Chapter 421, Rat Planet Guard
In such a tense situation, a piece of news that shook the Rat Empire was spread soon, like a thunderclap in the plain, suddenly exploding and tearing everything apart.
This war began, this civil war that will determine the future of the Rat Empire, and the trigger came from the death of a guy.
In the future, the Rat Empire will call the trigger of this war the Holy Fall.
Sheng Qi died, the position of the High Priest of the Rat Empire was once again vacant, and the war broke out.
The Rat First Expeditionary Force and the Second Expeditionary Force, which had assembled on the Fortress Star, began to go upstream along this miracle path, crossing one planet after another, until they finally stopped in front of Steel and Steam. Here, in the industrial and mineral center of the Rat, a riot broke out at this time.
Of course, everyone knows that this is an industrial center, knows about Steel and Steam, or Black Iron Star, and knows that this planet will become the third center of the Rat Empire in the near future.
Qi knew, and of course the temple priests knew it too, so both sides would make their move here.
The influence of the temple priests on this planet was not as great as Qi's. This was the base camp of the ratmen engineers. Compared with the ratmen sect, they had always been more compatible and intimate with the ratmen empire. Naturally, Qi, as the emperor of the ratmen empire, certainly had a greater influence on this planet than these temple priests.
But this did not prevent these temple priests from pulling out all the forces on this planet at this time, compiling them into an army, and starting wanton destruction, all to delay the pace of the first and second expeditionary fleets of the ratmen.
In order to slow down the pace of the two fleets, this was an obvious delaying tactic, and everyone could see it. So was it useful?
It was useful, very useful. The first expeditionary fleet of the ratmen led by Qi really stopped.
This is a blatant conspiracy. Since the star port of the Fortress Star experienced a battle and entered the reconstruction sequence, the star port of the Black Iron Star has become particularly important. Although this star port has not been completely completed, the dock and port, which are the priority construction sequence, have been basically completed. At the same time, the resources on the Black Body Star are also extremely necessary for the next war.
However, this delaying tactic was successful, but it was only half successful. Among the two expeditionary fleets, only the first expeditionary fleet led by Qi stopped, and the other fleet did not even hesitate and started jumping again, disappearing in this star field.
Qi's fleet approached the Black Iron Star Port. At this time, chaos was also going on in the star port. However, in this Black Iron Star Port, which was just a large construction site, the ships had not yet begun to enter the outside world and had not officially started to operate. The power of the temple priests was not enough, and it did not cause much waves. After the intervention of the First Expeditionary Fleet of Qi, the chaos in the Black Iron Star Port was quickly calmed down.
But the next thing is not so easy.
At this time, the Black Iron Star was in chaos in this first wave of sudden riots and attacks.
A steel city, and also an important energy hub for the rats at the geothermal node of the Black Iron Star, the Steam City, collapsed. In the terrifying explosion, the towering huge steam boiler bent and fell towards the city built around it. In the piercing and sharp sound, the steam in the steam boiler began to overflow, like a tsunami, and also like a hurricane. The terrifying high-temperature steam swept to every corner of the city, causing a terrifying steam tsunami.
This is an efficient killing. The struggle is very short. Although it is painful and fragrant, there will be almost no survivors from the crazy rat crusade.
Yes, this group of mobilized guys continued the name of the ancient times. Of course, those temple priests will join this war in the name of the gods. This is a fanatical war, in the cheers of the rats.
Steam City is an important energy hub of Black Iron Star. The huge amount of cheap energy provided by the active planet core without any additional cost is the blood that keeps this industrial planet running.
Even if Qi suppresses the riot on Black Iron Star as quickly as possible, the falling industrial power is difficult to recover quickly.
Unexpectedly, Qi is not in a hurry about this. The remaining industrial cities in Black Iron Star are protected by his dispatched forces. The landing troops on the first expeditionary fleet of the rats began to assemble slowly.
These rats' latest warships will carry a large number of landing troops. Steam tanks and rat legions have not been eliminated, but some things have been replaced. The current rat army is no longer specialized in positions and trench warfare. A large number of rat transport ships that can directly enter the planet's atmosphere will drop these rat legions in fixed places, and there will also be a large number of steam tanks and armored vehicles falling with them.
The rat army has gradually differentiated, and the functions of the expeditionary fleet have been clarified.
Exploration, colonization, conquest, and rebellion.
Everything revolves around these four points: the Ratman's space fleet. They are the elite troops of the Ratman Empire, and also a mixed military group that is incapable of fighting a protracted war.
Subdue the enemy's space force, deploy a large number of armored ground forces, and assist the air force to efficiently destroy the enemy's main force and industrial power, and quickly establish a stronghold on the colonizable planet, and then the rest of the things will be left to them.
The larger, larger, and cheaper Imperial Army or Planet Guard, this group of rat-man conventional troops who are still using weapons that were eliminated a hundred years ago, will take a crowded transport ship from the nearest rat-man planet and carry out the subsequent work that will shed the most blood on this planet, occupying, sweeping, and annihilating, using the old steam guns and backward huge artillery to do all this.
How to say it, this is an old heritage. The top leaders of the rats, those big guys, they still prefer cheap and large cannon fodder troops.
Of course, the propaganda will not say this. Opportunity, future, merit, development, money, land, these are the slogans given by the rat-man planet guard to recruit soldiers. This is a very tempting propaganda strategy.
Although in most cases they don't even need such slogans, in the declining resource cities, they only need to put up signs, and then batches of young ratmen starting from 100,000 will easily board the transport ship, and then be transported to the training center like livestock for simple training, or even sent directly to the battlefield without even this.
If necessary.