Warhammer

At that time, he specifically ordered the fastest wolves and centaurs to patrol day and night and burn whatever they saw to prevent the green disaster from happening again.

In the past, the greenskins had spontaneously spread spores, but anyone could imagine what kind of actions would be taken by Gao Maoliang, who might be the most bizarre and most "intelligent" warlord in ancient and modern times, if he really secured a "dragon's rise". Just by thinking about it, Al could imagine what a terrible scene that would be.

The green-skinned army, which grows every few months, will turn the world upside down with a large group of "civilians" or laborers providing them with a steady supply of food and equipment.

They recover quickly, photosynthesize, are not afraid of pain and are only interested in fighting. They are also not affected by Chaos Corrosion. A large number of them can emerge in a few months. The broken limbs of injured greenskins and the blood flowing from wounds will spread spores, so in theory they can even grow exponentially as long as there are enough nutrients. They are somewhat similar to the Zerg, but because they rarely care about producing this thing, they have not formed a real disaster.

166: Three Paths, Warlords Rule the Army

Suppose, for example, that the current human empire was replaced by the rule of the greenskins, then Aiur would not even have to worry about the threat of Chaos at the End of Time. No matter how huge and terrifying the army of doom was, could it defeat the greenskin scourge that was growing exponentially, with soldiers produced through photosynthesis and able to go to the battlefield as soon as they were born, and with hundreds of millions of people supplying them behind the scenes?

But then Al really wouldn't have to worry about anything else.

Because there is a high probability that before the end of time, millions of green tides will flood the south, Bretonnia, Osun, and even the entire world like flowing water, and incorporate them into the "Greenway Paradise" of the great warlord Mao Liang and the supreme warlord.

Then the four gods woke up and found that the amusement park had turned into a mushroom world and a green garden. It was a beautiful scene.

During this process, the number of greenskins may rapidly expand to tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even higher levels. Gao Maoliang may specially designate some areas for the intelligent life forms that submit to the warlords to cultivate and produce in order to supply the greenskins. For example, the terrain like Batoni is suitable for farming. These places will be alternative "reserved areas" in the future. Therefore, the power that can be provided to Gao Mao the second brother will also grow to an unimaginable level. If things go wrong, Gao Mao will really beat up the four vendors and turn Warhammer: Revenge into a holy paradise for the greenskins.

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These ideas are partly Al's conjectures, and partly are confirmation of the knowledge he sought from the Omniscient.

Just as he came into contact with Sister Helen and, under the impetus of the Blood Mother, instructed her, a new, blazing power, which had also been gestating in the belly and was just waiting to make that earth-shaking cry, had a complete imprint at that moment, had the inheritance from another world, and became a power that had the opportunity to burn the world and turn the old order and the enemies of evil into flying smoke.

Gao Maoliang also represents a force that can "sweep the world."

It’s just that the path taken by the elder sister is to overturn the old world, everyone is like a dragon, “billions are important, billions are united”.

The greenskins are purely numbers, violence, and the stacked power of rage.

The former is easy to say, after all, El has had successful experience in his coming to this world (?). If it really doesn't work, he can take the risk of this world's disapproval, take the initiative to light the torch and embrace change. However, in that case, he will have to discuss letting the Four Mothers adapt to the new era, and the four goddesses of "Courage, Wisdom, Life and Beauty" to guide the revolution, and guard against the development of a certain (two) gods who also possess the field of "reform and change" to stir up events.

But Mao Liang really can't be given a chance, unless Ai'er is willing to make all non-greenskinned intelligent species in the world serve as slaves for the greenskins in the future.

In comparison, the Sister of the Underworld smashed and rebuilt, releasing the transformative power of most people; the Greenskins' snowballing and horizontal push style, while Al's was quite standard:

religion!

motherland!

king!

Trinity.

On the contrary, he is the most moderate one. He has not escaped the mainstream route of the world today. In a sense, he has even reversed the trend and returned to the Sage King from the Parliamentary Republic (which is really true). However, he is also the most stable and steady one.

After all, Ai’er dared to say that he was not afraid of corruption, and Chaos could fire whatever shells it had at him (he was the type that corrupted others).

