Before the commander spoke, Zhang Ge thought that the White Scars would be the first to comment on this tactic.
However, if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to understand. Perhaps the White Scars are regarded as wild poets, but the Dark Angels are actually just wild people, but they usually pretend to be knights.
Their surface seems calm, but in fact, as long as the situation involves a certain unknown bottom line, then they can do all kinds of outrageous things without hesitation.
Following the Dark Angels Commander were the other two Space Marine officers. They were relatively more cautious. They should have briefly calculated the feasibility of the plan in that short period of thinking, so there was a few seconds of delay just now.
The two expressed their approval in their own ways one after the other. However, the Imperial Fists officer also made it clear at the same time that this job can only be done by Space Marines. For mortals, even if the impact of the sandstorm itself is not considered, the acceleration caused by clinging to the shells is enough to kill people.
Of course, this does not mean that mortals have nothing to do. They need to get on the fighters, and then fly all the way to Low Orbit, fly into the Eye of the Storm from a height that the sandstorm cannot reach, and then go straight down.
After reaching an effective attack range, all the ground-to-ground weapons carried on the fighters will be dumped at once, used to overload or weaken the fortress's shields. After the shields are overloaded and the outer walls are broken by shells, the mortal elites will be air-dropped into the gap as the second wave of troops to provide support to the first wave of Space Marines.
The general direction was confirmed in this way. While the various troops were preparing for the war, some details were gradually supplemented. During this period, the three Space Marine officers rejected Zhang Ge's application to ride shells multiple times, which made him quite dissatisfied.
However, this dissatisfaction soon ended, because after leaving the conference room, Zhang Ge asked Oston to take some time to let him experience his tolerance limit... and found that this tactic was indeed not suitable for mortals - even with his current physical fitness.
Even Isis would have to be able to withstand that instantaneous acceleration and long-term sandstorm friction only if she was wearing Power Armor. If Zhang Ge wanted to force it, he would probably be considered deliberately courting death.
In this case, he had to regretfully give up the sandstorm surfing plan, and returned to the Valkyrie after completing the command transfer of the mortal troops.
Waiting minute by minute, the Space Marines quickly completed the fine calculation of various parameters and gave a timetable for various actions, and the specific departure time of the aircraft was naturally also listed.
In the camp, a large number of silent vehicles began to move. Hundreds of Space Marines assigned with Jump Packs took their positions, and a large number of fighters that had not been parked for a long time also took off again at the same time.
The spearhead of the attack was gradually piercing towards the core of that boundless sandstorm.
At this time, in the center of the storm, inside Vigil Keep, a small group of Space Marines with Power Armor of various colors were gathered in the depths of the fortress.
They are the Fallen Angels who have been hunted by the Dark Angels for countless years... According to their original plan, they would sacrifice a small number of people and let those people be captured by the Dark Angels, so as to release the information that there are Fallen Angels here.
Of course, this is not because they are tired of living and want to die. It is because there is a lost instrument in this Vigil Keep that does not know which era it came from. When it is activated, it can generate an extremely large gravitational field. When it is running at full power, it is even enough to create a small black hole.
The power of this instrument is so great that even if it is currently in a dormant state, it has caused this never-ending storm around Vigil Keep.
With such a machine, the Fallen Angels' plan is not difficult to imagine. They plan to lead the Dark Angels' mothership here, and then use this instrument to catch it all at once, so as to solve the problem of being hunted once and for all.
However, what the plan could not keep up with was that before they could attract the Dark Angels, there was first the Great Rift, then the invasion of various forces, and finally, without attracting the Dark Angels first, Abaddon was attracted first.
Not all Fallen Angels are Chaos Space Marines. On the contrary, most of them are at most considered traitors or escapees. The fortress is actually struggling with whether to cooperate with Chaos.
The meeting right now is being held for this divergence... They have to be anxious. According to the communication from the Chaos side, the Vengeful Spirit will be opened near the storm soon, and Abaddon will personally teleport to the inside of Vigil Keep to negotiate with the Fallen Angels.
Is it going to fight, is it going to talk, or is it going to simply vote? An answer must be obtained in a short period of time, otherwise when Abaddon comes, these options will not be chosen by themselves.
However, even when such an important meeting was being held, some uninvited guests arrived quietly.
First, the fortress's sensor array detected that hundreds of high-speed flying objects were approaching in the sky. Then, a violent explosion suddenly sounded before the Ion Shields were charged.
Wait, weren't those targets detected still far in orbit? How could there be an explosion?
After accessing optical observation, the Fallen Angels in charge of controlling the sensor array were shocked to find that a Valkyrie had already arrived near the fortress, and was using the rockets and missiles carried on its wings to clean up the various air defense firepower on the surface of the fortress.
In theory, just a single Valkyrie, even if it can't be shot down, should not be able to cause much damage. However, the ammunition of that Valkyrie seems to be inexhaustible. Under the rampant rain of bullets, several anti-aircraft gun turrets have lost contact in this short period of contact.
What happened afterwards was even more embarrassing. Since the simple radar inserted by the Fallen Angels on Vigil Keep could not scan this Valkyrie, various missiles could not be locked, so only unguided anti-aircraft guns were responsible for interception.
However, due to its weird maneuverability and speed, at such a close distance, although the Space Marines' reaction power can keep up, the turning speed of the various turrets they have accumulated over the years does not support the word "hit" at all.
Although the Fallen Angels had tried their best to create an air defense system under extremely difficult material conditions, which was enough to cope with conventional enemy fighters, who knew that they would encounter this kind of enemy that was not within the scope of normal specifications the first time they used it?
If they had known this, it would have been better to save the materials to repair those Power Armor.
In this kind of speechless mood, in order to avoid further casualties, the Fallen Angels had to evacuate those relatively thin-skinned turrets, which inevitably led to the air defense network, which could not intercept hundreds of fighters in the first place, becoming even worse.
However, compared to these threats on the surface, there are hundreds of small surprises silently approaching the unsuspecting Vigil Keep at an extremely high speed.