A list of the top ten main characters: Ye Wenjie from the Three-Body Problem at the beginning.

They also discovered something else amiss: some of the Abyssal Bone Dragons, in order to evade ground-based anti-aircraft fire, were continuously breathing their dragon breath at the positions on the ground that were being attacked by the turtle-shell-like creatures.

Logically speaking, even their own city's shield should have experienced violent fluctuations in the face of such a dense attack, its light should have dimmed, and the mage in charge of the defensive shield should have turned pale.

In contrast, the shields on these defensive positions did not show any fluctuations or diminish in light, and even more incredibly, those mages...

If they are not mistaken, there are at most five mages on each of their positions, and their star ratings are not high. How did they manage to hold out for so long?

No, saying "persist" isn't accurate. It should be "very easy," and you can even use levitation to help those warriors replace those square boxes.

Su Mu smiled and said to Zhang Feiyan as he looked at the shields on the position...

Seeing the shields on the position, Su Mu smiled and said to Zhang Feiyan, "Zhang Feiyan, it seems your research on the mobile shield system has yielded results."

"These are still experimental mobile shield systems. Right now, this mobile shield system still has too many shortcomings, such as its large size, not counting other additional systems."

The main shield system alone is the size of two standard shipping containers, and the deployment time is too long, taking more than two hours from deployment to operational status, which is simply not in line with the requirements of actual combat.

In other words, these fixed, pre-set defensive positions can only be used once, and are completely unusable by field troops and mobile forces. In addition, they consume too much energy; a mobile mutual shield system requires the functions of one medium-sized and two small Ark energy cores.

"At the current attack intensity, it can only last for thirty-six hours at most, and there are other drawbacks as well." Zhang Feiyan said with dissatisfaction, looking at the shield system on the screen that remained unmoved under the relentless attacks of the Abyss Bone Dragon.

"Although our Magic Pattern Research Institute has been working with experts from the Academy of Sciences to tackle this problem, we can only achieve this much in such a short time."

Seeing that Zhang Feiyan was very dissatisfied with the current mobile shield system, Su Mu smiled and comforted her, "It's already very good as it is now. This project took half a year from its inception to its final product. It's normal for it to have both advantages and disadvantages."

He pointed to the well-functioning shield on the screen, "At least this stable system proves that your approach is correct."

The rest is just a matter of continuous improvement. And it's these so-called half-finished products that, by blocking the attacks of these abyssal bone dragons, have made our pre-battle plans a reality.

Zhang Feiyan knew he was being too anxious. Recently, many research projects had hit a bottleneck, and as the director of the Magic Pattern Research Institute, he was under a lot of pressure. Such emotions were a major taboo in scientific research. He let out a sigh and nodded.

“I know that many of your research projects have recently encountered bottlenecks. Zhang Feiyan, don’t worry. Scientific research is all about perseverance and trial and error. You’ll make progress sooner or later,” Su Mu said.

“You’re right, but I’m a little anxious because I see other research institutes producing results while we only have some half-finished products.” Zhang Feiyan nodded.

Aiyate and Zhuyun gained a lot of useful information from this conversation. What they saw and what was being displayed was the result of the joint efforts of the Magic Pattern Research Institute and the Science Research Institute.

They were all quite familiar with magic runes, but the word "science," which they were hearing for the first time, must be knowledge unique to the Dragon Kingdom of this other world.

Just as Zhu Yun was about to ask something, a small speaker icon lit up on the second screen, which was showing a rapidly advancing scene, indicating that a communication was in progress, and sound also came from the speaker.

"Attention all air combat units! This is Captain An Tianming. We are about to enter the designated combat airspace. I'm emphasizing this again! We are dealing with aerial creatures that are far more agile than us. Everyone, please adopt the hit-and-run 2.7 combat method!"

Try to avoid close combat. If you are entangled by the Abyss Bone Dragon, provide timely support between your units. If you are hit, abandon your unit immediately and return to your own defense zone using the power system on your power armor.

"Once the energy cannons are used up, return to base immediately. A second squadron of fighter jets will take over. Does everyone understand?" An Tianming, piloting a bomber, said in the communications channel.

"clear."

About ten seconds later.

"Enter the designated combat airspace! Operation commence! Two aircraft in formation, free air combat." An Tianming issued the combat order.

"Yes."

A massive machine.

