Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 911: Rat Tide
The sound of urgent horns echoed above the fortress. The season had not yet officially entered winter, but the large army of ratmen that had arrived at the front line could not wait to launch the first round of offensive towards their southern fortress!
On the top of the wall, Bai Tu, who was staring at the battlefield outside with wide eyes, gasped on the spot.

Even though he had prepared himself mentally in advance, he was still completely stunned by the horrifying scene before him.

Until he saw this scene with his own eyes, he had no idea that the enemy's troops could be so numerous that they would completely fill the entire battlefield!

Looking at the densely packed ratmen outside the wall, surging towards their fortress like a black tide, Bai Tu felt his scalp tingling at this moment.

Compared with the battle in front of them, the small group of ratmen they had dealt with before was just like children playing house! They were not even on the same level!

Bai Tu tried hard to adjust his mood and subconsciously turned his head to look at Soros and others beside him.

At this moment, Soros and the others all looked calm. It was obvious that they were already accustomed to such scenes.

Their calmness made Bai Tu feel a little more relaxed, and at the same time he recalled what Diak had said to him before.

With the Lizardman troops to back him up, nothing can go wrong!
Thinking of this, Bai Tu suddenly felt at ease.

At the same time, Soros' voice came.

"Just as we discussed before, we will be in charge of the wall, and you will be in charge of the city gate area."

After all, they are two different forces that have never cooperated with each other before and lack tacit understanding with each other. If they are forced to come together, they will inevitably hold each other back.

In this case, the best solution is division of labor!

Let their two troops each be responsible for the defense of an area, so as to share each other's pressure without interfering with each other.

With this as a premise, Soros naturally took on the more stressful task of wall defense.

Unlike human troops who need the help of siege equipment such as ladders and siege towers, the ratmen have special claws on their hands and feet, which give them the ability to crawl quickly on walls.

The best way to prevent this is to pour oil on the wall.

But the disadvantage of this method is also obvious, it consumes too much fuel.

And it only works for a while. After a long time, the lubricating effect of the oil fades and the rat-man will still crawl around.

In this era, oil is not cheap and the quantity is limited. If we keep pouring it, we will definitely not be able to sustain it.

Therefore, when the lizardmen are in good condition, they will basically choose to let the ratmen come up and fight on the top of the wall. When their condition is bad and they need to adjust and recover, they will use the method of pouring oil to curb the offensive of the ratmen and buy time for themselves to rest and recuperate.

"Archers prepare!"

As the rat tide continued to advance, Bai Tu, who was standing on the wall, seized the opportunity and gave the order quickly!
"Shoot arrows!!"

Instantly, a black rain of arrows swept out, landing in the rat tide, splashing blood!
But this was obviously not enough to curb the advance of the rat tide, but instead made the hungry rat slave soldiers quickly excited.

The ratmen that were shot and wounded became their food and were eaten up almost in an instant!

This scene was so shocking and frightening to Bai Tu, who was seeing such a scene for the first time.

"Shoot! Keep shooting!"

Unconsciously, the psychological pressure that had accumulated made him unconsciously urge the archers below to speed up the frequency of shooting arrows.

At the same time, the rat tide advanced madly under the rain of arrows and soon arrived under the high wall.

"Wooden scepter ready!"

"Smash it!!"

A heavy and huge wooden beam was pushed down from the top of the wall. The moment it landed, a pool of blood burst out, smashing a large number of ratmen into meat paste. This bloody scene fell into Bai Tu's eyes, and at this moment he felt inexplicably relieved.

It even stopped the advance of the rat tide outside the wall for a time.

However, the rat slave soldiers outside the wall seemed to have no idea what death was. They continued to advance while gnawing at the flesh and blood of their people. Mu Ling's suppression could not continue forever.

The high frequency of throwing quickly consumed all the wooden beams on the wall.

This gave the rat slave soldiers under the wall finally an opportunity. They spread their arms and legs and climbed up the vertical wall at an astonishing speed.

The feeling was completely different from when he got the intelligence from Soros before. Bai Tu, who witnessed this scene with his own eyes, had almost no trace of blood on his face.

"What the hell. What kind of monster is this?!"

For the defenders, the city wall is their greatest reliance, but this group of monsters that can climb walls and fly over eaves make Bai Tu, who is standing on the wall, feel completely insecure, and the pressure in his heart increases exponentially.

Recall what Soros said to him when he was analyzing the enemy and arranging tactics.

It sounds simple, but it’s damn hard to do!!
"It's almost time for you to get down. The area on the wall will soon become a battlefield."

Soros still looked calm when he said this. After all, unlike Bai Tu who had just arrived and was facing the Rat People for the first time, Soros had seen such scenes every year and had long been accustomed to them.

Even as he was speaking, some ratmen had already climbed onto the wall.

But the next second, he was chopped to death by the blue lizard sword and shield soldier guarding the wall. The body fell off the wall and became food for the ratman slave soldiers below the wall.

The sudden change in the situation made Bai Tu's face change, but he did not stop. He left the battlefield on the wall at the fastest speed and rushed to the city gate area.
At this point in time, the archers in the rear were still shooting arrows, using rain of arrows to continuously kill the tide of rats outside the city, while the spearmen used the small windows on the city gate to thrust their spears out and attack the ratmen outside the gate who were trying to destroy their city gate.

Considering the characteristics of rat tides, this design is indeed very useful.

But when Soros explained the design of this part, he also specifically reminded him that he should not hide behind the gate and defend it forever.

Although the group of rat slave soldiers outside are unarmed, their destructive power is extremely amazing.

As long as you give them enough time, they can dig through not only the brick and stone walls, but even the iron-clad gates!

The rat tide's offensive has always been continuous, and once it begins, it will not give you a chance to breathe.

In this case, if the gate is damaged, they will have no chance to repair it.

The existence of this door is not for you to stay behind it from the beginning.

Instead, it will wait until your condition declines and you don't have the strength to fight the rat tide head-on for a short period of time, then it will be used to curb the offensive of the rat tide and buy you time to recover.

It’s obviously not time yet!
"Open the gate! Prepare to attack!!"

Bai Tu, who shouted this, had done enough ideological work for himself.

Having witnessed the scale of the rat tide on the wall, he knew clearly what was waiting for him outside the fortress gate.

Giving out this order at this moment undoubtedly requires tremendous courage.

As soon as the fortress gate opened, the scene at that moment was like a river bursting its banks, and a terrifying tide of rats poured directly into the passage inside the gate! It seemed as if they were going to fill up the entire passage space.

It was such a horrifying scene that the faces of the soldiers in the passage turned pale in an instant.

At the critical moment of life and death, perhaps to give courage, some soldier suddenly yelled...

"For the Emperor!"

With this roar, countless soldiers seemed to have found their backbone and started to roar one after another!

"For the Emperor!!"

"For the Emperor!!!"

(End of this chapter)