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Chapter 67: Unprecedented Tactics(1/2)

The communication channel suddenly lost the voice, leaving only a noisy background sound. The captain of the Torch grabbed the wind element detector with his hands, and blue veins bloomed, staring at the crystal that was lit on it, his eyes were covered with bloodshot. "Sir, you'd better come up and take a look!" The sailors were shouting in panic on the deck.

"What is that?" He rushed to the deck, grabbed the telescope from the sailor's hand, and the scar on his red face twisted like a bug, turned around and shouted to everyone, "I'll ask you what that is it!"

The snow-white clouds form spectacular mountains and cliffs on the sky wall, like islands floating in the air, extending long headlands towards the mirror-like sky sea, and the edges of the feathers write a bit of dust. And above the blue sky, above the clouds, a small black dot is slowly emerging in everyone's sight.

It was a strange structure. The black spear connected to the right arm flashed in the sun, and a blue beam was sprayed behind it. There was an almost consistent spacing between the two units, with seven units as a formation, and a huge arrow was arranged.

One formation, two formations... a total of seven formations emerged from behind the clouds. They were so small that they only occupied a corner of the sky. But everyone on the Torch couldn't help but look up, and their eyes slowly moved in the sky with the huge unfolding arrows. Everyone opened their mouths slightly, and they suddenly felt an illusion of covering the sky.

But no one speaks, no one makes a sound.

Even the wind that flowed across the boat was submerged in the huge breathing and heartbeat, making a pounding sound. With a click, the telescope in the captain's hand fell down and rolled on the deck, but no one cared about him, because the buzzing sound had already come to their heads.

"They're down!"

"They swooped down!"

Someone screamed hysterically.

The deck went from still to moving, as if it was a stagnation, and everyone was looking for a place to hide. Captain Sotholin felt that he was being thrown to the ground. When he looked back, he realized that it was his sailor. He finally realized that he had turned red and his face turned red and shouted in a panic:

"Mustrator, musketeer!"

The cannons on the side of the ship are no longer useful, they do not have the firing angle. Since the lancer cluster appears from the clouds at the beginning, the climb rate of the sailboat is far from enough to react. Such a short time is not even enough to produce the startup speed.

But there are still some counter-air attacks on the deck, such as crossbows, harpoons and musketeers, magicians and small magic towers. In the past, they were used to deal with flying units that lacked threats to sailboats and had slow flight speeds - flying dragons, griffins and giant eagles.

But this time, the offense and defense changed.

The first wave of attack arrows had already arrived above the Torch, and the seven lancers suddenly dispersed and roared down.

The magic gunman held up his musket and aimed at these agile components with great difficulty on the shaking deck - they pulled the trigger with the sound of command, and flame-colored smoke ejected from the barrel, but the bullet had lost its kinetic energy before it even entered the effective range of killing.

Even if the target was hit by a limited number of times, it would only bring a spark or two from the heavy deck of the Shield Guard.

The black spots in the air are rapidly enlarging.

Everyone couldn't help but hold their breath-

"Relax, relax," the convener's captain of the Gunsman shouted on the deck, "let them get closer and attack, aim a little, hear clearly, aim a little!"

The magicians and elemental envoys have released the spells in their hands. Countless streams of light rose from the deck of the Torch and passed between the seven lancers. At this distance, the power of the spells is far greater than that of muskets. In the stream of light, two lancers rolled into fireballs.

Then they disintegrated in the air.

Next, the harpoon also roared, and the steel spear shot into the air hit the Lancers. Some of them inserted into the giant shields in their hands, but some hit more important parts - sparks were drawn on the metal deck. A Lancer was hit on the head with a fork, and his body tilted and immediately lost balance and spun around and fell into the sea of ​​clouds.

But the remaining lancers had already put down their spears, and a little bright light burst out from the tip of the spear, and grew into golden beams, piercing straight onto the deck of the Torch. But above the snow-white and tall sail surface of the sailboat, a series of light arrays flashing with green light were immediately unfolded. Before the flames hit them, they had exploded into a fog of ice crystals.

