Chapter 349, Western Expeditionary Force
Thank you to the Rat Councilors for your support.
More things were sent to this battlefield.
This is a war recognized by everyone.
One by one, young ratmen had just walked out of the breeding house and the ratman university. After a long march, they arrived at this dark twin fortress and were pushed out of the gate.
Ravines, what you see are dense ravines, fortresses, raised fortresses falling regularly on this battlefield, stone pillars, stone pillars engraved with strange patterns are rising one by one.
Bodies, corpses piled high.
O brave ones, O warriors of the great God, consumables, consumables in this holy war.
Being scolded, urged, pushed onto the battlefield, pushed onto the battlefield.
Enter the trenches.
Misty light groups whizzed past overhead, giving the sky a mottled color.
In each fortress, amid the harsh shouts and the sound of gears turning, things were constantly being thrown out.
Stepping into the battlefield confused.
Being pushed to the front of the battlefield.
A new round of charge was about to begin. Amidst the waving flags, he rushed onto the battlefield involuntarily. In front of him, what appeared in front of him was a towering city wall stained scarlet with blood.
Another round of charge ended.
Young guys, young guys with fear on their faces, they were also piled high.
In front of the dark gate, the rat priests standing on the high platform were still shouting loudly with sharp voices.
"For the gods! For the gods!"
This is a sacred war.
………….
Outside the City of Light, in a muddy field, a young mage was busy.
The wheat he planted has reached maturity and must be harvested.
While busy, I raised my head and wiped the sweat from my forehead with my mud-stained hands.
In the grand city not far away, another banquet was going on, but he had no way to attend.
The wheat was ripe and golden, but harvesting it was particularly troublesome. After all, asking him, a serious mage, to do this was really overkill.
Obviously he was an honorary knight not long ago, well, he is still one now.
Only after the sun rose again, his treatment was obviously not as good as before.
After the sun rises, people no longer need heroes.
While in a daze, I was disturbed by the sound coming from far away. A team appeared in front of me, a rather dejected team.
Looking up, the leader of the team in the distance also looked at him at this time.
He is a guy riding on a war horse with a flag on his back, a guy who is in a state of embarrassment but appears extremely calm.
Caesar raised his head towards Arthur as a greeting, but Arthur was obviously at a loss for such a situation and didn't know what to do.
Until this decadent team left.
Arthur always felt that he might have seen the guy carrying the flag at some point, but he couldn't remember it.
But that guy was seriously injured.
After thinking for a while, Arthur put it down and once again focused on harvesting the wheat in front of him.
During this period of time, the political situation in the human empire was extremely chaotic, and the battle for the throne had not yet come to an end.
But that is a dispute between the great nobles.
After the sun rises, for ordinary people who return to small towns and villages, sowing is the top priority.
This year will not be a stable year. It can be expected that soon one after another high taxes due to the war will fall on their heads
We must hurry up.
Piece after piece of land was being reclaimed on that abandoned land, and everything seemed so urgent.
The knights are gradually returning to their castles.
After experiencing the baptism of the demonic tide, although most of the land is empty, the remaining things are basically dangerous and difficult to deal with.
From time to time, rumors spread about demonized beasts slaughtering villages.
But there is no way. At dawn, we must sow seeds, otherwise we will have nothing to eat.
Farmers in some villages even took the initiative to look for the nobles above them.
It’s just that their knight master may not have survived that long night.
The demand for mercenaries has begun to increase.
Just as the great nobles in the human empire were fiercely competing for power with the royal family, large power vacancies appeared in villages and towns one after another.
This is a new era, not only for the rat people, but also for humans.
………….
In the Underground Rat City, the Western Expeditionary Force began to expand its army.
Sheng Qi will re-dispatch the Western Expeditionary Force to the rolling hills.
This is a very dangerous move, but it is also something that must be done.
