Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 324 You Can Panic Now
The flames rose into the air one after another as if they had made an appointment. At a glance, there were more than a dozen of them, spread all over the Kaimen City.

The places that were set on fire were all military facilities such as watchtowers and garrisons, or shops or residences of nobles in the city. Those who had been prepared set the fires together.

Melanie's resistance group doesn't have many people, but they are very efficient. Once the fire is started, they all start immediately.

Most of the houses in Kaimen City are made of wooden boards, stone walls covered with another layer of wooden boards, and straw filled between the stone walls and wooden boards as a sandwich structure as a thermal insulation layer. This ensures comfort while also ensuring sturdiness and warmth.

The only small problem is that it catches fire easily.

In order to deal with the risk of fire, Kaimen City has a fire department that is rare to set up specifically to deal with fires. In other cities, guards usually serve as part-time firefighters.

But the fire had clearly started, but no fire department was dispatched.

What's the reason?

It's the city lord.

The people in the fire department are basically retired soldiers in the city.

When the city lord surrendered to the Subia Demon Kingdom, some of the soldiers from the Avarus Demon Kingdom in the city either fled to Qihang City or became bandits somewhere unknown.

The remaining part was asked to retire by the Subia Demon Kingdom. After all, Kaimen City is their own territory, and it would be unacceptable to retain the troops of other countries.

The city lord only retained a thousand soldiers as city management officers to patrol the streets. They were equipped with low-lethal sticks and were stripped of their armor, so they could only wear conspicuous guard uniforms.

In this wave of retirements, the fire department, which had rehired veterans, also retired, so now there is no one to put out fires.

The fire had begun to spread in all directions. Citizens in the city ran to the streets regardless of the curfew. The guards on patrol could not be driven away and it was like a drop in the bucket to expect them to put out the fire. The whole city fell into chaos in the fire.

The fire in the city could of course be seen from the city walls. The guards on night duty were whispering to each other until they were scolded by the officers.

They were even more confused and had no idea what was happening in the city, but they were sure that there was a bad premonition lingering in their hearts.

"Report! The enemy is advancing!"

The scouts on horseback shouted all the way as they entered through a small door near the city gate, which immediately forced all the defenders to pay no attention to the fire in the city and they had to focus their attention outside the city.

Although some officers and staff members went to the city lord's banquet, it was impossible that all of them went. The enemy was outside and so close, and they all went to the banquet. That was pure brain damage.

The remaining middle and lower-level officers and senior command levels were still enough to keep the army running. Under the military orders passed down by word of mouth, defensive weapons such as crossbows were quickly strung up, and the huge mirrors placed on the city walls also swept the reflected campfire light in the direction of the enemy outside the city.

At the same time, he also sent fast horses to the city lord's mansion to call back all the officers who were having the banquet.

However, the enemy's advance was slower than expected. It took nearly a quarter of an hour before the shadows of the neat formation were discovered with the help of the 'searchlight'. What was even worse was that the messenger sent to the City Lord's Mansion at this important juncture had not returned yet.

The generals and staff officers guarding near the city walls immediately had a bad feeling.

Damn, this couldn't have been planned?

Viola's army marched in neat steps, approaching the city wall step by step, but strangely, they did not deploy a siege formation, and even did not push up simple siege equipment such as ladders, which were still placed in the back.

When the army was about to enter the range of the crossbow, it suddenly stopped advancing.

For a moment, the defenders thought Viola was going to use some secret weapon. After all, the soldiers who had escaped from outside Qihang City had said something too weird.

Poisonous rain and fire rain from the sky, huge chariots that emit piercing roars, it seems that Viola has mastered black technology and can make anything. With a loud horn sound, the defenders who thought they were about to start the siege immediately saw that Viola's army was beating their shields in unison.

Those without shields also stamped their feet hard.

The sound of one or two people is very limited, but if 20,000 people do this together, the sound is simply earth-shaking.

The defenders initially thought that this was a war dance to boost morale and that a battle was about to begin, but it turned out that the other party seemed to be endless, just making noise and not coming closer.

Even the defenders can’t handle this. Are you here to hold a percussion concert?

While the defenders were puzzled, someone inadvertently glanced into the city and saw that the fire in the city had spread rapidly in all directions during this period of time and was gradually becoming out of control.

What surprised the defenders even more was that there seemed to be some commotion in the direction of the military camp in the city. They could vaguely see their colleagues who were resting in the camp running around like headless flies.

The staff officer and the general immediately thought that this was another psychological warfare.

There were only 20,000 defenders responsible for defending Kaimen City, but they took in more than 90,000 defeated soldiers who retreated from the front line.

Since their morale and especially their mental state are far from normal, these people have recently been resting in the military camps in the city and have not been asked to do anything.

But such a loud noise outside the city must be heard inside the city.

Simply put, it might have triggered the PTSD of these guys.

Viola had indeed taken Sun Tzu's Art of War to heart, and had always aimed to attack the enemy's heart rather than to kill the enemy's living forces.

After all, I am weak now. Even if I want to kill, I don’t have the ability to do so. Instead, it will cause serious losses to myself.

There is definitely no mess on the city wall, but the chaos inside is unbearable. The defenders standing on the city wall can't help but look into the city, which greatly distracts their attention.

This is of course very disadvantageous for defending the city.

And to make matters worse.

There was a rumbling sound of artillery fire coming from the west, so many that it sounded like thunder in the sky.

The garrison commander raised his telescope and saw a large black shadow floating on the sea in the light of the lighthouse, and the enemy's flag was vaguely visible.

It was the Avarus Demon Kingdom Navy that came from Sailing City.

However, no damage was found in the city due to the bombardment. The fleet only fired blanks. But the noise further aggravated the chaos in the city. Even the soldiers on the city walls could not bear it more or less.

The attack now was in vain, but there was no guarantee that there would be no attack from the water in the future. The defending generals had to quickly dispatch personnel to reinforce the defense.

Although they were a little panicked, they still held on to a glimmer of hope.

After all, neither the navy nor the army launched a real attack, they were merely building momentum. This in itself showed that they had no confidence in forcibly breaking through Kaimen City, and that as long as they sat back and waited, they would be absolutely fine.

Then they saw a bright light pouring down from the darkness. The column of strong light almost pulled the darkness in the city into daytime. And this light, which seemed to come from the end of the distant sky, was slowly moving from the City Lord's Mansion and began to rotate along the direction of the city wall.

Okay, now you can panic.

(End of this chapter)