The order of His Excellency the Marshal was quickly conveyed to the commanders of the Far Eastern Air Force at all levels, and the three fleets with a total of nine airships simultaneously approached the sky over the Dusk Fortress. The hatches were wide open, and flocks of giant eagles soared through the air, each with a drop-shaped bomb with a tail fin mounted under its wings, with a charge ranging from 500 to 800 pounds, escorted by cavalry on Pegasus, Vulture, or Wyvern, and under the cover of gunsmoke.

The Far Eastern Air Cavalry escorting the Giant Eagle Bombardment Team has a wand infused with a variety of spells commonly used in air combat. At this moment, they all showed up this small wand, and together they activated the "Wind Magic" to blow away the smoke in the air, and then played the "Light Technique" to create a wider field of vision for the giant eagle to drop bombs.

The wind blew away the black smoke that enveloped the city, and the magical light illuminated the forts. Klautz and his generals obviously lacked sufficient knowledge of modern air warfare, and only sent a small group of ghosts to patrol the sky above the fortress, and they were all paralyzed in mid-air by the "daylight technique" played by the Far Eastern air cavalry, let alone prevent the giant eagle from diving and bombing, and they could not even escape back to the city in time to remind Krautz to guard against air raids.

More than 200 eagles swooped down on the undefended city, tearing off the suspension cables at the right time, throwing the two bombs hanging under the wings at the city's top battery, and then flapping their wings into the air before the bombs exploded. By the time the bomb slammed into the fort, a large ball of fire exploded with a deafening roar, billowing smoke poured out, and the giant eagles, who had unloaded their burdens, had already climbed thousands of feet in the air and turned back.

In just one wave of attacks, the Far Eastern Air Force dropped more than 400 aerial bombs on the head of the Dusk Fortress, with a total charge of more than 200,000 pounds, which was equivalent to covering all the batteries around the city walls with strong alchemical powder, causing even more damage than Marshal Alexei expected. Observing through the telescope, the fire on the opposite side of the city was soaring, the "dead city cannons" were all paralyzed and dumb fired, most of the batteries were destroyed by aerial bombs on the spot, and the surviving batteries were only intact on the surface, and the soldiers in the batteries were all killed by the shock wave generated by the explosion.

The Giant Eagle Aviation, which returned to the mothership, did not take a breath, and immediately reloaded the bomb with the assistance of the logistics personnel, flew out of the hatch again, and launched a second round of bombing.

However, before the second wave of attack of the Far Eastern Air Force was over, the Twilight Fortress once again raised the force field barrier. The two bombs happened to be stopped by the force field enchantment, and they bounced off and exploded in the air. The giant eagle, which had not yet had time to drop the bomb, saw this situation, so he no longer wasted the bomb and circled in the air with regret. Fortunately, their frustration did not last long, and they soon received new orders, escorted by the Pegasus Knights, to follow Major Maria Steelfeather to the battlefield outside the city, and dropped the remaining bombs on the group of undead soldiers who had just crawled out of the trenches.

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The air raids planned by Marshal Alexei on the improvised initiative yielded excellent results, and after two rounds of bombardment, the forts of the Twilight Fortress were basically paralyzed and could no longer pose a threat to the officers and soldiers of the Far East outside the city. At the same time, the offensive on the ground was generally going well, but there were some unexpected troubles in parts of the battlefield.

"Guys, follow me!"

The 2nd Far Eastern Armored Knights Brigade was ordered to support the 2nd Division of the Shooting Corps, and Major General Brigade Commander Bloom Wrought Iron took the lead and drove the exclusive "Steel Cavalry" to the enemy position, and the heroic battle cry was broadcast through the brigade's magic channel, echoing in the cockpit of the 300 mechanical armor under his command, prompting the group of dwarven armored knights who were as brave and aggressive as him to charge.

Colonel Kirov, chief of staff of the 2nd Armoured Knights Brigade and commander of the grenadiers under the brigade, was as calm and calm as ever, sitting in his command car and giving orders one after another, dispatching various grenadier squads to accompany the armored knights to advance forward and provide flank cover for the mechanical armor.

Three hundred mechanical armors formed a moving steel embankment, which continued unstoppably on the wasteland, and the magic crystal rapid-fire cannon in his hand spewed a metal storm, and the army of the undead who rushed up was swept down in rows. Each mechanical armor was followed by an armored personnel carrier, and ten heavily armed grenadiers first followed the mechanical armor in the car, and after entering the combat zone, the mechanical armor and the military vehicle successively slowed down to walking speed, and the grenadiers on the car also jumped down, holding the "wind spear" to spread a skirmish line behind the side of the mechanical armor, and advancing towards the enemy position with the mechanical armor.

The massive and heavy mechanical armor resembles a moving fortress, and the rapid-fire magic crystal cannon fires fiercely, easily sweeping away the army of undead rushing head-on. What skeletons, zombies, ghouls, no matter how many there are, can't stop the machine gun fire, the terrifying "wave of the undead" in the world of Vares for thousands of years, in front of this moving steel fortress is like a wave rushing to the reef, surging again and again, being repulsed again and again, being crushed, and the undead soldiers who were strafed by the machine guns fell in rows, like a wheat field after a storm sweeped.

The army of the undead is mostly skeletons and zombies and other low-level cannon fodder who have no intelligence and only know how to rush forward, but there are also undead creatures such as ghouls and ghosts with intelligence and even cunning, and they are aware that the "armored knights" in the Far East can only be crushed to slag head-on, so they try to launch a sneak attack from the flanks around the back of the mechanical armor.

In fact, these cunning undead did grasp two major weaknesses of the mechanical armor: one was that the steering was clumsy, and the other was that the cockpit had a restricted aperture that allowed only movement within about 160° of the front and sides. Beyond this perspective, it becomes a blind spot for the pilot, and he can only observe indirectly through the detection crystal controlled by the assistant pilot, and it is difficult to react immediately if he is attacked from behind.

It was in order to make up for the above-mentioned shortcomings of mechanical armor that Roland equipped it with grenadiers at the beginning of the formation of the armored knight unit. After several years of development, the 1st and 2nd Separate Armored Knight Brigades of the Far East developed a full-fledged combat formation, with a squad (10 men) of grenadiers for each mechanical armor. In peacetime, the grenadiers march with the mechanical armor in military vehicles, and during battle, they get out of the vehicles and disperse to the two wings of the mechanical armor to accompany the advance and provide cover for the mechanical armor.

The ghouls and ghosts who tried to bypass the mechanical armor and attack from the flanks and rear were immediately noticed by the grenadiers, who first threw grenades infused with "daylight" to give a big gift to those who were hiding in the shadows, and the sudden burst of bright light paralyzed the ghosts to cover their faces and scream, and the ghouls were also illuminated and panicked.

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