The empire stationed at Ayinbrok is actually a squadron, including one second-class battleship, one third-class battleship, two fourth-class cruisers/heavy frigates, two fifth-class cruisers, and Corvettes and sloops of various sizes.
In the first round of shooting from the Ayinbrok Mobile Fortress, one-third of the squadron was declared destroyed. The fourth-class cruiser Merced was hit head-on. The entire ship, along with the sailors and Captain Wo Major Roned was turned into ashes in the beam of light.
The squadron's flagship, the Earl of Villiers, was built in the Year of the Falcon. It is considered an old-fashioned aerospace ship, but as the main ship, it is still equipped with short-range transmission devices and various protective devices. At the same time that the Ayinbrok Mobile Fortress opened fire, its captain issued the teleportation order.
However, due to the instability and response speed of the old-fashioned transmission device, the light beam that penetrated the sky of Ayinbrok in people's field of vision still hit the stern of the Earl of Villiers before it entered the transmission state.
The commander of the fleet, Count Kennan, was directly killed in this attack. In the end, only the front half of the second-class battleship's huge body entered the dimensional gate.
So people saw a strange scene. Only half of the battleship jumped out of the dimensional door opened in the G4 area of the airport, and quickly lost its balance amidst the chaos of the remaining people on the ship, and began to capsize.
Finally, the Earl of Villiers disintegrated in mid-air, and the largest part of the hull fell into the direction of the temple area with a long flue, where it burst out with a strong flash of explosion and an earth-shattering loud noise that could be heard several blocks away. can hear.
The castaways with wind element adaptability were still floating thousands of feet in the air, while the remaining people fell like rain and fell into white spots of light.
From the sky, there are only scattered pieces of shipwrecks, and the clouds are covered with darkness. It is like the tragic scene of the purgatory of the Arabel Sea Battle in the past - the empire lost a third of it in the sea battle with the Avenquin elves. A main fleet.
But in Arabelle, there were elven ships among the floating wrecks, and here there was only one-sided massacre.
Others had no time to pay attention to the victims in mid-air. A fifth-class cruiser was just scratched by the beam of light, and the ship burst into flames. At this moment, raging flames emerged, turning the entire ship into a torch.
As for the other fifth-class cruiser, the Standard, it was damaged by two waves of lancers when the Seven Seas Traveler broke through from Channel 4, and had to descend to mid-level altitude (the Empire moved three hundred feet to The height between a thousand feet is called the mid-level height, and the height below is called 'Emb'ton', which is almost equivalent to stranding in the common language of the Stargate) Emergency repair, the person who observed this scene mistakenly reported it as a crash .
In fact, the situation on the Standard was not much better.
When the first wave of Lancers arrived under the control of Ms. Fang Piao's Dragon Soul, the sailors on the Standard were completely unprepared. A large number of Marines and Marines gathered on the deck to prepare for a gang fight. As a result, they were lost in the first round of beam strikes. heavy.
This directly made it difficult for the Standard to organize a counterattack when the second wave of Lancers arrived. The Lancers once invaded the interior of the Standard along the main deck and approached the power room. They were finally hit after the Marines desperately resisted. retreat.
The captain on board the Standard was quite experienced, fully embodying the qualities that the Imperial Navy should have. He decisively ordered the ship to be lowered to the base of the tower when less than half of the sailors on board were mostly waiting for resurrection.
As expected, the Lancers gave up the pursuit.
But that was actually Miss Tata's failure to kill. After all, the Seven Seas Traveler's goal was to break through, not to annihilate. Before the Ayinbrok Fortress was activated, the Lancers had to deal with multiple enemies.
At this moment, the sailors on the Standard looked at the tragic scene in the sky and secretly praised the captain, Lieutenant Nefard. If the Standard was still in the G3 airspace at this moment, it would probably follow the footsteps of the fourth-class cruiser Merced.
At this moment, the Seven Seas Traveler, which was still hidden in the shadow of the back of the giant steel tower in the G2 channel, was bursting into cheers. Naturally, the person cheering was the idle poet lady. Tianlan was lying on the side of the ship, holding the crossbow, and turned to the beam of light. Pumped his fist for the ashes of the Mosad.
"Great!"
"But it's forbidden."
But the cat-person girl Daryl - or rather the puppet picked up the little girl's collar from behind, dragged her back to the captain's cabin despite the latter's protests, and closed the door outside.
She covered the hilt of her giant sword with both hands and pressed against the door, letting Tian Lan bang on the door from inside, "Let me out!"
