"Your Royal Highness the Prince, I have just received an urgent report from General Zehir: an enemy army from across the border is engaged in an exchange of fire with our air force, and the enemy commander is a man riding a blue dragon, including a large number of sphin-faced beasts and flying dragoons, suspected to be the 'Wind Knights' of Medes!"

The reception hall of the Mochizuki Governor's Mansion was temporarily requisitioned as a combat command center, and Pastor Eudothea, who was guarding the magic guide intercom, made a cameo messenger to inform Roland and the other dignitaries present of the latest news from the front.

"Blue Dragon? It was most likely Waltin, the mount of Mayer Rosenthal, and the governor of Medes himself went into battle, and it seemed that the other party did not hesitate to tear his face. Joseph Davidovich looked worried. The "Wind Knights" of the Medes are the overlords of the sky in the eyes of the people of Southern Xinjiang, can the Far Eastern Air Force fight against this powerful force? He didn't know the bottom of his heart.

Roland stood in front of the hall window with his hands in his hands, his eyes looking out of the window, his eyes deeper than the night.

"Tonya, send me a letter to your senior sister and ask her how the situation is in Sweetwater."

"Okay!" Tonya opens the High Communication Stone to send a message to Sand Rose, who has recently transformed into a swift and flown back to Sweetwater.

"Mira, contact Captain Aurora and ask if the bandits are showing signs of retreat."

Lyudmila nodded, hurriedly contacted the "Victory" cruising over the Gobi battlefield with the magic guide telephony, waited for a while, and then turned to report to Roland: "According to the observation of the giant eagle sentries on the front line, the sand bandits are regrouping, and there is no sign of retreat, and it seems that there is still a momentum of counterattack with the help of air support. ”

"It seems that Mayer still doesn't give up......," Roland sighed. It was not surprising for the Medes to send the "Wind Knights" to the battle, but it was worth pondering the movements of the other side after the air force was dispatched: if the sand bandits took the opportunity to retreat, indicating that Mayer had abandoned the original plan to invade southern Xinjiang, Roland would order the air force to cover the retreat of the 2nd Armored Knights Regiment, and both sides would collect their own troops, and that would be the end of it; However, Meyer did not order the bandits to retreat, but asked the four bandit groups to regroup and prepare a counterattack, which showed that he believed that he had a great advantage and insisted on continuing the war.

"If you don't grasp the opportunity to save face, then don't blame me for slapping your face!" Roland sneered, turned to face the people in the hall who were expecting him to make a decision, and calmly ordered: "Tonya, inform Jennifer and Yelena in Sweetwater Town to launch the 'Holy Chemical' and 'Destiny' to support Zehir's troops, and in addition, inform Sand Rose to lead the half-giant militia to cross the Crescent River into the Gobi battlefield to assist the Second Armored Knight Regiment in suppressing the sand bandits' counterattack." ”

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At the same time that Roland was dispatching his troops, the battle over the Gobi Desert had entered a white-hot stage.

The sphinoid eagle-faced beast that the "Wind Knights" relied on as the vanguard of the attack was not very intelligent, but it had a wild nature that was not afraid of death, and bravely dived in the barrage, like a firefly that pounced on the candlelight, and the moment it hit the glowing barrage, its body shattered and flesh flew sideways. The scene looked tragic, but in fact, it was only a handful of unlucky ghosts who were shot down, and many more sphinxes managed to break through the barrage blockade and approach the airship. At such a close distance, the cannon was powerless, and the giant eagle of the escort could only rush up to prevent the other party from destroying the airship, fighting fiercely in the air, blood and feathers flying all over the sky.

Instead of rushing straight to the barrage like the Griffin, the riders steered the dragon to dodge stray bullets while keeping their mounts as steady as possible, raising their spears and aiming at the opposite airship or giant eagle to pull the trigger and shoot the gun head as a cannonball.

Although there are many differences between Mayer's "Wind Knights" and Corofa's "Blue Sky Knights", they are also equipped with advanced weapons such as "dragoon guns", especially in air combat, with a sphin-like eagle in front of them, and the knights on the back of the flying dragon can calmly snipe with a gun, and the melee function of the "dragoon lance" is not so important.

The two hundred Wyvern Knights trained by Meyer himself were all first-class marksmen. Superb archery skills combined with the dragoon gun in the palm, the bullets shot still maintained a strange high accuracy under the influence of the night and air currents, after a volley, there were one after another screams from the opposite side, at least twenty giant eagles were wounded, a third of them were killed on the spot, and they fell down in the deep night with a dazzling blood, and the rest of the injured giant eagles broke away from the battle with the help of their companions, and struggled to fly back to the mothership for first aid.

It was not only the Giant Eagle that was sniped, but the airship itself also became a target for the Wyvern Knights, with the Dawn, Independence, and Victory all being sniped and suffering varying degrees of damage. The smooth side of the "Dawn" and "Victory" was blasted out of several dents, but fortunately, the power of the dragoon gun was not enough to penetrate the armor, and the "Independence" was unlucky, the left booster propeller was hit, and billowing black smoke stopped running, and the captain Captain Aldrich had to temporarily close the left power compartment, and the right propeller was also suspended, so as not to spin the airship out of control in the air, and only rely on the tail engine to provide power, and the speed of the airship decreased significantly.

In the first confrontation between the Far East and the Canaan Air Force, judging from the casualty figures, the Far Eastern side was still slightly advantageous, but Zehir's mood was not easy. The strength advantage of the "Wind Knights" is too great, and if the fight continues, the other party will only sacrifice some sphinxes and eagles, but their own giant eagles cannot afford to consume, not to mention that the airship itself is also threatened, in case of a crash of an airship, the loss will not only be as high as millions of gold talers in the construction cost, but also have an immeasurable negative impact on the construction of the air force in the Far East.

In order to protect the airship, Zehir should order to retreat, as far away as possible from the enemy to take advantage of the range of the cannon, so that it is more beneficial for him to constantly kill and injure the opponent's living forces while running. However, he had to take into account not only the battle in the air, but also the ground battlefield, if the Far East Air Force withdrew from the skies over the Gobi, the sand bandits below would be freed and could regroup to launch a counterattack against Bloom's 2nd Armored Knights, and even cross the Crescent River to launch a raid on Sweetwater.

Zehir could not leave his comrades on the ground alone, so he could only give up his plan to retreat and ask Roland for support.

"Your Royal Highness, the Wind Knights of the Medes live up to their reputation, and we are under a lot of pressure."

"Relax, Zehir, the troops supporting you are already on their way......" There was a noise from the other side of the magic intercom, as if Roland's words had been interrupted and he was talking.

Zehir waited for a few seconds, and the calm and reassuring voice of His Royal Highness the Prince came from the opposite side.

"In fact, the troops supporting you have arrived on the battlefield."

Zehir was slightly stunned, and turned to look out the porthole of the airship, where two huge steel whales were cloaked in bright moonlight and glowed with cold light, and were rapidly approaching the airspace of the battle.