Chapter 270, Big Shots, Rat Warlords

Chapter 270, Big Shots, Rat Warlords

On a small hill, except for the unlucky guy who died and the colleague who had just taken office and was still catching slaves, the remaining seven rat warlords all gathered here at this time.

They brought their own troops.

A sea of ​​rat-men almost filled the entire mountain, coming from the armies of the seven rat-men warlords.

On the top of the mountain, these rat warlords gathered together and were having discussions. They were noisy and the meeting was not formal enough. They only had seven flags standing and gathered in a small open space. The seven chattering guys had no special momentum.

Rather than being said to be a warlord, this posture is more similar to the gathering between the village chief and the militia captain.

Some militia captains were busy dividing the ownership of an open space, which probably looked like this.

But in fact, these guys are actually participating in the fight for an entire province.

A province is quite large. It can house thousands of villages, hundreds of towns, manors, and a dozen small cities. It can support nearly 100,000 families and a population of about two million.

This is only the number of people supported by ordinary provinces. As a grain-producing area, Lianyan Province will have a much stronger carrying capacity. There are 150,200 families and various surviving alien races, with 3 million to 4 million people. Thousands of people.

With such a number, such a large number of people, their fate is very likely to be destroyed by these seven figureless militia captains squatting on the ground, making loud noises, gesturing to each other, getting excited, and dancing. Changed by the Rat Man.

The rat warlord can already be considered a big shot.

After all, among the many Skaven in the Eastern Expeditionary Force, there were nine Skaven warlords. One of them died not long ago, and now there are only eight left.

By the way, there are still a few in the underground rat city in the Desolate Mountains, but those few are said to be rat warlords, but they pissed off Rat Zhan. When the next Rat Zhan is free and returns to the Desolate Mountains, those few losers He will probably be executed by him personally.

When this war comes to an end, or when there are no more people standing in the desolate mountains that Shu Zhan fears, Shu Zhan will go back and hang those idiots with his own hands.

So now there are only eight serious rat warlords. Among these eight, there is also a slave hunter in Kuhaha, who is accumulating his army, and the rest are all gathered here.

After some debate, the rat warlords finally came to a conclusion, saying it was a union. But in fact, none of these guys were particularly loyal to anyone. If they wanted to pass a meeting, they would have to get the seven rat warlords into their hands. It is impossible for the army to become one, but it does not mean that no consensus has been reached.

An agreement was left behind.

No one can convince anyone, and if they are equally greedy, they will launch an attack together.

Seven rat warlords will launch an attack on Lianyen Province from seven different directions.

As for who can get the most benefits from this place in the end, it depends on various abilities.

After reaching a consensus, the seven rat warlords each led their own armies and slowly retreated.

Flag is also one of the seven rat warlords, and he is also the most eye-catching guy in this meeting.

It is not because of his fame that he is eye-catching. Qi has not done anything big enough to be famous among all the ratmen. It is because of another reason, a bright silver Mingyao armor.

Well, the inferior version of the Temple Knight armor obtained by the Skaven Caravan was just for display and promotion of one's own strength. I never thought that anyone would actually buy it. After all, the price was too beautiful and not affordable.

A set of such inferior armor is enough to arm a team of ten fierce knights.

In the Skaven Empire, exorbitant disparities abound, and this is also true in industry. In sharp contrast to the extremely cheap weapons and equipment supplied to ordinary Skaven, the prices of higher-quality items are much higher.

many factors.

Probably slightly better armor and weapons always have some elements of gods and are engraved with complex patterns. Although the patterns are more or less, the rat priests who sell weapons and armor can all take pictures of themselves. breasts to help you.

His weapons and equipment are all made by professional craftsmen.

This is different, you know, different.

With the operation of the rat industrial zone that endlessly swallows ore, forging full-body armor is not a particularly complicated task for the rat people. At least equipment of the level of the Dire Knight is not easy for the rat people to mass-produce. Just to see if I thought about it, but obviously, there is no need.

