Chapter 1213: The Army Counterattacks
The five fighters were not allowed to temporarily abandon the escort mission to fight against the enemy, and the pilot had scolded the commander of the Imperial Air Force for being incomplete, but what was the use of that, and they had to rush up.
Today, it is the lucky day of all the people in the Dongsheng Empire, the air force of the Wanliu Empire has no combat experience, and they rushed over in a dense formation, after withstanding two rounds of artillery fire, they only had no more than thirty left, when the Dongsheng fighters entered their range, they remembered that they no longer had crossbow arrows, but they fired three or five crossbow arrows sparsely, and they didn't even touch the opponent's side.
The artillery of the five fighters roared again, the remaining two dozen airships were hit hard again, and in the end, only a dozen escaped.
The five fighters did not pursue, and immediately returned to their posts, staying near the bombers that were bombing the Flying Flower City.
Rather, the Empire's air force saw that the friendly forces easily eliminated most of the enemy troops, and their morale soared, and they began to chase and kill in groups, beating the water dogs.
The people in the western part of the Yuanhe Empire have been relocated to the eastern states and counties, there are no more people here, and there are only enemy troops in Feihua City, so the bombers did not have the slightest scruples, and continued to pour out their anger, and most of Feihua City was blown into ruins, and the bombs were poured out before they stopped.
When Dugu Zhen's troops entered Feihua City, all they saw were ruins and ruined walls, the surviving wounded soldiers lying in the corners and wailing, the ground was full of minced meat and charred corpses, and the choking smoke of gunpowder was rising, and Baihua City was in ruins.
Rather the empire's reconnaissance boat report, the cavalry and infantry mixed formation of less than 10,000 people did not escape from the north gate, Dugu Zhen decisively ordered the cavalry to pursue, and stood on the city wall and looked at the ruined Baihua City for a long time.
There was no fighting, there was no expected hand-to-hand fighting in the streets, and the main job of the soldiers of the empire after entering the city was to extinguish the fire and collect the enemy's wounded soldiers, inquire for information, bury the corpses, and clear the roads, and the engineering troops were about to cry, their task was to rebuild the defense, but the city walls had been blown up to the ground, and even if they had great ability, it was impossible to repair them in a short time.
100,000 troops were stationed in Feihua City, the air force returned to the base for supply and maintenance, and returned to Feihua City again to coordinate the defense, Chang Xun successfully completed his task, and returned triumphantly with 5,000 cavalry and 20 artillery. When bidding farewell to Chang Xun, Dugu Zhen wanted to speak several times, he wanted to ask for a few cannons to bring back for study, but in the end, Dugu Zhen still couldn't pull down his face, so he couldn't say anything.
Of course, even if Dugu really speaks, it's useless, artillery is the foundation of the military strength of the Dongsheng Empire, of course, it will not be easily given away, especially the gunpowder can not be leaked, now the gunpowder and shells used by the artillery units are all responsible for the overall distribution, and a detailed record must be made if a cannon is not fired, just worry about the leakage of gunpowder, and then turn around to deal with yourself after being made by others.
When he went back, five fighters protected ten airships and returned to the air base first, Chang Xun and his party did not have air force protection, but he was not worried at all, because the road back was full of large and small trees and forests, if the air force of the Wanliu Empire came, they could hide in the woods and wait for their own air force to come to the rescue. Compared with Chang Xun's high spirits, Tang Jian was a little depressed, this morning Tang Jian led the main force of the Dongsheng Empire to kill the border, although Xueqin contained most of the Wanliu Air Force, but there was still a small part of the Wanliu Air Force coming to him for trouble.
Dongsheng's main force attacked, it was not a trivial matter, and more than 30 airships left behind on the border urgently rose into the air to intercept it, and at the same time notified the border defenders. This air force thought that a good opportunity to reap the battle merits had come, and after determining that the other side did not have the protection of the air force, they unscrupulously lowered their altitude and planned to rush over to drop bombs, but they were wrong, although Tang Jian did not have the air force protection, but they had reconnaissance planes, as well as anti-aircraft guns, Tang Jian, who got the news in advance, was ready before the enemy planes arrived, and a hundred anti-aircraft guns were aimed at the sky, and when the airships of the Wanliu Empire entered the firing range unscrupulously, they began to tilt the artillery fire.
The shells of the anti-aircraft guns are all fused and explode at regular intervals, so you don't have to worry about falling down and exploding in your own military formation, and the shells of the anti-aircraft guns have spikes and barbs, as long as they hit the opponent, they will stick to them like chewing gum and know the explosion. Thirty airships were beaten and replied, hit by a large number of scattered bombs, and crashed in an arc, and the remaining few airships that escaped were frightened and avoided from afar, but these guys did not give up, and followed this continuous harassment, which made Tang Jian a headache, until Xueqin reorganized the formation and swatted those pesky flies to death, Tang Jian was able to be freed, but such a trouble, Tang Jian's main force delayed a lot of progress, and had to speed up the attack to catch up with the pace of the other two front armies, Complete the strategy and tactics of the three fronts of armies advancing in unison, cooperating with each other, and covering each other.
Yuan Fang didn't know about the other benefits of this tactic, he only knew that the three armies of the three sides echoed each other horizontally and connected as a whole, and Xueqin's limited air force could respond in the middle and protect the airspace security of all attacking forces.
When Chang Xun returned to Wanliu Air Base, the main air force led by Xue Qin and Yuan Fang's subordinates who followed up had already taken another air base, there was no fierce battle, and there was no cannon sound, because when they arrived, the other party did not intercept the airship, all the airships were parked on the tarmac, the pilots and ground staff were lined up, and the commander of the base led all the officers and soldiers under his command to surrender, well, it can also be said to return to the arms of the empire.
This air base east of Fengqiu County belongs to the Liusang Empire, this is the only air base in the Northern Continent before the Liusang Empire, almost all the airships belonging to Liusang are gathered here, the number is less than two hundred and thirty, including one hundred and fifty air combat airships, sixty reconnaissance airships, twenty ground bombing and ten are used for transportation, of course, this is only an approximate number, and it is the remaining after such a long round of war, the number of airships sent by the Liusang Empire at the beginning is far more than this.
Xueqin in the fighter plane was still a little puzzled when she saw this scene in the base, yesterday these guys were still showing off their might and wandering around the border, chasing and killing the reconnaissance airship of the Dongsheng Empire, but today their temperament has changed greatly, and they have changed their ways.
To tell the truth, Xueqin's first reaction at that time was to deceive, and immediately sent a team of fighters to raise the altitude to check if there were any enemy airships ambushing above the clouds, however, after making sure that there were no ambushes nearby, Xueqin was a little confused, and had to ask Yuan Fang behind him for instructions.