It was Zhang Tie's third time to come here over one month. Therefore, he was familiar with this place.
The two-day torrential rain marked the beginning of this summer rainy season in Selnes Plain. The torrential rain not only affected the movement of the airship troop to a certain extent, but also prevented the gliders of the other airships from carrying out their flight missions.
When the Idiots landed, the moment Zhang Tie stepped out of the hatch door with his military boots, he had seen some ground ambulance vehicles passing by 2 m in front of him. Some water drops splashed by the wheels fell on Zhang Tie's trouser legs and shoes.
The shallow water on the ground carried a lot of coal ash, which caused a lot of black spots on Zhang Tie's trousers. The dirty water didn't avoid Zhang Tie's status as the Selnes Eagle; instead, it smugly dirtied his brand-new military uniform.
Zhang Tie lowered his head and looked at his trousers and shoes which were splashed with black spots. After that, he threw a glance at the direction of the ground service ambulance vehicles. After that, he slightly shook his head and walked towards the flagship of the airship troop of Jinyun Country where Lan Yunxi was.
It was still raining a lot less. Wearing a waterproof raincoat, Zhang Tie wandered on the road of Base C which was full of airships. At the same time, he felt gloomy. The gloomy feeling didn't come from the mud spots on his trousers, but from the new situation that he met this week. Zhang Tie found that wing demons seemed to have disappeared. He didn't see any wing demons in the sky for 3 consecutive days. This was not a good omen.
The demons would not retreat. The winged demons did not appear. Wing demons didn't appear, which indicated that demons had already worked out a new tactic to deal with humans.
The atmosphere in Base C was also a bit intense. This time, when Zhang Tie was in the sky, he had sensed that the security force here had been strengthened a lot. 7 km in the north of the base, there seemed to be one more battle fortress. At the same time, there were more barbed wires and more patrolling troops in the periphery of the base.
At this moment, there were over 3,000 airships in the airship base in Volv City. Like airship exhibitions in countries across Waii Sub-continent, the airships within dozens of miles were taking off and landing. When Zhang Tie came here for the first time, he was amazed by the magnificent scenery. After coming here for the second time, Zhang Tie became numb.
Artists and poets might find inspiration and passion in war, but for those who really participated in the process of war, the cruelty and coldness of war would grind all illusions and romantic factors in a person in an extremely short period of time. There were only two thoughts left in his mind – how could he survive? How to kill the enemy?
Base C was bustling with people. Almost nobody felt like strolling in the rain. They were either trotting or driving vehicles hurriedly on the road. The landing airships made the ground crew busy. They started to supply the airships. The crew members of those airships then swarmed towards those strip bars and brothels around the base.
Zhang Tie also quickened his pace. Although he was walking, he was almost like trotting. Nobody could recognize him. Over the past one month, Zhang Tie's name didn't appear in the "Holy War News" anymore. He didn't even update the Military Exploits Ranking in Crystal Battle Fortress. In this case, the outside world paid much less attention to him.
When Zhang Tie came to Lan Yunxi's flagship, he found the greater part of the officers above principal of all the subsidiary fleets of Jinyun Country's airship troop. Among them, the lowest military rank was lieutenant colonel. Zhang Tie's military rank of sergeant first class was a bit eye-catching. However, his unique uniform of air cavalry made him an exception. He was qualified to attend the conference among the executives of the fleet.
All the participants were elites of the young generation of the 6 major clans of Jinyun Country. As for these people, they valued the Military Exploits Ranking in Crystal Battle Fortress more than the military ranks on their shoulders. Therefore, nobody objected to Zhang Tie attending the conference.
Many of them were guys who had lost the bet with Zhang Tie. Facing Zhang Tie's powerful performance in the sky, all of them were speechless. Therefore, they were very polite to Zhang Tie.
Those who had arrived here were sitting on both sides of the conference table and discussing something in a low voice. Zhang Tie's seat was in the middle on the right side of the conference table. The moment he found his seat and sat down, a guy with the rank of lieutenant colonel beside him had already moved his head towards him. "The situation in the theater seems to be a bit bad!"
