The air battle continued into the evening, with the two sides going back and forth, like cavalry encounters, and the battleships, which had not been entangled, immediately reversed course after staggering each other and continued to charge at each other again.

Whether it's a close-range confrontation or a gang fight, it will make air combat more brutal.

Those flank guns are okay, protected by heavy armor layers and alchemy defense matrix peaks, as long as they are not directly attacked to the muzzle or shrunnel splashes into the interior, there is no possibility that the crew will be harmed.

However, the turrets on the deck surface are different, these turrets don't have as thick defenses. Because there is often a passage to the inside of the battleship, it has become a key target.

Whether it's a gang jumper, Yu Yao uses this as a breakthrough, or he wants to destroy the turret and then use the rest of the internal connections to cause damage to the enemy's interior.

These turrets are under much more intense fire.

Although even the tactic of directly ramming the enemy, which injures 1,000 and inflicts 800 losses, the two sides have not been able to end the battle during the day today.

At dusk, the air forces of the Holy Kingdom and the Rothschild Kingdom each reorganized their fleets, turned on their searchlights, fired flares, and continued to fight.

This will be a pain for the remaining troops on the ground.

The battleship that fell to the ground can be said to be no less powerful than a battleship's main gun, and it is equivalent to the ground constantly suffering from the bombardment of the battleship's main gun.

Although it is hiding in a three-meter-thick reinforced concrete bunker, such ground conditions are not tolerable to ordinary people.

Fortunately, this was not a battle between the main fleets of the two sides, and it was basically over in the early morning of the next day, otherwise some soldiers might have been stunned by the continuous shock.

After half an hour inside the bunker without any impact, the scout hiding in the bunker staggered to open the periscope, raised his searchlight and began to carefully observe the surface situation.

What was once an open plain has now been flooded with the wreckage of various aerial warships, and everywhere there is gunsmoke and blazing fire, dispelling the night.

High in the air, the participating combat units on both sides flashed their signal lights, which could be recognized as a signal of an armistice. Immediately after the issuance of a common armistice model, the warships of both sides will be separated from each other at a safe distance, and then the rescue force will be deployed and immediately withdrawn to their respective rear.

Either side's failure to withdraw is regarded as a violation of the final treaty of war, and it is necessary to make some compensation to the enemy country.

That's right, it's so magical, it's all about keeping the war from the point where everyone has to take refuge in underground fortresses.

Although the Holy Kingdom has achieved victory, its own losses are too heavy, and it has not achieved a strategic victory, so it is impossible to open a gap in the kingdom's air with the little remaining troops.

Therefore, after all things considered, they also withdrew their troops after the victory. The Kingdom Air Force, which had received heavy losses, naturally wanted to end the battle quickly.

When the situation in the air stabilized, the Kingdom soldiers hiding in the bunker put on fireproof suits and carried fire extinguishers and began to search for possible wounded, and the scouts began to report the movements of the ground troops of the Holy Kingdom in real time.

After all, the treaty only stipulated what the air forces of the two sides should do, but it did not restrict the army from launching an attack on the enemy's ground positions immediately after the end of the air battle.

Fortunately, perhaps Army Group North did not want to engage the Kingdom Road King in the ruins of the night, and they did not launch a ground offensive until the large forces of the Kingdom Army returned to the defensive line.

In this air battle, the kingdom dispatched 50 combat air boats, 30 air destroyers, one air cruiser, and several propeller fighter formations.

In the end, the battle damage was the destruction of 41 combat airships, 26 air destroyers, and a total of more than 300 fighters, and the rest of the battleships were seriously damaged, among which the air cruiser, which was the flagship of the kingdom's air fleet, was even pierced through the armor of the command bridge.

Fortunately, there is an emergency response defense matrix inside the bridge, which blocks the shrapnel that penetrates the armor layer in time, otherwise the air force generals inside the bridge may have to sacrifice their lives for the country.

The Holy Country, on the other hand, sent an air force of about the same number as the Kingdom fleet, but the losses were four combat airships and ten air destroyers less than the Kingdom Air Force, and the losses in fighter planes were the same.

This battle can be said to have caused both sides to discover an extremely fatal problem, that is, even the alchemical main guns of the air cruiser can hardly damage the air destroyer.

As a result, air battles often end up in gang-fighting battles between warships, relying on the fighting qualities of their respective warship crews to win, while the crews of the Holy Kingdom are generally more professional and have weaker combat qualities.

