The capital of the Hyberian Sector, Port Aquila.
If Yarkalan was a mountain of metal piled up, then Port Aquila was a metal continent whose spires could touch the atmosphere.
This hive city already accommodated over twenty billion people, with another hundred billion refugees from various parts of the planet that had fallen.
It also possessed the most solid Void Shield Array and land-based Orbital Defense Battery and was the main base for the remnants of the Imperial Navy and the Space Marine fleets.
With a complete defense system and a large number of garrisons, even in the war-torn present, Port Aquila had hardly been ravaged by large-scale war.
If calculated according to the armed forces retention rate of fifteen to one in total war, then the Port Aquila's own mobilized Planetary Defense Force was likely close to two billion. In addition to the Astra Militarum garrison that came to support, the number of mortal armed forces was estimated to have slightly exceeded two billion people.
This number even exceeded the total population of some fringe colony planets. Even if the newly mobilized troops with little combat power were removed, and only the trained part was counted, it may have reached five hundred million people.
Moreover, considering that Chapter Master Calgar led several companies and several successor chapters, and that the commander of the Sisters of Battle on the planet was a Palatine, they had probably brought close to ten thousand Space Marines and tens of thousands of Sisters of Battle.
Even if only one-third of them were still stationed here, there were probably very few places in the entire Imperium that were safer than Port Aquila.
This was without counting the forces of other founding chapters such as the Iron Hands, the Imperial Fists, the White Scars, and the Dark Angels and their successor chapters that had arrived here. If they had not already been deployed in other parts of the planet, the number of Space Marines transiting through Port Aquila might have exceeded ten thousand.
Of course, even possessing such a terrifying number of armed forces could only barely defend, or even retreat steadily, which was enough to show the strength of the opponent this time.
Inside the armed transport ship at this moment.
There was a lot of information in front of Zhang Ge - he really didn't expect that after just coming to this world, he would have to transform into a Munitorum Servitor at the desk before even being a real Astra Militarum for a few days.
First of all, of course, was the expansion of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment, whose number had reached more than 50,000, one-quarter of whom were the original mechanized infantry soldiers, one-quarter of whom were the Shattered Infantry Regiment that had been supplemented, and the other two-quarters of whom were the elites from various families in Yarkalan.
The scale of troop expansion was so large, which brought very heavy related affairs. Various things were piled up in a short few hours, and Zhang Ge needed to handle them in turn.
The most critical of which was the agreement with the Legio Cybernetica Detachment and the Sisters of Battle.
Although the agreement with Amilia's side had been signed as early as Yarkalan, it couldn't be helped. But in the negotiations with the Adeptus Mechanicus, Zhang Ge used his almost Philistine ability and rogue face.
He still failed to force the Adeptus Mechanicus to take the initiative to withdraw.
The scene at that time was basically that a group of priests sat on the Adeptus Mechanicus side, a group of officers sat on Zhang Ge's side, and then Zhang Ge and the high priest representative on the opposite side talked.
Zhang Ge: I want you to provide xx number of Leman Russ Battle Tanks of a certain model, xx number of Chimera Armored Transports of a certain model...
Priest: Okay, I'll give them.
Zhang Ge: Suddenly changed my mind, and I want to add xx sets of carapace armor of a certain model, xx Inferno Pistols of a certain model...
Priest: Okay, I'll give them.
Zhang Ge: ...I think it still needs to be considered. I hope to sign an agreement directly with you, which needs to guarantee the relevant logistics supply of my regiment, and needs to provide a batch of servitors...
Priest: Give them.
Zhang Ge: I want Kastelan Robots, I want Dune Crawlers, I want Power Armor with Force Feedback, I want bolters.
Priest: Give them.
When Zhang Ge was finally anxious, and the conditions he put forward were so outrageous that he felt that it was outrageous, he had already accumulated a series of rare equipment, including two Baneblade Super-heavy Tanks, six various internal fighters provided directly by bypassing the Imperial Navy, a large number of Basilisk Self-propelled Artillery, and Hydra Flak Tanks.
There were also enough Inferno Pistols for one-third of the people, enough Power Armor with Force Feedback and bolters to arm hundreds of people, and enough carapace armor for thousands of people.