Without the protection of the Western Expeditionary Force, his control over the Underground Rat City will plummet, and his own safety can no longer be guaranteed.
Can he put his own safety on the temple guards and rat priests?
But he had to do it.
He tied the Gear Spirit Church tightly to his chariot in order to take the rolling hills back into his hands, although it was impossible to do this with the current Gear Spirit Church. At one point, the rat lords had gradually established a firm foothold there.
But part of the rolling hills must be in your own hands.
Although it is strange to say it, as the Ratman High Priest, he also has the same urgent need for merit. He must intervene in that war. This is a very important matter.
The sooner the better. By sending the Western Expeditionary Force back to the rolling hills, and with the Gear Spirit Church on the table, he should be able to do this well. In order to stabilize the Ratmen Lords, he has drawn up a huge order.
Just by doing this, your own safety will no longer be guaranteed.
Today, Sheng Qi came to the Original Temple. He came here so openly without being blocked by anyone. Such a thing was unimaginable for him in the past.
Because he does not have this qualification.
But now, he can come here openly.
Even the temple guards standing in the temple must bow to him.
Step by step, we came to the sacred altar. Instead of looking at the sacred pillar standing in front of us, we turned around and looked at the empty hall in front of us.
Sheng Qi has always wanted to be a big shot.
But it was undoubtedly the white rat who really revealed to him what a big shot was like.
At this time, he imitated the behavior of the white rat, imitated the posture of the white rat in his memory, and looked down at the empty hall in front of him.
Is there anything to hesitate about?
No need to think anymore. He would never give up this position, never.
Even death couldn't make him give up.
A poor guy took the bait and bit into the piece of cheese that would never completely belong to him in that delicate cheese plate.
"I am the high priest! I am the high priest!"
In this empty hall, such words echoed.
In a very short period of time, the Western Expeditionary Force left the Underground Rat City after preparations. As the only fully-formed army in the Rat Empire, the Western Expeditionary Force now faces many problems.
But the most serious problem is undoubtedly the absence of the supreme commander.
The combat effectiveness of the Western Expeditionary Force has always been questioned. When Sheng Qi was there, he was able to push these embarrassing guys forward. What would happen if Sheng Qi was not there? It's just hard to tell.
Sheng Qi did not cultivate any successors.
Perhaps Sheng Qi should not have sent the Western Expeditionary Force back to the rolling hills so recklessly.
It's just a pity that there is no better way.
At this time, no matter how unwilling it is, there are really not many candidates that Sheng Qi can rely on.
Those unreliable Skaven Knights, and those equally unreliable Big Claw Priests.
Which rope seven should I choose?
This is really an extremely difficult decision to make.
Finally.
Sheng Qi chose the two of them.
The current Western Expeditionary Force does not have a supreme commander in the standard sense, but a group of commanders.
Among the Skaven Knights and the Great Claw Priests of the Ore Spirit, Sheng Qi selected some candidates, and together they lead the current Western Expeditionary Force.
Okay, okay, you have to admit, this is a bad decision. It is a huge risk to choose one of those unreliable guys to lead the army.
But now, they are a group of unreliable guys. It is difficult to imagine what the future of the Western Expeditionary Force will become.
It's just that Sheng Qi doesn't have any better way.
He couldn't completely trust his personal guards and the big claw priests of the Ore Spirit. The risk was too great for one guy to take charge of everything. Instead, he chose a group of guys to do his own. On the contrary, the influence is more sustainable in the Western Expeditionary Force.
This is a no-brainer.
Sheng Qi was quite envious of Shu Zhan at this time. After all, in the entire Skaven Empire, the most loyal group of dumb guys had always gathered around Shu Zhan.
But envy alone does not have much effect.
After Shu Zhan's death, all parties tried to train these stupid guys, but the results were not good. They did not show the kind of combat effectiveness they once had under Shu Zhan, and were gradually abandoned.
They are no longer sent to the battlefield and are scattered throughout the Skaven Empire.
