Chapter 166, I, Shu Zhan, Will Become the King of One Word!

This was weather the Rat People had never encountered before.

From barren mountains to lush forests to lizardmen wetlands, even if the winter is cold, it is not enough to cause heavy snowfall until the rat people break through the towering mountains.

Come to this vast grassland.

The Four Seasons Ranch is already the warmest corner of this vast grassland, but it is a bit unbearable for the rat people.

Although these guys have hair, they don't have enough hair.

This cold weather is a non-fatal but difficult to ignore trouble for the rat people.

Rat War is still recruiting troops, and the rat warriors who are the main body of the army have been recruited.

Compared to last time, the scale was even larger.

Rat War is thinking about how to carry out a long-term war on this grassland. The problem of Rat Man's lack of mobility is becoming more and more impossible to ignore.

He couldn't just start turning back, hibernating, and accumulating strength after every war and every large-scale loss of the rat knights.

It is obvious that the rat army in his hands is larger than ever before.

But without the accompanying knights, no matter how large the assembled rat army is, it will still be too cumbersome.

Nothing on this vast grassland is fixed, there are no solid fortresses, and there are no bustling cities.

The advantage brought by the huge Skaven army was infinitely diluted.

Perhaps it would be much smoother for Rat Zhan to attack the half-elf kingdom in the rolling hills.

Under his banner and under the spears of the Skaven Supervisory Team, the vast army of Skaven could easily overwhelm the sparse half-elves.

But on this grassland, this is difficult to do.

Only knights can fight against knights.

But the quality of the rat knights is really not an advantage.

What if it depends on equipment?

Rat War does not have the resources to equip every rat knight with heavy armor, so he cannot do this.

Thinking.

Mouse Zhan couldn't think of any better solution for a while. In fact, there were still not enough resources, not enough sacrifices, and not enough blood mushrooms.

If there are enough blood mushrooms, many things can be solved very easily.

If the scale of the fierce knights in Mouse Zhan's hands could reach as many as ten thousand, then many problems would not be considered problems at all.

It's just a pity that it can't be done.

Then some changes have to be made.

Rat Zhan is not a guy who likes to play it safe. He is radical, bold, and manic, but this vast grassland still forces him to try to change his strategies.

In the cold current that swept across the world overnight, this ugly hairless mouse was particularly sensitive.

Suddenly I shuddered.

He rubbed his paws involuntarily.

Shu Zhan suddenly thought of the guy he left on the grassland, and felt a little regretful.

Originally, he planned to peel off the guy's skin and use it as a cushion. Maybe it would be good as a shawl, which should keep him warm.

Take back your thoughts.

Finally, he made a decision.

He doesn't like the word "play it safe", but now he can only make this choice.

The war is about to escalate.

Forced by the vast scale of this grassland, Rat War changed the strategy of war.

Camps one after another will be laid out on this grassland.

Settlements will be established one after another on this grassland, and cities like prairie cities will be built one after another on this grassland.

Since there are no cities or fortresses on this grassland, it will be up to the ratmen to take care of them.

When the vast grassland is divided by camps and fortresses, a huge network is built, with cities as the core. When such a situation occurs, the situation will be reversed.

Rat Zhan had already had enough of chasing these slippery guys all over the grassland.

I don't like to build camps, cities, and fortresses like this to fight a long war.

But if there is really no choice, he would still prefer to build camps, cities, and fortresses.

A decision was made.

This is how this war will continue.

At this freezing moment, the Ratmen in Prairie City started to move because of the order of the biggest man in the city.

Just like what the wild boars did when they invaded the lush forest, Rat War also has to develop the four-season pasture in front of it.

The Rat Man army was silent. The hairless Rat Zhan hated the cold weather, but the ordinary Rat Men who gathered in large numbers in Prairie City had no choice but to move under his order.

This huge four-season ranch was divided into six areas by Rat War.

In these six areas, Rat War will build six cities.

These six cities are not showy cities, but real cities with palaces of gods and the ability to cultivate blood mushrooms.

These six cities will be directly taken over by the Rat War.

At this time, these huge groups of rats will be the pioneers of these six cities.

Rat War is not prepared to use its own power to open up the city.

But these developed cities will be taken over by him.

But this did not cause much dissatisfaction. It can even be said that there are countless rat people who are willing to do this for Rat War.

Because the rat war offered some conditions that people couldn't refuse.

Six cities is obviously not the limit that this huge ranch can carry.

But Shu Zhan's troops will only be stationed in these six cities, so what about the remaining areas?

These areas will be thrown out by Rat War.

They can be held by any ratman.

The land is not without value, although Rat War has always disdained the income from the land. This manic war maniac is used to grabbing everything in the war.

But it does not prevent him from using the land he has taken and the land he has not yet taken as a carrot.

These rats gathered around him will be driven by this carrot to open up the city for him and fill the large vacancies in the area near the city for him.

Become part of the long line of defense, and finally hand over half of their harvest to him. In any case, it will not be a loss for Rat War to promote this matter.

As for whether there are ratmen willing to bite this carrot, it can only be said that a group of guys have already made an example.

The senior priests of those outposts made a lot of money by relying on the lush forest.

And now Rat War has given this opportunity, or it can be said that only Rat War has given this opportunity.

Well, in fact, in the past, Rat War was not very motivated to do these troublesome things, but this grassland is too vast. In the expected long war, Rat War needs more supplies, more blood mushrooms, and a larger reserve force.

