Chapter 160, the promise of a rat war and a chaotic battlefield.
The sudden appearance of the rat man in front of him was enough to surprise the old one-eyed man.
But what surprised him even more was that the rat man that appeared in front of him was only this one.
The hastily arrived Rat War only brought Rat Knights and Fierce Knights.
After a bloody battle, the Rat Knights suffered severe losses. Only a little over 10,000 of the 20,000 Rat Knights were left, and only 100 of the 500 Ferocious Knights were left.
The rat knights often have a strong smell of blood on their bodies, and those brutal knights are even worse, with scratches all over their armor filled with dark red blood.
Even though it was still far away, the one-eyed old man could still smell the strong smell of blood.
But even though their posture was terrifying, the number of rat knights was still too small, and the old one-eyed man who had been spying on the war between the sheep orcs and the ratmen also had a certain estimate of the fighting power of those outsiders.
A decision was made.
Moreover, he knew the ratman general who held up the flag. In the last battle between the sheep orcs and the ratmen, he had ridden a giant sheep and watched the battlefield from afar.
He didn't know that the leader of the outsiders would break away from the main force and come to him with a group of knights.
Quite arrogant and reckless.
Did he think he could defeat him with the troops he had?
This thought appeared in the one-eyed old man's mind, making him a little surprised, and then he felt angry and amused.
Undoubtedly, being despised like this is a good thing. Once a decision is made, even if the gods have given an oracle, the opportunity at this time is quite rare.
He wanted to eat up the army in front of him and then kill that arrogant guy.
The argali riders in the camp began to charge.
The old one-eyed man wanted to kill the arrogant guy in front of him with his own hands if any of these outsiders could kill the old guy who had been fighting with him all his life.
Then there is only the guy holding the flag.
It all happened so suddenly that it even made him feel a little unreal. He had already prepared everything, but that guy died.
If that old guy could be killed so easily, then why have I waited for this day for almost my entire life?
But haven’t waited yet?
In mixed emotions.
The old one-eyed man and the argali riders behind him began to charge towards the ratman army in front of them.
This is exactly the reaction that Shu Zhan wants to see.
The ratman knights couldn't catch up with the group of sheepman knights, so naturally they couldn't catch up with the group of argali knights.
But the angry Shuzhan obviously didn't want to continue playing the game of chase with these damn guys on this empty grassland.
So what should I do?
Shuzhan learned a trick from that damn old sheep man.
If you can't catch up with the opponent, let the opponent chase you.
Use yourself as bait, and all the rat knights in your hands as bait.
And now, the fish is hooked.
There is no need to say more about the rest. This is originally a game. If the Argali can eat the Rat Knight serving as bait and kill Rat Zhan before the subsequent Rat Army arrives, then the Argali will win.
And if the rat war drags on until the follow-up troops arrive, the result will naturally be the opposite.
Looking at the group of argali riders running towards him.
Shu Zhan put away the ferocious smile on his face. Of course, there was still a problem with this strategy.
Even when the rat army arrived, the argali knights did not eat Shu Zhan and the rat army led by Shu Zhan.
But if they choose to retreat, the rats still won't be able to catch up with them.
Even if the rats could tear off a large piece of meat from the argali and gain an advantage at that time, they could not hurt the sheep people at all.
Moreover, what Shu Zhan expected could not be achieved.
But this is easy to solve.
All we need to do is force the group of argali knights in front of us to stay and fight. That's all.
Although this needs to be a little more radical.
The rat army was already in the rear, and Shu Zhan issued the most stringent orders and also gave the most generous rewards.
On leaving.
He will distribute rewards according to the ranking of the ratmen armies and the ranking of the ratmen squads. To the first batch of ratmen who arrived, Shuzhan made a generous and useful promise.
Skaven warlord.
He will select a rat warlord from the first batch of rat warriors who arrive to join the battlefield.
Well, this reward is indeed useful.
And the rewards given afterwards were not bad at all.
