Warhammer 40: From the League of Humans to Warhammer

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Therefore, Guilliman couldn't even imagine what kind of research Zhou Qing was conducting at that moment.

Moreover, the imperial guards responsible for protecting Zhou Qing would certainly not let him in.

Under these circumstances, Guilliman had no choice but to begin mobilizing as many Imperial warships as possible to prepare logistical support for Zhou Qing's upcoming expedition.

If Zhou Qing is indeed preparing to launch an unyielding expedition.

The war machine of the human empire began to move under Guilliman's command.

He began coordinating with the Martian Mechanicus to get them to produce enough weapons and utilize their production capacity to prepare for the Great Expedition.

The human empire is still in a precarious situation. Although Terra has been reclaimed by the empire, the situation remains dire.

Under such circumstances, Guilliman must effectively mobilize every weapon in the Empire of Man, and get all weapons and the forging world working together.

Only in this way can the human empire be pulled back from the brink of death.

Of course, at this point, Guilliman's psychological pressure was no longer as great as it had originally been.

Guilliman’s mood improved whenever he saw the 2,800 million planetary defenders stationed on Holy Terra.

Such a number of Space Marines could undoubtedly effectively alleviate the current predicament faced by the Empire of Man.

More importantly, before Zhou Qing entered the laboratory, he had already authorized him to command this force, meaning that Guilliman could now mobilize this force.

However, at this moment he was assembling the fleet and waiting for Zhou Qing to come out, so he did not mobilize the legion, but only had them stationed in Terra to consolidate the solar system defense line.

While Guilliman was mobilizing a large army to prepare for the Unyielding Expedition, Zhou Qing was diligently researching his new generation of psionic legion technology.

The Federation of Humanity possesses so many technologies that each technology has its own scientists conducting research on it.

Although Zhou Qing is a scientist of three systems, he has not mastered all the technologies in the entire Federation.

Cutting-edge technologies, especially front-line military technologies, require authorization from the Grand Marshal to unlock, and Zhou Qing did not have that capability at the time.

Therefore, he had no choice but to research and crack the firewall currently set up by the Federation to access this military technology.

This is a very long process, and it will take him a long time to do it.

Because the Federation's military technology firewall was created by ten Level 10 scientists working together.

He has a way to crack this, but he doesn't have enough equipment to do so, so the process is quite slow.

Besides researching military technology, Zhou Qing was also studying how to better integrate his psionic legions with the forces of this universe.

At this moment, Zhou Qing's laboratory contained a total of 60 psionicists he had recruited from Terra's Psionic Academy, whom he was trying to turn into qualified members of the Psionic Legion.

But Zhou Qing failed—

He's run out of Ze Luo...

Without sufficiently pure psionic core energy as a basis for infusion, he simply could not create qualified members of the psionic legion.

Despite Zhou Qing's manipulation, the 60 psionicists from Terra Psionic Academy were reduced to mere Grey Knights.

Although the Grey Knights look decent on the surface, they are still far from the psionic legion that Zhou Qing needs.

What he needs is an army that can gather all the psionic energy together, forming a massive psionic entity with himself at its core, to launch a counterattack against the evil god.

What he has created now are merely enhanced versions of the Grey Knights.

They possess a strong resistance to chaos, making them virtually impossible to be corrupted by its power. At the same time, their powerful psionic energy grants them formidable destructive power against demons.

Such a force could at most be deployed to fight against the demonic legions in reality, but it would be impossible to bring them into the warp to confront the evil gods head-on.

Zhou Qing's research has hit a bottleneck. He originally wanted to develop a way to not consume the psionic legion created by Zelo, but now it seems he has failed.

The current situation means he can only wait.

He needs to wait for his colony to develop, and then build the Zelo synthesis device to synthesize these high-level psionic cores.

Of course, that's one thing.

But Zhou Qing did not give up.

He continued his research diligently and brought in a large number of psionicists from Terra's psionic academy.

When two months had passed in the blink of an eye, Zhou Qing finally gave up his research and walked out of the laboratory, leaving behind a total of 18,000 failed psionicists.

These people did not become qualified psionic legion soldiers, but Zhou Qing still managed to mold them into qualified gray knights.

At the same time, because they were soldiers despite their defeat, Zhou Qing provided them with some specialized psionic legion equipment.

For example, the Psionic Void Armor specially equipped by the Psionic Legion has a built-in enhanced Psionic Matrix that can increase the Grey Knights' combat power and psionic energy by 200%.

The armor is also equipped with a super-powered shield, which is used to resist the invasion of chaos and defend against any attack.

Their weapons, in terms of automatic weapons, still consist of Gauss rifles and power swords.

However, compared to other regular PDFs, their weaponry includes a psionic disintegration cannon in addition to a power sword.

This heavy weapon was also used by these defeated psionic legion soldiers.

This force's combat power surpasses that of regular PDFs, but lags behind the Psionic Legion.

At this moment, Zhou Qing didn't know how to name them or how to arrange them.

The force of 18,000 men was far too small to be organized into a legion, so Zhou Qing had no choice but to divide them into six battle groups.

