Chapter 169, Wolf Knight Commander’s doubts, Qi and his defective slave rats

Chapter 169, Wolf Knight Commander’s doubts, Qi and his defective slave rats

There will always be young guys who do a lot of ridiculous things for a lot of things.

So did the young Skaven warlord.

The only difference between him and those weird guys is that he's halfway there.

He was not killed by an argali knight on the battlefield, nor was he executed by a rat in a bad mood.

It's even possible to become a true Skaven Warlord, although the odds are slim.

But he felt he could do it.

Full of confidence.

He even gave himself a name, Qi!

Yes, that’s the flag!

Those fluttering battle flags, the battle flag in his own hand, and the battle flag in the commander's hand, these were the most sacred things he had ever seen.

Name yourself like this.

He will become a Skaven warlord and have his own banner.

Although before that, he had to serve as a vanguard in a cruel war and survive six wars.

can succeed.

But before that, he had to pull together a team of his own.

Volunteered to participate in the defense of the city under construction.

There was a group of people with obvious confusion on their faces, and many members were even limping.

There is no doubt that most of these guys should be slave rats, and they should also be those slave rats who were injured during heavy work and were abandoned or escaped spontaneously.

Such situations are not uncommon.

Whether it is in the underground rat city or this newly built prairie city.

The escaped slave rats will hide in every edge and corner of the city, living in the shadows.

Become part of a huge, complex city.

Become a literal rat among the Skaven, surviving off the redundancy and waste produced by the city.

And they will gather together spontaneously and exist in the form of tribes.

What is very interesting is that these escaped slave rats also believe in gods devoutly, and there are still conflicts and conquests between tribes.

Even in the urban area where they are surviving, the waste and redundancy produced by the city is clearly enough to support the existence of both parties.

The reason for war is for the gods, and the conquered enemies will be killed in front of the altar with random paintings piled up.

Their war is not for food and living space, but also for faith.

Even the great gods never seem to pay attention to the guys gathered in these dark corners.

And this young reserve rat warlord, Qi, somehow managed to capture a slave rat tribe hiding in a dark corner of Prairie City.

Facing the flag wearing heavy armor, these guys trembled and chose to surrender.

Then they were taken away from Prairie City and set foot on this vast grassland. Most of their faces showed irrepressible confusion, while a small number of them had a little more desire in their eyes while thinking.

Carefully avoiding the other rat troops walking around, he followed closely behind the banner leading the front.

Unexpectedly, they didn't have much resentment towards the man who forced them to become men.

Maybe it was because of the words he casually said when he was a strong man.

"From today on, you are my warriors!"

Just such a simple sentence.

But it gave these humble guys some hope.

Staggering and limping, I followed the flag on the vast snow-covered grassland.

This is an extremely simple team of ratmen.

This is true even in the mixed scavenging team. No matter how poor the captains of the scavenging team are, they will find ways to fill their teams with some healthy slave rats.

It can make you feel more at ease to some extent.

The rat city under construction welcomed its first batch of defenders, a large group of rabble.

Outside the rat city, the wolf knight commander peeping from a distance frowned.

The arrival of the rat troops was somewhat beyond his expectation.

Were the sheep orcs and argali tribe on the grassland defeated by such an enemy?

Even if you look at it from a distance, what you see is not so real, but the group of black people gathering together, the messy group of rat people, really don't look threatening at all.

With just one glance, a word appeared involuntarily in the mind of the wolf-orc commander.

Weak.

You can't expect anything from most Skaven scavengers, it's unrealistic behavior.

In fact, most of the rat scavenging teams are here to fill up the numbers. It is hoped that this ragtag group of people can attract more attention from the enemies outside the city and provide some cover for the material transport teams trekking on the grassland.

The construction of the city cannot stop.

Due to the drag of soft soil, there are also big problems in the excavation of underground tunnels. Each section of the underground tunnel must be reinforced before it can be put into use.

It wasn't that he was worried about the safety of the Ratmen traveling through the underground tunnels.

But it is true that if the tunnel collapses frequently, it will not be able to be used to transport supplies.

Those rat cities that were closer to the towering mountains were fine, but this city was really deep in the grassland.

Even if this group of joint investment rats were determined to build such an underground tunnel, the investment would be too high.

The builders of these cities were not wealthy priests from the Rat Cities.

It can only be the simplest way, relying on slave rats to pull and transport resources on this grassland.

Even the giant rat has to stop at the last city.

Because the group of argali knights had already robbed a group of teams carrying giant rats to transport supplies.

The losses caused by the massive loss of giant rats are simply unbearable.

But the construction of the city cannot be stopped.

Too much investment, too much investment.

Fortunately, there are still some turning points.

Even though the enemy was weak, the Wolf Knight Commander still acted extremely cautiously.

There have always been only a small group of argali knights wandering around this rat city.

The half-erected low wall made of stones and the dense ravines dug around the city played a certain role.

It can greatly limit the mobility of knight units.

But those transport teams were not so lucky and did not have much deterrence.

The running argali knights can easily defeat a huge transport team in a single charge.

At this time, you can see a large number of slave rats running wildly on the grassland in panic.

Among a group of harassing argali knights.

The wolf orc commander was among them.

He looked at the large amount of materials abandoned by the transport team in front of him with confusion.

Large stone strips.

Just large rocks?

Where's the food?

