After the Fly Knight became entangled with the "Mosquito", the fire bomb sling that needed to be thrown from a high position was of little use.
The flying knights were forced to take off the lances inserted diagonally in the gun seats behind the saddles, and they flew and hid while stabbing left and right.
As for the "mosquitoes", several of them besieged a flying knight. Once they avoided the lance thrust, they immediately swarmed up and bit him with their armored jaw knives.
Fortunately, the magical ant flying knights were all equipped with full-body iron armor. The unknowing "mosquitoes" bit them, and the jaws of the two "mosquitoes" collapsed with a "snap".
"Mosquito" suddenly discovered that he had never bitten such a hard target (#ﾟДﾟ)! ! !
But continuing to fight is not the specialty of the flying knights. These flying knights are elites. They have received more training on weekdays. They still have the advantage of height and speed and use fire bombs and slings to solve the opponent's tactics. Close combat was a last resort. This kind of face-to-face fighting in the air was the first time the Flying Knight had encountered it in actual combat.
Not all parts of the Flying Knight's body are invulnerable, and the areas that cannot be covered by armor are equally vulnerable.
Seeing that some of the flying knights were starting to get injured, the lead knight quickly accelerated and guided the other knights to get rid of the mosquito swarm. In terms of flight speed, "mosquitoes" are far inferior to "flies".
The subsequent battle was a bit lackluster. The flying knights tried their best to avoid close combat, moved in circles to seize good positions, and then continued to throw fire bombs and slings.
After all the fire bombs and slings were thrown away, neither side could do anything to the other. They chased each other in a circle for a while, and then each retreated.
In the first encounter between "Fly" and "Mosquito", three flying knights and two mounts were injured on the flying knight's side, all of which were minor injuries. Eleven cavalrymen on the "Mosquito" side were killed in the battle, most of them were hit by fire bombs and burned to death, and a few were stabbed to death by lances.
However, after the war, the Flying Knights lost control of the fire ant army's movements. After seeing more "mosquitoes" beginning to appear in this airspace, they had no choice but to return home in frustration.
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The leaf-cutter ant army and the Angel King army finally crossed the swamp at around 3 p.m.
The leaf-cutter ant army originally planned to pursue it directly, but the protagonist learned from the returning flying knight that the whereabouts of the red fire ant army were unknown, and there were hundreds of mosquitoes wandering in the airspace ahead.
The protagonist does not plan to send out all the flying knights to seize air control today. It is not yet time to control the air control. However, after temporarily losing air superiority and enemy intelligence, the protagonist still advises the leaf-cutting ants not to pursue recklessly.
He suggested widening a few more roads in the swamp. If it rains again, the swamp will be cut off again. The Angel King's army and the leaf-cutter ant army will be cut off from their retreat, and they will not be able to retreat even if they want to. The army behind them could not arrive in time to support them.
Just relying on the current 100,000 soldiers of the two armies is still very weak against the Pavement Ant Imperial Army.
This time, the leaf-cutting ant army did not listen to the protagonist's advice, and the entire army continued to move north.
The protagonist did not travel with the God Envoy King's army. He ordered the entire army to build a fortress here for defense, and at the same time widen and raise a dirt road through the swamp as originally planned.
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While most of the soldiers were building fortresses and dirt roads, the protagonist and the squad leaders of the Flying Knights found a place in the open air for a meeting.
The participants arranged their tentacles next to the tentacles of the ants on the left and right sides of each other, forming a circle to discuss today's air battle.
The flying knight who fought against the "Mosquito" today first provided an information package of the battle for everyone to read.
Afterwards, the flying knight expressed his opinion according to the request of the God Envoy King:
She felt that the individual "mosquitoes" were not very effective in combat, their flight speed was slow, and their weapons were crude. However, the climbing speed of "mosquitoes" is not much behind that of the Flying Knight, and there are many more "mosquitoes". There are still as many as five or six hundred "mosquitoes" found so far. We cannot rule out the possibility that the enemy has more "mosquitoes".
The flying knights are better than the enemy in terms of mount speed and weapons, but they are smaller in number. When fighting for high space, they may be approached by "mosquitoes".
The protagonist proposes that the lives of the flying knights are precious. Although the flying knights have been emphasizing that they are not afraid of death, the protagonist still has to suppress this unnecessary "sacrifice mentality."
Training flying knights is much more difficult than training ordinary soldiers, or even artillerymen and tank soldiers. In the past, only male ants could act as flying knights, but now they are all flying knights of magical worker ants. However, whether they are male ants or magical worker ants, the daily supplies and high-end food they need are several times that of ordinary ants. They themselves have to consume supplies, their mounts also have to consume, and the wear and tear on weapons and equipment and daily training are also indispensable.
Not to mention the consumption of materials, the training time and amount of flying knights alone are hundreds of times that of ordinary soldiers, and about twenty times that of artillery and tank soldiers.
This is because training is so difficult. Currently, the Divine Envoy Legion has 40 main legions, an entire tank legion, and a large number of city defense artillery and field artillery squads, but there are only 10 squads of 500 flying knights.
It can be said that every flying knight is an elite warrior who has spent a long time collecting honeydew, meat and iron.
Among these 10 flying knight squads, only 3 squads are capable of air combat, and they all followed the protagonist on his journey north this time. The other seven teams of Flying Knights were recently formed and have not undergone systematic air combat training. They can only be responsible for reconnaissance and message delivery. They are currently assigned to other areas to perform tasks and training.
The protagonist praised the flying knights for their proper handling today and for not blindly fighting and causing unnecessary casualties.
He asked everyone to summarize their experience based on the information package from today's battle to see how the flying knights will respond to the "Mosquito" challenge in the future and what improvements can be made in weaponry, equipment and training.
This kind of post-war summary was called a very necessary meeting by the protagonist, and such summaries should be held frequently in the future.
After the great Divine Envoy King set the tone, the flying knights began to make suggestions as required.
Some flying knights say that the equipped fire bomb slings are too few. Currently, each knight is equipped with only four. If you want to avoid close combat, you should cancel the lance and carry more fire bomb slings.
A flying knight immediately objected. She said that if it weren't for the lance, it would be more dangerous to get into close combat today. The "mosquitoes" were still more afraid of being stabbed by lances. This last weapon of self-defense cannot be eliminated.
Many flying knights have a common point of view, that is, they feel that whether it is a lance or a fire bomb sling, the attack range is limited, or the delivery method requires too high aerial combat position.
It would definitely be much better if there were firearms like artillery or tank guns! The flying knights can completely rely on their speed advantage to throw off the "mosquitoes" to carry out long-range bombing, and they will not be approached in order to gain height.
These magical worker ants are not as conservative as the male ants. After seeing the firepower superiority of the ground troops, they have already suffered from "fear of insufficient firepower"!
