After the freshness of the first two days of the trip to sit on the airship, the subsequent journey slowly became tasteless for Zhang Tie, even in a place like the Blackson Terran corridor, there are not many opportunities to see the Terran cities below in the place where the airship flies.
Most of the time, when you look down from the porthole of the airship, all you can see are rolling hills, rolling hills and meadows, and endless forests, all of which are sparsely populated and barren, not to mention cities, even larger towns and villages.
After all, compared to the land area of the Blackson Terran Corridor, the population of the Terran Corridor countries is also a little too small, that is, most of these populations are still concentrated in some cities protected by city walls, and the possibility of seeing large-scale Terran settlements outside the city is very small.
After getting tired of the monotonous scenery below the airship, Zhang Tie stayed in his airship cabin except for eating and sleeping, quietly carrying out unimaginable cultivation for ordinary people.
The five-grade crystal pyramid that Zhang Tie auctioned at the auction house was taken out by him and placed under the bed in his cabin, and when he was cultivating, he sat on top of the pyramid through a thin bed board, so that the top of the pyramid was facing the bright spot on his tail vertebrae, and the cultivation effect of the five-grade crystal pyramid was much stronger than the crystals that Zhang Tie used before, and the speed at which Zhang Tie used his spiritual power to polish the bright points was also significantly accelerated.
Even when he wasn't cultivating, the special effect of the pyramid crystal made Zhang Tie's small cabin full of a comfortable energy, and his mind was much clearer.
The airship that Zhang Tie took was a large hard airship with a length of more than 200 meters and a height of nearly 70 meters, the normal cruising speed of the airship was 110 kilometers per hour, not fast or slow, in addition to Zhang Tie, a special passenger, when returning to Jinyun Country from Karul this time, the airship also carried more than 50 passengers who were going to leave Karul to Jinyun Kingdom, these passengers were men, women, old and young, many of them seemed to be completely family, these passengers, at least from the perspective of dress and temperament, were very decent, at first glance, belongs to the well-educated and wealthy class.
The reason why these people left from Karur, Zhang Tie can more or less guess a little, these are the original Andaman Alliance with a keen sense of smell, this sudden war and many signs, have made these people see some kind of potential danger, so they began to seize the opportunity to find a way to leave the previous city of the Andaman Alliance, ready to go to a safer and more ideal place in their hearts.
Jin Yunguo is probably a place where these people feel safe and can live a better life.
On the fourth day after leaving Karur, the airship landed once in a city that was completely unfamiliar to Zhang Tie, replenished it with coal, water, and some other supplies, rested on the ground for a few hours, and then began to fly again.
Zhang Tie originally thought that the journey by airship would be smooth, but it turned out that in this era, as long as it is outside the city walls, there is no absolute safety.
On the sixth day of coming to the airship, the airship that Zhang Tie was riding was attacked for the first time.
The urgent and short whistle sound inside the airship woke up Zhang Tie, who was meditating, and then Zhang Tie heard someone shouting outside the cabin, "When you encounter an attack by a dangerous creature, when you encounter an attack by a dangerous creature, all the personnel are in place, all the personnel are in place, and the passengers on the airship stay in their cabins and don't come out."
Then, nervous footsteps sounded outside Zhang Tie's cabin.
If it was before, when he encountered this situation, Zhang Tie must have stayed in the cabin like other passengers and did not go out, but the experience of the Iron Blood Camp changed Zhang Tie, and when he encountered this dangerous situation, Zhang Tie hurriedly jumped out of bed, opened the door of his cabin, and ran out together.
The width of the cabin of the airship reached twenty meters, and the aisle outside was not narrow, when Zhang Tie ran out, many crew members wearing crew uniforms were busy, some ran to the deck, some ran to the engine room and weapons cabin, and the passengers who were originally on the open deck of the airship who were enjoying the scenery below and breathing in the morning ran inside in panic one by one, like Zhang Tie, who rushed to the outside of the deck, only the crew of the airship in uniform.
"What are you doing here" When Zhang Tie ran to the entrance of the deck, a man in his thirties looked at Zhang Tie with wide eyes, this man was the first mate on the airship, when Zhang Tie was on the airship, he met this person and the captain of the airship, and he never saw him again, so he couldn't talk about how familiar he was, at most, he just knew that everyone's surname was Zhang.
"I was a soldier," Zhang Tie replied in a deep voice, "maybe I can help" The first mate on the airship glanced at Zhang Tie seriously, their airship was only after sailing out of Jinyun Kingdom, Huaiyuantang sent a message from Huaiyuantang, asking them to pick up a person named Zhang Tie when they were in Karur City, and on the entire airship, only he and the captain of the airship probably knew who this Zhang Tie was, it seemed that he was the descendant of the Zhang family left outside, and he was also wanted by the secret police of the Norman Empire.
Of course, the person who can be wanted by the Norman Empire's secret police will not be incompetent, and I heard that Zhang Tie was a soldier, but after thinking for a second, the first mate nodded, "Come on, the descendants of Huaiyuantang really don't have the reason to hide when they encounter danger."
