Chapter 391, Assassination
The rat swarm rushed towards the stairs at the entrance of the church without interruption. The long stairs had more than 30 steps. Behind the stairs, human soldiers used tables and many wreckages of carriages to build a position and resisted stubbornly. Kuangsha Literature Network
Under the protection of Teresa's ice wall, the Ratmen really rushed to the only passage crazily, without considering casualties at all.
"Fire! Fire!" Behind the position, dozens of musketeers kept firing, and the ratmen rushed up wave after wave, and wave after wave were beaten into sieves. Under Rickwei's command, the human soldiers They are united as one, resisting the attack of the Ratmen.
As there were only half of the stairs left on the road leading to the church, the Ratmen had to huddle in the narrow aisle close to the human positions. The musketeers of the Mackensen Musketeers shot towards one place. , Qi's power was astonishing, the Skavens attacked again and again, always leaving corpses on the ground and returning without success.
At this point, the Ratman's weakness has been fully exposed.
What are the advantages of the Skaven in the war against humans?
There are two main ones, the first one is technological crushing, and the second one is the power of a large number of people.
The large number of Skaven ratmen can often overwhelm the human army directly. Humans are often in a hurry when facing the siege of the ratmen, and the various high-tech weapons of the ratmen can easily cause a devastating blow to the human army.
The Skaven almost completely defeated the empire. Five hundred years after the disappearance of Charlemagne, the empire began to gradually decline. At this time, the Skaven almost defeated the empire through the "Black Death". When there were not a few healthy soldiers in the entire imperial camp, the ratmen launched a war and swept the entire empire. The empire was almost vulnerable to the attack of the ratmen.
However, the last resistance force of mankind gathered in White Wolf City. The White Wolf Elector at that time was called Mandred, and he led the last resistance force of mankind. Under the ruthless rule of the Communist Party of China, White Wolf City became the last stronghold of resistance in the empire. The Ratman army tried to attack the city. White Wolf City is located on a mountain thousands of meters high, with hundreds of meters long mountain roads and several tens of meters The high walls made the Ratmen suffer.
The most rascal is yet to come. As we all know, the holy fire of the White Wolf God is always burning on the high mountain of the White Wolf City. The God is built on the city wall. Any soldier who is the defender of the White Wolf City can easily get the White Wolf God's powerful blessings.
After several months of fighting in vain, the Ratman's food supply was exhausted and they were forced to retreat. Elector Mandred took the opportunity to launch the "Battle of Howling Hills" and completely defeated the Ratmen's army, which earned him the nickname "Rat Exterminator", and thus successfully elected the emperor of the empire, known as the "Wolf Emperor".
It is a pity that Mandred has only served as the emperor of the empire for more than 20 years. He was finally "revenge assassinated" by the ace assassin of the Eshin clan sent by the Skaven. After the death of Emperor Mandred, the electors of the empire Suspicious of each other, unable to elect a new emperor who can convince the public, the era of the Three Emperors has since begun.
So where is the Rat Man's weakness?
First of all, the morale and discipline are extremely poor. The Skaven are a mob with extremely poor morale and discipline. If the battle situation is a little unfavorable, they will easily collapse.
Just like in the current situation, the Ratmen repeatedly attacked the human positions, but they often retreated without even touching the edge. If these Rats fell a few more, their morale would be shaken, and then the whole line would be defeated.
The Stormrats in the rear had to expend far more energy to regroup the army than to command the army to attack.
Secondly, the Skavens have a very despicable character, that is, internal fighting. This race has never stopped fighting among themselves since its birth. There is no end to death among multiple clans, and there is a lack of trust between warlords.
For example, the Skaven warlord Ossaid-Abyss who is currently commanding the Skaven army is such a warlord.
But on the other hand, the Skaven warlord was unwilling to send the most elite stormrat army and rat trolls. Instead, he kept these troops standing by, and just kept sending clan rats and slave rats to die.
The Ratman's tactics are fatigue tactics, but Ossaid is not entirely out of fatigue tactics considerations.
