Chapter 21: The First Great Air Battle

Originally, Kimchi was planning to move on, but there was always something to gain, after all, white prostitution and things earned along the way were the most pleasant.

Armored vehicles drive on this ancient battlefield. In addition to the wreckage of those tall air and space warships, as we get closer to the battlefield, more ancient things come into everyone's field of vision.

For example, there are big things like a land mobile fortress the size of a battleship, a robot as tall as a ten-story building, and small things like a fighter plane the size of a four-propeller fighter and a tank the size of a modern Land Cruiser.

Yes, human corpses are not even small things in this scenario.

After Kimchi told Viroya that the Bridge Society would buy the items picked up from here, Viroya began to actively search for places where there might still be good objects.

Wouldn't this make the bridge stronger and then attack the kingdom of Rothhill in reverse? Of course not, the space for armored vehicles is limited, and it is only possible to take some individual combat weapons.

Those extremely powerful individual combat weapons must have already started to self-destruct. Even if she doesn't, it's up to Veroya to decide what weapon to give.

Soon, Veroya found a scrapped armored car. She put on her protective armor and got out of the car to search the inside of the scrapped armored vehicle, which also contained a box of photon rifles and dark matter mass batteries, all of which were functional.

This photon rifle is mainly used for single attacks, and the huge kinetic energy is carried by photons, which is capable of penetrating almost all armor. The downside is that the threat can be easily addressed with vector shields.

In addition to a box of Photon rifles, Veroya also found a plasma cannon and a matching box of mass batteries. These two things are even warehouses full of armored vehicles. In order to return to the original road more safely, Viroya also found a lot of universal nano parts and gold oil.

Hecethia took advantage of the fact that the people of the Bridge Society were listening to Viroya's introduction of the Photon Rifle and the Plasma Cannon, and came to the body of the monster in the center.

She who devoured a part of the consciousness of the living meteorite is probably not a human being. The closer she got to the body, the more she felt a part of her body there.

It's a feeling of extreme disconnection. After all, she didn't lack arms or legs, and suddenly there was an extra part of her body, and she was still so stiff, old, and no one could stand it.

I came here mainly for this living meteorite fragment. As she gradually adapted to her expanded sea of consciousness, her enhanced physique gradually became a little unable to keep up with her own consciousness.

If she continues like this, she will likely become a conscious being without a physical body, and she needs something that can greatly enhance her physique.

The most frightening thing in this space is not that the physical body is extremely strong, but that the conscious body is far stronger than one's own physical body.

Hessehias placed the monster's remains. Soon, she felt something entering her body.

Grains-sized objects pierced through her palms and flowed rapidly towards every part of Hecexia's body, merging with her body, altering her genes, the alchemical matrix engraved on her body.

I don't know how long it took for this process to end, and Hessehia hurried back to the car without stopping. The remains of the monster behind him did not collapse due to the loss of the fragments of the living meteorite, but now the remains became an inorganic aggregate without the slightest biological sign.

Veroya's gushing introductions weren't over yet.

After the damaged part of the armored vehicle was repaired with universal nano parts, the people of the bridge association took a few photos with the camera they carried with them, and the armored vehicle began its return journey.

The alchemy defense matrix had been largely worn out to the point of ineffectiveness, and Viroya turned on the vehicle's shield. This Void Shield makes use of creating a thin layer of subspace to withstand subspace storms from the outside.

However, this kind of shield consumes extremely high energy, and it is only after it is replenished with a panacea that Viroya dares to use it. However, I don't dare to use it for a long time, this is just an experimental product, and long-term use will not lead to predictable consequences.

So on the way back, Hecehija, which had absorbed fragments of the living meteorite, alternately assisted the armored vehicle in its defenses, and the Void Shield launcher.

Because of the use of too much alchemy, the armored vehicle inevitably became the sight of countless strange things, the stars that radiated dazzling light in the eternal night, and on the way back, countless strange things attacked the armored car.

Viroya and Kimchi, along with members of the Norman Family Guard, began to control the alchemy cannons and alchemy rifles on the armored vehicles to clear the tide of beasts blocking the advance of the armored vehicles.

That's right, in the no-man's land of this Continental Bridge, there are a large number of strange things hidden, and when you use alchemy beyond a certain limit, these strange things will form a beast tide to attack you.

This is also the reason why even the Holy Kingdom is reluctant to send a powerful exploration team to explore the interior of the Continental Bridge, that is, the gods are facing the invisible beast tide charge, the subspace storm is invading, and the illusion of not being able to distinguish the true from the false will most likely have to pay a terrible price to get out.