Zhang Tie and the first mate rushed to the deck of the airship together, and the armor of the ballista on the deck of the airship was uncovered one by one at this time, and many of the crew members who rushed onto the deck quickly sat on their ballista positions.
Because the airship's primary purpose was cargo rather than military, all of the ballistae on the airship were non-automatic, and the steam-powered equipment on the airship only powered the airship's propeller thrusters.
There were three crew members in each ballista position, and the crew who sat on the gun position, after putting their feet on a mechanism similar to bicycle pedals, began to step on their feet quickly, and under the action of a chain and a bunch of mechanical gears, completed the first round of winding and firing preparations of the ballista, the whole process took less than twenty seconds.
"Gun Position A No. 1 is ready" "Gun Position A 2 is ready" "The No. 3 gun position is ready to be secured" "Gun Position A 4 is ready" The gunners of the various gun positions who had completed the preparation for firing began to report loudly, and Zhang Tie watched coldly, and found that the military literacy of these crew members was very high, even compared with the regular army of the Norman Empire's airship troops, it was not on par.
After the crew was ready, two rows of crew with crossbows and bows on either side of the airship deck were also in place.
"Take it, put it on your body and buckle it" The first mate of the airship threw Zhang Tie a set of special equipment to wear on his body, as well as a machine crossbow.
This is a set of leather similar to a simple vest, after putting on, there is a safety buckle on the waist of this clothing, which can be buckled to two fixed metal slide bars on the side of the deck, Zhang Tie saw that every crew member who came to the deck, including the first mate, was wearing such a set of things, everyone buckled the safety buckle on the waist, and they did the same, and after quickly getting dressed, they also buckled the safety buckle.
Zhang Tie just buckled, the airship that had been flying in a straight line instantly came to an accelerated right-turn rudder, the entire hull came to the right side of a huge tilt, the level of the entire airship deck suddenly tilted to the right at least nearly 30 degrees, Zhang Tie only felt the strong wind blowing on his face, his feet slipped, his body almost couldn't stand steadily, and he hurriedly held a metal handrail on the deck with one hand, and then stood firmly.
After the entire airship had drawn a huge half-arc and adjusted its direction in the sky on the right, everyone standing on both sides of the airship deck suddenly saw the appearance of the dangerous creatures that were about to attack the airship.
It was a group of giant birds that had just swooped down from the clouds in the distance, Zhang Tieyun looked over with all his eyes, and saw a black mass of things flying towards the airship from a distance, those things were very large, and when they spread their wings, they were close to more than three meters, and as far as the eye could see, there were at least forty or fifty of these giant birds in the black mass of things.
After this giant bird flew a little closer, Zhang Tie could even see the long beak on the head of these giant birds.
The first mate of the airship standing next to Zhang Tie had a serious face, and said loudly, "It's a fourth-level mutant demonic beast, iron-beaked ibis, everyone be careful."
The airship made two evasive moves in a row, but these giant birds just clung to the airship.
Looking at the beaks like swords and spears on the heads of those giant birds, as well as the airbags on the airships, Zhang Tie also understood the huge damage that these iron-beaked ibises could cause to the airships.
Although this rigid airship still has a special layer of light metal protective armor on its airbags, no one knows how long that layer of protective armor on the airship can last under the continuous attacks of these giant birds.
As the iron-beaked ibises approached the airship about two hundred meters, several ballistas on the left deck and the hull of the airship opened fire at the same time.
Zhang Tie only heard a soft "buzz" in his ears, and six of the dozens of iron-beaked ibis, after a few piercing chirps, burst out a few blood flowers in the air, scattered their feathers, and fell from the air at the same time, and the remaining iron-beaked ibise's giant wings fluttered and accelerated towards the airship.
A rain of crossbow arrows flew on the deck of the airship, and the giant birds dodged very flexibly in the air, and this wave of arrows only shot down less than three iron-beaked ibis.
When those iron-beaked ibises rushed just now, Zhang Tie did not immediately pull the trigger of the crossbow in his hand, but calmly aimed at one of those iron-beaked ibis, and only calmly pulled the trigger when the iron-beaked ibis had just completed its dodge action and approached the airship about eighty meters away.
In an ugly bird call, the iron-beaked ibis that Zhang Tie was aiming at was pierced through its chest by a crossbow arrow shot by Zhang Tie and fell from the sky.
Almost at the same time as the iron-beaked ibis fell, a cloud of blood mist also exploded on the body of an iron-beaked ibis next to him, Zhang Tie heard a strange vibration in his ears, turned his head to look, and saw that the first mate on the airship was holding a longbow, and the bowstring sounded softly.
The first mate didn't seem to notice Zhang Tie's gaze, but quickly pulled the bow again, shot the arrow, drew the bow, shot the arrow, drew the bow, shot the arrow, almost an arrow in a second, and after three arrows, three more clouds of blood mist exploded in the sky.
The rest of the iron-beaked ibises pounced, not on the deck, but on the airship's airbags, and the piercing sound of metal scraping suddenly sounded above Zhang Tie's head The airship was attacked: