Chapter 421, Rat Planet Guard
In such a tense situation, not long after, a piece of news that shocked the entire Skaven Empire was delivered, like a thunder on the ground, suddenly exploding. Then tore them all apart.
This is how this war began, this civil war that will determine the future of the Skaven Empire, and the introduction came from the death of a guy.
In the future, the Skaven in the Skaven Empire will call the introduction of this war the Holy Fall.
Sheng Qi died, the position of the high priest of the Rat Man Empire was once again vacant, and war broke out.
The Skaven First Expeditionary Force and the Second Expeditionary Force, which were assembled on the fortress star, began to move upstream along this miraculous path, crossing one planet after another until they finally stopped in front of steel and steam. Here, this At this time, a riot broke out in the Ratman's industrial and mining center.
Of course, everyone knows that this is an industrial center, knows about the steel and steam, or the black iron star, and knows that this planet will become the third center of the Rat Empire in the near future. .
Qi knows that, of course the temple priests also know, so both sides will settle here.
The influence of the temple priests on this planet is not as good as that of Qi. This is the headquarters of the Skaven Engineers. Compared with the Skaven Cult, they have always been more consistent and closer to the Skaven Empire. Naturally, as the emperor of the Rat Man Empire, Keiye must have greater influence on this planet than these temple priests.
But this does not prevent these temple priests from pulling out all the power on the planet at this time, assembling into an army, and starting unscrupulous destruction. All this is done to delay the rat race. The footsteps of the Second Expeditionary Fleet.
In order to slow down the two fleets, this is an obvious delaying tactic. Everyone can see it. Is it so useful?
Useful, very useful. The first expeditionary fleet of the rat people led by Qi really stopped.
This is an aboveboard conspiracy. Since the star port of Fortress Star experienced a battle and entered the reconstruction sequence, the star port of Black Iron Star has become particularly important at this time. Although this star port has not yet been completely completed, the dock and port that are priority construction tasks have been basically completed. At the same time, the resources on the Black Body Star are also extremely necessary for the next war.
It was just a delaying strategy this time. It was a success, but it was only half the success. Among the two expedition fleets, only the first expedition fleet led by Qi stopped, and the other one did not even hesitate again. He started jumping and disappeared into this star field.
The flag fleet moved towards the Black Iron Star Port. At this time, chaos was also going on in the star port, but here, the ships had not yet started to enter the outside world, and they had not officially started operating. The Black Iron Star Port is currently just a large construction site. The power deployed by the temple priests is not enough, and it has not caused such a huge wave. After the intervention of Banner's First Expedition Fleet, the Black Iron Star Port quickly became chaotic. It just calmed down.
But what comes next is not that easy.
At this time, Black Iron Star was in chaos amid the first wave of sudden riots and attacks.
A steel city, and also an important energy hub for the rat people on the Black Iron Star geothermal node, Steam City, collapsed. In the terrifying explosion, the huge steam boiler as tall as a mountain bent and fell towards Amidst the harsh and sharp sounds of the city built around it, the steam in the steam boiler began to overflow, like a tsunami or a hurricane. The terrifying high-temperature steam swept into every part of the city. There was a terrifying steam tsunami.
This is an efficient killing. The struggle is short, although it is painful and fragrant. There will be almost no survivors from the crazy Skaven Crusaders. Yes, this group of mobilized guys continued the name from ancient times. Of course, those temple priests will join in this war in the name of the gods. This is a fanatical war, with the rat people cheering loudly. middle.
Steam City is an important energy hub of the Black Iron Star. The huge amount of cheap energy provided by the core of the active planet at no additional cost is the blood that supplies the beating blood of this industrial planet.
Even if Qi suppresses the riots on the Black Iron Star as quickly as possible, the fallen industrial power will be difficult to recover quickly.
Unexpectedly, Qi was not in a hurry about this. He sent forces to protect the remaining industrial cities in the Black Iron Star. Taking his time, the Ratman First Expeditionary Fleet boarded The landing troops began to assemble.
These latest rat warships will carry a large number of landing troops, steam tanks, and rat legions. These have not been eliminated, but some things have been replaced. The current rat army has No longer specializing in position and trench warfare, a large number of Skaven transport ships that can directly enter the planet's atmosphere will drop these Skaven legions at fixed places, along with a large number of steam tanks and armored vehicles.
The Skaven army has gradually differentiated, and the functions of the expedition fleet have been clarified.
Explore, colonize, conquer, counterinsurgency.
Everything revolves around these four points, the Skaven Space Fleet, they are the elite army of the Skaven Empire, and they are also a mixed military group that cannot fight a protracted war.
Suppress the enemy's space power, invest a large number of armored ground troops, and assist air power to effectively destroy the enemy's main force and industrial power, and quickly establish a stronghold on the colonizable planet. Then the rest is They couldn't help but worry.
The Imperial Army or the Planetary Guard, which are more numerous, larger in scale, and cheaper, this group of rat soldiers who are still using weapons that were eliminated a hundred years ago, will board crowded transport ships from the nearest planet. The rat planet arrived and carried out the follow-up work on this planet that would shed the most blood, occupying, mopping up, and annihilating it, using the old steam firearms and backward huge artillery to do all this.
How should I put it, this is an ancient inheritance. The senior leaders of the rat people, those big shots, still prefer cheap and large-scale cannon fodder troops.
Of course, the propaganda will not say this. Opportunity, future, merit, development, money, land, these are the slogans given by the recruits of the Skaven Planet Guard. This is a very tempting propaganda strategy.
Although in most cases they don’t even need such slogans, in the declining resource cities, they only need to put up signs, and then batch after batch of people starting from 100,000 Young ratmen can easily board the transport ship, and then be transported to the training center like animals for simple training, or even sent directly to the battlefield without this.
If necessary.
(End of this chapter)