A day after Fort Okaka sent a call for help.

The Imperial Air Force in the sky maintains a huge battle formation in the shape of a hemispherical force, trying its best to fight the Orc Alliance Air Force.

The change from a scattered formation to a concentrated battle formation was to reduce the contact surface with the enemy army, reduce losses, and at the same time create a better output space for the Pegasus archers with long-range capabilities.

After a day of fierce fighting, the number of 150,000 Imperial Air Force casualties was about 20,000, which may not seem like much, but if you count the wounded, the casualty ratio reached a terrifying half.

This is because the average quality of the Imperial Air Force is indeed much higher than that of the Orc Alliance, although there are many smaller flying monsters, but in the eyes of the air knights, they are no different from the birds that peck at people, as long as the formation is maintained, most of the attacks are not lethal.

The real lethality of the other side is the large-sized flying monsters, bipedal wyverns, and manticores, which together are only tens of thousands more than the Imperial Air Force, so the Imperial Sky Knights can fight hard for a day without being defeated.

But the high-intensity air combat made the air knights physically and mentally exhausted, and at first they still had the spare strength to organize several waves of formation changes to charge to relieve the pressure on the ground battlefield, but now they can only barely resist and completely fall into passivity.

The outermost layer of the hemispherical battle array is mainly the dragon knight, which is different from the flying horse with limited weight-bearing capacity, and can carry the knight wearing medium armor, so the protection of the dragon knight is stronger than that of the Pegasus knight.

And the dragon taming also has a certain amount of combat effectiveness, so it's no problem to deal with some small-sized flying monsters.

The most elite dragon training knights in the empire are the dragon knights, this ace air force suffered more than half of the casualties in the war half a year ago, and has not yet recovered its full strength, but they are still the most powerful air force in the empire.

If all the 150,000 air forces of the empire are replaced by the dragon knights of the Dragon Knights, this battle will not be easy to win, and it will be no problem to win it steadily.

However, the Knights of the Dragons have the highest mortality rate of any unit, as they have to deal with the most powerful manticores in the enemy army.

These more than 1,000 manticores are the nightmare of the Imperial Air Force, and every time they attack, if there is no dragon knights to contend with them, they will be able to take the lives of many empty knights with their penetrating tail needles.

Ordinary dragon riders and Pegasus knights are powerless in front of the manticore, and must rely on battle formations to barely protect themselves.

But the key to weakening the enemy is to kill as many manticores as possible, a task that only the Dragon Knights can do.

Outside the hemispherical battle array, a team of ten Dragon Knights was hunting a manticore that had been separated by the main team at the expense of five people.

The twenty dragon knights all wore hook locks, one end fixed to the dragon's body, and the other end in their hands, and threw them at the manticore.

The Manticore is not only deadly, but also very agile. Its wings flapped suddenly, and its massive body suddenly froze in the air, then rolled backwards like a nimble bird, dodging all the hooks.

This is the fifteenth time that the knights have failed, and now the captain knows in his heart that if the hook lock wants to hook the manticore, he must pay a price, just like the price of separating it.

He was about to act as a decoy, but a young knight in the team, who was quicker than him, saw his plan and said loudly: "Captain, you can't do this job, I'll come!" ”

"Nonsense! Why can't I? You listen to my orders and trap it with all your might! The squad leader rebuked.

"It's late, haha. Captain, you know, I'm the most disobedient soldier in the Dragon Knights! The young knight slammed his fist into the dragon taming under him, and the dragon taper was in pain, roared, and rushed in the direction of the young man's traction.

"Bowen, come back! Damn, I'm in such a hurry to be reincarnated! "Bowen is the best shortstop in the squad, and the captain of this rush team can't catch up at all.

"Captain, let Bowen go, anyway...... We're on our way too! Another member of the team advised.

"Don't say anything depressing! The gun is not broken, and the victory or defeat is still unknown! Keep my eyes open and take advantage of the opportunities that Bowen has created! ”

As soon as the squad leader finished speaking, Bowen was already near the manticore, raised his arm, and threw out the hook lock in his hand.

The manticore glanced at Bowen, a disdainful human smile on his face, raised his position slightly to avoid the hook, and poked a needle directly into Bowen's chest.

Bowen sneered, and suddenly pulled the reins, and the dragon's body rose up, just acting as Bowen's shield.

In such a short period of time, the clever Bowen was able to come up with such a way to trap the manticore, hook and lock the feint to lure the enemy, and then use the life of the dragon tamer who had been with him since birth to lock the manticore's tail pin.

As for his own life...... It's best if you can keep it, and you can still play your residual heat in this war, or if you can't keep it, it should be a burial for your dragon training partner.

In the current situation, it seems that Bowen's life is about to be saved, and he still underestimates the power of the manticore.

The tail needle pierced through the dragon's scales almost without pause, piercing through the flesh and bones, and penetrating through the dragon's body. As soon as the manticore succeeded, the scorpion's tail immediately shrank back.

Bowen, who reacted very quickly, turned the riding spear in his hand, vigorously penetrated the scorpion tail, and held the riding spear with both arms, and pressed his body against the scorpion tail.

How to train a dragon is like a keyhole, and Bowen, who is holding a spear, acts as a lock, locking the key of the scorpion tail in the keyhole.

