4. The beginning of the war

Early in the morning, a tense atmosphere enveloped the entire village, the noisy training in the barracks resounded incessantly, and the villagers also contributed to the instructions of the governor, for whom the harvest of the farmland was also a guarantee of their livelihood.

All the villagers were busy building the fence, and Li Xi personally led the army to patrol, especially in the northeast corner where the iron mine was located, Li Xi had already ordered someone to build a sentry tower. Another spear militia had already gone to investigate, and if it was just a small tribe, it would have been wiped out directly! Otherwise, it would be distressing to think about the loss of so many days of mining. The newly formed 4 teams of javelinmen also need time, and if they have not reached the level of fighting spirit of the black iron strength, they are a peasant! (although they are not much stronger than the peasants!) But as a great governor, how can he casually ignore people's lives!

At the same time, on the other side, on a hill more than 3 kilometers away from the iron mine, dense rat people gathered from all directions. From a distance, at first glance, these guys are no different from the rats in their previous lives, except that they are much larger, they are already one meter tall, and they still run on all fours. The weapons on the claws are also varied, with sharpened wooden sticks and rusty knives accounting for most of them, and the clothes on their bodies are only enough to cover their bodies.

In a few moments, nearly 200 nezumi had gathered. Looking at the military array under his subordinates, Rashid VIII's heart was surging! I will lead my people to let the humans who invade the territory taste our awesomeness! The territory of the rat people is sacrosanct! Then there was a strange scream, which caused a squeaky shout from his subordinates. Then a large group of rat cubs sprang up and rushed towards the distant mining area.

"Venerable priest, why do you want to stop me! No one can defeat us in this land of nezumi! These stupid humans deserve nothing but to be our slaves! Just like those cavemen!" said haughtily Rashid IV to the older nezumi beside him, and the disdain in his eyes was even more unabashed. What is the wisest nezumi, the noble wise man, still have to obey me!

With a silent sigh in his heart, the honored priest Otero left Rashid VIII under the pretense of being unwell. The accompanying apprentices didn't seem to understand where the teacher's sorrow came from, so they couldn't help but ask: "Teacher, I don't think the king is wrong! This is the world of our rat people, and it has been for thousands of years! And those humans have actually grown food in this barren land! If we can enslave them to serve us, the king will have the strength to unify all the tribes and establish our kingdom of the rat people! Isn't this also your wish, teacher?"

"And what about a thousand years ago, and to whom does this continent belong?" said Otero, looking at the high-spirited chief in the distance, wondering what he was thinking.

"If the student doesn't know, please ask the teacher to explain the doubt. ”

"You also know that 1,000 years ago, our ancestors only took root here, and the environment at that time was a hundred times worse than now, and it can be regarded as a real lack of grass, not to mention food, it is already very good to have a mouthful of weeds to eat! Looking at the student who looked down and thought, Otero was very satisfied. Their Rashid tribe has always been a representative of the wisdom of the nezumi, and although their distant ancestors are no longer available, this does not stop them from worshipping their glorious history and taking pride in their wisdom. It's just that the world is unpredictable, and in the tribal life of the jungle, without strong force, it is destined to be unable to control its own destiny. As the mindset of leaders shifts, the knowledge that they were proud of is gradually replaced by force. Masters like him, who still insist on being scholars, can only obtain verbal honorific titles, and are powerless to change the current situation. This may also be the sadness of the times!

"Is the teacher trying to say that humans are the masters of the past, but why are humans leaving? Is it all caused by humans?" the student's question pulled the priest back from his remembrance, and then said with a smile: "I don't know about this, it's too long ago, but don't you think our Sardinian kingdom is more like the ruins of a human city?"

After thinking for a while, the student finally showed a suddenly realized expression, but before he could ask a question, the teacher's voice sounded in his ears again: "Thinking is the instinct of intelligent creatures, although the chief is very careful, and arranged for the tribesmen to follow him for many days, don't you think it's strange? Why do humans suddenly appear, why can they grow food, although the geology is slowly recovering, it is impossible to feed such a large field! The chieftain has long been filled with ambition and desire, and in such uncertainty, can you guarantee that the avenue he leads will not be the gate to hell??"

"Lord Governor! The Scout is back!"

Looking at his subordinates who couldn't catch up with the run, Li Xi casually handed over a water bag and asked anxiously: "What's the situation ahead?

