A strange world

Chapter 792 Section 23. Before the Storm

Annan resisted the urge to hide behind the Black Watch.

Since the Empire knew about the rat tide, it thought the coalition could eat them.

Annan looked at Femi and handed the choice to the Hellfire Legion: "We have two options: prepare a defense line to meet the Skaven, earn military merit, and maybe even have a record that can compete with Black Watch, but there will be danger. Or retreat. Go back to the Great Wall, look for opportunities and wait for the opportunity, there is no danger, no military exploits."

Femi straightened his back: "Lord Annan, my father, mother, brother, and sister were all killed by rat-men, so I firmly believe in one thing..."

“Cure the plague, one bullet at a time.”

Annan was not surprised by Fermi's decision. He raised his head and looked around everyone. If he wanted to maximize his profits...

"Blom, leave three white dragons behind. You take the other ten and disperse to inform other coalition forces to move closer to us. Gal, tell the goblins following you to quickly find a solid area that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. As our base. Elder, take the painters to the north again and estimate how long it will take them to reach the grassland."

As Annan quickly assigned the tasks, everyone was mobilized and quickly started working on the upcoming war.

The captain of the elves, the elf mage Ymir, found Annan, hoping to go to the north to harass the rat tide.

Annan rejected her proposal. There are so many ratmen, and Mouseear can't bring them back. It will be even more troublesome if they are used as the main force to attract a bunch of ratmen.

Before the painter returned, the goblins found several suitable locations for setting up defense lines.

The first one is by a lake about 500 meters in diameter. This can reduce a line of defense, but the deepest point of the lake is only six or seven meters, and there is no terrain difference. Once a heavy rain comes, the lakeside will inevitably be flooded...

The second one is a hill about tens of meters high. There is a difference in terrain, but it is all soft soil. You can easily dig a pit without much effort, which is an invitation for rat people who are good at digging holes.

The third one is in a forest. It looks like an ordinary low hill, but after digging through a few dozen centimeters of shallow soil, it turns out that there is a solid layer of rock underneath. The forest can not only hinder the ratmen, but also can be set on fire if necessary, burning all the ratmen who rush into the forest.

A location is chosen and everyone starts taking action.

A hundred meters of trees around the camp were cut down, and their branches were piled aside in preparation for building an awning.

The goblins dug ravines every ten meters along the station to slow down the ratmen.

The white dragon carrying the dragon-taming boy Elder and the drawing board flew back, and it was probably estimated that the rat man would arrive here in about two days.

It was too late to build a fortress. Annan held the magic potion and continued to open the portal, transporting cement from Liberty City, pouring cement into the station for free, and forcibly creating terrain differences.

This is a must-have item to fight the rat tide.

Except for newcomers who have never fought against ratmen, no soldier would think of fighting the rat tide in the plains. With the number of rat tides, once surrounded by rat men, the stacked rat men will in turn create a terrain difference and fall from the sky.

The fifty magic artillery pieces in stock were moved over, and only five orichalcum artillery pieces that had been built in total were also pushed to the warehouse and prepared to be set up at the station.

While the forest was busy with the impending arrival of the Skaven, other forces received warnings from Annan one after another.

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call--

The white dragon flapped its wings and carried Annan's messenger away.

The Earl of Fire looked at the retreating figure in the sky and said sarcastically: "After all, he is a new nobleman with little background. Just some rat men scared him out of his wits."

The staff next to him reminded: "But the relationship between China and Annan is good..."

"What does this have to do with me?"

The Earl of Fire withdrew his gaze, "They don't have the guts to do so. We have one less opponent to compete for military glory. Tell the troops to move forward at full speed!"

"Full speed ahead!"

"Full speed ahead!"

"Full speed ahead!"

The messengers mounted their horses and told the troops the news about Earl Agni. With confidence and pride, these elite soldiers of the kingdom rushed towards the invisible tide of rats in the mountains and plains in the distance.

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"Tell your master I understand."

The fat lord sat on the Thunder Lion's broad back and answered condescendingly.

Swain felt the arrogance of the fat lord and said hesitantly: "The rat tide is flooding the mountains and plains, we must unite -"

"I said, I got it."

The fat lord's deep voice turned cold.

The surrounding guards immediately held weapons and approached Swain.

The white dragon who was left outside roared anxiously.

"...We'll leave now."

Since they refused to accept the kindness, Swain gave up saying anything.

They will regret it...

Swain retreated back to the white dragon, rode on the dragon's back and spread his wings away.

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"Brothers, the time has come to establish meritorious deeds!"

The fanatical Chapter Master raised his battle ax, and the surroundings responded with roars and howls.

"We offer rat blood to the Emperor of the Empire!"

"Dedicated to the Emperor!!!"

"Dedicate a rat skull to the King of Bones!"

"Dedicated to the King of Bones!!!"

The elite captain who fell between them couldn't get in at all, and even vaguely wanted to join in.

"Your Excellency, Chapter Master, I need to remind you that there are more Skaven than you think. We need to unite -"

The stout Chapter Leader looked down at him and smiled with an extremely conceited smile: "If you can't hold on, we will support you for the sake of our allies."

Although arrogant, he still has some good intentions.

The elite captain had no choice but to go back. Anyway, he had said everything he needed to say.

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In the evening, the afterglow shines into the forest.

The station in the distance was still in full swing. Annan stood at the edge of the forest and smelled the smell of moisture from the wind blowing into the forest.

Although there are no dark clouds coming yet, as Blom said, the storm is coming.

When the last ray of light disappeared in the forest, Blom and the others returned.

"How about it?"

Annan knew part of the result in advance from their faces.

"We found other coalition forces, but except for Black Watch who sent scouts to the north to investigate, most of the forces didn't care..." Blom replied.

Of the twenty-nine forces, only two were willing to move closer to Annan. And they may not think the rat tide is dangerous, they just want to take this opportunity to make friends with Annan.

"How long will it take for them to arrive?"

"Both forces are not very close to us. One should be able to arrive tomorrow, and the other may have to wait the day after tomorrow... What's wrong?"

Annan sighed: "In two days at most, the Rat Man will come."

They simply pretended they had no allies and continued to build their stronghold into a concrete mountain rising from the ground and above the forest.

In the afternoon of the next day, the first force came slowly and slowly without any sense of urgency.

Annan finally understands why the empire wants to recruit them... If they are not awakened by the cruel reality, the nobles who are immersed in safety will continue to rot in Middle-earth.