From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 156: The pervasive plague, the determination of the sheep-beast high priest, and the roar of the rat war
On the vast grassland, the war did not lead to a long-term stalemate.

Even though the power gap between the two has reached a considerable level.

Unexpectedly, it was the sheep beastman who was seeking a decisive battle.

They could no longer endure the stalemate any longer.

There are many problems faced by the sheep beast people.

Plague, winter, and an army that was gradually becoming exhausted by the constant harassment.

Winter is coming, and even though this four-season ranch is partially blocked by the towering mountains, only sparse snow will fall.

It wasn't even enough to completely submerge and cover the grass.

But the subsequent cold will also stop the grass from growing.

This period of time is the busiest time for all races on the grassland.

A large number of people must work day and night to stockpile fodder to deal with possible accidents, and a place to spend the winter must be selected.

Semi-permanent camps were to be established on the most fertile grasslands.

To cope with the cold winter.

However, the war with the ratmen greatly delayed the sheep-orcs' preparations for winter.

Even though the Rat War had been suspended for a while, the small groups of ratmen that kept appearing continued to swarm into the depths of the grassland like locusts.

Make the sheep beastmen exhausted.

Running wildly on the grassland day and night, these roaming rats are really despicable.

Even if just one team is let go, it can easily lead to great disaster.

Some small tribes that had unobstructed supply lines and voluntarily gathered at the edge of the battlefield because of the prestige of the sheep-orc high priest had begun to suffer casualties in the attacks of these ratmen.

After discovering the sheep orc tribe, those cunning and despicable guys will lurk quietly and wait for the night to fall.

The ratmen units that can get through the sheep-orc riders' sweeps are generally not large.

They were also unable to attack the sheep orc tribes head-on, even though these tribes were not large.

But you can lose sight of the main point and pursue the trivial.

In the dark night, they would sneak into a tent or a sheepfold and set it on fire. In the flames, chaos would spread.

That's the opportunity.

They would either attack the sheep orcs old or young, and run away into the darkness after succeeding, or they would scare the giant sheep and then run around on them, attacking and pulling those that were left alone.

They won't get much, and after the sweep by the sheep-orc knights, these resisting ratmen will not be much of a threat compared to the tribes they attack.

But it was disgusting, and it kept coming.

Appearing like a mouse in every possible and impossible corner.

A little commotion and chaos began to spread behind the sheep orc army.

But these are just minor problems.

The same is true even for urgent winter reserves.

As long as we are ruthless and kill a large number of giant sheep, we can survive this winter even without storing supplies.

Sheep orcs are not pure vegetarians. To be precise, all orcs are omnivorous, and even prefer carnivores.

The same is true for sheep orcs.

Even though they cherish their giant sheep, it is because they have a constant supply of goat milk. If a giant sheep is so old that it can no longer produce milk, then it is only natural that it should be slaughtered.

This is the treatment for female giant sheep.

The male giant sheep has other uses, such as breeding, riding and eating.

Even Feng, the most honorable high priest among the sheep orcs, his mount may not be as good as the giant male sheep used specifically for breeding.

Winter is the breeding season for giant sheep.

Slaughtering giant sheep en masse at this time would cause huge problems.

There will be an abnormal shortage of food next year, and even famine may occur.

But for the high priest of the sheep-beastmen, this was a problem that could be ignored for the time being.

The not-so-fertile grassland meant that they were destined to be unable to look into the long term, and they could only deal with the imminent crisis before them.

As for how to face the devastation after defeating the rat people with all their might.

It's just another war.

On the grassland, Feng, the old high priest of the sheep orcs, looked from afar at the rat war that was surrounded by the rat army in the distance.

The two sides faced each other again.

There was still undisguised contempt and ridicule on Shu Zhan's face.

In fact, Shu Zhan is indeed qualified to show such an expression.

Not too much time had passed since the last battle between the two.

The army gathered by Shu Zhan was even more exaggerated.

However, the team under the sheep-beast high priest was inevitably bleak.

