Cave Refuge

After confirming the enemy's status, the Scout Soldier sent the intelligence back immediately, but in his judgement, although there were many Bat Monsters guarding nearby, their team's current strength should make it easy to drive them off.

But if they wanted to eliminate all the Bat Monsters surrounding the Magic Array, unless these Bat Monsters fought fearlessly to the death every time, fighting them with a plan would inevitably lead to casualties in their team.

The casualties would occur under the premise that his squad engaged in battle with the enemies first.

However, in reality, after he reported his findings, the Staff Department took less than five minutes to discuss and then directly arranged for bombers to provide support.

Perhaps noticing the anomaly at Magic Capital Base, the Imperial Court had long prepared various types and quantities of aircraft for the air force.

There were actually not many bombers under the control of the Imperial Court, but it was more than enough to allocate one or two to support the actions at Magic Capital Base. To arrive at the scene promptly, those different models of aircraft temporarily landed at several nearby temporary airfields near Magic Capital Base.

Since all aircraft models were ready for battle, upon receiving the Plane Coordinates sent by the Exploration Team members, those pilots volunteered eagerly for combat.

Although flying aircraft in combat is highly dangerous at this time, living in this era, even walking on the street could encounter danger.

Moreover, crucially, although pilots are still a rare type of soldier, due to the reasons of Martial Arts, don't look at the army's base lower limit; the upper limit of those powerful individuals is inevitably not low.

With the emergence of Martial Path, any person who has succeeded in Cultivation is keen and observant. Thus, the previous barriers that made it difficult to become a pilot have now become significantly simpler, much easier than before the Natural Disaster.

Moreover, compared to the army which has a lot of Cultivation time, air force pilots also cultivate, but ultimately they don't have as much Cultivation time as infantry.

And now, the existing aircraft not only have limited numbers, but based on different types of aircraft, their actual combat capabilities also have different limits, especially since Martial Artists who entered the Path Entry Realm now possess the ability to fly freely. Therefore, although the Imperial Court still values the air force, the degree of importance is much lower than before.

This is why the Imperial Court, when problems arose here, arranged planes to rush to the nearest airport to Magic Capital Base to wait.

After receiving the request for support, the bombers, already in full load, took off immediately upon receiving the message and proceeded to accurately bomb the coordinates provided by the intelligence.

Fortunately, the Exploration Team did not act on their own to attack proactively. As expected by the Staff Department, the situation at the Bat Monster Camp was not as simple as the Scout Soldier saw.

When the first Aerial Bomb was detonated at low altitude by the bomber, an Invisible Protective Shield suddenly appeared over the Bat Monster Camp, completely blocking the impact of the low-altitude explosion.

Fortunately, the Staff Department had organized a multi-step bombing plan. If it had been a single bombing like before the Natural Disaster, perhaps when the bomber returned, the Bat Monster Camp would still be intact.

Although the first bomb's low-altitude detonation caused no damage, the shockwave it produced directly revealed the Invisible Protective Shield covering the camp.

After confirming that the first round of bombing yielded no results, the second round of bombers delivered five Aerial Bombs, and this time they were no longer detonated at low altitude but were set to directly strike the Invisible Shield in a face-to-face explosion.

Compared to the first low-altitude detonation which caused no damage, the second aerial bomb's close detonation indeed inflicted substantial damage on the invisible protective shield above the Bat Monster Camp.

At this point, the once seemingly indestructible invisible protective shield, under the near detonation of five aerial bombs, surprisingly showed visible cracks.

Moreover, most critically, snipers using the scopes of their sniper rifles noticed that several Bat Monsters in the camp inexplicably coughed up blood following the explosions.

It seems that the second round of aerial bomb bombings, although it seemingly did not shatter the invisible barrier protecting the camp, apparently caused significant damage to it.

After confirming the explosion of the second round of aerial bombs and not achieving the desired results, the pilots directly dropped all the aerial bombs they carried during the third round of bombing planned by the Staff Department.

After dropping all the aerial bombs in the bomb bay at once, the bomber no longer continued to hover in the area, nor stayed at a nearby airport, and directly returned to its original station.

The reason why the Staff Department formulated a three-stage bombing plan initially was not because they were aware of the situation at the Bat Monster Camp, but rather, they aimed to minimize the consumption of bomber ammunition.

Although now, the Imperial Court has regained the capability to produce aerial bombs, compared to the industrial assembly lines before the Natural Disaster, they currently have to rely on Artifact Masters who possess special abilities to manufacture them.

If the quantity is small, compared to an assembly line, perhaps Artifact Masters can produce faster, but for consumables like bullets, which are needed in large quantities, Artifact Masters, although fast, can only produce a limited amount, whereas assembly lines can have infinite production capability.

When resources are scarce, tactics are diversified; when abundant, firepower prevails.

Compared to the initial period in China, now, with the reliance on Artifact Masters, the Imperial Court is indeed gradually beginning industrial recovery; however, it is ultimately impossible to return to the pre-Natural Disaster prosperous period known as the industrial Cthulhu in a short time.

For this reason, at this time, when the Staff Department formulates tactics, unless it is a battle that requires a decisive action, they usually devise three different consumption-based tactics.

Although most battles ultimately rely on the third and most resource-intensive plan to achieve victory, in some battles, it's inevitable to achieve final victory only using the plan with the least consumption.

Now, although the population is relatively important, the degree of material collection has not yet fully recovered, and while everyone knows that Blue Star has expanded several times with internal resources also presumably inflated several times as before.

But even if the reserve amount is abundant now, with limited mining capabilities, it is not the time to waste resources, so it is better to conserve resources unless there is widespread casualty.

Sometimes, like now, without sufficient resource investment, it is fundamentally impossible to inflict the desired damage on the target.

As all the aerial bombs delivered by the bomber detonated simultaneously, the barrier, which had already cracked during the previous explosion, directly collapsed in this round of explosions.

Accompanied by the shattering of the original invisible barrier protecting the camp, many Bat Monsters suddenly vomited blood en masse, but before those bleeding Bat Monsters could react, the shockwave from the explosion of the bombs instantly engulfed all the Bat Monsters in the camp.

Even the Bat Monster, who was originally at the center of the Magic Array in the camp, was engulfed by flames the moment the protective barrier shattered.