This has led to the phenomenon that although the hit rate of the Holy Kingdom warships is much higher than that of the Kingdom warships, the Kingdom warships can rely on the gang jump battle to turn defeat into victory.

This was something that the Holy Kingdom did not expect, so this air assault failed.

This air battle will certainly have a significant impact on the development of future air warships, and in general, there may be the following three development directions.

The first is to research more powerful alchemy artillery, and use more alchemy materials and more complex alchemy matrices inscribed to achieve that an alchemy cannonball can penetrate the alchemy shield and armor layer of the enemy's warship, and can truly threaten the enemy.

The disadvantage is that the cost is too high, which may compress the development space of the army and navy.

The second is to give up part of the defense, and use the load that was originally left for the armor to add more artillery, and use the number of artillery to win by changing the quantity and producing qualitative changes.

This is the most affordable, but it doesn't solve the problem fundamentally, and in the end it can still develop into a gang hopping battle to solve everything.

The last option is to abandon the attack, leaving only the melee defense guns to defend against the enemy's jumpers and combat airboats, and leaving all the remaining space and payload for the carry-on troops and defensive armor.

Although it can achieve an overwhelming advantage in the short term before several other major powers react, it is a drink to quench the thirst for the development of the air force.

After all, this is just relying on the combat quality of the crew, and basically it is not close to the performance of the battleship. As long as the armor is thick enough, you can get close to the enemy under enemy fire, and then the soldiers rush to the enemy's battleship and slash to seize control of the power system, and blow up the enemy's power system to take out the opposing battleship.

In doing so, how should the Air Force develop? Build a bunch of armored transports and play street battles in the air?

Originally, before the advent of propeller fighters, it was still possible to rely on having a powerful ground attack capability, but now, with the money spent on building air warships, five or six hundred heavy bombers can be built, and the ground attack is more flexible, more powerful, and more extensive.

If the Air Force develops in this way, unless it develops a combat aircraft that is cost-effective but more expensive than today's propeller fighters, then its countries may have to consider reducing the Air Force's huge military spending to strengthen the army and navy.

As for air battleships of the rank above the air cruiser, it is another case.

Battlecruisers, battleships, and aircraft carriers equipped with strategic weapons have enough firepower to destroy their counterparts, and because the firepower is enough for a battleship to destroy a city in a matter of minutes, there is a fundamental difference between a cruiser that needs a day and a night of non-stop shelling.

This is also the capital used to deter one's enemies from doing things that are too out of line.

It's just that these deterrent weapons are all built with the strength of the country, and there is no way to decentralize them to cruisers and lower-level warships.

There are not even a few of those super-large air warships in the Holy Country, let alone other countries.

Battleships, battlecruisers are all quite good, at least a few of them are real guys, and some have only one heavy face, and some have only one experimental model.

For example, the aircraft carrier said that it could take four or five search combat airships, but in fact, it never took off again after the test flight, so it can be seen that the aircraft carrier is only blown out, and if you want to fly, it is all by relying on alchemists to constantly drive the alchemy matrix to rise.

But it can be used to mislead enemy countries, deter enemy countries, and defraud more military spending, isn't it?

Until the last step, neither side is very reluctant to use that kind of weapon. Now it can still be called war, and if those warships that destroy the world are dispatched, it can only be called destruction.

Only the same level of these warships can threaten it, and the long endurance is enough to ensure that it can sneak attack a city in the enemy country at will, leaving a ruin and leaving it in style.

As a result, Army Group North once again had no direction to attack, and could only sweep away the hidden dangers in the occupied areas while accumulating more powerful forces. The top brass of the Northern Army Group understood that it would be difficult to make a breakthrough in these two areas if they did not want to pay some price.

Although they can completely contain the army of the Rothil Kingdom, they will wait for the Southern Army Group to break through the Duchy of Dunling and the Duchy of Gaul and attack the Rothhill Kingdom together.

In the end, taking advantage of the excessive losses of the Southern Army, they seized the ruling power of the Holy Kingdom, which had already occupied most of the land in Middle-earth, in one fell swoop.

But this decision is obviously a bit risky. The people of Army Group South are not fools, how can they leave such a big flaw in Army Group North?

The final battle between the north and the south still has to rely on its own strength to fight hard. Therefore, at the moment when it must be invested in order to obtain, the Northern Army must reluctantly invest a sum of money in exchange for more returns to strengthen itself.

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The report of the battle that had taken place at the front soon reached Fellernol, who gave the detailed report to Kirsten.

