Before ascending to God, be a good lord

On October 10th, in the large forest west of Iowa, in the courtyard of Xingba Castle, groups of hunting cavalry returned to the castle. Most of them carried some gray mice nearly 9 meters long on their backs, and some Some of the horses were empty, with no trophies and no original riders.

Nedland Wilson stood at the door of the castle, greeting each team of Chasseurs, and asked each captain about the team's casualties and hunting status, the location of the encountered rat pack, and the opponent's combat effectiveness.

Since the early morning of October 10rd, when the hunting cavalry led by the Magic Pattern Tiger arrived at Inumori City, the Jiaolang clan has abandoned all the mines around Inumori City, and even reduced the major tribes to the periphery of the city.

The dark rat tribe took over a large amount of land formerly owned by the Scorched Wolf Tribe. Some of them entered major mines and became miners to replace the local human tribe. More rat tribes lined up east and west along the edge of the forest, affecting the entire The forest creates a certain pressure.

Starting from October 10th, the rats have been sending various teams into the forest to conduct experiments. The rats will dig out small beasts underground, gnaw leaves and berries on low shrubs, rotten fruits on the ground, and even crawl into the ground. Prey on small birds and insects in trees.

The rat people's target is not only Vianis' guerrillas, they, like the apes before them, want to take root in this rich forest.

In order to protect the forest and the entire transportation line, the newly rotated hunting cavalry worked together with the Frostwolf Knights, constantly fighting and hunting the rats that entered the forest from day to night.

The rats used swarm tactics in the first two days. Each rat group was a mixture of 200 magic rats, rat men, and countless ordinary rats.

In the forest, groups of rats can easily be separated during movement. When a team of 20 cavalrymen faces this large group of opponents, they will first send out 2 or 3 cavalrymen to lure most of the rats deeper into the forest. On the forest road, the captain of the cavalry team took one junior black scale horse and 1 level 10 black scale horses and used low-level flame magic to crush the entire rat group. Then several nearby cavalry teams cooperated with each other. Destroy the remaining rat people and demon rats.

Such tactics were successful on the 4th and 5th. However, as time passed, the Rat Pack not only invested more troops, but also adopted new tactics, which gradually increased the casualties of the cavalry.

When 15 teams of hunting cavalry entered the castle gate one after another, Greyhound Dent entered the gate riding an intermediate Frostwolf.

The rat men's testing was mainly concentrated after the evening. After the struggle last night and this morning, it was almost noon. Both sides began to cease their activities. When the main hunting cavalry was about to return to camp, Dogtooth Dent led 50 wolf cavalry. Replenished the front line to provide cover for the Chasseurs.

"Is everything okay over there?" Ned Land asked with concern when he saw the gray dog.

Greyhound shook his head and said: "No problem, those rats in the forest can't outrun the wolves! But you Chasseurs, did you lose much?"

"5 men were killed, 15 were wounded, and 2 horses were lost!"

Ned Land frowned and said, "The temptations of the rats have intensified in the past few days. Our losses are greater than before, but our gains are much less."

"Yes, they have adopted a new tactic. 4 or 5 intermediate demon rats, a dozen junior demon rats, and about fifty rat people form a team, and there is a distance of 200 meters between the two teams of the same size. rice, we can support each other without being killed by Warcraft's spells at once,"

Greyhound also had a headache when he recalled the battles with the Ratmen in the past few days.

"And they probably noticed that we have a lookout rune. The rat men outside the forest hide in holes during the day and only move on the ground at night. They even enter the forest both above and below ground at the same time." Ned Land nodded in agreement. Said: "This is very troublesome. Now the magic plants are all worried that these rats will invade the roots of the trees. The trees at the edge of the forest are the youngest. Even if they are not bitten, they will not survive for long."

Greyhound thought for a long time, and finally suggested: "I heard that a rotating group of reinforcements will arrive tonight. We can launch an assault at night to eliminate a rat camp and give them some color."

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Less than a hundred meters from the edge of the forest, the ground that was originally covered with fallen leaves was now covered with black rats.

For rats, the time when they first enter the forest at night and when they are about to withdraw at noon are the most vulnerable times to suffer losses.

After several days of adjustments, they have now mastered the most reliable method of withdrawing the team: the senior magic rat, who leads the entire team, makes a sound that is difficult for humans to hear to all the intermediate magic rats one hour before the withdrawal.

Each team that receives the retreat signal will separate a small part of its team members, form a new team under the leadership of a few junior magic rats, and attack deep into the forest to serve as the rear guard for the large army.

The withdrawing team will retreat to the edge of the forest while gathering into the team of the high-level magic rats. Eventually, the rats will gather into a large group and slowly withdraw from the forest.

With such a relatively complete evacuation plan, the losses suffered by the rats in the past two days have been greatly reduced, and the scope of losses can basically be fixed within the rear ranks.

However, rats are multiplying and breaking through all the time, and they are devouring each other all the time. Controlled losses are completely acceptable to them.

On the tree crown not far from the mice, Canine Fang and his mount Lan Shuang were hiding on a wide tree trunk. As a wind/ice frost wolf, Lan Shuang could easily jump between the tree crowns with Canine Fang in the forest. .

At present, there are 20 knights with intermediate mounts in the Frostwolf Knights who can also do it, but they plan to use this kind of surprise attack from the sky at the most critical moment to give the mice a little surprise.

After a while, a peregrine falcon flew over Blue Frost's head. It was a junior monster used by the Frostwolf Knights for reconnaissance, and signed a magical contract with the canine teeth.

"Good boy, let me see what you saw?"

As he caressed the peregrine falcon's head, Canine's mind recalled what it had seen a few minutes ago: Under the command of a brown bear-sized mouse, groups of rats and demon rats poured out of the forest and burrowed back into the forest. In the burrows of various tribes, directly above these burrows, you can still see the shadows of rats shaking constantly from the entrance of the cave.

Hundreds of 2-meter-diameter holes formed a large area on the outskirts of the forest. Even if it was just viewed from the air, it still made Canine Ya feel sick.

"Such rats are really difficult to deal with. If we don't get rid of them early, they might dig underground rivers or even swim into the castle!"