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"Load ammunition, hurry up! All transport personnel, load ammunition!" As soon as Winter arrived at the hangar, she found the work area in chaos, with ground crew and porters constantly running back and forth pushing carts and ammunition racks.

On the outer deck, War Knights were being inspected, and the pilots were being summoned to command for a briefing, anticipating a very sudden air operation.

"These useless people from the Great Yan are just playing the fool!" The Great Yan people set off after the polar behemoths, but arrived at the edge of the curtain even faster. Then they stirred up a huge mess. No one knows what they did, but a vast and mighty stream of demons kept pouring out from behind the curtain.

These people are running this way, and the problem is that we can't just leave them unrescued. If we don't, we won't be able to understand what terrible things they've done and there's no way to undo it.

If we try to save them, these massive demons will soon break through the outer area. Although the interference barrier can defend against demons to some extent, it is not omnipotent. If the interference device were omnipotent, where would those demons in the basement come from?

Not to mention, many of these jammers are ancient relics. It's a miracle they're still working now. If they're used under high voltage overload and collapse, we'll all be torn to pieces by the evil forces.

The dispatch field has not yet been searched and repaired, and a large number of precious relics have not been properly disposed of. Whether to evacuate or stay to resist, it will be a huge loss. Not to mention, it is still uncertain whether such a huge group of demons can escape.

At the same time, the two research vessels of the Great Yan were rapidly approaching the dispatch center. After passing through the veil and seeing the desolate city covered in frost on the polar plain, they remained silent for a long time. However, the demons did not give them time to be silent. A huge horde of demons surged out of the dead city. These demons were completely different from those they had fought before.

"How long until the Divine Light Cannon cools down!?" "It can no longer fire!" All the Divine Light Cannons have overheated and shut down, and although the other secondary cannons are still trying, the results are minimal.

Given the enemy's overwhelming numerical advantage, what could be worse? Yes, their quality is also higher.

In order to survive in the dead city area filled with strong radiation, these demons have become highly metallic, and their metallic limbs have even been combined with some guns and weapons. Although most of the ancient weapons can no longer be fired, this has greatly reduced the aftereffects of the attacks on the human side.

Moreover, there are indeed some things here that can still be used, such as the expired ammunition that the demons threw with their muscle power. Perhaps most of them are unstable or even unable to detonate, but some of the rest will eventually explode, posing a huge threat to the Great Yan's land-based ships.

"Rat-a-tat-tat!" The fully automatic feeding machine continuously fed short crossbow bolts into the launcher like flowing water, then turned into black shadows and disappeared into the distant horde of demons. Demons were constantly being hit by the crossbow bolts. These were specially made anti-demon crossbow bolts with a large number of locking hooks, which could slow down the movement of demons to a certain extent.

It is very different from Kazdel's method. It is a weapon that delays and postpones the demons, creating opportunities for heavy weapons to kill. However, now the ship-mounted Divine Light Cannon and Fire Eagle Cannon are starting to malfunction one after another. The land-based ships can only choose to fight the demons with their horsepower, which means they are fleeing in despair.

"How much longer until we reach those demons' camp?" Doing something like this, which involves luring monsters to pull a train, will definitely attract a lot of criticism internationally. But the problem is, the officials of the Great Yan Dynasty, whether loyal or treacherous, don't care about this. In fact, until now, the officials of the Great Yan Dynasty, especially the civil officials, don't think much of the Sarkaz people and the Republic of Kazdel.

Their preferential treatment, or rather their concessions in negotiations, were less of a concession and more of a condescending handout. In essence, they still looked down on these barbarians and didn't think that getting shipyards and arms would make much of a difference to them. Compared to that, they were more interested in the commercial interests held by these "barbarians."

This means that while they appear to be cooperative on the surface, they actually look down on Kazdel and don't even take him seriously. Of course, saying that they don't take him seriously at all would be an overstatement. To be precise, they have transformed from barbarians into "barbarians who have some good stuff, are particularly good at fighting, and are unreasonable."

However, it's also quite frustrating. The people of Dayan do have the right to be so arrogant. At least until Lao Xia confirms that the antenna group is repaired and reinforcements can be called in, if they go through the Ark Project, Dayan's manpower, technology and resource reserves are extremely important. Using force would only result in mutual destruction, and might even lead to a tragic situation like Japan being overwhelmed and killed.

