The demons have been a bit dishonest recently, and there have been moves at gates 1, 2, and 3.
Gate No. 1 in the northern area and a circle of floating islands around it have an abnormal increase in Goma.
Goma is a small red-skinned demon that moves upright on two legs and has a tail. Its intelligence is outstanding among the low-level demons. It can build a stronghold and use ooze monsters to make pillows and mattresses.
Goma itself cannot adapt to the floating island era, but it is different with the addition of ooze monsters. The adults of these things can send Goma to other floating islands through a kind of bubble-blowing magic.
When they first switched from the little devil ecology to the goma ecology, the military also educated them once through air combat. Later, without collective action, this spread became unstoppable.
Air combat is particularly unsuitable for dealing with low-cost individual targets. With the number of demons that can be mobilized, if one or two Gorma and ooze monsters are taken out in one sortie, the oil supply will be insufficient, and the stinky fish floating in the air will still be there. This prevents the aircraft from closing the distance, resulting in additional combat costs due to hit rate.
Compared with the previous spontaneous behavior, the current diffusion is obviously abnormal and the number is not right.
The demon ecology is relatively stable when it is not affected by high-level demons. In areas where wild dogs are active, the spread ability of Goma and little devils will be limited. Recent reconnaissance has not found large groups of wild dogs.
It means that the guys in Gate 1 are taking action.
Aerial reconnaissance is a good source of intelligence, but it is not suitable for tracking individual targets. When the demons operate in small groups, it is difficult to see any abnormalities, so the detection of changes will be delayed.
Realizing that the wild dog group had lost its size, it happened almost simultaneously with the spread of Goma. The correlation was not discovered at the time. Later, when I saw a surge in the number of Goma villages on other floating islands, I realized that this was not a natural spread, but more Goma being released from Gate 1.
Prior to this, it was not that the military had not foreseen the situation, but judgments lacking evidence could not be used as the basis for military operations.
But even if we knew it was some kind of plan from the other side, it would be difficult to deal with it.
Bombing seemed like a good idea against the stockade.
Every two aerial bombs thrown can basically destroy a Goma village, but the effect is not good.
The kingdom's conventional aerial bombs are divided into ordinary bomb types and lightweight magic aerial bomb types.
The lethal range of a 500-kilogram ordinary bomb is about 2,000 square meters. If the terrain is flat enough, the shock wave's killing range can reach 7,000 square meters. Beyond this range, the shock wave is not lethal.
Shock wave damage is similar to blunt force blows. The main effect is internal bleeding. The kinetic energy attenuates according to the third power as the radius increases. Therefore, as long as there is a slight distance from the center of the explosion, a big stone or a log will completely block the damage caused by the shock wave to the rear.
The stockade itself will have various buildings, bonfires, tool stones and other messy objects. If there are certain terrain undulations, in such an environment, the lethal range of the shock wave will not exceed the main killing area of shrapnel.
The damage caused by shrapnel is more random. Even if it is only a few meters away from the center of the explosion, there is a chance of missing the shrapnel... Of course, this distance will be directly shattered by the explosion impact.
Overall, there is a certain survival rate twenty meters away from the blast center. The more complex the terrain, the higher the survival rate.
To achieve a building damage and life force fatality rate of about 80%, the bombs need to be dropped according to the density of one aerial bomb per 1,200 square meters, and must be dropped very evenly and simultaneously. This is obviously impossible. No matter how it is arranged, the true fatality rate of a single bombing operation is difficult to reach half.
The low fatality rate is not just a problem for 500 kilogram aerial bombs. This is a flaw faced by all explosives, including nuclear bombs.
Wang Qi remembered an introduction about nuclear bombs in his previous life. In a city with a population of 3 million, a completely reinforced concrete city with a subway system, if fifty nuclear bombs were dropped, the fatality rate would only reach 80%. The reason is that shock waves cannot destroy entities outside a certain radius, let alone living things inside buildings. Light damage is worse than shock waves in urban environments, causing some blindness and skin burning. The overall fatality rate almost entirely depends on heat. Meltdown and neutron kill.
In contrast, magic aerial bombs have a variety of functions, and can achieve a higher fatality rate after targeted arrangements.
The problem is that the target is only Goma, so what if we kill them all?
Goma can throw more fireballs in a single battle than the little devil, and the power is also greater. Elite individuals among them can even release three-ring fire magic such as exploding fireballs, and their intelligence also allows them to use some crude tactics. However, they can only move on their feet, and their reproduction rate cannot be compared with that of little devils. If the total number of Gormas in the entire northern region is added together, it is estimated that the total number does not exceed 100,000. Not to mention the difference in magnitude, ground operations are not conducive to increasing the impact strength of the defense line. , so the strategic aspect cannot be called a threat at all.
After preparations by the staff department and Wang Qi's signature, the army decided to send some warmth to Gema.
There is no need to bomb, but to deliver small gifts, most of which are collected from the private sector through the newspaper's prize-winning manual selection activities.
It is naturally mixed with laboratory-grade good stuff.
"Laboratory grade" refers to non-mass-produced products, each of which has various weird functions. When needed, a few can be temporarily made through research institutions.
The thing was originally prepared for our own army, a portable marking device called a "covert signal".
Affected by the environment of this world, whether it is electromagnetic waves or magic, there are problems with long-distance communication capabilities. In order to solve the communication needs of the military, many means have been developed, mainly light signals, including air, ground, and magic.
The main goal of "Concealed Signal" is to prepare special teams for frontline activities. In order to prevent the magic lighting method from being detected by the demons, a method that cannot be detected by the enemy is needed. The effect is to use [Broadcast Sound] enchantment on the target object.
Such a magic name is obviously an alternative magic constructed based on a new knowledge system, and it is a spell that cannot be used daily at all.
[Broadcast Sound] will cause the enchanted object and living creature to emit a magic communication signal. This signal can only be detected by a magician with a fifth-level or above permanent perception of magic. However, using the magic communication device on the plane, it can be heard up to 20 kilometers away. "Beep" sound.
In the current experimental version, the automatic disappearance time of a single enchantment is about 10 hours. It is used to allow the Air Force to locate the special team itself or the target range. For example, if it needs to bomb a certain area, it can surround it with a "concealed signal" so that the personnel can go to safety. Waiting at a distance.
The gift given to Goma has been slightly modified. The manual switch has been cancelled, and it has become a periodic automatic enchantment. The appearance has also been specially carved by a goldsmith. It looks like a beautiful egg-shaped gold-plated decoration.
After being picked up, this kind of exquisite gift will be gathered to the leader of Goma for temporary storage, and then transferred to the hands of the high-level demons flowing among the villages of Goma.
When all the thrown gifts are gathered together and moving in the northern area, it's time to prepare for battle.
The advantage of this solution is that it is low cost, not counting flight losses. The total cost is only two aerial bombs. Moreover, due to the difference between the old and new magic systems, its function is also difficult to decipher. The disadvantage is that small gifts may be sent back to the devil's world, never to appear again.
However, this hidden danger is not a big problem. Later, we can find a magic workshop to customize various "hidden signals". The value and artistry can be distinguished, in order to keep them in various places. In the hands of the demons.
Before that, the institute still needs to make some adjustments to prevent reconnaissance aircraft from having difficulty distinguishing signals when there are too many in the field. The communication module of the reconnaissance aircraft may need to be upgraded.
(End of chapter)
