The Fool airship's first ground attack left Zhang Tie deeply shaken. From beginning to end, the Fool dropped a total of twenty-four white phosphorus gel bombs in eight runs. Not a single person aboard was injured, yet the results were staggering: they had wiped out at least forty thousand demonized puppet troops. The destroyed iron bridge successfully covered the retreat of that human unit and the women and children, allowing them to escape the demonized puppets' pursuit.
Of course, the valley and terrain had played a major role. In different terrain, where the demonized puppets had more room to maneuver and their formation was not so tightly packed, twenty-four white phosphorus gel bombs might not have achieved such results. But the most important thing about this battle was that Zhang Tie had felt, for the first time, the overwhelming advantage that air superiority brought in war.
Unless you truly did it once yourself, it was hard to understand the importance of air superiority. But after experiencing it, Zhang Tie gained a thorough understanding of it.
What was air superiority? Put simply, it meant I could hit you, but you could not hit me. If I wanted to attack you, I came and attacked; you could not defend against it. Once I was done, I could leave whenever I wished, and you could not catch me. That was air superiority. When the form of warfare extended from the ground into the sky, it was a transition from two-dimensional planar warfare to three-dimensional warfare. Three against two—the extra one was air superiority.
Their first strike bringing victory sent everyone aboard the Fool into a frenzy. Such results thrilled every crewman. They had boarded the airship with the intention of giving the Devil Race a thorough beating, and this single battle alone made