Chapter 33: The Battle of the Base Camp

It is a miracle that the engineers and workers of the base camp completed the design and installation of the drone armament in two hours, and even conducted a test. In normal times, even if it is based on overtime mode, it will take at least a week to complete. Because everyone knows it's a fight for their lives, everyone gives it their all.

With only four operators on board, only four of the six drones could be lifted into the air, so the flight commander developed a two-wave attack plan.

The first wave took off four drones, three of which were equipped with an anti-man-eating bird system in the maintenance compartment of each drone and a projection system in the cargo compartment, carrying a 107 mm ***.

Another drone is used as a communications repeater and has a backup fuel tank.

After the first wave of three UAVs carried out the attack, when the group withdrew to a safe area, the three UAVs responsible for the attack started autopilot and flew back to the base according to the pre-set procedures, while the two backup attack aircraft took off and converged with the communication relay to carry out the next attack mission.

At this point, the first wave of three aircraft returned to base for patching and reloading.

Less than half an hour after the plane took off, it collided head-on with a Norman airship, and the drone swarm immediately unfolded, just at this time a thick cloud blocked the Norman airship's field of vision, allowing the drone swarm to climb covertly and seize the attack position.

Through the dismantling of the transport airship that attacked Fort Town, the location of the engine compartment of the airship was already known, but for the sake of safety, the target of the attack this time was the location of the airship's main engine propeller.

The clouds dispersed, the drone began to dive and attack, because it was a drone, so the problem of the load could be ignored, the first drone dived to the launch distance when it was discovered by the piranha carried by the airship, and the piranha birds took off to intercept, but it was too late, the drone launched ***, but after this *** popped out of the cabin, the engine ignition failed, and it was planted head-on.

The first drone had to withdraw from the battle, but in order to cover the attack of the other drones, the first drone made a pull-up action again, as if it was about to attack again, attracting the attention of the escorting man-eating birds.

The second drone immediately after it began to dive, and it successfully dropped ***, which had a good trajectory and accurately hit the side above the main engine of the airship.

With the explosion of ***, the Norman airship trembled, and smoke and flames began to rise from the damage, but the airship still flew forward slowly, and did not seem to be fatally injured.

The third drone began to dive, and the operator, who was far away at the base camp, felt that he had taken on the responsibility of "replenishing the gun", he was a little nervous, and his palms clenching the joystick were already soaked with sweat.

And why aren't Ah Jun and the others who are standing on the command podium watching the battle nervous?

The drone opened the magazine, began to drop the bomb, and *** successfully ejected! Engine ignition successful! The flight trajectory is normal!

But at the moment when it was about to hit, the Norman airship suddenly sank down, *** failed to hit accurately, he rubbed the hard metal skin of the airship, cremated, and missed the target by clinging to the airship.

"Prepare for a second wave of attacks!" The commander of the aviation gave the order almost in a rage.

Three attack drones began to return home, and the communication relay struggled to get rid of the man-eating birds and flew to the assembly site of the second wave of attacks.

Ah Jun is very frustrated, he is already short of troops, and if he needs to carry out a second attack on the same airship, then it means reducing the attack on the enemy's living forces, which is extremely uneconomical.

But at this moment, cheers suddenly erupted in the war room, and it turned out that Norman's airship was falling......

In the video signal sent back, the Norman airship had several strong vibrations, the smoke in the tail was thicker and darker, mixed with red flames, although its flight trajectory did not change, but the glide angle began to increase, and if it continued like this, it was a foregone conclusion that it would make a forced landing or even crash.

"It must have been the residual fuel of the rocket that caused the internal fire!" An aircrew non-commissioned officer said excitedly.

Ah Jun immediately ordered: "Calculate and locate the forced landing location of the Norman airship, check to see whose outpost it is, and be sure to give back to the Normans in time for the battle damage." ”

The air crew officers from the Ark Alliance immediately began to calculate, position, and report to Jun: "It's the C9 area, and the garrison post is...... Lieutenant Meiya. ”

Ah Jun was stunned: "What's the matter with her?" Isn't the rotation over? ”

The rabbit officer in charge of deploying the sentry saw the clue, and immediately stepped forward and whispered to Ah Jun: "Lieutenant Meiya had already finished his shift, but on the way back, he found that the sentry in the C9 area had sudden appendicitis, so he did the substitute shift, and the replacement personnel I have arranged are currently on the way to C9." ”

Ah Jun nodded, but did not speak, now that the enemy is present, as the defense commander of the base camp, he must make a choice.

