Chapter 125: Air Combat Continued
The Wingman air commander was not unprepared for the encirclement of the enemy's flanking attack, and fifty archers of the right team were prepared to cope with the situation. Seeing the elves coming from the back, the archers did not hesitate to meet them and protect the back of the musketeers. The musketeers continued to pursue, chasing and fervent.
The battle situation has been fought so far, the winged musketeers have been chasing the elves in the air for a full quarter of an hour, flying over a distance of hundreds of kilometers, and a light cavalry brigade and the core heavy cavalry brigade of the first wing of the elven knights in front of them have almost all been annihilated, more than a hundred elven air knights have fallen to the ground and died, and only a few dozen air knights have flown back like lost dogs.
Seeing that he was about to approach the sky above the forest defense line, he didn't know if the elves would have any ambush in the defense line, and thinking that the battle order of the Air Force on the base mountain strictly forbade fighting with the enemy in a place with ground support, the wingman commander turned around and led his subordinates to turn around to deal with the enemy who was bypassing him.
At this time, the fifty archers of the winged people's right team had been fighting with the elven sky knights for a long time.
This battle is a traditional air battle.
Although the winged archers are equipped with modern hunting bows with much more power and range than the air knights, in the air, the use of these hunting bows is very limited, and the qualitative gap with the musket is different, the winged archers do not have much advantage in weapons, purely relying on their own flexibility to fight against the majority of enemies.
Air engagement, unlike on the ground, the high speed of the two sides crossing each other, so that any small impact is enough to kill, so the air force air combat process can not have the kind of imaginary air hand-to-hand combat, everyone uses long-range weapons, shooting from a distance, one blow can kill the enemy. This is the bloodiest way of fighting on the continent, as long as it takes off into the air, any negligence can kill you, so the Sky Knights are the bravest warriors and the most elite soldiers respected on the continent.
The winged crossbow archers and the elven sky knights roared through the air, crossing, and the bows and arrows fired by both sides filled the sky, and this was the time when the courage and willpower of the air force soldiers were most tested, and they had to use their best efforts to find a safe passage from the dense attack to shuttle out.
In this kind of hand-to-hand fighting, the casualty rate is frightening, and after a while, countless wingmen and air knights were accidentally hit by arrows and fell, and the bows and arrows fired by both sides may not necessarily hit the target, but even if they don't hit the target, it is easy to be indistinguishable from the enemy in such a dense combat airspace.
The Elven Sky Knights relied on the total strength of nearly five to one to press the Wingmen into an area of one cubic kilometer and launched a fierce attack, and the Wingmen Archers were almost everywhere with enemies in front and behind. Even the winged people's natural air agility is difficult to withstand the onslaught of the enemy from all directions in such a dense airspace. In less than a moment, there were more than a dozen wingmen killed or wounded.
"Quick! All the people on the left team, regroup! Rand heard the commander shouting an order,
"But Commander, look at this situation, how dare we rush in such a chaotic battle." The winged musketeer asked.
"No, we don't rush in, take advantage of the chaotic battle, we will first concentrate our firepower on the periphery and annihilate one piece." The commander stated his purpose.
Hearing that there was no need to break into the huge three-dimensional airspace mixed with nearly three hundred air forces in front, the winged musketeers finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the matter of rushing forward without hesitation was indeed not the way of thinking of ordinary people. When you can, no one chooses to do so.
The regrouped winged musketeers, lined up in formation, along the edge of the combat airspace, relying on their own range, dived in formation again and again, circled again and again, and constantly chased and strangled the unlucky ghosts who escaped from it. In a short time, the harvest was very rich, but it also made the enemy commanders even angrier. But the archers struggled so that the enemy's main force could not spare their hands to surround the most hated group of musketeers.
Gradually, this fierce strangulation battle became more and more intense, both sides silently suffered this huge horror casualties, countless elves and winged people spilled blood in the sky, the winged musketeers shot and killed almost half of the elven air knights, and the archers were finally lost under the siege of the enemy air knights regardless of casualties.
In the end, when the winged musketeers had to face the remaining nearly two hundred remaining elven air knights of the elven first wing, they suddenly found that from behind them, another even larger air knight force rose from the elven forest, and unknowingly blocked the escape route around them, the second wing of the elven knights!
"This orc air force! Let's destroy them! "The Commander of the Knights, riding his beloved riding beast, also took to the skies to fight,
"Yes, we must destroy them," said the Deputy Commander, Lord Gianna, riding her riding beast next to the Captain,
"They've been fighting for a long time, they've run out of stamina, and even their terrifying weapons will probably need to replace the Powered Crystal. They've run out of ammunition, and this time, they won't be able to escape our hands......"
In this air battle, all the elves did not expect such heavy losses, the battle formation was fought to such an extent, even if the result was won, the main force of the knights was already greatly damaged, I am afraid that it would be difficult to resist the winged troops supported by the northern orcs, in this way, without the aerial reconnaissance ability, the elves lost the initiative in the war, and the strategy of the entire Northern Expedition was greatly affected, can the two captains not be angry? Gianna almost gritted her teeth when she said these words.
But the situation is also as they said, surrounded by countless elven sky knights, Rand and his companions are indeed in a desperate situation, physical exhaustion is one thing, and it is also a fact that the bullets are about to run out, looking at the elven sky knights who are surrounded from all directions, all the winged people know that their result is more than lucky.
Rand, not knowing what he felt in his heart, at this moment, he suddenly remembered his little friend Jiani in the tribe when he was a child.
The final moment was approaching, and the winged people gathered together to wait for the last moment, and suddenly, the orcs on the ground roared like crazy, and the sound shook like a mountain.
"Reinforcements, enemy reinforcements!"
The Elven Sky Knights couldn't stop shouting in surprise, and in the distance, about a few kilometers away in the air, another group of winged people flew over like a lightning speed, they rose from a low altitude, and quickly rose up, and after reaching a height even higher than the Elven Sky Knights, they suddenly swooped down from the sky together.
Boom Boom!
The thunderous sound of that damn horror weapon echoed through the sky again!