Chapter 249, the guys who promote the change of the times
The rat people never mind taking advantage of the situation. The problems exposed on the city wall have successfully made the rat war more aggressive. If this guy sees the opportunity, then Stud will Being carried on even though meet stud is not a very good practice.
Many things are not ready yet, and the same is true for the rat people. The tunnels dug, the arrangement of the rat people in the city, the treatment of the same people on this continent, the consumption of morale of the city defenders, Spread out your team to deal with possible enemy attacks from other directions.
Many things need to be prepared and left behind. This siege is just a trial. Although Rat Zhan doesn’t mind turning this trial directly into a brutal fight, in fact he also This is indeed the case.
The ratmen appeared continuously from the darkness, densely packed, clinging to the towering city wall like ants. The huge trebuchet stopped throwing. The boulders and swollen ratmen had been exhausted. The huge trebuchet The machine had to stop.
The military mages on the city wall finally had their hands free. All kinds of spells fell, mostly fireballs, magic missiles, and other gadgets, but they also made the rat warriors who climbed the city wall miserable. Word.
The situation suddenly became bad for the rat people.
But in the face of such a situation, the order to withdraw troops still did not fall.
A crowd of rat warriors were driven to the front of the city in the crowd and began to climb up the city wall.
The corpses of the rat men fell like raindrops and piled up in front of the city wall. It was not without breaking points.
On a section of the city wall, the rat warriors who rushed up the city wall successfully gained a foothold. In the chaotic battle, they fought together and once threatened to destroy the battlefield.
But they were pushed over by the magic knights who held up large shields, formed a queue, and shone with dazzling magic. This group of knights blessed by various magics showed His own strength was like a bulldozer on the battlefield, almost forcefully pushing back the rat people who were swarming up the city wall.
There is no way to retreat, and they will soon be pushed off the city wall. The eyes of this group of rat men gradually turned red.
They just want to survive. These first batch of guys pushed to the battlefield and the front line by Shu Zhan are all guys who are unqualified in Shu Zhan’s eyes. They are filled with a lot of young people. rat man.
Pushed to the front line of the cruel battlefield, he instinctively climbed up the towering city wall and fought with the defenders on the wall, just to survive.
Now this situation was pushed to the limit and began to become frenzied. Some rat men began to lift up the various clay pots piled in the corners of the rear city wall and throw them while roaring.
The rat warriors were still climbing up the city wall in a steady stream. The clay pots were broken on the knight's armor and also shattered by the surging rat men.
A rat man knocked over the torch on the city wall. Amidst the terrified screams, the place was in chaos. The madness in his eyes seemed so worthless in the face of this substantial and diffuse flame. Mention it.
Ratmen kept falling off the city wall while screaming.
It’s just that the city wall is towering enough. Falling from such a height means death. Maybe you can bring one or two unlucky people with you to die, but the result should not change significantly. .
Even if you are lucky enough to survive, the Ratmen are still coming in a steady stream. If you don't get up as soon as possible, you will be trampled without hesitation.
Trampled by the black tide, it became a shapeless pool of flesh and blood on the ground.
On the city wall, all the rat men were pushed off the city wall. The flames did not cause serious damage to these magic knights. The armor on their bodies greatly blocked the terrifying temperature as they stepped out of the flames.
It is far from the end. During this period of time, the Eastern Expeditionary Army has accumulated a sufficient number of rat men.
The tentative attack of the rat men lasted for a day and a night, with uninterrupted attacks. During this period, some hidden rat men in the city noticed this, and even came out to attack the city. Abuse.
All of a sudden, it caused a huge commotion in the city, but Rat Zhan was not satisfied with the emergence of this group of rat people, and was even angry, and no longer hesitated.
With the waving of flags.
A hidden team started running, running underground, digging underground and attacking on the ground at the same time. It is not surprising that this huge city has structures to deal with underground attacks. , after all, many years ago, there was no shortage of dwarves on this continent who were good at digging underground passages, and there were always ratmen active on the main continent.
The underground of the city is dotted with many stone pillars depicting complex patterns. These stone pillars can solidify the earth, which troubles the Rat Man's excavation. However, as time goes by, some stone pillars are damaged. At the same time, some tunnels dug by the Skaven on the main continent were also discovered and used.
It’s just that these tunnels are not big, and not many ratmen can travel through them at one time.
Even though ratmen continue to enter the huge city in front of them through the winding underground tunnels, they have never accumulated enough scale.
Even though they were preparing to intensify the rat war, they did not use this army. They were preparing to give the humans in the city a surprise, but the surprise was interrupted by the idiots in the city. .
Those excited idiots began to spread flames in the city, killing wantonly, attracting the Holy See knights wandering in the city. In an instant, they dispersed in a rush and disappeared into this huge and complex city. .
But the troops deployed by Rat War were in bad luck. A neat army of rat men had just broken the drainage guardrail in the city square and filed out of the dirty sewer. It was the front He met the church knight who was rushing towards him.
Amid sharp roars, the two sides collided, because Rat Zhan was prepared for a melee with the human side in the underground tunnels after these tunnels were discovered. A group of his personal guards were all There are appearances in this team.
These idiots were really stupid. Not only did they lead the Holy See Knight to the exit of the tunnel, they also dispersed in an instant. The Rat War Guards in pitch-black armor roared and charged at the knight troop that was running wildly in front of them. The two sides collided and fought fiercely, and more City Guards were mobilized.
The personal guards that Rat War smashed out with a large number of blood mushrooms are indeed fierce.
