Perhaps due to the lack of gunpowder weapons, the airships in Lost Land lack the function of 'bombing'. Although magic can be projected from the airship to the ground, the range of magic is not unlimited.
Being able to hit the ground from the air means that the ground can also fight back into the air. 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 the speed.
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 it has lost its maneuverability, the airship at this time is at best a small magic weapon.
It's just a 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 must be dispatched, including escorts, to be safe enough?
, this is a difficult question.
If there are too many airships, they will be easily discovered. If there are too few, it will be of no use. Moreover, coordinating the number of people and capacity, location and time, will these be an advantage for the demon coalition to ambush?
And this leads to another question, which is which intelligence and contacts are real? 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 attacked by real people at any time if they disagree, this does not mean that there are no scammers.
People can set up scams even if they meet face to face. How could everyone's moral level automatically improve just because they can't meet each other? Maybe there is a literacy limit on the forum, but smart people who are literate will not be cheated by liars.
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Besides, these behaviors are not necessarily intentional deception at the beginning, they are just bragging. But as rumors spread and processed by countless people, "the flower pot fell from the building" may become "the cat fell on the piano"
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When these false information allow some people to gain benefits, no matter what the price will be paid later, it is undeniable that some people with evil intentions will deliberately make profits from it. A new way of fraud is born.
Those petty scams are certainly not the focus of the old man. But 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 coalition.
What to 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 humans living in a certain gathering point, whether these people can be trusted is another level of issue.
When it comes to choices based on survival, the lower limit for humans is very low.
Perhaps those who can stand up and talk without pain can say that as long as there is someone, they must save it no matter what. But from the perspective of the old man, he must choose from many possibilities.
Of course, we must save. Every time we rescue a person at this time, the impact on the morale of the soldiers is immeasurable. But we must save the right person, rather than pushing the rescue team into a fire pit.
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 save them.
But the old man is not that kind of person. Taking a step back, posing as if he is preparing for rescue is actually just an excuse for delay, and it is more acceptable than the attitude of not rescuing someone.
But the old man really doesn't want to wait. He's waiting for the spring to come, when the demon coalition attacks again, or when the humans push back.
With a new weapon like an airship in hand, the strategic layout changed from a plane to a three-dimensional one. The old man intuitively felt that there was a lot of room for improvement. So he found all the captains or commanders of the airships and asked these people
People who are most familiar with airship tactics, do you have any reliable methods to save people?
The main force of these people is undoubtedly the captains of the Haider Empire's airship corps. Not all of the Haider Empire's ace corps 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 protection.
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 princes from the private sector were originally used for commercial purposes or as playthings for the nobles. This type of airships were used to reduce weight in pursuit of speed, so the hulls were
Not much attention was paid to defense.
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, the captains of the airships who commandeer them, if they are not from commercial background, 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 types 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 paid most attention to the issue of intelligence. They bluntly said that as long as the intelligence was confirmed to be true, then the tactics of a large number of airship formations would be to enter collectively and collectively.
Rescue.
At most, a convoy team should be organized and tactics such as alternate boarding should be adopted. Rather than all airships landing at a fixed point to rescue the surrounded humans.
The captains of civilian backgrounds are indeed more flexible in their ideas than those in the military. Such things as decoy tactics, attacking in the east and attacking at dawn, it seems that they have taken out all the little knowledge they have in their stomachs, and formulated rescue plans that are surprising.
Dazzling.
In this case, not to mention the enemy being stunned, I'm afraid even one of our 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 spots, but it almost blinded them.
As the youngest person present, Ezio hid silently in the corner, thinking about everyone's opinions.
He has experienced enough age discrimination a while ago, so now he is 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 produce results.
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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 people with an adventurer background. Not everyone comes here for fame or money.
To this frontline against evil.
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, he would not let Ezio remain silent like this.
When the discussion subsided, the old man tapped his right index finger on the table. The movement was not big, but it was very loud. This caused everyone's attention to instantly shift to the old man, and he fell silent.
"Ezio, if you have any ideas, please tell everyone."
Some of the young people who were named knew each other, and some did not. But they all followed the gazes of others and noticed the child who looked like he was still young.
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 used for
Just for reference, if you believe blindly, it’s too easy to fall into the devil’s trap.”
"In fact, I have the same view as everyone in the Haider Empire." The old Grand Duke did not rebuke or praise. He just stated the facts that everyone could hear.
But Ezio continued: "My idea is still 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 practice 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 mission of airships.
And because the scope of investigation in traditional warfare is not wide, ground personnel already have quite mature techniques and systems. Compared with the detection effects that old airships can achieve, traditional detection methods are not only cheaper and less troublesome, but also more effective.
It won't be any 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 is not something new to him, it is just something he has been doing recently. Including the tactical action of rapid landing, this has been verified in actual combat. The Twin Griffins
An effective tactic that can destroy behemoth siege beasts one after another.
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 land combat members on the airship perform landing actions without parachutes.
This behavior is no different from committing suicide in the hometown of a certain time traveler, but it is not impossible to do in the Lost Land. Especially the Sky Knights from the Karlsruhe Empire in the south, that is, the knights who ride on various flying monsters to fight.
Say, it's as easy as eating.
Yes, the third empire to participate in 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 line established by the Gwana Empire.