Annan visited the watermill, which was filled with the same sound of striking iron as the blacksmith's shop. The fast-flowing glacial river allowed the mill to produce nearly 50 pieces of plate armor per day, a crude version of it.

Swap to wrought iron plate armor and you'll only be left with a pitiful dozen pieces, but you'll still be able to pack all the soldiers before the nezumi arrive.

There is a separate workshop in the watermill where the production line of magic powder rifles is made. The elite mages that Annan hired from the Mage Tower worked here.

The mages were arrogant and noble, and any elite mage would be a guest of honor for the nobility on the outside, and the reason why they were allowed to stay in the noisy mills doing the same work as commoners was simple - they were loyal fans of Annan, or Jack.

and Murat, who was rescued from the city of Betar in the first place.

Annan asked for notes from Ingrid, flipped to one of the pages, pointed to a picture that resembled a horizontal water tank, and said, "I want you to make another magical gunpowder weapon constructed like this." Fill it with gunpowder and put the cannonballs. ”

"Enlarged magic powder rifle?"

"Almost."

A magic cannon is a magic gunpowder rifle with a caliber that has increased dozens of times and gunpowder dozens of times.

Murat was the first to shake his head and said, "The power of magic gunpowder is not small, and if you put so much magic gunpowder, you might explode." ”

Neither pig iron nor wrought iron works, but fortunately there is steel in this world. As a result, after Annan spoke, Murat looked like a loser nobleman: "You made this with six or seven hundred pounds of steel?" I have a suggestion to use the money to hire a dozen elite mages, and they can do what this large magic powder rifle can do. ”

"Is steel expensive?" Once again, Annan accidentally exposed his barren common sense.

Steel is almost as valuable as gold, and there is no difference between crafting steel and making magic cannons out of gold.

Annan took a step back: "What about changing the inner wall to steel?" ”

"That's a few dozen pounds of steel, about the weight of two pieces of armor."

Compared to the magic musket, which only costs to hire elite mages, a magic cannon is no less than fifty gold coins anyway.

"Copperbeard, can your people help?"

"They're in the Black Iron Mountains." The female dwarf said that it was already a paradise for the nezumi.

Annan had no choice but to accept this price. The role of magic artillery in large-scale warfare is irreplaceable. Ten rounds of magic muskets kill up to 20,000 nezumi in a volley. And the 20,000 rat people are just a death squad sent by the vanguard sent by a rat plague.

Magic cannons are essentially powder kegs that can be fired, and ten magic cannons can cause more damage than 2,000 magic muskets.

And since it was decided to build it, Annan asked for a layer of stainless steel to be attached to the outer wall to avoid exploding.

Not only will the bombing injure the soldiers around you, but it will also instill fear in the soldiers. No matter how complicated the elite mages looked at him, Annan felt that it was worth exchanging gold coins for human lives.

Muskets and artillery are there, what else......

Annan flipped through his notes, and Ingrid caught a glimpse of the headline "Three Thousand Rats" written on the first line and the muskets and cannons in the third line of the second line.

"Kerose?" Francois said. "I use fire oil when I see many towns desperately fighting against the nezumen......"

This reminded Annan that when he asked Ingrid to buy magic materials and steel, he also had to buy a large amount of fire oil. ”

What is really scary about nezumen?

It's not evil powers, it's not plagues, it's not that a clan together doesn't have as many legends as the kingdom of Rikaner, it's an endless number of nezumi.

A female human being has to give birth to 10 months of pregnancy, only give birth to one child, and take care of her for more than ten years, she will become a farmer, woodcutter, worker, and if she is lucky enough, she will be selected, and after a few months to a few years of training, she will become a well-trained soldier and go to the battlefield. And what about the nezumi? A female rat gives birth to 10 litters per week, and the young rats will grow into adult rats in just a month, and each adult rat is a soldier, and the female rat will continue to breed.

With one summer and enough food, a hundred nezumi can turn into tens of thousands.

Therefore, the rat people in the city will never be killed.

So the magic cannons and muskets have actually turned the people of Starmoon Bay into "rat people", and they can also make all the people in Starmoon Bay soldiers - they have a population of 10,000 and 10,000 soldiers.

Fortunately, the rat people were not able to touch the human town until the rat tide formed. Counting on the rudimentary weapons of the nezumi to cut through the walls? Ordinary rat people can't even gnaw down the bricks and stones.

But when the rat tide forms, the walls are no longer an obstacle – they pave a way to the walls with corpses.

The more oil the better, and it can't be saved, and it is not uncommon for the guards to be defeated by the burning nezumi who want to save it for the last use.

While meditating that night, Annan's warlock was finally promoted to the fourth rank. This means that he can open four portals in a row, be one step away from an elite warlock, and try to access the second ring spell.

It was undoubtedly a genius to grow into a fourth-level warlock in a year, but Annan had no time to learn spells, because the fire raven brought back the news: scattered nezumi had appeared in the northern part of the kingdom.

Annan asked the scouts to return to their previous mission: to follow the nezumi along the coast.

It doesn't matter what the situation is in the royal capital, the next thing is the north.

Within a few days, the new Initial Ship heading north discovered that Harbor Eternal Night was occupied by the nezumi, and the sea eagles were nowhere to be seen.

"Scattered Nezumi have appeared in the northern part of the kingdom"

On Monday, the "Xingyue Bay News" published the news.

Late at night, Lord's House.

The portal sat in the study, and there was no one else in the two studies, and Olmedo had shed the majesty and solemnity of the city lord, and the dim magic lamp reflected Olmedo's tall figure.

"What the magic newspaper says is true?"

"Nevernight Harbor has been overrun by the nezumi."

Information may be deceiving, but it is not. The entire northern part of the kingdom began to migrate, and the villages and towns were the first to collapse.

The unbelievers were swallowed up by the rat people, and the believers left their homes on the eve of winter.

Annan also sent a letter to her eldest sister Itilia: The family and the people will either move to Xingyue Bay, or they will migrate to the east and neighboring countries. The stupidity of the royal family of Rikanr has broken through the lower limit, and no matter how hard the kingdom of Dimon tries, it cannot be achieved.

"Yes, there are already a lot of refugees in Breeze City, and they have brought a lot of chaos ......" For example, Annam's "hometown" Pinglin Town, the mayor still chose Breeze City.

Olmedo says that Breezy is a giant giant, and that it would take hours for her orders to be answered by her hands and feet.

"I don't want to drive them to Xingyue Bay." Annan was not afraid of chaos.

Olmedo smiled: "No, I'm just going to be angry with you on purpose." ”

(End of chapter)