The process of retreating from the front line was not smooth sailing. In just one hundred kilometers, we encountered two battles.
During the evacuation process, the military played some clever tricks. Wang Qi's group was placed in a batch at the back. Evacuations always have to be divided into front, back, left and right. The farther back, the greater the risk.
Wang Qi has a good temper. Although he will not take the initiative to take unnecessary responsibilities, it doesn't matter if he can help a little. Nowadays, it is rare to see mid-level demons on the battlefield. Low-level demons are so bad that no matter how many there are, they will not actually threaten their team.
Fortunately, because the cooperation time was short, the military probably didn't particularly trust their group, so they didn't want to let them directly take the rear.
During the entire personnel evacuation process, the first to leave were the ordinary soldiers of the military. Although Lei Mingguo's military capabilities were not good, it could at least treat its soldiers as human beings. As long as it could continue to be maintained, it should be able to gradually enhance some cohesion.
Ordinary people can't do much when facing the demons. Even if they have muskets, they are not easy to use in the rainy area of Thunder Country. But without them, it would be difficult for professionals to fight with peace of mind. For example, after a mage's magic power is exhausted, it is impossible to cook despite migraines and dizziness, and the recovery efficiency will become even lower.
In short, in the evacuation plan, the first ones to evacuate are the basic soldiers, followed by the musketeers and some peripheral professionals such as Wang Qi and others.
After they evacuated, Hongdian City confirmed that it had lost all ability to perform operations outside the city.
These services outside the city usually cooperate with the rear defense line to surround and eliminate the demon groups trying to bypass them.
Without this ability, Wang Qi's batch will naturally be more vulnerable to attacks by wandering demons.
Of the two battles, one took place between the Red Lightning and the second line of defense, with about two thousand wild dogs.
Wang Qi's group included more than 200 professionals and a group of logistics personnel such as cooks. The pressure of dealing with two thousand dogs was not great, but there were still casualties.
The main problem is that the ratio of logistics personnel is too large, so that even if there is peripheral reconnaissance and some battle preparations in advance, professionals cannot form a tight defensive line. In addition, everyone's level is uneven, and in the defense line of several hundred meters, There will always be fish that slip through the net and get in.
Logistics staff are also living beings who know how to protect themselves. The weight of wild dogs is limited. No matter how amazing their bite force is and how tenacious their vitality is, it is difficult for a single or two wild dogs to cause effective damage when faced with a group of people holding hammers, sticks and pots.
But this kind of thing is difficult to quantify. Sometimes if there are too many people inside, or if the people inside fail to react or attack out of position, they will pay the price of injury or even life.
It's not like the mages didn't work hard, some even released a fifth-ring-level meteor shower, but it didn't have much effect.
[Meteor and Fire Rain] is a classic fire element spell of the four-ring plastic energy system. The meteor and fire rain released by a fifth-level mage can theoretically erupt into thousands of fireballs.
But what happens in reality is that the combat zone is still far away from the end. The mage also has to take into account his own battery life, and it is impossible to release full-power magic.
The fireballs thrown by the meteor fire shower cannot be aimed, and the hit rate is very impressive. The wild dogs have co-evolved with the little devils in the demon world, and have strong resistance to fireball strikes. The five-ring mage can only take away a dozen of them in one shot. dog.
In addition, due to its endogenous enchantment-like talent, creatures like wild dogs will not be frightened by any scene on the battlefield, including low-intensity illusions. As a result, group magic cannot have a "shock" effect at all.
To deal with them, among all types of mages, the creation type is more advantageous.
Wang Qi, who has obtained the information on the Creation Department from Levels 1 to 5 of the Fountain of Youth Magic Academy, can now make some comments about this department.
The creation system is roughly divided into three systems: puppet, creation, and summoning, but the boundaries are relatively vague.
For example, in the puppet system, in addition to regular magic puppets, there are also puppets that can be temporarily summoned using consumables. Also in the summoning system, in addition to the regular temporary summoning of elemental puppets, there will also be elemental puppets that are solidified and transformed into a permanent state.
The advantage of the puppet is that it does not directly consume the magic power of the mage during combat, so as long as there is a certain strength gap with the combat target, the battle is almost lossless.
