"What? Father, that's impossible!"
First Captain Abaddon denied it.
Perhaps that guy named Kasjia did have some skills.
To defend the surface fortifications with five hundred elite Emperor's Children veterans, and to pick off the enemy's weak points one by one, ultimately completing a counterattack.
The Emperor's Children were known for being elite but few in number, and the veteran Emperor's Children who had survived in the Great Crusade until now could each be said to be the elite of the elite.
Isn't it just because he has his own elite Astartes!
Ezekyle Abaddon, the First Captain of the Luna Wolves, the ever-victorious, the strongest and most formidable man of the Sixteenth Legion, can do that too!
If he were to command the Silent Star campaign, he would surely lead a team of elite Justaerin veterans to launch a surprise boarding and decapitation strike against the xenos leader.
That wouldn't be difficult.
But Horus had said that Kasjia hadn't even used any Space Marines.
The Lord Regent of a Space Marine Legion didn't use any Space Marines in a campaign?
Then how did he win the battle?
Horus didn't answer, just quietly watched the projection record.
In the footage, under the fire of the crystal xenos' energy weapons, Kasjia's defensive positions collapsed one after another, seemingly with no way to fight back against the enemy's overwhelming offensive.
Not just Abaddon, but the rest of the Luna Wolves captains also stared intently at the projection.
They also wanted to know how this guy, who could bring such pressure to Lord Horus, could achieve victory without relying on his veteran Space Marine companies.
"Is that... mortal auxiliaries?"
"And aerial servitors... are they a secret weapon of the Mechanicum?"
"Doesn't look like it. As far as I know, the development direction of the Legio Cybernetica has always been large-scale, heavy-firepower automated servitors."
"This kind of small reconnaissance machine doesn't seem to be their style."
Seeing the tide of battle turn with the addition of the aerial servitors and mortal auxiliaries, the various captains gathered around the large table in the strategy room, expressing their opinions.
"Impressive."
"Such beautiful coordinated strikes... if our army could fight like that..."
"Very impressive."
"The xenos are completely tied up. A large part of their main force can't even enter the battle... such strong guerrilla warfare capabilities."
Finally, as the Chemosian Guard and the sky full of aerial servitors eliminated the crystal xenos on the surface one by one, and the xenos warships in the sky were also ambushed by the long-waiting Imperial cruiser, the campaign against the xenos was a great victory with extremely few casualties.
"According to our post-battle statistics, Kasjia deployed a total of over six thousand members of the Chemosian Guard on the battlefield. In the end, only a little over a hundred were killed, and the number of wounded was also controlled within a hundred."
"As for the most elite Emperor's Children veterans, apart from one who had his right leg burned through by a xenos sneak attack during the subsequent boarding action, all the others were unharmed."
"A perfect campaign," Horus lamented. "Ezekyle, now, do you still insist that you could have done it?"
Ezekyle Abaddon was silent.
Defeating the xenos was not difficult.
But to do so while ensuring such a low casualty rate was almost impossible.
"Ezekyle, you are a strong and proud warrior, and there is nothing wrong with that."
"But you should not be so arrogant as to think that we, the Luna Wolves, are the strongest warriors and need not learn from other legions."
He placed his hand on the wolf pelt of the First Captain's pauldron, his voice earnest.
"For this misjudgment of Kasjia, even I am to blame."
"I was proud and arrogant, and had no eye for talent. If Kasjia were not my brother-in-law, but a legionary of the Luna Wolves..."
"...his command talent would very likely have been buried."
Horus's tone was full of regret.
The first-found son was humble.
He could not be proud and complacent just because he had achieved a little success.
This was the virtue he had learned in the thirty years he had spent by the Emperor's side, and also the reason why the Primarchs in the future would be willing to respect him as their big brother.
"Don't be nervous, Tenth Captain. I am not blaming you," Horus said quickly, seeing the nervous and uneasy expression on Tenth Captain Garviel Loken's face.
"It's just that we, the Luna Wolves, can no longer be proud and complacent."
"From those days when we landed on Chemos, I had a faint feeling that they were unusual."
"Captains, imagine this."
"If Kasjia accumulates enough prestige and puts all the Emperor's Children into such a perfect and coordinated guerrilla warfare tactic..."
Horus paused for a moment, as if waiting for the captains to digest this.
"At that time, even if I were to personally command the conquest of the surface, I might not achieve much."
At this moment, Horus, staring at the surging currents of the Warp outside the floor-to-ceiling window, seemed to be able to truly see the powerful siege firepower of their Luna Wolves clashing with the perfect guerrilla tactics of the Third Legion in the ultimate "spear and shield" confrontation.
For some reason, even though it was a vision, he could still see it very clearly.
The Choral City?
Is that where they will fight?
Bringing his thoughts back to the present.
The Luna Wolves needed to learn.
Stagnation and arrogance would only lead to destruction.
Whether it was the Imperial Fists who were skilled in defense, the Ultramarines who were skilled in logistics, or even the Emperor's Children with their perfect tactics that even Horus himself had misjudged, they were all role models worth learning from.
Kasjia's battle had not only achieved impressive results.
It had also made Horus constantly reflect on his own and the legion's shortcomings.
Horus ordered that from now on, all officers at the company level and above within the Luna Wolves must participate in study sessions, to learn from the strengths of other legions and make up for their own deficiencies.
And he called it—
The Great Luna Wolf Study Session!
As for the content of the first study session...
"I once asked Fulgrim, right when she was assuring me of Kasjia's command talent."
"I asked her: why do you trust a new recruit so much?"
"Fulgrim, she..."
"She gave me this."
Horus removed his heavy gauntlet and placed it on the table. In his exposed palm was a small storage device.
"She said, only facts can prove my words."
"If you are ever truly amazed by him one day, then take this out and have a look."
Fulgrim seemed to have long anticipated that Kasjia would astound everyone, and had given him this thing in advance.
It was a storage device for recording images, which could be connected to the projection device in their conference room.
"Then let's all have a look and see what it is that allowed Kasjia to master such formidable tactics as a new recruit."
Horus was particularly serious.
He stared intently at the projection.
After a few seconds, a strange line of small text gradually appeared on the projection device.
[Please enjoy the epic drama adapted from her own experiences, by the great Primarch, Lady Fulgrim—]
[Thirty Years - Chemos - Sagittarius - Golden Ring]
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