But if it were the previous group of Tyrell princes and Prince Estalia, when the end of time came, the result would probably not be much better than in the original setting.

Perhaps a legendary Beast King has risen from the neglected Pina Forest and Inara Mountains, leading a warband of Chaos Beasts; or perhaps the Skaven have been planning a "long journey home" overseas, destroying the southern humans.

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The mount was restless all the way, and if the rider hadn't forced it to, it would never have run in this direction on its own initiative.

Because the air here is filled with a smell that means "danger" to any race except themselves and their affiliated groups. Feces is mixed with a certain smell unique to greenskins, forming a foul odor that can be described as "pungent" to sensitive people, and can be sensed immediately even from a long distance.

Soon the man had to dismount halfway, because the camp ahead was full of wild atmosphere and the horse under his crotch would rather be whipped by his master than move forward any further. It let out a long whistle, raised its hooves, and then wandered around in place, not moving forward no matter how the rider urged it.

The riders who came with important intelligence had no choice but to dismount and walk. Fortunately, Gao Maoliang was prudent and set up an outpost mainly staffed by human servants on the outskirts. They were not far from the riders. The man quickly handed his mount to the other party for safekeeping, and then went forward accompanied by a guard and officially entered the camp of the greenskin army.

It is also the place where the big warlord Mao Liang’s tent is located.

The greenskin warbands attacking southwards are now stationed on a large plain with a wide view in the north of the Black Bay Peninsula.

Even though the greenskins did not have the habit of setting up camps or building fortifications when marching and fighting, the impression they left on this plain was that there were all kinds of buildings, barracks, and chevaux de frise all over the mountains. Although it was chaotic, because of their huge numbers, they looked "disorganized" and frightening.

The two of them soon officially walked into the greenskin camp. The big guys on patrol saw two "green" shrimps walking towards them from a distance, but when they saw that they were wearing conspicuous green cloaks and holding a green stick with a dragon claw print painted on it with red paint, or maybe blood or something, they didn't pay too much attention to the two human shrimps.

In their perception, although these shrimps are not as good at fighting and Waaaagh as the real green-skinned good guys, they are also "shrimps of the big warlords."

If the other side does not come to ask for a fight, and they beat up these shrimps wearing green capes and holding claw flags, the warlords will drag them to a dark cave and lock them up in it. This is a trigger that can be called "torture" for the greenskins. The specific manifestation is that the greenskins who have committed the crime are stuffed into an iron box together with the surrounding ones for several days. No one fights, no one curses, and they can do nothing. They can only keep trying to hit the iron box that imprisoned themselves, making a "dong dong dong" sound. After being released, the greenskins are a little "nervous" despite their tenacity. It is very torturous, and even the greenskins who have a bad memory (but have a "bloodline inheritance" in a sense) will be deeply impressed by this, so they will not easily violate the iron rules of the warlords.

Or just have your head chopped off.

Although the greenskins are not afraid of fighting and think that breaking a limb is not a big deal, when it comes to things like a skull, unless you are a particularly stubborn greenskin, no one would think that they can grow a new one like an arm after it falls off, or pick it up (not necessarily their own) and put it back.

Relying on various measures, Gao Maoliang has successfully made the greenskin race maintain a certain "discipline" from its birth to the present day. For the first time under such a large-scale war gang, it has also accommodated a large-scale vassal army of nearly 20,000 people cruising on the side of the main force of the greenskins. Until now, no large-scale unrest has occurred, and the two sides can barely display a cooperative relationship of "belonging to the same camp" on the battlefield. This shows the skill of Gao Maoliang.

Chapter 167: Fight to the death!

Accompanied by their companions, the riders went deeper into the camp. They were nervous along the way and finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the main camp with dozens or nearly a hundred flagpoles erected.

The closer we are to the warlord, the stronger the constraints of the "rules" become. As "aliens" in the greenskin army, human safety will be more guaranteed.

After all, no matter how severe the punishment is, the greenskins have to have brains to think about the consequences.

It is very likely that a stupid big guy will see a passing "human shrimp" and, without considering the consequences, will just grab the shrimp and eat it or use it as a toy - usually the shrimp will be a bloody mess. Humans are an absolute minority in the greenskin army. Even if Gao Maoliang tries his best to restrain them, it is difficult to completely control his own disorderly and barbaric compatriots.

