Lords of All: The Moving Castle of the Dead

"Quick, quick, get on the city wall!"

"Don't wait any longer, anyone who dares to back down will die!"

"Don't tell me which family's young master you are, or whose family's young master you are. Here, there are only brave warriors of the rat people, and the undead don't care about your identity!"

"Take up arms and prepare for battle!"

On the city wall of the rat-men Tekel city-state, the rat-man commanders and rat-man governors roared at the top of their lungs and pushed the rat-man soldiers who were too timid to climb up the city wall to form a defense.

Half a month has passed since the Undead declared war on the Ratmen, broke through the boundary line between the Ratmen and the Undead, and started an all-out war.

The undead tribe is advancing with great success, pushing city-states across the country, advancing deep into the Ratman territory, and has completely conquered three city-states.

Three city-states, not three cities.

City-states and cities are different. City-states are also called "city-states", which refer to independent, independent, independent towns and cities as the center of the country!

In other words, each Ratman city-state is equivalent to a small country of the Ratmen.

This is the reason why the city-state does not obey the orders of the Rat Emperor. They are independent.

In a sense, the various city-states of the rat people are in an alliance, and they are combined to form the large group of rat people. The emperor of the rat people is equivalent to the most powerful one in the city-state, and is jointly elected by each city-state. "Leader".

In the Ratman city-state, there are not only cities, but also villages, farmland, and unique customs and habits.

City-states often use city walls to enclose land. The area enclosed by city walls is the territory owned by the city-state.

The undead tribe conquered three city-states, which was equivalent to conquering three countries, except that the countries were relatively small and did not have such a large area of ​​territory.

The undead who advanced all the way encountered almost no strong resistance. After taking down three city-states, they finally advanced to Tekel, a city-state known as the "Rat Man Barrier".

Tekel is an ancient city-state of the Ratmen, one of the first city-states established after the Ratmen came to the central zone.

The original Tekel city-state only had a small area, with one city and four villages of vassal races. Other areas that could be cultivated were transformed into fields for planting and grazing to provide food for the people living in the city-state. .

During the time when the Ratmen had not yet established a foothold in the central area, the city-state had to consider not how to develop its army and war technology, but defense!

They want to resist the invasion of other races and ensure that the city-state will not fall easily.

At that time, the ruler of the Tekel city-state was a down-to-earth man. He did not have much ambition. For him, survival may be more important than other things. Therefore, the policy of the ruler at that time was to "build walls high and store grain widely." .

All research and development and all available resources were piled on the city wall.

Together with the cultivated land in the city-state, Tekel successfully became one of the surviving ancient city-states.

Later generations of Tekel rulers continued the style of the original rulers and worked hard on defense.

Even if it is war technology, they also focus on defense.

The philosophy of rulers throughout the ages is basically the same, that is, "before launching an attack, at least ensure that you will not die easily."

After many years of development, the initial area of ​​the Tekel city-state was no longer enough. They began to expand outwards, constantly building new city walls, and applying their most advanced technology and magic to the city walls to defend against possible incoming attacks. of enemies.

Even among the rat people, Tekel is a famous "turtle" city-state, known as the "Rat Man Barrier".

This was obviously a mockery of the rat men, but when the undead invaded, Tekel became the hope to stop the undead.

The mighty undead army slowly approached from a distance, and the rat soldiers who boarded the wall facing the undead army were shaking with their legs.

They moved their fingers, kept relaxing, and then tightened their grip on the weapons in their hands, looking with horror at the undead army that was approaching as densely as a swarm of ants.

Even if they have weapons in their hands, even if they stand under the city wall that has been strengthened countless times, they still can't hide the uneasiness in their hearts.

They are not elites, not even as good as ordinary rat warriors.

They are just a group of old and weak, a group of veteran soldiers, a group of people who never thought of going to the battlefield.

In front of the rat people and slaves, they can show off their power, but in the face of the terrifying undead, they are not even as good as ordinary people.

The rat soldiers standing in front could already clearly see the undead army, as well as the strange-looking soul-born bugs and armored bug-men.

In the sky, there are several inconspicuous floating objects, suspended at high places, overlooking the city-state of Tekel.

Those are the eyes of the undead.

The reason why the undead were able to easily conquer three rat-man city-states, including Illamaha, in consecutive battles was due to the undead's eyes.

Through the eyes of the undead, Li Ziyu and the undead can know each other's deployment in real time, and the information gap is as if they are cheating.

The importance of information in war is self-evident.

