Chapter 156, the pervasive plague, the determination of the sheep-orc high priest, and the roar of the rat war
On the vast grassland, the war did not lead to a long-term stalemate.
Even though the strength gap between the two has reached a considerable extent.
Unexpectedly, it was the sheep orc who was seeking a decisive battle.
They can no longer endure the stalemate any longer.
The sheep orcs face many problems.
Plague, winter, and the army that is gradually becoming tired from the constant harassment.
Winter is coming soon, even though this four-season pasture will only receive sparse light snow because of the towering mountains that resist part of the cold current.
It’s not even enough to completely cover the grass.
But the cold that comes with it will also stop the grass from growing.
This time period is the most busy time period for all races on the grassland.
A large number of manpower must be hoarding fodder day and night to prepare for possible accidents, and a place to spend the winter must be selected.
A semi-permanent camp will be built on the most fertile grassland.
To cope with the cold winter.
But the war with the rat men greatly delayed the sheep orcs' winter preparations.
Even though the Rat War had ceased for a while, the small groups of rat troops that kept appearing seemed to be like locusts, and they continued to swarm into the depths of the grassland.
Let the sheep orcs become exhausted.
Running wildly on the grassland day and night, these wandering rat people are really too despicable.
Even if you just let one team go, it can easily lead to great disaster.
Some small tribes whose supply lines were open and who voluntarily gathered at the edge of the battlefield because of the prestige of the sheep-orc high priest have begun to suffer casualties one after another in the attacks of these rat-men.
Those cunning and despicable guys will lurk quietly after discovering the sheep orc tribe, waiting for night to fall.
The Skaven troops that can pass through the sweep of the Sheep Orc Knights are generally not large.
They are unable to attack the sheep orc tribes head-on, even if these tribes are not large.
But you can sacrifice the good and the bad.
Sneak into a tent or a sheepfold in the dark, put a fire on it, and in the flames, chaos will pervade.
That's the opportunity.
Either attack the old and young sheep orcs and run wildly into the darkness after succeeding, or after frightening the giant sheep, ride on the giant sheep and run around, attacking and pulling up the lone giant sheep. .
There won't be many things to gain. After being swept away by the sheep orc knights, the resisting rat people will not be much of a threat at all compared to the tribes they attacked.
But it’s disgusting, and it keeps coming.
Like mice appearing in every possible and impossible corner.
A little commotion and chaos began to spread behind the goat orc army.
But these are just minor problems.
Even the urgent winter reserves are the same.
As long as we are ruthless and slaughter a large number of giant sheep, we can get through this winter even without stocking up on supplies.
Sheep orcs are not pure vegetarians. To be precise, all orcs are omnivorous. In terms of preferences, they are even more carnivorous.
The same goes for sheep orcs.
Even if they cherish their giant sheep, it is only because of the continuous output of goat milk. If a giant sheep is so old that it cannot even produce goat milk, then it will be Slaughtering is also a matter of course.
This is the treatment of female giant sheep.
The male giant sheep has other functions, such as breeding, riding and eating.
Even the most noble high priest Feng among the sheep orcs, his mount may not be as good as the male giant sheep specially used for breeding.
Winter is the breeding season for giant sheep.
Slaughtering giant sheep on a large scale at this time will cause big problems.
Food next year will be extremely short, and may even lead to famine.
But for the high priest of the sheep orc, this is a problem that can be ignored for the time being.
The unfertile grasslands doomed them to be unable to take a long-term view, and they could only deal with the imminent crisis in front of them.
As for how to face the devastation after trying everything to defeat the Rat Man.
It’s just another war.
On the grassland, Feng, the old high priest of the sheep orcs, looked far away at the rat war surrounded by the rat army.
The two sides faced each other again.
Shu Zhan still had that undisguised contempt and ridicule on his face.
In fact, Shu Zhan is indeed qualified to show such an expression.
Not too long has passed since the last battle between the two.
