But at night, this calmness will disappear like the setting sun on the ground. Whether it is men, women, children, soldiers, civilians or even spellcasters, everyone will concentrate all their energy to prevent any possible attack. In this city Residual traces of resistance can be seen in every corner - broken pipe lines, sticky bloodstains, large and small bullet holes in tents, and wounds cut by sharp objects can be seen everywhere on people's bodies. (.)
Every night, this city will suffer thousands of casualties or even more due to resistance (depending on the number of enemy magic troops), but this speed is only a drop in the bucket compared to the people who continue to come to this city from far away - because they are taking refuge Among the crowd, the population of Ningzhou City only accounts for a small proportion, and the majority are residents from the towns and counties around Ningzhou. Compared with big cities, people in those places cannot organize effective resistance at all. .
Du Wei knew from the news that this situation was not just in Ningzhou, but was happening in countries all over the world. Because of people¡¯s fleeing behavior, large areas of no-man¡¯s land were forming unprecedentedly on the earth¡ªat the beginning. At that time, the empire still tried to occupy these places, but once the coalition forces discovered that the size of the imperial army reached the predetermined standard, they would mercilessly mobilize aircraft, even drop bombs directly from space, and carry out intensive bombing. After several heavy casualties, , the empire seems to have no similar plans.
Du Wei couldn't tell whether this situation was beneficial or harmful to the earth. On the one hand, the rapid increase in the density of residents had indeed strengthened the city's defense, but on the other hand, he could also tell that the government seemed to be suspicious of this situation. , so during this period, all underground cities are desperately "digging", hoping to obtain more space to dilute the population density - of course, it is not just to increase space, but now all underground cities have also dug downwards. There are huge "water storage layers". In addition to storing the drinking water needed by the city, the biggest role of these water storage layers can also prevent enemies from using magic to divert water into the city.
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, not long after dinner, Du Wei was preparing to end his day's work and finalize the registration information on the computer. When he heard a burst of cheers from the "urban area" in the distance, several people queued up to register. The people looked at each other and soon started a heated discussion. Within a few minutes, Du Wei roughly understood what was going on - a coalition magic force of up to 3,000 people would be temporarily stationed tonight. in this city.
Having experienced the war first-hand for more than a week, Du Wei naturally knew the significance of so many magic troops - the city originally had only a few hundred official spell casters, and most of them were "magic workers" - the magic they accepted The training is all for underground city construction or industrial space doors, rather than face-to-face combat. In these people's own words, maybe a dozen of them cannot compare with a real magic soldier. After all, they are just They are officially "professional" in using magic to kill people. Three thousand regular magic soldiers means that the city's safety factor will be greatly increased this night, and it also means that everyone here has a greatly increased chance of survival.
Sure enough, half an hour later, Du Wei, who returned to the military camp and was waiting for dinner, found that there were many soldiers in the canteen wearing coalition uniforms with lightning bolts on their shoulders. Judging from the skin color of these people, they looked yellow and black. They are all brown and white. They are truly a "world coalition". On these people, there are almost no automatic weapons equipped by ordinary armies, only pistols inserted in their waists - Du Wei learned from some people who have been exposed to magic training. People have learned that real magic combat is almost all face-to-face combat. The so-called short-term and dangerous requires very high flexibility of combatants. Therefore, these soldiers basically do not use heavy weapons. Most of them are equipped with pistols, Daggers and high-explosive grenades, and sometimes rocket launchers for special needs, are used to launch tactical "nuclear rockets" with a yield of hundreds to kilotons.
During the meal, Du Wei noticed that the mental state of these soldiers seemed to be good all the time. During the meal, many of them were talking loudly in inaudible foreign languages ??and even joking with each other. In contrast, Du Wei and the others The local garrison looked somewhat dull, and one could see unconcealed fear and sadness on everyone's face - seeing them so happy, Du Wei himself wanted to smile, but he pulled the muscles on his face several times and couldn't. Failed - when he thought of Yu Xiaojuan whose whereabouts were unknown, and his family members who had not been contacted for several days, he couldn't even eat. Don't be ridiculous.
Of course Du Wei couldn't understand that the troop from Carmel he saw was a magical troop that was put into the battlefield after the coalition attacked the earth. In the past week of battles, this troop suffered only a few hundred casualties. However, the number of enemies killed has exceeded their organizational structure several times. The principle of concentrated use of magic has allowed them to fight with the wind. In addition, Carmel itself has not been affected by the war so far. These people have no worries at all. ??You can laugh naturally.
