Chapter 717: Chaos

For Horus, it was a successful rebellion.

As it should be.

He cleaned out the loyalists who were loyal to the emperor in his legion on the planet Isstvan III, but what Horus didn't expect was that the loyalists evacuated under the cover of the sudden court of justice and disappeared. . After that, Terra, who learned of Horus's rebellion, immediately ordered Iron Warriors, Midnight Lords, Word Bearers, Iron Hands, Salamanders, Raven Guard and Alpha Legion to go to the Istvan galaxy to suppress the rebellion.

But in fact, apart from the Raven Guard, the Iron Hands and the Salamander, the other four legions have already secretly mutinied, so when the three legions loyal to the Emperor landed on Isstvan V, what greeted them was A double pincer between the betrayal of the allies in the back and the attack of the enemies in the front.

The result was that the Primarchs of the Iron Hands and Salamanders were slain, the Raven Guard disappeared, and the loyalist Legion Astartes decimated.

For this result, Horus is very satisfied, and now he has the Sons of Horus, the Emperor's Sons, the World Empress, the Word Bearers, the Iron Warriors, the Night Lords, the Death Guard, and the Alpha Legion.

As for the Empire, most of the main force of the Astartes were transferred from Terra under the order of the Warmaster. According to Horus' plan, the Ultramarines went to the Calth galaxy to be backstabbed by the Word Bearers, and the Blood Angels went to the west. Gnass was corrupted by obsession, the space wolf and the thousand sons killed each other, and the inside of the white scar had become a mess because of whether to seek refuge with Horus. In this way, only the Imperial Fist remained to guard Terra. Roger Dorn.

Coupled with the rebellion of the Mechanicus on Mars, the only people that Terra can really deploy are the Imperial Fist and the Forbidden Army, plus the Sisters of Silence at most. Bar.

As a result, as soon as the front foot finished speaking, Lorgar came back with a sad face on the back foot.

Then Horus was stunned.

"Can you say that again?"

Horus stared at Lorgar, his two eyes were almost eating people——The Word Bearers and the World Mum were almost wiped out, and the three Abyss-class warships were completely scrapped——Horus originally planned to go to the solar system I compared this with Dorn's Mountain Array, but you just let me play it?

Are you kidding me!

Luo Jia is also very depressed, who told you to let the world-slayers join our ranks, if there were no world-slayers, I wouldn't be in such a miserable situation, at least I can bite the Ultramarines, right?

It's all right now, I didn't eat the meat but caused a commotion, who do I ask for reasoning?

"Strange, though."

Seeing that the atmosphere on the field was somewhat icy, Fulgrim also spoke.

"The mobilization of the Abyss-class warships is a military secret. It is reasonable to say that except for a limited number of people, other people know nothing about it. But looking at the responses of the Ultramarines and the Tribunal, they seem to have known that we will send three Abyss ships. Don't you think it's strange that the super battleship appeared on the stage?"

Speaking of this, several other people also reacted. Indeed, there were three Abyss-class warships on my side, and they hadn't fired yet. Play a round of attack and test first, which means that the opponent is sure that you only have these three trump cards, so as soon as you make a move, he directly presses against you.

This is very weird.

"Is that the Ultramarines' battleship?"

"Does not look like."

Mortarion shook his head.

"It's not Ultramarines style, it's not Empire style, it's more like an alien warship."

"The question now is how do they know about our military deployment."

Lorgar was also very upset.

"Erebus is dead, so it's not surprising that the Ultramarines knew about our plan from the beginning, since the Inquisition was there. Guilliman must have heard about it from the loyalist remnants It’s not incomprehensible to be wary of the Word Bearers. But the question is, how did they know that the Abyss-class battleship would be used by the Word Bearers to attack the Calth galaxy?”

"Could there be an inner ghost among us?"

As soon as Fulgrim said this, the expressions of everyone were somewhat subtle. Generally speaking, such situations and possibilities are not non-existent. After all, the Loyalist Astartes had been purged, and the rest were rebels.

Then will there be someone who is in Cao Ying and his heart is in Han?

What a joke, the remaining rebel Astartes are all polluted by the power of chaos, how could anyone betray?

"Stop thinking about it."

Seeing that the eyes of the brothers looking at each other were a bit wrong, Horus forcibly interrupted this kind of thinking. Hit a hammer and go.

"I think it is very likely that the Inquisition has already infiltrated our legion, and they have been monitoring our every move through the loyal Astartes as eyes and ears."

Speaking of this, Horus also has a gloomy expression. He still insists that the sudden appearance of the Tribunal is actually the watcher of the Astartes. This makes sense, because the Emperor is an old shameless bastard. He just likes to play this kind of trick of checking and balancing each other. It is a matter of course for him to use the Tribunal to secretly check and balance the Astartes.

In fact, there are indeed many high-ranking Astartes in the Loyalists, such as Loken, the commander of the Tenth Company. Although he is the commander of the Tenth Company, he is also a member of the Mourners—this is A small group similar to the staff of the Horus Legion, they can directly talk to Horus, put forward suggestions and opinions, and even openly oppose Horus' plans.

