HH2节译：登陆点大屠杀2-2
Planerfall: Plus 1.3 Hours Terran Sidereal
时间：行星登陆1.3泰拉恒星时之后
As if sensing the dangerous momentum the Loyalists were gaining, the Traitor forces surged to counter-assault, and the Traitor Primarchs took to the field. Sallying out from the fortress, Angron, blood-hungry and roaring like a beast of a lost and terrible age led a charge which split the Loyalist line apart like a hammer-driven wedge, pushing between the Iron Hands in the centre and the Raven Guard on the right flank and forcing them apart, before turning on the Raven Guard with his World Eaters in great slaughter, unleashing gore splattered Terminators with great power axes chained in their hands to rampage freely through the tangle of ravens, caring not who they killed, friend or foe. On the left flank great clouds of poisonous fog swept across the trenches, dissolving flesh through the slightest breach in power armour, and by the choked-screams elicited by such ugly deaths was the Reaper Mortarion heralded.
宛如感觉到忠诚派们正在获得危险的势头一般，叛军部队涌出要塞进行反击，叛变原体们也驾临战场。嗜血的安格隆如同失落的恐怖时代的恶兽那般从要塞中冲出，他率领部队发起了冲锋，像冲击锤楔子一般冲开了忠诚派的防线，压迫着中线的铁手和右翼的暗鸦守卫并迫使他们分开，之后吞世者就开始了对于暗鸦守卫的大屠杀。吞世者们释放出了用铁链将动力巨斧绑缚在手上的终结者们，肆意地与暗鸦守卫们混战厮杀。他们并不在意自己杀死的是敌人还是友军。左翼的战壕则是弥漫着毒雾云，毒素通过动力甲上最轻微的裂口溶解血肉，这种丑陋的死亡所引发的窒息尖叫声预示着收割者莫塔里安的到来。
With arcing sweeps of his scythe, the Primarch of the Death Guard cut through the Salamanders in his path and not even the stalwart Firedrakes could stop his bleak progress, although by their martial skill and sacrifice his tally of slaughter was held in check. Even as the Loyalist attack stalled, more Traitor troops appeared; Sons of Horus elite, Reavers and Justaerin Terminators, led by the feared Abaddon, counter-charged across the battle lands with unremitting savagery, while more Traitor heavy support squads appeared to ring the outer hills of the depression, setting up relentless crossfires, only to be met by strike wings of Javelin attack speeders and Storm Eagle gunships, or blasted from their cover by the annihilating rays of volkite carronades as Salamanders Legion Glaive super-heavy tanks took up guarding positions on the flanks of the advancing Loyalist forces. Gunships, freed of their cargo of Legionaries and war machines, undertook desperate and near-suicidal attack runs, sweeping low through the storm of fire, weapons blazing in the hopes of turning the tide of battle, many to end torn from the sky like burning meteors.
死亡守卫原体的战镰挥出弧击，从阻碍他道路的火蜥蜴中砍过，哪怕是最为强健的火龙终结者也阻挡不了死亡之主的残忍攻势，但火龙们还是用自己的武技和牺牲抑制住了莫塔里安的屠杀计数。随着忠诚派的进攻遭到拖延，更多的叛军部队出现了：阿巴顿率领着荷鲁斯之子的精锐——掠夺者和加斯特林终结者，带着持续的狂暴对战场发起了反击冲锋；同时更多的叛军重武器支援小队包围了洼地的外围丘陵，他们发射出无情的交叉火力，但忠诚派标枪速攻艇和风暴鸟炮艇组成的打击中队予以还击，在前进中的忠诚派部队两翼进行护卫的火蜥蜴军团飞刃超重型坦克也向叛军部队的隐蔽处开火，爆燃臼炮发射出的毁灭性射线将叛军重武器支援小队炸为飞灰。炮艇投放了搭载的军团战士和战争机器之后，就会进行绝望和近乎自杀式的攻击，他们从枪林弹雨中低空掠行，武器不断开火以期改变战斗的走向，许多炮艇如同燃烧的彗星一般被从空中击落。
Planetfall: Plus 1.6 Hours Terran Sidereal
时间：星球降落1.6泰拉恒星时
With the battle lines a vast bloody impasse of carnage and shell-storm, the fleet auxiliaries at last deployed to the dropsite now cleared of Legion drop ships; units of the Imperial Army, heavy infantry regiments, artillery companies and super-heavy tank detachments poured forth, but so confined was the space they entered now —the ground between the dropsite and the front lines had become a log jam of burning wreckage and broken bodies— their press was such that no enemy shell or missile that found its way to them could fail to do harm. It was at this moment of confusion and discord among the Loyalist rear echelon that a hidden signal was sent and concealed bunkers and redoubts opened up in the black sands beneath the Loyalists' feet, and Death Guard and World Eater suicide squads emerged from hiding to wreak havoc. Where they found Legionaries waiting for them, or the grinding tread of heavy armoured vehicles, the Traitor ambushers' bloodshed was curtailed or at least contained, but where these terror troops broke out amid the ranks of the Imperial Army, there was nothing but murderous slaughter. Mere humans, no matter how well trained or well equipped, proving as helpless as children before ravening wolves.
