The Rat Tide continuously rushed towards the stairs at the entrance of the church. The long stairs had more than 30 steps. Behind the stairs, the human soldiers used tables and the wreckage of many carriages to build a position, resisting stubbornly.
Under the protection of Teresa's ice wall, the Rat Men crazily rushed towards the only path, not caring about casualties at all.
"Open fire! Open fire! " Behind the position, dozens of musketeers continuously shot. The Rat Men rushed up wave after wave, and wave after wave were shot into sieves. Under the command of the Rick Guards, the human soldiers united as a fortress, resisting the attack of the Rat Men.
As there was only half of the stairs left on the path leading to the church, the Rat Men had no choice but to squeeze along the narrow walkway. Close to the human position, the musketeers of the Mackensen Firearms Squad fired towards one direction. Under such circumstances, the power of the volley was astonishing. The Skaven Rat Men attacked again and again, but they always left a ground full of corpses and retreated in vain.
At this time, the weakness of the Rat Men was completely exposed.
In what aspects did the Skaven Rat Men have an advantage in the war against the humans?
There were mainly two. The first was the crushing of technology, and the second was the numerical superiority.
The number of Skaven Rat Men could often directly drown the human army. Humans were often flustered when faced with the Rat Men's encirclement, and the various high-tech weapons of the Rat Men could easily cause a devastating blow to the human army.
The Skaven Rat Men once almost completely defeated the Empire. 500 years after the disappearance of Charlemagne, the Empire began to gradually decline. At this time, the Skaven Rat Men almost defeated the Empire through the "Black Death". When there were not many healthy soldiers in the entire Empire's military camp, the Rat Men launched a war and swept through the entire Empire. The Empire was almost unable to withstand the attack of the Rat Men.
However, the last resistance force of the humans gathered in White Wolf City. At that time, the White Wolf Kurfürst was called Mandred. He led the last resistance force of the humans. Under the extremely strict health management and the cruel rule of forcibly killing anyone with a disease, White Wolf City became the last resistance stronghold of the Empire. The Rat Men army tried to attack the city, but White Wolf City was located on a mountain thousands of meters high. The mountain path that was hundreds of meters long and the city walls that were dozens of meters high made the Rat Men suffer.
The worst was yet to come. As everyone knew, the holy fire of the White Wolf God was always burning on the mountain of White Wolf City, and the temple was built on the city walls. Any soldier, as long as they were the defenders of White Wolf City, could easily receive the powerful blessing of the White Wolf God (the effect was equivalent to stacking two rows of buffs, all attributes greatly enhanced).
After a few months of futile fighting, the Rat Men ran out of food and were forced to retreat. Kurfürst Mandred took the opportunity to launch the "Battle of Howling Hill" and completely defeated the Rat Men army. He was also nicknamed the "Rat Exterminator" and was successfully elected as the Emperor of the Empire, known as the "Wolf Emperor".
Unfortunately, Mandred was only the Emperor of the Empire for more than twenty years. In the end, he was assassinated by the ace assassins of the Isin clan sent by the Skaven Rat Men for "revenge". After the death of Emperor Mandred, the Kurfürst of the Empire were suspicious of each other and could not choose a new Emperor that could convince the masses. The era of the Three Emperors had thus begun.
So, what was the weakness of the Rat Men?
First of all, they had extremely poor morale and discipline. The Skaven Rat Men were a bunch of mobs with extremely poor morale and discipline. If the situation was slightly unfavorable, they would easily collapse.
Just like the current situation, the Rat Men repeatedly attacked the position of the humans, but they often retreated before they could even touch the border. If a few of these Rat Men fell, the morale would be shaken, and then the entire army would collapse.
In order to regroup the army, the Storm Rats at the back had to spend much more energy than commanding the army to attack.
Secondly, the Skaven Rat Men had a very despicable character, and that was, they loved to fight among themselves. This race had never stopped fighting among themselves ever since they were born. Many clans would fight to the death, and there was a lack of trust between warlords.
For example, the Skaven warlord, Ossade Abyss, who was currently commanding the Rat Men army, was such a warlord. On one hand, he was anxiously watching the humans attack the fortress for a long time, but on the other hand, this Skaven warlord was not willing to send out the elite Storm Rats army and Rat Trolls. On the contrary, he had these troops wait for orders, and only sent the clan rats and slave rats to their deaths.
