Chapter 166, I, Shu Zhan, am going to be the king of the world!
This is weather the Rat People have never encountered before.
From barren mountains to lush forests to lizardman wetlands, even if the winter is cold, it is not enough to cause heavy snowfall until the rat people break through the towering mountains.
Come to this vast grassland.
The Four Seasons Ranch is already the warmest corner of this vast grassland, but it is a bit unbearable for the rat people.
Although these guys have hair, they don't have enough hair.
This cold weather is a non-fatal but difficult to ignore trouble for the rat people.
The Rat War is still recruiting troops, and the rat warriors who are the main body of the army have been recruited.
Compared to last time, the scale is even larger.
The Rat War is thinking about how to carry out a long-term war on this grassland. The problem of the Rat Man's lack of mobility is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
He couldn't just start turning back, hibernating, and accumulating strength after every war, every time the rat knights suffered a massive loss.
Obviously the rat army in his hands is larger than ever before.
But without the accompanying knights, no matter how large the assembled rat army is, it will still be too cumbersome.
Nothing is fixed in this vast grassland, there are no solid fortresses and no bustling cities.
The advantage brought by the huge Skaven army has been diluted without limit.
Maybe it would be much smoother for Rat Zhan to attack the half-elf kingdom in the rolling hills.
Under his banner and under the spears of the Skaven Supervisory Team, the vast Skaven army was able to smoothly overwhelm the sparse half-elves.
But on this grassland, this is difficult to do.
Only knights can fight against knights.
But the quality of the rat knights is really not an advantage.
If you rely on equipment?
Rat War does not have the resources to equip every rat knight with heavy armor. He cannot do this.
Thinking.
Rat War couldn’t think of any better solution for a while. In fact, there were still not enough resources, not enough sacrifices, and not enough blood mushrooms.
If there are enough blood mushrooms, many things can be solved very easily.
If the scale of the fierce knights in Mouse Zhan's hands can reach as many as 10,000, then many problems will not be considered problems at all.
It's just a pity that it can't be done.
Then some changes have to be made.
Zhu Zhan is not a guy who likes to play it safe. He is radical, bold, and manic, but this vast grassland still forces him to try to change his strategies.
In the cold wave that swept the world overnight, this ugly hairless mouse was particularly sensitive.
Suddenly I shuddered.
I rubbed my paws involuntarily.
Shu Zhan suddenly thought of the guy he left on the grassland, and felt a little regretful.
Originally, he planned to peel off the guy's skin and use it as a cushion. Maybe it would be good as a shawl, which should be quite warm.
Take back your thoughts.
Finally, he made a decision.
He doesn't like the word "play it safe", but now he can only make this choice.
The war is about to escalate.
Forced by the vast scale of this grassland, Rat War changed the strategy of war.
One camp after another will be laid out on this grassland.
Settlements will be established one after another on this grassland, and cities like prairie cities will be built one after another on this grassland.
Since there are no cities or fortresses on this grassland, it will be up to the rat men to leave these behind.
When the vast grassland is divided by camps and fortresses, a huge network is built, with cities as the core. When such a situation occurs, the situation will be reversed.
Rat War has had enough of chasing these slippery guys all over the grassland.
I don’t like to build camps, cities, and fortresses like this to fight a long war.
But if there is really no choice, he would still prefer to build camps, cities, and fortresses.
The decision was made.
This is how this war will continue.
In this freezing moment, the Ratmen in Prairie City started to move because of the order of the biggest man in the city.
Just like the wild boars did when they invaded the lush forest, Rat War will also develop the four-season pasture in front of it.
The Rat Man army was silent. The hairless Rat Zhan hated the cold weather, but the ordinary Rat Men who gathered in Prairie City in large numbers had no choice but to move under his order.
This huge four-season ranch was divided into six areas by Rat War.
In these six areas, Rat War will build six cities.
These six cities are not showy cities, but real cities with temples of gods and capable of cultivating blood mushrooms.
These six cities will be directly taken over by Rat War.
At this time, these huge groups of rats will be the pioneers of these six cities.
Rat War is not prepared to use his own power to open up the city.
But these developed cities will be taken over by him.
But this did not cause much dissatisfaction. It can even be said that there are countless rat people who are willing to do this for Rat War.
Because Rat War has given some conditions that people cannot refuse.
Six cities is obviously not the limit that this huge ranch can carry.
But Shu Zhan’s troops will only be stationed in these six cities, so what about the remaining areas?
These areas will be thrown out by rat wars.
Can be held by any Skaven.
The land is not without value. Although Rat Zhan has always been disdainful of the gains from the land, this manic war maniac is used to grabbing everything in war.
But this does not prevent him from using the land he has acquired and the land that has not yet been acquired as a carrot.
These rat people gathered around him, driven by this carrot, will open up the city for him and fill in the large vacancies near the city for him.
To become part of a long defense line, in the end, half of what you gain will be handed over to his hands. No matter what, promoting this matter will not be a loss for Rat War.
As for whether any Ratmen are willing to take a bite of this carrot, we can only say that a group of guys have already tried it.
The senior priests of those outposts made a lot of money from the lush forests.
But now Rat Zhan has given this opportunity, or in other words, only Rat Zhan has given this opportunity. Well, in fact, in the past, Rat War was not very motivated to do these troublesome things, but this grassland is too vast. In the foreseeable long war, Rat War will need more supplies and more blood. Mushrooms, and a larger reserve force.
On the first day of the cold winter, a group of rat knights sent out by Rat War returned.
