A human soldier standing on the east bank of the Stasi River, the mother of the Principality of Stasi, rubbed his sour eyes tiredly, and then continued to look boredly at the distant sky, an anti-air lookout post of the Stasi Air Defense Force, providing early air defense warning for the long Volga defense line.

True, the Duchy of Stacy has air defense forces, albeit on a small scale, but the war proved that air defense measures are really necessary.

In the entire Western Continent, there were only four empires with air forces, but with the war between the military blocs led by the two empires, Hawar and Tadoya, some armaments that originally belonged only to these two empires began to flow into their allies.

For example, Stasi's Knights of the Dragons and Falkenridge's steam chariots were all weapons from the early stages of the war.

However, as the war intensified, more powerful armaments appeared on the battlefields of Falkenridge and Stacy.

The Stasi Air Defense Force is defending against the same flying machine called the "Flame Air Cavalry", which Falkenridge officially equipped with about half a year ago.

This machine may seem bulky, but it is capable of flying with a small amount of mana and dropping high-explosive projectiles at the target. The worst thing is that this machine can also fly very high, and it will be difficult for even legendary powerhouses to hit them.

If you want to deal with this kind of guy, you can only rely on the anti-aircraft guns that are specially used to bombard high-altitude targets with the assistance of the Tadoya Empire, and the gadgets called "radar" that can give early warning.

However, the Tadoan-aided radar was a sophisticated and expensive thing, and while Stasie was in a hurry to copy it, there was really no way to spread it throughout the Stasifa Ridge Line. In most areas, the Stasi air defense warning still relies on manpower to provide a relatively vague early warning.

In some places, loudspeakers are used to collect the sound from the engines of these aircraft, and to determine whether the enemy aircraft is coming. In some places, air defense guard posts are arranged to provide such information by means of lookouts. These artificial sentry posts are located throughout the Stassi Falkenridge front, providing information on a portion of Falkenridge's aircraft sorties to passive Stasi troops.

Unfortunately, with the rapid rout of the Stasi Army's ground forces, this similar early warning system collapsed, and too many temporary lines of defense did not have such anti-aircraft posts, and the Stasi Army became increasingly indifferent to the movements of the Falkenridge aircraft.

After all, sometimes if a person can't even eat enough, he doesn't have the heart to care about whether there are new sheets at home.

The same is true for the Stasi army now: they can't even stop Falkenridge's ground forces, so they don't have the heart and energy to care where Falkenridge's flaming air cavalry is flying.

However, the role that Falkenridge's Flaming Air Cavalry can actually play is very limited, because even if Falkenridge's aircraft can take off from the easternmost city of the country and fly through countless mountains and rivers along the way to the hinterland of Stasi, it is estimated that it has been almost surrounded by Stassy's anti-aircraft artillery units.

They had no cover from the sea, so they could not afford to suffer more casualties and higher bombardment costs.

Not to mention that it is not an easy task to train a pilot who can fly the Flame Air Cavalry.

However, Falkenridge has the strong backing of Iroh, or the Faith Exchange Contract.

After Ieloh once again consumed Faith Points at any cost, Falkenridge had a large number of aviation-specific magic crystals as a depletion reserve, and as the battle line continued to advance eastward, the outpost of the Air Force could already be built in the Taukaba area, and they could attack the important rear industrial base of Stasi without having to fly over long land routes.

So the Stacy lookout, who had finished rubbing his eyes, looked at the horizon again, and saw some indistinct black dots appear above the clouds on the horizon. He frowned, then continued to stare at the distant place. His lookout post was not issued with a monocular, so he had to use his own eyes to observe suspicious targets in the distance.

It didn't take long for him to see the black shadows becoming clearer and clearer, turning into black objects little by little. Stasi's lookout soldier could now confirm that it was the Falkenridge flying machine, but he was still staring at it, trying to identify the exact number of Falkenridge flying machines.

One after another of the Flame Cavalry flew rapidly at an altitude of 10,000 meters, they had been taking off in formation since early in the morning, and now they had finally crossed the Stasi River and were flying towards their distant target.

The sound of the engine roared, humming through the space above the clouds, and Falkenridge's powerful aircraft trembled slightly with the air currents, proudly patrolling its territory like eagles.

"Oh my God, what's going to happen this time?"