"Prepare a mobile strike force." Ah Jun said, "When you go to the C9 area, you must be completely annihilated when the combat robot has not fully formed its combat effectiveness, remember, don't hit it hard." ”

At this time, the second strike force had already taken off and was converging with the relay planes, but news came from the outposts in various places that four Norman airships were flying from different directions towards the base camp.

Everyone was frightened - it took so much effort to defeat one, and it was not possible to confirm whether it still had land combat power, and there were four more ships, how could this battle be fought.

Ah Jun called up to the air crew commander and asked in a low voice: "There are still seven ships known, I saw the situation just now, the performance of our weapons is unstable, three to one is not sure, two to one is even more uncertain, but it must be fought, what can you do." ”

The air crew commander thought for a moment and said: "There is a way, but after using it, we will not have a decent air strike force." ”

Ah Jun said: "Let's talk about it after this level." ”

The air crew commander said: "*** has been stored for too long, and the performance has been unstable, but in any case, it is a piece of iron, and there is also high-explosive ** and fuel in it, so if you want to ensure the strike power, you can only ......"

Ah Jun immediately understood what he meant, and guessed: "Collision tactics? ”

The Air Crew Commander nodded and said, "If we're lucky, we'll be able to take out six airships." ”

Jun looked at his watch, then nodded and said, "Let's do it!" ”

The returning attack drone appeared in the sky above the base camp, and the ground personnel saw that they were followed by a flock of angry man-eating birds, but they did not dare to chase too close because they were afraid of the anti-man-eating bird system carried by the drone.

The base camp immediately sounded the grim anti-aircraft siren, the anti-aircraft gunners moved into battle positions, and the mobile turret troops sent by the town of Fort also pointed their long barrels into the air.

The mobile turret unit sent by Fort Town this time was to take into account the strong armament of air defense and ground troops, and a total of four twin 23 mm mobile turrets were equipped with sufficient ammunition. Anyone else who could get their hands on a machine gun or an automatic weapon also formed an anti-aircraft fire team to defend against man-eating birds.

But for the mobile turret, the target of the piranha bird is too small and fast, so their 23 mm firepower did not pose a fatal threat to the piranha, but the anti-aircraft fire group shot down two piranhas at close range, but the remaining piranhas implemented ramming tactics against the base camp, and a mobile turret was also hit by a piranha, fortunately, the explosion caused by the piranha battery compartment was not large, and the base camp was prepared for air defense, only a few people were injured, the damage to the building was very small, and the mobile turret did not lose combat power.

The battle damage report was immediately sent back to the command headquarters, and everyone agreed that in addition to the anti-man-eating bird system, the most effective weapon against the man-eating bird was the three-barreled rotating high-velocity machine gun equipped by the combat robot.

This information was quickly sent back to Fort Town, and the military industrial complex of Fort Town immediately mobilized and began to renovate and modify the machine guns captured last time, and at the same time imitate them. Although this campaign is basically impossible to catch up, as long as the war with the Normans does not stop, this weapon must be mass-produced.

The landed drones were tested and proved that only two of them could continue to fight in the air, so the launchers in the cargo compartment of the two drones were dismantled and then stuffed into two ***.

While this wave of drones was being overhauled, the second wave of drones began to attack again, this time receiving instructions on ramming tactics.

In order to cover their mothership, the man-eating birds also adopted the tactic of ramming and self-detonating despite the damage of the anti-man-eating bird system. The drone operator used a virtual tactic, using a drone as a bait to attract the attack of the man-eating birds, and threw *** at the airship before it was shot down, but it missed.

The second drone successfully collided under the cover of the first drone, directly blowing up the main engine of the airship, and after barely gliding for a short distance, the airship crashed headfirst into the forest, causing a fire, but it did not spread.

At this time, the communication repeater was running out of fuel and had to return home.

The air crew commander Xiang Jun reported: "The two-plane cover ramming tactics have proven to be effective, but the previously predicted record of possible destruction of the six Norman airships is unlikely to be realized, at least halved, maybe less." ”

Sure enough, although the next wave of two-plane sorties was also successful, the impact position was inaccurate, and the airship still dragged the smoke from the tail and flew slowly to the base camp - its original purpose was to transport combat robots, as long as the combat robots were delivered to their destination safely, the damage itself did not affect the success of the tactics.

Jun had to send out the last two drones, the first one that was damaged and barely repaired, and the communication repeater.

This time, although they were also frantically intercepted by the man-eating birds, they succeeded, and the airship disintegrated in the air, and the battle robots fell from the sky like rain along with the fragments of the airship.

There are eight known Norman airships, three of which were shot down after losing all the large drones, and the base camp is now facing an attack by five combat robots carried by airships, one more than yesterday was predicted.