Chapter 329 182. Rat Man
The water level of the glacier river is gradually decreasing. Before the first snowstorm arrives, the glacier river will completely dry up due to the freezing of the snow mountains.
The production of plate armor, magic muskets, and artillery at Waterwheel Mill was forced to slow down. Fortunately, they tamed thirteen white dragons.
Elder, who was still seducing the white dragons in the north, came back reluctantly and led the white dragons to work in the mill... The result was faster than a water-powered forging hammer.
New Initial is keeping an eye on the tide of rats on the coast, and occasionally finds a group of lone rats and hands them over to the Musketeers to clean them up. They initially tried to hide themselves, the sailboat, and the corpse, but found that the Chaos Rat Tide didn't care about anything, and didn't pay attention to anything except destroying whatever they saw. They no longer clean the battlefield, and the rat carcasses left behind will be eaten clean by the same kind behind them in a short time. Sometimes they even watch humans kill the same kind, and then clean the battlefield after they leave - maybe they can still They are laughing at these humans who can only cut off their ears.
It took two weeks, and the fully-staffed First Blood Musketeers killed tens of thousands of ratmen. The "centurion" rewarded fifteen people with drops of bright red blood, but they seemed to be holding water from the glacier river in buckets—— The rapid water flow has not diminished at all...
This adds a lot of credibility to the bard's story in the tavern - it would be better if it didn't scare the guests.
Bronzebeard's howitzer shells are in good progress, not as good as Michael's, because she has already derived a "shotgun" with a similar structure, but it is temporarily shelved as it will not be used in the subsequent rat plague defense battle.
Ordinary copper bullets only need to hit the rat man's head to kill him. Switching to shotguns will only "beat the rat man's head to pieces" instead of "beat the rat man's head to pieces", and the Musketeers The advantage is that it kills from a distance, and it is not a good idea to fight the Skaven at close range.
As the ratmen who bypassed Bethal City continue to go north, they are getting closer and closer to Glacier Port. In line with the twelve kings of the north joining forces, Annan also sent the ratmen's news to Ge A portion of Ma.
Glacier Port is the only way for the coastal rat tide to come to Xingyue Bay. The good news is that Glacier Harbor will test the quality of this wave of rats in advance. The bad news is that Gema and his territory only have a three-meter-high low wall and... hundreds of guards. They even let the rat people have a good meal. Neither can be done.
Annan called the cavalry captain and asked him to tell Gema that Xingyue Bay was willing to help Glacier Port resist the rat tide, but it would cost some precious things...just gold coins!
As the weather gets colder, there are fewer and fewer people on the streets. Regardless of the approaching winter, the musketeers camp in the north of Xingyue Bay is teaching all men over the age of fifteen and women over the age of 20 to use magic muskets.
Some young people who had never seen muskets and felt fresh raised their muskets, but Fermi, the captain of the second team, kicked them over and shouted sternly: "Never point the muzzle at your companions!"
"I didn't pull the trigger..." The young apprentice who was kicked down dusted himself off and stood up. He didn't have to kill hundreds of ratmen to convince him: "I made many muskets. I am better than You are familiar with it!”
"These are the rules set by Lord Annan."
The young apprentice closed his mouth.
The remaining workers were concentrated on the city walls and in the southern forest - now the southern trap zone.
The long wooden thorns are ugly but safe. As a long buffer zone, they allow the Musketeers to be relatively relaxed, without having to worry about being surrounded by Skaven and using the wooden spikes to consume the Skaven.
As the last line of defense, the city wall should be able to reach 20 meters before the rat men approached - Annan was not satisfied, but it was too late to continue piling up.
Sixteen thousand residents, two teams of one thousand musketeers each, 303 professionals, 15 elite professionals, 100 elite knights, 223 large elementals, and one master knight , a master blue dragon, an epic, a legendary fire dragon, a city wall twenty meters high and three meters wide, a wooden thorn zone about five miles long, a steady stream of plate armor, magic cannons and muskets.
This is the answer sheet Annan submitted to the test called Rat Tide.
No one who can resist the rat tide can resist the rise of Xingyue Bay. If they can't withstand Annan, they will seek refuge with the Stun Ratmen.
The day after dispatching the knight captain, Annan called together the aliens from Xingyue Bay.
The thirty or so foreign races, old orcs, howlers, broken teeth and centaurs, almost all of them that Annan rescued from the dungeon of Bethal City, only a few came here because of their reputation or were called by them. Alien.
"I think there are still many alien races still wandering in the north. Winter is coming, and the rat men are approaching. They are a disaster to any life. I hope you can find them and invite them to take refuge in Xingyue Bay." Among these foreign tribes, Annan had high hopes for Broken Tooth.
……
Broken Tooth, this is the name of the rat man.
The Skaven basically have no names. Broken Fang was named by the old orc because it had a broken tusk.
At this time, Broken Tooth was wearing plate armor, like an elite ratman, and the second team of musketeers stepped off the new initial number, and were approaching a group of ratmen under their leadership.
The surrounding musketeers frequently swept its ears, just like the mercenaries sweeping the client's solid gold sword. Fortunately, the musketeers are more orderly than the mercenaries, and they are just a mouse ear.
The Rat Man community discovered this group of humans and their kind mixed in. Their greeting was to rush towards them screaming, and the Musketeers had to return the favor with gunpowder.
“The rats from the south are very rude.” Broken Tooth said grimly.
The musketeers around him grinned, and Broken Tooth just blended into this group of rat-man killers.
Because of Lord Annan's request, the second team did not want to cause too much killing, but the Rat Man did not agree. The only Rat Man who was willing to "communicate" also showed his fangs as soon as he approached the Musketeers. It's just that their ridiculous minions can't break through the plate armor, but the magic muskets really shoot one at a time.
As the "peace messengers", the second team of musketeers had to eliminate groups of ratmen on the coast.
But no one thinks that the rat people are nothing more than that. As the "New Initial Teleportation Musketeers", they all witnessed a real rat tide...a desperate number that they could not kill even if they polished their fingers.
Looking at the bright side, these rat men really have no brains. It seems that what drives them north is just their insatiable appetite rather than a terrible conspiracy.
The "foreign recruitment" lasted for three days and then failed. Annan withdrew everyone because there were traces of rat people on the outskirts of Breeze City.
Xingyue Bay, located on the remote west coast, is still safe, and the nearest ratman is also in Glacier Harbor, 300 miles away.
But not long after, the knight captain who rushed back from Glacier Port brought bad news: "Germa is missing..."
"What does missing mean?"
"He should have fled back to Bethal City."
Only Gemma and his knights, the residents were left to the ratmen.
Annan's hand clenched quietly. He could not care about Gema's life or death, but he could not accept the misfortune of innocent residents...
(End of Chapter)