The troops gathered by Shu Zhan’s men were even more exaggerated.
But the team under the sheep orc high priest was inevitably in a bleak state.
Because of a sudden plague.
Winter has not really come yet, and the plague has already appeared to be difficult to suppress.
The sheep orcs don’t have any good solutions to the plague.
This is a terrible disaster, but it will be suppressed and eliminated by another disaster.
Every major epidemic on the grassland will subside in the biting winter.
Winter is coming soon, but it has not arrived yet.
But this unknown plague has already begun to spread.
Diarrhea, vomiting, and when the condition becomes severe, clumps of milky white mycelium will appear on the body, and eventually mushrooms will begin to grow all over the body.
This is an extremely terrifying sight.
This is also the only reason why the Sheep Orc High Priest is so eager.
Unknowingly, most of the sheep orc knights have been infected.
By the time this strange plague was noticed, it was already too late.
Too many plans can only be abandoned altogether.
He didn't have many options left.
Hold on until winter comes, praying in the cold for the plague to go away.
While most of the warriors are still able to fight, engage in a decisive battle with the Ratmen.
If he were younger, Feng wouldn't have much hesitation.
He will choose the second option without hesitation.
But he is no longer young.
So he chose the second option.
It’s just that he is no longer as confident and arrogant as he was when he was young.
Not daring to make a decision easily, the old goat man summoned his warriors.
In that spacious tent.
He hesitated and expressed his thoughts, waiting for the thoughts of the young juniors in front of him.
The failure in the last battle with rats made the old sheepman a little more hesitant.
But there was still trust and even encouragement given to him.
Ever since, he stood on this grassland again, facing off against Shu Zhan from afar.
The flag was raised.
This time he was still so decisive.
Still leading the charge.
The only difference is that this time, all the sheep orc knights are following behind him.
They all took off their machetes. No order was even needed. When the flag started to move, the charge had already begun.
Forty thousand sheep orc knights faced the enemy who was ten times their size.
This is an almost impossible war to win.
Yes, it is almost impossible to win, almost, not absolutely impossible.
The 40,000 sheep orc knights suddenly began to divide their troops and divided into two troops. The 30,000 sheep orc knights broke away from the team and ran wildly in the other direction.
But the flag was left behind.
The high priest of the sheep orcs was betting heavily on a possibility, and he was also betting on the only possibility that he could be caught in a hurry.
He was betting on the rear of the rat army. Compared to his defense of the rear, it was the rat men who really defended the rear.
As long as the large army of sheep orcs has the intention to rush towards the rear of the rat man camp, or even as long as the large army of sheep orcs appears near the rat man camp, there will soon be a large number of rat men. Troops were mobilized.
There seems to be something crucial to the rat people behind the camp.
That's enough.
The 30,000 sheep orc army bypassed the rat army and ran straight towards the rear of the rat army.
The ten thousand sheep orc knights gathered under the banner of Nafeng and launched a charge towards Rat War.
The old Feng is no longer as proud and confident as he once was.
This is an attempt, an attempt at the cost of one's own life.
If he bets wrong and the things behind the camp are not that important to the rat men, then he will die on the way to charge, in the process of charging towards the opposite leader.
The 30,000 sheep orc knights will also flee far away, immediately retreating into the grassland behind, and starting to migrate with the large and small sheep orc tribes located on this grassland.
He has also chosen the location for the move.
Leave this four-season grassland and go to the center of the vast grassland, to the place where the wolf orcs are entrenched.
This is not a good choice.
Even if the sheep orcs who abandoned the pasture were accepted by the wolf orcs, they were destined to become slaves. Once upon a time, Feng Bei knelt down in front of the young wolf king just to prevent this scene from happening. .
He did it.
The wind used his pride and dignity to preserve the freedom and possibility for the sheep orcs. At least after that war, in this four-season pasture, the sheep orcs could still compete with the argali tribe.
Now, Feng is still resisting this possibility.
Even if the opponent is ten times stronger than our own, even if there is little hope.
