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Before the arrival of the M Army's air fleet, the coalition ground forces had already used hundreds of long-range artillery and rocket artillery of various types to attack the shields of the Sijing people who covered most of the London city, but the results were not satisfactory.

All rockets are detonated in advance when passing through the ion storm, and the same is true for howitzer shells, only a small number of special warheads, such as the high-speed armor-piercing projectiles provided by GDI, have a certain chance that they can pass through the ion storm without being detonated and successfully hit the shield, but a small number of shells cannot break the large shield of the Sijing people.

When the air fleet of Army M arrived at the front line, the coalition forces naturally approached them immediately, and the members of the observation and exchange group also made suggestions to the commander of the fleet, Admiral Howard, for their colleagues in the ground forces.

The M Army came to the front line, naturally not for sightseeing, but to fight for face and show its existence. After discussing with country Y for a while and determining some buildings that need attention, a frigate changed its posture slightly, and after facing the city of London, the four single-barreled electromagnetic guns located in the front and rear of its hull also rotated, and after the muzzles were all pointed at the city of London, the four single-barreled electromagnetic guns fired one after another in the flickering firelight.

According to the information provided by the M army, the electromagnetic naval guns used by these air frigates are all 155 mm coil guns, and after obtaining some technical information provided by GDI, the M army upgraded their own electromagnetic gun technology and installed these things on their experimental ships.

Although it is only 155 mm caliber, compared with modern artillery that needs to be loaded with propellant, the electromagnetic cannon on the warship can fire much faster, basically reaching three rounds per second - as long as the bomb supply speed can keep up - so a frigate air frigate has four 155 mm electromagnetic guns, and the shelling efficiency of one minute is theoretically equivalent to a salvo of 720 conventional guns.

It's just that considering the cooling, wear, ammunition supply, and supply of the whole system, everyone rarely shoots such a rapid fire of the electromagnetic gun, so the air frigate carrying out the artillery bombardment mission starts to shoot at the storm pillar of the Sijing people towering in the city of London at a rate of two seconds, and after ten seconds of shooting, it will stop for ten seconds, and after recalibrating the target coordinates once, it will shoot for another ten seconds to reduce the probability of accidentally hitting the valuable facilities in the city.

Only one frigate was dispatched to carry out the artillery bombardment, which was obviously a combat test, so one air frigate stopped after three minutes of shelling, and the two Sky Knight drones accelerated to London, ready to observe the results of the shelling at close range.

The people of country M, as well as the members of the two observation groups on the ship, need to wait for the drone to send back the observations, but Lin Hai and Liu Yan do not, they have more advanced communication and observation capabilities, the GDI fleet in space orbit, and the various satellites launched by GDI, all provide Lin Hai with a field of vision faster than others - due to some small differences, people in country Y and country M cannot be reported in time as soon as Lin Hai does.

The two of them clearly saw that the four alloy projectiles instantly passed through the ion storm cloud that had not yet formed too thick at a speed of more than six times the speed of sound, and hit the large shield generated by the Storm Pillar quite accurately, and the powerful kinetic energy immediately hit a huge spot of light on the surface of the shield, and the ripples spread out from the impact point to the surroundings, and the oval-shaped shield surface seemed to be concave inward.

Before the energy ripples on the surface of the shield completely dissipated, four more projectiles pierced through the clouds and hit the same place where the previous round of shells had hit! The shield that had not yet recovered received a continuous impact, and a more intense flash of energy impact appeared again at the surface of the shield, and the entire shield began to flicker, as if it was about to collapse in the next moment!

But after all, it was a large shield produced by a tall defensive structure, although it looked crumbling, but when the frigate's three-minute bombardment was over, the shield was still there, but the light film that represented the shield's energy reaction was already extremely dim, and it was almost impossible to see if the shield really existed without careful observation.

Although the caliber of the frigate's main gun is not large, and it is not even as good as the 380 mm caliber of the Iron Eagle Colossus Bombardment Support Mecha, being hit in an area by 200 rounds of high-speed armor-piercing shells in three minutes is a huge pressure on the Sijing people's land-based shield system.

The shield of the Sijing people is not as defensive as the defensive energy weapon of kinetic energy weapons.

A frigate's four 155mm electromagnetic coil guns only carried out one shot in two seconds, and the three-minute shelling of the three minutes of shelling was repaired every ten seconds, which almost caused a Sijing Storm Pillar shield to collapse, and this result was satisfactory to everyone present, except for Lin Hai and Liu Yan.

"If our Colossus mecha comes to fight, within twenty shots, we can knock out the shield and smash another storm pillar at will." Listening to the jubilant voices of the coalition soldiers in the communication line, Liu Yan said with some disdain, "The Chinese air warships are shelling at a distance of more than 40 kilometers, and the shells can basically be concentrated in a similar area, and our mecha can usually carry out shelling from a distance of 100 kilometers. ”

"Ours is a railgun, and the people of country M use coil guns, and there are differences in output power and operation mode, what is there to compare. The first time we met the Pillar of the Storm, we didn't do much better. Lin Hai said, "Now what you should care about is that the electromagnetic cannon weapon of the M people has been successful at a certain stage after this test, and what should we do next, after all, with the new advanced weapons, it is difficult to guarantee that the M people will have any new ideas!" ”

"This point, the intelligence department has been keeping a close eye on, including all their military deployments, we have not let go, as our force in space increases, every move of the people of country M is under our surveillance."

