Chapter Forty-Eight: The Cloud Thief
"Fuck, I just flew over the coast and ran into these bandits!" The commander of the airship smashed his fist on the console in a rage, "Report on the readiness for battle!" ”
"Report to the commander, the magical defense and offensive forces are all ready, the anti-aircraft weapons operators are expected to be all in place in five minutes, and the non-combatants are being evacuated, due to the small number, the evacuation can be completed in ten minutes!"
"Where's the anti-boarding combat team!"
"Report to the commander, at the moment we only have the three teams of Split Cloud in place!"
"Grandma's, I forgot that the first and second teams are training in my hometown!" The commander smashed the podium again.
At this time, Hugh pushed the door and entered, shouting, "Commander! Quick debriefing! ”
"Lord Hugh! There were two ships blocking the road along the way, one each in the northeast and one in the southeast intercepting the turning direction, both Falcon-class airboats! ”
"Typical interception formation, did you receive a message from the other party?"
"The other party flashed a red light and wanted to go to war directly!"
"Damn, you dare to fight the idea of the Mars family! All right! Hurry up and send a rescue signal to the city of Amya, you are responsible for the defensive weapons and the flight of the airship from now on," Hugh nodded a few more people, "You, you and you still stay to help him coordinate the work and command, and the rest are under my command!" ”
"Yes!"
"Now go to the war room and change into combat uniforms, and I'll be in charge of the command of the anti-boarding battle!"
The Falcon-class airships are only one-third the size of the Split Cloud, but there are four on the other side, and they are nimble, making them the most popular bandit boat for Cloud Pirates.
Hua Ye asked Hei Feng to rest in this room first so that no one would find out, and then he quickly changed his clothes and went out to gather Xinqiu and Wood, and he didn't care if the fat man lived or died.
But the fat man came to the observation room for the first time, and the three of them came to the observation room with a dead face, at this time it was a long night in the sky, all the sounds were silent, and the stars were dotted, just as they were about to go to Hugh when a messenger ran over, panting and said: "A few distinguished guests, hurry up to the emergency shelter, Lord Hugh must protect the safety of your few people!" ”
"You should have an escort in your airship, right?" Hua Ye said calmly.
The messenger was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect him to ask this, "Our Split Cloud is equipped with three teams of boat escorts, but the first and second teams are all within the family, so only the third team of Split Cloud is on duty, and I also ask a few distinguished guests to hurry up with me to the refuge room, I believe in the combat effectiveness of the Mars family, these little bandits must be—"
"Please put us in the Airship Escort." Hua Ye said firmly.
"Huh? I can't be the master of this guest! ”
"Then you go to someone who can call the shots and tell him that we are going to help you."
"But..."
"Go ahead, you don't want to waste time."
The messenger was sweating profusely with anxiety, but he still rushed to the combat preparation room to tell Hugh about the situation.
"Hehe, young people have flesh, it's good, you go and bring them all over!" Hugh had already sorted out his equipment at this time, and was planning to form a team for Split Cloud No. 3, and he was very happy to hear that Hua Ye and they were going to join.
In the cab at this time, the commander was measuring the angular distance and speed between the Cloud Splitter and the cloud thieves in front of him.
"Commander! They slowed down! Isn't it going to be forced? The observer shouted.
"Give them a warning signal to get ready for cannonballs and magic bombardment if they get closer to the forbidden distance!"
At this time, the three teams of Split Cloud had been divided into three small teams, led by Hugh, Hardy and the third captain respectively, and the four of Hua Ye and the detachment led by Hardy were organized into mobile troops, ready to support at any time.
"How come the third team has only a hundred or so people, so few?" Hua Ye grinned.
"Under normal circumstances, the guards stationed on the Split Cloud are rotated in two teams, and the first and second teams have two hundred people each, but this time the two teams happened to be absent, allowing those robbers to take advantage of the loophole." Hardy said indignantly.
"Have you been attacked before?" The fat man was also sorting out the various hidden weapons on his body, and Hua Ye looked at it with a shudder.
"There was one time, but the other party tried it and ran away, and we didn't bother to chase it, after all, the name of the Mars family was there, and no one dared to move easily, so this time the first and second teams were not in us and we didn't think much about it, I didn't expect to encounter this!" Hardy drew his sword and wiped it carefully.
"Will there be a ghost?" Hua Ye frowned and glanced around.
