Chapter 183, the beginning of the terrifying rat plague, the sadistic rat war, and the germination of rat mercenaries
The war broke out between Sumeru.
Everyone has something they can’t let go of.
The wolf-orc tribe guarding the salt-alkali lake could not let go of the pale lake. Even if their king gave orders and did not hesitate to disobey them, they still lingered around the salt-alkali lake with nostalgia, unwilling to leave.
Because of their power, all their power depends on this pale lake.
This is the case for this wolf-orc tribe, and the same is true for the wolf-orc king.
Rat War found a central area where many wolf orcs gathered.
It is located in the absolute depths of the grassland and needs to cross the entire distance of the four-season pasture to reach it.
No one could have imagined that Shu Zhan would be able to find this place, not even Shu Zhan himself.
There is no problem with the strategy of the Wolf Beastman King, if there are not many tails left behind.
The god of the wolf orcs especially likes gold, and the young king of the wolf orcs also inherited this hobby from the god.
And in this mortal world, if you are looking for that dazzling gold, there is only one thing that can be given, gold.
The wolf-orc king especially loved gold. Holding these dazzling golden colors made the young wolf-orc king feel like he was holding the dazzling sun.
There are not many gold mines on this barren grassland. One gold mine near the Four Seasons Pasture has been preserved.
After being noticed by the Skaven, a group of Skaven Knights visited the place.
One of the many tails left by the wolf orc was held by Rat Zhan.
A heavy wheel track stretches deep into the grassland as Rat Zhan watches.
This hidden gold mine received a visit from the rat people. The killing was accompanied by flames, and a simple altar was piled up by the rat people.
The dazzling golden color that made the wolf-orc king unable to extricate himself and refused to let go was scattered around this mine like garbage.
The rat people have little interest in these heavy yet soft yellow stones.
The corpses of wolf orcs were piled on this simple altar, and bright red blood flowed out, causing bursts of commotion.
Many new Skaven warriors who joined the army witnessed their great leader's extravagant moves for the first time.
Fresh sacrifices were beheaded, blood flowed freely, and corpses were piled on the altar of the gods.
This is a crude sacrifice, and there is not even a professional rat priest to preside over it.
But the effect achieved is almost the same, in the eye-catching bright red, in the piled corpses, in the wanton waste.
The eyes of these rat warriors who set foot on the battlefield for the first time were a little more excited about the flowing red and the piled corpses.
Breathing becomes rapid unconsciously.
If the wolves and beasts are obsessed with gold, then the rat people are obsessed with the bright red. The brighter it is, the more beautiful it is, and the scarlet the more elegant it is.
In this scarlet that caught my eye, I became fanatical, as if I had glimpsed everything I could get.
It’s just that this enthusiasm hasn’t completely risen yet.
Even if it was completely suppressed by a ferocious flag, it was a black flag depicting complex patterns. It was placed high on top of the corpses piled up in front of the altar of the god, declaring the affiliation of these sacrifices, and making anyone who didn't The supposed fanaticism became calm.
This is the flag of the Rat War.
This is also the first lesson Shu Zhan teaches his subordinates.
The ruts extended deep into the grassland. The rat knight ran wildly for a long time without finding an end. This tail would not affect anything most of the time.
Is there really any guy who would lead his army through the vast no man's land just because of a rut?
Do we really not need to take into account the risks and dangers that may exist along the way?
The corpses piled up in front of the altar have not yet rotted, and the huge rat-man army has already moved forward again, towards the vastness. Deep in the grassland.
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When Shu Zhan led the main army into the depths of the grassland.
Large batches of slave rats also started to move.
The arrival of those senior rat priests is not without any benefit to the rat war.
The scavenging team took over the matter of reselling the loot.
Even if both parties hate each other.
However, the two tasks of transporting the supplies of the Rat War army and purchasing the trophies of the Rat War army still fell into the hands of these rat lords.
The alliance of senior rat priests has fallen apart, and these guys also have to seek something practical for themselves.
They do these things more professionally than those messy rat scavengers.
The Skaven Priests have been the group responsible for mobilizing and transporting resources a long time ago.
Although this matter was recently taken over by the Great Claw Priest.
But there is no conflict. Most of the Big Claw priests are subordinate to the rat priests.
The Big Claw Priests are more disunified than the Skaven Priests, but this disunity is not due to chaotic internal fighting, but the Big Claw Priests group has been torn apart by the Skaven Priests. There are just countless large and small groups.
Because of that obscure dominion.
Countless Big Claw priests gathered under the command of each rat priest.
Now, senior rat priests have come to this vast grassland and transformed themselves into rat lords.
The matter of acquiring and transporting the trophies of the rat army was taken over by these rat lords.
As for this phenomenon, Shu Zhan turns a blind eye and closes one eye.
Without him, this group of senior rat priests who took office as rat lords also had an ability that he couldn't refuse just like the group of temple guards.
