"Chapter 355: The First Ship"
The massive Drake-class battleship "Silver Oak" was in the air at this time, and the bow of the ship was always facing the city ahead.
That city is called "Simir", it was once a medium-sized city in the south of the Subic Kingdom, in the last battle with the Freedom Alliance, the city was occupied by the coalition forces of the Freedom Alliance, and became the eastern border city between the Freedom Alliance and the Subic Kingdom, although it is not in direct contact with the border, but it is the most important border city in the east.
Li Xiaopan didn't fight against the kingdom on his own at the beginning, as allies, Zeng Qiang, the leader of the Silver Moon Forest Camp, and Fang Zi, the lord of Phoenix City, both contributed a lot, so both sides had some enclaves within the Freedom Alliance. In the eastern border, these enclaves are connected.
The city of Simir belongs to Li Xiaopan, but the town close to the forest and the vitality zone to the south belongs to Zeng Qiang, and the saltpeter mine and the surrounding villages to the west belong to Fangzi, and the three forces have deployed their armies here to protect their own interests, and this has become the real border of the three major forces of the kingdom and the free alliance.
The Silver Oak floated in the air for a moment, circling the city, but eventually chose to leave.
The city was so heavily defended that even warships could not penetrate it.
The walls of Simir City are not high, the population is not too large, and the level of development is very modest, but as the intersection of the three major powers, the defense here is even stronger than the outer area of the White Oak.
Not only is there half a skeleton army of Lord Li Xiaopan and hundreds of tough barbarians, but more importantly, there are also a large number of cannons, two hell towers, crossbow arrows from Phoenix City, and rockets that are incredibly powerful and ready to be fired at any time in the four corners of the city. Similarly, there is Zeng Qiang's pervasive shadow troops, and the bows and arrows of those archers are vicious and extremely deadly. Looking down from the sky, the entire city was armed, with a large number of anti-aircraft weapons aimed at them, moving with the movement of the battleship, and even mages throwing powerful fireballs at the battleship, not to mention the undead forces that had been circling nearby.
In the absence of ground cooperation forces, the rash attack of the battleship will inevitably be hit by the enemy's firepower, considering the limit of the battleship's ascent height, most of the opponent's weapons can shoot at them, and the final result is likely to be the battleship crashing over the city.
The kingdom knew that this was the stronghold of the Freedom Alliance's defenses, and that behind it was a large number of underfortified cities and the source of gunpowder that the opponent's artillery relied on (it was not difficult for the kingdom to figure out from Leon that gunpowder contained saltpeter), and that striking it would be of great benefit to contain the rebel forces.
But on the other hand, it will also provoke anger within the rebels, and the three forces combined, those various weapons and strong troops cannot cope with three warships. Although they were all in a hostile state, the top of the kingdom always believed that there were certain constraints on the three, and the other two might not be very quick to concentrate on Li Xiaopan's troops in the White Oak area. It is much better to concentrate on weakening Li Xiaopan, who has the largest number of troops, and then attack the other two from two sides, than to directly open two fronts to deal with the three forces at the beginning.
And this battleship can't stop here all the time, the consumption of this kind of large air combat battleship every day can make a kingdom count dumbfounded, and the frequent maintenance of these second-hand battleships and the adjustment of the magic guide cannon are also essential, since they can't stop here all the time, then they have to leave first, looking for other targets, and one more minute of time wasted, is a shiny gold coin disappears.
The floating array at the bottom of the battleship began to change direction, the internal system of magic crystals also began to change direction, and the Silver Oak reversed its direction and began to accelerate, preparing to leave the place.
However, just as the soldiers of the kingdom were busy making a U-turn on this second-hand battleship, a large number of black spots appeared in the southern sky, and they were rapidly attacking in their direction.
"Not good! It's those big pesky bats, immediately activate the anti-aircraft fire, and shoot all those nasty things down on me! ”
The commander of the battleship shouted no, and then immediately gave the order, and all the men and horses were ready for battle. He had experienced the attack with the southern troops earlier, and he also knew some front-line battle reports when he was training to drive a battleship, and he knew that these strange flying monsters were very fast, and their ability to attack and harass was very strong, and even if their battleships adjusted the engine output and magic speed to the maximum, they would not be able to fly them, and sooner or later they would be caught up, so it was better to rely on the superior firepower of the battleship to fight with the opponent.
Those black dots quickly approached, and they were indeed flying monsters with bat wings, but these guys were much bigger than the ones he had seen last time, and they were more than a little faster. The undead have black wings, led by orange and black wings, and these monsters are like demons flying out of hell, and they are just as deadly as demons. There were a large number of them, there were about two or three hundred of them at a glance, and with the speed advantage of the other party, the commander of the battleship felt that even if the battleship's firepower was full for a while and a half, it would not be able to clean up these monsters.
After all, he had been in the Leon Empire for a while, and he knew that the warships of the Leon Empire were all escorted by many flying demonic beasts, with more than one sky battle master in charge, plus powerful heavy artillery and magic cannons, as well as the formation of multiple warships that cooperated with each other when they acted together, they could show their power in the sky and show their strength.
And now, they don't have a flying monster escort, they don't have a battleship to cooperate, and he himself is only a battle master peak, and the kingdom now doesn't have enough strong people to send this battleship to test and harass the enemy's west.
In the face of such a number of opponents, they are completely at a disadvantage.
Moreover, he found something very different from the undead in the opposing troops, the strange things that looked like machines, shaped like a pumpkin, more than five meters in diameter, and other parts about the size of a large griffin. The constantly rotating propellers on top of these things support the entire object's flight, while the sides are lined up with artillery for attacking, and they line up on this thing, which, with its nimble movement ability, can attack enemies from any direction except directly above.
The commander sensed that something was wrong, and so it was. When the five strange things and hundreds of undead launched an attack on the battleship, the battleship began to fall into turmoil, and the shells of the guns kept falling, making one dent after another in the deck, and in less than twenty minutes, the Silver Oak crashed on the way to retreat.
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