He couldn't find a reason to refuse, so he could only sign his name in this agreement with a heavy heart.
It meant that from this moment on, the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment had a Legio Cybernetica Detachment with a thousand people and a Sororitas Militant Command with also a thousand people always following it, and there were even a large number of weapons and equipment that shouldn't have been there in the first place.
At the same time, Zhang Ge's plan to show a Philistine and rogue side to break the filter of the other officers on him was completely shattered, and even had the opposite effect, making the officers think that Zhang Ge could completely disregard his glorious image in order to get equipment, and would not hesitate to break the original high-level filter in order to let his soldiers use one more Inferno Pistol.
He really, I'm so touched.
Moreover, although the theoretical top commanders of the three troops were different, according to the agreement, the top command was concentrated in Zhang Ge alone.
He really couldn't figure it out. It was okay for Amilia, as the new commander of this Sisters of Battle force, but how could the Adeptus Mechanicus be willing to accept such harsh conditions? Was a Warlord Titan worth going to this extent?
This directly led to the fact that although the number of people had increased several times, the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment still maintained a high degree of mechanization under the Adeptus Mechanicus's unsparing Tithe Reinforcement.
Those originally stingy oilers desperately took things out, and the only condition was to require that at least one-third of the Titan Guard be able to follow at the feet of the Titan, and the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment must ensure the safety of the Titan as much as possible.
No, if you think about it carefully, is it us who guarantee the safety of the Titan, or is it the Titan who guarantees our safety?
Of course, Zhang Ge did not think of one level, that after the Adeptus Mechanicus's "Titan Factory" conclusion came out before, there was an accompanying discussion.
Assuming... just in case, that Titan factory was discovered and destroyed by Chaos, or even occupied, wouldn't the technology on this Titan become the only treasure technology in the entire Imperium? Could some identification information on it help to take back the Titan factory and STC that was polluted by Chaos?
Under this assumption, the Titan was completely unresponsive to all communication, and a Astra Militarum colonel was not someone who could be quietly manipulated. What if physically solving him angered the Titan?
Therefore, the Adeptus Mechanicus could only grit its teeth and try every means to strengthen the defensive forces around this Titan, even at the cost of sending out its own products.
After all, even if it was not destroyed, but only had some fragile equipment damaged, the loss would be immeasurable.
At worst, the Titan had to be made to last until most of the technology was Archaeotech Replication, as long as this thing could be preserved, and then Archmagos Cawl came over, then everything would be worth it.
If you think about it carefully, although a regiment of 50,000 people looks like a large number, but even with unlimited supplies, the number of equipment it can carry is only a drop in the bucket compared to the Astra Militarum and Skitarii Maniple whose basic unit is billions on this planet. Just squeezing a little bit of supplies from other troops would be enough to make up for the losses.
Not to mention anything else, a Astra Militarum stormtrooper regiment was basically wiped out by the Eldar some time ago. The things Zhang Ge wanted seemed like a lot, but in fact, taking a batch from what should have been given to this regiment was enough for most of it.
The Adeptus Mechanicus was originally worried that he would make an exorbitant demand and demand that the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment be turned into a Super-heavy Tank Regiment on the spot. After all, other equipment was easy to say, but Super-heavy Tanks, even if they were mass-produced, were really not something that could be pulled in a large batch temporarily.
Unexpectedly, it was a small mosquito opening its mouth, a false alarm.
However, even so, the current 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment was only nominally a "regiment", but in reality it was almost a mechanized group army formation. The combat power of some Astra Militarum infantry regiments that had been reduced to a Shattered Infantry Regiment with only two or three thousand people left was probably not even as good as that of the top few companies of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment.
While Zhang Ge was handling the "good news" with a worried face, and could only hope that the Sisters of Battle's trial would come as soon as possible, the fleet had begun to land near a Secure Landing Zone Sigma-9 in the outskirts of Port Aquila.
Bringing a Warlord Titan was not a small matter. This secret weapon that could bring unlimited surprises to the enemy should of course be hidden as much as possible before being used, in order to put it in the most critical position. The fleet could not just drive straight into Port Aquila and transport the Titan in.
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