Vladimir, wearing a fine silver armor without a helmet, was sitting in the camp chatting with his adjutant. His flag officer stood aside with a nervous expression. Above them, the golden eagle flag of the Boka family was fluttering in the wind.
At this moment, there are more than 6,000 Kislev Legion soldiers gathered above the pit of hell. They were temporarily transferred from all over the country and gathered under the banner of Grand Duke Vladimir. Almost all the frontline soldiers looked nervous.
Staring at the huge dark hole.
The commander of the legion, Duke Vladimir, had a calm face and even played a card game leisurely with the lieutenants around him.
"General, there are still no signs of rats."
Knight Emil sent the latest intelligence from the front.
"Then go ahead and throw down everything that can be burned. If you can't burn these rats to death, you have to smoke them out."
Vladimir said lightly. Then he continued to play cards with the lieutenants with a leisurely expression.
The general's confidence and indifference made these recruits feel a sense of security when they first entered the battlefield. Although they still didn't know what was hidden behind the huge hell-like opening.
However, Vladimir is not really not worried, but the task he got this time is not that important. As an auxiliary force to attack the pit of hell, the legion led by Vladimir is only used as a bait.
Lure the large army of ratmen out of their lair and fight them on the ground.
Although this legion on the ground seems to be large in number, most of the soldiers are temporarily recruited from all over the country. New recruits account for a large proportion of them. Half of them are from the civilian regiment of Oerengrad. This is different from that of Luo
It is inseparable from Germany's original pre-war speech. Blaming the fires and plagues on rat people made the civilians of Elengrad hate rats. As a result, a large number of new soldiers were recruited in a short period of time.
Naturally, this army cannot be used as the main force to attack the pit of hell.
Before the war, Rhodes even told Vladimir that if the Ratmen came out in large numbers and the new regiment was in danger, Vladimir could choose to retreat at any time. Just preserve the remaining strength. It can be said that this time,
Attacking the Pit of Hell, this new army led by Vladimir is completely an auxiliary army. It is used to reduce the pressure on the Kislev and Dwarf coalition forces below the ground.
So, naturally, Vladimir had a laid-back look from the beginning. However, as a prestigious Grand Duke of Kislev, Vladimir was still a little dissatisfied with being assigned such a task this time.
The continuous harassment continued from day to night, and continued again and again the next day. However, until the fifth day, there was still no sign of a large-scale dispatch of the rat people. So Vladimir began to doubt whether the wisdom of the rat people exceeded
own imagination.
They arrived here before Rhodes' main army. It seems that at this time, the Kislev Northern Army and the Dwarf Army from Dulong City were already moving forward in the underground tunnel.
Under the night, Vladimir gradually felt the pressure. Although Rhodes did not give him any death orders before the war. Whether he lured the rats out or not, he was not responsible at all. However, the family's sense of honor
It still forces him to get serious. After all, the attack on the Hell Pit is considered to be the largest outing of the Kingdom of Kislev since Snow Queen Denis came to the throne. A family that can achieve merit in this war will be recorded in the annals of history and be praised by all people.
Praise.
Vladimir did not want the glory of his ancestors to dim here.
"Emil!"
He called the knights beside him.
"Let the soldiers tie the incendiary bomb to the stone and use a catapult to throw the bomb into the hole."
"Yes! General."
After receiving the order, the knight commander immediately rushed out of the camp and issued orders to the soldiers on the front line.
Three days later, batches of heavy bombs were tied to the catapults, and the catapults that had been built in advance stood on the outer edge of the pit of hell.
Following Vladimir's order, the stone bullets were ignited, and with thunderbolts of fire, they were thrown into the pit of hell like an underground abyss one by one.
Standing on the temporary sentry tower, Vladimir overlooked this huge rat lair. It was the largest underground city he had ever seen in his life. The nearly circular hole could not be seen to the side at a glance. It was not like the dwarf's.
There is only one magnificent gate in the mountain city, and you must enter it if you want to get a glimpse of the whole thing. There is no real gate in the Hell Pit. The entire Hell Pit is like a huge pit dug on the ground, with countless huge holes winding around.
Ten kilometers away, even from the air, it is a shocking sight of a deep crater.
The dark hole is like a devil's eye, absorbing all the light in the world. It's hard to imagine how terrifying the hell pit was in its heyday. In such a huge underground city, hundreds of thousands of rats may roam here every day.
They flowed and rushed like a black torrent, circulating back and forth around the pit. All the surrounding creatures trembled.
Vladimir felt a little unbelievable. What kind of invasion of foreign creatures could push such a huge pit fortress to where it is today? And what kind of powerful existence is that creature?
The duke's thoughts were interrupted by dull explosions. The sound came from the underground abyss. The sound of boulders impacting and exploding incendiary bombs was transmitted through layers. When it reached the ground, it was no longer an explosion, but a muffled sound.
Some soldiers leaned over to listen, and could even feel the earth trembling slightly beneath them.
The frenzied bombing continued from noon to evening. When Duke Vladimir was about to put away his slings and let the soldiers enter the camp to rest, the messenger came with exciting, but also frightening news——
Under the fiery red sunset sky, a black torrent appeared on the edge of the deep pit. Thousands of rats and rat-men, densely packed like locusts, were crawling out from the entrance of the cave!
When the news came, like Vladimir, the soldiers also felt two emotions overlapping. On the one hand, they were excited. They had been stationed here for a week, and finally, they could fight the rat men head-on. Elengla
Germany's new regiment is even more eager to avenge their dead family members and compatriots! And for the meager salary reward after the war.
However, another emotion followed. Under the dark red sky, dense swarms of rats were rushing towards the camp. Many people had never actually fought the rat people head-on. They only knew that they were a group of brave people.
The little cowardly rodents only chirp and run around in no order.
However, their number... is too many after all.
If the intelligence detected by the scouts is correct, then the number of rats pouring out of the pit of hell at this moment is at least tens of thousands. The first mixed flow of rats and ratmen alone numbered tens of thousands, far more than the Duke.