The number of patrols is only half of the usual number, Gerald, your men are gone?"

Such a voice sounded behind him, and a man in a black robe with his face hidden in the shadows walked over and asked Gerard in a stern tone.

"Big ...... Master, aren't you going to celebrate?" replied Gerard with a bit of a wolf.

In fact, the man in the black robe was the captain of the air cavalry he had recruited. It is said that the Black-robed Man was once an ace in the Imperial Air Force, and Gerard was only connected to him through the channel of the client. I don't know if it's because of the instinct of thieves and soldiers, Gerald always has an indescribable sense of fear when he talks to him.

"Celebrate, but what is there to celebrate after the ransacking of a mere merchant ship?" the black-robed man let out a contemptuous snort. "If you want to master the sky of Lingeil, you must eradicate the Sky King. With the current level of you guys, I can't even touch the edge of the king's ride, and it is my duty to train you well. Listen, tell your men to go back to sentry at once! If you don't even do this kind of thing, I'll depose you and set up a new leader. ”

"Know...... I know, I'm going to teach them a lesson. Gerald bowed his head in fear. Although nominally he is the leader of "smooth sailing", behind the black-robed man there is a big man he would not dare to offend no matter what. If you disobey the black-robed man here, the result is likely to end up like the other party's declaration.

Gerald strongly regretted the act of luring the wolf into the house, and secretly vowed to get rid of the black-robed man's control one day. He shuffled his heavy footsteps towards the deck exit, but suddenly there was a "huh" sound behind him. Gerard looked back in surprise to see the black-robed man looking up at the sky, taking off the hood covering his face, revealing that he was listening carefully.

"...... with a voice"

"Voice?" Gerard pricked up his ears to listen, but the air thieves came from the clearing: the loud sound of joy overwhelmed Yiqiē, and he heard nothing.

"This is...... The sound of the engine?" the black-robed man looked at it, catching the deadly information hidden in the cacophony. "One ...... Two ...... But who the hell ......?"

Voices can't tell friend or foe. The black-robed man was confused about his identity. Of course, he didn't fail to take into account some of the most dangerous situations, but there were still some things that he couldn't figure out.

“。 Is the master overthinking?"

The shaky appearance of the black man made Gerald nervous. So he spoke. But he wasn't so much speaking to the black-robed man. It's more like comforting yourself. "There won't be any enemies, right? After all, the distance between this place and the royal capital has passed, and the air king has never patrolled this area. A few armed boats are to talk. We can handle it on our side...... too."

"Is it an air-based battleship!?" Gerald's words seemed to give the black-robed man some kind of inspiration, and he jumped on the spot. "Damn! So they brought in the air-based warship? Then this is a premeditated surprise attack...... Damn it, get your men ready to fight!

After saying this. The black-robed man did not disappear into the entrance of the deck. Gerald watched him go, blankly. I didn't react for a while. In the war with the air pirates. The Sky King Rider has been on the defensive for a long time. This fact not only caused a habitual blind spot in the thinking of Bodan and others. It also slowed down the air thieves' reaction with a fatal two beats.

If the air thieves follow the instructions of the black-robed man and act quickly, they may be able to save the situation in some way. But the truth is. By the time Gerald could react, the king's angry cannonballs had rained down on the unprepared air thieves.

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The three kings rushed out of the valley with murderous vigour, and the air thieves, who were still immersed in pleasure, were unaware.

The roar of the twelve cannons shattered the black silence, and six lines of fire that fell from the sky were slammed into the heads of the air thieves, and the air thieves who were bleeding almost fell into chaos on the spot.

The three skyriders flew through the square of the air thieves in a wedge-shaped shape and split into three arcs in front of the cliff, each rushing towards their target. In the first round of strafing, the raiding team had basically mastered the situation of this stronghold, this rudimentary stronghold had no weapons to meet the air, and the hundreds of air thieves in the open space did not pose a threat to them, and they only had to care about the air pirate ships parked around the open space. Observing by the light of the fire from the stronghold, this air pirate group has a total of four air pirate ships, which are parked in all directions of the open space, and it seems that its scale is not small, and as the prey of the first hunt, this fact really makes Wang Qi excited.

In the battle plan originally drawn up, Bodan and the others needed to prioritize destroying the air pirate ships in the stronghold and depriving the air thieves of their resistance. Once the air pirate ship is lost, there is nowhere to escape in this valley terrain, and the Merry, which remains in the rear at the time, will come with the 6th Army troop transport responsible for support, and then the 6th Army will go down to suppress the air thieves who have lost their resistance.

Bodan and Cruz each chose a newer air pirate ship to target, while Kirin focused on another, older air pirate ship. The silhouette of the pirate ship sounded familiar to him, as if he had seen it somewhere. Kirin suspected that it was an air pirate ship that had escaped under him, and although he couldn't remember it for a while, he had no reason to show mercy to his subordinates.

When he piloted the Wolf Flame to pull the air pirate ship into the range of the cannons, the air thieves on board were panicking to activate the levitation mechanism, but forgot to put away the anchor. As a result, the stern of the ship floated, but the bow was pulled to the ground by the anchor, and the whole air pirate ship was suspended in the air in a ridiculous way from head to tail, and the air thieves slid down the sloping deck with screams, and fell to the point of bleeding, and there was no power to resist.

Looking at the wolf appearance of the air pirate ship, Qilin naturally pulled the trigger without hesitation.