Kirsten, who had read the battle reports, had obviously gained a new understanding of the defensive power of air warships, and she had not been exposed to such strategic-class weapons before, so she underestimated the strength of the defense matrix and the thickness of the armor of these warships.

Fortunately, the construction of the heavy guns in the bow had not yet begun, and she immediately began to urgently revise the original firepower configuration.

Originally, the bow was equipped with four standard 88mm caliber alchemy guns, but now it seems that the power is simply not enough, so Kirsten chose a more radical idea, that is, to equip the bow with an electromagnetic gun that can only attack the front.

That's right, the entire bow was originally reserved for four 88-mm alchemy guns, as well as its ammunition reserves and alchemists to rest, and the observation room where the firing group calibrated the shelling Zhuyuan into an electromagnetic cannon.

As for the shooting of the electromagnetic gun, there is no need to arrange a group of personnel and precision instruments to calculate, and it is only necessary for the piloting crew to report the direction of the battleship to the firing group.

However, if the electromagnetic cannon is to be used, then the funds seem to be a little tight again. After all, even if it is an alchemy cannon, only 30% of the alchemy materials need to be used, while theoretically, the alchemy materials required for the electromagnetic cannon have reached an astonishing 90%.

This does not include a complete set of energy supply equipment. The short-term ultra-large power required by the electromagnetic cannon is not something that the power system of the battleship can provide, and an independent energy supply system is required.

It can be said that the funds required for a single electromagnetic cannon have exceeded the cost of a new frigate.

What can be done? I can only make money desperately. The newly established military factories in Serbia began to devote some of their workshops to the production of armored vehicles.

Now this armored vehicle has a new name, the Explorer One, and the sale price is about one percent of the air destroyer, which means that the sale of a hundred Explorer One can regain enough money to build a frigate.

However, the manufacturing cycle of an Explorer 1 is one month, and Ferryvinoer does not have so many alchemists in his hands, so he can only let Hecesia and Veroya work as coolies together.

If these two people are placed in the world of alchemists, they can be called monsters, and the two of them can resist how many alchemists.

In addition to the construction of the Air Force, there are various other aspects of construction that require a lot of money.

Fellernvinoer had clearly realized that if the old king and himself did not give up the absolute dominance of the land, sea and air forces of the king who would rule the kingdom in the future, then he would have to use Serbia as a base for his counteroffensive.

There have been countless kings in history who were conspired to kill because they touched the power of certain ministers, including many powerful kings.

Loyalty is extremely vulnerable in the face of a serious seizure of power. Ferlenvinoel is not the only child of the old king, not to mention that the royal family is not only in her own vein.

For those loyal to the royal family, it would be nice if those who stayed on the throne had the blood of the Normanov family.

Placing oneself in Serbia as a provisional governor with full authority was the ultimatum. If you still don't give up the seizure of military supremacy, then the next step may be all kinds of accidents, all kinds of assassinations in the open and covert.

Even the younger brothers, who were originally their own blood relatives, would openly raise the banner of rebellion against the rule of their "tyrant".

Therefore, Felianvinoer will never give up the road of armed resistance. In order to follow the path of armed resistance, a stable integrated rear base is indispensable.

This part of Serbia is the worst, but also the best.

Although it is under the threat of the Southern Loya Empire, it can also rely on this to continuously obtain funds from the kingdom's military headquarters.

Although it was in ruins, it also allowed Felenvinoer to rearrange the structure of Serbia and build his own military factories and various civilian factories.

There are also those facilities left over from the South Loya Empire, although some of the structures have been self-destructed, but they have Margarita's and Veroya's here. In the presence of these two knowledgeable men, some of the facilities that failed to self-destruct began to be utilized.

For example, in the coastal area, under the guidance of Margarita and Veroya, Ferennovier has completed the re-operation of a tidal energy generator, greatly reducing the need for steam towers and allowing the money to be invested in other places where the money is needed in large quantities.

However, the military only issued funds to build a defense base to deal with the Imperial forces, so Felianvinoer's side has been in a situation of shortage of funds at present.

Originally, the military department of the kingdom planned to use Serbia to delay Ferenvinoer's own development, and also use the South Loya Empire to further deplete the loyal and Philenovinoer's army.

So it's very difficult to develop your own history here.

There is no way to study the facility kingdom left over from the South Loya Empire, and she doesn't think that Felian Vinoer can make any progress, which is her biggest advantage at the moment.

