Chapter 276, Biting Cold Wind
Mouse Zhan has encountered a little trouble recently, well, maybe it is not a small trouble, but a big trouble.
His appetite is obviously not satisfied simply by swallowing two provinces.
If you just want to move forward, one place becomes an obstacle, a rather difficult obstacle.
After the Golden Province, there is a strong point between the Lianyan Province and the province where Shu Zhan is currently stationed.
Three of the four provinces in this area are classified as grain-producing areas because of their suitable climate. However, the middle area not only has an extremely unsuitable climate, but is also a real trouble.
The earth bulges in the central area, abruptly lifting up a plateau overlooking all directions.
Cold, harsh environment, barren, and still eager to see.
If you want to continue moving forward, then this plateau is something that cannot be avoided. After all, the human army on the plateau can easily cut off the logistics line of the Eastern Expeditionary Force.
It is not that Rat War has never fought a raid. In the second divine war that established his position as the leader of the rat people, he was very radical and launched a surprise attack on the Lizardman Wetland.
It's just that the situation is different now. The size of the Eastern Expeditionary Force has once again expanded to an extremely outrageous level.
Logistics has become a constraint.
This plateau became a nail that was hard to ignore.
Of course, there is actually another option, which is to capture the Lianyan Province, and then slowly deal with the humans on the plateau in a besieging manner.
But Rat Zhan is an arrogant guy, an extremely arrogant guy, and an overly impatient guy.
The rat warlords all rushed into Lianyan Province in a manner of fighting for carrion.
Will he become the dog that steals food? No.
And this is really too slow.
His decision naturally became clear.
Amidst the waving black flags, countless rat men began to climb towards this piece of land that was raised high.
This is not easy. After all, one of the most striking features of the plateau is that it is high.
At the beginning, there was still a road to climb up. In the end, the road became steeper and steeper. At this time, the rat warriors also had to put away their weapons and start climbing. A gesture of using hands and feet to move forward.
On this journey, the rat people did not encounter enemy resistance. There were no passes, no outposts, no fortresses, and not even a serious road.
It’s not surprising that for a long time, this group of people from the plateau have been plundering the people below the plateau, but there are almost no opponents who are serious about charging up the dangerous plateau. Naturally, there are no outposts, fortresses, or passes, so these things are useless.
In the human empire, the most bordering gold province is famous for its richness. However, there are two grain-producing provinces behind the gold province. They all belong to the same interval and the environment is similar. Why is gold And wealth is crowned in the most bordering province.
Lianyan can be said to be too chaotic. The great nobles who rule the province and the mountain people are not in harmony and have constant conflicts. But why did the province that was easily captured by the rat war not get the title of gold and wealth? Obviously he is closer to the hinterland of the human empire.
The reason is that the people of these plateaus are a little convinced just because they are robbed every year. The Rat War can take this province into its hands so easily, and also get some of the plateaus. The reason why the barbarians just left.
The great nobles who ruled the plateau were not polite to their neighbors. They always robbed them whenever they asked. Even when the human empire was at its strongest, there was nothing particularly good about the people of the plateau. Three times The expedition only obtained a verbal surrender, let alone the moment when this huge empire was decaying and on the eve of disintegration.
The reason why the human empire has nothing to do with these plateau barbarians is now gradually understood by the rat people.
As it went higher and higher, the howling cold wind appeared. It was not an ordinary wind, but the biting elemental wind.
In fact, the difficulty of the rat people's challenges is now even higher than that of the human empire.
The sun no longer rises, and the moon disappears together with it. Under such circumstances, the world should be heading towards deathly silence, and the wind and tide should gradually disappear.
It should have been like this, but with the emergence of elemental tides, terrifyingly huge torrents of elements were bursting into the world every moment. This thing was much more powerful than the sun and moon.
Replacing the missing laws of the sun and moon, it began to inject vitality into the world, and it was much more powerful than the sun and the moon.
Many things began to become a little chaotic, the tides and winds became more violent, and began to be infected by magic.
In the process of climbing the plateau, this phenomenon was more intuitively displayed. The howling wind was biting and cold. No, this was beyond simple cold. The cold wind tainted with magic would really invade the bone marrow.
