Travel through time and become a member of the Warhammer Empire

Prince Giuliano temporarily suppressed the strange dimensional stone poison with the miraculous effect of the Aurora potion, and even forced himself to appear in the square and announced an insignificant "new tax rate".

It doesn’t matter what the policy is; what matters is that the people know that the rulers are still issuing new policies.

After barely stabilizing the restless hearts of the people in the city, both Windlow and he knew that this was just the calm before the storm.

The ratmen's attack may have begun now.

In the ancient sewers of the Tyrell states, many Skaven are running around giggling.

They were the first wave of attacking forces of the ratmen. In such a war, the ratmen sent out three full clans.

The Clan of Eshin, who excel at assassination, has begun attacking the city of Miragliano. The initial assassination and poisoning were committed by them.

At this time, several assassins from the Clan Eshin were crawling out one after another from the depths of the sewer, carrying the dimensional flamethrowers sent by the Clan Skryre.

The Warpflamer is a masterpiece of the Skryre Clan. It can quickly consume stored Warpstone crystals and spray a terrifying green flame. Any contact with the flame will instantly burn the skin.

This dimensional flame is not hot and mainly relies on corrosion to cause damage. Only heavily armored troops can resist the green flames that are ejected.

But who would wear expensive, bulky and inconvenient heavy armor in the sewers?

The Tyrell Rat Catchers found their target. In the tunnel directly in front of them, a small group of ratmen were advancing.

The rat-catching team, wearing light armor and carrying light weapons, moved very quietly and did not reveal their presence as soon as they arrived.

They were also one of the few who could sneak under the noses of the ratmen, and slowly moved towards the team of ratmen.

Until the distance is so close that it cannot be further approached, and the crossbow's hit rate has reached 100%.

An armor-piercing crossbow arrow shot out quickly and hit the tank filled with dimensional stone powder in the dimensional flamethrower directly.

This thing is very easy to explode, and it is also easy to penetrate with a crossbow arrow.

"Oh!"

The harsh sound collapsed a lot of bricks and stones, and the dimensional stone powder flew everywhere. The Tyrell crossbowman returned to the position of the city wall that had just been hit by the dimensional catapult.

He stepped on the corrosion and continued to shoot at the ratman army.

Originally, a troop of Tyrell light cavalry was preparing to go out to gather intelligence and warn Estalia of the threat of a Skaven attack.

However, this light cavalry directly discovered the large army of ratmen lurking outside the city of Miragliano, forcing the ratmen to launch an attack immediately.

Under the endless rain of crossbow arrows, one ratman after another was killed, but it was of no importance to the overall ratman army.

Those slave rats charging in the first row were originally cannon fodder used to consume ammunition.

They don't need to make any attacking moves. At most, they have a few rags on their bodies, or they may be naked. Their weapons are mostly wooden sticks, or they may even be barehanded.

The only goal is to get hit by as many crossbow arrows as possible before dying, so as to contribute to the subsequent ratman siege.

Of course, not all slave rats were willing to charge. At the first moment of the battle, half of the slave rats wanted to retreat.

After being brutally tortured by the storm rats behind them, they realized that they would die no matter what, so they might as well rush towards the human city wall and die in a more painful way.

"Stop shooting! Stop shooting!"

The Tyrell mercenary captain on the city wall ordered all troops to stop firing. Although they had the advantage in city defense, such a large army of ratmen would surely use up all their long-range ammunition.

It will be difficult to contact the enemy at that time.

The Mercenary Captain is the supreme lord of each Tyrell army, similar to the Imperial General of the Empire. Compared with the Imperial General, their armor is lighter and their movements are faster.

Armed with a rapier and a musket, although he has no shield to provide long-range defense, he can use his combat skills to parry most attacks in close combat, and can use the musket to weaken the enemy at a distance.

Their greatest feature is not their individual combat effectiveness, but their ability to quickly allocate tactics and strengthen the command of surrounding soldiers.

Unlike the Empire, the Tyrell troops are more like state changes. Almost all Tyrell troops have two forms that can be switched freely.

This is also the characteristic of the Tyrell troops. The spearmen can switch between marching formation and defensive formation. The marching formation can move freely. In the defensive formation, the Tyrell spearmen can form a circle to resist all-round long-range shooting and cavalry charges.

The same is true for the Tyrell heavy shield crossbowmen on the city walls, who can shoot freely in the attack formation.

Following the order from the mercenary leader, all the Tyrell heavy shield crossbowmen took a defensive stance.

Take off the huge shield on your back, hold it in front of you and hold it firmly in place. This can greatly reduce the long-range firepower from the front, while also resisting all charges from the front.

With the help of the defense system composed of city walls and placed giant shields, one Tyrell cannon after another was pulled up to the city wall by horses.

Just like infantry and ranged infantry, Tyrell's artillery also has two stances to switch between.

In mobile artillery mode, horses will pull Tyrell's artillery to quickly reach any place on the battlefield.

When fixing the artillery position, horses will place artillery, and artillery will set up various defensive facilities around the artillery. These can not only withstand some long-range shooting and cavalry charges, but most importantly, they can obtain a narrow firing range but extremely accurate aiming capability.

"fire!"

The mortar was introduced to the Empire by the Tyrells, and in such a land, the mortar has multiple functions.

