Chapter 2 You come and go
The fire elves' movements were spread by word of mouth, and soon the entire continent knew about it. However www.biquge.info under the propaganda of various countries, the people also knew that the country was preparing for this, except for the people in Romania, who fled back to their own countries, the people in other regions still continued to work normally, and did not feel that the end of the world had come.
Fire Elf Palace area, castle ruins.
Ten thousand flame figures easily captured the castle yesterday and stayed there. Two hours after the sun rose today, these flaming figures emerged from the rubble and scattered in all directions.
In the southern part of the Romanian region, in the middle and in the north, these flame figures go everywhere.
Romania is now a vast and sparsely populated area, especially now that these people have also been evacuated, and many empty houses, half-cultivated farmland, and vineyards are left unattended. Those flaming figures set fire from the ruins of the castle and set fire to everything they saw along the way, trees, houses, waterwheels, road signs, and flames spread throughout Romania. Where the flame figure passed, nothing but scorched earth ravaged by the flames remained. The flame humanoid spread quickly, reaching most of Romania in just one day. Aside from the coastline and other corners, there are only two places left that are safe.
One is the northernmost border of Romania with Goria and Kermania, and those scattered flame figures roamed to this area and were wiped out by the defenders of the border castle in small teams. Goria and Kermania each have a 100-kilometer border with Romania, and a castle was built in the middle of the border, with a garrison of 10,000 troops. Dealing with the flame humanoid squad is still the idea proposed by Haotian, and then the heads of various countries have perfected it, and the armies in the Romanian region have been specially trained, and other armies have also received some training. There were 10 people in such a squad, and four of them each carried four fireproof leather water bags that could hold 5 kilograms of water, filled with water, and smashed the water bags at the flame figures before the battle; There are also 4 shield soldiers, the shields are iron-clad wooden shields with anti-burning treatment, which they use to block the movement of the flame humanoids; Finally, two pikemen stabbed through the gap in the hydration bag and into the flame humanoid's body. Similarly, a group of soldiers can easily destroy a lone flame humanoid; Encountering two adjacent flame humanoids can barely cope; When encountering more than three Flame Humanoids, they will be unable to control it, and will gradually be reduced by the Flame Humanoids, and then be defeated. Moreover, the four soldiers who resist the water bag can only carry 80 kilograms of water, and after dealing with the 4 flame figures, the water will not be enough, and they must return to the castle to replenish it. The castle's water is scarce, and it will take time to mobilize it from the country. Fortunately, all that has appeared so far are lone flame figures, and the border defenders can still deal with it. Over the course of a day, the border defenders of the two countries combined had eliminated more than 600 flame figures.
The other place is about 50 kilometers long from the lake around the Fire Elf Palace to the Grand Canal, which stretches to the open sea. This was proposed by Haotian four years ago and built by the joint efforts of various countries, which can accommodate three warships in parallel. In the middle of the canal, there is a castle, and the four nations are also stationed here, with a total of 10,000 troops, and those wandering and lonely flame figures are about 10 kilometers away from the middle of the canal, and when they encounter the canal, the castle will send out to sweep the troop of soldiers will be wiped out; Because it's right near the canal, the water in the water bag is easy to replenish, and a team of soldiers can kill 3 to 7 flame figures in a day, and if you're lucky enough to encounter a fire figure often, you can kill even more, with the largest group of soldiers killing 23 flame figures. Over the course of a day, the defenders of Canal Castle wiped out more than 500 flame figures.
The ease of the first day gave the defenders some confidence, and the flaming figures weren't as terrifying as they had been rumored. The defenders couldn't help but think that tomorrow and the day after tomorrow would eliminate some of the flame figures every day, and maybe they would be able to deal with this change without sacrifice.
But such an idea is still naïve.
The next day, the hundreds of pairs of soldiers sent out by the two border castles and the canal castle found only a few lone flame figures, and those flame figures seemed to disappear in one day. Combined, the defenders of the three castles had only wiped out more than a hundred flame figures in a single day.
Then, on the third day, the soldiers were still sent out to sweep. Then, encountered a group of flame humanoids, the flame humanoids who used to be alone in the past actually acted together this time, and the soldiers of a team of 10 people encountered them, and the water in the water bag was only enough to deal with 4, and the shield soldiers could only temporarily contain 4 even if they were one-on-one, while the flame humanoids had five. The extra one slaughtered the soldiers, and once the number of soldiers was reduced, it was even more unable to contain the other flame figures, and then they were quickly wiped out.
The defending generals in the castle didn't see much of the returning squad of soldiers at night, but occasionally the burned soldiers came back and brought back the news that the five flame figures were acting together. More than a hundred teams of soldiers sent out by each castle were close to total annihilation, and about 3,000 human soldiers were killed in battle.
On the fourth day, the defenders who had been given the action of the flame humanoids did not dare to send small groups of soldiers out to sweep again, and the soldiers only patrolled around the castle and did not dare to stay away. The garrison range of the canal fortress has shrunk from a radius of 10 kilometers to a radius of 3 kilometers, and no matter how far it goes, it is not necessary to send soldiers out, and there is no trace of the flame figure at the end of the day.
The two castles on the border have to monitor the movements on the entire border, and a sentry point is set up every 5 kilometers, with a hundred soldiers in it, a total of ten teams, to deal with a group of 5 flame humanoids who can be dealt with when they rush up; And if you encounter several groups of flame humanoids, send a team of men and horses to report to the castle; Then the defenders of the castle sent an army of thousands of people to destroy the part of the flame humanoid, but 20 outposts, the castle defenders often took care of the loss of the other, and when they eliminated the flame humanoid outside a sentinel point, there was also news that the outpost was breached by the flame humanoid. The defenders of the two castles were exhausted from running back and forth to fight fires on the border, and at the end of the day, they eliminated 70 groups of 350 flame figures and lost more than 3,000 soldiers from 31 outposts. The outpost that had been breached once was left with a burned ruin, and the soldiers who were left behind had to spend the night around and light a bonfire to keep warm. The defenders, who had suffered huge losses, also appealed to the country for help, and reinforcements rushed to the border castle one after another.
The next few days continued the rhythm of the fourth day, and the 3 kilometers around the canal fortress were calm, and the human soldiers and flame figures on the border came and went, and the intensity continued to escalate, and the number of human soldiers killed soon exceeded 50,000, heading towards 100,000; According to statistics, more than 5,000 groups of flame humanoids have also been eliminated, which is already half of the observed flame humanoids.
The border defenders were quite determined, and they would destroy the flame figures even if they were ten for one. After all, the strength of all human countries is more than 100,000, and if the flame humanoid form is only 10,000, the human side will win.
Then, on the 9th day after the Flame Humanoid appeared.
The generals of the garrison of the Goria Frontier Castle were still thinking about whether to send their troops to the 10 outposts on the left or to the outposts on the right.
"General, it's not good. Big things are not good. "A pro-soldier burst in.
"What's the matter, which sentinel was breached? Isn't this kind of thing ordinary, what to panic about. ”
"No, yes, it's a flame humanoid, and there are a lot of those monsters out of the city."
"What!!" The general stood up and ran out of the room to the city wall to take a look.
Outside the castle was the flat land that had been cleared, and at this time, one by one the flame figures were silently approaching the castle, and at a glance, the wide flat ground was full of flame figures. This has to be 5,000, no, it's 10,000, how can it be? How so?