The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 228 Provocation
The battlefield swept by artillery and large-caliber guns is much more shocking than a simple confrontation with cold weapons.

Limbs, minced meat, and the aroma of roasted flesh, no complete corpse could be seen on the ground.

The surviving 3000 Jackals chose to surrender, which was exactly the high-quality cannon fodder Ickert wanted.

It is difficult for the Wolf man who has experienced the hail of bullets to raise any thoughts of resistance.

The ratmen of the first battalion were responsible for escorting and guarding the prisoners of war, while Ikert led the rest of the troops directly into Eyjafala.

The newly harvested food of the jackals was swept away by Ikett, the ornately decorated temple was demolished by the ratmen, and even the golden nose rings on the statues were plundered by the soldiers.

The army wantonly smashed, looted and burned this temple city, and did not see any divine punishment from the sun god they believed in.

Ickert sat directly on the gilded throne dedicated to the high priest, listening to the report of his rat man.

"Clan chief, there were nine rats casualties in this battle, two of them were killed by friendly artillery, and the other seven rats had their ears damaged by rifles."

Targaryen reported that after all-round advances in weapons, the First Army achieved an epic victory with ease.

Not even a rat died under the hands of the Wolf Man. The army's range advantage was too great. The Wolf Man couldn't hit such a long distance with bows and arrows or spells.

Artillery can eliminate risks at a distance of 1000 meters, which is beyond the reach of many spells.

"In addition to our casualties, we have also liberated about 500 human slave laborers from the wolf man's city, which is just right to fill the industrial chain,
A total of 8000 gnolls have been recruited as prisoners of war, of which 3000 are old, weak, women, children, and clan leaders. May I ask how to deal with these useless guys? "

Targaryen showed a ruthless expression when he said this, 5000 gnolls were enough as cannon fodder, any more would be a waste of food.

He must have hoped to execute all these people, but he didn't know what the clan chief thought.

Eckert's attitude towards this is:

"Keep it, it's useful."

As the saying goes, keeping a piece of insurance is a piece of insurance. In order to prevent the Jackals from rebelling on a large scale on the battlefield, they must first control their families.

As for whether to supplement them as jackals after the battle, or cut them directly, it depends on the needs at that time.

"Targlian, you have to go further and organize these gnolls. Those without relatives will be placed in the vanguard camp, and those with relatives in our hands will be in the rear. You must also pay attention to distinguishing some prestigious gnolls.

money!wine!that power!Let them be the jackals first, let them oppress those jackals instead of us, and wait for the end of the battle before doing the liquidation! "

"I see, Clan Chief."

Targaryen sighed, he really deserves to be the clan leader, he is evil and full of foresight when he thinks of the problem.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is obviously more proficient in this aspect of work, so Targaryen also requested the Ministry of Internal Affairs to cooperate with this operation. Ramsey borrowed some of the scarce rat power from the Ministry of Internal Affairs on top of the conscripted legion, and the rape plan was implemented among the prisoners. It's popular.

The Jackals, who were originally full of hatred for the Ratmen, suddenly transferred their hatred to the jackals. They are even more ruthless than the Ratmen!
At most, the Rat would skin the Jackals and cook them. In their eyes, the Jackals were just a kind of food.

But jackals are different. In addition to some jackals with inflated power, many villains who are obsessed with interests also took the opportunity to rise to power.

They do almost all kinds of evil, and with the acquiescence of the rat people, they can take any cruel action against their own kind without fear of punishment.

Even get rewarded.

In contrast, Shushu, who would throw two pieces of jackal jerky into the fence from time to time, seemed approachable.

The enslavement of the jackals spread out in an orderly manner. Although the jackals were tortured mentally, they were also compensated physically.

At least, the food that Ickert seized from the forest kingdom was really rich. In addition to the corpses collected on the battlefield, the wolves all ate meat.

After all, if you don't eat it, it will rot. Ickert just wants to waste less food that can last.

This move also allowed the Gnoll cannon fodder to increase their physical fitness, allowing them to show more strength in future battles.

The army returned to Windsor with a large number of Gnolls, and many merchants wanted to try to buy some fresh Gnoll slaves, which were said to be needed by a lady in a certain territory.

The other party offered a high price, a full five hundred gold coins, and Ickert sold more than 30 of them after thinking about it.

The rest of the gnolls will be treated as rats to be eaten or kept by others. This is the norm in Windsor.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted a final investigation on the espionage activities in the territory. The activities of the spies have been greatly weakened, and the time to attack the underground has come.

However, in the last month of the army's preparations for war, a bad news came from underground.

A zombie came from the ground to the area controlled by the Ratmen.

The relevant information was quickly sorted out by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the report given by Ramsey was that this rat is the person in charge of the unrestricted tunnel warfare in the territory, a three-star operator Baleka.

"According to the scheduled plan, Balaika should now perform the mission with Master Florin."

Ramsey wondered, for the sake of confidentiality, most of the mages hired to the territory have no background, Windsor will recruit them afterwards, if not, special agents will go to "solve the problem ".

Generally, a special field activity will be arranged by the territory. Obviously, Baleka's mission is in this category.

"But now it seems that his mission has failed. With such a strange situation, we can almost be sure that Baleka and the mage who acted with him were captured by the underground people and transformed into zombies by them."

After Ramsey finished speaking, he ordered the mouse to move in the completely decomposed Balaika. The whole body of the mouse was tied up with ropes, his eyes had turned white, and his whole body exuded the breath of death.

"Uh."

"After zombification, the Ratman seems to have lost the ability to communicate." Ramsey explained from the side.

Eckert also walked up to the zombie rat, which was outrageous, and Baleka did not show any tendency to attack humans.

"He won't take the initiative to bite?"

"No, but if the order is given, Baleka can show aggressiveness, and he also has a certain balance and pathfinding ability."

Ramsi signaled the internal affairs rats to prepare for the demonstration, and several operators untied the ropes on Baleka's body.

"Clan chief, please look at this."

Ramsey stepped forward and shoved the Zombie Rat violently.

The Zombie Mouse staggered for a while, but managed to stabilize its figure in the end.

"This is much smarter than the undead wandering in the wilderness."

(End of this chapter)