随着战斗演变为充斥着屠杀和频繁炮击的血腥僵局，辅助军舰队最终降落到了阿斯塔特军团空降船清理出的登陆点。帝国军的重步兵团、炮兵连和超重型坦克分队鱼贯而出，但他们所进入的空间极其狭窄——登陆点和前线之间的空地填满了燃烧的残骸与破碎的尸体，残骸和尸体堆得是如此满，以至于敌人的导弹的炮弹都找不到飞向他们的路径，伤害不到他们。也正是在这个令忠诚派后方梯队困惑的纷争时刻，一个隐藏的信号被发出，埋藏在帝国军脚下黑沙中的隐蔽堡垒和掩体突然打开，死亡守卫和吞世者的自杀小队从藏身处杀出，对帝国部队施加毁灭。帝国军发现了军团战士们正在等待他们，他们用重型装甲载具不停的冲撞碾压对抗阿斯塔特叛军。叛军伏击部队的血腥进攻（最终）被限制或至少被控制住，但这些可怕的阿斯塔特们也对帝国军部队进行了残忍的屠杀，使其四分五裂。无论训练多么有素、装备多么精良的普通凡人，（在阿斯塔特面前）都被正面像是面对着凶猛恶狼的孩童那般无助。
Stalemate
僵局
Planetfall: Plus 2.2 Hours Terran Sidereal
时间：行星登陆2.2泰拉恒星时之后
Where one side lost ground in one place, it gained it in another, and the battle lines shifted again and again, with no advantage pressed home on either side in the wake of such utter destruction wrought by both. The black sands ran red with blood. Tens of thousands of Space Marines had died in little over two hours of battle; a cataclysm never before seen in open conflict, and tens of thousands more fought on, brutalised and injured.
忠诚派和叛军双方在此处夺取一片阵地后，便会在彼处失去一片阵地，战线反复移动，但在双方都造成了如此彻底的破坏之后，仍旧没有哪一方能占据优势。鲜血染红了伊斯特万五号的黑色沙地，数以万计的星际战士死在了了这场略微超过两个小时的战斗中。未曾有人在公开的冲突中见证过此等惨剧，另有数以万计的星际战士在继续战斗，他们残暴地互相伤害着。
In many places on the battlefield, fresh supplies could not reach the fighting thanks to the press of battle and the relentless shelling and counter-shelling. In such areas chainblades had been shattered, grenades long exhausted and bolters had run dry. For both sides the armaments of the dead were scrabbled for in the blood and dirt so that the killing could continue, or they simply smashed and grappled at each other with gauntleted hands, or pounded on their foes with empty weapons no more now than twisted metal clubs. Neither side was willing to give ground, death was everywhere. The battle raged on.
由于战事的高压与双方无情的炮击与反炮击，在战场上的很多地方，新的补给无法送到战区。在这些区域中，（星际战士们的）链锯剑破损，手雷早已耗尽，爆弹也唯余空匣。双方要么在鲜血与尘烬中从死者身上翻找弹药以继续进行杀戮，要么就是就是凭借包裹着动力甲的双手锤击撕打，或者使用已经比扭曲的金属棍棒强不了多少的空武器击打敌人。双方都不愿放弃阵地，死亡无处不在，战斗还在持续。
As the slaughter at the fortress-line continued unabated, at the rearmost part of the Urgall Depression a vast crimson bulk had slowly descended, anti-aircraft fire stitching blackened scorches across its cylindrical armoured sides. It was a battle- maniple of the Legio Atarus, the Firebrands Titan Legion in their macro-lander, and their arrival had been warranted by the heat bloom-signatures of others of their kind advancing through the billowing dust storm from the desert plain. The Legio Mortis were approaching also, and at their colossal striding feet raced scores of Predator tanks and outrider and jetbike squadrons drawn from the Sons of Horus and World Eaters Legions. The auguries showed the Legio Atarus was outnumbered and outclassed; two Reavers and three Warhounds of the Firebrands against a Warlord, two Reavers and a Nightgaunt as battle Titans and two Warhound scout Titans in support for the Death's Heads. To match the mass of rapidly moving Legion armour and fast attack units ranged against them, they had only a single covenant of allied Legio Cybernetica, and a squadron of supporting Mechanicum armour. The cold calculations of the Mechanicum put the probability estimates of survival at less than 13% in their coded vox communications to the Gorgon, who approved their decision to directly attack the enemy, rather than receive them in defence and be overrun.
