Chapter 101: The Storm is Coming

When the men were paying attention to the world's major events and the women were chatting about fashion gossip, the whole town of Qiping Town outside was in full swing to prepare for the war.

Residents all shrank into the heart of the town, and some houses and buildings on the outskirts were abandoned.

Treants can grow more walls, but too much of a defense can stretch Cesar's mobile forces.

Some of the rangers were sent out to scout further, but more marksmen climbed the walls of the giant wood. They can move flexibly in the branches of these walls, and the dense branches also provide them with decent defense.

Every few tens of meters of the city wall, a tall tree man took root. Behind them lay huge rocks, and the mighty Treant warriors could throw the rocks a thousand yards up to a giant catapult.

And even if the demons rush in front of them, these heroic trees can pick up their branches and give them a hard blow.

The black-robed mages flew up to several key defense nodes, and a large number of spellcasting materials and scrolls were taken out.

Mud to stone, flame traps, greasy spells, these cheap and cheap terrain control scrolls are scattered outside.

But the biggest role is played by the mountain giants, who, under the command of the druids, use their natural abilities to turn the otherwise flat ground into a canine tooth.

Demons alone are not a big threat, although they have heavy carapaces and sharp claws, but in the home of the forest, any elf can play with a demon to death.

But the demon tide is completely different, facing the boundless demon charge that knows why it is fearful, no need for supplies. Interspersed with roundabouts? Split the encirclement? Any bells and whistles will become a joke.

In the Doomsday War, the coalition forces paid a terrible price before realizing this. In the face of the demon army, the only thing that can be done is to use the terrain to delay the enemy's furious charge and consume the enemy's living force on the preset battlefield.

Then, honestly just frontal.

Of course, in the end, the coalition forces did not just live.

In the millennium after the Doomsday War, the elves worked hard, and after initially solving the demographic crisis, they devoted themselves to the study of special tactics against demons, and developed many corresponding tactical ideas.

The first is a strict monitoring system.

The biggest threat to the Demon Tide is their ability to multiply rapidly, and if left unchecked, the demons will double in a matter of days, and then double again, forming an unbeatable number.

Rangers are an important part of this monitoring system, and they are all over the forest, walking all the way off the beaten track, just for fear of slipping through the net.

Villages and outposts scattered all over the country have become important nodes. In the event of an abnormality, the information will spread to the surrounding towns in time, buying precious time for the elves.

Another important point is the major research results of the sages of the Mage Tower after the Doomsday War. It's not a powerful spell of mass destruction, it's just a demon plane, and there's no such thing.

The mages risked their lives to sneak into the rear of the demons, and after paying a lot of sacrifices, they basically figured out how the demons reproduced and survived.

These demons do not spawn out of thin air, but grow out of some huge pools of flesh and blood. When a demon has eaten and drunk enough, it will return to the flesh pool to reorganize and evolve into a more powerful demon.

By destroying these pools of flesh and blood, you can cut off the root of these demons. Moreover, these pools of flesh and blood are scarce in number and have obvious targets, which is the main weakness of the demons.

When the demons' whereabouts are discovered, the surrounding elves will immediately clear the field and block their army. Mage Towers and Temples will draw elite forces to find and destroy their nests. After doing this, the demon tide is not to worry, and all that remains is to allocate a large army to clear it.

The only problem is time, as the number of demons swells to a certain level, new nests will be opened, and new pools of flesh will spawn more demons.

The more it drags on, the more tricky it becomes, and in the end it will turn into a second doomsday war. For more than a thousand years, the elves have worked diligently. Only once because of the infighting between the Mage Tower and the Temple, the opportunity was missed, causing the situation to be irreparable.

In the end, of course, they cheekily asked for help from the Lidders.

The human fleet was long overdue, and the Eero elves had already suffered heavy losses.

However, how the original nest of flesh was formed is debated by the sages, and the jury is still inconclusive. Most mages believe that demonic seeds hide in the dirt and come out when the right conditions are met.

