Chapter 344 Airborne Operations (Part 2)

The attack began in the early morning.

When the enemy is still sleeping, when the enemy has been on guard all night and wants to return to his residence to rest.

Exhaustion mixed.

Ji Lin did not choose to attack under the cover of night as before. Carrier-based bombing of aerostats requires a very good environment for observation, allowing observers to stabilize the aerostats according to their relative positions and enter the bombing program.

Even in World War II, the effectiveness of night bombing still relied on the assistance of ground units.

It's not enough to simply drop weighted explosive packets from the aeroplane. That would be too wasteful.

As the floating command ship slowly advanced, the originally uniform fleet split into three teams and dispersed, each heading for its own attack route.

Ji Lin looked at the brass stopwatch in his hand that had just crossed a quarter past five, and focused on the portal in the center of the camp. The circular portal spread out on the rune array shone with a faint light from the other side.

Like the floating stone, the portal only consumes a relatively small amount of energy to maintain.

Very rarely.

Then it can stay like a floating island, remaining in its area, and after losing energy, it becomes an unstable space rift that disappears and appears.

Today's portal has stopped transporting materials at night, and there are still a large number of materials placed on both sides of the door, waiting for porters to deliver these materials to the warehouse.

Their first target was the warehouse, where the camp's weapons were stored.

Through questioning the prisoners of war, he knew that these troops did not carry weapons with them during rest time, and weapons were distributed uniformly before the march began - they did not have the habit of letting soldiers bring weapons into their dormitories.

But Ji Lin could not confirm which weapons warehouses were and could only rely on his own intuition to mark them on the map of the camp.

The increasingly active mage reconnaissance force has curbed the reconnaissance of lightweight aerial reconnaissance ships, forcing the reconnaissance aerospace ships to be active at ultra-high altitudes above three thousand meters.

As a commander's intuition, the weapons warehouse will not be too far from the camp, and they need to deal with incoming enemies at all times. But the weapons warehouse will not just be placed next to the camp. Professional patrols are needed to supervise the weapons.

Unable to withstand close attacks, the attack limit of the Arcane Focuser is 700 meters, while the mage can reach altitudes of more than 2,000 meters.

Because energy consumption is extremely serious, generally few mages like to reach altitudes above two thousand meters.

One thousand two hundred meters away, the attack position he selected allowed him to better observe the ground conditions.

A height of more than one thousand meters is enough to make it difficult for mages to fight - they have to cast spells while maintaining their own flight spells, greatly reducing the threat to aerospace ships.

Ji Lin took a deep breath. It had been a long time since he had commanded a large-scale frontal battle in his territory, so he felt a little... uncomfortable.

In the center of the infantry carrying compartment, there were piles of explosive packets tied tightly with linen. The soldiers' weapons and ammunition were put away and managed uniformly, and no one wanted to see an open flame in a cabin filled with explosives.

The explosive package is dropped using a crude method such as a fuse... He has tested and found that only about 70% of the dropped explosive packages can explode normally.

But this is his only long-distance coverage strike method, and there is really no way to use it in territories that require heavy artillery.

After all, the fundamental factor that determines a weapon is whether it can perform the job it is supposed to do on the battlefield.

Ji Lin waved his hand, and the soldiers opened the hatches on both sides of the aerospace ship.

Wooden buildings represent their fragility and their inability to withstand too much direct damage, but this cheap and easy-to-obtain material is the favorite of the army when building camps.

The soldiers, who did not even dare to breathe loudly in the cabin, carried these explosive packages weighing 20 kilograms to the hatch with extreme caution. They knew that they had made a slight mistake.

An accidentally exploded explosive package would send them and the aerospace ship they were riding into the sky.

Together with the two tons of explosives on the floating ship, it turned into a flash of light in the sky before dawn.

"Lord! We have entered the attack route and can start dropping bombs."

Ji Lin observed the two light spots heading towards the camp in the distance and realized that they were the mage reconnaissance team returning from their reconnaissance mission.

He shook his head, pulled out his special flare gun, and filled it with a special large-mouth projectile.

The red flare took off, leaving an obvious trace that everyone could observe.

After each ship enters the position, it is free to release bombs.

It’s time to end this season-long battle and send these outsiders back to their hometowns.

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On the ground, the advance team soldiers who were still on duty at their posts in the early morning all raised their heads.

Whether it's a mage or a soldier.

Everyone's eyes were attracted to these ships moving in the sky, and all attention was attracted by the approaching shadows.

The iron-gray outer armor reflects a matte light with a gentle atmosphere under the weak morning light. Its keel is composed of a layered structure like a skeleton, and the iron-gray color it shows to everyone is even brighter. It is an ominous omen for it.

This strange structure makes those who see it mistakenly think that it is a living thing for a moment.

Until they seemed to be moving along a set route, they spread out their own fleet and began to move over the camp.

Soon, even the dumbest ones realized how and where the enemy they had been fighting was moving.

After standing there for a long time, they realized something.

The enemy they had been chasing for a long time, the enemy who had caused them heavy casualties.

As if it would only happen in a story, they arrived at the target by driving a ship that could sail in the sky, arriving at sunrise by light.

Launch an attack.

The enemy's target was them, this portal base with a garrison reduced by one-third.

But they did not bring a beautiful gift, they had only one goal, to end this war.

The war mage who was still on duty immediately rushed to the nearest arcane focuser tower and controlled this heavy war machine to start charging.

The soldiers realized that they should sound the alarm to inform their superiors of the invasion... The enemy was attacking from the sky.

The commander of the portal station looked at the gray fleet moving slowly in the sky, and his impression of the enemy was instantly clear, and his frown that had been frowning for several days relaxed.

So they have been fighting this kind of thing all along?

"Order all war mages to return to their positions immediately and activate the arcane focuser."

He was awakened by his adjutant at the first time. When he saw with his own eyes that the enemy had really launched an attack, he felt more relaxed than ever before.

Even though he knew that the enemy's complete exposure would definitely mean that this would be an extremely fatal attack.

The depression and helplessness that had accumulated in his heart for months were swept away at this moment. He no longer needed to worry about and speculate on the enemy's purpose, and he no longer needed to order the mages to carry out reconnaissance missions.

"Immediately activate the arcane turrets of each tower to prevent the enemy from landing... No, don't go to intercept them in the air, go to the turrets first to stop them!"

They were slowing down, as if they had found their target.

Whether it was the fleet that looked the largest or the other ships that were scattered around, they were all slowing down.

But none of the airships showed any intention of landing.

A bright red signal track rose in the center of the fleet, and some light spots fell with the airship as the center.

It flickers, and if you don't pay attention, the light spot will turn into a tiny black dot and disappear under the light gray sky that has not yet fully lit up.

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