The attack of the Red Union fighters lasted only a little more than ten minutes, but for everyone in the detachment of Ruimako, it was like a whole day.

"The USS Westen's bridge is all dead!"

"The Barham is on fire!"

"The hull of the ship broke after the Winsberg!

"The Diffatik is sinking!"

On the information table in front of the Rimmerco commander's seat, bad news kept popping up, but the young corps commander did not change his face.

"The enemy has retreated!"

When the news came, there was a loud cheer in the bridge, and Ryomako's hand that was clenching the handrail finally let go.

The focus of the Red Alliance fighters' attacks is the Earl, and the Viscount and Baron classes are still intact. Rimako's ship was in the center of the fleet, heavily guarded, with only minor injuries.

However, the losses of the fleet were still not light, plus the Mary, which exploded in the floating furnace before, three Earl-class ships fell. Three more ships were seriously injured and could not maintain sufficient altitude and were ordered to return, and almost every one of the remaining ships was wounded.

"The hardest time is behind ......"

Remacko addressed the fleet, his voice trembling slightly, it was trying to suppress the joy: "The enemy is very strong, our fleet has suffered heavy losses, losing a third of its ships. ”

"But that's all, we're still alive! We still have two-thirds of our ships! We still have enough strength to get the job done! From this point on, the enemy has failed!"

"Soldiers, officers, all the followers of His Majesty the Divine Emperor! the enemy who has always been ahead of his time and showed us how to change war, and that's all!"

In the back, Ruimac couldn't hold it back, and his tone became extremely high-spirited: "Now, it's time for them to taste what it's like to be overwhelmed by the overwhelming explosion!"

"Advance the whole fleet! Prepare for bombardment! Prepare for shelling! Turn the enemy's fortresses into powder!"

"In the name of His Majesty the God Emperor, inflict punishment on the unrighteous enemy!"

"Teresia Protection!"

The sound of prayer rang out on every battleship, converging into a fervent wave high in the sky.

Under this high-spirited fleet, scattered sardine fighters accelerated away from the battlefield, and the same enthusiastic communication was transmitted between the fighters, but the emotions contained were anger and unwillingness.

"I've got oil and shells, let's do it again!"

"I can still fly, at least I can crash into it!"

"Kenny got hit, I didn't see him jump off the plane......"

Linde's deep voice sounded, "Have you forgotten what I emphasized before leaving!?"

"We're just making sure the sardines are doing it, not fighting them to the end!"

"I know you're not satisfied, and I'm not happy myself, but our sardines, even with catapults, can only go so far. ”

"For the sake of the decisive battle later, for the victory of the decisive battle, we can't make senseless sacrifices here!"

"We've done our job well, and we'll leave the rest of the battle to the First Front and Mobile Fortresses. ”

"We'll be back, and it will be a different situation then. ”

There was silence in the channel, except for the sound of wheezing and faint sobbing.

After a while, one after another voices rang out.

"yes, wait for us to change our good teeth and bite these crispy pieces one by one!"

"What new floating ships are nothing more than that, when I change the fish under the crotch, I can fight ten at a time!"

"Tell the guys of the First Front Army that it will work wonders if you play in those places!"

The interception formation, specially drawn from the First Air Force, left the battlefield, and only 38 of the 60 sardines at the time of the sortie were left at the time of the return. Tactically speaking, their results far exceeded their losses, but for the officers and men of the Red Alliance, who had been crushing and beating the enemy, not only did they fail to solve the enemy, but they also lost nearly half of them, and this was a failure.

But it was the old times that failed, not the Red Union. The chips of the new era are still in hand, waiting to face off against the main fleet held in the hands of His Majesty the God Emperor.

The return of this formation did not mean that the Red Union had lost the sky, and there were still more than 100 fighters of the First Air Force in the formation of the First Front, which were still covering the skies above the mobile fortress and fighting fiercely with the Imperial fighters.

Before the Imperial Floating Fleet reached the Mobile Fortress, the situation of the air battle was already clear, and the Imperial fighters were initially two to one, but now they have become one to two or even three. It's just that the Imperial pilots are very tenacious and have been fighting to the death, and the Red Union has not completely expelled them.

When the floating fleet appeared, the imperial fighters were unwilling to evacuate, and the original fighters in their early 200s were only forty or fifty.

The Red Union also lost more than 20 planes, mainly because the combat airspace was concentrated over the mobile fortress, which was very narrow. Pilots had to take risks to do a lot of maneuvers, and even with the help of tactical systems, they still couldn't avoid accidental injuries and accidents.

"Fish, you've worked hard. Get out of the way, it's now Ferty's battlefield. ”

Captain Hook said to the pilots that these fighters were not equipped with boosters and nose shaft guns, and could not deal with the floating ships in the sky, so they had to retreat to the side.

The Mobile Fortress lowered its shelling base in the wide wilderness, and the cubic "Javelin" fortress cannon was reloaded, and the muzzle of the gun was raised high to the sky.

