The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 181 Why not just try building an airport ourselves!
Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!
The fixed anti-aircraft guns built on the ground by engineers fired continuously, and the banging sounds were particularly distinctive.

Despite the deafening roar of the cannons, Andrei felt exhilarated by the continuous sound of anti-aircraft gunfire.

That's right, this is the kind of air defense firepower a normal air defense force should have!

What kind of junk was that hand-cranked anti-aircraft gun he encountered on the military train when he arrived here before?
It could only fire three rounds at a time. After firing three rounds in a row, you had to pull the bolt and reload the shells. It was practically no different from an oversized rifle.

Honestly, Andrei seriously doubted whether the designer of this anti-aircraft gun had ever researched how to defend against air attacks.

If he had studied it carefully, he should have realized that this thing is unreliable for air defense, right?

In comparison, these fixed-position blast cannons are much more powerful.

In the hands of the player, each bang-bang cannon needs to fire 25 shells in succession before it overheats.

For experienced players, as long as they use burst fire instead of holding the controller down continuously, the anti-aircraft gun can fire almost continuously.

So at that moment, the entire position was filled with a large number of anti-aircraft guns built by engineers, which instantly unleashed an extremely powerful firepower, with shells constantly exploding in the sky, forming plumes of black smoke.

"Damn it! What on earth is on this position? Why are there so many anti-aircraft guns?"

The Black Hawk pilot, who had come specifically to carry out the mission, quickly increased the altitude of the airship while cursing incessantly over the communication channel.

He felt like he'd been tricked. Was he sure he was only there to bomb an artillery battalion?
He couldn't understand or imagine why these people would be so bored as to equip an artillery battalion with such abnormal anti-aircraft firepower.

Even an infantry division of the Cambrian Empire shouldn't be worthy of such exaggerated anti-aircraft firepower, right?
Under such anti-aircraft fire, the two airships that were preparing to dive were immediately blown up into two large fireballs in mid-air. The remaining small airships quickly climbed up in an attempt to avoid the attack of these anti-aircraft guns.

Unfortunately, as it turned out, even with increased altitude, they still found it difficult to escape the players' precise artillery fire.

When these anti-aircraft guns are in the hands of players, they can not only zoom in and aim like using a scope, but also the trajectory of each bullet fired is exceptionally straight, without any deviation.

In addition, these anti-aircraft guns provide continuous fire, so players can calculate the lead based on the weak point deviation of the shells and adjust the firing angle accordingly.

Therefore, unless these small airships can quickly climb to extremely high altitudes, their height of only a few hundred meters will not significantly improve their survival rate.

"Wow, no wonder it's Lieutenant Colonel Vorontsov's unit. Their anti-aircraft guns are incredibly powerful! Just how big is the magazine?"

The artillery officer, who had been prepared to sacrifice himself and was positioned on the artillery position, suddenly realized that he had been saddened for nothing when he saw the continuous anti-aircraft fire around him.

Damn it, the tragic atmosphere he had just created now looks utterly ridiculous under such anti-aircraft fire.

With such anti-aircraft firepower, how could they possibly hit them unless the enemy used large airships?
After losing several small airships in succession, the remaining enemy airships that came to bomb them dropped their bombs haphazardly and then retreated.

We have no choice but to evacuate!
Even if they didn't retreat, they wouldn't be able to carry out a dive bombing raid, which would only waste the precious lives of the pilots. However, during the retreat, one pilot carrying a camera recorded the terrifying barrage of fire before him.

He felt it was necessary to bring this important intelligence back so that the officers behind him could take a good look at it and analyze what was going on.

The enemy wouldn't have deployed so much anti-aircraft firepower on one position for no reason. What exactly are they trying to protect on this position?
Andrei was unaware that the engineers' hasty deployment of an excessive number of anti-aircraft guns had led to a delightful misunderstanding among the enemy pilots.

Andrei is currently busy comparing locations on a map, looking for a suitable vacant lot near his factory, preferably with existing factory buildings or similar large structures.

Because he's planning to try it out, letting players go there and build an air force base, and then unlock the air force!
Unlocking the air force is essential; the Cambrian Empire's air force is currently performing terribly, offering virtually no resistance against enemy air forces and failing to mount any effective counterattacks.

Prior to this, the Cambrian Empire's air fleet had clashed with the enemy, resulting in the large airship crashing into its own factory and killing many unfortunate players.

The damage caused by that one airship falling was already greater than the total damage from the enemy bombing!

If the enemy continues to bombard him like this, it will be very difficult for him to hold this position.

Even if he manages to hold out, he will likely suffer many unnecessary casualties.

So he decided to give it a try and find a few players to build an air force base.

The defensive positions here are almost finished, and the large number of construction workers are worried about not having any work.

Spending a sum of merit points to have them find a place to build a simple air force base is a win if the system recognizes it; otherwise, it's just a loss of some influence points.

For Andrei now, the loss of these few impact points is nothing to him. He can easily recover all the impact points lost by taking out a few enemy armored units.

Upon receiving the suddenly issued mission, several players quickly ran over, took an order from Andrei, and prepared to travel by car to an abandoned warehouse a few kilometers away.

That place was originally used to store raw materials for the factory, but after the railway reached the factory directly, the warehouse where raw materials were stored became useless.

Although it is abandoned, the huge warehouses there are real; with a little modification, they could be used as hangars.

Andrei didn't know if an air force base like his, which simply leveled the land and built a few large buildings to serve as hangars, would be recognized. But considering the conditions during World War I and World War II, most field airfields were only at this level.

Airplanes these days aren't very fast, but they are also very durable, so they don't have high terrain requirements for takeoff and landing.

As long as the land is flat enough, not only an empty plot of land, but even a dried-up riverbed can be used as an airport runway.

(End of this chapter)