Chapter 645: Hogsmeade's Fourth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression (1)
Brian Braddock was attacked at the same time that more than half of the Auror Command of all levels throughout the island of Great Britain was attacked at about the same time.
In Hogsmeade's Auror command headquarters, almost all the maps of Britain on the walls were red. The rows of staff sitting below were calling the various branches through the communicator to understand the situation, but there were few places that were safe and sound, more places were asking for help from the headquarters, a few places were no longer contactable, and some places heard the sound of battle in the middle of the speech.
Scrimgeour sat behind his desk, listening to the staff report with a calm face.
Now that the situation is beginning to become clear, Voldemort's sneak attack is aimed at the Auror headquarters in the regions.
After the start of the war, the Ministry of Northern Magic began to rely on the national defense system to set up four levels of headquarters - regions - counties - regions - regions in the country according to the administrative regions of the United Kingdom.
On top of this, these Auror Commands worked with local police, military, and volunteers among the wizarding residents to carry out operations against the scattered Death Eaters.
This deployment lowers the Aurors' practice to the grassroots level, focusing the previous attention on grassroots actions, and carrying out the maintenance and governance of law and order from the grassroots level.
In the past six months of war, this unprecedented system of British magical society has been well implemented, and remarkable results have been achieved, and the disadvantages of the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic such as cumbersome alarms and slow response speed of the Aurors have been greatly improved.
In previous months, whenever a Death Eater was found on the street where the wizard lived, they would be reported by the local wizard as soon as possible, and then the Aurors who arrived would fight off or capture the Death Eater with the help of local volunteers.
Although the scale of these battles throughout Britain was small, the results were significant. Law and order improved, support for the Northern Ministry of Magic began to rise, more and more volunteers joined the fight against the Death Eaters, and the number of Aurors wounded and killed in action began to decrease dramatically.
Especially after the nationwide battle in early January, the Death Eaters were caught in the middle of a sea of English wizards' people's war.
Scrimgeour had expected the mysterious people to attack this Auror system, and the Ministry of Magic had also taken relevant precautions earlier, and every Auror command had hidden it with magic.
It's just that judging from the current situation, it seems that the mysterious side has a lot of information about the location of the Auror Command.
At this moment, Scrimgeour is thinking about the next step, the main goal of the mysterious man is to play the trick of the tiger away from the mountain again, or to destroy the entire Auror command system.
A moment later, Scrimgeour began to give orders.
"After ordering the Aurors of Northern Ireland to leave a minimum of personnel, all personnel will support England."
"Longbottom, you arrange for some people to support Scotland and Wales."
"Temporarily abandon all regional-level Auror commands, and concentrate all Aurors on county-level commands, with the goal of preserving as much vitality as possible."
"Contact the Muggle government and ask them to help protect the county commands."
"Cedric, fully mobilize the volunteers and let them assist in throwing the various commands of resistance to break through."
"Order each county to collect information on the Death Eaters in their subordinate areas through each household, and then organize capable forces and reliable and competent volunteers according to the actual situation, and concentrate their forces to eliminate the small number of Death Eaters."
Hogsmeade also organized volunteers to defend against the Death Eaters.
"Tell Hogwarts to take precautions."
At the end, Scrimgeour was moved, and then added one last command.
"Finally, order the Aurors and volunteers at all levels, if they lose contact with Hogsmeade, they can carry out any action on the premise of preserving the living force, but they cannot support Hogsmeade."
One order after another was given, and almost all the wizards in Britain went into action.
In Chelmsford, Brian Braddock saw the Death Eaters and his colleagues locked in a stalemate. Hidden in the shadows, he raised his wand and pointed at the Death Eater who was giving orders to his men to detour, "Pass out!" ”
The Death Eater, who seemed to be the commander, fell under the stun spell behind his back, and the group of Death Eaters fell into a brief confusion, some of the Death Eaters who had just received the roundabout order wanted to continue the order, some wanted to turn around and attack Braddock, and the other Death Eaters did the same, not knowing whether to continue to attack the enemy in front or behind.
In the Auror Command, the captain in charge of the area, Joseph Chapman, saw the chaos of the Death Eaters and immediately led his men to launch a counterattack.
However, the Aurors soon suffered from Braddock's immaturity. Braddock, who fought at a disadvantage for the first time, still couldn't get rid of his bookish aura, thinking that just like the last downwind game, he could use the stun spell to solve the opponent.
The Death Eater, stunned by the Unconscious Curse, was quickly awakened by his companions, who immediately ordered two men to deal with the enemies that appeared behind him, and the others joined him to block the Aurors back.
The Death Eaters here did not form an overwhelming advantage over the Aurors, but only had a slight advantage, they could only suppress the Aurors and prevent them from escaping, and then wait for reinforcements from the Death Eaters elsewhere.
A wall of fire swept by, and Braddock, hidden in the shadows, was forced out of shape.
A Death Eater shot a spell at Braddock, which he quickly blocked, but he couldn't stop the spell from another Death Eater.
Thankfully, when the spell flew up to 10 inches away from him, the Iron Charm vest did its job. After a flash of white light, the spell was bounced into a nearby tree, making a large hole in the trunk.
Braddock, who faced the joint attack of the two Death Eaters, suddenly fell into a crisis, and after receiving three evil curses in a hurry, the iron armor spell vest on his body would have failed, if he hadn't carried the iron armor amulet on his body, his grave grass would be old and tall next year.
At this moment, a sound of footsteps came from a distance, and then Braddock heard two familiar voices ringing out.
"Divided!"
"Thunderbolt Explosion!"
Two spells flew towards the Death Eaters who were attacking Braddock, and the Iron Armor Spells on the two Death Eaters blocked them, but they were quickly knocked to the ground by the following spells.
Brian Braddock turned his head and found that his brother James Braddock and twin sister Elizabeth Braddock were the first to cast the spell, and behind them were his girlfriend Meghan and his neighbors Kelsey Leigh, Adolf Costa, Gilles Weir, Barry Bullock, Barton Burdock, Billy Ranson, and others.
"Why are you here?" Brian asked his girlfriend next to him after blocking a spell.
"Armor protection!" After putting an iron spell on Brian, Meghan said, "We know you need help, so we're here." ”
The volunteers who came to reinforce were much more effective than the Death Eaters expected, and the Death Eaters' attempt to keep the Aurors in command and wait for reinforcements failed.
Once again, the Aurors launched a counterattack, and now it was the Death Eaters' turn to fall to the downside.