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Chapter 52 The Great Wall Will Never Fall

The boar-man and the rat-man dugout officer came, apparently intending to try and destroy a section of the Great Wall!
It's said that they've come up with a new gadget that can supposedly destroy the Great Wall!

Here we go, let's give it a try.

Chen Xiuxian's task, naturally, was to sabotage this attempt.

Regardless of whether their stuff works or not, we can't let them succeed.

If this really works, then once the land thaws in the spring, won't these boar-men be attacking everywhere to dig up the Great Wall?

This thing is a crucial defensive measure for the Great Shun Dynasty!
……

As the sun sets, darkness gradually envelops the earth.

Tonight, dark clouds covered the sky, and the snow, which had just stopped, began to fall again in a heavy downpour.

The good news is that this time it's not big, just fine and scattered, like salt foam everywhere.

Several ratmen clad in leather armor were busy calculating a map by candlelight in a cowhide tent at the foot of the Great Wall. This was a rough map of the Sanyangbao section of the Great Wall that they had drawn.

This world, and the Great Wall, are no ordinary creations.

From the very beginning of its construction, it was necessary to fill in protective objects and hold ceremonies. It can be said that every section of the Great Wall is a "magical building" infused with the national fortune of the Great Shun Dynasty!
Trying to break through or climb over this thing is no joke.

However, the Great Shun Dynasty is now in a state of decline, and the magical effects attached to the Great Wall are therefore "on their last legs".

With the establishment of the Jin Kingdom by the Boar People, the nation's fortunes began to flourish.

Those elite boar-men all wore tiger badges, obtained through the blood sacrifices of countless offerings by shaman priests to the gods, and only then did they finally achieve their goal.

The goal of these ratmen is to quickly discover the weaknesses of this section of the Great Wall, then use the "dragon bone powder" they have to destroy the wall's magical defenses, and finally blow it up with a large amount of gunpowder.

Of course, it's unrealistic to expect to achieve a great victory by bombing a section of the Great Wall.

Moreover, it is currently the dead of winter, which is not suitable for large-scale military operations.

But the boarmen were just testing the waters. If they confirm that this method can effectively destroy the Great Wall, they might launch a large-scale invasion next year!

The ratmen were all elites, all level 12+, not in combat, but among the best of the digging officers. They were now squeaking and making a huge racket, trying to break through the Great Wall's magical defenses.

The amount of "dragon bone powder" they were given was scarce, allowing them to try at most two different methods. This caused disagreements among them.

One of the rat-men, whose beard had turned completely white, sat in the main seat but remained silent, looking very worried.

That rat-man is now over sixty years old, which is considered extremely old for a rat-man. He is very skilled in earthwork and is considered one of the leaders among them.

But he was preoccupied with his worries and had no interest in the squabbles of his rat-men.

Unlike those young rat-man excavators, he had experienced many things and accumulated some wisdom.

He is now worried about the safety of himself and his group.

This task clearly treats them like "guinea pigs"!
Regardless of the success or failure of the mission, their chances of survival are extremely low; it's a matter of life and death.

However, the elite hundred-man boarman squad sent two of them, and even brought several shamans... These were all sacrifices used as probes.

You, a team of rat-men digging officers, dare to utter another word?!

Sacrificing yourself for the Great Jin Kingdom is your blessing!
Just then, from the shadows outside the tent, a furry cat's paw slowly emerged and pressed down on the mouth and nose of a sentry ratman.

In an instant, the ratman froze, his mind went blank, and he was dragged away without a sound or resistance.

At the same time, another rat-man sentry was also subdued by the Rat Immortal Dou Zhongde...

Wearing the [Shadow Bell (Blue)] cloak, Chen Xiuxian was like a shadow in the darkness, quietly sneaking into the largest leather tent.
By candlelight, he pierced the brain of the white-bearded rat-man he was stepping on with a single sword stroke, making him look like a major villain.

He kicked aside the rat-man corpse on the chair, grabbed a strange architectural blueprint from the table, and glanced at it...

"What kind of nonsense is this?"

He's a mechanical engineer, and he still couldn't figure out what the drawing was!
It was the ratman controlled by Dou Zhongde who revealed it, saying that it was a "Great Wall defense spell construction diagram"?
The ratmen need to use this map to explore the magical strongholds beneath the Great Wall and the locations where the protective objects are buried.

In addition to this picture, the rats also carried a small bucket of "dragon bone powder"!
【East China Sea Ancient Tortoise Shell Powder (Blue)】

Tier 3 artifact

Bone powder made from the shell of an ancient tortoise that has been sleeping in the auspicious Feng Shui site "Tortoise Sleeping Ground" for thousands of years contains a large amount of "sea evil essence". With a little stimulation, it can generate a burning wind with special burning power.