"Idle people are strictly prohibited from appearing on the deck during wartime——"
Tian Lan pressed her face against the crack of the door and tried her best to wave her hand and hit the crossbow, "I'm not just waiting around."
Dariel didn't even look at it.
In fact, Baggins was the only one left on the deck at this time. The bosun helped Miss Tata adjust the uncontrolled rigging, and occasionally intervened to maneuver the sails, but Sir Marvey's adjutant was already familiar with all this, and he Ms. Dragon Soul cooperates flawlessly.
There is also the maid Shasta on the air combat deck, mainly to prevent the imperial air combat structures from invading from there. The imperial people did take off a group of air combat wasps - a four-legged hinged wingsuit structure with saw blades. body.
Its take-off principle is similar to that of the Clockwork Goblin, but it is about the size of a person. It is especially good at attacking the hull of aerial ships, and it can be regarded as a flexible structure for close combat.
But Miss Tata didn't let them get close at all. The Lancers formed a protective net around the Seven Seas Traveler. Flashes of light burst out from that direction from time to time. Either they were killed in the wasp attack or the Lancers fell.
But it is mainly the former. As a heavy-duty structure, the Lancer has an extremely advantage in the confrontation, not to mention that it is a long-range unit. The Air Combat Wasp can deal with special attacks on floating ships, but it is much weaker when fighting against flexible structures.
What's more, the combat craftsmen who attacked the Seven Seas Traveler mainly came from the Imperial Navy. After the Morsed exploded and the Earl of Villiers crashed, the pressure on the Seven Seas Traveler suddenly eased.
Ayinbrock's airport has a total of 1 to 12 waterways, which cover the entire Ayinbrock airspace at 360 degrees except for the direction towards the Craftsmen's Association and the Temple area. Different altitudes are divided into F, G from top to bottom. D, A empty layer, among which F empty layer is the highest and G is the next highest level.
The war started on this level. Most of the ships parked in this airspace were on fire, and the sky was filled with thick smoke and darkness.
After the mobile fortress opened fire under the control of Fang Plover, the channel from G2 to G7 was now clear. Seeing this scene, Tianlan couldn't help but said excitedly: "The Imperial people have been repelled, Miss Tata, let's seize this quickly." Chance to leave!”
"No," Dandalil replied outside the door: "We can't leave yet."
"how?"
Miss Catman narrowed her eyes and looked at the distant sky.
There is also a third-class battleship Cagalon remaining in the G9 channel. In fact, this class of battleship is still the flagship class of the squadron in the empire. Normally, the squadron will not have two flagship-class ships, but Aiyinbu Locke is particularly special.
Although this is not the frontier of the empire, this fortress city has special meaning in history after all, and it is also the seat of the Craftsmen's Association. Therefore, the imperial squadron stationed here has actually been specially strengthened.
Coupled with the heavy frigate currently on the D4 channel, one third of this imperial squadron actually still exists, and both ships pose a threat to Ayinbrok Fortress.
In fact, the battleship itself is used as a fulcrum of firepower. In most cases, they are not used to fight against the opponent's aerial ships, but to provide fire support on land. The large-caliber naval guns of the battleship can target fortresses. To kill.
What's more, the Ayinbrok Mobile Fortress was a product of a thousand years ago. Although it was considered an alchemical miracle at that time, the Numerin elves also participated in the construction of this fortress, and some of the technologies are not entirely relevant today. within the grasp of mortals.
However, the movement itself gave up part of the protection. Its main function in the past was as a logistics base for craftsmen. It was only when the Imperials located it here to participate in the last battle of the Giant War that it became a legend.
In fact, many of the standards of this old fortress are outdated today, especially after Oshu craftsmen removed most of the unnecessary protective facilities and added many illegal buildings during thousands of years of maintenance.
Let its protection level drop by another level.
The Seven Seas Traveler must now cover each other with this fortress to escape from Ayinbrok, and must not allow the Empire to paralyze this fortress within the city.
Tianlan seemed to understand what was going on - but she was locked up in Fang Pliance's office, so she could not see the situation outside at all - there was a large arched window behind the captain's room, and she could see the other side of the giant steel tower. scene.
The heavy frigate in the D4 air layer is slowly turning at the moment.
The Imperial Navy firmly believes that it must fight the enemy when it sees it, and that dying in battle is an honor. Even though two-thirds of the squadron has been lost at this moment, and the fleet commander of the flagship, Earl Kennan, has died in battle, the remaining ships still have no intention of escaping.
On the third-class battleship Cagallon, Captain Lord Robert ordered the two-color flag to be hoisted. Because the twelve large-caliber magic cannons on the ship were disturbed in the previous attack and could not be fired, the remaining many small-caliber cannons were The cannon was unable to cause effective damage to the Mobile Fortress, so he directly ordered the Cagallon to crash into the middle of the Mobile Fortress.