Now, the life of these stupid guys is not easy. If they are not sent to the battlefield, as defective products, although they are former rat war guards, these stupid guys will not be directly sent to the battlefield. Abandoned or recycled, but being sent to various places to serve as slave rats is also an inevitable situation.
There is a group of dumb guys who were eliminated in the war. A group of limping dumb guys spontaneously gathered together after the death of the rat war and formed a mercenary team. They are currently in Gemini That area of the fort is active.
They seem to be sure of one thing.
They seemed to want to retrieve Shu Zhan's body.
It's just that this is a very slim thing. They have to cross almost the entire main continent before they can reach the battlefield where the Rat War finally fights.
………….
What happened in the Underground Rat City was quickly communicated to the Ore Spirit Church in the rolling hills.
Stunned, disbelief, anger, fear, thinking, ambition, all kinds of emotions appear on the faces of these guys, but no matter how the emotions fluctuate and what can they do, they really have nothing more to do. There are many choices, and holding on to Shengqi firmly is the only way out.
What's more, Shengqi still paid before mentioning it.
No matter what, they got a quota for the Rat Councilor.
I can only accept it, I can only accept it all.
Soon after, the Western Expeditionary Force returned to these rolling hills.
The last trace of hesitation was offset. In a quarrel, an old big-clawed priest was pushed out and rushed to the underground rat city to serve as the thirteenth rat member.
Gear Rat is back.
The rolling hills are quite chaotic now. Sheng Qi did not hesitate to take the risk and dispatch the Western Expeditionary Force in this huge gamble.
Sheng Qi did not give these guys any more opportunities to pull. He had only one request. In three months, the Western Expeditionary Force would set off again to attack the Human Empire by sea.
This is an extremely stringent requirement that brings confusion.
The guys who have been appointed by Shengqi have begun to jump up and down.
However, all of this has nothing to do with Gear Rat for the time being. Although he has become very popular in the Underground Rat City this time, and can even be regarded as saving the Gear Spirit Church and Sheng Qi, Sheng Qi has not assigned him an appointment. .
Well, the prejudice is deep-rooted. Even among the unreliable big-clawed priests, the degree of unreliability of Gear Rat is ranked first in Sheng Qi's heart.
But he still has merit after all. Shengqi provided him with a wave of investment for him to tinker with his damn wheel.
This made the Gear Rat very happy.
However, he did not take action immediately.
This time when he arrived in the Underground Rat City, he saw many new things that excited him, and one of them particularly stood out to him.
That is the steam engine. This weird machine that only needs to add some water and black stone to make the gears rotate continuously is so beautiful.
He felt that he had found the absolute core of his terrifying giant wheel. The constantly pumping steam engine drove the terrifying giant wheel to rotate, crushing everything that stood in front of him.
Yes! That’s how it feels, it’s so wonderful!
Inspiration, inspiration is about to burst out. Gear Rat has already drawn a conceptual diagram for that wonderful giant wheel.
This is a devastating weapon.
A kind of wheel.
A giant wheel of destruction.
It makes people’s hearts beat.
There is just one problem waiting for Gear Rat to solve.
He is not particularly familiar with the steam engine. Well, as a guy who pursues perfection, he does not really want his perfect weapon to have a carrier defect from the beginning of its birth.
Needing something to practice his skills on, he needed to get familiar with building a steam engine.
What should I use to practice my skills?
As the Gear Rat in the root city, he naturally set his sights on the rat warships being assembled in the inland docks.
This is indeed a very suitable thing for practicing.
Not long after, Gear Rat returned with these heavy news, and successfully took the construction work of the Rat Man warship into his own hands.
The Skaven warships will become the first war machines equipped with steam engines.
How should I put it, it’s a weird feeling.
The Skaven's crooked maritime technology suddenly changed its direction and drew a standard oval arc on the weird technology tree.
(End of this chapter)