Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

As long as it doesn't lose control midway and have thoughts like "What's the point of living, what's the point of dying," and then rush into the low sky to commit suicide, that's fine.

[PS]

I saw a rant in the book review section;

Deindustrialization and civilizational decline are two different things!

Brother, we haven't transitioned to a new civilization era where we can live off the tertiary industry or the virtual economy yet. We're still in the real "Industrial Civilization" stage.

If we don't call the deindustrialization of industrial civilization a decline, what should we call it? Should we call it progress and innovation?

Furthermore, they confused deindustrialization with industrial upgrading.

The widespread adoption of automation represents industrial upgrading, not deindustrialization; it signifies progress, not decline, in civilization.

What is industrial upgrading? It is when eight workers who tighten screws are replaced by two engineers who maintain screw machines. This is industrial upgrading and also a sign of progress in civilization. The reduction of industrial workers and low-end jobs caused by this, which supports more tertiary industry jobs, is not a decline in civilization, but an inevitable result of the development of civilization.

What is deindustrialization? Eight screw-pressing workers became two financial capitalists and four professional managers.

Then, using the money from financial schemes, they go to Southeast Asia to hire eight or even sixteen workers to tighten screws; this is deindustrialization.

Essentially, it still involves eight workers tightening screws, rather than the industrial upgrade envisioned by two financial capitalists investing in automated screw-tightening machines as envisioned in Western economics.

Because the profit margin is higher and it's easier to do it virtually, there are still eight workers tightening screws, only you're wearing a suit and not tightening screws anymore.

On the other hand, it's already 2022, and there are still people who believe in Western economics and the whole "global cooperation" rhetoric?

Chapter Sixty-Three: Air Raid

Chapter 63

Leitania has indeed invested heavily in consolidating its last stronghold leading to its homeland, with rows upon rows of anti-armor weapons and anti-aircraft weapons to deal with Kazdel, as well as Originium effect stabilizers to counter their air-dropped charge shock bombs.

After all, Letania wasn't just sitting idly by. They had indeed partially deciphered the principle behind Kazdel's small-scale natural disaster weapons: as long as the initial reaction was suppressed, a chain reaction would not occur, thus preventing small-scale natural disasters.

The interlocking defensive lines and various strongholds became the biggest challenge for Kazdel to retake the area. Moreover, there was another troublesome issue: Letania was not just passively defending. After this system was established, their fleet finally had a stable base for attack, which gave Kazdel, which lacked fleet strength, a major headache.

Over the course of several years of fighting, both sides had become accustomed to each other's presence. The Kazdel people learned to quickly relocate their bases and set up numerous makeshift radar vehicles and reconnaissance aircraft to detect the movements of the enemy fleet.

The Leitanians learned how to counter the Cataclysmic Bombs and enemy air power, and also learned to deliberately create smoke to confuse aerial reconnaissance, making it impossible for the enemy to distinguish between the main force of the fleet and ordinary small ships.

After all, if land-based ships deliberately produce smoke and dust, the entire fleet will be enveloped in thick smoke and dust.

Aerial reconnaissance makes it difficult to determine the size of the enemy, especially when the enemy starts to install a sweeper at the stern of the ship, not to clean up the traces, but just to scramble them, making it impossible to determine the contents by the track tracks.

In addition, the struggle for control of perception between the two sides is extremely fierce. The sorcerers of Letania have finally come up with a new industrialized jamming drone since the start of the war. It can interfere with the stability of the Demon King's network and cause the Sarkaz on the battlefield to suffer from severe dizziness and headaches. It is a non-lethal jamming weapon.

This is different from sophisticated intrusion. If the Demon King's network is like a whisper, then these people are like playing a super-large white noise speaker into your ear, which has amazing countermeasure effects on the battlefield.

However, the forces on this side included not only Sarkaz but also Ursus and Cataclysians. Therefore, they couldn't gain much of an advantage, only disrupting the enemy's troop assembly to some extent—ultimately, it turned into a truly messy battle.

Kazdel's large-scale gathering did not escape Letania's notice, in fact, it was impossible to hide it from them. The fact that they obtained warships from Da Yan was a semi-public matter, but due to Da Yan's closed-off approach, Letania did not obtain much detailed information about the enemy's warships.

