The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 56
Plans often fail to keep up with changes.

Just imagine, the disaster is gone, everything is recovering, and you start to go hunting. This time your target is a few wild boars in the forest.

Although wild boars are just pigs, they are also very dangerous. After all, pig tactics have been quite tricky since ancient times.

If it doesn't work out, sharp teeth, I'll give you a bite.

In order to be safe, you gathered friends, sharpened the blade, maintained the crossbow, sharpened the arrow, hoarded dry food, and spent a long time.

Then you walked into the forest and found that there were only a few wild boars, but there were [-] more in one night. Thirty thousand wild boars.
Even if you turn them into domestic pigs, you and your friends can't finish catching them in three days.

This is what the Gnoll Black Ax is facing now.

A few days ago, when he and Pip came to investigate, there were only 65 ratmen in the territory at most. These ratmen looked similar to them, and the equipment was better.

After several negotiations, the highland wolves finally united with the riverside gnolls, and prepared to gather the bravest warriors in the tribe to launch an attack on the territory.

If you win, you will get fifty-five points.

But today, when Black Ax was routinely inspecting Windsor's situation, it was discovered that the rat people had turned over several times overnight!The number directly came to nearly [-]!
The tribal totem is on top!Where did they get the leeks from?How did you grow up so fast!
It would be fine if these big rats were just handymen, but it would make it slightly more difficult for some tribes to attack, and it would not make them completely defeated.

But these Ratmen were all equipped with weapons, and they were practicing in the wooden camp at this time.

An army composed of nearly 1000 ratmen. According to the description of the Scarskin tribe that had fought with it, at least an army of nearly [-] people must be mobilized to have a chance to defeat it.

Not to mention that powerful mage lord.

Holding a flaming sword in his hand, he rode a war horse and easily beheaded one wolf man after another, and even ate the flesh and blood of the wolf man himself, just like a demon.

Pip, too, was terribly wounded that day by that wicked lord.

Black Axe's heart sank to the bottom of the valley all at once.

As far as he could see, Hei Ax saw the Ratmen wielding their machetes, the whistling sound of piercing the air with the fallen leaves blown by the wind, full of strength.

However, Ickert looked at the ratmen who were practicing in this way, and felt that their movements were full of loopholes, and the front and back swings of the attack were extremely large. After all, these slave rats had been in a state of hunger for a long time.

But in Hei Ax's view, the evil-looking slave rat already had a sense of ferocity, and coupled with its crazy voice, Hei Ax believed that this combat power should not be underestimated.

In the distance, the slave spear rats are advancing in a tight formation under the supervision of the clan rats. The densely packed spears are like hedgehogs, making them afraid to approach.

It is impossible for Jackal warriors to get out of such a formation, and they don't have so many sophisticated weapons.

But in fact, although the formation of these slave spear rats is dense, there are many situations when they actually walk. Not only can they not maintain a uniform speed, but they often disperse after walking a few tens of meters.

Eckert knew they had a long way to go.

He looked at the training of the archers in the distance, and the only one in the whole battalion who knew this was Genier, a mouse.

80 bow and arrow mice gathered together, drew their bows, nocked their arrows, and shot in volley. Dozens of feathered arrows were shot together. The momentum was very loud and the visual effect was very shocking, but they couldn't even hit a few of the 20-meter straw man targets.

However, this move still surprised Hei Axe. He never expected that these Ratmen had so many long-range weapons.

The Gnoll only learned how to make bows after capturing human craftsmen in recent years.

However, according to human craftsmanship, the production time of a bow is calculated by year, and materials are widely used, and materials are collected in four seasons, which is very tortured.

His own customized bow is still not ready yet!

This time, he saw 80 bows and those well-armed Clan Rats. At least in terms of equipment, the Jackals couldn't even catch up with them.

There were also those 150 slave stone rats. Those stones could make Black Ax feel pain just by hitting the ground. Such intensive firepower was a great threat to the lack of armor.

This batch of slave catapults is also the ratmen that Ickert thinks are in the best condition. There is no technical content in this job, and they can be very accurate as long as they practice for a long time.

On the whole, the rat people in the first day of training were very hip, and the discipline of the army was largely maintained by swords.

And besides the Ratmen who are actively training, the opposition among the Ratmen has also begun to show signs, and there are many Ratmen who do not cooperate with the training.

If it weren't for Ickert's current need for these rat people to support his facade, he wouldn't just let the clan rats beat them up.

But these rats have all been on Ickert's "mother list", if they don't repent later
Naikt can only wish them luck.

As the sun set, the messy training ended soon. Ickert estimated in his heart that it was impossible to frighten away the regular army with this posture, but it should be no problem to frighten away the tribal coalition forces.

If those Gnoll scouts were here, they should have gotten the news.

"Close the team! Genil, take them back to dinner!"

As soon as they heard that they were going to eat, the rat people got excited. The rat people who were half dead and reluctant to participate in the training soon lined up and got into the cafeteria.

Seeing that the Ratman army had stopped training, the gnoll Black Ax moved away and climbed down the tree trunk carefully, covering up the footprints along the way.

After he left for a long time, Ickert and Genier rushed to the training ground again, leading the Stormrats to check for the aura of the Gnoll.

As Ickert expected, the Gnoll had been keeping an eye on the territory in order to ensure the safety of his actions. Genil's sensitive nose quickly found the target.

"Here! Clan Chief! I can be sure it's the smell of those long-haired dogs! It's still very fresh, and it should be left over from today."

Genie pointed to a trace on the ground and said.

In the field of vision of the night vision technique, Ickert quickly found the dead leaves that were trampled around, and even though they were covered up, some clues could still be found.

"Quick, hear where he is investigating!"

"Please, please wait for the clan chief, sniff."

Genil put his nose on the ground and sniffed, and soon found the smell of the wolf man on the tree on the other side.

"Here! This tree!"

"You, go climb up and see if you can observe the training camp here."

Ickert commanded a stormrat to climb up the tree and watched from the top for a while.

"Clan Chief! I can see the torches in the camp!"

"Okay, come down."

After this investigation, Ickert has determined that the Wolf Man has learned about the increase in troops in the territory.

However, they should send a second batch of scouts to further confirm the accuracy of the information. Ickert will not deal with this batch of scouts either. He has to let them go back alive so that the wolves can think about it.

But the third batch must be wiped out. By then, the basic training of the slave rats will be nearly completed, and he can just lead the scout team to practice with these gnolls.

"Everything is ready, bring the slave rats here."

"Yes, Clan Chief."

On this night when the sun was just setting, the slave rats were naturally ordered to work, regardless of seed production, but the farmland in the territory must be reclaimed quickly.

The slave rats dug the land along the line marked by Ikett, carried the soil to the sides and piled it up, and then trampled it firmly with their rat feet to form ridges.

The sound of trampling sounded in the night, and pairs of red lights kept floating.

Under the feet of the rat people, acres of fertile fields are taking shape step by step.

(End of this chapter)