Around the mobile fortress, in an area of several hundred square kilometers, there are large and small fortifications, which are the positions of the First Front. The muzzles of all kinds of magic cannons are pointed at the sky, and they naturally can't hit floating ships, but they can bombard the bombs dropped by floating ships, reducing the burden on mobile fortresses.

"So...... For the first time, we became the supporting characters in charge of being bombed and making exclamations to set the mood?"

In the underground bunker, Yuskar, the commander of the armored cluster of the First Front, collapsed in his seat, crossed his arms, and grumbled as he watched the battlefield images on the screen.

Hessler, commander of the independent armored battalion, said: "I was already a supporting role when I followed the mobile fortress before. ”

Spit out the skin of the melon seeds, Hessler nervously shouted: "Here it is! The bomb has been dropped!"

The Magic Bomb wasn't a very sophisticated and high-tech thing, it was made up by some battle mages and magicians in Shadow City of the Storm Islands. As long as the magicians of the Dawning Empire have an idea, they can quickly come up with the corresponding things. Although there is a gap in power and controllability, it is also a product of the same era as the magic bomb used by the Red Alliance.

Bombs fell from the sky, scattering pillars of dust in the plain, and the figure of the mobile fortress was instantly obscured by smoke and dust, but in fact it was unharmed.

Dropping a bomb from an altitude of 30,000 meters, even if the target is the top of a mobile fortress with an area of tens of thousands of square meters, is the same as shooting from 300 meters away in the era of queuing to shoot, and you should not expect a hit rate at all.

However, each floating ship carries hundreds of bombs, and the Mobile Fortress is now a stationary target, so it is still possible to hit several out of a hundred.

The magic cannon on the ground fired violently, the ray cannon solved the clearly visible bombs in the hollow, and the blast cannon and catapult fired bursting shells, combined with the anti-aircraft fire of the mobile fortress, weaving a barrage at low altitude. Clusters of orange flames swirled in the smoke and dust, illuminating the figures of the Mobile Fortress like steel monsters squeezing into Finn from another world.

Presumably having learned the lesson of the earlier bombing of the Cactus base with floating ships by Millhouse, and also having actual combat experience in Bled, the bombs dropped by Imperial warships posed a real threat to Mobile Fortresses.

Several bombs pierced the barrage and landed on the protective barrier of the Mobile Fortress. At this time, the "Lilac Razor" is running at full strength and combines the infiltration magic field of the protective enchantment, and uses air blasting to deal with targets that invade the enchantment, which can bounce off the cannonballs.

However, unlike the previous beast tides, the speed of the bomb was too fast, and it was a great test of concentration and judgment for the mages in charge of capturing targets in the department.

Somewhere in the tent's cabin, several magicians with sensors staring at the workbench, chasing the red dots that appeared in the image above the workbench. Each red dot is a bomb, and it takes less than a second from the time it appears to the time it lands on the fortress.

A red dot flashed, and the magicians reacted like an electric shock, activating the device in their hands, only to have several air bursts intercept in different directions, instead bouncing bombs onto the fortress.

The fortress shook slightly, causing the magicians to sweat profusely and their eyes straighten.

A calm voice suddenly sounded: "Relax, our Ferty has a thick skin, and those bunnies can't just break her place with a few bombs." You can't stop every single one, just do your best. ”

It was the political commissar Randall, who entered the cabin, and whether it was his voice or his figure, it calmed the minds of the magicians a lot.

Once relaxed, the reaction is faster. A few more red dots appeared a few moments later, and the magicians performed at their normal level in training, missing only two, all of which exploded on the top armor, and it was no big deal.

The bombs dropped by the Imperial Float were all small bombs of one or two hundred kilograms, and even if they were hit, they would not be a big deal. It is impossible for a floating ship to carry a large bomb weighing more than a tonnage, not only is the load too heavy, but the outrageously low hit rate is even more wasteful.

"What else is that guy doing with Hook?"

When Randall was in charge of the defense department, he was also muttering that the Javelin had not been fired yet.

In the command hall of the fortress, Hook sat firmly in the captain's seat, and said firmly: "It's really wishful thinking to rely on bombs to deal with Ferty! It's not too late to do it when they come down again!"

Sure enough, after confirming that the bomb attack was not very effective, the Imperial battleship began to circle and reduce its altitude. They remained at an altitude of 25,000 meters, and the hull of the ship was flanked by the fortress and bombarded with magic cannons on the side of the ship.

The main guns of the Earl-class floating ships are all Flame Burst magic cannons, although they are all square cannons like the main magic cannons on the Red Alliance's side, but even the most advanced Zold Magic Cannon Workshop can only achieve the square stacking of the seven magic arrays, not the square stacking of the nine magic arrays of the Red Alliance, so the power is much smaller.

If it is on flat ground, the range of this magic cannon is less than ten kilometers, but in the sky, it can naturally shoot as far as it wants, and the question is just the accuracy.

The copper bullet cores wrapped in the flames shot down from the sky one after another, and most of them blasted up smoke and dust on the ground that were much more violent than those bombs just now. Occasionally, a shot hit the fortress's protective barrier, and the barrier rippled in a circle, absorbing most of the magical energy of the Flame Boom, and the core of the bullet penetrated the barrier with a small amount of energy, either blasting countless fragments on the fortress's armor or inserting into the shell of the unarmored area, causing little damage.

