Chapter 256, Qualified Guys
The manic rat war continued this surging tide. The rat warriors climbed the towering city walls day and night, and the guards on the city walls He was also forced to fight the rat people day and night.
The red eyes are paired with sharp neighing, and the fighting is boundless and has no end in sight, as if it wants to destroy people's sanity at the same time.
On the fourth day, another round of illumination hits the sky. What you see is still the endless gray-black tide. Even with a certain rotation, this cruel battle still seems like an eternal cycle. nightmare.
Close your eyes and you will feel like you are back on the city wall again.
The eyes were bloodshot and became as scarlet as the eyes of the rat people.
On the other side, the rat warriors are also facing this problem. After all, the rat warriors are also intelligent creatures, not mindless and indifferent undead, nor rigid constructs.
Swarmed in the dark tide, without any rest, being carried forward. As time goes by, the initial excitement gradually fades away, and fear, worry, fear, and cowardly character gradually take over. leading.
But the Rat Man Supervisory Team did not stop their actions, and these despicable guys could only continue to move forward.
The meticulous movements formed a neat formation, falling behind all the rat men. As long as the rat men supervise the team to start moving forward, unless the order from the rat war is given, the progress will be blocked. Keep it going.
Don't try to challenge them, they are also trampling on the corpses and trampling on the corpses of the rat men.
Despair, in the end, this is the only emotion left to most ratmen, and it also makes them more dangerous. A qualified warrior, a qualified soldier, does not need those wandering brains. , don't be afraid, just wave the weapon and you will be qualified.
The fighting between the two sides reached the most cruel moment on the fourth day. The rat men stood firm on the city walls and fought with the human guards who were also numb and painful. There was no retreat, no fear, both sides They all have a pair of scarlet eyes, staring at each other.
The city guards began to mobilize the resting soldiers who had been rotated out. During the brutal battle, blood flowed freely on the city walls, and the mottled magic aura disappeared on this battlefield. Even though the elements were becoming increasingly abundant, Active, but this seemingly endless spell-casting drained their mental energy, and they could no longer provide any support to this battlefield.
However, the Rat Man's war equipment has also reached its limit. There are no longer huge rocks roaring in the sky. In continuous operation, these rough and complicated equipment are faster than the city defenders in Mountain Dew City. The limit has been reached.
The huge trebuchets collapsed and disintegrated amidst the harsh sound of metal twisting, almost sending most of the Big Claw priests who controlled these war machines to meet the gods.
The Big Claw Priest no longer controls the instruments. Even if he faces the ferocious face of the manic Rat Zhan, these things have reached their limit. If they continue to operate them, the result will only be death.
But Rat Zhan didn't care about this. In his frenzy, a large number of Big Claw priests were hanged by him on the spot.
This is not a good move, but Rat Zhan in this state obviously doesn't care what such a move will bring to him.
Of course, these big-claw priests are nothing, not only to him, but also to the situation of the war.
Even if they are all hanged now, a new batch of Big Claw Priests will arrive soon.
It is not him who is pushing this war, it is the old guy in the barren mountains who is pushing this war.
Of course this is nothing. To him, it is just that starting from today, Rat War can be regarded as no friendly force in the Rat Empire.
Even among the Great Claw Priests, his reputation is about to take a turn for the worse.
The Skaven Priests, the Great Claw Priests, the Temple Guards, the Skaven Lords, which even include the Skaven Warlords in his own hands.
Not a single friend, not all of them, had any ill intentions towards this arrogant fellow.
Well, it’s not like no one likes Rat War. There are actually many admirers and supporters of Rat War, including those rat ranchers, rat mercenary leaders, and rat free people.
Rat War is indeed a legend. He used his arrogance to personally knock a crack in the solid wall and opened a narrow road for those despicable guys. Of course he will be worshiped. and admiration.
It’s just that this guy is too arrogant. He doesn’t like and doesn’t care about these guys who appear because of him. He abandons them casually and watches these guys being held in the hands of the temple guards. During this period, he doesn’t even look at them more. One glance showed reluctance.
On the high platform, Rat War was still waving the dark flag, and countless rat warriors were advancing under his will, turning into the surging dark tide in front of them.
At this moment, he dominates everything on this battlefield.
So powerful and so ferocious.
Of course the war can continue endlessly. Rat War obviously does not care much about the life and death of these despicable guys in his hands.
It’s just that as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Expeditionary Force, it’s not that he doesn’t have other things to deal with. Besides capturing this city, he also has one very important thing to do.
For example, competing with those profiteers.
A big-clawed priest with a frightened face and even standing a little unsteady came to Shu Zhan. A different kind of anger and disgust appeared clearly on Shuzhan's face, but this frightened big-clawed priest In the end, he was not hanged by the rat war.
The cruel battle that lasted for four whole days came to an end. At the command given by Rat War, the rat people began to retreat, as if they suddenly woke up from a daze and numbness, with faces on their faces. His expression was still astonished, but his body moved instinctively.
Everything is over, over for now.
No longer under pressure, no longer waiting in fear, no longer desperate, wanting to show a smile on my face, but the numbness has not completely faded away, this war will bring these young ratmen and green ratmen together again The warriors tempered some qualified weapons, which were very effective.
After all, they are also intelligent creatures. Even if they gradually become numb, they will still be happy that they survived.
The rat people left at an unknown speed many times faster than when they arrived. They turned back desperately and ran wildly, crawling on the ground and running wildly. They pushed away the rat people blocking them in front of them and abandoned the weapons that they spent a lot of effort to purchase. , with a sense of joy of surviving the disaster.
