Under the powerful firepower, the troops in charge of early warning in Mustang City were quickly wiped out, but before Rocky could rejoice, the opponent's large army appeared!

Although the previous battle ended quickly, it took time after all, and it was during this time that the large army of Mustang City was dispatched.

For the battle-hardened Mustang City, this kind of unexpected situation is not the first time to encounter it, they and Fire Elf City have been fighting all year round, and often encounter similar sneak attacks, so the response is extremely fast, when Carlo arrived at the military port in the fastest time, the large army of Wild Horse City was also dispatched.

"Don't be in too much of a hurry, adjust the formation, and spread out all the battleships. ”

Standing on the deck of the flagship, a veteran over fifty years old was giving orders in an orderly manner, looking unhurried and not at all thinking of a war.

The commander of this fleet sent by Mustang City is not Carlo, as the city lord of medium-sized Sky City, Carlo will not be easily dispatched, this has nothing to do with guts, but a matter of identity, so there is someone else who commands the fleet in front of him.

The man's name was Maddine, and he was a tall man, more than a head taller than the sailors on deck, and though he was over fifty years old, he was in good spirits and had a military presence.

As a medium-sized sky city, Bronco City has a total of four fleets, Maddin is one of the commanders of these four fleets, born in Bronco City, he has been in the army for more than 30 years, and joined the air force of Bronco City in his early twenties, starting from the lowest level of crew, all the way to the position of commander, responsible for commanding the third fleet of Bronco City, that is, the fleet that is slowly flying towards Lodge at this time.

Maddine, who has been in the army for more than 30 years, can be said to have experienced a hundred battles, and has experienced countless large and small air battles, so even if Rocky came suddenly, he fought suddenly, and even eliminated the vanguard of Mustang City in the blink of an eye, but Maddin was very calm and did not be impatient at all.

As I said earlier, Bronco City has a lot of experience in warfare, and although it was a little caught off guard for this battle, it reacted quite quickly, so when Maddin led his Third Fleet into the air, the vanguard had not yet been wiped out by Rocky.

In other words, if Maddine picks up at full speed after departure, Lodge may not have the slightest time to adjust and will be forced to engage him.

However, as the commander of this battle, Maddin did not rush to join the battle after leading the fleet to fly away from the defense network of Mustang City, but instead let the fleet stop motionless outside Mustang City, using this time to carefully observe the enemy, that is, to observe Rocky and his fleet.

This is exactly where Meadine comes in!

Experienced in a hundred battles, he knew very well that he could not rescue the vanguard, and the battlefield between the two sides was not at the gate of Mustang City, although it did not seem far, but when he led the fleet to the battlefield, his own side had already been wiped out.

The second is that because of the suddenness of the incident, so that before taking off, Maddin didn't even know who the enemy was, although he heard that it was Thunder Eagle City that was attacking, but he didn't know how many troops the enemy had, and what kind of configuration it was, so he would not rush forward in this case.

Therefore, instead of saving his own troops, Maddine took advantage of the opportunity of the battle of the vanguard to observe Lodge carefully, and only when the battle was completely over did he order the fleet to slowly approach Lodge.

In the process of slowly approaching Lodge, Maddin ordered the fleet to disperse, so that the whole fleet gradually formed a horizontal line in the air, and each battleship was very far apart, and when the fleet approached Lodge little by little in this formation, Maddin gave the order to open fire!

"Attack with the main artillery. ”

Standing on the deck, Maddin glanced at the binoculars with a calm expression and conveyed the order.

His orders were soon reached to the ships, and the main guns of the ships were all spewing fire!

The Third Fleet of Mustang City is equipped with a total of twelve warships, including two cruisers, six destroyers, and four frigates, all of which are fourth-generation warships, each battleship has several main guns, and there are as many as eight main guns on the two cruisers!

Therefore, when the twelve search warships aimed their main guns at Rocky's fleet and opened fire in unison, although the artillery fire was not dense, it was huge, and it felt as if a series of not dense, but unusually loud explosions appeared in the sky.

"Open the nets! Spread out! Spread them all at once!"

In the face of this barrage of attacks from the main guns, Lodge immediately ordered the fleet to open its defenses and disperse immediately.

"Humph......"

And seeing that Lodge's fleet chose to disperse under his own shelling, Maddine on the deck smiled, as if everything was under his control......

"Order the fleet to keep shooting, and if the other party doesn't come, we don't have to go over. ”

Smiling slightly, Maddin said to the adjutant beside him, and then the adjutant who received the order immediately ran away and conveyed his order.

There is no doubt that in terms of the experience of air combat, especially in this experience of commanding a large fleet of operations, Lodge is still too far behind Meadine!

Lodge is not inexperienced, the battle with Baron Wallin and the battle with the Mustang Air Pirates are all commanded by Lodge himself, and these battles have also accumulated a lot of experience, so he will immediately adjust his formation after the first battle to meet the bigger battle, this kind of action is based on the judgment of experience.

But the experience he has may be rich compared to those on the side, but it is too far behind the experienced Meadine, and the result of this gap is that Lodge's understanding of air combat is still too superficial, his grasp of the situation is not mature, and his judgment on the spot is not correct enough.

For example, now.

After Meadine led the fleet from a distance, he actually gave Rocky enough time to prepare, and Rocky did take this opportunity to adjust the formation, so it stands to reason that he is the one who waits for work in this battle, because he is ready and waiting for the enemy to come.

However, in the face of the fierce Lodge, Maddin chose to respond with long-range shelling.

I have to say that Meadin's command ability was reflected in this decision alone!

