Chapter 365, Progress in War
Love teaching, or simply beating, Heimao made a promise to these unruly storm rats, whoever can defeat him will become the new boss.
Then, a vigorous melee began.
These storm rats lived up to their professionalism, fighting at night when they rested, and they could participate in the march normally even with bruises during the day.
After one round, or two rounds, or more, this short and thin ratman dragging a big sword full of gaps beat almost all of the five thousand storm rats one by one, and some were even beaten more than once.
These unruly guys finally gave in.
Willing to restrain their pride in front of Heimao.
The flag and the others are about to arrive, let's cross another mountain.
It is a fortress, a solid fortress built on a towering mountain range. This fortress is a key link for the Youyan people to maintain the water transportation channel in Lianyan Province.
A well-equipped magic machine army is stationed on the steep mountaintop fortress, with a total number of about 10,000 people, and there are also 30,000 militia troops.
Not far from the mountaintop fortress, the area where the river flows here is a flat and gentle river channel.
This is one of the most suitable areas for ratmen to cross the river, but there is a stinky and hard fortress as a guard.
If you ignore them and force the river crossing, then when the large army is halfway through, you will be attacked by the defenders of this fortress. If you get angry and besiege this fortress, then this fortress built on the terrain can really be called stinky and hard.
In addition, the Ghost Eye People also have a mobile force cruising on this river. Often, before you capture this fortress, you will face the attack of the Ghost Eye People's army that comes to support it.
This dilemma has made this fortress exist until now, and it has become a real obstacle for the ratmen.
A hard bone that is not so easy to chew, now it is the turn of Qi to face it.
Cross the mountain.
The river and the fortress appeared in front of the flag, and the gorgeous smoke was released from the fortress standing on the steep mountain as a warning.
It is difficult to carry out covert operations in this flat area.
And in the past three years, some things that are more difficult for the rats have also been put into use, those patterned columns that can reinforce the rocks of the land.
When the city of Surging Waves was recaptured by the Ghost Eyes, these stone pillars and the unburned heritage of the Golden Wheatfield Academy were discovered by the mages and brought back to the empire.
Now, there are some results, and a large part of these results have been put into the battlefield.
Self-repairing earth crust, soil-fixing stone pillars, modular building strategies, plant-induced magic technology, and the rock golems that have recently been put into the plain battlefield to face off against the rats' increasingly exaggerated steam tanks.
In this war, the technology of both sides has ushered in an explosion.
The ratmen's hybrid magic steam engine, magic resistance armor, gear linkage system, fifth-generation crazy lightning cannon, and the battlefield construction theory, eugenics theory, and mushroom breeding theory of the big claw priests.
These are all real black technologies.
For example, the self-repairing earth crust of the ghost eye people is a magic technology for setting up semi-permanent or fully permanent positions.
Through a huge magic array laid almost throughout the position, this completed position has a certain self-repair ability. Whether it is the big pits smashed by the shells or the various gullies on it, they can be slowly smoothed and restored to a constant state set when the position is set up.
In order to defend against the ratmen's underground raids that are hard to defend against.
Even the soil-fixing stone pillars can hardly completely stop the crazy digging of the big claw priests. From time to time, it is difficult to guarantee that underground tunnels will be opened up in unexpected situations.
The self-repairing earth crust cannot stop the excavation of the Big Claw Priests, but it can well smooth out the excavated underground tunnels and various abandoned underground tunnels after the battle.
Otherwise, the underground of the battlefield will be dug like a hornet's nest by the rats sooner or later.
The rats' magic energy resistance armor is also a similar thing. The Big Claw Priests have discovered a physical structure that can resist magic reactions. It does not require any special materials and rituals. Just shrink such a structure and cover the outer armor of the steam tank. Then this steam tank has the ability to resist magic attacks.
It's amazing. The Big Claw Priests didn't figure out what the principle is, but it didn't prevent them from starting to use this magic resistance structure on a large scale and optimizing this mysterious structure in an almost exhaustive way.