For a very ethereal concept, an illusory thing, a decisive charge.
Dignity and freedom?
He is indeed a true hero, a hero of the sheep orcs. A king cares about power, a warlord loves war and conquest, and a hero is the purest.
But it is also the stupidest.
But sometimes these guys can indeed perform miracles.
As long as what is behind the camp is important to the rat people, as long as what is behind the camp is something that the rat people cannot give up at all.
Then there will only be one choice for the rat generals on the opposite side.
Return to reinforcements and send troops to intercept the sheep orc knights who are running towards the rear.
And the teams sent out didn’t have many choices.
Because the infantry simply couldn't catch up with the running sheep knights.
The only ones sent out are the rat knights.
What Feng wants to do is also very simple. No matter what is behind that makes the rat people pay so much attention to it, it is not his target.
He needs to win this war, not sacrifice himself in a way where they both die together, leaving the opposing generals furious with their incompetence.
The transferred rat knights will bring him an opportunity, an opportunity that is slim but has a little possibility.
Kill the general on the opposite side.
His vision is indeed very vicious. As long as he can kill Rat Zhan, no matter how large the Rat Man's Eastern Expeditionary Force is, the defeat will happen almost instantly.
There is just one problem.
Can he do it?
The high priest style of the sheep orc, he is indeed a hero, but so is the rat war.
Although compared to him, Shu Zhan is simply a negative example, irritable, crazy, and cruel.
But Rat Zhan is still a hero, a hero loyal to his own desires, and a despicable hero.
Did the Sheep Orc High Priest make the right bet?
He made the right bet.
When Rat Zhan saw the direction in which the sheep orcs were going, his face turned green.
Especially when they saw that the 30,000 sheep-orc knights easily broke through the rat-man scavenging team that was following the rat-man army like a dark cloud and walked away.
This group of chaotic and ununited guys has no other role than to serve as cannon fodder.
Shu Zhan’s face suddenly turned ugly.
Even though he was quite bold, he did not dare to leave everything to the temple guards.
If something really goes wrong.
The white rat will never let him go.
And above the white rat, the great god also cast his sight.
That’s it.
Rat War really doesn’t dare to gamble.
In the waving flag.
The Rat Knight was transferred by Rat War.
Just as Nafeng expected, Shu Zhan didn’t have many choices, so did Shu Zhan understand his intentions.
It’s not difficult to guess.
He's not the first guy to block everything and charge decisively into the Rat War.
Rat War has only one comment on such a move.
madness!
Just like that red lizard, it just thought it was right to make sacrifices. If it had been before the melting pot city, that damn red lizard would have never turned back.
Instead, he chose to leave on the dragon and ignore those lizardmen and snakemen. So now, he might still give Rat Zhan a headache.
The fire that has no worries and controls the dragon is something that is quite difficult to handle even if the rat war mobilizes more troops.
But the stupid red lizard chose to look back.
And this damn old sheepman chose to charge decisively at him.
This similar approach made Rat Zhan feel disgusted, sick, and unreasonably angry.
Because he recalled some things he didn’t want to recall, Shu Zhan’s expression unconsciously took on a hint of ferocity and distortion.
“This look is really disgusting!
Who do you think you are!”
Shu Zhan gritted his teeth and said every word.
He's going to kill that guy and skin him to use as a cushion.
At this moment, a blood-red picture appeared behind Shu Zhan. It was his own shadow and a blessing from the gods.
Except for the joke-like blessing from White Rat, Rat Zhan is the only one in the Ratman Kingdom who has truly received the blessing from Du Yuan Zhan.
Compared with the blessings of the Western Expeditionary Army and the Central Expeditionary Army gathered on the battle flag, the blessings of the Rat War fell directly on him.
This is a huge difference.
The blood-red shadow looked down at everything in front of him. In the midst of his angry roar, the rat warriors surrounding Rat Zhan became a little more unreasonable.
Red eyes.
(End of this chapter)