Xu Qingyun learned from City Lord Meng Xinghe that this year's beast tide arrived early. In previous years, the beast tide only occurred a month later. This year, for some unknown reason, it happened earlier.
As a result, we were not prepared for many things and faced them hastily.
Xu Qingyun followed Meng Xinghe to the east gate of Snowstorm City No. 6.
This snowy city has four gates, east, west, north and south, and the beast tide will surround all four gates.
According to the situation in previous years, the east city gate will have the most monsters, the monster attacks there will be the most ferocious, and the number of city guards that need to be deployed will also be the largest.
On the originally bustling streets, there were not many people to see at this moment.
A tide of beasts is coming, and the whole city is under martial law.
In the past, there have been cases where a tide of beasts has attacked, causing people in the city to panic, and some people took the opportunity to jump out and cause chaos, endangering others.
The more prepared we are for war, the less we can panic.
This is one of the valuable experiences gained over the years in dealing with the incoming beast tide.
Xu Qingyun and Yuan Tianyi followed the city lord to the east city wall and climbed up the high city wall. At this moment, hundreds of city guards were deployed to guard the city.
Xu Qingyun and Yuan Tianyi looked towards the outside of the city.
The scene that greeted their eyes completely shocked the two of them.
Densely packed monsters are rushing in from a distance at this moment. There are countless, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands. These monsters have various appearances. Some are snow monsters that Xu Qingyun has seen before, and some are huge.
Snow wolves, as well as bear-like and horse-like monsters.
These monsters are not ordinary beasts. They have obvious characteristics of snowfield monsters. In other words, these monsters survive in the snowfield, evolve into this appearance, and adapt to the snowfield environment.
Natural selection, survival of the fittest.
In any world, this principle is universal.
Countless densely packed snowfield monsters rushed towards Snow Wind City, sweeping like a frenzy. Xu Qingyun finally understood why it was said to be a tide of beasts.
It won't take long for these snowfield monsters to arrive at the city. They will attack Snow Wind City crazily, regardless of anything and without fear of death or injury. The whole process will last for three days and three nights.
The scariest thing about the beast tide is not how powerful these snowfield monsters are, but the terrifying and endless number of them.
It was obviously not the first time Meng Xinghe had witnessed such a scene. His expression looked relatively calm, but there was worry hidden deep in his eyes.
"How many city guards are there in Snowstorm City No. 6?" Xu Qingyun looked at Meng Xinghe and asked.
"There are three thousand city guards in Snowstorm City No. 6!" Meng Xinghe replied.
"Are there only three thousand city guards?" Xu Qingyun was surprised when he heard this, "Three thousand city guards, I'm afraid..."
Xu Qingyun didn't finish what he said, but he believed Meng Xinghe could understand it.
Three thousand city guards. Facing such a terrifying beast tide, there are four city gates that need to be guarded. These three thousand city guards are probably not enough.
Meng Xinghe naturally knew that, but it was difficult to recruit the City Guards. Everyone knew the terror of the beast tide. How many people were willing to join the City Guards?
The beast wave arrived almost a month in advance, disrupting Meng Xinghe's plan. His original plan was to spend a lot of money to recruit two thousand city guards in the next month, plus the original three thousand city guards.
The army, a total of five thousand city guards, can resist the beast tide.
But now, it's too late, too late.
Why not recruit enough city guards in advance? The military expenses of the city guards are a terrifying expense every month. An extra two thousand city guards will almost increase the military expenses by half.
Normally, the public security in Fengxue City is pretty good. There is no need for so many city guards. Three thousand city guards are too many.
Meng Xinghe must have taken this into account. He chose a reasonable deployment of city guards. However, he did not calculate that this year's beast tide would suddenly advance. Therefore, due to lack of preparation, this year's war would be extremely cruel.
"Will other Snowstorm cities also encounter beast tides?" Xu Qingyun suddenly thought of a question.
There are a total of ten snow-storm cities in the Water Domain. At this time of year, all ten snow-storm cities will encounter a tide of beasts.
Meng Xinghe shook his head: "Not every snowstorm city will encounter a beast tide. Only two or three snowstorm cities will encounter a beast tide, and the time of appearance is different."
Fortunately, not every Snowstorm City will encounter beast tides, and the times are not at the same time.
How terrifying it would be if ten snowy cities encountered a tide of beasts at the same time.
"There are only three thousand city guards in the city now. Can't other Snow Wind cities send support to fight against the beast tide together?" Xu Qingyun said.
He thought that other Snow Wind cities should be able to send support. It shouldn't be too difficult to defend No. 6 Snow Wind City. There must be thousands of city guards in other Snow Wind cities, and each city would support one or two thousand city guards.
, that is tens of thousands of city guards.
Meng Xinghe shook his head: "You think things are too simple."
"The Water Domain is bigger than you think. The closest distance between each snow city is hundreds of kilometers, and the distance between them is almost thousands of kilometers. By the time support arrives, the beast tide has ended, or
Snowstorm City No. 6 has fallen."
"Isn't there a teleportation array? Can I use the teleportation array?!" Xu Qingyun said.
"An ordinary teleportation array can only teleport up to twenty people per day and support twenty people, which is just a drop in the bucket." Meng Xinghe said.
"Only twenty people can be teleported, so few?" Xu Qingyun was a little surprised. He really didn't know this. He thought that as long as the teleportation array had enough energy, it could teleport infinitely.
"In addition, in the state of combat readiness, the teleportation array must be closed. This is an iron law of Snow Wind City. Now people from outside cannot enter Snow Wind City No. 6, and people from Snow Wind City No. 6 cannot leave!" Meng Xinghe
said.
"Why?!"
When Yuan Tianyi heard this, she couldn't help but speak. She had been listening by the side. She didn't understand why she was doing this!
Without waiting for Meng Xinghe to answer, Xu Qingyun first said: "I'm afraid of causing chaos and disturbing the morale of the army!"
"That's right." Meng Xinghe nodded and glanced at Xu Qingyun approvingly, "Each teleportation array can only teleport twenty people away, and there are hundreds of thousands of people in Fengxue City! If everyone wants to leave, there will be chaos.
"
"Instead of doing this, closing the teleportation array directly is the best way."
Xu Qingyun thought of asking the passerby man on the road and asking him what happened in the city. The man once said that Xu Qingyun and Yuan Tianyi, two people from outside the country, should leave No. 6 Snow Wind City as soon as possible.
, otherwise you won’t be able to leave.
It turns out that the teleportation array will be closed. When combat readiness is turned on, the teleportation array will be closed and no one can leave.
"Isn't there any way to get support?" Xu Qingyun said with a frown.
If they really couldn't resist the beast tide, could it be that the other people in Snow Wind City, the Snow Wind Royal Family, would just watch as Snow Wind City No. 6 fell and the residents of the city were devoured by countless snowfield monsters if they refused to save them.