From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 349, Western Expeditionary Force
Thanks to the ratmen councillors for the recharge.

More things were sent to this battlefield.

This is a war that is recognized by everyone.

One by one, the young ratmen had just walked out of the breeding house and the ratman university. After a long march, they arrived at this dark twin fortress and were pushed out of the gate.

Gullies, what meets the eye are dense gullies, fortresses, protruding fortresses are regularly located on the battlefield, stone pillars, stone pillars engraved with strange patterns are rising one by one.

Corpses, corpses piled high.

O brave one, oh warriors of the great gods, in this holy war, you are expendable, expendable.

Amidst the scolding and urging, he was pushed onto the battlefield. He was pushed onto the battlefield.

Enter the trenches.

A hazy ball of light whizzed past overhead, giving the sky a mottled color.

In the fortresses, amidst the shrill shouts and the sounds of gears turning, things were constantly thrown out.

Entering the battlefield with confusion.

Being pushed to the front of the battlefield.

A new round of charge was about to begin. Amid the waving flags, they rushed onto the battlefield involuntarily. In front of them, a towering city wall stained scarlet with blood appeared before their eyes.

Another round of charge ended.

The young guys, young guys with fear on their faces, were also piled up high.

In front of the dark gate, the rat priests standing on the high platform were still shouting loudly in their shrill voices.

"For the gods! For the gods!"

This is a holy war.

………….

Outside the City of Light, in a muddy field, a young wizard was busy.

The wheat he planted has matured and must be harvested.

In the midst of his busy work, he raised his head and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his mud-stained hands.

There was another banquet going on in the huge city not far away, but he couldn't attend it.

The wheat was ripe and golden, but harvesting it was extremely troublesome. After all, it was a waste of talent for a serious wizard to do this.

He was an honorary knight not long ago, well, he is still one now.

But after the sun rose again, his treatment was obviously not as good as before.

After the sun rises, people no longer need heroes.

While I was in a daze, I was startled by a sound coming from afar. A team appeared in front of me, a rather depressed team.

Looking up, he saw the leader of the team in the distance also looking at him.

He was a guy riding on a warhorse with a flag on his back, a guy who looked disheveled but seemed extremely calm.

Caesar raised his head towards Arthur as a greeting, but Arthur was obviously a little overwhelmed by the situation and didn't know what to do.

Until this depressed team left.

Arthur always felt that he might have seen the guy carrying the flag at some point, but he just couldn't remember where.

But that guy was seriously injured.

After thinking for a while, Arthur put it aside and focused his energy on harvesting the wheat in front of him.

During this period, the political landscape in the human empire was extremely chaotic, and the fight for the throne had not yet come to an end.

But that was a dispute between the great nobles.

After the sun rises, sowing is the top priority for ordinary people who return to small towns and villages.

This year will not be a peaceful year. It is expected that in the near future, one high tax after another due to the war will fall on their heads.

It’s time to hurry up.

Piece after piece of land was reclaimed from the barren land, and everything seemed so urgent.

The knights are gradually returning to their castles.

After experiencing the baptism of the demonic tide, although most of this land is empty, the remaining things are basically dangerous and difficult to deal with.

From time to time, there are rumors of demonic beasts slaughtering villages.

But there is no other way. When the sun rises, we have to sow seeds, otherwise we will have nothing to eat.

Farmers in some villages even took the initiative to look for the noble masters above them.

But their knight master might not survive that long night.

The demand for mercenaries began to increase.

Just as the great nobles in the human empire were fighting fiercely for power with the royal family, large power vacuums appeared in villages and towns.

This is a new era, not only for the rat people, but also for humans.

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In the underground Rat City, the Western Expeditionary Force began to expand its army.

Sheng Qi wanted to dispatch the Western Expeditionary Force back to that area of ​​hills.

This is a very dangerous move, but it is something that must be done.

Without the protection of the Western Expeditionary Force, his control over the Underground Rat City would plummet, and his own safety would no longer be guaranteed.

Could he place his own safety in the hands of the temple guards and the rat-men priests?

But he had to do it.

He tied the Church of the Spirit of Gears firmly to his chariot in order to take back the hills into his own hands. Although it was impossible to do so with the current Church of the Spirit of Gears, the rat lords had gradually established a foothold there.

But a part of the rolling hills must be in our own hands.

Although it sounds strange, as the high priest of the ratmen, he is also in urgent need of merit. He must intervene in that war. This is a very important matter.

The sooner the better. He would send the Western Expeditionary Force back to the Hills. With the help of the Church of the Spirit of Gears, he should be able to accomplish this task. In order to stabilize the rat lords, he had drawn up a huge order.

If you just do this, your own safety can no longer be guaranteed.

Today, Sheng Qi came to the Original Temple. He came here openly without being stopped by anyone. Such a thing was hard to imagine for him in the past.

Because he is not qualified.

But now, he can come here openly.

Even the temple guards standing in the temple had to bow to him.

He walked forward step by step and came to the sacred altar. He did not look at the sacred pillar standing in front of him, but turned around and looked at the empty hall in front of him.

Sheng Qi has always wanted to be a big shot.

But it was undoubtedly the white rat that really revealed to him what a big man should look like.

At this moment, he imitated the appearance of the white rat and the posture of the white rat in his memory, looking down at the empty hall in front of him.

Is there anything else to hesitate about?

There was no need to think about it anymore. He would never give up this position, never.

Even death couldn't make him give up.

A poor guy took the bait and bit the piece of cheese in the exquisite cheese plate that would never completely belong to him.

"I am the high priest! I am the high priest!"

In this empty hall, these words echoed.

In a very short time, the Western Expeditionary Force left the Underground Rat City after preparation. As the only organized army in the Rat Empire, the Western Expeditionary Force now faces many problems.

