Chapter 149, the Brewing Rat Plague, the Developing Civilization, and the Sheep Beastmen Struggling to Hold On
Shu Zhan raised his head, the indifference on his face was clearly visible, and the high priest of the sheep orcs frowned.
The scale of the rat army was too large.
Even if he had summoned the warriors of the remaining three tribes, he could only gather 50,000 sheep orc knights.
And the endless rat army in front of him was difficult to estimate.
But there was not much hesitation, and it was a charge.
Even if the enemy was strong, he could not forget his courage.
Although he was old, he still took the lead.
In the sound of the horn.
The sheep orc knights also began to charge, following his steps.
The battle was about to start.
The rats also responded.
"Whoever kills that old guy! Whoever is the new rat warlord!"
The reward was issued by Shu Zhan.
As useful as ever, such a reward.
The commotion began to spread.
Even the young rats who mixed in with the rat warriors were more eager.
He firmly grasped the wooden spear in his hand.
In his desire, the morale of the ratmen became high.
The brutal fight did not start with the charge of the sheep orcs.
Rounds of arrows were thrown.
They fell into the huge rat army, but there was no ripple.
It did not even cause a huge blow to the morale of the ratmen.
Even though arrows kept falling, even though ratmen kept falling and dying.
But it just did not cause much damage to the morale of the ratmen warriors.
The death of their companions did not make these ratmen warriors feel much, only when they faced the brutal battle and the terrifying enemy.
The shaking would quickly occur.
The supervisory team did not even intervene.
In the waving battle flags and the sharp roars, the ratmen army began to march.
Or perhaps it was because the power shown by the arrows was too small.
If the flying dragon sprayed flames from the sky, even if the supervisory team intervened in the battlefield, the morale of the rat warriors would probably be difficult to maintain.
The old Feng led a commando team to attack the rats on the front battlefield.
It was just a charge.
This commando team almost broke the front formation of the rat army.
The giant deer that trampled on the infantry was devastating.
But it only broke the front formation of the rat army.
Soon, the follow-up rat warriors rushed over to become a rat warlord.
For this reason, these senior rat warriors were even crazier and more fearless than those reckless young rats.
Just as an old guy who has been galloping on the grassland for a lifetime.
The high priest of the sheep orcs certainly knew how the cavalry should fight.
In just a moment, the sheep orc commando team that completed the assault mission began to disengage.
This decisive retreat, the rat warriors simply couldn't keep this old guy.
But there were not only ratmen warriors in this huge army.
The ratmen knights rushed out from the rear of the army, and their goal was very clear, that is, to keep the old guy who charged fearlessly.
Even though the sheep orc knights were much more flexible and agile than the ratmen knights, the timing was just right now.
It was used to prevent the enemy knights from leaving.
Facing the sheep orcs, the ratmen knights under Shu Zhan were far behind in both quantity and quality.
So, they were simply changed by Shu Zhan.
The ratmen knights held on to the sheep orc assault team tightly, giving the subsequent ratmen warriors the opportunity to approach the enemy.
But this was exactly what the old guy wanted.
The large sheep orc troops that shot arrows changed their targets of attack almost instantly.
The short bows in their hands were put down.
The scimitars on their waists were pulled out.
In the shouting, they ran wildly.
Crashed towards the ratmen knights who had arrived.
That old guy, that cunning and bold old guy, his target has always been the rat knights who were placed behind the huge army by Shu Zhan.
He wanted to eat all the rat knights in front of Shu Zhan and this huge army.
This is a very suitable strategy.
The protagonists on the grassland have always been those running knights.
There is no complex terrain or many dangerous passes on this vast land.
There are even very few places suitable for building cities.
As long as all the rat knights are eaten.
Then no matter how difficult this huge army is, the follow-up can be dealt with slowly by mobility.
This is a very smart approach.
At the same time, he was bold enough to throw himself out as bait when the two sides fought for the first time to achieve such a goal.
So did he succeed?
To some extent, he succeeded.
The rat knights who came were quickly lost in the two sides of the sheep orcs.
If this bold old guy faced other commanders.
Then his adventure this time was a complete victory.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see the importance of the knight team on the grassland.
Even if they didn't understand, the rapid loss of knights would make them react quickly.
Knights are never cheap guys.
This is also true for the ratmen.
The value and resources spent on training an ordinary ratman knight are equivalent to twenty ratman warriors.
At this time, in order to stop the loss in time.
So what will be the order?
That is undoubtedly to transfer.
Try to transfer the trapped knight team away from the battlefield, and then the adventurous old guy can leave the battlefield leisurely.
Originally, this strategy is very feasible.
It’s just unfortunate that the commander of the ratman army at this time is Rat War.
Facing the formed millstone.
Rat War not only did not withdraw the ratman knights, but on the contrary, he chose to increase the bet without hesitation.
The remaining ratman knights were also pressed up by him.
The ratman knights faithfully carried out Rat War’s orders, charging fearlessly, leaving all other goals behind, and rushed straight into the battlefield that had already begun to grind meat, in order to kill the old sheep orc who was dragged tightly and could not leave the battlefield.
The knights on the periphery kept pulling away and repeatedly charging, and fell into the depths of the battlefield. The knights, who had no room to move, fought cruelly in a small space.
The rat knights dropped their spears, and the short and capable war clubs were prepared to deal with the battles in this small environment.
In fact, the war club is just an iron rod with irregular bumps on the top.
Well, you say that the rat people's industry is lame, that's not the case. The industrial zone in the desolate mountains that never stops day and night produces a lot of metal every day.
But you say that their industry is developed.
The weapons given are mostly rough and cold iron rods.
