Your war hammer is too fake

An unexpected income was the Hasut altar built by the Chaos Dwarves. As a secondary Chaos evil god, the Dark Father's altar also flows with the power of Chaos. After destroying all enemies and retaking Granni Stone Hall, An Jiyue personally summoned thunder to flatten the altar. Then the girl found that there were 50,000 more points in her account... After An Jiyue counted the number of zeros, for a moment, she even had a strong urge to go to Naggaroth.

A makeshift Hasut altar is worth fifty thousand. If the Ultimate Dark Altar is dismantled, how much will it cost?!

[Do you want to perform 3 ten-draws in the recruitment pool? Yes/No]

If you have money, you have to spend it quickly. But Shuzhan has 2 Qiexue troops under his command, and this is the result after a series of battles. It is said that when the Wolf Khan launched the expedition, the Qiexue troops that accompanied him into the Zhar Plain numbered 5. His current force of just over a thousand is just a drop in the bucket.

[Draw completed, obtained Recruitment Card o Core Unit × 29, Recruitment Card o Special Unit × 4]

As expected, there are still no rare unit cards... This time, there are no hero cards, let alone lord cards. Maybe this is the norm for these pitfall pools that don't even have a guaranteed minimum?

The newly acquired special cards became two teams of Eagle Guards and two teams of Giant Apes, and the latter's actual combat performance was still very impressive. The girl then took out nine core cards, replaced them with three hero cards, and recruited two lieutenants and a Mozhe. One of the lieutenants, like the two predecessors, was equipped with a Qilin; the other lieutenant rode a mechanical bird. He was assigned by An Jiyue as the commander of the three teams of Eagle Guards, responsible for commanding these precious and powerful air knights.

The Mohists were sent to manage the only team of general cannons. These great masters with dangerous hairlines are actually the Aurora version of engineering masters. Each of them is an inventor full of various, uh, "weird ideas" and a master of artillery with superb skills.

The Zhendan regular infantry was expanded to three battalions, three fully equipped battalions, and three lieutenants riding unicorns were in charge of one battalion. According to the Zhendan military system, ten infantry and cavalry were divided into a squad, with a squad leader (squad leader) and a deputy squad leader (deputy squad leader); ten squads formed a team, with a team officer and a deputy team leader; five teams formed a battalion, with a battalion master and a deputy battalion master.

Starting from the "team" level, the Aurora Army generally tends to coordinate multiple arms within the organization for coordinated operations. A typical infantry team usually consists of 6 long spear squads, 2 sword and shield squads, and 2 fire gun squads. When necessary, an additional tiger squat cannon squad will be added to strengthen its firepower. Five such "teams" form a infantry tower, which will also be under the jurisdiction of auxiliary troops and a varying number of long-term civilian laborers. The infantry tower itself directly controls a drum and horn squad.

In order to fill the organization, An Jiyue recruited three teams of spearmen, three teams of swordsmen and one team of musketeers, and then organized them according to the above standard organization.

All these expenses cost a total of 10090 points, plus the 18 points spent on card drawing, the girl still had more than points and core cards left. After thinking about it, the girl decided to complete the three vacant deputy positions, so three more captains riding Qilin made their debut.

As for the more than 20,000 points, the girl felt that her luck today was not very good, so she decided not to force it. And she had to keep some emergency funds just in case.

After cleaning up the battlefield, An Jiyue yawned and crawled into the tent, not even having an appetite for dinner. Except for the fortifications, almost all the original buildings of Granni Stone Hall were destroyed by the Chaos Dwarves. Not even a single intact house was left. The people of Zhendan could only rely on tents and campfires to resist the cold of the World Edge Mountains. Due to the lack of tents, only An Jiyue could have a tent to himself, and even the newly appointed masters and deputies could only squeeze in with the soldiers under their command.

Early the next morning, when the system soldiers were still waiting for the firemen (cooks) to prepare breakfast, Xiao Hou, who had been sent out to investigate the situation, came back exhausted... and brought back good news and bad news.

Chapter 38 Road Blockage

The good news is that the siege of Eternal Peak has been lifted.

After Keshuzan led the Qiexue army and the Chaos Dwarves southward, the Grinning Clan took action. Perhaps because the time was ripe, Krachi Doomclaw decisively stabbed Keshuzan in the back. Several darughachis of the remaining hobgoblin army were all assassinated by the Eshin assassins, and then there was an extremely chaotic chaos.