I know, but you don't know, even if you have better weapons, you will still suffer a big loss.

"It's not easy to deal with the city-state this time."

Through the eyes of the undead, Li Ziyu looked down at the city-state of Tekel and murmured to himself.

Viewed from the sky, the city-state of Tekel, located in the wilderness, looks like five rings connected from small to large. In the empty spaces, there are irregular longitudinal walls connecting the ring walls. It is divided into large and small independent spaces, just like isolation warehouses.

There are many independent spaces, and many independent spaces gather together to make the city-state of Tekel like a maze.

The walls of Tekel gradually become shorter from the inside to the outside.

The innermost city wall is more than fifty meters high, while the outermost wall is less than twenty meters high.

Compared with the three city-states it dealt with before, the defensive capabilities of Tekel City-State were almost fully utilized.

It was as if he expected a powerful enemy to attack, so he designed his city-state in this way.

At the same time, Zhang Peng and the others also observed with the eyes of the undead. They had the opportunity to use it only after Li Ziyu gave them the authorization.

After watching carefully for a while, Li Ziyu turned around and returned to the tent, which was the undead tribe's temporary combat conference room.

He did not drive his undead fortress over.

It is reasonable for the undead to attack the rat people, and other races are also happy to see it happen. At least no race has announced that it will take action against the undead.

But if he drives his undead fortress over, the nature will change, and it will become a time-traveler and aboriginal people. It is not certain whether other races will just watch like this.

For the sake of stability, Li Ziyu threw the undead fortress into the undead territory.

The Undead Fortress cannot be used, but Zhang Peng's Gopher Man Fortress can be used. After all, you are digging holes underground and the probability of being discovered is very small.

Li Ziyu came over from the Gopher Man Fortress, and so did Liu Xingxing.

Entering the combat conference room, there was a huge sand table in the center.

As the sand surged, the appearance of the city-state of Tekel was formed, every detail revealed.

This is a sandbox made by Liu Xingxing. It was originally used to hunt for treasures, such as underground tombs and lost cities, but Zhang Peng took a fancy to it and used it as a sandbox during the war.

Several people were studying around the sand table, speculating on where to attack better.

They also did the same thing in the previous attacks on the rat city-states. They used the eyes of the undead to observe, built a city-state model through the sand table, and then looked for a breakthrough to invade the city-state in one fell swoop.

As long as the city wall outside the city-state is broken through, it is simply impossible for the other party to resist the countless undead.

The undead will pour into the city-state from the gap like a tide, and occupy the city-state with their numbers.

I have used it three times in a row and the effect is very good.

But that didn't work out so well for Turkle.

They found no obvious shortcomings in the sandbox model, and the opponent's defense facilities were very complete.

"The outermost city wall is more than 20 meters high and very thick. If it is just a masonry structure, it won't be a big problem. I'm afraid it has other defense capabilities." Li Ziyu touched his chin and said while circling the sand table.

"They made partitions. Even if we find a breakthrough like before, it won't help. The partitions inside the city wall will block the way of the undead." Zhang Peng pointed at the partition walls in the two circles above the model and said.

"Well, this is what worries me too." Li Ziyu frowned and nodded.

"How about trying it underground?" Liu Xingxing suggested.

Zhang Peng looked at Liu Xingxing speechlessly, as if looking at a fool.

"What's wrong, Brother Peng, your fortress has been upgraded to a fortress. You can drill holes so fast. Why don't we just rush underground and go in?" Liu Xingxing said without knowing why.

"Not to mention whether Tekel City State has deployed defenses underground, let's just say that what we are dealing with is the rat people. Their base camp is underground. If I get through, it will be like delivering it to their mouths." Zhang Peng retorted, rolling his eyes.

"What are you afraid of? I don't believe that the rat people can demolish Qi's fortress in a short time. As long as you hold on, the boss's undead will rush in. There is no need to worry about the trouble of the city wall." Liu Xingxing said matter-of-factly.

"Xingxing, please explain to me why the boss didn't drive the Undead Fortress over, nor did he let you drive over the Treasure Hunting Cat Man Fortress, but instead came over in my Gopher Man Fortress." Zhang Peng looked at Liu calmly. Star said.

"Of course it's to avoid exposing yourself." Liu Xingxing was startled and said. He knew why. He could think about this clearly.

"So I won't expose myself by attacking the Gopher Fortress in front of them, right? Do you plan to let the boss massacre the city and silence them after the war is over?" Zhang Peng felt that every time Liu Xingxing came in front of him and Li Ziyu, he would He became a brainless idiot and fed all his IQ to the dog.

