Orbitting ships start disgorging their landers, which are falling on the planetary area of the Thaxtedburian space port to find the traces of the extremely violent confrontation between 4 Stone Warden Adeptus Astartes Companies and the occupying xenos.
This very sight was also seen in the coast of Newbigia where many astartes squads and predator tanks exterminated most of the xenos occupation force there. Hundreds of kilometres of corpses, raiders debris dans flaming prometheum towers were left behind.
Under command of Jonas Viridian, Calixian Marshall Militarum, orders his 1st and 2nd Brontian Longknives veteran divisions to organise an eastward beachead to stimms the drukhari reinforcements. Showing the important tactical acumen of such a division, a powerful counter attack by the xenos commanded by Archon Selenthyl itself thrusted through the imperial lines. Whyches and xenos raiders raided the 1st divisions, where Calixian Marshall Viridian himself ordered the ranks of his men in devastating baionnets and long knives charge under the covering fires of lines of imperial guardsmen, his powerblade igniting and decapitating many of the xenos. He ordered his second division in a pincer attack that was foreseen by Archon Selenthyl. The whych cabals and raiders slaughetered and routed the 2nd division, capturing most of its survivors and sending them away screaming.
During this time, three legions of Sardaukars deployed themselves from the Liberator Regis. The Second and Third legion engaged one of the xenos raiding party that used its raiders anti-grav vehicles momentum to counter-attack with renewed vigour, forcing the Sardaukars to retreat in the rubble-strewn streets of the Thaxtedburian capital, where the second legion was all but destroyed, the city strewn with power-armoured bodies and the blood of the brave warriors of the Corrino- dynasty.
During this time, the third legion occupied the proximity of the planetary government institutional palace, preparing to face down in a new assault the xenos forces, weakened but still quite in the fight.
This new battle of the capital let it aflame, thick and oily smoke columns reaching the skies.
During this time, a coordinated sister of battle covent from the Eternal Flame order and the first legion moved towards the Thaxtedburian Synod Cathedral, facing a heavy counter attack as the xenos foreseen the sisters fanatical intervention, using boats from the neighoring admiralty and sending waves of human slaves as a meatshield to occupy the powerful bolters of the power-armoured elite soldiers before the sixth drukarhi raiding parties attacked with their anti-grav vehicles and ravagers' disintegrators.
The Sisters of Battle were decimated and their survivor retreated inside the Cathedral, while the first legion valiantly counter-attacked, trying to drive back the xenos forces without success before retreating inside the fortified walls of the Cathedral.
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