——Most of the assassination targets were successful, except for the most powerful Darughachi, who was the highest-ranking one, who killed the Skaven assassin who tried to assassinate him. The one-sided battle that the rats had expected did not occur. Since most of the senior officers and nearly half of the shamans were assassinated, the confused hobgoblins did fall into a disadvantage for a time, but they did not lose the ability to fight back.

The battle that was supposed to be a crushing victory turned out to be a half-baked mess. After paying a huge price, the hobgoblins, who suffered heavy casualties, managed to stabilize their position and then used their numerical advantage to suppress the Grinning Clan. According to Crach's original plan, he would first launch a wave of assassinations to paralyze the command system of the hobgoblins, poison and set fire to them at the same time, then take the opportunity to raid the former allies who were nearby, kill as many troops as possible of Keshuzhan, and finally escape with the spoils before the Eternal Peak dwarves could react.

As a result, in actual operation, the rats' plan had serious mistakes. The hobgoblins were not defeated. Even though the rats had the advantage of the first move, the hobgoblins were still twice as many as the rats. What's more, as a veteran with hundreds of years of combat experience, High King Thorgrim the Grudge's reaction was much faster than Crach expected. As soon as the chaos outside the fortress broke out, Thorgrim concluded that this was not a trap to lure the dwarves to attack, but a real fight. He then ordered the ground part of the Eternal Peak to hold its position and the underground part to attack in full force.

The entire Iron Anvil Mountain was turned into a mess. According to the school marquis, the scene was a mess, the three parties were enemies, and the battles were chaotic both on the surface and underground. Especially in the underground battlefield, it was not known whether there was a communication error or it was intentional. Some small clans that came with the Grinning Clan did not know that the two families had fallen out. When the dwarves, led by the Ironbreakers, roared and rushed out from behind the fortifications, these rats were still fighting side by side with the earth elves who were also unaware of the situation.

As the fight went on, the late messenger finally delivered the latest news. The hobgoblins and rats, who had been huddled together to resist the dwarves with difficulty, after a subtle hesitation, started fighting in front of the dwarves...

At the end of this three-way chaos, Crach realized that the situation was irreversible and was forced to make a heroic move, abandoning all the vassal clans and most of the low-level members of his own clan, and breaking out with elite troops such as Storm Rats. And this was the bad news brought back by the school marquis: the only remaining main force of the Grinning Clan was rushing towards Granni Stone Hall.

To be honest, An Jiyue felt that the current situation was quite delicate. At present, the elite troops of Keshuzhan and Krachi o Doomsday Claw were generally well preserved, but the other large troops were completely wiped out.

"General, the evil rats are soldiers begging for their lives. Should our army temporarily avoid the attack?" a lieutenant asked tentatively.

Even if all the cannon fodder were lost, the Grin Clan still had nearly nine thousand soldiers, and most of them were the elite forces of the Skaven race, including about six thousand Storm Rats, and dozens of Rat Trolls from the Corruption Clan, plus some black-tech dimensional stone weapons from the Skryre Clan. Their strength was much stronger than their own.

"I'm avoiding the rats? What a joke!" An Jiyue crossed her arms and said, "Hurry up and repair the fortifications and prepare for the battle."

Granni Stone Hall is like most dwarven strongholds, with the main structure dug out of the rocky mountain, and only a wall exposed outside. When the Chaos Dwarves occupied this place before, perhaps because of different living habits, or simply to highlight the differences between themselves and their cousins, these bad guys who believed in the Dark Father built an altar outside the wall, and also built some breastworks around the altar - the materials came from the dwarven buildings they destroyed.

These breastworks, chevaux de frise, and trenches were basically left untouched. The Zhendan people only cleared the Hasut altar that was flattened by the thunder summoned by their own commander, and collected the remains that were obviously those of the dwarves, preparing to return them to Yongheng Peak after the war. Under An Jiyue's order, the six general cannons were moved to the city wall by the giant apes, and all the gun positions were reinforced. The main force of the "Zhendan Expeditionary Force Vanguard", the three infantry towers, were deployed outside the city wall, ready to line up with their backs against the city wall.

