Chapter 145: Confrontation
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The direction of people's escape should be towards the interior of the human empire, Wang Cuo flew overnight and found that the surrounding roads were getting wider and wider, and the facilities were getting more and more numerous, obviously official roads. The main roads of the two adjacent cities in the human kingdom are carefully constructed, especially in this kind of border area, there must always be a wide road to facilitate the transportation of materials.
However, such a road also gave the barbarians a more convenient way to pursue, and after flying all night, Wang Cuo still did not catch up with the barbarians' ranks, and the road was close to the wheat fields on both sides, and there were still few green shoots.
Wang mistakenly remembered that when he came to the Southern Wilderness, it was still winter in the territory of Vanna City, but the climate in this area had already disrupted his weather calculations, and this place looked more like spring.
After flying for a long time, Wang Cuo felt very tired, so he stopped on a big tree on the side of the road to rest.
I didn't sleep all day, I was so dizzy that I poked my head hard with my wings a few times...... There were other birds behind him, Wang Cuo looked around, it turned out that there were many birds in the vicinity, but unfortunately he couldn't understand the bird language!
No, I suddenly reacted, how could there be so many birds, just now one was flying and didn't pay attention, and now I found that the books on both sides of the road are full of birds. There are dozens or hundreds of them on almost every branch, and the number is exaggerated.
He noticed that many birds would fly into the wheat field in a loop, and then more birds would fly out when they were submerged in it...... Does this world even have an alliance of birds? And the base is in the wheat field?
Perhaps because the human race has already fled, Mai Tianyuan is left unattended, and the barbarian army has walked by, many places are traces of destruction, and the growth is not good.
Suddenly, the birds that had just been submerged in the wheat field grabbed small mouse-like animals and flew up, and then more birds grabbed their prey. What's going on? There are rats. Wang Cuo flew over curiously.
Turning over the green grass in the wheat field, I found countless rats running out, as if they had fallen into a quiet anthill and were discovered.
Patches of rats are running in all directions...... And those birds seized this opportunity, found the lone bite and picked it up, and put it in front of them, and the whole wheat field was moving, all of them were rats.
Omnivorous rodents like rats have no reason to migrate.
Could it be ...... Looking back at the cities that have flown over, the rats that live in the city all year round have become accustomed to relying on humans, and if the whole city is empty, the rats should also move. He remembered that many of the corpses in the city had been eaten, and he didn't pay much attention to it at the time, thinking that it was just natural animal nibbling or some kind of perverted habit of the barbarians. And now it looks like these rats should have done it.
gnawed on the corpses, and most of them fled to the west...... I'm afraid it's not just a rat plague, but it can't turn into a plague.
Wang Cuo shook his head, kept himself clear, and continued to hurry, this time to follow faster.
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More items began to fall on the road, and decapitated human corpses appeared, also being eaten by a group of rodents and birds. The blood that flowed has not completely blackened and should not have been long in the past...... It's almost there.
He deliberately raised the distance to make it easier to see farther away.
A few miles away from the line of sight, bridges, rivers, and cities appeared, and I finally let myself catch up!
He saw a group of black people moving, it should be the team of barbarians.
Wang Cuo flew over quickly, his body rising, and he looked down on the troops under his feet from a higher perspective...... The barbarians are still the same group, and the size feels completely unchanged, and the loss of slaughtering a city is so small.
There was a lot more material in their ranks that were transported by wagons, and this was indeed the method of fighting to feed the war. Wang said in his heart.
In front of the barbarians was a large river, which was supposed to have a bridge, but now it had been broken to stop the barbarians from advancing. On the other side of the river were many human barracks tents, stretching from the very front to the distant city. The scale is much larger than the barbarian one.
The two sides confronted each other across the river without further action.
Wang mistakenly flew past the camp of the barbarians, and found that most of the barbarians were actually sleeping, sleeping in front of the enemy camp across the river, I really don't know if this is mockery or confidence.
