Chapter 678: Aerial Bombardment
The army of dark elves who had evacuated the camp overnight looked a little embarrassed, and simply retreated directly to the city they occupied in the rear.
By the time they arrived in the city area, it was already a few days later in the morning, and the sky was just dawning, and the distant sky was white.
Vegeta, who hadn't been able to sleep for several days, had bloodshot eyes, but his agitation made him sleepy.
In that battle, the wounded and undead dark elf soldiers showed various adverse symptoms in the next few days, and considering the possibility that those bad symptoms might spread, Vegeta directly carved out a quarantine area overnight, and pulled up a blockade, temporarily placing all the wounded soldiers in the quarantine area.
At this time, on the beds in the isolation area, large burned areas appeared on the bodies of the dark elf soldiers, which looked simply shocking.
Bursts of irrepressible wails continued to pour into everyone's ears, further destroying his will.
On the next hospital bed, a badly wounded, ugly-looking Dark Elf soldier suddenly coughed violently, as if he was about to carve out his lungs.
After that, a large mouthful of blood came out of his mouth, and its face turned very pale.
Seeing this, a group of medics and dark elf mages who accompanied the army hurriedly ran over and began to rescue the dark elf soldier.
Because of the size of the population, the elves attach great importance to every soldier of their clan, and the dark elves are naturally no exception.
Therefore, for these wounded soldiers, they naturally have to do their best to treat them.
In the face of the wounded soldier in front of him, whose injuries had deteriorated severely, ordinary healing methods were obviously useless, and the dark elf mage began to chant incantations.
This is the unique spell of the Dark Elves, Blood Healing!
With the chanting of the incantation, a spell of light surged, and soon enveloped the dark elf soldier inside.
As time passed, the dark elf soldier's face who was bathed in the light of the spell also changed a lot, and his face, which was originally distorted by pain, had also been soothed.
Although the Dark Elves' blood healing techniques are much less effective than the Wood Elves' serious healing spells, it is undeniable that the blood healing technique is useful for the adverse symptoms of the Dark Elf soldiers.
Vegeta, who received the report, also breathed a sigh of relief, but her face was still not good-looking.
If that symptom could only be cured by spells, then the consumption of those dark elf mages in his army would probably become quite large.
Thinking of this, he quickly turned his head to look at his lieutenant and asked, "How many magic crystals are left when we come out this time?"
"Report General, according to the latest statistics, there are two thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven."
Hearing this, Vegeta nodded and said, "Distribute those magic crystals and let the mages speed up the recovery of mana."
"Yes!"
Don't look at the nearly 3,000 magic crystals, it seems like a lot, but you must know that among their dark elf army, it is not only the dark elf mages who need to consume magic crystals.
For example, those magic ballistas are also weapons that require magic crystals as energy sources.
With less than three thousand magic crystals, it is actually a bit insufficient.
In the entire elf clan, the physical fitness of the dark elves is much stronger than that of other elves, and at the same time, unlike other elf branches, due to the relatively harsh living environment of the dark elves, their physical resistance is not low.
Among them, the poison resistance is quite considerable.
After all, with them, there are also poisonous things like the Hydra.
This time, the Dark Elf soldiers had bad symptoms, which came from the toxicity of the white phosphorus bomb.
Generally, the dark elf soldiers who are less poisoned basically only need to cooperate with the medical soldiers to carry out some detoxification measures to recover. And those who are poisoned more severely black
The Dark Elf Soldier will have to rely on the Blood Healing Technique of the Dark Elf Mage to assist him.
Regardless, Vegeta was greatly relieved that he didn't need to rely entirely on the results of the blood healing technique.
Otherwise, based on that number, his mage troops might have to consume how many magic crystals they would have to consume to cure all those soldiers.
If that's the case, the cost is too great.
It takes time for the soldiers under his command to recover, and it takes time to wait for reinforcements.