However, judging from what those Great Yan people secretly revealed, although it was huge in size, it should only be considered an armed merchant ship.

"The Apocalypse Knight is in position!" The land-based ship, resembling an upside-down "Cadari I-beam" (Chimera), slowly moved into the arena. Due to technological limitations, the Abaddon-class ships were as thin and long as bamboo poles.

The hull cross-section is a standard "I" shape, with the running gear extending outwards at the bottom and the deck extending outwards at the top. The middle of the deck, like the Caldari I-beam, features a recessed hangar and catapult ramp.

It is also where the cranes replenish the super-large carrier-based aircraft. On both sides are maintenance hangars and various equipment hangars. The bridge is located directly in front of the ship, below the deck, while the air control tower is located at the rear of the ship, overlooking the runway.

"Doomsday Horn in position, carrier-based aircraft ready, inquiring about the relay ship's location." "Archangel in twenty minutes." On the Longnan Desert, a relay ship converted from a transport ship is rapidly traversing the desert, flanked by armored formations protecting it.

These metallic behemoths galloped across the land, their hooves shaking the surrounding fields, their breaths like thunder, and the dust behind them resembled murky, tattered wings.

"Archangel in position, relay station undergoing final testing..."

"Relay signal stable, electromagnetic catapult system ready..." A War Knight-class super-heavy attack aircraft was slowly pulled out of the semi-open hangar and parked on the catapult. "Check the locking bolts. I don't want another accident where the catapult shoots off the landing gear!"

At half-acceleration, the enormous force snapped the anchor bolt, causing the landing gear to extend outwards. The aircraft crashed directly in front of the warship due to inertia. If the warship hadn't deployed its ground spikes during the ejection to prevent the aircraft from sliding due to recoil, it would have run over the plane directly.

"Fixed bolt inspection complete, all inspection procedures finished, requesting deployment..."

"Control tower clears for launch. Catapult countdown: 10 seconds. All unrelated personnel evacuate the catapult deck. Countdown: 5 seconds. Catapult charging. 3, 2, 1, launch!"

With a flash of electricity, the heavy monster was launched directly into the sky from the hangar along the sloping ramp, unfolding its folding wings and propelling its engines at full power. After a brief descent, it successfully took to the air.

Next, the second War Knight was pulled onto the catapult deck. An Abaddon-class aircraft carrier can only carry two of these super-heavy aircraft. With the addition of the USS Abaddon, a total of six War Knights entered the airspace and they would carry out the first round of bombing of the target defense line.

Next came the attack from the "Locust Lord" improved aircraft carrier, which was also an Abaddon-class carrier but could not launch War Knights.

However, it was equipped with a large number of drones and missiles, as well as a dense array of rapid-fire cannons, for use in close-range support and cover.

"The Air Force girls have set off! We should move on!" The assembled armored soldiers glanced at the white trails left in the sky, retreated into their Odin tanks, closed the covers, started the engines, and a vast tide of steel emerged from the earth as various armored vehicles and transport vehicles converged.

The cluster of main battle tanks, armored personnel carriers, mobile supply depots, and small mobile fortresses, after releasing their War Knights, put away their shovels and followed the advancing Abaddon-class ships, resembled a massive migrating herd of beasts on the African savanna.

Troop carriers and light tanks are like agile rabbits, while main battle tanks are like slightly larger animals such as badgers. Mobile outposts and small mobile fortresses are like wildebeests and bison. Finally, the airborne land carriers are like the largest of the herds, wild elephants.

These steel beasts surged across the land, like a murky, yellowish-brown cloud spreading slowly toward what appeared to Letania's rather flimsy strongholds and defenses.

These forward mobile outposts served as reconnaissance and early warning systems, and after detecting Kazdel's large-scale mobilization, they began to retreat continuously.

The remaining ones, seeing the steel torrent approaching, decisively put away their hoes, released their anchors, and began to flee.

They weren't responsible for resistance at all. Small-scale raids and infiltrations were fine, but large-scale attacks were no longer their task after the attack alarm was raised.

But even faster than their alarm came the young girls from the aviation sorcerer guild: "Red Knight, we've entered the target airspace..."

"You still like that arena hero so much..."

