"What's going on? Boss Su Yue's territory was just raided by the ratman army like that? Was it because of the Papacy's power grab?"

"Be careful of the Vatican... they are truly evil."

Zhou Zhuo (Deputy Leader of Canaan United Front): "Su Yue's Canaan territory has been attacked. Anyone who can help, please contact me immediately. Even sending troops to gain experience counts! Give what you can."

Gu Yu's delicate features and chin made her look like she'd had plastic surgery, but in reality, everything about her was natural. She was tall and slender, with a delicate, supple quality... Yet, at this moment, this beautiful elven lord seemed somewhat worried.

"Can Su Yue win?"

She sent a message to Su Yue.

"The dwarves have made their move too! The second-tier goblins I've been scouting here, as well as the dwarven spies in Europe, have sent messages. Loire Bragg and his group of European dwarven players have already begun to assemble."

"This is clearly an attempt to avenge past humiliations."

Su Yue: "They're nothing but a bunch of chickens and dogs."

"..."

Gu Yu thought, "Is it really that simple...?" As the elven lord, looking at her newly established territory, she knew it would be very difficult to send troops... Under attack from two sides, the crisis facing the Canaanite territory was extraordinary. Such terrifying pressure and threats, 2,000 ratman troops, plus the attack from the dwarven northern fortress.

Gu Yu asked herself honestly, even if she didn't consider herself, and even if she combined Zhou Zhuo and everyone else in the united front group to resist, defeat was inevitable... How should Su Yue fight this crisis?

Can you win?

"..."

...

A Dragon Kingdom player named Zhanji nervously watched the movements of the Plague Clan ratmen around him. Large numbers of ratmen moved from the tunnels to the surface, like a long dragon. He photographed each scene and sent it to the god-level lord, Su Yue, from his player friends list.

"Boss, we're almost at your territory. We'll spend about 20 minutes assembling and preparing our formation..."

"kindness?"

"It's too chaotic right now. The Steel Blade Storm Skaven on the left wing clashed with the Tier 3 Plague Flail troops on the right wing, and many people were trampled to death... That Skaven lord named Victor Sterling is still laughing maniacally. I feel like the Skaven aren't quite right in the head."

Su Yue laughed and said, "The ratmen reproduce very quickly, don't they?"

James said, "I don't know either. You've seen the photos, haven't you?"

He sent me a photo.

In the narrow passageway.

The flailed ratmen, seemingly angered by the offense of the lower-ranking ratmen, are actually killing each other!

The crowded tunnels are filled with scenes that could cause someone with trypophobia to die.

Everywhere was plague bacteria and the green mane of the ratmen, along with slime and blood, filthy and disgusting... It was hard to imagine how vast the world of Turin was to provide enough space for such a terrible ratman scourge to live.

"Third-tier flail ratmen, steel swords, ordinary iron swords and shields, as well as crossbowmen and long-haired soldiers..."

"There are fourth-tier units... I don't know what they're called. Their strength should be easily dismantled and defeated by me. This group of troops lacks organization and is too chaotic."

Su Yue appeared to be analyzing slowly, but in reality, only a moment had passed. After receiving help from player Zhanji, Su Yue immediately shouted without hesitation: "Everyone, march immediately and prepare to launch a surprise attack on the dwarf army!!"

He obtained a crucial piece of information and a key piece of intelligence from it.

The ratmen army is currently in disarray and has not yet fully assembled. To quickly wipe out these two thousand troops and then turn around to deal with the dwarf attack, we must take advantage of the moment before their forces have assembled in the narrow passage.

Launch a lightning-fast attack on them!

Su Yue saw this as a winning strategy.

Zhou Zhuo: "How is it?"

Su Yue said, "I still have to thank you. Without this information advantage, it would have been difficult to quickly take down this batch of troops."

Su Yue meant it was difficult to "quickly" take down this force, not that it was extremely difficult to take down this force...

This caused Zhou Zhuo's Adam's apple to bob involuntarily...

"The NPC lords are all very powerful, often reaching the fourth or fifth tier, and there are also elite guards..."

"I see."

Zhou Zhuo said, "I also participated in this battle, and several other players from the Dragon Kingdom were also able to mobilize their troops to join the fight. Please keep an eye on things so we don't get caught in the crossfire."

"receive."

They formed an alliance and established friendly intelligence, and suddenly many green dots appeared on the fog map of Su Yue, looking around at the outside world!

Lord's Log: "You have formed an alliance with player Zhou Zhuo. Your campaign maps are shared. Time limit. Campaign ends."

"You have formed an alliance with player Mibelle..."

"You have formed an alliance with player Elie..."

Lord Su Yue of the White Horse Army led his army, disregarding all physical exhaustion, and immediately launched a forced march.

A lord's understanding of strategy and tactics is primarily reflected in his grasp of timing, as well as his ability to understand and analyze enemy intelligence. Lord Su Yue of the White Horse Army possessed terrifying battlefield insight; upon realizing the enemy's formation was disorganized and in need of regrouping, Su Yue immediately understood the opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

A narrow, flat mudflat near the Canaanite territory.