Chapter 194: Increased Vigilance

They roared out of the clouds and charged towards the outer layer of abyssal bone dragons below, like a flock of eagles swooping down on their prey.

The Abyss Bone Dragon below continued to dodge the barrage of energy cannons flying everywhere and the constant onslaught of anti-aircraft fire, occasionally spewing its dragon breath at the enemy's firing positions on the ground.

However, all their attacks were blocked by the mobile shield system and achieved no results. Similarly, these abyssal bone dragons did not notice the fighter jets swooping down from the sky.

All fighter jets began locking onto the Abyssal Bone Dragon below via their onboard fire control systems. Each fighter jet exchanged massive amounts of data via a data link to ensure that there would be no duplicate lock-on and thus no wasted firepower.

Sitting in the bomber, An Tianming used the head-mounted sight system on his aviation-specific powered armor to lock onto an Abyssal Bone Dragon that was directly in front of him and had no one else targeting it.

As the power armor helmet visor indicated that the lock was complete, An Tianming pressed the power cannon firing button on the control stick, and the bomber's belly bomb bay opened, ejecting a medium-to-long-range power cannon.

After moving a certain distance, the power cannon engines ignited at 10, and five hundred power cannons, carrying the extremely high initial velocity granted by the fighter jet, roared towards the swarm of abyssal bone dragons below.

After completing the first wave of attacks, the fighter group leveled off and activated afterburners to climb again, preparing to repeat the attack once more.

After the first wave of energy cannons had traveled most of their distance, the Abyss Bone Dragon finally heard the roar of fighter jet engines coming from above. The Bone Dragon, which was besieging the ground anti-aircraft fire point, looked up at the sky in confusion.

They saw countless energy cannons swooping down from the sky, their target being none other than these creatures besieging the strange things on the ground.

These power-up cannons slammed into the abyssal bone dragons with lightning speed.

"Boom... Boom... Boom... Boom..."

Five hundred explosions rang out, followed by five hundred fireballs soaring into the air, and then five hundred abyssal bone dragons plummeting down. Before they could even land and finish their attack, the anti-aircraft artillery units delivered another wave of fire, blasting the bone dragons into pieces.

Seeing the pitiful end of the Abyss Bone Dragon, the other Abyss Bone Dragons all increased their speed, daring not to slow down, and spread out even more, while searching for the source of the attack.

The culprit that caused all this has now returned to the clouds, ready to do it again, one, two, three, four, two, two, three, four.

The air force plans to use this peeling-the-onion method, in conjunction with the ground air defense forces, to gradually erode these abyssal bone dragons. This is also the tactic arranged by the command center.

As the fighter jets were regrouping above the clouds in preparation for another attack, they received a communication from the "Kun" multi-functional transport platform of the bomber, which was equipped with an early warning aircraft module.

"Attention all aircraft! This is Eagle Eye. We are reporting the latest situation. Due to the significant success of the first round of attacks, the Abyss Bone Dragons have completely dispersed their formation, increased their flight altitude and speed, and are on high alert."

The next round of attacks by each aircraft will employ a strategy of one main attack and one cover attack, while also preparing for aerial dogfights. The latest data on the Abyss Bone Dragon has been updated.

After the report was given, confirmation sounds came through the communication channel of Hawkeye 04, indicating that each aircraft had received the latest information.

“No problem,” Lin Kai replied.

After regrouping and assigning the main attack and cover aircraft, An Tianming issued the attack order. The warplanes once again broke through the clouds and launched an attack. After breaking through the clouds, the main attack aircraft group completed the entire process from locking on to launching at the fastest speed.

"roar……."

The abyssal bone dragons, hovering high in the sky, immediately noticed these strange little creatures that had suddenly appeared, and naturally also noticed the energy cannons attacking them.

Apart from the Abyssal Bone Dragons that were locked onto by the power cannons and began to evade at high speed, the other Abyssal Bone Dragons in the high sky roared in unison and increased their speed as they rushed towards the main attack fighter force.

Among these main attack fighters, apart from bombers which have supersonic cruise capability, aircraft such as the J-10, J-11, JS-31, and Su-27 do not have supersonic cruise capability; all of these fighters use afterburners.

They tried to shake off the pursuit of these abyssal bone dragons, but the abyssal bone dragons were also quite fast, relentlessly chasing after the main attack aircraft group. Each fighter jet was followed by at least two or three, and sometimes as many as four or five abyssal bone dragons.

