Chapter 371, Patience and Pain
This province and this land were also changed by the new emperor.
But war is still the first problem they have to face.
The war not far away has not stopped, and their work is also full of risks, but this area always needs people to stay, cultivate the land, and stop the intruding rat people.
While shouting, men walked up to the city wall one by one, and torches were lit on the city wall built by the mages.
The figures of the rat people had already appeared outside the town, appearing in the darkness in the distance, with pairs of red eyes shadowy in the darkness.
While running wildly, such noise and various sounds appeared in my ears.
There are a lot of Ratmen who have gathered the flags, and this town’s chances of winning are not great.
Although these militiamen, these farmers, and these men standing on the city wall have good fighting spirit, unfortunately, the chances of winning are still too small.
The running rat people emerged from the darkness with shouts. They ran excitedly against the falling magic energy beams. The gun team began to fight back. However, in the transitional excitement, those attacks were more intense. He was still hit to the sky, to the ground, and to the butts of those running rat people.
These guys are so excited.
But it is true that after all, an exciting robbery and carnival is about to begin.
The rat people rushed to the city wall outside the town, which was not tall enough, and climbed up excitedly. The densely packed rat people continued to flow towards the town.
The gun carrying team even gave up shooting and started running wildly dragging the overly long spears.
Everything was in a mess, and the town began to fall in this mess.
The rat warriors had already climbed up the city wall outside the town. After they got together, no one pulled the trigger anymore, and they began to fight hand-to-hand. These militiamen waved their warhammers. Their equipment was not bad, and they were fierce. The fight began.
Everything is becoming chaotic and disorderly.
No matter what, dispatching a rat warlord just for a small town is too luxurious.
The two sides are not on the same starting line at all.
In the chaos, the fighting figures fell one by one in the siege of the rat men. The city wall was completely occupied by the rat men. The gate was pushed open and the rat men began to have a carnival.
Thick numbers of ratmen poured into this town. There was no massacre, no more unnecessary killings.
Living sacrifices are the most valuable thing to the rat people.
It didn’t take long for the town to be completely alarmed. The person who arrived here this time was not the rat knights with no ability to siege the city, but a serious rat warlord. and part of his army.
Amidst the cries, each of the sacrifices was tied up with long ropes and dragged out of the house.
Of course, there are also fish that slip through the net.
In an ordinary room, in the long cabinet, a woman with red eyes was hugging two tiger-headed boys tightly.
Outside the house, messy sounds sounded.
Not all ratmen can capture sacrifices. At this time, it is necessary to find some things that have been seen before as trophies.
Unfortunately, a group of rat men came to this room.
If this continues, when these guys come in, they will all be discovered in the house.
That wouldn't be a good outcome.
The woman with red eyes made a decision. He hugged the two and a half-year-old boys and said to the bigger boy.
"Don't make a sound, Nova!
Protect your brother!"
After saying these two sentences, the woman with red eyes pushed open the cabinet. He pushed the wooden bed to block the cabinet, grabbed the rolling pin on the table on one side, and rushed outside hysterically.
"You damn rats, damn rats, damn rats!"
A chaotic sound sounded outside.
The woman never came back.
At the same time.
This mother also successfully saved her two children.
A sacrificial ceremony was being carried out in the center of this town. There was not too much killing, and the sacrifices were all made by the militiamen who fought with the rat people on the city wall.
The bodies of these militiamen were piled together.
The chattering rat people rarely became quiet at this moment. They gathered together and stood outside the simple altar. They tried hard to raise their heads, trying to stand taller and put this scene into perspective. The priest could see it more clearly.
The ceremony is not complicated and ends with the loud shouting.
"Great God! Great God!"
After shouting loudly and piously, after doing all this, the robbery has come to an end for the time being, and the next thing to do is not complicated.
Escape.
The human army is coming.
The rat people fled in tacit agreement, taking the large and small bags of looted things, dragging slaves one after another, and disappeared in all directions, leaving behind a ruins and a burning Ruins of flames.
Soon after, a human army arrived galloping on war horses. Judging from their equipment and demeanor, this was a rather elite army. Unfortunately, they could not save anything.
All this happened too fast, and they were unable to save the town. The sound of the beating flames was occasionally mixed with some frightened shouts, and the angry commander had to roar incompetently.
"Damn it!"
Half the army was left to put out the fire and save those who survived.
The other side is scattered. They have dealt with Qi several times, and they know what Qi will do. This is the best time to pursue the fleeing ratmen.
Those greedy guys who drag too many things can’t get far at all.
In this way, more ratmen can be killed, and some people who have been robbed by the ratmen can also be saved.
It’s just that the commander also knew one thing very clearly. No matter how hard they pursued those guys, they still couldn’t catch the leader of the invading rat people. That damn cunning guy, he was better than the average Rat people are much more cunning and more able to restrain their greed.
The arriving armies dispersed to pursue the fleeing ratmen.
What is left is to start to extinguish the burning flame.
Even though the mages left many early warning methods and set up response networks one after another, there were too few response troops left in the buffer zone behind the battle line.
At the first moment after receiving the news, the commander did not pause at all, and almost immediately started running with his troops, but he still failed to save everything.
Listening to the faint wailing from the flames, the commander gritted his teeth and left with the troops in his hands.
He has tried his best.
Just maintaining those main fronts, they are already too reluctant. Maybe they really need to push for a huge recruitment. They need more soldiers to fight the ratmen, and they can't do it for a long time. Shrunk. No matter what, he didn't want to roar like this incompetently anymore.
