Chapter 589 Knowing it was a trap A
new day, the rat tide surged again.
In the past, when the rat army launched an offensive, relying on the huge force of the rat tide, they would often fight for a quarter without stopping.
Although the siege has caused heavy casualties, given the scale of the rat tide, it is undoubtedly unrealistic for Li Ce and his men to deplete the troop strength in just a few days.
Faced with a new day of attacks by the rat tide, Li Ce, who had led his troops to attack yesterday, undoubtedly planned to defend the city walls and recuperate today.
After fighting defensive battles for many consecutive days, they had already become proficient in the city defense methods, and the entire process was very smooth.
But today, the rat man has made new moves.
"The ratmen's regular army is moving!"
Thanks to Zhou Xu's talent, Li Ce's eyesight is still quite outstanding. Standing on the top of the wall, he can take in every move of the rat people in the distance from this height.
"Facing this high wall, there won't be much difference between the regular army and the slave soldiers of the ratmen."
The person who said this was a lizardman adjutant that Li Ce had arranged for himself for convenience after the battle started.
After all, they are now surrounded by enemies, and Soros is also a capable commander. It would be a waste to follow him to command the same city wall.
On the other hand, if Soros could help him command the battle on the two walls, the pressure on him would be greatly reduced.
Li Ce did not doubt the words of his adjutant. After all, from what he had understood so far, it was indeed true.
Focusing their attention on the advancing ratman regular army, they did not rush into the battlefield in one breath, but after entering the battlefield area, they still stopped at a certain safe distance.
Then, a rat man suddenly jumped out and shouted towards the wall...
"You bunch of cowardly lizards, are you just going to hide in there? Come out and fight if you have the guts!!"
Listening to the shouting and cursing outside the fortress, Li Ce had a blank expression on his face and was not moved at all. He only thought that the ratman that jumped out looked weird.
However, the lizardmen soldiers, including his adjutant, all changed color when they saw the ratman, and some soldiers even couldn't help cursing loudly.
Li Ce frowned when he realized something was wrong.
"What's going on?"
At this moment, his adjutant's expression was extremely ferocious.
"That damned rat man is wearing the skin of Lord Baal on his face!"
[If I remember correctly, the name Bal was the name of the Lizardman commander-in-chief of the South Border Camp. At that time, the Lizardman army was defeated and he also disappeared in the chaos...]
At the time, they said he was missing, but it was basically no different from being dead.
After taking office, Li Ce did confirm the situation here.
However, this happened more than two years ago, and when Li Ce heard the name, it took him some time to react.
At the same time, after listening to the adjutant's words, he looked carefully and found out why the rat man looked so strange.
It turned out that the rat man's face was actually covered with a lizard man's face skin! During this process, the rat man with the lizard man's face skin was still shouting non-stop, and the lizard people here seemed to be very excited.
"Captain, please let us fight!"
"Captain, please allow us to go into battle!"
“Captain!!”
This shout almost set off a chain reaction, and the lizardmen soldiers on the wall all asked to fight.
Faced with this situation, Li Ce's face was tense and his mood was terrible.
The opponent was obviously trying to provoke them to give up defense and take the initiative to attack. The meaning was too obvious, but this move completely hit their weak spot.
He really didn't care about Baal's face, but the lizardmen did care.
If he tried to stop them by force now, the impact on morale would be a minor issue. The biggest trouble would be that the lizardmen would become estranged from him.
This feeling of knowing it is a trap but having to fall into it is truly terrible.
Unexpectedly, just when Li Ce was about to give the order to attack, a voice sounded before him.
"You bunch of idiots, can't you see that this is a trap set by the ratmen over there?!"
As the voice rang out, Soros, dressed in military uniform, hurried over with an extremely ugly expression on his face.
"But Lord Baal..."
"Baal hopes that we can win the battle and destroy the ratmen! Instead of foolishly falling into the ratmen's trap like you idiots!"
Soros interrupted the other party without any hesitation, leaving the group of lizardmen soldiers speechless.
"What are you all still standing there for? Hurry up and get back to your seats!!"
Under Soros's scolding, the Lizardmen soldiers who came to ask for a fight were all ashamed and ran back to their positions.
During this time, Li Ce, who was standing by, said nothing, but he felt greatly relieved in his heart.
He knew all these words, but he couldn't say them. This time, he could only say that Soros came just in time.
At the same time, on the battlefield, the ratman wearing the face of Baal and shouting loudly was Claw.
In his early years, Sharp Claw was famous for his cruelty and brutality. He liked to peel off the skin of his enemies, make a hood into it and put it on his face to fight the enemies. Therefore, he got a cruel nickname, called "Skinner".
Of course, not every lizardman is worthy of having his skin peeled off and collected as a trophy.
Anyone who can have his face peeled off by sharp claws must at least be a commander.
As the original supreme commander of the Lizardmen's southern defense line, Baal can be said to be the one with the highest status among all his current spoils of war.
At this moment, Claw, wearing Bal's face, kept cursing for a long time, but the opponent had no intention of going out to fight. Although Claw was annoyed, he could do nothing about it.
Then, with an order given, a group of burly figures stepped out from the regular army.
They have all the characteristics of ratmen, but are completely different from the ordinary skinny ratmen. They are estimated to be five meters tall, standing on two feet, with muscles all over their bodies, and their postures look quite ferocious.
"What is that?"
While Soros was still there, Li Ce quickly asked the questions in his mind.
"They are rat trolls. Unlike ordinary ratmen, they are very powerful, have high physical strength, and are not slow at all."
Hearing this, Li Ce's eyebrows were almost twisted into a ball.
"Is there no weakness?"
"Weakness. Maybe my brain isn't working very well."
“…”
While they were talking, the ordinary ratmen regular army soldiers in the rear had already pushed wooden barrels to the feet of the rat trolls.
The rat trolls didn't hesitate to grab the barrel with one hand, then stretched out their arms and threw the barrel towards the wall of their border fortress! Updated, thanks to the book friend 'Doomsday Debut' for the reward!
(End of this chapter)
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