Warlords of the witcher world

Chapter 42 War Behemoth
"Go! Keep going and push the rats off!"

Amidst Jerry's efforts to shout, the militiamen with long shields and spears were advancing under the leadership of the guards.

Many people have blood all over their bodies, it can be seen that they have been fighting for a long time, but they still stick to the front line and fight tenaciously.

The advancement of spears and shields made those ratmen who had been pushed to the edge of the cliff only to keep retreating.

The Rat Man who was already leaning on the edge of the cliff desperately didn't want to fall down, and there was a cliff below.

But those ratmen who were eager to avoid the human spears didn't care what was going on behind them, they just wanted to continue to retreat.

They only saw that the ratmen who jumped at the humans were all dead. In order to escape death, they could only do this, to avoid human weapons.

So the ratmen fell off the cliff one after another, and turned into meat sauce at the bottom of the cliff.

The ratmen below who were still digging were startled by this scene, but then they continued to concentrate on their work.

To them, nothing is more important than this, otherwise the overseer will clean them up.

It has to be said that these transformed ratmen are extremely sad products. They can only obey orders and have no courage to neglect the orders of senior ratmen. Even if they are sent to die, they will go to die.

When the last ratman was pushed down, the soldiers cheered.

Jerry watched this scene, and a sense of satisfaction and victory kept flooding his heart.

He believed that after this battle, he would definitely be able to become a knight.

He fought all the way down the road, and his combat achievements are not small at all.

And usually he is very concerned about the management of all parties, no one will come to make trouble, he can definitely become a knight.

"Go! Boys, let's go over there!"

The spiral descending passage is the main battlefield of the battle, and the main force of the ratmen and humans are fighting here.

The Ratmen tried their best to stop the humans from advancing, but unfortunately they couldn't do it at all. They kept routing and retreating.

Compared with the Ratmen that humans have faced before, these Ratmen are more like laborers. Their bodies are much thinner, the things they hold are more like digging tools, and they are not skilled in fighting at all.

Naturally, it was impossible for such ratmen to block the advance of humans, and the Cossacks and Sazaburg militiamen advanced like wolves and tigers.

Skaven are constantly being defeated, or divided by humans, and forced to fall off a cliff.

Not to mention, humans still have these four sharp steel knives, leading everyone to attack, they are so sharp, they are so deadly to the Ratmen.

This steel knife is the demon hunter. With the cooperation of so many troops, the demon hunter was able to maximize his abilities.

However, the Ratmen continued to send up new troops to continue to block the progress of humans. These guys are still very qualified as human shields.

"Bang bang bang bang bang!"

Especially with the sound of musket guns, many ratmen fell down like this, and after the muskets, there was another rain of arrows.

After being equipped with a matchlock, the firing speed of the fire door gun has increased a lot.

After you don't have to worry about igniting the chamber in your hand, you can focus on shooting and loading.

There are also archers and crossbowmen around them, and the characteristics of the spiral downward road make them occupy an excellent shooting platform, and they can shoot at the Ratman below as much as they want.

Some shot at the ratmen who were digging, causing quite a bit of confusion there, but then they were ordered to shoot at the rats who were blocking the progress of the humans.

Those rats at the bottom are not important now, the important thing is to defeat the rats in front of them.

"Let the troops in front be more stable and don't push too hard."

Herme frowned as she watched the advancing troops.

The troops pushed a little too fast, and it would be bad if they rushed into the ratman's trap.

"Herme, you are worrying too much."

Volod really didn't understand why Herme was like this. Right now, the Ratman was collapsing in front of them like the sun's lingering snow, so they should keep on the offensive.

As long as they continue to attack, the Ratmen will be completely finished. They are already close to the bottom of the pit, and if they try harder, they will know what's going on down there.

"Be more cautious, Volod, we still know too little about this group of rat people."

As if to confirm what Hemei said, at the next moment, the rock wall behind the frontline army suddenly collapsed, and eight giant ratmen came out of it.