The first ten batches, the first one hundred batches, the first one thousand batches.
Blood mushrooms, large amounts of blood mushrooms, extremely large amounts of blood mushrooms, not much pretentiousness. Rat War gave a very generous and unpretentious reward.
In order to make these guys work harder and be more excited, he even promised to reward them by batching the whole unit.
It’s as if if you just work harder and run faster, you will get the generous reward.
But the amount of water in it is just too huge.
Batch after batch, as long as this war is over, it will not be a rat war, just a few rat people are a batch.
A subtle motivation, but one that works really well.
Especially when combined with Shu Zhan's violent roar.
The last ratman warrior to arrive will be hanged by him.
When Shuzhan took the lead and led the rat knights to break away from the huge army, a brief confusion appeared in the eyes of most of the rat warriors.
I don't quite understand what the President means by these words.
Just later, when the first group of clever ratmen warriors broke away from the team and began to run wildly on the grassland.
It doesn’t matter what Shu Zhan meant.
The first one to arrive will receive rewards, lots of rewards, and those who run slowly will be hanged.
In short, just run for your life.
The huge rat army abandoned its neat formation, broke into large scattered teams, and began to run wildly across the vast grassland.
This has a huge disadvantage, but it can guarantee one premise: most of the ratmen warriors will run for their lives for rewards and to avoid being hanged.
Able to reach the battlefield faster.
As for those rat warriors who were slightly injured or had consumed too much physical strength in the previous war, I'm sorry.
If Shu Zhan says he will reward you, then that might be a little problematic, but if Shu Zhan says he will hang you, then he will probably hang you.
As for how to find the rat running away in this vast grassland.
A trail of blood is the guide.
As for those poor fellows who were used as chalk.
It doesn't require much consideration, the candidates are of course the young rats who are most suitable to be used as consumables on the spot.
One or two hundred young ratmen were tied with thick hemp ropes, hung behind the giant rat, and had wounds cut on them.
In the helpless struggle of fear and despair, he was dragged across the lush grassland by the huge rat.
Shu Zhan did not break his promise. He immediately appointed the Skaven Raider who had the old sheepman's head chopped off as a Skaven warlord.
Even Shu Zhan brought him to his side.
This guy is still a little dazed now.
Shu Zhan gave him a gentle smile, patted his shoulder and pointed at the argali riders galloping towards him in the distance.
And appointed him.
On the spot, this guy, who was still a little dazed, became the leader of the Rat Knights and was about to charge as the leader.
Upon hearing this appointment, this lucky new rat warlord was stunned for a moment.
Everyone knows that the Rat Knights and the Rat Supervisory Team are the personal guards directly commanded by Rat Zhan.
But now he has become the commander of Shu Zhan's personal guard.
At this moment, my brain was a little confused.
Until he was pushed to the front of the Rat Knights, a flag with a painting of a giant rat was handed to him, and he looked at the Argali Knights galloping towards him in the distance.
After a shudder, he became much more sober.
This was not something he could handle. He would die! He would definitely die!
But then I heard a few light words coming out of Shu Zhan's mouth.
"I admire you if you can kill the leader of the other side, or perhaps a member of the Ratman Council."
Didn't even finish.
But these simple words left this lucky new warlord stunned.
After a brief silence, his body began to tremble involuntarily, his eyes turned red, and he tightly grasped the flag in his hand.
Amidst the angry roar, he took the lead in charging.
Behind him, the rat knights also began to charge.
The rat knights, who were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, took the initiative to charge.
Led by a new warlord with red eyes and holding a war flag.
As for the rat war, the rat war will naturally not take the lead.
Of course he would also join the battlefield, and the old sheep-man with coiled horns on the opposite side was his target.
Of course, it is also the goal of a poor guy who has risked everything.
Shu Zhan didn't think he could do it, although if he really did it, Shu Zhan would fulfill his promise.
Rat Zhan landed in the middle of the Rat Knights, and the army charged towards the Argali Knights in front of them.
