Warhammer

So the question is, where do they put their goal of being beaten or beaten violently...

In the big tent, the warlord Gao Maoliang lowered his head and looked at the sand table. A human officer who mustered up the courage to stand beside the green-skinned warlord was marking the actual situation corresponding to the scenes on the map for his client.

"You have lived on this land, surrounded by this forest, for hundreds of years, and yet you tell me that you know very little about it?"

The big warlord was a little dissatisfied. "Gao Ge Mao Ge said: Know how capable you are in fighting, and know how capable the enemy is in fighting. Waaaagh a hundred times, you can win a hundred times."

The officer swallowed and froze in place, unsure of what to say.

He could only stammer and say that he would find more information about the Pina Forest and hand it over to the warlord later.

The warlord thought about it and decided that there were not many humans who had the courage to stand before him and the ability to serve him well, but at the same time, they were not too capable or too courageous.

It is too lazy to look for another one. After it goes north to break the last stronghold of the Estalia and completely conquers this land, it can consider looking for some more talented people... Well, it can't let them mix with the greenskins, it has to deal with them separately.

I heard that there is something called "Wooden Palace" which assists the boss in the east. It is composed of many people. When the time comes, we will build a "Flying Dragon Wooden Palace" to serve it!

Chapter 138: Greenskins (Beastmen), it’s not like I haven’t fought them before

Gao Maoliang is not a traditional greenskin warlord. Apart from his tactical cunning, when he encounters an enemy in a grand strategic sense he only thinks about how to better Waaaaaagh. On the contrary, Gao Maoliang unites pirates and Skaven to launch a surprise attack and destroy the Estalia's invincible fleet. He uses decapitation tactics to besiege Margarita, the capital of the kingdom, at the beginning of the war and cuts off its contact with the outside world, which directly causes the southern forces to be leaderless and each place to fight on its own.

This is also the reason why the warlord set Waaaaagh's target on Estalia instead of Tyrell next door.

In Tirell, where each region is highly autonomous and independent, each duchy and city is a small kingdom with its own system. The greenskins can indeed gnaw them down one by one, but in that case the neighboring country Estalia will inevitably send troops to rescue them. Without entering the port for repairs, once the invincible fleet participating in the celebration leaves the harbor and deploys its troops on the ocean, the pirates and greenskins' warships will have no choice but to escape.

Even if the Waaaaagh can successfully wipe out the Tyrells in the end, it is bound to cause too much damage to its army. What the greenskins will have to face next is a southern kingdom with a population of millions that has already mobilized and bridged the previous North-South rift.

Therefore, the warlord persuaded its two allies with ulterior motives to set its sights on Estalia, and indeed achieved rich results.

Big Waaaaaagh has achieved one third of his success. He has forced the Margaritas to surrender to him. Although it is a "truce" in name, in reality it is no different from a vassal.

The defenders accepted the decision made by the parliament when they were at their wits' end. The opponents either surrendered to the crowd or went into underground resistance. The few radicals were disarmed and detained by the ceasefire advocates.

Under the supervision of pirates and greenskin overseers, the people of Margarita humiliatingly sent laborers and slave labor teams composed of captured greenskins to dismantle the walls of Margarita bit by bit, including those buildings that were destroyed and damaged in the long siege. The materials were transported by sea to the port of Permoz, and the greenskins built them into a hairy colossus.

In this way, Mao Liang not only humiliated and undermined the dignity and ambition of the Margarita people, but also showed that he was indeed keeping his promise and would not massacre them again.

Then there is the price of surrender.

Margarita had to pay a large amount of supplies to the warlords, and at the same time continuously draw out scarce and precious manpower to serve the greenskin army and be responsible for supply and engineering tasks.

At the same time, the warlords continuously sent humans captured and enslaved by the greenskins to Margarita, using the submission of the kingdom's capital to shock the people, allowing the Margaritans to integrate and train manpower and continue to supply blood for the greenskin army.