What's more, the strange things here are not the kind of weird things from the outside world, and under the influence of subspace, these weird things often come with the attack of the consciousness body.

And without using alchemy, it is basically impossible to get to the inside of the Continental Bridge, which is an endless loop. If the Holy Kingdom unifies Middle-earth, perhaps after consolidating its rule and recovering its vitality, it will send a powerful exploration team to explore the interior of the Continental Bridge.

I don't know how long it has been since I came out of the inside.

Under the attack of the beast tide day and night, basically except for Hecethia and Veroya, everyone has long lost the concept of time. If it weren't for these two inhuman existences, the people in the armored car would have gone completely crazy, and even the authoritative alchemists in the guards would not have been spared.

When the Alchemy Light Cannon was completely scrapped, the Alchemy Rifle blew up because the number of shots exceeded the limit that the barrel could bear, and the armored vehicles had to use the defense matrix to aggregate the shield into a cone and force a way out, they only entered the middle from the transition period.

Although the next part of the road seems to be easier to walk than the transition area, it is actually a great test of one's mental endurance.

After all, although the strength of the strange things along the way is not too strong, and the number is not too large, it is still easy to breathe when a monster that looks like the one in your nightmare emerges in this gloomy environment.

In order to prevent the armored vehicle from suddenly breaking down due to the attack of those small dried corpses on the ground, the speed of driving is not very fast, which makes people feel very tormented.

Finally, after a day and a night of driving, the armored car staggered to the outside area. At this time, the surface of the armored car was uneven and covered with scratches, several tires of the car were scrapped, and the alchemy cannon on the roof of the car was also emitting black smoke.

The people of the Bridge Society didn't have much hope, because the other teams returned one after another with casualties, and those who wanted to come to this kingdom of Rothil only stayed in it for a few more days.

But then the things they moved from the car and the photos from the film they were given by their own people completely changed their minds.

The photon rifle and the plasma cannon are clearly not weapons that should be possessed in this era.

On the testing ground, the photon rifle easily penetrated the bridge, and the Monro alloy with the alchemical defense matrix attached to it that was finally obtained, also proved that these things were not weapons sold by the Rothel Kingdom Hui to the outside world.

As for the plasma cannon, which destroys a small mountain range with one shot, not to mention this weapon. This made the people of the Bridge Society very suspicious of whether these people were the official members of the Rothel Kingdom.

Even this kind of weapon can be sold casually, and no matter how you look at it, it looks like a group of people who are at odds with the authorities, or at least not loyal to the current ruling class.

However, since they would sell these obtained super-era weapons, it shows that in their opinion, the value and money of these weapons are almost equal, and their strength is unfathomable.

The Bridge Society was not established by brute force, and the top brass of the gang quickly decided to pay for the weapons with a more generous sum of money than the price they had proposed, and they should take over the good fortune.

At this point, the bridge will be regarded as hemorrhage. Originally, they planned to start venturing inside after finding out what was inside the Continental Bridge. In their opinion, there are nothing more than a lot of monsters, although it takes a lot of effort to clear the monsters, but where the monsters are, there are a lot of alchemy materials.

The abundant resources and more land are enough for the bridge to slowly recover and become stronger and stronger. But by the description of my own people, it looks like hell inside.

It's not that you want to go to the middle of the country, but anyone with status knows what it's like to go to the middle of the country, and the hellish place here means to go in transition. The ocean-like beast tide there is many times larger than the beast tide encountered in the original Black Ice Valley, and the strange things in the beast tide are also stronger.

This is not something that the people of the Continental Bridge can solve, and if these beast tides do not come out and harm them, they will be blessed by the spirit lord.

Therefore, the Bridge Society plans to use this batch of super-era weapons to ask for some money from those alchemy families who have no national forces behind them as a backstage, and in addition to this financial route, they will also attack several small islands.

These small islands are a small country formed by the union of some families who can't stay in Middle-earth, and they have received some support from the empire by selling some news about Middle-earth to the South Loya Empire.

However, the empire has too many such external intelligence sources, and the destruction of this small country is even more unlikely to attract the attention of the South Loya Empire, and they may instead try to contact the bridge.

The Bridge Society was not willing to give up the interior of the Continental Bridge like this, and after hearing about the superior performance of these people's armored vehicles, the high-level leaders of the Bridge Society tried to reach a long-term cooperative relationship with these people, and they continued to get such armored vehicles to explore the interior.

