On October 9, in the courtyard of Xing8 Castle in the Great Forest west of Iowa, groups of chasers returned to the castle, most of them carrying some gray rats nearly 2 meters long behind their backs, and some of the horses were empty, that is, there was no trophy and no original riders.

Nedland Wilson stood at the door of the castle, greeted each team of chasers, and asked each captain about the casualties of the whole team, the hunt, the location of the rat colony, and the combat effectiveness of the opponent.

Since the early morning of October 3rd, after the chasers under the leadership of the Demon Tiger came to the city of Inumori, the Scorched Wolf clan has abandoned all the mines around the city, and even shrunk the major tribes to the periphery of the city.

The black-pressed nezumi tribe took over a large amount of land from the original scorched wolf clan, and some of them entered the major mines and became miners to replace the native humans, while more rats lined up along the edge of the forest, forming some kind of pressure on the entire forest.

Beginning on October 4th, the rats send out teams into the forest to explore the woods, digging out the beasts underground, gnawing the leaves and berries from the low bushes, rotting fruits on the ground, and even climbing the trees to hunt birds and insects.

The nezumi are not only targeting Vianis's guerrillas, who, like the apes before them, want to take root in this fertile forest.

In order to protect the forest and the entire communication route, the newly rotated Chasseurs and the Frostwolf Knights work together to fight and hunt down rats entering the forest from day to night.

For the first two days, the rats used swarm tactics, each of which was a mix of 200 demon rats, rat people, and countless ordinary rats.

In the forest, a group of rats is easy to be divided in the movement, a team of 20 cavalry, when facing this large group of opponents, will first send 2 or 3 cavalry to lure most of the rat group to the deeper forest road, and then the captain of the cavalry team with 1 primary black scale horse and 10 level 0 black scale horses, with low-level fire magic crushed the entire rat group, and then several nearby cavalry teams cooperate with each other to exterminate the remaining rat people and demon rats.

This tactic was successful on the 4th and 5th, but as time went on, the rats not only committed more troops, but also adopted new tactics, allowing the cavalry to suffer more casualties.

When 15 teams of chasers entered the castle gate one after another, Greyhound Dante rode into the gate on a mid-level frostwolf.

The nezumi temptation was mainly concentrated after the evening, after the struggle of last night and this morning, it was now almost noon, and both sides began to die down, and when the main force of the hunters was about to return to the camp, Dogtooth Dante took 50 wolf cavalry to supplement the battle line to cover for the chasers.

"Are you okay over there?" Upon seeing the greyhound, Nedland asked with concern.

The greyhound shook his head and said, "No problem, those rats in the forest can't outrun the wolves!" But you chasers, do you have a lot of losses? ”

"5 people killed, 15 wounded, 2 horses lost!"

Nedland frowned and said, "The temptation of the rat colony has intensified in the past few days, and our losses are greater than before, but the gains are much less. ”

"Yes, they have adopted new tactics, 4 or 5 intermediate demon rats with a dozen junior demon rats and about fifty rat people together form a team, and the two teams of the same size are separated by 200 meters, which can not only support each other, but also not be killed by the spells of the demon beasts at one time,"

Greyhound also had a headache when he recalled the battle with the rat people in the past few days.

"And they probably noticed that we had a lookout rune, and the rat brigade outside the forest was burrowed in holes during the day, and only at night would they move on the ground, and even enter the forest both above ground and underground."

Nedland nodded in agreement, "It's troublesome, now the demon plants are worried that these rats will infest the roots of the trees, and the trees at the edge of the forest are the youngest, and even if they are not gnawed, they won't last long." ”

Greyhound thought for a long time, and finally proposed, "I heard that a rotating batch of reinforcements will arrive tonight, and we can launch a surprise attack in the evening to destroy a rat camp and give them some color." ”

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The edge of the forest is less than 100 meters, and the ground that was originally full of fallen leaves is now covered with black pressed rats.

For the rats, the time when they have just entered the forest at night and when they are about to withdraw at noon are the most vulnerable moments to suffer losses.

After a few days of adjustments, they now have the safest way to withdraw the team: the high-level demon rats leading the entire team will make a sound that is difficult for humans to hear to all the intermediate demon rats an hour before they are about to withdraw.

Each team that receives the retreat signal will divide a small part of its team members and form a new detachment under the leadership of a few junior demon rats, and attack into the depths of the forest to be the rear of the large army.

The withdrawing team will retreat towards the edge of the forest and assemble in the team of the high-level demon rats, and eventually the rats will gather into a large group and slowly withdraw from the forest.

With such a relatively complete evacuation plan, the losses suffered by the rat colony in the past two days have been greatly reduced, and the scope of the loss can basically be fixed in the team behind the palace.

However, the rat colony is reproducing and breaking through all the time, and it is also devouring each other all the time, and the controlled loss is completely acceptable to them.

In the canopy not far from the rats, the canopy and the mount Bluefrost hide in a large tree trunk, and Bluefrost, a wind/ice frost wolf, can easily jump from canopy to tree in the forest.

At present, there are 20 knights with mid-level mounts in the Frostwolf Knights who can also do it, but they plan to use such a surprise attack from the sky to the most critical moment to surprise the rats.

After a while, a peregrine falcon flew onto Blue Frost's head, a junior magical beast used by the Frostwolf Knights for reconnaissance, and had signed a magical contract with the canine fangs.

"Well, let me see what you've seen?"

As he stroked the peregrine falcon's head, the dogtooth's mind was reminded of what it had seen a few minutes earlier: under the command of a brown bear-sized mouse, hordes of rats and demon rats poured out of the forest and burrowed back into the burrows of the various tribes, and directly above these burrows, the shadows of the rats could be seen shaking inside.

Hundreds of holes with a diameter of 2 meters are connected to the outer edge of the forest, and even if you look at it from the air, it still makes the dogtooth a little sick.

"It's really hard to deal with these rats, if you don't clean them up sooner, maybe they will dig into the underground canal, or even swim to the castle!"