Volume I: Battle of Iasi 0031 Long-Range Strike
A series of requests were conveyed to Shougong, and Welling secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
The unknown is the most terrifying, once the enemy is really discovered, it is not so nervous.
He did not ask for the withdrawal of the small fixed-wing aircraft, but instead brought the aircraft closer to the reconnaissance.
Even if the support of the Imperial system does not arrive in time, at least the aircraft will detect the enemy's whereabouts from a longer distance, giving the group more time to escape.
Wan Tong, Wu Wu, and Yun Zhou immediately hid in the bushes in accordance with the requirements of the standard regulations, and took a kind of mountain forest camouflage fabric from the side of the palace guard, covered their bodies, and did a good job of battlefield camouflage.
Wan Tong and Wuwu's movements flowed smoothly, showing that there was no miscontrol in the slightest.
The control of the cloud axis was a bit flustered, apparently due to inexperience and nervousness, which took more time.
Yun Zhou disguised himself and fell to the ground, unable to help but gently hold the black stone bead he wore on his chest.
It was an ordinary stone bead that I picked up many years ago when I was still very young, and I don't know where it came from.
The beads are made of something similar to obsidian, threaded through a thin high-strength fiber string and worn on the body, which is one of the few childhood toys of the cloud axis.
While waiting for the system's instructions, Welling was guessing what to do in Iasi.
After all, the other party has not yet penetrated into the support of the enchantment system, and perhaps the empire will send a more powerful team to encircle and suppress this enemy team.
However, the boundary of the enchantment is not the boundary of the empire's territory, and the other party has obviously crossed the border.
It's just that Welling still has a question, judging from the current image, the enemy seems to want to build a camp on the periphery, what is the purpose of this?
The wait was nowhere near as long as Welling had imagined, for a moment later he had already heard the screams that swept overhead.
Looking up, there are only hundreds of trails left in the sky, which have been swept by rockets, missiles, and other precision strike weapons, and the ballistic trajectory has disturbed the air.
Welling instantly turned his attention to the rotary-wing aircraft's detection screen.
In the midst of the lightning and fire, hundreds of rockets and missiles had reached the predetermined coordinates, like lightning flashes, rushing towards the opponent's camp.
The warning facilities in the Xixuan camp had already detected the air attack long before the missiles arrived, and several small air defense phalanxes were already spitting out tongues of fire.
Directed energy weapons and magnetic storm devices all over the camp emitted rays of light, arranging almost the entire sky above the camp into a dense grid to intercept sudden air raids.
Most of the rockets and missiles had been blown up in the air before they landed, and countless debris slowly fell with fire.
On the ground, the enemy had long been hidden, and the mechanical locusts that were jumping and swimming could not be seen.
Because almost all the mechanical locusts are in a squatting posture, aiming their mouthparts at the sky, and firing weapons at high speed lock onto the incoming missiles and rockets one by one, and spit out tongues of fire.
Judging from the real-time footage, the missiles and rockets of the Imperial air raid were almost completely destroyed, and the purpose of the air raid was not achieved at all.
However, the accident happened after the missiles and rockets that were blown up.
A small number of tiny black dots mixed in the cluster of rockets and missiles, their small size and faster speed, are simply not able to shield the air defense forces of the Xixuan camp.
It was the most traditional shell, and the conventional warhead emitted by the new supercannon and howitzer, with a range of more than three hundred kilometers.
Some howitzers were mixed with submunitions, guided shells, incendiary shells and chemical shells.
Almost no loss of these shells fell on the predetermined ground area!
In the image of the fixed-wing aircraft, the area of focus is almost a violent sea of fire.
Almost all of the armored huts were turned into shards that had been violently lifted apart, scattered in all directions.
Covered in flames, the enemy fled in a chaotic cry, hoping to escape from the range of the attack.
The greatest result of this wave of traditional artillery attacks was the phalanx, directed energy, and magnetic storm weapons fixed in the corners of the camp, which were almost swept away.
However, it wasn't over, and just as Welling was regretting that the mechanical locusts didn't seem to have been devastated, a late missile appeared in his sight.
The missile, which was probably the last to be launched, successfully evaded the interception of ground air defenses, and with an unimaginable smoothness, reached its target, crashed into the center of the camp, and exploded with a bang.
The power of the initial explosion doesn't seem to be too great.
The blazing explosion tore everything in the center to pieces, forming a crimson hemisphere that could be discerned by all eyes, and that hemisphere seemed to be filled with even more devastating energy.
Just tens of thousandths of a second later, an even more violent explosion occurred.
This second explosion turned a radius of several hundred meters into an even larger sea of hellfire.
However, it was not over yet, after the second explosion, the debris in a radius of several hundred meters seemed to shrink abruptly towards the center.
In that thousandth of a second, all the surrounding air seemed to be sucked violently!
The fuel-rich products produced after the second explosion, together with the preset powders mixed with aluminum, boron, silicon, titanium, magnesium, zirconium, etc., led to a third, more violent and widespread explosion.
The explosion produced a high-pressure shock wave that lasted for several seconds, and the burning area also expanded to a radius of five hundred meters.
A mushroom cloud of dark red and black clouds rose in sight.
Thermobaric bomb, the legendary thermobaric bomb!
With Welling's eyesight, he could only see that the few mechanical locusts left on the outskirts of the camp had not been completely powdered, but had turned into countless stumps and thrown in all directions.
Is this the power of thermobaric bombs?
