Chapter 70: Air Combat

Fifty bee flying knights, in batches of ten, constantly took off from the base in the ant mound, formed a small team and rushed into the sky, and soon fought with the enemy in the sky.

At the beginning, the parasitic air force that was attacked by the surprise attack, a small number of parasitic dragonflies were hugged by bees before they could react, and then fell to the ground because they could not bear the weight and lost their balance.

This is a common tactic of the bee flying knights, because the bee's jaws are not strong enough, it is difficult to kill the enemy's war beasts in the air in a short time, when facing many enemies, in order to avoid being counterattacked, the flying knights prefer to command their mounts to drag the enemy into the ground battle, and the ground troops assist in quickly killing the enemy war beasts in Lijiang.

After forcing a few parasitic dragonflies to land, the troops on the ground who had been passively beaten quickly gathered up, surrounded the parasitic dragonflies, first bit off their wings, and then quickly cut their heads from their necks, killing all the silk thread parasites, and avenging the previous passive beating.

But the good times didn't last long, and soon, the other war beasts of the parasitic air force reacted. Dragonflies, which are already very eyesighted and agile insects, quickly fought back.

Dragonflies are the dominant ones in the air, even if they are single-handed, they are not afraid to face a team of ten bees, these parasitic dragonflies will climb altitude and then swoop, using their height and speed advantage to try to break up the formation of the bee squad, and often try to catch a bee to fight it alone.

This tactic is the same as that of the parasitic dragonfly against the Divine Angel King warriors on the ground, but it is more agile in the air, at least the parasitic dragonfly does not need to worry about hitting the ground, and does not slow down before the collision.

The bees are smaller and will suffer if they do collide, and the Flying Knights have to maneuver their mounts to maintain a tight formation while dodging the onslaught of parasitic dragonflies at any moment.

If it was just one or two parasitic dragonflies, the Bee Riders would be able to deal with it, but as more and more parasitic dragonflies came around, the Bee Riders began to get tired of coping.

I saw that in the blue sky, countless dragonflies flew up and down, drawing a complete arc-shaped trajectory, these trajectories were like a full moon scimitar, cutting the formation of the bees, sealing the path of the flying knights, and chopping the space in the sky.

Soon, a small detachment of ten bees was completely dispersed, and the surrounding parasitic dragonflies and parasitic beans were like sharks smelling blood, and immediately gave up the opponents in front of them, and surrounded them one after another, trying to hunt the lone bee flying knights.

The Bee Riders are also aware of the danger and try to reunite as if they were a school of fish in the face of a predator.

But the Parasitic Air Force beasts didn't give them this chance, and the parasitic dragonflies quickly bit the lone bees from the air, hovering in the air and biting them to death - compared to the bees' chewing mouthparts, the dragonfly's jaws are simply a big killer, killing bees in a matter of seconds.

The scattered flying knights desperately fought back with their slings and stony spear-tipped lances, but to little avail, and even if they broke the compound eyes of the parasitic dragonfly, these two weapons were not enough to kill each other.

Soon, the ten Bee Flying Knights who were scattered were all wiped out, and most of the Flying Knights on top were also killed together, except for two clever Flying Knights who untied their safety ropes and fell from the sky the moment their mounts were bitten. However, only one of the Flying Knights managed to land on the ground and was sheltered by the Army, and the other was caught by a parasitic damselfly as he fell through the air, quickly disappearing into his bloody maw.

When the ten scattered bee flying knights were slaughtered, the flying knights of the other four squads tried to go up to the rescue, but in the face of the countless flying parasitic war beasts, these flying knights did not dare to take offense and rushed in, and could only attack the parasitic war beasts at the edge, trying to attract the enemy's attention.

However, when the enemy's air power was destroyed and the attention of the enemy's air power was once again focused on the other Bee Flying Knights, the air force of the Divine Envoy King Legion had only killed a total of eight parasitic dragonflies, and the results of the battle were not as great as their own losses.

As the parasitic air force shifted its target, the remaining bee flying knights also began to feel threatened, and at this time they were in a very disadvantageous situation, both in terms of numbers and individual combat effectiveness, which were inferior to the parasitic dragonflies on the opposite side.

And in the training of the Bee Flying Knights, they also did not have the drill and experience of fighting against the enemy's large swarms of air power. Because the protagonist who formulated the flight tactics for the flying knights did not have much experience in aerial combat himself, all he could learn from was his own flight experience and some materials from the human world for reference.

As a result, it equips the Bee Flying Knights with slings and riding spears, both of which are ineffective.

The slings could not spin and throw them at high speeds, and the flying knights were more likely to throw them behind them, hoping that they would spin and fall by gravity and inertia on their own, and have a chance to entangle the wings of low-altitude enemies.

As for the cavalry lance, the current Bee Flying Knights are not sufficiently trained to be able to charge from the front like the knights of the Middle Ages and pick the enemy to death with the cavalry lance.

When the bee flying knights fight, they rely more on the combat power of their mounts, and the big jaws and tail pins of these bees are the best weapons to use. However, the bee's chewing and sucking mouthparts are not sharp, and the tail pin will not be used easily, and the bee mount itself will die quickly if used.

Therefore, in the face of hundreds of enemies, the Bee Flying Knights are passive and have no way to do it, and even the protagonist has no choice. In fact, even if the protagonist has a way, he can't contact his subordinates in flight.

The bees instinctively lower their altitude or try to escape back into their nests, which is their knee-jerk behavior when they encounter strong enemies, even when the flying knights try to get them flying high again.

The protagonist can only use the ground troops to throw slings into the dense areas of the enemy in the air to interfere and cover the retreat of the bee flying knights.

Soon, after a small detachment fled back to the anthill, the other bee flying knights also broke through the barrier and fled back at a certain price.

After an aerial battle, the Bee Flying Knight lost thirteen bees and killed eleven Flying Knights, resulting in heavy losses. The enemy side lost eight parasitic dragonflies, and the combat strength was not damaged.

At this time, the parasitic air force once again shifted its attention to the army of the Divine Envoy King Legion, which lacked air defense, and the parasitic war beasts in the water also began to fire water cannons at the bridgehead, although they did not pose much threat due to the height, and a large group of parasitic ants and land parasitic war beasts were also rapidly approaching.

The 1,000 Divine Envoy King warriors on the front line are facing the enemy's three-way attack by water and air, and the situation is extremely critical!