Because of a sudden plague.

Winter has not yet truly arrived, but the plague has already become difficult to suppress.

The sheep beastmen don't have any good way to deal with the plague.

This is a terrible disaster, but it will be suppressed and eliminated by another disaster.

Every major epidemic on the grasslands will subside in the bitter cold of winter.

Winter is coming, but it hasn't arrived yet.

But this unknown plague has begun to spread.

Diarrhea, vomiting, and when the condition becomes serious, clumps of milky white hyphae will appear on the body, and eventually mushrooms will begin to grow all over the body.

This is an extremely terrifying scene.

This is also the only reason why the Sheep Orc High Priest is so anxious.

Before they knew it, most of the sheep orc knights had been infected.

By the time this strange plague was discovered, it was already too late.

Too many plans had to be abandoned all together.

He didn't have many options left.

Hold on until winter comes, and pray for the plague to fade away in the cold.

While most of the warriors are still able to fight, fight a decisive battle with the ratmen.

If he were younger, Feng wouldn't have hesitated so much.

He would choose the second option without hesitation.

But he is no longer young.

So he chose the second option.

But he is no longer as confident and arrogant as he was when he was young.

Not daring to make a decision lightly, the old sheep man summoned his warriors.

In that spacious tent.

He expressed his thoughts hesitantly, waiting to hear the opinions of these young people in front of him.

The failure in the last battle against rats made the old sheep man a little more hesitant.

But what was directed towards him was still trust and even encouragement.

So, he stood on the grassland again, facing Shu Zhan from afar.

The flag was hoisted.

This time, he was still so decisive.

Still leading the charge.

The only difference is that this time, all the sheep orc knights followed him.

They all took down their scimitars. No orders were even needed. When the flag started to move, the charge had already begun.

Forty thousand sheep-orc knights charged towards the enemy that was ten times their number.

This is a war that is almost impossible to win.

Yes, it is almost impossible to win, almost, not absolutely impossible.

Forty thousand sheep orc knights suddenly began to split into two groups. Thirty thousand sheep orc knights broke away from the team and ran wildly in another direction.

But the flag was left behind.

The high priest of the sheep orcs was taking a huge gamble, betting on a possibility, and also betting on the only possibility that could be caught in a hurry.

He was gambling, betting on the rear of the rat army. Compared to his defense of the rear, it was the rat people who were truly guarding the rear.

As long as the large army of sheep orcs has the intention of advancing to the rear of the rat camp, or even as long as the large army of sheep orcs appears near the rat camp, a large number of rat troops will be mobilized soon.

There seemed to be something extremely important to the rat people behind the camp.

That's enough.

The 30,000-strong sheep-orc army bypassed the rat-man army and rushed straight to the rear of the rat-man army.

Ten thousand sheep orc knights gathered under the banner of the wind and charged towards Rat Zhan.

The aging wind no longer has the pride and confidence it once had.

This was an attempt, an attempt that cost him his own life.

If his bet was wrong, and the things behind the camp were not that important to the ratmen, then he would die on the way to the charge, in the process of rushing towards the opposing leader.

The 30,000 sheep orc knights will also flee far away, immediately retreating into the grassland behind, and begin to migrate with the large and small sheep orc tribes located on the grassland.

He also chose the location for the migration.

Leave this four-season grassland and head towards the center of the vast grassland, where the wolf-orcs are entrenched.

This is not a good choice.

Even if the sheep orcs who abandoned their pastures were accepted by the wolf orcs, they were destined to become slaves. Feng once knelt humbly before the young wolf king just to prevent this scene from actually happening.

He did it.

Feng used his pride and dignity to preserve freedom and possibilities for the sheep beastmen. At least after that great war, on this four-season pasture, the sheep beastmen still stood on equal terms with the argali.

And now, the wind is still resisting the emergence of this possibility.

Even if the opponent is ten times more powerful than ours, even if there is little hope.

For a very vague concept, an illusory thing, a resolute charge.

