From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 423: Fighting and the humble guys holding weapons
In the wilderness of Black Iron Star, in the dark wilderness, under a huge dark mountain, a young town was built. This is the prototype of a city under construction. The war has been going on for two months and has started for two months. This town has carried out quite advanced planning. A few simple blast furnaces are slowly casting out a framework that can serve as the prototype of a super city through the efforts of these rats who have gathered together and have no choice.

They are prisoners, they are criminals, gamblers who owe huge debts, ordinary guys who were implicated, rat bureaucrats who failed in the struggle, a group of messy guys, but after coming here, they have come up with a new name, the pioneer ratmen.

The dark wilderness swallowed up all the past. They were desperate guys. Their only hope was this city that had been built. As the founders of this city, they could inherit everything they had, if they still had a future.

The war that has already started has not affected these guys much in the past two months. This place may become very prosperous and important in the future, and every part of the towering metal frame will be crowded with ratmen. But that is not now. All this is only a future for the time being. Now, this is just a remote town located deep in the dark wilderness.

Apart from the fact that the caravans traveling between the ratmen cities no longer appeared, nothing happened. Of course, it wouldn't always be like this.

Not far away, in front of a huge Ratman city, a Ratman Crusade force of 100,000 strong was attacking a Ratman city along the tracks of a steam train. Originally, everything was going smoothly, and with the support and help of the believers in the city, the Planetary Guards in the city retreated into the inner ring of the city to protect the industries of the Ratman bureaucrats and big businessmen, while the outer ring of the city was given to these Ratman Crusade forces.

For most ratmen, this war was too grand and too unrealistic. Instead of fighting to the death for the great emperor and gods, it would be better to take this opportunity to do something more practical, such as swallowing up the assets of the untouchables and small factory owners in the outer city.

This is easy to do, and even legitimate.

Withdraw the city's defense forces and the planetary guards back to the inner layer of the city, and allow these crusaders to plunder, destroy, kill and execute heretics on the outskirts of the city. After these guys have done all this, they will take the city back and buy every bit of the outer city area at a nearly bargain price. How simple it is, and there is no need to worry about being held accountable.

If the imperial army fights back, they will also be happy to open the city gates, and he will be able to happily pat his chest and shout loudly to his superiors and the empire.

He protected the city and did not succumb to that group of religious lunatics. Moreover, by then, he could be sure that at least half of his city's production capacity would be protected. This was the basis for him not to be held accountable. If he had chosen to be loyal and resolutely resisted these jihadists, the situation he might have encountered would have been different.

Even with the Planetary Guards and these troops in his hands, he can easily defeat the 100,000-strong Ratmen Crusade. But afterwards, in addition to losing his own forces, he may also attract an even larger Crusade army, causing them to burn him and his city to death. Even if he wins, what he gets will not be better than the alternative. What should he choose? Is there any doubt?
Standing at the top of this steel city, taking in everything that happens in this city from behind the dark glass, how could one still have any doubts about what to choose?

Fire, chaos, and killing began as soon as this crusade army entered.

These guys continued the madness of the old times, painting intricate patterns with blood, using corpses to build altars to worship the great gods, piling up bones to make sacred pillars, and releasing blood to accumulate into blood pools.

Crazy, pious, and terrifying.

One by one, the ratmen were dragged onto the altar. They screamed and struggled in fear, but this did not make the guys who held their butcher knives high hesitate in the slightest. It did not take much time, nor did it inflict much pain. In just a moment, a thin body appeared in the gradually accumulating scarlet pool, and a terrified and desperate head appeared on the altar that was painted with blood and built with corpses.

How many ratmen are there in a ratman city?

This is a number that is difficult to describe, but it is a lot, so much so that even if this crazy crusade army did their best to drag every ratman they encountered onto the altar and offer all their flesh and blood to the great gods, they would still be unable to do so.

It was not until these lunatics became impatient and started to light the fire that the destruction and looting officially began.

In fact, they will not kill all the ratmen. A horrific killing and a fire that destroys everything will destroy and dismantle a large number of industrial equipment, loot food and vehicles, and then absorb the ratmen crawling out of the ruins into the team, and finally continue to move forward to the next place that needs to be purified and atonement.

At this time, the step in this steel city has come to the step of igniting the fire. Of course, not all guys can accept this.

In the outer city industrial zone, there are many small and medium-sized ratman factories. Most of the founders of these ratman factories are a group of young ratman engineers. After all, Black Iron Star is known as the star of ratman engineers.

In the past, even the pioneers in the city or the ratmen bureaucrats in the city wanted to suppress these ratmen engineers without scruples and wantonly embezzle the factories they opened, which was difficult to do. These young ratmen engineers all had their own teachers and classmates. They had their own unique frameworks and formed an influential and not easy to provoke engineers association, and they had a close relationship with the ratmen merchant alliance.

But now, obviously, things are different.

Disputes, contradictions, and all kinds of messes have always been widespread in the Ratman Empire. These guys with short, hard gray-black hair are particularly keen on internal struggles, and will not hesitate to use all kinds of means to seize anything they can get.

The first to be eliminated on the black body planet were the ratmen engineers.

These guys started to change as soon as they stepped out of the starry sky. They were unwilling to exist simply as a vassal. It was based on this vision that Black Iron Star was chosen by many rat engineers.

In fact, this is effective. After all, it can be seen from the construction of the third Ratman Starport on the Black Iron Star. But how to say it, until the Ratman big businessmen cultivated by them and those wavering Ratman bureaucrats on this planet chose to stab them in the back.

There are many famous ratmen businessmen on Black Iron Star. Their ancestors were all ratmen engineers for several generations, and they are all descendants of the group of Big Claw Priests. It’s a pity that things are different now, and these guys want to go a step further.

As a loose alliance, the Rat Engineers Association is not as binding as it seems, and the chaos and struggle within it have continued for several generations.

The young ratmen engineers always mocked the old association leaders as if they were stiff corpses.

But no matter how rigid it is, at this time, some action must be taken. It is related to the status of the Rat Engineers Association. As a loose alliance, the Engineers Association is not actually pulled together at will by the top Rat engineers. If the association itself does nothing, then these Rat engineers will leave the Engineers Association in large numbers, and choose an object they can rely on and re-establish the Rat Engineers Association.

Attacking these guys' ratman factory is actually a bad move, but it also reflects the choice of the temple priests.

They chose to cooperate with the big rat businessmen who controlled more factories and capital, rather than these messy, paranoid and stubborn rat engineers.

Well, even if they vote with their feet, these guys who are closer to the Rat Empire will move closer to that side. This is very obvious. This is what Qi wants to see. Qi needs these guys to really make a choice, and more guys to make a choice. In this way, when he really leaves, everything can be restored to an orderly state more quickly, rather than a powder keg that looks prosperous on the surface but is actually undercurrents surging and there is no peace at all.

But such a choice would require more lowly guys on the Black Iron Star to pay the price.

Of course, no one is willing to take the initiative to become such a price.

Amidst the killing and death, some ratmen who were forced into a desperate situation gathered together. They were a group of rat mercenaries, more lowly rat civilians, and those rat engineers. They gathered together and decided to do something.

The Skaven engineers provided a large number of crude modified weapons, which were distributed indiscriminately to anyone who could pick them up. On the Black Iron Star, the industrial power of every Skaven city was terrifyingly rich.

The rat mercenaries got more inclinations, and the ordinary rat civilians also held the weapons that had just been delivered to them.

If you don't want to die, the only way is to resist.

(End of this chapter)