It's just that the matter of repairing and researching the technology of the South Loya Empire cannot be left to outsiders who cannot be trusted, so Kimchi and Reinhardt both became coolies, including Clevisia, Margarita and Veroja personally went into battle. Occasionally, when she was free, Ferlian Vinoel would come to help herself.

The strength and precision of the model Veroya were inhuman, and it took the family's maintenance team to repair a tidal energy generator that was not too badly damaged in a matter of weeks.

But this generator can't run at full power yet, because the navy assisting in the defense will see it, but there is no guarantee that they will not report it to the naval command, and then let those people in the military department know that they can repair the device of the South Loya Empire on their side.

Kimchi is now working on the restoration of the main control system in a robot soldier factory. Margarita didn't know much about this kind of military equipment, so she needed to rely on Veroya to keep checking it, the ice cube on her head was sublimating at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Hecesia hurriedly used alchemy to rub out new ice cubes and paste them when the ice cubes were almost exhausted.

The plant was terminated in the middle of the self-destruct process because the bombs dropped by the new air force happened to be concentrated in the control room. What was originally a small factory with only three production lines was used to consume excess capacity, and now only one is still intact.

However, this is extremely important to Felenvinoer, as long as they continue to produce robotic soldiers, and then feed them into industrial programs, they can save a lot of labor and increase Serbia's production capacity.

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In the south, the front line between the Duchy of Dunling and the Holy Kingdom.

The hidden forces of both sides are engaged in a fierce battle on the nearby hills, like a magical knight duel.

And the positions of the armies of the two sides are on both sides of the hill, and there is no way to expand the scale of the battle between the two sides until the duel of hidden forces has a result. Now it's basically scouting units checking each other's positions and skirmishes.

The Duchy of Dunling knew that this was not the strongest hidden force in the Holy Kingdom, and that the Knights Templar were trying to kill the Knights of the Round Table by winning by numbers.

Therefore, the upper echelons of the Duchy of Dunling have been urging the Duchy of Gaul to devote their hidden forces to this battle as well.

However, although the Duchy of Gaul is now cooperating with the Duchy of Dunling, the blood feud between the two countries has not been forgotten.

The Bollangon Empire was stabbed in the back by the Duchy of Dunling during the conquest of the Kingdom of Augustus, which led to the defeat of the Battle of Waterloo in the final battle. In the subsequent division of the empire's territory, it was the Duchy of Dunling who was most attentive.

Later, when the Duchy of Gaul was established, the Duchy of Dunling also funded the Mog family and the Cavendish family, the former rulers of the Duchy of the Principality, to fight, and later personally intervened in the establishment of the Duchy of Gaul, and even broke out a ten-year war with the Duchy of Gaul.

The Duchy of Gaul naturally didn't want the Holy Kingdom to break through the Duchy of Dunling and lead the war to its own territory, but it also didn't want the Duchy of Dunling to retreat from this battle, so it had been using various reasons to shirk its own hidden forces.

In addition, the hidden forces of the Duchy of Gaul were relatively weak in their ability to fight abroad, and it was necessary to move the Invalides, which was the leading body of the hidden forces, to the front line in order to give full play to the full strength of the Imperial Guard.

The Invalides and the Knights of the Round Table are different in that the Invalides are a product of the helplessness of the combined army when manpower and material resources are extremely scarce, and it can turn all kinds of materials, whether inorganic or organic, into war machines.

The current Duchy of Gaul used the Invalides to convert all the remains of the soldiers of the Imperial Guard Legion of the Brang Empire, which once swept through Middle-earth, into alchemical war machines, and formed a huge legion with the elite soldiers who had been buried in the Invalides for countless years.

Under the unified dispatch of the Invalides, this group of troops can match the Legion of the Conquering Angels of the Holy Kingdom. However, only in the local area.

Because in addition to the Invalides, a series of conditions are needed to achieve that effect.

Fighting far away naturally weakens the Imperial Guard, and the loss of these soldiers in battle will make the hearts of the principality's higher-ups and especially the Cavendish family, who rule the principality.

However, now that the Knights of the Round Table have not been able to defeat their replica Templars, the defenses could be shaken at any time if these odd numbers of Templars were allowed to storm the defenses.

Maybe the Duchy of Dunling will surrender if it can't hold on, everyone knows that the colony of the Duchy of Dunling has been built very well, and it seems that a colony far away from Middle-earth is a good place to go if there is enough to threaten the navy of the Duchy of the Holy Kingdom.

Eventually, the Duchy of Gaul eventually dispatched the Imperial Guard.