In this way, in the following period of time, the army of dark elves, who have been attacking fiercely and fighting strongly, has become much more low-key.
But Jacob Alfonso clearly had no intention of keeping them safe, and as soon as the Dark Elf army retreated, he gave the order to march on the back foot.
Looking at the city in front of them, they had no scruples, and directly used white phosphorus bombs to launch round after round of bombing.
Anyway, long before that, their people had all been moved to the rear, and there were only enemies in that city.
However, in urban areas, there are too many bunkers, and if the guys dodge in various buildings, the threat posed to them by white phosphorus bombs will be greatly reduced.
In response, Jacob Alfonso, who arrived directly at the front and personally directed the battle in the rear through radio communication equipment, gave the order to throw napalm.
White phosphorus bombs and napalm are actually a type of incendiary bombs, but the attack form is different, so it is suitable for different situations.
Along with his order, five airships with a size of about thirty or forty meters appeared in the sky.
This is also the result of Jacob Alfonso's explosive technology in recent years.
However, his airship is quite rudimentary in all aspects, after all, unlike the field of thermal weapons, which has many years of research experience, flying vehicles are a completely new field, so the difficulty of research and development is far more difficult than imagined.
It is not easy to produce results now.
The airship loaded with aerial bombs flew slowly over the city, but it looked a little overwhelmed, and it was obvious that its power was obviously insufficient.
However, this is not actually the biggest flaw of the airship.
The biggest flaw of the five airships that Jacopo Alfonso improvised was that they could only last less than 24 hours at a maximum and at a limited altitude.
As a result, Jacopo Alfonso had to set up multiple supply stations along the airship's flight path, so that the airship could land in time and carry out supply maintenance.
And this also makes the operation efficiency of the airship greatly reduced, and at the same time, the concealment is extremely poor.
This time, this improvised hole card was opened, and Jacob Alfonso obviously wanted to hit the army of dark elves before Hydra arrived!
For this reason, he is even mentally prepared to scrap a city.
Taking into account the battles that followed, this was also a necessary loss.
Five slow-moving airships slowly flew over the city, and at this moment, a large number of harpies flew out of the city.
Vegeta, who wasn't going to sit still, didn't plan to let the five human flying vehicles fly above his head.
Before that, he's going to take down those five airships!
With a burst of piercing screams, a large number of harpies quickly approached, and Jacopo Alfonso, who had already considered this situation, also equipped a small group of infantry in the pod of the airship, specially used to shoot and kill the approaching harpies.
However, there are too many Harpys, and the number of infantry in the airship pods is limited.
The harpies quickly approached with the flying bullets, screaming as they swung their claws on their legs and grabbed at the airship's airbags.
For the surface of the airbag, Jacob Alfonso uses a rather tough material, but the talons of the Harpy are not vegetarian.
At the moment of crossing the surface of the airbag, the airbag of the airship was torn open in an instant, and a large amount of gas leaked out of the gap.
This attack, no doubt to some extent, had an impact on the airships in flight.
The pod below shook violently, and it looked like it was about to lose its balance, but fortunately, the airbag inflation was continuous, and the gas was constantly replenished.
Although the opening on the airbag will increase the burden on the airship, and at the same time make the airship unstable during flight, if you think that you want him to crash like this, it is a bit too much.
His airship is not yet so fragile.
Behind the battlefield, Jacopo Alfonso looked through the telescope at the five airships flying trembling in the air, and couldn't help but sweat because of this.
The current situation depends on whether the harpy attack on the opposite side is stronger, or whether the quality of his airship is hard enough.
I saw that the five airships in the sky, in the face of the crazy attacks of the harpy banshees, slowly flew over the city.
As the bomb silo at the bottom of the pod opened, napalm bombs were dropped.
With the roar of the explosion, the raging firelight carried the billowing smoke and swept wildly.
