Unsurprisingly, a Military Noble couldn't help but slam the table and stand up.
But his face remained calm, without signs of emotion, and said:
"Even without a Titan, we can hold it."
Hearing this sentence, the Space Marine moved his gaze away from Zhang Ge and looked at the other party, answering:
"Yarkalan Hive is the hive in the best current condition in this area, that is a fact."
As he waved his hand, a Servo-Skull flew to the side of the table. The Power Armour transmitted what was in his mind through neural links, causing a Holographic Map to be projected onto the tabletop.
This Holographic Map was a projection of Yarkalan and the surrounding defense nodes and hives.
His gaze was cast, and patches of red rose, replacing the original green like a tide, until it swallowed all the areas except for a few nodes and their surroundings.
The voice continued to sound:
"Apart from Yarkalan Hive, the remaining defense nodes and hives have lost their defensive value. This is also a fact."
Listening to these words, Zhang Ge tapped his thigh lightly with his fingertips, adding another question in his heart.
Logically speaking, with enemies already invading, the Imperial Navy shouldn't let a single frigate fall behind, and since the aerial defenses were still broken in this situation, then why did only one naval frigate crash down?
If they threw a few more, perhaps the current battle situation would be very different. The tower spires that had been hit by warships would not be able to organize resistance to the extent they were now in a short period of time.
Now it seemed that they didn't not throw them, they just didn't throw them on top of Yarkalan.
And a dignified Chaos Space Marine Lord wasn't just here for Yarkalan either. He should have been responsible for all such landing operations in the surrounding area.
The dramatic thing was that, judging from the map information, it was only Yarkalan, which he personally executed, that did not fall into the mire of melee combat.
As everyone scanned this Holographic Map, the Space Marine standing in the main seat continued to speak:
"Yarkalan, which was the focus of the attack, actually held on. This is a great victory, but soon, without the surrounding support, this place will fall into a besieged situation. At that time, even retreating will not be possible."
This sentence revealed a lot of information. The word "on the contrary" showed that these three Space Marines were not here to defend Yarkalan from the beginning. Their estimate of this place was that it would fall.
What made them so sure?
That's right, it was still that Lord, and that Lord was precisely the real target of these two-hundred-year-old veterans coming here.
After being Primarisized, coupled with Cawl's new equipment, the combat strength of Space Marines greatly improved. With the assistance of two others, a White Helm Primaris veteran from a homebrew Chapter plus the Sisters of Battle of Yarkalan may not lose to a Chaos Space Marine Lord from a non-first founding Chapter.
If all three Canonesses Superior survived, it could even be said that there was a very high chance of winning.
Hives can be rebuilt, but Chaos Lords are one less for every one that dies.
But obviously, the complex situation here far exceeded their expectations, forcing them to change their Plan again and again.
And with the words already spoken to this point, the Military Noble also sat back.
The Space Marine veteran stated very realistically:
"If you can rely on yourselves to defend Yarkalan, then the time delayed would undoubtedly be a great contribution to the rear, but since it relies on a Warlord Titan, then the nature is different. We cannot allow such valuable strategic resources to be lost on this."
After the words, there was a moment of silence, and then another voice sounded. It was the old man from Ernesto:
"Can't Yarkalan be used as a nail hammered into the enemy's heart, waiting for a subsequent counterattack?"
"The idea is good, but..."
He didn't say the rest of the words, but everyone could guess it after thinking carefully.
With Chaos Space Marines appearing in formations, the rear only stingily sent these few people here, and one could imagine how bad the battle situation was in other areas.
Let alone a counterattack, it wasn't even certain that the planet could be defended.
To be honest, if the war wasn't in a stalemate and the local garrison's combat power wasn't bad, and transporting them back could play a certain role, this Space Marine wouldn't have bothered to waste time explaining so much.
If they were a little weaker, he might have been too lazy to invite them to a Meeting and just left with the Astra Militarum, Sisters of Battle, Adeptus Mechanicus, and the like.
After everyone figured it out, the representatives of the local forces all had gloomy faces, while the Adeptus Ministorum, Astra Militarum, and the like had indifferent faces.
However, although their moods were different, the Meeting then entered the bickering process of how to specifically evacuate, which was considered to have resolved the biggest disagreement.
This stage was not something the Space Marines wanted to intervene in. After setting the end time of the Meeting, they moved and left the table, and the veteran signaled Zhang Ge to follow along the way.
Zhang Ge naturally had no objections. After bringing Amilia and Dominika, they followed the three Giants out of the Meeting Room.
In the outer corridor, the three Space Marines nodded to each other, seemingly said something, and then the two of them walked to the sides respectively, clearing and separating the soldiers and other people around.
A small detail was that the veterans belonging to Zhang Ge looked at these Space Marines pushing them away, hesitated for a moment and still tried to resist, but Zhang Ge signaled in time to prevent a conflict from breaking out.
The Space Marine veteran came to Zhang Ge, his height was so great that Zhang Ge could only look up to look at him. He said in a deep voice:
"In their discussion, I heard them call you Colonel Zhang Ge... I remember all the Astra Militarum officers above the rank of colonel deployed on this planet. You are not among them."
He put his hand on the hilt of the chainsword on his waist, as if he would swing the sword and chop down as long as Zhang Ge gave a wrong answer.
Seeing this, Amilia frowned slightly, and even directly drew her sword from behind to the palm of her hand, and the blade lightly chirped.
The tension was high for a time.
Seeing this, the Space Marine also slowly drew his sword, while saying:
"I have seen the glory of Saint Celestine, and now I feel a similar aura on your body."
Amilia did not answer. Zhang Ge looked at the way the two of them were confronting each other, shrugged his shoulders and took a step back, giving up the field.
The sound of the chain saw starting up rang out, and the high-speed rotating whine of the monomolecular saw blade was particularly captivating. As a veteran of more than two hundred years, it was difficult to imagine how much blood of Enemies this blade had fully drunk.
He continued to say:
"Now is not the time to be bound by regulations, so, if you can last ten rounds under my hands and vouch for him, then I will not question his identity."
Ten rounds, for ordinary people, that was a despairing number.
But standing in front of this veteran was Amilia.
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