Chapter 179, March of the Banner
Wolf orcs cannot live without salt. Salt and metal are their most important tools for harvesting other races.
They are not stupid. Complete oppression will breed the most violent resistance, even if they have crushing force.
At this time, some special means are needed.
Just like the extremely unfair trade, before the argali tribe was destroyed, a metal scimitar could be exchanged for ten sheep, and a bag of salt was worth fifty.
Of course you don't have to change it, but salt is a necessity, and so is the metal machete.
Plus some small means.
The price of the machete sold by the wolf orcs to the sheep orcs is twelve sheep, two of which will be handed over to the argali tribe.
As for the reason.
Who makes the argali tribe our allies, while you orcs are just vassals?
Small means, but very effective.
This is the key to making this salt lake extremely important. Even if they retreated to avoid the rat people, the wolf orcs did not really withdraw from the area where this salt lake exists.
………….
Qi led the silent team behind him, marching on this vast grassland.
His approach has not changed, and the effect is still as good.
"Follow me! Follow me! I will bring changes to you! Dedicate your loyalty to me!"
In shouting again and again, and in emphasizing again and again, more and more defective slave rats are facing He offered his loyalty.
Start calling his name.
Started to stare at the simple flag behind him.
They chose the flag and followed him across a long distance. They killed those who still hesitated and maintained their precious hope.
Become a barely serviceable army.
A group of humble guys who have no qualifications but are ignited by desire.
Of course, if Rat Zhan sees this army, he will laugh at it, even if it is not easy for these defective slave rats to achieve this step.
The weak will always be weak, and the weak will always be weak.
But Qi didn't have a choice. The only ones he could choose were these humble and weak slave rats.
The scene in front of me changed, and finally it was no longer the same green color.
It’s hard to say whether this change is good or bad.
What strikes the eye is a pale, lifeless paleness.
The stretches of white cover almost everything that can be seen in this rat-man army.
This is the first time the Rat people have seen such a scene.
In this white, the silent army behind them also showed a little more hesitation.
They have been trekking hard on this empty grassland for thirty days. During the long march, except for the shouting of flags, there are almost no other sounds in this team, leading them to Feeling a bit depressed.
This is a bad state, the state brought by the flag.
During the long journey, Qi was more shaken and confused than the group of inferior slave rats under him.
He is not as arrogant and determined as Shu Zhan.
After the initial hesitation, I began to waver in my decision.
The long march still faces the vast and seemingly endless grassland.
Becoming confused.
This state was brought to the army he led, and to the slave rats who followed him.
Qi took the lead to sort out his situation, turned around, and shouted loudly to the rat people behind him.
"Forward! Forward!"
He took the lead and rushed towards the pale land in front of him. Later, the disabled slave rats also followed the flag and set foot on this pale land.
The journey ahead was not smooth. In just a few days, half of the army in hand was lost.
The area he chose was not wrong. There were enemies he was looking for and there were traces of them. There was just one problem. There seemed to be more enemies here than he expected. There were far too many. .
Just half a day into this pale area, he encountered a patrol of wolf orcs, leaving only half of the army behind.
Being chased awkwardly, he finally managed to escape with his remaining troops by jumping into this huge salt-alkali lake.
It wasn't until nightfall that they dared to lead the army to climb up carefully from the salt-alkali lake. The broken armor on their bodies had long been abandoned. In order to swim faster, the hair on their bodies was covered with white. grains of salt.
My eyes were red and stinging.
Only the rough flag in my hand was not thrown down.
Obviously, the troops in his hands are not enough to challenge the wolf orcs in this area.
Looking embarrassed.
Clenched his teeth.
The bitterness that had not dissipated in his mouth did not wake Qi up.
He made his choice early.
Between death and becoming a Skaven Warlord, he chose to become a Skaven Warlord.
The eyes were red, the face was ferocious, and he was waving the flag crazily.
In the sight of the bets directed at him, in front of the rat men who were gradually becoming fanatical, they were waving the flags in their hands ferociously and crazily.
The fanatical shouts of the slave rats echoed on the shores of this unremarkable salt lake.
Qi finally looked a bit like a warlord at this moment.
The arrival of the rat men made the wolf-orcs in this salt-alkali lake a little more wary, but the same doubt also appeared in the hearts of the wolf-orc leaders guarding here.
Why is the enemy they are waiting for so weak?
The wolf knights with only 800 people chased the nearly 30,000 rat troops, and even forced the rat general and his army to jump into the salt lake to escape for their lives.
Long thinking did not yield results, but he could not give up on this salt-alkali lake.
The salt-alkali lake in his hands is quite important, and he will never give up until he has to.
The wolf orcs are not monolithic, and there are also struggles. The amount of resources determines the right to speak.
The young king of the wolf orcs gave an order to evacuate all the wolf orc tribes in this area.
He did not fully comply.
The wolf orcs have strengthened their patrols in the Salt Lake area to guard against the possible arrival of large enemy forces.
As for the rat troop that was being chased by eight hundred wolf knights, and the rat general who led the rat troop.
However, no trace was found, so he had to give up, probably escape, and focus more on guarding against the large enemy forces that might appear on the grassland.
Wolf knights were dispatched to the grassland to provide early warning.
But what the wolf orc leader didn't know was that the guy who led the weak troops suddenly appeared in front of him and never left the city.
And has already focused his red eyes on him.
The hard salt-alkali land was dug out, and caves were opened up one after another, hidden on the shore of the gray salt-alkali lake.
Hiding in the cave during the day, and heading deeper along the lake shore at night.
After seven full days, Qi led the remaining rat troops into the core of the salt lake.
He finally saw what he was looking for, each large and small wolf orc tribe.
I also found my goal.
In the center of the largest wolf orc tribe, the most gorgeous tent is located, with a giant wolf flag fluttering in the wind.
(End of this chapter)