The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 159 When Carpet Bombing Sweeps Through the Factory
"Hahaha, you inferior race, turn to ashes in the flames..."

Looking at the soldiers engulfed in flames, the pilot couldn't help but let out a contemptuous laugh.

Like most officers and soldiers of the Black Hawk Empire, especially the elite troops, they were staunch supporters of the Emperor's racial theories and firmly believed that they were the superior race in the world.

After all, under the emperor's leadership, they created one miracle after another.

They revitalized a declining empire, created the most brilliant industrial achievements, and in just a few decades, they transformed themselves from a poor and divided country into the powerful nation they are today.

All of this further fueled their ambition and inflated their confidence to an extreme degree.

But as he looked down, he suddenly noticed that a guy with flames burning on his body had raised a gun at him!
At such a height, how could that guy possibly hit him? It was just a futile struggle before he died!
Just as he was thinking this, a bullet suddenly pierced the windshield in front of the cockpit and instantly blew his head open.

Without a pilot, the diving airship failed to gain altitude and continued to slowly descend towards the ground, eventually crashing into a ball of fire on a nearby plain.

"Hehehe, you think you can take my life so easily? I've made a killing this time!"

Before being burned to death, the player looked at the large sum of merit points he had earned and couldn't help but laugh excitedly.

However, when he chose his respawn point, he couldn't laugh for a moment.

King Gigi: [Holy crap, are you kidding me?! We've lost one of our respawn points to the enemy!]

Looking around the village, only four resurrection markers remained. Players who hadn't had time to resurrect started ranting in the chat.

When the other players saw that one of their respawn points was missing, their expressions immediately turned grim.

What a bad start! They haven't even encountered the enemy's ground forces yet, and one of their respawn points has already been wiped out!

They knew that their mission was to defend all the respawn points; if they lost all the respawn points, their mission would be a complete failure!
Raven: [Speaking of which, why don't we have any air force vehicles? When will we be able to fly planes and such?]

Rice Noodle Roll Cat: [Besides that, I also really want to drive those multi-legged mechs. It would be great if we could build and deploy these vehicles ourselves, otherwise relying on captures is too inefficient!]

Looking at the comments section, Andrei realized that the players on that side seemed to have had one of their respawn points destroyed by the enemy.

There's nothing we can do about it. It's just that these players were careless and didn't take proper air defense measures.

Not only the players in the village, but also Andrei, who had just retreated back to the factory, encountered tremendous air defense pressure.

Compared to the other side, the enemy used far more air force to bomb this factory!

It's unclear whether the enemy abandoned their plan to send paratroopers to seize the territory because they knew an armored unit was stationed there, or whether they were enraged by the previous failure.

This time, they abandoned their plan to send paratroopers to seize the factory and instead launched a large-scale bombing raid on the site.

Judging from their posture, they clearly intend to completely flatten this factory area!
A Brandenburg-class airship slowly approached, dropping countless bombs along the way.

Each bomb that fell created a huge crater in the ground. The bombs, almost one after another, quickly kicked up a massive amount of dust, making it look like a carpet had been lifted up from a distance.

"Are you kidding me? When did the Germans start using carpet bombing?" Hiding in an underground workshop, feeling the massive bombing overhead, and watching the players' conversations in the chat area, Andrei couldn't help but complain.

Although before that, when he saw the Brandenburg-class airships, he realized that the enemy must have the capability for strategic bombing.

But after truly experiencing the terrifying power of carpet bombing, Andrei felt utterly overwhelmed.

In his view, what were the problems with the German Air Force during World War II?
The biggest problem is the lack of strategic bombing capabilities!

Whether in the Battle of Britain or in the subsequent Soviet-German War, the German air force was very strong in terms of tactical air power, but its strategic air power was basically non-existent.

Dive bombing is indeed effective, with exceptionally high accuracy in ground strikes, but strategic bombing can reach enemy factories, cities, and military bases located in the rear.

Of course, if they could develop an atomic bomb, strategic bombing would be completely unparalleled.

The dropping of an atomic bomb would be devastating; no one could bear the thought of an atomic bomb falling on their head.

Besides the massive, almost impenetrable Brandenburg-class airship, the enemy also deployed more than a dozen other smaller airships to carry out precision strikes on the ground.

To be honest, those small airships were basically useless.

Andrei's players were either hiding or busy bombarding the enemy from their anti-aircraft positions, so the small airships basically had no targets to attack.

After all, apart from air defense positions, the only places they can attack are factories and plantations.

However, the factories and workshops here are all built in the style of fortresses and fortresses. The small bombs that ordinary airships can carry are simply not able to penetrate such fortresses.

As for the air defense positions they attacked...

It's alright, attack them as you please. Once they've destroyed all these air defense positions, the engineers will be able to build a new batch of air defense positions immediately.

Although this thing consumes much more impact value than digging trenches, the price of an anti-aircraft position is still less than the price a player spends on a three-wheeled vehicle.

Andrei didn't care about such a small amount of money at all; he could exchange shooting down a small airship for ten anti-aircraft positions.

However, Andrei never figured out what those medium-sized artillery airships were used for.

Honestly, from the start of the war until now, he still doesn't understand the purpose of these airships!

These airships had very limited bombing capabilities because they carried a large number of cannons, which meant they could not carry many bombs.

At the same time, these artillery pieces are also particularly inaccurate when attacking ground targets, unless they dare to dive at low altitudes.

But given its size and speed, if it were to actually dive at low altitude, it would undoubtedly be delivering food to the ground-based air defense positions.

(End of this chapter)