The first is the diversity of artillery shells. In addition to solid projectiles, there is also a projectile with built-in fragments.

The Tyrell mortars fired in a cycle, one after another, drawing perfect arcs in the air and landing in the middle of the slave rat formation, emitting tiny sparks.

This type of projectile with built-in fragmentation has little explosive power and is completely unable to penetrate armor, but after the shell explodes, the flying fragments can easily penetrate any flesh and blood body without wearing armor.

The shells in the slave rat formation only created a small hole, and a large number of ratmen around it fell down.

Artillery is the best way to deal with cannon fodder.

Seeing this situation, the ratmen also brought out their ultimate weapon, the dimensional lightning cannon.

This is a special artillery piece powered by dimensional stone. According to the calculations of the ratmen engineers, it can launch a straight burst of dimensional lightning straight ahead after firing.

Any place touched by the dimensional lightning, no matter what kind of existence it is, no matter how good the armor it wears, will be reduced to ashes in an instant.

However, this thing also has the characteristics of ratmen weapons, that is, it has poor accuracy and cannot hit enemies too far away. Moreover, if it is fired continuously, there is a high probability of self-explosion.

The ratmen don't care about these things. As long as the shooting frequency is high enough and the number of times is enough, they will definitely hit the target.

Wave after wave of dimensional lightning bombarded the walls of Miragliano, but the walls designed and built by Leonardo da Miragliano would not be so fragile.

It was at this moment that a troop suddenly flew out of Miragliano's city. Humans actually have an air force?

The wings of these flying soldiers are not wings, but special flying vehicles made of hardwood and canvas.

Soldiers only need to wear this thing to control their ascent and descent with their legs, and veterans can even perform gliding movements.

These bird-men mercenaries, called Tidaro, can cross the battlefield at the fastest speed and drop a small number of bombs and crossbows on the enemy's heads.

Because they were subject to too many restrictions in the air, they could only choose between crossbows and bombs, and this time they carried bombs.

He flew quickly into the ratman army, and despite the stones thrown randomly by the ratmen, he dropped bombs on the dimensional lightning cannon.

These ratmen's technological creations are not rigorous or stable at all. Just a slight explosion can trigger a chain reaction.

Just when all the birdman mercenaries were preparing to complete their mission and return, the ratmen finally took out their ultimate weapon - the Ratling machine gun.

The dense firepower formed a terrifying firepower network in the sky. Many of the already fragile birdman mercenaries were killed in the first wave of shooting. Only some of them with excellent flying skills were able to return to Miragliano City.

Faced with the Skaven's powerful anti-aircraft firepower, the Tyrell light air force was no longer useful.

However, thanks to the city walls, artillery and the ocean transport supplies behind it, the entire city of Miragliano can be defended until everyone dies of old age.

At this moment, the earth cracked with a groan!

Dirty sewage mixed with slave rats and clan rats gushed out from the sewers in Miragliano's outer city like a black torrent of broken dams!

There were so many of them that they instantly flooded the streets and filled the square.

Rusty swords, rough wooden clubs, and even bare hands, but their eyes burned with a fanatical green light of dimension stone, and the sharp screams from their mouths gathered into a terrifying sound wave that was enough to tear apart sanity.

They have no tactics, and their only strategy is to drown everything with endless flesh and blood!

After the Tyrell soldiers patrolling the streets hastily killed dozens of ratmen, they were instantly submerged by the black tide.

Windlow's steam-powered armor made a hissing sound as it was overwhelmed. Standing at a key barricade, he instantly realized that the defense line had collapsed.

Although the city walls are still very strong, there have been a large number of underground raids in the city.

Coupled with the ratmen in front, it is only a matter of time before the city walls are overwhelmed by the ratmen. If the troops on the city walls are divided and surrounded one by one, the morale of the defenders will begin to waver in the face of the desperate number of ratmen.

"Retreat! Return to the inner city."

Almost all the mercenary leaders and captains, even Windlow, shouted this order at the same time.

Continuing to defend the city walls would only lead to being overwhelmed by the ratmen. Now they had to run back to the inner city that had not yet been attacked by the underground raid to defend themselves.

In the streets, Tyrell's soldiers and civilians were fighting.

Even an ordinary Tyrell civilian could kill five or six slave rats with his bare hands.

At this time, the wave of ratmen slowed down. No! The terrifying wave was more like being pushed away, replaced by well-equipped, larger storm rats with cunning and ferocious eyes!

"Stormvermin? They raided into the city through the underground?"

The fighting power of these ratmen, who are clad in rusty but thick armor and armed with halberds and sharp swords, should not be underestimated. The strength of their armor and their fighting power are even catching up with the greatswordsmen of the empire.

Even more terrifying is the fact that they are mingled with Plague Monks! These fanatical lunatics strike blasphemous bells, brandish smoking plague censers, and charge forward regardless of their injuries.

Even if they were killed, the pustules on their bodies would burst immediately, emitting a deadly yellow-green plague cloud, which would cause people to feel painful and suffocated when touched, and their steps would feel like lead.

At the same time, a sharp "sizzling" sound came from the shadows! The warpstone flamethrower spewed out a pale green sticky flame, drilling out from the ground, burning the slave rats and clan rats along with it, just to cause terrible casualties to the human position.

The street defense line gradually collapsed under the impact of storm rats, the erosion of plague clouds and the burning of dimensional stone flames!