It's just not very likely.
A bad guy who is bad but not that bad.
The rat-man knights who were running down madly collided violently with the argali knights who were rushing forward.
At this moment, both sides were thrown to the ground.
However, there was no doubt that the argali knights, who had the advantage in numbers, had the upper hand, and their deployed formation almost completely surrounded the rat knights.
But the rat knights don’t care much. Death is just a vague concept to them.
After a charge, the argali knights wanted to create some distance and attack again.
Then they discovered a problem.
The goal of this group of crazy guys seems to be wrong.
The rat knights focused their attention on the guy carrying a flag in the center of the sheep orc knights, and on the old one-eyed man.
The old one-eyed man frowned.
Are these ratmen in front of me coming for me?
There is nothing wrong with his idea.
The rat knights only received one order, which was to kill the old sheep man carrying the flag. For this purpose, they even gave up their formation, gathered together, and rushed towards him.
This strategy caused heavy losses to the Rat Knights.
Because they were not defending at all, all they needed was a few more charges, and this group of rat knights would be completely dispersed, and would lose any ability to resist in front of the neatly-formed argali knights.
The premise is that this group of rat knights are still prepared to bite the old one-eyed man tightly, and the premise is that the old one-eyed man really intends to abandon his own safety.
A very strange offensive strategy, but of course it is effective.
The argali riders in front of the old one-eyed man were almost rushed away by this group of desperate guys.
A large number of rat knights crowded in front of the old one-eyed man and were blocked by his personal guards, but the pungent smell of blood and the noisy and sharp screams of the rats were clearly displayed in front of the old one-eyed man.
Among them, a guy holding a war flag was the most reckless. He waved the spear in his hand and rushed towards the position of the old one-eyed man like a madman with the knights behind him.
Moreover, in that brutal battle, it was obvious that a scimitar was about to cut his neck, but his eyes were fixed on the one-eyed old man.
What kind of sight is that?
The old one-eyed man had never been stared at with such a burning and greedy gaze.
I couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.
The one-eyed old man didn't dare to gamble his life on whether the guards could protect him.
As the flag was waving, he wanted to retreat, but it was obvious that this group of crazy rat knights had no intention of letting him go and began to attack frantically.
They wanted to keep the one-eyed old man, but were stopped by his personal guards.
As the high priest of the Argali tribe, Old One-Eye's personal guards were naturally elite. Even if the desperate rat knights swarmed in, they were unable to do anything to these elite Argali guards for a while.
Just when the old one-eyed man was about to successfully escape.
A silent knight moved.
The silent knights violently pushed aside the crowded rat knights in front of them and began to accelerate on the chaotic battlefield in front of them.
And soon he caught up with the one-eyed old man who was about to leave.
The arrival of the brutal knights caught the one-eyed old man off guard.
He didn't expect that this group of knights could actually speed up and charge in the chaos.
In fact, it is not a very difficult operation. As long as you do not show mercy to your friendly forces and are prepared to trample on them during the charge, it is not difficult to do this.
Even though the guards around the old one-eyed man were the most powerful warriors among the argali tribe, when facing this group of fully armed and heavily armored ferocious knights, there was not much difference between them and ordinary sheep orc knights.
The weapons in their hands were simply unable to break the defense of the brutal knight.
However, the Brutal Knights were able to break through the line of the Royal Guards, especially as the Argali Knights were still retreating.
Completely unable to resist.
With just a collision, the ferocious knight tore through the defense line of the guards around the old one-eyed man, followed by the rat knights who began to rush in frantically.
In an instant, the situation of the one-eyed old man became precarious.
Faced with this situation, the other argali knights did not bother to distance themselves and charged forward, and began to rescue their high priest.
The battlefield suddenly became chaotic.
The side of the one-eyed old man became a battlefield, with both sides gathered here.
A serious clash of knights was rapidly turning into a brutal and chaotic close combat under the deliberate promotion of Rat War.
(End of this chapter)