If it could really make hundreds of thousands of greenskins obey orders, then the ones who would be afraid would not be the border people or the Southern Alliance, but the human empire in the north and the elves of Osun.

The best way for the greenskins to establish their authority among the greenskins is to "kill"!

"beat"!

Each of the hundreds of flagpoles represents an opponent who challenges Mao Liang. If they are defeated by the warlord in a duel, the ruthless warlord will execute them personally and hang them up to shock the other people. He has a special flag-bearing team that often carries the bodies of these challengers in parades among the army to spread the warlord's power and terror.

Gao Maoliang can be said to be "kind and soft-hearted" towards humans - judging by the average of the greenskins.

But it will not be indecisive towards its own kind.

It knows its "compatriots" very well. This concept was instilled in it by the Zhendan people. In one sentence, it can be summarized as "fearing power but not virtue", or there is no such thing as "morality" at all. Fists and strength are everything to the greenskins.

Therefore, it has taken various measures to strengthen its prestige in the warband. Such things will not happen in its direct lineage, the Dragon Greenskins headquarters, but among its estimated greenskin army of nearly 300,000, within the scope of the greenskins' understanding, there are only about 60,000 to 70,000 greenskins in the warband who "completely obey" the authority of Gao Maoliang. Most of them are Waaaaagh greenskins who were pulled out of the badlands by it, or heard of Gao Maoliang's name, and sensed through the greenskin instinct that a big Waaaagh was rising, and then came to join it, with the purpose of fighting.

This includes but is not limited to letting the goblins who are good at talking, bragging, lying and deceiving spread the news of the great warlord Gao Maoliang's power and brag about his glorious deeds. Although it is exaggerated and humans may disdain it, the greenskins will definitely believe it.

It gathered cruel and bloodthirsty Night Goblins that were far more powerful than their own kind. It remembered that it once had a strange two-headed greenskin under its command, with one head being a cowardly goblin and the other a fierce greenskin giant. It had a troop that came and went like the wind, rarely engaging in direct combat with the enemy and were very cunning. Together with the Alliance's intelligence department, agents of the Sixth Legion Shadowwatch had been hunting down those pirates who had once cooperated with the greenskins, using their blood to make up for the hatred of the Estalia people, while strengthening the orthodoxy of Aiur. Some of the human running dogs under Mao Liang were forced to be unable to stay in the civilized world, and eventually took the risk to join the big warlords.

It was also deeply impressed, so the warlord also formed a team of green-skinned "agents", mainly composed of night goblins who are good at despicable plots and murders. On the battlefield, they will mix in the army and specialize in sneak attacks and assassinations against the enemy's high-value targets; outside the battlefield, they will be responsible for monitoring those restless generals. If the other side makes trouble, they will take action to execute potential hidden dangers for the warlord. Any battle, no matter how big the gap between the two sides is, is not a sure win.

Gao Maoliang knows everything about the warband now. The uniqueness of this second attempt of Waaaaagh launched by it against the southern world depends entirely on it. If Gao Maoliang dies, its warband will immediately fall apart and turn into large and small groups of greenskins, causing trouble and running rampant on the border. In the end, they will be sandwiched and wiped out by the forces of order who have freed up their hands on this land.

And the greenskins will lose their future forever.

So it won't take risks easily.

Avoid the fate of Greysu Goldfang, the great ogre tyrant who once ruled the Ogre Kingdom and monopolized the Road of Growing Fangs. This greedy, rich, gluttonous ogre tyrant once won in a duel with Grimgor Ironhide, but out of his competitive spirit and the purpose of showing off his military power, he tried to hold Ironhide in his arms and squeeze the greenskin to death with the tyrant's fat and strong body, but Ironhide picked up Goldfang's weapon, the Titan Scepter, and shot him in the head and killed him.

No matter where and when, Gao Maoliang is always accompanied by a group of hundreds of heavily armored black orc guards. They are the most loyal dragon guards. In the army, Gao Maoliang is also one of the few greenskin warlords who rarely fight on the front line, all for the sake of ensuring the safety of the warlord's green body.

