On the morning of 19 July, the coalition fleet, which had been reconnoitering the coast for several days, finally moved. In the brilliant light cast by the morning sun, the steel giants of the sea that were dyed golden broke through the waves, discharged a neat formation and rushed straight to the direction of the land with the momentum of Mount Tai. On the surface decks of the several aircraft carriers that remained in place, a large number of warplanes also let out a deafening roar, and the fish jumped into the air one after another, hovering above the heads of the attacking fleet, covering the sky and the sun, and even people's souls could not help but tremble.

"Is this what you call a 'massive exploratory attack'?" William said speechlessly on the bridge of the Dawn, pointing to the grand, exaggerated field outside the porthole facing Elysia sitting on the main seat, "How do you look at it, it looks like a formal attack!?"

Alicia tilted her head and glanced at William slightly, then pouted lightly and said, "Don't get excited, Brother William. It was indeed a tentative offensive, as I did not send a landing force. Later, the fleet will cooperate with the fighters to carry out fire strikes on coastal targets, and make a posture of preparing for landing after suppressing firepower. As long as the ground forces are not deployed, it is a fire strike, and once the ground forces are dispatched, it is a formal landing operation. It's hard to tell the difference between the two, and the demons can't figure out if we're going to attack or not, so they're going to defend with all their might. And that's exactly what I wanted. ”

Imrith, who was standing beside the little queen, suddenly lit up a light bulb on her head, and suddenly beat her palms and said, "I see." The coalition fleets have all arrived on the shores of the Land of Despair, and there is no demonic navy to meet them, indicating that the strength of the other side is completely inferior to ours. The only option is to hide, but it is not possible to avoid the battle, so the enemy must be waiting for the coalition to take the initiative and then cooperate with land and air forces to resist and gradually weaken the coalition forces. Buy time for their final battle weapons. In other words, no matter where the demon's army is hiding, it will all come out when the battle begins. Sister-sama, are you trying to find out the details of the other party through this tentative attack?"

"yes, that's pretty much it. Alicia smiled and nodded slightly, "The fleet is far from the coast to launch artillery bombardment, and the fighters come and go freely, and the weapon advantage determines that the coalition forces do not need to have large-scale frontal contact with the demon's massive cannon fodder troops to launch a fierce attack on the enemy." Other words. If those bats don't have a special killer weapon, we can plow the coast into a scorched earth with powerful firepower and then send out ground troops to land slowly. But apparently that is impossible, and the enemy must have prepared something. ”

And the purpose of this battle is to induce the other party to use the killer weapon in advance. Right?" William finally understood everything at this time, and said with his hand on his forehead in a cold sweat, "The demon is not sure whether this is a simple firepower attack or a regular landing operation, so most of them will use all their strength as soon as they come up, and although the coalition forces seem to be powerful." However, the key air warships, as well as high-level troops such as dragons and fallen angels, were not dispatched. Has a strong backhand ability. As soon as a large force of the enemy appears on the battlefield, you can launch a second wave of offensive to eat them all, and then take advantage of the situation to make a real show and turn a tentative attack into a real landing operation. Well, Alicia, you win. ”

"I haven't won yet. The blonde girl touched the bridge of her nose and looked out of the porthole and muttered, "And don't forget that this place has been transformed into their base camp by the demons, and God knows what kind of lavish greeting await us - maybe a tower of sacrifice closer to the coast would be a good choice?"

The Tower of Sacrifice is definitely an out-of-spec law-level strategic weapon. It's not an exaggeration to say it's a bug. Tyranmere was attacked by coalition air forces before it was completed, so everyone's understanding of this thing is still stuck in the written word. I haven't experienced it myself. Hetshetier, the only one she'd seen in the Land of Despair, was still asleep, and she threw a map cannon at the time, and she probably didn't have much real feeling......

If the demon didn't set up this kind of law weapon in his lair, she wouldn't believe that he had killed Alicia. While it's unclear whether Ulrik, who is now in a state of flux, will be able to activate the Tower of Sacrifice without the support of the demon's hometown of Dronsha, or for how long, it is a terrible threat that makes the little queen feel like she is in her throat.

"Don't worry too much about that. The mercury lamp, which was holding a bottle of yogurt not far away, suddenly said lightly, "That thing will only greatly increase the vitality and energy of cannon fodder, but it will not increase defense, so there is nothing to be afraid of." Think about it carefully, those massive low-level monsters and transformed monsters are all melee combat, and each BUFF blessing provided by the Tower of Sacrifice needs to consume ten cannon fodder of the same kind, which determines that their number will not be very large, as long as you use fierce long-range firepower to kill the opponent before they get closer, isn't it OK? And even if these hunting strange crawls and rushes in front of the ground forces of the coalition forces, what if the infantry can't beat it, don't we still have the Tiger King tank. The current coalition army is no longer the weaker person who was chased back then!"

