Volume 4 The First Kuroshio War Chapter 91 The Dilemma of the Great Evacuation Plan
The "Great Evacuation" plan for the town of Huquan has been launched. The collection of supplies and the preparation of transport have begun to be raised on the spot. The heralds sent to villages and towns that have not been attacked by the undead have also set out as soon as possible, hoping that the residents of various places will act as soon as possible after learning the news of the undead invasion.
Huquan Town has become the largest commercial town in the Mist Lake area because of its strategic location, and at this moment, it has also become the core of the "Great Evacuation" plan because of its relatively convenient transportation. Leaders from all over the country will gather in Huquan Town, and then arrange for horse-drawn carts, ox carts, donkey carts, and other means of transportation to Rift Fort. The messenger sent to Rift Fort has departed......
The evacuation was left to Yuna and Yuya. They are regular military academy graduates, and they are more experienced in overall planning and detailed arrangement, and they are more efficient in handling this matter than Fang Qiuling.
Fang Qiuling used strong means to unify the voices of the upper echelons of Huquan Town, demanding the unconditional cooperation of all officials in Huquan Town, and completely giving the twins the power of punishment, and also letting the paladins supervise the whole process to ensure that the decree can be unimpeded and efficient. However, such a decree is still unpopular from any point of view. Not only did the officials and businessmen oppose it, but the people also did not understand and support it. Therefore, in the process of program implementation, there are a variety of problems that emerge one after another.
The first is the shortage of supplies. There were not enough cars and horses to transport people, there was a considerable shortage of food rations on the road, most of the items to protect from the cold, and even more bits and pieces. Even if the materials stored in the warehouses of the various chambers of commerce have been collected, there is still a big gap.
The second is the lack of cooperation of the people. It is difficult for the people to understand why they should leave their homeland where they have lived for generations. After all, they couldn't understand what an undead invasion was until they saw the army of the undead scattered all over the mountains. So the specific performance is to be able to drag and hide. There are even some lords who believe that the new dai lord wants to seize their property and drive them away, which will rise to the level of armed confrontation.
This was followed by a sudden deterioration in law and order. Many ill-intentioned idlers, adventurers, and villains suddenly discovered a "business opportunity", because the town guards who pressed them every day suddenly ignored them! Immediately, vicious incidents such as smashing and looting emerged one after another, and even worse incidents abounded......
However, these difficulties can be overcome. For example, it takes a process to receive the materials in the warehouse of the Chamber of Commerce, but the reality is not a game, and the materials will be directly allocated with a move of the fingers, but a list and registration are required. The uncooperation of the lords can be dispelled by persuasion, such as by the Temple of Notos and the god of the wind, so that communication can be very effective. As for those who have ill intentions, just crack down, and all those caught during the special period will be punished with capital punishment!
But there is one thing that cannot be overcome, and that is time. Time is running out for the living.
In Elune's World, the First Kuroshio War lasted less than a month. The undead army of the Dark Nation Mamo began with the landing of Op Harbor and the capture of Misty Castle, then swept through the Misty Lakes region until they reached the Rift Fortress.
Most of the time was spent on the road, and a small half was spent on the attack and defense of the Rift Fortress. The main thing is that skeletons and zombies are really going too slowly. However, as long as the undead army arrives at its destination, whether it is a siege or a sweep, it will basically take one or two days, even if it is Wuxi Castle and Falling Leaf Pass.
As long as you take a look at the sea of undead all over the mountains, the morale of the defenders will basically bottom out, and those who have not escaped are already considered warriors.
The current reality is better than in the game, at least the Fog Castle will not be able to fall overnight, and the Count of DeHarus will suffer extremely heavy losses compared to the Earl of DeHarus. But if you really talk about how good the situation is, Fang Qiuling will directly express it in two words: hehe!
Foggy Castle blocked the road on the north shore of the north of Misty Lake, blocking the undead army on the north road to the west of Foggy Castle. But the south bank of the misty lake is still a flat river, there is no natural danger, and there are no fortresses and castles that can stop the army of the undead. The Death Knight travels day and night on skeleton horses, arriving at Lakesprings from Port Op in five days. And the fall of Op Harbor was already a few days ago.
If a small group of Death Knights appeared outside Huquan Town at this moment to show off their might, Fang Qiuling would not be surprised at all. Once the Death Knights appear outside Lakesprings, they will inevitably attack the refugees mercilessly, causing chaos and great panic among the refugees. Once the refugees start to panic, it means that the "Great Evacuation" plan has failed before it is implemented.
Of course, if there really were Death Knights who appeared outside Lakesprings at this moment, it would be expected. There is no other way than to use all forces to wipe them out and reduce the casualties of the refugees. As for the "great evacuation" plan, there is no more room for choice than to speed up, speed up, and speed up again.
