Chapter 179, March of the Flag
Wolf orcs cannot live without salt. Salt and metal are their most important tools for harvesting other races.
They are not stupid. Complete oppression will breed the most violent resistance, even if they possess crushing force.
At this time, some special means are needed.
Take the extremely unfair trade, for example. Before the argali tribe was wiped out, a metal scimitar could be exchanged for ten sheep, and a bag of salt was worth fifty.
Of course you don't have to change it, but salt is a necessity, and so is the metal machete.
Plus some little tricks.
The scimitars that the wolf orcs sell to the sheep orcs cost twelve sheep, two of which will be handed over to the argali tribe.
As for the reason.
Who makes the argali tribe our allies, while you sheep orcs are just vassals?
Small means, but very effective.
This is the key to making this salt lake extremely powerful. Even if they retreat to avoid the rat people, the wolf orcs have not really withdrawn from the area where this salt lake exists.
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Qi led the silent team behind him, marching on the vast grassland.
His approach has not changed, and the results are still as good.
"Follow me! Follow me! I will bring changes to you! Be loyal to me!"
With repeated shouting and repeated emphasis, more and more defective slave rats became loyal to him.
Start shouting his name.
Start looking at the crude flag behind him.
They chose the flag and followed him across a long distance. They killed those who still hesitated and maintained their precious hope.
Become a barely serviceable army.
A bunch of lowly guys with no qualifications but fired with desire.
Of course, if Rat Zhan sees this army, he will laugh at it, even if it is not easy for these defective slave rats to achieve this step.
The weak will always be weak, and the weak will always be weak.
But Qi didn't have a choice. All he could choose were these humble and weak slave rats.
The scene in front of me changed, and finally it was no longer the same green color.
It's just that it's hard to say whether this change is good or bad.
What struck his eyes was a pale, lifeless paleness.
The stretches of white cover almost everything that can be seen in this rat-man army.
This is the first time the rat people have seen such a scene.
In this white, the silent army behind them also showed a little more hesitation.
They have been trekking hard on this empty grassland for thirty days. During the long journey, except for the shouting of flags, there are almost no other sounds in this team, which is a bit depressing.
This is a bad state, the state brought about by the flag.
During the long journey, Qi was more shaken and confused than the group of inferior slave rats under him.
He is not as arrogant and determined as Shu Zhan.
After the initial hesitation, I began to waver in my decision.
The long march still faced the vast and seemingly endless grassland.
Become confused.
This state was brought to the army he led and to the slave rats who followed him.
Qi took the lead in sorting out his situation, turned around, and shouted loudly to the rat people behind him.
"Forward! Forward!"
He took the lead and rushed towards the pale land in front of him.
Later, the disabled slave rats also followed the flag and set foot on this pale land.
The march forward was not smooth. In just a few days, half of the army in hand was lost.
There was nothing wrong with the area he chose. There were the enemies he was looking for and there were traces of them. There was just one problem. There seemed to be more enemies than he expected. There were far too many.
Just half a day into this pale area, he encountered a patrol of wolf orcs, leaving only half of the army behind.
Being chased awkwardly, they finally escaped with their lives by jumping into this huge salt-alkali lake with the remaining troops.
It wasn't until nightfall that they dared to lead the army to climb up carefully from the salt-alkali lake. The broken armor on their bodies had long been abandoned. In order to swim faster, the hair on their bodies was covered with white salt particles.
Eyes red and stinging.
Only the rough flag in his hand was not thrown down.
Obviously, the troops in his hands are not enough to challenge the wolf orcs in this area.
Looking embarrassed.
Gritting his teeth.
The bitterness that had not dissipated in his mouth did not wake up Flag.
He made his choice early.
Between death and becoming a Skaven Warlord, he chose to become a Skaven Warlord.
His eyes were red, his face was ferocious, and he was waving the flag crazily.
In the eyes of those who were betting on him, and in front of the rat men who were gradually becoming fanatical, they waved the flags in their hands ferociously and crazily.
The fanatical cries of the slave rats echoed on the shores of this unremarkable salt lake.
Qi finally looked a bit like a warlord at this moment.
The arrival of the rat men made the wolf-orcs in this salt-alkali lake a little more wary, but the same doubt also appeared in the hearts of the wolf-orc leaders guarding here.
Why is the enemy they are waiting for so weak?
The wolf knights with only 800 people chased the nearly 30,000 rat troops and even forced the rat general to jump into the salt lake with his troops to escape for his life.
Long-term thinking yielded no results, but he could not give up on this salt-alkali lake.
The salt-alkali lake in his hands is quite important, and he will never give up until he has to.
The wolf orcs are not monolithic, and there are also struggles. The amount of resources determines the right to speak.
The young king of the wolf orcs gave an order to evacuate all the wolf orc tribes in this area.
He didn't fully comply.
The wolf orcs have strengthened their patrols in the Salt Lake area to guard against the possible arrival of large enemy forces.
As for the rat-man troop that was being chased by eight hundred wolf knights, and the rat-man general who led that rat-man troop.
However, no trace was found, so he had to give up, probably escape, and focus more on guarding against the large enemy forces that might appear on the grassland.
Wolf Riders were dispatched to the grasslands to provide early warning.
But what the wolf orc leader didn't know was that the guy leading the weak troops suddenly appeared in front of him and never left the city.
And he has already focused his red eyes on him.
Digging through the hard salt-alkali land and opening up caves one after another, hidden on the shore of the gray salt-alkali lake.
Hiding in the cave during the day, and heading deeper along the lake shore at night.
It took seven days for Qi to lead the remaining rat troops into the core of the salt lake.
He finally saw what he was looking for, each large and small wolf orc tribe.
I also found my purpose.
In the center of the largest tribe of wolf orcs, the most gorgeous tent was located, with a giant wolf flag fluttering in the wind.