He cast his sights on the messy camp not far away. With so many people gathered, why were there only these large stone bars for logistical transportation?

Involuntarily, the Wolf Knight Commander's eyes were even more confused.

However, this question did not confuse the wolf knight commander for too long.

Answered quickly.

Starting from the rat city, the surrounding grasslands are becoming barren at an extremely fast speed.

The co-investors who hired the scavenger team didn't care about the food.

No matter the logistics.

But so many rat people always want to eat, but on this grassland, they are not so lacking in plants.

The grassland has been destructively dug.

Even the tough grass roots were not spared.

Although even the Rat Man cannot withstand eating grass for a long time and will gradually become weak.

But this problem is obviously just a problem that the slave rats need to adapt to.

Slave rats have no right to be picky eaters.

The weakness problem caused by eating grass is solved by a simple method.

That means eating more grass.

Even if they feel full, the slave rats will not give up eating because the energy in the grass is too low.

Only by stuffing enough fodder into your stomach can you ensure that you will not become weak from fatigue day by day.

But sometimes, if you don't grasp the importance, you will push yourself to death.

This habit has caused the slave rats to increase their consumption of the grassland several times. The grasslands near Prairie City have shown signs of desertification. The lush pastures are gradually transforming into the desolate Gobi, where the rat people gather in large numbers.

in the city.

Behind a low wall, Qi and his team were entrenched here.

This preparatory rat warlord is obviously not rich either.

At this time, he was squatting on the ground and eating grass bitterly with his subordinates.

But even though he was eating grass, he still ate much better than his slave rats.

At least what he eats is where the grass is the freshest, and he doesn’t have to collect the grass himself.

A plump worm was carefully held up by a skinny slave rat.

Was taken over by the flag.

Just to ask a question.

"My lord! My lord! Can we really become your warriors, those rat warriors?"

Ask cautiously.

This is a thin guy, and precisely because of his thinness, he is not even qualified to become a rat warrior. He spent his childhood in the breeding house and was directly sold as a slave rat.

In response to such a question, Qi patted the thin guy carelessly.

"Of course! As long as you gather under my banner and offer your loyalty to me!"

Such an action made the thin slave rat feel a little more flattered.

But at this moment, many of the disabled ratmen gathered around Qi raised their heads with eagerness.

A large part of the slave rats that escaped were due to various defects. Only these guys with defects were more likely to escape.

Because both the slave owner and the Great Claw Priest are likely to ignore a disabled and useless guy.

Of course, there is also the possibility of being executed and sacrificed.

If it weren't for the negligence of the temple guards.

The temple guards have a certain degree of discrimination against slave rats. These hard-working guys are thin, unqualified, and even dirty.

It always feels like being thrown into a pool of blood is a kind of defilement.

As a result, there are quantitative requirements for the sacrifice of slave rats. A certain number must be drawn at one time before they can be thrown into the blood pool as sacrifices.

Of course, this kind of discrimination is not just against slave rats. In fact, it also treats goblins, fishmen, and temple guards equally.

It's just that the latter two often gather together, and you can probably catch many in one capture, and slave rats still have a certain value.

At least it's not cost-effective to buy slave rats and sacrifice them directly.

So slave rats will be sacrificed.

But overall, it caused a lot of trouble, giving these guys the possibility of escaping.

And now, the carefree Qi is willing to give these guys a chance.

This sentence was firmly remembered by many defective slave rats.

Especially the thin slave rat who was patted on the shoulder by Qi.

There was a little more excitement on his face, and he couldn't help muttering to himself.

"Loyalty!"

But they didn't hear the last sentence, or in this excited mood, they deliberately ignored Qi's last sentence, of course, they might not understand it.

"As long as you accompany me through six wars."

An even more impossible goal.

It's hard to say whether Qi can survive six wars and let Mouse War fulfill his promise, let alone these defective and inferior slave rats.

But strangely, at this moment, these defective slave rats gathered around Qi were a little more energetic.

It seemed that at this moment, they finally crawled out of the dark corner.

Focused their fanatical eyes on the carefree Qi who was chewing the fat insects.

It was noticed by Qi belatedly.

The armor was pushed up, revealing the appearance of the flag.

An ordinary gray-haired ratman.

An ordinary young gray-haired ratman stood up from the ground, raised his arms high, under the gaze of this group of defective slave rats, under the gaze of his own soldiers.

He showed a carefree smile.

"Believe me, I am the flag!"

He said his name, which was not famous, and he looked a bit like a warlord.

Although it felt a bit strange.

This kind of behavior is undoubtedly an alternative among ratmen.

A strange guy.

But it was undoubtedly very effective.

The eyes that were cast on him became more fanatical, and he easily gathered the loyalty of this defective ratman tribe under his command.

Until a crossbow arrow flew across the sky and hit the low wall next to the flag with a sound of breaking through the air.

Not far away, a city defense crossbow placed in the city was triggered, but it was obvious that the guy who fired was not accurate enough, and almost hung the flag on the low wall.

Qi wanted to curse immediately.

But from a distance, he saw that the guy with poor aim had finished reloading again.

Suddenly, he didn't care about much and lay down quickly.

"Damn it! Don't let me catch you later!"

He cursed.

It tasted right, it was still a ratman.

A strange ratman.

The wolf knight commander finally couldn't bear it anymore and launched the first tentative attack. A group of argali knights were pushed out to attack this ratman city that had only just begun.