It can't be consumed like this anymore. ”

The Cat Eater called for his lieutenant, the patriarch of another family, and pointed to the tunnel at the rear of the battlefield that had been drilled out by the giant earthworms, "Gather all the elites, it's time to launch a general attack, drive the insect tide into the tunnel no matter what, and then blow up the tunnel and seal these insects - although it is impossible to block them forever, at least it will give Luminous City a stronger defense and bring precious respite." ”

Cat eaters think they can ban it.

Unexpectedly, the patriarch looked at it with very strange eyes, and slowly shook his head and said, "I'm afraid we don't have the strength to launch a general attack. ”

"What?"

The cat eater was anxious when he heard this, and saw that the rest of the patriarchs who were very important were all looking at them silently, with the same strange light flashing in their eyes, and couldn't help but say angrily, "What are you going to do, the enemy soldiers are coming to the city, even if you really have different opinions, you shouldn't make trouble at this time!" ”

"It's not a mess."

"Our elite has been almost depleted in the last hundred or so 'victories', and now only the last seeds remain, and they are the hope of our revival after we have migrated elsewhere—with these seeds, they can teach recruits the skills of combat, the ability to speak and write, and the most basic rules."

"If all these elites are lost here, and all we can take with us are recruits who are not born for a few months and are not proficient in language, then, as you said, we will degenerate from 'civilization' to 'barbarism' in an instant.

"It's time, cat eaters, retreat, don't waste your precious elite on such meaningless consumption, the Zerg can't be killed, they are simply ...... It's a punishment from the devil! ”

"What a joke!"

The cat eater gritted his teeth and roared, "You are all veterans of a hundred battles, who can not know the importance of maintaining the battle line, now that the two sides are inseparable, the situation is so anxious, how can you retreat?" If you can't stand on your feet a little, you will be defeated at any time! ”

"We can put those vassal tribes and the remnants of the four major families at the forefront."

The patriarch said confidently, perhaps it had already communicated with other patriarchs and reached an agreement, "Anyway, on our migration path, these guys with big tails will only become a problem, so it's better to consume them first—perhaps, they can fulfill your intentions and blow up the tunnel temporarily, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?" ”

Although the four major families were united and suppressed by dozens of small and medium-sized families, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and it was impossible for emerging forces such as cat eaters to kill all the strong soldiers of the four major families at once, so they could only be separated and supervised.

And now, when the pressure of war is getting stronger day by day, it is impossible for them to let their precious combat power not be used, but let their sons and daughters fight.

The remnants of the four great families and the barbarians of the vassal tribes were the indispensable backbone of the battlefield, and with the "victories", the supervision of them was gradually relaxed, and they gradually regained their freedom.

If the rat civilization is really ready to abandon Luminous City and migrate elsewhere, the remnants of the four major families and the barbarians of the vassal tribes are the biggest uncertainties, and it is better to consume them all here than to make any trouble on the migration road.

"This, this can't be!"

The cat eater trembled with anger, although it had seen too much of the intrigue and mutual conflict within the rat clan, and did not have any good feelings towards the four major families who took the blame, but it still had a dream in its heart, hoping to unite all the rat clans closely, eliminate the barriers between the families, and rebuild a great civilization.

If today, if they really put the remnants of the four great families and the barbarians of the vassal tribes at the forefront, but they themselves fled, this dream would be shattered, the spirit of the rat tribe would collapse, and the great Fang Kingdom would be torn apart, and it would never be possible to rebuild it.

What's more, among the four major families, the remnants of the soldiers who can survive to this day are all smart-minded and extremely alert; The barbarians of the vassal tribes are also loyal and cunning guys, can they really be like marionettes, let the cat eaters manipulate them, obediently go up, and fight to the point of one soldier in the case of the main retreat?

But a cat eater can never refuse the advice of his deputy.

Because it found that the remaining dozens of patriarchs had faintly stood behind the deputy, its opposite.

Even after hundreds of tragic "victories", cat eaters have not accumulated one-third of the prestige of the national teacher.

