Chapter 341: Miserable

Of course, Higg could imagine that after he captured the fortress of Holey, there would be a fierce battle between the two sides, one side attacked and the other side held on, but he did not expect it to be so tragic, with 100,000 people buried in the wilderness. What he was thinking about now was how to deal with the 20,000 troops that had come to attack him.

Of course, there is no problem in holding the fortress of Holly, but if the enemy is stationed in place and does not leave, and transfers supplies and grain from other places, he will still be trapped here, then it will be troublesome, he does not like to be besieged like this, so he is bent on breaking the deadlock before the enemy's main force rushes back. There is only one belief in his heart, that is, to fight out, never to defend passively, and retreating to the fortress is only the last resort.

There are more than 6,000 people stationed in the fortress of Hegg, which is too crowded, although the supplies and military rations are enough, but just relying on a few springs in the fortress, the soldiers have a problem with the draft capital, not to mention bathing, the dwarves are okay to say, the elves who love cleanliness have long complained! The right flank of Green's 13,000-strong Liberation Army, stationed in the cities of Amiens and Urato, was also somewhat crowded. Higg intends to hand over all three places to Green and jump to the periphery by himself, but first he must make a breakthrough and have a foothold before he can hand over the fortress.

The enemy's army of 20,000 besieged the fortress but did not attack, they only entered the westernmost entrance of the canyon two or three thousand meters away and camped, which is the mouth of the wind, and the high mountain cliffs on both sides, which is a good place to escape the heat. They knew that even attacking Fort Holey with all their might would be futile and would only increase casualties.

Although the Holly Fortress is in the Holly Canyon, it is the highest position of the canyon near the west side of the canyon, from the Holly Fortress to the east less than five thousand meters can go out of the canyon, but from the Holly Fortress to the west to the west foot of the Dorris Mountains, there are nearly 20 kilometers of curved and dangerous canyon to pass through, the canyon is surrounded by cliffs on both sides, and the magic of nature has created this natural wonder.

Therefore, the fortress can stop any army from passing through the canyon, but as long as there are troops stationed at both ends of the canyon, it can also hold the canyon, and no one can enter or leave at will.

Now Higg's 6,000 advance detachment and the druid's 20,000 army are equivalent to preventing each other from entering and exiting the canyon, one occupies the fortress and the other occupies the mouth of the canyon.

Higg was never a patient man, he recruited 3,000 dwarves from the cities of Amiens and Uratu early on, and began to build fortifications and garrison them at the narrowest part of the canyon seven or eight thousand meters east of the fortress. Three thousand dwarves opened the mountain and split the rocks, piling up a large number of earthwork and stones, as if to build a new fortress, looking at each other from the fortress of Heli and defending on both sides.

Summer is the rainy season in the north, with heavy rains every once in a while, and it is not until autumn when the dry, cold air from the north gradually takes over, and the rain slowly decreases.

The dwarves are worthy of being born good at mining, and the earthwork work is progressing very smoothly, and it only takes five days to build and tamp up the fortress platform that is more than 20 meters high, however, those dwarves still seem to feel that it is not high enough, and they are still piling up, cutting off this canyon that is nearly 100 meters wide. The base of the new fortress is getting higher and higher, and the enemy troops on the west side of the fortress often send patrols to reconnoiter the situation, at first Higg seems to be unconcerned, but as the work progresses, Higg sends people to strengthen patrols around the perimeter, and strictly orders that not a single enemy patrol is allowed to snoop on the secrets of the new fortress.

After more than ten days of non-ground work, the base of the entire new fortress was nearly 80 meters high, 100 meters long from north to south, and the narrowest part of the base near the ground was about 60 meters, and hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of earth and stone were piled up there until the rainy season became thicker, and the project was gradually stopped.

Higg looked at the massive dam and smirked.

The eastern side of the dam has begun to slowly accumulate water and become a large dammed lake reservoir, because the Heley Fortress is the highest terrain, and it is basically downhill to the east and west, so this dam is between the Heli Fort and the dam, collecting the rainwater flowing down from the mountains on both sides of the canyon and the partially melting snow from the high mountains.

The Great Canyon of Holey was originally a waterway, when it rained, the water from the mountains on both sides would gather here to divert from both sides of the fortress, usually the waterway was smooth, and I didn't think there would be any floods, but this trick of Higg gathered the water in the canyon.

Because there is still a distance of 12 kilometers from the dam to the west exit of the Heli Canyon, even if a part of the water is blocked, it will not attract the attention of the enemy because of the lack of water in the river in the canyon, so it is very important to choose the place where the dam is blocked.

