Master, those who can hang a golden spike line are not ordinary characters, and it is easy to overcome obstacles all the way. Such characters, expecting them to be like big-headed soldiers, being instructed by aristocratic officers, is really thinking too much.

Therefore, as long as the daily drills meet the standards and there are no violations of military discipline, the officers and nobles who serve as captains will turn a blind eye. It is even more impossible to spur a whole shipload of magicians to be on 100 per cent alert at all times, as if they were in a state of war. Those officers and aristocrats can't do it themselves!

That's why, when there is a strange noise, the whole boat is unaware.

The Ship Chopper is essentially just a chainsaw, and at most the material of the sawtooth is very special. With dragon scales as sawtooth, coupled with high-speed operation, it can be said that if you purely compete with the hardness of the material, even if it is a magic material, there is no ship cutter that can't be sawed.

The magic shield can hold up for a while, but only for a while. The dragon scales themselves have magical attributes, in short, they have the characteristics of demon breaking and magic resistance. The low-level magic shield is similar to the paper lake's, and the high-level magic shield can last a little longer.

Since it's a chainsaw, it takes some time to see something. In the past, the ship slashing knife had the performance of sharpening iron like clay, purely because the target was too weak to withstand the high-speed cutting of the dragon scale serrations, so it was able to cut through again and again.

But what would happen if the target was replaced by the keel of the hull, the most important and sturdiest part of the entire airship?

Just spend more time. Again, there is no tangible substance in the maze, which cannot be cut by a ship-chopping knife.

Therefore, the dragoon troops of Princess Kono, led by her cronies, the dragon knight Mangadu, took advantage of the thick fog and flew to the bottom of the five airships. They will choose this position instead of attacking from the upper deck or the side hull, for one reason, directly below is the blind spot for the airship to observe, which is conducive to their troubles and delays the time of detection.

The dragoons of the three squadrons did not carry the traditional weapon - the dragon lance, but carried a ship-chopping knife that did not attack long enough.

The dragon lance is good for diving attacks, and with the bonus of speed, it has good power. However, the tactics that can be applied to the sword that is not long enough are very different from the traditional dragoons. So all of them, with uneasiness, followed the order and took their places.

Ten to thirty wyverns were gathered underneath each airship, their claws not able to break through the airship's hull, but they were able to barely cling to it. As soon as the body was fixed, everyone didn't care how awkward their posture was, or whether it was difficult to exert force when hanging upside down, they activated the ship slashing knife one after another, and slashed at the hull of the airship.

Those who can cut the keel of the airship will cut the keel, and those who can't squeeze into the position will attack other places. In short, as long as it can be hung on the hull of the airship, no one is idle.

The reason why not all of them are on the same board is simply because the area of the airship's hull is not that large. In addition, they deliberately avoided the position in the boat where the magician could launch a magic attack, and only picked the blind corner, so there were a large number of dragoons flying underneath the airship, ready to fill the vacant slots at any time.

The sturdy airship hull was not enough to withstand the cutting of the ship's blade. However, the damage caused by the Slasher is not insignificant compared to the hull of the airship, nor is it an immediate fatal injury. At least the dragoons had opened several gaps in the airship, and the people inside still didn't notice.

Although these injuries did not cause immediate harm to the airship, they still partially reduced the performance of the airship. In the formation of five airships, some of them slowed down and broke away from the formation; There are also those that are abnormally low in height or inclined. But these changes are slow, and the occupants in them will not feel it for a while.

But Mangado's dragoon detachment was still discovered. Because as time passed, the fog condensed in the early morning gradually dissipated, and the airship whose altitude was reduced, the observer above saw that in the formation, there were dense flying dragons hanging upside down directly below the other airships, and dozens of them were flying; And there are people riding on top of the dragon.

Seeing this scene, how could the Airship Legion, which was an old rival, not know who the other party was. Immediately, the alarm bell rang throughout the boat, and even passed on to the other four airships.

It didn't take much time to confirm the cause of the alarm. As long as you are not blind, you can see that the dragoons of the Karlsruhe Empire are doing something. The airship with the reduced altitude, the captain also reasonably guessed that there was also such a group below his airship. It's just that the dragoons are hiding in the blind corners of the magicians' field of vision, so they didn't find out in advance.

As two sides in a state of war, there is no need for warning to start fighting. When the mage troops stand on the side side, it is directly a series of magic attacks, such as wind blades, fireballs, and ice picks, and they can use whatever they are good at, and the most important thing is to drive away the flies under their colleagues first! When they have their hands free, they can naturally rescue themselves.