Entrust the logistics to the rat warlords who are not up to par with his subordinates.
One blood mushroom can only be exchanged for one resource.
Leave it to those rat scavengers.
One blood mushroom can be exchanged for two resources.
But to these Skaven Lords.
One blood mushroom can be exchanged for five resources.
Rat War doesn’t want to worry about where these extra resources come from. With such a price, even hatred cannot be temporarily put aside.
These damn guys are really rich.
He couldn't refuse such a price, it was too much.
It's just that this is a pain for the various guys who came to follow the rat war.
But there is no way. Because of Shu Zhan’s disgust, the mouse priests would not appear by Shu Zhan’s side, nor could they appear by Shu Zhan’s side. As the two sides parted ways, these people around Shu Zhan Things that should have been occupied by the rat priests were naturally spilled out.
The young priests, big-clawed priests, slave rats, and the marginalized rat priests who came after hearing the news were separated.
But as the Rat War was being attacked, his old enemies had to squeeze into one place.
The rat priests will naturally begin to gather these interests that belong to them.
No one expected such a change, but after it actually happened, they had no choice but to accept it.
A large piece of the cake on the vast grassland was taken away by these guys who suddenly appeared, taking it away from the hands of the most vulnerable rat scavengers.
The rat scavengers were unable to resist, but they were unwilling to give up.
Of course they don’t want to go back to the past after having already eaten the broth.
There are not many roads left.
Either catch up with the rat war and follow the commander to plunder in the war.
Or just focus on the vast grassland in front of you.
More and more rat scavengers set out from the city and began to follow the footsteps of the rat war.
More and more Ratmen were chasing behind Rat Zhan.
But at the same time, more rats chose the latter.
Vast numbers of rat men set foot on the grassland one after another.
It is foreseeable that in the near future, you will be able to see traces of rat men everywhere in this grassland.
This is not a good thing, after all, these guys are never here to promote friendship.
The Rat War has not yet defeated the overlord of the grasslands in this area, but the harm caused by the rat people to this grassland has begun to spread.
A foreseeable disaster has entered the formal accumulation stage.
A horrific rat plague.
The unscrupulous rat war is not very sure what kind of opening it has opened. This is the power gathered by countless desperate and wailing low-level rat people.
These guys are the real majority in the Skaven Kingdom.
A large number of rat-men gathered into teams of various sizes, leaving the rat-men cities standing on the grassland, either with confusion or with desire. .
They are all humble people who are not looked down upon.
They are also the beneficiaries of this ongoing change.
Du Yuan's relaxation of blood mushrooms is still changing everything in the Ratman Kingdom. The blessings dropped by the gods finally benefited these poor humble guys.
These ignorant and humble guys will not understand the reason for all this, but their choice was made early.
Great God!
This sentence was shouted out in a remote corner of this vast grassland, at a simple sacrifice.
A group of wandering rat-men captured a fox-man tribe entrenched in this hidden corner, and suffered serious losses. Most of the rat-men fell in this fox-men tribe.
But the face of the guy who survived was filled with joy.
A simple altar was built by these guys.
An altar is not standardized and even has errors in its patterns, but these rat men are willing to push the fox slaves who have completed the capture onto the altar.
In devout prayers, these surviving ratmen gave out fanatical shouts.
"Great God! Great God!"
These guys who were still humble and crawling in the darkness before could not express any more prayers at all.
A line about the great gods was mentioned over and over again.
But their expressions were so fanatical and pious.
And this kind of thing is still happening all over this vast grassland at this time.
Whether this is a great change, or even whether it will be a successful change, is a certainty that has no answer.
The war may end, and these guys may be beaten back to their original appearance by those superior guys at any time, crawling back to the dark corners.
But at this time, at least at this time, these guys finally have the right to call the gods.
Great God! Bless us!
Great God! Please protect us!
Fanatical shouts, pious shouts.
Of course, if possible, other races on this grassland will undoubtedly raise objections.
Every tribe and every race, in the foreseeable future, will be swept away and swallowed up by this brewing torrent.
The transformation of the rat people will come at the cost of this vast grassland and all the lives on this vast grassland.
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After crossing the distance of a four-season pasture, Rat War arrived at the true hinterland of the wolf orcs.
It’s not like I wasn’t warned.
An army of this size simply cannot hide its presence in this open grassland.
Being noticed by the wolf beasts early.
The rat war did not capture the regular army of wolf orcs. To be precise, they did not capture even a larger tribe.
These guys are very chicken thieves, and they simply won’t go head-to-head with Rat Zhan.
This huge and bloated army simply cannot catch up with these wolf orcs who fled with their families and their families.
But this time the rat war was not impatient at all.
Along the way, Shu Zhan destroyed many mineral veins that were being mined by the wolf orcs, and there was even a coal vein that Shu Zhan had been looking for for a long time.