Zhang Tie nodded with a solemn look.
The one who talked to Zhang Tie was Wang Cheng, a disciple of Wang Clan, one of the 6 major clans of Jinyun Country, a principal officer of the 7th subsidiary fleet of the airship troop. This guy was very familiar with Zhang Tie. After meeting Zhang Tie a few times, they had been familiar with each other since they sat close to each other.
When Zhang Tie came to Base C last time, he even invited some young military officers to drink in the military officers' club of the base. That night, a lot of bad guys wanted to get Zhang Tie drunk; however, they had not imagined that Zhang Tie could pour the things in their mouths and stomachs into the Pool of Chaos at any time. Zhang Tie was a bottomless pit. Over 10 guys were drunk alone. Even though those guys tried to take turns to drink, Zhang Tie still couldn't do it.
From then on, Zhang Tie's reputation of being a good drinker in the airship troop of Jinyun Country was even more well-known than his honorary title of Selnes Eagle. He was like an overlord in the drinking field.
Wang Cheng's warning was soon confirmed. A few minutes later, after all the officers had arrived, Lan Yunxi, who was wearing a major general's uniform and had a majestic aura around her, appeared.
When Lan Yunxi appeared, all the military officers on both sides of the conference table stood up, including Zhang Tie.
Lan Yunxi remained expressionless as she glanced over all the faces at present. When she caught sight of Zhang Tie, her gaze lingered on Zhang Tie's face for less than one-third of a second in order to satisfy Zhang Tie's vanity. After that, she nodded. After that, everybody sat down once again.
"I've just received the news that the airship troop of Francia Federation has been exterminated by demons yesterday..."
Although Lan Yunxi only said one sentence. However, this sentence had caused the temperature in the conference room to drop below zero at once.
The entire conference room was silent for about half a minute before someone asked in a hoarse voice, "This … Has the news been confirmed?"
"The alliance command has already dispatched some demon hunting squads to check the accident area of the airship troop of Francia Federation. According to the analysis on the spot, it took less than 20 minutes for the airship troop of Francia Federation to be exterminated after encountering demons!" Lan Yunxi replied calmly.
"No way! Although the performance of the airships of the airship troop of Francia Federation is a bit worse than that of fury class, it's also a fleet of over 500 large-scale battle airships. But it's also a fleet of over 500 large-scale battle airships. How could demons exterminate such a fleet in 20 minutes? "A commissioned officer exclaimed in a hoarse voice.
"It's a fact. The so-called possibility is based on past experiences!" Lan Yunxi looked at the officer with a wise and farsighted gaze. "Before we say the word 'impossible', please ask yourself first. What is one's basis? Is that basis strong and unshakable, or is it some kind of habit or subjective will? This meeting isn't about the possibility or impossibility, because it is no longer necessary. What we want to know is the truth. What we want to figure out is how demons did it and how should we deal with it. "
Zhang Tie was also thinking about Lan Yunxi's words with his head lowered. As a general, whether Zhang Tie admitted it or not, Lan Yunxi was indeed sharper than him in many aspects. This was also the reason why she could shock these people. Zhang Tie learned a lot from Lan Yunxi.
Zhang Tie was not good at analyzing and judging the overall situation. It was not Zhang Tie's specialty. After being silent for a short while, Zhang Tie opened his mouth when he found all the others were frowning. Zhang Tie admitted that he was the second most knowledgeable about wing demons among all the people at present. He was afraid that nobody dared say that he was the first.
Only wing demons could shoot down the human airship troop in a short period. This was Zhang Tie's most direct judgment.
"When you're thinking about how demons did it, I hope you could understand one thing. Recently, the number of wing demons that I encountered and discovered decreased by over 90% compared to that before. Those wing demons seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. It's very abnormal. Given the encounter of the airship troop of Francia Federation, I think demons might have changed their tactics. It's not too complicated how they did it. It might be very simple, namely, the main force of demons might have changed the usage of wing demons! "
After hearing Zhang Tie's words, everybody else became shocked as they fixated onto Zhang Tie at once.