An Jiyue's confidence in confronting the Grinning Clan came from the ready-made full set of defensive fortifications. Of course, relying on her limited manpower to fight against the rats, even if she won, she would inevitably suffer heavy losses. Therefore, after arranging the defense deployment, the girl flew to Yongheng Peak alone again, preparing to contact the dwarves to attack the Grinning Clan from the front and back.

No matter what, An Jiyue was not going to let the remaining elites of the Grinning Clan return to Camelback Mountain alive. Although the An Zhendan had specialized underground combat troops like Tu Wushang, the thought of hurting each other underground with top warlord clans like the Grinning Clan made An Jiyue feel overwhelmed... But if they could catch Krachi Doomclaw and his clan elites here, maybe there would be no need for the Zhendan people or the dwarves to take action, and the Grinning Clan headquarters left in Camelback Mountain would be destroyed in the civil strife.

"...In short, the good news is that the expeditionary vanguard suffered little loss," An Jiyue said to Thorgrim, whose armor and throne were covered in blood. "I now have 2,000 warriors in good condition and some cannons. We have already recaptured the Granni Stone Hall and eliminated the Chaos Dwarves entrenched there."

“And the bad news?” the High King asked, taking a sip of his pipe.

"The baggage train of the vanguard was almost wiped out," An Jiyue frowned, pretending to be worried and trying to stay calm. "My men only have enough ammunition to sustain a high-intensity battle. What's worse is that my men are running out of food."

"My kingdom will provide you with supplies at a suitable price," said Thorgrim. He noticed that An Jiyue's expression did not change at all because of this sentence. "I mean, we..."

"I know what the dwarves do," the girl raised her hand, signaling the High King that there was no need to explain. "Our original agreement did not include the provision of supplies, so you are not obliged to provide military supplies for free. There is just one thing, our military pay is also with the baggage train, and now I am afraid that even Tzeentch does not know where the money has gone."

After all, that thing never existed, An Jiyue thought. It was natural for the dwarves not to provide free supplies to the Zhendan people. It was not that the rich Ah Qiong was short of money, but that the two sides had not agreed on this when they verbally reached an alliance intention. Therefore, the rigid dwarves would charge for the supplies when providing them to the Zhendan people.

Of course, the dwarves were not short-sighted and extremely greedy Rakshasa barbarians. Given the dwarves' temper, although they had to pay a penny for supplies, they would remember this favor, and this favor would often have unexpected effects at unexpected times.

"I will lend you 10,000 gold coins in my personal name, interest not included, and the repayment period is 20 years," the Supreme King said, "This should be enough for you to hold on until your next batch of supplies arrives."

The girl shrugged. "I think Gorya's head alone is worth that much."

"No, that guy is only worth six thousand at most!" The High King laughed proudly. "When all this is over, my secretary will settle the bounty you deserve based on the dwarven enemies you and your people have killed, and then decide how much debt you need to repay... or how much gold I need to pay you."

"I hope to exchange this money for food, ammunition, medicine and tents as soon as possible," An Jiyue said. "I will take some of it and leave the rest here first. My people will hold Granni Stone Hall until the dwarf reinforcements arrive."

"I swear in the name of Granni that my army will arrive within two days." Thorgrim clenched his right fist and tapped his breastplate heavily. "My army will attack the rats from behind and kill them all."

"The only thing I'm worried about now is Ke Shuzhan," the girl said, "It still controls a very powerful army. With the speed of the wolf cavalry, if it wants to run, we can't catch up with it."

"It can't get away," the High King said, taking another sip of his pipe. "The mountains are above us, and Shuzhan will surrender!"

Chapter 39 "William"

World's Edge Mountains, near Squighorn.

Unlike in Warhammer Total War, Squighorn is not on the Silver Road. This mountain, which has been occupied by greenskins for many years, is actually quite a distance away from the Eternal Peak: it is located southeast of the Eternal Peak, northeast of Black Rock and Eight Peaks, with Mad Dog Pass to the north, Death Pass to the south, Thunder Hold to the west, and The Scar of the Fang to the east. Before the arrival of Koshuzhan, this was one of the main strongholds of the greenskin tribe in the World's Edge Mountains.

Of course, all this has long since become a thing of the past. When the Khan's army entered Death Pass and officially set foot on the land of the Old World, the hatred for the hobgoblins prompted the nearby greenskin tribes of all sizes to gather together, ready to teach these damned traitors a lesson. This move ultimately proved to be nothing more than a suicide mission. When the Khan's army conquered Black Rock Castle, the many tribes gathered in this famous greenskin fortress were almost annihilated, and only a part of the greenskin remnants followed Gorga o Evil Gall to successfully break through the siege.