Take the most common summoned earth element puppet as an example. The weight of this thing is calculated in tons. To deal with a small thing like a wild dog weighing thirty or forty kilograms, the combat consumption is the same as daily activities, and it can maintain mobility for a very long time. .
Unfortunately, even if it is "the most common", the threshold for "magic materials" in the creative department is too high, or the financial threshold is high. Among Wang Qi's wave of two hundred professionals, there are more than forty mages in total, and only one is from the creative department. !
Of course, creative mages are rare, and this is also because apart from evocation and conjuration, mages from other factions usually do not learn to fight, and the proportion of running to the front line is even lower. The situation on the front line does not truly reflect the creation system. Proportion.
The second encounter was already behind the second line of defense. After some personnel joined the second line of defense, the battle area became more concentrated. The scale of the encounter was less than a hundred little devils, and only two people were burned by fireballs.
After a long journey, we finally arrived at Huguang City for the third time.
Huguang City still looks so bright on the outside, but compared with three months ago, the inside is very different. Most of the civilians on the road have a look of shame.
This situation is naturally inseparable from material control and currency devaluation.
The consumption level in Huguang is higher on weekdays. For example, for the laundry workers that Wang Qi knows a lot about, in the occupied areas in the east, the pre-war salary level was 180 (part-time) to 300, while in Huguang the standard was 180 to 300. 260 to 450.
And now, with the massive influx of refugees from the east and the rapid depreciation of the currency, laundry workshops have even laid off employees!
The average number of employees in the five laundry facilities was reduced by 20%, while wages remained unchanged.
It can be seen intuitively from here that even without military control, the living standards of ordinary people would be reduced by half, those with extra money would have no extra money, and those who had enough to eat would not have enough to eat.
It’s different when you change the perspective.
The officials of the Thunder Kingdom quickly controlled the resources that they could not control through currency depreciation, so that the front line could become orderly. At least this country still exists, and as the middle and high-level demons withdraw from the frontal battlefield, the hope of counterattack is increasing. The bigger.
Unfortunately, this method of trading depth for time and opportunity has no reference value for Wang Qi. His kingdom is too small and has no concept of "depth" at all. He can only use the highest intensity to withstand the enemy on the front line, and even Need to go out to fight.
By the way, there has been a big change in Huguang City and its north-south lines. A super city wall has appeared.
The wall is a product of the natural church.
Although the Church of Nature as a whole has some neurotics and outdated advanced ideas, there are still normal people in it. If you remain indifferent to the destruction of the entire country, then it is not crazy, but anti-human.
I don’t know how the Leiming Kingdom communicated, but the Church of Nature dispatched high-level forces to build a city wall east of Huguang from north to south that was truly immune to wild dogs.
It's a bit like Wang Qi's sacred tree city wall, but it is hollow and the average wall height is only five meters.
Wild dogs can threaten a position of more than four meters by running, jumping and climbing. The five-meter-high city wall, not to mention the elite individuals within it, is generally easy to break through by piling corpses. But there must be tactical command. Under normal circumstances, the wild dog group will not attack the city wall at all, but will only try to bypass it.
"They will not attack the city wall" means that wild dogs can recognize the "city wall", which is also a reflection of their slightly higher intelligence than the little devils.
As for the Thunder Kingdom, as long as the wild dogs find a way around it, they will leave enough time to plan military operations, or deliberately make some pockets in certain areas of the city wall for them to get through.
But blocking wild dogs doesn’t mean you can sit back and relax.
In addition to the remaining little devils whose total amount is unknown, the demons also obtained some Goma.
Goma is the ceiling of low-level demons. Their intelligence is equivalent to that of ancient ape-men, and they have a certain tribal tendency. Such intelligence can already support them in planning certain tactics. Although they are not very advanced, they themselves also use fireballs. If they take the initiative Cooperating with the group of little demons, it will still pose a considerable threat to the wooden city wall.
No matter what, the biggest threat that Thunder Kingdom will face in the future is still the fertility of low-level demons, and this war is far from over.
Wang Qi and his party stayed in Huguang for two days. Faced with the difficulty of buying food, they did not want to stay for a long time. They did some research, reached a small agreement with the Chamber of Commerce, and left here to move north.