The reason is very simple, this is called preserving strength, and defeating humans is called the victory of the Skaven, which is a victory of no benefit. Accidentally lost too many loyal and hardcore soldiers, he could easily be betrayed and killed by his subordinates, too many people were staring at his position.
Ossaid-Abyss jumped violently: "Damn, damn Gray Seer Spat! Where are it and its legion, all, all? The bell doesn't answer! Nono! Never, never agree!"
Ossaid didn't want to take too many losses to capture this fortress. The Skaven warlord had a wishful thinking, and his plan was like this.
Swim without striking and preserve your strength.
Let Gray Prophet Spat and the army it leads go up and fight humans to the death, and then accept the results by themselves! By the way, secretly "do" that Gray Prophet, receive its Plague Monk Legion and siege weapons, and become the most powerful Skaven warlord on the Gray Mountains! yes yes!
Thinking of this, Ossaid's rat face couldn't help but chuckle, it had already hired the rat man assassin of the Eshin family.
However, looking at the situation in front of him, the Skaven warlord couldn't laugh anymore.
The bastard, Spat, did a better job than himself! I just let it die! As a result, the bastard Spater didn't come!
This Gray Prophet is cunning and cunning!
Othad swore he would make the Gray Seer pay for it.
Seeing that this huge human fortress persisted in front of him and could not be defeated for a long time, Ossaid began to face difficulties again. The order of the Council of Thirteen Skaven Demon Rats was to completely capture Hemgart and let humans The small empire realized the power of the Rat Empire, and at the same time plundered enough human children, the Skaven planned to use dimension stones, genetic engineering and alchemy to pollute human genes, and try to create new terrifying species.
Right now, the whole city of Hermgart has obviously fallen, and only this human citadel is still holding on, so should I fight or not?
Fighting, based on the current resistance of the human defenders, it will obviously cause heavy losses if the fight continues, Ossaid does not accept it, the lost troops are all his own, and the benefits he gets are limited.
Do not hit? He disobeyed the order of the thirteen-member council, and there would be no good fruit to eat when he went back. Ossaid knew that his subordinates were coveting his position as a warlord all the time and wanted to replace him, and his colleagues did everything possible to get him. Put it to death, during the meeting, the rats laughed and called each other friends and family members, but as long as they turned around, assassination, kidnapping, threats, blackmail, bribery, poisoning, all Skaven warlords couldn't wait to kill Kill all your colleagues so that you can be the strongest.
Can't let these bastards find an excuse to attack themselves!
Odyssey-Abyss shook his head, no, at least not now, it called its adjutant, this is a cunning stormrat.
"Have you found a solution? Digging holes, climbing mountains?" the Skaven warlord said to his adjutant.
"Drilling holes, there are human gadgets, patrolling, a group of hairless things, squad, dieie! Climbing the mountain, the human fortress is frozen, breakbreak! nono!" The adjutant shook his head again and again.
The translated meaning is that the Ratman squad that tried to invade through the tunnel was hit head-on and wiped out. The Ratmen who tried to climb the cliff and detour were blocked by the ice wall, unable to break through the ice wall and unable to pass through.
The Skaven warlord holds a halberd, which signals the army to continue the attack.
A large group of slave rats and clan rats attacked the human position again, and then they were routed wave after wave. The soldiers moved a lot of ammunition from the arsenal on the city wall to the church. At least so far, the human army has no signs of running out of bullets. .
Ossaid thought this was really evil, and he shouted here for a long time, but the Gray Prophet Spat and his army in Hemgard still didn't respond.
Wasn't the bastard Spat going to make me lose money and "do" me?
Ossaid-Abyss thought so.
The Skaven warlord jumped anxiously. His army had no siege weapons and no magicians, so fighting like this would be a boring battle.
There must be a human mage casting spells, using magic to stop the advance of the rat people's army.
Forget it, since Spat won't need it, let's make another arrangement, Ossaid winks at the shadow in front of him, one is wearing a yellow and black tights, with a headband on his head, A masked dwarf man emerged from the shadows: "Once, who?"
"Find out the human spellcaster and solve it!" Ossaid said to the dwarf man.