In just a few breaths, the area that was bombed had turned into a raging sea of fire. z.br>
Billowing smoke continued to fill the city, and at this time, the smoke and dust were thick enough to suffocate people.
And it was in such a terrifying sea of fire, with a burst of spell light suddenly lit up, a dark elf mage scattered everywhere, maintaining a shield, and rushed out of the sea of fire with a large number of dark elf soldiers in the city.
Although the outer shield can isolate the direct damage of flames and explosions, it cannot isolate the temperature.
The terrifying high temperature outside directly turned their shields into ovens, and if they stayed here, they were afraid that they would really become barbecue meat inside the oven, and they would be directly baked to death by this high temperature.
Not daring to relax for a moment, the sweaty dark elf soldiers gritted their teeth and protected the dark elf mages who were holding up their shields and kept fleeing towards the sea of fire.
During this period, in the sky, the airship that had completed the bomb dropping mission spontaneously combusted and crashed under the continuous attacks of the Harpy.
Jacob Alfonso, who was located in the rear, saw this scene, and it can be said that his flesh hurt to death.
Unexpectedly, the airship that he had built with great difficulty directly became a one-time consumable.
The only thing that could give him comfort was that the five airships had completed the bombing mission.
Let the fire burn for a while, and when the fire was slightly controlled, he ordered again to let his army extinguish the fire and enter the city area to carry out a search and encirclement.
Throughout the search, they found nearly 400 charred corpses.
The corpses were burned beyond recognition under the terrifying heat of napalm, and even some of their morphological features were burned.
From a distance, it looks like a black charcoal.
However, the casualty figure was far smaller than Jacopo Alfonso had anticipated.
However, considering the strength of the dark elves, these more than four hundred dark elf soldiers are estimated to be comparable to the strength of two or three thousand human beings.
Of course, an algorithm like this is his approximate estimate, because if you want to make a detailed calculation, you first have to confirm the opponent's class.
Dark Elf Mage, Dark Elf Crossbowman, Dark Elf Artillery, Dark Knight Warrior, Black Knight, and a whole bunch of other different classes, each of which has a different value.
If you succeed in destroying the opponent's high-level troops, you will definitely make a lot of money.
But according to Jacob Alfonso's thoughts, these more than 400 corpses are estimated to be the level of low-level miscellaneous soldiers.
As a result, his current mood is actually more delicate.
But he's got the city back.
With this in mind, his gaze swept over the city that had been devastated by him with white phosphorus bombs and napalm, and Jacopo Alfonso's mood suddenly became more subtle.
But, since they have all reached this point, what else can he do besides continuing to march.
The army continued to advance, while the army of the dark elves, which had been attacked one after another, fought and retreated.
After many battles with Jacopo Alfonso's army, the city behind them was now the port city that they had first captured.
On this continuous retreat, Vegeta's face remained solemn.
At this moment, both of them are actually clear about the other's purpose.
Jacob Alfonso wanted to inflict heavy damage on the Dark Elves on the front lines before Hydra arrived, paving the way for the battle to follow.
The Dark Elf army, on the other hand, wants to preserve its combat strength as much as possible before Hydra arrives, avoid fighting head-on with Jacob Alfonso's army, and accumulate strength for the subsequent attack.
The actions of both sides with different goals eventually evolved into the current situation.
However, if they continue to retreat like this, they will soon have no way out of the port city.
At the same time, this port city, they must not give up.
Because of this expedition, most of their supplies were hoarded here, and then transported to the front line in batches.
If the port city is hit, their losses will be too heavy.
Thinking of this, Vegeta's heart suddenly rose with the idea of fighting two strong battles with the other party and rubbing the sharp spirit of the human army.
After all, he can't always let the other side do whatever he wants, although this is a strategy, but fighting and retreating like this still has a great impact on the army under his command.
If it continues like this, I am afraid that morale will be low, which will not be conducive to the subsequent battle.
As the idea arose, Vegeta changed tactics accordingly.