From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 166, I, Shu Zhan, will become the King of All Trades!
This was weather the Rat People had never encountered before.

From the barren mountains to the lush forests to the Lizardman Swamps, even though the winter was cold, it was not cold enough for heavy snow to fall until the ratmen opened up the towering mountains.

Come to this vast grassland.

The Four Seasons Ranch is considered the warmest corner of this vast grassland, but it is a little unbearable for the rats.

These guys have hair, but not enough hair.

This cold weather is a non-fatal but also difficult to ignore nuisance to the rat people.

Rat War is still recruiting troops, and the rat warriors who form the main body of the army have already been recruited.

Compared with last time, the scale is even larger.

Rat War is thinking about how to wage a long-term war on this grassland. The problem of the ratmen's lack of mobility is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

He couldn't just turn back, lie dormant, and start accumulating strength after every war and every time the Rat Knights suffered massive losses.

It is obvious that the ratman army under his command is larger than ever before.

But without the companionship of knights, no matter how large the gathered rat army was, it would ultimately be too cumbersome.

Nothing is fixed on this vast grassland. There are no strong fortresses and no prosperous cities.

The advantages brought by the huge ratman army were diluted infinitely.

Perhaps it would be much easier for Rat Zhan to attack the half-elf kingdom in the rolling hills.

Under his banner and the spears of the Skaven Overlords, the vast Skaven army was able to easily overwhelm the small number of half-elves.

But this is difficult to do on this grassland.

Only a knight can fight against a knight.

But the quality of the rat knights is not really an advantage.

What if you rely on equipment?

Rat Zhan does not have the resources to equip every rat knight with heavy armor, he cannot do that.

Thinking.

Shu Zhan couldn't think of any better solution for a moment. In fact, there were still not enough resources, not enough sacrifices, and not enough blood mushrooms.

If there are enough blood mushrooms, many problems can actually be solved very easily.

If the number of the ferocious knights in Shuzhan's hands could reach as many as 10,000, then many problems would not be considered problems at all.

It's just a pity that we can't do it.

Then some changes have to be made.

Shuzhan is not a guy who likes to take things step by step. He is radical, bold and manic, but this vast grassland still forces him to try to change some strategies.

In that overnight, a cold wave swept across the world, and Shuzhan, the ugly hairless rat, was particularly sensitive.

Suddenly I shuddered.

I rubbed my paws involuntarily.

Shu Zhan suddenly remembered the guy he had left on the grassland, and felt a little more regretful.

He originally planned to peel off the guy's skin and use it as a cushion. Maybe it would also be good as a shawl, which should be quite warm.

Take back your thoughts.

Finally, he made a decision.

He didn't like the word "steady and cautious", but now he had no choice but to make this choice.

The war is about to escalate.

Under the pressure of the vast scale of this grassland, the Rat War changed the strategy of war.

One camp after another will be set up on this grassland.

Settlements will be established on this grassland, and cities like grassland cities will be built one after another on this grassland.

Since there are no cities or fortresses on this grassland, these will all be taken down by the ratmen.

When the vast grassland is divided by camps and fortresses, a huge network is constructed with cities as the core. When such a situation occurs, the situation will be reversed.

Shu Zhan was fed up with chasing these slippery guys all over the grassland.

I also don't like to wage a long war by setting up camps, cities, and fortresses.

But if he really has no choice, he would rather build camps, cities, and fortresses.

A decision was made.

This is how the war will proceed.

At this cold moment, the ratmen in the grassland city took action because of the order of the most important person in the city.

Just like what the wild boar people did when they invaded the lush forest, Rat War will also develop the four-season pasture in front of him.

The rat army did not move. The hairless Rat Zhan hated the cold weather, but the large number of ordinary rats that gathered in Prairie City had to move at his command.

This vast four-season ranch was divided into six areas by Rat War.

In these six areas, Rat Zhan will build six cities.

These six cities are not just show-off cities, but real cities with temples of gods and the ability to cultivate blood mushrooms.

These six cities will be taken over directly by Rat War.

At this time, these huge groups of rats coming out in a line will be the pioneers of these six cities.

Rat War is not prepared to use its own strength to expand the city.

But all these developed cities will be taken over by him.

But this did not cause much dissatisfaction. It can even be said that there are countless rat people willing to do this for the Rat War.

Because Shuzhan offered some conditions that were impossible to refuse.

Six cities are obviously not the limit of what this huge ranch can bear.

However, Shu Zhan's army will only garrison these six cities, so what about the rest of the areas?

These areas will be thrown out by the rat war.

Can be held by any Skaven.

The land is not without value, although Rat War has always been dismissive of the gains from the land. This manic warmongerer is accustomed to grabbing everything in war.

But that did not prevent him from using the land he had already acquired and the land he had not yet acquired as a carrot.

Driven by this carrot, these rats gathered around him will open up the city for him and fill the large vacancies in the areas near the city.

Become part of the long line of defense, and in the end, half of the harvest will be handed over to him. No matter what, it will be a win-win for Shu Zhan to push this matter forward.

As for whether there are any ratmen willing to take a bite of this carrot, all we can say is that a group of them have already tried their hand at it.

The senior priests at those outposts made a fortune from the lush forest.

Now Rat War has given this opportunity, or rather, only Rat War has given this opportunity. Well, in the past, Rat War was not very motivated to do these troublesome things, but this grassland is too vast. In the expected long war, Rat War needs more supplies, more blood mushrooms, and a larger reserve force.

On the first day of the cold winter, a team of rat knights sent out by Rat War returned.

