8:55 p.m., Xileith City, Xicheng District, Take-off 3.

Rows of magic torches divide the ground into different areas, dividing the entire take-off field into four straight runways. The entire take-off field was full of people, and the ground crew players in yellow costumes shuttled back and forth, and everyone hurriedly carried boxes of supplies to both sides of the runway.

More ground crews are reloading ammo on the runway for players who are about to depart, checking the circle to make sure that their black eagles don't crash due to malfunctions.

Unlike the light golden eagle or the medium-sized bald eagle, the black eagle was designed to meet the requirements of the bombing mission, and instead of using the hanging shape fixed on both sides of the waist, it was changed to a piggyback type. The lightweight magic alloy shell, which looks like two long wooden crates more than a meter high, is connected by dozens of finger-wide pieces of high-tenacity fabric, firmly fitting the player's entire back. Four wide, specially woven strips of cloth meet in two horizontal and two vertical ways on the player's chest, allowing the player to have a more comfortable flying experience.

The total weight of the entire set of black eagles reached thirty kilograms, which was almost comparable to the weight of a set of heavy armor, and in order to propel such heavy equipment, three floating circles were inscribed on the bottom of each long alloy box, and twelve jet circles were inscribed on the back, so as to obtain sufficient thrust.

In order to meet the energy needs of these circles, each set of black eagles needs a full thirty-six magic crystals as the energy supply core, continuously outputting energy for these circles. These crystals are capable of sustaining the Black Eagle for up to four hours in the air.

Compared with the golden eagle and the bald eagle that can change the direction of the jet circle by adjusting the drain, the black eagle has greatly reduced the number of drains, in the words of the designer, the role of the black eagle is to launch as many explosives as possible in the shortest possible time, so it needs a larger load weight, and a sufficiently stable flight trajectory, as for air combat in short distances through air maneuvering, sorry, that's not the black eagle's job at all!

After determining that the Black Eagle would be responsible for the bombing mission, the designers also added a soundproof array that can produce a silent effect to this heavy air combat equipment, which gave the Black Eagle the ability to bomb at night.

In addition, there are two protective circles on the Black Eagle's box, as well as four trigger-type shield circles, which can provide limited defense for the Black Eagle, arrows below a certain amount of damage will be deflected out under the influence of the protective circle, and the trigger-type shield circle can generate a shield that lasts for two seconds to protect the entire set of equipment and the player when the Black Eagle is attacked by magic.

Such a unique design and the mixed use of a variety of magic circles, so that the difficulty and cost of the production of the black eagle skyrocketed, the third generation of Feiyan production cost is still within 30,000 gold coins, the manufacturing time takes about 40 man-hours, and now the fourth generation, the cost has generally risen to more than 100,000, especially the black eagle is the most, the manufacturing cost of a single set of black eagles (not counting the magic crystal and ammunition) has reached 220,000 gold coins, and the manufacturing time is as long as 130 man-hours.

The commander of the Ninth Air Combat Regiment Tomorrow Night Knife is also carrying such a set of heavy equipment, and the black eagle with a total weight of up to forty-three kilograms after being fully loaded with ammunition can not have much impact on the Bright Night Knife of the warrior profession, in fact, most of the players who can join the Ninth Air Combat Regiment have enough strength attributes, and this air combat regiment was established at the beginning with bombing missions as its main purpose.

The Nightknives patrol the runway as they regear their players, and in a few minutes, they're about to depart for Aston City to carry out this dangerous bombing mission under the cover of night. But at this moment, not only did Ming Yedao's heart not have the slightest fear, but was full of excitement.

"Listen, you rookies! This is the first time our regiment has participated in a massive night bombardment, tighten your bellies, raise your ass, and don't let me see anyone turn into a corpse because of some stupid little mistake! Tomorrow Night Knife shouted loudly, "During the day, the first to seventh regiments have completed their mission, and I have to admit that those guys are all good, and after a full twelve hours of fighting, they killed nearly two thousand griffons and more than thirteen thousand war eagles. They're heroes, are we just cowards? Answer me! ”

"It's not!" Everyone replied loudly!