With Gao Maoliang's permission, several ships from the neighboring country of Tyrell ventured into the Tranquil Bay and landed in the city of Margarita, which had been blockaded for nearly a year. There, they felt no prosperity, only a dead silence. It seemed as if there were a pair of invisible eyes above everyone's head. They communicated in silence and did things in silence...

After a timid trade, the Tyrells hurriedly sailed away to report the situation here to Tobaro and Miragliano. The proud neighbor who had loved and hated the Tyrells for thousands of years and watched over each other, the capital of the Kingdom of Estalia, the pearl of the south, Margarita, which worshipped the goddess Myrmidia, had surrendered to the greenskins!

With the call from the capital, the greenskins swept through the places much faster. Although slaughter and destruction simply to satisfy their desire for destruction were still inevitable, many people still mustered up the courage to take a chance. Under the call of the demoralized knights from Margarita, they came out of their hiding places and chose to return to work in the fields.

The South began to slowly withdraw from the war and lick its wounds in an unexpected way, but now every beat of the kingdom's heart would be sucked away by the greenskin army led by the cunning warlord.

The warlord designated a vast spore farm in the wilderness east of the Gedaz River. Hordes of fart elves began to spread spores on this nutrient-rich land. As long as the nutrition is sufficient, countless mushrooms will grow in a week or two at the fastest, a month or two at the slowest, or even next year if the land is too poor. The first ones to be born are the fart elves. They are both food and managers, and will take care of the other mushrooms until they grow green skins!

This pasture, which would scare humans to death, is definitely one of the most terrifying things that has ever appeared in the entire Badlands, and even in the New and Old Worlds!

The great warlord Gao Maoliang, an outlier among the greenskins, not only tried to conquer rather than enslave humans (although it seems to be almost the same at present), but also took a terrible step:

Sow, cultivate spores and plant greenskins on a large scale to provide a steady supply of stick boys for your unprecedented Waaaaagh!

The only thing humans can do here is to continuously send food and supplies here to provide nutrients for the greenskin farms and accelerate the growth of spores. At the same time, they are forced to build weapons and arm the armies under the command of the warlords.

Even if those things are intentionally crudely made and are only slightly better than bones, sticks, stones, scrap iron knives and the like, in the hands of the greenskins they can be deadly weapons enough to smash the enemy.

The warlord sighed that in the first month of serving him, humans had created considerable value for him. Perhaps it was not as good as looting, but he understood that looting and raiding enemy cities might bring temporary benefits, but humans were not green-skinned and would not plant and harvest one crop after another.

If you chop down a shrimp, it will take more than ten years for it to grow back. The warlords realized this very early. After pacifying the north and satisfying the desires of the boys, they can rest for a short period of time, and then turn back to unite with the ratmen and pirates to take down the Tyrell shrimp in the east.

In Gao Maoliang's eyes, Waaaagh not only means to attack and destroy a place, but also means to occupy, conquer and rule. It is very different from the traditional greenskin. Anyway, it is a special greenskin.

Now the only thing left for the warlord is the north, but there is still a prominent obstacle on Waaaagh's way to the north.

After learning that the troops led by the war general Bald Beast were ambushed, attacked, and defeated at the foot of Weiling City, the great warlord Gao Maoliang never ignored the enemy hidden in the forest, the "big red-skinned beast".

Not getting any relevant intelligence from his allies, the warlord called in humans, but there was no definite information about the tribes in the forest.

At most, there are some useless information such as "Pina, there are many beast tribes in there..." and "Red-skinned beastmen... I've never heard of them..."

If they were just ordinary beasts, Gao Maoliang had beaten up quite a few of them in the Badlands. There were even some Beastmen tribes under his command that surrendered to the big warlords. Compared with the greenskins in the Badlands, which were close to anarchic society without a strong leader and only had violence throughout, the productivity of ordinary Beastmen tribes was relatively higher and could provide some production value to the greenskin warlords.

But the 30,000 green-skinned guys who could defeat it, the bald guy was also a tough guy, and was easily defeated...

