The Golgothan Slaughter was a battle during the Great Crusade by the World Eaters Legion.

戈尔戈坦大屠杀是吞世者军团在大远征期间的一场战斗。

Overview 概述

Waged in the early days of the legion under the command of Angron, the Golgothan Sector was one of the first targets of the Red Angel's wrath. Due to its close proximity to the Maelstrom, most Imperial Explorator Fleets and Navigators avoided the sector. However, the World Eaters held no such fear, and Angron directed his 13th Expeditionary Fleet into the sector. The campaign that was to follow would last eleven years and saw no fewer than forty-eight worlds ravaged and destroyed by the World Eaters. Seven Xenos species were rendered extinct as the World Eaters fleet cut a swathe of destruction through the wastes of Golgotha. But despite these many victories, it was the first major engagement of the campaign, the Siege of Sarum, that entered into World Eaters' legend.

在安格隆指挥下的军团早期，戈尔戈坦星区是红天使的愤怒的首批目标之一。由于靠近大漩涡，大多数帝国探索者舰队和导航者都避开了该区域。然而，吞世者并没有这样的恐惧，安格隆指挥他的第13远征舰队进入该星区。接下来的战役将持续11年，至少有48个世界被吞世者蹂躏和摧毁。七个异型种族灭绝，因为吞世者舰队在各各他的荒地上进行了大规模的破坏。但是，尽管取得了这些胜利，但这是这场战役的第一次重大交战，萨勒姆围攻，进入了吞世者的传说。

An Adeptus Mechanicus station, Sarum was on the edge of the Maelstrom. Isolated and embattled for centuries, the Techpriests of the world had become warlike and isolationist under the leadership of Redjak. These crimson priests of the Machine God paid only lip service to Mars but now found themselves under siege by an Abhuman empire known as the Brotherhood of Ruin which commanded not only legions of malformed cyborg abhumans but also Ork mercenaries. The Brotherhood and Ork forces landed on Sarum's surface in boring machines, burning and blasting their way to the subterranean facilities beneath the planets crust while their fleet ensured no escape was possible. It was then that the World Eaters under Angron arrived, launching a single massive assault wave with his fleet to scatter and destroy the foe in orbit.

萨勒姆是一个机械神教站，位于大漩涡的边缘。几个世纪以来，世界各地的技术神甫在雷德雅克的领导下变得好战和孤立主义。这些深红色的万机神的神甫只是口头上对火星表示支持，但现在发现自己被一个被称为毁灭兄弟会的亚人帝国围攻，该帝国不仅指挥着大量畸形的半机械亚人，还指挥着欧克雇佣兵。兄弟会和欧克部队用钻孔机降落在萨勒姆的表面，通过燃烧和爆破进入行星地壳下的地下设施，同时他们的舰队确保无法逃脱。就在那时，安格隆率领的吞世者抵达，用他的舰队发动了一次大规模的攻击波，以驱散并摧毁轨道上的敌人。

The first outer guard ships of the Brotherhood forces were caught unprepared and outnumbered by this swift but massive strike. Swiftly recovering from the shock of the attack, the Brotherhood responded and sent a wave of Ork Terror Ships and gunboats which were shot to pieces by the two-hundred strong World Eaters fleet of Battle Barges and Grand Cruisers. Nonetheless, the Brotherhood fleet numbered thousands of smaller vessels and Angron's fleet was forced to draw into a close formation and smash straight through the near cloud-like armada of enemy vessels. In a fiery and savage close-quarters void war, the World Eaters fleet broke the Brotherhood blockade and 15,000 World Eaters prepared to drop onto Sarum's surface directly.

