Chapter 46, Military Reform

This situation did not last long, because very directly, those young ratmen who had just been added to the rat army showed signs of fleeing.

Then, before the fleeing really happened.

Those wavering young ratmen were directly killed by the senior ratmen warriors on their side.

On the chaotic battlefield, scarlet eyes mixed in the rat group, staring coldly at the young ratmen with fear and wavering faces. The blood on the third tail-wrapped spear behind him was bright red, and the corresponding one was the young rat corpse with wide eyes.

After one battle after another, the senior ratmen warriors who survived not only became stronger and stronger, but also gradually became the absolute backbone of their ratmen.

In the continuous battles, these senior ratmen warriors gradually understood a truth.

That is, whether they can obtain blood mushrooms continuously depends on whether they participate in the battle smoothly, and whether the battle is smooth depends on the other ratmen around them.

Originally, these senior rat warriors would not be so active, because in most cases, no matter how successful the battle was, those benefits would not be theirs.

As long as they could ensure that the situation did not turn into a complete collapse of the army, and then they were beaten into routs and captured to serve as the most humble slave rats, that would be enough.

After all, no matter how many enemies were killed or how many slaves were captured, the blood mushrooms were just spinning around in the hands of the priests and warlords.

If the priest gave too many inferior red blood mushrooms to the boss, the boss really couldn't eat them all and didn't look down on these inferior goods, so some would leak into the hands of these old-timers.

Moreover, the ownership of these leaked blood mushrooms was not determined by how many enemies were killed, but by the fighting and unspoken rules between the old-timers.

Then why bother to fight with others to the death?

There was no benefit in performing well, and it was easy to get injured. It would be better to save some energy and wait for the warlord boss to be kind and snatch blood mushrooms from other rats.

Hide a little bit behind, if you win, you win. If you can't win, try harder. If you really can't win, you can run faster.

This led to the extremely poor combat effectiveness of the rat army and the frighteningly high combat loss ratio. After all, the easy ones, the young rats and those rat warriors who were like young people rushed over, and they won by fighting.

For the harder ones, these old foxes will help.

If you really can't win, believe me, these old foxes will run faster than those young rats.

As for this situation, the previous rat warlords were not unaware, but they were obsessed with exchanging blood mushrooms with the priests and didn't care.

After all, rats don't have any labels of strong combat effectiveness.

And those young rats are not worth much. If you really can't win, just run away. As long as you can run away, you can organize those rats who run back, plus the young rats who are constantly sent to you.

Soon the troops were gathered again.

Why should I care about the fighting attitude of these old-timers?

With such an attitude, it is understandable that the ratmen have low combat effectiveness.

Du Yuan couldn't help but be disappointed. You know, when Du Yuan first fought with Li Sheng, the number of ratmen warriors under his command was far less than now.

They didn't even have wooden spears, and there were quite a few who used stone teeth, but at that time they fought with Li Sheng's lizardmen.

They were not afraid at all.

But now there are more ratmen, better equipment than before, and a constant supply of blood mushrooms.

Such ratmen troops occasionally encounter difficulties and stalemates when fighting small tribes in the forest.

Du Yuan couldn't help but be dissatisfied.

But fortunately, the situation has changed recently.

The white rat killed the priests who colluded with the rat warlords and frantically resold young ratmen as slave rats, as well as some warlords who acted as the first bird.

This is one point. At least now the rat warlords dare not do as they did before. After the rat priests sent young rats, they would drive them to fight, wait for the fleeing ones to appear, and then capture them on the spot to give the priests performance.

Some time ago, when the white rats lacked slave rats to build the temple, some rat warlords who did too much did not even take this form. The priests brought young rats to them, and then directly turned them into slave rats in exchange.

This is certainly easier, and there are a lot of blood mushrooms.

But the rat warlords who did this are now sent to the black abyss by the white rats.

The current rat warlords are undoubtedly the ones who cherish young rats and rat warriors the most since the rat warlords appeared in this rat tribe.

Obviously, there are more and more young rats, but the rules for young rats have become more relaxed.

Under the current rules, if a young rat escapes the supervision team and the enemy during the first fleeing and successfully returns alive, at least in the first time, he will not be directly beaten into a slave rat.

Instead, they have to flee for the third time and survive and then be caught, then they will become slave rats and be tied up and taken away by the priests in shame.

Of course, it is doubtful that there will really be young rats who can successfully survive three battles that are enough to shake their morale, and then not be executed on the spot by the supervisory team, not be killed by the pursuing enemies, and successfully survive, and then leave the rat group under the uneasy instinct.

Return to the troops under the command of the rat warlord and be tied up and taken away to become a glorious slave rat?

It can only be said that it is difficult.

However, although this situation is difficult to happen, the changed rules still successfully achieved his purpose.

That is to prevent the priests who originally had requirements for slaves and sacrifices from colluding with the rat warlords.

In order to prevent this matter, the young rats who were part of the goods in the triangular trade naturally had more opportunities and were boldly liberated.

Although it may be that in essence, giving young rats a chance is not simply for these poor young rats.

But the good news is indeed here.

This change was promoted by the young temple guard, Shu Zhan, who was appointed by Bai Shu as the deputy of the greatest leader of the rat warriors and had good eyes.

Of course, such a change alone was not enough to make those veteran rat warriors, who were old-timers, actively participate in the battle.

But the new rules introduced by Shu Zhan were far more than this one.

While relaxing the strict requirements for young rats, Shu Zhan did more for these old-timers.

It was the constant promotion of changes that made these old-timers willing to appear on the front line of the battle, and also made the combat effectiveness of the rat army gradually return to a normal level from the initial poor and weak.

The rat army is at least an army with a stable supply of extraordinary factors. Even if the rats are not strong, they should not perform so badly.

It was just limited by the rough structure.

Bai Shu's vision is indeed good, and Shu Zhan is indeed a rat talent.