In the afternoon, before the sun had set, the enormous flying ship descended into an airship landing base in Ring Prefecture near the foot of the Helan Mountains.
This airship landing base was enormous. It was one of the largest airship bases east of the Helan Mountains, as well as an important logistics base for the war zone. Just how large was it? The entire base stretched four to five hundred kilometers long and over three hundred kilometers wide. It was larger than even a Class-A city. Seen from the sky, the entire airship base was practically a small plain on the eastern side of the Helan Mountains. Within several thousand kilometers of this place lay nothing but barren, flat sandstone ground, with only scattered low shrubs and thornbushes growing across it.
After the Devil Race's spearhead invaded Great Xia, a professional engineering corps of five hundred thousand men stationed in Ring Prefecture had arrived here. In just two months, following the lay of the land, they had leveled and transformed the area into a massive airship logistics base.
At this moment, the base supplied seven field corps with a combined strength of more than three million men, spread across an area of over a million square kilometers around it.
As Zhang Tie's flying ship landed, the giant transport airships following behind it also began descending in batches across the base under the guidance of ground light signals. The aircraft that had flown in alongside them likewise landed batch by batch at the airfields surrounding the base...
Before the flying ship's hatch had even opened, a violent gale swept in. Flags throughout the base snapped and whipped, wind vanes rattled furiously, and dust rose in rolling clouds from the roughly leveled sandstone ground. In the blink of an eye, everything