Chapter 270, Big Shots, Rat Warlords
On a small hill, except for the unlucky guy who died and the colleague who just took office and is still catching slaves, the remaining seven All the rat warlords gathered here at this time.
They brought their own troops.
A vast area of rat-men almost filled the entire hilltop, coming from the armies of the seven rat-men warlords.
At the top of the mountain, these rat warlords gathered together, having discussions, noisy, and the meeting was not formal enough. There were only seven flags standing, gathered in a small open space, seven chattering guys, nothing special. momentum.
Rather than being said to be a warlord, this posture is more similar to the gathering between the village chief and the militia captain.
Some militia captains are dividing the ownership of an open space, something like this.
But in fact, these guys are actually participating in the fight for an entire province.
A province is not small. It can house thousands of villages, hundreds of towns, manors, and a dozen small cities. It can support nearly 100,000 families and about two million people. population.
This is only the number of people supported by ordinary provinces. As a grain-producing area, Lianyan Province will have a greater carrying capacity. There are 150,200,000 families and various surviving alien races. Three to four million people.
With such a number, such a large number of people, their fate is very likely to be destroyed by these seven figureless militia captains squatting on the ground, making loud noises, gesturing to each other, getting excited, and dancing. Changed by the Rat Man.
The rat warlord can already be considered a big shot.
After all, among the many ratmen in the Eastern Expeditionary Force, there were nine ratmen warlords. One of them died not long ago, and now there are only eight left.
By the way, there are still a few in the Rat City underground in the Desolate Mountains, but those few are said to be rat warlords, but they pissed off Rat Zhan. Wait until the next time Rat Zhan is free, and return to the Desolation Mountains, those losers will probably be executed by him personally.
When this war comes to an end, or when there is no longer anyone standing in the desolate mountains that Shu Zhan fears, Shu Zhan will go back and hang those idiots with his own hands.
So now there are only eight serious rat warlords. Among these eight, there is also a slave hunter in Kuhaha, who is accumulating his army, and the rest are all gathered here.
After some debate, the rat warlords finally came to a conclusion, saying it was a union. But in fact, none of these guys were particularly loyal to anyone. If they wanted to pass a meeting, they would have to unite seven of them. It is impossible for the armies in the hands of the rat warlords to be twisted into a rope, but it does not mean that no consensus has been reached.
A promise was left behind.
No one can convince anyone, and they are both greedy, so they will launch an attack together.
Seven rat warlords will launch an attack on Lianyen Province from seven different directions.
As for who can get the most benefits from this place in the end, it depends on various abilities.
After reaching a consensus, the seven rat warlords each led their own armies and slowly retreated.
Qi is also one of the seven rat warlords, and he is also the most eye-catching guy in this meeting.
Not because of his fame, Qi has not done anything big enough to be famous among all the ratmen, but because of another reason, he wears a bright silver Mingyao armor.
Well, the inferior version of the Temple Knight armor bought by the Skaven Caravan was just for display and promotion of one's own strength. I never thought that anyone would actually buy it. After all, the price was too high. Beauty is not affordable either.
A set of such inferior armor is enough to arm a team of ten fierce knights.
Excessive disparities abound in the Skaven Empire, and this is also true in industry. In sharp contrast to the extremely cheap weapons and equipment supplied to ordinary Skaven, are the prices of those higher-quality things. expensive.
Many factors.
Probably better armors and weapons will always have some elements of the gods, engraved with those complicated patterns. Although the patterns may be more or less, those rat priests who sell weapons and armor can They are all able to help you by patting their own chests.
My weapons and equipment are all made by professional craftsmen.
This is different, you know, different.
With the operation of the rat-man industrial zone that endlessly swallows ore, forging full-body armor is not a particularly complicated matter for the rat-people. At least equipment of the level of the Dire Knight is not a particularly complicated matter for the rat-people. , I just want to think about large-scale mass production, but obviously, there is no need.
