Battle of El Portazo- Zaragosan war

 

El Portazo-Ulland zone- Zaragoza-  The detachment of the 3rd Anglican regiment approached the outskirts of El Portazo.  The derelict mining town showed little signs of life as the anglicans moved in.  Dark clouds began to roll in from the north.  Rolling into El Portazo from the North Grimm and his black Legion approached beneath the storm clouds.  Fresh recruits and noctolith lay before the Black Legion warlord and something more.  Grimm listened as his scouts told of an Imperial guard force making for the settlement.  Grimm was pleased.  This was an opportunity to sow death and terror amongst the imperials, a prospect he relished.

Major Rawlings saw the advancing heretic forces approaching and ordered a barrage across their front.  Captain Dawson led the advance towards the central hab unit as the anglicans hurriedly advanced.

Grimm was surprised at the sudden bombardment that saw his forces slowed.  He saw the Imperials advance and ordered his forces forward to strike.  The defiler Grave tithe collasus was slammed by lascannon fire from armored sentinels but blew apart one of the walkers in retribution.  Fire flickered out from both sides as they advanced to contact.  A small force of felgor beastmen raced ahead firing at advancing guardsmen.  Their shaman immolating one of them with black warp fire.

Major Rawlings heard the cry of witch over the vox and saw a trooper of the advance guard wreathed in black fire that seemed to dance around him like some pagan triumph as the man screamed and died.  The rest of the squad was in now having charged the beastmen.  Bayonets met clevers and blades in a howling screaming melee of death.  A chaos vindicator appeared and blew apart another of the armored sentinels as the fury of battle increased.

The vindicator continued to pound away on the Imperial troops as Grimm began raising the shades of the fallen infusing them with the malevolance of the warp.  The defiler ripped apart major Rawlings with it's massive claws as obliteraters teleported in guns blazing a damaged taurox slammed into one of the obliteraters pinning it underneath the wheels before the second one wrecked it.  The guardsmen finally cut down the beastman shaman.  This little victory stood as nothing as the entire Imperial line shuddered under the onslaught.

The battle raged on with the vindicator being set ablaze with lascannons from the Heavy sentinels.  Through dark sorcery the shades continued to rise along with corpses.  A squad of anglicans charged into the resurrected corpse shades of their comrades but we're thrown back.  Under the cover of an artillery barrage the imperial guard fell back.  The settlement now lay in Grimm's possession.  His ranks would soon be swelled with warriors of native tribes and renegades.