Even so, such an international dispute is still an act with extremely serious consequences. However, for the generals and civil officials of the Great Yan who led the expedition, they could not care about so much. With the arrogance of the Great Yan court, they would inevitably suffer a loss in an international dispute, but if the entire army was wiped out and they had to escape, they would be doomed. If they could not escape, they would be doomed as well.

Moreover, from another perspective, if both sides joined forces, their chances of survival would indeed be greater. That's what the Doctor thought, which is why he sent them reinforcements. If he had known that the Great Yan people had trespassed into the dead city behind the veil, he wouldn't have sent reinforcements, but rather assassins who would have blown up the Great Yan ships and stopped them on the polar ice fields, sending them all to feed the evil spirits.

Do you really think this guy is some kind-hearted, benevolent angel? It's just that the monsters have already been provoked into a riot, forcing us to join forces. If we're going to join forces, the Great Yan people can't afford to suffer too many losses.

"Entering combat airspace, target acquisition completed, beware of anti-aircraft fire." News of the Adenia incident has spread throughout the squadron, and all the pilots in the squadron know about it and are now on high alert.

"Fire!" The War Knight slowed down, exited supersonic mode, opened the magazine to reveal the rotating bomb cell below, and "Bang!" The first glide bomb was launched, its gliding wings unfurling in mid-air as it flew toward the demon by inertia.

The eight War Knight MK2s charged head-on like eight heavy cavalrymen, launching their first attack from about 2 to 3 kilometers away from the demons. They then climbed up, accelerated, and broke through the demons' formation, dodging to the sides.

The demons also launched anti-aircraft fire without hesitation. Arcs of electricity, expired ammunition, various spikes and stones posed no threat to the war knights. Those that could be hit once or twice were insignificant, and those that were fatal simply couldn't be hit. On the contrary, the bombs dropped by these aerial monsters always hit their targets.

Amidst the explosions and roars of the golden sacred flame, the vanguard of the demons abruptly halted for a moment. Before they could regroup, the war knights returning from the other side dropped even more bombs. Starting from the rear of the column, they launched a carpet bombing attack, a dense barrage of bombs falling. Each bomb consisted of an outer shell and dozens of fist-sized glass spheres, containing containers for the Iberian sacred flame.

It shattered upon landing, and then the golden flames and holy oil stained the demons, burning away layer by layer, giving the black demonic wave a golden edge.

The carpet bombing attack was very effective. The limbs and movement structures of the demons were constantly burned through or severed. The metal components of the smaller demons melted under the high temperature, turning into a molten iron shell that trapped itself inside an iron lump. They had to give up most of their mass to escape before being completely sealed inside the shell.

However, this was merely a drop in the ocean compared to the overwhelming tide of demons. Its only effect was to give the two land-based ships of the Great Yan a chance to cool down their main guns, replace parts, and clean up the demonic debris that had flooded the decks.

Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Tide Slows Down

Chapter 57

The air raid had very limited effect on suppressing the demonic tide, but it was enough for the Great Yan people to break free. "Fleet ahead, please go around to the sides, do not charge!"

"Go around!" Although the Great Yan people had stirred up a wave of demons, they also knew that if they charged into the enemy lines at this time, the Sarkaz would not hesitate to stop them all on the ice field and feed them to the demons. Moreover, not attacking their own formation was a basic military common sense. As long as the Great Yan people were not so crazy as to send out a group of third-rate personnel who were scared out of their wits, they would not do such a thing.

The two landships separated to the left and right, slowing down their movement to create firing range. Next, it was time for the polar behemoth's main guns to fire. Meanwhile, after some simple maintenance, the Great Flame also regained some of its weapon firing capabilities.

The 400mm shells landed inside the demons, each one capable of directly vaporizing the area hit, leaving almost no chance for the demons to recover their mass. However, this only affected the directly hit areas; the metallic exteriors of the demons in the splash zones were merely scorched by the splashing holy fire, with some demonic tissue charred due to the high temperature.

The silver-gray and jet-black "waves" crashed in one after another, only to be stopped halfway by bombers and various long-range artillery fire. Even the shipborne rocket launchers and individual rocket launchers were brought out to deal additional damage, and the waves shattered one after another. However, every second, the waves were getting closer and closer to the edge of the interference zone until they were completely integrated with the interference field.

The demons whose shells had been torn apart retreated restlessly, while the demons with metallized shells remained numb and indifferent until, after enough time, they hesitated, stopped, and allowed their formation to become chaotic before being torn apart by artillery fire.

