Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 1099: Is it a full-scale attack?

When the Cloud Whale Sky Island sailed out of the initial star field, the first thing that arrived to greet them was the huge fleet of the Witch Society. The steel warships named Star Knights were in arrow formation, approaching aggressively. The enemy's line was very long, and each warship was at least a thousand kilometers away. More than a hundred warships were spread out along the horizontal plane visible to the naked eye, blocking almost all passable routes, making it clear that they would not leave the enemy any chance to escape.

Linger couldn't help but tighten the telescope in his hand, then slowly loosened it. He didn't say anything, but the girl behind him seemed to notice the subtle change in the young man's mood and asked timidly, "Are they... coming?"

"kindness."

The young man nodded with a heavy heart.

This was a signal, announcing the start of the war. From this moment on, everyone on Yunjingkong Island had to be ready for battle. For those who had already made up their minds, it was like a big rock that had been hanging in the air finally landed smoothly, and they felt relieved. However, it was not the case for Yieta at all. Her heart trembled suddenly, and then she felt a deep panic and helplessness.

Just as she could keenly perceive the young man's emotional changes, the young man could also perceive her emotional changes at this moment, and sighed silently in his heart: This is why he said that Yieta still needs to grow up slowly. Maybe she has changed her mind, but not her mentality, and the latter will be directly reflected in a person's actions. She must learn to adapt, which is a long process. Fortunately, the girl still has a lot of time to learn.

They will win this battle, the young people are so sure of it.

He whispered, "Don't be afraid, Yieta."

“Like I said before, you just need to follow my instructions.” He used an apt description: “Like a helmsman following the captain’s instructions.”

When Yieta heard this, her nervous mood miraculously calmed down a lot. She even couldn't help laughing: "Gloria is obviously the captain. If you try to usurp her position, be careful that the captain will point a musket at your head!"

"No choice." Ling Ge also smiled: "Captain has other tasks now, so I can only take over temporarily."

"Well, acting captain, sir."

Yieta gently rested her head on the young man's back, and there was no trace of confusion in her voice: "Please give me instructions."

"Keep going, and speed up when I tell you to."

"Roger that!"

After a brief delay, Yunjingkong Island once again moved forward towards the enemy's formation unwaveringly. Linger raised the telescope in his hand again and carefully observed the movements of the powerful fleet. He knew that if he plunged into the enemy's encirclement like this, he would undoubtedly walk into a trap. However, there was a fatal flaw in the enemy's formation, and there happened to be a person on Yunjingkong Island who could take advantage of this flaw and disrupt their deployment.

The young man entrusted the fighter plane to the injured person, and he believed that she would not let him down.

……

"Xiao Xia!"

The enemy fleet was getting closer and closer. At this distance, one could even see the bow guns of the first few Star Knights emitting flashes of magical energy. Countess Nevill shouted decisively and without question: "Now!"

In the vast universe, only space is meaningful, while time has lost its flow. Under the dark and silent curtain, there is no other reference except the sound of her own heartbeat. At this moment, Saint Xia Liya could clearly feel that her heartbeat slowed down by half a beat, and her mind was blank for a moment, but her actions were much faster than the two, as if she had practiced that action in her mind countless times, so that it formed a kind of instinctive reaction - she stretched out her hand to the battleship at the front of the arrow formation, and her slender and graceful fingers danced in the void like playing the piano, and a golden thread invisible to the naked eye quietly flowed through and disappeared silently.

The majestic flagship was suddenly swept by an invisible hand and was forcibly led to another direction. The route of the fleet group behind, which had been following the flagship's instructions, was disturbed. The control personnel in the command room did not even notice that it was the flagship's mistake, but rigidly changed the course and still strictly maintained the original formation. If you look down from a higher perspective at this time, you will find that this arrow, which was originally unstoppable and aggressive, turned strangely just before it was about to hit the enemy, exposing its thin and vulnerable flank to the enemy.

The consequences were chain reactions. The bow guns of the warships at the front had already been fully charged, but the roaring gunfire did not hit the enemy as planned, but missed by a hair's breadth. Several rounds of gunfire even hit friendly forces. The flagship, as the lead ship, was hit from the side and rear in an unexpected way. After struggling to move forward for a distance, it finally ran aground under the heavy load. After losing the command from the flagship, the entire fleet formation fell into a long state of paralysis, like a locomotive losing its carriages.

"Success!"

Lingge, who witnessed this scene, was excited, even though this was something he expected, because maybe Saint Xia Liya could not see the weakness of the enemy's formation, but she had the silver-eyed Countess Nevill by her side.

In naval warfare, the arrow formation is a common tactical formation, but maintaining this formation will not make your offensive more penetrating, nor will it have any effect on speed. After all, this is not Alice's game. The greatest significance of this formation is that the flagship at the front of the formation can guide the direction and speed of the entire fleet, and the warships at the rear only need to follow the flagship's guidance. For the association fleet that wants to stretch the front line and surround the enemy like a net, but cannot expose loopholes due to the long distance and loose formation, which will allow the enemy to escape, this concise, precise and efficient command method is the most suitable.

However, its weakness lies precisely here, because all warships must follow the flagship's instructions and keep the same rhythm with it, in order to maintain the front and stabilize the formation, so once the flagship has an accident, even if the direction of advance is only slightly deviated, the entire formation will inevitably go the wrong way. And because the flagship is so important, only the core figure of the entire fleet can bear such a heavy responsibility, and it is undoubtedly the commander who has never met.

