War is always the biggest driving force for military technological progress.
The combat-type flying knight was equipped with brand-new equipment, and had new combat formations and tactics. This was the first time it went into battle, and in the air battle, it completely crushed the "mosquitoes" that were ten times its size.
All their changes are in response to the target enemy "mosquito".
While the reconnaissance flying knights stay away from the battle, the combat flying knights quickly approach the enemy group in a formation of 20 riders in front and 5 riders in depth.
From time to time, when passing by the Tyndall light plant, the silver light of the flying knight's armor and the cyan and gold mixed metallic light of the unarmored back of the fly mount shine with a luster that scares the enemy ants.
Before the "Mosquito" troops could react, the combat flying knights kept tilting upward and quickly gained a height advantage.
The "mosquitoes" tried to catch up at this time, but their speed was not as fast as the flying knights. Even the relatively slow heavy armored flying knights were faster than the "mosquitoes".
Seeing that the "mosquito" was climbing higher, the combat flying knights who were already in position randomly launched the first round of shooting.
Three consecutive rounds of fire bombs poured down, with a short interval between each round. The thrown fire bombs formed three dense fire nets above and below. In the dark forest, they seemed to suddenly light up like a meteor shower, falling towards the people below. "mosquito".
Unlike the flying knights who formed a flat formation like a "paper" because they needed to facilitate bombing and avoid accidental damage, the "mosquito" formation was tighter and thicker, like a ball, and was very similar to the "mosquito pillars" that gather in the summer.
The projection of their formation was much smaller than that of the Flying Knights, which was much smaller than their own. In addition, the fire bombs spread wider during the flying process. Only fifty or sixty of the 300 fire bombs hit the opponent.
But these hits caused considerable damage.
The "mosquito" that was directly hit was immediately stuck to the simmering fire bombs, and the sticky shell prevented these fire bombs from being thrown off at all. The intense pain stimulated these "mosquitoes" to run wildly, bumping into their partners everywhere.
What's even more terrible is that the entire body of the little "mosquito" was quickly ignited, like a flying firefly. During the collision, it ignited other "mosquitoes" that were hit and stuck to it, causing a second harm.
In the "mosquito" formation, more than a hundred "mosquitoes" burned, collided, and fell one after another. Other "mosquitoes" fled one after another. The original tight formation suitable for melee siege almost collapsed.
The combat flying knight's three consecutive rounds of shooting destroyed less than half of the enemies.
Just as the "mosquitoes" dispersed to avoid the fire bombs and burning companions, the combat flying knight had already completed a U-turn not far away, continuing to occupy the height advantage, and once again overwhelmed the condescending bombs.
This time the formation of the "mosquitoes" was forced to spread out widely, and the fire bomb meteor shower itself was also widely spread, still igniting dozens of "mosquitoes". However, the casualties caused by the "mosquitoes" igniting themselves due to collision were greatly reduced.
At this point, the combat flying knight has thrown all the fire bombs, which greatly consumed the enemy ants. Nearly half of the "Mosquitoes" have been lost, and the remaining ones have lost their formation and are flying in all directions.
The combat flying knights immediately led by the air commander, without giving the enemy ants a chance to adjust, swooped down to kill the enemy, and the original complete formation gradually dispersed into a two-horse combat group more suitable for close combat.
Unlike the reconnaissance flying knights who ride in a group of three, the combat flying knights ride in a group of two. This is the most suitable formation for close combat found in actual combat. It can be very flexible and maneuverable, and the two knights can cover each other.
The fight devolved into melee and melee combat.
The final result of the battle was a great victory for the flying knights who had gained the advantage. Most of the "mosquitoes" had lost their fighting spirit and fled in a hurry. The "mosquito" who is still resisting most of the time finds that he cannot bite the flying knight in the ant fly suit.
The battle was a one-sided massacre, with only a few forty or fifty of the hundreds of "mosquitoes" escaping back. In the battle, 3 of the flying knights themselves were killed and 5 were wounded. 2 of their mounts were killed and 8 were wounded. The losses were relatively minor.
During the battle, the flying knights also tried to use new weapons that they were not familiar with, but found that the damage caused by these two weapons to themselves was no less than the damage caused to the enemy.
During the dive, a flying knight took out the spider silk bomb, bit open the outer casing and threw it away. However, the gap may be too small, so the spider silk did not come out at all. It floated to the ground together with the ant glue shell, without any impact. power.
These flying knights have received training in using new weapons, but the battlefield is extremely tense, and many details that need to be paid attention to in daily life are easily forgotten after being on the battlefield.
As a last resort, the flying knight and his fellow knights chose to draw out their lances and fight, instead of using new weapons that were no longer available.
This was a good thing, but when another flying knight threw, the spider silk floated out too early, directly sticking to himself and the knight around him. The two riders spun and fell together, and luckily landed on a tree nearby. The two magic ant flying knights were very strong, and it took a lot of effort to clean off the tough and sticky spider silk and rejoin the team.
The biggest accidental injury is the abdominal knife.
This kind of abdominal knife caused dissatisfaction among flying knights when it was first installed: too much weight affects the flight speed, affects steering due to wind resistance during high-speed flight, and installing it on the abdomen will increase the difficulty of landing, etc.
In actual combat, the advantages and disadvantages of this weapon are fully exposed.
When the flying knight rushed into the "mosquito" group at high speed, the enemy ants scraped by the abdominal knife were torn apart one after another. The lethality was very impressive, far better than that of a lance.
However, in a melee, if a friendly force is accidentally scratched, the damage will be terrible or even fatal. Less than half of the flying knight's battle losses were caused by friendly forces' belly knives.
This kind of weapon that does not distinguish between ourselves and the enemy is actually equally terrifying to both sides in a melee...
After the war, the Flying Knights' information package on the performance of the new weapons was truthfully reported, and the abdominal knives and spider silk balls temporarily distributed to the two teams of Flying Knights were taken back, waiting for the scientific research team to continue improving.
Other combat flying knight teams were not originally issued these experimental weapons. They still used fire bombs for long range and lances and jaw knives for short range.
As for the protagonist's long-cherished skill of miniaturizing a ballista or artillery and mounting it on a fly mount, it has yet to materialize.
This ordinary-scale air battle in the forest ended. In the following days, the Angel King's army gradually suppressed the opponent's "Mosquito" air force and gained air superiority. It also facilitated the reconnaissance flying knights to obtain more and more aerial reconnaissance intelligence.
All intelligence shows that the preparations for the Pavement Ant Empire Army are nearly complete, and more and more supplies are being assembled towards the front line.
Several air strikes by the Combat Flying Knights against enemy transport convoys had little effect. The air force's ground firepower was too weak.