Even the immortal general's powerful momentum, which would cause suffocation as soon as he appeared on the stage, had not been accumulated.

It has not, and may never be, to the level of authoritarian dictatorship, life and death.

The Rat army is also a standard aristocratic coalition, and the vast majority of the Rat do not directly obey its command, but obey their own patriarch.

Cat eaters are in a dilemma.

This embarrassment did not last long, and was broken by a strange change on the battlefield.

I saw that the left wing of the rat army, which had not yet come into contact with the insect tide, was like being whipped by an invisible leather whip, and began to disagree, collapse and retreat.

Moments later, the same rout appeared on the right flank, where the situation was even worse, as the rats on the right flank had come into contact with the insect tide, like two octopuses tangled together in hand-to-hand combat.

But there are a large number of rat clans, as if they have a soul in their hearts, and they are still fighting to the death despite their comrades, and at the same time turn around and flee.

The original overwhelming advantage, under the strange collapse of the left and right wings, instantly exposed the weakness and became precarious.

The cat eater was furious, his bloodshot eyes staring at the throat of his deputy, and he almost wanted to bite off his deputy's throat and calm his anger with cold blood.

It also thought that it was the deputy who cut first and then retreated, regardless of the overall situation.

Unexpectedly, the deputy, including the dozens of patriarchs behind the deputy, were also stunned when they saw this scene, as if they had been struck by lightning.

Only then did the cat eater remember that most of the troops deployed on the left and right flanks of the battle array seemed to be the remnants of the four major families, as well as the barbarians of the vassal tribes.

"These ungrateful bastards, they ran away before we did?" The deputy shouted half angrily, half in despair.

Cat eaters are silent.

Indeed, although more than a hundred victories have made the "territory" of the Long Fang Kingdom unprecedentedly vast, such boasting can only deceive the little mice who are just a few months old.

As far as the remnants of the four families are concerned, they are originally in charge of strategic materials and all "artifacts", and naturally they also know how desperate the rate of consumption of these non-renewable resources is.

As for the barbarians of the vassal tribes, they were originally subjugated by strength, and they naturally had a more acute perception of the weakening of the power of the Fang Kingdom.

The trees are falling and scattering, and the cicadas are coming in autumn, and they may have already discovered that the Long Fang Kingdom is collapsing step by step, and they may have been secretly discussing it for a long time, just waiting for an opportunity, waiting for a cat eater to have no time to take care of their opportunity.

That's now.

With the collapse of the two wings, the frontal pressure of the rat clan's battle array suddenly increased sharply, and the elites of small and medium-sized nobles such as cat eaters fell into the sea of insect tides, only to feel that there were mutant insects in all directions, although it was not to the extent that the army was defeated like a mountain, but it was continuously bled by the enemy, and it was the limit to be able to barely maintain the battle line without collapsing, how could there be any spare strength to round up such a large-scale rout?

"We are too hesitant and too merciful! We should have withdrawn from Luminous City a long time ago, and we shouldn't have been entangled with these goddamn bugs anymore! ”

The cat-eater's deputy beat his chest with a look of regret.

It glared at the rout fiercely, glanced at the cat eater with extremely complicated eyes, and turned to the rest of the patriarchs, "Without further ado, let's retreat quickly, this battle can't be fought!" ”

"Wait—"

The cat eater was dizzy for a while, and said hurriedly, "If even your elite withdraws from the battlefield, the battle line will really collapse completely, and the army will be defeated like a mountain!" ”

"Otherwise, do we want to throw our precious elite into this senseless war of attrition, delaying time for those ungrateful remnants of the Four Great Families and the vassal tribal barbarians, so that they can flee unscathed and swaggering?"

The deputy's eyes were also red, "At present, our elite has not yet been fully put into the battlefield, and we must keep the last living force, as for the rest, I can't take care of so much, but fortunately, there are enough corpses left on the battlefield, and it should be able to drag the insect tide for a while!" ”