Chapter 361, River Valley Encounter
Qi met a guy who also held the flag high.
A dark and short rat man, he also mingled in this dangerous mountain range and formed a large team.
Qi still remembers this guy. He was Qi’s colleague in the war that captured the Golden Province.
The two sides were not at war with each other at the first moment of their encounter. After all, they both belonged to that era and were both left behind by that arrogant guy.
Staring at each other from a distance.
This guy, this dark little guy did not return to the Twin Fortresses.
It seems that it has been wandering in this mountain range for all these years.
Having embarked on the completely opposite path to Qi, but Qi's current situation is not much better than his.
In the past three years, Qi tried his best to accumulate strength, and all he could maintain was an army of 100,000 people. Moreover, the changes in the war in the past three years made Qi become more and more anxious. stand up.
All kinds of new things made him more and more urgent, but he was not qualified to participate in that cruel confrontation, nor was he qualified to receive more funding.
He has to make changes.
We can’t just sink like this.
This will be an extremely risky decision.
But it must be done.
In this dangerous mountain range, the two sides looked at each other, and then they turned away and the two armies moved in completely opposite directions.
Qi decided not to hang out in those fringe places anymore.
One thing is that he doesn't like gambling very much, but many times, there is no other choice except gambling.
Continuing forward, Qi discovered some intricate underground tunnels, which may have been left by the rat army that passed by.
These tunnels helped Qi a lot, allowing Qi to lead his troops across these dangerous mountains more efficiently.
Just after drilling out of these tunnels, Qi soon encountered the enemy's army.
The patrols scattered on the mountains.
They are looking for something.
Qi did not act rashly, but secretly observed everything in front of him in the darkness.
Compared with the rapid changes on the frontal battlefield, whether it is the army or the equipment of the bannermen, they are quite backward, but this is not without advantages.
More quiet.
The rat scouts hid in the darkness, observing the sentry towers that lit up the fire in the darkness, while quietly approaching these sentry towers.
To support this war.
A large amount of resources are being continuously sent to this battlefield through the winding river.
Qi is looking for such a place.
In the past three years, he had no merit or achievements. Such a label appeared on Qi's head, making him increasingly marginalized.
But this does not mean that Qi does not want to do something. Every month he brings back a large number of slaves from those dangerous edge areas, and almost all of the blood mushrooms in exchange are thrown into his hands. Among the troops, but compared to the ever-expanding scale and brutality of the frontal battlefield, he and his army still looked too much.
Recently, he keenly captured an opportunity.
The temple guards have gradually improved their resource transportation channels. At least now, the temple guards have been able to support a second army of rat men.
But pie will not fall from the sky, and these resources will not fall on his head without any achievement or merit. He must do something, and the flag must prove something and himself. It is not so worthless, so that he can get funding.
While thinking, a target came into his sight.
While traveling through these edge areas, some strange situations were also remembered and paid attention to by Qi.
For example, some human warships frequently travel to and from a certain section of the river.
Send rat scouts to follow.
He discovered a small-scale human army distribution center.
Qi has been eyeing this area for a long time. Until recently, the withdrawal of an army gave Qi some other ideas.
This is a human army that has inflicted heavy losses on the rat people on the battlefield many times. It is a magical force of the Dark Eye tribe. Seven days ago, the war priests launched a crazy attack. A crazy attack.
The rat people desperately covered a steam battleship assembled on the river bank and pushed the huge steam battleship towards the river.
When the war was at its most intense, both sides boarded the steam warship that was pushed into the river, fighting for the dominance of the war inch by inch, forcing the other side to retreat.
At the end of this war, the densely packed corpses and the flowing blood were about to dye the rushing river red.
It's just a pity that in the end the rat people were repelled by the Youyan people. The wreckage of the steam battleship has not completely sunk into the river yet. A corner of it poked out of the water, and the ignited black stone is still burning. Diffuse billowing black smoke.
And the human army that defeated the war priests is currently gathering here, converging in this river port built in a hidden valley.
It was not that they paid a price for that war. After all, it was not just the blood of the rat men that dyed the river red.
Amidst the heavy casualties, it was time for this magic force to be repaired and reorganized.
And this secret river port is a transfer point for them to retreat to the rear.
This was the flag's opportunity, and the flag decided to use this flag, which had caused great trouble to the rat people and repeatedly caused the war priests to retreat steadily from the human army, as proof of their own.
In the darkness, the rat scouts sent by Qi had reached the outermost sentry tower. The bright magic search light pierced the darkness and glanced left and right, but they made no sound at all when they moved around. The Skaven Scouts are too quiet.
This quiet night leaves no one on guard.
The rat scouts climbed up the sentry tower nimbly. When the vigilant Dark Eye human soldiers on the sentry tower reacted, the sharp short blades were already on their necks.
With a gentle stroke, these Youyan human soldiers could no longer make any sound and fell softly.
Soon, the rat scouts took off the clothes of these soldiers of the Dark Eye tribe.
He put it on himself in a hurry, but it didn't fit him at all. This was only seen from a distance, but it still had a somewhat confusing effect.
Suddenly, a bright light shone on the outer sentry tower. The search light that had not moved for a long time aroused some suspicion.
At this time, the rat-man servants who had already put on their clothes came into play.
He quickly held the searchlight and shook it from side to side in a decent manner.
In this dark night, from a distance, there was a bit more blur for a while. It was not 100% imagined that these rat scouts were just stalling for time.
Not long after, when the human warriors on the rear guard tower finally realized something was wrong, nearly half of the guard towers had dimmed.
