Chapter 335: The Battle of Molten Iron (3)
"Shh This is not a city that can be conquered by numbers, even if you want to pile up a staircase enough to climb the city with corpses, the price you have to pay will be dozens of times that of an ordinary city.
The besieging rats soon discovered this, and even the only instinctive beasts were left could clearly realize how terrifying the deadly heat of the wall in front of them was. But realizing that these pioneers are now in a very awkward situation, rushing forward, they will die on the walls of the molten iron city, and as for retreating, it is absolutely impossible. Under the push of his companions behind him, recklessly stopping or turning around can only drown himself in the team behind him, and finally be trampled into pulp.
However, the beasts will not be willing to die, the more difficult they are, the more trapped the beasts, the more they can burst out with incomprehensible power to humans, and in the wild world, despair is a word that does not exist. After watching the frontmost of their kind vaporize, the rat-men at the back began to try for their lives, and the method they tried was not very clever, but it was the only feasible way in this situation, jump!
The soldiers on the city wall watched in amazement as the nezumi jumped up to the wall like fish out of water, and although they were physically strong, they were not strong enough to jump over the towering walls. So when the power of the leap was gone, the beasts could only let out an unwilling roar and fall downward, drowning in the black tide of their kind.
"Stupid beast. Many of the soldiers of the Molten Iron City looked at the nezumi with disdain, in their opinion, such an attempt was meaningless, even if the nezumi tried for another ten thousand years, they would never be able to jump on the city wall. Some even put down their weapons and began to watch the brutal live show in comfort. And then they regretted it.
The nezumik's claws pierced through the gaps in the armor and plunged into the soft musculature, and the germ-laden fangs bit through the slender throat, dragging out the various organs inside with a single tug. The hapless soldier didn't understand until he died why the nezumi could climb the walls. In fact, not to mention that he didn't understand, the comrades around this unlucky guy didn't see what was going on. Only a handful of people know exactly how the beast came up.
"Wild instincts may be crude, but they are always the most effective. "The Grand Duke of Hammer, who stands on the Throne, is one of the very few. He clearly saw that the ratman who had climbed the city wall used another rat man as a springboard in the air, and after a series of aerial maneuvers that could only be classified as a coincidence, he "accidentally" stepped on the top of the city wall of the molten iron city. It looked like a joke by Lady Luck to punish the soldier for being too lazy, but Andrei knew very well that such an accident would likely be repeated again in front of the nearby cardinal, and there was no room for such mistakes on the battlefield.
"Draw your swords, you coars, kick those guys off the walls!" the dwarf roared loudly in his loud voice, and his orders were quickly relayed by the heralds to every part of the walls. In fact, there was no need for Andrei to remind them, what happened to the unfortunate soldier had already made everyone realize that it was not 100% safe to stand on the city walls, and the fear that war should have belatedly enveloped them at this moment.
"What are the technologists doing, are you planning to come out to fight after breakfast!" The Duke's anger had direct consequences, and with a deafening roar, the soldiers watched in horror as the metal golems, the shortest of which were two people tall, walked out of the secret doors of the city wall with heavy steps, these bodies were covered with all kinds of magic runes, and the big guys who spit out choking gas from time to time in the pipes behind them completely ignored the soldiers on the city wall, they went straight to the outermost part of the city wall, and then jumped down without hesitation!
The Crow frowned as he watched the golems smash into the ground beneath the walls like meteorites, splashing large clouds of dust, "Aren't they affected by the walls? I mean, won't the heat melt their shells?"
"Care about something useful, wizard, you don't need to worry about the dwarven craft. Andre raised an eyebrow, but while he sounded like he was mocking the crow, the dwarf's gaze remained fixed on the battle beneath the walls.
The addition of the Steel Dummies has revived the rat people who had just seen some hope, the Tin Men completely ignoring the claws and fangs of the beasts to kill their enemies, their heavy metal arms and the deadly weapons they carry on their arms make them a meat grinder's nightmare! However, there is not only one side to everything, after the golem army rushed into the wave of nezumi, some of the smarter and more daring ones climbed above the dummy's head behind them, and they jumped on the wall with the golem's huge body as a jumping platform!
The chaos finally passed from under the city wall to the city wall at this moment, and the slow movement of the colossus prevented them from quickly leaving the city wall directly below, which was tantamount to the human side personally hanging down the rope ladder to welcome the rats to their tower. The only difference is that these rope ladders have a high probability of killing the person climbing them. The roar of a human, the roar of a nezumi, the sound of a weapon piercing into flesh, the sound of a sharp claw tearing through the stomach of the armor, all mingled together to form the most brutal and exciting music, rising into the dark night sky with the blinding white light emanating from the walls of the molten iron city.
"Hey, was it a delusion or something?, are those things moving iron men?" Bakm, who was struggling to control the direction with the long knife in his hand on the shoulders of the rat giant, let out an involuntary exclamation as he watched the army of golems fall from above in the distance. As an elf who grew up in the forest, he couldn't imagine such a thing anyway, but as an elf, Bakham had never seen such a huge metal creation in his daily life.
"Looks like these rats have really our Hammer Archduke! I've only seen this thing once, and at that time I remember that the Grand Duke had only five in stock, but I didn't expect there to be so many now. The Blood Lion shrugged, he had seen the Iron Golem once, but at that time the construction of the Hammer Collar was still in its infancy, and these golems were nowhere near as imposing as they are now.
"What now?" said Bakham with some palpitations as he looked at the crazy rat people around him, seeing that the forest had been left behind.
"What to do? Did you see how the nezumi rushed up the walls? how they went up, how we got up. Leon said as a matter of course, completely ignoring the mouth of the servant next to him who could already stuff an entire egg.