Chapter 124 Air Combat
Every war always encounters one kind of accident, and every war always creates some heroes or fools.
The air battle between the elves and orcs did not begin as everyone imagined. When the elves and air knights lined up in formation and pressed towards the musketeers of the Wingman Left Team, an unexpected fire broke out by a Wingman soldier on the orcs started the war.
This accident should not have happened. According to the orcs' plan in advance, this war should have been a tragic trap for the elves of the elves. The wingers could not guarantee the accuracy of the free shooting in the air, so a volleyball shooting formation was specially designed like the ground to increase the firepower density.
But any plan will have accidents, and nothing will succeed smoothly.
In combat in the air, the Wingman warriors are under great psychological pressure. Everyone knows this common sense among the Wingman race. Whether the Wingman or the Air Knights are physically extremely fragile, and any small damage in the air may cause the death of the Wingman. Without any pair of wings, they can still maintain their flight after being penetrated. If they are injured and waiting for the Wingman's fate, they can only fall to the ground and fall to death. Therefore, the Wingman in the air battle must be extra careful. If anyone gets hit by any cold arrow, the fate will be extremely tragic.
Therefore, when the Wingers were holding the guns in their hands and aiming at the enemy and waiting for the two sides to enter the combat distance, they still made a mistake. The original plan stipulated that all Wingers musketeers must enter a distance of 150 meters before firing before firing. However, when the Wingers saw the dense enemy being pressed over fiercely, they finally couldn't control their psychological pressure and fired the gun at two or three hundred meters.
The result of this shot was of course that it did not hit any of the elf Sky Knights, but the loud bang like thunder still aroused the vigilance of the air Knights. Although the elf Sky Knights at the front were not clear about the power and range of the muskets in another world, they could not see the bullets as if they saw the trajectory of crossbow arrows, the huge momentum of the muskets when they fired, still awakened the careful elves.
"Be careful, be careful of the weapons in the hands of the winged people." The Elf Knights naturally saw the winged people holding the long tubular weapon in their hands aiming at them far away.
"Oh, gods! Their weapons wouldn't be shot at us at such a distance!" The vigilant elf Knight commanders were a little suspicious and ordered their subordinates to stop moving forward.
The commander of the Winged Man in the space at this time also realized that something was wrong. According to their calculations, they had to exert the attack power of the radial when the enemy approached, but now the enemy is alert, it is not easy to want such a good opportunity. Sure enough, is the so-called radial in air combat only delusions?
"Stay steady, keep calm!" he shouted immediately, "When you get close, you are shooting. Don't worry, the enemy's range is not as far away as ours!"
But he immediately found out that his order was too late.
When fighting alone, all the people in Yi were skilled and brave and confident, because they just needed to eliminate the enemies in front of them and didn't have to worry about their backs. But now, when the number of Elf Knights was far more powerful than that of themselves, they still had some more timidity. The shot just now made everyone feel relieved, and then not long after, I don't know who fired the second shot.
There was another gunshot, and then it broke, followed by a series of gunfire like a bean-burning sound.
The elves were originally doubting the range of the muskets of the wingers, but then the air knights around them also fell with the sound of the gunshots on the opposite side. The air knights who were caught were shocked when they heard the sound of the sniper rifle and lost their balance. The speed was so fast that they could not even see the enemy attacking them. The 5.56mm air-pointed warhead with a high speed hit the body of the beast like a heavy hammer. The warhead caused terrifying hollow damage in the body of the beast, unscrupulously destroying the tissues and organs of the beast. Blood gushed out of the body. Almost instantly, the beast lost all its vitality and began to fall from the air like a winged bird.
Even the Central Army Heavy Cavalry Brigade, the griffin weighing more than 300 kilograms, could not withstand this kind of damage. A distance of only 200 meters was shot, and a big hole appeared in the griffin's abdomen, and blood splashed out like water, leaving a dazzling mark in the air. The griffin, who was rapidly losing blood, quickly unconscious and fell into a coma with the elf Sky Knight on her body like a stone.
As blood flowers bloomed brightly on the ground, the elves finally woke up, and how their previous investigations into missing air knights were shot down.
The enemy has a terrifying ranged weapon with a range that is far better than that of a bow!
During the air battle, the air knights entered the range of the weapons in the hands of the Winged People before they even approached the Winged People. This is definitely a revolutionary weapon!
"Quick! Hurry up, retreat, retreat, retreat quickly!" The commanders of the Sky Knights who reacted quickly shouted and ordered their subordinates to retreat and escape from the range of weapons in the hands of the Winged People. The Sky Knights who were hit in the front row were flying in a mess everywhere. No one knew how far the Winged People's weapon was, and no one knew how far the safe distance was.
The elves' air combat formation was disrupted in a blink of an eye, and at least one-third of the elves' air knights lost their establishment.