The big warlord felt that this was beyond his calculations, but the enemy, from Weiling to Marus, and then to Cheborio, were advancing and retreating quickly, turning around like the wind.

It looks a bit prickly, but not too hard.

In the Battle of the Gedazz River, both humans and greenskins deployed a total of more than 100,000 troops, including 50,000 humans and 90,000 greenskins. In addition to the troops besieging the city, the big warlords threw all the guys they could call over to start the fight, but there were still a large number of greenskins who had briefly become independent thug gangs roaming around.

If a big warlord wants a decisive battle, he can gather nearly 200,000 greenskins without regard for the consequences - for example, the South revolts while his main force is away, or the army is concentrated and cannot fight quickly and is dragged down by supplies, so the greenskins either eat each other or scatter in a hurry.

This is a terrifying force. After Emperor Justinian defeated Gogo Mago's Great Waaaagh in the Battle of Black Fire Pass, the Old World has never seen a military movement of over 100,000 troops, except for a few battles where the Tsarina led the Kislev Legion north to beat up the Norse-Kurgan-Huns and a bunch of messy Chaos, nomadic, and barbarian tribal coalitions.

The greenskin guys are howling. The activity of destroying the hairy colossus has boosted the morale of all the greenskins, and they are shouting for a fight.

The warlord was surrounded by the huge momentum of Waaaaagh, and his thoughts could not help but return to his instincts and be infected by the nature of the greenskins.

As for the beastmen, I have beaten them before.

The warlord thought about it and decided, for the sake of safety, to go to the north and beat the remaining humans, making them kneel to the warlord. The tribute could be put on hold for the time being, and he would first give the nearest forest to Waaaagh to ensure the flank.

By the way, you might as well call the human shrimp over. They may not be happy to be asked to fight shrimps, but they probably won't be willing to fight wild beasts.

Meanwhile, in the forest, a certain proud Eternal Chosen was arranging his troops and thinking:

As for the greenskins, I’ve beaten them before!

Chapter 139: Lilith? Not familiar, not at all.

In order to ensure the success of this attack, the warlord transferred the tribes under his command that were most adept at forest terrain to this place:

A group of forest goblin tribes ran out from the Somobra Forest, sandwiched between the Inara Mountains and the Abascar Mountains, northeast of Margarita, in response to the great warlord Waaaagh.

They tamed a large number of spiders as their arms. After the warlord landed and besieged Margarita, the messenger of the ratmen arrived at the right time, inciting these rare native greenskins and chaotic beastmen to transform into a beast disaster and pour out of the forest, sweeping across the eastern part of the kingdom.

There are no strong native greenskins, they all submit to the warlord himself. Thanks to the Somobra Forest connecting two major mountain ranges, rich resources above and below the surface, and the huge network of tunnels left by the dwarves, the forest goblins have been developing very well and their numbers are quite large.

The great warlord has nearly 20,000 goblin troops under his command, half of whom have their own spider mounts.

Ten thousand cavalry.

Even a combination like goblins + spiders is a force that cannot be underestimated.

Moreover, these guys seem to have been living independently of other greenskins for a long time. They have gradually become like some of the forest goblins that were first distributed in the empire and tamed, or in other words, cooperated with spiders. They have begun to add an emotional object for themselves besides the greenskins' belief in Brother Gomao:

"The Spider God"

Or the giant spider god, the huge spider, the super invincible Waaaaaahh that flips over humans and green-skinned big spiders.

They live with spiders all day long, and over time, even the greenskins' recovery ability cannot eliminate the spider blood toxin that has corroded their bodies. These goblins riding spiders become crazy all day long and are very dangerous. Even the greenskins passing by them will be suddenly attacked by these special goblins if they are not careful, just like spiders hunting prey. Except for their mount partners and companions who are also infected with spider venom, it is difficult for others to get along with these goblins in a normal way in the greenskin way.

Fortunately, the orders of the warlords and generals can still command these guys, but Mao Liang doesn't like these crazy little things very much. It's just right to stuff them all into a forest that doesn't belong to them and make trouble. Even if the losses are huge, it won't feel sorry.

