Chapter 271, On the Road to Greatness

Chapter 271, On the Road to Greatness

The rats were running in the forest.

The world had undergone many changes during this period of time. The withering of plants had greatly changed the appearance of the dangerous but vibrant forest.

Withered, corrupt, and filled with a stale smell, which became more and more intense as time went by.

The world was becoming less and less suitable for survival, but the rats did not care about it.

Seven rat armies launched an attack on Lianyan Province in a neat period of time.

There was no idea of ​​letting their colleagues go ahead to test, because war, plunder and wealth go hand in hand.

Plunder, sacrifice, and finally war.

The rats came from all directions, and at the same time, they appeared in almost all places. Fierce battles broke out everywhere in this land. It was not only these rat warlords who arrived here.

The rats were all herdsmen. The rat mercenaries also noticed the opening of this grand event, and accompanied by the rat refugees who kept coming, these guys certainly would not miss this grand event.

And they all acted very impatiently.

A group of rats climbed onto the dining table and wandered outside the iron cover that protected the delicacies. They were eager and impatient. With rustling sounds, they kept trying to flip the cover with their sharp claws, wanting to feast on it.

One rich basin after another was attacked, and the rats rushed down from the mountains and fought with the original residents in the mountains.

It’s not that the human side didn’t respond, but they existed in scattered settlements and were not closely connected.

After these rat warlords got serious, they took advantage of the rat refugee tide that continued to arrive in the Golden Province and the large number of rat mercenaries wandering in this forest.

This time, they were not repelled again, and the gathering places were quickly destroyed.

At the same time, the large number of looted slaves attracted the rat caravans.

The rat warlords can’t afford a brutal siege at present, so there are almost no rats to provoke those human cities located in large basins.

But it is not necessarily the case. The rat warlords who gradually gained from their abuses in the mountains and forests finally got on the fast track.

After all, the large and small settlements and this piece of land are too fertile.

Compared with wandering in the mountains and forests and playing hide-and-seek with scattered small groups of alien races, the harvest now is too wonderful.

Capturing a large number of slaves and holding a series of sacrifices, these two things, one brought them a large number of blood mushrooms, and the other brought them gradually rising prestige.

With blood mushrooms, the rat caravan arrived, so there is no need to worry about logistics. With prestige, recruiting rat warriors has become a simple matter.

Huge profits support the expansion of the army, and the expansion of the army brings stronger power, and stronger power allows them to plunder better and bring greater profits.

This is a mutually compatible cycle.

The footprints of the rats appeared everywhere in this province in a very short time, appeared in the darkness, and appeared in the decaying mountains and forests.

Like big fish eating small fish, the rat lords are racing against time, comparing with each other, comparing who can eat more human settlements first, who can accumulate enough power first.

Only those who have accumulated enough power are qualified to enjoy the real feast, to capture those huge cities, to truly conquer this province, and to take the truly important achievements into their arms.

Of course, if these guys are willing to unite, then now they can try to conquer the province, but it is a pity that they are not united.

Qi also ran wildly during this period, holding the flag in his hand high.

Moving forward, his excessive greed brought him great trouble. Now in such a fierce competitive posture, he can't expand his army as fast as other rat warlords.

During this period, his gains were not small, several small villages, several large settlements, a wandering alien tribe, and some sub-humans running in the mountains and forests.

The army under his command expanded from 40,000 to 60,000. Qi purchased some chain mail and a team of giant rats.

He had an extra cavalryman and a team of giant rat knights.

Chain mail was for these giant rat knights, and they were also equipped with some scimitars, not the lances provided for knights.

Qi knew very well the capabilities of his team of giant rat knights. Even if he spent a lot of blood mushrooms to purchase a batch of lances, most of these guys would not be able to use them well. However, there was actually another choice, those short-handled hammers. This kind of short-handled hammer was easier to use, and there was no need to practice chopping. As long as you could swing it up and down, you could already exert its power well.

But Qi finally chose the scimitar.

He knew the situation of the opponent very well.

The sharp scimitar was not particularly lethal to light armor units, just like the leather armor that was widely equipped on the ratmen warriors. These leather armors could effectively resist chopping, but the impact brought by the running giant rats could solve this problem well.

At the same time, the scimitar can also create some more bloody scenes, and the impact of the simple and direct scenes can bring a serious blow to morale.

On the vast grassland, the wolf knights' massacre of the rat mercenaries began with a whistling charge and the scimitars raised high after getting close.

These are what the flag needs.

Lianyan Province began to rot.

The great nobles who govern this province want to do something.

After the joint oracle of the gods and the fall of the Golden Province, even the most arrogant and stupid guys have to react.

However, having this idea is having this idea, but it is not easy to do something.

The area that he really governs in this province is not large, only the area close to the heart of the human empire, although this area is already considered the richest area in this province because of a big river.

The reason why this province is named after Lianyan is not because of anything else, but because the area where the river that runs through the Lianmian Mountains passes through this province is controlled by the Lianyan family.

These are the only lands in this province that truly belong to the human empire.

The arrival of the ratmen made this ancient family uneasy.

What the ratmen did can also be seen from the mouths of the mountain people who have been fleeing to the back recently.

It was an extremely tragic and bloody scene.

Although this ancient family did not feel that they had a common hatred and enemy relationship with the mountain people in the Lianmian Mountains, in fact, before the appearance of the ratmen, the continuous war between the two sides had lasted for an unknown number of years.

But they still felt uneasy.

