Xiao Xun swept his gaze over everyone, calmed his emotions, and slowly said, "The war has reached a stalemate in a heated phase. Our only advantage now is air superiority. They have no anti-air combat units, nor any aerial combat units. This means you can drop whatever you want from your aircraft, and our magic stone power is strong, so we don't need to worry about endurance."
He glanced at Vincent and Delvana, both with expressionless faces. "Therefore, I'm asking you to fly deep behind enemy lines, find the commander's headquarters of the Scourge Legion, and bomb it with all your might. This will also serve as revenge for what happened in Midoya. Let them taste the flavor of a decapitation strike."
The pilots responded in unison, "Yes!"
After arranging matters for the pilots, Xiao Xun wrote a letter to Empress Celerpes, the main content of which was the importance of air superiority. Now, not only did they need fighter jets from the arsenal, but reconnaissance planes, transport planes, and helicopters also needed to be put on the agenda.
After finishing the letter, Xiao Xun said to Delvana, "You stay on watch tonight. I'll get some sleep, and you can rest tomorrow."
Delvana agreed and went out. Xiao Xun handed the letter to Aries. As he was about to leave, Vincent stopped him.
"Your Highness Swain, do I have any combat missions?"
Xiao Xun remembered that Celerpes had given him command of the Dauntless Vanguard.
He turned to Vincent and said, "Your Dauntless Vanguard has no combat missions for now. What you need to do is conserve your strength; I will have great use for you later."
Vincent didn't know if what the other party said was true, but this battle, which concerned the destiny of the human race, was not something anyone could be vague about. He also had no reason to lie to himself.
When Xiao Xun returned to the underground fortress of the military stronghold to sleep in a room specially prepared for him, a messenger was brought in by the giant crab.
Seeing the messenger's expression, Xiao Xun knew it was not good news. "What happened?"
"Reporting to Your Highness, our aircraft have all been shot down by the enemy's combat units. Furthermore, the enemy's attack momentum is fiercer than before. The Deputy Commander is leading the supervisory team to resist."
Xiao Xun suddenly stood up, his vision darkened, and he almost fell again. "What combat units could shoot down my planes?"
The messenger shook his head. "Apologies, Your Highness, I didn't see them either."
Xiao Xun said to Aries, who was by his side, "Quickly take me to the main front-line defense tower."
Aries used an orange hexagram formation to bring all thirteen of them, including himself and Xiao Xun, to the tower.
The night wind was biting. Before the meeting, there were towering artillery fire in front of them; now, there was only rolling smoke.
"What's going on? Why have our tanks stopped firing? Don't we still have plenty of ammunition?"
No one answered him, and no one knew how to answer him.
Xiao Xun faintly heard the roar of a dragon, a very loud sound, not coming from behind.
"Could it be that the Scourge Legion also has dragons?"
Bo Tu, who was observing from the main defense tower, shook his head. "I've never heard of it before. I just don't know if the dragon races will sign any pacts with the Scourge Legion for self-preservation."
As Xiao Xun and Bo Tu were discussing this dragon roar, from the black fog formed by the smoke, a bone dragon with little flesh on its body flew over, flapping its wings.
This dragon was two to three times larger than Grand Magus Trof's red dragon. With a single breath, it unleashed a dazzling beam of frost. It could freeze everything within its sight.
And six such dragons flew over at once.
Xiao Xun was dumbfounded. "I use magic, they use technology; I use technology, they use magic. This is too..."
Bo Tu asked Xiao Xun, "What do we do now?"
Xiao Xun had no idea what to do. They had no advantage at all. Apart from the Red Dragon Knights, he didn't even have any anti-air combat units.
The archers and magic cannons couldn't reach that altitude. Moreover, it was already cold, and with the frost dragons' chill invading, the soldiers in the tanks were instantly frozen into ice sculptures.
At this moment, the enemy's war machines also made their appearance. They were twice as tall as tanks, covered in iron spikes. Under the two giant searchlights on the front, there was a rotating saw blade resembling a shredder. The tanks, without any chance to retaliate, were 'swallowed' by more than twenty war machines that advanced side by side. And they were soon to reach the city walls.
Not only Xiao Xun, but everyone was stunned by the Scourge Legion's actions.
Xiao Xun was the first to react. "What are you still waiting for? Fight back!"
With Xiao Xun's roar, the great legion commanders passed Xiao Xun's orders down.
His biggest regret now was letting all his planes fly out to execute his so-called breaking mission during the meeting earlier.
He didn't care about the planes; he cared about the pilots, who were too difficult to train. Moreover, the Scourge Legion had no convention clauses or similar restraints on them. In their eyes, life was worthless, so there was no reason not to harm enemy pilots.
Under such an attack, no miracles would occur. The pilots had all perished.
Now it was the Phoenix Army's turn to be dumbfounded. They had no effective defenses against the frost dragons' attacks, nor any ground-to-air or air-to-air combat capabilities.
While the Phoenix Army's flames could inflict effective damage on the frost dragons, the dragons were too large and fast, and their casting range could not reach them.
At this moment, Trof, holding his staff and riding a red dragon, flew up to confront the frost dragons.
Facing the instant freezing cold air spewed from the frost dragon's mouth, Trof unleashed his strongest fire magic.
"Crimson Star Radiance."
Coupled with the red dragon's death ray, Trof's attack instantly turned the frost dragon in front of them into dust. This was the power of a Grand Magus.
at dawn, when the first legion commander of the Phoenix Army led the surviving soldiers to withdraw from the front-line position, they all wept.
His heart was filled with soul-wrenching pain. This great legion was the foundation of the Phoenix Army he had brought from Santiloman, and it was now almost wiped out.
After this battle, a large number of reinforcement soldiers arrived, most of whom were newly enlisted soldiers brought by Xiao Xun. With the personnel replenished, the legions became full, with each legion having a strength of fifty thousand men.
Before the troops could rest, new combat missions arrived.
The situation on the battlefield changed rapidly. At this time, both sides' intelligence departments were struggling to keep up. Both commanders were staring at the map, making quick decisions. In Santiloman, Xiao Xun and the Scourge Legion's Soul-Suppressor were simultaneously focusing on the same location on the map: Majaide.
This was a tiny town, no more than a few kilometers southeast of the border. At this moment, bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun, the town was filled with the sounds of chickens and dogs, with curling smoke from chimneys, presenting a scene of tranquility and peace. No one would have imagined that a great disaster was about to descend, and the town would soon be reduced to rubble.
The main garrison there was Duke Sancho's Spear of Vengeance army.
On a cold winter night, on the road passing through the town, a vast and mighty army approached from both the east and west ends.
Both sides were lightly equipped and marching in silence. From the legion commanders to the soldiers, everyone was in the dark. Who would have thought that the Phoenix Army and the Scourge Legion would meet again here?
At three in the morning, the two armies collided unexpectedly. The vanguard scouts fired almost simultaneously, and the leading units of both armies quickly became entangled. The shouts of the vanguard personnel and the screams of the dying echoed everywhere.
The legion commanders of both sides simultaneously issued orders: do not get entangled, pass through quickly.
Neither side took the other seriously, both assuming they were facing a small unit. However, as they fought, they realized something was wrong.
As the main forces of both sides passed each other, they discovered that the enemy's formations had no beginning or end; they were two vast armies. Instantly, the formations of both sides were in complete chaos. The two armies quickly became entangled, and the tighter they became, the fiercer the firepower...
As dawn broke, Orc scouts flew in and, to their great alarm, discovered that the two armies on the ground, centered around the town, had twisted into a massive vortex spanning tens of kilometers.