Chapter 837 68. But at what cost
A piece of bloody internal organs slipped in front of the portal, which shocked Annan, and then he realized that something had happened!
"The warriors attack! The mage follows closely behind!"
Olmedo reacted first and directed the foreign aid corps to set off.
The warriors roared and rushed into the portal. This group of warriors who were not tired and uninjured immediately stabilized the shaky battle situation.
Even before it was the mages' turn to enter, the rat man was suppressed back near the passage.
“Where is Fermi!” Annan asked Ymir who was standing aside.
"I'm here, Lord Annan." Fermi, with his plate armor and face covered with undried blood, walked around to the portal: "Fortunately, you were a few minutes early..."
"Why did the Ratmen rush in...The camp was lost?"
"Well, a large number of soldiers were infected with the plague. The Ratmen also rang the bell and sent elite troops to raid the camp. We were forced to retreat underground. Defense.”
"You want to go back-"
"We will retake the camp and hold on until August 12th!" Femi blocked Annan's words to let them go back.
Annan was silent for a moment and said: "The first batch of foreign aid troops is 1,500 people, and there should be another 1,000 people added tomorrow."
"The more, the better... …”
After fighting with the rat men for a whole day, Fermi put away all his arrogance.
"Do I need to send you the Guards Corps and the Musketeers Corps?" Annan asked.
"No need, sir. Your help is enough." This war transformed Fermi, and his temperament became more dull and reserved. "If you use your resources to win, I will He is not worthy of being the commander of this army."
Annan stopped persuading and watched them and the foreign aid army work together to drive the rat men out of the basement and let them send the infected soldiers back to Liberty City.
"Lord Annan, we can still fight!" As a result, the wounded soldiers refused.
Femi was also saying: "Lord Annan, the musketeers are the key to defending Hell Mountain. Those infected soldiers can continue to fight after purifying the plague. Let's only send back the seriously injured soldiers."
The two attacks of the Storm Rats rushing into the camp and the Ratmen rushing into the basement caused heavy casualties to Hellfire. There were only more than 2,000 fighting soldiers left, and it was impossible to defend Hell Mountain...even if nearly 1,500 foreign aids were added.
"Then do as you say."
Annan gave Fermi full autonomy. He's trying to build up the people around him instead of turning them into yes-men.
For example, leaving official duties to Olmedo and Itilia. Is it really because Annan doesn’t like sitting in the office all day long and dealing with boring official duties?
"Don't rush out in a hurry, we only have one chance!" Belial's shout came. He ran around the foreign players who were venting their energy and asked them to hold back. "Don't cast spells! Don't cast spells. ! Don’t cast spells! Let’s continue to pretend to be weak and prepare to rush out to recapture the camp. Also, we must make sure that the news about the portal is not spread by the rat people!”
"Beryl is now the staff officer of the Hellfire Legion. If it weren't for their suggestions, we wouldn't be able to survive now."
"A big accident almost happened..." Annan blamed himself, "The portal time should be changed to six hours. Just once."
"Sir Annan..."
"I will not leave Liberty City soon." Annan also did not give Femi a chance to object. "Let me know if you need any supplies. Me."
Fermi said seriously: "Logs, rolling stones, anything that can make it impossible for the Rat Man to climb up the hillside."
"I understand... I'll send it to you in six hours."
The portal began to become unstable. Before Annan could encourage the foreign aid army, the portal disappeared in front of him.
Fermi stared at the sky with determination for a few seconds before looking back.
This batch of reinforcements are almost all professionals, and there are a lot of elites and masters, otherwise it would not have taken only a few minutes to suppress the rat men near the passage.
"Adjutant, count the casualties again." Fermi tilted his head and said, but no one answered.
"Where's Walter?"
He found that the adjutant who had been following him was missing.
"Are you talking about the adjutant? He died together with a rat man." A soldier walked over using a magic musket as a crutch, pointing at a disemboweled corpse more than ten meters away - already The cold Walter held the magic gun and stabbed it into Elite Rat's mouth, and Elite Rat's sharp sword also cut his belly.
Fermi sighed, "Who are you?"
"Report, I am Lochlan, a member of the 13th Squadron of the Hellfire Legion!" Lochlan quickly stood up straight, but in the next second he tilted his magic musket again.
"Why didn't you leave with the wounded?"
"My leg was injured, not my hand!" Lockran said loudly.
Fermi nodded: "I appoint you as temporary adjutant. Now go and count the casualties."
"Yes, sir!"
Lochran limped away.
The battle continued. The warriors holding battle axes and bolas excitedly rushed towards the elite rats. The rangers could not intervene, so they aimed at the ratmen pouring in from the passage.
Only the mages have nothing to do.
Nina was killing happily in the front row. She once again split the head of a canned rat with a tomahawk and swung it at the ratman next to her——
“I am one of my own. ! ”
The fluent Common Tongue made Nina put her ax away uncomfortably.
She did not wait for the explanation from the rat that spoke human language, because it then got into the group of rats and continued to kill the rats.
"What's going on..." Nina scratched her head with the back of an ax in confusion. She couldn't figure it out and was too lazy to do it. She continued to kill other ratmen...
They were ordered by Belial. The staff's command controls the rhythm.
Unless the Skaven start digging elsewhere, the longer they stay in the basement, the better off the situation will be for them.
Temporary Adjutant Lochran returned with a new casualty report: about 500 people were "missing", seventy-seven of whom were wounded who were sent back to Liberty City, but almost a third of the centurions were dead...< br>
Because they are professionals, they were at the front when the rat tide came in.
Lockran walked up to a young soldier who pushed away the body of the Elite Rat, and stretched out his hand to pull him up.
"You actually shot..." He groped his chest, as if looking for the bullet hole.
“It can’t penetrate the plate armor again.” Lochran said.
Femi silently carried the corpses with the soldiers, sending the corpses of his companions to the back so as not to mix with the dirty rat men.
"The broken tooth is gone."
Beryl ran over at this time, he was worried that the rat man would betray.
"Broken Tooth is not that kind of person..."
"It is not even a human being." Belial has never believed in rat people.
Fermi did not explain and asked the soldiers to find Miller.
"How are the other fronts going?" Fermi asked in passing.
“I don’t know, we have lost contact with the outside world.”
Miller was brought over quickly. He looked bruised and had a lot of injuries. The soldiers who had been so blinded by the killing did not care to distinguish it, and the foreign aid did not recognize it - it was lucky that it was still alive.
“Where is the broken tooth?”
"I saw it squeeze out!"
(End of Chapter)