The fate of his companions brought the morale of the knights who witnessed all this to rock bottom almost instantly. Had it not been for the long years of discipline and the glory of being knights, these poor men would have fled.

"Shrink the formation!"

Heather also knew that this situation had to improve the sense of security of the knights, and she decided to give up part of the outer area and let the team shrink more closely, which could not only respond to enemy attacks more quickly, but also make the soldiers feel at ease, which helped stabilize the morale of the troops.

"Good at acting in groups, knowing how to intimidate the enemy, and taking advantage of ......the environment," Cheese muttered quietly, the moment just now may have been a terrifying and terrifying image in the eyes of others, but the mage tried his best to gather information about the enemy in this bloody lesson.

The shrunken formation was tighter than before, and since the warriors were no longer on the edge of the fire, the proto-nezumi would inevitably expose themselves to the fire if they wanted to attack, and once they lost their suddenness, the knights, who had stabilized their emotions, had a high probability of fighting back. However, as if sensing that the situation had turned against him, the proto-nezumi did not attack the people in the firelight. The two sides seemed to face off like this.

Just as everyone was waiting for the second attack of the nezumen, Heather suddenly thought of something, and the female knight exclaimed loudly.

"Oh no!

Originally, in order to control the size of the camp, the knights had to tie their mounts to a nearby clearing, and although they also planted torches near the horses when night fell, the tethered horses were undoubtedly the best targets for these nezumi when they could not attack the humans. As if to confirm Heather's exclamation, the light emitted from the torches near the war horse not far away was extinguished with a gust of air like a candle in a strong wind. The neighing of the horses, the strange roars, the sound of the horseshoe stomping on the ground, all kinds of chaotic noises began to come from the darkness, and there was no need to think about it to know that those horses must have been attacked by the original nezumi.

"Team One, Two, Three bring torches and follow me!"

With a torch in one hand, Heather took the lead and rushed in the direction of the warhorse. If the loss of a knight before was an unexpected loss caused by the strangeness of the opponent, but the female knight chief knew that once she lost her mount here, let alone find out the source of the plague, she would probably be very difficult to even get out of the county. These horses must not fall into the hands of the nezumi.

Fortunately, the Knights of the Hammer are a battle-hardened force after all, and although the knights still carry the fear of unknown enemies, the orders of the knight chief still make them move. Fifteen knights in three squads lit their spare torches and followed Heather into the darkness. The remaining knights quickly filled their gaps, protecting the campfire in the center of the camp, the only refuge in the darkness.

As Heather led the knights to the horses, the noise near the horses quickly fell silent, except for the sound of the horses screaming and the horses' hooves stamping on the ground, the rat people once again hid in the darkness. The knights quickly arrived at the mounts, but luckily, perhaps because the nezumi were not good at dealing with large animals like horses, the horses were not harmed except by being frightened. They really didn't take any damage, like ...... It's like no one wants to hurt these horses at all.

"Oh no! it's a trap!" Heather realized what the proto-nezumi were up to almost the moment he confirmed the extent of his horse's injuries. But it was too late.

A sudden attack from the darkness, coming from the opposite side of the camp in the direction of the horses, these proto-nezumi jumped from the distant darkness to the top of their target's head like large fleas, black shadows intimidating their opponents while also obscuring their vision, making him unable to see other nezumi approaching from the ground.

"Enemy attack...... Uh...... "The first knight to be attacked tried to swing his sword at the nezumi approaching above his head while giving a warning, but his sword was only halfway swung when a cold impact came from his chest, and the knight lowered his head and looked at the wooden tenon inserted into his chest, his eyes full of confusion.

"Hell, be careful! these guys can throw spears!" Jack, who was in the center of the line, saw at a glance the wooden object that pierced the knight's body, and theoretically no matter how a human threw it, the wooden tenon could not pierce the armor, but this scene just happened, which only showed that the arm strength of those proto-nezumi was probably far beyond the scope of common sense.

Hearing the warning, the knights immediately changed their tactics, abandoning their two-handed swords in favor of removing their one-handed knightly shields from their backs, and their swordsmanship changed from a heavy slash to a more defensive stabbing and slamming into the enemy with their shields, so that they could devote more energy to defending against wooden spears thrown from the shadows.

Unlike the previous temptation, this time the proto-nezumi seemed to want to take advantage of Heather's absence to quickly kill the humans around the campfire, and these deformed monsters completely changed their cowardly appearance, screaming and attacking the defending warriors with their fangs and claws.

"No, there are too many of these guys!" "Using a longbow to separate the nezumi claws, without saying "monkey", everyone could feel that the number of nezumi entering the battlefield far exceeded the previous estimate.

"Good fellows, these monsters have been calculating us from the beginning!" An axe split the head of a nezumi, Mona didn't care if these guys still had the possibility of being cured, this battle has turned into a complete bloody battle, and the human side must defend the campfire under the attack of an unknown number of nezumi, and there is no possibility of escaping.

Elsa kicked away the nezumi who pounced on Cheese, and she glanced back at Cheese who was half-kneeling on the ground casting spells, and the proprietress only wished that Hahn hadn't stayed at Sweetwater's camp. Finally, as the last syllable in Cheese's mouth was finished, the mage's eyes glowed with a strong dark green light, and the moment he raised his head, countless vines also broke through the ground with his gaze, firmly binding the feet of the rat men who happened to be standing on the ground. Once again, the mage's magic worked wonders, and the proto-nezumi couldn't understand why their feet were tripped by the vines, and the battle-hardened knights naturally didn't miss this opportunity, and no less than ten nezumi were killed in a moment.

"Squeak!" The piercing screams came from Heather's direction, and the female knight chief who had been tricked to divert the tiger from the mountain finally couldn't care so much, only to see that she was already on her horse at this time, and the knight's sword in her hand slashed the rat people on the outskirts of the camp one by one with anger. The rest of the knights did the same, relying on the weight and speed of their horses, charging at the edge of the firelight, knocking the nezumi out of the air before they had time to react.

Seeing that the situation on the battlefield seemed to be back on the human side, a sharp cry came from the darkness, followed by the sound of breaking the sky.

"Beware of spear throwing!" Jack's vision once again spotted the enemy's intentions, and in response to his warning, the knights held their shields in front of them to defend against the wooden tenons of the nezumi.

However, it turned out that although the knights could defend themselves against the wooden spears they threw with their shields, the horses they sat on could not, and the armor that had been removed to restore their horsepower had not yet had time to be draped on the horses, and these huge horses became the best targets for the rat-man spear-throwers.

"Poof!" With a muffled sound, the horses that had been shot by the wooden spears fell with a scream, and even the knights who had carried them on their backs fell hard. Except for a few sturdy knights who jumped off their horses in advance, most of the knights were unlucky enough to be crushed under their horses, and even more were directly crushed leg bones.

"Rescue the wounded!" Heather managed to dodge the attack of the wooden spear with great skill, but the fifteen knights were not so lucky, and she swept over, at least six or seven more knights were pressed by their own mounts, unable to move. At this time, the huge and heavy body of the horse became a burden, and it took at least two people to cooperate to lift the horse, and a third person needed to drag the wounded out from under the horse, during which the four people, including the wounded, had no way to defend against the enemy's attack, and for a while, the entire battle situation was once again passive.