The forest north of [Akatie Castle].
In the air, three flying knights were patrolling and investigating. Their mounts were black and inconspicuous lineflies and houseflies. In the lower canopy of trees with poor lighting, the figures of the flying knights perfectly disappeared into the shadows, showing good concealment.
But the "buzzing" sound of a fly flapping its wings at high speed cannot be hidden. This high-frequency sound is inaudible two or three meters away, but it can obviously be detected by enemies very close.
Nowadays, the Pavement Ant Empire Army is not launching an offensive, and the God Envoy King Army and the enemy are actively preparing for war. In the relatively "calm" war zone, only the air battle never stops.
After the enemy forced the leaf-cutter ant army to the west bank of the stream, small-scale battles broke out one after another between the "mosquito" troops of the Pavement Ant Empire Army and the flying knights of the Divine Envoy King Army, with both sides suffering casualties.
Because [Hematite City] and nearby small fortresses are equipped with artillery, which can serve as anti-aircraft firepower, the "mosquitoes" who have suffered losses will no longer venture into the vicinity of [Hematite City]. However, the flying knights still need to go out for reconnaissance from time to time. The battles between the two sides basically take place in the air in the areas controlled by the Pavement Ant Empire Army.
The three reconnaissance flying knights carefully shuttled between the tree trunks. They were on a mission and could not be exposed easily.
The flying knight sometimes lowers its height to observe the enemy forces of various races on the ground, and sometimes raises its height to avoid the anti-aircraft fire of the belly-lifting ants.
Enemies on the ground have become accustomed to flying knights appearing from time to time. Flying knights generally do not deal with enemies on the ground. Their first task is to bring back intelligence. Over time, except for the ants with anti-air missions, the other enemy ants no longer bothered to pay attention and were still doing whatever they were supposed to do.
Most of the time, the Flying Knight's reconnaissance is on the outside of the enemy's position and will not risk going deep into the heavily guarded enemy's hinterland.
But this time, there is definite intelligence that the enemy has begun to receive food from the rear. Many troops that were originally scattered for food have been regrouped, and it is suspected that they are about to launch an attack.
Therefore, the Flying Knights had a very heavy reconnaissance mission today, and they had to take risks and continue moving forward. And every time the flying knights go deeper, the danger increases.
3 Flying knights not only have to avoid the occasional ants on the ground, but sometimes there are also ants on tree trunks or branches looking for food or on guard duty to attack. That is to say, the shooting distance of the formic acid is very short, and most of the time the anti-air shooting is just a show. As long as the Flying Knight team is not reckless, there is generally no danger.
What the leading flying knight is most worried about is the sudden and intensive "buzzing" sound coming from the tentacles. It is the sound of a swarm of enemy "mosquitoes". The louder and noisier the sound, the more enemies there are.
These "mosquitoes" are very difficult to get rid of, especially in the woods that are not open. It is a troublesome thing to encounter them.
Fortunately, with the dim light, numerous obstacles, and limited sound transmission and vision in the woods, the three flying knights went deep for a long time and accurately observed the enemy's large grain transport team. No "mosquito" encounters.
After weighing the situation, the leader of the reconnaissance team swooped down with his mount, followed closely by the other two riders.
The 3 cavalrymen threw down the 6 fire bombs they carried, causing a small chaos in the enemy's food transport team.
Most of these grain transport teams are composed of several ants carrying a grain package woven from grass fibers, which is very flammable. The flying knight's air strike caused a small fire, but it was quickly extinguished naturally. The enemy suffered little loss, but there was only a little confusion.
The three flying knights walked away and prepared to return. They had obtained the information they wanted.
When the flying knights evacuated, they chose a different road than when they came. This road is the closest to [Red Iron City] in a straight line.
But not far away, the "buzzing buzzing" sound that the flying knights least wanted to hear suddenly sounded, rapidly coming from far away.
A group of "mosquitoes" were resting in a nearby tree hole. After noticing the flying knight, they suddenly came out.
The three reconnaissance flying knights had no fire bombs at this time and only had a melee lance. They could not compete with the enemy in numbers.
Led by the head rider, the reconnaissance team hurriedly gained altitude and fled south.
The "mosquito" troops were in hot pursuit, and several more waves joined in along the way, and soon there were as many as four or five hundred of them.
After escaping forward for a while, the "Mosquito" troops suddenly noticed that dense green-gold light shone in the Tyndall light beam cast by the tree canopy in front.
Only when the light disappeared into the darkness again and quickly approached did the "Mosquito" troops realize that this was the fighting force of the Flying Knight.
The Angel King Legion has recently expanded and reorganized the Flying Knights. Today, flying knights are divided into two categories: reconnaissance flying knights and combat flying knights.
Among them, the reconnaissance flying knight's mount is a housefly or a housefly that is faster but has a small carrying capacity. Neither the knight nor the mount wears armor. The weapons only have a jaw knife, a lance and 2 fire bombs. They generally only perform reconnaissance missions and do not participate in combat.
There are currently 6 squads of reconnaissance flying knights, each with 48 knights. The team is divided into 16 teams, each team has 3 riders, and is the smallest reconnaissance unit.
Currently, 2 reconnaissance flying knight squads are stationed in [Red Iron City], 2 squads are stationed in [Hive City], 1 squad is stationed in the fortress north of [February Lan City], and the last 1 squad is stationed on the south bank of Qinghe River.
The mounts of the combat flying knights were uniformly replaced by mercerized green flies and big-headed golden flies that carried a larger load but were slightly slower. These two flies were very similar, with body lengths of more than 10 mm. The protagonist's former mounts "Xiao Qing" and "Xiao Qing II" were both mercerized green flies.
Combat flying knights are equipped with ant-fly equipment, all have iron armor, and the mount itself has a thick carapace. It has good defense and can withstand the bites of "mosquitoes" in most places.
In terms of weapons, in addition to the jaw knife and lance for close combat, the combat flying knight also has up to 6 fire bombs, as well as two weapons newly developed by the scientific research department.
These two weapons are undergoing actual combat testing, and it is not certain whether they will be officially put into service.
One is a spider silk ball, which is wrapped in an anti-adhesion shell. When used, it is torn and thrown out. It will expand into a 3 cm long spider silk in the air. Once it entangles the enemy, it will significantly reduce the opponent's flight speed, and as it struggles, it will The wind gets tighter and tighter until it can no longer fly.
The other is a thin and sharp scraper equipped under the belly of the fly mount, which can cut off the enemy's wings or even the body when flying over it.
The combat flying knights now have 10 squads with a total of 500 knights, most of which are deployed on the front lines of [Hematite City] and [Hive City].
The two teams of 100 combat flying knights that appeared this time were responsible for supporting several reconnaissance flying knight teams, and they happened to run into the pursuing "mosquitoes".
So another air battle broke out.