"Impossible," Hardy replied subconsciously, but after thinking about it, he continued, "but it's really possible, it's been a long time since anyone has checked themselves, and I'll have to check it after this is over." ”
"Attention units! The enemy does not listen to the dissuasion and forcibly approaches, and it is likely to directly engage in a quick boarding battle! After 10 seconds, a heavy weapon will be fired at the place, and there will be a certain amount of shaking! ”
"All the players, suction cup formation!"
"Yes!"
As soon as Hua Ye and the four of them grabbed the nearest handrail, the entire airship shook violently a few times, accompanied by a dull echo inside, and they knew that the air battle had begun.
High in the distance, a pitch-black airship dotted with a few stars merged with the cloudless night sky, silently observing the exchange of fire between the Split Cloud and the four Cloud Thieves.
Five thick black pipes and dozens of small tubes stretched out from the head of the Split Cloud, which were large-caliber magic pressurization cannons and small-caliber strafing machine guns, and after the warm-up was completed, the small-caliber machine guns ruthlessly spat tongues of fire at the four airships approaching at a uniform speed.
"Humph! Let these brutes taste the power of our aerial artillery! Standing in the observation module, the commander watched coldly as a series of fist-sized solid lead bullets slammed straight into the two airships in front of him, as if he had seen the scene of the two airships being shot into a hornet's nest.
If the two airships were really so stupid to take the cannonballs overhead, they wouldn't have rushed over so directly, only to see that the oval-shaped airship head was flipped around and something metallic like scales appeared, and it quickly combined into a smooth and sharp head of a machine, and the magic patterns on it could be faintly seen under the starlight.
The small-caliber shells that poured out grazed the sparks and bounced off the sharp heads of the opposing airships.
"Searchlight! Face to the head! The commander shouted, "Replace the large-caliber cannon with a blaster cannon!" Hurry up, hurry up! Report the distance! ”
"Report to the Commander! Two empty boats directly in front of us are slowly approaching one kilometer away and are expected to collide in two minutes! The other two stopped at two kilometers and showed no signs of approaching! ”
"Magical Defense Units can start recharging their magic shields and weapons! The driving crew pays attention to the distance and is always ready to avoid shocks! The commander wiped his sweat, he had never seen this kind of metal tip in air combat for many years, "After the five guns are loaded, they will fire a direct salvo!" ”
"Yes!"
"The enemy is approaching 800 meters!"
"The shell is loaded! Get ready for a salvo! ”
The entire Split Cloud shook violently, and the five rounds dragged the blue flame tail to draw a glow in the air, smashing it on the two airships in front of it, and instantly exploded with a huge firelight, and the stars in the air were suddenly eclipsed, and the thick black smoke blocked the two airships, and everyone looked nervously at the black smoke in front of them through the glass, not knowing what the result was.
"Newspaper... report, no debris was observed to fall ...
At the same time, the two empty ships that flashed with cold light broke out of the smoke, and the salvo just now did not cause the slightest damage to them!
The commander's pupils shrank sharply, and he shouted, "Magic weapon ready to fire!" Inform Lord Hugh that the defensive weapon combat is completely ineffective, and prepare for the boarding battle within three minutes! ”
In the observation room of the airship in the distance, a man curled the corners of his mouth and whispered, "It's not bad, look at the magical defense." ”
"The enemy is in range, and the fire dragon bullet is ready!"
"Launch!"
If someone looked at the Split Cloud from a distance in the air, he would find that two huge circular circles floated from the left and right of the Split Cloud's head, the red light was no weaker than the intensity of the explosion just now, reflecting a small piece of the sky red, and then the circular circle flashed, turning into two dragon-shaped flames and roaring and each pounced on an empty ship.
The commander immediately shouted, "Prepare for the second round of thunder penalty cannons!" ”
As he expected, after seeing the defensive capabilities of this unknown pointed structure, the two flame dragons were torn apart into mortal fire as soon as they hit, and slipped out along the beveled edge of the pointed heads, and the giant dragons of tens of meters were stunned and did not cause the slightest damage to the cloud thief.
Immediately after that, the golden starlight magic circle hung out, and dozens of bucket-thick silver thunderbolts slashed out violently, and this time it was really thunder and rain that were absorbed by the weird spikes, and there was no destructive effect.
The onlooker smiled with great satisfaction, and disappeared into the night with the dark airship as if it had never existed.
"It's weird, I always feel like someone is staring at me behind my back, and my heart is hairy." Hua Ye touched the back of his neck and whispered to himself.
Before Hua Ye could recover from this uncomfortable feeling, the Split Cloud once again had the most violent vibration to date, and all of them fell to the ground except for those well-trained members of the escort team.
"Get ready to attack!"