要塞防线处的屠杀有增无减，此时在Urgall洼地的最后方，一艘猩红色的巨舰缓缓降落，防空火力射击烤焦它圆柱形的侧面装甲船体，使其发黑。炎纹军团的战斗中队搭乘着巨型登陆艇降落此地，其他泰坦在沙原上于滚滚沙尘中前进时所产生热华现象证明了他们的到来。死颅军团也在接近，泰坦们迈动巨足大步前进，与他们并驾齐驱的是挑选自荷鲁斯之子与吞世者两个军团的捕食者坦克编队和先驱者与喷射机车构成的中队。鸟卜读数显示炎纹军团在数量和吨位级别上都被压制：炎纹军团要用两台掠夺者泰坦和三台战犬泰坦去对抗死颅军团的一台战将泰坦，两台掠夺者泰坦，一台充当战斗泰坦的夜魔机甲和两台战犬侦查泰坦。为了跟上他们身边大量快速移动的军团装甲和快速攻击单位，泰坦军团们只是配备了一支智控军团的盟约友军，外加一支机械神教的装甲支援中队。机械神教通过加密通讯将冷酷的计算结果传达给戈尔贡：（部队）生存概率估计低于 13%，费鲁斯同意的他们直接进攻的决定，而非进行被动防御并被敌人的反击所压倒。
For the Legio Atarus, the chance to attack their erstwhile brethren of the Legio Mortis was not merely the desire of those who had stayed loyal to punish the Traitor, but the culmination of a long-simmering grudge that had its roots decades before this day. So it was that with righteous anger that the Titans of the Firebrands sounded their great sirens and charged into battle against their foe, and in doing so became the first Loyalist Titan Legion to draw blade against a Traitor Legio in the war of the Horus Heresy. The battle that followed was brief but brutal, with the Legio Atarus attacking at full pelt into the mass of the foe, determined to inflict as much damage as possible rather than fight for tactical advantage or indeed, their own survival. In this they succeeded in destroying the Legio Mortis Warlord Titan Breath of Thunder with Princeps Marakaru’s own Reaver Red Naga dealing the coup de grace to the Traitor battle Titan with its power fist, before its own reactor core was breached by vengeful fire from the Legio Mortis, resulting in the immolation of the Red Naga and dozens of enemy tanks in the ensuing explosion.
对炎纹军团而言，进攻他们曾经的兄弟——死颅军团不仅是作为忠诚者对叛徒进行惩罚，双方几十年前就已经根深蒂固的怨恨在今天达到了顶峰。炎纹军团泰坦巨大的扩音汽笛中爆发出怒吼，他们向着敌军发起了冲锋，由此成为了荷鲁斯叛乱中第一个向叛徒泰坦军团挥剑的忠诚派泰坦军团。之后的战斗简短而残酷：炎纹军团全速冲入敌群，决心对死颅军团造成尽可能多的伤害，他们的战斗并非是为了获取战术优势，事实上，也并非是为了它们自己的生存。他们成功地摧毁了死颅军团的战将泰坦“雷霆之息”号，机长马雷卡鲁驾驶着掠夺者泰坦“赤红蛇神”号用动力拳向叛军泰坦挥出了致命一击，之后死颅军团的报复性开火破坏了“赤红蛇神”号的反应堆核心，“赤红蛇神”号发生了殉爆，接踵而至的爆炸摧毁了数十辆敌军坦克。
At the cost of their own complete destruction, the Legio Atarus counter-attack effectively neutralized the secondary Legio Mortis contingent. The former forcing its survivors to retreat with heavy damage and play no further part in the battle. The delayed and badly mauled Traitor Legion flanking force was then systematically destroyed by the Iron Hands subjugator group which, having been unable to push its way to the front owing to the press of wreckage and vehicles, had redeployed under Ferrus Manus' orders to defend the dropsite from attack. The Iron Hands armoured company made short work of the attackers, trapped as they were between the guns of the dropsite's defenders and the raging atomic firestorm of Titan-death on the desert plain behind them. The last few Traitor jetbikes, reeling from the Iron Hands onslaught, attempted to find cover amid the burning Titan-wreckage, but were dragged to the ground and ripped apart by the last fire-wreathed battle-automata of the Legio Atarus, implacable in their wrath and faithful beyond their masters' deaths.
