Chapter 1531: Interval

Perhaps it is the lack of gunpowder weapons that makes the airships in Midland lack the function of 'bombing'. Although magic can be projected from an airship to the ground, the range of magic is not infinite.

Being able to hit the ground from the air means that the ground can also hit the air back. The advantage of the airship is that it is a moving target, while the magician troops on the ground are fixed.

No magician can cast spells and move at the same time; and moving targets are notoriously difficult to aim. This is the biggest advantage of airships in terms of firepower.

The new airship does not change its advantages and disadvantages in terms of firepower, it just speeds up.

In other words, if you want to rescue the surrounded humans from the air, the airship must land. The stationary state is also the most vulnerable moment for the airship. Because of the loss of mobility, the airship at this time is at best a small magician's fortress.

Even if the issue of confidentiality on the airship is not considered, the capacity of each airship outside of the crew is limited. To evacuate a besieged location, how many airships, including escorts, must be dispatched to make it safe enough? This is an awkward question.

There are so many airships that they can be easily spotted. Too few to be helpful. And coordinating the number of people and capacity, location and time, will these be the advantages of the demon alliance's ambush?

And this leads to another question, which information and contacts are true? Which location of the siege really needs rescue?

The Midi Forum has been in development for more than 26 years. Although the person behind each speaking account is easy to confirm and can be piqued by real people at any time if they disagree, this does not mean that there are no scammers.

People can also set up scams face to face. How could everyone's moral standards automatically improve just because they can't meet each other? Maybe the forum has literacy restrictions, but smart people who are literate are not scammers, and they won't be deceived?

Besides, these behaviors were not necessarily intentional deception at the beginning, they were just bragging. But as rumors spread and processed by countless people, "the flowerpot fell from the building" may become "the cat fell on the piano."

When these false information benefit some people, no matter what the price will be paid later, it is undeniable that there will be some people with evil intentions who will deliberately make profits from it. A new method of fraud was born.

Those petty scams are certainly not the focus of the old man. But what if someone uses the forum to pass on false information and forges that there is a besieged point in the north of the Fengdi Mountains that needs rescue, but it turns out to be an ambush by the demon alliance, what should we do?

At present, humans do not have much means of verifying the situation on the north side of the mountain range. Even if a small number of elites are sent to infiltrate, it will take time to verify the information, and during this time there will be no unexpected changes.

Even if it is confirmed that there are indeed human beings surviving at a certain gathering point, whether these people can be trusted is another level of question.

When it comes to choices based on survival, the lower limit for humans is very low.

Perhaps those who can stand and talk without pain in their backs can say that as long as there is someone, they must be saved no matter what. But from the old Grand Duke's point of view, he must choose from many possibilities.

To save, of course, to save. Every time someone is rescued at this time, the impact on the morale of the soldiers is immeasurable. But save the right person instead of pushing the rescue team into a pit of fire.

If the commander is incompetent, he may simply kill him without sending troops and huddle behind the pass. No matter how many people are trapped in the siege of the demon alliance, no matter whether it is true or false, they will not be saved.

But the old man is not that kind of person. To put it a hundred steps back, putting on a posture of preparing for rescue is actually just an excuse for delay, which is more acceptable than the attitude of refusing to rescue.

But the old man really doesn't want to wait around. Waiting for the beginning of spring, the demon alliance will attack again, or the human side will push back.

With a new weapon like an airship in hand, the strategic layout changed from a flat plane to a three-dimensional one. The old man intuitively felt that there was a lot of room for improvement. So he called all the airship captains or commanders and asked these people who were most familiar with airship tactics if there was any reliable way to save people.

The main force of these people is undoubtedly the captains of the Haider Empire's airship regiment. Not all of the Haider Empire's ace army came, but half of them came, and they were mainly old-fashioned airships that had been transformed. The new airships are all small boats, used for fleet escort.

The old airship with an external propeller is limited by the shape of the hull, and of course does not have the speed of the new airship. But as an imperial air warship, its defense is definitely at the fortress level.

In comparison, many of the airships requisitioned by the old prince from the private sector were originally used for commercial purposes or as entertainment items for the nobles. This type of airship reduces weight in pursuit of speed, so it does not pay much attention to the defense of the hull.

Because the old airships are larger, they are better than the new ones in terms of the number of people they can accommodate. So if we really want to save people, these short-legged turtles must be taken into consideration.

