Lux's Magic Penetration Rod

When the sun was rising high, the air battle that started at Badaopo and was later pursued to Xiongdu Front where the army temporarily met the enemy twenty miles to the north was finally officially declared over.

As the dragon bird that Gaguire was riding was locked and isolated by Shyvana, and then captured by three people from the 1st Squadron, the Winged Legion completely lost the battle.

Starting from the commander of the entire legion, Gaguire, to the captains and deputy captains of most of the squads, all the commanders were either killed or captured, and almost no one survived. In order to facilitate the command, these commanders would carry large and small weapons with them. The battle flag, so the Northern Air Force caught the Dragon Bird Knight carrying the battle flag and beat them up, and wiped out the backbone of the Winged Legion in one fell swoop.

At this point, although the Flying Wing Legion's establishment is still there, its impact on the war situation has been nothing. They can no longer organize any effective air attack, defense, interception or support, and only have the ability to complete some communication tasks. .

And this also means that the Northern Air Force will completely control the air on the battlefield, and the skies in the Northern Territory and even the entire Demacia will be free for them to fly back and forth!

When the defeated Dragon Bird Knights of the Flying Wing Legion fled back to the temporary camp in embarrassment and brought back the news that the Flying Wing Legion was almost completely wiped out, the Xiongdu soldiers in the camp were stunned.

Stop talking about them.

Even Twilight Star Jarvan IV was quite confused after receiving the news - although after providing the necessary information and permissions to the Winged Legion, he once again focused on Looking for Kalya, but in his opinion, he has given you a fluoroscopy, so you should be able to survive, right?

Why did you lose?

And the entire army was wiped out in such an embarrassing situation? !

Jarvan IV, who was confused about the reason, chose to ask the Sun warriors who he considered more reliable about the battle. After all, these people were devout Titan believers and believed in the Titan, not those who believed in the Titan because of his identity as Jarvan IV. For the Demacians who have just chosen to be loyal, in the eyes of the Twilight Stars, the Sun Warriors are undoubtedly more reliable.

And once Jarvan IV chose to trust the Sun Warriors... would they still be able to say something good about the Winged Legion?

It is no exaggeration to say that in the eyes of the Lieyang warriors, the failure of the Badaopo air battle was a pure defeat.

We clearly agreed to build an air defense position, and the Flying Wing Legion lured the enemy over. Although it was successful in luring the enemy down, he was the one who was lured out. As soon as the anti-aircraft firepower was exposed, a group of northerners flew out overhead. The air defense positions were bombarded indiscriminately. How did your flying wing army conduct battlefield reconnaissance?

We don’t have a single northerner here on the ground, so how can we hide people in the sky?

If this is because the enemy is cunning and staging an ambush, then so be it.

The key is the subsequent air battle. The performance of your flying wing army is honestly an insult to XX!

During the entire air battle, the first drop of blood for the Northern Air Force Dragon Knight was caused by the heavy crossbow on the ground.

In the ensuing air battle, the most lethal force against the Northern Air Force was the Lieyang Warriors who later took off on the Dragon Bird.

And the majestic Flying Wing Legion has such a great reputation. When it comes to air combat, it just scatters and flees. It can be said that it is invincible - fleeing at the sight of the enemy, do I still need to praise you?

That's more than one hundred and fifty dragon and bird knights!

The total damage caused to the enemy is nothing compared to six Sun warriors who tried to jump on the back of the enemy dragon. You are really shameless!

There is no need to add any fuel and jealousy. The devout Sun warriors expressed their dissatisfaction to the gods with anger towards their pig teammates.

These Lieyang warriors obviously don't understand how big a gap there is between the Northern Air Force and the Flying Wing Legion, two air forces that seem to be "dominated by dragon and bird knights"; but what they can see clearly is , the Flying Wing Legion lost very badly.

After all, although the Sun Warrior who tried to join the gang in the end did not cause any substantial harm to Shyvana, before they were finished, they also took away ten Dragon Bird Knights of the Northern Air Force, and even fought for the Flying Wing Legion. The retreat was fought for quite some time.

In this case, it can be said that it is justified to say "The Winged Legion lost, but the Sun Warriors did not lose."

So, does Jarvan IV believe the one-sided words of the Sun Warriors?

Of course I believe it.

To him, the Sun Warriors were absolutely loyal. Since those who were absolutely loyal said so, what reason did he have to not believe it?

As a result, the Dragon Bird Knights who barely escaped with their lives were quickly punished, their military ranks were lowered, and many of them were excluded from subsequent combat plans.