From the beginning of the dam to the completion of the dam, the water level of the entire dammed lake has reached half the height of the dam, but for every meter of water level increase, the amount of water required is much more than the previous meter, because the entire dammed lake will continue to expand in area, extending eastward, and the water storage will become slow, and once Higg needs to have his own patience.

Finally, with God's help, this year's rain seems to be more than usual, and after more than 20 days of water storage, the dammed lake is basically full. The entire dammed lake is rippling with blue waves, and this large lake extends more than 4,000 meters from the dam to the east, with an average width of more than 200 meters, and the water storage capacity has reached more than 40 million cubic meters.

Higg seemed to be impatient, waiting for the last heavy rain to flood the top of the dam, then burst the dam, leaving the entire dammed lake rushing westward, and his army arrived to clean up the mess.

Lightning and thunder in the sky, wind and rain in the valley, heavy rain to calm down the heat, and soon the golden autumn season of the jungle will be ushered in, which is the harvest season, the season of joy.

But Higg seemed to be unable to wait, and he was ready to start his own harvest.

The enemy's 20,000-strong army, which was still stationed at the entrance of the western gorge, had not fought for nearly twenty days, and they gradually put down their nervousness, planning to wait until the heat was over, and move away from this place that gave them an unknown foreboding.

Suddenly, all of them felt the earth tremble, almost unsteady, and from the distant valley there was a loud rumbling noise, a terrifying sound, and all of them looked terrified, but they did not understand what was happening.

"Water, water, run!" The first person who saw more than ten meters of water in the canyon with mud, trees, and stones rolling in shouted loudly, but his face was pale, his legs trembled and he kept calling, and he couldn't run at all.

"Mom, run!"

"Oh my God......"

"Ah...... Woohoo......"

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Desperate shouts, cries, angry shouts, and shouts were intertwined, and all of them rushed out of the canyon desperately......

These waves more than ten meters high don't seem to be fast, but that's just because the distance is still hundreds of meters away, too far away, making people feel that there is still hope for survival, so they are desperately running out.

But these big waters look slow, but in fact they destroy everything in the canyon, and the big trees and boulders follow the big water, along the small slope, rolling in......

The barracks in the canyon have become a hell on earth, people are crowded, people are trampled on people, and if you fall, don't think about getting up again. The water swept away everything in the camp, and the people who ran towards the outside of the camp continued to sweep away, and the hopeless people tried to climb the cliffs on both sides, but most of them only climbed four or five meters high, and the water flooded over, making them part of the raging torrent.

From the first person to find the big water, to the big water rushing into the camp, that is, a matter of more than ten seconds, how can a person run through such a flood beast?

The whole scene can only be described in one sub, that is: miserable! If you have to embellish it, it's four words: miserable!

The flood doesn't know if you're a soldier or an officer, or a druid, or a dwarf or an elf, it's all so fair, just, open, and so ruthless. This is different from being chased by the enemy and you can surrender and defect in despair, you don't have a second answer choice, nothing but death! Of course, if you have to, it is that others may die worse than you, and you may die more undignified than others......

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The next day, Higg led all the soldiers of the advance detachment through the muddy canyon road, and when they arrived at the west entrance of the Holly Canyon, they couldn't believe their eyes, the water washed the entire canyon mouth too clean, and all the enemies were washed out of the canyon, and the water had come out of the canyon mouth, spread out in all directions, and flowed into the distance, and in the west of the entire canyon mouth, it became a Ze country, and the heavy rain stopped at the beginning, and the flowing water on the high mountains also continued to flow into this area, which was two or three hundred square kilometers.

On the water, there are still people struggling, but there are definitely no more than three hundred survivors, many of whom are already dying, and it is difficult to find a small high ground, and they have to compete with other survivors, even druids and officers are difficult to occupy a place alone.

"All the druids are killed, and all the other survivors are saved!" Higg ordered movingly, there was no reason why he didn't give these survivors a way to live, even the heavens had mercy on them, what right did he have to kill them beyond his authority?

"Yes, General!" More than two dozen rafts were launched, two dwarves held the boat, and two elven archers stood on it to guard, shooting the surviving druids to death, leaving the dwarves and elves to get on the raft.

Higg knew that most of the corpses would flow into the river, but there would still be thousands of corpses left at the mouth of the canyon, and if left untreated, there would be a high risk of a plague outbreak on such a hot summer day, which would be devastating for the advance detachment itself, the Restoration Army, or the Druids' army. Anyway, now there is a flood in front of me, and I can't go by myself, so I just finished disposing of these corpses here......

But an accident made Higg miss the opportunity to take the road to the city of Korqin again, that is, the retreating Bols army was also intercepted by the flood. Higg didn't expect Bols to be defeated so quickly, and Bols didn't figure out what was going on with these great floods of his own soldiers......