The meteor flashed thirteen times, and every Skaven Ratman prayed devoutly, chanting the name of the Horned Rat.
Thirteen! The most sacred number, the Horned Rat, grant us strength.
Eckart Claw laughed heartily. The Skaven Chief Engineer watched as the Plague Claw Trebuchet threw out the Plague Incense Burner and the carefully designed Dimensional Stone Lightning Cannon exploded on the walls of Carcasson. The green Dimensional Stone Flames burned, and the Dimensional Stone Lightning Cannon shattered everything.
The green comet fell into Carcasson Castle.
Then, nothing happened.
"Hahahaha … Hmm?" Eckart Talon was stunned for a moment. The chief engineer of the Skaven Empire stared blankly at Carcassonne Castle, which was still standing under the bombardment, and cursed in anger.
It was a dud!
However, Chief Engineer Skaven was not discouraged by all this. Dimension Stone technology was not a particularly stable technology to begin with. Even as the most talented Chief Engineer, Ikart Talon could not ensure the stability of every technology it created. The Chief Engineer ordered to prepare for the launch of the next [Doomsday Rocket], and at the same time, he continued to give orders.
The second wave of attack had begun!
Countless slave rats formed the vanguard of the Skaven Ratmen's attack. They walked onto the battlefield under the command of the Plague Monks and the Clan Rats. In front of them was the walls of Carcasson, and behind them were the Clan Rats, as well as the Storm Rats from the Scuri Family and the Morse Family.
In its long battle career, Eckart Sharp Claw had tried countless ways of fighting. Whether it was a surprise attack, a roundabout, a tunnel battle, or an ambush, the Chief Engineer Eckart Sharp Claw could handle all of them with ease. Eckart Sharp Claw had even tried a head-on attack. It squinted its eyes and looked at the castle in front of it, continuing to laugh.
These hairless things are really stupid. They don't have any skills at all. They only know how to fight positional battles and defend the castle. Otherwise, they would use the serf infantry as bait and let the knights charge.
The Brittany have been using this tactic for hundreds of years. Can't they be a little more creative?
In Ickart's eyes, the dwarves and elves were all trash who were stuck in their ways. It had been thousands of years, but they were still the same. On the other hand, the humans, especially the Empire and the Green Dwarfs, had made some progress. Ickart had been thinking about how to obtain the DNA technology of the Green Dwarfs.
Unlike most of the Skaven Ratmen who were addicted to using plagues, numbers, and magic to defeat their opponents, Ikart Talon's innovative thinking allowed his army to be equipped with more war machines than any other Skaven army. Ikart believed that as long as the world was corrupted and destroyed by the gift of the Horned Rats, it did not matter what method was used. Whether it was the gray-haired Ratmen, the white-haired Ratmen, or the black-haired Ratmen, as long as they could defeat their enemies, they were all good Ratmen!
The second wave of attacks was also repelled by Duke Hubbard's troops. Duke Hubbard's men were united as one.
The Duke was proud of his young warriors. When Duke Hubbard rode his horse over the walls, a sense of pride welled up from the depths of his soul. His duchy had guarded the borders of Brittany for a thousand years, fending off countless attacks, just like the sword on the red and blue coat of arms of Carcassonne.
Do you see it? Lady? Even if we don't need you, we can still complete our mission to protect the south and this country!
Yes, there were a lot of Skaven Ratmen. The Duke was only standing on one of the watchtowers on the city wall, but he could already see the Skaven army outside the city. How many enemies were there? Hubbard didn't know.
He could feel that his soldiers were afraid.
The knights didn't know how their horses could maintain momentum in such a dense tide of Ratmen.
The serfs didn't know how they could win the war with so many strong enemies.
However, Hubert didn't waver in the slightest. Duke Hubert encouraged his troops and encouraged them to fight for Kakasson. Even if they didn't want to shout "For the Lady" anymore, they still had a goal worth fighting for and protecting: their land and their people.
There were so many enemies that it was impossible to miss. Duke Hubbard secretly prayed to the goddess one last time and ordered his troops to fire once more.
When the catapults and the cannons imported from the Empire and Muxilon opened fire, the Skaven army was instantly bombarded with countless holes. When the rain of burning arrows covered the sky, the slave rats were killed in droves. Only less than half of the second wave of slave rats were able to reach the walls of Carcassonne. Under the whips of the clan rats and the plague monks, they braved the rain of arrows and forcefully charged forward.
The dimensional stone cannons, plague claw catapults, and cannons began to exchange fire with the city's cannons. Hundreds of cannons were fired at each other, and what remained was a bloody battlefield. Duke Hubbard looked on proudly as his troops held their ground. His defensive firepower wasn't inferior to the Skaven Ratmen's.
All I have to do is hold on. All I have to do is hold on until the kingdom's reinforcements arrive, Hubbard thought.
"Is this all you've got? Rats? " Duke Hubbard ordered his subordinates to pour the boiling hot liquid down the walls, burning a group of Ratmen to pieces. He smiled proudly. "What else do you have? Show them all! Rats! "
"Hahahaha!" Ikot Talon wasn't surprised at all. If Carcassonne Castle didn't have anything, how could it have held on for a thousand years and blocked the Skaven Ratmen's countless attacks?
However, this day was about to become history!
