(Thanks to Nano Plague Swarm: Luo Yu for the tip. Bonus chapter 17/30.)
Over the next half day, Li Qinwu's forces pushed forward without pause, covering more than a hundred kilometers.
They burned everything in their path. A full 40% of the force was equipped with flamethrowers.
Both the Fleet Iron Guard and the Knight Mechs carried flamethrowers, which they turned on the Tyranids' biosphere.
The fuel they needed was delivered by military truck convoys from the Grand Warehouse.
The Grand Marshal had assigned Li Qinwu's forces a full ten thousand military trucks. They shuttled between the Grand Warehouse and the front, carrying mostly flamethrower fuel.
A tanker truck drove straight beneath a Knight Mech. A fuel hose was pulled from its tank and plugged into the mech's flamethrower.
The Knight Mech then stood in place and kept firing, hurling flames nearly a kilometer long across the Tyranid biosphere.
A tanker truck held roughly fifty thousand liters. A Knight Mech's heavy flamethrower could reach one kilometer and empty the tank in ten minutes, leaving a terrifying sea of fire!
Some tanker trucks were connected directly to Leman Russ tanks by fuel lines and followed them as they drove.
Wherever a Leman Russ tank went, fire followed—and so did its tanker truck.
Nearly two thousand strategic bombers flew back and forth between the Equator and the Grand Warehouse behind the lines.
Each bomber was larger than an An-225 and could carry five hundred tons of napalm bombs per flight.
After dropping five hundred tons of incendiaries over the Tyranid biosphere, each of the two thousand giant bombers returned to the Grand Warehouse, reloaded, and took off to deliver more.
The Tyranid biosphere across the entire Equator came under attack. The Equator was on the verge of becoming a continuous belt of