21 mortars deployed on the ground set fire on a light warship flying in the sky in a preset ambush mode, and various complex combat factors jointly affected the course of the battle...... Before the advent of the information age, no matter how sophisticated the model design and manual calculations are, it is impossible to predict what the outcome of such a confrontation will be.

Do your best, obey the destiny of heaven. Carefully deployed by Weiss, 21 mortar crews desperately dropped ammunition at the target, and the sound of dense explosions echoed through the mist-shrouded mountain forest. This kind of momentum reminds people of the rare thunderstorm in nature, but the artillery preparation that often appears on the frontal battlefield, and the flame storm full of death!

The Norman soldiers in the woods, adding up to more than 100 people, the strongest weapons in their hands are light machine guns and spinach bullets, this force is not to be feared at all, Weiss concentrated all his energy on the enemy's flying battleship. In order to prevent the enemy's fire countermeasures, he did not concentrate 21 mortars in one area, but grouped them, with three guns in a group, two or three groups deployed on similar firing positions, and the whole formed a crescent-shaped arc attack line. When the battle began, he first took a position in a mortar position on the left flank. In the first half minute, before the enemy ships had time to react in action, the continuous rapid-fire of the various mortar groups was effective, the combat value of the enemy ships continued to decline, and red spots symbolizing minor damage appeared in many parts of the hull, but it quickly turned to the right and began to climb upwards......

As soon as the Norman battleship climbs to a thousand-foot height and exceeds the upper limit of the mortar's ballistics, it is completely free from the threat of the opponent, and the combat format will be completely reversed. Therefore, without waiting for the group of mortars in front of him to complete 6 rounds, Weiss hurriedly shouted: "Direction angle -5, three rapid fire!" ”

3 mortar groups, some gunners are deaf and clear-sighted, immediately cease fire and adjust, and some gunners are a little sluggish, and only firing another shot to figure out how to adjust the horizontal firing angle, but this does not have much impact on the overall situation, Weiss will never fire with the gunners for this, because he has run to another group of mortars not far away, followed the trajectory of the enemy battleship, issued updated firing parameters to the gunners, and then ran to the next position.

At this moment, Weiss is racing against time and fate, and in the next two or three minutes, if the action function of the enemy ship can be damaged, there will be a chance to annihilate it, otherwise, it will depend on the courage and determination of the commander of the enemy ship. If you meet a powerful guy, it is a question of whether the rearguard force led by you can escape in one piece.

Braving the barrage of gunfire, Weiss ran from the left flank to the right flank of the line of fire and gave new firing orders to all mortar crews. The morning fog in the mountains and forests, combined with the smoke from the fighting, blurred the gunners' vision, and they could not see the outline of the enemy ship at all, and it was difficult to guess its exact direction from the enemy ship's fire. If Weiss hadn't been constantly providing accurate firing parameters, this ambush would not have been able to be fought at all, so the gunners would have carried out his orders to the letter......

In Weiss's special field of vision, the Norman battleship took a strange S-shape in the horizontal direction, although the propulsion and steering devices of the stern were not exposed, but due to the crescent-shaped arrangement of the mortar group and the peculiarity of the mortar trajectory, its damaged parts were basically evenly scattered in the front, rear, left and right, and the propellers and rudder were not spared. The equipment that provided the floating power for flying battleships was located inside the hull, and was as much protected as the boiler compartment and electromechanical room, and ordinary skin injuries usually did not affect their levitation and lifting, but the mortar shells that fell from a high altitude did not only damage the skin of the Norman cruiser, but also caused damage to the shells of the Norman cruiser, which smashed many holes in the deck, damaged many naval guns, and damaged the bridge and chimney. At this point, if one or two mortar shells get into the chimney and destroy the engine machinery that powers the floating equipment and propulsion, it will be a perfect fight!

Weiss did not have the ability to change objective things with his mind, and his hopes and hopes never became miraculous realities. The Norman battleship, which had been damaged by more than 20 percent, continued to climb and soon fell out of the effective range of mortar shells.

Before coming to this world, Weiss was a realist with pessimism, never expecting others to give him selfless help, let alone fantasizing about encountering pie in the sky. The enemy ship was out of the circle of fire, and instead of falling into pessimism and depression, he made a decision in judgment of the situation: the mortar groups stopped firing at the original target and switched to shelling the enemy soldiers in the woods, and the fighters switched from defending-blocking the enemy to attacking and annihilating in squads!

From the mortar fire to the enemy ship escaping from the ambush range, it lasted only three or four minutes, most of the Norman soldiers who entered the woods to search for the enemy's traces were frightened by the fierce gunfire in the morning fog and did not dare to move, when the ambushers adopted a passive defense strategy, lying still was the response with the least probability of casualties, but when the opponent took the mortar fire as the guide, and forced the way with light machine guns and spinball bullets, these guys who were lying still became the opponent's "paving stone" to victory.

