Chapter 173 The Forsaken Rat Man
Ye Xing stroked the iron-hard beard on his lips and looked at the branches of the Steel Rock Mountains blocking him in the distance.
In the battle to conquer the Dwarf Fortress, the 40,000 Skaven suffered nearly 10,000 casualties. Most of them died in the fight with the Iron Golem Legion.
Among all the rat soldiers, the rat giants had the highest casualty ratio, with nearly 600 of them dead, followed by the rat engineer warlocks, with 19 people dead at once, which made Ye Xing feel a little painful.
The birth of each rat giant requires the consumption of resources through the insect nest to transform the rat people. The professional knowledge mastered by the rat engineer warlocks also needs to be accumulated over time and experience.
Although Ye Xing was able to transform the rat men after the insect nest realized the miraculous "life furnace", his efficiency in transforming the rat soldiers into rat giants was obviously not as efficient as the previous insect nest.
Among the 30 frost giants, 7 giants were seriously injured in the battle and lost the ability to continue fighting. They had to return to the "Forest of Rocks" to recuperate.
The enemy dwarves, the steel puppet legion stationed in this fortress, were completely destroyed.
The once indestructible fortress walls collapsed, and all the dwarves in the fortress were eaten up by ghouls and hungry ratmen.
This fortress, located between the dwarf kingdom and the bloody wilderness, is now shrouded in a thick stench mixed with the smell of blood. Only the ratmen sweeping the battlefield are still wandering among the ruins.
Ye Xing recalled the topographic information of Koro's world and transmitted its contents in detail to the consciousness of the five rat leaders who went out with the rat army.
After receiving the guidance from "Father God", the five Skaven leaders, who began to swell with victory, gathered in the command room of the dwarf general Rubble, standing in front of the march map they had scavenged, discussing the Skaven tribe's future attacks. route.
The army prophet who was proficient in dwarf language was on the side, translating for the ratman leader Talon-Huang Forehead who could not understand dwarf writing.
The gray rat leader was having a heated argument with the white-eared prophet about whether the rat army should go east or west.
The other two rat-men leaders who couldn't talk (Green Teeth - Disease, Red Belly - Corruption) were discussing whether the slave rats that had eaten the corpses of the ghouls during the charge would die of poisoning. .
Can the layer of fungi covering the ghouls be used to create viruses, which can be released into enemy cities in subsequent wars to avoid direct confrontation but defeat the enemy's purpose?
Ye Xing pinched his eyebrows and flew into the sky to overlook the earth below.
Taking the main vein of the Steel Rock Mountains as the dividing line, to the west is the fertile plain where the liberal dwarves and the exiled races live together. In the hinterland of the plain, lies the Golden Stone Royal Court, one of the two major dwarf royal courts.
There are the most churches built here, and it is also the area where angels are most likely to descend.
The Gushan hills and the Shire Lake to the east are ruled by the Nushan Royal Court. Most of the dwarves living in this area are conservative.
At present, those ghoul armies who have lost the restraint of the Ghoul King and tasted the taste of fresh food have turned into hyenas and wandered eastward in the forests of the Steel Rock Mountains, racing against time to hunt those things they have never seen in the bloody wilderness. Enjoy fresh food.
How come these ghouls lack order and obedience even more than the rat men they created?
No wonder the "Abyss" has been fighting for 270,000 years and has yet to capture the world of Koro.
I am afraid that in addition to the reason why the dwarves have received support from the "heaven", it is also related to the gentle personality of Mordiggian, the king of the ghouls who rules the ghouls.
As far as Ye Xing saw, the ghoul army used the human wave tactic. They mainly relied on Mordiggian's power to break through the city wall, and launched offensives against the dwarf fortress again and again, regardless of the loss of personnel and as if they were dead.
Mordiggian obviously doesn't care about the casualties of the ghouls
It would be better to say that the ghouls who died on the battlefield could also be used as his food.
The allies of the Abyss are obviously unreliable.
Ye Xing sighed and would not care about them again until Mordiggian appeared.
He made up his mind to have some army of ghouls to serve as targets for his army to attract the dwarves' firepower.
When the ghoul army marched eastward, responsible for attracting the attention of the dwarves and the alien alliance, he then led the rat army, waiting for the opportunity to attack westward into the Fertile Plains.
However, the fact that he has too few troops on hand is indeed a problem. After making a decision, Ye Xing ordered the ratmen to establish an underground base under the ruins of the fortress and dig out underground passages leading to the Steel Rock Mountains.
The dwarves have mastered the technology of making steel golems. With insufficient troops, it is obviously not wise to fight them on the surface. They must also take advantage of the Ratmen's ability to dig holes.
Ye Xing touched his chin and decided that he still had to build a time beacon.
However, this time the Time Beacon was established underground in the Dwarf Fortress, and the "King's Gate" on the surface was just a cover for disguise.
Just when Ye Xing was about to take action himself, he received a prompt from the insect nest.
According to the real schedule, it was time for Ye Xing to return to school for his graduation defense.
This long-lost word made Ye Xing exhale heavily.
He opened the "King's Gate" and ordered all the Frost Giants to return to the "Holy Tree" galaxy with him.
Under the astonished gaze of some interested rat-men, 32 giants passed through the "King's Gate" that appeared and disappeared, and disappeared from the world of Koro.
The squirrel leader nearly screamed when he saw this through the window.
Their giant allies turned their backs on the Ratmen at such a critical moment and left the world extremely selfishly!
Fortunately, the desire for survival suppressed the instinctive impulse of the squirrel leader.
It suddenly made a sound to wave away the irrelevant personnel in the command room, and immediately shared the bad news with the four rat-men leaders in a calm tone.
When the gray rat leader saw the gloomy expressions on the faces of the four rat leaders, he smiled happily in his heart.
"Squeak! What should we do now?"
The leader of the gray rat cast his gaze on the white-eared prophet with provocative eyes.
"First complete the oracle of "establishing an underground base" issued by Father God, and then seek guidance from Father God!"
Bai Er-Prophet tapped the conference table with his pointed nails, becoming unusually tough.
"How about we seek guidance from Father God first. This way we can feel at ease"
Green Teeth-Blight asked tentatively while grinding his teeth.
“The previous task has not been completed yet, so we seek “guidance” from God the Father.
If God the Father were angry about this, wouldn’t we have completely lost hope? ”
To the surprise of the four rat leaders present, it was the Gray Rat Prophet who said these words.
The scene where God the Father once imposed divine punishment on the gray rat-prophet appeared before their eyes again.
Although the Father God who created them is responsive to all requests, His attitude when angry is also terrifying to the Ratmen.
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