Section 8 Barrier

In the underground world, in this maze-like complex rat-man society, an army is on standby in a large passage.

The cave is very dark, with only some naturally luminous moss, which provides a little vague lighting for this underground world. Of course, almost no creatures living in the underground world need such a light. The years of life in the underground world have led them to evolve the instinct to operate in this dark world. They either have a very developed sense of smell and hearing, which can largely replace the role of vision, or they have evolved incredible dark vision.

The rat man is a combination of these two.

The sound of tiny footsteps sounded, and then the soldiers on the front line saw a figure running from the front in a hurry. It was a clan warrior with colorful fur. When he was approaching, his companions made way, so that he could run to the army generals unimpeded. The commander of the army was a very tall rat man, almost one and a half times taller than his kind. The fiery red fur on his body was very eye-catching among the rat man. He was wearing dirty bronze armor and holding a giant sword shining with magical energy in his hand. These two points alone could tell that he was a rat man general. In the rat man society, the general's position was always held by the clan leader's most trusted subordinates, or simply the part-time job of the clan leader.

"Master...Master...Enemy...Barriers have set up barricades there." The clan warrior with variegated fur rushed to his general and reported in a very fast manner.

"How about their troops, generals, and defensive facilities for the barricades?" asked General Rat Man. The question he raised was actually a very simple question, but it made the clan warrior unable to answer for a while.

"Do you know nothing?" The Rat Man General waited for a few seconds but didn't get the answer, and immediately became angry. "I asked you to be a scout, not to let you run back when you see the enemy!"

"Lord...Master...They are many...a lot!"

“How many are there?”

"More than... than us......" The clan warrior replied frightenedly. He heard a low and angry roar from the general's mouth. Every rat warrior understood what the consequences would be for a warlord to get angry. The clan warrior couldn't support his body in fear and knelt down. His general looked at him with cold eyes, but in the end he just pointed with his hand.

"Go there, first row!"

The clan warriors ran to that position like an amnesty - that was the first row of the entire army. This means that once they got into the battle, they would have to fight the first (or at least the first) face-to-face battle with the enemy.

It would be great if I could hire a group of scouts. Ashurufat had learned from Shaka that there were also excellent scouts and scouts among the rat people - and they could be hired. In fact, in the rat people society, the army is a property of the clan. As long as you can afford the price, any army can be hired. Of course, although almost all clans are willing to rent out the army, short-sightedness and forgetfulness are common. As long as you can exceed the opponent's bid, you can easily let the other party's mercenaries turn against the battlefield directly.

Of course, there are exceptions for troops like war beasts.

This is one of the reasons why Ashu Rufate did not hire scouts. Another reason is that he originally felt that he did not need to hire scouts. He did not intend to let clan warriors reconnaise the details of the enemy, nor did he want to find weaknesses on the enemy's defense line. All he wanted was to simply know the general situation of the enemy - the general situation that could be obtained by stopping and observing for a period of time. There was no professional skill required for this kind of work, right?

But the situation is that even such a simple thing, clan warriors cannot do it well. These rats are too timid. When they are alone, they only dare to attack those things that look obviously weak or disabled, and even in this case, they tend to attack from behind. When the enemy looks stronger, individual clan warriors basically dare not come forward to take action. They only dare to lurk in the shadows and observe the enemy with cautious and fearful eyes. Performing the task of reconnaissing an enemy unit alone is really beyond the limit of the courage of clan rats.

Ashu Rufate can now determine that only when clan warriors have a large enough number can they have enough courage to join a lasting battle.

But at least, this cowardly and incompetent subordinate brought a useful message-the enemy had built a barricade ahead.

The battle in the underground world is different from the surface world. This is because both sides of the war can only fight in the passages excavated by rats. For example, tactics such as roundabouts and encirclement are completely unfeasible. Temporary construction of fortifications on the battlefield has become a very desirable combat idea. Of course, from an objective perspective, the defense of the barricade is not perfect. On the battlefield on the surface, when an army occupys combat fortifications such as city walls, camps, fences, etc., they are always easy to gain an advantage in the battle. This is because their long-range troops can make full use of this effective terrain and give them great damage when the enemy is blocked by fortifications. However, in the underground world, the barricade is far less meaningful than the fence on the surface, because ordinary rat soldiers are not equipped with bows and arrows. They only have simple stone casters and have very close ranges.

Of course, this is easy to understand. When you are in a cave, especially in a narrow tunnel, bows and arrows are indeed unreliable. Moreover, good bows and arrows are both manufacturing and maintenance are troublesome (especially in the wet and dark underground world), so rats do not use this weapon at all.

