Chapter 815: War Breaks Out Again (Part 2)

"Shoot!"

After receiving the order, a round of arrows flew out from the fortress in a long parabola, blocking the continuous pursuit of the rat tide behind.

The fortress gate was closed, and the blue lizard sword and shield soldiers who were guarding behind the gate cleared the rat slaves who poured in with the most neat movements.

At the same time, Soros frowned on the wall.

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

Soros was not worried about the strength of their gate.

In fact, there was no need to give orders, and the soldiers guarding behind the gate had already launched a counterattack.

The small windows arranged on the gate opened quickly, and the cold spears pierced out from the small windows.

A large number of rat slaves piled outside the gate were pierced through in an instant.

Even according to the density, a spear could penetrate the bodies of several rat slaves with one strike.

Of course, this alone was not enough to stop the rat tide. At the same time, the commander on the opposite side could not care about the life and death of these rat slave soldiers. Countless rat slave soldiers were still rushing towards this side frantically.

"Wooden slings, boulders! Smash them for me!!"

The order was issued, and the soldiers responsible for throwing wooden slings and boulders started to act at the same time.

The huge and heavy wooden slings and boulders, taking advantage of the momentum of falling, made a "bang" sound at the moment of landing, and a large amount of blood splashed from the bottom. It is unknown how many rats were killed.

But for the entire rat tide in front of him, this is still just a drop in the bucket.

The scale of the rat tide in front of him 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, the offensive rhythm of the rats on the opposite side was faster.

The previous wave had just killed two rounds, and the second, third, and even fourth waves of rats came up, making the entire offensive extremely suppressive.

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 troops in the South Border Fortress were only 1,000.

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

The rat tide just now was a qualitative change caused by quantitative change!

However, after retreating to the interior of the fortress, the situation could still be stabilized with the advantage of city defense.

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

It will take more time for even the pterosaur riders to fly back to the lizardman's tribe from the southern border.

It was several days later when he brought the news to Bo Levin.

Bo Levin frowned quickly after receiving the news. Obviously, he did not expect that the ratman would be so lingering!

"Pass my order, gather the permanent troops in the area, and urgently support the South Border Fortress!"

In order to ensure the strongholds in various parts of the territory, there are undoubtedly troops stationed in various living areas, strongholds, and facilities in the South Border.

With the minimum number of troops left to maintain public order, they can gather 1,500 troops in a short period of time and rush to the South Border. As for the follow-up troops, they have to rely on conscription.

Considering that the newly recruited recruits still need to be trained, it will take two or three months at the fastest.

In the absence of Zhou Xu, as the general person in charge of this area, Bo Lewen has the power to directly recruit troops in an emergency and then make up the report.

At this moment, he did not dare to dawdle at all. He issued the conscription order at the fastest speed and sent a report to their majesty at the same time.

But no matter how fast they acted, it took a month from the outbreak of the war between the South Border and the Rat People to Zhou Xu receiving the report.

This is also due to the fact that there were pterosaur riders delivering letters in the South Border area, and hot air balloons were used in the mountains.

Soros and Bo Levin's reports were delivered to Zhou Xu almost at the same time.

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

Bo Levin's report was mainly about conscription and resource mobilization.

After quickly reading the two reports, Zhou Xu's emotions were relatively calm.

Facing the enemy of ratmen, the lizardmen 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 him, Soros and Bo Levin had already handled things in an orderly manner.

Even he couldn't do a better response at this time.

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

While his thoughts were flying, Zhou Xu casually opened his "Dragon Lord" class panel.

Since the destruction of the Claw Clan, he has not upgraded the projects here.

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

The main reason was that they went to war with Yan Sheng not long after.

During the war, he might need to consume a lot of mantra power to join the battle at any time, so he had to ensure his condition during this period.

Even if he had enough mantra power in his body, he couldn't spend it to upgrade the project.

After the war, he was first busy testing new mantras, and then gave a lot of mantras to help develop them. Later, he started to conduct in-depth research on the mantras in his body, almost seamlessly 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 the mantra research project tonight.

Now that the content of the report has been confirmed, even though Zhou Xu is very confident in Soros and others, he still has to strengthen it when it is time for caution.

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

But unfortunately, the 'Lizardman Spearman' does not exist in the rank panel of the 'Dragon Lord'.

There is no way, so Zhou Xu can only upgrade other related arms as before.

The first thing that flashed through his mind was the speed dragon cavalry.

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

But in the end, Zhou Xu's choice is the less outstanding Green Lizard Spearman.

The reason is very simple. The speed dragon cavalry can only play its combat power when it takes the initiative to attack, and when it is defending the fortress, there is no room for it to play.

On the other hand, the Green Lizard Spearman can basically be used in any occasion, and there are a large number of them. It is a panacea. In terms of comprehensive performance, it is currently the first choice!