Half a month later.
Three hundred kilometers northeast of Black Dragon City, a fleet of twenty mechanical airships arrived quietly.
Of course, the enemy's whereabouts have always been under the control of Black Dragon City's intelligence team.
Black Dragon City has long had goblin communicators for ultra-long-distance communication. The spies of Black Dragon City all over the major territories also paid close attention to this airship fleet coming from the east.
From the moment the enemy left Usenbar, the imperial capital of Omar, the progress and location of each day's march were fed back to the headquarters of Black Dragon City in real time by intelligence personnel.
Moreover, the behemoth mechanical airship cannot hide from the blue-tailed eagle in the sky. By the time they got close to the Alcoron Mountains, Renn and the others had already been waiting for a long time.
... ..
In a hidden corner of the mountain range, a temporary combat command post was set up here.
Renn, Kavo, Mafa, Ymir, Kanosha... all the masters from Black Dragon City gathered here.
In the mountain col outside the command post, two thousand Coleman soldiers and their flying dragon mounts were also armored and ready.
"In about half an hour, the enemy will arrive at our ambush location..."
There was a sand table in the middle of the command post, and Metternich was explaining the battle plan to everyone.
"The will of the three-eyed evil god once came to Glory City, so the enemy should have mastered some information about our Black Dragon City. They know that we have the Flying Dragon Legion, and they will think that is our only way to resist them... So, In this first battle, only the Flying Dragon Legion will come forward to face the enemy."
"The enemy knows that we have the Flying Dragon Legion and will only send twenty mechanical airships. I speculate that their airship armor must be very strong, at least not easily destroyed by fifth-level monsters. Those guys probably won't come forward by then. Fight. So, this time, the Coleman soldiers may fight very hard... "
"Our advantage is that the outside world knows the information about our Flying Dragon Legion in Black Dragon City, which is old news from a few years ago..."
"And because of this battle, we have to fight in a stalemate. High-end combat forces also need to participate in the battle, but they cannot go all out... Our most ideal situation for this battle is to use hundreds of low-level evil dragons to replace a few of the enemy's An airship..."
"..."
Almost all the details of Metternich's general actions were deduced on the sand table.
Where will enemies appear, what emergencies will occur, and how to deal with them.
In the eyes of this evil staff member who are always slightly narrowed, he can always only see his calmness.
After the battle plan was laid out, Ren also said: "Okay! Everything goes according to plan. This attack will be carried out by Elder Habu, and the rest will be supported by the others. The medical team will be taken care of by me and the Great Witch of Mafa. Once there is a critical situation, The wounded should be sent to the medical center immediately... We must reduce casualties as much as possible... "
"Yes, Lord City Lord."
Everyone responded one after another, not looking relaxed.
Everyone knows that even if they are so well prepared, the risks of this battle are still high.
They "show the enemy weakness" to achieve the purpose of luring the enemy, which means that the Flying Dragon Legion will have a head-on collision with those mechanical airships.
This feeling is a bit like a flesh and blood cavalry attacking a heavily armored tank.
The people in the tank knew they couldn't beat it, so they definitely wouldn't get out of the iron lump. In order to be flexible, the flying dragon cannot carry heavy armor like the ground dragon rider. This means that the knights will confront the artillery and armor head-on with their flesh and blood bodies.
This must be a brutal battle.
However, the good thing is that the Coleman warriors have the legendary vine armor with super strong defense. This kind of rattan armor, which cannot be penetrated by conventional artillery, will greatly reduce casualties. As long as they weren't killed in one blow, there wouldn't be any particularly large casualties with Ren and Marfa around.
But some flying dragons may die.
... ..
Renn and the others did not deliberately hide the ambush, not to mention the movements of thousands of flying dragons.
Not long after the battle meeting ended, the extraterritorial airship fleet also arrived as scheduled.
Among the twenty airships is a larger command ship.
On the deck, a strong man was looking into the distance with a telescope, but after seeing the blurry fog all over his eyes, he put aside the telescope angrily and cursed: "I've had enough of this damn ghost." This is the place! This damn black mist makes it so painful to breathe through the gas mask... "
While flying, the observers on the airship discovered anomalies in the mountain col, and immediately reported: "Lord Danqi, the Extraordinary Perception Department discovered that there are dense signs of life in the valley ahead. It looks like it should be a large group of monsters!"
When the strong man heard this, instead of being surprised, he actually looked happy.
He thought for a while and said with disdain: "Huh, not many large monsters like to hide together. If I guessed correctly, it should be the Black Dragon City Flying Dragon Legion. Those guys probably got the news and wanted to Ambush us here..."
When he said this, there was no surprise in the strong man's tone, as if he already knew his opponent's tactics well.
He looked at the rugged mountains around him and said: "It is a suitable place for an ambush. It seems that the combat commanders among the indigenous people are not completely stupid, and they also thought of using the complex mountains here to resist the artillery of our airship. , creating obstacles for the flying dragon to dodge flexibly..."
