Lords of All: The Moving Castle of the Dead

"Information, Lord Commander." The guard approached a beast cart with gorgeous patterns and exquisiteness that looked like it was expensive. He knocked on the wooden door and whispered.

A gap opened under the wooden door. The guard was not surprised and passed the animal skin paper with information written on it along the gap, then turned and left.

In the beast cart, the assistant picked up the animal skin paper and inspected it, then approached the Ratman Commander and handed the animal skin paper over.

"Let me guess, the undead should have discovered us, and they have already formed a formation." The old rat man, who was dressed in white fur and had extremely bright eyes despite his age, said with a smile. As he spoke, he took the hand from his assistant. Open the animal skin paper that comes.

The information was sent by spies.

"Ha, I guessed it right, exactly." The rat-man commander just glanced at him and laughed out loud, looking very proud of himself.

"You're always good at predicting things." The assistant said flatteringly.

"No, no, no, I'm not that magical. It's what the emperors do to predict things like gods. I just have more experience. If you live to my age, you can do the same. If you live a long time, there are many things. It’s no longer a secret.” The Rat Man Commander said with a smile and waved his hand.

"Lord Commander, what's the next step? Do we want to fight the undead directly?" On the other side, there was a rat-man assistant who asked with a serious expression.

"If we start a war now, wouldn't we comply with the wishes of the undead?" The mouseman commander shook his head and said, "We have been walking for so long, the soldiers are tired, and the undead...heh, I'm afraid the skeletons won't feel tired."

The serious-looking rat-man assistant nodded seriously. He understood what the rat-man commander meant.

They had been traveling for a long time. They were tired and exhausted, their physical strength was reduced, and the soldiers were not in good condition. Starting a battle at this time was equivalent to giving the undead a chance.

If you want to win, you must at least ensure that the soldiers are in a full mental state.

"Give me the order to stop the team. The soldiers need to rest. There is a tough battle ahead." The rat man commander said to his assistants.

The assistant nodded, opened the car door and went to deliver the order.

Only the rat-man commander and the serious-looking assistant were left in the carriage.

"Commander, now that we stop for repairs, won't the undead come over and fight us?" the assistant asked.

"Maybe, maybe not, who knows." The rat-man commander raised his eyebrows and said cheerfully.

The assistant's face froze.

He is a rigid and formal person, and has been cooperating with the commander-in-chief for several years, but he still cannot adapt to the commander-in-chief's old naughty way of speaking.

Say half a sentence, hide half a sentence, anyway, I just don’t like to tell the whole thing.

The assistant was very worried. They came this time with more than 60 rat troops. They were basically private soldiers of various elders, nobles, and families.

In terms of combat effectiveness and weapons and equipment, there is no problem.

The biggest problem is coordination.

Private soldiers are different from regular soldiers. The weapons and equipment of regular soldiers may not be better than those of private soldiers, and their physical fitness may not be better than that of private soldiers.

But one thing is that the regular army's military discipline is much stricter than that of private soldiers, and long-term training together will make the regular army develop the habit of cooperation, and they can exert stronger combat effectiveness on the battlefield.

The momentum is also different. The regular army has more momentum and is not easily defeated.

Private soldiers have never experienced this, and they live under various nobles. They have many conflicts with each other, and no one looks down on the other.

This is not a good thing.

The war with the undead is about to begin. The assistant has already compiled information about the undead and knows many things that others do not know.

They had a tough battle this time. They only had an army of more than 60, but the number of undead exceeded them by more than 20 times, with a conservative estimate of more than 1200 million.

Although the vast majority of the undead legions are composed of rabble-rousers and cannon-fodder undead, the elephants are often bitten to death by ants.

Even if they are weak, when their numbers reach a terrifying order of magnitude, they can still pose a great threat.

What's worse is that the undead are completely different from the other races the ratmen have fought.

In the history of the rat people, every race has the problem of "morale".

If morale is strong, the army's combat effectiveness is strong; if morale is weak, the army's combat effectiveness is weak.

And when casualties are heavy and morale collapses, the army will fall apart and cause a rout.

For ordinary races, if an army is damaged by 10-20%, its morale will collapse.

For a powerful race, morale will also collapse when 40% of the army is damaged.

But this doesn't work well with the undead.

The undead tribe has no morale at all.

They will attack with all their strength, no matter how many are killed or injured, they will ignore it. Even if there is only the last undead left, they will pounce on them.

This is very scary.

Without morale restrictions, they would consider killing all the undead.

This is simply an impossible task.

That's more than 1200 million undead. Just standing there and letting the rat men kill them will take a lot of time and effort, let alone a head-on battle.

