Chapter 423, Fighting and humble guys holding weapons
In the wilderness of Black Iron Star, in the dark wilderness, under a huge dark mountain, a young town fell. Here is a place The prototype of the city is under construction. Two months have passed and the war has begun. This town has carried out quite advanced planning. However, a few simple blast furnaces are slowly pouring out a building that can As the framework of the prototype of the super city, in the joint efforts of these rat people who have no choice.
They are prisoners, they are criminals, they are gamblers who owe huge debts, ordinary guys who are implicated, rat bureaucrats who have failed in the struggle, they are a bunch of messy guys, but after coming here , they came up with a new name, the Pioneer Rat People.
The dark wilderness swallowed up everything in the past. They were all desperate guys. The only hope was for this city to be established and they could be the founders of this city. , will inherit everything they have, if they still have a future.
The war that has started has not affected these guys much in the past two months. This place may become very prosperous and important in the future. Everywhere in the towering metal frame is There are going to be crowded, full of rat people, but that is not now. All this is just a future for the time being. Now, this is a remote town located deep in the dark wilderness.
Except that the convoys traveling between various rat cities no longer appeared, nothing happened. Of course, it wouldn't always be like this.
Not far away, in front of a huge rat city, a 100,000 rat jihadist army attacked the rat city along the tracks of the steam train. Originally, everything went smoothly. With the support and help of the believers in the city, the planet guard in the city retreated into the inner ring of the city to protect the properties of the rat bureaucrats and big businessmen, while the outer ring of the city was released to these rat jihadists.
For most rat people, this war is too grand and unrealistic. Instead of fighting to the death for the great emperor and gods, it would be better to take advantage of the This is an opportunity to do something more practical, such as swallowing up the assets in the hands of the untouchables and small factory owners in the outer city.
It is very simple to do this, and it can even be done legitimately.
Take the city's protective force, withdraw the Planet Guards to the inner layer of the city, and allow these holy war troops to loot, destroy, kill and execute heretics on the periphery of the city. When these guys finish all this, They then took back the city and bought everyone in the outer city at a nearly cheap price. How simple it was, and they didn't have to worry about being held accountable.
If the Imperial Army fights back, they will also be happy to open the city's gate, and he can happily shout to his superiors and the Empire, patting his chest.
He protected the city. He did not give in to those religious lunatics. Moreover, by then, he was sure that at least half of his city's production capacity would be protected. This was something he would never do. He will be held accountable, and if he chooses to be loyal and resolutely resist these jihadist forces, the situation he may encounter will be different.
Even with the Planet Guards in his hands, with these troops, he can easily defeat the 100,000 Skaven Crusaders, but after that, in addition to compromising the power in his hands, he may also cause Come to a larger jihadi army and let them burn themselves and their cities to the ground. Even if they win, what they get will not be better than the other situation. How to choose? Is there any doubt?
Standing at the top of this steel city, behind the dark glass, you can take in everything that happens in this city. Do you still have doubts about what to choose?
Fire, chaos, and killing, these started after the entry of this holy war army.
These guys continued the madness of the old days, using blood to paint complicated patterns, using corpses to build altars to worship great gods, building up bones to make pillars, and releasing blood to form blood pools.
Crazy, pious, and scary.
The rat men were dragged onto the altar one by one. These guys screamed and struggled in panic, but this did not make those guys who raised the butcher knives in their hands hesitate at all. It didn’t take much. Time is not a huge pain, but for a moment, more and more thin bodies will appear in the scarlet water that gradually accumulates, and more and more will appear on the altar built with corpses painted with blood. A frightened and desperate head.
How many ratmen would there be in a ratman city.
This is an indescribable quantity, but it is a lot, so much that even if this crazy jihadi army tries its best to drag every ratman it encounters onto the altar, and their flesh and blood All the blood and blood were given to the great gods, but they were still somewhat powerless.
