Chapter 333: Battle of Molten Iron (1)
Any normal soldier who ordered them to attack the Molten Iron City at this time would be suspicious of their commander's words. This city that exudes deadly heat around it does not look like the world should look like it should be, and if you insist on finding a home for it, perhaps the never-ending heat wave in the endless abyss will be more inclusive of this molten iron city.
But the nezumi are not human beings after all, and the mutant nezumi who appeared in the Saron Territory now seem to be an accidental mistake, and with the evolution and progress of the plague, no one has ever seen an individual nezumi who can communicate rationally, whether in the royal capital or in the Iron Castle. In the sense of the blue lion, the rat people are just beasts in human form, but even if they are beasts, they should not come close to the molten iron city at this time, right?
"Outpost 105 needs to be resupplied with arrows! Bunker 26 needs to use Rolling Stones! Squad 7 needs long-pole weapons to move the moat!"
Standing on the highest platform on the city wall, the clamor of the entire battlefield reached the ears of the Grand Duke of Hammer from all directions. However, unlike most commanders, the dwarven lieutenants had already planned for any possible attack, and the abundant armament and towering walls made the war extremely calm. It seems that the soldiers can effortlessly repel the incoming enemy by simply using their weapons as they would normally practice, and such a battlefield has a sense of unreality.
"I have to say it's not like any fight I've ever had. "Krus landed on the platform with a beautiful backflip, the Demon Spawn had planned to roam the city walls to hunt down the nezumi who were lucky enough to climb the walls, let alone climb the walls, most of them couldn't even connect a hundred paces to the Molten Iron City. The crossbow arrows on the city walls shoot deadly arrows from large to small, and the weight attached to shooting from a high place can effectively damage the ratmen under the castle even if it is used by a single soldier.
"Hmph, if all these brainless rats I've been preparing for so many years of defense can't help these brainless mice, then I'm a bearded dwarf!" Andre said angrily to his companion behind him. Indeed, the reason why the battle of the Molten Iron City went so smoothly was because the city was built for such battles since its inception, and it was this result that the Grand Duke of Hammer invested nearly half of his assets and income in the military over the years.
"According to this posture, they will all die under the city before dawn. Raven said to the two of them as he climbed the steps with his staff, his eyes flashing with a red glow of magic, giving the sorcerer a wide field of vision to spy on the nezumi. Although it was only the beginning of the war, the impregnable defense of the Molten Iron City seemed to have written the end of this siege.
Different from the orderly city walls, Leon and Buckham, who were hiding behind the rat army at this time, really realized that the war would not end as easily as the wizard said, under the trees they were, the tide of rat people from all directions poured into the glowing city, there was no fear in the eyes of these rat people, only hunger, thirst and cruelty, the death of their own kind had no meaning in their brains, and the sharp arrows falling from the sky did not have any meaning, rushing through the high walls and killing all the humans in the city, this was the only thing they cared about now。
The knight and his horses had been submerged in the endless sea of nezumi, and the blood lion had planned to take advantage of the chaos at the beginning of the siege to rush to the molten iron city and enter the city, but who would have thought that the density of the nezumi would force him to abandon the horse and tree to save his life. However, Leon was not very worried, although he did not know why the walls of the Molten Iron City were shining, but the battle situation was obviously in favor of the human side, and even so, he did not need to worry about whether he entered the city or not.
However, the fact that the knight is not in a hurry does not mean that others have the same opinion as him. "These guys are endless. The elf crouched on a nearby branch grumbled quietly, and he could feel the tree he was attached to groaning in pain from the impact of the nezumi, who could not see the way ahead so hard that they nearly broke the tree when they hit it headlong.
"It's far from infinity. "Leon was surprisingly calm in the face of such a terrifying nezumi march, and in terms of momentum alone, the Knight Captain had seen an even more formidable battle. However, this does not mean that the Blood Lions will underestimate the threat of the nezumi, and the rout of the border blockade of the Saron Territory has taught Leon enough lessons to learn. The chief knight squinted his eyes and carefully observed the changes of the nezumen, after these few battles, he had discovered one thing, that is, the nezumi race, which was born from the plague, seemed to be extremely unstable, and almost every time they fought, their appearance and troop composition would have subtle changes from the last time. Leon didn't know what this change meant, but the warrior's instinct made him subconsciously record it.
"The number has increased again. "We don't know exactly how many nezumi there are, but the speed of the march and the density of the area under his feet allow the Knight Chief to deduce the approximate size of the enemy. The result of the calculation was that compared to the army of rat people he had seen, the number of rat people who appeared near the molten iron city had increased significantly. But that's not reasonable!
You know, just to maintain their existence, the nezumi need to consume a lot of meat, and perhaps their numbers will increase explosively in the early days of the plague, but with the lack of food in nature, the growth rate of the nezumi should slow down. However, the facts in front of him shattered all of this, and Leon even wondered if these monsters had evolved the ability to devour dirt to satisfy their hunger, otherwise their numbers would be too unbelievable.
"Boom, boom!" a thunderous thud interrupted the Blood Lion's train of thought, and from the depths of the nezumi wave came a continuous rumbling sound, accompanied by the sound of trees falling in a groan and the screams of ordinary nezumi. Some red spots the size of an adult's skull came out of the darkness of the trees, the eyes of the giant nezumi.
"What should we do?" Bakham anxiously asked his knight, at the speed of the giant nezumi, it wouldn't be long before the trees they were living in would be destroyed by these trolls, and even if they didn't die from falling from the sky, they would be torn to shreds by the passing rats.
Leon was not as impatient as his servant, the knight just smiled at the huge figure in the depths of the forest, and an interesting idea came to his mind. "Don't worry, I have a way. ”