The thirteen Gray Prophets chanted the holy name of the horned rat at the same time.
Thirteen sacrifices were offered to the horned rat at the same time.
Another green comet rose into the sky. Ikot Talon laughed maniacally as he witnessed it all.
At this moment, the people of Carcassonne who were still fighting to the death on the walls and waiting for reinforcements didn't even realize what had happened.
The castle exploded.
A mushroom cloud hundreds of meters high rose from the castle. The first to explode were the houses in the city. These ancient and historical houses were engulfed by the flames and impact of the explosion. The glazed glass that could be traced back to the Elven Empire was blown apart by the power of the Doomsday Rocket and turned into fragments. The scythe formed by the power of the Dimension Stone slashed through the residential area and the commercial area, devouring and destroying all living and dead things. Green flames overflowed from the gaps in the city wall. In the fierce wind, the roar of the Horned Rat echoed.
The thousand-year-old castle collapsed, the thousand-year-old buildings turned into history. The ancient Elven Empire's tapestries and relics, as well as the sword that was the pride of Carcassonne, were all destroyed by this attack.
The walls began to collapse. The thick rocks lasted for a long time under the explosion of the Doomsday Rocket.
The rocks of Carcassonne were as stubborn as the people here.
However, there was nothing that could stop the power of the Doomsday Rocket. The structure of the city wall finally collapsed. Large pieces of stone were like bursting bags, exploding into countless pieces and flying into the sky. The will of the Horned Rat wreaked havoc on the ruins, digging up the broken city wall and twisting them across the battlefield.
Rocks that were larger than humans flew across the sky. Broken statues fell from the sky like meteors, and debris poured down like rain.
Duke Hubbard and his knights didn't realize what had happened. He was hit by the oncoming rocks and buried in the ruins with his personal guards, the Black Mountain Watch.
Carcassonne had been destroyed along with the 80,000 people in the city.
Skuli's army continued to advance. Ikot Talon signaled to the rats that they couldn't stay here for too long.
Even so, the slave rats still turned into a flood of filth and poured into the city from all directions. They tore open the ruins and swallowed the humans alive. They rushed into the cellars and tasted the food that was not destroyed.
The Cathedral of the Goddess, the symbol of Carcassonne's glory, was now a ruined ruin. Thousands of slave rats had taken over the ruined walls and used it as their toilet, excreting to their heart's content.
The library was burned down by a fire. The valuable books had been reduced to ashes.
The stables were blasted open. The noble corpses of the pure-blooded elven horses were taken away by the rats and turned into new research materials for the Mord family.
One ancient building after another was destroyed. The winery that Carcassonne was so proud of was destroyed as well.
This thousand-year-old winery had experienced the baptism of blood and fire. According to the locals, the red brick walls of the castle were dyed with blood, and the red wine of the winery was also brewed with blood. The wine farmers here held reverence for their ancestors and brewed the most sacred and strongest wine in their hearts. The winery was located on a small hill. Throughout history, all the invaders of other races had coveted Carcassonne Castle, especially the vineyards that stretched for miles on the hill. Therefore, in order to resist the invasion of other races, generation after generation of Carcassonne people had built a strong fortress and soaked this ancient land with blood.
Now, the winery had become a collapsed ruin. The red wine that survived in the cellar was all taken out by the refugees hiding in the cellar. They were torn apart and eaten in a frenzy. The red wine that had been stored in the cellar for hundreds of years was smashed open, licked and sucked clean.
In the entire castle, only the statue of the Goddess in the Lake did not suffer too much damage. The statue of the Goddess had an angry expression on her face, as if she was blaming the Skaven rat-men for their crimes. Her face radiated a holy light, as if she was cursing Ikot Talon and its army of Skaven, as if God was punishing them.
If her opponent was a Chaos Demon, the holy light and curse of the Goddess' statue might cause the enemy to suffer heavy losses. However, her opponent this time was the Skuli ratmen.
Unlike the Chaos Demons, the Skuli ratmen had a physical body. They could be hurt, but not easily killed.
Soon, the warlock engineer reported to Ikot Talon about the Goddess' statue. Ikot Talon was not surprised at all. He waved his hand, and three teams of Dimensional Stone Rats, two Dimensional Stone Lightning Cannons, and a group of Dimensional Stone Gunners walked out from the back.
The frenzied bombardment began. The bombardment of the Goddess' statue lasted for more than an hour until there was only a pile of broken rocks left. The fragments of the statue in the lake no longer shone.
Under the Skuli ratmen's blitzkrieg, Carcassonne Castle, which had just finished its internal strife, was destroyed. The 80,000 people and all the buildings in the castle were reduced to ruins.
At this time, the Brittany High Command had just received the news from their Goddess.
Ikot Talon looked at the ruins in front of him and felt a little bored.
The Skuli ratman engineer broke out of his excitement. Even after decades of accumulation, he only had five Doomsday Rockets. The first one was used as a test, the second was a dud, and the third one blew up Carcassonne Castle.
Now, Ikot Talon only had two Doomsday Rockets left.
"Order, order all the rats, gather, gather!"
"Go straight to Jean City! Go to Laing's l- lair of the Sun Rat! "
"Descendants of the Horned Rats! Rebirth and glory will be ushered in! "
“Yesyes！！”
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