Without waiting for the adjutant to look for it, a shrill siren sounded at the base, and the sentry on the watchtower shouted: "Enemy attack, enemy attack." ”

The adjutant shouted a few words, called the sentry down and asked, "What's the situation?" ”

The sentry was quite calm: "I found an unknown airship, about fifty of them, coming from the west, chasing this airship towards us." ”

Hu Tianyang first ordered the air force of the base to take off to meet the battle, and then frowned and asked the sentry: "Unknown airship?" What's going on? Isn't it from the Tokatsu Empire? ”

The sentry sorted out the wording and said: "These airships are not the same as the airships of the Dongsheng Empire, but they are somewhat similar to our airships, and they also have two wings, but they are chasing our airships, they are definitely enemies, and their weapons are very strange, first a ball of fire, then a ball of flames, and then our airship was shot down, no, it should have been blown up." ”

Hu Tianyang said angrily: "What kind of mess? ”

Hu Tianyang pushed away the somewhat incoherent sentry and strode towards the sentry tower, he wanted to see with his own eyes what was going on, as for the safety of the base, he was not worried at all, the other party only had fifty airships, and his own airships had already begun to rise into formation, and they would be able to attack and meet the battle immediately, and then there would be more airships to join the battle, fifty airships, which was simply sent to death.

Today is a good day, the southwest wind is not too small and the wind direction is in favor of the Dongsheng Empire, Xueqin set off early in the morning and came to the border earlier than before, the other party's round battle air force has not yet arrived, only a few airships are on patrol alert. Xueqin hesitated for a moment and gave the order to advance slowly, but she was not allowed to fire, she had to wait for the opponent's main force to arrive before giving the opponent a big surprise.

Xueqin's calmness brought tragic losses to the air force of the Wanliu Empire, and when the air force squadron of the Wanliu Empire had just appeared and had not yet reached the range, they did not know that they had entered the range of the other party. At 3,500 meters, the maximum effective range of the artillery equipped by the fighters, Xueqin decisively ordered to open fire, and the five geese-shaped battle formations in the form of a ladder fired a salvo, with an earth-shattering loud sound, and 100 shells with gunpowder smoke neatly streaked across the sky and flew towards the local aircraft group.

More than 100 airships, dozens of them were blown up in one face, and many of them were swayed by the strong and chaotic shock waves, and the pilots in the cabin turned into rolling hoists, and the airships lost control, or turned their heads downward, or swirled together with the diffuse shock waves, and the scene was quite chaotic and miserable.

The artillery reloaded the ammunition as quickly as possible, this time, using a swarm of bees, that is, a special metal forged iron arrow, tied to a detonator-sized explosive tube, the role of this kind of shell is to cover a large area from a distance, once shot by the iron arrow, the iron arrow will be inserted back into the protective armor of the opponent's airship, and then, waiting for the fuse of the explosives to burn out and explode, causing irreparable damage to the enemy airship, or even blowing it up directly. There are more than a dozen such iron arrows that have not been fired by a swarm of shells, a hundred rounds, that is, more than a thousand, and more than a thousand iron arrows are shot together, not to mention that there are explosives tied to them, even if there is no explosives, the airship can be fired at a range sieve.

The fuses of the swarm were set according to the flight time of the distance of 3,000 meters, and after the locust-like iron arrows, most of the surviving enemy airships were stuck with iron arrows ranging from a few to dozens of iron arrows, and a few of them flew into the cockpit and stuck in the pilot's body right in the windshield of the opponent.

After the second salvo, Xueqin ordered to load the shotguns, and the formation dispersed, in groups of two, to clear the remnants. As soon as the order was issued, the air force of the Wanliu Empire finally stabilized the airship and woke up from the shock, and before it could react, another roar sounded, and a ball of flames burst out, and shrapnel raged, blowing up the few remaining airships to pieces, and the flagship that the commander was riding in was directly turned into ashes in this round of explosions.

One hundred and sixty airships, one face, more than half of them were wiped out by two rounds of attacks, and now there are less than sixty that can still fly in the sky, and many of them are seriously damaged, this sudden unexpected blow frightened all the pilots of the Wanliu Empire, and they turned around and ran to the base in a mess.

The enemy army was about to collapse at the first touch, Xueqin's heart that had been hanging finally let go, let out a long breath, and ordered in a deep voice: "The first and second squads pursue, don't waste ammunition, attack with scattered bullets after entering the firing range, and the other squads follow me above the elevation to guard the surrounding airspace." ”

At the same time, the main force of the Tang Jian Army, which had been waiting for a long time, ran to the east after hearing a sound from the ground, and the cavalry as the vanguard opened the way in front, first crossing the border into the territory of the Yuanhe Empire, and the infantry followed at the fastest speed, among them, a hundred artillery pieces were drawn by war horses to walk in the forefront of the Chinese army, followed by several large and small carriages, which were loaded with heavy wooden boxes, which contained artillery ammunition, including many scattered bullets, which were prepared for anti-aircraft guns.

The reason why they will carry anti-aircraft guns to the battle is because their own air force fighters are overstretched and cannot draw strength to protect the army, and Xueqin's task is to defeat and eliminate the main force of the opponent's air force as much as possible, during this period, there may be a small group of remnants of the enemy's air force to harass, and the air defense task will depend on the army itself, which is also a way to no way, as for Yuan's bombing formation, it is impossible to participate in the battle, not because they are afraid of death, but if they participate in the war, once they are shot down and fall in the array of their own army, The consequences of a bomb explosion with a full load are unimaginable.

The airship, without the speed of the dinghy, could not catch up with the pursuit of the opponent's combat airship, so Yuan Fang and they also crossed the river with stones without fighter escort, and it was difficult to protect themselves, of course, they would not easily wade into danger. Yuan Fang and his entourage flew very high, almost shuttling in the clouds, although the line of sight was often blocked, but this also had the advantage of concealing their whereabouts and reducing the chance of being discovered by enemy aircraft.

At the same time, the southeast front and the northwest front launched an attack almost simultaneously, and although most of the air forces in both directions were equipped with weapons that were only heavy crossbows, they surrounded ten fighters, and they attacked suddenly, taking the other side by surprise, and the results were incomparably brilliant.

On the southeast front, Chang Xun led the Tiger Roar Legion as the vanguard to ride straight to the Wanliu Air Base in the northeast, and their task was to capture the base with lightning speed when Xueqin was fighting with the other party, and control or destroy the airships that had not yet risen off the base, so as not to prevent the other party from constantly recruiting troops to drag Xueqin and their footsteps into a bitter battle.