Chapter 580 Winter Passes, Spring Comes

This winter, in the war with the ratmen in the southern border, under the premise that the ratmen had no intention of launching further attacks, the entire initiative was firmly in Li Ce's hands.

Their border troops took the initiative to launch harassment attacks directly outside the ratmen's front-line nests, causing the ratmen's border garrison troops to be in unrest.

As the commander-in-chief of the ratmen border, Jikum was unable to take the initiative to attack, and he was also unable to retreat. He could only stay there silently, and his mentality was very bad recently.

On the other hand, on the Great Zhou side, Li Ce's move directly pushed the battle outside the opposite border, making their own border area stable and adding a lot of convenience to the subsequent construction of border city walls.

The construction of the southern city wall can be said to be the most important project in the New World at this stage. Now that the bricks and stones are in place, all other work of the construction department here must be put aside and all labor must be concentrated on this project.

Although he planned to build a wall on the border, Zhou Xu obviously had no intention of enclosing the entire border. Everyone knew that this was unrealistic at this stage.

At this stage, this city wall is mainly used to enclose their border garrison camps and enhance the defense capabilities of the garrison camps so that they can appear more calm when facing rat tide attacks.

The scale of the garrison camp here is naturally not small, as it can accommodate two thousand Lizardmen garrison troops all year round, and even increase the border defense force to four or five thousand when necessary.

Taking into account subsequent development, according to Zhou Xu's suggestion, they expanded the scope of the city wall by two circles to reserve space for subsequent internal development.

After all, once the city wall is built, it will be very troublesome to expand it later.

Time passed quietly in the busyness, winter went and spring came. The Old World, which had basically rested for a winter, began to be busy with spring farming work, while the New World was basically never idle.

Regarding this situation, Zhou Xu could only say that each has its own advantages.

In the Old World, sufficient rest in the winter allows people to be in a better working condition after the spring.

In the New World, there are basically no such long holidays. You just have to work non-stop all year round. The advantage is that you have more time for development.

In the southern region, this winter has been a wonderful experience for the Lizardman garrison here.

Although they often fought with the rat people in winter, there had never been a year like this year when they took the initiative to attack and constantly harassed the rat people.

The harassment tactic itself does not require too much manpower, and with proper rotation arrangements, their condition is maintained quite well even after being busy for a whole winter.

If the rat people launched an attack at this time, they would be able to fight back without any fear.

However, how could the ratmen, who had been harassed by the Lizardman troops for a whole winter, be in the right condition to launch an offensive immediately?

Their work throughout the winter was not in vain. Once the harassment troops of the Lizardmen appeared, the ratmen were forced to send troops to fight back even if they were unwilling. Otherwise, the Lizardmen's troops would directly attack their front-line nests and destroy their rat nests.

As soon as the ratmen attacked, the losses had already occurred.

If this consumption continues for a whole winter, even a rat man will not be in good condition.

At this moment, inside the front-line nest, hearing the news that the harassment troops of the Lizardmen appeared nearby again, Jikum's face instantly fell.

[If I had known I shouldn't have sent out the Rat Tide in those early winter games! Then I could have fought more freely later! ]

In previous winters, the rat people first sent out waves of rats to fight a war of attrition, and at the same time to reduce the pressure on food to survive the winter internally.

Who would have thought that after those rounds of rat infestation, the offense and defense at the border would actually be reversed.

In the original plan, there was no intention to launch a large-scale attack. Jikum had used up his troops with the rat tide in advance. How could he have spare troops at hand later? The fact that he could hold on until now was the result of requesting military support from the rear.

Right now, the Lizardmen are firmly in control of the initiative. They can only passively accept the attacks throughout the whole process, and are constantly being consumed by the opponent. This situation is terrible no matter how you look at it.

From Jikum's perspective, they now need to gather enough troops to launch a strong attack on the opposite lizardmen, forcing both sides to change their offense and defense.

But unfortunately, given the current situation on their front line, they are probably unable to do this at all.

According to Jikum's idea, they might have to spend this year recuperating.

It’s really incredible when you think about it.

After all, everyone knows that with their huge rat tide, the rats are the best at fighting a war of attrition. Who would have thought that they would be attrited one day? The root cause is...

[Sure enough, it was because of that tactic. 】

At this moment, the spear formation that had defeated their rat tide many times emerged in Jikum's mind subconsciously.

There is no doubt that this is one of the key factors that led to their frustration and the current situation.

In previous winters, even if they only sent out a few waves of rats to consume the Lizardmen, even if they could resolve them, it would never be so easy.

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It often takes a lot of manpower and time for the Lizardmen to clear out the rat tide.

During this period, the Lizardmen will be unable to take follow-up actions immediately due to the depletion of their status and will be forced to rest, thus being dragged into a vicious cycle.

But that tactic broke the situation in an instant.

[With such a tight formation, the rat tide was unable to disperse them from the front. ]

[Attack from both sides. The opposite sides also arranged velociraptors to resist the attack, and even green lizard infantry provided cover on the outer perimeter.]

Thinking of this, Jikum really got a headache.

As it stands now, this formation is like an iron barrel, making it impossible for him to find a breakthrough.

The only time they destroyed the enemy's formation was on the battlefield in the winter of the year before last, when Chief Claw personally led the regular army of the ratmen to the front line, used the rat tide and the giant rat knights to contain the opponent's dragoon cavalry, and took the opportunity to break the opponent's formation.

[We still have to use giant rat knights, use cavalry to fight cavalry! ]

After coming to this conclusion, Jikum frowned even more tightly.

The Giant Rat Knights belong to the regular army. Unlike the rat tide composed of slave soldiers, the ratmen will not easily mobilize the regular army unless they want to launch a serious attack.

Under this premise, most of the regular army's strength is in the hands of the patriarch Claw, while he only has a small part, which is not enough at all.

In other words, this matter still needs to be reported to Claw, and he cannot have the final say, so many times, he, as the commander-in-chief of the border, is actually helpless.

(End of this chapter)