But it's none of my business, this is a headache for the generals of the human troops, stay on the top of the highest in the middle of the bridge between the two sides, and look left and right. In the end, it was decided to go to the human camp to find out the situation first.
The human forces are still a decent camp lineup. Many of the flags have misunderstood logos, but there is a familiar ...... Federation of Human Mage Guilds. This logo is the same everywhere.
Hehe, the group of Magicians Guild is also here.
So far, Wang Cuo has never seen how a mage fights in a big battle, and he also wants to see how an archmage should be used in such a large battlefield.
"Damn the barbarians, slaughtered our city and emptied its warehouses. We didn't have time to count them before we entered the city, but fortunately the city was big enough that they didn't chase after them immediately, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to get to the city of Arcas. "As soon as we got close to the human camp, I heard a complaint.
A soldier with an embarrassed appearance, with ornaments on his armor that is more special than other soldiers patrolling around, should be a position such as a master sergeant. At least not the leader here, because there were two more powerful men in armor in front of him, as well as an older mage.
"I've done my best, General Celtic, the barbarians' attacks are so great that my guards can't stop them. He pleaded with an older soldier in the middle.
"Do your best! You let the soldiers of the whole city die in vain, and you didn't resist even a day's attack...... Now that the refugees have entered the city, there is not much food in the city, and we must have supplies to fight the barbarian army. ”
Wang Cuo listened from the top of the camp, and the general was quite confident, and he did not discuss the battle situation, but blamed his subordinates during the war.
"General Celtic, I want to put this matter aside for a while, and then I'm going to punish them, and we should talk about the deployment against the barbarians now. The older mage next to him reminded.
The general looked at his innocent-looking subordinates in front of him, and then at the old mage beside him.
"Hmph, for the sake of the archmage's sake, I'll let you go first...... Archmage, what are we going to do when you see the next one?"
"Now there are rumors in the city, and they must not be allowed to continue to flee west until they have to, otherwise it will be even more difficult for the army to resist the barbarian army, and at that time ......" The old mage did not continue to speak, but the wise people already knew that the defeat at that time would be blamed on this Celtic general.
"Our best way at the moment is to defend as an attack, dragging the barbarian army, there is no river in the wilderness, most of the barbarians can't swim, they can only come over in small parts, this is our advantage, as long as we hold on for a while, I have sent someone to inform the volunteers who went out, I believe that they will come over, and when the time comes, it is the volunteers who will resist it, and the troops of our city of Arcas will have nothing to do with it, if we win, we are among them, if we fail, it is all a matter of the volunteers. The old mage said, and the people around him kept nodding their heads.
Hehe, Wang Cuo listened to the discussion of this group of people, and he couldn't help but give a thumbs up.
This routine is really one by one, and even to defend against the enemy, you can first give the pot to others!
There is no need to listen anymore, fly up towards the place of the city...... The soldiers were doomed, and he knew the barbarians' prowess, and of course he knew that it would not be long before another 'force' would force them to fight.
At the end of the barracks was the city wall, and now the gates were closed. During such periods, citizens are either evacuated in advance, or they cannot be allowed to go. Otherwise, the morale of the army will be affected, and the mage was right.
He stood on the other side of the wall, where there were no more soldiers, and they had all gone to the camp outside the city.
Suddenly, a hand climbed up the wall...... One didn't pay attention and startled himself.
He flew up, only to realize that it was a delicate arm.
A girl dressed in red climbed up with dark brown hair. Wearing pants, the clothes on her body should be skirts, but the lower part is pulled up and tied to the waist, and the full part of her chest supports the clothes so that the clothes protrude greatly, but she wears an extra dark underwear to cover the scenery.
"......Shhh Come, this is for you. ”
She escaped from the pocket of her fanny pack and put it in front of her.
"Eat, fly away when you're full, this place will be a threat soon. ”
She laughed, the contours of her face were delicate, and her face looked very old, but it was quite beautiful.