The encounter of their companions caused the morale of the knights who witnessed all this to fall to the bottom almost instantly. If it were not for the long-term discipline and the honor of being knights that still supported them, these poor people would have fled.

"Shrink formation!"

Heather also knew that this situation must improve the knights' sense of security. She made a prompt decision and decided to abandon part of the peripheral area and shrink the team more closely. This would not only be able to respond to enemy attacks faster, but also make the soldiers feel at ease.

, helps stabilize the morale of the troops.

"He is good at collective action, knows how to intimidate the enemy, and can also take advantage of the environment..." Cheese muttered in a low voice. The moment just now may have been just a terrifying and terrifying scene in the eyes of others, but the mage tried his best to learn a bloody lesson this time.

Collect enemy intelligence.

The shrunken formation is tighter than before, and since the soldiers are no longer standing on the edge of the fire, those native ratmen will definitely expose themselves to the fire if they want to attack. Once they lose their suddenness, their emotions have been lost.

The stable knights would have a high probability of counterattack. However, it seemed that they realized that the situation had become unfavorable to them, and the native ratmen did not attack the people in the fire. The two parties seemed to be confronting each other like this.

Just when everyone was waiting for the Rat Man's second attack, Heather suddenly thought of something, and the female knight captain exclaimed loudly.

"Oops! War horse!"

Originally, in order to control the size of the camp, the knights had to tie their mounts in a nearby open space. Although they also planted torches near the horses when night fell, the tied horses were undoubtedly these rat men.

The best target when it is impossible to attack humans. As if to confirm Heather's exclamation, the light scattered from the torch near the war horse not far away was extinguished with a gust of air like a candle in the strong wind. The war horse neighed.

Sounds, weird roars, the sound of horseshoes stamping on the ground, and all kinds of chaotic noises began to come from the darkness. It didn't take much to guess that those war horses must have been attacked by the native ratmen.

"Teams 1, 2 and 3 bring torches and follow me!"

Holding a torch in one hand, Heather took the lead in charging towards the direction of the war horse. If the previous loss of a knight was an accidental loss due to unfamiliarity with the opponent, the female knight captain knew that once the mount was lost here, let alone

Now that the source of the plague has been found, it may be very difficult to even leave the earldom. These war horses must not fall into the hands of the rat men.

Fortunately, the Knights of the Hammer are a force that has experienced hundreds of battles. Although the knights are still afraid of unknown enemies, the knight commander's order still makes them take action. There are a total of fifteen knights in the three teams.

They lit the spare torches in their hands and followed Heather into the darkness. The remaining knights quickly filled their gaps and firmly protected everyone's only reliance in the darkness - the bonfire in the center of the camp.

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As Heather led the knights towards the war horses, the noises near the war horses quickly quieted down. Except for the screams of the war horses and the sound of the horse's hooves stamping on the ground, the rat men once again hid in the darkness. The knights quickly rushed

When we got to the mounts, fortunately, perhaps because the rat men were not good at dealing with large animals like horses, these war horses did not suffer any harm except being frightened. They really did not suffer any harm, it was like... it was like they were not injured at all.

No one wants to hurt these war horses.

"Oops! It's a trap!" Almost the moment she confirmed the extent of the war horse's injuries, Heather realized what kind of trick those native ratmen were playing. However, it was already too late.

A sudden attack from the darkness, coming from the camp in the opposite direction of the war horse. These native ratmen were like large fleas jumping from the darkness in the distance to the target's head. The black shadows were intimidating the opponent at the same time.

It also blocks the opponent's field of vision so that he cannot see other ratmen approaching from the ground.

"Enemy attack... uh..." The first knight who was attacked tried to swing his sword to slash the rat man approaching from above his head while giving a warning. However, his sword was only halfway swung, and a cold shock came from him.

There was a sound coming from his chest. The knight lowered his head numbly and looked at the wooden tenon inserted into his chest, his eyes filled with confusion.

"Hell, be careful! These guys can throw spears!" Jack, who was in the center of the team, saw the wooden object that penetrated the knight's body at a glance. Theoretically, no matter how humans threw it, the wooden tenons would not be able to pierce the armor, but this

The scene just happened, which only shows that the arm strength of those native rat people is probably far beyond the scope of common sense.

After hearing the warning, the knights immediately changed their tactics. They gave up holding swords with both hands and instead took off the knight's shield with one hand from behind. Their swordsmanship also changed from large-scale slashing to kill enemies to more defensive thrusts and attacks.

The shield slams into the enemy so they have more energy to defend against wooden spears thrown from the shadows.

Different from the previous test, this time these native ratmen seemed to want to take advantage of Heather and the others' absence to quickly kill the humans around the campfire. These deformed monsters completely changed their cowardly appearance, and they screamed.

, attacking the defending warriors with fangs and claws.

"No, there are too many of these guys!" He used a long bow to separate the paws of the rat men. No need to say "monkey", everyone could feel that the number of rat men entering the battlefield far exceeded the number previously estimated.

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"Good guys, these monsters have been plotting against us from the beginning!" An ax split open the head of a rat man, and Mona didn't care whether these guys still had the possibility of being cured. This time

The battle has turned into a complete bloody battle. The human side must defend the bonfire under the attack of an unknown number of ratmen, with no possibility of escape.

Elsa kicked away the rat man who was rushing towards Cheese. She looked back and glanced at Cheese who was half-kneeling on the ground casting a spell. At this time, the landlady only wished that Hahn had not stayed in the camp in Sweetwater Town. Finally, Sui

After saying the last syllable in Cheese's mouth, the mage's eyes bloomed with a strong dark green light. The moment he raised his head, countless vines followed his gaze and broke out of the ground, covering up those who happened to be standing on the ground.

The rat-men's feet were tightly tied. The magic of the mage once again achieved miraculous results. The native rat-men could not understand why their feet were caught in the vines. Naturally, the battle-hardened knights would not miss this opportunity.

, no less than ten ratmen were killed in an instant.

"Squeak!" A harsh scream came from the direction of Heather and the others. The female knight captain who had been tricked into fleeing the mountain finally couldn't care anymore. She was already riding on the horse with the knight sword in her hand.

With anger, he killed the rat men outside the camp one by one. The other knights also followed suit. With the weight and speed of their horses, they charged wantonly on the edge of the fire, killing those rat men who had no time to react.

It flew straight away.

Seeing that the battlefield situation seemed to have returned to the human side, a sharp cry came from the darkness, followed closely by the sound of piercing the sky.

"Be careful when throwing spears!" Jack's vision once again revealed the enemy's plan in advance. Following his warning, the knights all put their shields in front of themselves to defend against the wooden dowels coming from the rat men.

But it turns out that although the knights can defend themselves against wooden spears with their shields, the horses they sit on cannot. The armor and stomach removed in order to restore the horse power have not had time to cover the horses. These horses with huge targets have become rats. A human spear thrower's best target.

"Poof!" With a muffled sound, the horses shot by the wooden spears fell down mournfully, and the knights on their backs also fell heavily. Except for a few skilled knights, they jumped away from the horses in advance. , most of the knights were unlucky to be crushed by their own horses, and some even had their leg bones crushed directly.
Chapter completed!