Chapter 496: Lake Merrill Lynch Air Battle 2
At the same time, the front and rear armies of the diamond-shaped charging battle formation on the side of the Principality of Diamond continued to slow down and slowly approach each other, and finally the front and rear armies were completely connected and merged together to form a rectangular battle formation.
The rectangular battle formation continued to slow down, and also reduced its speed to 800 kilometers per hour.
The left army and the right army of the diamond-shaped charging battle array on the side of the Principality of Diamond quickly approached each other in the process of rapid climbing, and then the left army in front and the right army in the rear, connecting the front and back, merging together, and also forming a rectangular battle formation.
A range of four hundred kilometers is short for a warship flying at extreme speed.
In less than seven minutes, the advance charge battle formation on the orc side and the advance rectangular battle formation on the side of the Diamond Duchy were only twenty kilometers away in the horizontal direction.
At this time, the advance charge battle formation on the orc side climbed to a height of 30,000 meters above the ground in the vertical direction, and the advance rectangular battle formation on the side of the Diamond Principality climbed to an altitude of 29,000 meters above the ground.
Today, the warships on the Diamond Principality's side are very close to the warships on the Orc side, both in terms of maximum flight speed and instantaneous acceleration performance.
One second, two seconds, three seconds......
The advance charge formation on the orc side and the advance rectangular battle array on the Diamond Duchy side flew in the horizontal direction, getting closer and closer.
The advance charge battle formation on the orc side no longer climbed, and the advance rectangular battle formation on the Diamond Duchy side no longer climbed, and in the vertical direction, the distance between the two battle formations had been shortened to eight hundred meters.
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Twenty seconds later, the advance charge formation on the orc side and the advance rectangular battle formation on the Diamond Duchy side were only five kilometers away in the horizontal direction, and they were still eight hundred meters apart in the vertical direction.
At this moment, the advance charge battle array on the orc side and the advance rectangular battle array on the Diamond Duchy side emitted light waves, all colorful, and all of them flashed and disappeared.
Almost at the same time, all the ships in the two battle formations ejected their energy shields.
Next, the advance charge battle formation on the orc side was high, and from west to east, the advance rectangular battle formation on the side of the Diamond Duchy began to stagger in the opposite direction.
The sergeants on the 400 battleships of the advance charge battle formation on the orc side all crowded to the sides of the battleship, locked their feet, leaned out, held a powerful crossbow, and launched a series of fires downward.
The sergeants on the 1,000 battleships of the Diamond Principality's advance rectangular battle array were armed with crossbows, held high above the top, and fired a series of fires upward.
"Boom......"
"Woo Woo ......"
In an instant, in the narrow airspace where the two battle formations were staggered, crossbow arrows flew wildly, and they were like rain.
"Puff puff ......"
"Snatch ......"
In the rain of arrows, many crossbow arrows fired by the orcs landed on the energy shield of the warships of the Principality of Diamonds, and they bounced up and fell into the void. After a very small number of crossbow arrows that shone with a faint halo pierced through the energy shield, their strength was drastically reduced, and they fell directly on the battleship, and could not cause damage to the Principality of Diamond sergeants on the battleship.
The orcs are mostly equipped with ordinary crossbow arrows, which can only break through physical defenses, and cannot shoot through the energy shield of the warships on the Principality of Diamonds.
As for the very few magically blessed crossbow arrows equipped on the half-orc side, they could not play a role in the face of the battleship's energy shield, which had been strengthened in the magical defense of the Principality of Diamond.
On the other hand, on the side of the Principality of Diamonds, the opposite is true.
The Principality of Diamond is mostly equipped with magically blessed crossbow arrows, and the effective range has also reached 1200 meters. Although the ordinary crossbow arrows fired by the sergeant on the Principality of Diamond side could not penetrate the energy shield of the orc side battleship, the magically blessed crossbow arrows that glowed with a faint halo hit the warship on the orc side, but pierced through the energy shield of the orc side and shot through the armor of the battleship, embedding the hull of the ship.
It's just that the power of those magically blessed crossbow arrows is limited, and after most of the magical energy is offset by the energy shield of the half-orc battleship, it can't completely penetrate the hull of the ship, and it can't cause damage to the interior of the battleship.
However, each of the warships on the side of the Principality of Diamond had a small number of Photon crossbows deployed on them. The effective range of those photon crossbows could also reach fifteen hundred meters, and after the small balls of light launched hit the battleship on the orc side, they directly pierced through the energy shield, melting holes the size of bowls at the bottom of the battleship.
It's just that the number of photon crossbows deployed on each warship on the Diamond Principality's side is not large, and the sergeant holding the photon crossbow is aiming and firing in extreme speed movement, and the warships on the half-orc side are also in extreme speed, so those photon crossbows did not cause a serious blow to the warships on the half-orc side.