A little later, just as the sun was about to set, a group of silver-white pegasus hurried from the direction of Fury Wind, led by the same rider that Cesar had sent out in the morning.

It also brought news of Fury Wind.

It's bad.

Based on the news from the surrounding forest rangers, it is almost certain that the line from Furious Wind City to Baishiling has fallen. The scattered villages in this vast forest have not been heard from for a week or so.

Demons who are not afraid of death are not brainless, on the contrary, they are quite cunning. They carefully hide their whereabouts before forming a crushing scale, ambushing lone elves and slaughtering outlying villages.

The jungle was full of killing machines, and the Knights of the Burning Thunder Fury were planning to send more rangers deep into the line of White Rock Ridge, when the intelligence of Qiping Town was filled in time for the last piece of the puzzle.

The staff officers drew a battle map and found that the town of Qiping was at the forefront of the demon tide, nailed like a peninsula deep into the demon-infested jungle.

It is very important to keep the springboard of Chiping Town, and now, the Pegasus Knights of Burning Thunder Fury are rushing to Chiping Town in batches.

The only flaw of these beautiful beasts, which can carry elves into the sky, is their limited physical strength. They were exhausted from their journey from Fury Wind to Qiping and had to land to rest.

If you let them fly directly from Fury Wind to White Rock Ridge or the Whispering Forest, search for the demon's lair in such a vast jungle. Then the Pegasus knights will have to risk their lives and land once or twice in the dangerous jungle to rest.

From Chiping, the Pegasus Knights can travel the entire search route in one day, and rest in the safety of the castle at night.

In short, Qiping Town has now been designated as an important base for advancing by Fury Wind City. The Pegasus Knights drawn from all over the country by the Burning Thunder Fury will be transferred from Fury Wind to Chiping Town, while the army will assemble in the rear to block the demon's path deep into the prosperous interior.

Once the Pegasus Knights find the demon's lair, the kingdom will send its most elite forces to destroy them in one fell swoop. The army in the rear will immediately move out and launch a sweeping counterattack along the entire front.

This group of Pegasus Knights who arrived was the first batch of scouts deployed by Burning Thunder Fury. At the same time, they also brought orders from the top.

There is no room for error in the town of Qiping, and the Fury of Burning Thunder will send four ranger brigades and a number of spellcasters, as well as a large number of supplies, to support the town. But given the dangerous conditions in the border forest, the large force will venture north along Futaba Peak and then turn back in the Valley of the Purr Chieftain, passing through the Giant Path, planning to reach the town of Chihei in five days.

The route is relatively safe, except that Cesar has to hold out on his own for at least five days up front. This is a very difficult task.

The good news was that the High Priestess, who was passing through the Fury Wind City, happened to be present, and she promised to complete Shilothyan's salute as soon as possible, and then come and help with Lord Morgan.

While they were discussing, the second Pegasus returned from the east, the one who had been sent out in the morning to reconnoiter the line from Baishiling to Yinquan.

The information he brought back corroborated the analysis of the General Staff Headquarters.

Until noon, the knight had not noticed anything unusual in the jungle below him, and only instinctively felt that there was a malicious snooping in the darkness. Just as the sun was just ticking, the knight flew to the vicinity of Silver Spring, a mountain village built on a beautiful waterfall that had been razed to the ground.

The knight was just about to get closer and see more clearly, when a large number of demons hidden in the jungle suddenly attacked, spitting a large amount of acid at him.

Fortunately, this scout is not simple, he is a survivor of the last demon tide, and he is quite experienced. The slight strange sound of the demons contracting their air bags and squeezing the venom was caught by his keen ears, and he pulled up the Pegasus in the first place.

This action saved him and the Pegasus beneath him, and the overwhelming acid almost grazed Pegasus's hooves and fell.

The knight did not dare to hesitate and immediately turned back and fled for his life. Along the way, the demon was no longer hidden, and from time to time there were cold arrows of acid flying towards him in the darkness of the jungle, and it was not until the area that Qiping Town was half a day's foot away did not stop.

After stumbling along the way, with experience and a bit of luck, the Pegasus Knight barely escaped. Of course, this information is very valuable.

