Chapter 815 The war resumes (2)
“Fire arrows!”
After receiving the order, a round of arrows drew a long parabola and flew from the inside of the fortress. came out, blocking the continuous pursuit of the rat tide from behind.
The fortress gate was closed, and the Blue Lizard Sword and Shield soldiers who were guarding behind the door used the most agile movements to clean up the influx of rat slave soldiers.
At the same time, Soros frowned deeply on top of the wall.
At this moment, the rat tide chasing after them was like a huge black wave, slamming hard on the gate of their fortress.
Soros is not worried about the strength of their gate.
In fact, the soldiers guarding behind the gate had already launched a counterattack without even needing an order.
I saw that the small windows arranged on the door quickly opened, and the shimmering spears pierced out from the small windows.
A large number of rat slave soldiers piled up outside the gate were stabbed through in an instant.
Even according to that density, a spear can penetrate the bodies of several rat slave soldiers in one blow.
Of course, this hand alone is not enough to contain the rat tide's offensive. At the same time, the commander on the opposite side cannot care about the life and death of the rat slave soldiers. Countless rat slave soldiers are still They are rushing towards this side like crazy.
"Woods and boulders! Smash them!!"
The order was given, and the soldiers responsible for throwing down the boulders started taking action at the same time.
The huge and heavy wooden boulder relied on the momentum of its fall. The moment it hit the ground, there was a 'bang' sound, and a large amount of blood splashed from the bottom, and it was unknown how many rat men were killed.
But for the entire rat tide in front of us, this is still just a drop in the bucket.
The scale of the rat tide in front of us is a bit beyond Soros's initial expectations.
At the same time, unlike the Claw Clan's strategy of slowly consuming one wave after another, like boiling a frog in warm water, the opponent's Skaven attack rhythm is faster.
The previous wave had just killed two rounds, and the second, third, and even fourth wave of rats were coming, making the entire offensive extremely suppressive.
Although similar methods were encountered when they first fought against the Claw clan, they were a large force of more than four thousand at that time, and now the permanent troops at the southern fortress are only one thousand.
It had been too long since there had been a fight, and the soldiers' inability to regain their health was only one of the reasons. Just now, the spearmen were almost surrounded by a wave of rats on the battlefield outside the fortress. The biggest reason was the huge gap in strength between the two sides.
The rat tide just now was completely a quantitative change leading to a qualitative change!
However, after retreating to the inside of the fortress, taking advantage of the city defense, the situation is still stable.
As for the follow-up actions, it depends on when the rear reinforcements arrive.
Flying from the southern border back to the lizard people's tribe, even a pterosaur rider will need more time.
By the time he brought the news to Bolevin, it was already several days later.
Bolaeven frowned quickly after receiving the news. Obviously, he did not expect that the rat man was so haunting!
“Send my order to assemble the permanent troops in the area and urgently support the southern fortress!”
In order to ensure the strongholds in various parts of the territory, all living areas, even strongholds, The facilities are undoubtedly manned by troops.
While leaving a minimum number of troops to maintain law and order, they were able to gather 1,500 troops in a short period of time and rush to the south. As for the follow-up troops, they had to rely on conscription.
Considering that the newly recruited recruits still need to be trained, it will take two or three months no matter how quickly.
In the absence of Zhou Xu, as the current general person in charge of this area, Bo Levin has the power to directly recruit troops in emergencies and then make up the report. At this time, he did not dare to delay at all, and issued the recruitment order as quickly as possible, and at the same time sent a report to their Majesty.
But no matter how fast they moved, it would still be a month from the time the war with the rat people broke out in the southern border to Zhou Xu receiving the report.
This is due to the fact that there are pterosaur riders in the southern region to deliver messages, and hot air balloons are used in the mountainous areas.
The reports from Soros and Bollevin were delivered to Zhou Xu almost at the same time.
Soros's report mainly talked about the appearance of rat troops outside the southern border and the opponent's offensive towards their border. At the end of the report, he also added some of his own speculations analyze.
Bolevin's report focused on conscription and resource mobilization.
After quickly reading the two reports, Zhou Xu's overall mood was quite calm.
Faced with the rat-men enemy, the lizard-men troops stationed in the southern border all year round are definitely the most reliable garrison force.
This is indeed the case. Soros and Bollevin had already handled the matter in an orderly manner before these two reports were delivered to them.
Even he can't make a better response at this moment.
Of course, this does not mean that he can't do anything.
With his thoughts whirling, Zhou Xu casually opened the rank panel of his ‘Dragon Lord’.
Since the destruction of the Claw Clan, he has not upgraded the items here much.
The need to consume too much mantra power for subsequent upgrade projects is just one of the reasons.
The main reason is that not long after, they started a war with Yan Sheng.
During the war, he may need to consume a lot of mantra power at any time to join the battle. For this reason, he must ensure his condition during this time.
Even if his body is full of mantra power, it is impossible for him to consume power upgrade items.
After the war, he was first busy testing new mantras, and later gave many mantras to assist in development. After that, he directly began to conduct in-depth research on the mantras on his body, almost seamlessly. Until now.
In fact, if these two reports are delivered tomorrow, the newly restored mantra power in his body will definitely have been consumed in tonight's mantra research project.
Now that the content of the report has been confirmed, even though Zhou Xu has great confidence in Soros and the others, out of caution, he still has to strengthen it when it is time to strengthen it.
To deal with the Ratmen, their core method is the spear array!
But it is a pity that the "Lizardman Spearman" does not exist in the "Dragon Lord" class panel.
There is no other way, then Zhou Xu can only upgrade other related arms as before.
The first thing that flashed through his mind was the Dragon Cavalry.
After all, in this era, compared to infantry, cavalry itself is an elite unit. At the same time, facing large-scale enemy forces, there is also the killing move of 'charge', which can form considerable lethality.
But in the end, Zhou Xu’s choice was the less outstanding green lizard short spearman.
The reason is very simple. The Velociraptor Cavalry can only exert its combat power when it takes the initiative to attack, but when it defends the fortress, there is no room for it.
On the other hand, the green lizard short spear soldiers can be used in basically any situation, and they are also numerous in number. They are very versatile. In terms of overall performance, they are currently the first choice!
(End of this chapter)