At the same time, the escorting aircraft also swooped down from high altitude to provide cover.

"02, I'm stuck with these lizards and can't shake them off." An Tianming said in the communication channel while performing a leftward rolling maneuver to dodge the dragon breath spewed at him by an abyssal bone dragon. He performed the rolling maneuver at supersonic speed.

In the past, the high overload would have caused problems such as blackouts and consumed a lot of physical strength. However, thanks to the strengthening of his physique by the Body Tempering Technique and the overload offset by the aviation-specific power armor, An Tianming did not feel any discomfort.

"Hold on," Lin Kai said as he approached at his maximum speed of Mach 2.5, while simultaneously locking onto the target using the head-mounted sights system.

[Lock complete]

Seeing the helmet display indicating lock-on complete, Lin Kai pressed the power cannon firing button repeatedly, and three power cannons detached from the fuselage magazine and shot towards the Bone Dragon of the Third Abyss chasing behind 01.

The three ancient dragons were completely unaware of the attack that had come upon them; all they wanted to do was kill the little bug in front of them.

After a brief period of charging up, three dragon breaths were released from the mouth of the Abyss Bone Dragon and flew towards 01. Although the speed of these three dragon breaths looked slow, they actually approached at a very fast speed.

"Damn it." An Tianming saw the three dragon breaths rapidly approaching from the rear-view optical radar and cursed inwardly. Without stopping, he pulled the control stick to the right and pushed off the rudder with his feet, performing a rolling maneuver to the right.

After dodging the first dragon's breath, I immediately performed a broken S-maneuver to dodge the second dragon's breath, then pushed the control stick hard to enter a dive state, barely dodging the third dragon's breath, and leveled the fuselage to continue trying to get rid of the Abyss Bone Dragon behind me.

About ten seconds later, three loud bangs came from behind, and then Lin Kai's voice came through the communication channel.

"01, the crisis has been resolved."

"01 Received." An Tianming breathed a sigh of relief. "02 We will now change direction and help our other comrades."

“02 received,” Lin Kai said.

The two bombers turned around and began to support their comrades who were being pursued by the Abyssal Bone Dragon.

Considering fuel consumption, engine wear and tear, and combat missions, the aircraft...

Chapter 195: The Dragon of Aerial Combat!

However, those who came to Shuris City to carry out combat missions can be said to be true elites with some skills. Although there were all kinds of dangerous situations and they were chased around, so far no one has been shot down.

As the pursuing Abyssal Bone Dragons were eliminated one by one by the cover aircraft, the aircraft began to launch a counterattack, with more and more Abyssal Bone Dragons joining the attack on the fighter group.

For a time, the sky was filled with the figures of abyssal bone dragons and fighter jets chasing and attacking each other, and bone dragons that were killed would fall from the sky to the ground from time to time.

The roar of the Abyss Bone Dragon and the roar of fighter jet engines echoed through the sky, as energy cannons and dragon breath, carrying the aura of death, streaked across the slowly darkening sky.

As time went on, the fighter jets carried less and less explosives and fuel. At this point, Su Mu in the command center issued an order to the second wave of air attack formations waiting at the air force base.

"The second attack formation shall take off immediately to cover the retreat of the first attack formation and take over the mission from the first air attack formation. The third attack formation shall be ready to take off and fight at any time, and shall also be ready for night air combat."

With the order to take off for combat issued, the first and second super-large air bases began to deploy their second wave of air attack formations one after another.

At the same time, the ground-based air defense forces on the front lines are under great pressure. Although more than 300 air defense positions have been set up, they are still suppressed by the vast number of Abyssal Bone Dragons and are temporarily unable to provide fire support for the air force.

This is when the two hundred large electromagnetic railgun launchers, modified from energy cannon launchers, parked at the back, will perform.

Inside the control room of a large electromagnetic railgun, operators are conducting final checks and preparations.

"Report! Attack coordinates confirmed! Attack parameters adjusted."

……

"Report! The electromagnetic railgun is fully charged and in good condition; it is ready to fire."

"Fire!" Commander Kuang Deying of the large electromagnetic railgun unit issued the order to fire.

Two hundred large electromagnetic railgun launchers were deployed and began firing at the Abyssal Bone Dragon swarm above the front-line air defense positions at a rate of one shot every five seconds.

