Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 634 - 627: Aerial Support

Chapter 634: Chapter 627: Aerial Support

Looking in the direction he pointed, Luo’er saw a rare aircraft appearing on the horizon. It wasn’t a transport plane; it had a streamlined air superiority fuselage. It was flying straight towards the tower, with the machine gun beneath its nose continuously firing away.

If Luo’er remembered correctly, this should be a dual-seat high-speed reconnaissance aircraft from the Ronisca Air Force. A year ago, when they were carrying out the Ronisca infiltration mission, they were pursued and attacked by this kind of aircraft.

For this mission, the headquarters had borrowed a high-speed reconnaissance aircraft from the Ronisca Air Force. The primary initial use was as a transport plane, ferrying Earth scientists who were not acclimated to the conditions of the Otherworld back to the Otherworld Gate in timely manner.

Although this type of aircraft was a reconnaissance aircraft, its ground firepower was quite impressive. In addition to the machine guns on the nose, there was a rocket nest on each side of the wings. Therefore, in addition to reconnaissance and transportation, this model was also commonly used as a ground support aircraft.

In the letter Luo’er wrote to Li Si, he particularly mentioned the importance of Feng. Fortunately, Li Si attached great importance to Luo’er’s message. In addition to arranging for a transport plane to shuttle them, he also dispatched a high-speed reconnaissance aircraft to provide aerial support for the advance team.

The nose of the reconnaissance aircraft was armed with a 12.7 calibre aircraft machine gun. Although a Gatling gun could not be installed due to power issues, its firing rate was still quite impressive. Although the bullets of the machine gun were much more powerful than those of a rifle, they were unable to shake the tower built from blue stones. Therefore, the pilots were confidently spraying bullets at the exotic insects at the bottom of the tower. The rocket nests under the wings were aiming to hit distant targets as much as possible, avoiding the tower.

The most distinctive feature of the Ronisca Air Force’s aircraft is that they completely rely on anti-gravity engines for lift and do not need wing designs to provide buoyancy. The greatest advantage of this is that it can hover and take off in position at any time.

At the start of the attack, the pilot opened up the reverse thrust panels on the aircraft, progressively reducing the speed of the reconnaissance aircraft in preparation to hover and provide firepower for the advance team.

Although the aircraft’s nose gun could move with mechanical lever principles, its range of movement was not large, barely over a hundred degrees, which required the pilot to continually adjust the direction of the aircraft’s nose.

Almost all of the Ronisca Air Force’s light aircraft are dual-seat models. The transport planes have a side-by-side dual-seat design, while the reconnaissance aircraft have a front-and-back dual-seat design, the main reason for this is to ensure communication between the aircraft.

The Ronisca Air Force follows the mid-Russian doctrine and places great emphasis on the communication issues. They utilise their mechanical manufacturing capabilities to turn messenger magic into magic-mechanical communication devices. This device is somewhat similar to a radio. The principle is through complex rune engravings, simulating messenger magic, transmitting textual messages to another paired communicator.

The greatest benefit of this is that the communication officers do not necessarily have to learn magic, they just need to master the operations of the communicator. After all, even in the Otherworld, not everyone has the qualifications to learn magic.

A light aircraft usually has two pilots assigned to it. The main pilot is responsible for flying, while the co-pilot mainly operates the communicator, maintaining communication between the flying machine and the rear while also controlling the on-board weapons, and providing firepower support to the ground forces when necessary.

As the reverse thrust panel opened, the high-speed reconnaissance aircraft gradually slowed down. Meanwhile, the pilots adjusted the direction of the aircraft’s nose, and the co-pilot took the chance to fire all the remaining rockets.

Boom, boom, boom!

A series of explosions erupted on a ridge less than ten meters from the tower, instantly clearing a vacuum zone and tearing the exotic insects in this area into pieces, scattering them into the sky and splattering their broken limbs and bodies onto the top of the tower.

"Wow, this feels good!" Hu Daoke exclaimed in excitement.

The exotic insects are fierce and numerous, but they are, in no way, a match for high-tech weaponry. Or it could be said that ever since humans on Earth mastered firearms, there have been few opponents on Earth other than themselves.

But the current situation is far from optimistic. Despite the aid of the reconnaissance aircraft, the exotic insects are still stubbornly charging towards the tower. These creatures have worked totally on instinct without any fear, not paying attention to the violent deaths of their companions.

This was what bothered the advance team the most. While they were receiving support from the reconnaissance aircraft, the ammunition stored on the aircraft was not enough to exterminate all the exotic insects.

In the ten or so seconds that the reconnaissance aircraft attacked, all its rockets had been fired off. Now they could only fend off the enemies with large calibre aircraft machine guns. Once their machine gun bullets ran out, they would be powerless towards what was happening below.

If they were under siege by intelligent lifeforms, the bombardment from the reconnaissance aircraft would have been enough to scare them off. But clearly, the exotic insects did not have such intelligence. They continued to attack recklessly, and it was clear that as long as the advance team stayed in the tower for one day, they would definitely not retreat.

"No more ammo!" After emptying all bullets, Hu Daoke announced loudly as he pulled out the magazine.

Thanks to his efforts, the bodies of the exotic insects filled the entrance of the tower, completely blocking the wooden door. Subsequent exotic insects that wanted to attack the door had to first dig through the broken limbs of their companions.

"Take this, it’s my last one!" Luo’er handed him his last magazine and said.

"Luo’er, this isn’t going to work!" Cheng Ziang was so anxious that smoke seemed to be coming out of his throat.

"I know, since the reconnaissance aircraft has arrived, the transport plane should be almost here!" Luo’er gritted his teeth and said.

With the aid of the anti-gravity engine, the reconnaissance aircraft in the sky could perform many high-difficulty maneuvers, even horizontal moving in the air. Under the pilot’s control, the reconnaissance aircraft hovered around the tower, and the machine gun on the aircraft’s nose kept spraying bullets at the insect wall accumulating at the base of the tower.

Large calibre bullets pierced the insect swarm, instantaneously tearing apart their seemingly strong chitin exoskeleton, emitting a crackling ripping sound, and scattering their limbs about. The original almost piled up insect wall collapsed once again under the attack.

Soon, all the ammunition stored on the reconnaissance aircraft was emptied, they then adjusted the aircraft’s posture and kept hovering around the tower, but they were no longer able to provide support.

Not only the reconnaissance aircraft, but the advance team also ran out of ammunition. They had to put down their rifles and choose other ways to attack the exotic insects below.

Tangmo and Baiyue as mages, could still retaliate with magic. The other three men, due to various reasons, had minimal effects with magic attacks and had to choose other means of attack.

Fortunately, before the mission began, Luo’er equipped each of the three men with a shotgun. After running out of rifle bullets, they each pulled out their shotguns, preparing to use it as a last resort counterattack.

"Everyone pull back to the center of the tower, consolidate the defense line!" With a shortage of ammunition, Luo’er could no longer scatter the insect wall below. Now all they could do was leave the walls, gather at the center, and strike at any insect that jumped onto the tower immediately.

Exotic insects beneath the tower emitted restless noises, without the attack from the reconnaissance aircraft and the advance team, their accumulation speed accelerated. A few insects could already jump to the top of the tower. However, they fell down again without being able to claw onto the wall.

"Everyone, handle your respective directions, try not to waste firepower!" Luo’er quickly checked the situation with the shotgun, and then commanded loudly.

At this moment, Feng behind them finally let out a long sigh. Turning around, Luo’er found her finally recovering, getting up from the ground.

Although her complexion was still very poor, her condition seemed much better than before. It seemed this move, while extremely destructive, had also significantly drained her energy.

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