Then they were all buried under the avalanche.

When Keshuzhan led his army north from Black Rock Castle, Wolf Khan sent a detachment to occupy Squighorn Mountain in order to eliminate the threat from the flank. At that time, there were still a small number of greenskins active in the area. Although they were not a big deal, the physiological characteristics of greenskins were too difficult to deal with. If they were left alone, it would not take long for countless greenskins to emerge again, shouting and yelling under the leadership of a bigger and greener warlord, and go to cause trouble for Keshuzhan.

What was originally a common move to cover the army's flank provided Keshuzan with the only remaining foothold. When the scattered defeated soldiers fled all the way to Squig Horn Mountain and told Keshuzan, who was staying there for a short time, about the betrayal of the rats and the tragic news that the tribe's army was almost annihilated, the legendary wolf khan fell into an uneasy silence.

It did not rage in front of its subordinates and allies, or make other inappropriate moves. Only the corpses carried out from Wolf Khan's tent one after another could show what kind of mental state this Khan, who unified all the hobgoblin tribes on the eastern prairie in just four years, was in.

Maybe it's time to leave here, William thought.

William pushed the silver mask that covered his entire face, and covered his whole body in a thick black hooded cloak, without a single inch of skin exposed. He walked quickly through the rows of tents, followed by two tall, muscular Chaos Warriors wearing baroque armor decorated with fur, holding full steel shields and thick-bladed heavy swords. Along the way, there were many Keshique soldiers coming and going. When they saw William, most of them immediately turned their heads away and stood still, not daring to look him in the eye. They left in a hurry only after William and his entourage walked past.

Unrest spread in the camp, and even these well-trained Khan's guards began to waver after hearing the bad news from the Eternal Peak. Although it was still a long way from escaping or betraying - either of which was the hobgoblins' specialty - the mere appearance of such a sign was already a very dangerous signal.

William was finally stopped when he came to Keshuzhan's tent. "The Khan has ordered," the captain of the Qiexue army waiting outside the tent pointed at the two Chaos Warriors with his chin, holding a scimitar, "They cannot enter."

The two Chaos Warriors immediately grasped the hilts of their swords and took a step forward at the same time. This action immediately triggered a chain reaction, and the nearby Qiexue soldiers drew their bows and arrows, and the giant wolves crouched down and let out a low roar.

William raised his left hand and waved, and the two Chaos Warriors immediately retracted their weapons. "Wait for me outside," he ordered.

Just as he was about to enter the huge tent, the curtain was pulled aside from the inside. Two male servants with shackles on their ankles came out, one in front and one behind, carrying a lifeless body.

When they passed by William, he lowered his eyes slightly. The first thing that caught his eye was a young, pale face that was pretty by human standards. The sheepskin coat that had originally been on this body had long been stripped off, and the body that should have been white was covered with teeth marks, bruises, whip marks, and thin, shallow scars cut by a knife.

"How many times has this happened this week?" William asked with a smile.

No one answered his question, the captain of the Qiexue army just stared at him with cold eyes. William didn't care, and walked into the luxurious tent that belonged to the Khan Keshuzhan alone.

The giant tent is divided into two parts by a cloth wall. The front part, which can accommodate hundreds of people for banquets, occupies about two-thirds of the entire tent. It is mainly used for holding banquets, military meetings, receiving envoys, and the promotion ceremony of Qiexue army officers; the back part is the private space of Wolf Khan, and anyone who enters without permission will be killed.

William walked past the empty rows of chairs and went straight into the back half of the tent.

"I've actually always been curious," William said in standard Aurora Mandarin. "In terms of physiological characteristics, it's impossible for greenskins to have sexual desire. You're indeed special, but you shouldn't be so special that you grow that thing."

"Don't test me, Chaos Warlock!" A hoarse voice sounded in the shadows. In the Khan's private space, there was only a sheep oil lamp providing insignificant lighting, and several thin figures huddled in the corner and shivered. "It seems that I can no longer fulfill my promise," Ke Shuzhan sniffed, "If you want to leave, then go."