Even if these sturdy jet-black heavy armors were produced on a large scale, not so many ratmen were qualified to wear them. In the ratman army, after all, ordinary ratmen warriors accounted for the vast majority. These guys also have a more standard name.
Cannon fodder.
Who would wear heavy armor for cannon fodder? There is no shortage of it.
The industrial level of the rat people is actually gradually getting out of touch with the things they actually use.
For example, the jet-black heavy armor is still rare in the rat army. In fact, for the big-claw priests in charge of the industrial areas, they can have as much as they want.
You know, before the grand battle in the vast grassland started, the rat people had already been able to forcibly build the terrifying blast furnace that could be as high as the mountains.
The huge blast furnace standing in the barren mountains, the roads carved out of the sea, and the bathtub battleship group of Shengqi, these things all prove this point very well.
It’s just that the Skaven’s technology tree is too deformed, and it also carries with it the long-standing inertia.
Among the outstanding metal smelting and increasingly huge industrial output, there are no other industries in the Ratman Empire that can match it.
In addition to war, the rat people have never studied anything else.
Although there are many Big Claw priests who tinker with divine ritual artifacts, even if all the rat priests stuffed one of these things, how much metal production capacity would they consume?
Countless slave rats, countless blast furnaces, and large-clawed priests with red eyes formed a terrifying hell with never-ending scorching flames, swallowing countless ores and spitting out hot molten iron.
The channels through which these metals can be consumed in the Rat Man Empire are really limited, including weapons, war machinery, armor, and divine ritual objects, except for these.
God's ritual weapons should not be included in the list. They are not consumed enough. It's just that there are really no channels to use these metals in the Rat Empire. This is why there are so many forgings in the Rat Empire that are independent of the industrial area. The reason for the workshop.
Logically speaking, for a fanatical war civilization, everything that can be used to forge weapons should be controlled to ensure that everything is put into war. But the rat people are different. The rat people simply can't use them all. Their deformed technology tree lacks branches and branches.
At the same time, there is also the inertia that has always existed. Countless slave rats cannot be regarded as normal members of the rat empire. The development of industry will not benefit them. Those who have just emerged The free rat people who came here could not be completely considered as healthy rat people. It depended on whether they could give sacrifices and support the war.
These guys account for 99% of the Skaven population, but they are not regarded as humans. The development of science and technology and industry will not benefit them at all. They are all thrown into war. This is why the Skaven Empire Many big shots are already thinking about replacing the leather armor they were issued with more sophisticated chainmails. However, looking at the entire Skaven Kingdom, there are still many slave rats using wooden and bone tools, and Many rat caravans are using carts with wooden bearings.
This is the reason why those forging workshops are popular in almost every rat city. In terms of technology and production capacity, these forging workshops are simply not as good as the rat industrial area, but the things produced in the rat industrial area are also the same. It won't be extended to ordinary guys.
A serious disconnect, an extremely serious disconnect.
The Skaven forges one after another rely on picking up broken spears and broken armors on the battlefield, barely supporting the lower limit of Skaven civilization, and not really reducing the Skaven people to chopping trees and mining. It's a situation where you have to rely on sharp teeth to gnaw and thick claws to dig.
However, among all the expensive weapons and armor, there is one thing that is an exception. It is not valuable because of the divine tax imposed on the exquisite patterns engraved on the surface of the armor. It is the bright silver of the temple guards. Armor is a really good thing. The extremely high difficulty of forging and the cumbersome process make those bright silver armors expensive enough just because of their material.
Even the defective products that were bought out are still so eye-catching.
It’s not a loss if you buy the flag.
At this time, he was riding a ferocious giant rat, carrying the fur flag, which was particularly bright silver, and he had the feeling of a real big shot.
Among the seven rat warlords who met, Qi's strength was not considered the best. He did not catch up with the first batch of slave hunters, and was a step too late, leaving him with the harvest of running around in the mountains and forests. A lot is missing.
Also because of his extremely generous attitude towards his rat warriors.
