26.The Destruction of the Kingdom (13)
Having witnessed the Lugdunum fire, almost everyone in Baijärfheim has seen the toll of turning a city into white ground with incendiary bombs. For Alfheim and the people who suffered from Charlemagne's tyranny, this kind of thing was not stressful at all, and it was good news. Right-wing newspapers in Alfheim used the bombastic headline "About 100,000 Charlemagnes burned to death with new weapons." The pride is palpable.
But now is not the time for Alfheim to play the harmless little white rabbit of humans and animals, everyone knows that an unprecedented powerful empire is rising, everyone is watching how Alfheim deals with Charlemagne, and for a long time to come, Yarfheim's every move today is the basis for countries to formulate how to deal with Alfheim. Taking a step back, in addition to creating panic, terrorist attacks on civilians can sometimes inspire patriotism and national pride, and rally the majority of people who would otherwise be on the sidelines of Charlemagne's government.
No matter how you say it, it is tens of millions of laborers, and it is not necessarily all killed. And this is also related to the image of the elf camp, and you still need to care about the appearance.
So, three days before the bombing began, Yalfheim had already made a continuous broadcast to the four doomed cities through its own media network, and the bomber groups even swaggered in formation to drop leaflets over the heads of the terrified citizens to inform them that a devastating air raid would be launched at 9 a.m. on the fourth day - all to ensure that the inhabitants of these cities were informed of the imminent destruction of their homes and asked them to prepare in advance. As for where the residents go from here, that's not their concern.
As a result, as expected by the General Staff of the Defense Forces, it took only half a day for those four cities to fall into hopeless chaos.
Unlike Charlemagne's government, which was overdrawn, Alfheim's credit was in the eyes of Charlemagne's people as strong – both good and bad. If the sharp-eared men say stop the bombing or shelling today, the housewives will hurry up to dry their clothes and buy food and daily necessities; if the ghost animals say that the following cities will eat bombs or shells today, then everyone will definitely prepare the escape kits as quickly as possible, put the valuables in the basement or simply bury them, and then everyone will wait for the ghost animal bombers to clock in on time to go to work.
Now that the ghost animals have said that they will forcibly reduce, demolish, and relocate the four cities in three days, what is there to hesitate about? Hurry up and run away.
It stands to reason that with three days of free time, as long as the organization is in place, it is a city with a population of one million, and it can be quickly evacuated within three days. However, the problem lies precisely in the three-day time span and the government's ability to organize.
In the event of an emergency, such as a sudden natural disaster, except for a very small number of people who want money and do not want to die, the vast majority of people will make the right choice in the shortest possible time. At such times, the instinct to survive will always prevail over the calculation of profits. But if things are not so urgent, and there is a little room for respite, people have to think further and prepare for the future.
To put it bluntly, in order not to starve to death on the road, people are hurrying to collect supplies and then try every means to load them on various means of transportation.
Since most of the men of their age and physical fitness were drafted into the People's Stormtroopers, the remaining women, women and children began to prepare to flee before the bomber group flew overhead. Money, money and clothing were packed from all hidden places, and parcels of all sizes and jars were put into carts or wagons until they could no longer be piled up. Then all kinds of obviously overloaded vehicles were pulled forward and pushed back by women and children (the animals pulling the carts were requisitioned by the army), and little by little moved forward, merging into the equally slow-moving army of refugees.
Some people may ask, shouldn't we travel lightly and flee as soon as possible at this time? In fact, with Charlemagne's current situation, not to mention the dilemma of starvation in the countryside from the lack of supplies. An influx of refugees of this magnitude into any of the surrounding areas would be a catastrophe. In order to ensure that people in their own areas do not starve to death, or that conflicts between refugees and locals over supplies (which is almost inevitable), local officials will find ways to admit fewer or no refugees altogether. Therefore, until they find a place where they can be accommodated and given assistance and work, the supplies around them will be the only guarantee for the refugees' survival. Since the matter is not urgent to the point where it is necessary to flee desperately, it has become the common idea of everyone to take everything that can be taken with them.
The behavior of the citizens is human, this is wartime, not peacetime, and at a time when the war situation is so bad, no one dares to guarantee what will happen in the next moment. At times like these, a jar of kimchi or a box of chickpeas can be a guarantee that you and your family will live a few more days. No one can blame anything for this. Charlemagne's government at all levels should be blamed, if it is to blame, for its inefficiency, and incompetence.
It stands to reason that after several large-scale air and missile raids, Charlemagne, who has suffered a lot, should know that all the big cities are already under serious threat. Even in order to ensure military production in wartime, it is not appropriate to evacuate personnel for the time being. At the very least, we should do a good job of planning for the comprehensive evacuation of residents in large cities, so that in the event of a critical situation, whether the enemy is approaching or a large-scale air attack, at least the evacuation can be carried out in a timely and orderly manner. However, based on the government's face and the army's "confidence in victory", no city has made evacuation planning, which is a "product of defeatism". When the catastrophe came, the government was not only helpless, but many officials also left the people behind and evacuated on the first train with their already packed luggage. Now the people can only decide for themselves to stay, and then go their separate ways. One can imagine how chaotic it would be for millions of headless flies to swell in, everyone scrambling for roads and transportation, and law and order problems emerge one after another. The city was full of smoke, the axles of the carriages or carts were broken because they could not carry much cargo, the old people who were crying as they watched their full luggage being pushed to the side of the road, the women who were squeezed off the train were tearing their hair and weeping, and the lost children were crying while looking for their mothers, tears leaving tears on their cheeks. More people lowered their frightened faces and hurried away silently.
Maybe the Mother Goddess hasn't abandoned them, or maybe their conscience hasn't been extinguished. Some vigilantes and local garrisons began to organize themselves to ease traffic and accommodate refugees who had been separated from their families, and various evacuation-related notices and missing persons were posted at train stations, major intersections, and church gates. Relying on the silent efforts of this group of people, in the early morning of the fourth day, there was no one left in the four cities of Reims, Orleans, Bourbon, and Lugdunum. The lifeless city came to an end in silence, and the last of its inhabitants were not yet completely far from the city, just as the Wehrmacht had calculated, and they were just at a distance to witness the entire air raid, joining the rest of the world in admiring how the four cities had been reduced to ashes along with Charlemagne's pride.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, the whole world held its breath, bathed in thousands of frightened eyes, and the black and crushing swarm of planes came from the sky. There are so many winged giant birds of steel that one can't help but think of an allusion from the New Testament Revelation.
The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and then I saw a star descend from heaven, and it was given a key to the bottomless abyss. When it opens the bottomless abyss, it seems as if smoke is rising from a huge furnace. The sun and the sky were darkened by the smoke, and the locusts, which had been endowed with the ability to be like scorpions on the ground, came to the ground with the smoke.
Now that the door to the abyss has been opened, and with the high-pitched and graceful tenor of "Nessun.Dorma", the angel of death, who has turned into a giant bird of steel, is about to show disaster to the humans on earth.
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