From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 46, Military Reform

This situation did not last long, because very directly, the young ratmen who had just been added to the ratman army showed signs of fleeing.

Then, before the rout actually happened.

Those wavering young ratmen were directly killed by the senior ratmen warriors on their side.

On the chaotic battlefield, scarlet eyes mixed in with the rats, coldly watching the young ratmen with fear and hesitation on their faces. The blood on the third spear with its tail wrapped around it was bright red, and in contrast was the corpse of an equally young ratman with wide eyes.

After battle after battle, the surviving senior ratmen warriors not only became stronger and stronger, but also gradually became the absolute backbone of their ratmen troops.

In the constant battles, these veteran ratmen warriors gradually understood a truth.

That is, whether he can obtain blood mushrooms continuously depends on whether he can participate in the battle smoothly, and whether the battle can go smoothly depends on the other rat people around him.

Originally, these veteran ratmen warriors would not be so active, because in most cases, regardless of whether the battle was successful or not, they would not get any of the benefits.

As long as we make sure the situation doesn't turn into a complete collapse of the army, where they are then beaten into defeated soldiers and captured to serve as the most lowly slave rats, it will be fine.

After all, no matter how many enemies were killed or how many slaves were captured, the blood mushrooms were just spinning in the hands of priests and warlords.

If the priest gave too many inferior red blood mushrooms to the boss, the boss could not eat them all and did not like these inferior goods, so some of them would leak into the hands of these old hands.

Moreover, the ownership of these leaked blood mushrooms is not determined by the number of enemies killed, but by the fighting and unspoken rules between the old hands.

Then why would you bother to get close to others and fight to the death?

There is no benefit in performing well, and you are more likely to get hurt. It would be better to save some energy and wait for the warlord to be kind so that you can compete with other mice for blood mushrooms.

Hide back a little. If you win, you win. If you can't beat them, try harder. If you really can't beat them, you can still run faster.

This led to the extremely poor combat effectiveness of the ratmen troops and a frighteningly high casualty ratio. After all, they were easy to fight. The young ratmen and those green and inexperienced ratmen warriors just rushed over and won the fight.

If the fight is a little more difficult, this group of veterans will help.

If they really can't defeat them, believe me, these old foxes will run faster than those young ratmen.

The previous rat warlords were not unaware of this situation, but they were so obsessed with exchanging blood mushrooms with the priests that they did not care.

After all, rat people don’t have any label of strong combat power.

Moreover, those young ratmen are not worth much. If he really can't beat them, he can just run away. As long as he can run away, he can sort out those ratmen who come back, plus the young ratmen who keep being sent to him.

Soon the troops were gathered again.

Why should we care about the fighting attitude of these old foxes?

With such an attitude, it is understandable that the rat people have low combat effectiveness.

Du Yuan couldn't help but feel disappointed. You know, when Du Yuan fought Li Shengsheng for the first time, the number of ratmen warriors under his command was far less than it is now.

They didn't even have wooden spears, and many of them used stone teeth, but at that time they fought to the death with Li Sheng's lizardmen.

I'm not afraid at all.

But now there are more ratmen, with better equipment than before, and a constant supply of blood mushrooms.

When the ratmen troops like this fought against the small tribes in the forest, they would occasionally encounter setbacks and stalemates. Du Yuan couldn't help but feel dissatisfied.

But fortunately, things have changed recently.

The white rats killed those priests who colluded with the rat warlords and frantically resold young rats as slave rats, as well as some warlords who took the lead.

This is one point. At least the current rat warlords no longer dare to do as they did before. After the rat priests sent young rats, they would drive them to fight, and then wait for the fleeing ones to appear, and then capture them on the spot and give them to the priests to earn performance.

Some time ago, when the White Rats lacked slave rats to build the temple, some rat warlords even went too far and refused to go through this formality. The priests brought the young rats to them, and then directly exchanged them as slave rats.

This certainly saves trouble, and there are also plenty of blood mushrooms.

However, the rat warlords who had done this have now been sent into the Black Abyss by the White Rats.

The current rat warlord is undoubtedly the one who cares the most about young rats and rat warriors since the establishment of the rat warlord in this rat tribe.

Although there are more and more young rat people, the rules for them have become more relaxed.

Under the current rules, if a young ratman escapes the supervision team and the enemy during his first rout and successfully returns alive, at least he will not be directly turned into a slave rat for the first time.

Instead, they had to escape for the third time and be lucky enough to survive and then be caught, only then would they become slave rats and be shamefully tied up and taken away by the priests.

Of course, it is doubtful that there will really be young ratmen who can successfully survive three battles that are enough to shake their morale, and then not be executed on the spot by the supervision team, not be killed by the pursuing enemy, and successfully survive, and then leave the rat group with uneasy instincts.

Return to the army of the Skaven warlord and be tied up and taken away to become a glorious slave rat?

I can only say it's difficult.

However, although this situation is unlikely to happen, the changed rules still successfully achieved his goal.

That is to prevent the priests, who already have requirements for slaves and sacrifices, from colluding with the rat warlords.

In order to prevent this, the young ratmen who were part of the cargo in the triangular trade naturally had more opportunities and were boldly released.

Although in essence, giving young rat people a chance is not simply for the sake of these poor young rat people.

But the good news has indeed arrived.

This change was driven by the young temple guard, Rat Zhan, who was appointed by White Rat to be the most powerful and sharp-eyed deputy among the rat warriors.

Of course, such a change alone is not enough to make those experienced rat warriors, who are veterans, actively participate in the battle.

But the new rules introduced by Rat War are far more than just this one.

While relaxing the strict requirements for young rat people, Rat War has done more for these old-timers.

It was precisely the continuous push for change that made these old hands willingly appear on the front lines of the battle, and also allowed the combat effectiveness of the rat army to gradually return to a normal level from the initial weakness.

The Ratman Army is, after all, an army with a stable supply of supernatural factors. Even if the Ratmen are not very powerful, their performance should not be so poor.

It's just limited by that crude structure.

Bai Shu's vision is indeed good, and Shu Zhan is indeed a talented person.

(End of this chapter)