Chapter 299, Horrifying Lightning Cannon
Rat War's pace was the same as before. Caught off guard, there was no one in this area who could stop him.
Although some problems had already been put in front of him and became a problem.
The replenishment of troops became a problem. The casualties in the battle, well, this aspect was not the biggest problem. Rat War did not choose the tricky human city to fight to the death, and the Eastern Expeditionary Army's current siege capability was not enough.
The loss of the retreat did not have any impact on the Eastern Expeditionary Army. Various equipment that had never been lacking before were now completely out of stock. The precious lightning cannon prototype had to be abandoned in the wilderness not long ago because of the lack of special ammunition and the exhaustion of the blue skeleton.
The rat priests were very reluctant to part with this lightning cannon. This performance was more like their colleagues who were looked down upon by them, the big claw priests. In fact, the rats seemed to like this kind of hideous and dangerous big toy.
It's just that the terrifying catapult series that the big claw priests had tinkered with before was too difficult to describe.
Even the Rat War, after witnessing the terrifying catapult disintegration scene, unconsciously stayed away from these exaggerated things.
So, the excavation of the blue skeleton seems to have given birth to a second war series in the Rat Empire besides the horror series. At least from the performance of the prototype weapons, these soul weapons are not so dangerous.
There is a question. After the long claws left the stage, the exploration and manufacture of the blue skeleton and the lightning cannon were handed over to those guys?
It seems that it is still the big claw priest. Well, there is nothing to look forward to.
The dangerous machinery operation guide seems to be updated, but these are things that the rat army has to consider in the future.
At present, the most important issue for the Eastern Expeditionary Force is the replenishment of personnel.
Lost the young rats who continuously fill the army in the rear.
This is a question that must be considered.
For the rat army, attrition does not necessarily occur in wars and battles. In fact, if nothing is done, the loss of the army will also occur naturally, especially when the number of rats in the army exceeds a certain number.
This is a very normal situation. Fights, murders, small-scale chaos, these things will happen and break out for various reasons.
Sometimes the reason for a fight may even be so nonsensical that it is just because of a piece of bark or a worm.
Don't expect gentleness and order to exist in the concept of the rat people, even though the rat war has greatly strengthened its control over the army in its hands by distributing power.
But these things are still happening endlessly. It can't be said to be ordinary, but it can only be said to be commonplace.
Even the internal struggle is gradually escalating.
In the past, the rat people in the army fought with their opponents in the form of small gangs, but now these small groups have been upgraded, and the structure has been completed. The rat people with more combat effectiveness have joined the battlefield.
The rat people will spontaneously decide the strong ones.
The clustered rat people are simply the best embodiment of the word chaos.
Although this chaos will not spread upward layer by layer.
Rat warriors fight with rat warriors, rat squad leaders fight with rat squad leaders, and rat warlords fight with rat warlords.
Perhaps it is reflected in the cowardly character of the rats. These guys are always extremely fierce to the guys of the same class as themselves, but they are particularly servile to the strong.
In short, the rats of the Eastern Expeditionary Force are consumed every moment, and the madly running Rat War seems to have no intention of stopping for the time being.
This problem is not so serious at present.
And Rat War is not prepared to find a solution to this problem at all.
He will not, and has no intention to suppress the non-combat losses of the army in his hands. For a big man like him, this is a commonplace thing, a normal thing.
Just rush to the heartland of the human empire, and after looting, eat up the army and the sea road he built by Rope Seven, and these worthless lowly rats will continue to come to his hands.
Yes, Rat War thinks so.
So his solution to this problem that has emerged is not to solve it.
A huge wave of ratmen, running in the darkness, roared through the heart of the human empire.
Rat War undoubtedly has rich experience in mobile warfare. As early as the war that he relied on to start his career, he dared to lead his army to run wildly in the dangerous and unfamiliar swamp, although he finally hit his head and bled in the old Qi City, so that he still muttered the name of the red lizardman from time to time.
But it’s not a big problem. Anyway, the old Qi City has been demolished into ruins by Rat War, leaving only the lonely circle of city walls standing. The city built in the revelation of God has now become a ruin, leaving only the revelation of God.
What’s more, this time, in this wild run in the Dark Eye Human Empire, he doesn’t need to bite those tough guys hard, just need to plunder unscrupulously.
Destruction, fire, blood, killing, twisted rituals, and the hairless rat standing on the ruins and laughing crazily.
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While the Rat War and the Dark Eyes Human Empire were running wildly, the situation in front of the Black Fortress was not so good.
In fact, the judgment of the commander of the noble coalition, the rather experienced and steady general, was not wrong.
The rats are still gathering strength here. Countless rat warriors and various war machines are piled up behind the black fortress, forming a large black mass.
If the direction of the black fortress close to the main continent was not firmly blocked by the noble coalition forces, I am afraid that another Eastern expeditionary force would have brazenly invaded the main continent and brazenly pressed towards the Golden Province.
This dangerous environment eventually became an obstacle for the rats.
In fact, it is also a venue for the opening of an ocean buffet. The rats are already trying to expand the road, but there is no particularly great effect. The hungry sea monsters discovered this strait, perhaps because the rats tried to tear a road from the blockade of the noble coalition forces not long ago.
It is difficult to deploy a formation. Even if the rats keep rushing out of the fortress, they are constantly increasing the piles of corpses outside the fortress.
The temple guards did not participate in this battle. They are the guardians of the temple, not the warriors who will be actively involved in the war.
Defending the glory of the gods is the most important thing. Well, it is also related to the fact that the leader of the temple guards has no intention of intervening in the war at this time.
