The air battle was short and tragic, and each disengaged after paying a certain number of casualties.

The Republican Air Force suffered its greatest losses since the start of the war: 31 warplanes were shot down, including two new J50s with broken rear cover.

None of the 31 pilots survived, even if they successfully parachuted, it was useless, and the air force at medium and low altitudes was full of natural disasters, and before they could land, they would be hit by self-detonating blood bats.

Fortunately, the new gargoyle is a new class that has not been tested in actual combat, and its stability is not enough.

As long as the full burst speed is long, the thruster is prone to bursting. After dozens of new gargoyles were destroyed during the pursuit, the Scourge had to stop the pursuit.

In terms of tactics, the new gargoyle lost more than 400 heads, more than ten times more than human fighters. The self-detonating blood bat also lost more than 20,000, and the controversy about the damage to natural disasters is actually not advantageous.

But strategically, the Scourge is earned. The appearance of a new gargoyle breaks the oppression of humans in the upper airspace. In terms of battle damage, it was not so much that a few fighters were shot down, but that 31 pilots were killed.

The undead are best at changing battle damage, the undead are not afraid of death, they are not afraid of tiredness, and they can be rebuilt when all the soldiers die.

And humans can't, the most elite group of combat heroes are non-renewable resources. The rest of the people are people who didn't become combat heroes in the first place, and they are nothing more than cannon fodder when recruited. It's good if one out of ten can survive the battle, and the development potential is not comparable.

In almost two decades, until a new generation grows up, it will be difficult for humanity to replenish combat heroes.

The Scourge Legion's strategic goal is to kill as much human life as possible. When the backbone is gone, the entire human army will collapse.

In the war against the Scourge Legion, the principle of the Republic is to kill as few people as possible, and use renewable materials and energy to fight against the undead, while the combatants accumulate experience and improve their strength, so as to become stronger and stronger.

Of course, this is wishful thinking on both sides. What the final result will be depends on the game between the two sides.

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The air battle ended, and the focus of the natural disaster air raids redirected to the ground material reserve center.

At this time, the gate of the base, which was made of whole mountain rocks, had been breached, but the Scourge Air Force could not drive straight in.

The engineers built another defensive line more than three meters thick inside.

Major General Tian Tingfeng, commander of the engineering corps, personally led more than ten high-level engineering heroes to cast spells to strengthen the stone wall.

Behind them, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth lines of defense were being repaired. Excavated from the mountain, a one-meter cubic block of standard stone and armor steel plate quickly and firmly adhered to the action of special military adhesive. Three layers of rock and two layers of steel form a line of defense.

The psionic runes engraved in advance on the armor steel plate can be activated as long as they are infused with energy, greatly improving the defensive ability.

In fact, such a temporary stone wall does not meet military standards at all, and can be easily destroyed under the impact of heavy units such as Abomination. But this time only the Scourge Air Force came, and the only heavy unit, the Frost Dragon, reminded that it was too big to get into the cave.

This gives the engineering corps room to operate. As long as the pile is thick enough, the self-exploding blood bats that rely on corrosive attacks will have to be stacked in numbers.

"The spirit pattern can't stand it! Withdraw to the rear line of defense! ”

Under Tian Tingfeng's orders and after the break, the heroes of the engineering department retreated behind the third line of defense along the reserved passage.

Boom! The powerful engineering mech pushes two stones slightly smaller than a standard cube into the evacuation passage. Two engineers stepped forward and filled the gap with gel, then withdrew, and then stuffed the steel plate and the stone. The evacuation passage, which is two meters high and one meter wide, was blocked in one minute.

At this time, the stone wall in front of it, which had lost its maintenance, collapsed with a bang. More than a dozen self-detonating blood bats rushed through the ruins of the stone wall, crashing into the third line of defense without a head.

Blocked by the psionic light, the blood and rot were bounced away before they could get on the stone wall. Only a saturation attack has the potential to break the psionic shield and damage the stone wall inside, otherwise it is sent.

"Recharge your energy and repair your shield." There are enough people in the base, and the maintenance of the third stone wall does not need Tian Tingfeng to take action personally, "The fourth line of defense, install a psionic crystal charger!" I don't believe you can't run out of brainless bats! When the time comes, we will compete with the Air Force, who has killed more self-exploding blood bats. If you win, I'll apply for a military merit medal for everyone! ”

"Good!" The engineers were full of energy. As a non-combat profession, engineers have made a lot of contributions, but they lack direct military merits.

It's rare that countless self-detonating blood bats have crashed into the fortifications this time, and no one has robbed them of military merit, and the way to build a wall has been proven to be effective. It is safer to obtain military merits, and naturally everyone is willing to work hard.

At this time, the self-detonating blood bats of the natural disaster have lost more than 20,000 under the blows of the human air force, nearly 20,000 under the anti-aircraft fire, nearly 30,000 under the storming of the material base, and half of the number of blood bats in this raid.

Even if the cost of self-detonating blood bats is low, the loss of more than 70,000 yuan is not small.

The Scourge Air Force Commander-in-Chief, Prince Taladham, was seriously wounded and lost his ability to command, and none of the remaining Sarene chieftains had sufficient authority. Natural disasters have also imitated human communicators and established their own remote command and communication networks, but in human territory, there are no large-scale ground base stations, and only small-scale internal communication can be carried out.

Several Sarein commanders, some advocated intensifying the offensive and breaking the material base as soon as possible; Some advocated the assistance of Prince Varana's commandos; Some proposed to retreat first to preserve their strength. There was no way to reach an agreement.

The sparkling light lit up from afar, and judging by the trajectory, they were all slower aircraft.

"Ha, humanity still doesn't know that its air force has been repulsed, isn't it true that the transport fleet is coming to die?" Count Sadom smiled strangely and said, "Blood Bat Lord, follow me to destroy these people!" ”

"Idiot, don't you know the means of human communication? They must have gotten the news, but they dare to swagger and kill them, they must be afraid! It is still important to attack the material base first. Marquis Ishina said.

"Can you beat it? The stone walls inside are all freshly repaired. The ice dragon can't fly in, and the self-detonating blood bat alone can't keep up with the speed of human construction. ”

"So we have to have ground forces to cooperate."

It was Prince Varana who finally put an end to the controversy. "You go and intercept the human reinforcements, and hand over the material warehouse to me!"

After unifying the understanding, the Scourge Air Force immediately assembled and deployed, intending to swallow the human reinforcements in one gulp.

New gargoyles equipped with thrusters roam high in the sky to prevent the high-altitude warplanes of humans from returning home. As long as the J50 isn't outfitted with a medium-range air-to-air combat projectile, the new Gargoyle will be able to hold off this latest human fighter in melee dogfights.

Seventy or eighty thousand self-detonating blood bats were organized into four assault clusters, with the first cluster on the front attracting firepower, and the assault clusters on the left and right flanks disrupting the enemy camp.

According to the experience of previous engagements, the human floating fleet is not very mobile, but it has more ferocious defensive firepower than fighters.

After these three clusters break through the defensive firepower, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and it will be difficult to cause damage to the thick-skinned floating ships.

Their mission is to cover gargoyles and ice dragons in close quarters with human fleets.

After being dragged into a separate fight, the last self-detonating blood bat swarm will attack and complete the final lore.