The vanguard of the greenskin vanguard is three groups of one thousand goblin spider riders. Under the orders of the warlord, the generals provide these toxin-infected, weird-thinking little guys with plenty of food and water, and also specially prepare for them a large amount of the spider goblins' favorite stuff - a mixture of spider blood, toxins, and various types of mushrooms.

Most greenskins wouldn't want to touch this stuff, but the goblins drank it heartily. Their morale was high after the pre-war rewards. Excluding those who couldn't withstand the toxicity and fell to the ground, there were three thousand (now less than three thousand) goblin riders. They didn't cheer, but were so quiet that they seemed to have merged into one with the mounts under them. They sank into the forest and completely adapted to the environment here.

The greenskin warrior, Bald Beast, suffered considerable damage to his reputation and strength due to his defeat at the city of Weiling. However, as a greenskin, Gao Maoliang was not as brutal as other warlords. While slightly punishing his defeated subordinates, he also maintained his status as the bald beast and continued to lead the good boys to fight for the big warlord as his right-hand man.

However, this time Mao Liang did not let him lead an army alone, but only let him serve as an adjutant and general under his command.

The commander in charge of the army heading north, the vanguard of the Pina Forest, is a green-skinned commander who was once the personal guard of Gao Maoliang Flying Dragon, Tank Bonestick.

The personal guards of the great warlord Gao Maoliang who helped him rise to power are of sturdy build and considered very strong among the greenskins. Perhaps only the trolls and the legendary big-bellied king Gollum can rival him.

What’s important is that even though its brain lacks the cunning, aggressiveness and brutality of the greenskins, it also possesses something that may be very special for a greenskin: loyalty.

No matter how weak the warlord looks, even during the long process of rising, he did not personally take action to crush the enemy's heads, and did not use actual actions to prove his bravery to deter the greenskins, but Tank's loyalty to its warlord master Gao Maoliang has never shown any signs of wavering.

There is not even the natural process for the greenskins to try to challenge the boss once they become strong, and if they fail they will either be crushed to death or continue working under the boss.

Always loyal and obedient.

But it never shows mercy to those greenskins who want to challenge its position, even if they are comrades from the same guard, and defends its position as the right-hand man of a true warlord with practical actions and strength.

Let Gao Maoliang do the work, and he feels at ease. He has been learning and imitating human knowledge. He also has a deep understanding of the personality of his own race. He does not follow the crowd, and if he wants to change the status quo, he is bound to conflict with the greenskin traditions.

To it, the abilities of its subordinates may not be the most important. On the contrary, the attribute of "loyalty" that looks too strange in the greenskins is the most relevant.

Although it was alert and concerned, it did not actually take the power that emerged from a small forest as a key issue.

After all, its area is nearly seven or eight times the size of the entire Pina Forest. The south with a population of millions was easily swept and conquered by its army. It has used the strength of a lion fighting a rabbit and intends to flatten the forest in one fell swoop. If possible, it can also use the Pina Forest to go directly north, cut off the Thomas River, and attack Bilbao.

The main thing now is the preparation for the subsequent journey north.

The great warlord is inspecting the fallen Marus. The supplies here have piled up like mountains, all of which are preparations for the subsequent march north. There is also a steady stream of "tribute" and "peace tax" from all over the south being transported here.

It is not stingy in spending money, after all, that thing is meaningless to the current warlords.

Money was spent in large amounts on villain pirates, ogre mercenaries, vampires, necromancers... in short, all the scum and villains who could be recruited in the south and were willing to serve a green-skinned warlord were hired and summoned from all over the south by the warlord through pirates.

The situation was so chaotic that the people in the south, who had surrendered to the greenskins only a few days ago, dared not speak out. They could only hope that these scums of the dark world, who were exposed to the light and hated by everyone, would quickly go to the north and follow that special greenskin warlord to bring disaster to their northern neighbors.

......

Some not-so-good news was sent back to the occupied Marus, the headquarters of the great warlord, through the flying dragon messenger.