After receiving the signal from the Cagallon, the heavy frigate immediately sailed to its front to provide fire cover.
The Seven Seas Traveler naturally noticed this scene:
"Don't let them get close to Mr. Knight," Tata said to everyone: "We will follow."
Naturally no one objected.
The Seven Seas Traveler began to turn on the G2 channel.
The fighting was in full swing in the sky, and the imperial black army on the ground naturally did not forget to advance.
In fact, the moment the Mobile Fortress was raised, the Imperial Black Army responded. Several Imperial Army units stationed on Fourteenth Street, Bellsmith Street and King's Avenue were the first to open fire. The 'Manticore' heavy war structure with a huge shield in the street.
They have single-shot long magic cannons, and the fire arrows they emit span one or two kilometers and hit the right front foot of the mobile fortress. Two or three bright fires bloomed there, and the steel truss structure was melted golden red by the high temperature. Soon Break apart.
The giant mobile fortress sank, and the metal made a distant twisting sound like a wail. However, it inserted its other foot deeply into the ground, stabilized its body amidst the collapse of the building and the flying smoke, and turned around during the tilt. muzzle——
Like a giant beast showing its fangs.
The Imperial Army who saw this scene shouted in panic:
"Get out of the way-!"
But it was too late. The three Manticores had just poked out a rail from behind, and the golden-red magic crystal fell from above, and they were about to replace the next cannonball.
They didn't even have time to pull away the large shield from the ground and retract the hydraulic support - and a gray shield structure behind was taking out another man-high magic crystal from a box under the control of a battle craftsman, and it was At that time.
The secondary artillery in three directions on the Ayinbrok Fortress aimed in this direction and opened fire at the same time.
More than 30 golden beams penetrated four blocks in different directions at the same time. The red light directly penetrated the 67 mm thick shield of the manticore from the front, along with the construct behind it and the five combatants inside. The craftsmen turned to ashes together.
The light beam continued forward after penetrating the manticore, and then penetrated the gray shield structure behind it, turning it into molten steel.
The originally thick outer armor of the war structure was as brittle as tissue paper in the face of such an attack, and the shield provided by the heavy magic furnace was even worse. However, they were not originally used to resist the attack of the fortress cannon.
The light beam continued to plow forward, leaving four glassy ravines on the street. Then the thick fire elemental magic in the air gradually faded away, and the beam of light dissipated like flying particles.
Many people witnessed this scene directly.
At this moment, Ayinbrok was already in a state of purgatory - Ayinbrok Fortress broke most of the rails when it stood up, causing the trains running above to either fall under the broken rails or burn on the rails.
Fires broke out all over the city, and the attack from the fortress artillery caused thick smoke to billow on Fourteenth Street, Bellsmith Street and King's Avenue. More than a brigade of war knights were directly wiped out in this hit, and the Empire's black army also suffered casualties. .
The dead had already turned into white points of light and merged into the nearest church, while the injured were in extremely miserable condition. Under that level of attack, most of them would lose more than a third of their bodies if they even managed to survive. Holding the broken leg and wailing on the ground.
In fact, it was only a matter of time before those people were sent to resurrection.
Further away, if the shock wave generated by the explosion is not directly blocked, it will almost certainly kill people within thirty meters. People whose internal organs are shattered will bleed from their orifices and struggle on the ground like insects.
The Imperial Army was not surprised by this scene. The war in Aitaria was much more tragic than that in the other world at the same time, but because of the existence of Starlight, most people's psychological endurance was much higher.
But for many visitors to the Continental League, that situation was nothing less than a hellish scene. People held up their terminals and marched through the smoke, looking at the charred streets, the injured, and the corpses and their scalps went numb.
The Imperials have cut off all broadcast channels for the Continental League.
But for the larger number of tourists, there is actually no mandatory binding force. Most tourists are not even worried about losing their jobs, because they have nothing to do with this world.
More people raised their terminals and aimed at the towering mountain-like colossus in the corner of the sky. The Imperial Army in black armor had already launched a siege on the fortress. The flames of explosions lit up around the colossus from time to time, but with little effect.
From time to time, fire arrows flew towards the fortress on the horizon, and then exploded with brilliant sparks.
But a ray of light flashed, and the area it crossed immediately erupted with flashes of light, mixed with a strong explosion, turning the entire block into a sea of fire, and the Imperial Army there was almost completely destroyed.