Amid the tremendous pressure to maintain the front line, military generals who participated in the battle on the front line recently jointly launched a petition.
They wanted a massive call-up, a real counterattack.
However, this proposal stalled at Caesar and did not get the final nod.
Everyone understands that such shrinking cannot bring victory, but now the human empire is no longer qualified to gamble. These key places are stuck, being constantly consumed and bleeding. Although it is very embarrassing, it is At least it provides a stable space and rear, and if there is a counterattack.
The worst-case scenario is that the battle line is stretched and completely collapsed, and then the rat men drive straight in without any hindrance.
The empire cannot bear such risks. It is not that they have no chance. The magic industry in the empire has not yet reached its limit, and the point of decisive battle is far from coming. Even if the rotten and pus-filled wound at this time is unbearable, it must be , can only be patient.
Dawn hour.
The flame ignited by the flag was finally completely extinguished.
A gray figure climbed out of the ruins and gathered at the gate of the town, waiting with hope and looking expectantly at the country roads that connected all directions. .
Soon, another cavalry team came back, and they brought back some people who had been captured by the Ratmen. In the turmoil of this night, everyone was in shock.
Maybe this is not the right description, but some people are indeed luckier.
At least when they came back, they could still see the people waiting for them, hugging each other and crying in front of the town that was in ruins.
But not everyone is so lucky.
This is the last batch of human knights to come back.
The two gray and half-grown men looked at the bearded commander with hope.
"Uncle Cooley, will uncles come back? Will they bring mother back?"
Faced with such an expression and such words, the commander was really unable to resist and fell silent. For a while, I opened and closed my mouth, not knowing what to say or what I should say.
I did this several times, but in the end I didn’t say a word.
It was also hard for him. He was obviously a ferocious guy on the battlefield who was known as the Hundred Man Killer. Standing on the city wall, he could kill the rat men from morning to night. But at this time, he couldn't even speak. Don't know what to say.
The two tough-headed boys seemed to understand something and lowered their heads.
Then a pair of big hands covered with calluses and scars fell on the heads of these two boys.
"Don't be downcast, you are all men!"
"We can be like you, Uncle Cooley!"
"You are still too young, but You can go to a military academy for a few years.”
“What is a military academy?”
"That was started by His Highness Caesar. Although I don't know what it is, if you go there, you will become a very powerful guy in a few years."
"Can you go on the battlefield? ?”
“Yes!”
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Another rat council was held in the underground rat city in the barren mountains.
As expected, this time the parliament was also accompanied by quarrels, accusations, curses, and bullying, without a trace of dignity
But fortunately, Sheng Qi has gradually adapted to such a scene, or in other words, He was at ease with this situation.
The rat lords routinely taunted the temple guards, and the scene became tense at the beginning of the meeting.
Then the captain of the temple guard of Prairie City, a rare master of debate among the temple guards, started the process of scolding each other unceremoniously.
Then there were the mutual accusations between the two loyalist rat priests. From these meetings, it can be seen that the conflict between the two loyalist rat priests has gradually intensified.
Because of some disputes over rights areas.
Sheng Qi has no intention of acting as a peacemaker. After all, although these two loyalists belong to the Rat Council in name and can be regarded as under the control of Sheng Qi, the actual situation is that they maintain the rat. The People's Congress does not necessarily care about the existence of Sheng Qi.
When these two guys have a conflict, Sheng Qi is happy to see it end. No matter which party loses in the dispute, it will be Sheng Qi's opportunity.
While the two guys were accusing each other, the rat assassin buried in the shadows threw out a piece of intelligence about the movements of the front line and the human empire.
The Skaven Assassins, a highly independent organization hidden in the darkness, have never given up infiltrating the human empire, or in other words, they have not given up infiltrating anything.
It makes people shudder, but they are inseparable.
This information was circulated by the Rat Councilors present.
What is rare is that Qi’s name appears in this intelligence, including the strategies Qi used in the Youyan human buffer zone.
This is a mixed blessing for Qi. The good thing is that his name is mentioned and he may get more support. The bad thing is that he comes into the sight of the rat assassin. .
As for the decision to make war, the attitudes of the thirteen Rat Councilors present were surprisingly unanimous. The war cannot stop, it must continue.
No one is so ungrateful as to object to this matter on such an occasion. Even the most insignificant gray stone, this stupid guy, knows how to raise his hand at this time.
War is the absolute right in the Rat Empire, and no one can violate it.
Of course, even if they are resolute, these rat councilors have no more good ideas for the stalemate.
After shouting a few slogans, he sat down again.
In this way, the quarrel ended, and something more practical was put on the table.
The Priest of Big Claw requires more blood mushrooms to maintain and expand the underground rat city.
Representatives launched by the Gear Church requested more blood mushrooms to update and iterate the Skaven warships.
The seventh generation steam tank has entered the research and development stage and requires the participation of more blood mushrooms and gray stone.
The dominance of the Skaven University needs to be defined, whether it should be brought back to the Skaven Council, or whether it should be allowed to be established by all the Great Claw Priests themselves.
The expansion of main trade routes and whether steam engines are put into road transportation.
The distribution of the next batch of young Skaven and Stormvermin shares.
Unknown changes have occurred in the soul bones. Should we conduct more careful observations and experiments?
The issue of this item was raised on this long table and decided by the participation and voting of the thirteen rat men and the rope seven.
After Sheng Qi, the rat-man high priest who was not strong enough, took office, the framework of the rat-man council gradually fell into place.
(End of this chapter)