If it's a cannonball with a magic steel core like the Red Union, it's a different story. The Magic Steel Bullet Core will penetrate the shell, carrying the molten copper fragments behind the monomer, sputtering a metal storm in the cabin, killing not only personnel, but also damaging equipment, pipelines, and magic circuits.

Sensing the frequency of the vibrations getting higher and higher, Captain Hook finally raised his hand and waved it down with more force.

High-altitude Rhemak is trying his best to suppress his subordinates' requests to fight, and they demand that the battleship be lowered to an altitude of 20,000 meters or even lower, so as to ensure the accuracy of the shelling, even if it is not willing to withstand the attack of the Red Union fighters.

Naturally, Rhemak still has to think about retaining the troops, and although the progress is slow, the battle situation is still favorable, and there is no need to take such a big risk.

"Chief, why don't you give the order to charge!?"

The captain of the Earl-class battleship "Paham" angrily denounced: "In the old days, a knight who dared to charge ten times the enemy was a qualified knight, could it be that such a quality has become something to be spurned in the new era?"

"No! Such qualities are needed even more in the new era! Not only are we not afraid of sacrifice, but we also yearn for sacrifice passionately! Her Majesty Theresia's kingdom of God awaits us!"

"Chief, as long as we rush down, that fortress won't be able to withstand the bombardment of hundreds of magic cannons!"

Ruimac is extremely entangled in his heart, it is a good thing to dare to sacrifice, but you can talk about sacrifice anytime and anywhere, you make my boss a headache.

He was about to speak, when the other party's image, along with the entire information station, was swallowed up by the orange light, and only a chaotic, extremely shocked scream could be heard.

The sky outside the porthole was first lit up with a fiery red light, as if a furnace had descended from the zenith, and then rapidly dimmed.

The ship shook violently. The first thought that flashed through Rimako's mind was that Richie and they really had a new weapon, and the second thought was that his ship had been hit.

"The ...... of the Paham"

The captain leaned against the porthole and muttered in a daze, and Ryomako looked to the side, his heart jumping to his throat.

The Paham seemed to have been stabbed through the middle of the hull by a large, red-hot iron rod, leaving a hole several meters in diameter, the metal of the hole still burning and glowing orange.

This time it didn't hurt the floating furnace and the flying furnace, but the magic circuit was finished, and the hull on both sides of the big hole was difficult to support, and it was gradually bending downward, and it slowly broke into two under the gaze of Ryomako.

"It's a fortress cannon!"

On the information station that had returned to normal, the observer shouted, "It's that forbidden spell-level magic cannon!"

The other observers were also shouting: "Don't talk nonsense! Even if it is a forbidden spell-level magic cannon, how can it hit 30,000 meters in the sky!"

The adjutant muttered beside him: "If it's true, it means that you can fight hundreds of kilometers away on the flat ground, absolutely impossible!"

The observer was very aggrieved: "I saw it with my own eyes!

This time, the observer sent back the image, even though the ground was full of smoke and dust, a little red light could still be seen gradually brightening, getting brighter and brighter, it should be the cannon that pierced the Folding Sword Fortress.

Ruimac subconsciously shouted: "Urgent avoidance!"

All the battleships dodged in different directions, and the originally assembled artillery column suddenly scattered, and a moment later, a thick orange-red light shot straight into the sky. It just brushed the side of a Viscount-class battleship, destroying its four guns.

Sure enough, it's a forbidden spell-level magic guide cannon!

Rimako's heart was broken into two, one cold, doubting whether his fleet could achieve victory, and the other fiery, feeling that the goal had become more valuable.

"Chief!"

Images popped up on the information desk, including almost all the captains of the warships, all of them with solemn expressions, but their eyes flashed with enthusiasm.

Rimaco knew that their minds were the same as their own fiery hearts.

"Rush down!"

"Even if you lose the entire detachment, as long as you kill this fortress, it's worth it!"

"You can't win without charging!"

"Can we retreat?"

"Theresia is bless us!"

The cold heart of Rimako was still resisting, but under the enthusiastic gaze of his subordinates, especially the name recited by his subordinates, the ice was quickly consumed by the flames.

How can there be victory without sacrifice?

Rimac wasn't very keen on going to the kingdom of God, so he wouldn't be able to be on the battlefield of mortals anymore, but he certainly wouldn't run away from sacrifice for that reason.

"Soldiers, officers!"

"Commoners, nobles!"

Rimako pressed the communication button and said to all the fleetmen, "No matter who we are, we are all Tresia warriors!

He said in a warm and resolute tone: "Now, it is time for us to sacrifice our lives to Your Majesty!

At the end he shouted from the bottom of his soul: "For order!

One by one, the floating ships pressed down on their bows and rushed straight down from a high altitude.

More than 2,000 officers and men on the battleship shouted at the same time: "For order! For Theresia!"