Alien world

Chapter 1870, Section 503: Holding Out to the Death
As for the rolling stones... they stopped throwing them once they were all gone. A single rolling stone might kill a dozen or so ratmen at most, but it could help them get one step closer to the top of the wall.

Only high-level spells cast by mages can clear a large area at once, but even if they drink healing potions like water until they are swollen and faint, it can only reduce the density of the rat swarm.

For every centimeter the ratmen climb upwards, they suffer hundreds or thousands of casualties. However, given that the Great Wall in the north is 3000 centimeters high, there are still 31 million ratmen left.

Even if the city wall is raised to 270 meters, a million ratmen could still scale it.

The battle lasted from dawn until noon. The warriors on the city wall began to tire, but the rat swarm was still endless and had already caught the corpses of their comrades, forming a long slope only a few meters away from the top of the wall.

If the shells are dropped again, they will only cause some splashes of water.

The kerosene poured in was instantly submerged by the waves.

"Artillery, retreat! Everyone, prepare for close combat!"

"Artillery, retreat! Everyone, prepare for close combat!"

"Artillery, retreat! Everyone, prepare for close combat!"

A roar that drowned out the creaking echoed across the city walls. The Hellfire soldiers at the front retreated to the rear of the knight golems and mounted their bayonets on their magic muskets.

As the only three legions under Annam that use magical firearms as weapons, the three legions each have their own specific roles:

The Guards protect Liberty City and its important facilities.
The Ranger Legion excels in guerrilla warfare and field combat, and has also learned a great deal from the Elven instructors;

The Hellfire Legion excels at attacking, defending, and attrition warfare, as evidenced by the steel plate armor worn by their soldiers.

So for them, the ratmen climbing the walls didn't mean the end. On the contrary, the real war had just begun.

The rock-solid knight golem was also activated, treading heavily to the edge of the city wall, making the Northern Wall thirty-three meters high, and infusing it with the command "jump off the wall when energy is insufficient".

Kind-hearted ratmen will help "catch" them, and after the battle, they can be dragged back to replace parts or melted down at very low cost.

Without the suppression of bombing, the ratmen climbed even faster. Ten hours into the battle, the first brown rat appeared on the wall.

It had barely peeked out for half a second, not even reaching the top of the wall, when its skull was sliced ​​open by a serrated sword sweeping towards it.

However, more and more ratmen emerged, and some truly brave rats even managed to climb onto the walls.

The warrior rat's life lasted only a second before it was sliced ​​in two by the sweeping serrated sword.

The 3.3-meter-tall knight golem was practically a living city wall, and the flesh and blood of the ratmen were no different from butter to the magic-powered golem.

Faced with the endless swarms of rats climbing up, they simply swipe their left arm, swipe their right arm, swipe their left arm, swipe their right arm, like machines on a production line that can make people stare blankly for tens of minutes. But with each swing, one or more rat-men are cut in half at the waist, spilling a pool of dirty blood.

The ratman's claws, confident they could dig through rock, landed on the golem's body, leaving not even a white mark.

The knight golem is more reassuring than the rock, its only drawback being its short active time and long recharge time. Even without moving, simply swinging the serrated sword continuously only lasts for twenty minutes.

However, the ratmen will not be able to get past them during these twenty minutes.

The ratmen were unaware. From a distance, the spray of the crashing waves had already splashed onto the shore. Hidden among the rat horde, the gray-haired rat priest trembled with excitement, blowing the charge horn and ordering the high-ranking ratmen to charge forward by any means necessary.

The high-ranking ratmen, who had been hiding behind the swarm, began to set off, with the savage rats leading the charge and acting as human shields to protect the blinking rats behind them. The gray-haired rat priest and his group had underestimated the power of the cannonballs; their flesh and blood were simply no match for them. The moment they stepped into the bombardment zone, the whistling and roaring of the shells made them dizzy.

One of the shells, with a sharp whistle, arced through the air and headed straight for a slug.

The average shrew stands between two and two and a half meters tall, making it a large creature among the ratmen, whose height is generally less than one and a half meters. This misjudgment of size led it to grab an elite rat, believing it would be sufficient to block an incoming cannonball.

The moment the cannonball, leaving a trail of afterimages, touched the elite rat, the elite rat turned into a bloody mist, the upper body of the brute rat disappeared, and the shimmering rat behind the brute rat was smashed to pieces before exploding with a bang.

The fragments of the elite rat's shattered armor spun out, slicing off the skull of a blinking rat a few meters away.

Seeing that even a human shield couldn't stop the strange spells of humans, the Blink Rat swarm broke free from the protection of the Savage Rat and charged at full speed, paying about a quarter of the cost to get through the bombing zone.

The savage rats charged up the gentle slope built by the slave rats, launching an attack, but their situation was no better than that of the slave rats—the knight golem was at the same height as the ratman's neck, and the blade of its sword was at the waist of the savage rat.

The serrated blade sliced ​​into the waist of the savage rat, getting stuck in its spine, but with just a gentle pull, the remaining half was sliced ​​open, and its internal organs slid out of its chest cavity, falling head over heels into the swarm of rats outside the city wall.

However, it only delayed the knight golem by a fraction of a second. Blink Mouse took the opportunity to peek out, then activated Blink and leaped behind the golem—colliding with the resistance and imperial forces who were already eager to fight.

Several minutes passed after the blinking rat leaped onto the city wall, without making a ripple. The gray-haired rat priest realized something was amiss. But having come this far, there was no turning back.

"Keep going!"

The gray-haired rat priest hissed, as if it could see the high priest's reward beckoning it after breaching the walls of the human contraption.

More Blink Rats rushed out, carrying Fel Stones with them.

The gray-haired rat priest was annoyed that all the catapults had been taken away by Black Rock and his gang. If only a few could have been left behind... It glanced at the human contraptions still firing incessantly, and the catapults were even farther away.

It doesn't seem to be of much use.

[A large number of blinking rats have appeared, carrying a large amount of fel stones!]

The reconnaissance airship discovered that the Blinking Rat, which had been hit by the shell blast, suddenly emitted a ghostly green fel energy and exploded. It quickly raised its flags as a signal.

Upon receiving the flag signal, Kirian realized the ratmen were in a panic and ordered his soldiers to throw all the oil over the city walls and set it ablaze.

call--

Flames seven or eight meters high instantly erupted outside the city wall.

A few scattered oil drums dropped in may not have a noticeable effect, but when they are gathered together, the effect becomes quite significant.

Slave rats don't have much grease, but that doesn't mean they can't be burned. Under the high temperature of nearly a thousand degrees, a series of crackling and popping sounds, just as loud as the screams, suddenly rang out outside the city walls.

Seeing this, the resistance mages unleashed a barrage of fire walls and whirlwinds, creating terrifying firestorms outside the city walls. These storms were interspersed with flashes of fel stone light, which seemed to be escalating and even spreading to the other side of the city walls.

The knight golem standing on the edge of the storm remained as solid as a rock, unmoved.

(End of this chapter)