But the most serious problem is undoubtedly the absence of a supreme commander.

The combat effectiveness of the Western Expeditionary Force has always been questioned. When Sheng Qi was there, he was at least able to push these useless guys forward. If Sheng Qi was not there, it would be hard to say what the specific situation would be.

Sheng Qi did not train any successor.

Perhaps Sheng Qi shouldn't have been so rash as to send the Western Expeditionary Force back to those hills.

It's just a pity that there is no better way.

At this time, even if he was unwilling, there were not many people that Sheng Qi could rely on.

Those unreliable rat-man raiding knights and those equally unreliable claw priests.

Which one should I choose?

This is really a very difficult decision to make.

At last.

Sheng Qi chose both of them.

There is no supreme commander in the standard sense in the current Western Expeditionary Force, but a group of commanders.

Sheng Qi had selected some candidates from among the Ratman Raiders and the Great Claw Priests of the Ore Spirit, and together they were leading the current Western Expeditionary Force.

Okay, okay, I have to admit that this was a bad decision. Choosing one of those unreliable guys to lead the army was a huge risk.

But now, they are a group of unreliable guys. It is hard to imagine what the future of the Western Expeditionary Force will be like.

But Sheng Qi didn't have any better idea.

He could not fully trust his personal guards and the Great Claw Priests of the Mineral Spirit. The risk of letting one guy take charge of everything was too great. Instead, he would choose a group of guys so that his influence could be more sustained in the Western Expeditionary Force.

This is a last resort solution.

At this time, Sheng Qi was quite envious of Shu Zhan. After all, in the entire Ratman Empire, the most loyal and stupid guys had always gathered around Shu Zhan.

But envy alone doesn't do much.

After Shu Zhan's death, all parties tried to train these stupid guys, but the results were not good. They did not show the same fighting power they once had under Shu Zhan's command, and were gradually abandoned.

They are no longer sent to the battlefield and are now scattered throughout the Skaven Empire.

Now, these stupid guys are not having an easy time. If they are not sent to the battlefield, they will be regarded as defective products. Although as the former Rat War Guards, these stupid guys will not be directly abandoned or recycled, but it is inevitable that they will be sent to various places to serve as slave rats.

There is a group of stupid guys who were eliminated in the war. After the death of Rat Zhan, a group of stupid guys limped together spontaneously and formed a mercenary team. They are currently active in the Twin Fortress area.

They seemed to be determined on one thing.

They seemed to want to retrieve Shu Zhan's body.

But this is a very slim chance. They have to cross almost the entire main continent before they can reach the battlefield where the final battle of the Rat War took place.

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What happened in the underground rat city was soon reported to the Church of the Mineral Spirit in the rolling hills.

Stunned, unbelievable, angry, terrified, thoughtful, ambitious, all kinds of emotions appeared on these guys' faces, but no matter how their emotions fluctuated, what could they do? They really didn't have any more choices. Holding on to Rope Seven tightly was the only way out.

What's more, Sheng Qi gave the reward before he mentioned it.

In any case, they got a seat as a ratman councillor.

I can only accept it, I can only accept it all.

Not long after, the Western Expeditionary Force returned to the hills.

The last bit of hesitation was also eliminated. During a quarrel, an elderly big-clawed priest was pushed out and rushed to the underground rat city to serve as the thirteenth ratman councilor.

Gear Mouse is back.

The rolling hills are now in a state of chaos, with Sheng Qi taking a gamble by not hesitating to support the enemy and send the Western Expeditionary Force.

Sheng Qi did not give these guys more opportunities to fight. He had only one request, that in three months, the Western Expeditionary Force would set out again to attack the Human Empire by sea.

This was an extremely stringent requirement and brought chaos.

Those guys who were appointed by Sheng Qi have started jumping up and down.

However, all this has nothing to do with Gear Mouse for the time being. Although he made a big splash in the Underground Rat City this time and could even be considered to have saved the Gear Spirit Church and Rope Seven, Rope Seven did not give him any appointment.

Well, prejudice is deeply rooted. Even among those unreliable big-claw priests, the unreliability of Gear Mouse ranks among the top in Sheng Qi's mind.

But he still made some contributions after all, as Shengqi provided him with a wave of investment so that he could tinker with that damn wheel.

This made Gear Mouse very happy.

But he did not act immediately.

This time when he arrived at the underground rat city, he saw many new things that excited him, and one of them particularly caught his eye.

That is the steam engine. This strange machine that only needs some water and black stone to make the gears keep turning is so beautiful.

He felt that he had found the absolute core of his terrifying giant wheel. The constantly pumping steam engine drove the terrifying giant wheel to turn, crushing everything that stood in its way.

Yes! That’s the feeling. It’s so wonderful!
Inspiration, inspiration is about to burst out, and Gear Mouse has already drawn a conceptual picture for the wonderful giant wheel.

This is a devastating weapon.

A wheel.

A giant wheel of destruction.

It makes people feel excited.

But there is still a problem waiting for Gear Mouse to solve.

He was not particularly familiar with the steam engine. Well, as a guy pursuing perfection, he did not want his perfect weapon to have defects from the very beginning.

He needed something to practice with, and he needed to familiarize himself with building a steam engine.

So what should I use to practice?

As a gear rat in the root city, he naturally turned his attention to the rat warships that were being assembled in the inland docks.

This is indeed something very suitable for practicing.

Not long after, the Gear Mouse returned with this important news and smoothly took over the construction of the Ratman warship into his own hands.

The Skaven warships were to become the first war machines to be equipped with steam engines.

How should I put it, a weird feeling.

The ratmen's crooked maritime technology suddenly changed direction, drawing a standard elliptical arc on the strange technology tree.

(End of this chapter)