Chapter 928, Air Raid
The actions of the human air force were quite effective.
They had three missions on this mission, all of which were completed very well.
The first thing is to fight for air supremacy, which is not to be completely won. After all, it is too much to ask for the interception and attack of the enemy's ground-based air defense firepower to destroy the aircraft powered by the abyss dragons and demon engines so that they can't even take off.
However, air superiority is enough.
The core goal is to complete the next two tasks after gaining control of the sky to a certain extent.
The second task is bombing, which is to relieve the pressure on the human defenders on the ground through ground attacks.
This task was also completed well.
However, the Alliance's air force did not directly bomb the Chaos forces that were attacking the human defense line.
To be honest, those Chaos troops are not actually the ones that put the most pressure on the Alliance's defenses.
The greatest pressure actually comes from these continuous attacks and the chaotic artillery fire from the rear.
The Air Force focuses on these two items.
The former represents the starting point at the rear of the Chaos forces' offensive position.
In a war, troops will not be thrown all at once to the front line. If the attack width is not enough and the troops are stationed too densely, not only will the improvement in attack efficiency be quite limited, but the troops will also become very vulnerable. One shot will be a range strike anyway, and as many troops as stand inside will die. There is no benefit at all if the troops are stationed too densely.
However, the offensive intensity must be maintained at all times to put enough pressure on the human troops, which requires a reserve team to take over immediately after the front troops withdraw. In this way, the troops that have consumed more ammunition and suffered heavy casualties can take turns to rest and reorganize, while at the same time, the pressure on the front line will not be relaxed at all because of the new, fully combat-capable troops taking over. The human side with fewer troops cannot have the same rest opportunities, and the pressure will only increase until the balance is completely broken, and they can no longer withstand the pressure, thus collapsing and losing the defense line.
When such positions are taken down one by one, the entire defense line will collapse.
And the Air Force is currently attacking these reserve forces.
When a reserve force of Chaos was preparing to go up to support and replace, the bombing came.
Machine guns strafing the ground is another aspect. Although the threat is quite great, if a large-caliber machine gun hits, even the power armor of the Space Marines will be penetrated; if an ordinary person is hit, there will be no trace of him; even if it is a tank, after being swept back and forth by the machine guns for two rounds, the dense bullet holes on it will make it impossible for the tank to move...
The greater power comes from the ground-to-ground missiles launched from large fighter jets such as Qilin and even Dragon Elephant.
A Scalpel missile would be enough to destroy a Titan if it hit the target. A Sky-Splitting Axe missile would destroy an armored company if it got too close and didn't deploy an evacuation formation. And if it was an East Wind Fen...
Only a very small number of Dragon Elephant fighters carry this thing. The Dongfeng Fen missile is too large. After carrying the Dongfeng Fen, even the largest Dragon Elephant fighter that can operate in the atmosphere will not be able to carry anything else, and its own combat power will be basically emptied.
But it's worth it.
As soon as the east wind blows down, the entire chaotic starting position will be destroyed.
So far, only one Dongfeng Fen had been thrown at the Chaos Army's offensive position, which had directly saved five originally precarious positions, destroyed three Titans, killed more than seventy Chaos Space Marines, and countless other Chaos troops.
The other two Dongfeng Fen missiles were fired at another target that posed a great threat to the Alliance army's defenses: the Chaos artillery position.
Artillery is the king of war, and this statement still holds true today.
To put it bluntly, war is a means of effectively killing and smashing the enemy's head. If it is possible to use naval guns for orbital bombing, it would definitely be the best. In the absence of such conditions, if we only look at ground forces, artillery is still irreplaceable.
Artillery is the most common, cheapest, most scalable and most sustainable means.
The most difficult part for the human defenders was that their heads were constantly being bombed.
Although the human side also has artillery, the number is far less than that of the enemy, making it difficult to counter, and the support provided to the front line is not enough - even so, being able to call in a round of artillery to cover the attacking enemy is enough to give people a sigh of relief.
And now, two Dongfeng Fen missiles almost destroyed the two most important Chaos artillery positions.
The Chaos side's firepower suddenly dropped sharply!
Almost all the artillery positions ceased firing.
Not all of them were blown up. The destroyed artillery accounted for less than half of the Chaos artillery. After all, the Chaos side would not be stupid enough to gather all the artillery together for convenience. However, they would also be worried about whether the Alliance fighters had not yet launched the Dongfeng Fen?
Even if it wasn't Dongfeng Fen, a few more Sky-Splitting Axes would be terrifying.
The various artillery positions began to be evacuated urgently, and more, more dispersed, and smaller positions had to be rebuilt to reduce losses after the air strikes.
Zakaria was quite angry.
"You forced me to do this!"
The enraged White Wolf King sent orders to his fleet.
Originally, he was still worried that the orbital bombardment of the ground by the ship's guns would affect the "thing" under the church, but now that the human side has done so, he will not show any mercy.
They dared not bomb directly the church or the core area near the church, because if it was really destroyed, it would be the end. But if they calculated clearly, it would be feasible to bomb the surrounding outer positions with naval guns with relatively small equivalents.
However, the human side did not deploy a lot of defensive forces for these outer positions. It was usually just a small position, a small hill, and a company of ordinary soldiers for defense. A single or several rounds of naval gunfire could certainly help the Chaos Warriors capture the position quickly, but it was relatively limited in terms of completely destroying the human defense line.
Zakaria had to admit reluctantly that if he wanted to end the battle, he would have to rely on ground troops to take the lead.
He took a deep breath and reminded himself to be patient.
The current situation is still under control. They are gradually eroding the human defense line. Those pseudo-emperor minions will not be able to hold out for long.
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly heard the sound of gunfire not far away.
Walking out of the command room, he saw several human fighter planes spinning and falling from the sky - they were shot down.
And there are the same number of human fighter planes circling and firing downwards.
They seemed to be covering some target.
Squinting his eyes, Zakaria realized that someone was looking for him.
(End of this chapter)
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