"Rookies, you should be honored! For this battle, President Raphael specially borrowed helpers from the Hammer Dwarves of Eagle's Nest Mountain! His Excellency Kudran Brutehammer, the heroic Gryphon Knight, and his Storm Griffin Knights will be tasked with suppressing Aston City from the air! You don't have to worry about enemies rushing down above your heads and tearing you to pieces! ”

The Kudran and Hammer Dwarves, who arrived in time in the last few hours, had a huge impact on the entire aerial battlefield, and the full thirty-three griffon knights and the griffons they rode became the key to the battle for air supremacy. Compared with the griffins in the hands of the rebels, they were domesticated by the Hammer Dwarves, and the griffins that can be used as mounts at least have elite-level strength, and Kudran's Snow Fury is even more lord-level strength, plus the assistance of the Hammer Dwarves, every griffin knight has a sixth-order, or even seventh-order combat power. Such a force suddenly entered the battlefield and immediately dealt a devastating blow to the rebels' air power.

Kasai, who had learned from the bell half an hour in advance that the Hammer Dwarves would join the battlefield as allies, did not miss this opportunity, and after the griffin knights appeared, he immediately commanded all the air combat groups of the seven air combat regiments to launch a comprehensive attack, and launched a final attack on the rebels' air power at any cost.

According to the final statistics of the various observation groups, by about half past seven in the evening, there were no more griffons and war eagles belonging to the rebels in the sky over Aston City, and the battle for air supremacy that lasted from nine in the morning to half past seven in the afternoon finally ended in the victory of the Angel's Covenant.

In this battle, the Angel's Covenant engaged a total of 197 air combat teams, a total of more than 3,500 sorties, an average of nearly 18 sorties per air combat group, which is a number that has never been reached since the beginning of the counterinsurgency war. Even in the original Battle of Fortress Molente, the three air regiments responsible for supporting Field Marshal Boval made an average of only 11 sorties.

According to statistics, the average number of deaths of nearly 400 players in the battle reached 5.1, which is the first time since the establishment of the Air Combat Regiment of the Angel Covenant, and the average number of deaths has exceeded 5 for the first time!

The mortality rate of 3.5 also set a new high for the mortality rate in air combat, and in addition to this, the loss of bald eagles also reached nearly 600 sets, which is still not counting the broken but still repairable equipment. These lost air combat equipment alone are enough to bankrupt the Moonlit Night Tiger Union!

However, the results of the battle for air supremacy, which paid such a huge price, were also very brilliant!

The rebels dispatched nearly 3,000 griffons and more than 20,000 war eagles before and after, and in the end less than one percent escaped, according to the statistics of the observation group, it can be determined that the results killed were more than 1,700 griffins and more than 10,000 war eagles, in addition, the results of the undetermined kills were more than 800 griffins and more than 5,000 war eagles.

In other words, according to the number detected before the war, the only air power that the rebels can use today is less than 500 griffons and about 5,000 war eagles, which is obviously not enough to meet the air defense needs of the entire Aston City.

In particular, the two black-feathered angry owls specially cultivated by the rebels were killed, and a large number of golden-feathered griffins and red-flame griffins were also killed in battle, which made the rebels' air power unable to be effectively commanded, and could only fall into a situation of fighting on their own.

All this proves that the air power of the rebels has suffered a heavy blow, and air supremacy has completely fallen into the hands of the Angel Covenant.

Tonight's words made all the players on this bombing mission very happy, especially after learning that there would be a heroic griffin knight to protect them, and it erupted in a long-lasting cheer.

"Excellent! It's all about having this momentum! But don't be too proud and be shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire! "For some reason, the griffin knights of the Brute Hammer Dwarves will not enter the low altitude to penetrate the defense, so how to break through the enemy's anti-aircraft fire network depends on ourselves!" But the good news is that because the battle for air supremacy was completed more than an hour earlier, nearly a dozen other air combat regimental combat groups will join the night bombardment, responsible for escorting us, and attracting enemy ground anti-aircraft fire! By the way, that Miss Tania is among them! ”

"Hooray!" Hearing that the Silverwing Demon would personally come to escort him, everyone couldn't help but cheer loudly.

