Anti-aircraft artillery, a newly installed equipment of the Angel King Legion.
But its technical content is not that high. All current anti-aircraft guns are temporarily modified from ordinary artillery.
After learning that the black fire ant country was invaded by a parasitic army and that there were a large number of parasitic flying insects, Zhu Jue couldn't help but think of the scene where the sky in the swamp battlefield was controlled by parasitic flying insects and the God Envoy King's army was passive.
Although the air power of the God's Angel King's Legion is unprecedentedly powerful, it is impossible to compete with the large number of parasitic flying insects that can be replenished at any time. The God's Angel King's Legion still needs the help of air defense nets and anti-aircraft ballistas. Only with the assistance of such ground forces can it be possible to seize air supremacy.
The air defense network has now been deployed at various fortresses along the Black Creek Defense Line, but the ballistae has long ceased production. Even if the production line is rebuilt and produced, the ballistae still has problems such as difficulty in loading, slow rate of fire, and insufficient accuracy, making it not very suitable. anti-aircraft weapons.
Zhu Jue asked the scientific research team to transform part of the existing artillery into anti-aircraft artillery as soon as possible. The Divine Angel King's Army has a lot of spare artillery in stock, ranging from millet cannons to mung bean cannons and peanut cannons, with various calibers available, as many as hundreds. Originally, They were hoarded as spare parts for damaged artillery, or as material reserves for the expansion of artillery units.
To transform ordinary artillery into anti-aircraft artillery, we mainly need to solve the problems of shooting angle and ammunition.
Ammunition is okay, the tall proximity fuze ants obviously can't handle it, but using fine gravel as shotgun is enough to meet the needs of low-altitude defense. There is no need to pursue accuracy. Once fired, it will be a large area. Ammunition can also be replenished anywhere, just wrap the fine sand with various flammable fibers.
In terms of shooting angle, the shooting angle of ordinary artillery mounts is limited and the shooting area is not large. This is a problem that needs to be solved. The final solution the scientific research team came up with was to abandon the ordinary gun mount and install a control system that combined levers and ropes based on the previous ballista to obtain a more flexible shooting angle.
The disadvantage of this control system is that it is very complicated. As a result, the anti-aircraft gun is larger and requires twice as many ant hands to operate. When loading, the gun body must be leveled first, and the rate of fire cannot be increased. One minute is considered fast...
But finally the problem was solved
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The parasitic flying insects did not know that the anti-aircraft firepower they faced had various shortcomings. When countless flying insects were dead or injured and fell one after another, they only felt instinctive fear and panic...
These parasitic flying insects are very cruel and murderous. If they can make them panic under brain stimulation, they must have encountered an irresistible force.
For example, now, as the gunfire rumbles on the ground and the smoke rises, the anti-aircraft guns that have been loaded and ready fire a salvo, causing the unsuspecting parasitic dragonflies to encounter a baptism of shotguns at close range.
Flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the sky was filled with wounded flies. Countless gravel shotguns, with their powerful kinetic energy, smashed the dragonfly's wings into sieves, pierced its compound eyes, penetrated its carapace, and damaged its nerves, muscles, and internal organs.
Many huge parasitic dragonflies were severely injured by the impact of small gravels. They could not maintain their flying state and fell down, hitting the air defense nets, and then rolled to the ground, twitching and dying.
The air defense network was also accidentally hit by many sand and gravel shotguns, which is inevitable for shotgun anti-aircraft firepower that pursues a lethal area. However, the scientific research team had already conducted experiments, and the soft and thick air defense net ropes did not care at all that dozens or hundreds of gravels were embedded in them, and had no effect at all, unlike the dragonflies that were hit.
The few parasitic dragonflies that were not injured or slightly injured were stimulated by the casualties, loud noises and smoke. Their instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages made them give up chasing the Fly Knight and climbed high into the sky.
The anti-aircraft artillery team immediately started loading. According to the plan, half of the gun positions were firing, and the other half were still on standby. This way, round firing could be used to make up for the lack of fire rate.
The firing of more than 20 anti-aircraft guns from a fortress just now shot down more than 10 dragonflies and injured many more. The efficiency was pretty good.
But there were too many parasitic flying insects, and the parasitic dragonflies were quickly calmed down by the controller behind the scenes. They joined other parasitic flying insects that came and viciously attacked the newly exposed anti-aircraft gun emplacement.
The fly knights have taken the opportunity to withdraw. The fortresses, anti-aircraft firepower and ant warriors on the ground have become the only targets in the eyes of the parasitic flying insects.
Countless parasitic flying insects rushed towards the anthill fortress like a dark cloud. The fortress' already fired positions had not yet been loaded. The remaining half of the anti-aircraft guns opened fire at the command of the commander. Another hail of bullets flew across the battlefield, and dozens of large and small parasitic flying insects swirled and fell. .
But compared to thousands of parasitic flying insects, this battle damage is just a drop in the bucket.
Except for some injured ones and those who were frightened away by the sound of gunfire, most of the parasitic flying insects have been suppressed. Some flying insects are lying on the air defense net, biting the fibers on the thick ropes with their jaws, trying to destroy the air defense net. ——The brain behind the scenes is very familiar with the function of the air defense net and also knows how to destroy it. The focus of the parasitic flying insects is on the knots of the net rope.
If the parasitic flying insects are allowed to continue to destroy like this, no matter how strong the net is, it will be destroyed at that moment. The 50 anti-aircraft guns in this air defense position are obviously not enough to stop so many parasitic flying insects that ignore casualties.
Fortunately, the air defense firepower of the Divine Envoy Army was arranged crosswise.
At the nearby Anthill Fortress, some covered anti-aircraft gun emplacements took off their camouflage and fired at the besieged Anthill air defense network.
The firing angle of some ordinary artillery can also reach the parasitic flying insects that have dropped very low, and they also join the shooting.
Under the crossfire from all directions, the parasitic flying insects fell silently and howled. They were completely unaware of the slow rate of fire of the anti-aircraft fire, and they only felt that they were suffering continuous damage.
After only two or three minutes, the parasitic flying insects could no longer resist, and their instinctive will overcame the strong instructions of the brain behind the scenes, and began to escape high.
The anti-aircraft gun stopped firing. Once the target was more than one meter above the ground, it was beyond its shooting range. The shotguns flew to this height and lost their power.
But the fate of the parasitic flying insects has not changed!
The sound of dense and orderly flapping wings came, and from the southeast, a large flying object shining brightly in the sun was approaching - they were fighting flying knights with bright armor, coming in groups astride black and yellow bee mounts.
The flying knights quickly gained a height advantage. Fire bombs fell like fire showers, lances were sharper than bee stings, and air scrapers could cut off wings and limbs every time.
The parasitic flying insects, which had lost their will to resist under the gunfire, fell into a new round of massacre in the chaos.