War is indeed a good way to promote progress.
On the banks of the wide and rushing river, the flag's attack on the fortress began.
The young rat warriors began to climb towards the fortress.
At the beginning, everything seemed so calm, as if the enemies in the fortress had not noticed it at all, which made people feel lucky.
Perhaps everything was not so difficult. Just climb up, climb up and kill all the heretics in the fortress. That would be fine. That would be enough.
Climbing this steep mountain, at least for the rats, was not difficult.
Everything went so smoothly.
But, is it true?
Qi's brows were deeply twisted. He stood on the ground, raised his head, and looked at the fortress with absolute terrain advantages.
Of course, everything could not be so calm.
As an absolute siege expert, Qi clearly understood one thing.
The best time to defend the city is when the enemy is halfway up the climb, so that every point of defense resources can be guaranteed to be the maximum benefit, but this is not so easy to do.
After all, it is not so easy to watch the enemy approaching you, and fear will climb in your heart.
This war will never be so easy.
When the rats climbed halfway up the steep mountain, the attack began.
Various attacks, rolling boulders, kerosene, arrows, and the splashing magic beams, as well as elemental chaos cannons.
In an instant, screams and wails echoed in Qi's ears, and countless rats fell in front of him.
There is no doubt that this will be a real tough battle.
Watching all this, Qi gritted his teeth slightly.
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It is gratifying that although the attack on this fortress is a test for the flag, it is not just a test for the flag.
The temple guards really want to break through this long-standing battle line.
Almost at the same time when the flag launched the attack, the war priests also began to urge the rat warriors in their hands to run wildly.
The battlefield maintained by the war priests is undoubtedly more tragic, involving more resources and warriors, and more eye-catching.
It also allowed the flag to escape the tragic ending of being attacked by the ghost-eyed human army wandering on the river.
The living forces maintained by the ghost-eyed people rushed to the more important main battlefield.
This is worthy of gratification.
Of course, before being happy, a problem needs to be temporarily solved.
Even if the ghost-eyed people do not have more power to rush here along the river, can he really attack this fortress?
This is a question worth thinking about.
Qi may have to understand the real reason why the fortress is like a spike stuck in this battlefield, but the war priests have been unable to pull it out.
The falling rats smashed themselves to pieces. Death is not the worst result. Decisive death has never been the worst result.
The worst result is to survive with a lingering breath, constantly wailing, constantly wailing, but still alive. Broken legs and broken hands are more straightforward. The whole lower body has no sensation. You can only rely on your hands to drag your body and climb at the foot of this mountain.
There are many of these guys. They have all fallen into this state because of Qi, but Qi cannot stabilize them, and Qi will not compensate them. It's all like this.
In order to get what you want, in order to pick the apple hanging high above your head, you must put something under your feet. It's all like this.
Every rat warlord is able to stand above everyone else by stepping on the corpses of countless rats.
The army in hand is constantly decreasing, and it is losing every moment, but there is no more way. If you want to take over this fortress on the towering mountain, there is no more way.
Shouting with a hideous face, ignoring those wailing and wailing, constantly driving the rat warriors in his hand to climb up.
Witnessing the death of countless rats, at this time, you will understand, you will understand why only those indifferent and crazy guys can reach high positions in this twisted and deformed country.
If you want to climb up, there is no choice.
If you still regard those rats who are chattering and noisy in front of you as companions, as rats like you, then you can only look up from the low place forever, and you will never become a real rat man.
Treat them as firewood, as some tools, some cheaper things, as a group of completely despicable guys.
Use them as ladders to climb up.
The flag was roaring fiercely, and the army under his command, those young rat warriors, even though they were more cultured, were afraid when facing this terrifying battlefield.
This is a very normal emotion. After all, everyone is afraid of death, and no one wants to do something that seems absolutely impossible to succeed.
Just like climbing this mountain, just like breaking through the castle on that mountain.