Chapter 269: The Alliance of Rat Warlords

The situation is not good for the Ghost Eyes. Two of the fourteen land provinces have been taken over by the Eastern Expeditionary Force.

At the same time, there is another province that is crumbling under the attack of the ratmen.

In this area, there are four provinces, and the environment and situation of three of them are particularly similar.

Those rat warlords who were thrown out by the Rat War did not do nothing. After a crazy round of slave hunting, they finally gathered enough capital.

The reason why the rat warlords can be called rat warlords instead of being classified with those rat mercenaries is because of their different status.

The leaders of the rat mercenary team can only choose to crawl when facing those senior rat priests, but the rat warlords are different.

In this deformed country, a widely recognized status is an extremely unusual thing.

After the capital is gathered, the huge army is naturally brought up.

Those running rats who come here in an endless stream have become their excellent source of soldiers, a free and large source of soldiers.

Very simply, a huge army was raised, and naturally, these guys were no longer willing to run around in the mountains and forests every day, searching for those scattered heretics day and night.

Strength is the pillar of greed.

Many rat warlords launched attacks on human territory one after another.

Most of the places attacked were the last of the three production provinces in this area, Lianyan Province.

This is the most unworthy place among the three grain-producing provinces.

Even though there are a lot of excellent arable land, most of these arable lands are surrounded by mountains, or in other words, embedded in the continuous three veins.

This province is composed of basins embedded in the mountains.

Large and small basins are scattered all over the place, rich, but independent.

The rat warlords invaded this place in waves, not because of any other reasons, but simply because it is closest to their slave-hunting location.

This province is run by a great noble, or a powerful family, the Lianyan Family. The name is enough to explain what it means.

However, due to the limitations of the environment, the Lianyan Family has never been able to completely control this province.

As the ruler of this area, the war has been going on for a long time. They have been fighting with the aliens in this province, other small nobles, some sub-humans who have lived in the mountains for generations, and strange guys.

The control range has not been effectively expanded. There is only one of the largest basins near the human empire in the rear of the province.

The guys living in this place are extremely martial.

Even the brazen invasion of the rat warlords did not cause much waves at the beginning.

The rats were running on the strange mountains, and were attacked by various races and fierce human militias. Most of them were defeated.

Perhaps because of the long civil war, the Ghost Eye people here are really fierce, and they have a lot of magic power, but the Ghost Eye people mages here are quite different from those military mages.

The role they play is more like a priest than a mage, with colorful patterns painted on their faces, dancing to the weird music, and the spells they shout are even more powerful than those of ordinary military mages.

Earthquakes, thunder, and even animated trees.

These messy things made the rat warlords a little confused.

Even an aggressive rat warlord was killed in the war, and died in the crushing of the boulders rolling down from the top of the mountain.

It became a pool of rat mud embedded in the rocky mountains. Well, it should be described like this.

These rat warlords have a lot of troops in their hands, which can completely submerge the human settlements entrenched in the basins.

In fact, they did so. The rat warlord who had just defeated an exiled race led his army to attack a discovered human settlement with great pride.

This human settlement was not big, with only a few tens of thousands of people, while the rats who came here reached a hundred thousand.

After going through the difficult years at the beginning and having a certain accumulation, the expansion of the army was not a problem for a qualified guy like the rat warlord.

Just invest a little blood mushroom, or don't invest blood mushrooms. In short, as long as they are willing, the size of their army can continue to expand, and there will be basically no restrictions.

Not long ago, this rat warlord relied on the terrifying speed of replenishment and a nearly tragic exchange ratio to kill a troll settlement deep in the mountains.

The huge army of ratmen held on to the settlement of fifteen forest trolls with great determination. For twenty days, they launched endless attacks, and used spears to wear down the trolls, who had amazing vitality, to the point that they no longer had the strength to heal themselves.

Countless ratmen waved their spears excitedly. The huge trolls were tied up and fell to the ground. They were exhausted and could not do anything except gasping for breath.

These trolls were sold at a good price, which brought more weapons and recruited more troops, making the rat warlord more and more inflated.

At the beginning, everything went smoothly.

The ratmen who came down whistled and collided with the low walls built by the mountain people of the Ghost Eye outside the gathering place. Torches were lit one by one. As the flames were waving, the ratmen's sharp and piercing excited whispers sounded along with panicked shouts.

These rat warriors were very enthusiastic about war.

Because as long as they captured this settlement, a considerable part of the things they robbed would fall into their hands.

After the initial stage of forced conscription, these rat warlords soon encountered those old problems.

The rat warriors under their command would run away, and their rat warriors under their command had no combat effectiveness.

These guys, these humble guys, humble ratmen, they can naturally kneel before power, and can also smoothly accept the fact that they are being drafted.

But at the same time, when they encounter those powerful enemies, they run without hesitation.

As long as there is a chance, they will run, especially the group of rat mercenaries who were drafted, who are even better at it. Not to mention encountering powerful enemies, even if they don’t encounter powerful enemies, these guys run without hesitation.

It’s not surprising. Many rats in the rat mercenaries are free rats who have escaped from slavery. Obviously, they don’t accept the ending of being cannon fodder.

This makes these rat warlords very distressed.

After all, they are not rat wars. Even if they learn to make a supervision team, it’s okay at ordinary times. When the advantage is obvious, these wild supervision teams can still be more decent, but the problem is that once the situation changes, these guys run without hesitation.

These guys are not inferior to these immature rat warlords at all.