Hearing this, the first mate on the side asked: "Sir... should we avoid it?"
The strong man shook his head: "Avoid? No...the arrival of those guys is exactly what I want. As long as these flying dragon knights are dealt with, then Black Dragon City will have no means to threaten our airship."
A sharp light flashed in his eyes, and he shouted: "Give the order, seal off the cabin, and prepare to fight! Let us also see how powerful those flying dragons that are said to have the blood of mythical dragons are..."
"Yes, sir!"
The next moment, the courier conveyed the order, and the twenty mechanical airships closed their cabins and turned into completely sealed air fortresses.
... ..
A quarter of an hour later, Black Dragon City's Flying Dragon Riders and the fleet from outside the territory were in close combat.
As soon as they met, the two sides fell into an extremely fierce hand-to-hand battle.
Although the flying dragon can be considered a large monster in size, in front of the mechanical airship, it is like a "toothpick bird" in the mouth of a hippopotamus to help clean its teeth. It cannot be smaller.
Obviously the enemy is also well prepared.
The armor of the mechanical airship is surprisingly thick. Even though the sharp claws of the flying dragon can easily claw open the steel plates, there are only a few scratches on these iron lumps that do not affect the defense.
This was a seemingly brutal battle. The dragon knights used their flesh and blood to block the enemy's attack.
From time to time, dragon knights were hit by the continuous fire cannons on the steam airship, causing clouds of blood mist to burst into the sky. Accompanied by the mournful screams of flying dragons, seriously injured flying dragons fell from the sky.
This was a seemingly brutal battle.
But even though the casualties were heavy, the flying dragon knights still continued to rush towards those mechanical airships...without stopping.
And this scene was also seen by the enemies in Feiting.
After watching the artillery kill a large number of flying dragons, the strong man showed a sarcastic smile: "Hmph! Stupid natives! I want to see what you can do to stop me after these flying dragons are dead!"
The battle was carried out exactly according to Metternich's "script".
Black Dragon City's Flying Dragon Legion first killed 800 enemies and lost 1,000 of their own clothes completely, and then used their flesh and blood to defeat the mechanical airship.
Then high-level extraordinary people joined the battle, used explosives, magic weapons, and all kinds of methods, and then they were able to shoot down the first airship.
It seems that it is completely a "die together" style of play.
... ..
Gradually as time passed, the enemies on the mechanical airship gradually became a little anxious.
They couldn't win the battle for a long time, but instead fell into a stalemate, which made them feel very annoyed.
Commander Danqi looked at the lonely third airship, his face became increasingly gloomy, and he cursed angrily: "Damn it! Aren't those natives afraid of death?!"
He felt that he could defeat the Flying Dragon Legion in one fell swoop, but he didn't know why those guys couldn't die "hanging for breath". Seeing that they were about to be defeated, several new flying dragons appeared from time to time... and they still showed no intention of retreating, which was very annoying.
At this time, the war adviser beside him also looked solemn and said: "Lord Danqi, if we pursue the victory now, we will eventually be able to annihilate all the indigenous flying dragon legions. But... maybe our fleet will be defeated by those The guy shot down a few of them with the same method... My subordinates think that the most ideal solution is to seek support from General Dirk's fleet. If we have a few more airships, it will be impossible for those flying dragons to break through our defensive formation... "
Obviously, these guys from outside the territory do not think that the lives of some "indigenous" people are comparable to theirs.
I originally thought that it would be the same as the battle to capture Usenbar, the imperial capital of Omar, and it would be almost bloodless. But I didn't expect that these natives were so fierce and wanted to stop them regardless of their lives.
Now that three mechanical airships have been damaged, Danqi feels extremely painful.
He felt that if he lost a few more airships in order to kill the surviving natives, even if his mission was successful, he would definitely be ridiculed by his colleagues and scolded by the great Lord Credo.
Thinking of this, Danqi ordered with a gloomy look: "The fleet changes direction! Evacuate for the time being!"
"yes!"
"Contact General Dirk and ask them how the war is going over there. If we haven't found the escaped natives yet, let them come to support us first."
"Yes, sir!"
... ..
Just as Metternich expected, every move of the enemy was planned by him.
Those guys cherished their feathers and had no intention of competing with Black Dragon City. Instead, they chose to retreat temporarily and wait for reinforcements.
And almost at the same time after this battle, the fleet heading to Sid failed to find the Imperial Capital of Sid that had been quietly hiding in the thick fog area, so it turned around and came to Black Dragon City.
A few days later, after the two teams reunited, another fierce battle ensued.
But what those outside the territory did not expect was that in this battle, they still failed to crack the "hard nut" of Black Dragon City.
In fact, they didn't even see the city. They were always harassed by the guerrillas of the Flying Dragon Legion that were hovering near the Alcoron Mountains.
But they also saw that Black Dragon City probably had no trump card.