However, if the captains of the airships are not from commercial background, they are adventurers with unique abilities. These people's thinking is more flexible, which is different from the rigid soldiers.

So the old man called in both kinds of people and asked for their opinions. As the commander of the Twin Griffins, Ezio was also present.

The captains of the Haider Empire did not change their cautious nature as soldiers. At the stage where they could speak, they valued intelligence issues the most. Frankly speaking, as long as the intelligence is confirmed to be true, then the strategy is to use a large number of airship formations to enter and rescue collectively.

At most, a convoy team can be organized, and tactics such as alternate boarding can be used. Instead of all airships landing after arriving at the designated point, they can rescue the surrounded humans.

Captains with civilian backgrounds are indeed more flexible in their ideas than soldiers. Things like decoy tactics, attacks in the east and west, dawn attacks, etc., seemed to take out all the little knowledge they had in their stomachs and formulate a rescue plan that was dizzying.

In this case, not to mention the enemy being stunned, I'm afraid even one of my own people will be stunned.

A group of military elders all secretly lamented that it was indeed a plan made by laymen. I didn't see the bright spot, but it almost blinded me.

As the youngest person present, Ezio hid silently in the corner, thinking about what everyone said.

He had experienced enough age discrimination a while ago, so now he was too lazy to express any opinions. If he really wants to do something, his habit is to directly lead people to do it within the scope of his authority, and then achieve results.

There are many people who want to take credit. No matter how much you take the blame, it will not affect the trust of your subordinates in you. This attitude is not out of the ordinary for someone who is an adventurer. Not everyone comes to this front line against demons for fame or money.

However, as the benefactor who promoted him, the old Grand Duke admired children from elementary schools because of their ideas that were different from the traditional military thinking of the Lost Land. At this time, of course Ezio would not be allowed to remain silent like this.

When the discussion subsided, the old man tapped his right index finger on the table. It's not a big move, but it's loud. This caused everyone's attention to instantly shift to the old man, and they fell silent.

"Ezio, if you have any ideas, please tell everyone."

Some of the young people named were known to them and some were not. But they all followed the gazes of others and noticed the child who looked like a child.

Instantly becoming the focus of everyone, Ezio showed no embarrassment or embarrassment at all, but said calmly: "I also support the idea of ​​conducting investigations first and waiting until there is confirmed information before taking action. The information on the forum can only be Just for reference, if you believe blindly, it’s too easy to fall into the devil’s trap.”

"I have the same view as everyone else in the Haider Empire." The old Grand Duke neither rebuked nor praised. Just stating the facts that everyone can hear.

But Ezio continued: "My idea is a little different."

"Oh, tell me." the old man encouraged.

"Everyone's idea is to send a small group of elites to sneak into the north side of the mountain for reconnaissance. Why don't we just send a fast airship and use the magic of the Arcane Eye to conduct reconnaissance from high altitude. If we need to contact people on the ground, we can also Send out personnel by landing quickly. The entire process allows the airship to maintain a certain speed and avoid being discovered or attacked by the demon coalition."

This kind of approach is of course standard procedure for certain people in time travel, but it is not the case for people from Lost Lands.

Because of the high cost of airships, the high cost of each operation, the delay in information transmission, the speed of airships, etc., the task of 'reconnaissance' has never been part of the airship's mission.

And because the reconnaissance scope of traditional warfare is not wide, ground personnel already have quite mature skills and systems. Compared with the detection results achieved by old airships, traditional detection methods are not only cheaper and less troublesome, but the results are not much worse.

Therefore, most military veterans are not used to using it, and they don't even know that airships can be used for reconnaissance.

However, what Ezio said was nothing new to him, it was just something he had been doing recently. Including the tactical action of rapid landing, this has been proven in actual combat. The Twin Griffins can destroy one of the behemoths used for siege. This is an effective tactic.

The specific method is for the airship to fly over the ground at a low altitude and relatively low speed - at least a flying speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour. During the process, the marines on the airship performed a landing without a parachute.

This behavior is no different from committing suicide in the hometown of a certain traveler, but it is not something that cannot be done in the Lost Land. Especially for the Sky Knights from the Karlsruhe Empire in the south, that is, knights who ride on various flying monsters to fight, it is as easy as eating.

Yes, the third empire to enter the war. Although no official representatives came forward, a group of young people eager to establish meritorious deeds appeared in large numbers on the defense lines established by the Gwana Empire.