The soldier at Stasy's lookout post could finally see the number of Falkenridge flying machines in the distant sky, and he couldn't count the exact number of them, but he knew that there were definitely many, many of them. So he hurriedly began to shake the manual anti-aircraft sirens in his observation post, reminding him of the Stasi positions around him to pay attention to concealment and evacuation.

"Woo-woo-"

Once again, the grim sirens echoed over Stasi's position, and many soldiers who were still washing their faces stepped out of their hidden barracks and looked up at the black dots in the sky that were as small as flying insects. It was a flying machine of the Falkenridge people, and it looked like a flying insect surrounded by lights in the summer, so dense that it made your hair stand on end.

"It's not to bomb us, if it's to deal with us, there should be countless flying machines howling and diving down to drop bombs at this time. An officer comforted the somewhat nervous soldiers around him, and said in a very calm tone: "In my opinion, it should be to bomb the rear city."

As he spoke, he was not eager to put on his shirt, and he looked like the unfazed manner of Grand Duke Jon's youth.

What the officer said was obviously very reasonable, so everyone no longer looked nervous, but with a sense of schadenfreude, they looked up at the enemy's flaming air cavalry flying in the sky.

"What's going to happen again?" the officer got dressed and muttered back to his officer's bunker: "Since the Flame Air Cavalry appeared on the battlefield half a year ago, it seems that the Falkenridge people have not used the Flame Air Cavalry on such a large scale for a long time, and it seems that this time, those cities in our rear still have factories, and they are going to be in trouble." ”

This time, Falkenridge's army took off a full 300 flaming air cavalry, using almost all the flying machines purchased from the Haval Empire, they carried a large number of bombs and incendiary bombs, and went straight to the important transportation hub and industrial base of Stasi's rear - Norfolstad.

There was a factory where Stasi produced steam chariots (steam chariots were not a high-tech thing, so the Tadoya Empire later supplied them with this armament as well), and it was also an important factory for the production of anti-aircraft guns.

Of course, it is also an important metal smelting and processing plant in Stasi, although it does not directly produce other military products, but it provides a variety of necessary raw materials for a large number of military enterprises in Stasi. If Falkenridge's army destroyed this production link, it would inevitably make the Stasi industrial system, which had already begun to reduce production, even worse.

After reconnaissance and analysis, the top brass of the Falkenridge Air Force found that the direct bombing of the industrial center of Cerrobart was too long, and it was easy for Stasi, who was already prepared, to pose a threat to the Falkenridge Air Force units.

Not only Blue Descartes, but even Weiss felt that it was too risky to bomb Cyrobat now, so he directly selected a more important bombing target, but Stacy did not have a strong fortified area.

These aircraft took off from more than a dozen airfields near the capital of Taukaba, bypassed the heavily fortified central theater of operations of the Stasi army, cut behind Dean City from the south, and flew straight to Norfolk Tower.

The scale of this bombardment was completely larger than the scale of the first battle of the Flame Air Cavalry half a year ago, when the Falkenridge Air Force did not have the same deep pockets as it is now, because Iroh did not have enough faith points to receive his assistance.

The dispatch of so many aircraft at once was also to destroy the chain of industrial production in the rear of Stacy as much as possible, and to relieve the pressure on the increasingly strained Falkenridge front-line troops.

The abundance of cheap self-propelled guns had begun to threaten the steam chariot units of Falkenridge and was constantly dragging its feet, and this was not a situation that the Falkenridge commanders wanted to see.

After all, there are only about twenty days left before the time when Tadoya intervenes in the war. According to the latest information, the government of the Hawar Empire is already preparing for peace talks.

"Drip ...... Drip, drip!"

In a bright room, the communication magic crystal suddenly rang, but there seemed to be no one in this room, so the crystal kept ringing, but no one took it. So the prompt rang stubbornly, until finally a hand clenched the crystal: "Hey, this is the duty room of the air defense headquarters of the Supreme Command, do you have any important things to report?"

The officer on duty dragged a long voice and slowly asked the other party who called, the work here has been really desperate lately, the Falkenridge people are shelling the west of Dean City not far away, and they want to ask about a certain Falkenridge army air raid hundreds of kilometers away, this is meaningless, is it?

“...... Are you saying that you have seen the large Falkenridge Army's Flame Cavalry, not the Windrangers used to escort it, but the larger Flame Cavalry?" The officer suddenly screamed after hearing the report on the other side of the phone, "In the lower Stacy River basin? Thirty minutes ago? Hell, don't you turn off the communication just yet, wait for me!"