entire battle situation has undergone a major change.

The church was targeted by the troops dropped on the ground by the Disaster Fleet. The enemy's strength was significantly stronger than theirs. The church no longer had any value as a springboard for attack. It should have been abandoned. The more correct choice was to maintain their own manpower and accumulate strength for a counterattack after the subsequent reinforcements from the outside arrived.

However, just when the troops were about to evacuate, an order from the headquarters made them stop.

They were asked to defend on the spot and hold on to the end, even if it meant fighting to the last man.

……

This order was issued by Martins himself.

He was quite familiar with the Disaster Fleet.

In other words, among all the military units of the Alliance, the Space Marine Management Association is one of the ones that cares most about the Disaster Fleet.

The reason is simple: the Disaster Fleet is the force with the highest concentration of Chaos Space Marines among all the enemies the Alliance is currently facing. The commander of the Disaster Fleet is often the leader of a Chaos warband.

If there are any enemies in this universe that the Space Marines most want to eliminate, they are undoubtedly the traitors who are of the same lineage as them.

Traitors of the same bloodline are the biggest enemies, and the goal is to cleanse the shame; other traitors of non-same bloodline are second.

As the boss of the Management Association, Martins has read many analyses of the Disaster Fleet by the General Staff. He knows that the Disaster Fleet seems to be looking for something all over the universe.

Up to now, the Alliance still doesn't know what that so-called 'thing' is.

However, seeing that they have such a clear goal, which is to attack that church, is there a possibility that the "thing" that the Disaster Fleet is looking for is inside that church?

Gotta stop them.

Martins even judged that the traitors would probably not wait until the Alliance forces gathered the fleets scattered around to fight a head-on battle with the Alliance. After they captured the church and took away the "things" they wanted, they might evacuate immediately.

Once they run away, it will be difficult to catch them.

Martins was determined to stop them.

It is definitely not enough to rely solely on a company of banyan lizards on the ground and a division of the Allied Army.

But as long as they can hold out long enough until reinforcements arrive, that's enough.

The reinforcements will be led by Martins himself.

(End of this chapter)