According to the experience of fighting demons, at this distance of half a day's foot, the demons will start attacking Qiping Town at midnight at the earliest, and at dawn at the latest.

It has to be said that the garrison officer Cesar is experienced enough, and his accurate and timely decisions almost influenced the direction of Qiping Town and even this war. The intelligence brought by Alveta early in the morning was not exhaustive, and in reality, the druids were not even eyewitnesses. It's all the words of a forester who whispers in the jungle.

However, the garrison officer did not choose to send a ranger to confirm the information before making preparations, nor did he wait for instructions from Fury Wind in the rear, and he hoisted the yellow flag almost immediately to prepare for the war.

And his caution proved not to be as superfluous as it had been many times before, and when the sun had just set, when the demons had almost reached the gates, when the red battle flag had been raised over the castle, the whole town had been arranged like an iron bucket.

The timing was just right, and I even had time to have dinner.

"It's time for me to assemble."

Alverta put down her plate, straightened her flail and horned helmet, and the stout druid was about to go to war.

Ever since the blood-red banner was raised in the castle, the sound of horns has been heard incessantly. The elves have their own way of communicating, and the horns of the Ranger Brigade and the Druid Order are different, but it is difficult for outsiders to tell the difference.

Alverta had already heard the trumpet calling her, but did not act immediately. He was not in a low position in the Order, and he had some privileges.

On the one hand, I was shocked to hear that my old friend Chanai was leaving, so I had to say goodbye to it. On the other hand, the demon tide is coming, and he doesn't dare to say that he will definitely come back alive.

So this meal is precious. He silently chewed on the inexplicable human paste in the medical station.

"It would be nice if this magic tide came two years late."

That's the thought he had for the whole meal.

"Okay, Xiaobaichan, Brother Hao Yun, I'm going to set off too, I'll see you later." Yolanda also stood up to say goodbye to her two new friends, and she couldn't wait to get back to the barracks and show off her new nails like the girls and boys.

"You can't go anywhere!" With a wave of her hand, Alveta pushed Yolanda back into her chair, "I told Pablo when I was at the castle that your mission would be to protect Hao Yun and Mr. Chanai. ”

"You!!" The female ranger's face turned red, and her whole body trembled with anger.

Theoretically, the Liddells did not need an escort, and their medical station could fly short distances. In wartime, they will rescue the wounded elves in the medical station, but if the situation is critical, such as if the front is lost, the Liddells will also start their engines and leave.

You can't ask a foreigner to live and die with you, after all, they have already helped you too much.

Although there is no need for security, they are non-combatants belonging to friendly forces, and the elven military will send one or two elven warriors to protect the Liddells.

After all, these humans with well-developed minds and simple limbs are really capable of hand-to-hand combat.

Here's a trick: if the front is lost and the medical station is evacuated, they won't drive out the elves guarding them and the wounded who are being treated, but will take them to safety together.

Alverta had this in mind, he felt that Yolanda was a dish, and going to the battlefield was completely an act of death. It's safer than anywhere else at the medical station, and even if the town of Chiping is finished this time, Yolanda will be safe and sound.

This was certainly one of his petty privileges as the leader of the Order, but apparently he hadn't considered his daughter's thoughts.

The female ranger is so mad that she jumps up and is about to beat her father. For a ranger who is martial and cherishes glory, what difference is this behavior from a coward.

But how could she beat her battle-hardened father, her little fist was lifted by the neck and thrown to the ground before it even touched Alverta's chest.

"Just you?!" Alveta condescendingly taunted her, "What kind of thing are you to be a demon and the Shadow Leopard you bully all day long?" You post-900s, one by one, don't know the height of the sky, don't want to make progress all day long, greedy for pleasure, rely on you to be really ......"

He didn't continue scolding, and Yolanda lay on the ground crying, making him cry to the dismay.

"Chanai...... Glory always accompanies the journey, take care! ”

"Returning is like leaving, take care!"

Alveta nodded to Hao Yun and Xiaobai again, and then turned to leave.