(This book has officially entered the countdown, and is expected to be completed within 100 to 150 chapters. After the end, I will write some extra chapters from time to time.)

（感谢各位从2023年8月18日至2025年3月24日的追更。）

(May the Emperor bless you.)

"Currently, the enemy only has one fortress left on this planet, and the combat robot troops are gathering in that direction." Ryan said, looking at the holographic projection in front of him.

"Leave this place to me, I will let my legion flatten it." Perturabo said suddenly.

Since the beginning of the expedition, the Iron Warriors have rarely appeared. They usually only appear after the end of a few battles planned by Perturabo, but they will disappear soon.

For the officers under Perturabo, every command is a test, and only those who complete the test can become the most elite commanders of the Iron Warriors Legion.

Three thousand landing capsules shaped like iron coffins penetrated the atmosphere. These death messengers equipped with self-forged fragmentation warheads disintegrated a thousand meters above the ground.

Hundreds of millions of nano-scale mechanical locusts swooped down on the energy shield of the Tau fortress, plugging the gaps between particles with their self-replicating bodies.

As the battlesuits attempted to use phase shifts to clear the swarm, the entire sky was suddenly illuminated blood red by the Iron Warriors' artillery barrage.

"Bombardment coordinates locked!"

Commander Bones' mechanical eyes flickered, and seven hundred and fifty self-propelled artillery pieces from the petrified lizards roared at the same time.

In just a moment, half of the Tau Empire base turned into a metal swamp, but such firepower was just a drop in the bucket for the Iron Warriors.

"They are deconstructing our defenses!"

Liang Ying, the commander of the Tau fortress, stared at the holographic projection. The blue dots of light representing the energy nodes were extinguishing in groups.

The Iron Warriors' bombardment followed some kind of chaotic mathematical formula, with each salvo precisely destroying three interconnected support points.

On the battlefield outside the fortress, the B1 robot's tsunami-like attack suddenly became orderly.

The Space Marines of the Iron Warriors Legion began to use melt-type weapons to melt out a fifty-meter-wide assault channel, and hundreds of B2 robots pushed heavy shield generators forward steadily.

Whenever a Tau pulse cannon penetrated the shield, twenty B1 robots would immediately stack up to form a temporary shelter, using their metal bodies to absorb the subsequent firepower.

"The highest good is above......"

The fire warriors stationed at the Third Bastion witnessed an art of siege beyond their comprehension. They saw a Warlord-class Titan rising from the burning plains. It and the tens-meter-high Mechanical Giant God bombarded the ground with seismic cannons, detonating all the Tau electromagnetic pulse mines buried deep underground.

The smoke from the explosion had not yet dissipated, and hundreds of thousands of B1 robots launched a charge along the precisely calculated crater path.

The Tau Empire heavy pulse turret on top of the bastion suddenly turned its guns, and the overloaded energy beam penetrated the two tanks that had just rushed into the fortress.

But the Iron Warriors' revenge came even faster. Several Primaris Dreadnoughts fell from the sky. The moment they fell, a blue light spurted out from the plasma cannon, and then dozens of Tau Empire Fire Warriors were instantly melted by the high temperature.

"Second wave, siege terminators move in." Bones continued to order.

Just watch as three hundred Iron Warriors commandos armed with heavy bolters and chainsaw axes smash through the fortress dome.

A torrent of data flowed across the surface of their power armor, and every tactical move was perfectly synchronized with the offensive of the B1 robots on the periphery.

The lighting system in the corridors of the fortress in Sector D-7 had long been paralyzed, and only the blue flashes of pulse weapon fire and the red beams of blaster rifles intertwined in the darkness.

The Terminator squad of Shuks the Ironforger was like a mobile steel fortress, their power armor making a teeth-grinding friction sound in the narrow space.

A Fire Warrior tried to ambush with a melta gun, but was shot to pieces by the Terminator's shoulder-mounted automatic turret.

"Left channel, three targets." Shukes' mechanical voice sounded in the encrypted channel, and his power glove crushed a fire warrior's helmet, and brain matter dripped through his fingers.

The two Terminators at the rear immediately turned around, and their flamethrowers turned the entire corridor into hell.

The screams of the Tau soldiers were engulfed by flames, but more pulse beams shot down from the ventilation ducts.

In the E-3 maintenance tunnel, the Iron Warriors' tactical team was ambushed by XV25 stealth battlesuits.

These Tau elites equipped with pulse weapons shuttled between the walls like ghosts, and each time they appeared, they could take the lives of several battle robots.

At this time, the team leader Grax used a chainsaw sword to split open the ventilation duct, but found that it was full of plasma mines.

"Tactical reorganization!" Grax's power armor sprayed coolant, "B1 unit, execute the cleanup protocol!"

Thirty B1 robots immediately poured into the passage, brandishing their blasters comically and triggering every trap with their metal bodies.

A B1 was screaming as he was blown away by a mine: "I hate this mission! I hate this mission!"

Inside the H-9 area armory, Fire Warrior Commander Liang Ying led the last elite troops to hold the last line of defense.

They dismantled the battle suits and turrets of the hammerhead shark tanks and converted them into fixed turrets. The roar of the pulse cannon caused the walls to peel off.

When the Iron Warriors' Marauder tanks attempted to storm the ship, Bright Shadow activated the pre-set collapse device.

"For the Greater Good!"

The Tau warriors shouted slogans as they watched the entire ceiling fall on the enemy.

But suddenly, the blue light of power weapons appeared in the smoke and dust. It was the Terminator team that activated the anti-gravity energy field, which was enough for them to support thousands of tons of ruins.

At the same time, their melta weapons fired simultaneously, melting a gap in the Tau defenses.

When the Space Marines' iron boots stepped onto the floor of the fortress command center, Bright Shadow launched the final charge.

His plasma rifle burned scorch marks into the Terminator's armor, but Kaan's power fist was faster.

The blow not only shattered the Tau commander's body, but also pierced the fortress's foundation.

"mission completed."

The Space Marine watched the crumbling fortress as his mechanical tentacles downloaded the final data of the battle.

In the evacuation passage, the surviving B1 robot was still chattering:

"I said the mortality rate for this mission would be over 90%!"

"Shut up! According to calculations, our chance of survival is 0.0001%..."

………………

Meanwhile, in a neutral tomb world.

The tomb is located on the border between the Silent King and the Storm King's sphere of influence, and its rulers are a small dynasty called the Ogdobek Dynasty.

Although the Ogdobek Dynasty is relatively weak, it enjoys a certain reputation within the Necrons and is considered a neutral mediator.

The Storm King and the Silent King chose to reveal their cards here; alliance or war would depend on this meeting.