Therefore, after Fang Qiuling completed the formulation of the plan, he lost Huquan Town to the twins, and he led the few living forces to set off to the south bank of Mist Lake, trying to cut off the possibility of the undead small army rushing to Huquan Town.
It is impossible to stop the army of the undead. Even the line from Wuxi Fort to Fallen Leaf Pass, which gathered most of the military forces in the Misty Lake area, could only delay time in the face of the invasion of the undead army. At present, the number of living forces gathered under Fang Qiuling's command is just over a hundred, and the highest quality is only the silver junior rank, what can be used to stop the army of the undead? The mantis arm is a car or something, it doesn't make sense at all!
However, since the Fog Castle has attracted the attention of the main force of the undead army, the number of undead coming from the south bank of the misty lake will definitely not be large. However, it is difficult to say whether there will be high-level necromancers coming to the South Bank to join in the fun. Compared with the numerical superiority of low-level undead, the unpredictable methods of high-level necromancers should not be underestimated.
Therefore, after completing the aerial reconnaissance and the convergence of the ground forces in the rear, Fang Qiuling immediately summoned the main members of the small unit for a "pre-war meeting." Promising Eliza's magic skills can only be postponed for now, hoping that when he remembers it again, Eliza will not think that he has lost his words. Whether it is a cat or a dog, Fang Qiuling has no interest in being a ......
- Many villages have been destroyed! No one was seen alive!
- I'm here too, I can see skeletons and zombies in the wild, but there are not many of them, only a few of them.
Franz and Tom Sr., who live in the Misty Lake area all year round, know a lot about the southern shore of Misty Lake. Relying on their familiarity with the terrain, they quickly circled the south shore, and even approached Op Harbor for a time. The two of them have a clear purpose, and their opinions are not the same - to find the main force of the army of the undead!
The purpose of finding the main force of the army of the undead is to surprise the attack. Compared with the traditional mixed army composition of infantry and cavalry, Fang Qiuling's small army was all cavalry, which had an advantage in speed. At the same time, the composition of the team is more than a clergy, and the clergy have an innate restraint against the undead. Combined, these two advantages make it possible to surprise the army of the undead.
The results of the aerial reconnaissance disappointed the two of them. There was no trace of the army of the undead, and there was no valuable information, but he was half angry by the scorched earth strategy of the undead. Seeing that his hometown was covered in a large area of scorched black, the anger in his heart was unsettled!
However, Fang Qiuling, who also took off to reconnoitre, didn't see it much.
The villages attacked were from west to east, and the closer they were to Port Op, the more villages were destroyed. The closer you get to Huquan Town, the more intact villages there are. The scattered skeletons in the wild also show a situation of more in the west and less in the east, and the closer to Op Harbor, the higher the density of skeleton distribution.
The location of the destroyed villages and the density of the skeletons were carefully represented on the map, and a clear arrow suddenly appeared in front of him.
Before the invasion of the Dark Nation of Mamo, the Mist Lake region was the land of the living. There are goblins, gnolls, and occasionally orcs running from the back, ogres popping out of nowhere, blah, blah, blah...... Either way, there should never be skeletons or zombies in the wild.
The low-level undead who appeared in the wild at this moment must have been awakened by the Dark Realm Mamo through the revival ritual. As for why the skeletons scattered in the wild have ...... Fang Qiuling guessed that it might be that the guys in charge of "chasing out the corpses" didn't know how to count, and of course, it could also be because those guys didn't care whether there were a few more or a few.
The undead on the south bank slowly advance eastward along the main road on the south bank, slaughtering all the villagers who didn't have time to escape with each village they capture, and then reviving the corpses into low-level zombies with evil spells...... In other words, there won't be many undead on the south shore of Lake Mist, so much so that the Dark Nation Mamo needs to replenish the cannon fodder in a "kill and resurrect" way.
The success rate of resuscitation is not 100 percent. The success of the resuscitation is related to the caster who casts the spell, as well as to the "quality" of the corpse itself. It is difficult to estimate the proportion of recovery because there are so many factors that affect the proportion of recovery. However, judging from the base number of victims, the proportion is not high, and the cumulative number should not be a small number.
Preliminary estimates put the number of villagers living in the destroyed villages to more than 2,000. Suppose half of them died at the hands of the undead and half escaped, then the number is more than a thousand. Suppose half of them are resurrected as low-level undead, or even a third instead of half, then there will be hundreds of terrifying undead soldiers who are not affected by morale, hunger, or cold.
With a few hundred undead soldiers and their "masters" resuscitating, such an undead army could basically walk sideways on the south shore of Lake Mist. What's more, there are elite pressure formations from the Mamo homeland, and high-level necromancers who can provide support at any time......