Across the river, at the border of the river and woodland known as "Singen" in the Skaven civilization, the first Skaven cave was excavated. Immediately afterwards, hundreds of blood-stained Tier 3 Flail Plague Skaven and Tier 2 Storm Skaven Plague Clan troops, carrying green Plague banners, charged out!

The hundreds of soldiers were in complete chaos, some shouting at each other, tearing at each other with their teeth and getting into arguments!

Ratman Lord Victor Sterling raised his steel blade with his emerald claws and roared:

"Begin troop preparations!!"

Within the woods, the White Horse Lord and his vast human army watched this scene unfold with leisurely silence. If he were to launch an attack now, he could absolutely annihilate the entire rat-man force before him; their ranks were chaotic and utterly disorganized!

It is important to understand that the level of organization during a battle is also an extremely important key factor.

An unorganized army is nothing but chaos.

Lack of command.

They are even less likely to obey orders.

A disorganized army is essentially on the verge of mental collapse, unable to be commanded by its superiors, lords, and heroes—this is the current state of the ratman army before us.

Despite the orders issued by Victor Sterling, the rat-man lord, the rat-men remained in chaos.

"Should we attack now?"

Europa, riding a brown steed, softly asked the white horse lord and her first man.

Su Yue said, "Let's wait a little longer."

"If they retreat now, they won't be able to seize a bigger opportunity. Only by playing the long game can they catch a big fish."

Su Yue even had the leisure to browse the players' auction houses. Because of Dragon Port, he was facing a huge gold coin shortage, a deficit of 5 million gold coins... In order to gain control of the territory's seas as soon as possible, he was now forced to become a shrewd merchant and do business.

So he started selling large quantities of weapons on the Dragon Kingdom player forum.

The ratman player from the Dragon Kingdom, Zhanji, barely managed to crawl out of his burrow. Covered in silt and mud, and smelling of the ratman sewers, he felt nauseous... But there was nothing he could do, as his starting talent was a D-level ratman supporter, a low-level talent that increased reinforcement and support speed by 10%.

It made him unable to lift his head.

However, upon learning that Su Yue was recruiting players near the Canaan territory to form a united front against the European dwarves, he immediately wanted to contribute. He never expected that he hadn't even had a long rest in the ratmen's underground territory before being forcibly conscripted by that ratman lord named "Victor Sterling."

He then provided intelligence to Su Yue, becoming Su Yue's key informant.

Victor Sterling said, "The Plague Clan will crush the human forces... All the Skaven forces, assemble! Quickly, bring up our gas devices and catapults!"

The rat army has been assembling on the ground in Singen for more than 10 minutes.

One catapult after another, transported by the filthy, dust-covered ratmen, finally appeared on the battlefield... More than two thousand ratmen troops began to assemble to the piercing squawks of Victor Sterling.

592 Spear Clan Rats, 775 Tier 2 Storm Rats, 499 Tier 3 Plague Rats... A large number of troops were mixed together, like a flowing cup of water suddenly filled with mud and stones, making the liquid turbid.

In this most chaotic moment.

Lord Su Yue of the White Horse's right arm fluttered with long sleeves, and his longsword slowly rose forward, the divine artifact Arachni gleaming with a blue light! He clearly realized that the time to launch an attack had come.

"All troops, launch a surprise attack!!!! Ambush the dwarf forces!"

"!!"

The light from Arachnid illuminated a forest, and over a hundred Tier 3 Imperial cavalrymen crossed the woodland barrier like sharp steel blades, tracing a U-shaped arc and piercing the chests of two thousand ratman troops!

The first-tier cavemen wielding pitchforks and the big-eared monsters holding hammers, all clad in armor, followed by the second-tier blind warriors and the third-tier dwarf troops, formed a complete square formation. On the front lines of the battlefield, they presented an extremely oppressive presence at the most chaotic moment when the ratman army was about to complete its assembly but had not yet.

They launched a terrorist attack on them!

"Enemy attack!"

"Humans have launched an attack on us!"

The ratmen weren't without scouts, but before they could organize their scout force from underground to the surface, they were attacked by Su Yue. The timing was so perfect that the ratman army quickly collapsed.

Victor Sterling cried out in alarm, "Ahhh, stop them!!!"

The textbook-perfect surprise attack plan was completed.

The catapults on both flanks of Su and Yue began to be loaded—these were siege weapons that could influence the course of the battle!

"boom!"

A massive boulder crashed into the ratman army that was retreating to their camp, preparing to resist Su Yue's encirclement!

Despite the terrifying power and timing of Su Yue's surprise attack, a force of two thousand men could not be completely dealt with in a short time!

Victor Sterling looked at the ratmen soldiers who were in disarray.

Lord's Log: "You launched a surprise attack on the ratman army. The morale of the plague ratman army has collapsed, morale -7!"

