The Idiot left the airship base of the Crystal War Castle in the bright and warm sunshine and continued to float. Just more than ten minutes later, when the airship base of the Crystal War Castle on the ground became smaller than an ant, the Idiot It has flown to an altitude of 7 kilometers above the ground, and the distance from the Crystal War Fortress has exceeded 50 kilometers.
At this distance, in the Sernes war zone, we have entered the battle zone between the two sides. We may encounter the Winged Demon at any time, and the entire crew of the Idiot airship has also entered a fighting state.
And this height is almost close to the maximum suspension height of 8 kilometers of the Stormrage-class airship. From this height, you can easily see the black coal mining areas that emerge on the Sernes Plain and the surrounding areas. The human defense line composed of continuous trenches and battle forts on the ground to the south of the war zone.
The entire underground of Sernes Plain is made of high-quality anthracite. The human coalition chose this place as the first line of defense to snipe the demon army. In addition to the terrain here being more suitable for the deployment of human mechanized troops, the most important one is In the Sernes Plains, the logistical pressure on the human army can be reduced to a minimum.
No matter where you are, as long as you find a few people to dig underground, you can get extremely high-quality anthracite. This anthracite can provide endless power for human battle forts, tanks, various vehicles, and even airships.
Looking at the black coal mining areas on the scar-like plains, Zhang Tie immediately understood the intentions of the top leaders of the human coalition. Therefore, height determines vision. This sentence still makes sense.
However, at this moment, Zhang Tie was not trying to point out the situation here, but was making final preparations and arrangements for his flight.
"After I leave, the Idiot airship will fly around this area..." Zhang Tie said while drawing a circle with his hand on the aviation map of the command module. The circle was 50 to 100 meters north of the Crystal Battle Castle. A fan-shaped area within a kilometer range, "If you are unable to resist the attack of the Winged Demon, I will allow you to retreat towards the Crystal War Castle. If I do not come back within 48 hours. You can also withdraw to the Crystal War Castle first." Castle, if you don’t see me within two weeks, it means something happened to me. You can decide your own itinerary, whether you stay or leave. This airship, the Idiot, will be handed over to the Jinyun Kingdom’s airship force. Continue to serve on the battlefield!"
before the official flight. Take into account various unexpected factors. Zhang Tie must explain everything clearly to the people on the airship. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. Not to mention himself, even if a knight-level person comes to the Sernes war zone, there may not be any accidents.
Listening to Zhang Tie's order that seemed to be his last words, a bunch of people in the command cabin looked at each other, and finally everyone focused on the first mate of the airship. After Zhang Tie personally drove the glider and left the airship . The first mate performs the duties of the airship captain on the airship.
The first mate looked at Zhang Tie with genuine admiration in his eyes. There is also solemnity. Every crew member on the Idiot is very clear about the risks involved in flying a glider in the Cernes War Zone. It can be said that anyone who dares to fly a glider in the Cernes War Zone is almost like the death squad. Even though the Idiot airship had only arrived in the war zone for a day, everyone still heard about the nickname given to glider pilots in the war zone - Air Stormtrooper.
This is the profession with the highest mortality rate in the entire war zone. Its mortality rate has exceeded that of the stormtroopers in the war zone legion. I heard that among the airship troops in the entire war zone, you have to draw lots to fly a glider.
No one thought that Zhang Tie would really risk his life by piloting an airship, so everyone's mood was a bit complicated. Some people still look like they can't believe it - flying a glider to fight the Winged Demon. This crazy idea, I'm afraid, Not even a madman would dare to think about it. But the captain of the Idiot airship was about to do such a crazy thing.
Is this a madman or a fool? Nobody knows…
"Before taking such an adventure, Captain, I think you'd better determine your flight area!" Under everyone's gaze, the first mate, who spoke on behalf of everyone, thought about it and landed on the airship designated by Zhang Tie. A triangular area was drawn on the periphery of the cruising area. "If you can fly in this area, the Idiot can respond to you from a distance. This is the safest way!"