The ice crystals fell down one after another.

That is the flame protection array on the mast taking effect.

The component missed a blow, passed down through the smoke, whistled not far from the top of the mast, and turned to the Flying Torch. But at this time the gunman on the deck finally opened fire for the first time, and the bullet caught up with the flying lancers from behind like a line of fire.

At close range, the magic gun finally exerted its huge armor-transparent ability. The lead bullet passing through the rear deck penetrated the core crystal of the lances. A flame rose from the gap in the armor, and in the blink of an eye they turned into a flashing ball of fire.

Of the seven components, only two were able to leave intact—

A burst of cheers broke out on the deck.

But the cheers quickly turned into dead silence.

In the second wave, the third wave of the lances flew over the torch, and their seven platforms spread out and dived down. When the magician and the elemental magicians were finally used up, beams of golden and red flames bloomed over the blue sky, and then disappeared.

The flame protection array flashed with fluorescent green light flashed again, but this time they failed to completely block all the attacks. The golden light penetrated the runes that were spinning in the air and burned through the snow-white sails woven by the wind-weaver silk behind them.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The flames rose for the first time, and nine golden beams of light plowed across the deck, bringing white light.

Then the fourth, fifth and sixth waves of attack arrived. The people on the Torch were already chaotic by the roaring lances. Flames rose from the deck, and thick smoke rolled for a moment, and people were already unable to take care of themselves.

"Architecture, artillery!" shouted Captain Sotholin, the components had descended to the same height as them.

But the heavy artillery hits too touching compared to the clever component.

And there are really too many enemies.

The Lancer has adhered to a simple and effective idea since its design. Its structure is not complicated. The only core components on the whole body are just four systems: power, energy, flight control and firepower. Others are simpler.

There is no guarantee mechanism, no shield, no backup crystal, no fancy and exquisite devices, and even the cooling system is simplified to the extreme - if people ask what to do if it is damaged, then Fang Zhu and Miss Tata answered:

It is damaged if it is damaged.

This itself is a construct built on the conditions of mass production. They are clumsy, dull, and even lack the necessary evasion ability when in non-control states. They only circle around the target or keep cruises in one direction. They attack in a single way and are prone to losses, but they only have one advantage:

That's many.

Because they take up enough computing power, they can have enough.

Even though it was a grenade of a timed fuse, the lances plunged into the barrage that bloomed in the air, and two or three disintegrated in the air, more components would still fly back and plowed the huge hull of the Torch with golden beams.

Because the sailboat is so huge, there is almost no possibility of missing. Round after round of attacks, some light beams even passed through the cannon window, hitting the cannon position behind, and causing a death explosion, breaking a large hole from the side of the Torch ship.

The attacks followed one after another rushed in from this hole. If it weren't for the fact that the place was still far from the Magic Crane, I was afraid that the Torch would have turned into a rolling ball of fire and fell into the sea of ​​clouds.

"Those damn bastards of Flor's descendants are lying!"

The captain of the summoner rushed in and shouted at Sotolin:

"There is only one combat craftsman on the ship. There are ten, at least ten combat craftsmen, one squad, one squad!"

The ugly scar on Sotolin's face jumped and looked at the sky's structure, and couldn't speak for a moment. A strange idea suddenly popped up in his mind. If the battles on the air and sea are like this in the future, what's the use of the sailboat?

What's the use of these experienced captains?

No, he shook his head viciously, because the Torch was too small. If their ship was big enough, they would have enough counterattack ability, and these components were nothing. Yes, what about ten combat craftsmen? They could never find a hundred, a thousand combat craftsmen.

It's hateful!

He suddenly punched the bulkhead with a heavy punch.

"Sir Captain, Mr. Captain," the summoner looked at him in amazement, "Can our ship still be kept?"

Of course there is no problem.

The attack power of those constructs is too weak. Although the Torch has no power to fight back at the moment, before they sink the Torch, the Seagull and Flor descendants should also arrive. Fortunately, they are not the people who face these constructs alone.