He is an ambitious guy. At the beginning, he did not give extremely high commissions like other rat warlords, but wanted to fight against rats.
The Rat War does not take a commission from the spoils of the rat warriors. Whatever you grab under his command is yours.
You can even accumulate meritorious deeds and get rewards in his hands.
It's not because Shu Zhan doesn't look down on the spoils of war, but the bulk has been eaten by Shu Zhan elsewhere.
When we were on the vast grassland, Rat War occupied the city and took a cut directly from the blood pool and slave trade. This was a big deal that no one could escape. Rat War simply looked down on the Rat warriors. Of the three melons and two dates that arrived, some of them were going to be whipped in his hands anyway.
Although later, the arrival of the Rat Lords directly deprived Rat Zhan of his right to do so, in the later period, the logistics of the Eastern Expeditionary Force were directly borne by the underground Rat City in the desolate mountains. , the existence of the merit system was tacitly acknowledged, and it was also borne by the Underground Rat City and the Rat People Council.
However, the things confiscated through the merit system have become a new source of blood mushrooms in the rat war. Many rat people will like those bits and pieces that can show courage, and there are also the mineral veins in the captured area. These are all rats. The source of the War Blood Mushroom, and with the entry of the temple guards, even the land can exist as a commodity.
As long as the war continues and as long as the battle is not defeated, the rat war will not be short of mushrooms at all, and will naturally not covet the three melons and two dates in the hands of the rat warrior.
But this is the confidence that belongs to Rat War. In order to continue the Rat War, the Rat Council is willing to provide logistics for the Eastern Expeditionary Force. In order to purchase the spoils in Rat War, the Rat Lords are willing to offer The high price, waving the blood mushrooms in their hands, even the temple guards were willing to come and purchase the land of the Golden Province before the war situation had completely stabilized, and take over this land that was not yet stable.
This is the confidence unique to Rat War.
Other rat warlords, I'm sorry, but don't think so.
Even though these rat warlords set out all the way from the Golden Province and pushed the control area little by little to the outskirts of the Lianyan Province, which was already a large area, the temple guards never came to see them.
As for the rat lords, as rat warlords, they certainly have the qualifications to negotiate with the rat lords. The rat lords can also provide them with extremely cheap weapons, but this is not because they have enough Portion size.
Qualification and weight are two completely different things.
The reason why we can provide cheap weapons is that the weapons provided to ordinary rat warriors are already so cheap. If they are higher, as long as they reach the level of jet black armor, they will not make you less money at all.
Why did these rat warlords have to go all over the mountains and plains to catch slaves in the beginning? Why else could it be that the guys behind these rat caravans made too much money.
These immature guys couldn't let the rat lords give in even a little bit.
There is also the Rat Council. The Rat Council is more direct, because the Rat Council has always been connected to the rat war.
Under such circumstances, learning rat warfare is not a wise decision at all. The rat warlords must rely on the troops in their hands to slowly accumulate strength.
Qi knew this, but he still gritted his teeth and kept the proportion of resources he plundered from the army to a minimum.
One-tenth, not one-tenth belongs to those bitter rat warriors, but one-tenth was taken away by the flag.
This is simply a proportion that can be called benevolent, and this decision does not make Shangqi look like a rat man at all.
Taking too little, being too greedy.
This makes the process of accumulating strength for the flag particularly long. While the armies in the hands of other rat warlords are as large as more than 100,000 and 200,000, the rat army under the flag is only A pitiful forty thousand.
But this is not without gain. More things that belong to him have brought higher morale. Coupled with the words that the flag has to emphasize loudly from time to time, it also allows the birth of an army under his hands. There is a trace of something that is rare among the rat people.
Loyalty.
Among all the rat warlords, the troops of the bannermen are extremely rare and useful, even by the evaluation standards of the rat war.
Maybe this guy is not too greedy, but too greedy.
The flag behind him swayed in the wind, and the armor on his body shone brightly.
Seems like an arrogant guy who wants to fight with a mouse.
(End of this chapter)