But as the war continues, such smiles will probably become less and less. Take this group of magic soldiers as an example. Naturally, they were not sent to this city because Ivan suddenly said he wanted to support the supporting cast (just kidding). ), but because the coalition forces are coordinating an important defensive combat mission on a global scale.
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In the eyes of people on earth, this may be a hopeless war, but in Guo Lei's view, it is not too far away from the end of this war, or in other words, from a result. The basis for his judgment is very simple. ¡ª¡ªThe empire's logistics began to be overwhelmed.
The logistics Guo Lei mentioned does not refer to food in the usual sense. In Velen's words, the empire stores enough food to fill the entire earth - this is certainly an exaggeration to a large extent, but it can also It shows that Weilun is confident and contented. Of course Guo Lei knows that there is no need for him to lie to them - they are just a group of captives, and their connection with the earth has long been paralyzed. Even if they are deceived, there is no benefit at all.
What Guo Lei refers to as unbearable is not unaffordable in the usual sense, but a kind of It should be said that the empire's rigid governance style and low quality of the people cannot be dealt with. As the war progresses, more and more things are exposed. The problem.
The most representative one is that the entire plane has inevitably become more and more crowded. This kind of crowding has gradually changed from the level of rubbing shoulders with each other to the level of sardine cans like the trains transporting Jews in World War II movies. Rising, but relatively speaking, the speed of plane expansion has slowed down day by day. When Guo Lei first started, he was puzzled by the emergence of this situation. There was not enough space, so couldn't he just use more magic to cut it?
But from Viren, he learned that this problem was not as simple as imagined.
This has to start with the "geographical" structure of the empire - most of the empire's planes are closed, just like caves in the underground world. According to the empire's practice, even if an open plane is discovered, they will find a way in the future. Close it, because doing so can avoid many unnecessary disasters - not all planets are as perfect as the earth. The tidal effects caused by satellites trigger large-scale tsunamis and earthquakes, meteorite impacts destroy the entire planet's ecology, and cosmic rays cause people to suddenly Die Although the Imperial people do not understand the principle of these things happening, they all know that these are caused by the "openness" of the planet. Therefore, in the eyes of many Imperial people, an open planet like the Earth is barbaric, and there is no A dangerous planet that has been "developed".
The most important characteristic of this kind of closed space is that the volume is relatively constant - this means that the larger the frontline space, the smaller the dug planes, and generally speaking, an ordinary There is not much space in the planetary plane that can be mined. Taking the earth as an example, the radius of the earth is about 6,000 kilometers, and the thickness of the atmosphere is only one thousand kilometers. If the outer layer of the atmosphere is regarded as the boundary of the plane, then the planet itself It will occupy nearly 60% of the total volume (the larger the planet, the larger the proportion). In other words, only 40% of the usual plane is the space that can be theoretically cut. According to the correlation done by Carmel Experiment, if it is cut further, the planet will deform along with the cutting process, and the material will flow to the cut area - no one can guarantee that the flow will be soil, seawater or magma.
It stands to reason that even if it is 40%, it is enough for people to stay. Just like the surface of the earth is not very big, most of it is ocean, but it is really just a simple release of people, 20 to 30 billion is out of the question. The Imperial people originally I think so too - they didn't think there was anything wrong with the cutting point space at all, but in the past few days, as they carried out large-scale cutting in the plane closest to the front line, they found that in those planes being cut, many things happened in the past A situation I have never seen before.
First of all, there are large tracts of gorgeous rays of light in the sky - these rays of light are colorful, like the brocade woven by gods in the sky, sometimes like a ribbon, sometimes like a ball of flame. Many civilians have never seen such a beautiful vision in their lives. , while they were admiring it, they all speculated what kind of auspicious sign this spectacle would be. Only Velen at that time, through communication with the captives, probably realized that this should be the aurora that can occasionally be seen at the North and South Poles on the earth - but the problem is, Why does this light suddenly appear at this time?
As the space cutting progressed, the frequency and range of aurora's appearance also became larger and larger. At its peak, even the entire planet was enveloped by it. However, after just two days, the light gradually dimmed again - after that On the fourth day, an invisible disaster began to strike - in the farmland, large areas of crops began to wither, and many people who went out to work began to feel abnormal health, with red skin, dizziness, fatigue easily, and even sudden death in the wilderness After being reminded by the AI ??just a few days after Weilun "tried it out", Weilen suddenly understood that those brief flashes of light were actually the last warning from nature.??.
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