Winter flight is definitely not an easy task.

Even though the sky knights are equipped with wolfskin hats, fleece scarves, and windproof goggles, the exposed skin on their faces can still feel the biting cold from time to time.

After all, the windshield of the Skyfire is located directly in front, and when the wind direction changes or the aircraft maneuvers, the cold wind will mix with snowflakes and pour into the cockpit from all directions.

However, Gude can also understand the necessity of this design.

Above his head is a huge wing, and the forward view is only a narrow line. If he wants to observe the ground situation, the only way is to stick his head out of the cockpit. In fact, this is also what he and Fenjin do most often—the sky knights are not like what he thought before, the two sides arrive at the battlefield and show their weapons, each relying on their own abilities. If they don't know the enemy's location in advance, it is very difficult to find the target in the air.

You know, at a thousand meters away, the Skyfire is almost the size of an ant, let alone the figures on the ground.

This is probably also the reason why the biplane needs to be equipped with two people—two pairs of eyes always see farther than one.

"Any discoveries?"

He turned his head and asked.

About an hour ago, the flying team had crossed the Sky of Windhowl Stronghold. According to the map estimation, if the enemy did not give up the chase, they should be near this area. In order to find the target as quickly as possible, the four aircraft spread out from each other, with the due north as the line, forming a fan-shaped search area.

This is also the standard multi-aircraft search method stipulated in the "Flight Manual".

In theory, as long as they do not deviate from the course, the four aircraft are enough to cover an area of more than two hundred kilometers. However, considering the impact of the weather, the aircraft groups are not too far apart, which also greatly reduces the area of the fan shape.

"Nothing!" Fenjin shouted back, holding up his binoculars. "Could the devils have already caught up with the refugees, killed them all, and gone back?"

"Then you should be able to find a lot of corpses!"

"Okay, I'll try harder to look... I hope this snow doesn't cover them up." Fenjin shouted, "Buddy, can you fly lower?"

Gude slightly pressed down the nose of the plane, while glancing at the compass and altimeter.

These are also the only two key parameters that Skyfire can use to determine its current location.

However, the "Flight Manual" also has a clear reminder that one should not overtrust the instruments—"Because His Majesty's technical ability is limited, instrument errors should be regarded as a norm, especially when the climate, altitude, and terrain change drastically. Never forget to stick your head out and take a look at any time, unless you are willing to become a cornerstone for promoting technological progress—Tilly Wimbledon."

"At most three hundred meters, no lower. This is not the Western Region of Graycastle, it's all plains—"

Before he could finish speaking, Fenjin interrupted him, "Turn two degrees to the right! There seems to be movement over there!"

Gude's expression froze, and he immediately adjusted his course.

Besides the sound of the wind and the roar of the engine, almost no external sound can be heard during flight, so the movement that the partner said must not refer to the sound, but to the changes that can be seen with the eyes—and in this kind of weather, few people are active in the wild, so this movement is particularly suspicious.

Soon, Gude also captured the anomaly with the naked eye. On a raised hillside, many black shadows appeared against the white background. They were not scattered, but formed many continuous line segments, looking like hair scattered on the snow from a distance.

"Those are... footprints?"

Fenjin's shouts answered his question, "That's right, I think it should be them that Her Highness is talking about! People are indeed moving on the hillside, not just one or two! Oh my god, the devils are chasing the refugees, I saw more than a hundred corpses! Judging from their size, they should be Mad Demons, about thirty or forty of them!"

"Send a signal!" Gude no longer hesitated and pressed the joystick down, "We'll go first!"

With a "swoosh" sound, three fluorescent green flares shot straight into the sky, forming a sharp contrast with the red moon fixed in the center of the dome.

The plane swooped down towards the hillside, and the distance between the two sides quickly narrowed. When it was four or five hundred meters away from the top of the slope, Gude finally saw the refugees climbing and rolling in the snow. They fled down the mountain in panic, and many people rolled all the way down, so you can imagine their situation.

The Mad Demons were slowly devouring this fleeing team behind them. The enemies did not seem to be exerting their extraordinary physical strength and speed. Rather than a massacre, it was more like a game to pass the time.

Gude suddenly felt his blood surge.

He silently recited the shooting experience, aimed the nose of the plane at the Mad Demons on the top of the mountain, until the two became a straight line, and he pressed the fire button.

The nose of the plane instantly erupted with gunfire!

This is also the easiest way for Skyfire to hit the target—at a height of two or three hundred meters, there is no need to consider the drop in the bullet's path. From diving to pulling up, the direction the nose of the plane points is the direction the bullet sweeps. Even for him, he would not miss such an opportunity!

The torrent of bullets that came out of the chamber instantly stirred up a straight "dividing line" in the snow!

At this moment, the devils also noticed the giant bird descending from the sky. They screamed and pulled out bone spears, posing to throw them at the Skyfire, without any intention of avoiding.

At this moment, the "dividing line" rushed into the devil group without any obstruction.

And what it divided was life and death.

The howling metal bullets easily penetrated the Mad Demons' bodies, and strings of snow pillars suddenly had a little bit of blue. The devils hit in the chest could see the red mist suddenly blooming behind them, while those swept in the arms and legs were directly broken. For a time, broken limbs and minced meat mixed with snowflakes and splashed everywhere, and the momentum of the enemy's pursuit was also stalled.

After sweeping a round, the devils' bone spears arrived late. Unfortunately, at this altitude, the enemy's javelin attack could not pose any threat to the Skyfire. Even if it could fly up, the spearhead had lost all its power and speed, and it was almost impossible to hit a high-speed biplane.

And the Skyfire's attack was far from over.

The process of Gude pulling up the nose of the plane again was the time for the rear seat gunner to play.

Fenjin fired a burst of shots at the top of the mountain, but compared to the traceable dive shooting, his replenishment shooting could only rely on experience.

The devils seemed to have just reacted at this time. The strange bird in the sky was not a mixed-species evil beast or some other monster, but a human war weapon! But this realization could not bring any change to their situation. Lying down to hide and fighting to the death were meaningless in front of the high-flying Skyfire, and even the hope of escape became extremely slim.

In the past Battle of Divine Will, how desperate the human cavalry was in front of the faster and higher Terror Beasts, the current Mad Demons are the same—perhaps even more so.

A moment later, Gude accumulated enough potential energy and swooped down towards the devil squad again.

The other two teams also appeared on the horizon.

Under the ensuing multi-faceted attack, the devils began to turn around and run wildly to the rear, and the flying team bit them tightly, taking the opportunity to expand the results of the battle.

Neither Gude nor Fenjin realized that they were the first people in nearly a thousand years to chase a majority with a minority in an encounter between the two races—even the evacuation team of the First Army before did not dare to actively launch an attack on the enemy when they were outnumbered, but now facing forty or fifty Mad Demons, the three aircraft together had only six people.