Even though the furious rat warlords repeatedly said that they would execute the escapees on the spot, the situation is different now.

In the past, there were only a few rat cities, and the activity area was limited. After escaping, they either wandered outside, or they would be caught by the rat warlords if they returned. At that time, the rat priests were also very concerned about catching deserters and making them slave rats.

Now, they are equipped with better equipment. Even ordinary beasts have no way to deal with these lone rats holding iron spears and wearing leather armor. If they run farther, as long as they can run back to the city, their affairs will be written off.

The rat priests had already fallen out with the rat warlords, and no one would be idle to help the rat warlords catch deserters.

As for the supervision team, it can only be said that not every rat can be recognized by those stupid guys. It can even be said that only Rat War has been recognized by those stupid guys, or Rat War recognizes those stupid rats.

It's okay if you recruit one or two, but if you recruit on a large scale, regardless of whether you can afford the same price as the Rat War, just your behavior, what are you doing, soon, there may be an irritable guy coming to your door.

If the scale is not gathered, the supervision team is just an empty shell, and there will be no deterrent power at all.

Therefore, more and more, the Rat Warlords have to pay attention to the interests of their own Rat Warriors and make promises.

The army is not easy to lead, and the Rat Warlords sighed.

Without the merit system of the Rat War, most of the Rat Warlords are poor and can't even get a team of light armored cavalry together, so don't expect them to support the merit system.

It's a simpler one, two-thirds of the spoils of war will be drawn out and belong to the Rat Warlords.

It can only be said that these guys are not sighing about anything else, but sighing that after they have truly become a Rat Warlord, the Slave Rat Brigade is no longer suitable.

They even have to give up one-third of their profits to their rat warriors.

One-third of the investment provides a certain morale foundation for the rat warriors under the command of these rat warlords, at least they will not collapse at the first blow, and even when things go well, they will make these guys more excited and fanatical.

Just like this time.

Obviously, the rats who came roaring in felt that this small village would not cause any waves, and they were extremely excited. The rat warlord thought so too.

After all, not long ago, the trolls who could easily push down trees and lift boulders were stabbed to death by their spears, which were no different from toothpicks for forest trolls.

Not to mention these humans who are not strong enough.

Soon, before the mountain warriors in the settlement could react, the rats captured the low wall. On the simple watchtower, several mountain warriors were still throwing arrows.

Haha, what a joke!

What kind of killing power can such a weak short bow have!

Even if the arrows hit the ratmen, they could only penetrate a short section, and there was no particularly great killing power at all.

Then, the ratmen who were shot with arrows and thought so fell down with foam at the mouth and twitching bodies.

Because of the harsh environment in which they grew up, the ratmen seemed to have a good resistance to pollution and plague, but this resistance did not seem to include toxins.

And these mountain people seemed to be particularly good at using toxins.

The mountain warriors waving torches gathered from all over the settlement, most of them were strong men from families.

Many of them were excellent hunters.

When the two sides collided, the strong mountain warriors could almost fight three against one, but it was a pity that the number of ratmen who appeared in front of them this time was more than three times theirs.

And the equipment was even better.

With the development of industry, the equipment of the ratmen began to get better and better. Even these vampire-like rat warlords, most of the warriors under their command would have leather armor and an iron spear.

This is not because these rat warlords are kind-hearted, but when you are qualified to negotiate these goods with the rat priests, you will suddenly find that these weapons are cheap.

Recently, the Great Claw priests have even prepared to forge chain mail on a large scale to replace the leather armor supplied to ordinary rat warriors. This represents a situation that iron is becoming less and less valuable in the Rat Empire, and is even cheaper than the leather that can be stripped from the heretics.

The collision between the two sides is in full swing. Soon, the support of the mountain warriors has become difficult. Excellent hunting skills, good archery, and even strong physique are not as effective as one thing in this chaotic battlefield at this time, that is, a set of leather armor.

Most of the mountain warriors are still in the state of no armor, and it is just as easy to kill them. Just use a spear to the body, that's it, a very simple thing.

It doesn't seem to be a difficult task to capture this camp.

Until a guy with brightly painted patterns on his body came onto the battlefield.

During the weird dance, the rat warlord felt something was wrong and started shouting loudly. The rat warriors were unable to break through the defense of the mountain warriors.

Two problems emerged.

The morale of the rat army was falling rapidly with the passage of time.

The rat warlord gave one-third of the incentives, and the enthusiasm of these guys was obviously not more than one-third. It was okay to fight a favorable battle, but once the situation changed, although they would not run away, they would obviously not be so brave.

Also, the dance of that weird guy was about to end.

Until his death, the rat warlord did not give more incentives to his rats. He was very stingy, or perhaps he thought he would not die.

After all, a mountain suddenly shook, and a huge rock whistled out. Such a scene was really hard for him to imagine.

He was a rat warlord, not one of those supernatural rat priests. How could he detect and respond to this situation and the fluctuation of the element in advance?

When the whistling sound reached his ears, it was too late.

He was chased into a rat cake.

At the moment when the commander died suddenly, the rat army under his command also made a very common sense decision to escape. This rat army with the upper hand fled in a very short time and disappeared without a trace.

Such things happened to many rat warlords who broke into this province. These guys were covered in bruises, but no unlucky guy lost his life.

The rat warlords began to gather. Obviously, facing such a situation, they were not ready to give up so quickly.

But the experience of breaking in alone was not so good.

Then it became a natural thing to unite.