兄弟会部队的第一外层护卫舰在这场迅速但大规模的袭击中措手不及，寡不敌众。兄弟会迅速从袭击的冲击中恢复过来，做出了回应，派出了一波欧克恐怖舰和炮舰，这些舰船被200多艘吞世者战斗驳船和大型巡洋舰舰队炸成碎片。尽管如此，兄弟会的舰队仍有数千艘较小的战舰，安格隆的舰队被迫结成紧密的编队，直接粉碎了近云状的敌方舰队。在一场激烈而野蛮的近距离虚空战中，吞世者舰队打破了兄弟会的封锁，15000名吞世者准备直接降落在萨勒姆的表面。

Faced with an enormous and concentrated Drop Pod assault, the Brotherhood cyborg and Ork forces died in their thousands on the planets surface. The mutants and cyborgs were unable to coordinate effectively with their Ork mercenaries, leading to widespread disorganisation. The World Eaters met the enemy in their preferred fashion of vicious close range combat, ripping their foes to pieces. However this method of combat suited the Orks just well, who started to inflict casualties on the World Eaters while the Brotherhood forces withdrew to armoured bastions. The battles waged on both the surface and orbit of Sarum raged on for hours. The World Eaters had taken unexpectedly horrific casualties but fought on with a vicious determination. The warlords of the Brotherhood of Ruin, thinking victory was soon theirs, called in reinforcements from across the planets surface for one final massive offensive. Faced with a legion of enemy Orks, hulking robotic artillery pieces, and crawler tanks, the World Eaters drop zone seemed likely to be overrun when Cyclonic Torpedos from orbit smashed into Sarum's surface. In their wake came a ragged fleet of hundreds of gunships and rams, the World Eaters second wave had arrived, victorious from the battle in orbit. More still, it was led by Angron himself.

面对巨大而集中的空投舱攻击，兄弟会半机械人和欧克部队在行星表面上成千上万地死亡。变种人和半机械人无法与他们的欧克雇佣兵有效协调，导致广泛的混乱。吞世者以他们喜欢的狂暴近距离战斗方式与敌人交战，将敌人撕成碎片。然而，这种战斗方法非常适合欧克，当兄弟会部队撤退到装甲堡垒时，他们开始对吞世者造成伤亡。萨勒姆表面和轨道上的战斗持续了数小时。吞世者意外地造成了可怕的伤亡，但他们以凶猛的决心继续战斗。毁灭兄弟会的军阀认为胜利很快就会到来，他们从行星表面召集增援部队进行最后一次大规模进攻。面对一大群敌方欧克、笨重的机器人火炮和爬行者坦克，当轨道上的旋风鱼雷撞击萨勒姆的表面时，吞世者空降区似乎很可能被占领。紧随其后的是一支由数百架炮艇和舰艇组成的破旧舰队，吞世者第二波已经到来，在轨道上的战斗中取得了胜利。更重要的是，它是由安格隆本人领导的。

The World Eaters and their Legio Audax allies landed on the surface, driving a bloody swathe through the Ork and Brotherhood forces. The insane Orks began to turn on each other while their abhuman allies attempted to flee but were cut down by an attack led by Angron while the colossal cannon-robots of the Brotherhood were blasted to pieces by the Titans of the Legio Audax. The embattled Mechanicum defenders of Sarum finally emerged, leading their own spider-like robots into battle against the fleeing foe. The killing went on and on until nothing was left.

吞世者和他们的莽勇军团盟友降落在地表上，在欧克和兄弟会的部队中开了一条血路。疯狂的欧克开始互相攻击，而他们的亚人盟友试图逃跑，但被安格隆领导的攻击所击败，而兄弟会的巨大火炮机器人则被莽勇军团的泰坦炸成碎片。四面楚歌的萨勒姆机械教守军终于出现了，他们带领自己的蜘蛛状机兵与逃跑的敌人作战。杀戮一直持续到什么都没有留下。

In the months that followed the World Eaters made Sarum their forward operations base. Meanwhile the Priests of Sarum became the next to feel the wrath of the World Eaters, Angron putting their empire to the sword over the next eleven years of fighting.

在接下来的几个月里，吞世者将萨勒姆作为他们的前沿作战基地。与此同时，萨勒姆的神甫成为下一个感受到吞世者愤怒的人，安格隆在接下来十一年的战斗中将他们的帝国夷为平地。