"You won't let me go. In other words, you've never considered letting me leave peacefully." William snapped his fingers, and all the sheep oil lamps and candles in the tent were lit at the same time, "even though I have already fulfilled all the requirements stipulated in the agreement."

The Khan's private space was filled with all kinds of things: bags of real dragon teeth, silk scattered all over the floor, and countless papers and maps with crooked handwriting. Several Kislev women huddled in a corner, and the sudden light made them huddle together. William could even hear someone praying to the bear god in a low voice.

What can a god who has fallen into a trap and become a prisoner do? William thought so.

"No, you haven't," the Wolf Khan rejected flatly. "Until the ritual is complete, you have not fulfilled the terms of the agreement. That is the most important thing, more important than all of this."

"I have told you all the steps and spells of the godhood ritual. I will not go there," William did not directly say the word "Soul Forge". "If you want to go, go by yourself, and bring these subordinates who you have trained to be more obedient than the best hunting dogs."

“Not enough!” Ke Shuzhan roared in a suppressed voice: “Do you think I will believe that you have taught me everything you know? Do you think I will trust a guy who serves Chaos? How can I be sure that you have not tampered with this crucial matter? You must follow me to the Chaos Realm! William, you will witness the moment when I ascend to God with your own eyes!”

"We are mutually beneficial," William said. "Please be decent, Ke Shuzhan. We don't have to tear each other apart. We shouldn't have gotten to this point because of your boring suspicion. You have provided me with a lot of help, and I am grateful for it, and I have given you what you want most. For the sake of our past cooperation, why don't you try to resolve our differences peacefully?"

"Peace?" Ke Shuzhan sneered, "A Chaos Warlock actually said to me, 'peace'?"

“Don’t get me wrong, Keshuzhan. I devoted myself to Chaos because only Chaos can answer my questions,” William’s tone turned cold. “I have never served any evil god, and they are not worthy of me doing so. If Sigmar could save me from despair, then the one standing in front of you now would not be William the Chaos Warlock, but William the Battle Mage.”

"Look, look, listen to your moving words, why didn't you reincarnate as a Zhendan?" Wolf Khan lay back and let himself fall into a pile of furs: "This expedition has failed, but I haven't failed. I will return to the grassland, reorganize a larger army, and crush all obstacles! ... As for you."

Suddenly, there were faint roars and the sound of weapons clashing outside the tent, and then it quickly fell silent. As for William himself, he lowered his head somewhat helplessly, looking at the bloody tip of the knife sticking out of his chest.

"You refused my last offer," said Wolf Khan. "Go to hell, my friend."

"You are a talented person, but your biggest mistake is that you always try to control everything," William said. "It won't be long before you realize what a cruel bitch fate is. Goodbye, Ke Shuzhan."

After saying this, William's body turned into countless tiny pieces of flying ashes. The cloak that lost its support fell to the ground, and the silver mask made a crisp sound when it hit the ground.

Chapter 40: Rat! (Part 1)

The Grinning Clan hasn't been having a good time lately.

After escaping from Eternal Peak, Crutchi Doomclaw led the clan elites to run eastward, trying to return to their old nest, Camelback Mountain, as soon as possible. The dwarves of Eternal Peak were mainly focused on chasing and clearing out the earth elves that were defeated and scurrying all over the ground, and they could not temporarily allocate troops to chase these rats that slipped away.

But this did not mean that the dwarves had given up on attacking the rats. In fact, after confirming that Ke Shuzhan had taken all the thunderbirds away, the Eternal Peak Air Force went all out, even the newly built Thunder Airship "Goblin Scourge", which was loaded with bombs in a pod, was not taken care of before the modification work was completed, and was sent out to bomb the rats.

The rigorous dwarves maintained a frequency of bombing twice a day, pouring bombs on the rats endlessly. The casualties caused by the air raid were not serious for the rats, but it seriously slowed down the speed of the Grinning Clan, forcing them to hide during the day and move at night. The rats did not think of using tactical feints to get rid of the dwarves' aerial pursuit, but since some time, a group of dusty dwarf rangers have been looming near the rats' marching route, guiding the Eternal Peak Air Force to attack targets.

After several setbacks, the furious Krach set up a trap to try to get rid of these annoying rangers. As a result, the rangers not only saw through the rats' tricks, but also used the rats' arrangement to cause greater losses to the Grinning Clan, but they themselves suffered almost no casualties. It was not until this time that Krach realized that the people who were tracking him were not unknown people, but the legendary brewer Joseph Bergman and his Bergman rangers.