In comparison, the Onoi Ren is too unlucky. Sotolin was about to answer, but suddenly frowned - Onoi Ren? By the way, what about Onoi Ren? Shouldn't it stand in front of the Torch? Why did Onoi Ren disappear from the Wind Element Detector in such a short time?

A chilling feeling rose from the captain, and he almost grabbed the door from his captain's room-

Over the Torch.

The seventh wave of attacks is reaching.

But unlike the previous wave components, a small golden ball was following behind these dark gun knights.

After a slight pause, they left the flight formation and then whistled down towards the torch below with a buzzing sound. In this fierce battle, at that moment, almost few people noticed such a detail-

The noise in the communication channel is like a needle tip thorning everyone's heart around this place.

Lair was stunned for a long time before slowly raising his head. The light spots representing the torch on the star orbit have disappeared. The only remaining light spots of the Seagull, like a candle in the wind, hang in the turbid dust, and are unstable.

"Ship, Captain, Mr. Lair..." The magician turned around from the wind element detector with a little stunned, and his mouth was dry for a moment, making any sound.

It was as if the wind passing by on the deck had swallowed up all the sounds, and only the screaming sound outside remained in the lower cabin.

The captain was wearing a coat and stood there without moving.

Lair opened his mouth, and finally squeezed out a sentence in a hoarse voice: "... Let the Seagull avoid it quickly, the information is wrong... I will negotiate with them myself for the other two guilds..."

"But……"

"Nothing," Lair's voice became sharp, "There is nothing more serious than losing two sailboats in half an hour - if you lose at this rate, the other sailboats have no chance to get close. If you continue to fight, we will all become laughing stocks!"

He stopped, his voice eased a little: "Without winning or losing."

After a while, the indigenous captain spoke, "Mr. Lair said," and there was a hint of trembling in the other party's voice.

The magician was stunned for a moment and nodded just now.

...

"Thirteen Lancers were lost, Mr. Knight."

A ray of light flashed in Tata's emerald green eyes, as if looking at a distant direction, the focus in her eyes did not gather on anyone in front of her. She looked at that direction, paused for a moment, and then reported in such a cold and emotional voice.

Fang Zhu was watching the clouds flowing through the air combat deck. The meteorological conditions near Kailano created an excellent favorable environment for this battle. Although Fairy Heart and Miss Tata have been working together for a while, the limit of the control range of the Lancers is only about ten kilometers.

If it weren't for the cloud wall environment, the suddenness of the Lancer's attacks would have been much lower than the visible distance between the Qihai Traveler and the other side. Although they had already discovered in several simulated battles that the construct had many natural advantages when fighting the sailboat - such as flexibility, higher climb rate, stronger concealment, etc.

But they also realized the shortcomings of this tactic. Once the opponent concentrated the Wind Knights to use it, the effect of the Lancers was far less than that great.

Moreover, there is an absolute gap in absolute strength between the two sides. Once the Qihai Traveler is trapped in a siege, it is still difficult to escape. This is not on earth, the naval aviation has a combat distance of hundreds of kilometers, and the Fairy Heart on the Qihai Traveler has not supported the smart construction with far less powerful support.

The second round of attack losses were greater than the first round, because the Torch had already prepared some time after the attack on the Onoi people, not to mention that he encountered the opponent's Wind Knights team in the middle.

When attacking the Onoi Ren, only four Lancers were lost, but the number of casualties at the Torch increased to thirteen units. In addition, two units were broken in the middle, seventeen units were lost, which was almost half of the first wave of released components.

But in his assembly sequence, the Lancer is only more expensive than the Fire Giant and the Pacers, and it is even less valuable than the Angels and Silver Bee. This is originally a cheap construction, and its positioning is consumables.

The exchange ratio of seventeen components and two sailboats is enough to rewrite history.

Unfortunately, as the secret weapon of the Seven Seas Brigade, he was destined not to reveal the details of this battle for a long time. Perhaps people would have to guess what happened behind the battle above Kailano for a long time.
To be continued...
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