Now is a very special period, even they have to act carefully.
Reorganizing the army as a spearhead to defeat the noble coalition forces entrenched outside the fortress is not a difficult thing to do, or even too difficult.
The noble coalition forces have not yet completely gained a foothold. A large amount of materials are being transported here in an endless stream. The intention is very obvious, to build a fortress and consolidate the defense line.
It just takes time to do all this. Even if the accompanying mages are indeed very useful, these guys are high-end talents after all, and you can't use them like cattle and horses.
To a certain extent, it may not be as useful as slave rats. After all, slave rats can really be filled in endlessly in major projects.
Excellent consumables.
For example, at this time, countless slave rats are doing something that happened in this strait not long ago.
Countless blast furnaces spewed out black smoke, and a huge structure was built, using the same technology as the ratman port, gears, high prices, pipes, and flowing red molten steel.
Only here, the molten steel was not used to cast those unreliable warships, but was poured into the sea continuously.
The upgrade of technology made the scene more intense. At least in this area, with the help of molten iron thrown into the sea, the sea seemed to be completely boiled and kept churning.
In theory, such a harsh environment should not be disturbed too much, but how to say it, the desire of those hungry sea monsters for a buffet cannot be underestimated.
Since the unsuccessful attack, countless ratman corpses were thrown into the sea by the noble coalition, and those sea monsters never left.
The slave rats were very frightened, but they did not dare to retreat under the continuous whipping.
From time to time, the terrifying giant tentacles would rise from the sea, dragging the unfortunate slave rats into the depths of the sea.
In fact, there is more than that. From time to time, you will find the bodies of slave rats on the molten steel that has not been completely cooled.
This is not a coincidence, nor is it that the rolling sea spontaneously brings the bodies of these unfortunate guys to the uncooled molten steel.
It can only be said that in the great abundance of materials, even sea monsters have begun to try barbecue.
Perhaps such a place will eventually breed some extremely terrifying sea monsters.
The temple guards were indifferent to all this, standing on the fortress like statues.
Indeed, they are the best guards, the best guards of the gods, but apart from this, they are nothing. They do not discriminate against ordinary ratmen, those humble guys, just ignore them. After all, these humble guys are neither sacred nor represent gods.
This is already a very rare gentle attitude among the several noble groups in the Rat Empire.
Shepherds and sheep are for other races, churches and believers of other gods, but not for the rat priests and temple guards in the Rat Empire. There are simply too many rats, so many that they are not worthy of attention.
And now is a very special time, even the temple guards need to keep some things in mind.
Don't cross, don't cross.
In the indifference of the temple guards, the Black Fortress naturally fell into a stalemate.
But the situation may change.
In the underground rat city, the successor to the long claw has appeared. Fortunately, the big claw priests are not completely the successors of the soul weapon. In fact, the orthodox successor of this series is an unknown guy.
A guy who rarely appears in the Desolate Mountains.
An unexpected guy, can you imagine that a dull, defective, not very smart ratman, such a ratman actually became the successor of Longclaw. I am afraid that Longclaw himself would not accept this, but he died and could not object.
The Great Claw priests inherited the route of deformed flesh and blood.
The legacy of Longclaw did not let the ratman priests get a bit.
However, some unexpected things happened.
The route of soul weapons was spied on.
Of course, the rat priests were not very satisfied with this, but at this sensitive time point, these guys were obviously not so ungrateful.
It was done by the big claw priests. Well, an unexpected but reasonable situation. These guys really love their horror series deeply.
After entering the deep abyss, a group of big claw priests resolutely chose to steal and imitate.
In short, when the stupid rats had not made any moves, a batch of lightning cannons had entered the final stage of production.
In terms of industrial capacity, no one is more professional than this group of big claw priests, and the efficiency is extremely high.
But this is not a good thing, this is not a good thing.
You can believe in many things, but don't believe in the creations made by the big claw priests. These guys have completely bent the navigation technology of the rat empire. This soul weapon can obviously get back on track.
But, but, it's too late to say anything now.
You have to believe in the industrial capacity created by the big claw priests.
A large number of lightning cannons have entered the final debugging stage. Of course, every weapon produced by the big claw priests will be debugged. After firing a shot, as long as it does not explode, disintegrate, or shoot out gears, the rest are minor problems and are all qualified products.
By the way, the big claw priests also injected souls into this batch of lightning cannons, making them bigger, bigger, and bigger.
The terrifying lightning cannons have made their grand debut.
Of course, as for how spectacular the explosion of this new big toy will be, that is unknown.
No! Maybe we can know.
Desolate Mountains, surface industrial area.
The place where the weapons are tested is not far from this busy industrial area. Today, it is the time for the first batch of terrifying lightning cannons to be debugged.
A terrifying explosion occurred.
The shock wave swept the entire ratman industrial area, and a large number of towering furnaces close to the experimental site collapsed in this terrifying explosion. The sound of the explosion even spread throughout the underground rat city.
I don’t know if the white rat will regret opening this hole for these big claw priests.
But from this day on, the weapons test site of the Big Claw priests was moved outside the Desolate Mountains.
However, the Big Claw priests were indeed professional. At least the damage caused and the collapsed furnace were repaired in a very short time.
These guys are professional in industry and production capacity, but it is difficult to evaluate them in weapons.
However, they are indeed full of fighting spirit, and the subsequent Horror Lightning Cannon was successfully launched.
Although I don’t know how many ratmen will be sent to the sky by this thing in the end.
But in short, the Horror Lightning Cannon! It’s here!