"Who told me I was from Kazimierz before?" Red Knight pilot Anna shrugged, indicating that this was her only hobby. As a Sarkaz who had settled in Kazimierz, she had enrolled in the Aviation Academy after moving back to her hometown. However, she had retained some of the habits and hobbies she had developed in Kazimierz.

"Stop talking nonsense and focus on the mission!"

"Yes, searching for targets." The War Knights had ample ammunition, but it was still a drop in the ocean when spread across the long defensive line. Therefore, their mission was to find the enemy's weak points and key facilities for air strikes.

"Loading!" The mechanical ammunition feeding device emitted a faint noise, and the ammunition quantity on the sensing interface rapidly increased from 0 to 15, indicating that a full 15 rounds of 105mm armor-piercing high-explosive rounds had been loaded.

"Where are the little elves?"

"They're behind us, and their air-powered engines are slower than ours. Command should have realized this earlier..."

The War Knights, as gunships, had most of their load allocated to ammunition and fire control equipment. They were originally intended to be supported by early warning and reconnaissance aircraft, but the command did not anticipate that their first large-scale combat operation would fail.

Even though they set off ahead of time, the propeller speeds of these large reconnaissance aircraft and drone early warning aircraft still couldn't keep up with their companions who were accelerating like rockets with their engines floored.

As a result, the attack aircraft arrived at the scene ahead of time, while all of our own troops were still struggling on the way.

If we start airstrikes now, the enemy will have enough time to repair their defenses and establish early warnings. Even though they have arrived here, there are already widespread air raid sirens on the ground, and the Leitanians have even started dragging out large anti-aircraft guns.

However, the troops responsible for reconnaissance and launching drones for initial air superiority strikes hadn't arrived yet, and even if they had, their own ground forces would have failed—

This type of super-large-scale armored formation, with its integrated air and ground operations at the army group level, includes land-based ships.

This is the first time that a strategy has been implemented that integrates air, land, and sea operations, with carrier battle groups and ground armored formations advancing simultaneously.

If Kazdel's command system doesn't falter during its first large-scale operation in actual combat, it means that Kazdel's command system is at least three generations ahead of the enemy. There are only a handful of countries on Earth that can achieve this level of coordination without making major mistakes, and 99% of the time this is achieved in a training exercise.

In actual combat, there will likely be various breakdowns and miscoordination. The fact that the ground troops haven't yet become disconnected is already an advantage due to the Demon King's network and home-field advantage.

Moreover, the ground troops had not yet engaged the enemy and were still in the marching and maneuvering phase, so there had been no major mistakes.

However, air and air-ground coordination now appears to have fallen apart. The attack aircraft are caught in a dilemma and are idle. The reconnaissance planes have not yet arrived, and the ground troops are rushing to the battlefield, but even after arriving, they cannot immediately launch an attack.

Meanwhile, the enemy had realized the opponent's tactics and intentions and was frantically hiding its fuel reserves and sounding evacuation alarms. The warships in the port area also started their engines one after another.

“We can’t wait any longer, let’s get started. I’ll assign targets to everyone…” Anna felt that if they waited any longer, the reconnaissance team would be facing a position that was already alert and had turned into a hedgehog with anti-aircraft fire, which would greatly reduce the effectiveness of the reconnaissance.

However, Letania clearly lacked experience in dealing with such a large-scale air-ground integrated attack. The command center was in chaos, unsure whether the focus should be on the air or the ground forces, which led to great command confusion. The people and vehicles on the ground were running around like headless flies.

"Move out! Area A-7, it might be a fuel depot. Use the Peace Dove! Winged Knight, you go deal with it!"

"Roger!" One of the War Knights veered slightly to one side, breaking away from the formation, and two Peace Doves were released from their magazines.

This guided bomb, created by a biological brain, has no propulsion. Its only capability is to control the glider to accurately hit the enemy. Without propulsion, it will not cause the enemy to decide to go home halfway through flight and hit its own people with the missile.

The Peace Dove guided bomb weighs 850 kg per piece, with a charge coefficient of 0.9, an all-nitrogen anion charge, a biological guidance system, and a shockwave capable of destroying half a football field. Its semi-armor-piercing warhead is sufficient to penetrate most light horizontal armor and the domes of conventional cement companies. It is a weapon that is the bane of fortresses, turning long sieges and fortress battles into simple and rapid breakthroughs—truly a weapon that rapidly promotes peace.