Because even the "key figures" in the intelligence, the city lord Ren, the Prime Minister Ymir, the barbarian leader Marfa, and many masters personally went to the battlefield to fight to the death.
Black Dragon City's high-level extraordinary team up with the Flying Dragon Legion met head-on again and again. But after all, flesh and blood have inherent disadvantages in attacking mechanical airships. This is a brutal stalemate battle where flesh and blood collide with steel.
Those outside the territory obviously looked like they could win, but for some reason they were always just a hair short of winning.
The people in Black Dragon City were like invincible Xiaoqiang, ramming into the airship fleet without fear of life or death. Even though they watched them fall to the ground after being seriously injured by shelling, not long after, those guys were wrapped in gauze and went to the battlefield to continue fighting.
This kind of "fight to the death" attitude actually makes the enemy a little wary, fearing that more warships will be destroyed.
This was also part of Metternich's plan.
Let the enemy "misestimate" the strength of Black Dragon City.
Then.
really!
Because time dragged on for too long, the main fleets of those outsiders finally couldn't stand still and came in force.
The time point is almost exactly the same as Metternich’s prediction.
... ..
On this day, three mechanical airship fleets from outside the territory finally met west of the Alcoron Mountains.
One hundred and twenty ships in total.
On the main ship, the young man from the three-eyed tribe listened to the battle report reported by his subordinates with a dark face.
"So, after spending so much time on your forty airships, you didn't even get close to the city, and you were able to shoot down eight of them and damage more than a dozen of them by the flying dragons used by the indigenous people?"
As soon as these words came out, there was silence on the deck of the huge airship.
The strong man who was the vanguard commander swallowed his saliva and explained tremblingly: "Lord Credo, those natives are too desperate. In order to reduce our casualties, my subordinates chose the pulling tactic... Can you give me more? In one day, I guarantee that my subordinates can destroy the Black Dragon City!"
The young man raised his eyebrows and said coldly: "Haha, I've given you nearly a month, what's the result?"
The strong man felt cold sweat break out on his forehead as he listened, and defended: "Sir, although we lost some airships, most of the indigenous flying dragons were killed in the battle. According to estimates from the intelligence we received before, there are not enough left. To be afraid, as long as..."
"waste."
The three-eyed young man gave a soft drink and seemed to have no patience to listen anymore.
He waved his hand, looked in the direction of Black Dragon City, and ordered: "Let's go directly..."
Everyone: "Yes, Lord Credo."
... .
One hundred and twenty-one airships flew along the Black Dragon Pass without encountering any guerrilla flying dragons.
This, in the eyes of those outsiders, is also a matter of course.
The number of mechanical airships has increased several times, and there is also a "King-class battleship", and the firepower has increased dozens of times. In this case, if the flying dragons in the previous numbers come back, they will definitely be beaten to ashes.
They traveled all the way without any hindrance.
The current city area of Black Dragon City is very large. Looking at the majestic stone city on the ground, the man named Credo looked slightly surprised. Just looking at the number of residences, one can infer that the population here is large. Looking at those streets again, one can tell that this place is extremely prosperous.
Even in the outer regions, cities with this kind of population density are rare.
Moreover, he saw a tall white stone statue in the center of almost every large square in the city.
When the vertical pupils on the young man's forehead flashed with light, he said softly: "Hey... the power of faith has actually been generated on this statue?"
When Credo saw the faint divine light on the statue, his face suddenly turned gloomy: "What on earth have these natives done that they would sincerely believe in a mortal?"
Turning his face, a cold light flashed in his eyes, "Humph! Who else is qualified to enjoy the worship of faith except the gods! Blow up those statues for me!"
The next moment, hundreds of bombs fell from the sky and landed on the streets of Black Dragon City, blowing the statue into pieces.
... ..
The moment the bombs fell, low air-raid sirens sounded in the streets and alleys of the entire city.
Another major feature of Black Dragon City's architecture is that there are deep and wide "air raid shelters" dug deep underground in the city!
This world originally did not have the concept of "air raid shelters", and the battle between mechanical cities did not originally require such buildings. But just to prevent this moment, Renn spent a lot of money and material resources to dig out those caves.
The moment the air raid siren sounded, ordinary residents in the city had already evacuated towards the underground air raid shelter in an orderly manner according to the emergency plan they had performed before. This would greatly reduce the casualties caused by the air raid.
However, the arrival of enemies in the sky also caused panic to ordinary people in the city.
Air strikes, steam airships, extraterrestrial enemies... These are existences beyond the awareness of ordinary people in the Ice Ridge Wasteland.
The city was in a state of panic.
At the same time, in the war headquarters in the center of Black Dragon City.
Renne and other senior executives had already received the news.
"There are a total of 121 enemy warships. Except for the eleven early warning warships that are far away, all the others have entered the coverage shooting airspace of our return to Black Dragon City..."
"Everyone, prepare to fight. With the first round of artillery, we will defeat 70% of their main warships!"
"Yes! Lord City Lord!"