Humans were caught off guard by this, they never thought that such a group of big monsters would suddenly emerge from behind, and they immediately fell into the predicament of being besieged from front and back.

Fortunately, Jerry led many soldiers to the front line at this time, and they had just dealt with the divided ratmen.

Seeing such a scene ahead, they immediately rushed to support the battle. It was because of their participation that this wave of Ratmen's surprise attack failed to have the effect they expected. On the contrary, many precious giant Ratmen were still under siege They were killed one after another.

"Well, Herme, you're right, we should slow down."

After dispatching a team of reserve Cossacks, Volod told Herme that he did not expect these rats to do such tricks
"Speaking of which, how did these rats come up with such a monster? This thing has intelligence and can command an army."

The body of the giant rat man is covered with various sutures, and it can be seen at a glance that this thing was manufactured.

"God knows what's going on with this thing."

Herme looked at those things and said, he felt uncomfortable looking at them,
"But I believe that after we get here, many doubts will be resolved."

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The four demon hunters are now fighting on the front line, and it was under their leadership that those giant rats were dealt with.

Geralt beheaded another rat man, watching the blood flow in front of him, watching the brutal fighting around him, his inner thoughts were full of thoughts.

A shower of arrows rained down, and the ratmen fell one after another, releasing Geralt's pressure.

At first, he only planned to go to Hackland to make money, but he didn't expect to be involved in such a twists and turns.

Leading humans to fight against monsters, ha, I am afraid that the old man has never had such an experience. I really have something to brag about when I go back this time.

Geralt, who was so impressed, cast an Igni and ignited the rats in front of him.

Although there were many thoughts in his heart, the movements of the demon hunter's hands were never slow.

After the flames, the five spearmen behind Geralt rushed forward, spreading the front opened by Geralt.

Do you want to get some stuffed ratmen for Ciri to see?In the future, she may also face this kind of monster.

Geralt followed the crowd, and with the spearmen protecting the flanks, he frantically killed the ratmen in front.

He was the arrow of the assault, and the spearmen tried their best to keep up with the demon hunter's movements and to cooperate with his actions.

Now he has fully adapted to this feeling. As a demon hunter, being protected on the flanks, and even being the core of the battle, that was something he had never thought about before.

In this way, he can maximize his combat effectiveness, and the same principle applies to other demon hunters.

The Ratman army in front of them was indeed extremely weak, but it was precisely because of these four sharp arrows that humans could advance so fast.

The demon hunters are also very relaxed. They don't need so much energy to look around and listen to all directions, and a lot of energy can be saved.

That's why Geralt was able to fight here while thinking wildly.

If it was normal, there would be no chance for him to do this, the strings would be tense, for fear of missing a little feeling.

Because missing a little bit means death.

After this battle is over, I must get out the master suit.

The Ratman's tetanus blade hit his arm just now. Although it is not a big wound, and with the self-healing ability of the demon hunters, the tetanus can't kill them, but Geralt still feels very uncomfortable .

And just when Geralt was thinking this way, he suddenly felt the ratmen in front of him go berserk. These guys changed from shrinking back before to rushing forward desperately.

This action made everyone, including the demon hunter, very uncomfortable. Some fronts were pushed back by the Ratman, and many people died in the hands of the Ratman.

Geralt quickly stopped his distracted behavior on the battlefield and devoted all his energy to the battle.

Damn, what the hell is going on.

And then he understood why, because he felt the ground tremble, and then a rock wall not far from the battle line collapsed, and a monster appeared.

Seeing this thing, everyone was stunned, because what appeared before their eyes was a monster beyond everyone's imagination.

How ugly this monster was, Geralt had never seen anything so disgusting.

The giant ratmen are regarded as some kind of suture monsters. After all, they are covered with sutures all over their bodies, but in fact, the stitches are still mighty and beautiful.

This thing appeared in front of my eyes, it was like a monster that stitched several bloated ratmen together, and there were three rat heads on it, all three heads were chattering.

And the bottom part of the body has a lot of closed flesh holes, reminding Geralt of something unique to women, but this thing here is like a child squeezed into mud...