In this case, although Horus is very cautious, he is not sure whether any loyal Astartes will leak their affairs to the Tribunal, so that the Tribunal will know their plans and even plots. .

Maybe when I first chose to rebel, some people below me whistled and applauded and sold me backhandedly.

"Regardless, planning must go ahead."

Horus took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart. In Horus' plan, he can rely on his status as the Warmaster to disperse the power of the loyal legion without the knowledge of other legions, and then use the ceremony to set off a subspace storm, block the subspace channel, and These loyalist legions are all blocked, and then they will be defeated one by one without knowing anything.

In fact, finding a planet to sacrifice and set off a subspace storm can be done anywhere. You don’t have to fight the Ultramarines, but the Word Bearers have a grudge against the Ultramarines, and Horus thinks it’s impossible for Guilliman Knowing the betrayal of himself and others, and the fact that the Ultramarines were indeed the biggest threat facing the Horus Rebellion, he had to guard against them, so he finally agreed to Lorgar's request to let the Word Bearers deal with the Ultramarines .

It turned out to be a good one, completely overturned.

Not only did the Word Bearers suffer heavy losses, but even the three Abyss-class warships that Horus obtained from the Mechanicus rebels were turned into scrap iron. Right now Mars is still in the middle of the rebellion war, and I heard that Rog Dorn has sent his legion to support the Mechanicus in countering the rebellion. At least in a short period of time, Horus does not expect to be able to get another Abyss-class warship .

Right now, Horus himself is actually not feeling well. When the 62nd Expeditionary Fleet attacked the Judgment Chamber, Duanmuhuai backhanded a miniature black hole and swallowed most of the battleships. The Sons of Horus, the Emperor's Children and the Death Guard all lost a lot. Although they planned to destroy the three loyalist legions on Istfan V after that, the counterattack before the opponent's death also caused certain losses to the rebel legions.

This is why Horus is extremely afraid of Guilliman and allows the Word Bearers to deal with the Ultramarines. The number of Ultramarines is the largest in the empire. It is worth the power of the entire rebel army.

Coupled with the Dark Angels and Blood Angels, as well as the Imperial Fist stationed in Terra and the white scars wandering somewhere, Horus had a premonition that he might be finished.

But this premonition was only fleeting, and was soon suppressed by Horus.

"The plan must go ahead, summon the subspace storm, we must block the channel, cut off the communication, and then... go directly to Terra!"

As long as you can kill the false emperor, then all this is worth it!

The disastrous defeat of one side naturally takes the triumphant triumph of the other side as the background.

The Ultramarines once again defeated the enemy and won the victory, and Guilliman also made a special trip to find Duanmu Huai and expressed his gratitude to him. Although the Tribunal fleet withdrew when the battle really started, the Ultramarines all knew that if the three alien battleships of the Tribunal hadn't destroyed the opponent's trump card, they might have faced another situation.

From a certain point of view, in this war, no one has sacrificed more than the Inquisition Chamber.

Of course, for Duanmuhuai, this is not a sacrifice at all, but... Uh, there is no need to say it.

A grand victory banquet is naturally indispensable. Of course, for the Astartes, they don't need to waste time on eating and drinking, but they also need to make an attitude in many cases.

For now at least, the Inquisition is indeed their ally.

And Duanmu Huai and Guilliman were also chatting with each other while holding a cup.

"What are you going to do next?"

"No matter what, I will defend the Emperor and protect Terra."

Guilliman also answered without hesitation.

"The Ultramarines will start recruiting immediately, recruiting soldiers and manufacturing warships to the greatest extent. We will leave a part of the fleet to guard the five hundred worlds, and the rest will go to Terra."

"I can give you a ride, we should separate when we get to Terra."

"Why?"

Hearing Duanmuhuai's answer, Guilliman was a little surprised.

"Everything the Tribunal has done is enough to be recorded in the annals of history. It is because of your help that we were able to stop the betrayal of the Word Bearers and protect the five hundred worlds..."

"I can't get along with your father, I'm afraid we will fight when we meet."

Duanmuhuai waved his hand, interrupting Guilliman's speech.

"To be honest, if I really want to go to Terra, if I can't help it, I will have to throw an extermination order on Terra. After all, the Terra Council and the Emperor are not good things..."

"Well……………"

Facing Duanmuhuai's confession, Guilliman had nothing to say for a while. Although the Emperor is not willing to talk about it, the Terra Council...well, Guilliman quite agrees with Duanmuhuai's point of view. , he didn't have a good impression of the group of guys who were eating vegetarian meals in the Terra Council.

Holding the wine glass, Duanmu Huai stared at the banquet hall in front of him, he almost guessed why he was here. Players once said about the birth of the four gods of chaos. When they were born, they existed in the past, present, and future at the same time—because subspace has no concept of time.

And Duanmu Huai is also considered a god now, and he is also the god of destruction, the god of joy and the old god.

So, does he therefore exist simultaneously in the past, present and future?

This may or may not be a problem.

But Duanmu Huai could feel that maybe the time he could stay here was running out.

The past can be changed, but the past cannot be subverted.

Just like a house, when you lay the foundation, you can consider whether to build a high-rise or a villa, but you can't make it a park.

And what he can change... Maybe that's all.