Chapter 288, Gambling and the Turn of the War
The rat trolls are tearing apart the battlefield. These tenacious guys can even temporarily resist the suffocation caused by the tunnel collapse.
Struggling to climb out from the underground of the barren area that was plowed round and round by the elemental chaos cannon.
The vitality is too tenacious, which is a bit unimaginable, but not surprising. The aberrant creation is beyond the scope of ordinary creatures.
Rat War equipped these guys with thick armor and heavy maces.
Want to use these Rat Trolls completely as a tank monster.
The displayed effect is no different from Rat Zhan’s judgment, but there is a slight deviation in the details.
The rat troll gave up the specially customized mace and the thick metal armor.
Under the influence of the distortion, these guys' arms have overgrown and become ferociously thick. They are no longer the same as ordinary rat men. Their hands are dragging on the ground. Compared with rat men, they look like something else. More similar.
Orangutan.
An even bigger orangutan with a rat-man head.
This kind of body structure limits their ability to hold and hold. Once they start running wildly, they will unconsciously enter a posture of using their hands and feet together. The huge mace in their hands may also be casually used in the process. of abandonment.
These guys are just more stable and able to accept certain orders and wisdom, but they are not smart enough, at least not as smart as ordinary rat warriors.
The distortion still has a certain impact on the minds of these guys.
But this also brings advantages. Although these guys are not as smart as ordinary rat warriors, they are not like those guys who are always assessing the situation and preparing for strategic changes all the time. .
And weapons are not necessarily needed. With the blessing of that extremely huge power, even with bare hands, the human knights are probably no different from toys in the hands of the rat troll.
For these reasons, most rat trolls do not use additional weapons or wear armor.
The reason for not wearing armor is not complicated. At least it is not because of the poverty of Rat War, but the characteristics of the aberrant creation itself.
When hit by human disordered artillery, the distortion will be accelerated, and the flesh and blood will become extremely active at this moment. The thick armor will not play any protective role in such a situation, but will become an obstacle.
The broken and rolled armor will be quickly wrapped in flesh and blood due to the accelerated distortion, and will be pulled into the body. Not only will the originally disordered distortion become more chaotic, but in the huge pain, the sharp The metal fragments will continue to cause wounds in the rat troll's body as the flesh squirms.
This is not a pretty situation.
It also made Rat Zhan give up wearing armor on these guys.
Running wildly on the battlefield with a barbaric attitude similar to the skinned giant rats, but compared to the skinned giant rats, these rat trolls are more controllable and safer.
Rat trolls are rapidly being added to the Skaven army.
If the war situation were not so anxious, the first use of these expensive guys after their birth would undoubtedly be as guards for the rat priests, or to assume the role of a personal guard.
However, in this crazy tug-of-war, the situation at this time did not allow for waste. The rat trolls had just emerged on the battlefield and were incorporated into the entire Eastern Expeditionary Force as a scattered unit.
In the Second God War, the division of the army by Rat War was mainly based on the nesting of small formations.
Although it didn't take long for him to give such a division to himself. Give up. The enemies we had to deal with in the past did not require too many tactics. To gather together and drive them forward, it was enough to do these two things.
But at this time, the abandoned thing was picked up again.
Senior rat men, young rat men, rat trolls, army priests, and various rat squad captains.
In fact, the structure of the Skaven army has not progressed during this period of time, and has even regressed. With the rapid expansion of national power, the Skaven have not encountered an unmanageable opponent for a long time.
Well, maybe we have encountered difficult opponents on the vast grassland. However, the open environment on the grassland and the enemy’s army structure dominated by cavalry are destined to make it wise to form a group. choose.
It’s different now.
Trench warfare, positional warfare, the command of the army must be distributed more finely. Every part of this long front is being consumed by each other in an anxious situation, and is being spread too far. The rat warriors are gradually losing their command.
If this continues, the Rat Man himself will be in chaos.
For such a situation, Shu Zhan's solution is very simple, or in other words, he has always tended to deal with some complex problems simply.
The division of the squad was dropped, and the position of squad leader was listed on the merit exchange table. It didn’t matter who wanted to be the captain.
As long as you can survive in this war for a long time and accumulate merit, then it will not be difficult to get a position as a squad leader.
Young ratmen are still being sent to this battlefield in a steady stream. The ratmen have never been short of soldiers.
Unexpectedly, the team leader position issued this time is quite valuable and has a clear establishment.
You can gather a team of thousands of rat warriors in your hand, which can be exchanged for a rat troll, and the high-ranking rat priest is also included in the scope of assistance.
The Skaven team inherited their usual characteristics and were called a squad, but at this scale they were like a small army.
The leaders of these teams are simply beggar versions of rat warlords.
The main body of the mixed team of thousands of young ratmen and senior ratmen warriors, rat troll monster units, rat priests, giant rats, war instruments, and big claw priests.
Well, before I knew it, Rat Zhan’s merit system already included all kinds of messy things.
Of course, those rat priests and big-claw priests did not sell themselves to Rat War or the Eastern Expeditionary Force, but existed as a kind of employment status. As long as you can afford the merit, these guys will temporarily belong to Under your command.
This is a very flexible architecture.
It is also a helpless compromise. After completely letting go of the airs, Rat Zhan made a compromise in order to increase his control over the huge army in his hands.
The rat war whipped the rat warlords, the rat warlords whipped the leaders of the rat teams, and the leaders of the rat teams whipped the rat warriors in their hands.
This way of progressing step by step will prevent everything from being so chaotic.
The rout of the rat warriors in the frontline fortifications was stopped. The newly appointed leaders of the rat team made great efforts to avoid being hanged on the battlefield by the rat priests above them.