As large electromagnetic railguns began to support the front-line air defense positions, the Abyssal Bone Dragons besieging the positions were instantly shattered into pieces upon being hit by the active destructive elemental explosives that reached a top speed of Mach 53.

Faced with such an attack, the Abyss Bone Dragon once again spread its formation even wider, but the consequence of doing so was a reduction in its ability to suppress ground-based anti-aircraft fire.

It can be said that the entire Abyss Bone Dragon swarm was bogged down on the predetermined battlefield arranged by the Dragon Kingdom. Facing the ground-based air defense system, long-range electromagnetic railgun support, and the encroachment of air fighter forces, it was only a matter of time before they were completely annihilated.

The battle against the Abyssal Bone Dragon horde also exposed several problems, mainly the insufficient sustained firepower of the fighter jets. In actual combat, the pilots discovered that the volley fire of large-caliber machine guns could also cause significant damage to the Abyssal Bone Dragons.

It can also make up for some of the problem of sustained firepower, especially since bomber and fighter pilots strongly requested that they be equipped with cannon pods.

As an additional source of firepower, there was also a desire to quickly upgrade to the latest energy cannons. These issues were all recorded and reported back to the rear.

At the command center, Aiyate, Zhuyun, and the others were speechless with shock. Watching the bone dragons being killed one after another on the screen, they found it hard to believe that this was the same Abyss Bone Dragon that had brought them endless nightmares.

For the first time, they witnessed the killing efficiency and terrifying power of modern weapons, and a glimpse of modern combat systems was revealed to them.

They also understood why Su Mu was so calm when he talked about the Abyss Bone Dragon, and why Zhang Feiyan and Gis were full of confidence.

Faced with such an attack, these abyssal bone dragons were indeed as they said, except for their large numbers, there was really nothing to worry about.

Meanwhile, the Trisolaran reinforcements and the Chinese reinforcements, who were watching real-time battlefield footage through personal terminals and holographic projection equipment at the temporary camp, stared in disbelief as the abyssal bone dragons howled as they fell to the ground or were blown to pieces in mid-air.

They also understood why, when they learned of the Abyss Bone Dragons' attack, and in such an unimaginable number, they applied to the otherworld commander for permission to fight, even with the determination to die.

Despite being told not to worry after being refused, and despite their repeated emphasis on how terrifying the Abyss Bone Dragon was, their request to fight was still rejected.

No matter how much resentment or dissatisfaction I had at the time, it all vanished when I saw the real-time battlefield situation displayed on the screen.

"Ketrian, can you do it?" Captain Deka asked, staring blankly at the abyssal bone dragon being chased around by an energy cannon in the video.

“It’s impossible,” Katherine said with a complicated expression. “...Even if I use a magic arrow, along with a gentle breeze and spiritual guidance, I still can’t do it.”

Dika said with a wry smile, "It seems that even without our support, the Abyss Bone Dragon is just a small problem for the Dragon Kingdom, and solving it is only a matter of time."

I wonder if the ground forces, facing the main invading force of the Abyss, will be able to handle the situation so easily.

The other Trisolarans who heard this nodded in agreement.

At that moment, Su Mu's voice came from his personal terminal.

"Attention all units, the first batch of Abyss ground forces is about to enter the range of the defensive forces. Please prepare to attack."

"The first part of the Abyss ground forces has entered the heavy artillery's attack range. The first and second heavy artillery units have begun their attack, while the third and fourth heavy artillery units are on standby."

"Ketrian, hurry up and switch appearances! Let's see how they deal with the creatures on the surface of the abyss," Deka urged.

"First like this... then like this... then click here..." Kelleyran followed the instructions step by step, and then the image projected on her personal terminal changed, showing the ground defense forces.

"Alright! But it looks like the attack hasn't started yet." Kelley said, looking at the still quiet but already tense defensive position.

"What is this?" Dika looked at the rows of upward-sloping cylindrical tubes with support brackets behind them under the projection, and tapped on his personal terminal.

Then the projector split in two, displaying another image. When everyone saw what was displayed, they were stunned.

The time will be postponed slightly.

In the command center, everyone heard An Yan's announcement, and the scene switched to the heavy artillery position, where Zhang Feiyan smiled at Su Mu.

Chapter 196: The Power of the Explosion

Others added, "Next is the practical application of one of our projects, which is still a work in progress. This project is more than twice as difficult as all the others."