Dignity and freedom?

He is indeed a true hero, a hero of the sheep-beast people. The king cares about power, the warlord is obsessed with war and conquest, and the hero is the purest.

But also the most stupid.

But these guys can sometimes work miracles.

As long as the things behind the camp are important to the rat people, as long as the things behind the camp are something the rat people cannot give up.

Then for the opposing rat general, there will only be one choice.

To provide support, send out troops to intercept the sheep-orc knights who were rushing towards the rear.

And the teams that were sent out didn't have much choice.

Because the infantry simply could not catch up with the galloping sheep knights.

The only ones who could be sent out were the rat knights.

What Feng had to do was very simple. No matter what was behind that made the rats pay so much attention to it, it was not his target.

He needed to win the war, but not in a mutually destructive way, sacrificing himself and making the opposing general furious with incompetence.

The transferred rat knights will bring him an opportunity, an opportunity that is slim but has a little possibility.

Kill the opposing general.

His vision was indeed very vicious. As long as he could kill Shu Zhan, no matter how large the number of the rat people's Eastern Expeditionary Force was, the defeat would happen almost instantly.

There is just one problem.

Can he do it?

Feng, the high priest of the sheep orcs, is indeed a hero, but so is Rat Zhan.

Although compared to him, Shuzhan is simply a negative example, violent, crazy, and cruel.

But Shuzhan is still a hero, a hero who is loyal to his own desires, a despicable hero.

Did the Sheep Orc High Priest make the right bet?

He made the right bet.

When Shu Zhan saw the direction in which the sheep-beastmen were heading, his face turned green.

Especially when they saw that the 30,000 sheep-orc knights easily broke through the rat-man scavengers who were following the rat-man army like a dark cloud and ran away.

This group of chaotic and disunited guys have no other purpose than to be cannon fodder.

Shu Zhan's face suddenly turned ugly.

Even though he was quite bold, he did not dare to leave everything to the temple guards.

If there really is a problem.

The white rat will definitely not let him go.

And it seems that the great god is also casting his gaze on that white rat.

That's it.

I really don't dare to gamble on Shu Zhan.

The waving flag.

The Rat Knight was transferred over by Rat War.

Just as Na Feng expected, Shu Zhan did not have many choices. So did Shu Zhan understand his intentions?

It's not hard to guess.

He's not the first guy to put all his eggs in one basket and rush headlong into a rat race.

Shu Zhan has only one comment on this action.

madness!

Just like that red lizard, it was making sacrifices for the sake of doing the right thing. If only that damn red lizard had not turned back before the Furnace City.

Instead, he chose to ride away on the dragon and ignore those lizardmen and snakemen. Now, he might still cause Shuzhan a headache.

The fire that is free of worries and controls the dragon is something that is quite difficult to deal with even if Rat War mobilizes a large number of troops.

But the stupid red lizard chose to look back.

And this damn old sheep man chose to charge towards him decisively.

This similar behavior made Shu Zhan feel disgusted, nauseated, and also aroused inexplicable anger.

Because he recalled some things he didn't want to remember, Shu Zhan's expression unconsciously became a little hideous and distorted.

“This is really disgusting!

Who do you think you are? "

Shu Zhan gritted his teeth and spoke word by word.

He was going to kill the guy and then skin him to use as a seat cushion.

At this moment, a blood-red picture appeared behind Shu Zhan. It was his own shadow and also a blessing from God.

Apart from the blessing from the White Rat which seemed like a joke, Shuzhan was the only one in the Ratman Kingdom who had truly received the blessing from Duyuan Zhan.

Compared to the blessings of the Western Expeditionary Force and the Central Expeditionary Force that were gathered on the battle flags, Shu Zhan's blessing fell directly on him.

This is a huge difference.

The blood-red shadow looked down at everything in front of it, roaring angrily. The ratmen warriors surrounding Rat Zhan became a little more restless for no reason.

Eyes red.

(End of this chapter)