In the process of climbing up the plateau, countless rat men fell from the cliffs and steep roads because they could not bear the cold wind.
The higher you go, the colder it becomes. Obviously spring has not passed for long, and the current season should stop in the warm summer. Why is it so cold.
Zhu Zhan wrapped himself in a blanket, and the soft leather was wrapped around his body. He was a hairless mouse, and he was especially afraid of the cold. There are not many things that this arrogant guy is afraid of, but this biting cold wind is definitely one of them.
It's not that the rat people don't have ways to deal with it. Every time they advance for a period of time, a simple cave will be dug out and they hide in the cave. All the rat people gather together and curl up into a ball. This is how they can be driven away for a short time. That coldness that was everywhere.
But this also brought about a problem, the speed of progress was greatly slowed down.
There is no way, because the leader of the Eastern Expeditionary Force, the Dragon Slayer, the Skinned Rat, the God's Favored One, the great Ratman Commander, he can't bear it.
Just like this, in the excavated cave, bright flames were beating, but they seemed to be unable to bring warmth. A guy wrapped tightly in white fur was still shivering. , unconsciously moving closer to the fire, not caring that the white fur was burnt black by the flames.
I just want to get closer to the flame and become warmer.
Well, it seems that even if Shu Zhan has received many blessings, became a hero, and has powers beyond ordinary mortals, he still has difficulty coping with this biting cold.
Who called him a hairless mouse?
The commander-in-chief is all like this, and ordinary ratmen are naturally no better. Even if they climb up for a period of time, they will dig out a cave for short-term repairs. A large number of ratmen huddled together to barely resist the cold, but after each repair, those who did not seize a good position and were pushed to the outside of the group of ratmen would still most likely never wake up again.
I was frozen stiff and abandoned in the caves dug here and there.
These frozen guys have even lost the value of being eaten. They are so hard that even biting them is a difficult behavior.
In this case, the despised dried cave mushrooms actually shined.
In this case, these dried and hard dried mushrooms have become a food that is more suitable for eating than blood mushrooms.
The dry and hard cave mushrooms became brittle in the cold, but the blood mushrooms were frozen hard.
Why is it so cold? Maybe you can get the answer by looking up at the sky. The sun went out and the world was dark. Although the elemental tide re-injected vitality into the world, it did not bring about the loss of the world. Wipe light and carry warmth in that light.
The Eastern Expeditionary Force came to a standstill during this period.
Shu Zhan already regretted it, but he had already climbed half of the plateau. It was too late to regret it at this time. The Eastern Expeditionary Force was indeed large enough and threatening enough. It could even climb the steep mountain during the climb. The cliffs are all dyed in a large gray-brown color.
Countless rat men crawled up and down gruntingly, and then continued to freeze to death, and continued to fall to death.
The loss has reached an extremely terrifying level.
But even so, Rat Zhan is not willing to give up.
Perhaps there is another way, such as a short pause and waiting for the big claw priest who comes later to repair the steep road, or simply carve out a wide path in the cliff leading to the plateau. Come to the cave.
This is too long a wait.
Perhaps this is why Shu Zhan led the Eastern Expeditionary Force to climb up desperately. He was unwilling to accept the long wait.
Even if I am shivering in the cold, I am not willing to give up.
The continuous digging of caves on the cliff slowed down the progress.
But the progress of the Rat War was not slow, at the cost of countless rat men who fell off the cliff and countless rat men who froze to death.
A very eager one.
An impatient guy.
He is also a very confident guy.
I am convinced that I can defeat the humans entrenched on the plateau in such a harsh environment. As long as I can climb up, everything will be fine.
Is this really the case?
Unknown, at least Shu Zhan is still leading the Eastern Expeditionary Force to climb mountains again and again.
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Just as Rat Zhan Hengci Hengci climbed up, an army moved and set off from the city of the sun that humans call it.
The prince did not break his promise. He really summoned the royal guards and began to swim down the river.
The arrival of this army will bring many variables, but the prince chose the time very well. At least for now, the rat people are corrupted, and they have not completely spread out of control. Overall, his arrival was welcomed.
(End of this chapter)