Chapter 382, blockade, inducement, siege
The rat people are very focused on this battle, and there is almost no delay, conspiracy, or violation.
As soon as the guard tower was cleared, the other three rat warlords on the battlefield rushed to the battlefield.
It’s just that some preparations and time are needed before the absolute main force arrives.
One by one, the Big Claw Priests began to become active in these ruins, in order to repair roads and build bridges to provide for the rapid passage of the huge steam tanks.
During this period, the vanguard troops began to take the lead.
The vanguard was almost all composed of rat warriors. Driven by rat priests or war priests, they clustered together and headed towards the center of the battle, the extremely strong fortress city.
On the human side, the defenders stationed in the Flame City did not sit back and watch all this happen. Many reconnaissance teams, as well as various exquisite creations suspended in the sky, were appeared on this battlefield and began to try to locate any valuable or threatening rat-man movements.
Soon, the rat man's movements were determined.
There is almost no doubt that this is definitely a comprehensive and large-scale mobilization. In all directions, in all corners, no matter where they are, the Rat People are moving forward.
A rat priest who was among the rat warriors was dissatisfied with the buzzing little thing that was hovering in the sky. The sharp flying stone successfully hit the target with the wave of the staff. After catching the small ball floating in the sky, the human reconnaissance plane spun to the ground and exploded with a large cloud of sparks the moment it landed.
There was some panic among the rat warriors, and a few unlucky ones were affected by such an explosion, but the rat priest did not feel anything was wrong at all, and was very proud of the accuracy of his spells.
Soon, such commotion was calmed down.
This team of rat men began to move forward again.
After Heimao and his Storm Rat team cleaned up the sentry towers everywhere, there was no obstacle to the march.
The rat armies came from all directions and belonged to three different rat warlords. After abandoning war equipment and various heavy weapons, they completed their respective operations at determined positions in just two or three days. Convergence.
This huge human industrial city, a solid fortress, and a city that is as hard to eat as a hedgehog, was served on the dinner plate in advance due to the joint blockade of three rat warlords.
The rat people were not in a hurry to launch the attack, and there were still many things that had not been prepared.
Lightning towers were built around this human city.
Various fortifications, underground tunnels, and transportation networks have all entered the laying stage.
In this stage of the Rat Man, there are two most important things.
The first is those lightning towers that have entered the construction stage. These diffuse magic lightnings can greatly damage the operation of various magic equipment and are made by Gray Stone.
It is not that humans have not tried to crack these lightning towers, with certain results, but they still cannot prevent these lightning towers from infecting and destroying various small magic machines.
When these lightning towers completely fall and are connected in series, the Flame City will completely lose its ability to detect the outside world, and various magical instruments for detection will no longer be able to function. They will He completely turned a blind eye to the ratman's arrangements and deployment of the army.
This is a very dangerous state.
The second is the railway slowly being built from the rear. A surface railway connecting the Ratmen's underground railway network has begun to advance.
The purpose of this railway's existence is naturally to ensure logistics. As for why it was built on the surface, it is to deal with the attacks of various weapons developed by humans specifically to destroy underground tunnels, and also for better transportation. All kinds of oversized war equipment.
The first one is easy to understand. After all, with the highly qualified professional engineers like the Great Claw Priests, even if a large area of railways on the surface is completely destroyed, repairs and reconstruction can only be completed in a short time.
If the underground railway is attacked, the repair work will be much more complicated.
Moreover, the various war instruments of the Ratmen have also inherited the love of the Big Claw Priests, becoming increasingly larger and more complex. It is inconvenient to transport these strange-shaped instruments underground, so it is better to lift them directly. For surface transportation, after arriving at the battlefield, it can be directly unloaded and put into the war.
These two items are the Skaven's top priorities in this war.
One is logistics and the other is information.
However, there is one thing to say. The rat people now are indeed a little less eager than before. Perhaps it is because of those overly strong defensive measures, those overly dense magic energy barrages, and those various There are all kinds of magic machines, as well as all kinds of golems that are lying in wait for the rat people to approach and suddenly jump out. They have been well educated by these things.
It must be admitted that compared to the fanatical charges of the barbaric era, today's wars have become more and more complex and slow.
Even those rat warriors who are not looked down upon by them and are used to fill the front line, if they suffer excessive losses in their reckless charges, they may bring about unacceptable consequences. as a result of.
The previous leader of the War Priests, he pushed too many rat warriors in his hands to the defense line of the Nether Eye Human Race and died. In the end, in the emptiness of the battle line, the Nether Eye Human Race took the opportunity and tore them apart. He led that section of the front and completed a counter-encirclement against him.
That time, a grand rout occurred, and the former leader of the war priests was beaten to death in front of the flag by a group of sudden steel golems.
Fortunately, this defeat did not cause any tragic chain reaction. It was just an imbalance on the regional battlefield, but it also brought huge trouble to the rat people. That battle lasted a full Year, after the war ended, even the Ratmen spent a full year replenishing the various equipment and personnel lost in the war.
Of course, the reason why it took so long to add is actually related to the connection of steam trains. During the floods, too many rat workshops and breeding houses perished, and the desolate mountain industrial area, The Waste Slag City Industrial Zone and the Furnace City Smelting Center, these three super industrial zones have entered the process of updating and iterating.
The supply of weapons, the maintenance and replenishment of steam tanks, and the deployment of rat warriors were all greatly affected.
