From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 365: Progress in War

With loving instruction, or simply with beatings, Blackfur made a promise to these unruly storm rats that whoever could defeat him would become the new boss.

Then, a grand melee began.

These storm rats lived up to their professionalism. They fought during their rest time at night, and were able to participate in the march normally even with bruised faces and noses during the day.

After one round, or two rounds, or more, this short and thin ratman dragging a big sword full of gaps beat almost all the 5,000 storm rats one by one, and some of them were beaten more than once.

These unruly guys finally gave in.

Willing to hide his pride in front of Heimao.

Qi and the others are almost there, just need to climb over one more mountain.

It was a fortress, a solid fortress built on a towering mountain. This fortress was a key link for the Youyan people to maintain the water transportation channel in Lianyan Province.

A well-equipped magic mechanical army is stationed on the steep mountaintop fortress, with a total number of about 10,000 people, and an additional 30,000 militia troops.

Not far from the fortress on the top of the mountain, the area where the river flows is a flat and gentle river channel.

This is one of the most suitable areas for ratmen to cross the river, but there is a smelly and hard fortress guarding it.

If you ignore them and force your way across the river, then halfway through your march, you'll be attacked by the defenders of the fortress. And if you get angry and besiege the fortress, then this fortress, which is built on the terrain, can truly be described as both stinky and hard.

Moreover, the Ghost Eye people also have a mobile force patrolling this river. Often, before you can capture the fortress, you will have to face attacks from the Ghost Eye people's army coming to support you.

This dilemma has caused the fortress to exist to this day, and has become a real obstacle for the ratmen.

It's a tough nut to crack, and now it's Qi's turn to face it.

Over the mountain.

The river and the fortress appeared in front of the flag, and brilliant smoke was released from the fortress standing on the steep mountain as a warning.

This flat area makes it difficult to operate covertly.

And in the past three years, some things that are more difficult for the rat people have also been put into use, those patterned columns that can reinforce the rocks of the land.

When the city of Stirling was recaptured by the Dark Eye people, these stone pillars and the unburned heritage of the Golden Wheatfield Academy were discovered by the wizards and brought back to the empire.

Today, some results have been achieved, and a large part of these results have been put on the battlefield.

Self-repairing earth crust, soil-solidifying stone pillars, modular building strategies, plant-induced magic technology, and the rock golems that were recently deployed to the plains battlefield to engage in a head-on confrontation with the rats' increasingly exaggerated steam tanks.

In this war, the technology of both sides experienced an explosion.

The ratmen's hybrid magic steam engine, magic resistance armor, gear linkage system, fifth-generation crazy lightning cannon, and the Big Claw Priests' battlefield construction theory, eugenics theory, and mushroom breeding theory.

These are all real black technologies.

For example, the self-repairing earth crust of the Ghost Eye people is a magical technology for setting up semi-permanent or fully permanent positions.

Through a huge magic array that is laid out over almost the entire territory of the position, the completed position has a certain self-repair ability. Whether it is the big holes created by the shells or the various grooves on them, they can all be slowly smoothed out and restored to a constant state set when the position was set up.

To defend against the rat people's unpredictable underground raids.

Even the stone pillars that solidify the earth cannot completely stop the crazy digging of the big-clawed priests. From time to time, underground tunnels will be opened up unexpectedly.

The self-repairing earth's crust cannot stop the Big Claw Priest from digging, but it can effectively smooth out the excavated underground tunnels and various abandoned underground tunnels after the battle.

Otherwise, the underground of the battlefield will sooner or later be dug up by the rats like a hornet's nest.

The ratmen's magic-resistant armor is a similar thing. The Big Claw priests have discovered a physical structure that can resist magical reactions. It does not require any special materials or rituals. They just need to shrink this structure and cover the outer armor of a steam tank. Then, this steam tank will have the ability to resist magical attacks.

It's amazing. The Big Claw Priests didn't understand the principle behind it, but that didn't stop them from using this magic resistance structure on a large scale and optimizing this mysterious structure in an almost exhaustive way.

