As the two suns gradually fell, a large amount of green smoke rose inside and outside the forest, which was cooking on both sides of the fire, preparing for the offensive and defensive battle at night.

The grey crow of the rabbit Rebeta and the peregrine falcon of the canine tooth rose into the air at the same time, and together with several observation runes, they kept an eye on the movement of the rats.

The black-scaled horses, which had rested for a long day, were gathered together, and the barbarian priests and flame priests worked together to cast the blessings of the barbarian gods and fire on these fiery races.

In the basement of the sub-fort, the captains of the departing teams gathered in front of the map with the Netherlands, and held a pre-operation preparation meeting as usual, and they would decide on the number of people to be dispatched by the chasseur regiment according to the size and distribution direction of the nezumi sortie.

Prior to today, there were 20 Chesse Cavalry and 5 Frost Wolf Knights stationed in and around Xing8 Castle, each with a size of 20 people.

For each team of 20 chasers, the captain is equipped with a junior black-scaled horse, and there are at least 10 black-scaled horses and 9-10 other breeds of warhorses in the team.

Every evening, before the rats enter the forest, 10 teams of chasers enter the tunnels of Xing 8 Castle and go in different directions to deal with the rats.

After nightfall, the remaining 10 chasseurs will serve as reserves, constantly engaged according to the intensity of the battle in all directions.

Finally, in the morning, before the battle ended, the Frostwolf Knight entered the battlefield to break the back of the chasseurs.

However, this afternoon, Nightqi City sent new reinforcements: Neil took 50 knight students from the Galloping Horse Academy to replace the cavalrymen who had been wounded in the previous battle. In addition to them, 70 cavalrymen arrived at the castle with 50 pack beasts and 20 ankylosaurs.

Of course, before the hundred and ten grass-eating beasts arrived, the Demon Tiger and Tierney had already arrived.

So in the current command room, the three knights that Rand admires the most: Dogtooth, Neil and Tierney have arrived.

"Our combat operations these days are somewhat similar, but every day is not the same."

Faced with the relabeled map, Nedland explained to the Demon Tiger, Neil and Tierney, "Although the rats enter the forest after dark, their main force only goes deeper than 200 meters into the forest after the early hours of the morning, so we will focus on the fight after that. ”

"Wait a minute," the Demon Tiger suddenly interrupted the knight's introduction, "Do you mean that you have never stepped out of the forest to fight in the past few days?" ”

"Forehead ......"

The Netherlands also remembered that as the leader of the barbarian cavalry, he was supposed to lead these barbarians out of the siege of the nezumi camp, maneuvering and harassing the enemy's rear, but now it turned into a positional battle with the nezumi army.

"This can't be a knight of the Niedersland."

At this time, Viyanis suddenly stood up, "If you don't keep enough troops in the forest, or even enough black-scaled horses, those rats will eat the whole forest clean!" ”

"Well, I don't blame him," the tiger's voice was very lazy, "but now you don't have to tie your hands, we have a special team to clean up the rats that have entered the forest, and you can spread your hooves and rush out." ”

Nedland glanced at Neil, got a positive look, and led his men out of the command room, where they had to check the ordnance, water bottles, rations, and magic patterns on the junior black-scaled horses before they actually got into battle.

"Why don't you let those high-ranking people stay and fight with the chasseurs?" When there was no one in the command room, Inuya could finally ask the question he had been asking all along, "Even if a high-level mage is in charge, it can reduce most of the casualties." ”

The last time Rand withdrew from the high ranks, he only gave a very general reason, whether it was Dogtooth or the Netherlands, they all heard it in the clouds, and now that the casualties of the chasers are getting worse and worse, Dogtooth feels that he can no longer bear it.

Tierney said, "If it is a high-ranking knight from the imperial capital, in order to balance his influence, the Lord also needs to appoint Gleia, Wendy, or Agni and Tapara to come over. ”

"Not only that, but the god of the forest cat has made a deal with Rand......" the demonic tiger shook his head leisurely.

"What?" The three knights were shocked in unison.

"Now the war south of the Hindukr has become a war between the rat and the barbarian, as long as the high-ranking of the human race does not come out of the forest, whether it is a forest cat or a scorched wolf, they will not interfere in the war between the two races."

"This is the ...... you went to Inumori Castle that day," Nedland guessed at once.

"Yes, it was at that time that the two gods of the local tribe came to an agreement," the big cat nodded, "The Scorched Wolf tribe was unable to maintain its original territory, and gave a large mine to the Rat Clan, and the gods were a little dissatisfied with their actions. ”

Everyone didn't dare to question the gods in the mouth of the demonic tiger, but there were still some things they couldn't understand: "But, even if we clean up all the rat ......"

"The entire Hindukr has been under the control of the canine and cat tribes for thousands of years, no matter which tribe is ruled by, the overall situation of division has never changed for thousands of years, and now the scorched wolf himself is not well ruled, and he actually let a group of rats into the kennel." There was a little more schadenfreude in the tone of the Demon Tiger, "If the rat can eat the mine, he can squeeze the entire dog clan out of the Hindukr, which is something that the beast god cannot tolerate."

Everyone finally understood, "So that's ......"

The Demon Tiger nodded: "This is also the reason why Rand evacuated the high rank, the beast god has reached a clear agreement with him, as long as the high level of the human race does not move near the dog forest, the will of the beast god will not descend near here." ”

The tiger looked at several knights and said faintly, "It's a completely different thing to grab human slaves with orcs and land grabbing territory with beast gods. ”

"However, even if the Warcraft God of the Forest Cat and the Jiao Wolf don't interfere, the Rat Clan also has the Warcraft God? If the Rat God appears, what are we going to do? ”

"Hey......" Tiger smiled and didn't say anything.

……

At the edge of the big forest, the meadows that had turned yellow after autumn have long since lost any vegetation and have become dense caves of all sizes that stretch from west to east for more than a dozen kilometers.

Thousands of nezumi, hundreds of beginner rats, and 70 mid-level rats gathered in a large clearing south of the cave, and in the center of this large mass of rats was a high-level rat, which first slowly gathered and then continued to advance south towards the forest.

As the rats advance, rats continue to dig into the ground and burrow into the forest.

After entering the forest for more than 50 meters, the entire group of rats suddenly dispersed again, except for the high-level demon rats wandering at the edge of the forest to command, the other demon rats were centered on two intermediate demon rats, scattered into 20-30 teams, constantly searching for all life in the forest.

As the little mice dispersed one after another, the high-level demon rats with their personal guards: about 10 intermediate demon rats, and nearly a hundred people finally stopped under a big tree.

"Squeak ~ Squeak"

Under the order of the big mouse, several intermediate demon rats began to dig hard, and finally dug a passage about 1 meter in diameter.