“The mind-directing device is working terribly against these new demon species, just as I expected…” The doctor stroked his chin, observing what was happening on the battlefield. The mind-directing device was actually a large device that actively issued commands to the demons.

Given the limited and often chaotic range of an individual's thoughts and memories, this device directs and filters out most of the "noise" before sending commands to a wide range of evil spirits.

After loading the reverse mental waveform, a signal representing retreat and refusal of connection can be sent to the demons. Most demons will also be confused and at a loss because of this signal, which will conflict with their own underlying commands, and will eventually choose to leave the area.

However, the metallized demons in front of them were only slightly affected. Even though the ship's jammers erased the fear and emotional reactions of most people within range, making it difficult for the demons to read information such as the location of their prey, they still tirelessly probed the situation of the entire safe zone.

Since they are just transmitters, these directors naturally do not have the problem of power conflict and will not suffer overload and damage due to the probing and attacks of evil spirits like shields. But that is also where the problem lies.

Since it is a transmitter, it must be in a constant state of power consumption without any rest. Moreover, given the increase in the number of demons, the transmission power required to penetrate layer upon layer of demons naturally needs to be increased. This is a considerable burden and test for these old guys who have only made some simple repairs.

What could be the reason?

"It's possible that the outer metal structure blocks the emission of Originium particles, much like a Faraday cage. This means that while the actual effect of the signal waves on the demons remains unchanged, the intensity of the signal waves is weakened, resulting in a reduced effect." At least that's the case for now, but it's also possible that the underlying protocols of these demons have changed, causing the signal waves themselves to be less effective.

"Da Yan people, join the battle immediately! If our equipment collapses, you will die too." This was self-evident. The Da Yan people realized this as well. Taking advantage of being in a safe zone, they stopped the ship, lay it flat, repaired and cooled all weapon systems, opened the cargo hold, and deployed ground troops to set up ground firing points and defensive lines.

The Arctic behemoths were no exception; now every bit of firepower was needed. Armored units and towed artillery were deployed outside the anchorage, and trucks carrying shells and supplies were arriving to establish a temporary defensive line.

Most cover is ineffective against demons; in comparison, densely packed firing positions are more effective.

"Watch out for artillery fire!" Seemingly realizing that there was something in this area that made them uneasy, the demons, though unable to enter, could throw other things in. The ordinary demons did not have this tendency, but the metallized demons began to squeeze out large and small metal objects from their bodies.

There were ancient alloy blocks melted together by it, as well as rusty ancient shells, vehicles, and oil tanks. Then, these things were launched by the demon, whistling as they crashed into the vicinity of the jamming tower and the direction from which the ballistic weapons that attacked it originated.

"Boom!" The oil tank exploded upon landing. The fragments of the tank, thrown with pure kinetic energy rather than ignited before being thrown, shattered, and the unidentified oil inside splashed everywhere. The next second, it was ignited by the scorching metal fragments, turning into a sea of ​​fire.

Most of those ancient bombs and cannonballs were duds, serving only as kinetic energy blocks. However, this caused great trouble for the combat personnel on both sides of the defensive line. Such powerful and heavy objects were enough to destroy a cannon.

Moreover, in this small safe zone, it is impossible to rely on range and mobility advantages to fight back. The only way is to withstand these debris-throwing attacks and retaliate with more intense artillery fire.

It's like throwing stones at a bunch of monkeys, diverting their attention from the jamming tower and getting them into a battle of throwing things at each other with the fleet. Once the jamming tower is hit and destroyed, then no one can escape.

After a few minutes of emergency repairs and heat dissipation, the Great Flame's Divine Light Cannon finally resumed operation. Groups of lens-like synthetic jade structures overlapped together, then stimulated Originium particles, which were converted into photons through layers of synthetic jade functional layers, eventually becoming a scorching beam of light that fell on the demon.

The Great Flame's Divine Light Cannon is more effective at directly killing demons than the Holy Fire Bullet, but its rate of fire and energy consumption have always been significant problems. The beam can instantly penetrate the demon's outer shell and directly vaporize the demon's tissue structure, making it impossible for the opponent to recover its mass.

The problem is that complete evaporation is actually an overkill for the demons. Being directly burned to the point of complete degeneration and incapacitation by the Holy Fire Bomb means that the demons cannot use this charred flesh and blood. Well, at least the Originium particles inside cannot be used until they come down from their high-energy state.