After the cheers subsided, Mingye Dao continued, "Everyone got the map, right? Our Air Combat Regiment IX is targeting the Workshop facility in the eastern part of Aston City, including an armory, a smelter, a forge workshop, an alchemy workshop, and three supply warehouses! The flight route is from Seareth City, make the final formation adjustments on the east side of Aston City, and then break through along the junction between the east and north walls! The air combat team will be responsible for attracting anti-aircraft fire near the city walls and arrow towers, creating opportunities for us to break through! ”

"Regiment commander, what about the distribution of bombing targets?" Someone asked.

Ming Yedao nodded: "The first to third teams are personally led by me, responsible for bombing the armory and material warehouse, the fourth team is responsible for bombing the smelter, and the fifth team is responsible for the forging workshop. ”

In the world of Entagre, the player's so-called bombardment is not the complete destruction of the target as in reality. Armouries and storehouses made of large masonry structures, smelters and forge workshops made of ordinary building materials are not something that can be easily destroyed by large mana bombs or goblin explosives, and it is impossible to wipe entire buildings off the map unless thousands of kilograms of ammunition are consumed.

The purpose of the player's bombing is to make these buildings and the materials and equipment in them unusable by the rebels for a period of time, as long as the armory and material warehouse destroy the gate or some passages connected to the outside, the stored ordnance and supplies in them will naturally not be able to be removed, and the rebels must first clear the parts that were blown up and clear the passages that are wide enough to transport supplies. In this way, both manpower, material resources and time will be enough to consume some of the energy of the rebels, and it may even take two or three days to repair these facilities.

In the past two or three days, the player will most likely have captured the entire city, so the effect of the bombing will be no different from the complete destruction.

The same goes for production facilities such as smelters, where the player's bombardment can cause damage to the production equipment inside the facility, and repairing this equipment requires additional time and effort.

Of course, taking into account that the duration of the entire campaign is likely to last for several days, or even a week or two, such bombardments will come every day or two. The natives of the Ntagari world had never faced this form of warfare, and this air-ground integration had left the rebels anxious from the start. This is one of the reasons why the small and medium-sized unions have been able to reclaim a large number of towns and cities.

"If you're unlucky enough to be shot down, resurrect directly, and this time no one will land on the ground to save you! After resurrection, you can re-collect your equipment, and then regroup according to the orders of Commander-in-Chief Kasai! After the night knife explained the last thing, he walked to the front of the runway.

At this time, the ground crew had completed the preparation work, and the players were arranged on different runways according to their own groups.

"Rookies! You ready? ”

"Ready!"

The Bright Night Knife looked around, and under the illumination of the magic torch, the entire take-off field was as bright as day, and the faces of those players who participated in this bombing mission were clearly visible. From their faces, there was no fear or retreat in the night, only a desire for victory and the joy of success!

"What's our slogan?" Tomorrow Night Knife roared with the greatest strength!

"No piece of armor left!" Thousands of voices converge into one, which makes people can't help but be enthusiastic when they listen to it!

"Now, let's go for a walk in hell!" Mingye Dao shouted with laughter, and at the same time fed his magic power into the black eagle behind him, and the jet array arranged in a straight line behind the equipment box sprayed a violent air current, pushing him forward gradually. The floating array that activated at the same time gradually lifted the body of the Bright Night Knife, and flew towards the sky little by little, "Nine Regiments of Air Combat!" Let's go! ”

"Ulla!" One by one, the figures flew into the sky along the runway, towards the city hidden in the darkness in the distance. None of these people may have flown back, but they have never regretted their decision tonight.

Only those who have personally experienced this kind of war scene will understand why so many people in human history are willing to put everything into the tempering of blood and fire, even if it costs their lives!