Shatar City.

The entire aviation corps of the Imperial Army was stationed here.

The Aviation Corps includes the Logistics Department, the Airship Maintenance Department, the Auxiliary Operations Department, the Security Defense Force, the reconnaissance regiment directly under it, and the Air Force Marine Corps...... and more than 10 branches add up to more than 30,000 people.

Don't look at this legion, there are only more than 30,000 people.

But if you really want to fight, you can compare with more than 100,000 troops.

Because each war airship is equipped with 20 magicians, 200 war airships are equipped with 4,000 magicians, and this level of high-level force is enough to change the tide of battle.

The Aviation Corps has always been the main force in determining the course of war.

Even if this aviation corps lost about 1/3 of its strength in the last war with the West Coast Army, its current force is enough to serve as the main force to participate in the battle and control the initiative of the entire battle situation.

However, with the stabilization of the war situation in the West Bank.

There were no other enemies on the west bank of the dynasty, and this legion had let its guard down.

The reconnaissance group directly under the reconnaissance has collectively entered a state of vacation, and even the supreme commander of this legion has rushed to the headquarters a hundred miles away to brag and drink with the generals, what kind of vigilance can you expect this legion to maintain?

"I said Valens, don't be there and be a fool. ”

A defender of the garrison shouted at a soldier of about 20 years old in the distance: "How many times have I told you that the West Bank is at peace, and you still hold that magic telescope every day to show which commander?" ”

"Leave me alone. ”

Valence disdained the company of the drunken soldiers, still holding the magic telescope.

The Magic Telescope was erected on the castle tower.

This precious reconnaissance equipment is different from ordinary telescopes, it looks like an astronomical telescope, due to the high cost of an army will only be equipped with 5-10, compared with ordinary military telescopes, the most direct feature is that it has the function of night vision.

In times of war.

This kind of reconnaissance equipment is manned by the defense forces to be on duty 24 hours a day, mainly to detect threats from the air, to achieve early warning, to allow soldiers to enter the air-raid shelter or to organize a counterattack in time.

But in the city of Shatar.

These reconnaissance equipment have been left unused, and the soldiers who were originally assigned to be on duty are not willing to sit stupidly for hours, looking at the unchanging sky through the lenses, which is silly to imagine.

I have to admit that man is a creature of the herd.

When others are serious, you don't need to be supervised by others to be serious, but when others are derelict in their duties, even if there is someone to supervise, you will try your best to be lazy.

Not to mention at this stage.

Even the departments responsible for supervision are no longer functioning, and there is even less point in being faithful.

As a result, 9 of the 10 Magic Telescopes of the Air Corps have been idle.

Valens, the only soldier who was loyal to his duties, was mercilessly sneered at by his teammates, branded as a misfit, and despised by his teammates.

But this did not shake Valens' will.

Because he is a soldier who is loyal to his duties and strict with himself, he will definitely not do anything derelict like everyone else until the commander-in-chief has officially declared the end of the war.

He understands very well.

The battlefield is never a place for jokes, and if you don't have bad luck, you have to be cautious if you want to survive.

Just think of your parents at home.

Valence didn't care about the cynicism, because he had sworn in front of his parents to survive the war, so he still held on even though he had been sitting motionless in front of the magic telescope for four or five hours.

The emperor lives up to his wishes.

At 24:00 p.m., when the soldiers in charge of defending the city were already asleep leaning against the wall due to drunkenness, Valence was keenly aware that there seemed to be something more in the sky.

Eagle?

Vulture?

No, it's neither, it's not as big as an eagle and a vulture, and if you really want to describe it, it's probably as huge as the dragon described in ancient biographies or wild histories.

There's nothing wrong with that, that's-

War airships!

About 50 war airships were slowly moving in the moonlight, and through the lenses of the magic telescope, Valence could see clearly that these 50 war airships did not have the symbol of the Empire on their bodies.

They are the air force of the Holy Dynasty.

Valence watched it for more than ten seconds before finally determining that this was the dynasty's airship, and judging from the fact that the other party was driving directly towards them without saying hello, it was probably not a good person.

"Could it be that this is their goal? ”

Valence realized the gravity of the problem, and if the 50 war airships were allowed to magically bombard their makeshift airport without resistance, their air force would most likely be annihilated on the ground before it could take off.

Knock Knock Knock –

Realizing that something was wrong, Valence immediately sounded the alarm.

With the enemy's current distance, they have time to let the war airship take to the air and engage the enemy in an aerial battle.

But Valence forgets that war is a collective project, that it is useless for him to be vigilant alone, and that when the whole army enters this semi-paralyzed state, even if he sounds the alarm, the commander cannot organize the manpower in the first place.

"Alerts? Why are there alerts?"

"The enemy attacked, and the Wehrmacht detected the enemy's war airship. ”

"Where's our chief?"

"The brigade commander is still at the brothel on West Street, and I'm going to ask him to come back. ”

“......”

Due to the lack of basic combat readiness, the barracks were in disarray, and the troops assembled at the first time could not find their superior officers, and the troops with superior officers found that their subordinates were already drunk.

Unprepared.

Only four or five war airships were crumbling into the air without overhaul, and one of them crashed in mid-air because the overhaul had not yet been completed. Before Vega's army arrived, they were in disarray.

Seeing this, Valence was desperate.

It was impossible to expect such an army to win, and he realized that no matter how good he was, he couldn't lead the whole army, and his individual strength was limited after all.

Luckily for you.

He can't be a hero to save the world, but he foresees danger before anyone else, so he rushes to the bomb shelter as soon as he sounds the alarm to avoid the impending magical bombardment.

His teammates who mocked him weren't so lucky.

Lacking basic vigilance, and being so drunk, they died in their sleep.

Boom Boom Boom –

The ground was shaking, and dust was squeezing through the ceiling of the bomb shelter.

The sound of the explosion echoed throughout the night.

He spent the whole night in the bomb shelter covering his ears.

When the dawn of the next day returned, Valens left the bomb shelter to see that all the war airships had been burned, and the ruins near the airport were in ruins, and even the air was filled with the smell of fragrant meat and the undissipated smell of war gunpowder, which made him fall to his knees and retch.

In the midst of a cry of wailing and despair.

Valence looked up at the overcast sky, his face was sad or joyless, but there was utter despair and numbness in his voice: "We, are we going back?"