On the contrary, a large amount of energy is consumed in this process, resulting in the number of demons actually eliminated being less than that of the Sacred Flame when the same amount of energy is invested.

Of course, if you want to completely eliminate a tough and resilient demon unit, the Divine Light Cannon is much more powerful than the Sacred Flame, such as these metal demons.

"...Laser weapons paired with ballistae, tanks from World War I, and towed howitzers from World War II, this is truly a magical world," Blitzkrieg said, suppressing his bullets. Their squad wasn't ready to go out yet, and of course, going to the battlefield wouldn't make a difference anyway.

Those things that are often more than ten stories high and covered with metal shells of at least 200 millimeters thick, apart from naval guns and heavy anti-ship missiles, are not very effective with other weapons, let alone the firearms they carry.

"There are also plasma cannons, but I haven't seen any biological missiles yet. As for nuclear weapons, they should still be there, but they haven't been used," Shuanghua said. "It's indeed very fantastical, but we are in a different world where 'magic' exists." The difference between Originium Arts and magic is that the former is something that can be mass-produced and replicated; it's technology that humans can understand, not incomprehensible technology, although the locals still call it "spells."

“We are at a great disadvantage on our side…” Compared to his three colleagues who lacked experience in large-scale group combat, Alexander’s expression was particularly solemn. Although on the surface, their artillery fire was completely overwhelming the enemy, with dense shells raining down on the demon horde like a downpour, the actual aftereffects were terrible.

This seemingly overwhelming advantage actually came at the cost of consuming limited artillery and ammunition, while the enemy was not severely damaged. Moreover, the enemy made almost no major pauses in their offensive, launching a fierce attack without regard for logistical support or morale, treating the blows they were taking as nothing.

If the jamming zone hadn't still been effective, and if our side hadn't indeed had a significant advantage in burst firepower, we would have already entered a stalemate and retreat phase by now, following the normal course of war.

"..." Everyone trusted Alexander's judgment quite a bit, but now that they were on the side of being surrounded, it was very difficult for them.

"Remember to remind me next time: don't come back until you've got the nuclear weapons sorted out."

"Okay, I'll remember," Kal'tsit glanced at the Doctor indifferently, shook her head, and said that, but she would still obediently organize manpower and resources to invest in the next window of opportunity.

And then again, even if he had nuclear weapons, would he dare to throw them into the dead city area?

That wasn't some of the surrounding refugee camps, warehouses, or suburban industrial facilities; it was the largest aerospace industrial city at the time. If a nuclear bomb were to hit there, it would probably be a complete waste of time.

This was the third time the fighter jet had taken off, and the pressure on the pilot had reached an unbearable level. Zao Lu endured the numbness emanating from every nerve cluster in her body. The excessive neurotransmitters and nerve impulses were clearly causing the brain and nervous system to ignore the excessive data in certain areas, forcing her to concentrate even more intently to maintain a connection.

Doing so would further amplify the fatigue and the burning pain in her nerve endings, and she now understood why the girls in the academy called the cockpit "Cinderella's Shoes".

Originally, I thought this was the only and most direct path to upward social mobility for most ordinary girls. Now I realize that after breaking through the usual safe flight strategies, the cockpit is like an ill-fitting crystal shoe that tightly binds the pilot.

She even had to endure the pain of having her heels cut off in order to continue dancing in the sky wearing these "crystal shoes." However, soon, the debris thrown by demons from the ground refocused her mind.

Bombing demons requires no technical skill; even targets on the training field are more interesting. Due to its border with Kazdel and previous wars, Letania imports large quantities of Divine Light Cannons from Great Yan to build anti-aircraft positions.

Even the Great Yan realized the threat of aircraft and began to try to mount small divine light cannons on fast-moving platforms to become mobile air defense vehicles. Although without interceptors, ground air defense can only protect key areas, and wheels obviously cannot catch up with supersonic targets, after entering the attack path, the pilot still needs to avoid possible anti-aircraft fire and launch the ammunition into the target area.

However, the Demon is different. As long as it gains altitude and maintains speed, instead of slowing down like Adonia before it did because it needed to return and circle, anything the Demon throws poses zero threat to it. It simply flies numbly, looking for Demons that have exposed their inner metal shell structure, and then drops heavy aerial bombs and semi-armor-piercing aerial bombs modified from artillery shells.