"Previously, demons used wing demons in Selnes Theater of Operations by spreading a net. They would scatter wing demons into the entire theater of operations in twos and threes so as to have wing demons wander around like wild wolves in the sky and seek for opportunities. However, I guess demons have already started to concentrate wing demons. They want to wipe out a troop of over 500 battle airships in 20 minutes. As for demons, as long as they send over 1,000 wing demons at a time, due to the weather, when the airship troop doesn't have a glider warning, those wing demons would suddenly break into the formation of the airship troop under the cover of clouds or terrain. Only then could they accomplish such a wipeout in a short period!"
After Zhang Tie finished his words, Zhang Tie saw a bit appreciation and encouragement in Lan Yunxi's eyes. At the sight of Lan Yunxi's eyes, Zhang Tie knew that Lan Yunxi might have already known the truth. However, she didn't expose it right away.
The moment Zhang Tie finished his words, many people had started to discuss it. After discussing for a while, everybody agreed with Zhang Tie, namely, demons had indeed started to change the usage of wing demons.
This was not a trivial thing; instead, it was a major event that concerned everyone across Selnes Theater of Operations. When demons started to concentrate on wing demons, it meant that the main force of demons had already found the weakness of humans' defense line in Selnes Theater of Operations. They were preparing to tear apart this human defense line in Selnes Theater of Operations with greater efforts and greater investment.
Air supremacy was a powerful protective umbrella for humans in Selnes Theater of Operations. With the protection of this protective umbrella, human ground troops could confront the super demon corps. If they lost this protective umbrella, they could never stand too long in front of the super demon corps which had an overwhelming advantage.
The air supremacy of human defense line depended on powerful airship troop. However, the powerful human airship troop had a weakness in Selnes Theater of Operations. This weakness was not a weakness before; however, the moment the opponent changed the tactic of wing demons, this weakness was exposed at once.
Sometimes, wars were governed by a bunch of weird mathematical principles and the theory of relativity.
The principle of probability was the one that exposed the weakness of human airship troop.
When wing demons appeared in Selnes Theater of Operations in a scattered manner, it was very probable for all the airship troops to encounter wing demons; however, it was very probable for all the large-scale airship troops to be exterminated by wing demons. As the number of human airship troops was far greater than that of wing demons, they still firmly grasped the air supremacy of Selnes Theater of Operations.
It was a confrontation between a net and another net in the air.
However, when demons started to use wing demons in a centralized manner, everything would change. It was not likely for human airship troops to encounter wing demons in the sky; because wing demons' activity space and time had been compressed. Additionally, once they encountered wing demons, the power balance in a local region would be reversed at once. As a result, human airship troops would probably be exterminated.
Wing demons could gain relative air supremacy in some time and some places. Through this relative air supremacy, they could completely overturn the advantage of human airship troops and gradually encroach on them...
Demons could release wing demons in a concentrated manner without any limitation. However, being restricted by the flight principle, command communication level and various objective conditions, human airship troops could not do that. Even if they could barely do that, they would not make any effect.
If tens of thousands of airships moved in the sky at the same time, even in the densest formation, they would occupy dozens of square miles in the sky. Unless all the demons were blind and waited for you to attack and bombard them, such a movement of airship troops would not make any effect at all. Additionally, demons would have a chance to attack them. Given the penetrating strength of Three-eye Association in the theater of operations, demons might have known what humans wanted to do the moment such a plan was delivered to the airship troops.
After confronting the allied human forces in Selnes Theater of Operations for a few months, when the rainy season arrived, demon corps finally found the weakness of human defense line through constant frictions and confrontations with allied human forces. As a result, they started to tear apart the protective umbrella of humans in Selnes Theater of Operations.
The net of demons turned into a saber and started to forcefully poke a hole in the cover of the protective umbrella of humans in the sky...
Hearing Lan Yunxi's explanation and the others' discussion, Zhang Tie, who had been listening to them quietly on one side, gradually felt his heart sink.
'Does demons really have no weakness? '
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