After one of their own battleships was blown up, the remaining Federation warships did not retreat in a panic, but continued to attack the domineering Norman battleship with great courage. As time passed, the heroic Federation battleships were shot one by one and caught fire, and their concentrated fire siege gradually worked: the enemy battleship was shot several times, several broadside secondary guns were destroyed, the battleship was ignited twice, and the speed and accuracy of the main gun fire decreased significantly.

At this juncture, the surviving Federation battleships unleashed a wave of critical damage in the spirit of "taking advantage of your illness and killing you". The armor-piercing shells fired by the 66PIR caliber guns repeatedly penetrated the non-core protective areas of the Norman battleship at a medium to close distance, causing substantial damage to the ship's amidships and superstructure. Then, the moment of the brightest came, when the main gun salvo of the Federation battleship directly destroyed the upper part of the bridge of the Norman battleship, and collapsed its forward chimney, causing the ship to disperse smoke and dust and obstruct the view. The Norman battleships, which had occupied a favorable position, began to retreat in a hurry, and the surviving Norman cruisers and frigates hurriedly stepped forward to cover, and the ships of the Federation fleet were not polite, and immediately launched a concentrated fire attack on the Norman cruiser with the ability to thunder, and within three minutes it was full of flames.

As far as the battlefield situation at that time is concerned, the Federation Fleet is infinitely close to the point of victory after experiencing ups and downs of battle. However, just as they turned their attention to the cruisers and corvettes of the Norman fleet, the crew of the temporarily withdrawn Norman battleship miraculously extinguished the raging fire and restored the fire control system. When the Norman cruiser fell to the ground like a fireball, the 77PIR main guns on the Norman battleship roared angrily!

The advantage of 77PIR over 66PIR is more than one-sixth. The standard armor-piercing projectiles used by Norman-class battleships have a 45% increase in penetration depth compared to those of the Liberty and Honor classes, and are sufficient to penetrate any part of the armor of the Liberty and Honor classes at a moderately close engagement distance.

The second round of artillery fire from the top of the mast hit the "Red Heart": a cannonball pierced the bow turret of the Federation battleship, and the explosion ignited the ammunition, triggering a series of detonations, causing the 33,000TA Federation giant ship to lose its sharp spearhead in a short moment.

A violent explosion that occurs on a ship can often cause fatal damage to savvy optical sighting equipment. After being damaged, the Federation battleship continued to fight, but its artillery fire clearly lost its previous accuracy, and many rounds of fire were all missed, but it was bitten twice by the enemy's artillery fire.

Seeing that the situation was irreparable, the Federation fleet began to retreat with all its members, and the Norman fleet was left with only one battleship and three cruisers, all of which were wounded, so they did not follow the Federation fleet's pursuit. The two sides bombarded each other on the one hand, and on the other hand, they distanced themselves until they completely disengaged from the battle.

The Federation fleet fled to the south, and the Norman fleet withdrew north from the battlefield. The noisy night is silent and the scorching air returns to its normal temperature, but the wounds of the battle will not be erased. In the Scarmo Heights, the northern slopes and summits are unrecognizable, littered with charred craters and unknown debris. Most of the federal officers and soldiers stationed here escaped the artillery fire in the bunkers and tunnels on the south side, but hundreds of people still died, some were reduced to ashes along with the positions, some were unfortunately buried by the collapsed tunnels, and some were shocked to death by the fierce artillery fire. The dead are gone, and for the living, there are still daunting defensive tasks to be completed......

By dawn, Weiss had been working in a sweat for two hours on the north side of the Scarmo Heights. Under the leadership of the regiment commander, Colonel Jolandon, the officers and men of the 340th Reserve Regiment renovated the defense system with shovels, shovels and even hands...... Everyone worked together and achieved a lot of results, but the regained confidence collapsed in an instant with the dejected "enemy ship is coming"!

Weiss stopped and squinted. There were only three Norman warships flying in from the north, and all of them were missing in battle readings, apparently the same ships that had joined the battle last night. The domineering flying beast was the Norman-class battleship that was almost killed by the Federation fleet, and it was supposed to return to the base for overhaul, but it was only a few hours before it returned to the battlefield. From this point of view, the Norman army was eager to break through the defense line of the Sambara River in one fell swoop, advance into the city of Austria, and recapture this important federal industrial town after 23 years.

Watching the Norman air tyrant slowly approach, Weston felt a deep sense of powerlessness. The Federation fleet does not have aerial torpedoes like "devil's bombs", so it does not have the ability to make a big deal with small ones, and last night the two battleships were destroyed and one was damaged, and the surviving one was seriously damaged, even if it was forced to go into battle with injuries, it was difficult to hold out in front of the Norman battleships for several rounds. Unless the Union forces send other battleships in time, the Scamo Heights and the Sambara River defense line will be a sea of fire and purgatory today.