Unlike bombing targets on the training ground, back then, targets simply disappeared in large numbers. All that could be seen in the sky was billowing smoke and dust on the ground. When they circled and descended, the bombed area of ​​the target range was completely turned into a hell of flames and debris.

According to the veterans, when bombing Letania's ground units, or even earlier, when using smaller Hummingbird gunship drones to bomb the Regent's army, you could clearly feel yourself reaping lives with a scythe of fire. But you didn't feel that way at all when bombing the demons.

The numb and monotonous bombing had almost no aftereffects, and even the attempts by some War Knights to add damage with machine guns were largely meaningless. Of course, this was probably true for the pilots, but it was a different story for others.

Their illusions stemmed from distance, altitude, and the sheer number of demons surging forth. However, radar does not lie; each round of aerial bombardment was wiping out the overall mass of demons in large numbers. It was just that the enemy's reserve forces were too vast, making it feel like a futile effort, like Jingwei trying to fill the sea.

The naval guns, however, were concentrated directly in front of the demons, which seemed to be very effective. In reality, due to the penetration rate and the saturation of the sacred fire, the resulting damage was not very ideal.

After all, those demons with metallic shells were the ones gathered at the front. They were the least affected by the interference, so they naturally pushed their way to the front through constant probing. Ordinary demons, on the other hand, were more affected and instinctively retreated to the back.

The doctor realized this as well, "All artillery units, indirect fire, eliminate the ordinary demonic individuals in the back first, leave the ones in front to the Great Flame people!"

As the artillery shells gradually rose higher and a large number of heavy shells fell into the demons behind them, these monsters instinctively began to gather together. Although their fear and consciousness could not be read, they still possessed a large number of blueprints and stress response structures that had long been solidified into their storage.

This is why, when dealing with evil spirits, everyone feels that these things don't have a fixed form and are impossible to kill.

However, this is of little use. If it were a high-level sea creature, the problem would be much bigger, but the demons are just environmental ecological constructors, not some kind of bio-industrial nanoprinter. Most of the things they can shape are limited to biological structures and organic cell structures.

Complexing metal ions or simply attaching metal to a surface to form a metallized shell is already the limit. As for expecting them to create cannon barrels, that's just wishful thinking. However, this doesn't mean that demons lack long-range attack capabilities.

Whether it's bio-lasers, bio-electric discharges, or even simply using muscles and air sacs to fire ammunition, it's all very simple for them. However, the demons' opponents are not the border villages of Ursus that can be pushed over with a push, nor the ancient city walls of Great Yan, nor the wooden mountain strongholds of Samina, but armored warships armed with various alloy steels.

Unable to board the ship or mentally destroy the crew, the demons' combat power and lethality were greatly weakened. Their attacks were like tickling the polar behemoths, the two landships of the Great Flame, and even the Odin tanks on the ground.

In other words, it poses a slightly greater threat to the War Knight. Although this thing is said to have added armor, as an aircraft, the armor is not that sturdy. It can safely return home after taking three to five hits, but if it takes a few more hits, it will still crash.

"Scatter! Watch out for the demon's electromagnetic attacks!"

"Crack!" A bolt of lightning stretched from the ground to the sky, the high-voltage current piercing through the air and quickly finding the nearest target: a War Knight.

The lightning struck the aircraft, and for a moment, Zao Lu felt as if she had been pricked hard with a needle. Although most of the current flowed away through the surface, some of the sensitive sensors still transmitted excessive stimulation pulses into the cockpit as they were supposed to.

The equipment in the cockpit flickered twice before stabilizing. "Avoid being hit multiple times. Their lightning attacks aren't frequent, but they're difficult to dodge. It's best to avoid them when you see them flashing as they charge, or turn towards the direction of any metallic objects."

The squadron leader gave instructions on how to respond over the channel. Zao Lu gritted her teeth and lowered the fighter jet a little. The machine gun swept directly across the flashing demonic tentacles. The discharge tentacles made of Originium crystal collapsed into fragments, with arcs of electricity stretching between the fragments.

"Zao Lu, well done, but don't take such risks next time!" The aircraft began to return to base, and the demons' agitation seemed to gradually subside. Although they were artificially stupid, they weren't so stupid that they were beaten up and bombarded with tons of junk information, leaving them disoriented and unable to change their strategy.

"We've finally made it through. Give me a battle report in an hour." The casualties should be a bit better than the last polar operation, but don't expect zero casualties. Besides, this report is still useful. The Doctor won't be satisfied until he gets some flesh from the Great Yan group.