After all, the longest battles in war are trench warfare and fortress sieges. Being able to quickly destroy permanent fortifications means being able to quickly break through trenches, quickly capture fortresses, and end the war as quickly as possible. After all, the dove of peace symbolizes that peace is coming, not that peace has already been achieved, right?

Of course, the air force's understanding was... peace is in jeopardy, so they'll just have to make do with bombs that have dove icons on them.

In fact, Kazdel's troops had all sorts of ridiculous nicknames for these weapons.

For example, the high-explosive grenades carried by the Sky Throne and unmanned bombers were called "the little succubus's fiery red lips," and ground crew often displayed their talents in painting and graffiti on the grenades.

The peace dove also has its own nickname: "Succubus's Love." Compared to other weapons, this weapon makes enemies die swiftly, without any pre-death suffering, hence the name "Succubus's Love."

Of course, there's another meaning: if the little succubi love you enough, they won't throw this thing away carelessly—their own kind are very afraid.

"Boom!" A cloud of black and yellow smoke rose from the ground. The black part was the exploding soil, and the yellow part was the Originium particles under high temperature and high energy. Where the yellow smoke covered, the Letanians were like cockroaches sprayed with insecticide. They quickly became still and then turned into clumps of black filth.

That's acute Oripathy, caused by a normal person inhaling a lethal dose of Originium particles in a short period of time. The concentration of Originium in the blood rises to a lethal level in a short time, causing cells to harden, dendritic crystals to form, and flesh to turn into clusters of crystals in a short time. The pulsating flesh becomes stiff and hardened, like a stone.

"A fuel depot has been destroyed..."

"Very good, the second target has been assigned..." The main targets are the fuel depot, ammunition depot, and the maintenance yard of the land-based ships, as well as the exposed large anti-aircraft fire positions.

The War Knight flies too high; most of the Letanian firepower cannot reach it.

Even if a few manage to hit them, the power is insufficient to destroy them in one shot. The opponent only needs to abandon the attack, gain altitude, and then, under the cover of their teammates, escape the line of fire.

The enemy's heavy anti-aircraft firepower, which is thus exposed, will be relayed to the rear troops.

Next, the swarm drones will focus their attacks on these areas. These heavy artillery pieces are not very effective against the swarm drones, and the fleet's long-range missiles and artillery will also clear out some of them.

Of course, the most important task should be left to the Sky Throne airship, as its defense is almost zero as a warship.

However, as an aircraft, its defensive capabilities are almost negligible against any anti-aircraft weapons at this altitude.

Unless Letania unearths the anti-aircraft missiles of the early inhabitants or launches fighter jets loaded with bombs to attack.

"Prepare for carpet bombing of the assembly area." The six scattered War Knights regrouped, with their bomb bays fully open. Apart from 30 shells and a reserved peace dove, a total of 15 tons of explosives per plane were poured down on the target like a rainstorm. Each bomb was a small bomb weighing 100 kilograms, with 150 bombs released per plane, and a total of 900 aerial bombs fell from the six planes.

This was a real black downpour, drawing six death trails across the sky and creating six wide black and red carpets on the ground following the flight paths, completely ploughing up the entire supply port.

Perhaps the land-based ships will be fine. However, the supply depots, cranes, and equipment are definitely destroyed, and the collapsed structure has also caused serious damage to two warships, making it difficult for them to leave port.

At this moment, the reconnaissance aircraft finally arrived, "Sorry, we can't catch up with you..."

"Guide the attack target, we're almost out of ammunition." The reconnaissance plane released drones, and the ground-based air defense firepower instantly doubled. The swarm of drones released by the Lord of Locusts arrived even later and was brutally attacked by the well-prepared air defense firepower. Drones were constantly destroyed and landed, making it difficult for them to get close to Letania's defenses and the marked heavy firepower points.

"Attack!" Once the reconnaissance and command aircraft arrived, there was no need to rely on their own eyesight to distinguish what the ground targets, no bigger than sesame seeds, were from high altitude. "calibrate the machine guns, fire!"

It's hard to call a 105mm cannon. However, as War Knight said before, it's too big—so big that it would take four Arc Rocket engines to fly. Therefore, fitting a 105mm cannon inside wouldn't be a problem.