Chapter 423, Fighting and the humble guys holding weapons

Chapter 423, Fighting and the humble guys holding weapons

In the wilderness of Black Iron Star, in the dark wilderness, under a huge dark mountain, a young town fell. This is a city prototype under construction. The war has been going on for two months and has started for two months. This town has carried out quite advanced planning. Several simple blast furnaces are slowly pouring out a framework that can be used as a prototype of a super city. In the joint efforts of these rats who have gathered together and have no choice.

They are prisoners, they are criminals, gamblers who owe huge debts, ordinary guys who are implicated, rat bureaucrats who have failed in the struggle, and a group of messy guys. It’s just that after coming here, they have a new name, pioneer rats.

The dark wilderness swallowed up everything in the past. They are all desperate guys. The only hope is this city that has been formed. They can be the founders of this city and inherit everything they have, if they still have a future.

The war that had already begun did not affect these guys much in the past two months. This place may become very prosperous and important in the future. Every place in the towering metal frame will be crowded and full of ratmen, but that is not now. All this is just a future for the time being. Now, this is a remote town located deep in the dark wilderness.

Except that the convoys traveling between the rat cities no longer appear, nothing has happened. Of course, it will not always be like this.

Not far away, in front of a huge rat city, a 100,000-strong rat crusade army attacked a rat city along the track of a steam train. Originally, everything was going smoothly. With the support and help of the believers in the city, the planetary guards in the city retreated into the inner ring of the city to protect the industries of the rat bureaucrats and big businessmen, while the outer ring of the city was given to these rat crusades.

For most of the ratmen, this war is too grand and too unreal. Instead of fighting to the death for the great emperor and gods, it is better to take this opportunity to do something more practical, such as swallowing up the untouchables and small factory owners in the outer city and their assets.

It is very simple to do this, and it can even be done legitimately.

Withdraw the city's defense forces and those planetary guards to the inner layer of the city, and allow these crusades to plunder, destroy, kill and execute heretics on the outskirts of the city. After these guys have done all this, they will take back the city and take everything in the outer city at a nearly bargain price. How simple it is, and there is no need to worry about being held accountable.

If the imperial army fights back, they will also happily open the city gates, and he can also happily pat his chest and shout loudly to his superiors and the empire.

He protected the city, he did not succumb to the group of crazy believers, and by then, he could be sure that at least half of his city's production capacity would be protected, which was the basis for him to never be held accountable. If he chose loyalty and resolutely resisted these holy wars, the situation he might encounter would be different.

Even with the planetary guards in his hands, he could easily defeat the 100,000 rat holy wars, but then, in addition to losing his own strength, he might also attract a larger holy war army, letting them burn themselves and their cities to the ground. Even if they win, they will not get better than the other situation. How to choose, is there any doubt?

Standing at the top of this steel city, taking in everything that happened in the city behind the dark glass, is there any doubt about how to choose?

Fire, chaos, killing, these began after the holy war army entered.

These guys continued the madness of the old times, painting complicated patterns with blood, building altars to worship great gods with corpses, piling up bones to make pillars, and releasing blood to accumulate into blood pools.

Madness, piety, and fear.

One by one, the ratmen were dragged to the altar. These guys screamed and struggled in fear, but this did not make those guys who raised their butcher knives high hesitate a bit. It didn't take much time, nor did it hurt much. In just a moment, there would be one more thin body in the gradually accumulated scarlet pool, and one more head of fear and despair would appear on the altar painted with blood and built with corpses.

How many ratmen would there be in a ratman city.

This is a difficult number to describe, but it is a lot, so much so that even if this crazy crusade army tried their best to drag every ratman they met to the altar, and offer their flesh and blood to the great gods, it was still a bit beyond their ability.

Until these lunatics got impatient, until they started to light the fire, the destruction and looting officially began.

In fact, they did not kill all the ratmen, a horrible killing, a fire that destroyed everything, destroyed a large number of industrial equipment, dismantled them, looted food, vehicles, and then absorbed the ratmen who crawled out of the ruins into the team, and finally continued to move forward, rushing to the next place to be purified and atonement was needed.

At this time, the steel city has come to the step of igniting the flame. Of course, not all guys can accept all this.

In the outer city industrial zone, there are many small and medium-sized rat factories. Most of the founders of these rat factories are a group of young rat engineers. After all, Black Iron Star is known as the star of rat engineers.

In the past, even the pioneers in the city or the rat bureaucrats in this city wanted to suppress these rat engineers without scruples and wantonly embezzle the factories they opened. This is difficult to do.

These young rat engineers have their own teachers and classmates. They have their own unique frameworks. They have formed an influential and difficult-to-provoke engineer association, and have a close relationship with the Rat Merchant Alliance.

But now, the situation is obviously different.

Disputes, contradictions, and these messy things have always existed widely in the Rat Empire. These guys with short gray-black hard hair are particularly keen on internal struggles and will choose to embezzle anything they can get by using various means without scruples.

The first to be eliminated on the Black Body Star were the Rat Engineers.

These guys had already started to change as soon as they stepped out of the starry sky, unwilling to exist simply as a vassal, and the Black Iron Star was chosen by many Rat Engineers based on this vision.

In fact, this is effective, after all, it can be seen from the construction of the third Rat Star Port on the Black Iron Star, but how to say it, until the Rat Merchants cultivated by them and those wavering Rat Bureaucrats on this planet chose to backstab them.

Many famous Rat Merchants on the Black Iron Star were Rat Engineers for several generations, and they were all descendants of the group of Big Claw Priests. It’s just a pity that it’s different now, and these guys want to go one step further.

As a loose alliance, the Rat Engineers Association does not have as much restraint as it seems, and the chaos and struggles within it have continued for several generations.

Those young Rat Engineers always mock those old Association leaders as stiff corpses.

But no matter how rigid it is, at this time, it is necessary to take action. It is related to the status of the Ratman Engineers Association. As a loose alliance, the Engineers Association is not actually pulled by the top Ratman engineers at will. If the association itself does nothing, then these Ratman engineers will leave the Engineers Association in large numbers, and choose an object that they can rely on and re-establish the Ratman Engineers Association.

Attacking the Ratman factories of these guys is actually a bad move, but it can also show the choice of those temple priests.

They chose to cooperate with the Ratman businessmen who have more factories and capital, rather than with these messy, paranoid and stubborn Ratman engineers.

Then, even if they vote with their feet, these guys who are closer to the Rat Empire will move closer to that side. This is very obvious. This is what Qi wants to see. Qi needs these guys to make a real choice, and more guys to make a choice. In this way, when he really leaves, everything can be restored to an orderly appearance faster, rather than a powder keg that looks prosperous on the surface but is actually surging with undercurrents and no peace.

But such a choice will cost more humble guys on the Black Iron Star.

Of course, no guy is willing to take the initiative to become such a price.

In the killing and death, some rats who were forced into a dead end gathered together. They were a group of rat mercenaries, more humble rat civilians, and those rat engineers. They gathered together and decided to do something.

The rat engineers provided a large number of simple modified weapons, which were wantonly distributed to everyone who could pick them up. On the Black Iron Star, the industrial power of each rat city was terrifyingly rich.

The Ratman mercenaries got more support, and the ordinary Ratman civilians also grasped the weapons that had just been delivered to them.

If they didn't want to die, they had no choice but to resist.