Chapter 887 The Weakness of the Airship
Perhaps others don't know, but Chi Nan knows it very well. The biggest weakness of his airship is that it has limited ammunition. Because they use physical missiles, they are finished after they are fired.
Although the alchemical cannon also has magic power restrictions, it can carry a lot of magic crystals. The most important thing is endurance. When facing a real war, it can last much longer than his airship.
There is no way around it. Even because the missiles are too complicated to manufacture, even those airships have never been fully loaded with ammunition. They just carry some that are roughly enough. This can also avoid the defect of losing too many missiles once the airship is destroyed. The missiles on the airship are even more valuable than the airship itself in terms of cost.
But now, when encountering such a large-scale battle, this weakness is revealed.
After discovering that some airships began to use clean missiles, some flying boats that went too deep knew that they had no way to retreat, so they simply chased them directly. The first ones to chase were the flying boats on the left.
Chasing an airship without missiles, they continued to attack all the way. "This airship really has no missiles left. Shoot it and destroy it." After a series of artillery attacks, the defensive barrier on the airship finally couldn't hold on.
The airships all used the simplified Heart of the Sky. They were fine for defense at ordinary times, but they couldn't defend for long under this kind of artillery attack. After the barrier was broken, there was no way to resist.
Under the attack of the alchemical cannon, the airship was soon hit with potholes.
"Damn, why are their airships so hard." At this time, the people on the flying boat stared at the weird airship with wide eyes. There was no defensive barrier, so why couldn't they be hit.
"That kind of blue-white wood is silver-level wood itself, very hard."
"Don't attack randomly, attack the head of the airship, which is their control center. As long as the head is destroyed, the airship will be completely finished." After such a long time of exploration, they are not completely ignorant of the structure of the airship. The head of the airship is where the plant brain is located, and it is also the center of control of the airship.
At the same time, there are a large number of autonomic nerve structures on the inside of the head of the airship connecting the whole body of the airship. Once the head is severely damaged, the airship will lose control at best, and even crash on the spot in serious cases.
These are not the latest flying boats, and their alchemical cannons are all obsolete goods, and they are not effective in attacking the blue and white airship. If it is the latest flying boat, after destroying the magic barrier outside, it can definitely be completely broken in a few attacks.
The broken flying boat is useless even if the head is still intact.
At this time, an old wizard in the back said: "According to our research, the weaknesses of the airship are not only the head, but also the positions of several doors at the bottom and sides. In addition, the thrusters at the back are also weak points. As long as these places are broken, the general airship will be completely destroyed, including those large airships they call motherships."
Duke Bruce nodded gently: "So that's the case. We have never paid attention to these airships. Now it seems that we are careless. Notify everyone and tell them the weaknesses of the airship."
Duke Bruce gave an order, and the message was transmitted quickly.
The unknown is the most terrifying. At first, they thought they were no match for the airship, so they were very afraid. But now they found that they also have weaknesses, and the ammunition of the airship is not as durable as their own.
Some people began to get excited and were not even afraid of danger. Especially after the airships were shot down one by one, their desire for military exploits gradually suppressed their fear.
"Follow me, isn't it just an airship? We will set up a circular formation and take turns to withstand the attack of missiles, and try not to be shot down at once. Every time we focus our fire, we will definitely destroy an airship."
"That's right, their airships are much stronger than ours. As long as we shoot down one, we will make a profit."
Some people began to greet other people around them: "Brothers on the opposite flying boat, we don't have enough people here, join us in a team." People's subjective initiative is indeed very high.
When these people really organized themselves, the battle began to become a win-lose situation. In the air, the one-sided attack gradually became balanced, and no one could suppress anyone.
Because the battlefield was expanding, the defenses on the sea below were constantly guided out and then destroyed. The airship formation could only retreat slowly, not because they were not opponents, but because the number of opponents was far greater than theirs. In terms of consumption, they were definitely not as good as the opponent. The most important thing was that the defense line on the sea was gradually destroyed.
They retreated to cooperate with the defense line on the sea in the rear, only in this way could they cause greater losses.
"Fortunately, none of those airship motherships had people commanding on them, otherwise there would be no such effect."
Chi Nan said to himself. In fact, because the airships developed too fast, many airship motherships themselves had no people on them because of insufficient manpower. Now rushing up to intercept the enemy is just like the death squad.
Without people, the control is not flexible enough, but this style of not fearing death and not needing to retreat is enough to scare any enemy.
Just now, a mothership was approached by the enemy. After three consecutive rounds of concentrated fire attacks, the head of the mothership was smashed. In addition, a large number of weapons on it cannot be released now.
After two more attacks, the entire airship mothership crashed downwards. The huge impact force ensured that no plant weapons inside would survive. There was a cheer from the opposite side, which could be heard from a long distance away.
But what they didn't realize was that even if the airship mothership was destroyed, the airships on the opposite side were still fighting in an orderly manner, without any change. They didn't know that the opposite side had not lost a single person so far.
If the Holy Dragon Empire knew this, I'm afraid they wouldn't be in such a good mood.
"Keep going, I want to see how long these people can hold on." Chi Nan looked at the screen coldly. The six fronts were gradually approaching the land at this time. Next, it depends on which route they are really attacking.
Or it is possible that these six are the positions they want to attack, which is not impossible. Many airships in the back have slowly taken off and started to move towards the position where the six fronts touch. Defense is like this. Although the loss is small, there is no way to take the initiative like the attacker.