Chapter 815: War breaks out again (Part 2)

"Shoot!"

Upon receiving the order, a rain of arrows drew long parabolas and flew out from the inside of the fortress, blocking the continuous pursuit of the rat tide in the rear.

The fortress gate was closed, and the blue lizard sword and shield soldiers guarding behind the gate cleared out the ratman slave soldiers who poured in with the most efficient movements.

At the same time, Soros on the wall frowned.

At this moment, the tide of rats that was chasing them was like a huge black wave, hitting the gate of their fortress hard.

Soros was not worried about the strength of their gate.

In fact, without even needing an order, the soldiers guarding behind the gate had already taken the initiative to launch a counterattack.

I saw the small windows on the gate opened quickly, and spears with cold light pierced out from the small windows.

A large number of rat slave soldiers piled up outside the gate were stabbed through in an instant.

Even at that density, a spear could pierce through the bodies of several rat slave soldiers with one strike.

Of course, this alone is not enough to curb the offensive of the rat tide. At the same time, the commander on the opposite side cannot care about the life and death of these rat slave soldiers. Countless rat slave soldiers are still rushing towards this side frantically.

"Wooden beams, huge rocks! Smash them down for me!!"

The order was given, and the soldiers responsible for throwing the wooden beams and boulders took action at the same time.

The huge and heavy wooden boulder, with the momentum of falling, landed with a "bang" and a large amount of blood splashed from the bottom. It was unknown how many ratmen were killed by it.

But compared to the entire swarm of rats in front of us, this is still just a drop in the bucket.

The scale of the rat tide was a little beyond Soros's initial expectations.

At the same time, unlike the Claw Clan's wave after wave, which was like boiling a frog in warm water and slowly consuming their enemies, the opponent's ratmen had a faster attack rhythm.

After just two rounds of killing in the previous wave, the second, third, and even fourth waves of rats came, making the entire offensive extremely oppressive.

Although they had encountered similar tactics when they fought against the Claw Clan, they had a large army of more than 4,000 at that time, while the permanent force stationed in the Southern Fortress was only 1,000.

It had been too long since they had fought a war, and the soldiers' inability to regain their form was only one of the reasons. Just now, the spearmen were almost surrounded and killed by a tide of rats on the battlefield outside the fortress. The huge gap in troop strength between the two sides was the biggest reason.

The rat tide just now was a qualitative change brought about by quantitative change! However, after retreating back to the fortress, the situation can still be stabilized thanks to the city's defense advantage.

As for the follow-up actions, it depends on when the reinforcements from the rear arrive.

Even for a pterosaur rider, it would take more time to fly back to the Lizardmen's homeland from the southern border.

By the time he brought the news to Bo Levin, it was several days later.

Upon receiving the news, Bo Levin frowned quickly. He obviously didn't expect that the ratman would be so lingering! "Pass my order, gather the permanent troops in the area and urgently support the South Fortress!"

In order to secure the strongholds in various parts of the territory, there are undoubtedly troops stationed in various living areas, strongholds, and facilities in the southern border.

While leaving a minimum number of troops to maintain public order, they can gather 1,500 troops in a short period of time and rush to the southern border. As for the subsequent troops, they will have to rely on conscription.

Considering that the newly recruited soldiers still need training, it will take two or three months at the fastest.

In Zhou Xu's absence, as the person in charge of this area, Boleyn has the power to directly recruit soldiers in an emergency and then make a report later.

At this moment, he did not dare to delay at all. He issued the conscription order as quickly as possible and sent a report to their Majesty at the same time.

But no matter how fast they moved, it would take a month from the outbreak of the war with the ratmen in the southern border to the time Zhou Xu received the report.

This was possible thanks to the pterosaur riders delivering letters in the southern region and the use of hot air balloons in the mountainous areas.

The reports from Soros and Bolevin were delivered to Zhou Xu almost at the same time.

Soros' report mainly talked about the appearance of ratmen troops outside the southern border and the fact that the other side launched an offensive towards their border line. At the end of the report, he also added some of his own speculations and analysis.

Bolevin's report, on the other hand, focused on conscription and resource mobilization.

After quickly reading the two reports, Zhou Xu remained relatively calm.

Facing the enemy Ratmen, the Lizardman troops stationed in the southern border all year round are definitely the most reliable garrison force.

This is indeed the case. Long before the two reports were delivered to them, Soros and Bolevin had already handled things in an orderly manner.

Even he couldn't do anything better at this moment.

Of course, this doesn't mean that he can't do anything.

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As his thoughts raced, Zhou Xu casually opened his Dragon Lord class panel.

Ever since he destroyed the Claw Clan, he hasn't upgraded any of the projects here.

The subsequent upgrade projects require too much mantra power, which is just one of the reasons.

The more important reason was that not long after that, they went to war with Yan Sheng.

During the war, he may need to consume a large amount of mantra power to join the battle at any time. For this reason, he must ensure his condition during this period.

Even if his body was filled with the power of mantra, he would not be able to consume the power to upgrade the project.

After the war, he was first busy testing new mantras, and then he gave out many more mantras to assist in development. Later, he began to conduct in-depth research on the mantras in his body, and the process has been almost seamless until now.

In fact, if these two reports were delivered tomorrow, the mantra power that had just recovered in his body would have been consumed in tonight's mantra research project.

Now that the contents of the report have been confirmed, even though Zhou Xu has great confidence in Soros and his team, he still has to strengthen his forces when necessary out of caution.

Their core method to deal with ratmen is the spear formation!

But unfortunately, the class "Lizardman Spearman" does not exist in the "Dragon Lord" class panel.

There was no other way, so Zhou Xu could only upgrade other related arms as he had done before.

The first thing that flashed through his mind was the Dragoon.

After all, in this era, compared with infantry, cavalry itself is an elite force. At the same time, when facing large-scale enemy forces, there is also the killer move of "charge", which can cause considerable lethality.

But in the end, Zhou Xu's choice was the not-so-outstanding Green Lizard Spearman.

The reason is simple. The dragoons can only exert their combat effectiveness when they take the initiative to attack, and they have no room to exert their combat effectiveness when they are defending a fortress.

On the other hand, Green Lizard Spearmen can be used in almost any situation, and there are a large number of them, making them a very versatile weapon. In terms of comprehensive performance, they are currently the first choice! (End of this chapter)