The harsh magical noise was emitted from a huge disc device and echoed in the valley.
Such a sound comes from the high-frequency friction between two pieces of his special material. For a moment, all the Youyan human warriors here were alarmed.
Soon, several lighting techniques were cast into the sky, and the small valley was completely illuminated.
The rat scouts were clearly exposed, and with the sharp shouts, there was basically no need for any reminder. These cunning guys knew what to do.
One turn is to jump off the sentry tower, and then run wildly towards the bushes and grass in the distance in an extremely winding posture.
If everything goes well, they should be able to escape to heaven, but unfortunately, when everything is illuminated and the human soldiers in the sentry tower lose their fear and are left with only anger, the counterattack will follow.
A magic rifle was lifted up, and a gray beam of light pierced the sky.
Many of the running rat scouts fell down, and the others who managed to escape basically disappeared after getting into the bushes.
This war does not require their participation for the time being.
The flag rushed out from the hole in the underground tunnel, waving the flag in his hand with a sharp roar.
Densely packed rats poured out from the entrances of underground tunnels one after another.
With all kinds of stuff.
Banner's army is particularly shabby, and the rat warriors among them are all dressed up.
Normal chain mail, leather armor, spears and short knives, abnormal ones, buckets, cotton-padded jackets, dung forks, everything.
This is what makes Qi more and more anxious. He and his army are indeed increasingly unable to keep up with this ever-changing era.
It is almost impossible to rely on such an army to attack this transit port.
But simply, not all the troops in the banner are like this.
In a desperate attempt to sell iron, Qi gathered together two main forces.
A gun-carrying team equipped with seven hundred magic spears.
A group of thousand rat knights.
The gun-carrying team that emerged from the underground cave took the lead in a wave of blind shooting. Even without careful calibration, the condescending shooting was not completely ineffective. The human soldier who sounded the alarm took him with him. The standing outposts all fell in this round of blind shooting.
The harsh magical noise stopped.
But the more harsh and chaotic hissing started to sound.
The charge began, flags waved, and the Skaven responded with shrill shouts.
The frenzied charge almost immediately exposed the traces of the rat army.
Human beings are not unprepared at all.
When the Empire's First Magical Equipment Troop retreated to this secret transit port, out of vigilance, the commander asked his soldiers to search this quiet valley.
Originally, this was just a cautious move. After all, the first rule when fighting rat people is to be cautious. These endless bug-like guys will always hide in various places and in various unpredictable forms. Appear.
Be careful, be cautious, there is nothing wrong with that.
Then, then, I really found something for them.
Some underground tunnel entrances are obviously not normal, and judging from the weathering marks on the rocks at the entrances, these are not newly excavated underground tunnels.
It has been around for at least a year or two.
This made the commander unable to sit still, and also gave him the idea of putting those quartermasters on the execution ground. This guy actually built a secret port for the evacuation of the sick and wounded in a building full of rats. In the valley at the entrance of the underground tunnel!
Uneasy, the commander quickly sent soldiers into the underground tunnels to investigate and bury the entrances.
At the same time, the elemental chaos cannon was mobilized to bombard the valley.
No trace of the Rat Man was found in the tunnels. Judging from the traces of these tunnels, this may be a group of underground tunnels that have long been abandoned.
After all, during the first invasion of the Skaven, this area was indeed occupied by the Skaven for a period of time.
Maybe things didn't come to their worst.
Tomorrow tomorrow a group of supporting warships will arrive here.
Soon they were able to evacuate smoothly and returned to the comfortable rear. He had not seen his wife for a long time, and he could still spend time with his children.
Perhaps we should be more optimistic.
He warned himself like this, but after he had just retreated from the battlefield and witnessed the bloody nightmare that seemed to never end, he couldn't be that relaxed no matter what.
The existence of these underground tunnels turned into a haze.
It's not a bad thing, at least, in that uneasiness, the commander made many arrangements.
The elemental chaos cannon that had been calibrated in advance began to fire. In this kind of encounter where the position construction was not completed, the power of the cannon was unquestionable and could overwhelm everything.
The expanding elemental turbulence instantly tore a hole in the charging rat-men tide.
It is a pity that there are not many elemental chaos cannons installed in this secret port, only a pitiful one.
And they did not retreat with the war weapons on the front line.
Wave your arms.
Shout loudly.
"Fire, fire! Kill these damn rats for me!"
The Dark Eye human warriors who were squatting in a half-crouching posture with their magic rifles on their shoulders opened fire.
Gray beams of light streaked across the sky, falling like raindrops.
All this did not scare the group of charging ratmen.
Amid Qi’s loud shouts, the rat warriors moved forward desperately.
This group of guys were about to be eliminated a long time ago. They were holding their spears tightly in their hands and moving forward desperately.
The rat knights followed closely behind the large army. They spread out, but their purpose was extremely unified, rushing towards the only elemental chaos cannon in the Youyan human position.
Another elemental chaos cannon fell, and a large number of rat men were swallowed up. Even the wailing was not heard, and they turned into statues and then shattered.
The impact point of the elemental chaos cannon is closer to the flag.
These guys are not blind. The flag holding the flag high has become the most eye-catching target on the battlefield.
Maybe with just two more shots, maybe one shot, after the calibration is completed, the flag will be swallowed up by this terrifying elemental turbulence.
But Qi didn't seem to be afraid, and shouted crazily. This performance stabilized morale. On the battlefield at this moment, he seemed to have become a living flag.
(End of this chapter)