For such cooperation, after communicating with Ferlian Vinoer, Kimchi and others gladly accepted. This kind of cooperation, which can continue to obtain resources and funds, is naturally lacking in the current power of Ferlian Vinoel.

Of course, the armored vehicles for sale are naturally not as good as their own use. Anyway, the commissioner of the Bridge Society didn't know anything famous, only the blue shield generated by the alchemy defense matrix outside.

As for the Void Shield Launcher, Hessehya brand road detector, etc., these are naturally not available, and if something unexpected happens, the excuse is very simple, our Hessehia is an alchemist who is more powerful than a mechanical séance-level alchemist.

With several boxes of cash and alchemy materials and various rare metals used as equivalents, Kimchi and the others returned to Serbia, and with this sufficient money invested in the construction of the air frigate, Kirsten was able to go on a big scale, and several projects were started at the same time.

The modular design greatly reduces the construction time, although the new frigate has many innovations, but the steps are not too big, and the base plate is still dominated by the mature model of the existing air warship.

The most troublesome thing is actually the construction of the spirit link display module and the new differential processor, which is completely new and cannot be done by ordinary technicians, and must be handled by Kirsten himself.

In the third week after the Holy Army broke through the border defenses of the combined forces of the Duchy of Dunling and the Duchy of Gaul, the Living Army began its own operation again.

Army Group South continued its onslaught against the Duchy of Dunling. Army Group North, on the other hand, changed its tactics.

In the direction of the Rhine Alliance, as the most capable of fighting tough battles, the Rhine Kingdom has gradually adapted to the current intensity of the war, and with the Teutonic Principality's various mercenary teams outside responding to the call of the country, they either participate in the defense of the last territory, or participate in the destruction of the supply of the Holy Kingdom's army, or support materials.

Don't underestimate these Teutonic people all over the world, some of whom have become famous figures on the Continental Bridge, some of whom have become the most elite saboteurs behind enemy lines over the years, and some who have coincidentally become powerful alchemists.

These people could not completely turn the tide of the war, but they could buy more time for the Duchy of Teuton. The frontal battlefield is already a hidden force belonging to both sides, and the battle between the Teutonic knights and the cathar will continue for a long time.

And the Northern Army Group had no more hidden forces to devote here, and the Teutons in the occupied areas formed guerrilla detachments to resist the rule of the Holy Kingdom, and the offensive in the direction of the Rhine Union was over.

So where will Army Group North attack next? The answer, of course, is the kingdom of Rothier. The air forces of Army Group North had been preparing for this long since the first raid was frustrated.

The veiled fleet marched towards the black land of the kingdom of Rothil in the early morning. Because it was covered by the sun's rays, the vigilance force of the Rothschild Kingdom Air Force discovered the Holy Kingdom's fleet a quarter of an hour late, causing the Kingdom Air Force to fall into disadvantage as soon as the war began.

What followed was an air battle that could go down in history. This was the first major air battle in Middle-earth since the appearance of large warships in the air.

In order to prevent the ground troops from being accidentally injured by the crashed warship, the major forces retreated hundreds of kilometers from the back, and the observation and alert troops who stayed in place took refuge in bunkers made of reinforced concrete and three meters thick.

In a three-dimensional space over the border, with a radius of more than 100 kilometers, the air fleets of both sides fought.

Because of the particularity of air warships, the recoil of ordinary guns used cannot be too strong, so the caliber is not large, and they are used as close defense guns to deal with warships that are one level smaller than themselves.

And if you want to deal with a warship of the same level or even higher than your own level, you need to adapt to the alchemy cannon.

The ammunition reserve of this cannon is only about 100 rounds, which is very precious, so basically you have to use ordinary artillery that has no way to do much damage to the opponent to calibrate the shooting of the alchemy cannon.

The large guns of air warships are generally used against ground targets, and in order to use such guns, it is necessary to occupy commanding heights.

So at the beginning of the air battle, the two sides were constantly fighting for the commanding heights, and the exchange of fire was very fierce, in fact, it was just scraping for large warships.

For both sides, the participation of large warships in actual combat is the first thing, so it is a test of the battleship captain's ability to adapt to changes.

The textbooks of the military school will only teach you how to drive a battleship and how to achieve the optimal output of firepower, and the rest is just a deduction of speculation, and you have to react according to the actual situation.

