The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 162 I really want an air force base!

"Hehehe, the Cambrian Empire's aircraft are nothing special. These fools tried to imitate the Black Hawk Empire's technology, but they didn't understand the key core components, so they just produced a bunch of scrap metal!"

Watching the airship slowly fall into the distance and eventually crash directly into the factory area below, the Black Hawk Empire air force commander on Brandenburg and the airship sneered.

"Lieutenant Colonel Eichmann, we have annihilated the enemy's air fleet, but our bombing of the ground seems to be going poorly!"

Just as Lieutenant Colonel Eichmann was sneering, a report suddenly came from behind him.

This ill-timed report instantly shattered his good mood, causing his face to turn cold.

"What's going on? Is something wrong with this factory?"

The soldier who ran over to report saluted and then explained:
"Sir! The factory below is too heavily fortified; our bombs can't penetrate its roof at all!"

"Neither our carpet bombing nor our dive bombing seems to have any effect. The cunning enemy has already taken cover in the bunkers, leaving only the air defense positions outside to fight us!"

Upon hearing this, Lieutenant Colonel Eichmann, whose attention had been focused on the enemy air fleet, finally refocused his attention on the bombing targets below.

His expression darkened after just one glance at the situation below.

There were more than 20 anti-aircraft positions firing continuously into the sky, with large amounts of shells constantly being fired at them and hitting the air shields of his airships.

The small airships that were previously responsible for dive bombing have now been destroyed by the enemy. Of the nearly 20 small airships, less than 10 remain, a result of heavy casualties!
As for their bombing success...

To put it bluntly, after all that bombing, the results they achieved were not as great as the damage caused by shooting down the enemy's airship and crashing it into the factory area.

Their bombs couldn't penetrate the factory buildings, but a 200-meter-long airship crashing down was enough to completely reduce a factory to ashes.

"Ignore them, have our troops withdraw immediately, and when we get back, we'll request a Grand Slam bomb to bomb their factory!"

After giving the order, Lieutenant Colonel Eichmann couldn't help but grumble.

I don't know what's wrong with the Cambrian Empire people, that they would turn abandoned fortresses into factories. Don't they think that the narrow passages inside these fortresses are really unsuitable for transporting large machinery?
While it may seem that modifying these buildings would save costs, in reality, considering subsequent production efficiency, they are only reducing their own production capacity.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Eichmann was unaware that the decline in production capacity had nothing to do with the officials responsible for building the factory.

For the officials in charge of building the factory, this was a way to effectively save on the budget and pocket the savings.

As for the factory's productivity declining in the future due to this reason, that's the factory owners' own problem. If they're so capable, why don't they just buy the factory?

It is precisely because of this way of thinking that the Cambrian Empire has made these actions that seem incomprehensible to them.

But at the same time, it was these sturdy factory buildings that saved some of Andrei's armored units that had previously been stationed there.

Otherwise, if those tanks and armored vehicles were simply parked in ordinary factory buildings, it would be a miracle if these armored units survived such a bombing raid.

After the enemy air force had completely left, Andrei and his men crawled out of the underground space and ran to the outer position. Looking at the scene of raging fire around them, Andrei's face was extremely grim.

"Damn it! These Black Hawk devils really show no mercy!"

Although the important factory areas were not destroyed, the flames still caused them considerable trouble, and players had to go out of their way to put them out.

Fortunately, such a large factory naturally has a lot of fire-fighting equipment, and these fire-fighting equipment seem to have gained an unlimited water supply buff after falling into the hands of the player.

So immediately a group of players automatically ran off to act as a fire brigade and began to put out the raging flames around them.

As for the positions that were completely destroyed due to airship crashes and enemy bombing?

Andrei felt a little heartache because all the influence points he invested here were wasted.

But apart from that, the players didn't feel much heartache. If the position was destroyed, they could just rebuild it.

At most, they felt a moment of annoyance, thinking that the opposing air force didn't respect their hard work at all.

As the players gradually extinguished the fire and began to dig up the wrecked trenches, Andrei's expression relaxed.

Although he wanted to say that the Cambrian Empire's air force was really unreliable, it didn't matter, his players were still very reliable.

With these players around, it doesn't matter if his teammates are unreliable. Once he gets his air force up and running, he'll definitely show the Black Hawk Empire a little bit of player awe.

He'll pull off a series of moves, having the player build a platform beforehand, drive the tank onto it, and then he'll have a plane fly up onto the tank!

Riding a tank on an airplane—that's practically invincible!

Thinking of this, Andrei quickly checked his air force and found that the conditions for unlocking the air force were similar to those for unlocking the tanks.

All of these require an influence value to unlock the project first. After the research is completed, unlike tanks, he needs to find an air force base to produce air force units.

But then again, where is the nearest air force base?

Even if there is an air force base, it seems that it is not his troops' turn to deploy there.

"Forget it, there's always a way out. At worst, we can see if we can pull some strings and get an air force base assigned to us?"

Andrei shrugged, then suddenly thought of his cheap old man whom he had never met, and couldn't help but drool.

That old man seems to be a high-ranking military official in the Cambrian Empire. If he were to take the lead, I wonder if he could equip his troops with a small air force base.
If General Vorontsov knew what his son was thinking, he would definitely spit a mouthful of soda on Andrei.

As an army officer, you can forget about having the opportunity to command the air force unless you become a field commander!
What is the concept of a field army commander?
He was only the commander of the Petrograd Front, so how could he possibly give Andrei the opportunity to command the air force?
Even if he were the Tsar, he couldn't just promote Andrei to the rank of general on a whim!
(End of this chapter)