War is indeed a good way to promote progress.

On the banks of the broad, rushing river, the flag's attack on the fortress began.

The young ratmen warriors began to climb towards the fortress.

At the beginning, everything seemed so calm, as if the enemies in the fortress had not noticed anything at all, which made people feel lucky.

Perhaps everything is not that difficult. We just need to climb up, climb up and kill all the heretics in the fortress. That's all. That's all.

Climbing this steep mountain, at least for the rat people, is not difficult.

Everything went so smoothly.

But, is it true? Qi's brows were deeply knitted together. He stood on the ground, raised his head, and stared at the fortress with an absolute terrain advantage.

Of course, everything can't be so smooth.

As an absolute siege expert, Qi understood one thing clearly.

The best time to defend the city is when the enemy is halfway up the climb, so that every point of resources spent on defending the city can be maximized, but this is not so easy to do.

After all, it is not easy to watch the enemy approaching you, and fear will climb in your heart.

This time the war will never be easy.

When the ratmen were halfway up the steep mountain, the attack began.

All kinds of attacks, rolling boulders, kerosene, arrows, the pouring magic beams, and elemental chaos cannons.

In an instant, screams and wails echoed in Qi's ears, and countless ratmen fell down in front of him.

There is no doubt that this will be a real tough battle.

Qi, who was watching all this, gnashed his teeth slightly.

………….

The good news is that although the attack on this fortress is a test that the flag has to face, it is not just a test for the flag.

The temple guards really want to break through this long-standing battle line.

Almost at the same time as the flag launched the attack, the war priests began to urge the ratmen warriors under their hands to run wildly.

The battlefield maintained by the war priests is undoubtedly more brutal, involving more resources and warriors, and attracting more attention.

It also allowed Qi to escape the tragic end of being attacked in the rear by the Youyan human army that roamed across the river.

The living forces maintained by the Dark-Eyed Human Race rushed to the more important main battlefield.

This is something to be happy about.

Of course, there is one problem that needs to be temporarily resolved before we can be happy.

Even if the Youyan people do not have more strength to rush here along the river, can they really capture this fortress?

This is a question worth thinking about.

The flag may have to understand the real reason why this fortress is like a spike stuck in the battlefield, but the war priests have been unable to pull it out.

The falling rats smashed themselves to pieces. Death was not the worst result. Decisive death was never the worst result.

The worst outcome is to survive with a lingering breath, constantly wailing and wailing, but still alive, with broken legs and broken arms, it would be better to be alive, the entire lower body has no feeling, and can only rely on hands to drag the body and climb at the foot of the mountain.

There are quite a lot of these guys, and they have all fallen into their current state because of the flag, but the flag cannot pacify them, and the flag will not compensate them. It is always like this, always like this.

In order to get what you want, in order to pick the apple hanging above your head, you must put something under your feet. It's like this.

Every ratman warlord can only stand above everyone else by stepping on the corpses of countless ratmen.

The army in his hands is constantly decreasing and suffering losses every moment, but there is no other way. If he wants to capture this fortress located on the towering mountain, there is no other way.

He shouted loudly with a ferocious face, ignoring the wailing and screaming, and continued to drive the ratmen warriors in his hands to climb upwards.

Witness the death of countless ratmen, and only then will you understand, and be able to understand why in this twisted and deformed country, only those cold and crazy guys can rise to high positions.

If you want to climb up, there is no other choice.

If you still regard those rats chattering and noisy in front of you as your companions and as rats like you, then you will always be able to only raise your head and look up from that low place, and you will never become a real rat big shot.

Think of them as firewood, as some tools, as something cheaper, as a group of completely despicable guys.

Use it as a ladder to climb up.

Qi was roaring ferociously, and the army under his command, those young ratmen warriors, even though they were more cultured, were frightened when facing this horrific battlefield.

This is a very normal emotion. After all, everyone is afraid of death, and no one wants to do something that seems absolutely impossible to succeed.

Just like climbing up this mountain, or breaking down the castle on that mountain.

(End of this chapter)