Unconvinced, Krach made several more futile attempts. Apart from losing more lives, the only result was that he verified the great reputation of Bergman Ranger with his own life.

In the end, the desperate Krach simply gave up. During the day, the whole army hid in caves if there were any, and in the woods if there were no caves, so that even if bombs dropped from the sky, they would not kill many rat people; at night, they hurriedly marched eastward, even though they were constantly attacked and harassed by Bergman's rangers.

Normally, it only takes five days to complete the journey, but the Grinning Clan took half a month to complete it. When the Night Rats who went out to scout reported that there was an army of human things in the Granni Stone Hall ahead, blocking the Grinning Clan's way home, Krachi's first reaction was that this extremely torturous day was finally over - as long as they went a little further, they would be beyond the combat radius of the Eternal Peak Air Force. Well, at least the rotorcraft certainly couldn't reach that far, and the airship was another matter.

The rats, who had already suffered huge losses in the three-way chaos at Yongheng Peak and were exhausted by the airstrikes during this period, began to prepare for the attack. The good news was that there didn't seem to be many human things, about two thousand or even less; the bad news was that the Night Runner reported that the bearded thing appeared in the rear.

Obviously, the army that Shuzhan left at the Eternal Peak was basically finished. When deciding to backstab, the rats, who knew the greatest advantage and strength of the hobgoblin army, sent the black rats of the Eshin clan to poison the hobgoblin giant wolves in advance. Although there were too many giant wolves, the rats did not have enough poison, so they could only dilute it and mix it into the giant wolves' feed. In total, only a few giant wolves were actually poisoned to death, but most of them were temporarily disabled by the poison.

After being poisoned, these beasts were no faster than the dwarves, and the trembling beasts were either knocked down by rats and eaten alive on the spot, or chopped into pieces by the dwarves' axes. Most of the hobgoblins who survived the bloody battle could only escape on their own two legs.

Although the dwarves were not very fast, they had an indomitable will and innate excellent endurance. In addition, the hobgoblins were unfamiliar with the terrain, so they usually could not run far before being caught up by the dwarves... What was even more terrible was that when the hobgoblins were in full swing, the greenskin tribes active near Anvil Mountain all hid when they saw the situation was not good; now that the hobgoblins were finished, these local snakes jumped out from their hiding places, rubbing their hands and preparing to beat the fallen dogs.

Due to the combined effect of multiple factors, the dwarves were soon able to deal with the fleeing rats. With the slogan of settling hatred, tens of thousands of dwarves chased after the Grinning Clan in the direction they fled.

After sorting out the current situation in the shortest possible time, Krach knew that now was the time to fight to the death. He convened a brief military meeting, personally killed several of the most restless warlords in the name of "intention to rebellion", and threw their bodies to the rat trolls as a snack, using this method to quickly unify internal opinions.

In front of Granni Stone Hall, the 8,000 Skaven army slowly deployed their formation. Originally, they had 9,000, but some of them died in the bombing of the Eternal Peak Air Force, but more of them became deserters and disappeared in the World's Edge Mountains. There were no slave rats or clan rats in the army. These low-ranking clan members, along with all the wounded, had long been eaten by other rats. After all, the Grinning Clan fled in a hurry, and many supplies, especially food, were in serious shortage.

The battlefield fell into a brief silence. Before the attack began, Krach ordered the execution of the direct subordinates of the executed warlords. The rats who had run out of food had a full meal with the warm fresh meat, and their morale, which had been low due to days of fleeing and bombing, was effectively restored.

Then, the shrill sound of horns resounded throughout the battlefield, and the strong smell of battle hit the nostrils of every rat.

On the wall of Granni Stone Hall, An Jiyue held the wall with her hands, watching the surging rats. After a moment, the silver-haired, red-eyed girl turned her head and nodded slightly to the Mohist standing beside her. The will of the Jiedushi was immediately implemented, and the six ten-jin general cannons mounted on the wall fired one after another, bringing greetings from the Zhendan Celestial Empire to the rats.