The Rat Men's strategy was to exhaust themselves, but Ossade was not completely doing this out of exhaustion.
The reason was very simple. This was called preserving strength. Defeating the humans was called a victory for the Skaven Rat Men. It was a victory without any benefits, and the loss of troops was his own loss. This was his capital to be a warlord. If he accidentally lost too many loyal soldiers, he could easily be betrayed and killed by his subordinates. There were too many people eyeing his position.
Ossade Abyss stomped his feet in anger. "D * mn that Gray Prophet Spat! Where, where, where did it and its army go? He didn't even respond when I rang the bell! Nono！ Never! Never! "
Ossade did not want to lose too much to take down the fortress. This Skaven warlord had his wishful thinking. His plan was as follows.
Stay away from the attack and preserve strength.
Let Gray Prophet Spat and his army fight to the death with the humans, and then he would reap the rewards of the battle! At the same time, he would secretly "kill" Gray Prophet and take over his army of Plague Monks and siege weapons. He would then become the most powerful Skaven warlord in the Gray Mountains! Yesyes！
At the thought of this, Ossade could not help but laugh. He had already hired the Rat Men assassins from the Essien family.
However, looking at the situation before him, the Skaven warlord could not laugh anymore.
That bastard Spat was even more ruthless than him! He was just sending him to his death! But that bastard Spat did not come!
That Gray Prophet was cunning and sly!
Ossade swore that he would definitely make that Gray Prophet pay for this.
Seeing this huge human fortress persevering in front of him, Ossade began to feel troubled again. The order of the Skaven Rat Men's Council of 13 was to completely take down Helmgard and let the small human Empire realize the power of the Rat Empire. At the same time, they would plunder enough human children. The Skaven Rat Men planned to use Dimension Stones, genetic engineering, and alchemy to contaminate the human genes and see if they could create a new terrifying species.
Now that Helmgard had fallen, and only this human fortress was still holding on, should he fight or not?
Fight? Based on the current resistance of the human defenders, he would obviously suffer heavy losses if he continued fighting. Ossade did not accept this. The troops that he would lose would be his, and the benefits he would gain would be limited.
Should he not fight? He had disobeyed the orders of the Council of Thirteen, so he would not have a good time when he returned. Osede knew that his subordinates were always coveting his position as a warlord and wanted to replace him. His colleagues were even more so trying to kill him. During the meeting, the scoundrels would happily call each other friends and family. However, as soon as they turned around, they would assassinate, kidnap, threaten, blackmail, bribe, and poison. All the Skaven warlords could not wait to kill all their colleagues so that they could become the most powerful one.
He could not let these bastards find an excuse to attack him!
Odyssee-Abyss shook his head. No, at least not now. He called for his adjutant, a cunning Storm Rat.
"Have you found a way? Dig a hole, climb a mountain? "the Skaven warlord asked his adjutant.
"Dig a hole, there are human toys, patrol, a bunch of hairless things, small team, die! Climb a mountain, the human fortress is frozen, break break break! Nono! "The adjutant shook his head.
In other words, the small team of Rat Men who tried to invade through the tunnel was attacked head-on and completely wiped out. The Rat Men who tried to climb the cliff and take a detour were blocked by the ice wall. They could not break through the ice wall and could not pass through.
The Skaven warlord held his halberd and signaled for the army to continue attacking.
A large group of slave rats and clan rats attacked the human camp again, and then wave after wave was defeated. The soldiers moved a lot of ammunition from the armory on the city wall to the church. At least for now, the human army showed no signs of running out of ammunition.
Ossade thought to himself that this was really strange. He had been shouting for a long time, but the Gray Prophet Spat and his army inside Helmgard did not respond.
That bastard Spat wasn't planning to make me suffer a huge loss and then "do" me, was he?
That was what Ossade thought.
The Skaven warlord was hopping mad. His army did not have any siege weapons, nor did they have any magic. If they continued fighting like this, it would be a boring battle.
There must be a human mage casting a spell to stop the Rat Men's army from advancing.
Since Spatter didn't need it, he would make other arrangements. Osede winked at the shadow in front of him. A short Ratman wearing a yellow and black tights, a headband, and a mask appeared from the shadow. "Who is it this time?" Osede asked.
