Chapter 249, The Guys Who Promote the Change of the Times

The rats never mind taking advantage of the situation. The problems exposed on the city wall have successfully increased the stakes for Rat War. If this guy sees an opportunity, then the all-in will be carried out, even if it is not a good habit to meet and all-in.

Many things are not ready yet, and the same is true for the rats, including the tunnels dug, the arrangements for the rats entrenched in the city, the treatment of the same race on this continent, the consumption of the morale of the city defenders, and the deployment of teams to deal with possible enemy attacks from other directions.

Many things need to be prepared and left behind. This siege is just a test. Although Rat War does not mind turning this test directly into a cruel fight, he actually did so.

The rats continue to emerge from the darkness, densely packed, like ants clinging to the towering city walls. The huge catapult stopped throwing. The boulders and swollen rats have been exhausted, and the huge catapult has to stop.

The accompanying magicians on the city wall were finally free to cast various spells, mostly fireballs, magic missiles, and other small gadgets, but they also made the ratmen warriors climbing the city wall miserable.

The situation suddenly became worse for the ratmen.

However, in the face of such a situation, the order to withdraw the troops still did not fall.

A large number of ratmen warriors were driven to the front of the city in the crowd and began to climb up the city wall.

The bodies of the ratmen fell like raindrops and piled up in front of the city wall. It was not that there was no breakthrough point.

On a section of the city wall, the ratmen warriors who rushed up the city wall successfully gained a foothold. In the chaotic war, they fought in a ball and were about to erode the battlefield.

However, they were pushed over by the magic knights who raised their big shields, formed a team, and flashed dazzling magic light. This group of knights, who were blessed by various magics, showed their strength. They were just bulldozers on the battlefield, almost forcibly pushing back the rats who rushed to the city wall.

There was no way to retreat, and they were about to be pushed off the city wall. The eyes of these rats gradually turned red.

They just wanted to survive. These guys who were pushed to the battlefield and the front line by the Rat War were all guys who were not qualified in the eyes of the Rat War. There were a lot of young rats.

Being pushed to the front line of the cruel battlefield, they instinctively climbed up the towering city wall and fought with the defenders on the city wall just to survive.

Now this situation has been pushed to the limit and began to become crazy. Some rats began to lift up various pottery jars piled in the corners of the rear wall and threw them out in a roar.

The rat warriors continued to climb up the wall. The pottery jars broke on the knights' armor and also broke in the surging rats.

Some rats knocked over the torches on the wall. They screamed in fear. The scene was in chaos. The frenzy in their eyes seemed so insignificant when facing the substantial and diffuse flames.

Ratmen kept falling off the wall with screams.

But the wall was really tall enough. At such a height, falling meant death. Maybe one or two unlucky people could die with them, but the result would not change much.

Even if you were lucky enough to save your life, the rats were still coming in. If you didn't get up in the first place, you would be trampled without hesitation.

In the trampling of the black tide, you became a shapeless pool of flesh and blood on the ground.

On the city wall, all the ratmen were pushed down the wall. The flames did not cause serious damage to these magic knights. The armor on their bodies greatly blocked the terrifying temperature and stepped out of the flames.

It was far from the end. During this period, the Eastern Expeditionary Force had accumulated enough ratmen.

The ratmen's tentative attack lasted for a day and a night, with uninterrupted attacks. During this period, some hidden ratmen in the city noticed this and emerged to abuse the city.

It caused a great commotion in the city, but Rat War was not satisfied with the emergence of this group of ratmen, and was even angry, and no longer hesitated.

Accompanied by the waving of flags.

A hidden team began to run, running underground, digging underground and attacking on the ground together. It was not surprising that this huge city had a structure to deal with underground attacks. After all, many years ago, there were also races like dwarves who were good at digging underground passages on this continent, and ratmen have always been active on the main continent.

There are many stone pillars with complex patterns all over the city's underground. These stone pillars can solidify the earth, which troubles the ratmen's excavation. However, as time goes by, some stone pillars are damaged. At the same time, some tunnels dug by the ratmen on the main continent are also discovered and used.

However, these tunnels are not large, and not many ratmen can shuttle through them at one time.

Even though there are ratmen entering the huge city in front of them through the winding underground tunnels, they have never accumulated enough scale.

Even if they are ready to increase the rat war, they will not use this army, just to prepare to give the humans in this city a surprise at that time, but this surprise is interrupted by the idiots in the city.

Those excited idiots began to spread flames in the city and kill wantonly, attracting the knights of the Church wandering in the city. In an instant, they dispersed and disappeared in this huge and complex city.

But the troops deployed by Rat War were in bad luck. A neat army of ratmen had just broken the drainage guardrail on the city square and came out of the dirty sewer, facing the church knights who were rushing in.

Amid sharp roars, the two sides collided with each other, because Rat War was ready to fight with the human side in the underground tunnels after these tunnels were discovered. His team of guards appeared in this team.

These idiots were really stupid. Not only did they lead the Vatican knights to the exit of the tunnel, but they also scattered in an instant.

The Rat War guards wearing black armor roared and pushed forward the knights who were rushing in front of them. The two sides collided with each other and fought fiercely. More city guards were mobilized.

The guards that Rat War smashed with a large number of blood mushrooms were indeed fierce.

