Dawn, Thorns Town.
This remote town at the foot of Cage Mountain is now a bustling place.
In addition to being the "outpost" of the Cage Mountain Command, another more important reason is that the frontline training camp of the Aerial Knight Academy is located here.
In order to meet the huge expenses of the Aerial Knights, the engineering team built several spacious hardened concrete roads here, which are connected to the north-south aorta and reach the northernmost harbour in the morning. The handling of a large amount of resources naturally also attracted the attention of the merchants in the morning light. After losing the two trade routes of the wolf heart and the eternal winter, Graycastle became their greatest hope for profit. The service provided by the contracted freight to the supply of wine can be said to be omnipresent. Bag.
Business opportunities can bring people flow. In just about a year, the scale of the town has expanded several times. Taverns and hotels that can only be seen in big cities in the past have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and are scattered around the center of the town. spread out.
For this change, Tilly, who often flew through the sky, felt the most obvious.
Before the snow falls, if you look down from the air, you can clearly distinguish the outline and composition of the town. The most dull are the houses of the aborigines. After decades of wind and sun, the roof tiles show Mottled dark brown and turquoise. There are not many of them, and they still maintain the original appearance of Thorns Town, but on the periphery, the colors suddenly become various.
Those new houses range from wooden low-rises to stone-built bungalows, and some are even concrete brick houses. Obviously, after Graycastle passed the calcination technology to Dawn, some nobles and merchants have accepted and started to try to use this brand-new building material.
Now the snowfall brought by the evil moon has softened the difference between the new area and the old area, but the general change of the town can still be discerned from the messy arrangement of the latter.
Probably Border Town also evolved like this step by step.
After sending Vanilla and Broken Sword away, Tilly devoted herself to the daily teaching, and there were nearly forty Skyfire IIs that were improved according to her opinion, plus more than twenty old-fashioned Type Is, the Aerial Knights were already Become a force to be reckoned with in the army.
In fact, the first army's counter-offensive was so smooth, and it was inseparable from the air cover of the biplanes. Compared with the anti-aircraft machine gun, the Skyfire poses a much greater threat to the beasts, and without an effective means of rushing in, the artillery can safely use the range advantage to bombard the Devil's outpost and withdraw from the position before the enemy encircles it. As long as the high-level devil does not appear, it will be difficult for the enemy to approach the First Army.
Whenever a combat mission is carried out, dozens of Tianhuo will slide across the runway in the form of elephants strolling, taking off in sequence with the smallest spacing, and the rumble of the engine can be heard clearly even across a small town. Such a spectacular sight is difficult to describe in words, even the charge of the knight group is completely incomparable. Anyone who witnesses such a scene will have a new understanding of the power of Greycastle.
And this scene has also become a major spectacle in the town of thorns. Many Dawn nobles came to hear the news, wanting to personally verify the legend of the Aerial Knights. Gradually, even on the day of ordinary drills, the roof of the flat building around the take-off and landing site will be full of people, watching with great interest the posture of these giant steel birds soaring in the sky.
Tilly also inquired that those places with a wide field of view were charged.
Of course, the development of the Aerial Knight Academy is not without obstacles, at least compared with the production of Skyfire, the problem of the slow increase in the number of pilots has been revealed little by little.
After all, its recruiting threshold is there. It not only requires a certain cultural foundation, but also has the physical fitness to adapt to flying. After meeting it, it can enter the next step of training. As for how long it takes to participate in actual combat, it all depends on talent. The kind of student Tilly, who usually performs fairly well in practice, but is in a mess as soon as she arrives in the sky, has also encountered several, and in the end, she can only go to the logistics team to contribute to the residual heat.
If it weren't for the fact that the Tianhuo II was changed from a two-seat to a single-seat, which temporarily alleviated the problem of the lack of drivers, the Aerial Knights would now have to face the dilemma of only having planes but unmanned pilots.
In addition to continuing to expand the scope of recruitment and increasing the number of preparatory students, she has no better way to do this.
Fortunately, my brother also attaches great importance to Aerial Knight, and more importantly, he will hardly refuse her proposal. This problem should be improved when the next batch of preparatory students arrives in Thorns Town.
Until noon, the intensive test flight and landing will come to an end.
As an extraordinary person, Tilly does not need to take a lunch break to recover her energy. During the time when she temporarily stepped down as a teacher, she often chose to fly alone for a while, not only to verify some new ideas generated during teaching, but also for a period of time. Enjoy the process of flying.
But this time, she noticed something strange in the warehouse area of the take-off and landing site.
Neither the students nor the ground staff dispersed immediately, but gathered around the warehouse, seemingly attracted by something.
Soon, a guard reported the situation to her.
"His Royal Highness, Neverwinter seems to have sent a batch of new supplies. You need to check it out."
"New supplies?" Tilly raised her eyebrows, she remembered that there was no such arrangement in today's schedule. It's just that the two places are thousands of miles apart, so it's not surprising that Neverwinter made a temporary adjustment.
Walking to the warehouse area, everyone gave way, but before she saw the goods, she heard a familiar shout first.
"Lord Tilly!"
I saw Moriel jumping over and jumping into her arms with open arms.
Tilly rubbed the little girl's head helplessly, only to realize that it was the magic servant who was responsible for unloading the goods. The latter inflated like a blue balloon, carefully "swallowing" the cargo box on the steam truck, and slowly transported it into the warehouse.
So, that's why everyone is here
No... not quite so...
When Tilly turned her eyes to the long cargo box, she suddenly realized that the answer was not so simple.
There are a total of three cargo boxes. Judging from the cold metal material of the box, these boxes are clearly the same as those for the Tianhuo, but the size is much larger, and the overall appearance is more slender. Moreover, the two sides of the surface are also painted with bright red cloud patterns, like a pair of open wings.
Decorating on a shipping case may seem like a pointless thing, but it is precisely because of this that it is extra special.
Tilly's heart skipped a beat.
"By the way, do you have any requirements for the color of the fuselage? Since there are no specific requirements, how about red?"
Roland's words echoed in her ears.
"Is there any difference?"
"Generally, the protagonists who dominate the sky use this color."
The ground crew over there has skillfully removed the fixing bolts on the first cargo box, and as the sealing plate was slowly lowered, there was a burst of amazement in the crowd.
I saw a never-before-seen body appear in front of everyone.