But faced with such a situation, he was helpless and fell down unwillingly. Soon, the underground tunnel was temporarily filled with magic by the arriving mage.
The Skaven's underground attack failed in vain.
Unable to break through, this tentative attack reached a stalemate. The Rat War began to withdraw troops. Before the real war started, there were still some preparations that needed to be made. It became meaningless to continue the stalemate here. The species retreated a few minutes faster than when they arrived, leaving corpses on the ground, most of them ratmen's.
These corpses even raised the ground by a section, which seemed to be a great victory.
But in fact, the rat people who died in this trial cannot even be remembered by Rat Zhan for even one second, they are just some guys not worth mentioning.
The Skaven Priests did not appear in this conflict. They have not officially arrived in this area, or in other words, they have not officially been integrated into the Eastern Expeditionary Force. The contradiction between the two sides still exists. , in that full mobilization, they were also thrown into the battlefield as a force, but Rat War and the rat priests were not in harmony.
The Rat Priests did not take the initiative to cause trouble for Rat Zhan. They consciously did not appear in Rat Zhan's sight and began to deal with various logistics-related matters for the Eastern Expeditionary Force.
Without a backbone, they could not get together, and those senior rat priests who were qualified to be leaders and had not taken office as rat lords were all destroyed in the grassland battle. All the most warlike thorns among the senior rat priests were lost. They are all radicals, and in a war, all these guys will die.
Very conscientious and well aware of current affairs, these rat priests who arrived under Rat War lowered their heads obediently. As the true intellectuals in the rat empire, these guys are excellent in logistics management.
It also comes from the common suspicion of the rat people. Even though the big claw priests generally crawl in front of the rat priests to help them deal with various things, no rat priests will truly delegate their authority. Even if the Big Claw Priests under his command do not actually intervene in the workshops and the running caravans, these guys can control the flow and details of the goods and the operation of the workshops and caravans. Make sure the door is clear.
They have their own network, and they can efficiently convert the gains in the areas occupied by the rat war into blood mushrooms.
For example, at this time, the dark forest outside the golden wilderness has been sold out by these rat priests. Among them, this forest can be roughly divided into two types of things, minerals, land, and minerals. Most of them are purchased by various rat priests. To some extent, these guys have foresight. They have a tendency to invest in the future, perhaps because of greed.
The rat lord who purchased the copper mines on the vast grassland miraculously turned around, and the dazzling blood gold still turned over and was imbued with a sacred meaning. Although this holiness was not recognized by the great god, its dazzling golden color was still The rat people liked it quite a lot, especially the temple guards who started using blood gold to build the temple, just because of the dazzling brilliance.
It seems that the rat people are beginning to like the golden color.
This caused the value of the two ores that made up the blood gold to increase several times in an instant. However, gold was also golden, and it was naturally golden, but the rat people had no feeling for gold.
They seem to think that gold is a little too soft. The soft gold cannot carry the glory of the great gods at all. Moreover, the gods on the grasslands generally like gold. This may be the reason why they think about gold. One of the reasons for being indifferent.
Gold has another name in the Rat Man Empire, fake gold.
Such examples gave the rat priests enough room for imagination, and with the establishment of rat workshops, various ores have indeed become a number of good commodities.
The mines one after another have become good bargaining chips in the hands of the rat priests.
As for the land, the land is even more marketable. Every piece of land released will be taken over at an extremely fast speed by ratmen who want to become ranchers. The deeper reason is the temple guard's platform. The temple guards are deliberately cultivating those rat ranchers.
Nowadays, the rat ranches have almost fallen everywhere in the vast grassland. While they provide stable income to the lords of the rat cities, they also provide extremely deformed people. The Skaven Empire has brought a sense of ability to withstand risks. Of course, for the temple guards, the more important point is that the sacrifices floating in the blood pools in the city temples also rely on these Skaven ranches to provide.
Not every city is located on the front line and can enjoy the resources brought by the war. Not every city occupies a dangerous pass like Prairie City and can enjoy the benefits brought by business.
Ordinary rat-man cities always have to face a serious problem. There are no sacrifices, the blood pools in the temples of gods are so empty, blood mushrooms no longer produce and grow, and the city is unsustainable.
The temple guards also have to accept the torture of this question. No sacrifices were offered in the temple, so what is the need to maintain this temple?
The Skaven Ranch is a possibility to alleviate this problem, providing the most basic output, and also providing the necessity for the existence of the fallen temple and the temple guards stationed in the temple.
The temple guards discovered this problem, so they spared no effort to promote the decline of the Skaven Ranch. Currently, only the temple guards pay attention to this problem. Those high-ranking guys in the Skaven Empire are still more accustomed to fighting in wars. It is too easy to obtain from the enemy. As long as the war can be won, everything from the other party can be easily seized. Even if their nature has changed, those who have become the rat lords still have no inertia in this situation. Turning around, the city in their hands is only used as a commercial transfer station for them.
Build breeding houses, build blast furnaces and workshops, produce rat people and weapons, and then use caravans to divide everything obtained in the war.
This is of course an excellent cycle, but the temple guards are not able to fully devote themselves to such a cycle. They are also the beneficiaries of this cycle, but their structure and power require them to move each building one after another. The temples must be pushed away, and the prosperity of each temple must be ensured.
As a result, they began to resolutely promote this plan and promote the structure of the Ratman Ranch.
Of course, the temple guards also have small ideas to increase their influence.
However, this is indeed a turning point of the times and an important node in the ratman civilization.
But it is driven by the temple guards, the most fanatical and devout believers of the great god.
(End of this chapter)