Welling was secretly vigilant in his heart, in the face of such a thermobaric bomb second only to a nuclear explosion, no matter how powerful a warlock was, it was estimated that he would be able to hold on for a second and then disappear.
According to the information currently available, thermobaric bombs are already the most extreme weapons that can be used in the world, and all super strategic weapons such as nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs are not allowed to be used.
However, the empire actually used thermobaric bombs for such a small enemy camp!
Is this necessary?
What does this mean?
Could it be that the Empire has become so arrogant or cowardly?
Welling had too many doubts in his mind, but there was not much information to support his predictions and judgments.
Faintly, Welling had a guess in his heart.
Perhaps enemy camps like this already exist in large numbers throughout the northwest, west, and southwest of Iasi.
The Western Xuan Federation is weaving a defensive line or a strangling front, and when the time comes, it will fully pounce on Iasi County.
Only such dozens or hundreds of points are arranged in a line, forming a real threat of encroachment, which can lead the empire to make a strategy of violently demolishing the points, and then sending some squads to break them.
Without waiting for Welling to further analyze the possibility of this "killing chickens with a knife" strategy, the system information was sent to several people's minds through the platform of the palace guard:
Evaluate the results of air strikes, and in the case of eliminating danger, you can consider cleaning the battlefield and looking for useful information.
In the footage from the aircraft, the area under the air attack slowly calmed down, and there were no living characters or moving facilities except for some rising smoke.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, Welling once again confirmed that there should be no more danger in that area, and then ordered Shougong to report the enchantment, and sent back all the captured air raid images, and decided to clean up the battlefield.
With Welling's common sense of the power of thermobaric bombs, he didn't think there would be much danger at the scene.
Once decided, the group quickly moved towards the target, and the overhead detection aircraft was in the forefront, giving Welling a clear image of the decision.
After about half an hour of rapid marching, several people reached the area of the air strike.
The entire area that was attacked by the air bomb had been bombarded into a depression with a diameter of about 500 meters.
There are still some bare trees on the periphery, emitting sporadic smoke from residual fires, all leaning towards the periphery without exception.
Countless charred, blackened, mutilated metal lumps and charred limbs littered the entire area.
There was silence all around, except for the slight footsteps of a few people marching forward on guard, scanning around.
Welling's eyes were slightly closed, and his divine sense analyzed all the subtle movements in the Source Spirit World.
The further you go inside, the smoother the ground becomes.
In some places, it can already be seen that vitreous rocks and metal flows are mixed together after being instantly melted by ultra-high temperatures.
There are also some black, disfigured and other traces.
These things are mottled, but they shine in the skylight with glass and metal, like an eerie abstract painting.
"Cloud axis, calm down, the enemy may not all be dead!"
Seeing that the "Bobcat Type IV" controlled by the cloud axis was somewhat deformed, Welling reminded him.
Taking a breath of slightly strange air, Welling glanced around at the mirror-smooth battlefield and calmly commanded:
"Scatter around and search, and guard the palace in the center of the guard.
Others collect pieces of enemy equipment, especially the mechanical locusts. ”
As soon as the order was given, Welling walked towards the periphery of the blast point.
Near the explosion point, almost everything is melted and mixed together, and there is nothing of value at all.
Only a few samples of damaged materiel remained on the periphery for analysis by the Imperial military.
The divine consciousness was released, and the mind scanned everything around him.
Welling found that his current divine sense scanning range had exceeded two hundred meters, which was nearly twice the distance he had found at night when he had first made his patrol.
Just as Welling was secretly analyzing, a sharp pain like a pinprick suddenly appeared in his eyebrows, and a feeling of deadly threat came to his heart!
"There are remnants! Alert! Attack! ”
Welling only had time to send a warning message to his companions before his body collapsed to the ground on his right.
As a Wisdom Warlock and Origin Warlock, he had already instantly judged that he was locked by the enemy's "Sure to Hit" spell.
The opponent is a Golden Spirit Warlock, and he has already used a large-caliber firearm to attack!
The opponent did not take the lead in attacking Wan Tong, Wu Wu and Yun Axis, and also judged that he was wearing a warlock robe in the team and was the most threatening.
Welling's body was only less than thirty centimeters to the right, and a bullet with a caliber of up to 20 mm had already arrived!
At that moment, Welling felt as if the whole world had come to a standstill, and the high-speed spinning bullet, emitting fiery energy, broke through the blocked air, and with a deadly precision, struck the shoulder socket of Welling's left shoulder.
If Welling hadn't poured to the right without hesitation, this bullet would have hit him directly in the face!
In the ten-thousandths of a second before the bullet hit his shoulder socket, Welling had latched onto the bullet, and a rusty spell was attached.
At the same time, a water shield spell and a wood spirit's body protection technique were also applied to his body simultaneously.
Although Wei Ling didn't expect that he would be able to instantly perform three spells in such a short period of time, he understood that it was far from enough.
Because he sensed that his body had been overturned by a tremendous force, and he heard the sonic boom of the bullet shattering the spell shield, and also heard the muffled sound of hitting the shoulder socket!
He felt his body, which had been swept away by the great force, falling backwards to the ground at a faster speed, and the sharp pain had been transmitted to his brain.
However, Welling did not hear the sound of bones breaking, nor did he hear the tearing of muscles and tendons, which gave him confidence in that moment.
He didn't deliberately adjust his unbalanced body, but in such a short time, through the direction of the bullet's attack, he captured the approximate location of the enemy.
It was on the outskirts of the explosion point, next to a rock bunker six hundred meters away, that Welling spotted the protruding barrel and the subtle tremor of the barrel!