They ran wildly towards the depths of this vast grassland for thirty days, but they still could not see the end.
From Prairie City to the Desolate Mountains, the rat knights only need to run for fifteen days to reach it.
Rat Zhan has been trying to calculate the distance of this vast grassland.
For this purpose, he sent many rat knights, but only one rat knight returned safely in the end. The danger on this vast grassland is not small.
But it was this returning rat knight that made him think about the way of war.
The current strategy is the solution he came up with.
But there is no doubt that it will be a revolution.
If it really proceeds as Mouse War envisions, a very serious problem will soon arise.
Of course, it is very easy to restrain a settlement or camp scattered on the grassland.
After all, the temple of the gods will not appear in every settlement and camp.
No matter where the rat people are scattered, they will eventually move closer to the central city where the temple of the gods is built.
This is why the Rat War must firmly grasp the central city.
But this is also the problem.
Now the entire Rat Empire, the underground Rat City, the outpost, the Waste City, the Furnace City, and the newly built Prairie City.
Out of five cities, Shu Zhan has already held two cities in his hands, so in the future, if the six cities on this Four Seasons Ranch are built again, Shu Zhan will hold them in his hands.
Then it is equivalent to Shuzhan having eight cities in his hands.
With the development of the city and the progress and expansion of the war, most of the territory of the Rat Empire will be controlled by Rat War.
So what is the Rat Council in the Underground Rat City, or in other words, what does Rat War want to do?
Who will be the orthodox member of the Skaven Kingdom?
This is undoubtedly a huge problem and an extremely sensitive issue.
But Mouse Zhan didn’t seem to think about this, or in other words, he thought about it, but he still did it.
The White Rat has never restricted the flow of Ratmen in the barren mountains to the two directions of Rat War and Rat Priests.
Compared to the newly built Furnace City, Waste City, and Prairie City.
Undoubtedly, it is the underground rat city in the barren mountains that supports the two-front war.
But now Rat War has used the rat people flowing out of the barren mountains to try to practice the act of transcendence.
This is undoubtedly a dangerous signal.
Rat War He is too far away from the barren mountains now, and also too far away from the white rat.
In the prairie city, Rat Zhan gathered the big-clawed priests, the captain of the scavenging team, and the rat-man priests with exaggerated expressions.
A generous promise.
Undoubtedly, many guys are excited.
Deep in the grassland, at a location circled by the rat war, a large number of rat people started construction on this grassland.
Rat War will not provide any support to city buildings.
The construction went smoothly at first, and most of the Skaven city was buried under the earth.
In the cold weather, the land was harder than usual, and the excavation went smoothly until the depth of the excavation continued to increase. This loose land without any support became a big problem.
Of course the city of the Skaven is not built on unsupported tunnels.
Especially in this loose soil.
What is simply excavated from the soil is not a city at all, but a living coffin that may collapse at any time. Even the Rat Man will not stay in such a dangerous building.
In fact, in order to prevent chain collapse, a large amount of wood is used to support the tunnels dug by the Rat Men. Even recently, in order to ensure safety and stability, the underground Rat City has gradually begun to use metal to support the city.
You must know that a city of ratmen is far from being populated by such a rare number as 12,000 ratmen.
Take the underground rat city as an example. There is no accurate number of how many rat people are entrenched in this complex and huge city so far, but it exceeds, but at least it is more than 30 million. Although these three thousand Two-thirds of the 10,000-strong population are populated by slave rats.
It is also an extremely huge number.
This is why the Skaven can support the war in both directions at the same time.
Even the war in both directions is currently supported by the two rat cities in the barren mountains.
Although it is certainly unlikely that this newly built city will expand to the level of the underground rat city, it is obvious that Rat War will not accept such a shoddy project.
Having trouble with supporting materials.
There are no tall trees in this vast grassland.
They cannot use metal pillars as extravagantly as the Underground Rat City.
The Rat War has a time requirement. Even though this guy doesn't like winter, he is still ready to take action after the recruitment of the army in his hands gradually comes to an end.
Even though Mouse War is quite bold, he still feels a little guilty when tinkering with such a thing, especially after he made the decision on a whim in the next few days and gradually realized what he was doing.
For this reason, he urgently needs a big victory. It is best to directly destroy a temple of a heretic god and hold a grand ceremony in front of the great god at the temple.
Of course he cannot allow these guys to slowly find solutions.
If you can't do that, just change another batch. Anyway, there are many rat people who want these lands.
He urgently needed time now before the rat could react.
Under the pressure of the rat war, these rat priests, big claw priests, and rat scavenger team captains chose a material that had never been tried before.
They began to mine stone strips on the towering mountains that separated grasslands and wetlands.
In fact, the rat people have always been good at mining and using rocks, because the stone paintings that are popular among the priests should be the carvings of the gods' patterns.
But it is the first time to use it to build a city.
It's not easy.
But simply, the Big Claw Priest joined in this construction, and a large number of slave rats were driven up the mountains in the biting cold weather.
There is not much safety protection, no warmth, and no auxiliary machinery, even though the pulleys and gears have long been tinkered with by the rat priests and used in war machinery.
There are just endless slave rats.
Amidst the clanging sound and the whipping, the construction of the city finally began.
This is another bold attempt by Rat War.
Of course, Mouse Zhan may not have thought that much at first, and was just using this method to add pressure to the war, but when he came to his senses, he did not stop this behavior.
I just felt a little more impatient in my nervousness and wanted to put this matter behind me completely.
But what he didn't know was that on the third day after he made his decision, the news was sent to the white mouse.
(End of this chapter)