The overwhelming Eternal Night Fleet swarmed in, much faster than expected. Just as Qianye entered the fortress with the reinforcements, the dark race's high-speed assault ship had already arrived near the fortress.
Qianye jumped onto the fortress wall, took out the Thunderbolt, and aimed at an assault ship. It's just that Thunder's range is limited at this time, and it's not powerful enough at long distances, so Qianye waited patiently for the approach of the assault ship.
At this time, the power tower in the fortress made a sharp whistling sound, which was the whistling sound produced by the high-speed forced discharge of a large amount of steam. The whole body of the power tower is trembling, and it is already operating at overload. In the several turrets of the fortress, rapid-fire cannons and giant crossbows roared one after another, and ten flame whips composed of shells criss-crossed in the air, firmly guarding the sky above the fortress.
The assault ship attacked by the dark race was continuously hit by the flaming whip, and the ship's body suddenly burst into flames. Amidst the violent explosion, large parts were separated from the ship's body from time to time and splashed everywhere.
Soon, two assault ships were whipped by the flames and rolled continuously, burning and falling to the ground, and fell to the hillside, causing a violent explosion. More assault ships are still flying around the fortress, looking for opportunities to attack. However, the anti-aircraft firepower of the fortress was extremely fierce, and the stream of metal fire from the rapid-fire guns did not stop at all, waving violently. The four giant crossbows are like calm killers, firing a bolt from time to time, hitting the assault ship that is outside the range of the rapid-fire gun.
These giant crossbows are extremely powerful, and they all have their own tracking function. Basically, one arrow shot will knock down an assault ship.
Seeing the arrow boxes piled up next to the giant crossbow, Song Zining couldn't help praising: "The Zhao Clan is really generous this time! This kind of tracking giant crossbow costs a lot of money each, and my Ningyuan Heavy Industry can't produce it yet."
Before he finished speaking, Qianye suddenly stretched out his hand and pushed him to the ground. At the same time, Qianye slapped the ground hard, and the shock wave swayed in all directions. The soldiers within a range of more than ten meters were shocked and fell to the ground one after another.
At this time, there was a strange sharp howling in the air, and more than ten rounds of large-caliber machine gun shells passed over the heads of the crowd, hitting a pile of stone powder on the ground, leaving a huge crater.
Song Zining looked up and saw an assault ship passing by. It actually broke through the anti-aircraft fire net and rushed to the sky above the fortress. At this moment, several machine guns in the belly of the ship were firing desperately, constantly strafing the soldiers in the fortress.
If it wasn't for Qianye's quick action, the string of shells just now would have bombarded Song Zining. Although these large-caliber cannon shells are not in the eyes of Qi Shao today, they still hurt very much when hit on the body, and there may be minor injuries.
However, for ordinary soldiers, the power of these cannon shells is a bit terrifying. Most of the soldiers near Qianye were knocked down by him, and thus escaped the strafing shells. But not far away, several standing soldiers were unfortunately hit, and a weaker first-level soldier was directly hit in two by the shell, blood and internal organs splashed everywhere.
Qianye had already picked up the Thunderbolt, and the sight was firmly locked on a cannon protruding from the belly of the ship. But he didn't shoot, but put Thunder down again.
Sure enough, a huge crossbow on the turret of the fortress quickly turned around, and with a sudden shock, the crossbow was shot out. The thick crossbow crossed an exquisite arc in the air, shot into the tail of the air strike ship, pushed it rolling and flew more than a hundred meters, and then exploded violently, bursting into a huge ball of fire.
At this moment, the fortress was in chaos, and the soldiers who had just entered the fortress had not had time to assign positions before they encountered such a fierce battle.
Qianye jumped up and shouted loudly, rushing the bewildered fighters to their combat positions, or to take care of the wounded. Several warriors were doing similar things to Qianye, and one of them was the bearded man.
The Zhao Clan spared no expense in the configuration of the fort's anti-aircraft firepower. The firepower density per unit area was several times higher than that of the most powerful fortress Qianye had ever seen. This amount of configuration is enough for a medium-sized city, but in the end, the Zhao clan forced it into this temporary fortress that can only accommodate a thousand people.
The dark race also obviously did not expect the firepower of the fortress to be so fierce, and the assault ships suffered heavy losses for a while, one after another fell and burned. After losing more than half, the remaining assault ships finally couldn't hold on and fled the fortress.
Qianye boarded the city wall and looked into the distance, his heart sank slightly. This fortress is located in the center of the first line of defense, and the Zhang Clan's army is winding away from the valley not far away. Even though the dark army was just a few kilometers away, their marching speed remained stable, without acceleration or panic. The army rumbled away like a precision machine.
At this moment, the fleet of the dark race was slowly approaching, the high-speed assault ship was frustrated, and more than ten warships were separated from the fleet, flying towards the fortress. This time it is not high-speed and flexible, but the hull is small, the assault boats are no more than 20 to 30 meters in length, but they are all large warships with a length of more than 100 meters. According to imperial standards, most of them are frigate-class, and there are two destroyers.