But there is something more disgusting behind this thing, that is the huge birth tunnel, where it will be like a conveyor belt to send out the young rats one day.

It was just because of Geralt's current position that he couldn't see it, otherwise he might vomit right away.

And standing on top of this monster was a head put in a glass jar, and the one on top of it was a giant rat man.

In addition to transforming the giant rat man, there are several platforms on this monster, and several rat men stand on it. These rat men all hold slings in their hands, and they are the best rat man slingers.

Anyone can see this scene, this is a giant war beast.

"Go, after all this war!"

"Did I hear it wrong, the rat man is talking?"

Geralt's tone was full of disbelief. After fighting with the Ratman for so long, this was the first time the Ratman could speak.

Although I don't understand what language it is, it is also speaking.

"Cliff! This is the enemy we want to kill!"

Raskit went crazy when he saw this thing. He howled the name of Cliff, then called the name of God and rushed towards the monster. Cliff's ascetics rushed like him.

They surpassed the others in an instant, and cut a path through the crowd of rats with incomparable ferocity.

A thunderbolt fell from the sky and hit the disgusting deformed monster. It let out a huge howl, but it was just a howl.

Then with a wave of the monster's tail, a large number of ratmen and many unlucky humans were blown away.

Among them was Raskit, the priest of Cliff, who was thrown to the rock wall and passed out.

As for those Cliff believers who were still alive, a woman in black with bells all over appeared in front of them.

The face was still ugly, and while the worshipers who attacked it fell, the woman didn't look like she was doing anything.

The witchers knew that this was the female rat catcher whom they hadn't seen for a long time.

"Bastard, how could there be such a thing!"

Geralt narrowly avoided the blow just now.

Damn, how could such a thing appear.

The spearmen who cooperated with him before were not so lucky, and all of them were blown away.

"Geralt! Come with me, don't let this thing go!"

George's voice came, and Letho and Eben were charging at the Ratcatcher.

Now is the time for professionals like them to behave.

Right now, the behemoth has become the target of crossbows and fire guns in the audience, but hitting it is like scratching an itch.

Although it howled, its movements were not affected in any way.

As for the shooting of the modified Ratman, there are more, but the monster seems to have some kind of protection, and the projectiles and arrows that hit it stopped at a very close distance to it.

The giant beast was still fighting, and many humans were blown away by its swing, and the soldiers inevitably retreated. Being within the range of this monster's attack was courting death, and many people were either blown away or crushed to death.

But fortunately, although the war behemoth is huge, its size also brings it problems, because its forward speed is very slow.

The human beings who were scared back by this thing quickly formed a new battle line under the organization of Herme and Volod, so the two commanders came to the battle line in person and mobilized the last reserve team, within the range of the giant beast's attack outside to prevent the Ratman from advancing.

Moreover, the giant beast was quickly restrained, because at some point, two "little bugs" escaped its attack, turned and moved around the giant beast very flexibly, and used silver swords, seals and bombs to kill the giant beast. Constantly inflicting damage.

The giant beasts kept attacking the witcher, trying to kill these annoying little bugs, but they couldn't do it anyway, they were too flexible.

But it can't ignore these two, because they should have proved with silver swords, sigils and bombs that they can threaten the behemoth.

Therefore, the transformation of the rat man did not allow the giant beast to continue to attack, but directed it to continue to deal with the nearby bugs.

However, this resulted in a by-product. The attack range of the mother mouse is very large, and the accidental injury is also very large, and the passage is not very wide.

As a result, the cannon fodder that should have been pouring up continuously was blocked, and more and more piled up behind.

But the reformed ratman didn't care, it could see that these demon hunters were the biggest threat to him, and he could behead himself.

After solving them, his behemoth will be invincible on this battlefield.

The witchers wanted to behead the unique skaven, but the place was so hard to get to, the monsters kept attacking them, and they spent most of their time dodging the attacks.