The roaring cannon pierced through the air trap of the pirate ship,

The energy that overflowed in the pass blew up the air pirate ship. The wolf flame spread its wings and rode the waves into the sky.

Looking down from above, the Kirin locks onto the last air pirate ship as the target. By this time, the pirate ship had learned the lesson of its companion and urgently cut off all the engines at the rear of the starting cable. It seems that there is less than a minute left before it is completely floating, but it is enough for the Kirin.

He manipulated Wolf Flame to flip the fuselage, preparing to destroy the final target with a dive attack.

Wolf Flame swooped down towards the air pirate ship, and just as Kirin was about to pull the trigger, a blinding red light suddenly invaded the horizon from the right side.

There was no room to think at all, and the Kirin reflexively pulled back the joystick. So the wolf flame who was diving, stretched his wings fiercely, and forcibly turned around and returned in an extremely awkward posture.

At the same time, a beam of fire from the right rear grazed the fuselage of the wolf flame, which pierced the windshield on the cockpit side.

The girdle from the joystick was huge: the movement made the Kirin's wrist almost snap, and as the cannonballs of murderous intent passed in front of him, he also heard an almost cracking sound at the base of the wing - basically, very few mechanics would turn back in such a high dive state This rough maneuvering is strictly forbidden. In fact, if he was not piloting a wolf flame but an albatross at the moment, the terrifying stress generated in just a few seconds would probably cause the body to disintegrate on the spot.

Relying on three points of anti-odds and seven points of luck, the unicorn narrowly avoided the sneak attack from the rear, and couldn't help but be shocked and angry. He regained altitude on the wolf flame, and then saw the sneak attack coming out of the moonlight.

"It's you!"

The sneak attack was a black air thief with a hideous edge, and this was the second time the Kirin had seen the ugly appearance of the vulture. Needless to say, the Air Thief that shot down the test plane in the Valley of the Burial Dragons and forced him and Yuffie to stage a survival adventure in the Griffon's Nest** is what it looks like in front of them. At that time, there were three air pirates that attacked them, and Kirin had witnessed two of them being destroyed by the griffon, and the last one was unknown.

However, there was no definite evidence to prove that the air thief in front of him was the one that escaped at that time, but the Qilin's anger and battle intent still climbed to the peak in an instant, manipulating the wolf flame and rushing straight towards the other party.

Visually, this is a crazy attempt.

If the other party was really the air thief pilot at that time, with the current wrist of the Qilin, he would not be able to compete with him in the combat at all, and the probability of being shot down by the opponent was as high as ninety percent.

As evidence, the artillery fire that the Kirin tried to fight back all chased after the opponent's tail and missed. The black air pirate made a smooth arc in the air, circled the side of the wolf flame, and counterattacked.

The shot came straight to the cockpit of Wolf Flame, and the killing intent of the other party was as obvious as he had appeared. However, due to the unfavorable timing of the attack, Kirin was able to barely avoid the bombardment of the air pirates.

Several of the off-target shells hit the side of Wolf Flame, where the Korrodo Dragon's scale armor unleashed a tough defensive effect, and a few shells with poor angles of incidence sparked on them and flew away, failing to further damage Wolf Flame's tissue.

However, then the Kirin fell into a situation where it was difficult to fight back.

The two airriders passed by for a split second, and then, in order to gain a favorable attack position behind the opponent's tail, the Kirin manipulated the wolf flame to perform a reverse spin, and the opponent did the same at the same time. When both airriders try to get each other's rear attack position, the fight can easily get into a scissor flight.

The so-called "scissor flight", that is, the attack and defense sides continue to rotate repeatedly to delay their time on the forward path, and at the same time obtain a good angle of attack, as a result, the movements of the two sides cross together to form a scissor-like maneuver, which is vividly called "scissor flight".

Scissor flying is quite a risky option for any pilot. The air rider who enters the scissor flight can do nothing but pull the nose of the plane towards the enemy plane as much as possible, and the two sides fight to the hovering performance, and turn as far ahead of the opponent as possible with each disc rotation, accumulating the advantage again and again, until there is a situation where one side is half a beat slower than the other. The mech that preempts the attack position will inflict artillery fire on the opponent at close range, and such an attack is almost impossible to dodge.

Of course, it is possible to break away from scissor flight by means of a dive maneuver, but that would not only cost you the loss of altitude advantage, but also expose your back to the enemy, which will only make your situation more dangerous. In addition to being difficult to detach, the most brutal thing about scissor flight is that the two sides of the battle will go through an extremely long period of repeated circles, and it is only the final moment of rendezvous that determines victory or defeat.

What awaits the pilots at the end of the long spiral is the inevitable death of one party, so scissor flight has the nickname of "death spiral".

The Kirin undoubtedly entered the death spiral, and since there was not much room for skill swing in scissor flight, it should still be a relatively lucky situation for him who was at a disadvantage in this regard.

Wolf Flame and the Black Sky Thief chased each other, biting each other's tails and driving each other into a death spiral. The hovering and staggered traces of the two planes spanned the sky above the valley, leaving the air thieves below stunned. Although it is impossible to determine who will be victorious, it is certain that death will come before the end of the death spiral.

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ps: Christmas Eve, Holy Night, obviously a day for family reunions and thanksgiving to God's grace, how come it has become a carnival for us to knock each other around......? (To be continued)

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