Fortunately, the beam had been broad enough that it should have killed many of the Space Marines and Grey Knights nearby. The remaining mortal troops would be much easier to dispose of. She only needed to keep throwing them into battle. The dead could not spread heretical beliefs.
That was the plan Levinie formed in her mind.
Elsewhere, on both flanks of Ovisgral Fortress, the people emerging from the tunnels looked at the pillar of light shooting into the sky and murmured, "Is this the signal the Celestial Master told us about?"
On the left flank were elite Yellow Turban Army troops equipped with large quantities of T'au weaponry. A very high proportion of them had received Yellow Heaven's Blessing, and the warriors cheered excitedly at the pillar of light overhead.
According to the orders personally signed by Celestial Master Zhang Jiao, Ovisgral Fortress was merely bait-bait to lure the reactionaries of the Imperium of Man into attacking.
Once the time was right, the troops lying in ambush on both flanks would launch a pincer attack, encircling the reactionary forces attacking Ovisgral Fortress and annihilating them one by one.
Now, these well-equipped troops felt it was time to attack.
On the right flank, a group of bald Genestealers with insectile features on their faces had gathered. They were working with the Rebel Army. In all honesty, the Rebel Army had treated them very well and was even willing to give them a piece of land to live on.
Moreover, they shared a common enemy: the forces of the Imperium of Man, which wanted to exterminate all life on the planet.
A Genestealer who looked like a leader raised his weapon and shouted toward the vast pillar of light in the distance, "For the Four-Armed Emperor! For land beneath the sun!