On the first day of the cold winter, a team of rat knights sent by Rat War came back.

They ran for thirty days into the depths of this vast grassland, but still could not see the end.

From the grassland city to the barren mountains, the rat knights only need to run for fifteen days to reach it.

Rat War has been trying to calculate the distance of this vast grassland.

For this reason, he sent many rat knights, but only one rat knight returned safely in the end. The danger on this vast grassland is not small.

But it was this returning rat knight that made him think about the way of war.

And the current strategy is the solution he came up with.

But this will undoubtedly be a change.

If it is really pushed forward according to Rat War’s idea, a very serious problem will soon appear.

Of course, it is easy to control a settlement and camp scattered on the grassland.

After all, the temple of God will not appear in every settlement and camp.

No matter where the rats are scattered, they will eventually move towards the central city where the temple of God is built.

This is why Shu Zhan wants to hold the central city tightly.

But this is also the problem.

Now the entire Rat Empire, the underground rat city, the outpost, the slag city, the furnace city, and the newly built grassland city.

Five cities, Shu Zhan already has two cities in his hands. Then, if the six cities on this four-season pasture are built again and held by Shu Zhan.

Then it is equivalent to Shu Zhan having eight cities in his hands.

With the development of the city and the progress and development of the war, most of the territory of the Rat Empire will be held by Shu Zhan.

Then what is the Rat Parliament in the underground rat city, or what does Shu Zhan want to do?

Who will be the orthodoxy of the Rat Kingdom?

This is undoubtedly a huge problem and an extremely sensitive problem.

But Shu Zhan didn't seem to think about this, or rather, he thought about it, but he still did it.

White Rat has never restricted the rats in the Desolate Mountains from flowing towards Shu Zhan and the rat priests.

Compared with the newly built Furnace City, Waste City, and Grassland City.

It is undoubtedly the underground rat city in the Desolate Mountains that supports the two-front war.

But now Shu Zhan is using the rats flowing out of the Desolate Mountains to try to practice the act of transcendence.

This is undoubtedly a dangerous signal.

Shu Zhan is now too far away from the Desolate Mountains and too far away from Bai Shu.

In the Grassland City, Shu Zhan gathered the big claw priests, the captain of the scavenging team, and the rat priests, with exaggerated expressions.

Generous promises.

Undoubtedly, many guys are moved.

Deep in the grassland, in a position circled by Shu Zhan, a large number of rats began to build on this grassland.

Shu Zhan will not provide any support for the city's construction.

The construction went smoothly at the beginning, and most of the rat city was buried under the ground.

In cold weather, the ground was harder than usual, and the excavation went smoothly until the excavation depth continued to increase, and this loose and unsupported land became a big problem.

The rat city was certainly not built by tunnels without support.

Especially in this loose soil.

What was simply dug out of the soil was not a city at all, but a living coffin that could collapse at any time. Even the rats would not stay in such a dangerous building.

In fact, in order to prevent the occurrence of chain collapse, the rats would use a lot of wood to support the tunnels they dug. Recently, in order to ensure safety and stability, the underground rat city has gradually begun to use metal to support the city.

You know, a rat city is far from being occupied by a rare number of 10,000 or 20,000 rats.

Take the underground rat city as an example. There is no accurate number of how many rats have occupied this complex and huge city so far, but it exceeds, but at least more than 30 million, although two-thirds of the 30 million are filled by slave rats.

It is also an extremely large number.

This is why the rats can support wars in two directions at the same time.

Even the wars in two directions are currently supported by the two rat cities in the Desolate Mountains.

Although this newly built city is certainly unlikely to expand to the level of the underground rat city, it is obvious that the rat war will not accept such a shoddy project.

It is difficult to use supporting materials.

There are no tall trees on this vast grassland.

They cannot use metal pillars as extravagantly as the underground rat city.

Rat war has time requirements. Even though this guy doesn't like winter, he is still eager to move after the recruitment of the army in his hands has gradually come to an end.

Even though Rat War is quite bold, he still feels guilty when tinkering with such things, especially after he gradually understands what he is doing in the next few days after making a decision on a whim.

For this reason, he urgently needed a big victory, preferably to directly destroy the temple of a heretic god and hold a grand priest ceremony for the great god in the temple.

He certainly could not allow these guys to slowly find a solution.

If he couldn't do it, he would just change a batch, anyway, there were ratmen who wanted these lands.

He urgently needed time now, before the white rats reacted.

Under the pressure of the rat war, these rat priests, big claw priests, and rat scavenger team leaders chose a material that had never been tried before.

They began to mine stone strips on the towering mountains that separated the grassland and the wetland.

In fact, the rats have always been good at mining and using rocks, because the stone paintings that were popular among the priests should be the carvings of the patterns of the gods.

But it was the first time to use them to build a city.

This was not easy.

But fortunately, this time the construction had the participation of the big claw priests, and a large number of slave rats were driven to climb the mountains in this biting cold weather.

There was not much safety protection, no warmth, no auxiliary machinery, even though the pulleys and gears had long been used in war machinery by the rat priests.

There were only endless slave rats.

In the clanging sound and the whipping, the construction of the city finally started.

This was another bold attempt by Rat War.

Of course, Rat War might not have thought so much at the beginning, just using this method to increase the stakes of the war, but when he came to his senses, he did not stop this behavior.

He just became more impatient in the tension and wanted to completely drop this matter.

But what he didn't know was that on the third day after he made the decision, the news was delivered to White Rat.