As the greenskin army advanced, the desperate border princes and many large and small states tried their best to protect themselves. In addition to open armed resistance and humiliating surrender, they also tried to disintegrate the greenskin army through other means, such as assassination, hiring warriors to challenge duels, etc.

But obviously, none of them worked.

Not to mention how slim the success rate would be in assassinating their warlord among hundreds of thousands of greenskin troops.

Even those brave warriors who were determined to die and deliberately provoked others in an attempt to kill the warlords through duels often could not survive the "warlord trials" that Mao Liang instructed his subordinates to conduct.

It told its subordinates that they wanted to challenge it, but Brother Mao said... they had to defeat you guys first before they could challenge it, the big brother.

It was very clever and with just a few words it eliminated the possible blow to its prestige that might be caused by its refusal to accept a direct challenge.

The greenskins thought about it and realized that if any small fry could come and challenge the Waaaagh BOSS, then if a thousand or ten thousand small fry came in turn, how long would it take for the warlord to kill one of them with one hand?

So when they encounter human warriors who challenge the warlords by name, they are very active and rush to "respond to the challenge" as the warlords' whetstones. Hundreds of duels mean that hundreds or even more fearless warriors have sacrificed their lives. Gao Maoliang will collect the remains of these warriors and send envoys to the places where they came from to express magnanimity, so as to win the hearts of the people in the local area. At least in the near future, they will not think about armed resistance against the greens. At the same time, they threaten the powerful class who really rule the people. If they anger the warlords, the city will be full of bones under the butcher's knife...

The approach adopted by Mao Liang in this regard is similar to that of the Prime Minister of Mongolia in another world.

"Those who surrender after being besieged will not be pardoned"!

When the warlord's army arrived, they had one day to open the city gates or not. Those who surrendered would be spared from death, but would have to pay grain and tribute, hand over hostages, and send soldiers as servants.

On the contrary, once the butcher's knife falls, the greenskins will come down with ferocious force, and will destroy the city and stronghold at all costs, and then kill without mercy!

Relying on the huge difference between surrendering and not surrendering, the big warlord succeeded in quickly conquering a large area of ​​territory with just a few wars with tragic casualties - but which were insignificant considering the huge number of its war gangs. This was undoubtedly a reflection of the warlord's wisdom. It only used a few casualties to not only have a deterrent effect, but also weakened the border people's resistance to the greenskins. If it pushed forward all the way and killed indiscriminately like countless greenskin disasters in the past, it would certainly be rampant for a while, but it would inevitably force those who were not very tough to fight it to the death.

But not everyone will "weigh the pros and cons" and "estimate the gains and losses" in this way. Otherwise, when fighting, everyone will compare their strength. The weaker side will simply surrender in order to avoid being slaughtered.

There will always be someone trying to save the situation when the building is about to collapse.

The arrival of the rider announced such a news.

"The Mirmidons killed the others and left me alone to report to you." The man in the green robe did not dare to take off the green robe to get some fresh air even though he was very hot under his clothes due to the dusty journey and the warm weather.

This is a guarantee of life safety in a sense for the greenskin army.

He held up the bloody surrender notice in his hand, which was covered with the blood of his companions and a skull with crossed swords painted by the Myrmidons with paint mixed with blood.

It means that they will fight to the death. Resistance means massacre anyway, so the act of killing is not that important. Instead, it can better demonstrate their determination.

The heavy shadow sitting on the big mountain uttered a muffled "hmm", indicating that it understood.

Then Mao Liang fanned his big hands like a palm-leaf fan, and the rider saluted and retreated in a hurry.

Even though I know that Gao Maoliang is a weird and "reasonable" greenskin.

But every time entering the greenskin military camp, it is a great stress resistance training for the border people except for those scum who voluntarily pledge allegiance to the greenskin masters.

168: Defense of Mirmidon (I)

This complex delegation sent by Mao Liang, consisting of personnel from Matoka, Zorak, Vidanos and other places, was its last effort for "peace".

It just sounds so weird.

A green man working for peace?

But it can also be said that it is true.

