Chapter 133: Changes in Target A (2)
This heavy rain is rare in recent times.
The protagonist is at the top of the [bridgehead] anthill, looking out through a small window.
I saw that countless white practices were connected between heaven and earth, and the sound of crackling raindrops falling was endless, as if the Milky Way was tilted, and it was like a heavenly lake bursting.
Such heavy rainstorms are usually common during summer thunderstorms, but it is rare to see a drop of rain after late autumn. The autumn rain seems serious, but it is not violent, and this rain is like a madness, threatening to drown the earth.
The rainstorm was not only violent, but also sudden, and the ants' warnings did not come in handy. If it weren't for the protection of the [bridgehead] lair, if the Divine Envoy King's legion had encountered this natural disaster in the wild, it is estimated that it would have suffered heavy losses if it had not been completely destroyed.
Some insects that struggled to survive in the autumn were killed before the rains. Just by looking through the window, the protagonist sees a butterfly hiding behind a leaf with nowhere to go, and the leaves do not serve as a shelter in the rain. The butterfly struggled to take off, trying to change shelter amid the countless raindrops. But its beautiful and delicate wings quickly decay in the heavy rain, and its body falls and disappears before the protagonist's eyes.
There was also a grasshopper that escaped from its hiding place, bouncing in the rain from time to time, trying to move into the distance.
But soon, its body stiffened in the cold weather and rain, and it collapsed in a puddle of water, its belly soaked in stagnant water, struggling and shaking a few times, and then soon suffocated to death.
This scene must have been played out in countless places.
Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs. Nature is so cruel, in the already difficult and hopeless season, it has stifled the struggles and hopes of the survivors in the harshest way.
However, life is always tenacious, and there will always be individuals who live and pass on hope, cold winter, ice and rain, wildfires, and no natural disaster can kill all life.
The protagonist looks at the rain curtain from Haruka, and his mind has drifted to [Target A]. This sudden heavy rain, which is rare in autumn, is bound to have a great impact on the battle situation there.
The remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army hiding in [Target A] have the protection of their lair, so they should not be affected. But the Destroyers are estimated to be miserable.
According to the Flying Knights' previous reconnaissance, the Destroyers do not build makeshift nests during sieges, and rarely seek shelter at night on weekdays. They were accustomed to finding a patch of grass in the wilderness and huddling together, and no creature could threaten the Destroyers gathered together.
But nature is clearly an exception. The Destroyer's habit is fine on a normal day, but when it comes to such a sudden rainstorm, it is difficult to survive.
In contrast, the Divine Envoy King's legions will always look for the nearest lair overnight, or build a temporary camp, or find shelter such as tree holes and stone crevices, and are more resistant to such natural disasters.
The protagonist looks at the heavy rain of this scale outside the window, and his mind drifts into the distance.
Historically, there have been many, many battles that have been changed by a heavy rain.
During Japan's Warring States Period, the powerful daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto tried to pass through the Oda family's territory in Karaku, and the Oda family's forces were at a great disadvantage, and the most extreme version was that they were only one-tenth of the enemy.
Oda Nobunaga, after learning of the Imagawa army's offensive, sang the famous phrase "Fifty years in the world, like a dream and a fantasy", and then went into battle.
Oda Nobunaga's appearance seemed to be outnumbered at the time, and it seemed that he was only desperately struggling for honor, and he was at a complete disadvantage in terms of strength comparison.
However, when heavy rain suddenly fell, Oda Nobunaga learned that Imagawa Yoshimoto's main team was stationed in Tsubasasa, and decisively launched a surprise attack. During the torrential rain, the Imagawa army took shelter from the rain and lost its formation, the roads were muddy and difficult to assemble, and it was difficult for other troops to support the commander in time.
In the end, the Imagawa army, which had tens of thousands of troops, only had 300 people left in the flag team to protect Imagawa Yoshimoto's retreat, but under the continuous impact of the Oda army, Imagawa Yoshimoto was killed, and the Imagawa army that was in ashes for a while.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the "Flooded Seventh Army" of World War I, which achieved Guan Yu's name of "Megatron China", also had the help of heavy rain.
In July of the 24th year of Jian'an, Guan Yu, who was guarding Jingzhou, led the Shu army to the north, marching to Xiangyang and Fancheng, forcing Cao Ren, the defender of Fancheng, to report to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao sent Yu Ban and Pang De to lead an army to the rescue, and the reinforcements were deployed as support at the Jinkou River, ten miles north of Fancheng. However, this area is a large area of low-lying land, and it is also the old road of the Han River, Guan Yu has been fighting in the Jingxiang area for a long time, and he knows the local geography and climate very well, he quickly discovered this tactical mistake of Cao's army, and thought that there was an opportunity to win. So, he began to mobilize the navy army to wait for the time.
Soon, it rained heavily for more than ten days, the water level of the Han River soared, and the water rushed to the Yankou River along the old road of the Han River, and the Cao Wei garrison stationed here was all flooded, and Yu Ban and Pang De had to lead the troops to the embankment to avoid the water.
Guan Yu took the opportunity to send a naval army that had been waiting for a long time to attack Cao's army fiercely. Cao Jun was caught off guard, with many dead and wounded, falling into the water, and being captured. The general had no choice but to lead 30,000 soldiers to surrender, and Pound was captured alive in a desperate battle. In this battle, Guan Yu shocked China and forced Cao Cao to almost move the capital.
In the Battle of Waterloo, which decided the fate of Europe for hundreds of years, the downpour was undoubtedly an important driving force for Napoleon's defeat.
At that time, the weather conditions were bad, with heavy rainfall and muddy roads, which made it difficult for the French army on the battlefield. The artillery, which the French army had always relied on, only a small part of it entered the position because of the muddy road, resulting in a serious shortage of French support firepower. The lack of firepower allowed Marshal Ney to exhaust the French reserves in order to capture the village of Saint-Laet. Eventually, exhausted both the British and French forces could only wait for reinforcements, and the Prussian army, an ally of Great Britain, arrived on the battlefield before Napoleon had been waiting for reinforcements, burying Napoleon's empire.
In his novel Les Misérables, Victor Hugo describes how desperate the weather conditions were at the Battle of Waterloo: "An unseasonably cloudy sky was enough to cause the world to collapse. ”
Huge humans can't overcome the negative effects of heavy rain, let alone tiny ants.
In the vicinity of [Target A], the Destroyers have indeed suffered a catastrophe.
The area around [Target A] was already low, and the rainwater was pouring down, and the rainwater collected quickly gathered into streams and pools of water.
The Destroyers were sluggish and stiff in the rain, scattered by the rain and floods, and had to move themselves to higher ground.
Countless destroyers were swept away by the flood and struggled in the stagnant water. The mighty destroyer is equally vulnerable to the power of nature.