Even though the rat warlords and the adults who promoted the war really wanted to pursue the victory, in such a situation they could only hold their noses and wait for reinforcements and repairs.
War is indeed no longer the same as before. Of course, for these rat warlords, the most intuitive point is that even if they no longer take the rat warriors in their hands seriously, they can no longer be like them. Just like before, these despicable guys were pushed to the battlefield.
Firstly, this will not bring any advantages, and secondly, the training and recruitment of the army have become troublesome in various aspects.
Death is still the absolute theme of war for the rat warriors.
The large-scale increase in intensity has made the war more fierce and cruel. Their lives still have little value, the lives of these despicable guys.
Although the situation is better than before.
Now, these rat warlords, these high-ranking big shots, before pushing them to death, they must at least think about whether this can bring some value and whether it can promote some victory. fall.
The war entered a brief period of silence, and both sides were preparing for the upcoming war.
Of course, such a period of silence will not last long, and the city's ghost-eye human defenders will not allow the rat people to prepare smoothly like this.
Even if the rat people have basically surrounded the Flame City, under this premise, such harassment will not change the rat people's preparations for war in the end.
Even if it takes some time. Even if those lightning towers that have not yet fallen completely collapse again and again, they will still be successfully built in the end.
The rat people have been preparing for this war for a long time. After all, in the last battle, they were not able to fully enjoy the sweet fruits of victory.
But those precious warriors and various expensive magic equipment will still be pushed out of the city again and again to fight against the rat people.
This is also for victory.
This was a preview before the official war. In any case, it made the rat people pay more costs and delay more time in the preparation stage, just to add a chip to the outcome of the final war.
Of course, there is actually another option, which is to break out of the encirclement, while the Ratmen's encirclement has not yet been completely constructed.
Mobilize all the troops to conflict with the blockade and push it further to the rear of the empire. However, not to mention that this will abandon this city and a large number of civilians in this city, just for strategic considerations. , this is very likely to be a trap.
The rat army that was the first to arrive and clean up the sentry towers has now completely disappeared.
Not without activated towers giving information about that army.
But this also represents a kind of misleading.
If you don’t know the full picture of this rat army and what that flag represents, then you may indeed make some irrational choices in a panic.
After all, the other three industrial cities were burned into ruins. So at this time, the Flame City, which is unable to support itself, can it really survive by relying on only one city?
However, a little nurse who escaped back exposed the hidden danger.
Of course, they are both rat warlords, and the power in Heimao's hands is really not enough compared to the other guys.
It seems that he is just a powerful rat team captain, but no, this is just an appearance. The scale of the rat army in his hands is indeed not as large and complete as that of the other three guys, but in the eyes of the people in this area, the four In the evaluation of the rat warlord, he was ranked second.
Taller than Qi and the leader of the private guard.
Heimao has a storm army of 100,000 people, all composed of storm rats. They almost never carry any war equipment and use steam tanks, but they are dangerous enough.
He and his army are a sharp enough blade.
At this time, except for the tip of the knife that was slightly exposed when cleaning various outposts in Flame City, the rest of the knife was almost hidden.
If the defenders in the Flame City had other ideas after witnessing the loosely built encirclement of the Rat Man.
Then this sharp blade that almost hides its entire beard and tail will give them an unforgettable surprise.
An insidious enough arrangement.
But unfortunately, it was completely exposed. The cleaning of those guard towers should be done entirely by Heimao's vanguard Storm Rat team.
It’s just that this guy Kuroge seems to be a little impatient.
However, even if it is exposed, it does no harm. The blade hanging high is still a deterrent.
The war will come.
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In a trench that was dug out randomly and was somewhat rough, several rat warriors were gathering together. The brief calm before the war made them a little too relaxed.
The trenches they dug were really substandard, but considering that almost all of them were only organized into the army last month, they had never even seen their serious commander. On the one hand, this is not surprising.
Obviously, they were sent here after a hasty training at the Ratman School.
However, this cruel war will not let them go just because of their youth, and these young rat men did not realize how close they were to the danger.
Not far away, a steel tower has been built for less than half of its construction.
The big-clawed priest was whipping many slave rats and was constructing nervously. He looked anxious, as if he was being chased by some terrifying monster.
In the trench not far from the tall tower, these rat warriors gathered together and were chatting idly.
The content of the chat is not complicated, but mostly practical things.
Food, blood mushrooms, achievements, and gods.
While one of the rat warriors was kicking the soil boredly, he suddenly felt a strange slippery feeling.
He lowered his head, but a fat worm appeared. He quickly stepped on it and bent his waist as if nothing had happened.
I was lucky today. I was able to get myself an extra meal before eating the extremely unpleasant mushroom soup.
I thought happily.
The rat warrior who bent down quickly grabbed the fat worm in his hand.
Just when he was about to stuff the worm into his leather armor and raise his head, an accident happened.
The guy next to him who was still waving his arms excitedly and talking about achievements and gods over and over again suddenly disappeared and fell down in a daze, hitting the rat warrior. forward.
The rat warrior saw the charred hole in the fallen guy's head.
The trench they dug was so shallow that if you stood in it, half of your head could be exposed, and nothing could be covered.
Obviously, this is a long-planned attack, and the enemy seems to have been observing this place for a long time.
Amidst the horrified screams, this lucky rat warrior tightly held the magic firearm in his hand.
(End of this chapter)