The spider riders it sent to the Pina Forest were ambushed. The enemy was well prepared and they suffered heavy losses. Fortunately, with the support of subsequent reinforcements led by Tanks, the enemy was overwhelmed and retreated.

The idea is strong.

I can't tell exactly how hard it is.

The warlord stroked the non-existent beard on his chin, which was his habit.

More than 20,000 bald guys were beaten up in a mess. The number of enemies in that battle was at least 10,000 (said the greenskins), and 3,000 goblins were not defeated in one bite. It seems that the ambush army was not particularly large.

It scratched its chin, asked the courier to ride the dragon, and sent a message to the tank, letting it play freely, first find out the situation, and be cautious before considering whether to beat people or not.

Tank Bones' loyalty is also shown here.

Whether outside or inside, in many important situations, it would find ways to quickly report to the warlords before making a decision.

The warlord estimated that the tanks had 30,000 or maybe close to 40,000 guys?

This number changes all the time, and even the warlords themselves find it difficult to figure it out.

There are still ten thousand. This should be accurate. With ten thousand human shrimps, if they are steady, it should not be a problem for them to beat up the wild beasts in the forest. It would be best if we can make them surrender and help us cross the forest to beat up the shrimps in the north.

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Al's face didn't look very good, but no one could see it because he was wearing a mask.

This was the first time he encountered such a situation, not counting the time in Marus. The greenskins dispersed after he rushed and tore a hole in the encirclement. His adoptive mother Alina beheaded the greenskin commander. Although the remaining greenskins did not retreat directly, they did not dare to launch an attack on this unknown and powerful enemy in a short time. They just watched from a distance as the beastman legion escorted the residents of Marus to retreat eastward.

Can't win.

When the vanguard ambush arranged by Al came into close combat with the greenskins' vanguard, a group of weird goblin boys riding spiders, Al suddenly realized this problem.

He watched the development of the battle silently, and soon, his second vanguard also approached and joined the encounter that both sides had expected.

Two against three.

Slightly advantage.

Goblins and spiders can barely fight the Wrathhorns on equal terms, mainly because the crazy spider goblins are in high morale, and the spiders under their crotch are also perfect woodland creatures. The lush forest is a bonus for the Beastmen, and it is also a natural advantage for these spider goblins.

Fortunately, the Beastmen have the spell advantage provided by the Shamans.

"Master Killer" allows these vicious cold-blooded creatures to bite their riders in return, "Feast for Crows" summons magical incarnations that can pass through stone, wood, and steel obstacles, killing crows to tear apart and attack their enemies; "Petrifying Body", "Storm of Rebirth", "Paine's Tough Fur"...

Shamans who worship both the Shepherd and the Mother are now able to use a very mixed bag of spells from two, three, or even more branches.

In an environment where the Pina Forest has begun to transform into the Magic Forest and the Great Forest of Athel Loren, the wind of magic is almost always abundant and flowing here, as long as it is guided in advance.

For this battle, El paid a lot of his own blood to water the clone of the Rock of Nurturing. He used this divine object that entered chaos from the mortal world, was refined and infected in chaos for countless years, and returned to the mortal world. It was given to their common son by the Four Mothers. He restrained and strengthened the magic wind of that land. When El needed it, it would turn into a violent torrent, ruthlessly pouring down on the heads of his enemies.

But in the end it was not used much.

When the greenskin reinforcements arrived, Al was so excited that he could hardly contain himself. He let the two armies engage in a fight and activated the underground teleportation, sending the long-rested and well-prepared tribal army into the battlefield. He crushed the greenskins that had entered the forest with ease and turned them into nutrients for Pina.

But Al restrained himself. After assessing the strength between the enemy and us, he gave up the desire to inflict heavy damage on the greenskin vanguard in one battle and gave the order to retreat.

The two vanguards joined forces with the shamans to release a huge swamp spell, making the ground in an area soft and sinking, helping the vanguard troops to evacuate in an orderly manner.

The estimated loss ratio in this battle is about 1:5 or 6.