Liu Xingxing finally came to his senses and smiled sheepishly.

He likes adventure, not war, and when Li Ziyu is around, he doesn't have to worry about anything and can just follow orders.

Just as Zhang Peng guessed, every time there were Zhang Peng and Li Ziyu, Liu Xingxing would throw his mind out of the sky, always acting stupidly.

"I didn't find any obvious defensive flaws. It's a bit difficult to find weaknesses to break through. Let's try a strong attack first to see what Tekel's defense is like, and then we'll talk about it." After Zhang Peng and Liu Xingxing finished arguing, Li Zi Yu said.

"That's all." Zhang Peng nodded in agreement.

Let’s start with a wave of experimental attacks.

"The undead are moving!"

"They're going to attack!"

"Prepare defense!"

The ratman commander who had been paying attention to the movements of the undead on the wall of Tekel saw the movement of the undead army and quickly gave an order.

All the rat soldiers cheered up at this moment and did not dare to look in the direction of the undead.

The densely packed undead were seen surging and spreading out. From behind, more than a dozen huge guys made of metal and spewing steam slowly moved to the front.

"gun!"

"That's a cannon!"

"Activate the defensive array!"

The rat people are no strangers to cannons. They also have cannons. Although their appearance is different, they can still recognize what they are.

[Cheap Bone Tower Type Gun Cart]

[Weapons: Two-stage telescopic howitzer (200mm caliber), bone bombardment]

[Introduction: The undead used psychic energy and steam to successfully develop a mobile gun carriage with certain combat capabilities. The low-bone turret-type gun carriage is of epoch-making significance. It was the first artillery carriage that allowed the undead to show off their ferocity on the battlefield. The advantage is that they can bombard very far away and cause an explosion at the same time. The disadvantages are that they are too large, move slowly, have a long time between shots, and...the shells can curse. 】

[Requirements: 1000 thick steel hard plates, 200 steam pipes, 1 psychic steam movement, 3 psychic cores...]

The dozen or so cannons moved out of the Undead Army were gadgets developed by Li Ziyu through mechanical technology. He finally unlocked the technology related to cannons, and the base-bone tower-type cannon truck was one of them.

Able to capture the first three city-states, the base-bone tower-type gun carriage is quite effective.

The cheap bone bombardment can not only effectively kill rat soldiers, but also destroy city walls.

The body of the base-bone turret gun carriage is made of thick metal plates, which effectively protects the steam structure inside. It is trapezoidal in shape, and underneath is a pallet with wheels. The body can be dragged on it and moved slowly.

There is a 3.5-meter-long two-section gun barrel above.

The range can reach about 7 to 10 kilometers.

Because it was developed by the undead, the base-bone tower-shaped gun carriage could move on its own, reload on its own, and aim and shoot at the target according to Li Ziyu's requirements.

It is considered fully automatic. After setting the target, he can attack by himself.

The gun carriages moved slowly from the rear to the front. The lower part of the body of the tower spread out, and four thick mechanical legs stretched out. They were supported on the ground and fixed the body to prevent it from being pushed by the recoil when firing.

Ammunition has already been stored in the car body.

"Let me go, I really want you to let me go!"

"Don't touch me."

"I'm going to say it again, I don't want to be shot out!"

"Fuck off!"

Soon soul fluctuations came from the car, and even an ordinary person could understand what the soul fluctuations meant.

These soul fluctuations come from the base bone bombardment.

They are oversized skulls in perfect round spheres, with weak soul fire burning in the center, and strange magic patterns like circuit boards carved on the outside.

The artillery car turned a deaf ear to the screams and curses of the cheap bone bombardment. They were rolled into a circular groove and then loaded into the barrel with a snap. No matter how much they screamed and cursed, they could not change what happened next. .

Li Ziyu walked out of the combat conference room and looked at Taker City State through the eyes of the undead. Information came from the soul network that the base-bone tower-type gun truck was loaded and ready to attack.

"attack."

Li Ziyu ordered in the soul network.

Boom boom boom——

The two sections were retractable with the muzzle, and thick white mist was sprayed out from the trapezoidal body. Large cursing skulls were shot out and flew towards the outermost city wall of Taker City State.

The cheap bone bombardments in the air are still stirring up the soul fire and emitting soul fluctuations.

"Wait for me, I won't admit it just like that!"

"I'll be back!"

"Hey, I'm so dizzy that I'm going to vomit, vomit..."