"Hi Yi!" A puff of smoke rose from under the dwarf mouse, and then disappeared from the sight of all the mice.
The Skaven army continued to attack.
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The top of the Church of Justice, under the golden dome.
The siege of the church has lasted for most of the day, and it is already early morning.
Teresa leaned on her staff and stood in the middle of the platform under the dome. With her eyes closed, she felt the movement of the Ratmen around the entire church.
Since the Church of Justice is very large, there are many places for the Ratmen to sneak attack. Teresa had to concentrate. She could feel that many Ratmen were trying to rush into the church through the windows, the path behind the church, and the entrance of the basement.
The sorceress continuously released the ice wall to block the threat of the Ratmen. Her magic power was used very quickly. Fortunately, compared to Veronica who was forced to release many large spells, Teresa's mana reserve was still sufficient. .
A fierce battle had been erupting at the main entrance, and the sorceress knew she must not be careless.
Originally, Suria had arranged for a few soldiers to protect Teresa from casting spells, but the icy air overflowing from the sorceress' body made the soldiers unable to stay for long, and Teresa didn't like being disturbed when casting spells, so now she is alone One person stood in the middle of the platform. The frontline battle was tense and the soldiers were exhausted. Several soldiers responsible for protecting her had already been transferred to the church door.
Because of this, the sorceress didn't notice a black shadow above the golden dome, this shadow moved extremely fast and was silent.
"Shhhhhh~" The little rat man used the hook lock to climb along the walls and windows of the church. It was as fast as a phantom, and it could behave like a brick when needed.
It spent several hours climbing up, evading the security circle set up by the sorceress, evading the patrol led by the witcher Abel, sneaking into the dome of the church, staying behind a mural, carefully Waiting for the opportunity.
Now, the opportunity has come, the mana reserve of the female spellcaster in front of her is already insufficient, and the frost energy around her is gradually thinning out. The dwarf man took out three green dimension stone daggers from his arms, and equipped them one by one. Up, one left, one right, the last dagger caught in its mouse tail.
"The intersection of light and darkness is where the shadow is, yesyes!" The dwarf man saw the sun gradually rising outside, and the light of the sun broke through the darkness, but cast a shadow inside the church.
Assassinate! it has started!
The little rat man suddenly started, and its shadow emerged from the shadow punch like a swift rabbit, heading straight for the sorceress who was maintaining the ice wall!
"Who!" When Teresa sensed something approaching her, the Ratman Assassin was only a dozen meters away from her!
"Frostbolt!" Teresa immediately stopped casting spells. The sorceress raised her hand and released a mass of swirling frost energy, which was released directly towards the Ratman.
The Ratman Assassin didn't say a word, it did somersaults in the air unbelievably, dodging Teresa's attack, and at the same time drew closer to the sorceress.
Frost body protection! Teresa immediately summoned an ice shield, while the sorceress continued to cast spells, she summoned an ice cloak to wrap herself.
The Rat Man Assassin took out a handful of darts from his pocket and threw them continuously. These poisoned darts were blocked by Teresa's ice shield. Just when the sorceress was about to call for reinforcements, the Rat Man Assassin was in his hand immediately. Made a seal.
"film!"
"Shua~" Almost instantly, the Ratman Assassin slid a long distance in the air. It flashed behind Teresa in an instant, and the three daggers directly pierced the sorceress' heart.
The sharp dimensional stone dagger pierced Teresa's icy cloak, opening a piece of ice.
The two daggers stopped under the protection of the ice barrier and the ice cloak, but the dagger on the rat man's tail drove straight in.
Oops! Teresa subconsciously wanted to pull out the blunderbuss, only to realize that her right arm was still bandaged. At the critical moment, the sorceress quickly let go of her staff, and she threw herself out.
Forcibly turning by making himself lose his balance, the only useful left hand held the rune firecracker Lan Zhi.
The sorceress could feel that the assassin's dagger had penetrated her mouth and drank her blood. Relying on the reminder of the pain, the sorceress pulled the trigger forcefully.
"Bang!" The sound of the musket and the sound of the sharp knife piercing the blood sounded almost simultaneously.