In this foggy and gunsmoke-filled woods, the soldiers of both sides quickly entered a state of hand-to-hand combat, and the mortar group of the Union guerrilla advance team, under the command of Weiss, began to suppress the Norman soldiers in the depths, severing the connection between the front and the rear. In just a few minutes, the Norman troops engaged in the battle were already in a state of collapse, and although the fighters of the guerrilla advance force were inevitably casualties, the uncertain factor of the enemy's flying warships was put aside, and the battle was completely one-sided, and it was only a matter of time before the enemy on the ground was completely annihilated. In this case, Weiss kept looking up and observing. The Norman battleship climbed to a height of about two thousand feet and then circled at a slower pace. It had been beaten with its head covered, nearly half of its guns were damaged, and about 10% of its combat personnel were lost. To be reasonable, this battleship did not damage the foundation and still had the ability to continue fighting, but after breaking away from the mortar fire, it did not burst into combat effectiveness like a wounded beast, but "watched" the fighters on the ground being surrounded by the enemy, and the ship's guns did not exert their might for a long time...... Weiss knew that this guy was not stupid by the previous storm of mortar shells, but he couldn't distinguish between friend and foe in the fog and gunsmoke, and it was useless to be in a hurry!

The battle on the ground was devastating, and within ten minutes, the sound of gunfire and explosions in the forest had thinned out. After a while, the soldiers returned from the front with a group of dejected prisoners of war. In the early days of the war, it was very difficult for Norman soldiers who had not been completely incapacitated to be captured in such an encounter - they either fought to the death and did not give in, or alternately covered the retreat, and did not easily surrender until there was no way out.

Although the battle was still going on, and the Norman warship hovering over the mountains and forests was still a threat that could not be ignored, Weiss selected a younger officer from among the enemy prisoners of war and interrogated him on the spot in Norman. Surprisingly, the Norman officer did not resist strongly, and after receiving a promise of personal safety, he answered most of the questions in brief language: the Norman cruiser had brought a company of marines tasked with searching for its own survivors and enemy combatants who might be hiding in the forest; Upon landing, they met the international mercenaries led by Bearded Brother, as he was not involved in the communication between the two sides, and was unsure of what the tribesmen had revealed after reconnecting with the Norman army; Most of the landing force went into the woods, and a small number of people stayed on the wreckage of the transport ship to retrieve the Starstone, and they carried a marching radio to not only contact the flying battleship above, but also to get in touch with Wallens' headquarters.

The Norman cruiser had a radio on board, and the landing force also carried a radio, but before the battle began, the radio technical group of the partisan advance force had already measured their communication frequencies, and radio jamming technology was used at the beginning of the battle, so that the Normans could not communicate with the rear for a while. Not only that, Weiss also noticed that the bridge of the Norman battleship had been bombed, and it seemed that the communication equipment had been damaged, and the reason why it did not leave the radio jamming zone after climbing to a safe altitude was probably because they were still rushing to repair the communication antenna, and they were not aware that the adversary was using technical means to interfere with the radio communications of the Norman army.

Through the actions of the enemy and the confessions of the prisoners of war, Weiss had a detailed judgment of the battlefield situation, and immediately made a decision, with a reserve of 100 men and 3 mortars, he launched a surprise attack on the Norman troops who were left behind in the wreckage of the transport ship. In a battlefield filled with fog and gunsmoke, with undulating terrain and dense vegetation providing additional cover, Weiss easily traversed the battle area with his open-hanging "clair" and approached the wreckage of the transport ship with lightning speed. As he expected, dozens of Norman soldiers had already set up temporary positions there, they dug foxholes around the wreckage, and built machine gun and machine gun fire points in the wreckage, with a certain strength of defensive capabilities, against this conventional defense, mortars are undoubtedly very cost-effective and energy-efficient weapons. Three hundred feet away, Weiss measured the range, ordered the mortar crew to fire three rounds in succession, after one round of suppression, a slight adjustment and a second round, the enemy was stunned, and immediately rushed out of the woods with a reserve of 100 people, and a strong burst leveled the enemy's temporary position, so fast and efficient, many Norman soldiers were killed before they could surrender......

After the previous fire, the hull of this Norman transport ship has collapsed, most of the combustibles have turned into ashes, and many metal objects have also been twisted and deformed, it is not easy to collect star source stones from such ruins - this kind of extremely valuable strategic resources in the early stage of the war is not so important now, especially for the federal army that produces a large number of combat aircraft, the amount used by a transport ship, there is no need to exchange dozens or even hundreds of precious lives, The communication codebook seized from the corpse of an enemy communications soldier seems to be more valuable. Let the soldiers remove important parts from the destroyed enemy marching radio, say hello to the bearded brother who met again, and say goodbye, Weiss decisively led the team to evacuate without delay!