This decision was very uncharacteristic of Jarvan IV.

The rest of the Xiongdu Front did not know that Jarvan IV had been replaced, so after the punishment decision was announced, the soldiers who were a little confused because of this failure soon began to murmur in their hearts. They were very strange. , what mistakes did these dragon and bird knights of the Winged Legion make to be punished like this by Jarvan IV, who always regarded the army as his base.

Since most of the remaining members of the Flying Wing Legion were sent to the rear for review and recuperation, many people had no choice but to ask the Sun Warriors for information. As time went by, the idea that the Air Force was useless became rampant.

"Even though the soldiers of the Flying Wing Legion have such high salaries and all kinds of messy subsidies, when it comes to fighting, they are worse than infantry!"

This kind of rhetoric is quite outrageous. Many officers know very well that dragon and bird knights require a lot of professional training, and those Sun warriors are probably not ordinary infantry. They seem to be as absolute elite as the fearless vanguard. However, in order to Maintaining morale and keeping soldiers motivated to fight after two consecutive bad defeats seemed to be half acquiesced and finally became popular.

The result is that although the Northern Air Force has completely occupied the air superiority and the Xiongdu Front has almost lost its ability to counterattack, their main force is still fighting steadily and with high morale as they continue to move north, intending to advance all the way to Lissos.

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The Xiongdu Front obviously did not realize what losing air supremacy meant.

In other words, in Runeterra, no one has ever experienced the true sense of losing air supremacy before. In the past, only the Shurima Empire had an air force strong enough to possess air supremacy, but at that time, Shurima The empire's ground forces have an army of Ascended Ones known as the Thousand Gods Legion, which has a greater advantage, so even if they form a dragon legion, most of the time, the dragons only do soy sauce and pass on news.

But this northern war is destined to be different from all previous wars.

In the north, although the Northern Walkers were very strong, they did not have an overwhelming advantage when faced with a coalition composed of the elites of Demacia, plus Sun warriors and Bright Moon warriors.

In terms of high-end combat power, the four students of Kalya, Lux, Ino, Shyvana and Sona, faced the Twilight Stars. It was hard to say whether they would win or lose - the Twilight Stars were too special. With the blessing of space ability, he can do as many as he wants. Besieging him does not mean much to him. If he does not besiege him, he can harass him wantonly. It can be said that it is very difficult to catch his flaw. .

As for the naval force, the river fleet in the north undoubtedly has a crushing advantage, but the problem is that the Xiongdu Front Army is not a fool. After they have suffered losses on the water, they would rather increase their own transshipment costs exponentially than give you the opportunity to do so. Opportunities for water harassment - At most, we can build more pontoon bridges and divide our troops to guard the port. Is it possible that your northern river fleet can sail on dry land?

From the above aspects, it is not difficult to see that the northern army has an advantage, but if this advantage is to be transformed into victory, it needs a breakthrough that can be used.

And air force - or air supremacy - is this breakthrough.

Before the Badaopo air battle, the Northern Air Force undoubtedly had an advantage when facing the Flying Wing Legion. Although everyone was an air force, starting from the idea of ​​​​building an army, the Northern Air Force was completely ahead.

However, the interesting thing is that the Winged Legion did not realize this at all.

Even before the Battle of Badaopo, even Gaguire believed that his own air power had an "irreparable numerical advantage" - these were his exact words in the report submitted to Jarvan IV.

Such a shocking misjudgment naturally gave the Northern Territory Air Force room to tear open the wound, such as water surface power. Xiongdu knew that it was not good, so it shrunk its eggs. The Northern Territory River Fleet had no way to do it, but the Flying Wing Legion thought that I am very strong...

That would be great.

Therefore, in Badaopo, the Northern Air Force, through the cooperation of multiple arms, fought a beautiful air annihilation battle in a way that it could technically achieve some tactics that the enemy could not defeat or think of, and destroyed the hero in one fell swoop. The main air force of the Dufang Army directly knocked the Flying Wing Legion out of the battle.

At this point, the Northern Territory completely had air supremacy over the battlefield.

According to Karya's idea of ​​​​building an army, although the air force cannot complete the occupation, although the size of the northern air force is not enough to support strategic bombing, and the ground damage it can provide is very limited, after fully controlling the air, the next battle will , the northern border is already in an absolutely dominant position.

Even if the Twilight Stars reacted at this time and understood that Kalya was deliberately mysterious and attracting his attention to avoid a large amount of information being leaked, it would be too late.