Although the fleet sent by Mustang City is more numerous, it only has two more destroyers, and the core of the fleet is only two cruisers; on the other hand, although the number of Rocky's fleet is only ten, the core is composed of one battleship and one cruiser, so that the contrast between the hard power of the two fleets is very clear.

The firepower of the battleship is undoubtedly stronger than that of the cruiser, so a battleship and a cruiser are definitely stronger than two cruisers, and Lodge's fleet is the most advanced fifth generation, while Meadine's fleet is a little backward in the fourth generation, although there are two more ships, but in comprehensive comparison, Lodge's fleet is stronger.

This kind of gap, Maddin calculated after seeing Rocky's configuration clearly, so he will let the fleet attack with the main gun from afar, he knows very well that his fleet is definitely inferior to the other party in terms of overall firepower, after all, Rocky has a battleship, if there is a head-on firefight, especially when the other party has already set up a posture and is ready to fight, he will definitely not be able to get any advantage.

However, due to the large number of his fleet, there are more main guns, so he ordered the fleet to use the range advantage of the main guns to carry out artillery bombardment at a long distance, so that not only does not need to fight with the enemy, making his own side safer, but also causing great damage.

The main guns of large warships are already extremely powerful, and the battleships commanded by Meadin are equipped with aiming systems, so the hit rate is guaranteed to a certain extent, and more importantly, because Rocky has already adjusted the formation, all the battleships are relatively concentrated, and it is easier to be hit.

In this way, Lodge, who was waiting for the battle, had to be forced to disperse the fleet, because he did not dare to let the fleet resist the bombardment from the opposite side, and it was good to say that the battleships and cruisers were shot, but the destroyers and frigates could not withstand the bombardment of the main guns, especially the frigates, if they were hit by the opponent's air cruisers with their main guns, the two guns would sink.

However, from the moment he ordered the fleet to disperse, he prepared in advance, waited for the enemy to enter the fire network, and the advantage was gone!

In fact, if Rocky could have judged more accurately and decisively, then he should not have let the fleet scatter, but should have rushed forward against the attack.

Because Meadine's offensive looks intimidating, don't forget that although the main guns are strong, the rate of fire is very slow, and it is impossible to form an effective and continuous fire network, which means that if Lodge can withstand the first round of attacks, then it is possible to approach the enemy before the second round of attacks begins, and then it will be the enemy who will be shrouded in the fire network.

It's a shame there's never such a thing as 'if' on the battlefield, so in this first round of meetings, Maddin was clearly the better one.

Of course, Lodge would not sit still, and at the same time as ordering the fleet to disperse, he ordered all the ships to immediately return fire with their main guns.

As a result, there was a scene on the battlefield in which the two fleets attacked each other with their main guns, and the two fleets were constantly firing at each other with their main guns at a long distance, and the deafening sound of artillery fire continued one after another, and the scene was very spectacular.

"Thunder Eagle City's side is going to lose......"

"The gap between the commanders of the two sides is too obvious. ”

"Who's in command on this side of Bronco City? ”

When Rocky and Maddine staged a battle in the air, there were more than a dozen Sky Cities around the battlefield, and as the battle continued, these people reacted differently.

Outside the airspace of the Nightless God City, there will always be dozens or hundreds of Sky Cities docking, so when Rocky suddenly launched an attack on Mustang City, many of the surrounding Sky Cities were alarmed, so that many Sky City fleets rushed into the air, and only after confirming that Rocky was not here to attack him, did these Sky City City lords relax.

At the same time, these city lords also had an extremely strong interest in this big war, and it was too rare to dare to fight in such a big fight, so the noble city lords couldn't help but be curious, and they turned into melon-eating crowds one by one, and began to look lively.

And among these people who watched the battle, there were many masters who knew the war, and these people could judge the superiority at a glance and see the gap between the commanders of the two sides.

Not only that, but these people also presciently discovered the hidden dangers that Rocky was facing, and even in their opinion, Rocky was already on the verge of failure with half a foot, and if he didn't respond, he would be defeated!

And indeed it is!

Luckily, Rocky responded shortly after that, because after a few rounds of shelling, he finally found out what was wrong!

After several rounds of shelling, Lodge finally realized that something was wrong.

First of all, in the process of firing each other's main guns, he found that his side had no advantage at all, the number of warships on his side was originally two less, and more importantly, the main gun of the Dominator Type 2 battleship was super powerful, so there was only one, and it took a long time to store energy when fired, so that the strongest battleship could not do anything in the battle, so that the main guns on his side were less, and he could not compare with the other party in terms of firepower.

Secondly, the opponent's formation is too scattered, which makes it difficult to hit.

The number of main guns on Rocky's side was already small, and the enemy was too scattered, so there was more room to evade, so he didn't get a single hit for half a day, but the two frigates on his side had been hit one after another, and they had to hide behind the battleship.

In this way, it is obvious who has the advantage and who has the disadvantage.

And it was only at this time that Rocky realized the seriousness of the problem, he finally understood why the other party had put the fleet in a scattered long snake formation, and only then did he realize that he had fallen into the trap of the enemy!

So after reacting, he immediately gave a new order!

"Order the fleet to adjust its formation, with the War Rider and the Hunter as the vanguard, and the escort fleet in the rear, quickly approaching the enemy!"

Finding that it would be too much to lose in this way, Lodge immediately ordered the formation of the fleet to be adjusted, with the battleships and cruisers with the highest defensive strength as the lead, and immediately approached the enemy while withstanding the enemy's attack.

Although it was a bit of an afterthought, Rocky finally reacted and made the most correct response decisively.

However, in the face of his response, especially in the face of the continuous approach of the fleet led by battleships, Maddin was not in a hurry, because he had long expected Rocky to react like this, and this reaction was actually exactly what Maddin wanted to see!

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