Chapter 545: The Unsuspecting Nezumi Clan
The night is getting darker.
The double moon and the stars loom in the background.
In winter, the midnight of the "Border Prince's Territory" is still very cold, the temperature drops to about zero degrees, and the breath is full of hoarfrost, but this can't stop the enthusiasm of the green-skinned boys in the slightest.
The orcs are better, it is their privilege to give priority to the spoils of war after the war, after a few battles, a set of equipment is ready, mainly the new goblin boys, many people only have thin clothes, and the weapons in their hands are also varied, melee combat accounts for three-quarters, and only less than two thousand people are long-range archers.
But it doesn't matter, the main force of this battle is not them, looking at the big guys one by one, you can know that they can't wait to do a good job.
As for who the enemy is? Where is it? How many? It doesn't matter at all, just follow the boss anyway.
After a comfortable night's sleep, the energetic Greenskin regrouped and waited outside the hut for a few bosses to come out.
At two or three o'clock in the morning, when ordinary people were sleeping most soundly, several imposing bigwigs came out.
The stone that took the lead didn't talk nonsense, and told everyone bluntly that there is a rat lair under the "Bloody Hand Valley", what should I do?
What else can I do, copy the guys!
With the help of the system, Stone quickly determined the approximate location of the enemy, sent the goblin riders to conduct a carpet search, and Gitira lived up to his nickname of "Hunter", and soon found a dark hole in a corner of the valley, more than three meters high, which seemed to be an abandoned dwarven underground passage.
With the great earthquake that affected the entire "edge of the world", the once powerful dwarven empire collapsed, countless mountain fortresses and underground passages collapsed, and after thousands of years, only a few returned to the arms of the children of the mountains, and most of the rest were occupied by doves and magpies' nests, either occupied by wandering greenskinned tribes, or fell into the hands of nezumi who always needed a new living space.
This is the case with the "Iron Furnace Fort", and it should be the same with this nezumi clan right now, nine times out of ten, it is the first to discover this abandoned underground passage and then relocate it from other places.
It was easy to find the entrance, and the stones simply arranged the formation, although the enemy should not be strong, but he did not want to capsize in the gutter and lose too many men.
A thousand of the poorest-equipped and thinnest goblins are at the forefront, and their mission is to find a way, and by the way, use their flesh to resist the first wave of enemy attacks, commonly known as cannon fodder.
They were followed by four or five thousand goblins who were slightly stronger, and if the situation was not right, they would end up the same as the former, using their lives to buy time for the others behind.
After that, there is the real main force, the four hundred orcs of the "Broken Tooth Guard", all of them have been on the battlefield for a long time with round arms and waists, and their combat effectiveness is naturally needless to say.
Stone they are also here.
Finally, there are two thousand goblin archers, and if you look at their equipment, you can see that they are not of much use, and it can only be said that they are better than nothing.
Fortunately, the ranged troops of the rat people are also notoriously covetous.
Of course, this is talking about ordinary nezumi clans, and if you change to the four powerful clans, it is a different concept.
As for the goblin wolf riders, the underground environment is complicated, the cavalry can't play a role, and their mounts are not creatures that are good at fighting in the dark, so they simply stay outside to respond, and in case there is any accident, they can also take over.
From here, it can be seen that although Stone is very contemptuous of his opponents in terms of strategy, his tactical arrangement is not ambiguous at all, which can be regarded as one of his few strengths.
Everything was ready, and the high-spirited Greenskins officially set off, carrying torches, and rushed towards the gloomy underground.
This is a surprise sneak attack, time is the biggest enemy, so the stone has no intention of hiding the trail at all, the key is that these noisy goblin boys can't sneak in quietly, it's better to be above board and kill them as quickly as possible.
They had not gone far before they came across a small patrol of rat men, twenty or thirty men, and these slave rats were immediately frightened at the sight of the flood of green skins, and they let out a sharp and unpleasant cry, and did not hesitate to turn and flee for their lives, without any intention of resisting at all.
Stone ordered the archers not to shoot, so let the rat cubs run in front, and they chased behind, isn't this a ready-made leading party.
This trick is called luring the wolf into the house.
Well, that description seems a little wrong? it! Pursue! Slow down!
The old and cunning man also sent people from time to time to remind the goblins in front of him to run slowly, don't really catch up with others, just hang from afar.
The scattered nezumi didn't notice anything unusual, and under the control of fear, all their energy was spent on running for their lives, and their already low IQ dropped to about the same as a fart.
On the way, they also encountered two other patrols, and everyone's reaction was the same, they ran away, and they couldn't think too much about it.
In this way, dozens of rat people ran in front, and thousands of greenskins chased behind.
As the damp fishy stench in the air grew heavier, the stones understood that they were getting closer and closer to their goal.
After running for more than half an hour, the leader of the first rat patrol, a young clan rat, finally reacted and realized that the situation was not right, but it was too late, and their nest was not far ahead.
In the end, it was a loss of experience, and these rat people, including the clan they belonged to, were very young and did not have much combat experience, so they easily fell for the stone's scheme.
The clan rat just wanted to shout loudly to remind the guards at home that someone was sneaking attack, but as soon as he opened his mouth, a sharp arrow broke through the air and stabbed him directly in the back, and the rat man staggered a few steps and fell to the ground with a thud.
Having determined the exact location of the nezumi lair, Stone did not hesitate to order the archers in the rear to shoot.
Although the passage was narrow, the formation could not be extended, and the goblin boy's archery skills were very bad, they couldn't stand the large number of them, and a chaotic rain of arrows shot all the nezumi to the ground.
Funnily enough, a few arrows also hit the friendly forces in front of them, causing a little confusion.
What a pig-like teammate.
Stone and Urzago glanced at each other with a wry smile, and they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes, these bastards were not reliable at all.
The Black Orc Lord secretly made up his mind to go back and develop his ranged strength, this is not the way to go, and the future enemies are not as easy to deal with as these weak nezumi.
Now that you've found a place, there's nothing to hesitate about, just keep going.
At this time, there was also a commotion in front of them, presumably the guards of the rat people found out about the arrival of the uninvited guests, they must not have expected that the new neighbors were so enthusiastic that they would personally visit them on the first day.
Although the goblins at the front were cannon fodder, they had an absolute advantage in numbers, and it only took twenty minutes for the vanguard to occupy the entrance to the lair, which allowed the large troops behind to enter the real rat nest and set up an attack formation.
Shi briefly looked at the huge cave in front of him, as he had expected, the scale was not large, the space was only half of the previous "Nexus Clan", it was conceivable that there would not be many rat people inside, and the defense was not very strong.
Even though the guards had issued a warning, there were only sporadic noises in the lair, and it was estimated that most of them were still asleep.
The black orc pulled out the two door-panel-like machetes on his back, looked back at his eager subordinates behind him, grinned, and opened his bloody mouth.
"Come on! Just like you're in your own home, and enjoy, boys! Waaagh! Get up! ”