"Find the human mage and kill him!" Ossade said to the short Rat Man.
"Aye!" A cloud of green smoke rose from under the short Rat Man, and then he disappeared from the sight of all the rats.
The Rat Men's army continued to attack.
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At the top of the Church of Justice, under the golden dome.
The siege of the church had been going on for more than half a day. It was now early in the morning.
Teresa stood in the middle of the platform under the dome, holding her staff. She closed her eyes and sensed the movements of the Rat Men around the church.
As the Church of Justice was very large, there were many places for the Rat Men to ambush. Teresa had to concentrate. She could feel that many Rat Men were trying to break into the church through the windows, the small path behind the church, and the entrance to the basement.
The sorceress kept casting ice walls to block the Rat Men's threat. She was using up her magic very quickly. Fortunately, compared to Veronica, who was forced to cast many large-scale spells, Teresa's magic reserves were still abundant.
Fierce fighting broke out at the main entrance. The sorceress knew that she could not afford to be careless.
Originally, Suria had arranged for a few soldiers to protect Teresa while she was casting spells. However, the frost aura overflowing from the sorceress' body made it impossible for the soldiers to stay for long. Teresa did not like to be disturbed when she was casting spells, so she stood alone in the middle of the platform. The battle at the front line was tense, and the soldiers were tired. The soldiers responsible for protecting her had already been transferred to the entrance of the church.
Because of this, the Sorceress didn't notice a black shadow above the golden dome. This shadow moved extremely quickly and silently.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! The short Rat-Man climbed up the walls and windows of the church with his hooks. He was as agile as a phantom, but when necessary, he could appear as lifeless as a brick.
It spent a few hours climbing up, avoiding the warning circle set up by the sorceress and the patrol team led by the demon hunter Eibert. It then sneaked into the dome of the church and hid behind a mural, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
Now, the opportunity had come. The female spellcaster's Magic Power reserves were running low, and the frost energy around her was gradually thinning out. The Dwarf Ratman took out three green Dimension Stone daggers and equipped them one by one. One in his left hand, one in his right hand, and the last dagger was wrapped in his rat tail.
"The intersection of light and darkness is where the shadow is. Yes, yes!" The short Rat Man saw the sun gradually rising outside. The sunlight broke through the darkness and cast a shadow on the church.
Assassination! It had begun!
The short Rat Man suddenly sprang into action. Like a nimble rabbit, it emerged from the shadows and dashed towards the Sorceress who was maintaining the ice wall!
"Who's there?!" When Teresa sensed that something was approaching her, the Rat Man Assassin was only a dozen meters away from her!
"Frost Arrow!" Teresa immediately stopped her spellcasting. The sorceress raised her hand and released a swirling ball of frost energy towards the Rat Man. The Frost Arrow swept across the interior of the icy platform, leaving a trail of frost on the ground.
The Rat Man Assassin didn't say a word. He did a few somersaults in the air and dodged Teresa's attack. At the same time, he was getting closer to the sorceress.
Frost Shield! Teresa immediately summoned an Frost Shield. At the same time, the sorceress continued her spellcasting. She summoned an Ice Cloak to cover herself.
The ratman Assassin took out a handful of darts from his bosom and threw them one after another. These poisoned darts were blocked by Theresa's Ice Shield. Just as the female Warlock was about to call for reinforcements, the ratman Assassin immediately made a hand seal.
"Shadow!"
Almost instantly, the Rat Man Assassin slid a long distance in the air. He instantly appeared behind Teresa and plunged three daggers into her heart.
The sharp Dimension Stone daggers pierced through Teresa's Ice Cloak and broke through a layer of ice.
The two daggers were stopped by the Frost Shield and Ice Cloak, but the daggers on the Rat Man Assassin's tail continued forward.
Oh no! Teresa instinctively wanted to pull out her gun and shoot, but then she realized that her right arm was still bandaged. In the nick of time, the sorceress quickly let go of her staff and threw herself out.
She lost her balance and forced herself to turn around. The only thing she could use was her left hand — the rune gun, Blue Love.
The sorceress could feel the Rat Man Assassin's daggers piercing her chest and drinking her blood. Relying on the pain to remind her, she pulled the trigger.
Bang! The sound of the gun and the blade piercing flesh rang out at almost the same time.
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