Chapter 86 The Great Expedition: You're in charge of dealing with these 18,000 Grey Knights.

When Zhou Qing left his laboratory, the first person he saw was Guilliman, who would come to see Zhou Qing every day.

He wanted to discuss the details of launching the Great Expedition with Zhou Qing, and on this day he met Zhou Qing, as well as the 18,000 replicas of the Grey Knights who came out of his laboratory together.

Of course, Guilliman couldn't recognize that those guys were similar to the Grey Knights, but the Grey Knight Grand Instructor who was following Guilliman did.

Especially since the Battle of Lionsgate in Terra, they were called back by the Imperial Guard ahead of time and they haven't left yet because they want to stay and help Zhou Qing launch an unyielding expedition.

Although the Grey Knights didn't think Zhou Qing needed their help, Guilliman asked them to stay. In Guilliman's view, the Empire should contribute something during the Great Expedition.

Although Zhou Qing had a full 2,800 million Space Marines to mobilize for this Great Expedition, it would be somewhat unreasonable for the Empire to do nothing.

Is the Empire's only purpose to mobilize the navy to cover the Space Marines?

This was naturally impossible, so Guilliman requested that the Grey Knights stay and participate in the great expedition that Zhou Qing might launch next.

The Grey Knights naturally agreed to Guilliman's request, which led to the current scene where Guilliman and the Grey Knights' Grand Mentor arrived at the door of Zhou Qing's laboratory.

Just as Guilliman was overjoyed at the prospect of meeting Zhou Qing and discussing when to launch the Great Expedition, the Grey Knights' Grand Mentor had already noticed the soldiers behind Zhou Qing.

It was a feeling similar to that of the Grey Knights, like a group of professionals who just happened to be dedicated to facing demons.

The Gray Knights' Grand Instructor was stunned when he saw the nearly 10,000 people behind Zhou Qing.

Faced with such a large number of people and so many anti-demon experts, what is the role of the Grey Knights?

The Grand Master was deeply confused; he did not understand their significance.

Unlike him, Guilliman was happy and quickly went to greet him.

"Sun Lord, you've finally come out. Let's discuss when to launch the Great Expedition. I'm currently mobilizing the Imperial Army; these are the troops we can mobilize right now."

As he spoke, Guilliman sent all the files to Zhou Qing's personal terminal.

The advantage of a personal terminal is that it's incredibly convenient for processing and sending files.

Guilliman wished this technology could be made available throughout the entire empire, but for now, he could only dream about it.

Zhou Qing, who had just stepped out of the laboratory, had no idea what was going on.

He had just left his laboratory, tragically ending his research project, and now he was about to face the task of commanding the imperial army on a great expedition.

"I'm just a scientist, do I really have to command an army in battle?"

Zhou Qing felt a surge of anger within him. He could command troops in battle, but he really didn't want to.

The Human Federation generally engages in external warfare for expansion, and rarely needs to reclaim its own colonies.

To be more precise, the Human Federation has never lost a single colony on its path to rise, so it has no operational plan on how to reclaim its own colonies.

Generally speaking, the Human Federation's external military operations involve directly destroying planets.

The Federation saw a planet.

The Federation wants to take him and own him.

So it's very simple: deploy the Colossus and use a neutron torrent to destroy all living things below.

After destroying all organic and living organisms, the Federation's second step is to remodel them into the planetary form required by the Federation.

Generally speaking, such modifications are made to transform the planet into Gaia, because the Federation has taken a liking to this planet.

If you don't fancy this planet, that's even better.

Just blow up the planet, then send out a resource-gathering force to collect the necessary resources.

The Human Federation prioritizes efficiency in its external operations; they are exclusive and therefore do not need to consider the fate of extraterrestrial civilizations.

Even if a few of our fellow humans are on other planets, all we do is send out psionic legions to rescue them, and then blow up the planets afterward.

But the situation facing the human empire now is different.

Those colonies were all lost by the human empire, so the human federation's battle plan is simply unreliable and unusable here.

Zhou Qing couldn't possibly command the giant elephant to unleash a cataclysmic explosion on his own planet, sending all the human beings on it to their deaths, could he?

Moreover, the Great Expedition was different from the tactics Zhou Qing had previously used to reclaim the colonies.

When he previously reclaimed colonies, he relied on overwhelming force with large armies, but he could not do that in this kind of large-scale expedition because there were too many targets.

As for the operation of first relocating all the human compatriots on the planet and then destroying the planet, it was meaningless in the human empire at this time.

Even after conducting experiments for so long, and even having some conversations with those psionicists.

Zhou Qing also couldn't quite understand how the human empire managed to cramm a population of at least several billion, and sometimes hundreds of billions, onto such a planet.

More importantly, the human empire has far too many planets. Now that half of them have fallen, how long will it take to reclaim them all?

Therefore, Zhou Qing felt extremely troubled by the upcoming war.

Faced with Guilliman's excitement, Zhou Qing only hurriedly said a few words before quickly returning to his own laboratory.

"You can handle this, Guilliman. I don't know how to deal with it either. You're the professional."

After saying this, Zhou Qing returned to his laboratory, leaving behind only 18,000 cloned Grey Knights.