Not every one of the seven airships on the reconnaissance mission went as smoothly as the Twin Griffins. The first level they had to pass through was from the sky above the cursed Wind Emperor Mountain Range through the calmer 'window' of the wind and snow.

Don't think that such a passage is a straight line, just drive the airship directly over it. This kind of window where the wind is relatively calm and the direction of the wind is actually curved.

In particular, there is no clear boundary line in the air to indicate which side is easy to fly and which side is not easy to fly. How to accurately fly in such a window, in addition to the helmsman must have the ability, the observation of the lookout, the judgment of the captain, and even the person of the entire airship have their own responsibilities.

It's just that even if you strayed into those forbidden areas, the airship wouldn't fall down immediately. The shipwreck and death are possible, but they are not the only one, let alone the most probable.

After all, airships are not ordinary birds or flying monsters. In the Cursed Blizzard, it will be difficult to operate, and the use of power will be hindered. But as long as the luck isn't too bad, it's not a big deal to get out of it safely.

However, I dare not guarantee that the location I leave is not the place I want. In a hostile environment, it's a blessing to be able to escape, but there are so many options.

The people who can be selected by old Kavi Gong to carry out this task are not mediocre hands. Accurately flying in the window passage, crossing the sky above the Fengdi Mountain Range, and coming to the north side of the mountain, such skills are still there, but everyone is not the same.

The difference in speed does not depend entirely on the level of skill of the ship. Different routes and passages were selected, and there were also differences in difficulty and length. But everyone still came to Shanbei at the dawn of the day.

In fact, what worries the high-level people who planned the entire rescue operation is whether the airships of the follow-up rescue team have the same level of operation and can pass through the cursed Wind Emperor Mountain Range. A little further afield, it is the airship to cooperate with the counteroffensive operation.

In the past, the traditional airship had to get from the south side of the mountain to the north side of the mountain, and the safest option was to take a detour. Few boat owners choose to venture across the mountains unless they are forced to do so.

The airship unit of the Haider Empire, even if it is the worst in ship handling skills, can be judged as excellent if it is compared among all the airships. This kind of dancing operation is not a big problem.

The ones who worry the boss are still those airship teams from the private sector. Most of them rushed to the army, or there were some minor problems with the structure of the airship itself.

These problems are probably not a big problem when used under normal conditions. However, if it is put to the limit, such as in extremely harsh climates, or fighting with people and dogs in the air, and constantly carrying out tactical operations, small problems may be magnified into major disasters.

Therefore, for the formation of the follow-up rescue team, the boss still adopts the voluntary system. Let all airship captains assess for themselves whether they can participate in a mission of this particular intensity.

Even if you don't cross the mountain and stay on the south side of the mountain, the airship still has a mission to do.

The terrain on the northern side of the Fengdi Mountains is dominated by hilly land, with occasional basins. Several rivers originate in the Fengdi Mountains and flow through large areas from south to north, nourishing countless lives.

And at the end of this deep winter, especially a climatic window period, there is no scene of wind and snow. There is even a rare winter sun rising in the east, and the sky is even clearer.

You know, a day ago, the sight on the south side of the mountain was thick clouds covering the entire sky. The wind and snow bring a biting chill just by looking at it with the eyes. You don't have to run outside to experience this by the wind and snow.

After this day, the weather on the north side of the mountain, although the ground was thick with snow that had not melted, the wind and snow were almost none, and the visibility was clear. It's arguably the best weather for scouting, but it also means that airships are easy to notice.

Not all airships can learn how the Twin Gryphon can fly to stratospheric heights. At that height, you can't see it at all.

However, in the case of the seven airships on reconnaissance missions, they flew at the lowest threshold of the altitude required by the mission, and when they were seen by people on the ground, they were probably not much bigger than ants and insects. The average person simply does not realize that it is the enemy flying in the sky.

It stands to reason that staying at such a high altitude and observing the ground with the Arcane Eye is the safest way to investigate.

However, the operators of the first seven airships are all capable people; In other words, it's not a good baby. The boss also only needs information, and he doesn't care about the method of obtaining it, or even their life or death.

In other words, the selection of personnel who carry out tasks is to select people who have the ability to complete the task and have the greatest survival rate. If these men die on their own, who will be able to control it? It's not these people's parents. Everywhere the conditions and restrictions are raised, these people do not necessarily listen.

Therefore, the captain of each airship has chosen the reconnaissance method that best suits his own characteristics to complete this mission.

Taking a step back, they can't even match the version of the Twin Griffons in terms of the ability to use the Arcane Eye, not to mention a certain mage. So many times, you can only judge with the human eye.

Moreover, the arcane eye in its primitive form is like a claireye, and when you focus on it, you can only see the scene of the place. In the past, it was projected in a crystal ball, but on the airship, it was turned into a flat picture. There's no scanning feature, and certainly no programmatic batch processing.