However, Mangadu did not hesitate, and as soon as he was discovered, he pulled people and ran away without looking back. Maybe the flying dragon won't be strong enough to fight the air fortress-like airship, but if you really want to run, you can't catch up with the speed of a traditional airship. So with the exception of a few unlucky guys, a few spells, and wounds, the three squadrons of dragoons all fled back to the Karlsruhe Imperial garrison.

This air encounter, of course, fell into the eyes of front-line observers. However, due to the distance, although I saw the battle situation, I didn't see many details.

At first, everyone only thought that this battle was like a dragoon running over to say hello to the airship, and there was no real result. At least the dragoons didn't sacrifice much, and they were the only result to be thankful for.

But as time passed, the observers who were hiding on the front line and staring closely at the fortress felt that something was wrong. Under normal circumstances, airships transporting supplies leave after handing over the cargo. At most, it will take some more time to wait for some personnel to change guards, or for the wounded who are ready to retreat to board the boat. But they all get off the ground before dark and make their way back.

But this time, after the five airships fell to the ground, they were not seen to rise again. In such a situation, of course, the first time to report to the general of the command.

Suddenly, the entire Oz Plains, the garrison manor on the Karlsruhe side moved, because they had to guard against airships joining the local battle! The ground forces faced off against the airship, and that was a situation of pure beating. What you can do is to reduce the loss of people and property as much as possible.

In this process, of course, some people were dissatisfied with the dragoon team brought by the Empress Kono to provoke the airship formation on the opposite side. Even through the forum, the matter here was conveyed to the rear of the empire at the first time.

There are many political implications for doing so. Those who regarded Kono as an enemy were relieved, and those who were to see if the princess was worthy of support retreated. They may not have explicitly expressed their refusal, but the hand that was about to extend the olive branch still retracted quietly, and at most they said a few more beautiful words.

But a day, two days, three days passed, and it was only when the second wave of airship formations came that Karlsruhe noticed that this time there was an anomaly, which was not the same as in the past.

The day's fleet of airships did not arrive in the early morning, and it was not the usual formation of five airships, but increased to eight airships, which were still the latest models. They are not horizontal formations, but divided into two groups, one high and one low. And after completing the transport task, also leave before dark. Eight ships came, and eight ships left.

What about the original five?

The plain of Oz is a battlefield, and of course the two warring sides have spies for each other. The Karlsruhe Empire immediately mobilized its own hidden spies to gather information about airships.

And after paying the price of exposing several undercover personnel, they finally came up with a sentence: the five airships were seriously damaged and could not continue the mission.

Although there is no modern army like Earth, and a detailed combat report must be written for a mission, Mangado's three dragoon squadrons still informed the generals in charge of the Oz Plains theater of operations. And their first thought is not to believe.

According to the dragoons, they used their swordblades to cut the keels of five airships, and to inflict varying degrees of damage on the hulls underneath the hulls. But no one but their own can confirm such a result; And it is impossible to judge what strategic advantage such a result can bring.

What's the use of killing someone? It only works if you kill or maim people!

Similarly, how many holes are cut into the shell of the airship? Blow it up, capture it, or kill all the people on board!

This is the original idea of the generals who are in charge of command.

However, when the news came back that the airship was badly damaged and could not continue flying, they realized the value of the dragoons with the sword.

Originally, the only way they dealt with airships was to send flying troops to force boarding the ships and then rely on soldiers to fight in the airships. Kill all the opposing magicians, or invade to the lowest level and destroy the airship's floating device to destroy a airship.

And what is the battle loss ratio in between? According to the Karlsruhe Empire's past combat examples, it usually took one or two flying groups to defeat an airship. In the worst-case scenario, it would take 2,000 people plus flying mounts to get an airship plus 100 people.

The reason for such a disparity in battle damage is that the flying units do not have a strong enough attack to destroy the flying fortress - the airship. Since it is a fortress, the combatants have no way to destroy the building, and if they want to win, they have to find a way to kill all the people inside.

And because if you want to attack the boarder, you have to avoid the bombardment of the magician first, and the internal passage of the airship itself is not an open terrain, so the battle in many places can only be carried out by filling in the way of human life. Under all kinds of unfavorable factors, every time an airship is broken, it is a great price to do.

What if there was a way to directly attack the airship itself, which is equivalent to the fortress, today, instead of fighting the boarding battle? There will inevitably be a major reshuffle in the pattern of the two sides' operational advantages and inferiorities. Everyone has to think of new tactics, to adapt to new weapons, and to deal with the tactics developed by new weapons.