Even if these sturdy jet-black heavy armors are produced on a large scale, not so many ratmen are qualified to wear them. In the ratman army, after all, ordinary ratmen warriors account for the vast majority. These guys also have a more powerful armor. is the standard name.

cannon fodder.

Who would wear heavy armor for cannon fodder? There is no shortage of it.

The industrial level of the rat people is actually gradually getting out of touch with the things they actually use.

For example, the jet-black heavy armor is still rare in the rat army. In fact, for the big-claw priests in charge of the industrial areas, they can have as much as they want.

You know, before the grand battle in the vast grassland started, the rat people had already been able to forcibly build the terrifying blast furnace that could be as high as the mountains.

The huge blast furnace standing in the barren mountains, the roads carved out of the sea, and the bathtub battleship group of Shengqi, these things all prove this point very well.

It's just that the Ratmen's technology tree is too deformed, and it also carries with it its long-standing inertia.

Among the outstanding metal smelting and increasingly huge industrial output, there are no other industries in the Ratman Empire that can match it.

The Skaven studied nothing more than war.

Although there are many Big Claw priests who can tinker with divine ritual artifacts, even if all the rat priests stuff one of these things, how much metal production capacity will be consumed?

Countless slave rats, countless blast furnaces, and large-clawed priests with red eyes formed a terrifying hell with never-ending scorching flames, swallowing countless ores and spitting out hot molten iron.

There are really limited channels for consuming these metals in the Rat Man Empire. There are no weapons, war machines, armors, or divine artifacts.

God's ritual weapons should not be included in the list. They are not consumed enough. It's just that there are really no channels to use these metals in the Rat Empire. This is why there are so many forgings in the Rat Empire that are independent of the industrial area. The reason for the workshop.

It stands to reason that for a fanatical war civilization, everything that can be used to forge weapons should be controlled to ensure that everything is used in war.

But the rat people are different. The rat people simply can't use them all. Their deformed technology tree lacks branches and branches.

At the same time, there is also the inertia that has always existed. Countless slave rats cannot be regarded as normal members of the rat empire. The development of industry will not benefit them. Those free rat people who have just emerged cannot yet be completely eliminated. They can be regarded as healthy ratmen, depending on whether they can give sacrifices and support the war.

These guys account for 99% of the population of the Skaven, but they are not regarded as humans. The development of science and technology and industry will not benefit them at all. They are all thrown into the war. This is why many big figures in the Skaven Empire have already Thinking of replacing the issued leather armor with more sophisticated chain armor, but looking across the entire Skaven Kingdom, there are still many slave rats using wooden and bone tools, and there are also many Skaven traders. The team is using a cart with wooden bearings.

This is the reason why those forging workshops are popular in almost every rat city. In terms of technology and production capacity, these forging workshops are simply not as good as the rat industrial area, but the things produced in the rat industrial area are also the same. It won't be extended to ordinary guys.

A serious disconnect, an extremely serious disconnect.

The rat forges one after another rely on picking up broken spears and broken armors on the battlefield, barely supporting the lower limit of the rat people's civilization. They have not really reduced the rat people to cutting down trees and mining, and they have to rely on sharp teeth to gnaw them. , The thick claws are used to dig out, such a situation.

However, among all the expensive weapons and armors, there is one thing that is an exception. It is not valuable due to the divine tax imposed on the exquisite patterns engraved on the surface of the armor. The bright silver armor worn by the temple guards is a real good thing. , the extremely high forging difficulty, and the cumbersome process make those bright silver armors something that is expensive enough just because of its material.

Even the defective products that were bought out are still so eye-catching.

It’s not a loss if you buy the flag.

At this time, he was riding a ferocious giant rat and carrying the fur flag, which was extraordinarily shiny and silver, giving him the feeling of a real big shot.

Among the seven rat warlords who met, Qi's strength was not considered the best. He did not catch up with the first batch of slave hunters, and was a step too late, which greatly reduced his gains from running around in the mountains and forests.

