The water level of the glacier river is decreasing, and before the first snowstorm arrives, the glacier river will completely dry up due to the freezing of the snow-capped mountains.

The manufacture of plate armor and magic muskets and cannons at the Watermill was slowed down, but fortunately they domesticated thirteen white dragons.

Held, who was still luring the white dragons in the north, reluctantly returned, leading the white dragons to work in the mill...... The result is a bit faster than a hydraulic forging hammer.

The new Initial keeps an eye on the Shore Rat Tide, occasionally finding a lone swarm of rats and leaving them to the Musket Team to clean up. They also tried to hide themselves, their sailboats, and their corpses at first, only to find that the Chaos Rat Tide cared about nothing, paid no attention to anything, and only knew what they saw and what they destroyed. They also don't clean the battlefield anymore, and the rat corpses they leave behind won't be eaten by their own kind before they are eaten up, and sometimes they even watch humans kill their own kind before they go to clean the battlefield - maybe they're still laughing at these humans who only cut off their ears.

It took two weeks, the full First Blood Musket team killed tens of thousands of nezumen, and the "centurions" of bright red blood rewarded fifteen men, but they seemed to be holding water from a glacial river in a bucket - the turbulent water flow did not decrease at all......

This adds credibility to the tavern's story – if only it didn't scare the guests.

Copperbeard's howitzer shells are progressing well, not like Michael Good, because she has already derived a "shotgun" with a similar structure, but it is not needed in the next rat plague defense battle and is temporarily shelved.

Ordinary copper bullets can kill the nezumi as long as they hit it in the head, and replacing it with a shotgun will only "smash the nezumi head" into "smash the nezumi head", and the advantage of the musket team is long-range kills, and it is not a good idea to fight the nezumi at close range.

As the rat people who bypassed Betal City continued to move north, they got closer and closer to the Glacier Harbor, and in the spirit of the twelve kings of the north, Annan also gave Gema a copy of the rat people's dynamics.

Glacier Harbor is the only way for coastal rat tides to come to Xingyue Bay. The good news is that Glacier Harbor will test the color of this wave of rats a priori, and the bad news is that Gema and his territory are only surrounded by a three-meter-high low wall and ...... Hundreds of guards, they can't even feed the nezumi with a full meal.

Annan called the cavalry captain and told him to tell Gema that Starmoon Bay was willing to help Glacier Harbor fend off the rat tide, but at the cost of something precious...... Just gold coins!

As the weather gets colder, there are fewer and fewer people on the streets. Regardless of the approaching winter, the Musket Squad camp north of Starmoon Bay is teaching all men over the age of fifteen and women over the age of twenty in Starmoon Bay to use magic muskets.

Some young men who had never seen a musket and felt fresh raised their muskets, and were kicked over by Fermi, the captain of the second team, and shouted sternly: "Never point the muzzle of the gun at your companion!" ”

"I didn't pull the trigger again......" The kicked young apprentice stood up with a slap of dust, not killing hundreds of nezumi to convince him: "I made a lot of muskets, I know them better than you!" ”

"These are the rules set by Lord Annan."

The young apprentice kept his mouth shut.

The remaining workers were concentrated on the city walls and in the southern forest, now the southern trap zone.

The stretching wooden thorns are ugly but secure. They serve as a long buffer, allowing the musketeers to have a relatively easy time without worrying about being surrounded by nezumi and consuming them with the help of wooden spikes.

The walls of the city, which was the last line of defense, should be able to reach 20 meters before the nezumi approached - Annan was not satisfied, but it was too late to continue building.

16,000 inhabitants, two teams of 1,000 muskets each, 303 professionals, 15 elite professionals, 100 elite knights, 223 large elements, 1 master knight, 1 master blue dragon, 1 epic, 1 legendary fire dragon, 20 meters high and 3 meters wide, about five miles long wooden thorn belt, a steady stream of plate armor, magic cannons, and muskets.

This is Annan's answer to a quiz called the rat tide.

No one can resist the rise of Xingyue Bay against the rat tide, and if they can't bear Annan, they will take refuge in the Stoun rat people.

The day after sending the knight captain, Annan gathered the alien races of Starmoon Bay together.

Thirty or so aliens, old orcs, howlers, broken fangs, and centaurs, almost all of whom Annan rescued from the dungeons of Betal City, only a few were aliens who came or were called by them.

"I think there are still many alien races still wandering in the north, and winter is approaching, coinciding with the approach of the nezumi, they are a catastrophe for any life, I hope you can find them and invite them to take refuge in Starmoon Bay."

Among these aliens, Annan had high hopes for Broken Teeth.

……

Broken teeth, that's the name of the nezumi.

The nezumi basically has no name, and the name of the broken tooth is still given by the old orc, because it has a broken fang.

At this time, Broken Fang, clad in plate armor, stepped down like an elite nezumi and the second team of musketeers, approaching a rat colony under their leadership.

The surrounding musketeers frequently swept its ears, like a mercenary sweeping its client's golden greatsword. Fortunately, the musketeers are more orderly than the mercenaries, and they are just a rat's ear.

The rat colony spotted the humans and their kind in the mix, and they greeted them with a scream, and the musketeers had to return the salute with gunpowder.

"Rats from the south are rude." Broken Tooth said coldly.

The musketeers around him grinned, and Broken Tooth blended in with the nezumi killers.

Because of Annam-sama's request, the second team did not want to cause too much killing, but the nezumi did not agree, and the only nezumi who was willing to "communicate" showed their fangs as soon as they approached the musketeers. It's just that their ridiculous minions can't scratch through the plate armor, and the magic musket really shoots one at a time.

The second team of musketeers, who were the "peacemakers", had to eliminate groups of ratmen on the coast.

But no one thinks that rat people are anything more than that. All of them have witnessed a real rat tide as the "New Initial Teleportation Musketeers...... That's the amount of despair they can't kill even if they polish their fingers.

On the bright side, these nezumi really don't have brains, and it seems that what drives them north is a never-ending appetite rather than a terrible conspiracy.

The "Alien Recruitment" lasted for three days before it failed, and Annan withdrew everyone, as there were already traces of the Nezumi on the outskirts of Breeze.

Xingyue Bay on the remote west coast is still safe, and the nearest nezumi is at Glacier Harbor, 300 miles away.

But it didn't take long for the knight captain to return from Glacier Harbor with bad news: "Gema is missing......"

"What does it mean to be gone?"

"He should have fled back to Beta."

Only Gemma and his knights, the inhabitants were left to the nezumi.

Annan's palms clenched quietly, he could not care about the life or death of Gmar, but he could not accept the fate of the innocent residents......

(End of chapter)