"Great. Adult! There are a lot of rat men! There are many rat people all over the mountain!" Before Li Xi could give the order, Patos on the side roared angrily: "Assemble!!Array!!Hurry!Go and pull the troops from the village!"

This time, Li Xi did not bring a lot of manpower, and the spear militia scattered around to explore the path had not yet returned, and there was only a team of general guards and two teams of javelin militia on hand.

The sudden arrival of the enemy army made Li Xi a little at a loss, and he was completely unprepared, who knew that he had just shown his face yesterday, and today he would come up with a knife! Will he draw his sword if he doesn't agree with this word? But we haven't said it yet! Everything can be discussed first!

Li Xi, who was frantically complaining, came to his senses under a thick palm, patting Patos on his shoulder just stood straight aside, staring into the distance like a torch, and his whole body was rising like a boil, making people have an urge to bow and worship! Is this still the same unknown captain who guarded him before? It seems that he has been infected, and the blood in his body has been burned! Li Xi just wants to roar angrily! Come on! Let our blood and kill! Burn everything in your eyes!!

For warriors, the battlefield is the best place to grow. Even if you are a governor, without the tempering of war, you are still a flower in the greenhouse, and you can't afford a little twists and turns. Let these filthy nezumi be the power of the Governor's transformation!

Eventually, the dust poured swiftly towards them, and the sprinting rats were chaotic and noisy, and in their green eyes, the humans in front of them were a delicious meal to eat, and the village behind them was their new home.

At this moment, the javelin militia, which had always been despised by Li Xi, had already lined up their formation, and the javelins in their hands had already gained momentum.

"In order to defend the homeland, everyone has the consciousness of forgetting life and death!

A wild roar of "killing !!" detonated the prelude to the war, and nearly 30 javelins flew away like devouring poisonous snakes. However, the bloody scene did not make the rats retreat, but only stimulated their ferocity even more! Even in the face of the javelins that were projected again, they still stepped on the corpses of their comrades and rushed madly!

Captain Patos took the lead and smashed several nezumi into the air with a shield, the crisp sound of skulls shattering flashed in his ears, and the flying flesh and bones mixed with blood stained the armor red, and several guard soldiers pierced the enemy's hinterland like sharp knives, and corpses flew everywhere they went. It was only then that the militia who came up fell into a heavy siege, and they could only use their short blades to attack with their close blades, but in the case of insufficient numbers in their strength, one militia had to face the attacks of four or five ratmen at the same time. I saw that the rat man who jumped into the air bit the neck of the militiaman, and the violent screams resounded through the sky with the sprayed blood, and in an instant, more rat people swarmed up, enjoying their rare delicious meal.

Li Xi, who originally wanted to rush forward, was blocked back by the guards around him, and several people protected Li Xi and fought and retreated, and the rats who swarmed up didn't know any tactics at all, just rushed to see who bit whom, and didn't fight too much with the retreating Li Xi and the others. It's just that there are accidents on the battlefield, and seeing the miserable end of the soldiers, Li Xi is angry. The hot blood that was originally frightened by the flesh and blood instantly rushed to the door of the head again! Kill, kill! Regardless of the situation, Li Xi struggled to shake off the guards, and slashed angrily at the oncoming rat man. The detached corpse passed by, and thick blood spilled all over his body!Ah!! With a wild roar, Li Xi rushed back to the battlefield like a fierce tiger in the mountains.

"Kill, kill back!" Seeing that the Lord was so brave, the remaining guards were also demoralized, and they were unwilling to kill back. The crazy rush of adrenaline has made Li Xi a sharp knife, under one knife is the soul, and under the person is the blood. Lost his mind in the killing, lost his shackles in the blood.

The rat people who were not afraid of death still pounced fiercely, and Li Xi's troops had already suffered heavy losses, leaving only a few manpower to resist the army. At this time, the accident happened again, and the sharp arrows from the air arrived in time, and the besieging nezumi fell in pieces without warning.

"Reinforcements! Reinforcements are coming! Kill, kill all these brutes!" The morale of the people who had been boosted suddenly became hot in their hearts, and they rose up again to counterattack and kill them as if they were full of energy. The huge casualties brought the surviving rats to their senses, and looking at the shattered corpses, they were afraid, fear had overcome desire, and running for their lives had already filled their minds. In an instant they turned and ran, howling in fear that they would not be able to flee from this nightmarish battlefield.