Zhang Tie smiled and said, "I understand what you mean, but you have to know that sometimes the best protection for a bird is the sky, not the bird's nest. I have confidence in my skills in flying a glider. I I also have confidence in my own strength. Even if something happens to me, I believe I can return to the Crystal War Castle safely. You don’t have to worry about this. The best cooperation the Fool has for me is to survive, like a bird’s nest. Survive tenaciously in the wind and rain, don't be blown off the trees by the strong wind, so that when I come back, I can still see you, so that when I want to attack again, you can still send me to the sky! Here! This is my bird's nest in the Cernes War Zone, do you understand?"
"I understand!" The first mate of the airship took a deep breath. "Everyone on the Idiot will never let you down!"
"Then, just wish me good luck!" Zhang Tie laughed...
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A few minutes later, in the launch bay of the glider at the bottom of the airship, everyone on the Idiot airship who could come over at the moment came over. The airship crew in the launch bay used 120,000 serious efforts to take care of every detail on the glider. After checking it once, Zhang Tie was allowed to sit on it. Everyone looked at Zhang Tie with complicated eyes as he put on his flight suit, sat in the cockpit of the glider, and nodded toward the outside. He made a thumbs up gesture.
"Open the hatch!"
Following the first mate's order, several crew members in the drop bay quickly opened the hatch.
Seeing that the cabin door was fully opened, a strong wind rushed in. Zhang Tie didn't say much, just nodded to those who were looking at him, and the entire glider popped up along the sliding rail. The airship Idiot...
"Salute..." the first mate on the airship roared. Everyone saluted Zhang Tie.
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When the glider fell off the airship, Zhang Tie felt like a fish returning to the sea. The glider was like a javelin thrown into the water by the airship. The moment the glider left the airship, the speed of the glider was already the same as that of the Idiot airship, reaching a speed of 150 kilometers per hour in an instant.
Just a few seconds later, Zhang Tie, who felt that the glider was already like a fish diving into the ocean current, stepped on the left pedal of the glider and at the same time pressed down the elevator in his hand. The entire glider was like a nimble petrel. . It flew out to the left. After flying a few hundred meters, I felt a rising thermal airflow. Zhang Tie stepped on the right pedal of the glider, raised the control column, and the entire glider began to climb rapidly in the thermal airflow, under the shocked eyes of all the crew members on the airship. A beautiful "u" shape is drawn around the airship from bottom to top. Finally, it flew above the airbag of the airship and flew towards the north...
"How can the captain cut into the thermal airflow so quickly and make such a move all at once?" In the airship launch cabin, a crew member opened his mouth and stared blankly at the glider driven by Zhang Tie. A movement made by the airship, controlled by Zhang Tie, made everyone in the delivery cabin feel that Zhang Tie just now was like a highly skilled racing driver driving a supercar around a heavy vehicle like the Stormrage. The big truck swerves gracefully on the road.
"Well, it's just a coincidence..." A person next to him murmured in reply.
Piloting a glider is incredibly easy for every crew member on board the airship. Just like a sailor mastering a rubber boat, it is a skill that every sailor must master. If you really want to talk about it, everyone can understand how to fly a glider in one sentence - the control stick in the cockpit of the glider is responsible for controlling the lifting and lowering, while the foot pedals are responsible for controlling the direction.
Pull the control column back, the elevator will swing up, and the glider's nose will point up. Push the control column forward, the elevator will swing down, and the glider's nose will point down; step on the left foot pedal, and the rudder will swing to the left. Turn the nose of the aircraft to the left, step on the right pedal, and the rudder will swing to the right, and the nose of the aircraft will face to the right - the basic driving of the glider is that simple. There are four types of control: up, down, left, and right. Not to mention an adult, he is just a child. It takes ten years to learn. You can learn it in just a few minutes.
But it is extremely difficult to control a glider. The most difficult thing is to judge, grasp and utilize various airflows in the air. Those invisible airflows, such as terrain dynamic updrafts, wavy updrafts, swirling updrafts, thermal updrafts, etc. Updrafts, etc., are the source of power for a glider to fly in the air, and are also the only criterion for testing whether a glider pilot is excellent.
