Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 537 537 Aorta

When the first ray of sunlight in the morning shone on the airport runway, the fighter pilots of the Tang Army rushed out of their barracks with orders.

The ground crew had already been prepared. They inspected the aircraft with the help of lights before dawn.

The FW-190 fighter jets that took off this time were equipped with two 250-kilogram bombs under their belly. They were going to completely paralyze the target they had forgotten yesterday.

Soon, the engines of these planes began to roar, and the propellers began to rotate rapidly. The plane at the front had already pointed its nose at the takeoff runway.

 The first FW-190 fighter roared to the end of the runway, and then shot into the sky there, followed by the second and third.

　　All the planes formed a formation in the sky, and then charged towards the Qi army's defense line in the distance.

The Qi Army ground troops who had just woken up were dumbfounded. As soon as they got up from the bed, they saw a scene that frightened them and they had already seen it yesterday.

Dozens of planes densely passed over their heads, and the engines of the "Shi"-shaped planes roared, and they rushed past the place where they were.

 Everyone prayed silently in their hearts, praying that these planes would not suddenly lower their altitude and then return to their location.

What is very gratifying is that their prayers seem to have an effect. Those Tang Army aircraft that flew in with murderous intent early in the morning obviously had no intention of attacking their position.

These planes roared into the distance and disappeared over the horizon without looking back. All the Qi troops secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

“Where on earth are these **** guys going to blow up?” a Qi soldier said in fear, holding his weapon.

“Why do you care so much? As long as they don’t bomb us, you can bomb us wherever you like.” Another Qi soldier said.

"Don't worry, I heard that our main force is preparing to counterattack, and the Tang Army will be finished soon!" The squad leader on the Qi Guo position looked at the Tang Army planes that were gradually disappearing, and confidently comforted his subordinates.

 …

Some people are lucky and some people are unlucky. Behind Qi's position, an airship just dropped its rope and began to lower its height.

The attack last night was obviously unsuccessful, so the returning airship was landing carefully. They carry a lot of ammunition and a lot of hydrogen above their heads, so they are very fragile and dangerous.

It is still very troublesome to land this thing. It often takes more than 40 minutes for an airship to land.

 The good news is that a large amount of hydrogen has been released, because the airship has to lower its height, cooperate with the operations on the ground, and dock little by little next to the specially designed building.

 Inside the building, there are machines for preparing hydrogen and raw materials are stacked. There are power plants and ammunition depots next to them.

 In short, this is a very complex and professional special "pier", which is a base that must be built to use airships.

 At this time, the entire base was busy. Even if the airship returns early, it will still take a lot of time to deal with these returning big guys.

While he was busy, a warning sentry deployed outside the airship saw the Tang Army aircraft rushing over in the distant sky.

 In order to attack the enemy country as deeply as possible, most airship bases are built very close to the front line. This place is actually less than 60 kilometers away from the main defense line of the Qi army.

 Coupling the distance between Tang Jun Airport and the defense line and the inclined route, the actual distance between the two sides is only about 150 kilometers.

   For a fighter jet with the speed of the FW-190, it only takes less than 20 minutes at most to cover 150 kilometers. In fact, Qi Jun could not react at all, as Tang Jun's plane was already close at hand.

"That's it? The Tang Army's plane?" Yesterday's attack has spread the word airplane among the Qi army. People who have seen it but not seen it are now talking about such tall weapons and equipment as airplanes.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" Another Qi soldier immediately began to shout loudly, reminding his companions to prepare for battle quickly.

But just when he looked back, a desperate sight came into his eyes: the huge airship was still hovering in mid-air, and the cables dropped from the airship were still bending and shaking.

The fragile factory building was left unprotected, and even the roof was painted bright red to prevent the airship from colliding when it landed.

 No joke at all, except for a few anti-aircraft guns and a few machine guns of the ground security forces, there may not be any force here that can participate in the battle!

"Hurry! Get the machine gun positions ready!" The desperate officer on duty of the Qi army hurried over and ordered loudly as he rushed in front of them. At this moment, the Tang Army's fighter jets had already rushed in front of them, and at the same time they had begun to adjust their formation and swoop down one by one.

"It's over...it's all over..." the Qi Guo officer murmured, looking up at the enemy planes in the sky and giving up the idea of ​​struggling.