Based on this rudimentary function, in order to obtain enough information, their detection methods are limited. The risk of detection increases.

One of the easiest ways to do this is to fly close to the ground. Then send enough lookouts to look at the ground with the naked eye from the airship.

Such a bold action, of course, will attract the attention of the ground. Although not all camps, there are lookouts keeping an eye on the sky. But as long as one or two people casually look up, they have a chance to spot an airship in the sky.

Thankfully, the demon-orc alliance doesn't have air supremacy. Even if there are demons who are good at flying, they may not be able to act in such a cold winter, or fight against an aerial fortress like an airship.

In particular, the reconnaissance missions are carried out by airships that are known for their speed. If there is a demon, or a half-orc who can control a flying monster, take off from the ground, and the airship can accelerate and escape at any time. The speed of the new airship is no joke.

So even if everyone's actions were indeed discovered, but no airship had yet engaged the demons and orcs in battle, and everyone still prioritized reconnaissance missions.

For a while, the Demon Alliance didn't realize what the airship's movements represented. Coupled with the effects of the cold winter, most demons or orcs still have to get by, letting these little bugs fly high in the sky. At most, scare the other person and expel them.

It means that even if they want to calculate, they have no good way to deal with an airship flying at that height.

This is not a pretending alliance between the two sides to maintain peace, and they can also hand each other a diplomatic condemnation. Both sides in the war, of course, can do whatever they can. If you can't cope with it, you can only swallow it bitterly and find other ways to return it.

Therefore, the danger encountered in this reconnaissance mission is far less than everyone imagined before they set off. The collection of intelligence was also smooth.

It's just that the humans who were trapped in the demon-occupied area are still alive, but the situation is worse than expected. Because there are people who are not just surrounded.

The worst thing for those who are still alive is to be held in what kind of prisoner-of-war camp, or to put it bluntly, it is like being in a ranch, raised by demons and orcs.

What is the purpose of such a situation, the people who find out about this situation simply cannot imagine. But everyone agrees that such a situation is difficult to rescue.

The original rescue plan was conceived as fast in and out, without any intention of engaging the enemy. Ideally, for the encircled humans, their defenses are still maintained. As long as there is this line of defense to stall for time, then the airship force has a chance to withdraw from the encircled humans.

But if the humans were already under control, it would be impossible to evacuate them without defeating the demons or orc guards.

There is nothing worse than this, and there is no one more than the humans who have been scattered into the orc camp. Such a person is likely to die before the rescue plan is implemented or formulated.

These are pitiful examples that the airship stumbled upon when she used the Arcane Eye to scan the ground barracks from a distance. Whether there will be more of the same victims, the people on the detective mission simply don't want to think about it. They know very well that such a person is definitely last in the rescue order.

As for those human gathering places that are surrounded and have not yet been captured by the demon alliance, there is no one with the best chance and easiest to rescue than those areas that can still rely on the magic tower to survive.

In addition to the people who were sheltered by it, there were also organized soldiers who cooperated with the magic tower to build a strong defensive line. But these sites also look precarious, because they don't have much food reserves, and this winter is very difficult. If there are no supplies, it may not have to wait until the beginning of spring to be finished.

In other large human settlements, the combined forces of demons and orcs are only besieging but not attacking. These places usually have geographical advantages, such as canyons, hills, etc.

The Demon Alliance, which was in an offensive state before, was not in a hurry to divide its troops to pull out these strongholds, so they sent some troops to block them. And their situation has become very difficult after a winter.

All in all, the problem of food shortages is the biggest reason why these gathering points have been so hard to preserve, but as time goes on, hope will become more and more diminishing.

Being able to survive more than half of the winter is not only their super long performance, but also the inadvertent mercy of the demon alliance. Maybe this wasn't the intention of those evil creatures, but the demons' choice to attack the south first instead of sweeping the entire northern side of the mountain range was indeed the reason for the existence of these human settlements.

On the one hand, it is also because these locations are not rushed by the traffic of the march that they have a chance to be saved. Especially the few magic towers that are still left.

In fact, after seeing the current situation, the people who carried out the reconnaissance mission would feel that as long as it was the kind of location that could still hold on, it was suitable to be preserved and become a nail on the north side of the Wind Emperor Mountain Range on the human side. Of course, civilians and the elderly still have to be evacuated.

But how to operate it depends on the arrangement of those big shots. And in order to keep the nails on the north side of these mountains, it is necessary to have regular supplies.

Even if the passage of airships is still relatively smooth, whether they can maintain air superiority all the time is still an unsolvable problem.

In short, whether to withdraw or not to withdraw, it is a difficult problem.