It wasn't until these madmen got impatient and started to light the flames that the destruction and looting officially began.
Actually, they did not kill all the ratmen. A horrific killing, flames that destroyed everything, destroyed a large number of industrial equipment, dismantled them, plundered food, vehicles, and then Then recruit the rat men who crawled out of the ruins into the team, and finally move on to the next place that needs to be purified and atone for their sins.
At this time, the step in this steel city is to light the flame. Of course, not all guys can accept this.
In the outer city industrial zone, there are many small and medium-sized rat factories. Most of the founders of these rat factories are a group of young rat engineers. After all, Black Iron Star is known as one of the rat engineers. star.
Usually, even the forerunners in the city, or the rat-man bureaucrats in this city, want to suppress these rat-man engineers without scruples and embezzle the factories they run. It is difficult to do. These young rat engineers all have their own teachers and classmates. They have their own framework. They form an engineering association that has wide influence and is not easy to mess with. It has a close relationship with the Rat Merchant Alliance.
But now, obviously the situation is different.
Disputes, contradictions, these messy things have always existed widely in the Skaven Empire. These guys with short gray and black hair are especially keen on internal fighting and will have no scruples about it. Choose to use various means to embezzle anything you can get your hands on.
The first ones to be eliminated on the Black Body Planet were the rat engineers.
These guys started the revolution as soon as they stepped out of the starry sky. They were not willing to exist simply as vassals. It was based on this vision that Black Iron Star was conquered by many rat-man engineers. All selected.
In fact, this is effective. After all, it can be seen from the construction of the third rat star port on the Black Iron Star. But how can I put it, until the rat merchants who were cultivated by them on this planet and those who wavered... The rat-man bureaucrats banded together and chose to stab them in the back.
There are many famous rat-man merchants on the Black Iron Star. They have been rat-man engineers for several generations, and they are all descendants of the group of big-claw priests. It is a pity that it is different now. These Guy wants to get closer.
As a loose alliance, the Skaven Engineers Association is not as binding as it seems, and its internal chaos and struggles have lasted for several generations.
Those young Skaven engineers always mocked the elderly leaders of the association as if they were stiff corpses.
But no matter how rigid it is, at this time, something needs to be done. It has something to do with the status of the Rat Engineers Association. As a loose alliance, the Engineers Association is not actually composed of those who are in the position. The highest-ranking Skaven engineers are pulling the strings at will. If the association itself does nothing, then these Skaven engineers will break away from the Engineers Association in large numbers and choose someone they can rely on with their feet to recruit the Skaven engineers again. The Society of Engineers was established.
Attacking these guys' rat factories is actually a bad move, but it can also show the choice of those temple priests.
They chose to cooperate with the big rat businessmen who had more factories and capital, instead of cooperating with these chaotic, paranoid and stubborn rat engineers.
Then, even if you vote with your feet, which side will these guys who are closer to the Skaven Empire approach? This is obvious. This is what the flag wants to see. The flag needs these guys to really To make a choice, more guys need to make a choice. In this way, when he really comes off the field, everything can be restored to an orderly appearance more quickly, rather than what it seems on the surface. It is prosperous, but in fact, there is an undercurrent of explosive barrels with no peace of mind.
It’s just such a choice, but it requires more despicable guys on the Black Iron Star to pay the price.
Of course, no guy is willing to take the initiative to pay such a price.
Amidst the killing and death, some rat people who were forced to a dead end gathered together. They were a group of rat mercenaries, more humble rat people civilians, and those rat people engineers. They gathered together and decided to Did something.
The Skaven engineers provided a large number of simple modified weapons, and these weapons were distributed wantonly to everyone who could pick them up. On the Black Iron Star, the industrial power of every Skaven city was It's terrifying to be wealthy.
The rat mercenaries got more tilt, and the ordinary rat civilians also grasped the weapons that had just been delivered to their hands.
If you don’t want to die, then you have no choice but to resist.
(End of this chapter)