The tourists holding their terminals high looked at this scene in stunned silence, especially many of them who were spectators from the first division. They were used to seeing the unparalleled power of the first division and the arrogance and arrogance of the empire. This was the first time they saw such a scene. .
Someone simply opened the recording crystal and started recording everything:
"We escaped from the fortress before..."
"The Imperial Army can't get close to that side. The streets we came to are full of wounded people..."
"What happened in there?"
"Of course it's the Dragon Alchemist."
There were even interviews being conducted, and the tourists who had escaped from the fortress looked shaken.
But there are also counterarguments:
"It was the Imperial people who first accused that young man of colluding with dark forces."
"They have no evidence at all—"
"It's incredible. That Dragon Alchemist controls that fortress?"
"Is he the only one inside? He can challenge the Imperial Army alone. At first, that fortress even wiped out a fleet."
"It's half a stick."
People turned around in unison and looked at the huge mountain-like shadow, their hearts filled with shock.
Even though they were still in shock, an idea gradually emerged from their hearts. No matter what, after this battle, the history behind the Star Gate would become a legend.
A new legend was born.
After the world-famous sword and the genius girl.
What is the name this time - enemy of the empire?
Or a humanoid disaster?
In just a quarter of an hour, seven streets had been reduced to ashes in the attack, along with the imperial troops inside.
Reports came from everywhere that the attack had been blocked and there were heavy casualties.
But the casualty limit is actually acceptable, far less than a real battle. However, the attrition in the battle report is mind-numbing. One after another, almost all squadrons have withdrawn from combat, and there are only a few injured.
Even if there are temporarily injured, they will die soon - at least seventeen combat groups have completely disappeared just a moment ago, and even the organization cannot be saved.
The forward Imperial combat unit lost twenty-two Manticores, forty Gray Shields, and three Typhoon Knights, which was almost half of the heavy equipment of the City Guards. The commander felt numb while looking at the battle report. The last time such a battle report was I'm afraid it goes back to the Battle of Bain.
This does not count the loss of a second-rate battleship, a fourth-rate cruiser and two fifth-rate cruisers, as well as more than six sloops and clippers - most of which were sunk by the Seven Sea Traveler .
However, the losses could not shake the commanders of the Imperial Army.
In other words, nothing can shake the imperial army. Oshu was born for war and never accepted the fate of defeat.
So the tourists stranded in the city soon saw more imperial troops wearing black armor coming from different directions, passing through the streets and heading towards the fortress.
Huge war structures began to appear in different neighborhoods, and dots of light appeared in the sky. They were Wind Knights. Instead of retreating, the Imperials launched an even more fierce attack.
The stubbornness of the Oshu people is clearly displayed at this moment, but it also makes people feel a sense of admiration. The Imperial people have always regarded death as home, and regard honor as life. Their arrogance and belligerence can also be called decisiveness and courage at certain times. .
It was the same when facing the dark army in the past, and it is still the same now. It's just that there were three legions stationed in Ayinbrok Fortress at that time, but now there is only Fang Plover. This time, the imperial people changed from defending to attacking. By.
But a dark dragon queen became the master of the fortress.
The reversal of stance verges on irony.
But in the eyes of Dragon Queen Alyssa, those imperial soldiers in black helmets were like constructs, unafraid of death. They were blocked on a street and soon launched attacks from other directions, treating death as nothing. .
Soon, she felt troubled.
"These damn Imperials are still exactly the same as they were a thousand years ago," she shouted. "When we attacked this fortress in the past, they were just like this. Now it's their turn to attack this fortress. Why is it still so difficult?"
The mobile fortress has three levels of armament.
The lowest level among them is also a ten-inch caliber fortress cannon. Its main armament is the four fortress cannons at the top. It is a twenty-three-inch caliber monster. It is not an old antique. It is a cutting-edge equipment that was remodeled about seven years ago. .
That was supposed to be part of the city's defense system, but now it naturally fell into Alessa's hands.
It is a pity that the renovation was not completed at that time. There were only two such cannons on the top of the fortress. One of the remaining two is still an antique from ten centuries ago, and the other was renovated three hundred years ago, but now All rusted to death.
The older one has been converted into a museum, and the other one isn't much better.
Among the only two giant cannons, their recharging speed is also extremely slow. It may take several hours or even a day to self-charge with the magic furnace of the mobile fortress - depending on the current load of the fortress.
One of them had already fired and took away half of the Imperial fleet. The remaining one was left by Alessa, so that the Empire would have some scruples when attacking. Of course, he didn't actually do it. He's not really so crazy that he plans to open fire on Aiyin Block.