"Boom......"
"Woo Woo ......"
In the fierce firefight, the energy shield of the battleship on the side of the Principality of Diamond located below was very strong, and all of them were unharmed.
On the other hand, every battleship on the orc side that was high above was instantly shattered by the lower part of the energy shield and the bottom of the battleship. Fortunately, they were all "skin injuries", which did not "hurt the muscles and bones" and did not affect the performance of the battleship.
Obviously, if the ships on the Orc side were on the lower side, and the ships on the Diamond Principality's side were on the top, and the sergeants on the Orc side would definitely suffer numerous injuries if they attacked from above.
In the rain of arrows, the advance charge battle array on the orc side and the advance rectangular battle array on the Diamond Duchy side quickly staggered towards each other.
After staggering, the advance charge battle formation on the orc side was from east to west, and the advance rectangular battle formation on the Diamond Principality side was from west to east, and the two battle formations were in opposite directions, flying in opposite directions, getting farther and farther apart.
Then, the advance charge battle formation on the orc side deflected to the north and quickly turned around.
Similarly, the advance rectangular battle formation on the side of the Principality of Diamond also deflected to the north and turned its head.
In the process of making a U-turn, the advance rectangular battle formation on the side of the Principality of Diamond quickly climbed in the vertical direction.
After completely turning around, the advance rectangular battle formation on the side of the Principality of Diamond had climbed to a height of 30,000 meters above the ground.
The advance charge on the orc side was from west to east, and the advance rectangular battle formation on the Diamond Principality side was from east to west, and the two battle formations faced each other and began to charge again.
In the process of charging in the opposite direction again, the advance rectangular battle formation on the side of the Principality of Diamond was still climbing.
It is obvious that the advance rectangular battle formation on the side of the Principality of Diamond wants to seize air supremacy, occupy air supremacy, and strike from top to bottom.
The advance rectangular battle formation on the Diamond Duchy side was climbing, and the advance charge formation on the orc side was also starting to climb, and the two battle formations were almost at the same level.
The top flight speed and instantaneous acceleration performance of the ships on the orc side are slightly superior, so the advance charge formation on the half-orc side will not give the advance rectangular battle formation on the Diamond Duchy side a chance to seize air supremacy.
Although the magical and physical protection of the ship and the attack ability of the weapon on the orc side are inferior, the individual combat power and cooperative combat ability of the sergeant have an absolute advantage. Therefore, for the orc side, relying on the instantaneous acceleration performance of the battleship, it is the best choice to approach the battleship of the Principality of Diamond and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Principality of Diamond.
Eighteen km ...... Fourteen kilometers...... Ten kilometers ......
The advance rectangular battle formation on the Diamond Principality's side and the advance charge on the orc side are getting closer and closer.
Ten kilometers ...... Six kilometers ...... Two kilometers ......
Finally, when the front ends of the two battle formations were still two kilometers apart, both battle formations began to slow down sharply, reducing their speed to less than 600 kilometers per hour.
Next, the advance charge battle array of 400 warships on the half-orc side went from west to east, and the advance rectangular battle array of 1,000 warships on the Diamond Principality side went from east to west, and the two battle formations were like two combs, with staggered comb teeth and began to meet.
It was at this time that the four hundred warships of the advance charge battle formation on the side of the half-orcs or the one thousand warships of the advance rectangular battle formation on the side of the Principality of Diamond suddenly scattered in all directions, and they no longer maintained their formation and were mixed together.
The 400 warships on the orc side and the 1,000 warships on the Diamond Duchy side chased after each other, or dived downward, or sprinted upward, or changed speed urgently, or constantly changed direction, and a melee began in the vast airspace within a radius of dozens of kilometers.
The ships on the orc side all tried to close in on the ships on the Principality of Diamond for hand-to-hand combat at the sergeant level. Although the instantaneous acceleration performance of the Half-Orc side is slightly superior, the Diamond Principality's ability to change direction in a small area is very good. The warships on the Diamond Principality's side kept changing directions to dodge, and they didn't give the orcs a chance to approach at all.
In a short period of time, the warships on the Orc side could neither approach the ships of the Principality of Diamond for hand-to-hand combat, nor could they use crossbow arrows to kill the ships of the Principality of Diamonds and the sergeants on the ships, so they fell into a situation of passive beating.
The sergeant on the Principality of Diamond's side used magically blessed crossbow arrows and photon crossbows to deliver a fierce blow to the locked orc-side ship.
"Boom......"
"Woo Woo ......"
In the rain of arrows and blazing balls of light, the ships of the orcs were shot down.
In the airspace within a radius of several tens of kilometers, there were one after another brilliant "fireworks", with different colors, flickering and flickering, and ethereal and unpredictable. The top ranks of the two sides who accompanied the army to supervise the battle also joined the battle one after another.