Chapter 421, Rat Planet Guard

In such a tense situation, it didn't take long before a piece of news that shocked the entire Ratman Empire was spread. It was like a bolt of thunder out of the blue, exploding suddenly and tearing everything apart.

Thus began the war, a civil war that would determine the future of the Rat Empire, and the trigger was the death of a guy.

In the future, the ratmen in the Ratman Empire will call the cause of this war the Holy Fall.

Sheng Qi died, the position of high priest of the Ratman Empire was once again vacant, and war broke out.

The First and Second Expeditionary Forces of the Ratmen, which had assembled on the Fortress Star, began to go upstream along this miraculous path, crossing one planet after another, until they finally stopped in front of steel and steam. Here, in the industrial and mining center of the Ratmen, a riot broke out.

Of course, everyone knows that this is an industrial center, knows about steel and steam, or the Black Iron Star, and knows that this planet will become the third center of the Ratman Empire in the near future.

Qi knew it, and the temple priests certainly knew it too, so both sides would make their moves here.

The temple priests' influence on this planet is not as great as Qi's. This is the base camp of the Ratmen engineers. Compared with the Ratmen sect, they have always been more compatible and closer to the Ratmen Empire. Naturally, Qi, as the emperor of the Ratmen Empire, must have a greater influence on this planet than these temple priests.

But this did not prevent the temple priests from pulling out all the forces on the planet, forming an army, and starting wanton destruction. All this was done to delay the first and second expeditionary fleets of the ratmen.

This is an obvious delaying tactic to slow down the pace of the two fleets. Everyone can see it, but is it useful?
It was useful, very useful. The first expeditionary fleet of the ratmen led by Qi actually stopped.

This is an open and aboveboard conspiracy. Ever since the star port of Fortress Star experienced a battle and entered the reconstruction sequence, the star port of Black Iron Star has become particularly important. Although this star port has not been completely completed yet, the dock and port as the priority construction sequence have been basically completed. At the same time, the resources on Black Body Star are also extremely necessary for the upcoming war.

However, this delaying tactic, although successful, was only half successful. Among the two expedition fleets, only the First Expedition Fleet led by Qi stopped. The other fleet started jumping again without even a moment of hesitation and disappeared in this star field.

The Flag General's fleet approached the Black Iron Star Port. At this time, chaos was also going on in the star port. However, the ships from the outside world had not yet begun to enter, and it had not officially started operation. The Black Iron Star Port was currently just a large construction site. The forces deployed by the temple priests were not enough, and they did not cause any huge waves. After the Flag's First Expeditionary Fleet intervened, the chaos in the Black Iron Star Port quickly subsided.

But what happens next is not so easy.

At this time, Black Iron Star was in chaos due to this first wave of sudden riots and attacks.

A steel city, and also an important energy hub for the rat people at the geothermal node of Black Iron Star, Steam City, it collapsed. Amidst the horrific explosion, the huge steam boiler as tall as a mountain bent and fell towards the city built around it. With a piercing and sharp sound, the steam in the steam boiler began to overflow, like a tsunami or a hurricane. The horrifying high-temperature steam swept to every corner of the city, causing a horrific steam tsunami.

This is a highly efficient killing, the struggle is short, although it is painful and fragrant, there will be almost no survivors from the crazy ratman crusade. Yes, this group of mobilized guys continued the name of the ancient times, and those temple priests would certainly join this war in the name of the gods. This is a fanatical war, amid the cheers of the ratmen.

Steam City is an important energy hub of Black Iron Star. The huge amount of cheap energy provided by the active planet core without any additional cost is the blood that keeps this industrial planet running.

Even if Qi suppressed the riot on Black Iron Star as quickly as possible, the decline in industrial power would be difficult to recover quickly.

Unexpectedly, Qi was not in a hurry about this. He sent forces to protect the remaining industrial cities in the Black Iron Star. At a leisurely pace, the landing troops of the Ratman First Expeditionary Fleet began to assemble.

These ratmen's latest warships will carry a large number of landing troops, steam tanks, and rat legions. These have not been eliminated, only some things have been replaced. The current rat army no longer specializes in positions and trench warfare. A large number of rat transport ships that can directly enter the planet's atmosphere will drop these rat legions at fixed locations, along with a large number of steam tanks and armored vehicles.

The ratmen's army has been gradually splitting up, and the functions of the expeditionary fleet have been clearly defined.

Explore, colonize, conquer, suppress rebellions.

Everything revolves around these four points: the Ratman's space fleet. They are the elite troops of the Ratman Empire, and also a mixed military group that is incapable of fighting a protracted war.

Overwhelm the enemy's space forces, deploy a large number of armored ground forces, and assist the air forces to efficiently destroy the enemy's main forces and industrial forces, and quickly establish strongholds on colonizable planets, and then they will have to worry about the rest.

The more numerous, larger and cheaper Imperial Army or Planetary Guard, this group of conventional Ratmen troops still using weapons that were obsolete a hundred years ago, will rush from the nearest Ratmen planet on crowded transport ships and carry out the subsequent work that will require the most bloodshed on this planet, occupying, sweeping and annihilating, using old steam guns and backward huge artillery to do all this.

How to say it, this is an ancient tradition. The high-ranking members of the rat people, those big shots, still prefer cheap and large-scale cannon fodder troops.

Of course, this is not what the propaganda says. Opportunity, future, merit, development, money, land, these are the slogans given by the Ratman Planet Guard when recruiting soldiers. This is a very tempting propaganda strategy.

Although in most cases they don't even need such slogans. In the declining resource cities, they only need to put up signs, and then batches of young ratmen, starting from hundreds of thousands, will easily board the transport ships, and then be transported to training centers like animals for simple training, or even be sent directly to the battlefield.

if needed.

(End of this chapter)