Chapter 46, Military Reform
This situation did not last long, because very directly, the young ratmen who had just been added to the ratman army showed faint signs of fleeing.
Then, before the collapse actually happened.
Those wavering young ratmen were directly killed by the senior ratmen warriors on their side first.
On the chaotic battlefield, scarlet eyes were mixed among the rats, looking indifferently at the young ratmen with frightened and shaken faces. On the third spear behind him with its tail wrapped around it, The blood was bright red and dazzling, and corresponding to it was the corpse of an equally young rat man with wide eyes.
After battle after battle, the surviving senior Skaven warriors not only became stronger and stronger, but also gradually became the absolute backbone of their Skaven troops.
In the constant battles, these senior rat warriors gradually understood a truth.
That is, whether you can continuously obtain blood mushrooms depends on the success of your participation in the battle, and whether the battle goes smoothly depends on the other rat people around you.
Originally, these senior rat warriors would not be so active, because in most cases, no matter whether the battle goes smoothly or not, the benefits are not their turn.
As long as the situation does not lead to a complete collapse of the army, and then being beaten to a rout, it is enough to be captured and used as the most despicable slave rat.
After all, no matter how many enemies are killed and how many slaves are captured, the blood mushrooms will only circulate in the hands of priests and warlords.
If the priest gives too many inferior red blood mushrooms to the boss, and the boss really can't eat them all and doesn't like these inferior goods, some of them will leak into the hands of old fritters like them.
Furthermore, the ownership of these leaked blood mushrooms is not determined by how many enemies are killed and how well they perform. It is still determined by the fights and unspoken rules between veterans.
Then why do you have to fight to the death with others?
Excellent performance has no benefits at all, and it is easy to get injured. It is more practical to save some energy and wait for the warlord boss to show his kindness and grab blood mushrooms with other mice.
Hide a little further back. If you win, you win. If you can't beat it, try harder. If you really can't beat it, you can still run faster.
This resulted in the extremely poor combat effectiveness of the Skaven troops, as well as the frighteningly high battle-loss ratio. After all, they were easy to fight. Young Skaven and those dumb-headed Skaven warriors rushed over. , if you fight, you win.
If it's a little more difficult to fight, these old guys will help.
If you really can't beat them, believe me, these old guys will run faster than those young ratmen.
As for this situation, the previous rat warlords were not unaware, but they were obsessed with exchanging blood mushrooms with the priests and didn't care.
After all, the Ratmen do not have the label of strong combat power.
And those young rat men are not worth anything. If you really can't defeat them, then you can just run away. As long as you can escape, those rat men who come back will sort out, plus the rat men who keep coming to you. The young ratman sent.
Soon the troops gathered again.
Why should we care about the fighting attitude of these old guys?
With such an attitude, it is understandable that the Rat Man's low combat effectiveness is excusable.
There was no reason why Du Yuan was disappointed. You must know that when Du Yuan had a life-and-death fight with Li Sheng for the first time, the number of rat warriors he had at that time was far less than what it is now.
Even the wooden spears were not equipped, and there were quite a few with stone teeth. But at that time, they were at odds with Li Sheng's lizardmen.
There is nothing to be afraid of.
But now there are more ratmen, better equipment than before, and there is a constant supply of blood mushrooms.
Such rat-men troops would occasionally encounter difficulties and stalemates when fighting small tribes in the forest. Du Yuanhui couldn't help but feel dissatisfied.
But fortunately, the situation has changed recently.
The white rats killed those priests who colluded with the rat warlords and crazily sold young rat men to serve as slave rats, as well as some warlords who acted as standouts.
This is one point. At least the current rat warlords no longer dare to do what they did before. After the rat priests send young rat men, they drive them to participate in the battle, and then wait for the fleeers to appear, and then attack them on the spot. Capture it and give it to the priest to charge for performance.
Some time ago, when the white rats lacked slave rats to build the temple, there were even some rat warlords who went too far. They would not even follow this form. The priests brought young rat men to them. , and then directly become a slave rat and exchange it back.
Of course, this saves trouble, and blood mushrooms are also very abundant.
But the rat warlords who have done this are now sent to the black abyss by the white rats.
The current Skaven Warlord is undoubtedly the one who cherishes the young Skaven and Skaven warriors the most since this Skaven tribe had a Skaven Warlord.
Obviously there are more and more young ratmen, but the rules for young ratmen have become looser.
Under the current rules, if a young ratman escapes the supervising team and the enemy for the first time and successfully returns alive, at least for the first time, he will not be directly beaten into a slave rat.
Instead, he had to escape for the third time and be lucky enough to survive and then be caught, and then he would be reduced to a slave rat and be tied up on a rope by the priest in shame.
Of course, it is doubtful that there are really young ratmen who can successfully survive three battles that shake their morale, and then not be executed on the spot by the war team or pursued during the period. Kill the enemy, survive successfully, and then leave the rat group under the uneasy instinct.
Return to the army under the Skaven warlord and be taken away on a rope to become a glorious slave rat?
I can only say that it is difficult.
However, although this situation is difficult to happen, the changed rules still successfully completed his purpose.
That is to prevent the priests, who originally had requirements for slaves and sacrifices, from colluding with the rat warlords.
In order to prevent this matter, the young ratman who was part of the cargo in the triangular trade naturally had several more opportunities and was boldly liberated.
Although perhaps in essence, giving young ratmen a chance is not simply about considering these poor young ratmen.
But the good news has indeed arrived.
This change was driven by the young temple guard, Rat Zhan, who was appointed by the White Rat and was the most commanding deputy among the rat warriors.
Of course, this change alone is not enough to make those veteran rat warriors actively participate in the battle.
But the new rules introduced by the Rat War are far more than just this one.
While relaxing the strict requirements for young ratmen, Rat War has done even more for these old fritters.
It was the constant push for changes that allowed these veterans to willingly appear on the front line of the battle, and also allowed the combat effectiveness of the rat army to gradually return from being weak at the beginning. On a normal level.
After all, the Skaven army is an army with a stable supply of extraordinary factors. Even if the Skaven are not powerful, their performance should not be so miserable.
It's just limited by the rough structure.
The white rat does have good vision, and the rat war is indeed a rat talent.
(End of this chapter)