Chapter 179, The Flag's March
Wolf orcs cannot live without salt. Salt and metal are their most important tools for harvesting other races.
They are not stupid. Thorough oppression will breed the most brutal resistance, even if they have overwhelming force.
At this time, some special means are needed.
For example, the extremely unfair trade, when the argali tribe was not destroyed, a metal scimitar could be exchanged for ten sheep, and a bag of salt could be exchanged for fifty sheep.
Of course, you can choose not to exchange, but salt is a necessity, and so is the metal scimitar.
Plus some small means.
The scimitars sold by the wolf orcs to the sheep orcs are priced at twelve sheep, two of which will be handed over to the argali tribe.
As for the reason.
Who made the argali tribe an ally, and you sheep orcs are just vassals.
Small means, but very effective.
This is the key to making this salt lake extremely important. Even if they retreated to avoid the rat people, the wolf orcs did not really withdraw from the area where the salt lake exists.
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Qi led the silent team behind him and marched on this vast grassland.
His approach has not changed, and the effect is still as good.
"Follow me! Follow me! I will bring you changes! Offer loyalty to me!"
With repeated shouts and repeated emphasis, more and more defective slave rats offered their loyalty to him.
They began to shout his name.
They began to look at the simple flag behind him.
They chose Qi and followed him across a long distance. They killed those who were still hesitant and maintained their precious hope.
They became a barely usable army.
A group of humble guys who were unqualified but ignited with desire.
Of course, if Shu Zhan saw this army, he would laugh at it, even though it was not easy for these defective slave rats to achieve this step.
The weak are weak after all, and the weak are weak after all.
But Qi had no choice, and he could only choose these humble and weak defective slave rats.
The scene in front of him changed, and it was finally no longer the unchanging green.
But it is hard to say whether this change is good or bad.
What caught my eye was a pale, lifeless pale.
The endless white almost filled up everything that the rat army could see.
This was the first time the rats had seen such a scene.
In this white, the silent army behind them also hesitated a little.
They had been trudging hard on this empty grassland for thirty days. During the long journey, except for Qi's shouting, there was almost no other sound in this team, with a bit of depression.
This was a bad state, the state brought by Qi.
During the long journey, Qi was more shaken and confused than the group of defective slave rats under him.
He was not as arrogant and determined as Rat War.
After the initial hesitation, he began to waver in his decision.
The long march still faced the vast grassland that seemed to have no end.
Became confused.
This state was brought to the army he led and to the slave rats who followed him.
Qi took the lead in getting himself in order, turned around, and shouted loudly to the rats behind him.
"Forward! Forward!"
He led the way to the pale land in front of him.
Later, the defective slave rats followed Qi and stepped onto the pale land.
The journey was not smooth. In just a few days, half of the army in his hands was lost.
The area he chose was not wrong. There were the enemies he was looking for and traces of the enemies here. There was just one problem. The enemies here seemed to be more than he expected, too many.
Just half a day after entering this pale area, he encountered a wolf patrol, leaving behind a small part of the troops.
He was chased in a panic, and finally relied on jumping into this huge saline lake to escape with the remaining troops.
It was not until nightfall that he dared to climb out of the saline lake with the army carefully. The broken armor on his body had long been thrown away. In order to swim faster, his fur was covered with white salt grains.
His eyes were red and stinging.
Only the crude flag in his hand was not thrown down.
It was obvious that the troops in his hands were not enough to challenge the wolf orcs in this area.
He looked embarrassed.
He clenched his teeth.
The bitterness in his mouth did not make Qi sober.
He made a choice early.
Between death and becoming a rat warlord, he chose to become a rat warlord.
His eyes were red, his face was hideous, and he waved the flag crazily.
In the eyes of those who were cast on him, in front of the rats who were gradually getting fanatical, he waved the flag in his hand ferociously and crazily.
The fanatical shouts of the slave rats echoed on the shore of this ordinary salt lake.
Qi finally looked like a warlord at this moment.
The arrival of the rats made the wolf orcs in this salt lake more alert, but the same doubts also appeared in the heart of the wolf orc leader guarding here.
Why are their enemies who are waiting for them so weak?
The wolf knights, with only 800 men, chased the nearly 30,000 ratmen troops of the general flag and even forced the ratman general to jump into the saline lake with his troops to escape.
After a long period of thinking, he did not get any results, but he could not give up this saline lake.
The saline lake in his hand is very important. He will never give it up unless he has no other choice.
The wolf orcs are not united. There are conflicts. The amount of resources determines the right to speak.
The young king of the wolf orcs ordered all the wolf orc tribes in this area to evacuate.
He did not obey completely.
The wolf orcs strengthened patrols in the saline lake area to guard against the large enemy forces that might arrive.
As for the rat army that was chased by 800 wolf knights and the rat general who led the rat army.
But they never found any trace and had to give up. Maybe they escaped. More attention was used to guard against the large enemy forces that might appear on the grassland.
The wolf knights were sent to the grassland for early warning.
But what the wolf orc leader did not know was that the guy who led the weak troops suddenly appeared in front of him and never left the city.
And he had already cast his red eyes on him.
Digging through the hard saline land, opening up caves one after another, hiding on the gray-white saline lake shore.
Hiding in caves during the day, and advancing deeper along the lake shore at night.
It took Qi seven days to lead the remaining ratmen troops into the core of the saline lake.
He finally saw what he was looking for, large and small wolf orc tribes.
He also found his target.
In the center of the largest wolf orc tribe, the most gorgeous tent was located, and a giant wolf flag fluttered in the wind.