But facing such a situation, they were powerless and fell down unwillingly. Soon, this underground tunnel was temporarily buried by the magic spells of the wizard who came.

The underground attack of the ratmen failed.

Unable to break through, this tentative attack reached a stalemate, and Rat War began to withdraw. Before the real war started, there were still some preparations to be made. It became meaningless to continue the stalemate here. Countless ratmen retreated at a speed a few points faster than when they came, leaving a pile of corpses, most of which were ratmen.

These corpses even raised the ground by one section, which seemed to be a great victory.

But in fact, the ratmen who died in this test could not even be remembered by Rat War for even a second. They were just some guys who were not worth mentioning.

The figure of the rat priests did not appear in this conflict. They had not officially arrived in this area, or in other words, they had not officially joined the organization of the Eastern Expeditionary Force. The contradictions between the two sides still existed. In that comprehensive mobilization, they were also thrown into the battlefield as a force, but Rat War and the rat priests were not harmonious.

The rat priests did not take the initiative to provoke Rat War, consciously did not appear in Rat War's sight, and began to deal with various logistics-related matters of the Eastern Expeditionary Force.

Without a backbone, they could not gather together, and those senior rat priests who were qualified to be the leaders and did not take office as rat lords were all killed in the grassland battle. The most warlike thorns among the senior rat priests were all radicals, and then all these guys died in a war.

Very sincere and aware of the times, these rat priests who arrived under the command of Rat War bowed their heads obediently. As the real intellectuals in the Rat Empire, these guys are excellent in logistics management.

It also comes from the general suspicion of the rats. Even though the big claw priests generally crawled in front of the rat priests to help them deal with various things, no rat priest would really delegate power to the big claw priests under their command. Even if they would not really interfere with the workshops and caravans, the circulation of goods, details, and the operation of workshops and caravans, these guys can do it clearly.

They have their own network, and they can efficiently convert the gains in the areas occupied by Rat War into blood mushrooms.

For example, at this moment, the dark forest outside the golden wilderness has been sold by these rat priests. Among them, this forest can be roughly divided into two categories: minerals and land. Most of the minerals are purchased by various rat priests. To some extent, these guys have foresight. They have a tendency to invest in the future, perhaps because of greed.

The rat lord who acquired the copper mine on the vast grassland miraculously turned over, and the dazzling blood gold still turned over and became sacred. Although this holiness was not recognized by the great god, its dazzling golden color still made the rats quite like it, especially the temple guards began to use blood gold to cast the temple, just because of the dazzling brilliance.

It seems that the rats seem to like the golden color.

This makes the value of the two ores that make up the blood gold increase several times in an instant, but gold is also golden, and it is natural gold, but the rats don’t feel anything about gold.

They seemed to think that gold was too soft. The soft gold color could not bear the glory of the great gods. Moreover, the gods on the grassland generally liked gold. This might be one of the reasons why they were indifferent to gold.

Gold had another nickname in the Rat Empire, pseudo-gold.

Such examples gave the Rat priests enough room for imagination. With the establishment of one Rat workshop after another, various minerals indeed became a batch of good commodities.

Mineral resources became good bargaining chips in the hands of the Rat priests.

As for land, the land was even more unsettled. Every piece of land released would be taken by the Rat who wanted to become a rancher at a very fast speed. The deeper reason was the platform of the temple guards. The temple guards were deliberately cultivating those Rat ranchers.

Nowadays, ratman ranches have been built in almost every corner of the vast grassland. While they provide stable income to the lords of the ratman cities, they also bring a little risk resistance to the extremely deformed ratman empire. Of course, for the temple guards, the more important point is that the sacrifices floating in the blood pools in the city temples are also provided by these ratman ranches.

Not every city is located on the front line and can enjoy the endless resources brought by the war, and not every city occupies a strategic pass like the grassland city and can enjoy the benefits brought by commerce.

Ordinary rat cities always face a serious problem. Without sacrifices, the blood pool in the temple of the gods is empty, and the blood mushrooms no longer grow, and the city is unsustainable.

The temple guards also have to accept the torture of this problem. If there are no sacrifices in the temple, then what is the need to maintain this temple?

The rat ranch is a possibility to alleviate this problem, providing a most basic output, and also providing the necessity of existence for the fallen temple and the temple guards stationed in the temple.

The temple guards discovered this problem, so they spared no effort to promote the establishment of the Ratman Ranch. At present, only the temple guards paid attention to this problem. Those high-ranking guys in the Ratman Empire were more accustomed to taking in wars. This was too easy. As long as they could win the war, everything on the other side could be easily seized. Even if the nature shifted and those guys became ratman lords, they still did not turn around in this inertia. The city in their hands was only used as a commercial transit station for them.

Build breeding houses, build blast furnaces and workshops, produce ratmen and weapons, and then divide everything obtained in the war through caravans.

This is of course an excellent cycle, but the temple guards cannot fully devote themselves to such a cycle. They are also the beneficiaries of this cycle, but their structure and power require them to push away temples one by one, and they must also ensure the prosperity of temples one by one.

So, they began to resolutely promote this plan and promote the structure of the Ratman Ranch.

Of course, the temple guards also have the intention of increasing their influence.

However, this is indeed a turning point in the times and an important node in the ratman civilization.

However, it is driven by the temple guards, the most fanatical and devout believers of the great gods.