However, the key was fatal, and the killing part was right in front of Bowen.

The tail needle at the tip of the scorpion tail hooked back, and instantly penetrated Bowen's abdomen!

Bowen spat out a mouthful of blood and held the tail needle with one free hand. The paralyzing toxin on the tail needle quickly attacked, Bowen could no longer feel the pain in his abdomen, and at the same time, the heart and lungs, two key organs, were about to strike under the effect of the toxin.

Bowen encouraged all the energy in his body, didn't care about damaging the meridians, and rushed his heart and lungs, so that he would not die on the spot. The boy drew a standard long sword, stabbed it into the scorpion tail with all his strength, and nailed it to the dragon's back.

The scorpion tail just "tied a knot" on the dragon's back, and it couldn't be pulled out again.

The manticore roared repeatedly, and the knights of the Dragon Knights squad heard the pain.

The scorpion tail is very strong and deadly, but it is also the weakness of the manticore, where the nerves are very sensitive, and Bowen's sword and one shot made the manticore suffer.

The Knights didn't waste the opportunity their teammates to sacrifice themselves in vain, and when Bowen locked the Scorpiontail, they immediately threw out the hook lock and fixed the Manticore in mid-air.

The squad leader yelled and led the charge, one shot, two shots...... The sharp spear pierced the body of the manticore, and the sharp sword cut the scorpion's tail to the roots!

"Die!" The squad leader charged head-on and stabbed the manticore in the head.

The manticore only howled weakly, not as violently as it had howled when its tail was broken, and then its eyes lost their brilliance.

The team leader looked down, Bowen, how to train the dragon and Scorpion Tail had not yet landed, and the dead boy Yuan had his eyes open, his body tense as if he was afraid of letting Scorpion Tail slip away if he was afraid of relaxing.

"Bowen, you are the pathfinder of the team, let's help the brothers explore the road below. [Silenced], why are there so many damn manticores? Brothers, there's another one over there, and this time I'll go first! ”

The squad leader leads the remaining dragon knights to besiege the next manticore.

The record of hunting a manticore at the expense of one person can be described as a big profit, but this manticore is only the weakest batch, only the strong body level, otherwise it will not be induced by the main force of the Dragon Knights to be separated.

Most adult manticores are at the level of repentance, and it takes a team of more than 100 people to deal with them, while the manticores of the Beast King level can only be fought by the head and deputy head of the Dragon Knights and a few martial king-level powerhouses.

The problem is that there are more than ten beast-king-level manticores, and there are only four king-level powerhouses in the knights, and the gap can only be filled with human lives.

……

The Imperial Air Force's hemispherical battle formation was like a protective umbrella blocking the sky over Fort Hogaka, but this umbrella had already appeared a loophole, and many flying units had come out of the loophole and launched air strikes on the ground forces.

This was only to add insult to injury for the Imperial soldiers, who were barely able to resist the onslaught of the orc warriors, and soon a group of troops fighting in the ruins of the city walls were killed and wounded from both sides, and the orc army rushed through the walls.

Edrash gasped as he ordered, "Stop shooting at the ground and do your best to eliminate the threat from the air!" Don't waste time on the Abyssal Beast, don't waste time on the Abyssal Beast, aim for the Thundertooth Beast and the Stonehorn Beast for me! Heavy cavalry dispatched and crushed the orcs over the wall! ”

One order after another was given to carry out, and the battle situation was kept from collapsing quickly, and Edrache poured several bottles of various potions in a row, and finally recovered some of his state.

He had been fighting hard with the Abyssal Beast for nearly a day, his armor was shattered and blood-stained, and he couldn't support it after all, and Brandon replaced him in disregard of his instructions, and was fighting with the Abyss Beast.

Edrash looked at the violent swordsmanship of the apprentice who was quite satisfactory to him, shook his head and sighed, "It's really old, not even that stinky boy." However, Brandon is not an opponent of the Abyssal Beast, which is a problem. "Strange Book House

Of course, this was not the only thing that troubled the old marshal.

The three Imperial Saints who faced the Three Martial Saints of the Giants were actually beheaded by one of them!

"Little Man" Regul, a mutant giant who is only half the height of an ordinary giant, is very strong, and he finds an opportunity to kill with one blow while deliberately hiding his strength.

Without the opponent's resistance, Regul rushed left and right on the battlefield, as if in a no-man's land, and even crossed the city wall several times to attack the fragile magician troops and mechanical troops in the rear, which was extremely arrogant.

Thankfully, perhaps out of the pride of the Giants, he didn't join forces with other giants to attack the Imperial Saint-level powerhouse, otherwise Erwin and the others would have to shrink back and expose the walls to the powerful giants.

Edrache looked up and saw that the crimson manticore and the black-brown dragon were still entangled, and that Calcas's plan to take the boss directly was not going well.

"Boom!"

The half of the city wall that was still standing collapsed a large part of it under the ferocious impact of the Stonehorn Beast King, who was not restrained by the Holy Level. Several giants rushed up, picked up the huge rods in their hands, and opened the gap completely.

The situation is getting worse and worse, and the empire's combat power really can't keep up, and if it continues like this, it will collapse in half a day.

At that time, even if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives to exchange time, it will be delayed for a few days at most, after all, the number of orcs is even larger.

Edracher decided to take the initiative to make a change.