18th century total war

Chapter 422
In the blue sky, there is no cloud in the sky, and a scorching sun hangs in the sky. Any fool can see that this is a good day for fighting in the air...

The cloudy and rainy weather will greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the industry's long-standing aircraft, and even cause unnecessary non-combat attrition. The same is true for griffins and dragons that rely on biological power to fly.

Although the body and defense of the giant dragon far exceed that of an airplane made of steel, it is still a body of flesh and blood. If it is struck by a muffled thunder, it will be seriously injured and disabled even if it is not dead!

This is why the Arigado Empire chose to attack the Europa Empire's naval fleet on such a clear day.

Before reaching the enemy, hundreds of Imperial Eagle Type [-] single-wing propeller fighter jets have already formed a three-dimensional attack battle formation in the sky.

All fighters can fire tons of ammunition at the target the first time!

It's like an aerial version of queue shooting!
Of course, because of the "three-dimensional" combat in the sky, the fighter group can aim more muzzles at the enemy at the same time.

From a three-dimensional perspective, every fighter jet is equivalent to being in the first row.

This is the air force's tactics against the enemy formulated by the North American Expeditionary Force Combat Command.

Facing the foreign air force, Li Wei's air force combat experience in World War I and World War II in his previous life was not enough to apply to his opponent.

Because the air enemies of the Europa Empire have never been aircraft, but flesh and blood.

Compared with airplanes, these flesh and blood bodies have various advantages, but they also have various disadvantages.

For example, the Griffin Corps of the Arigado Empire was not taken seriously by Karl and others at all.

Griffons do not have long-range attack capabilities, and rely on diving to fight with riders on their bodies. This level of combat effectiveness is simply incomparable with professional fighters.

The Dragon Knight Corps, which is more powerful than others, has super defensive power and air hand-to-hand combat capabilities, but their fatal flaws are the speed disadvantage of the dragon's flight and the lack of attack distance.

The Imperial Air Force, which regards the Dragon Knight as the primary enemy, naturally wants to magnify this defect of the enemy infinitely.

Thus, the Air Force's version of the queuing and shooting tactic was born.

It is this tactic that allows the Air Force to dare to face hard steel when it is clearly at an absolute disadvantage in numbers.

On the black dragon leading the horse, a knight captain with a radiant fighting spirit bloomed on his body, holding up the longbow engraved with magic patterns in his hand, using the sound wave to shout towards the surrounding and behind the dragoons:

"Arigado, you must win!"

This is the last encouragement of the dragoons before they engage the enemy!

Although most of the riders driving the dragon were replaced, and finally the masters of the Odin royal family were replaced by people loyal to the nobles of all parties and even family children, but in this matter of fighting for the Arigado Empire, everyone's goal is the same .

Although the aristocratic enfeoffment system has various flaws, the fact that the aristocratic class itself is the pillar of the country has not changed.

Compared with the family, state and world established by the centralized system, the country established by the aristocratic enfeoffment system is more like a group company in the form of a commercial franchise.

The royal family is equivalent to the chairman of the board of directors, and the big nobles and small nobles are equivalent to the large and small shareholders of the board of directors.

Of course, there is still an essential difference between a country under the aristocratic enfeoffment system and a joint-stock company. If the company fails, the shareholders will lose money and lose money, but if the aristocratic enfeoffment country is destroyed, the nobles may even have to cut off their family inheritance!

The higher the price, the stronger the cohesion!
Because of this, even though many aristocrats of the Arigado Empire knew that Emperor Alensus's replacement before the battle was to preserve the strength of the royal family, those nobles still held their noses and endured it.

Alensus' use of the dragoons and griffin knights as cannon fodder was just his own inner thoughts. In the eyes of the nobles of the Arigado Empire, this was a decisive battle between them and the Europa Empire that turned the tide of the war.

Alensus had long held a noble meeting to let all the nobles of the Arigado Empire know.

If this battle is won, the logistics of the North American Expeditionary Force will be cut off. No matter how strong the Europa Expeditionary Force is on the North American battlefield, it will be wiped out sooner or later, and the situation will be completely reversed.

If this battle is lost... Well, they are all defeated, and everyone will naturally have to share the responsibility in the end!
Anyway, if this decisive battle is not launched, the advance legion of the Europa Expeditionary Force will sooner or later enter Washington.

The failure of the Battle of New York and the heavy damage to the main force of the White Tiger Legion had made the Arigado Empire see the prospect of defeat. At this time, what choice did they have other than desperately turning the tide of battle?

