hh9节译：Kenrac之战

The Battle for Kenrac

Among the initial objectives of the Dark Angels as they pushed outwards from Triplex was the world of Kenrac, its modest industrial output marking it as a target of some value in the ongoing war for the Thramas sector. Before the arrival of the Dark Angels, the Night Lords had seen to the extermination of Kenrac's planetary defence force and begun a process of forced conscription in order to form new slave regiments to feed the war effort, and it would be these forces and a small core of Night Lords warriors that would oppose the Dark Angels’ landings. The Lion assigned elements of the 19th and 7th Orders to the assault, placing Logaine, Knight-praetor of the 17th Order and Marshal of the Firewing, at the head of the battlegroup, his orders clear elimmate all occupying forces and secure the planet for the First Legion.

Kenrac世界是黑暗天使军团从Triplex向外推进的最初目标之一，其适度的工业产出使这个世界成为了萨拉马斯星区正在进行的战争中有价值的目标。在黑暗天使到来之前，人们已经看见午夜领主军团处决了Kenrac的行星防御部队，并且开始了强制征兵来形成新的奴隶兵团以满足战争的需要，而就是这些凡人奴隶部队和一小群午夜领主军团战士将要面对登陆星球的黑暗天使部队。莱昂派遣了来自第19和第7骑士团的分队执行进攻任务，并且指派第17团骑士团的骑士执政官兼火翼元帅洛凯恩指挥该战斗群。洛凯恩接受的命令是：剿灭当地所有的占领军，确保这个世界落入第一军团之手。

Rather than waste manpower and munitions in the direct annihilation of the slave regiments that the Night Lords placed in the frontline, Knight-praetor Logaine made use of the Fire wing's doctrine of precise strikes and the careful accumulation of intelligence. Initials attacks on the surface were limited to small Firewing teams of Seekers and reconnaissance Legionaries directed to plot enemy positions and secure the Night Lords overseers scattered amongst the bulk of the slave regiments. With the information gained from traditional scouting and the interrogation of the captured Night Lords, the location of the main Night Lords host itself was quickly ascertained, these forces would be the main target of any assault, leaving the ill-motivated conscripts out of the real battle for the planet. The final assault would come suddenly and with overwhelming force, with the bulk of the Dark Angels battlegroups heavy assets landing with pinpoint precision amongst the Night Lords' own units, seeking to overwhelm them with the sheer speed of their assault. Without the screening force of slave-soldiers, the small Night Lords garrison found itself hopelessly outnumbered, with even their command post within the fortified hive spire swiftly falling to the onslaught of a combined force of heavy transport vehicles and Terminator assault squads.

骑士执政官洛凯恩并未浪费人力和弹药去直接摧毁午夜领主军团安排在前线奴隶兵团，他祭出了火翼精准进攻的信条，仔细进行情报收集。黑暗天使军团在地面的第一波进攻仅由寻路者和侦察兵组成的小规模火翼小队执行，他们暗中侦查敌军位置，确保担任监军的午夜领主们分散到奴隶兵团的大部分部队中。利用常规侦查和审讯被俘的午夜领主军团战士所获取的信息，黑暗天使们很快就确定了午夜领主主力部队的方位——这些部队将成为黑暗天使所有进攻行动的主要目标，将那些缺乏斗志的凡人征召兵排除在星球上真正的战斗之外。最终进攻突然以压倒性的力量展开，黑暗天使战斗群的大量重型装备将会精确地降落在午夜领主自己的单位之间，试图用进攻的纯粹速度来压倒敌军。没有了奴隶士兵组成的掩护部队，那些小规模的午夜领主驻军发现自己陷入寡不敌众的绝望境地，甚至连他们位于要塞化巢都尖塔内的指挥部也迅速沦陷——由黑暗天使重型运输载具和终结者突击小队组成的联合部队屠杀了他们。