They ran towards the depths of this vast grassland for thirty days, but still could not see the end.

From the grassland city to the desolate mountains, the rat knights only need to gallop for fifteen days to reach the destination.

Shuzhan has been trying to measure the distance of this vast grassland.

For this purpose, he sent out many rat knights, but in the end only one group of rat knights returned safely. The danger on this vast grassland was not small.

But it was this returning group of rat knights that made him think about the way of war.

The current strategy is the solution he came up with.

But it will undoubtedly be a revolution.

If the Rat War plan is really pushed forward in this way, a very serious problem will soon arise.

Of course, it is easy to control the settlements and camps scattered on the grassland.

After all, the temple of God does not appear in every settlement and camp.

No matter where the rats are scattered, they will eventually move towards the central city where the temple of the gods is built.

This is why the Rat War must firmly grasp the central cities.

But that’s also the problem.

Now the entire Ratman Empire, the Underground Rat City, the Outpost, the Slag City, the Furnace City, and the newly built Grassland City.

Among the five cities, Shu Zhan already controls two of them. So, if six cities are built on this Four Seasons Ranch in the future and are controlled by Shu Zhan,

That means Shu Zhan has eight cities in his hands.

With the development of cities and the progress and expansion of wars, most of the territory of the Ratman Empire will be controlled by the Ratmen.

So what is the Rat Council in the underground Rat City, or what does the Rat War want to do?
Who is the legitimate ruler of the Rat Kingdom?
This is undoubtedly a huge issue and an extremely sensitive issue.

But Shu Zhan didn't seem to think about this, or rather, he thought about it, but he still did it.

The white rats have never restricted the ratmen in the Desolate Mountains from flowing in the directions of Rat Wars and Rat Priests.

Compared to the newly built Furnace City, Slag City, and Grassland City.

There is no doubt that the underground rat city in the Desolate Mountains is supporting the progress of the two-front war.

But now, Rat War is using the ratmen that flowed out of the Desolate Mountains to try to carry out that act of transcendence.

This is undoubtedly a dangerous signal.

Shu Zhan is now too far away from the barren mountains and too far away from the white rat.

The Rat War was taking place in the grassland city, gathering together the Big Claw Priests, the scavenger team captains, and the rat priests, all with exaggerated expressions.

Generous promises.

Undoubtedly, many guys were tempted.

Deep in the grassland, in an area circled by the rat war, a large number of rats began to build on this grassland.

Rat War will not provide any support to the city's buildings.

The construction went smoothly at the beginning, and most of the rat people's city was buried under the land.

In the cold weather, the ground was harder than usual, and excavation went smoothly until the excavation depth continued to increase, and the loose ground without any support became a big problem.

The ratmen's city was certainly not built of unsupported tunnels.

Especially in this loose soil.

What was simply dug out from the soil was not a city at all, but a living coffin that could collapse at any time. Even the ratmen would not stay in such a dangerous building.

In fact, in order to prevent chain collapse, the ratmen use a lot of wood to support the tunnels they dig. Recently, in order to ensure safety and stability, the underground rat city has gradually begun to use metal to support the city.

You know, the number of ratmen occupying a rat city is far from just a few tens of thousands.

Taking the Underground Rat City as an example, there is no accurate number of how many ratmen have occupied this complex and huge city to date, but the number is more than 30 million, at least. Although two-thirds of this 30 million are slave rats.

It is also an extremely large number.

This is why the Skaven are able to support wars in two directions at the same time.

Even the war in two directions is currently supported by the two ratmen cities in the Desolate Mountains.

Although it is certainly unlikely that this newly built city will expand to the same size as the Underground Rat City, it is obvious that Rat War will not accept such a shoddy project.

I was having a hard time with the support material.

This vast grassland lacks tall trees.

They couldn't use metal pillars as lavishly as the underground rat city did.

The Rat War has a time limit. Even though this guy doesn't like winter, he is still eager to move after the recruitment of his army is gradually coming to an end.

Even though Shu Zhan was quite bold, he still felt a little guilty when he was tinkering with such things, especially after he made the decision on a whim and gradually realized what he was doing in the next few days.

To this end, he urgently needed a great victory, preferably to directly destroy the temple of a heretical god and hold a grand sacrifice to the great god in the temple.

He certainly couldn't allow these guys to take their time in finding a solution.

If this is not possible, then just change another batch. There are plenty of rat people who want these lands anyway.

He urgently needed time before the white rat could react.

Under the pressure of the Rat War, these rat priests, big claw priests, and rat scavenger team captains chose a material that had never been tried before.

They began mining stone slabs on the towering mountains that separated the grasslands from the wetlands.

In fact, the rat people have always been good at mining and using rocks, because the stone paintings that are popular among the priest groups should be the carvings of the patterns of gods.

But it is the first time to use it to build a city.

This is not easy.

Fortunately, the Big Claw Priest joined in the construction this time, and a large number of slave rats were driven up the mountains in the bitterly cold weather.

There was not much safety protection, no warmth, and no auxiliary machinery, even though the pulleys and gears had long been tinkered with by the rat priests and used in war machines.

There were only endless slave rats.

Amid the clanging sounds and the beatings, the construction of the city finally began.

This is another bold attempt by Rat War.

Of course, Shuzhan might not have thought so much at the beginning, he was just using this method to escalate the war, but when he came to his senses, he did not stop this behavior.

But I became more impatient due to the nervousness and wanted to put this matter behind me completely.

But what he didn't know was that on the third day after he made the decision, this news was delivered to White Rat.

(End of this chapter)