What's more, the griffins and dragons dispatched are the housekeeping treasures of the Odin royal family. Alensus has begun to fight for his roots. What qualifications do those nobles who live with the country have the right to refuse?
Rejecting Alonthos at this time is to make life difficult for the righteousness of the Arigado Empire, and it is not too much to charge you with treason.

At least, there is no voice of surrender among the nobles of the Aligado Empire.

For one thing, these alien human nobles with superhuman physical qualities look down on the weak humans in the New World from the bottom of their hearts. They always think that the humans in the New World only rely on the strength and numerical advantages of foreign objects to gain an advantage on the battlefield.

Secondly, the human nobles of the Arigado Empire have studied Emperor Li Wei of the Europa Empire, and even inquired about the treatment of those who surrendered to the Europa Empire after the fall of the Xuanwu Legion.

Except for Merlin, who initially led the entire Magic Guild to surrender to the enemy, those who surrendered to the Europa Empire did not receive very good treatment...

Many people even disappeared for no reason, and even their bodies were never found. This happened after they surrendered!
As a matter of course, those surrendered people who disappeared for no reason were taken away by the Europa Empire Academy of Sciences as experimental materials.

Humans from another world have strong physical fitness, and the physical fitness of any soldier is better than that of the imperial guards. How could Li Wei let go of such a good sample?

What's more, the Xuanwu Legion's defeat was too fast and too thorough, and it didn't get the respect of Emperor Li Wei at all. Isn't it justified to use the descendants of the Xuanwu Legion for research?
As for setting an example of the surrender of humans from other worlds, it is not necessary for the powerful Li Wei.

In a world without magical power, it must be the power of industry that wins, not to mention that Li Wei also has endless technology trees.

The human aristocrats of the Arigado Empire could not see the slightest sincerity in the surrender of the Europa Empire, and their cohesion was naturally stronger than ever.

As soon as the leader of the Black Dragon Knight Commander finished shouting his slogan, he saw a series of flames flashing across the front muzzles of the enemy fleet.

After estimating the distance, the Imperial Eagle Type poured all the ammunition in the cannon towards the oncoming Dragon Knight almost at the same time!

In order to deal with the high-strength dragon scale armor on the giant dragon, these fighter cannons are all equipped with special armor-piercing shells!

No other rounds were carried in the magazine.

After all, the Imperial Eagle Type [-] does not have a large bomb load, and this time it is purely aerial combat.

In the Europa Empire, the naming of all practical weapons and equipment worthy of mass production requires the approval of Emperor Li Wei.

Emperor Li Wei would not care about naming the various models of samples in the laboratory, but as long as they pass technical and on-site inspections and are put into mass production, they must be named by Emperor Li Wei himself.

This is how the name of the imperial eagle type comes from.

Obviously, Emperor Li Wei intends to use the Imperial Eagle as the professional name of the air-to-air fighter, and the subsequent mass-produced models will be named Type II, Type III, and so on.

Just like the original Charles rifle appeared.

As for why the name of the semi-automatic rifle was changed, it was because the semi-automatic rifle was a qualitative leap compared to the bolt-action rifle. Emperor Li Wei decided to change the name for his own feelings.

In summary, the naming of weapons and equipment depends entirely on Emperor Li Wei's preference and willfulness!
The knight commander on the black dragon, who was leading the way, suddenly felt a violent impact on his body. The protective fighting energy on his body shook violently, and the consumption of fighting energy increased at an unimaginable speed!

The knight commander didn't even know what kind of attack he was under!
However, compared to the target's smaller human body, the giant dragon's huge body has become a living meat target. One round of armor-piercing bullets may not cause too much damage to the giant dragon. What about five or even ten rounds?
In fact, under the dense armor-piercing machine guns, the giant dragon couldn't hold ten rounds at all!

In the sky, giant dragons with blood gouged all over their bodies kept whining and falling down. Not only did the strong bodies of the dragons not play any role at this moment, but it increased their pain.

The special armor-piercing projectile for machine gun developed by the Europa Empire has no explosive part, and the huge projectile penetrates into the dragon's body, just like a bullet projectile in the human body.

Because all the kinetic energy acts on the penetration, normal flesh and blood cannot stop it at all. Even the steel body of the Imperial Eagle will be penetrated from beginning to end...

Obviously, the dragon knights of the Arigado Empire were targeted!