Also because of his extremely generous attitude towards his rat warriors.

He is an ambitious guy. At the beginning, he did not give extremely high commissions like other rat warlords, but wanted to fight against rats.

The Rat War does not take a commission from the spoils of the rat warriors. Whatever you grab under his command is yours.

You can even accumulate meritorious deeds and get rewards in his hands.

It's not because Shu Zhan doesn't look down on the spoils of war, but the bulk has been eaten by Shu Zhan elsewhere.

When they were on the vast grasslands, Rat War occupied the cities and took a cut directly from the blood pool and the slave trade. This was a big deal that no one could escape. Rat War simply looked down on the three melons and two dates obtained by the Rat warriors. , anyway, part of it will be slapped on his hand.

Although later, the arrival of the Rat Lords directly deprived Rat Zhan of his right to do so, in the later period, the logistics of the Eastern Expeditionary Force were directly borne by the underground Rat City in the barren mountains, and the existence of the merit system was By default, it is also borne by the Underground Rat City and the Rat People Council.

However, the things confiscated through the merit system have become a new source of blood mushrooms in the rat war. Many rat people will like those bits and pieces that can show courage, and there are also the mineral veins in the captured area. These are all rats. The source of the War Blood Mushroom, and with the entry of the temple guards, even the land can exist as a commodity.

As long as the war continues, as long as the war is not defeated, the rat war will never be short of mushrooms, and naturally it will not covet the three melons and two dates in the hands of the rat warrior.

But this is the confidence that belongs to Rat War. In order to let Rat War continue, the Rat Parliament is willing to provide logistics for the Eastern Expeditionary Force. In order to buy the spoils in Rat War's hands, the Rat Lords are willing to offer high prices and wave the blood mushrooms in their hands. Even the Temple Guards are willing to come to purchase the land of the Golden Province when the war situation has not been completely stabilized, and take over this land that is not yet stable.

This is the confidence that belongs to Rat War.

Sorry, other Rat Warlords, just don't think so.

Even if these Rat Warlords set out all the way from the Golden Province and pushed the control area to the periphery of Lianyan Province little by little, which is already a large area, the Temple Guards have never come to them.

As for those Rat Lords, as Rat Warlords, they certainly have the qualifications to negotiate with the Rat Lords, and the Rat Lords can also provide them with extremely cheap weapons, but this is not because they have enough weight.

Qualified and weighty are two completely different things.

The reason why they can provide cheap weapons is that the weapons provided to ordinary rat warriors are so cheap. If they are higher, as long as they reach the level of black armor, they will not make less money at all.

Why did these rat warlords have to go through the mountains and plains to capture slaves at the beginning? Why else? It’s because the guys behind these rat caravans make too much money.

These immature guys can’t let the rat lords give in a little bit.

There is also the Rat Council. The Rat Council is more direct because the Rat Council has always been connected to only rat warfare.

In this case, learning rat warfare is not a wise decision at all. The rat warlords must rely on the army in their hands to slowly accumulate strength.

Qi knew this, but he still gritted his teeth and reduced the proportion of resources he plundered from the army to the lowest.

One tenth, not one tenth belongs to those hard-working rat warriors, but one tenth is taken away by Qi.

This is simply a merciful proportion. This decision is not like a rat man at all.

Taking too little, too greedy.

This made the process of Qi accumulating strength particularly long. While other rat warlords had armies of more than 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers, Qi's rat army only had a pitiful 40,000 soldiers.

But doing so was not without gain. More things belonged to him, which brought higher morale. Coupled with the words that Qi emphasized loudly from time to time, his army also gave birth to something precious among the rats.

Loyalty.

Among all the rat warlords, Qi's army was extremely rare and useful, even in the evaluation criteria of Rat War.

Perhaps this guy was not too greedy, but too greedy.

The flag behind him swayed in the wind, and the armor on his body shone brightly.

It seemed that he was an arrogant guy who wanted to compete with Rat War.