However, if the Myrmidons wanted to surrender, they would have made the decision when Vidanos fell, but they had already begun to take in refugees, stockpile supplies, and send troops to build fortresses and guard passes. In any case, it seemed that they would not choose to give up resistance.

Gao Maoliang knew that the Mirmidon people's previous actions had already made their attitude clear. The border people were not all spineless after all, and they would not be willing to wag their tails and beg for mercy until they loosened their butcher knives and showed room for easing.

However, it still sent an envoy to persuade them to surrender with the attitude that it would not hurt to give it a try. The Black Bay Peninsula has a special terrain and is easy to defend but difficult to attack. This time it is different from Estalia. With the dwarf fleet there, the greenskins will not only be unable to gain control of the sea, but will even be disturbed by the enemy's fleet.

In addition, Mirmiden is the border prince with the most martial virtue in the entire border princedom. For thousands of years, whenever the greenskins from the badlands wanted to cross the sea to harass the west, or the greenskins active in this land caused chaos, the people of Mirmiden would almost always stand on the front line against the barbaric invaders, and they are worthy of the title of "Border Shield".

There have been countless conflicts between the human colonists who have established their homes here and the various monsters active on this land. The princes and people here defend their land with a very tenacious will, but because they are very loose and not unified, they can only serve as a buffer and obstacle in many cases. It is often Mirmidon, the first border city, that plays a direct role in "resisting the greenskins" for the Tyrell Kingdom in the southwest.

They are no better than the Matoka who kowtowed to the big warlords.

Going to war with Mirmidon would be a "difficult choice" for a warlord who wanted to usurp the throne as much as possible, though he might not be able to do it to the extent of Aiur, and justify his usurpation of power. But he also wanted to try to gain a buffer zone so that he had enough time to establish a preliminary rule and strengthen his army in order to face the inevitable attack from the warlord.

But it had to be done.

It is foreseeable what kind of brutal battle will break out on the land of Black Bay Peninsula. Mao Liang will not "forgive" the Mirmidons who have made their attitude clear, otherwise his expansion plan of using a knife in one hand and a stick in the other will be declared bankrupt. This will be a devastating blow to the prestige of the warlord and the "stability in the rear" that he has managed to maintain with great difficulty.

This means that it is inevitable that the nearly 600,000 to 700,000 people on this narrow peninsula will fight to the death with the greenskins for their survival.

Even going around it is not an option.

The Mirmidons are now more short of time than the greenskins. Go Maoliang has been unstoppable all the way. Although they have a fine tradition of martial ethics, the Mirmidons, who have also "not experienced war for a long time", also need time to reorganize their armaments and train soldiers. If Go Maoliang ignores the Mirmidons and goes directly southwest to Algaris, and then fights with the "old rival" Alliance, it is conceivable that the Mirmidons will come out to recapture Vidanos as soon as possible, and then go south to support the Alliance.

No need to doubt.

Greenskins are definitely the common enemy of all orderly races, including humans, dwarves, and elves.

Although some well-fed scholars have come up with a "Greenskin Scourge Theory", which regards the Greenskins, a race that lives on war, as the embodiment of a certain world rule, and brings blood and fire trials to all races except the Greenskins to eliminate the weak...

But no one would stand there and laugh while watching their neighbor's house burning:

Fortunately, it wasn’t my house that was burned.

So Gao Maoliang had only one response to Mirmidon's choice:

beat!

At its command, the huge army immediately set into motion. For the greenskins, there is no such thing as being passive or passive in fighting, the only question is whether they are Waaaaagh enough.

With Vidanos, where most of the city has been emptied, as a transit base, all the supplies that the greenskins have extorted with butcher knives will flow to this city and then be sent to Gao Maoliang's army whose front line has already reached the Black Bay Peninsula.

Nearly three hundred thousand—as time goes by, more and more greenskins will come to join Gao Maoliang and stand out from the spores.

The greenskins pressed forward in a dark mass.

When commanding greenskins to fight, it would be better if there were fewer of them, but it is hard to say what tactics there are when there are such a large number.

The command limit is seriously overstaffed.

But Mao Liang still tried his best to maintain the dispatch of the army, because there was no need to worry about destroying these when attacking Myrmidon, or in other words, in the entire army, only the big warlord would consider the east and west of Zhejiang.