This armor-piercing projectile was specially developed by the Imperial Academy of Sciences to deal with dragon knights.

After passing through the resistance of the dragon's scale armor, the power of the armor-piercing projectile penetrating into the dragon's body has dropped significantly, and then it is blocked by the strong flesh and bones of the dragon, turned over and even shattered, making it impossible to get out from the other side of the dragon's body. Penetrate out from the side and stay in the dragon's body...

This undoubtedly caused even more terrible secondary damage to the dragon!

This is why the giant dragons that were shot were unable to maintain their balance in the air in the end, and fell one after another.

The place where the dragon fell has already been guarded by the ready imperial guards. As long as the dragon lands, it will be greeted by all kinds of light and heavy weapons immediately!

You can even see a few tanks and armored vehicles below!
Heavy individual weapons such as the Panzerfaust rocket launcher are used as conventional weapons by the Imperial Guards and are deployed at various dangerous locations below.

With the hardness of the giant dragon's scales, even if it is seriously injured and dying, ordinary rifles can't shoot through it...

Looking up from below, you can see hundreds of fighter jets from the Europa Empire crazily shooting down the oncoming Dragon Knight Corps like a target.

The fighter jets of the Europa Empire, relying on their range advantage, carried out a brutal massacre against the dragon knights!

It wasn't until the number of dragon knights was reduced by more than half that the Europa Empire's fighter fleet turned around and dispersed away from the effective range of the dragon flame jets that were about to encounter them.

The entire fleet was divided into four directions, forming four attacking fleets quickly and stably.

At this moment, the flexibility and speed of the fighter jets are far beyond the reach of the dragon knights of the Arigado Empire...

They seem to have realized that in air battles, speed is a more important factor than destructive power!
The speed is not enough, no matter how strong your destructive power is, it is useless if you can't hit your opponent!

No matter how strong your defense is, you can't fight back just by being beaten, and you will be killed suddenly sooner or later.

As soon as the intensive shooting in the air ended, the sound of rumbling guns and various explosions came from the ground below.

The falling dragon and the dragon knight on it were immediately attacked and killed by the tilting artillery and the wandering individual bazooka, and were completely wiped out before they could fight back.

It has to be said that the vitality of the dragon knight is much stronger than that of the fighter plane. If the fighter plane falls, the moment it lands means death.

But if the dragon falls, as long as it is not killed in the air, the dragon scales can play a very good buffering and protective role, protecting the dragon and even the dragon knight on the dragon from being killed by the force of free fall.

Of course, Merlin had already informed Emperor Li Wei of all this, and it was no secret at the North American Expeditionary Force Command.

It's not a big problem if the dragon falls and doesn't die, just prepare the army below to make up for them.

Obviously, the last knife effect is very good.

It would be even more perfect if the dragon knights and griffin cavalry wanted to descend and attack the imperial guards on the ground at this time.

The Griffin Cavalry, which lacks long-range attack means, becomes a target for the firearms of the Imperial Guards once it lowers its altitude.

A rifle can't pierce a dragon's scales, but it can shoot a griffin without any problem.

As for the whereabouts of the dragon... Is the fighter fleet in the sky really a display?
Losing the height advantage, the fighter jets can dive to slaughter the dragon at any time, and exchanging some cheap army soldiers for the lives of the dragon knights is a huge profit!

This is why the number of tanks and armored vehicles sent by the Imperial Guard is scarce, and they are only used as mobile forces in some dangerous places.

The imperial guards were also worried that the armor strength exposed on the ground below was too much, so the dragon knights felt that it would be more cost-effective to replace it.

Don't look at the dragon knight being brutally abused by the imperial fighters, but if the dragon knight deals with those armored clusters, it will be a cannon to hit mosquitoes, spraying a large area!

This is also the reason why the North American Expeditionary Force has never sent an armored group as the main force to attack the Arigado Empire.

First attract the dragon knights of the Azure Dragon Legion of the Arigado Empire, annihilate or weaken them, so as to ensure that the armored group will not be slaughtered from the sky.

As for the loss of the advance legion, it doesn't matter.

The Imperial Eagle Formation, which spread out to form 4 battle clusters, quickly completed its turn, and pulled up to occupy the commanding heights. It flew towards the slow-moving Dragon Knight again, and a wave of machine guns shot at the dragon fiercely!

As for the Griffin Corps behind them, they were completely ignored by the Imperial Air Force...

Dragon Knight is the thorn in the side of the North American Expeditionary Force!

(End of this chapter)