Those airflows are invisible and cannot be seen by you. You can only rely on your actual experience and feelings to judge. Therefore, it may only take ten minutes to learn to fly a glider, but if you want to learn to use those invisible airflows, you can make your glider fly smoothly. Being able to match your driving intention with those airflows and make those airflows work for you is a skill that may take at least ten years of practice before you can master it.
The mastery and use of airflow is the only criterion that determines a person's ability to fly a glider. Under this criterion, the gap between a novice and an expert is as big as the gap between a zero-level combat worker and a tenth-level strong warrior. .
In this era, people use four data to measure a person's ability to fly a glider. These four data are - the longest time in the air, the farthest flight distance, the highest altitude record and the average speed of the triangular route.
Under these four data, the gap between novices and experts is clear at a glance.
The longest stay in the air for a novice who has just learned to fly a glider is only about half an hour, the longest flight distance is within 40 kilometers, the highest altitude record is less than 1,000 meters, and the average speed of the triangular route is less than 50 kilometers per hour.
The same glider, under the same driving conditions, if it looks like a sparrow in the hands of a novice, then in the hands of a top expert, it is like an iron-winged eagle that can dominate the sky.
The longest time in the air can exceed 70 hours, the longest flight distance can exceed 2,000 kilometers, the highest climbing record can exceed 15,000 meters, and the average speed on the triangular route is more than 220 kilometers per hour - these are the data of top glider pilots.
"The speed of the captain's glider has reached more than 300 kilometers..." Just as everyone below was still reminiscing about the beautiful U-shaped roll just now, the sound of the observation post on the airship was transmitted to the launcher below through the sound transmission tube. cabin, everyone in the drop cabin was stunned again.
"It's too fast. How could it reach such a speed in such a short time..." the first mate of the airship muttered to himself.
There was silence in the drop cabin, no one could answer...
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Zhang Tie didn't know what kind of impression he had left on everyone on the Idiot airship in just a short period of time. He didn't feel that he had done anything too special. He was just following his own feelings. Just flying.
Zhang Tie found that the air current in the air was the same as the ocean currents in the sea. The water-blessed body gave him a super strong ability to sense the water flow. At this moment, it also acted on the air current in the air.
Zhang Tie didn't know the reason for this. Maybe it was related to the fact that both were fluids, or it was the induction of water vapor in the air flow, but there was no doubt that the feeling was the same.
This sensation does not come from the touch of the skin and body, but from the natural extension of one's own mental power outside of one's own body.
For a moment, Zhang Tie almost thought that he was not flying a glider, but returning to the sea that he was familiar with. Although this glider would definitely not control his body like he did in the sea, it would have that kind of freedom. The feeling is the same. There are many similarities between flying in the sky under the influence of air currents and flying under the ocean under the influence of ocean currents. Zhang Tie feels that there are many experiences and principles. It's also similar.
For example, in the sea, the way to reach the maximum speed of your body is not to follow the ocean current, but to quickly intersperse where the ocean current produces gyrations and undulations. This way you can gain more power, or Different ocean currents use snake-like paths to constantly change their directions and turns, allowing themselves to quickly cut from one ocean current to another at an incredibly fast speed.
In the sky, while flying a glider, Zhang Tie discovered that these principles are the same. Even many ocean currents in the ocean have similar shapes to the most common hot air currents in the sky. The ocean currents complete the rotation in the ocean, and The thermal air currents in the sky are like bubbles, and both of them exist and flow in a certain circular state.
Zhang Tie doesn't know how others distinguish between masters and novices, but in terms of feeling, he feels that as long as he is willing, he can stay in the sky just like he is in the ocean. He can stay for a very, very long time or fly very far away. place.
Shortly after leaving the Fool, Zhang Tie lowered his flying altitude and speed, controlling his altitude to about three thousand meters above the ground, and the speed was about the same as that of an airship, and then flew towards the north, stuffed under his feet. The burned-to-ruins villages on the Ernes Plain kept passing by his feet, and sometimes the wreckage of a large airship could be seen.
Just half an hour later, Zhang Tie saw a few black spots in the distant sky. Those black spots also looked at Zhang Tie, and then flew towards Zhang Tie...