[The mercury lamp is indeed right, the current coalition is very strong, even if the demon activates the Tower of Sacrifice, it can still confront the enemy head-on. But what is the explanation of Mingdal's prophecy? I don't think Ulrik would have such a great ability to defeat the coalition forces entirely, could it be that he really has some kind of terrible law?]

Before Alicia could think about it, the voice of the communications soldier on the other side interrupted her train of thought: "His Highness Icarus has sent a contact, and the air force has found a giant octopus. The other side has released the air units on board, and the two sides are about to fight!"

The absence of a combat ship in the air does not mean that the little queen has not dispatched other elites under her command, and in the face of the loving tentacle monster that makes every magical girl talk about it, it is impossible to fight it with fighter planes alone. So Elysia sent Icarus, known as the "Queen of the Sky", to remind the great octopus whose territory the sky was.

"The two sides are in formal contact. The air battle has begun. ”

"The giant octopus squirted some kind of viscous corrosive liquid from its wrists and feet, and took the initiative to move towards our fleet on the sea!"

"From under the surface of the sea around us, many modified monsters and submarines have emerged, forming a situation of encirclement of our fleet, and another enemy surface fleet has sailed from the direction of land. The number is about a third of our army. ”

This is the Aurora, not the Chrisgar obtained from the pseudo-main god, and does not have the ability to project distant images, all the battle situation is communicated by the communication soldiers in real time, and in front of Alicia is a large table with a model sand table on it, showing the current battlefield situation with chess pieces of various colors and shapes.

"It's only a third, and the once extremely powerful demon has also fallen. The little queen, who was staring at the sand table, tilted her head slightly, and muttered with the back of her hand on her cheeks. "It's no wonder that the batwinged warships were all built by humans and other races on Tyranmere, who don't have that kind of craftsmanship of their own, when the continent is half liberated by the coalition forces. How could they safely and quickly build warships to replenish the navy's combat power? However, these warships were not paper-mâché, and Jikerem, who was in charge of commanding the fleet, was to dispose of them with his own care. ”

Jikrem, who led the surface fleet, was particularly good at defensive operations, and when he was suddenly surrounded by the enemy, he did not immediately send a panicked contact to ask what to do, and must have prepared a countermeasure. If Alicia gives any more instructions at this moment, it may be bad.

"The fleet has already exchanged fire with the enemy. There is no big threat at the moment. ”

"His Highness Icarus has successfully activated the Ouranos system and is storing energy for the main gun!"

Everyone hurriedly looked into the distance, but the battlefield was so far away that they couldn't even see a firework.

Suddenly, a dazzling and blinding light shone from the horizon, almost as if the sun had fallen into the atmosphere. A powerful wave of scorching air accompanied by a flash of blind kryptonite dog eyes roared in the roar of the sky and the earth cracking, causing the entire battleship to tremble violently like a sieve.

The people in the bridge suddenly couldn't stand and rolled to the ground.

"I, Icarus, that guy, every time you throw a map cannon, it's always so exaggerated. Dizzy, Alicia couldn't tell the difference between east and west. But even that couldn't stop her from complaining, "I'll have to train well when I come back." Is it to talk about her...... Huh?"

The blonde girl had rolled from her chair to the floor from the tremor and was lying on her back, while a man was pressed against her petite body, and an evil clutch was pressed against the girl's slightly bulging breasts.

"Director, this script is wrong, huh!?"

It seemed that it was Elicia's voice and the act of trying to get up that brought the man back to his senses, and after seeing the situation in front of him, she immediately pressed her other hand on the little queen's chest with excitement on her face: "Woo oh oh!

"A, your sister, believe it or not, I'm going to kill you right now!?" Alicia screamed and raised her leg and kicked her foot on the other party's lower abdomen, "Elijah, where are you dying of this soul? Normally, according to the development of the plot just now, you should have knocked me down, right!"

The black-haired boy who rubbed his forehead and recovered from his vertigo state propped himself up slightly confused next to him: "Uh, Ellie. Did you call me?"

After a moment of silence, the little queen pointed at Michelle, who had mosquito coils under Ilya, and said lightly: "Anyway, can you please get up from this natural body first?"

"Sorry, I'm not familiar with this aspect of things. ”

"I'm asking you to take your hands off Michelle's chest, stupid! And Daliliana, what are you doing in your notebook?"

The female reporter, who was kicked several meters away by the little queen, desperately sucked her saliva and wrote hard: "Of course, I have recorded and expressed the touch I have just experienced in a true, detailed, and perfect way! There will be no more news in the world that attracts the attention of readers more than this." ”

"I ask you to look up and look out the window at the fierce and cruel battlefield in the distance, hey!"