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In the sky, in the small and cramped cockpit of the fighter jet, the pilot of the Tang Army flew slightly diagonally to overlook the target on the ground.

He saw the red roofs and the slender white airships that seemed to be docked at the dock.

Therefore, he started the attack without hesitation, and then reminded his wingman on the radio to keep up with him: "I start to dive and drop bombs! I start to dive to drop bombs! Follow me! Pay attention to ground fire! You are responsible for suppressing it!"

"Wingman understands!" came the voice of the wingman pilot in the earphones, and then the two planes turned their noses and dived toward the ground: "I'm following you! Pay attention to the altitude!"

In an instant, the two planes found the target. They pulled down the bomb release handle at a height close to the critical point. The two 250-kilogram bombs separated from the pylons and rushed towards the ground target relying on inertia.

Returning artillery fire rang out from the ground. Unfortunately, the shells of the 76mm anti-balloon cannon were unable to keep up with the aircraft and were long ago thrown to who knows where.

If an aircraft was hit by a 76mm anti-balloon cannon and crashed at this time, it cannot be said that the other party's gunnery skills were superb. It can only be blamed on the pilot's extremely bad luck.

“Machine gun! Machine gun! Someone is shooting!” the lead pilot reminded his wingman while pulling up and releasing the bomb.

He just saw the enemy's tracer bullets. The dense tracer bullets hit the sky, which more or less caused some trouble for the FW-190 fighter force that was about to dive and attack.

Frankly speaking, the low-altitude performance of the FW-190 fighter is not very good. The training the pilots receive is mainly fighter combat training, and ground attack is only a temporary guest appearance. Therefore, most of the pilots of the FW-190 fighter are unwilling to Staying at low altitude.

 So when machine gun fire comes, most pilots will immediately pull up and change their path, avoid the attack and quickly regain altitude.

Air defense and air defense, nine out of ten, and the existence of fixed ground air defense firepower, in fact, the most important thing is to force the enemy to give up the target of the air strike, and then protect the strategic target it wants to protect.

To put it more bluntly, the purpose of anti-aircraft firepower is not to shoot down enemy aircraft, but to interfere with enemy aircraft so that they cannot attack the target.

As long as airports, factories, bridges are protected... the anti-aircraft artillery will be considered a winner, and it has no direct relationship with how many enemy planes are shot down.

Therefore, just based on the results, it is obvious that the several machine guns deployed by the Qi army on the periphery played a temporary role in air defense, and they still played a role in disrupting the Tang army's bombing.

Unfortunately, these peripheral anti-aircraft machine guns are too far away and do not really cover the airship base, so their role can only be said to be extremely limited.

After finding, or testing out, the locations of these machine guns, the Tang Army's fighter units began to bypass these fixed firepower points and continue to attack the eye-catching airship base.

At this time, the first bombs dropped also landed where these airships and airship bases were located, and exploded, destroying everything around them.

The huge explosion suddenly caused the factory building, which was neither strong nor intended to be strong, to collapse, and the machines inside were completely crushed under the rubble.

This was originally a temporary frontline airship base, a place where airships were inflated and simple repairs were performed. Cyric didn't have time to build a solid building here, and he didn't make any emergency repair plans.

 After the first explosion blew off the roof, all the surrounding Qi people knew that it was over, and this place was about to become a **** on earth.

As expected, the second bomb hit the airship outside the factory at the same time. The airship immediately exploded and burned into a huge flame.

In order to be cheap and enable large-scale construction, the disadvantages of Cyric using hydrogen instead of helium to fill the airship became apparent. The explosion destroyed the entire airship base almost instantly.

The pilots of the subsequent FW-190 fighter jets were completely dumbfounded. They found that because the target exploded so powerfully, they could not find a way to continue the dive attack.

There are flames everywhere, explosions everywhere, and burning air waves everywhere. The air flow near the entire airship base is already unstable. Every time it approaches the aircraft, it will shake violently due to the transpiration of the air flow.

It’s no exaggeration at all. The pilots in the planes that had just dived to drop bombs all wondered if they had hit a giant ammunition depot. The explosions under their feet had connected together, and they were so huge that it was a bit scary.

This feeling is like a knife stabbing a major artery, blood spurting out uncontrollably, not only killing the other person, but also frightening the criminal who stabbed the knife...

 (End of this chapter)