"But you didn't find out in advance that they had built this air fleet, nor did you find the high-ranking members of the Holy Brotherhood." Lin Hai directly poured cold water on Liu Yan, "So you don't have to say it so deadly." It's a fact that we don't have enough intelligence, we have weaknesses, so don't be arrogant and let others take advantage of them. Now that the technology of the people of country M has once again been developed because of their heritage over the years, it is time to find some trouble for them for our own safety in the future. ”

"Do you mean destroying their labs, factories, or assassinating their science?" Liu Yan's face immediately turned cold, he had already been prepared, just waiting for Lin Hai to let him do it.

"Let the Sijing people do that kind of thing. At least let all the clues point to the Sijing people. Lin Hai also sneered, "After fighting with the Sijing people for so long, we are not completely without good goods in our hands, and it is the most labor-saving way to get rid of the opponent with their hands, not to mention that the Sijing people have never done such a thing." Anyway, all we need is human resources and mineral resources, and the advanced military forces that are not under our control really need to control their development. ”

"But how to borrow the hand of Sijingren to ......" Just as Liu Yan wanted to continue asking, the other officers of the observation and exchange group who lived in the same cabin with them returned to the room, and he could only keep his mouth shut first, and then find an opportunity to ask the questions in his heart.

It's just that he couldn't find this opportunity for the rest of the time.

There had been no mention in the room, and after a tentative artillery bombardment, the M Army, after a tentative artillery bombardment, adjusted slightly, and fired a round of fire from four frigates, firing a total of 400 shells, breaking the damaged shield of the previous Pillar of Storm and destroying the pillar and the other pillar of the Storm.

After that, the M Air Fleet ceased operations, and the fleet withdrew 20 kilometers back for replenishment and repair, and they had to carry out a maintenance and overhaul of all the air warships - replenishment and maintenance while maintaining the state of air navigation, which was also a kind of inspection of the performance of the equipment - the time would last until the next morning, and the M Army would continue to attack after the replenishment and inspection were completed.

Since it has been determined that the air fleet has the ability to destroy the defense facilities of the Sijing people, the people of country Y did not force the M army to continue firing, after all, the air warships of the M army need to shoot hundreds of shells to destroy a storm pillar, even if they are all alloy projectiles without propellant that are easy to store, it is impossible to destroy all the shield facilities deployed by the Sijing people in the city of London, and it is impossible to destroy all the shells of the air fleet.

The solid projectiles used by the M army, technically, are not too difficult to manufacture, even the people of country Y can manufacture them locally, so the shells used in the 155 mm naval guns of the air warships are naturally provided by country Y, and do not need to be transported from the mainland of country M.

It's just a matter of getting the shells to the ships that are in the air, but it's a more troublesome thing. In the past, when the fleet was anchored in the port of country Y, it could use a large number of trucks to transport ammunition onto ships, but now the fleet is in the sky, and if it wants to transport those alloy lumps of tens or hundreds of tons, it can only use airplanes - of course, one of the reasons for this is that these air fleets cannot find suitable landing waters in the front-line zone.

Fortunately, this is a time of war, and all kinds of military equipment are gathered near London, and it is not too difficult to find a few helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft that can transport ammunition - the people of country Y themselves have aircraft carriers, although they are only surface ships, but the transport planes on them can also be used on air carriers.

For this reason, the fleet retreated 20 kilometers from the front line, stopping at a relatively safe location for supply and maintenance, and there were many bases and camps of the Y Army and the GDI Army around the anchoring point, forming a large range of protection network, and the air fleet was anchored in this area, which was less vulnerable to surprise attacks, and it could be more assured when receiving supplies and maintenance.

Although I only watched the actual combat of the air fleet for a short time, the combat advantages of the air fleet still made everyone in the observation group envious, the air fleet is closer to the battlefield than the GDI orbital fleet, the artillery accuracy is higher, and the artillery efficiency is much higher than that of the ground artillery unit, only such a small fleet can provide fire support for the front line more than one group army, and there is no need to worry about being accidentally injured, This point has made the hearts of many officers of the observation group whose country's industrial strength is not bad.

Because Lin Hai and Liu Yan participated in the observation group disguised as lieutenants, they were assigned to the cabin, and there were more people living in them, in addition to the other lieutenants of the observation group, there were also several lieutenants of the M army who also lived in this cabin - obviously the officers had their own rooms, but they still crammed other people into this place, indicating that the people of country M were actually guarding against the observation group, and they also did not trust these theories that they should be observers of friendly forces.