Although the Kingdom Air Force worked hard, its own warships could not match the performance of the Holy Air Force, so they lost in the battle for the commanding heights, and could only passively withstand the attacks of large ground attack artillery, spending more power to maintain the alchemy shield.

Originally, the Kingdom Air Force thought that propeller fighters were its advantage, but when they saw that the Holy Air Force also flew out of the propeller fighter formation, their hearts were half cold. Fortunately, judging from the first exchange of fire between the fighter formations of the two sides, the kingdom's was superior, which did not make the hearts of the kingdom's air force generals completely cold.

But it is impossible to count on propeller fighters to help the fleet get out of the wind in a short time.

The battle lasted several hours, and warships on both sides crashed, all small warships, of which the Kingdom Air Force lost several ships.

Although the kingdom's fighter formation is stronger, the number of fighters on the Holy Country's side is larger, and under the tactics of the Holy Kingdom using numbers to consume, the Kingdom's pilots are tired of coping, resulting in a decline in combat effectiveness, and casualties begin to rise dramatically.

At this point, the air force general should give the order for the fighter formations to suspend the attack and return to rest. However, it is not known if the commanders were busy planning how to regain the high ground and did not notice the casualties of the fighter formation.

As the casualties mounted, and the communications that had been requested to retreat several times were not restored, the current commander-in-chief of the formation finally came to his senses, what did the gang want to do.

This air battle has been going on for so long, and the role of propeller fighter formations is as indispensable as the role of two armored groups against the coordinated infantry in wartime in a war on the ground. But if the fighter formations of the new Air Force are allowed to retreat, then the old Air Force will have to put its own fighter formations on top.

In the case of worse equipment, worse quality and experience of pilots, and only better energy, the flight formation of the old air force will inevitably pay huge casualties if it wants to withstand the impact of the fighter formation of the Holy Kingdom like the new air force formation.

So the fleet commander ignored the request for the retreat of the new Air Force fighter formation. Even if Fellianvinoer attacked them in the future, they could excuse themselves by saying that they were trying to save the day.

Foreseeing that the old Air Force might do something like this, Felenovinoer manipulated the fuel tanks of each fighter. The new Air Force fighter formation immediately pulled the safety out, the fuel tank fell, and the dashboard began to flash a red light to show that the fuel was low.

Faced with this situation, the Air Force commander could not ignore the fighter formation's request to retreat, so the pilots who survived the fierce battle for nearly two hours could finally rest, and the fighters riddled with bullet holes could stop operating.

The fighter formation of the new air force was almost completely completed in the air battle just now. Here you will not only have to face enemy fighters, but also the artillery fire of enemy air warships.

Although the caliber of these guns has been reduced, the rate of fire has been increased, and the replacement of shotguns can form an anti-aircraft fire network. And those heavy machine gun towers that were originally used to deal with gang jumping battles can also be transformed into anti-aircraft machine gun towers in an instant.

The new air force has been trained on how to penetrate the firepower network and engage in aerial dogfights, but the training of the fighter formations of the old air force is even inferior.

The battle lasted until the afternoon, and the royal air force still did not seize the commanding heights, and the small warships and fighter formations on both sides were almost exhausted, and the large warships in the air as the main force gradually approached each other.

The heavy armor and the protection of the Alchemy Defense Matrix make it difficult for both sides to destroy each other. Although science and technology cannot be advanced today, before the outbreak of this war, the air forces of various countries were studying weapons against ships, but now it seems that it is still not enough, and the alchemy cannon with the alchemy cannonball can only open a hole for the other party.

But this is not a naval battle, a hole is made for the sea to join in the help, and if the enemy's power equipment is not destroyed in the air battlefield, even if it penetrates the enemy's warship with one shot, it is useless.

And the defense near the power system is thick to the extreme, unless it is attacked with the navy's battleship alchemy main gun, there is basically no hope.

So, since there was no way to do it from the outside, it was only possible to start from the inside, and the two sides went from naval artillery to jumping gangs. The hook was fired to pull the opponent in, the two sides collided together, and then the prepared combatants began to attack the interior of the enemy battleship.

Of course, it was a little more ruthless, and it hit the enemy's battleship with full horsepower.

As the first large air battleship crashed to the ground, the red mercury and ammunition inside were ignited and detonated under the violent impact, and an earth-shattering explosion occurred, and the battle in the air entered a white-hot phase.

At this time, it is no longer the case who has better performance to determine the victory of the battle, but who has the higher personal combat quality of the crews on both sides, and who can take the lead in snatching the power control system of the opposing ship, will win.