The reaction of the Sakaraha clans was much faster than expected. Ashu Rufate believed that they had known that the Baku tribes were going to attack them, at least they guessed the actions of the Baku tribes. War between clans was the norm in the rat society, and it was also the way to eliminate the weak as recognized by the rat god. Therefore, each clan was highly wary of the attacks of his compatriots. They had built barricades in front of the Baku tribes to prepare for battle. There was no doubt that they must have mobilized a considerable number of troops. However, Ashu Rufate was not sure whether they were attacking the entire army.

The environment of the underground world determines that this battle is a simple frontal battle, without the possibility of taking shortcuts.

"Attack!" Ashurufat ordered the troops around him. No matter whether the Sakaraha clans chose to dispatch a unit to defend or the entire army attacked, the result would not be much different.

At this time, at the barricade, the patriarch Ciscoret was listening to the report of the situation brought by his subordinates.

"Damn... the damn Baku tribe really wants to come back!" He already knew that the enemy had arrived in front and could launch an attack at any time. However, he was not too nervous. The Baku tribe is no longer the same now, and many people know that the main force of the Baku tribe has been destroyed.

In fact, when the Sakarah clan accepted the original territory of the Baku clan, he originally planned to capture the weak clan in one place. However, the Baku clan performed very well at the critical moment and ran away quickly, making the Sakarah clan unable to catch up with it. When they found out the remaining Baku members, the Great Gray Prophet came forward to provide protection for the tragic clan. So they had to forget about this matter. The Croatian Crater is still a little regretful. But now this opportunity has suddenly come to the door. I heard that a new clan leader suddenly came to the Baku clan, and that clan leader was a sudden appearance of the abyss lord, the highest ruling institution of the rat society, and one of the members of the Abyss Council.

But no matter which onion the new patriarch was, this could not change the nature of the Baku people's weakness. When it was confirmed that the Baku people were about to launch an attack on the Sakaraha clan, the patriarch Sikorit was really a little surprised. He originally thought that this was the plan of the gray prophet, but he learned that the gray prophet ignored it - just like all civil wars in the rat society, the gray prophets never intervened, because this kind of battle was allowed by the rat god and a way for the rat people to eliminate the weak in the race.

The Clan Captain Ciscoret did not hesitate for a second and immediately organized troops to prepare to destroy the already weak and vulnerable hostile clan.

"Are they going to attack? Very... Very good..." Captain Ciscoret touched his long and hard beard with his hands. "Send the slaves, hurry! Quick!"

With the whip of the whip, several teams of slaves were released. The tragic rat slaves had whip marks on their thin bodies, and their weak necks were covered with heavy collars representing their low status. Driven by the whip, they rushed forward in chaos, and the friction of rusty chains dragging on the ground suddenly echoed in the wide tunnel.

Now, under the control of the whip, the slaves formed the first front before the barricade. Behind them, a group of rat soldiers equipped with special weapons climbed to the height of the barricade. If a human was present, he would be surprised to recognize that the weapons used by these rats were the smoothbore muskets commonly found in the human world. However, these weapons were not seized from human soldiers through transactions or robberies, but magic stone muskets made by the rats using their magic stone craftsmanship. In fact, in addition to their appearance, this weapon is essentially different from human guns. Because this weapon uses magic stones rather than gunpowder as the energy to drive bullets. Human muskets are actually difficult to use in the underground world, and the smoke generated by gunpowder alone is a big problem. In the underground world, gunpowder is difficult to dissipate.

The Baku clan launched an attack. The dense footsteps and shouts of killing came from the end of the tunnel. Then, the patriarch Ciscoret saw hostile rats swarming out of the dark tunnel and pounced on this side.

The patriarch immediately gave orders to his subordinates. His subordinates immediately waved their whip, and the rat slaves moved to the enemy's attack under the threat of the whip. At the same time, the smoothbore gunmen at high places began to shoot. The first wave of scattered scatters played a good role. The powerful force of magic stone bullets could directly erode the lives of the persons who were hit by the bullets. The people who hit the rats and then fell to the ground, twitched, and died in pain. When the gunmen were filling the bullets, the two armies had already begun to contact, and the slaves were chopped to the ground by the attacking rats and chopped melons and vegetables. Many slaves tried to escape in fear, but the rats who came from behind used weapons and whips to stop their retreat, making them a good meat shield and blocking the attack of the Baku people.

The gunmen didn't care about the death and injury of slaves at all. If these rats shot by mistake, it would only cause a gloating laugh. The gunshots continued. The rats and people in the tunnel were very dense, making it difficult to not hit the bullets. In just a short while, the Baku attacking troops suffered huge casualties and began to retreat.

"Chasing!" Seeing that the time had come, the Captain Ciscoret immediately ordered his subordinates.
Chapter completed!