The duke named Lianyan began to ask for help.

The fall of the Golden Province and the City of Waves was a very heavy news. He did not think that his city would be more magnificent than the City of Waves.

Duke Lianyan was frightened and began to ask for help from all over.

But for some reason, the situations he encountered were similar.

No noble responded to him, and his request for help was ignored.

He became more and more uneasy.

It was not until a golden letter was delivered to his hands through the winding river that the reason for this abnormal situation was revealed.

The war was imminent, and all the nobles began their preparations. In fact, it was not just preparations. Two provinces fell, one province was corrupted, and one was pushed to the front line of the war.

At the same time, there was an ongoing naval battle.

Suddenly, the flames of war had spread to all parts of the human empire.

This was a war that could not be avoided, and there would definitely be people who wanted to gain something from this war.

In the tense atmosphere, a big news that shocked everyone spread in the human empire and was discussed by all the nobles.

The crown prince, the prince, he officially accepted the blessing of the Glorious Church and began to prepare for the holy war.

The golden envelope was placed in front of Duke Lian Yan, bringing long-term thinking.

This huge empire has not completely fallen, and no matter how ambitious the nobles are, they have not broken the last layer of window paper.

Standing in line is a very dangerous thing, at such a time point.

The crown prince was not decent, and even went too far. He summoned him in his own name. As long as he nodded in agreement, the royal army would arrive at the front line of this war along the sea.

Especially after a few days, that rude guy, that rude guy directly began to assemble the army, and the royal guard began to assemble. Earlier, at a grand banquet, where nobles of all sizes gathered, this decision was publicly announced. This is why those nobles ignored Duke Lian Yan's request for help.

This is forcing him to stand in line. If he bowed his head, it would be equivalent to using his family's prestige to step on the feet of the crumbling imperial family.

But if he did not bow his head and openly disobeyed.

Although the imperial family was crumbling, it did not fall completely after all, and there was still the power to start a rebellion war.

Although the imperial family may not make a big move in the face of this bad situation.

But does he dare to gamble?

The situation suddenly became a dilemma.

In the end, Duke Lianyan had no choice but to put this question aside.

Even if he wanted to place a bet, he had to see the wind completely fall and see the real weight being pressed on the scale.

The imperial family now showed not enough weight.

The great nobles have never been keen on helping people in times of need, but only good at icing on the cake.

In Lianyan Province, a rat warlord took the lead and stepped onto the stage.

This is a greedy guy. The distribution strategy he implemented is similar to that of the flag, which is also nine and one. The only difference from the flag is that he gives one to his rat warriors and nine to himself.

In fact, it is no different from taking everything.

But he is indeed the first rat warlord to cross the boundary and break the balance.

A dark tide gathered, and the size of the army in his hands reached a million in a very short time.

And it is very simple to do this, just endless greed is enough.

When the rat warlords broke into this province together, and more and more rat mercenaries and refugees arrived here, he began to frantically recruit men, and wrapped all the rat mercenaries and scattered rats he encountered into the army in his hands. In a very short time, he expanded an extremely large rat army.

The combat effectiveness and morale can be called vulnerable, but in such a large scale, quantity also successfully overwhelmed quality.

No strategy or planning is needed. Such a large army only needs to press forward, and then there will probably be no accidents.

Successfully swept one side, and the balance of this area was completely broken.

Before this rat warlord successfully gathered such a large-scale rat army, although the intrusion of the rat warlords did bring about violent turmoil, those settlements with stronger strength and larger populations could still barely support it. Even if there was an attack by a rat warlord, the two sides could probably fight back and forth.

But such a large number of rats broke such a fragile balance.

Breaking the balance is a precursor to one side overwhelming the other, and it is also a premonition of the most brutal fight. No one will sit and wait for death, not to mention that these mountain people are not good people. Fighting and war also run through their lives.

Torches were raised high in this dim forest. The priests among these mountain people did not have flexible magic means like those military wizards in the human empire. Everything seemed so primitive and wild.

But primitive and wild do not mean no fighting power, nor do they mean no courage.

In the wild dance, strange patterns were painted on the chests of warriors one by one, and they drank cups of blood silently. The mountain people gathered all the warriors together.

This was the preparation before the war.

They took the initiative to leave the low wall and the simple city. These mountain people also had a city, although the city was so simple that it looked like some kind of imitation creation.

But it was a place that could provide a sense of security after all.

But now, these mountain warriors took the initiative to leave those cities, not just a tribe, a branch, but this area. All the mountain warriors in this continuous mountain range began to gather together in one place.

Countless torches gathered in the mountains and forests, illuminating this ugly, rotting world clearly.

They were preparing for the war, and they were waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

This was a very risky move, but they waited for it.

The rat warlord was also eager, perhaps too greedy, and wanted to eat everything.

Defeating these mountain warriors gathered in front of him and completely eating them up, the situation in this area can be smoothly established, more resources, more troops in exchange, completely sweeping this province, and taking all the credit.

In this way, only in this way can he declare his existence in the rat kingdom and in front of all the rats.

He will not be regarded as a naive guy who can be rubbed and poked at will.

This is an important step towards greatness, so he will come, of course he will come.

Pairs of scarlet eyes lit up in the darkness, and a chaotic sound of various sounds intertwined suddenly appeared in his ears, first in the distance, and then suddenly became so clear, pouring into his ears, harsh, messy, and noisy.

The rats are coming.

Endless rats are coming.