Of course, the ones who were most relieved by the retreat of the rat men were the human defenders on the city wall. The illumination that illuminated the sky was gradually dimming.
The guys standing on the city wall didn't even react for a moment. They didn't even react to the Rat Man's departure. They still held their weapons tightly in their hands, dumbfounded. Looking at the gradually dimming scenery in front of them, some people were still subconsciously waving their weapons towards the gap in the city wall. A long ladder of the rat people was still placed in the gap. The retreating rat people did not take this long ladder with them. , leaving it here.
Gradually, someone reacted.
They won the victory, and the Rat Man retreated, but they couldn't be happy no matter what. With a weird expression on their face that didn't know whether to cry or laugh, they staggered and knelt down on the city wall, insisting hard. The tone mentioned in the poem relaxed, and corpses piled up around him, including those of his companions and those of ratmen.
There is a layer of red and sticky stuff left on the ground on the city wall. These things are part of the traces left by this battle. They will be washed away by clean water soon. It is not just these sticky things. Things, piles of corpses, weapons scattered on the ground, all of these will be cleared soon.
After all this is taken care of, the towering city wall will look brand new. Except for the air with a faint rusty smell, it is as if the battle not long ago never happened.
Is it true that nothing happened? It was not only the messy rat warriors who were tempered in the war, but the human guards standing on the city wall were also tempered by this cruel war. The object of tempering.
There was a lingering numbness on the faces of these human guards.
They grew and became more qualified.
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The destruction of the rat people on the main continent began to spread to other empire provinces.
There may be many reasons, but these reasons are inseparable from the Rat Empire that invaded the main continent.
After all, there is a limit to the number of ratmen in the Golden Province, but more and more ratmen mercenaries are arriving here. The temple guards have offered a high price. This is a huge sum. The good deal gave the ratmen mercenaries motivation, but for the ratmen living on this land, it was a real disaster.
The people who know the rat people best are indeed the rat people. When the rat people on the main continent built underground tunnels and settlements, they did not deliberately be wary of their own kind.
This makes them particularly passive when facing the rat mercenaries.
Faced with the decreasing number of native rat people, the rat mercenaries began to actively explore this continent.
And it’s not just the rat mercenaries. The rat warlords also started to capture strong men. In order to expand their own ranks and get cheap and free soldiers, these guys also became part-time workers. Slave catching team.
Of course, they are not picky. It does not mean that they have to capture the local ratmen and meet suitable ratmen mercenaries. These guys never skimp on the opportunity to catch strong men, they just want to win over them. It is not easy for these strong men of rat mercenaries.
Compared to the native ratmen who huddle in caves and tunnels and tremble in the face of capture, these ratmen mercenaries are much tougher, and they will really fight with you.
And everyone knows the basics. After you have done this a few times, these rat mercenaries will avoid these rat warlords.
Obviously, everyone knows each other's background, and these rat warlords are not at the level where they can make these rat mercenaries take the initiative.
Everyone is simply doing their own thing. Everyone is arresting these rat tribes that live natively in the main continent.
During this period, it was not only the rat people who were affected, but also other races that were expelled by the Youyan people to remote corners to survive.
These guys were all losers in the years of struggle for hegemony a long time ago. They were not destroyed by the Youyan Human Race just because, as losers, they fled to places that were worthless enough.
Barren mountains, dark underground, poisonous swamps, dark dense forests, bitter cold ice fields, there are all kinds of places.
Either it is too barren, or the environment is too harsh, so that it can avoid being completely destroyed. However, in such a place, there is too little resources, and the original civilization cannot survive. It even began to retreat. It was difficult to establish city-states, knowledge gradually disappeared, and finally embraced barbarism.
The Ratmen of the main continent are also one of these fleeing races, and they are even a relatively good race among these fleeing races. Relying on the underground tunnels they constructed and their strong fertility, they have not completely Withdrew from the mainland stage, although he has really become a role similar to that of a mouse. During the harvest every year, he emerges from the underground tunnel and runs wildly in the wilderness.
Most rat tribes do not have the courage to attack human villages and towns, but they have great courage to steal food from barns.
It has become a low-harm scourge, and its relationship with the Youyan people is also very strange.
The prosperity of the rat people is also closely related to the harvest of humans. Counterintuitively, these rat people are more afraid of famine than humans. In harvest years, even if they cannot steal food from human villages, it is still okay. They pick up the lost ears of wheat in your wheat field and steal the piled hay. However, when the real disaster strikes and the land is barren, they will be even more difficult to support before the human farmers.
After a while, the human villages and towns in this area may still support them, but the rat people in this area will become extinct first.
Such a subtle relationship makes the rat people on the main continent far more prosperous than other wandering races. Even if they are attacked by rat mercenaries and rat warlords together, they can still barely support them. .
But other wandering races cannot do it.
When the rat warlords and rat mercenaries broke into these barren areas chasing the traces of rat people on the main continent, the first ones to be unlucky were often not the rat people.
For the rat warlords and rat mercenaries, although the rat people on the main continent were their initial targets, they did not mind taking action against these wandering races.
They are all sacrifices. These surviving wandering races are often of good quality. After all, races without strength are directly killed by humans in the initial stage of hegemony.
The ones left behind are either those with amazing survivability like the rat men, or those who know some special methods. The most intuitive manifestation of these special methods is that they are exceptionally good at fighting.
This also makes these rat mercenaries and rat warlords quite happy. After all, being weak and powerful is a very excellent trait in itself.
Very suitable as a sacrifice.
(End of this chapter)