The anti-aircraft firepower of the fortress is somewhat powerless against these large floating warships. It took two or three hits from the seemingly invincible crossbow just now to kill the frigate at the front.
Seeing that the fleet of battleships was about to fly over the fortress, the Eternal Night Fleet dispatched another attack fleet to go around the fortress in pursuit of Zhang Clan's army. Now Zhang Fan's retreating troops do not have a fleet escort.
At this moment, an imperial fleet suddenly rushed out of the dense dark clouds in the sky. This fleet was not large in scale, but it was full of elite high-speed warships. The battleship ignored the battle at Zhao Clan's fortress, but went straight to the main force of the Eternal Night Fleet.
This Eternal Night Fleet seems to be huge in scale, but in fact most of them are transport ships for transporting troops and logistical supplies. Once it is rushed into the formation by the imperial fleet, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses. The command of the Eternal Night Fleet is not a simple person. On the one hand, the escort warships are sent out to hold back the Imperial Fleet regardless of losses; The transport ships retreated backwards. All of a sudden, the Grand Fleet was split into several parts, acting independently, but in an orderly manner.
However, the empire's incoming fleet is also an elite force, rushing straight to the core of the Eternal Night Fleet, piercing into the depths of the Eternal Night Fleet like a wedge, and then violently stirring it up. All of a sudden, hundreds of warships fought desperately in the air less than a kilometer from the ground, and the scene was chaotic. One transport ship after another caught fire because they couldn't escape, and some even exploded directly.
At the critical moment, all the transport ships transporting troops opened their hatches, and dumped out all the loaded dark fighters like garbage, regardless of the height they were at at the moment. Some transport ships even began to dump soldiers when they were hundreds of meters above the ground. At this height, high-level fighters may not be able to fall to death, but low-level fighters and cannon fodder are sure to die.
"Enough!" Song Zining said.
Although the Eternal Night Fleet suffered heavy losses, the effect was immediate. In a short period of time, all the transport ships poured out their troops, and then turned around and left the battlefield. For the imperial warships, empty transport ships are of little value, but they are not dedicated to attacking the ground. Although the ground is full of dark race fighters, they have no good attack methods. ,better than nothing.
The commander of the Imperial Fleet was also a decisive person. He immediately gathered the fleet, regardless of the loss, forcibly opened a passage from the back of the Eternal Night Fleet, and quickly went away.
This fleet decisive battle was short and tragic. In a short period of time, the two sides lost hundreds of large and small warships. The rolling mountains were full of wreckage of warships billowing thick smoke. This attack happened suddenly, and the Eternal Night Fleet suffered a considerable loss. The most important loss was that more than a dozen transport ships full of soldiers were blown up in the air. Tens of thousands of soldiers and cannon fodder have yet to show up. Just in the explosion, the soul flew out of the sky.
On the ground, there are dark warriors all over the mountains and plains, and there is chaos. The last dumping of the Eternal Night Fleet caused wounded soldiers everywhere, and there were also many corpses occasionally. Adding the two together, the dark army lost more than 40,000, and the troops transported this time were equivalent to a direct battle loss of 20%.
However, most of the people who were killed were cannon fodder, and the loss of senior fighters was not large, so the loss of the dark race's military strength was not as great as it seemed.
An imperial fleet went away, and another fleet emerged from the clouds. However, it didn't take advantage of the chaos to attack, but stared at the Eternal Night Fleet for a while, and kept wandering around the periphery, obviously with the intention of harassing and procrastinating. If there is an opportunity, it doesn't mind taking a bite.
And the Eternal Night Fleet was also unambiguous. The fleet command directly divided several small boats, circled a piece of the dark army on the ground, about 10,000 people, and let them attack the fortress, completely ignoring the pile. Which organization does the fighter belong to, and whether the collocation is reasonable.
On the other hand, the Eternal Night Fleet dispatched all the high-speed warships to confront the Imperial Fleet at a distance. As for the other fighters, let them regroup under the protection of the fleet. As a result, he miraculously sorted out the chaos on the battlefield.
The imperial fleet did not launch an attack. The outer space fleet is a key area related to the entire battle situation, and it cannot be easily lost.
Looking at the dark warriors swarming in, Song Zining took a deep breath and said, "This battle is not easy."
"It's already here, it's too late to regret." Qianye said as he raised the multi-barreled machine gun next to him, and suddenly fired.
The multi-barreled machine guns spun rapidly, roaring and spraying bullet rain, shooting at the enemy who was still a thousand meters away. Many soldiers on this line of defense were stunned, and the firing distance was too far. Although the limit range of the multi-barreled machine gun is also a thousand meters, how to aim at a distance of a thousand meters
However, Qianye didn't care so much, the machine gun in his hand never stopped roaring. But the dark warriors in the distance fell down in pieces, and the hit rate of this sweep was surprisingly high.