The amount of dead was appalling to Shino as she slowly followed Logan and Stalker as they walked through the remains of the trenches as Rex, Toombs, Stark, and Drake slowly followed them along with about maybe 100 Imperial Guardsmen that had also survived the attack.
Ahead of them, Haydrax, Alec, Chrima, Leonidius, Galek, Monster, and Jaxx were holding their position with maybe around 125 surviving Imperial Guardsmen as just to their left flank about 75 Imperial Guardsmen stood with maybe 50 Adeptus mechanicus Skitarii Rangers and Hyspasists as they all stood alongside of Phrix, Eli, Scarlet, Mac, Engelbart, Dewyer, Widit, and Theo.
It wasn't a large army by Imperial Guard Standards, with some IG armies having millions to even billions within a single army but to Haydrax it was his own small army and as he watched Stalker and his unit of IG slowly walk over, Haydrax then said to them all, "Alright.... We continue on..."
"We must continue our advance against the enemy.. before they grind us to a complete halt and then grin us into dust..."
And with that, he began to walk with his bolt pistol and his plasma pistol out as then, slowly, the whole army began to advance over the rough terrain before them as Galek then asked Haydrax, "When will we stop advancing?"
"When we either have beaten the enemy... or when we have all died." said Haydrax.
When the day had become night, the army had gone for who knows how long through the chaos-held territory without meeting a single enemy to fight. As Shino slowly walked alongside of both Stalker and Logan as they threaded their way amongst the other Imperial guardsmen hideouts, she stayed noticeable quiet and Logan looked over at her as he asked her, "What's up, Shino? You've been quiet lately.."
"Its... so.. unbearable... to see so many dead in that last battle... and we didn't do anything for them either!" said Shino as she looked at them.
"Sometimes we don't have much of a choice in the matter.." said Stalker. "It would takes weeks to identify and then bury them into individual graves of any sort..."
As they soon came to a large hole that had been made from the explosion of a bomb, they slowly descended down as within the hole the whole group were hunched around several fires that had been made. Haydrax was with Chrima, Leonidius, Monster, and Alec as they were around one of the fires that Monster had made as both Jaxx and Monster were cleaning their weapons near to the fire.
At another fire, Dewyer, Theo, Widit, Engelbart, and Evan were around another fire as they were all checking one another out for any problems with their mechanical modifications and mechadandrites to make sure none of them had any form of problems.
At another fire, Eli, Phrix, Scarlet, Mac, and Angelo were all huddled around a fire as they were all eating from what few rations the Imperial Guardsmen had found amongst the dead. It wasn't much, to be honest, but it would be enough to keep them all going.
At the lip of the large hole, there was Galek, Drake, Toombs, Stark, and Rex all leaning over the lip with their rifles and autoguns as they were simply keeping watch for the whole group as Shino, Logan, and Stalker soon all sat down around another of the campfires that had been set up but not lit and as Logan began to try and light it, Shino took some rations from her Guardsmen pack as then she put them near them on a rock that could bee seen poking out as Stalker simply peaked over the lip himself as he looked around.
"Man... we sure got lucky today..." said Logan as he finally got a spark for the fire as then it began to slowly spread throughout the small fire.
"Yeah... we should have lost everyone... but the Emperor was watching us.." said Stalker as then he came back down from the lip of the crater as he then slid next to Shino as he then looked at her and asked her, "You okay?"
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The Warfield (A warhammer 40k story)
FanfictionIt is the 41st Millennium and the Imperium of Man only knows war. Chaos threatens to topple it, aliens and Xenos come at it from all sides. There is only war. But for the group under control of Imperial Inquisitor Haydrax Ishamael Ignatio Jacobeam t...