After all, a large area of people fled and in such a chaotic environment, it was an unlikely situation to catch them all and execute them.
But it is not too difficult to just keep an eye on these team leaders.
How should I put it? During this period of time, there was even a situation where they refused to retreat on the front line. This is a very direct plan. After being included in the rat-man warlord system, although he is only the leader of a small team, it is still different from before.
The cowardly rat people who are afraid of death should resist and resist this neither big nor small position, but in fact it is just the opposite.
Some rat warriors began taking the initiative to take risks.
The Rat War has always used the same old method, and his method has always worked like this. He used to be the Rat Warlord, but now he is the Rat Warlord and the leader of the Rat Team.
It’s the same old thing.
Hang a big cake high, does he really care about the rat warlord in his hand? Not necessarily, hanging this big cake is for sure, it is all for himself.
But at least the cake he hangs is real, but no matter how easy it is to use it continuously, the effect will no longer be as good as before. The solution is also very simple. Hang this big cake high up. Place the cake a little lower.
In the Eastern Expeditionary Force, the meritorious service required to become the leader of the team this time is the least in history. It seems that you can reach it by just tiptoeing.
It’s just that everything has a premise, and if you survive, then what you hold in your hands is real.
This is something that the leaders of the Skaven squad who are fighting to the death don’t understand. They have only been in office for a few days and they are so desperate.
Although it is not surprising, after all, these guys are rat men, greedy rat men.
The noble coalition forces were retreating steadily. After the appearance of the rat troll, the rat war officially put the pie down for a certain distance.
Seeing that the war is about to enter a tipping phase.
It’s just that the environment on this battlefield is really not that friendly.
The Rat War failed to conquer the central plateau. They retreated in embarrassment in the biting cold wind. The brazen invasion of the Rat Warlords also failed to completely conquer the Lianyan Province.
This is not a good situation.
Rat Zhan had been looking for an opportunity to end this war quickly, but the commander of the noble coalition was steady enough and did not give Rat Zhan a chance.
The fight between the two sides when they first met, the noble coalition did not pursue the dangerous and in-depth rat battle from above, and when the elemental destruction cannon was carried onto the battlefield, it did not take advantage of it to move forward. The Eastern Expeditionary Force When the shelf is too big, when the Rat War divides the Eastern Expeditionary Force again, these are all opportunities.
It’s just that the commander of the noble coalition chose the safest way of playing.
This leaves Rat Zhan with no choice.
It's not that he didn't make plans for such a situation. In fact, the preparations for the rat war didn't stop there.
He deeply knows what the advantages of the rat people are. It is worthwhile to consume the rat people, but this is too delayed.
We shouldn’t be so anxious. The logistics of the Eastern Expeditionary Force have been taken care of by the Skaven Council. Even the merit system is fully borne by the Skaven Council.
Be careful, even if you return to the golden province and start the endless confrontation, this is not an unacceptable thing.
Just how to put it, the Eastern Expeditionary Force can afford it, the Rat Council can afford it, but the Rat War cannot afford it.
If enough resources and weapons are provided so that the war can continue, then what else is needed for the rat war, and what else is needed for him as the great commander of the rat people.
Shu Zhan had already begun to regret his original compromise. He simply bowed his head, but he was immediately put on fire.
He had to use victory to prove himself and declare his indispensability, but he just met a turtle.
Rat War is really irritating, and this irritation comes from many aspects.
During this period of time, Mouse War was really selling flaws, trying to lure the enemy generals to attack him at all costs. Those are real flaws. As long as you seize that big battle, Defeat is inevitable.
Only the other side has no idea of catching these flaws.
Rat Zhan is a guy with a great gambling habit. Among the many ways to solve this situation, he chose the most radical one.
As long as the noble coalition begins to advance and there are loopholes in the long defense line, Rat Zhan will not hesitate to leave his rat warlords behind and lead his own troops to that line. A hole was ripped open in the defense.
Without any retreat, Rat Zhan always wanted to advance.
He wants to force this huge Eastern Expeditionary Force into the rear of the noble coalition, and wreak havoc and run around in the hinterland of the Human Empire. These guys will never have the chance to organize a solid line of defense. Come out and trap him firmly.
Compared to humans, Rat War has never been overly worried about the fall of the rear. After all, at the junction of the two continents, the group of guys guarding there are really smelly and tough.
Well, it's not the first time that I've done this to throw the temple guards out to fight the rat war. It's completely unscrupulous.
This is the real strategy of Rat War, a radical and risky choice.
It was just aborted before it even started.
Such a failure is really unacceptable, and what is even more unacceptable is that he seems to be the only one who is eager for this situation.
It shouldn't be like this. The old guy should be more eager than himself. Why can he be so calm?
"Damn old guy, why don't you die early!"
Such an angry shout came from a large camp on a high ground behind the battlefield.
In various aspects, various situations, many things were beyond Shu Zhan's expectations, which made him very angry, but after the anger passed, he had to think more about what to do.
No matter how you look at the current situation, it is very unfavorable for him. Maybe it is not a bad thing to retreat to the golden province and start to stick to it.
After all, as long as there is no unprecedented defeat in the war, then he will have neither merit nor fault. Although his prestige will inevitably be damaged in the process of shrinking and consumption, he is still the leader of this battlefield. , as long as the final outcome is decided and the war is still won in his hands, then the loss of prestige will not be a big deal.
It's just that the rat war is not reconciled to this.
Also preparing for one last gamble.
A rare good opportunity should appear soon. It depends on whether the commander of the noble coalition will take action.
The Skaven in the main continent are about to burn out.
(End of this chapter)