Moreover, there are a group of well-equipped ratman guards nearby. These guys are very good at timing, and when the demon hunters are about to hurt the giant beast, they will rush up to serve as a human shield for the giant beast.

Although they must be killed in the end, or be killed by their mothers by mistake, they have achieved their purpose, which is to influence the witcher to fight.

And if the Ratmen slingers above were hit by their sharpened stones, they would be finished immediately...

If this continues, the demon hunters will be finished sooner or later...

As for the other side, what the snake and manticore can do is to restrain the female rat catcher and keep using the sign of Arden to restrict this guy.

Most of the female rat catcher's attacks were witchcraft, such as the sudden attack of rat swarms, which was very disgusting. If it weren't for the first time for the witchers to face this monster, they might have overturned their cars a long time ago.

And the situation on their side is even worse. The large-scale attack of the war behemoth will cause many accidental injuries, but the female rat catcher will not, so they have to be careful of the rat man attacking behind them.

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"Where's the explosive cart? Where is the explosive cart? Push it up for me!"

Herme, who had returned earlier, shouted eagerly, his eyes constantly looking in the crowd. Before that, he ordered to find the gunpowder cart.

For this battle, Herme prepared a lot of carriages full of gunpowder.

The purpose of these gunpowder is to blow up some caves and rock walls when necessary. After all, they are going to the Rat Wrestler's lair, so they must be prepared for this.

Herme has a lot of gunpowder, so he has prepared a lot of gunpowder, and now is the time to use these things.

The army is in a bad state at the moment, and the people are panicked by the appearance of the giant beast.

Everyone can continue fighting the Rat Man, but when facing that monster, everyone subconsciously wants to run away.

Although the shooters were still shooting, no matter how you looked at it, it was still useless against that thing, and morale was getting lower and lower because of it.

And the gunpowder cart finally appeared. There was a carriage driven by a peasant, and behind the peasant was full of gunpowder barrels.

"Quickly, drive the carriage under that monster!"

This was the way Herme thought of turning the situation around. If a gunpowder carriage passed by and detonated the gunpowder, the monster would be seriously injured.

It's just that after hearing this order, fear visible to the naked eye appeared on the coachman's face.

Seeing the giant beasts raging there, he subconsciously thought that this was a mission to die.

"Ah, my lord, this..."

"Damn it, get out of the carriage immediately, I don't want you to drive the carriage over, untie the horses for me, and let the others hold the carriage!"

Herme yelled, and then went up to operate beside the carriage, and Volod and his guards hurried up.

Together, they pushed the powder wagon to the point where it was facing the giant beast.

At this point, everyone understands what Herme intends to do. On this spiral downward passage, these roads are all descending.

Push the carriage down, relying on the effect of gravity, the carriage will rush towards the monster by itself.

Herme first sent guards to clear the road. Hitting people or corpses on the road may cause the carriage to be destroyed halfway, and the carriage will be wasted.

The guards did open a path with their swords. These soldiers in full armor looked like steel golems in front of the Ratmen, so completing this task was like chopping melons and vegetables.

Volod's Cossacks then went to remove the corpse as much as possible.

After everything was prepared, the carriage was pushed down, and the gunpowder on the carriage was also ignited.

Herme roughly calculated the time, and the gunpowder would explode when they reached the place.

It's just a pity that the carriage bumped into a few ratmen on the way, and then turned over directly, and then the gunpowder barrels rolled to the ground and scattered among the rat crowd.

Then the fuse burned out.

There was an explosion, and the Ratmen were terribly bombed, and their morale, which had been ignited by the appearance of the "mother", also dropped visibly to the naked eye.

But it doesn't matter, Herme prepared more than one gunpowder cart.

Another gunpowder cart was pushed down, but this time, the gunpowder cart went smoothly, and it directly hit the body of the giant beast.

The acceleration of gravity itself gives the carriage a great impact, and the giant beast will not feel bad if it is hit by something of this mass, but this is only the beginning.

And then the gunpowder exploded, and it was a very, very beautiful firework, so beautiful that everyone here will never forget it.

(End of this chapter)