Chapter 115: Unique Opportunity and Choice
The reform of the Boar Knights did not bring about a complete reversal.
Quite the opposite.
This was discovered by Sheng Qi.
For a long time, there were no traces of boar riders in the lush forest, and there were more and more elite heavy-armored soldiers on the city walls.
This anomaly was discovered.
A possibility was proposed and gradually confirmed.
He is a lucky guy and always has been.
If those boar knights really disappeared as he guessed.
Then a unique opportunity arose.
An opportunity to abandon the stalemate in the lush forest and charge directly into the heart of the boar people.
When this possibility arose, Sheng Qi became excited.
But he quickly calmed down and was troubled by this matter.
He couldn't tell whether this was a trap or not.
What if that group of knights appears when we enter the boar people's hinterland?
Such a scene represented an unprecedented defeat.
Sheng Qi hesitated. He didn't have the courage of Shu Zhan, nor was he decisive enough.
He is attached to the power in his hands, but at the same time he is afraid of unexpected events.
If the Western Expeditionary Force in his hands was destroyed, then everything would return to the starting point, and he would still be a young ratman priest in that outpost.
This forced him to be cautious.
Standing hesitantly at the edge of the lush forest, I looked at the unfamiliar plain outside the forest.
After a long hesitation.
Until a troop split off from his men and resolutely rushed into the unfamiliar plains before them.
It's the old priest.
A brand new flag was raised, and one-fifth of Sheng Qi's troops were taken away, and half of the ratman raiding knights were taken away.
It was an old mouse that was going crazy.
Compared to Sheng Qi, he is old and aged, but more crazy and greedy.
Sheng Qi did not stop the old priest, or rather, he could not stop the old priest.
In the rat army, a large number of priests were originally subordinates of the crazy old priest.
Sheng Qi, who has not completed the integration of the army, cannot compare to Shu Zhan in terms of control over the army.
Sheng Qi could only watch the old guy walk away.
An inexplicable irritation was brewing in Sheng Qi's chest, but he was unable to make a decision.
Sheng Qi has already received the news that the Central Expeditionary Force has begun to arrive.
The size of the army under his command will continue to expand in the future.
There is no need to take such a risk. Even if the Central Expeditionary Force is gathered, it is still impossible to defeat the wild boars in this lush forest.
There will be a steady stream of ratmen arriving from the Desolate Mountains later on. In this great holy war, there is no need to rush.
Even if his boss is unreliable, White Rat will not tolerate the failure of this holy war.
Just wait for a while and these wild boars will be easily crushed and flattened.
Why take the risk?
He's not that decrepit old guy.
He only needs to win this war smoothly and he will become a hot figure in the underground rat city.
And that old guy is just a slave-catching priest hanging around in the outpost!
He comforted himself like this.
But obviously, the old guy who had been working in the outpost all his life was more decisive and resolute than him.
In the end, Sheng Qi still hadn't made up his mind. He chose the most correct and safest option, staying in the lush forest waiting for the arrival of subsequent reinforcements.
Many times, there is only one chance to choose. ………….
A 20,000-strong ratman army broke straight into the heart of the wild boarmen, led by a crazy old priest who was about to face death.
Everything along the way was brutally destroyed.
The old priest did not encounter the large army of wild boar men, one reason being that a large number of wild boar men were gathered in the lush forest and were still in a stalemate with the large army of ratmen in the forest.
Second, this crazy old priest never stayed in any place for too long.
Running madly, it never stays in one place for long and destroys everything along the way. All that is left behind are raging flames, piles of corpses, and a simply built altar.
This old guy is offering sacrifices to the gods and praying for blessings from the gods in his own way.
The destroyed boar towns were sacrifices, the boar civilians piled on the crude altars were sacrifices, and the golden wheat fields that were trampled and set on fire were also sacrifices.
All are sacrifices, all are sacrifices!
He wants a gift! He only wants a gift!
Running wildly in the boarman kingdom in an irregular manner.
And eventually, you will get closer and closer to the goal you originally envisioned.
The city where the temple of the heretic evil god is located, the capital of the boarman kingdom, the fertile city surrounded by golden wheat waves, the Golden Wave City, is rushing over.
………….
This is really an incredible thing.
At least that's what it said to the boarman high priest.
Faced with such news, he, who had just woken up and was still weak, roared angrily.
Not only because of the incompetence of the troops left in the kingdom, but also because of the indifferent bastards in the lush forest.
How could they just let that army of ratmen go? Those damn bastards, those damn bastards!
On that day, the boarman high priest threw down the most important chip in the priest camp.
The industrial city was abandoned by him.
Without notifying the boarman commanders, the boarman high priest began to return for support as soon as he woke up.
He led the boarmen warriors originally stationed in the industrial city and rushed towards the heart of the boarmen kingdom.
But too slow!
Infantry alone is still too slow! This speed is simply not enough!
All I could see were ruins and flames.
The golden wheat fields were set on fire, the flames burned the earth, and the soil became dry and hard.
The town was reduced to ruins, with corpses piled up on a crude altar, left to rot and stink in silence with no one to clean them up.
The defense plan that was originally based on the high mobility of the Boar Riders completely collapsed after the reform of the Boar Riders.
But for a while no new plans were put forward.
The hinterland was completely empty. As early as when the war was at a stalemate and disadvantage, a large number of troops originally stationed in the hinterland of the kingdom rushed to the battlefield in increasing numbers.
The fact that the ratmen never crossed the dense forest and directly attacked the hinterland made the wild boar people feel a little hallucinated, and their eyes gradually turned red. They kept adding chips in the dense forest.
Perhaps the lush forests are too important to the ratmen.
Perhaps the ratmen's supply lines were simply not sufficient to support them out of the forest.
Maybe these rats are just stupid.
Little did they know that these were all wrong. The lush forest was of no importance to the ratmen, and the ratmen leaders did not care about things like supply lines at all.
When things get fierce, even the most elite troops will have to eat tree bark and grass roots, and even cannibalize each other.
The rats are not stupid either.
There is one and only one reason why they have never attempted to attack the boar people's heartland.
That super-large number of elite boar knights exists.
But now, these knights don't seem to exist.
(End of this chapter)