Chapter 23: The Nezumi
"Everyone obey the order! Go back and put on leather armor and carry weapons, and quickly return here to gather!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Lei Ming gave the order, this bell rang at an inopportune time, the members of the garrison had just been successfully transferred, and they had not yet adapted to their strength, if only they had been given a little time to train.
However, it is better than before the transfer, at least these twenty-one people, all of them can fight.
Thunder heard the bells, and the members of the garrison also heard them, although they didn't know what was happening, but they were full of enthusiasm for Thunder at this time, and the pious hearts of these hot-blooded young people had not yet been polluted, and this was the time to serve the Bourbon family, even if they guessed that they were about to participate in an unknown battle, no one hesitated.
In less than five minutes, twenty-one people were already dressed and assembled in front of the Dark Knight Hall, and the leaders in the territory only took time to ask two or three words in this gap, and learned that they had successfully transferred jobs, and after wearing leather armor and taking weapons, they looked majestic one by one, which was completely incomparable with the previous state of being strong on the outside and working on the inside.
"Let's go!" Thunder turned on his horse, held the spear hanging from the stone horse, and led the twenty-one bloodline warriors who had just completed their transfer to the source of the bell.
Jaston hurried to ask some questions about the strange bell and what Thunder was going to do, but instead of answering him, Thunder told him to guard the territory.
The camp was built on a slope near one end of the canyon, more than 2,000 meters away from the steep slope at the other end of the canyon, where a large amount of land had been reclaimed for farmland, but the section near the steep slope was still overgrown with weeds.
There is no doubt that the bell came from the side of the steep slope, and the thunder could only be easily checked, knowing that there was a large sparse forest above the steep slope, and then it began to become dense in the depths.
The steep slope almost formed a right angle, the stone horse could not go up, Lei Ming could only climb with his bare hands, there were many places to stay, it was not difficult to climb up, but Lei Ming was a little strange when climbing, he vaguely felt that the bell seemed to come from the stone wall.
Maybe the bells are in the dwarven mines, Thunder thought.
After exsuming some physical strength, Lei Ming was the first to climb up the steep slope, and the territory could be clearly seen from this height, but the people had become extremely small and did not look very carefully, and only six trolls who were still in the territory were easy to identify.
The bell was still ringing, there was no intention of stopping, Lei Ming put his ear to the ground, to determine the source of the bell, one after another the young men of the garrison climbed up, Lei Ming quickly touched towards the sparse jungle, here the line of sight is quite open, those young men will naturally follow.
Soon, Lei Ming noticed that something was wrong, the reason why the trees here were sparse was not caused by nature, but was artificially cut down to become like this, and when he saw a cave, it proved his suspicion.
This is a lighting hole, and the bell is clearer at the entrance of the cave, and there are many noisy sounds heard faintly thundering.
No matter what was going on underground, Thunder had already run here, and he was definitely going down to check it out, and the members of the guard team who were behind were trotting to follow.
The lighting hole is very deep, its role is not only to let the sunlight shine into the ground, but also to drain the water when it rains, the lighting hole will be dug down until it is connected with the underground river, the diameter of the hole is about three meters, this is just one of them, this piece is bound to have a lot of lighting holes.
There is a certain slope in the lighting hole, as long as you stick to the slope and be careful not to slide down all at once, there is no danger, and Lei Ming is very bold to slide quickly with a spear against both ends.
The bell is getting clearer and clearer, the majestic atmosphere is becoming more and more obvious, and the noisy sound is constantly amplifying.
Thunder was already standing on a platform, and there were stone steps to go down, but Thunder stood on the platform and didn't move.
Qi Lin followed behind Lei Ming, although he was a little slower, but he finally followed Lei Ming's footsteps to occupy the platform, and as soon as he wanted to say something, he immediately opened his mouth wide and couldn't say a word.
About fifteen hundred meters away from them, there stood a strong fortress with the mine at its back, five tall drawbridges had been lowered, the heavy chains were all cut off by sharp blades, rows of dwarves in steel armor poured out of the fortress, at the front line, dwarves with heavy shields were engulfed in rows by an ugly-looking and vicious race, these ugly monsters were a cut taller than the dwarves, and the average height difference between humans was as if the physique was not very huge, it could be said that they were on the thin side, but the muscles exposed from their simple clothes had shown their strength, and the dense dwarven front had powerful steel equipment, but they were crushed by them using stones, claws, and even wooden sticks.
