Chapter 181, The Era of White Rats Is Not over Yet

Rolling hills, in front of the tall sacred oak.

After a short rest, the Western Expeditionary Force's offensive began again.

Sheng Qi began to extract slave rats stored in the coal mine vein to supplement the army.

Rather than requiring fully equipped rat warriors one by one.

It is better to have several times more slave rats to fill the front line. Sheng Qi has no shortage of equipment.

A large number of weapons of dead rat warriors were recycled and distributed.

As for the morale issue, there is no need to worry about it.

After the two senior rat priests left, the power fell to the rat priests who were like fence-sitters.

When the rat priests who did not cooperate were pushed to the forefront of the war by Sheng Qi, pushed into the bell tower, and faced the dazzling magic that was whistling.

Smart guys will naturally choose to cooperate, and these guys are not so hard-headed.

Even if they can meet, betrayal will happen again.

But Sheng Qi has no more ways to deal with these guys.

The army really needs the support of these rat priests. Without them, this brutal siege war cannot be sustained.

He wanted to learn from Rat War and promote the merit system of the rat army, but Sheng Qi was neither qualified to appoint rat warlords nor had a stable rear and soldiers to replenish.

Rat War did not give up all his cities. At least Furnace City and Prairie City were seized by him with his own strength.

Even if there was an extra rat lord in Furnace City, the real supervisor of the city still belonged to the faction of Rat War.

It was just that from the beginning, the supervisor of Rat War became controlled by the group of priests accompanying the army.

The rat lord of Furnace City was hollowed out.

The situation in Prairie City was also the same.

He placed a supervision team and 200,000 rat army outside the God Temple of Prairie City.

Ensure that the 5,000 temple guards stationed in the temple can be firmly suppressed.

In name, it is to recruit ratmen army. As the key node connecting this vast grassland to the Desolate Mountains of Furnace City, Grassland City can also support the Rat War Army.

But the actual intention is easy to guess. It is nothing more than firmly blocking the key node connecting this grassland to the Desolate Mountains, or threatening, or intimidating, or perhaps simply not trusting.

This can ensure that he can at least turn the table on the grassland.

As long as the Grassland City is blocked, a big purge can be launched on the grassland at any time, a blatant intimidation.

Everyone knows it well, and no unwise guy will try to anger this irritable guy at this sensitive moment.

Because Rat War was actually deprived of many things in this appointment.

The continuous output brought by the city is directly and completely banned, which eliminates the possibility of Rat War relying on building cities to maintain the territory and continuously obtain resources.

The possibility of the rat warlords gaining autonomy is cut off.

This turmoil was originally caused by the overstepping of Rat War, and those rat priests were just the unlucky ones who were implicated, although these unlucky ones were not wronged.

The old White Rat drew a red line for Rat War.

As the commander-in-chief of the rat warlords, everything he had should come from war, and could only come from war.

Some concessions were also made.

Rat War was too far away from the Desolate Mountains, and White Rat was too old.

With the tacit consent of White Rat, the Furnace City still belonged to Rat War, even if the nominal ruling power was changed.

A weak and insignificant senior rat priest was assigned to the Furnace City.

This was the tacit consent of White Rat.

What happened in Grassland City was the choice of the arrogant guy Rat War himself.

Such a move was not wise.

He could have stayed dormant for a long time, waiting for the end of the White Rat era.

Rat War was too arrogant.

Obviously, the result could not be changed, but he had to use the power in his hands to forcibly deviate.

But it's not surprising. This is Shu Zhan. This is what Shu Zhan can do.

He is indeed capable of doing such a thing. The glory of the rat warlords all lies in him. He alone is enough to become a faction.

At least at this time, it is the title of the Rat Commander that is glorious because of Shu Zhan, not Shu Zhan because of the title of the Rat Commander.

There is just one problem.

The era of the White Rat has not ended. Compared with Shu Zhan, the White Rat is more noble, more glorious, and more powerful, even if he is old.

Sheng Qi is not as good as Shu Zhan.

Most of the proceeds from this war have been sold by him. He doesn't have to be so stretched. With the blessing of this huge amount of blood mushrooms, the merit system can be tried to be implemented.

The implementation of the merit system can greatly increase his prestige and suppress the Western Expeditionary Force's dependence on the rat priests.

However, Sheng Qi, who had suffered a loss, was still determined to build his own rear, but he was also a little hesitant. He was not sure whether he could smoothly mobilize such a large army after leaving the rat priests.

But these are all later, and they are issues to be considered after the war is over.

The return of the rat runners brought Sheng Qi a rare good news.

He will get the support of the long claws, although apart from the news of getting support, he basically knows nothing about asking this team of returning rat runners.

I don't know what the support will be, and I don't know when it will be given. I only know that Long Claw will give support.

It's a headache.

But no matter what, it's a good thing. His boss has a seat in parliament.

Even if he doesn't give anything, it will be a great help when he is ready to withdraw from those senior rat priests.

But what does he need?

This lesson taught Sheng Qi a lot of things, and made him see many false things clearly. After all, everything will fall into interests and power.

Those senior rat priests can easily accuse him of neglecting the gods because they have power.

And why do they accuse themselves of such a hat? It's because of interests, in order to erase Sheng Qi's qualifications to participate in the sacred sacrifice on the ruins of the heretic god temple at the end of the war.

It's just a pity that they were easily controlled by another guy who has more power.

Sheng Qi was very grateful to Bai Shu, because Bai Shu's punishment of these senior rat priests gave him a chance to break free from their control.

He was even more eager for power.

At the same time, Sheng Qi thought about the benefits he could bring to Long Claws.

Thinking of the surging flesh and blood, thinking of those deformed ratmen, Sheng Qi recalled the reason why he deliberately alienated Long Claws after the war against the wild boars.

He shuddered.

But thinking back to what those damn guys did to him, his face became more determined.

He knew what he could bring to Long Claws.

Those half-elf slaves, these guys Long Claws would definitely be interested in.

Before Long Claws mentioned it, Sheng Qi spontaneously began to deliver those captured half-elf slaves to Long Claws.

This is indeed what Long Claws needs.

It must be said that Sheng Qi is indeed a ratman with great talent in communication, although he may have some misunderstandings about the source of power.