These guys can only work hard and strive for excellence when casting sacrificial utensils and things related to the gods.
The giant bell brought to this simple fortress by the temple knights is particularly exquisite.
However, despite this, the effect of the rough iron rod was not affected.
The solid material brings a good striking feel, and the concave and convex spikes on the top add a good armor-breaking ability.
Of course, this does not play a big role against the sheep beastmen who can't wear metal armor, but the tall giant sheep are particularly suitable for dealing with the sheep beastmen's mounts.
It can easily break the thick leg bones of the giant sheep.
The sheep beastmen riding on the giant sheep are half a body taller than the rat knights riding on the giant rats.
The two are opposite, in this narrow and chaotic battlefield, loud roars and sharp screams are mixed.
But overall, it is indeed the sheep beastmen knights who have the upper hand.
The knights of both sides who are constantly colliding on the periphery are the first to decide the winner.
The rat knights were defeated in the collision.
But they did what they should do.
They bit the sheep beastmen's commander, the old high priest Feng.
In the fluttering flags that were erected, it was impossible for the sheep beastmen to retreat, and they rushed in like crazy.
But the rat knights were even more desperate.
With sharp neighs, these red-eyed guys ignored everything else and rushed straight towards the flag not far away.
Then they crashed into the sheep-beast commando team that was waiting for battle, and died quickly like moths.
No doubt.
This commando team gathered the most elite warriors among the sheep-beasts.
The only ones who could compete with them in the rat kingdom were the temple guards who defended the temple, or the elite rat warriors who followed Shu Zhan through war after war.
Even the temple guards might be at a disadvantage when facing these guys.
The rat knights were no match for this group of sheep-beast commandos.
But at this time, these dull guys were charging without hesitation.
In the sharp neighs, there was the life that was disappearing rapidly.
Just because of an order from Shu Zhan.
Shu Zhan never pitied his warriors.
But he could bring victory.
The madly running rat warriors arrived.
In a very short time, this tentative attack was directly upgraded to a life-and-death fight in the crazy escalation of Rat War.
The goal of the sheep orc high priest was achieved. After this battle, there might not be even half of the rat knights under Rat War left.
But at the same time, the strategy of the sheep orcs was completely failed.
This army, which was formed by all the sheep orcs, was dragged into a brutal war of attrition by Rat War.
Rat War could not care about the losses suffered by his troops.
But could the old guy not care about the tribal warriors who followed him?
Standing in the center of the battlefield, the rat looked down at everything in front of him with cold eyes.
The brutal battle ended after the old guy escaped.
The sheep orc knights left this cruel battlefield, left in a mess, and disappeared in the depths of the lush grassland, leaving a large number of corpses.
The rats suffered more losses.
The first to bear the brunt were the rat knights who were attacked.
Only 8,000 of the 20,000 rat knights were left.
The Rat Warriors suffered even more serious casualties, although most of the casualties were young Rat Men.
Thirty thousand Rat Warriors were left on this grassland.
In exchange, ten thousand Sheep Orcs were killed.
The sharpest commando was almost completely destroyed.
The sheep orcs still had 40,000 troops left, but only 40,000 were left.
Even though the rats lost 40,000 troops, they only lost 40,000 troops.
There is a huge difference between them.
Soon, the bodies on this battlefield will be sent to the blood lake in a sacrificial ceremony, whether they are rats or sheep orcs.
Among the sprouting blood mushrooms, more rats will come here, for the blood mushrooms, for achievements, for honor, for everything they have, for the insatiable desire, they will become a member of the huge army under the rat war, and become a member of the chaotic team running on the battlefield at this time.
Become a bargaining chip in the hands of the rat war.
This is undoubtedly a brewing disaster, a disaster that all intelligent races on the grassland will face.
But at this time, only the sheep orcs who have already declined and are no longer as glorious as they once were are struggling to support, and only the old and aging sheep orc high priest is struggling to support.
The rebellious Rat War did not stop. Since the sheep beastmen settled down again in the camp that they destroyed.
Then the end point of this expedition is still there.
In the waving battle flag.
This huge army that had just experienced a brutal battle began to march again.
It was just strange that they did not see any fatigue or trance left by the brutal battle.
Some were just excited.
Even those rigid and dull rat knights had bloody tails hanging around their necks.
To be honest, they actually liked the tails of lizardmen more.
The lizardmen's tails, which were covered with layers of scales and had a different kind of brilliance, were much more beautiful and dazzling than the tails of these sheep beastmen.
But they did not dislike it. This was their achievement and their desire to fight.
The recent appearance of the noisy ruins made the blood mushrooms in the hands of these rat warriors have other uses besides eating.
It made the blood mushrooms in their hands consume faster and made them more eager for blood mushrooms.
And the tails of these sheep beastmen were their vouchers for exchanging blood mushrooms.
Of course, before that, maybe hanging a sheep orc's tail around your neck and sitting in the noisy ruins for a while would be a good choice.
Comparison has never been exclusive to those rat priests, but most of the time, most rats have no channels to compare even if they want to.
Until recently, with the outflow of more blood mushrooms, the noisy ruins that belong exclusively to the lower-level rats were born.
Of course, comparison is not a particularly good thing.
It will give birth to jealousy, unwillingness, hatred, and all kinds of violent and despicable behaviors.
But after all, it gave the rats who occupied the vast majority of the rat kingdom, those rats at the bottom, a little more comfort, making them more like humans.
The progress of the rat civilization has increased by one again, and their kingdom has become more prosperous.
Although it has not yet been found that this has brought any particularly big changes to the rats.
Yesterday's is made up, and the missing words in the big chapter a few days ago are also made up, and there will be another big chapter later.