"Hahaha... don't think so much. War cannot be based solely on numbers, but also on wisdom." The rat-man commander looked at his assistant's "I'm speechless, I don't know what to say" expression and burst out laughing.

After laughing for a long time, as the assistant's expression became worse and worse, he stopped smiling and said softly to him, "The war has actually begun."

……

"Boss, the rat people have stopped. It looks like they need to repair. Why don't we rush over." Through the eyes of the undead, Liu Xingxing looked at the rat people who stopped moving forward and stopped to set up tents and bury pots for cooking. Couldn't help but say.

"I'm afraid they did it on purpose. They may have set a trap waiting for us to jump. The other party must have discovered that we were waiting for them." Li Ziyu raised an eyebrow and said.

"What? Do they also have the eyes of the undead?" Liu Xingxing shouted in shock.

"Have you lost your mind again? We have tens of millions of undead here, and the other party is not blind. How can they not see so many undead? Do they still need to use the eyes of the undead? You are a rat man and have no spies. Is that so?" Zhang Peng gave Liu Xingxing a slap in the face and said angrily.

"Oh, but we have so many undead, and we can drown each other with our numbers. Why don't we charge?" Liu Xingxing muttered in a low voice.

"Oh, there's nothing wrong with what you said." Li Ziyu was happy.

You definitely have to charge, you can't just watch the opponent and just set up camp, enjoying yourself and replenishing your physical strength, right?

This is a life-and-death battlefield. Don't risk your death if you get the chance.

As for rules and etiquette, they are all bullshit and useless.

There is a saying in the Art of War: Soldiers are crafty.

I take advantage of my large number of troops and my strong momentum to bully you, who have few soldiers and poor physical strength. This is the real war.

But just rushing over like this won't work.

Now that the opponent has discovered him, there must be a plan on the side of the Rat Man. If he kills him directly, he will most likely suffer a loss.

"Send 10,000 Skeleton Knights to see what the other party's plans are." Li Ziyu ordered.

Swap shotgun for cannon.

The undead are no longer the weak race they once were. The core arms of the Skeleton Knights are Li Ziyu's main army at the moment.

As the order was issued, ten thousand skeleton knights broke away from the undead team and galloped away into the distance.

The Skeleton Knight has the blessing of the Soul War Horse. It is fast and has sufficient attack power. It is a good unit for launching surprise attacks. It also has quite good defense power, which is perfect for testing the Ratman's situation.

If the other party was really stupid enough to not arrange anything, then Li Ziyu would really have to issue an order for the entire army to attack.

Above the wasteland, the soul horse galloped carrying the skeleton knight.

There is still a long distance between the rat people and the undead. This is a running battle.

From time to time, the Skeleton Knights would split up and they would deal with the rat sentries to avoid exposing their whereabouts.

In addition to the sentries they discovered themselves, the undead eyes in the sky were also observing the rat sentries, leaving them nowhere to hide.

At the speed of the soul war horse, they ran for nearly 10 hours. It was already dark before they approached the rat tribe camp.

But darkness is a good thing. In the dark night, the combat effectiveness of the undead will be significantly improved. The dark night belongs to the undead.

There was no need for Li Ziyu to issue orders, the Skeleton Knight knew what he was going to do.

After some repairs and re-arrangement, the Soul War Horse moved forward slowly, gradually increasing its speed, and charged towards the rat camp.

The soul war horse galloped, drawing out lines of fire. The speed continued to increase, and the soul energy surged through the skeleton knight.

In the peaceful wilderness, thousands of horses galloped.

There are still two kilometers away from the rat camp!

No abnormality was found, charging——

A skeleton knight suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned around and saw the soul fire beating violently.

[The breath of life is found from the side! 】

[There are enemies hidden on the side! 】

【Enemy attack! 】

[Enemy attack——]

Alarm messages are carried across the soul network.

The eyes of the undead in the sky transmitted the real-time picture to Li Ziyu and the others.

Beside the running Skeleton Knight, there was an endless wasteland, empty of anything. Just as the Skeleton Undead sped past, a rat man suddenly appeared about a hundred meters away from them.

It was a group of rat men wearing black clothes and black cloaks. They rushed towards the Skeleton Knight from the side at a very fast speed and threw balls in their hands.

Boom boom boom——

After the ball approached the Skeleton Knight, it exploded with a bang, holding up a series of firelights.

The sudden appearance of the enemy caught the Skeleton Knights off guard, and several Skeleton Knights who were hit by the ball fell off their horses.

Fortunately, they were wearing heavy armor and were not killed directly.

Being attacked, the formation of the rapidly running Skeleton Knights was disrupted. They could only slow down and prepare to respond to the enemy.