On the top of a mountain not far away, three teams of Eagle Guards took off into the air. Led by a lieutenant, they first climbed slightly and then swooped down to the valley between the mountains. The well-trained Aurora Knights completed the formation in the air. The double-opening bomb bay door on the belly of the mechanical bird opened outwards, the hook was unlocked, and the tracking rocket detached from the built-in bomb bay and fell down under the call of gravity. The next second, the rocket ignited, and the nitro-sugar propellant burned violently, pushing the tracking rocket forward.

48 white trails were dragged in the sky, and sharp whistling sounds came from far away. In a blink of an eye, the dimensional stone weapons that the Grinning Clan had spent a lot of money to purchase from the Skryre Clan were submerged in the dense explosion along with their operators. The unstable dimensional stone was further detonated by the shock wave, and a group of strange green fireballs exploded in the army of rats.

After a round of volleys, the Eagle Guards did not check the results, but immediately pulled up and swept over the heads of the rats. Some of the Longfang leaders took out the Dimension Stone muskets (Note 1) and pulled the trigger angrily towards the sky. They hit nothing except the air.

The three teams of Eagle Guards circled in the sky for a half circle and reentered the attack trajectory. They ignored the long-fanged leaders who were waving their warpstone guns and cursing, and focused on cleaning up the remaining weapons teams. The second round of tracking rockets screamed down, some of which were aimed at the remaining weapons teams, and the rest of the excess firepower was allocated to the rat trolls.

After this round of attack, the Eagle Guards did not swoop down again. They circled over the battlefield waiting for new orders - it would be difficult to replenish the tracking rockets in a short period of time, and An Jiyue ordered the Eagle Guards not to open fire unless necessary.

The blow from the air shook the rats for a time, but the commotion soon subsided under the "persuasion" of whips and sharp blades. All the rats knew that now was not the time to feel sorry for those extremely expensive dimensional stone weapons. More than 5,000 storm rats formed four horizontal formations in front and behind, pressing forward step by step on the not-so-spacious battlefield.

From time to time, a cannonball would bounce into the ranks of rats, smashing their armor and flesh together, and creating a bloody alley in the rat tide. After the bombardment, the storm rats in the back row quickly filled in with their halberds, filling the gaps created by the cannonballs.

An Jiyue was looking down at the battlefield from a high position. The girl focused her attention a little, and a new order was instantly transmitted through the mental link between the holder of the holy book and the system unit. The three teams of Eagle Guards hovering over the battlefield swooped down at the same time, rapidly approaching the right wing of the rat formation.

As the girl expected, the rats had been highly alert to the movements of these air knights. Seeing the Eagle Guards preparing to charge, a shrill horn sounded in the rats' army. A team of Dimensions raised their guns and suddenly took off their camouflage. They raised their guns and were about to aim, but found that the Eagle Guards had only fired a feint and had pulled up again, out of range.

"I knew there were still some hiding ones," An Jiyue chuckled, "Send them on their way."

Before the exposed Dimension could raise its gun and retract it, the third round of tracking rockets came crashing down. This time, only one team of Eagle Guards opened fire, and 16 tracking rockets killed these rats who were born in the wrong place with amazing efficiency.

Afterwards, the three teams of Eagle Guards adjusted their flight posture and swooped down again. No new weapon teams appeared in the army of the rats. Amid the screams of the Storm Rat, the skilled and courageous Eagle Guards controlled their mounts to lower their flight altitude. The mechanical birds straightened their legs, and the bird toes made of fine steel plowed through the ranks of the Storm Rat like a rake, tearing off the armor of the rats, then their skin and flesh, and finally savagely breaking the bones of the rats.

Some brave storm rats found the right time and swung their halberds vigorously when the mechanical bird flew over their heads. The sharp axe blade bounced off the hardened shell of the mechanical bird, and the halberd shaft broke under the reaction force, while the warriors among the rats were knocked away and stopped struggling before they hit the ground.

After the attack was successful, the Eagle Guard quickly pulled up, not giving the rats a chance to fight back. When they approached again, all the Storm Rats stopped, raised their halberds and pointed them in the direction of the Eagle Guard. Wherever the Eagle Guard flew, the halberds followed. A shrill horn sounded behind the rats, urging the Storm Rats to continue the attack. The rats gritted their teeth and moved forward a few steps. As soon as the Eagle Guard made a dive, they quickly stopped again.

The battlefield fell into a brief stalemate, and at this time Shushu's vanguard had not even entered the musketeer's shooting range.

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