Clash on the Malikier line- Fire and vengeance crusade

 

Gorash III Imperium Nihlis- The blood crusade continued to rampage outwards but the Imperial forces were able to construct a few defensive lines.  In the East the Malikier line was established.  Khornate forces quickly decimated the PDF troops defending a section of the line.  A major breakthrough loomed.  Upon learning of the threat the Apocalypse Angels launched their own spoiling attack in the threatened sector.  A major clash now loomed on the Malikier line.











The Apocalypse Angels spotted the oncoming khornate horde led by a slaughter wreathed chaos knight.  The Apocalypse Angels moved out in a pincer manoeuver with the goal of encircling and then destroying the heretic threat.  The vindicator blasted apart a helbrute screening the chaos knight.  Apocalypse Angel infantry forces retook the abandoned first line positions and seized small caches of warpstone.  The Khornate warbands howled to their blood drenched patron and rushed forward to meet the Apocalypse Angels.  As they did so Chaplain Gaspar dropped behind their line of advance with jump packed assault Marines.  In doing so they had sealed the trap and the khornate strike force was encircled.












The eightbound charged the command Rhino ripping gouges out of the front armor as the khornate horde advanced.  The vindicator opened up on the dreadknight hammering it with shells and sending it back reeling even as squad bravo fired their meltaguns into the exposed leg cabling.  The burning dreadknight was then hammered by the dreadnought ancient Ezekiel who sent it toppling over in flames.  Chaplain Gaspar and his assault squad faced a mad charge of Khorne berserkers who had turned as the assault squad fired their bolt pistols into them.  Vicious hand to hand combat erupted chainaxes slammed into chainswords and bellows for blood met with battle cries for the emperor.  In a few minutes it was all over with only 2 khorne berserkers still standing.  Meanwhile Captain Dravin and his command squad leaped out of the rhino.  A blast of the meltaguns left one of the eightbound a puddle of steaming meat and melted armor.  Captain Dravin ducked under the swing of the charging eightbound before cutting him in half the spinning to behead the remaining eightbound.  The eightbound dead they blasted a khornate rhino and began holding the center.  Librarian Gabriel's squad on the far flank fought desperately to hold back the berserkers slashing at them.  Bodies piled up around the tainted warpstone both noble angels and depraved madmen as the battle raged.









Desperate to save Librarian Gabriel the rhino slammed into the berserkers grinding 2 of them beneath it's tracks before the berserkers set it aflame with grenades and hacked down Librarian Gabriel.  A scream filled the air as a heldrake swooped in napalming squad bravo and attacking the vindicator.  Captain Dravin and his command squad cut down the berserkers who had hammered chaplain Gaspar before the remaining berserkers bounded over and through the burning khornate rhino to slam into them intent on slaughter.  Captain Dravin fell with a chainaxes buried in his chest before the dreadnought ancient Elijah charged in killing the last of the berserkers.  With heavy casualties the Apocalypse Angels had held this sector of the Malikier line. How long the line could continue to hold back the blood crusade.


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