Alicia, with a frenzied face, got up and stamped her foot hatefully, just as she was about to continue talking. The very dedicated communications soldier, who had finally managed to get up, interrupted the little queen again: "Lord Jikerem has sent a contact, the enemy's low-level monster combat power has been greatly improved compared to the past, and there is already a frigate that has been sunk soon after getting close. It is highly likely that the other party has activated the Tower of Sacrifice on land not far away!"

"Hush. Did I guess it?" Alysia couldn't help but bite the nail of her thumb and frowned, "Jikerem didn't say anything else, such as asking for reinforcements or something. ”

"No, the Lord said in the communication that he can handle it and does not need reinforcements for the time being. ”

This expression is so vague, it seems that Jikerem is a little bottomless in his heart. Well, anyway, he didn't get scared by the name of the Tower of Sacrifice on the spot. The coalition forces can still fight. 】

Before the appearance of the Great Demon King, a large number of cannon fodder will definitely be sent to provide experience to the brave, no, it is to cause trouble, and Ulrik is no exception. It's just that this guy has strengthened some of these cannon fodder with the Tower of Sacrifice. Trying to inflict more damage on the coalition - however, Ulrik used it too early, and the ship could not be easily sunk by a few odd climbs that were ten times more powerful, and the buff would be more effective when used in ground combat.

In short, the demon was a little too anxious.

But it's also something that can't be helped. Ulrique simply did not dare to let the coalition forces land. Otherwise, it would be a nightmare for them to set up a teleportation array, get a steady stream of supplies and reinforcements, and then gain a foothold in the Land of Despair. Therefore, defeating the coalition forces on the surface before landing has become the primary strategic goal of the demons, and these batwing wings will do whatever it takes to achieve their goals.

For example, to have the giant octopus sweep the sky without any indiscriminate between the enemy and the enemy, to activate the Tower of Sacrifice, or to use the last fleet at the bottom of the box...... They sent out all the combat forces they could use, but not the land forces. If the naval battle is lost, these cannon fodder are the last pawns that Ulrique can give up in order to buy time.

As for what exactly the new Demon King is preparing, only God knows.

The fierce battle continued, and the pieces on the sandboard in front of Alicia were constantly dwindling. As time passed, the demonic navy's encirclement gradually turned into a semi-encirclement, and then the large octopus that had been beaten into a full head by Icarus began to retreat continuously.

"Sister, ......," Imrith said in a whisper, pointing to the sand table half a step forward.

"Ahh I noticed. The little queen nodded awe-inspiring and said, "The enemy is retreating. It's weird. Although the demons used the fleet, precious and powerful air units such as the Chimera Undead Dragon were not dispatched. They're obviously keeping the back burner, but with the entire fleet plus a small monster as a sacrifice, the bat wings are quite powerful. ”

"So, sister, what should we do now?

There was a sudden silence in the bridge, and even Daliliana, who kept brushing her notebook with something, stopped the quill in her hand, for fear that the sound would interfere with the blonde girl's thinking.

After tugging at the stupid hairs on the top of her head for a long time, Alicia suddenly gave an instruction that shocked everyone's jaws: "Order the fleet to abandon the advance and retreat, and all the fighters to return immediately!"

"What, let the fighters come back?" William nearby, he couldn't help but say with a stunned face, "Alicia, are you sure?, although the enemy's air force was crippled, it did not collapse, if the fighters were recovered at this time, wouldn't the fleet on the surface of the water have no air protection!?"

"That's why we need to retreat. The blonde girl stroked the hair in her ear and pouted and hummed, "It turns out that the demon is playing this kind of calculation, and I really can't help but praise it." ”

The expression on Imrith's face changed from surprise to bewilderment: "Sister, is there any mystery in this?"

"It's just unfounded speculation, but I've decided to quit just to be on the safe side. Alicia said as she shifted her gaze from the sand table to the porthole, "Although the enemy has sent a large number of air units, they are basically small second-rate goods, and the demon warriors with strong personal strength are relatively small, which is very conducive to carrying and recycling." ”

"Yes, but so what?"

"Heh, if the giant octopus suddenly recycles these units into its body in the middle of the battle, what do you think might happen next?"

The little queen's questions are vague and completely challenging the limits of leap thinking. The cute little Ace pondered for a long time and didn't understand the meaning of the words, so she shook her head in confusion: "Ace doesn't quite understand, why did the octopus take back the unit in battle?"

"A large-scale powerful spell strike from the air!" William realized the key at this moment, sweating profusely and trying to stabilize his mind, "The enemy is using this second-rate air force and the unstable naval fleet as bait to lure our fleet and warplane fleet to the coast, and then use spells to catch them all!"

Before everyone could gasp, the voice of the communications soldier interjected again.

"Your Majesty, there has been a report from the frontline troops that the giant octopus is recovering the air units it released earlier. (To be continued......)