BWOOOOM—
With the piercing shriek of a horn, the Chemosian Guard, lying in ambush around the xenos army, began their charge.
And at the same time, of the countless aerial servitors originally hovering high in the sky, many were now diving rapidly, rushing towards the xenos below.
Automated aerial servitors do not need to be equipped with weapons.
Because they themselves are the weapons.
BOOM!
After rapidly approaching the xenos targets, they would automatically detonate the fragmentation and armor-piercing grenades they carried.
Or even melta charges.
Faced with countless dive-bombing attacks from the sky, these crystal constructs could only scatter, raising their energy weapons to counterattack.
But... there were just too many targets.
The sky full of automated servitors was simply impossible to defend against.
Not to mention they were all diving towards them at extremely high speeds.
It was like a person with a gun trying to eliminate all the mosquitoes around them.
No matter how powerful the xenos' energy weapons were, how long their range, or how great their destructive power, it was still no use.
Furthermore, the servitors' targeting was very intelligent.
Each one would only crash and detonate next to its corresponding xenos unit to achieve maximum destructive effect.
Caught off guard, countless explosions ignited the entire xenos army in an instant.
With the attack of the automated servitors, the xenos warships also seemed to have noticed that their ground troops' advance was being hindered.
This savage suicide-servitor tactic was a major obstacle to their army's advance.
More and more crystal-shaped landing pods were dropped from space, and countless fresh xenos troops joined the battle.
ZHEW!
ZZZZZT—
With the deployment of heavy weapons, an extremely bright laser beam instantly cut through the miasma that had covered the Silent Star for countless ages.
Immediately after, countless crackling explosions echoed in the air.
The enemy's heavy firepower had entered the fray.
The laser swept back and forth across the sky, and for a moment, the once-black cloud of servitors was as if wiped away by an eraser, leaving several gaps.
The crystal xenos also understood that it was not a good idea to continue letting their army fight a battle of attrition against the automated servitors.
After all, they were trading their lives for soulless steel.
Anyone could see that they were on the losing end of the deal.
But with more personnel deployed on the ground and the servitor swarm weakening, if the human counterattack was only this...
...although the xenos army would suffer heavy casualties, with their superior firepower, taking the human fortress was still just a matter of time.
But unfortunately, it was not just the automated aerial servitors charging at them.
There were also the surging crowds of people scattered in all directions.
"What are these mortal auxiliaries doing?"
An old veteran of the Emperor's Children, waiting in front of the fortress defense line, asked with confusion.
In his eyes, the charge of these Chemosian Guards was not concentrated like other mortal auxiliaries.
Instead, they were in many overlapping, nested triangular formations.
As for their method of advance, it was also different from ordinary troops.
When ordinary mortal auxiliaries engaged in combat on open ground, they would all line up and advance while firing in unison.
But they were constantly hitting the dirt and getting back up, with the triangular combat teams covering each other as they ran, dropped, and fired.
Why were they doing this?
"Shut up and watch."
The moment the Chemosian Guard executed their tactics, First Captain Kaesoron's impression of the legion's Lord Regent underwent a dramatic change.
This battle-hardened veteran, even in just an instant, could see the uniqueness of Kasjia's tactical arrangement.
"Observe and record."
"We might be able to use these tactics in our future guerrilla warfare as well."
"Attention?"
Arcur asked with confusion.
"What does the frequent dropping to the ground of personnel have to do with attention?"
"It is a means of exhausting the enemy's energy," Kasjia explained.
"In the enemy's eyes, there isn't much difference between dropping to the ground and being shot down."
"No one can distinguish whether the other party is dead or not in the midst of a battlefield filled with death and change."
"And even the most advanced reconnaissance equipment cannot distinguish between the wounded, the newly dead, or the dying from a soldier who is prone."
To put it simply, it was a way of repeatedly forcing the opponent to reacquire targets, like a game of whack-a-mole.
You simply couldn't tell if the enemy who had fallen was dead or just taking cover to fire.
By constantly having personnel rise and fall, it puts great psychological and mental pressure on the opponent.
At the same time, the triangular formation, although a dispersed deployment, allowed for close coordination.
Furthermore, the crystal plain where the battle was taking place had very uneven terrain, and the countless rugged crystal protrusions could be described as natural trenches.
The Chemosian Guard had also fully mapped the terrain before they arrived and knew it like the back of their hand.
Coordinating their advance or retreat, they repeatedly popped up and disappeared, making the opponent feel like they were surrounded by enemies and unable to cope.
"And so, by arranging several groups of soldiers to take turns, they wash over the enemy position like a tsunami, wave after wave."
"It's dazzling, overwhelming. Every corpse could be an enemy playing dead, and every drone could be an unexploded bomb."
"Even if we only have a few thousand men, it looks like—"
"A human sea."
"It's very mystical... I don't really get it."
As strong as Arcur's swordsmanship was, her other skills were just as weak.
"In short, this is the command you gave to the Chemosian Guard, to have them fight like this, right?"
"Command?"
Kasjia smiled.
"I only gave them one command—attack."
"Everything you see is the result of their own understanding and execution."
Although Kasjia was the legion's Lord Regent and commander, he never interfered in the specifics of the battle.
He only provided the most basic intelligence and the orders to attack or retreat. As for how to fight and who to target, it was all up to the grassroots officers of the Chemosian Guard to use their own initiative and judgment.
Organization, coordination.
The combat information on a real battlefield changes in an instant. It doesn't rely on a commander moving a cannon five centimeters on a map.
If Roboute Guilliman's Ultramarines were the perfect execution of meticulously planned tactics;
Then the Emperor's Children that Kasjia would lead in the future would be as free as water, allowing each combat squad to create local advantages according to the changing situation, thereby choosing the optimal tactical plan.
"Then according to you, does that mean anyone who uses your tactic is invincible?"
"Of course not."
The tactic itself was not without its flaws; there were still many prerequisites.
Fighting like this required extremely high organizational skills.
The grassroots officers had to be capable and have the ability to judge the battle situation and adopt tactics accordingly.
A single incompetent soldier makes the whole squad incompetent; a single incompetent general makes the whole army incompetent.
At the same time, the soldiers also had to be soldiers with the will to fight.
Otherwise, when Kasjia ordered them to attack on their own initiative, the soldiers' first reaction would be to drop their guns and run.
And then there was intelligence.
The reason the first batch of aerial servitors didn't just bomb them directly was also very simple.
Their role was to measure all the intelligence appearing on the battlefield and transmit it back to their side.
Where the enemy's weak points were, where the enemy's main force and center of attention were, which enemy unit's defeat would cause them to lose their leadership...
...all this intelligence was quickly grasped by the servitors.
And the enemy forces, with all their information exposed, were completely naked in Kasjia's eyes.
"And thus, they are picked off by our army, one by one," Kasjia said with a confident smile.
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