"Charge in. Kill anyone holding a weapon."
After seeing the city wall breached, Gray issued the order loudly over the communications channel.
"Yes."
More than seven hundred Star Space Marines swiftly rushed into the city, forming five-man combat squads and charging into the various buildings.
The moment the Star Space Marines entered the buildings, intense gunfire erupted.
Gray led his own guard unit. The guard consisted of twenty-five men, the size of a combat squad. These warriors were elites selected from a thousand soldiers. Only soldiers without command talent were assigned by Gray to his guard unit.
Elite veterans with even a little command ability were assigned by Gray as junior officers. To Gray, placing soldiers with command talent in his guard unit was simply a waste.
Gray led his guards up toward the city wall. Every structure in the 40K era was enormous; even the city wall was wide enough for two Apocalypse Tanks to drive side by side with room to spare.
As Gray led the Space Marines toward the top of the wall, the Star Sea I World soldiers who had recovered from the aftershocks of the explosion also clutched their weapons and continuously launched suicidal charges at Gray and the others. These ordinary firearms could not overload the Void Shield at all.
With every step Gray and his twenty-odd men took, a large swath of soldiers charging at them fell. The frail bodies of ordinary soldiers were as brittle as paper before the Heavy Ripper Rifles held by the Space Marines.
A single thirty-millimeter round could take the lives of more than a dozen soldiers. That was only because the soldiers were not charging side by side. If they had been, one bullet could have claimed over a hundred lives. Before powerful weapons, life could only