Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1754: The Elves Doing Useless Work

Just as the elves started up several backup radar stations on the border to search for targets, an anti-radiation missile had already detached from the launch pad under the wing of the Prowler electronic warfare aircraft.

It rushed towards the distant target with a long tail flame, constantly correcting its flight trajectory according to the opponent's electromagnetic radiation signals along the way.

As if it had eyes, the sharp wings on the missile body disturbed the airflow, allowing the missile warhead to always point in the direction of the enemy.

After a long flight, the missile finally crashed into the "light in the dark night", accurately hitting the huge steel radar antenna that was continuously emitting radio signals.

Having learned from the war experience provided by the dwarves and the Qin people, the elves have transformed many radar stations into safer models. The antennas of the radar stations have been moved to relatively far locations, and the radar stations themselves are located far away from the radar antennas.

Such a change would actually affect the accuracy of the radar's coordinates, because the relative coordinates would be offset. However, for the elves' radars, which were not very precise, such defects were actually insignificant.

Anyway, they had no way to accurately scan the target's coordinates, so they simply renovated those old radar stations without any care. Because the war situation deteriorated rapidly, many radar stations did not even have time to debug their equipment after the relocation.

"Boom!" The flames of the explosion engulfed the radar antenna, the high temperature of the explosion melted the steel, and a radar device instantly lost all signal sources.

The commander of the radar station in the bunker heard explosions in the distance. Everyone knew that those anti-radiation missiles that were following them like a shadow would one day fall on their heads.

Now that the missile had finally landed, everyone naturally breathed a sigh of relief: the other side had only destroyed the radar antenna, and this loss was still acceptable to them.

"One radar is paralyzed, and the backup radar has started working... but the frequency band is interfered. We detected some targets before the interference. The other side is far away from us, at least 40 kilometers away." An officer reported the latest situation to the commander of the radar station.

The backup radar did not play any role. It only detected some targets before being interfered with. But before the operator could determine the useful information, the radar screen was filled with interference noise again.

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The fire at the poor supply station was still burning fiercely. The elf officer in charge of the command here didn't know whether to cry or laugh when he looked at the soldiers who came to help put out the fire.

"Drive those trucks away! Drive to the woods on the side! Stay hidden! Damn it! Idiots! Drive away quickly!" He shouted into the distance from time to time, reminding the flustered soldiers what to do.

The whole village was in chaos, and the villagers who originally lived here were crying as they watched their houses being engulfed by flames. They were reluctant to lend their houses to the army in the first place, and now that their houses were gone, they did not have the courage to ask the army for compensation, so they could only stand there and watch the fire engulf their original homes.

It was impossible for the gasoline burning and explosion to be extinguished quickly. Despite the best efforts of the fire-fighting soldiers, they were unable to stop the fire from spreading.

Soon, several houses nearby also caught fire. Those places were rest areas for the officers and soldiers of the supply station, and now they were also engulfed by flames. If the fire spread further, the material area on the other side of the rest area would soon be affected. There were cotton clothes that were originally intended to be transported to the Ice and Cold Empire. They had been kept here because of the transportation capacity. Now that the Ice and Cold Empire has collapsed, there is no need to continue transporting them northward.

Originally these cotton-padded clothes were of elven style, so even though they no longer needed to be transported northward, the elven military was reluctant to discard them. Instead, they were stored on the spot, ready to be distributed to the frontline soldiers.

Now, maybe we don’t have to waste energy distributing them. After a while, they will become fuel, ignite a big fire in this winter, and exert their residual heat.

"Where are the anti-aircraft guns? Why aren't they firing?" Anxiously watching the fire spread, the commander of the supply station was filled with resentment and muttered something, as if he was already preparing to shift the blame to the prevention and control forces.

"Woo..." The air defense alarm had been sounded for a long time, and the anti-aircraft guns deployed outside the village had already entered combat mode. Although it was a bit ironic to sound the air defense alarm at this time, the work that needed to be done still had to be done boringly.

The two anti-aircraft artillery companies stationed in the fields outside the village were looking for targets in the sky, but they found nothing except the sun.

The long barrels of several 88mm anti-aircraft guns exported by Datang Group were pointing to the sky. The gunners who were carrying the shells stood next to the cannons holding the shells, but they did not wait for the deafening sound of firing.

The sergeant in charge of observation was holding a rangefinder and looking at the clear sky. Not finding any target, he naturally had no way to give any combat orders to the loader waiting next to the artillery.

The air-blast height of anti-aircraft artillery shells needs to be set before firing. Without parameters, there is naturally no way to adjust the fuse, so everyone is waiting, waiting for useful information to arrive.

But after waiting for a long time, there was no news about the enemy plane's flight altitude and azimuth parameters from the radar station, nor were there any parameters visually observed by the observers... so of course we could only wait like this.

It was somewhat embarrassing to use anti-aircraft cannons to deal with enemy planes at this time. But the elves really had no better weapons, so they could only make do with these outdated weapons.

In fact, they also knew that anti-aircraft guns could no longer deal with the Tang army's planes, but these weapons were their only means of air defense, and no matter how useless they were, they could give them courage.

Unfortunately, it was just a courage boost. The air defense forces would not waste shells on the empty blue sky. You have to know that their ammunition is also very precious, and they have to wait for replenishment if they run out.

On that day, at least 200 elven ground targets were attacked by the Tang Empire's Air Force, including the elves' four front-line field airports.

It was not possible to calculate how much the elves had lost, but everyone knew that the losses must have been huge. And everyone knew that the Tang Empire's air force was the vanguard of their army. As long as the Tang Empire's air force began to move, the ground attack would be imminent.

Therefore, for a moment, almost all the elven ground forces became alert. They were eager to know where the armored forces of the Tang Empire had reached at this moment.