在付出自身全灭的代价后，炎纹军团的进攻有效地杀伤了死颅军团的次级分队。后者被迫带着严重的损伤进行撤退，无法继续参战。叛军遭到牵制拖延和沉重打击的侧翼部队被钢铁之手压制者们系统性地毁灭，这些铁手部队因残骸和载具的阻碍而无法抵达前线，他们在费鲁斯 马努斯的命令下进行重整以保卫登陆点免遭进攻。铁手的装甲连队简单地处理了袭击者们，将他们困在了登陆点守军的枪口与身后沙原上由泰坦之死引发的猛烈的原子火风暴之间。勉强逃过铁手屠杀的极少数叛军喷射机车试图在熊熊燃烧的泰坦残骸间寻找掩体，但结果就是被火焰环绕的炎纹军团的剩余战斗机兵拽到地上并扯碎，后者因主人死亡而产生的怒火与挫败感，变得冷酷残忍、毫无宽恕。
Respite
喘息
Planetfall: Plus 2.8 Hours Terran Sidereal
时间：行星登陆2.8泰拉恒星时之后
By the close of the third hour of battle, sheer weight of attrition had begun to force the two warring sides apart. The casualties on both sides were appalling, perhaps as high as 40% by some mid-battle estimates, and with the Loyalist heavy guns now unlimbered and unleashing a steady torrent of fire, even the likes of Mortarion and Angron had been forced back from open assault. Likewise, the Salamanders and Raven Guard had begun to pull back from the line to re-form and rearm, having expended their supplies in the ferocity of the battle. Only Ferrus Manus and the remains of his Iron Hands would not withdraw, would not give up an inch of the ground he and his Legion had bled for.
在战斗持续了三个小时之后，严重的战斗损失开始迫使战争双方暂时停战。双方都遭受了骇人听闻的伤亡，根据某些战时评估报告，伤亡率可能高达百分之四十。随着忠诚派现在架设好了重型火炮炮群并进行稳定的连续炮击，哪怕是诸如安格隆和莫塔里安之类（的原体们）也被迫从公开进攻中回撤。同样的，火蜥蜴和暗鸦守卫军团也从前线撤回以进行重整并补充弹药，他们已经在激烈的恶战中耗尽了补给。只有费鲁斯 马努斯和钢铁之手的余部尚未撤退，他们不会放弃自己靠流血牺牲夺来的任何一英寸阵地。
The scale of the slaughter was unimaginable and tactics had been rendered meaningless; power enough to conquer whole star systems had been unleashed in a space no more than twenty kilometres in breadth, and all was shattered wreckage, debris and bloody ruin in its wake. But, what had it achieved? Yes, the Loyalists had forced their landing zone and rent great gashes in the Traitor defence lines, they had driven the enemy from the surrounding hills and staved off a flanking attack by the Legio Mortis, but they had not achieved their strategic aims. The fortressline still held, the enemy was still dug-in and their guns had not been silenced.
屠杀的规模令人难以想象，战术也变得毫无意义：足以征服整个恒星系的力量被释放在一片宽度不超过二十千米的区域内，而他们身后丢下的全是破碎的残骸、碎片和血腥的废墟。但是双方又实现了什么目标呢？是的，忠诚派已经开辟了他们的登陆区，并且在叛军的防线上撕开了巨大的裂口；他们驱逐了周围山地间的敌人，也抵抗住了死颅军团的侧翼进攻；但他们并未实现战略目标。战帅的要塞防线依旧稳固，敌军仍在深挖战壕，他们的炮声也未曾沉寂。
Stranger shapes too were taking their places now among the Traitor lines; hulking, darkly shrouded war machines of unknown origin, crook-backed figures in rags and tatters and power-armoured warriors garbed in the colours of the Traitor Legions, but whose spiked and studded war plate, decked out in bloody trophies was as alien as any foe of the Great Crusade. The battle hung on a knife edge of slaughter, for each warrior there knew that death awaited him, uncaring and certain, for here demi-gods walked like exterminating angels and the fury of all the bloody arts of humanity were unleashed. All knew, as unimaginable as the carnage had already been, worse was likely yet to come before the end.
现在，叛军的防线也出现了一些奇怪的形象：来历不明的巨大且被黑暗笼罩的战争机器，衣衫破烂的佝偻人形，动力甲上喷涂着叛变军团颜色的星际战士——他们的战斗装甲上钉着尖刺，装饰着血腥的战利品，就如同大远征时期（帝国所面对过的）所有的敌人那样怪异。战斗成为了残酷的屠杀，每位战士都确信死亡在等待着自己，但他们漠不关心。半神们如同灭绝天使一般行走于此，所有关于人类血腥（杀戮）艺术的怒火都被释放了出来。所有人都明白，尽管此前发生的大屠杀已经令人难以想象，但在一切结束之前，可能还会出现某些更为恶劣的情况。
And then they came...
而且它们就要来了…