As for what Dragon Queen Alessa said, in fact, the Oshur people have always been like this.
The battle with Byrne was so brutal that year, and the Cowlings were all too familiar with their old rival.
But the real threat is the cluster of structures in the sky. The combat craftsmen group of the Craftsmen Association comes into play. After all, the fortress controlled by Alessa is not the one of the Oshu people in the past. There is no guard on the fortress except her. military.
Once those constructs began to land and enter the fortress, there was nothing she could do.
She could only organize artillery fire to form a barrage in mid-air to delay the approach of the opponent's construction cluster, but in this way, even the firepower that blocked the approach of the two floating battleships in the sky was dispersed. Fortunately, there was the Seven Seas Traveler Stay on the sidelines.
But after all, this fortress is aging and moving extremely slowly.
Alyssa finally couldn't help but screamed, "Little guy, this old antique is even less reliable than my original body. I have to remind you that many of the equipment in it have been completely rusted and aged, and some of the gears are different. The teeth are broken to such an extent that I can’t tell when they will get stuck.”
"We have to leave this place," Fang Plover replied. "If we stop in Ayinbrok City, we have almost no possibility of escaping, Ms. Alessa."
"I know," the Dragon Queen said angrily, "I'm trying to search for more backup systems for this shaky old thing. Fortunately, it was originally designed for war, and the Oshu people seem to have also carried out reforms in recent years. A certain amount of maintenance.”
"But I want to remind you," she said, "the role of this fortress is different now. When I activated it, there were still many mortal craftsmen inside it. I locked the There are lifts and gates at various passes, but it’s only a matter of time before these people enter the core area.”
Of course Fang Yu understood that this fortress was originally home to the Craftsmen's Association and the Imperial Workshop, and there must have been many high-level craftsmen left in it.
But fortunately, Amasite had previously ordered the combat craftsmen department to dispatch to the airport to participate in the battle. Otherwise, if there were still a large number of combat craftsmen left inside the fortress at this moment, it would be a real problem.
However, those combat craftsmen are returning now, and Alessa will almost certainly not be able to stop them all. After all, the target of a combat craftsman alone is too small, and few of the large and small caliber weapons on the fortress can deal with a single person.
"This fortress has seven cores," Alessa said. "You have to hold at least three of them. As long as there are three cores, I can find a way to move this thing out. But in that case, we are likely to External firepower will be lost.”
She paused. "I mean, you're going to be under more and more pressure."
Fang Plover nodded.
"Leave it to me," he replied, "Ms. Alessa."
"Well," Alessa said, not politely, "I can trust you, little one."
Fang Plover then raised his head. The previous battle was only a short moment.
However, great changes have taken place in the Hall of the Holy King. In fact, Tenaric alone is no match for those silver-helmeted knights. Under the close approach of this lizard prince, these showy nobles died. Hurt hurt.
The rest, forgetting the glory of their ancestors, abandoned their weapons and fled from the hall.
On the contrary, the fighting craftsmen who broke in were much more powerful, but they were still somewhat insatiable when faced with a hero of the Battle of Bain - Princess Miaoxing of the Elven Queen.
The elf princess picked up her bow and nocked an arrow, then released the bowstring - with a sharp roar, the light arrows passing through the hall could often pierce the craftsmen behind the construct. She looked like a ghost, fighting and retreating, and from time to time. Hidden behind Teneric.
Those fighting craftsmen had nothing to do with him, let alone get close to Fang Plover in the center of the hall.
Because before the construct they controlled could even get close, a tall alien flexible construct had already blocked the front - the Oshu combat craftsmen's eyes almost popped out when they saw the construct. .
"Seraph?"
"How can you control it?"
"It is not……"
Isn't it a waste?
Since the previous generation of Dragon Knight, no one is willing to waste computing power on this thing, and most people can't do this.
Even if a few can do it, but at that level - why not just choose the Dragon Knight, or the Pseudo Dragon Knight?
It's just that Fang Plover didn't bother to answer this question.
He just wants to say that he is special——
He can even control another Centaur Annihilator while distracted, allowing that Centaur Annihilator to cause chaos in the crowd. However, when he glanced at Amasite, he realized that the great alchemist was determined to give up and was planning to quietly lead people away from this place.
He immediately pointed in that direction: "Princess Brianne, we can't let him leave!"
When Brianne raised her head, she would not give any face to the alchemists of the empire. As early as the Battle of Byrne, the Avenquin elves were mortal enemies of the Oshurs, and the enemy's great alchemist was also an enemy. .
Now that she had made up her mind, she no longer hesitated and immediately opened her bow in that direction.
...(End of chapter)