But he didn't focus on these insignificant things.
As long as he wins this war, as long as he kills these damn guys, can there be any objection to the ownership of these things?
And since iron ore can be mined, Rat War is very curious about where these guys put their metal smelting places.
Can those blast furnaces burning with flames be dragged away?
Run? Are you able to run everything?
He focused his gaze deep into the grassland and showed a ferocious smile.
The huge army of ratmen was rampaging in the hinterland of the wolf orcs, and at the same time, a large number of ratman knights were sent out.
The wolf orcs discovered the rat man's intentions, and a large number of wolf orc knights were recruited, surrounding the outside of the huge rat man army and fighting with the running rat man knights.
But in the battle, they were at a disadvantage.
With the huge rat army behind them, the rat knights suppressed the wolf orc knights, and their basic overall quality was inferior to these running wolf orc knights.
Among them, the number is constantly rising, soaring to 5,000, and the fierce knight has become the absolute star among them.
These running wolf orc knights have nothing to do with these heavily armed iron cans.
And the speed of these ferocious giant rats is much faster than the giant wolves that these wolf orc knights rely on.
The wolf-orc knights who chased the huge rat-man army suffered heavy losses.
Rat War used the scattered rat knights as bait and began to strangle the annoying flies surrounding him.
Not long after, the wolf knights chasing the rat army came to a more distant and safer distance.
It also makes it easier for the Skaven Knights to explore their surroundings.
During the rampage, Rat Zhan found what he was looking for.
Of course the blast furnace of the wolf orcs is not mobile, even if in order to deal with the intrusion of the rat people, that important area has not been lit with fire for some time.
But he was still found by Rat Zhan.
For the first time, the wolf orcs in this area no longer fled, but gathered together. A huge team of wolf knights stood in front of Rat Zhan.
To protect the area behind you.
That important industrial area.
This is what Shu Zhan wants to see. With a ferocious smile, Shu Zhan announced his march. There is no more command for this huge and bloated army and no more command is needed.
It was a black rat-man with no end in sight.
Perhaps there were two pieces. Behind the regular rat army, an equally large group of rat scavengers also started to charge.
Even though there are many wolf orc knights gathered in front of them.
With approximately 60,000 people, this is already the largest cavalry team that Rat War has encountered on this grassland.
But the army in Shu Zhan's hands is no longer what it used to be.
Absolute quantity brings absolute advantage.
The continuous stream of rat people is enough to wear away all courage and confidence.
At the last moment, the commander of this wolf knight team lost his courage. Amidst the waving flags, this huge wolf knight missed the rushing rat army.
Not resigned, but lacking the courage, he wandered around the rat army, witnessing this huge rat army coming like a tsunami and engulfing the industrial area he was guarding.
But after all, I still don’t have the courage to launch a charge with almost no possibility of victory.
In Rat Zhan’s angry expression.
"Damn coward!"
Anger roared in the center of the army.
The industrial area of the wolf orcs was pushed into ruins by the rat men.
The wolf orcs are quite wealthy.
Even though this robbery did not result in many slaves, the various weapons and resources abandoned by the wolf orcs in the industrial area still made the rat people extremely excited.
Because of the evasive strategy of the wolf orcs, the rat army following the rat war has not used meat for a long time.
Until now, I was rummaging through the ruins for anything useful.
Various weapons and armor have become the first items that the rat warriors search for. Although they will not use these items, the purchasers who arrive later will still be very picky. Grabbed him.
These acquirers organized by the rat lords also have an advantage that the rat warriors cannot resist.
That is settled on the spot.
Bags of blood mushrooms will be put on the battlefield in exchange for the trophies in the hands of these rat warriors. This is simply impossible to refuse.
As for the gains from the Rat War, in the future, a large team of rat transport teams will come here and transport away all the piles of iron materials and piles of coal mines piled in the ruins.
These things will soon be turned into weapons and sent to the hands of Rat Zhan.
The rat war lords have given more generous conditions for the rat war. Of course, this will only be given if it is profitable.
They will provide supplies to Rat War at the price of five supplies and one blood mushroom, but they will purchase the trophies of the rat army at the price of one blood mushroom and ten supplies.
In the end, a considerable portion of these trophies will be returned and sold back to Rat War.
No matter what, this is a good deal.
Of course, there will be certain risks, that is, the risk of being attacked. Rat War will not guarantee the security of this transaction.
He will deliver the blood mushrooms when the things arrive anyway.
Limited by the contract signed with Rat War, they were unable to organize their own troops, so some large rat scavenger teams were organized.
Of course, these rat lords, like Rat Zhan, don't think highly of this rabble.
But in order to earn the blood mushrooms from Rat War, there is no better way for the time being.
More stringent requirements have been put forward for these rat-man scavenging teams.
Under this opportunity, a group of truly professional rat mercenaries began to appear on this vast grassland.
(End of this chapter)