"The catapult and trebuchet exploded, reducing the morale of the Plague Ratmen army by 3."

But at that moment, Su Yue didn't know what the ratman lord shouted, but the morale of the previously low-spirited ratman troops actually rebounded. War is about killing the enemy's mind; as long as you can break and confuse the enemy's mind, you can win the battle.

But Victor Sterling actually appeared at this critical moment.

Leading his personal guard and the mutated, enormous ratmen, he transformed into a long line and horseshoe crab-like formation, and began to retreat!

Su Yue scoffed inwardly. Want to retreat? Is this battlefield a place you can come and go as you please?

"Surround them!"

Su Yue had already dealt a fatal blow to the ratman army, and seeing a large number of corpses appearing all around, he naturally could not let go of the opportunity to annihilate the enemy in the future.

Victor Sterling gritted his teeth and said, "Stop them!!"

Su Yue's 15% injury bonus flanking effect is taking effect, and Walter Lawrence is also fulfilling his value as a cavalry commander, leading five Tier 4 Imperial cavalrymen and 102 Imperial cavalrymen, divided into five groups of 20 men each, to infiltrate the ratmen's plague troops!

A Tier 3 Plague Clan ratman spewed venom at them.

Walter Lawrence's silver armor made a corroding sound.

The fourth-tier imperial cavalry behind him raised their kite-patterned circular cavalry shields.

Block the venom spray.

With a single sword strike, the opponent's head, blood vessels, and tiny rat-like limb structures were severed, emitting a foul stench resembling green blood plasma!

The enemy forces were thrown into disarray, but the rear troops were determined to regroup and retreat!

Walter Lawrence, of course, could not do as they wished.

Lead your troops in pursuit!

Lord Su Yue of the White Horse overlooked the battle, looking at the lord's log, and thought to himself, "The result is exactly as I expected."

Lord's Log: "Enemy casualties: 432; Our casualties: 37."

Such a terrifying 1:10 casualty ratio can only occur under the right tactics and leadership.

In a direct confrontation, with two thousand against two thousand, such an exaggerated casualty ratio would be impossible; a ratio of 1:3 or 1:4 would be the normal outcome.

Su Yue's appearance directly disrupted the ratman army's assembly and organizational deployment.

It caused devastating casualties to the other side.

"Has it already eaten a quarter of them? Then let's go one step further and completely crush our opponent."

Su Yue smiled as he looked at the chaotic army of ratmen at this moment.

Among the rat-man army, the Dragon Kingdom player, Zhanji, said, "Boss, quickly form an alliance with me!!"

Chaos reigned around him; the ratmen's plague devices had been destroyed, turning the surrounding land into a plague pool and a swamp-like viral landscape.

The Empire's fully armed red-clad, silver-armored cavalry, riding red horses, charged towards them!

"Player Su Yue has formed an alliance with you."

As the massive number of enemy Imperial soldiers turned into green allies, Zhanji stabbed the second-tier clan ratman beside him.

"Traitor...traitor!"

"I'm working for Boss Su Yue, you bunch of ugly bastards!"

Janji also joined the rat-killing army.

Walter Lawrence is making runs down the flank.

At this moment!

Suddenly, a green, highly poisonous curtain was lifted by Victor Sterling's troops in the distance.

"The plague virus will devour everything you have!! Damn humans!"

Victor Sterling's third-tier spell, "Plague Mist," erupted among the human soldiers as he calmly watched the catapults' rocks streak across the sky!

A deafening roar came from my ears.

Su Yue thought that defeating this force would bring him a large sum of money, and the surrender of the ratmen would allow his army to grow stronger through continuous warfare. Others wanted his life, but little did they know they were handing him food.

"Europa".

"Holy Light, dispel all evil!!"

The holy light, pure white, illuminated the plague, dispelling all viruses. As an archangel of the Holy Order, he was naturally able to subdue this disease and the plague-ridden creatures of the ratmen. This was the fundamental reason why the Holy See insisted on guiding the ratmen to launch an attack on their Canaanite territory.

Because of the presence of the Archangel, the Canaanite territory of Su Yue could not possibly be defeated by the plague...

Therefore, launching an attack is the only option!

To the Holy See's utter surprise, the formidable ratman army was utterly defeated by Su Yue! They had no idea that Su Yue had planted spies among the ratmen, giving him an informational advantage beforehand.

"This is impossible!!!"

"A great victory in the Canaanite territory!"

Schwarz von Richter listened with a grim expression to the report from the St. James Brothers. Through the Holy See's detection technology, they saw the chaotic battlefield and the rout of two thousand ratmen!

He immediately said, "Send the dwarf troops back immediately... We can't let him continue to build his reputation!"

"The dwarf army has arrived..."

Schwarz von Richter's face was icy cold. His steel-like gray pupils and beard trembled slightly. At this moment, no one could fathom the inner thoughts of this cardinal, who had repeatedly encountered setbacks and had his plans and actions thwarted by a chosen player.

At that moment, was he filled with anger or a desire for more? We cannot know.