Perhaps he thought he was calm enough to deal with any emergency calmly, and in fact he was such a person, but the power of the girl's royal power was unreasonable. If fate destined you to make mistakes, even if you were highly vigilant and on guard at all times, it would be useless. Although the countess had no experience in naval warfare, she had experienced the founding battle of Metsosh. Whether it was the cavalry charge formation or the battleship advance formation, they were generally similar. As for cavalry, which other legion in the world could compare with the wolf cavalry that the Metsosh people were proud of?

"Yieta." The young man calmly gave the order: "Speed ​​up and rush forward!"

"it is good!"

Yieta nodded her head heavily, and controlled the Cloud Whale Sky Island to accelerate, passing the weak flank exposed by the enemy formation at an astonishing speed. The giant wings made of rock even set off a spectacular tide under the dark sky of the universe. The warships of the Witch Society tried to stop the breakout. Their gunfire cooled down due to the first wave of wrong attacks, but the steel hull was the strongest wall. Several warships ejected thousands of yards of magic jets from the rear engines in an attempt to block the breakout route of the Cloud Whale Sky Island. However, Lingge said firmly: "Keep accelerating and move forward, Yieta!"

They had no other way to go but to move forward.

The already astonishing speed of Yunjing Sky Island rose even higher, and it violently crashed into the unfinished steel wall. The mighty force that was enough to blow away the mountains was fully demonstrated at this time. A violent collision shook the outer armor layer of the warship. The terrifying shaking was like the weight of a thousand mountains pressing down at the same time, followed by an irresistible force. The control personnel in the command room, who were tottering from side to side due to the shaking of the warship, had no time to open the battleship's protective stance. This force was like a giant sword cut from the sky, directly cutting the warship in half from the middle area. Accompanied by a flash brighter than the sun's eruption, the terrifying flames engulfed the wreckage of the warship. The knights who roamed under the starry universe ushered in the most tragic defeat and sank silently into the dark seabed.

Only Yunjingkongdao continued to charge forward. After sinking the first warship, it sank two more warships that tried to stop it. Although it was only a tiny part of the enemy's huge fleet, the terrifying momentum seemed to silence the entire battlefield. Even in modern times, when humans have gunpowder, artillery, and more weapons for attacking and killing, this most direct, violent, and unstoppable way of destruction still inspires fear and shock in their hearts. It started in the primitive era, when the tiny ancestors of humans faced the prehistoric monsters.

Yieta was trembling, and Lingge could tell from the fact that she had her hands around her waist.

Although she had never witnessed the sinking of those warships, Yunjingkong Island was condensed by her power, which was like an extension of her hands, so she could feel what the big whale could feel. For Yieta, this was no less than killing one, ten, or even hundreds of people with her own hands, and before this, she had never thought that her power would be used to hurt others.

"There's nothing to be afraid of, Yieta."

Lingge said without turning his head: "This is my order."

"No." The girl answered him with a trembling voice: "This is my power."

……

In the whale's head area, closer to the battlefield, someone looked at his hands and sighed the same way as Iyetta. Just like her sister, Saint Shalia never thought that her power could be used to kill people. But unlike Iyetta, before she did this, she was actually vaguely aware that she was holding the most cruel power in the world. Because weapons can only kill tens of thousands of people, but if fate is determined to kill people, it may destroy a country, a civilization, or even a world.

"I can barely understand your thoughts, because I was just as helpless as you when I first stepped onto the battlefield."

Nevile came over, patted the girl's shoulder gently, and looked up at the sky: "However, self-doubt can be left for later. We are not out of danger yet, Xiaoxia."

Saint Shallia looked up in surprise and found that the sky was filled with cross-shaped stars - but they were actually the enemy's fleet.

It was not the Star Knight, but another new type of warship. They looked like a cross made of four huge steel-gray spears. The connecting part in the middle was a round sphere, surrounded by a gear-like ring structure, which might also be the control center. Through the magic conduits and cables throughout the body, it continuously injected magic power into the four huge spears, which gathered into terrifying energy at the tip of the spear. It looked like a series of dark blue thorn patterns surrounding the cold steel spear blade, and embellished it with a destructive death light - enough to penetrate the interstellar storm and effectively strike the extraterrestrial disaster beast.

The Witch Society's interstellar cruise force, a long-range heavy firepower support ship - the Holy Cross.

Around these huge cross turrets, there are many steel fortresses densely distributed. They do not look like warships. It is just like the fortresses in land wars were moved directly into the universe. Only the magic power gushing out from the engines in various parts of the fortress can prove their true purpose: the engine flames gradually weakened and entered a stable operating state. With the discharge of huge amounts of magic power, the launch valves on the middle and upper decks of the fortress slowly opened, revealing the deep passages behind them. One after another, silver-white warships with graceful arcs and wings accelerated out of the passages and attacked the battlefield mightily.

The interstellar cruise force under the Witch Society, the fortress-type battleship - Iron Guardian.

And the mobile combat force, the light destroyer - Falcon.

In the rear, after the initial chaos, the commander in the flagship finally took back control of it, and used the communication equipment to quickly reorganize the fleet's formation, outflanking Yunjing Sky Island from the rear in a crescent shape. After closing the distance, he decisively gave the order to launch. One after another, dark green machines holding huge tower shields and steel lances were pushed towards the sea of ​​stars by the acceleration force, like dropping silent pieces of steel into the darkness - followed by a huge jet gushing out of the magic furnace, mixed with gray-white steam and scarlet magic flow, pushing the heavy steel upwards. In an instant, it was like hundreds of comets were ignited at the same time, and the endless tail flames gathered together cut through the long night, wrapped in a sea of ​​​​flashing fire, approaching their enemies.

The Star Cruise Force under the Witch Society, the cruise battleship - Star Knight.

As well as the mobile combat force, the special combat type constructed robot - the Lancer.

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