Evaluation: It is neither common nor frequently used.

Oh, so it turns out the Ratman Digger was planning to find the location of the spell nodes and the protective object, and then use this thing to burn down the remaining protective spells of the Great Wall.
To be honest, if Chen Xiuxian and his group hadn't bypassed the sentry post and the boar-men that were deliberately drawing attention ahead, these ratmen might actually have succeeded!
Okay, it's probably impossible to finish.

After all, it seems that this didn't happen in the game's timeline.

If it had succeeded, there would definitely have been a series of follow-ups. Since it didn't, it's possible that it didn't succeed in the original timeline either.

Chen Xiuxian didn't care about the reasons; the reason was himself.

He led his men to infiltrate the area and assassinated thirty or forty ratmen along the way before finally reaching the core area.

However, there were still dozens of rat-men on and around the city wall!

Now that we're here, we can't let this opportunity pass us by!

Kill them all!

Fortunately, Dou Zhongde, being a Rat Immortal, has quite a few ways to deal with Rat People, such as this "mind control" technique.
The ratman he's controlling right now is very obedient!

As for Mimi, needless to say, she's a natural enemy of mice!
Thanks to Mimi, she's practically a mouse killer!
……

The mission has progressed another step!
They slaughtered all the ratmen, took away the "dragon bone powder," and burned down the digging officer's camp.

This effectively ruined the plan to excavate the Great Wall.

The next step is to have Chen Xiuxian take these blueprints and dragon bone powder back to the Liaodong General's Office so that they know about this.

When the ratman camp below the Great Wall caught fire, the boarmen at the outpost a few miles away knew the plan had failed.

Someone ignored their performance and went straight around to kill the big rats.

As for them, they're like turtles in a jar.

But don't underestimate the Wild Boar Men; their combat effectiveness is generally much higher than that of the Liaodong Army.

These nearly two hundred elite boarmen occupy the outpost, determined to fight to the death, and they won't be easy to defeat!

But since we're already trapped, it was only a matter of time.

……

"You mean there are still quite a few jackals on the Great Wall?!" Cao Bianjiao asked.

Chen Xiuxian nodded and handed over the heads of several jackals.

It stank! A fishy, ​​pungent smell in the dead of winter!

Cao Bianjiao looked at it and saw a thick neck, a short, thick mouth, long, thick fangs, a mane, and spots... It was a jackal.

Upon hearing Chen Xiuxian say that there were about three hundred jackalmen on the Great Wall, Cao Bianjiao's expression also became very serious.

"Jackals? They've been recruited by the boar-men too?"

"No, given their intelligence, they probably don't understand what 'recruiting' means; they're more likely being used."

Although gnolls are humanoid creatures, they are generally not considered a different race.

Their intelligence is so low that both alien races and humans regard them as humanoid beasts with some intelligence.

They know how to wear clothes, but most of the time they don't wear pants; they know how to use tools, but they don't know how to make them.

They know how to start a fire, but they also often eat food raw.

Let alone humans, even if a boarman is caught alone, they'll still eat him without hesitation.

It would be redundant to recruit them with such low intelligence, since these jackals have huge appetites and would be a waste of food.

Cao Bianjiao thought that the boar-men might not be able to replenish their troops immediately, so they used food or other means to lure the jackals to the lost Great Wall to resist the small number of defenders there...

It seems that neither the besieged boar-men nor the rat-men dugout officers, who were wiped out by Chen Xiuxian and his men, had any intention of returning alive!
Their escape route has been cut off!
Jackals won't make way for you; they'll just throw you into the pot.

Chen Xiuxian failed to completely recapture this section of the Great Wall because there were too many jackals on it, each one at level twelve or thirteen.

The main reason was the urgency of the situation; otherwise, Chen Xiuxian really wanted to wipe out this wave of jackals!

If you manage to farm all 300 or so, reaching level 18 will be no problem at all!

But there are so many of these things, it's impossible to kill them all in a short time.

Delay could lead to unforeseen circumstances, so Chen Xiuxian had no choice but to return temporarily to complete the bounty mission for the boar-men.
Cao Bianjiao and the commander's personal guards launched a frontal attack on the outpost, while Chen Xiuxian and his righteous men used their unique skills to infiltrate the outpost and kill the wild boar-men.

However, it doesn't seem to be that simple; it's said that several righteous men have already died.

There's a quilboar shaman on the other side!

The corpses of the soldiers guarding the fortress walls were piled up more than two meters high, with a wooden pole stuck in the middle... It was a ritual performed by the boar-man shaman! A plume of bloody smoke swirled and lingered in the air...

If we manage to sneak in and get discovered, it will be very difficult to break out of the outpost!
(End of this chapter)