With control of the air, all the arrangements of the Xiongdu Front will be clearly seen in front of the Northern Air Force. Even if the Twilight Stars understand now and learn professional skills when peeping, the subsequent battlefield will at least be two-way transparent.

Everyone is hanging on the whole picture!

In addition to the advantages of reconnaissance, having air superiority also means that the bombing formation of the Northern Air Force can flexibly operate in the way they like.

Although the ammunition reserves of the Northern Air Force are not very sufficient, and the accuracy of dive bombing is greatly reduced in the face of strong anti-aircraft firepower, but after gaining control of the air, flexible formations, echelon bombing, and harassment attacks are enough to make up for all problems.

Even not just the bombing formation, other dragon and bird knights can also perform similar tasks, causing trouble for the enemy and striving to harass them 24 hours a day.

Think about it, if the Flying Wing Legion is still there, does the Northern Air Force dare to break it into pieces or send out the bombing formation alone?

Of course I don't dare, because that would be giving away someone's life. Once discovered by the dragon and bird knights of the Flying Wing Legion, it is almost impossible to escape!

But now, without the Flying Wing Corps, the bombing formation has been completely liberated. No matter what time or place, as long as it is raised beyond the range of the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower, or moves so fast that the enemy cannot react, it is to throw things however you want. , you can throw things how you want, throw whatever you want, no one can cause any hindrance.

As a result, the Xiongdu Front Army, which had been making great progress before and believed that the previous failure in air combat was due to the unreliability of the Flying Wing Legion, soon encountered a wake-up call.

At breakfast time, a small bombing formation, under the protection of the Dragon Bird Knight Squadron, came to the sky above the camp of the Xiongdu Front Army and conducted a round of dive bombing.

The Hex Crystal fell into the cauldron, blowing the Xiongdu Front Army to ashes while they were cooking rice. Before they could activate their anti-aircraft crossbows, the bombing formation flew away together with the escorting squadron, leaving nothing behind. Walk on a cloud.

In the end, the soldiers of the Xiongdu Front could only cry out bad luck. They had to keep someone manning the anti-aircraft crossbows at all times and staring at the sky.

However, this is just the beginning.

At noon, when they were preparing to eat again, the bombing formation came again.

Another round of dive bombing.

However, this time the Xiongdu Front responded quickly, and the bombing formation did not drop the bombs at a high enough height and with insufficient accuracy.

Although the troops of the Xiongdu Front were full of ashes after lunch, it seemed that as long as they were prepared, the lethality of the flying bombing was really a bit urgent.

However, that night, the bombing formation came again.

This time, they did not bomb during the meal, but after the meal when the soldiers were preparing to rest. At this time, the soldiers were not concentrated, and the Hex Crystal's impact was spread out and the damage was not bad.

Three times a day, many people in the Xiongdu Front couldn't help but start cursing.

However, soon, a piece of exciting news spread throughout the Xiongdu Front Army camp.

His Majesty said it himself, the Yankees don't have many of these explosives in their hands anymore, and this is a fight between trapped beasts!

This news was indeed provided by Jarvan IV, and the content of the news was indeed true. The number of Hex crystals in the hands of the bombing formation was indeed not too much - it was too expensive, and Vazuan's export share was limited. Even with Lux's face, Forsbarrow would not be able to reserve a large amount.

However, without the Hex Crystal, the bombing formation can lose something else!

Your Winged Legion is gone. It’s okay for me to fly slower now. Although it’s a bombing formation, it’s not just Hex crystals that can be thrown!

Soon, the soldiers of the Xiongdu Front discovered that in addition to rain, the sky could also rain fire, rocks, various filth, and even noise.

After the lights are turned off at the camp in the middle of the night, even the northern air force with positioning cannot bomb, but it doesn't matter, they can fly over and make harsh noises, making it difficult to sleep.

The unscrupulous Northern Air Force organized thirteen groups, taking turns to take off every day, constantly harassing the Xiongdu Front Army.

Under the continuous harassment, the mental state of the Xiongdu Front Army could only be said to be getting worse and worse. Although the casualties caused by the bombing were only a few hundred people, but with the loss of air superiority, tens of thousands of people had no stability for a long time. I slept for once!

What does losing air superiority mean?

At this point, the Xiongdu Front Army can give some answers.

You will lose stable rest, supplies and sleep, you will face endless harassment, and you will be restless day and night.

The pathology results will be out tomorrow. It doesn't look serious.