"Good guy, where are the grenades?" Li Ziyu said in surprise.

Liu Xingxing's mouth was wide, his eyes were bright, and he was looking at it with great interest.

For him, watching the battlefield from a distance is no different from watching a war movie.

The rat men in black kept throwing balls, trying to achieve greater results.

Unfortunately, the ball's destructive power is limited. When the Skeleton Knight was prepared, such simple explosions and impacts were withstood.

"Peng, go check the forum to see if there is any information about the rat men." Li Ziyu ordered Zhang Peng while paying attention to the battlefield.

He felt strange.

Within a hundred-meter range, the undead actually failed to detect the opponent immediately. This was abnormal.

The undead are extremely sensitive to the breath of life. Even if they have invisibility skills, they cannot hide their breath of life.

Why didn't the Skeleton Knight discover those guys until they were passing by?

In other words, the other party took the initiative to expose it.

If the opponent has no intention of attacking, the Skeleton Knight will probably pass them by.

This is just a hundred meters.

too weird.

Is it some special kind of rat soldier?

Zhang Peng responded, withdrew his gaze from the Eyes of the Dead, and quickly rummaged through the forum.

Ratmen are not only a race found in the wasteland, there are also ratmen in other parts of the world.

After rummaging around for a while, Zhang Peng actually found it, "I found it. According to what was said in the forum, it should be the Death Wind Skaven. They are a type of Skaven soldier, an assassin-type soldier."

"The Death Wind Rats we encountered may be an elite force. Their attack methods are different from the normal Death Wind Rats."

After listening to Zhang Peng's words, Li Ziyu frowned and asked thoughtfully, "Can this Death Wind Rat hide its own life breath?"

Zhang Peng looked at the forum again and said helplessly, "Boss, it's not written in the forum, but I think it shouldn't be possible. It says it can be invisible, but being invisible doesn't mean it can hide the breath of life."

There are many ways to become invisible.

The simplest is camouflage invisibility, the more powerful one is optical invisibility, and then magic invisibility, but even the most powerful invisibility method, which is to hide the body, will at most stop the heartbeat, stop breathing, and eliminate the smell on the body. Disguised as a dead person.

By disguising yourself as a dead person, you can avoid detection by many races, including vampires and wolves.

But it has no effect on the undead.

Disguise is disguise, in a sense, the undead can detect any disguise.

After all, suspended animation is suspended animation. As long as you are not dead and your soul is still in your body, you will still have the breath of life.

It is impossible to hide from the undead by relying on invisibility.

Li Ziyu frowned.

He had a bad feeling.

The Skaven were hiding something, and he wanted to know why the Deathwind Rats were able to escape detection by the undead.

This is so critical.

If you can avoid the undead's life detection, it means that the opponent can sneak attack.

In front.

The Skeleton Knight has already killed the Death Wind Rat.

As private soldiers of the nobles, the Death Wind Rats have outstanding combat capabilities. They are not only equipped with "grenades", but also with various strange little bits and pieces.

The Skeleton Knight's true combat effectiveness is demonstrated through charging.

After being attacked by the Death Wind Rat, the Skeleton Knight lost the ability to charge and could only control his war horse to fight with the Death Wind Rat.

What surprised Li Ziyu was that these assassin-type rat men actually had the combat power to kill the Skeleton Knight.

They are very familiar with the undead and know that only by smashing their heads and dissipating the soul fire can they completely kill the undead.

So when they attack, they specifically attack the head, or at worst, the neck. The attack points are very stable, and there are many methods.

A Skeleton Knight had just pushed back a Death Wind Rat when he felt like there was something inside his skull.

boom!

Flames spurted.

During the fight just now, the Death Wind Rat took advantage of the opportunity to jump back and dodge, and threw a ball into the Skeleton Knight's eye socket, and the "grenade" exploded directly in his skull.

No matter how hard the helmet is, it can't stop it from exploding from the inside!

The Skeleton Knight's skull shattered instantly, and before the skull shattered, his soul fire had been annihilated in the explosion.

The soul fire of the undead is actually very fragile.

After a fight, the skeleton knights received the order to retreat.

Throwing away the corpses of a thousand companions, the skeleton knights returned.

Through the eyes of the dead in the sky, Li Ziyu checked and found that it was the Skeleton Knight who suffered the loss.

The Death Wind Rats only lost six to seven hundred people in this battle.

This kind of result was something Li Ziyu didn't expect.

Since their birth, the Skeleton Knights have always been a powerful force as the core unit of the Undead. They have never suffered a loss and have repeatedly defeated more with less.

Unexpectedly, this time he fell into the hands of the Death Wind Rat.