Chapter 810 41. Go Home
As the coalition forces defeated the first wave of offensive of the McKean clan and caused them a big loss, the Great Wall of the North no longer faced the shadow of war for the time being.
The McKean clan is still advancing slowly in the north, and it is expected that the vanguard will arrive in the northern mountains after the rainy season.
Abundant rains have transformed woodlands damaged by war into grasslands again, and weeds have begun to grow wildly.
How great would it be for Annan to have no war, raise a herd of cattle and sheep to graze on this grassland, and live a free life?
But war has never changed...
...
At the Black Watch station, the coalition meeting that reduced the number of forces from thirty to twenty-seven ended.
The focus of this meeting is what Annan has always been concerned about: the hive city in the northern mountains.
The empire ordered the coalition forces to destroy this parasitic hive outside the Great Wall before the main force of the Skaven arrived.
In order to guard against rat spies being planted among the coalition forces, they will mobilize and set off after the meeting.
Annan followed the dispersed crowd and walked out.
"You don't seem to be in a good mood." Archmage Albek sent Annan out.
"Nothing, I'm just worried whether this could be...a trap."
"No, the Ratmen can't hide their power to defeat us under our noses. ”
"Then I'll be relieved..."
Annan hopes that Jerry has run away, instead of staying stupidly in the hive and coexisting with the hive...
The plan formulated by Black Watch It is simple and crude in the imperial style: open the portal around the hive, and then the coalition forces swarm forward.
The only drawback is that the hives are protected by evil energy. They cannot appear directly in the hives and capture them from the inside - the same goes for the Skaven. The Great Wall of the North is protected by a magic barrier, and the Skaven can only circumvent it at best. To be besieged from two sides...and be besieged from two sides.
At noon, the coalition forces gathered on the Great Wall of the North. As the Black Watch mage group supported the giant portal leading to the hive, the coalition forces swarmed up.
Without any arrangements or preparations, the coalition forces defeated the rat-men even more than the rat-men. They penetrated into the nest city that was connected in all directions and killed the rat-men whenever they encountered them.
The forces rushed into the rat tide with great interest, preparing to hunt some more rat ears... but found that all the rats here were missing an ear.
"What are the ears of these rat men..." asked the military minister of the Windmill Principality who followed Annan in confusion.
"Yeah, what's going on?" Annan looked away guiltily.
Annan specially captured a rat man and asked the mage group to teach it common language. The good news is that Jerry and the gray rat priest are not here. The bad news is that the gray rat priest who was released by Annan took away the rat mother, craftsmen and all valuable things in the nest. Now there are only a few slave rats left in the nest. and a handful of elite rats.
Their worries are unnecessary. There is no evil energy in this nest, and they can teleport into it.
However, there is indeed a champion rat who becomes the temporary administrator of the hive city. It was a strong but ugly McKeon rat, leading the elite rats to resist tenaciously in the nest city.
Now it seems that it is being used as a scapegoat.
Annan gave the slave rat to Broken Tooth to expand his rat-man cronies, but Broken Tooth killed it within a few minutes.
“Why?”
"It's so stupid," Broken Tooth said. Compared with the little mouse Miller who was acquired before, there is still one Martin between them.
Actually, with a little training, such a guy can be used to do hard work, but I didn’t expect Broken Tooth to have an elite concept.
Annan followed the team all the way to the core of the Rat Nest: the nest capital.
This is the first time Annan has seen the hive city. The hive city made of obsidian and spikes is twisted and spectacular. This hive city alone can launch an invasion of a human country... Montable We can even defeat several human countries like the Locke Principality.
Annan suddenly felt that this place looked familiar, and then he remembered that this place was just like a replica of what he had seen underground in Breeze City...
So the Stun clan was planning to build a hive underground in Breeze City?
No wonder they hate themselves so much...
Fightings are taking place all over the hive. When a hive city loses the protection of priests and evil energy, it means losing the protection of priests and evil energy... In short, the coalition forces cleared out all the ratmen without much effort.
Everyone exited the rat nest. As Black Watch's mage group released the seismic technique, terrifying smoke shot straight into the sky. Large flocks of birds dispersed in fright, and the hill where the nest city was located turned into a basin.
Even if there are fish that slip through the net, they are probably buried deep underground.
Seeing this scene, Annan suddenly realized that Black Watch did not need support at all. They were fighting slowly just to keep Mouse Ear as much as possible... and to find an excuse to stay there and let the coalition forces rely on themselves.
In any case, it only took them half a day to clear out a hive city, but for some reasons that were not suitable for public disclosure, the number of mouse ears they harvested was approximately zero.
As for where the rat ears in the hive have gone...all the forces know it well.
Not long after, the rumor that "Annan likes to cut off the ears of ratmen" spread quietly on the northern Great Wall.
The war on the Great Wall in the North has come to an end for the time being. Although the news of hunting and destroying nest cities is still fermenting, the coalition forces on the Great Wall have fallen into a long state of inaction.
The leaders of the forces returned one after another, leaving only the soldiers to garrison.
After sending away the military minister of the Windmill Principality and the earl of the Saike Principality one after another, Annan was also ready to leave.
As the lord of Liberty City, Annan will not always supervise the battle on the Northern Great Wall.
The Hellfire Legion is still stationed on the Northern Great Wall, and this idleness gives them time to practice breathing techniques.
The Fourth Legion was sent back to Liberty City by Annan because they were not good at defensive warfare, and continued to practice against the bandits and wild monsters that appeared around the watch territory.
Finally bidding farewell to the Black Watch Legion, Annan asked Dean Breshim to pick him up and went back to the Montreal Mountains first.
Selita Dana and Tribulus have run the Moonlight Opera House very well, and even somewhat overshadowed the show - in the past of Selita Dana and Tribulus, with the promotion of "The Voice of Freedom", night performances The excitement is even greater than during the day.
Many spectators came to see Selita Dana and Tribulus. On the surface, they stole some of Annan's attention...but whose pocket did the money fall into?
Some of the most popular magical images on Mount Montreal surprised Annan: the first one was "The Fall of the Wizard's Tower", which didn't surprise him, but the second one was actually "Five Hundred Years of Love".
This doesn't fit the imperial "barbarian" stereotype. Or do savages also need love?
I didn’t have time when I came here before, but this time Annan made a special appearance at the Moonlight Opera House, signed autographs for all the audience who bought the magic stone, collected thousands of gold coins, and returned to the Montreal Manor.
That night, Annan talked to his ancestors about what happened on the Great Wall in the North, including the fact that he bribed Mouse Ear to get the first place, in exchange for his ancestors' laughter.
Early the next morning, Annan took Lily and returned to the loyal Free City.
(End of this chapter)