A huge bronze bell on the fortress was constantly struck, and the dwarves in the fortress were still rushing forward one after another, forming a torrent of steel, and Kirin could still hear what songs were still singing in the mouths of these dwarves, but he couldn't understand the dwarves, and he didn't know what they were singing.
And that kind of monster is more, they form a phalanx in the rear, neatly arranged together, one by one lighting holes pour the sunlight down, the monsters in the line of sight are densely packed and can't see the edge, Qi Lin swallowed a mouthful of saliva, only to feel that his mouth is dry, the open space in front of the fortress is limited, these monsters can't rush up, so many phalanxes are standing still, one phalanx consumes more than half, and immediately another phalanx is on top, completely ignoring life and death, and the strong smell of blood can be smelled even from such a distance.
Lei Ming's gaze was a little complicated, these ugly monsters were rat people, belonging to the underground race, he already understood the reason for this war, it was precisely because he understood too much that he felt complicated.
The nezumi reproduction is very fast, their requirements for resources are very low, no matter how harsh the environment is, they can survive, but resources are always limited, the number of these nezumi is too much, each phalanx is about two thousand people, but Lei Ming only saw a dozen phalanxes at a glance, and in the dark I don't know if there is, for the continuation of the race, whenever the number of the clan reaches a certain size, their leader has to start a war, before victory, each phalanx must move forward, and those who survive the battle have the right to survive。
If the war is won, those corpses will be their delicious food, and their territory will expand, and if the war is lost, they will retreat and continue to live a miserable life, and wait until the tribe expands again, and then continue the war.
It's very cruel, but in the underground world, they can only do this, they want to come to the more resourceful earth, not to mention whether they can adapt to the daytime sun, the gods will not agree.
The situation of the nezumi people is worse than that of the pigs and the gnolls, the pigs and the gnolls are just excluded, and the nezumi are not only not recognized by the orc empire, but if they meet them, they will be hunted down, so they always hide in the dark underground.
Thunder they were still a little late, the old dwarves were almost all dead, and now the steady stream of young men pouring out of the fortress were young men, behind them were women, and then children.
A touch of unbearability flashed in Lei Ming's eyes, although the number of dwarves is small, but they are well-equipped and have fewer casualties than the nezumi, if they continue, it may be a lose-lose ending, and then wait for the next nezumi attack, these dwarves will perish.
"Go down! Help the dwarves!"
As a high-minded saint, Lei Ming should watch from the sidelines after knowing the cause and effect, this is a game of racial survival, he should not be involved, but he is just a lord, dwarves can bring him benefits, but the nezumi will only bring him a threat, and his position cannot be shaken.
Counting Thunder, there were only twenty-two of them, and Thunder knew that the leader of the Nezumi Clan had discovered them, but none of those phalanxes moved.
"Array! Forward!"
Twenty-one bloodline warriors lined up in three rows, walking steadily, the light here is not good, it is not convenient to walk, they can only advance steadily, neither of the warring sides paid attention to them, this race war, more of them is not more, less of them is not less, both sides do not even pay attention to which camp they will help.
Thunder Ming easily stabbed a nezumi to death with a spear, and still no one paid attention to him.
He stood aside and reaped a number of lives with the boys of the garrison. These young men, with trepidation, easily killed the rat men who made them fearful with the sharp sword in their hands, and the rat men completely ignored them, and did not even look at them before they died, this unexpected ease made them excited, but after they had killed several of them, these rat men still just went forward, and never ignored them, this feeling made their hearts furious.
The attacking phalanx slowly retreated after losing more than half of it, and the stumps and severed arms on the ground were all over the place, even in the dim light, it made people fearful, Thunder used this time interval to quickly pick up some dwarve-forged swords on the ground, and handed them into the hands of the young men of the garrison, the dwarves' compressed front took advantage of the rat people to exchange offensive phalanxes and pushed forward a little more, and Thunder Thunder approached them, and the dwarves in front of them all calmly lifted their heavy shields, ignoring the corpses all over the ground, and inserted the shields heavily.
Another phalanx pressed up, this time, these rat men no longer ignored the thundering them, and a fierce battle broke out the moment they made contact, and the young men of the garrison couldn't withstand the pressure of this kind of enemy, and the fighting spirit in their bodies was stimulated, and they were bright red for a while.