From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 111, Picking Up Trash
A busy city stands in front of a gentle river bend.

During this period, the war in the lush forest seemed to have no impact on this place at all.

The city gates were wide open, and boar transport teams continued to arrive with some black stones.

The tall windmill stands on the river, rotating day and night with a dull sound.

Dams were built, riverbeds were exposed, and large numbers of slaves worked on them.

A steady stream of ore was transported into the city and turned into boiling molten iron.

This is the only iron mine worked by the Quilboar, although many more minerals have been discovered as they have invaded the lush forests.

But either the reserves are not large enough or they have not yet been mined.

Even though all the plans had been made, they were disrupted after the ratman brazenly broke into the forest.

The wild boar people finally chose to protect their most important property in the lush forest, the only mature mining industrial city.

The city provides most of the boarmen's metal production, and the boarmen knights' sturdy full body armor is also forged here by heavy hydraulic forges.

It can be seen that the boarmen actually supply most of the resources to the boar knights.

Because ordinary boarmen warriors rarely wear full body armor, let alone metal half-body armor. Most of them only have leather armor and a sword or spear in their hands.

Leaving aside the sword, a spear with only the iron tip really doesn't require much iron.

This made the boarmen warriors quite passive when facing the siege of a large group of ratmen warriors.

Especially when the boar knight's great efforts did not achieve the expected effect.

A rumor began to spread among the boar commanders.

Yes, I know that the Quilboar Riders are powerful warriors, but it is difficult for them to be of any use right now.

So why not assign the boar knights to various cities to serve as defense forces?

Since knights are useless, wouldn't it be better not to have them?
Such words became more and more frequent and stronger as more and more wild boar commanders abandoned the cities they were stationed in and were forced to gather together with their colleagues.

Especially with the promotion of some caring people.

After all, the knights also have a nickname.

Temple Knights, Quillboar Temple Knights.

It was obvious that this proposal was strongly opposed by the priests, but most of the boarman commanders agreed.

Of course, this is not absolute. All priests are opposed to the reform of the boar knights, but there is a boar commander who is opposed to the reform of the knights.

But these are digressions.

Today, this mining and industrial city, which is of vital importance to the wild boar people and is also the only one, has been targeted by Sheng Qi.

Although the other five core cities that protect the industrial city have been filling in underground tunnels for some time.

But no matter how hard they blocked, buried, or even filled with water, they were unable to completely seal off the underground tunnel network in the area.

If the boar people don't go deep underground themselves, they will never know how wonderful the underground world of this lush forest is.

These are the products accumulated day after day and night after night by the slave-catching priests of the outposts.

A large number of ratmen troops were dispatched to cross the defense line and arrive near the core city of the boarmen.

Although Sheng Qi didn't quite understand why this city had such a strange structure.

But this did not affect his hesitation in blowing the horn of attack.

A swarm of rats came out from underground, howling.

They howled with excitement and rushed forward. In an instant, the sentry tower completed its alert, and the ringing of the bell interrupted the city's peacefulness.

A large number of wild boar people rushed into the city in fear.

But they were all roughly pushed away by the heavily armored soldiers who filed out of the city.

The boarman heavy armored warrior, who had been wearing full body armor and holding a bright chain hammer in his hand, rushed out.

To some extent, as the only mining and industrial city of the Wild Boarmen, the defenders in this city are no less powerful than those Wild Boarmen knights who are armed to the teeth.

Except there are no mounts.

Faced with the massive influx of ratmen, this group of guys even dared to rush forward to meet the enemy.

A battle broke out between the rats and the ore piled outside the city and in the hydraulic forge.

It’s a pity that they will also face the same problems, that is, the sneak attacks of the Ratman Knights and the special care of the Ratman Priests.

After all, with that set of thick hemp ropes, no matter how powerful these boarmen heavy-armored warriors are, they are no match for those deformed giant rats.

Plus those guys who are so crazy that they put city-defending crossbows on their giant rats.

Even though the armor is strong, the crossbow arrows as thick as a fist are no joke.

Although these guys' accuracy was not very good and they basically shot randomly, they were more likely to hit friendly forces than enemies.

But I can't stand the pressure in my heart.

There was chaos until the boarmen craftsmen escaped from the hydraulic forge and fled into the city.

This group of heavy armored infantry began to retreat in an orderly manner.

The battle flag was raised by Sheng Qi in the center of the rat army.

Climbing up a pile of ore, Sheng Qi looked out at the city not far away.

This city has stronger walls and more crossbows than the core city.

Even though not all the boarmen warriors guarding the city walls were elite soldiers with heavy armor, there was at least one elite heavy armored infantryman interspersed among every three boarmen warriors.

And even for the remaining two, the shining chain mail under the leather armor still caught Sheng Qi's attention.

These are all good things that I have never seen before.

One can imagine how difficult it was to capture this city.

And Sheng Qi was not ready to achieve his goal in one fell swoop.

It was a tentative attack. The densely packed feather arrows and the crossbow arrows as thick as fists reached a density that was daunting.

But this is just a test.

Moreover, the city is not completely enclosed by the tall city walls.

The huge army of ratmen scattered when Shengqi waved his flag.

Those caravans left behind by the boarmen transport team, those mining slaves.

There were also iron pickaxes scattered all over the ground.

These all became the spoils of the ratmen.

Among them, the blacksmith workshops built on water-powered forges are the most valuable.

Even if it was just an abandoned item, it was still a rare treasure for the rats who were still using the broken wood and rotten spears!
The rats that came in one after another scrambled for these scattered things.

(End of this chapter)