As soon as they saw the Norman battleship, the Federation officers hurriedly shouted: "Withdraw to the shelter!" Withdraw to the shelter area! ”

Within ten minutes, all the Federation officers and soldiers on the Scamo Heights had moved to the bunkers and tunnels on the south side, and many of them were sitting at the entrances of the bunkers and tunnels, looking in the direction of Aocheng, expecting the appearance of the Federation fleet.

But until the Norman shells broke through the air, the Federation fleet was still nowhere to be seen.

Under the bombardment of the Norman battleships, the Scamo Heights shook and trembled, the mountains seemed to collapse at any moment, the world seemed to be destroyed at any moment, and the defenders were once again relentlessly whipped by the spirit, and these poor creatures had no choice but to let the enemy pin them into a corner, rubbing them repeatedly, and ravaging them until they broke down or died physically.

On the Sambara River line, the ground anti-aircraft guns of the Union army waited fearlessly and helplessly, waiting for the enemy ships to come into their range so that they could put up a final resistance......

Just as Weiss was full of sorrow and desperate waiting for destruction, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a large group of black dots in the southeastern sky, and he almost jumped up with excitement. When he squinted, his excitement suddenly diminished by half: instead of flying warships, twenty or thirty planes came.

These are not modern fighters equipped with cannons and mounted with aerial bombs, but a group of "antiques" with wooden frames and canvas. During the Frontier Campaign, Weiss's troops had been helped by them in times of crisis, and had a great deal to turn the tide of the battle, but it was mainly due to the unpreparedness of the enemy and the fact that the offensive was at the end of its power. With only the improvised bombs used by these aircraft, the ground support is okay, and is there any play against the Norman flying battleships, especially the steel fortresses like the Norman-class battleships?

From appearing in the sky to flying overhead, the planes used by the Union army took more than a quarter of an hour, which meant that they might not be as fast as a cruiser flying at full speed. However, after they flew closer, the Norman fleet stopped bombarding the Scamo Heights, and the whistling of shells and explosions quickly faded away. The surviving Union soldiers came out of their burrows in the ground, and even though their planes seemed so small, ugly, and fragile in front of the enemy's warships, they still had hope and expectation, and they still shouted Long live the Federation and long live freedom......

Weiss stepped out of bunker, but not far. He rested his hands on his knees, laboring in the outside air. At this time, he was a little annoyed, if he didn't care too much about his personal situation, so that he looked forward and back, and concealed it, if he helped Nikolai without reservation and provided him with some forward-facing aircraft technology, then now the Federation warriors were not flying this outdated antique, at least a combat aircraft that had been technologically advanced for ten or even twenty years, how could the battle situation be so embarrassing?

At that time, the sound of artillery and explosions from the other side of the mountain always maintained a high density, which meant that the confrontation between the two sides was very fierce, but as Weiss made a rational judgment, the Federal planes could cause some trouble for the Norman battleships, but not enough to severely damage or even destroy them. In a few moments, the planes with simple construction and mediocre performance were smashed to pieces, and in a matter of minutes, two planes were forced to land on the beach of the Sambara River, and one was planted in the river.

The soldiers of the Federation Army came to the aid of the injured and forced landing of their own planes, and they ran to the river beach to take the pilots back to the defense area, regardless of the possibility that the enemy artillery fire might fall again at any time.

The soldiers of the 340th Reserve Regiment brought back a pilot from the river beach and sent him to the bunker where the regimental headquarters was located. Weiss leaned over to take a look, a strange face with a heroic face, who was being bandaged by the medics, and chattered that his bomb had almost hit the main thruster of the Norman battleship, and then said that their captain was so skilled that he had thrown a bomb through the chimney of the enemy battleship, and blew the Norman battleship up in smoke on the spot.

"Don't believe it!" The pilot, who looked to be in his early twenties, exclaimed, "Our captain is the most skilled aircraft pilot in the Federation, and his family background makes your teeth chatter when he says it—his father is the current Federal President Leeald!" ”

"Nikola Leeboy?" Weiss lost his voice.

The pilot replied: "Yes, Nikolai Lebold!" Uh, sir, do you know our captain? ”

Weiss impatiently asked, "Is your captain still in the sky?" ”

"Huh?" The pilot touched his nose, "He was there before my plane was damaged, and now, I don't know, maybe he has dropped all his bombs and returned, maybe he is still fighting the Normans." ”

Weiss frowned: "Is there any way to identify his plane?" ”

"The one with a red fuselage and white wings." The pilot replied. Before he could say anything more, Weiss had already turned away from cover and sped towards the top of the hill.