"Follow me! Kill up! Fight at a long distance!" The commander of the Wingman made a quick decision and gave the order to fight. The Wingman team, one left and one right, immediately launched a battle formation and chased the enemy. "The musketeers of the left team follow me to keep a distance and chase the enemy! The crossbow archers of the right team cover my flanks to prevent the enemy from surrounding them."
The two teams of Wingman Air Forces received orders to find their respective combat posts. The two teams of Wingman Air Forces were following the retreating elf air knights, and the air condition immediately changed.
Without the pressure of shooting, the wingers finally released the dense evacuation formation during training, simulated a volley of muskets with dense firepower in the air, which greatly enhanced the hit rate of their muskets. The elves who were originally aggressive and had to retreat one after another were shot down one after another, but the wingers who were supposed to be at a disadvantage turned into a depressed look at the elves at the beginning. The elves knights in front were hit by the wingers who were catching up behind, and fell from the sky like dumplings.
Rand, a wingman musketeer who was affiliated with the Base Mountain Scouts, and his partners were nervous at the beginning. While firing, they flew forward and chased according to the steps they had trained. He did not kill an enemy after several shots, but soon, he discovered that this battle was exactly like shooting a target, and there was no need to fly and dodge the action at all. He just needed to stabilize his flying posture and remove the recoil, as simple as shooting a target on the ground.
With a snap, he killed one, a snap shot, and another one. Under the scope, he could even clearly see the damage caused by the bullet hitting the riding beast, and blood splashed in the air, losing his life in a blink of an eye. While holding back the throbbing in his heart, he kept firing, and the air knights fell one after another at the muzzle of the Winged Man.
After chasing for a while, the Wingman Musketeers became more and more relaxed. The accuracy of the sniper rifle in their hands gradually showed up. Soon the order of the volleyball began to scatter, but the accuracy of free shooting began to rise. Almost all of the Wingman Musketeers became sharpshooters, but one could be knocked out in just a few shots. At this time, the Wingman's natural superior flight instinct and the accuracy of modern sniper rifles were perfectly combined, giving the elves huge damage.
The elves of the sky knights saw the falls one after another under the shooting of the musketeers, with heavy losses, but they could not stretch the distance. The flying speed of the beasts flying with weight could not escape the pursuit of the people. The huge sky knights flying behind almost fell down row by row. Each of them hated that the beasts under their crotch were not flying fast and tried every means to find ways to speed up.
The orcs looking up at the sky from the ground saw that their winged air force had the upper hand as soon as the war started, and the orcs on the ground cheered continuously. Every fall of the elf air knight could attract their carnival.
They kept watching their winged compatriots lined up in neat formations, chasing the enemy with their tails of retreating elves, embedding them into the formation like an awl.
But on the other side, a large group of elves of air knights did come over from the slanting sky.
"Then, what is that?" The orcs on the ground pointed nervously at the moving elves, "No, the cunning elves are going to surround the Winged Man!" The orcs shouted nervously.
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At this time, the wingers and the elf aerial knights were playing a pursuit battle over the wasteland, but the rear was surrounded by the air knights of the other two brigades of the first corps that turned around, and the air battle situation entered a relatively stalemate.
"Order the Second Regiment to attack! Surround it," the commander-in-chief of the Knights, who had been in the rear, finally couldn't help but intervene directly in the battle. He gritted his teeth and gave an order, "Let the knights of the First Regiment entangle them, and never let the winged people run away."
The situation of this air battle changed rapidly. When the regiment commander saw the amazing combat power of this group of winged air force, he felt more distressed by the losses of the air knights under his command, the greater the loss, the more he made him determined to eat this terrible enemy.
Immediately afterwards, the horns of the air elf Sky Knight's messenger's messenger continued to sound. In addition to the first light cavalry brigade that was crippled by the first registrar and the heavy cavalry brigade, the remaining two light cavalry brigades in the first registrar also attacked from the side with great momentum.
Although the Elf Knights are weak, they are the top elite professional soldiers in the Northern Elf King Court. At this moment, the national hatred and family hatred between the elves and the orcs are too strong. In addition, too much blood has been shed by the elves just now, even the weak elves are all over the blood, with a firm attack and no fear at all.
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The senior leaders of the Elf clan, the high priest, the Great Druid and Queen Burren Hill, were also watching the battle in the forest. When the Winged Air Force was showing great power, everyone here was worried about their own people in their hearts.
The losses were heavy! At this moment, this was the unanimous judgment of almost all the elf senior officials on this battle in their hearts. The loss of the elf air knights at this moment alone was enough to make the senior officials of the royal court heartbroken.
But air combat is air combat. In the air battle, the air knights who fought bravely in the air could not receive orders from the ground. They could only watch their elves of air knights being chased and killed by the Winged Air Force. Then, as they looked, they saw the way...
"Okay!" Queen Burenhill praised the response of his air commanders! "It is to take advantage of our large population to surround them, enter a close-range battle, and annihilate them in the battle."
"You must not let these winged people escape!" she shouted to the sky. At this moment, she seemed to have completely forgotten how their elves were afraid of fighting in close range.
Chapter completed!