"Do you see it? This is the holy land that the Great Horned Rat God gave to all the rat people!
"It comes from the depths of the ground, and it has the most ancient and purest totem power. It can continuously produce enough food for an army of one million!
"With this holy land, the Great Horned Army will forever be invincible!"
The priest with the rat skull mask shouted at the top of his lungs to entice them.
The rat people who had just joined the Great Horned Army had never seen such a beautiful sight underground.
All of them forgot to breathe. Their eyes were dazzled, and they were so excited that they could not control themselves.
Only Meng Chao remained calm.
He could roughly guess the origins of the Great Horned Army.
By the looks of it, the ambitious person who had been hiding behind the scenes and created the Great Horned Rat God had accidentally discovered an underground cave filled with life at the border between the Golden Clan and the Blood Hoof Clan. It was a barren land where few people went.
Perhaps this underground dimension was so large that it was unimaginably large, and it was indeed a small world parallel to the Other World.
It was just like how the depths of Ruins No. 1, which was located in the center of Dragon City, had a terrifying space that could accommodate all of Dragon City.
Perhaps this ambitious person used the skills he learned from the ancient Turanians when he excavated countless temples to activate the ecosystem that had been sealed for millions of years in the underground cave.
It allowed him to occupy a spot between the Golden Clan and the Blood Hoof Clan without anyone knowing, and it became his capital to overthrow all of Turanze.
Of course, based on what Meng Chao saw, the underground ecosystem alone was far from enough to support an army of one million.
It could support thirty to fifty thousand soldiers at most.
This could be verified indirectly by the scale of the camp left behind by the Great Horned Army.
Indeed, they still did not see the main force of the Great Horned Army, which was said to be armed to the teeth.
They only saw an empty camp and a handful of soldiers stationed there.
They also received more information from all over Turanze.
It was only then that they learned that over the past ten days and nights, all of Turanze had gone through a drastic change.
Just as Meng Chao expected, the Great Horned Army was like an aquatic dragon lurking in the abyss. It would be fine if it did not move, but once it moved, it would definitely stir up a storm that shook the world.
Just as Blackhorn City was turned upside down by the chain of explosions caused by the methane gas.
In the towns and settlements of the Gold Clan, the Dark Moon Clan, the Lightning Clan, and the Divine Wood Clan, there were countless rat people who couldn't stand it anymore. Under the instigation of the Rat God's messengers, they all raised the most violent tides of anger.
Most of the places did not have a "destruction expert" like Meng Chao giving them pointers, so the results were not good. In fact, the local warriors discovered them beforehand and destroyed the entire organization. All the ratfolk who believed in the Horned Rat God were brutally suppressed.
However, the successive riots still greatly shook the ruling order of the clan warriors.
While the high and mighty nobles were greatly astonished, Ye Qingyu's expression changed drastically.
Many of the rats who were still enslaved and exploited opened their eyes that had been sealed for ten thousand years. They saw clearly that, apart from the path of slavery that led to humiliation and death, there was also a burning, glittering, and glorious path that was full of thorns and flames.
All of Turanze was thrown into chaos.
Every day, tens of thousands of ratfolk rose up.
Even in the main cities of the large clans, the elite battalions of the clans gathered there could easily crush the rebels who didn't even have weapons.
However, because most of the clan warriors were gathered in their respective main cities, swearing blood and practicing actual combat.
The local towns of the five great clans, as well as the border villages that couldn't even be considered towns, were extremely empty of troops.
Most of the people who were stationed in the local towns were the old, weak, sick, and disabled of the various clans.
There would even be a situation where there were only a few dozen clan warriors in the entire town, and they could only rely on tens of thousands of ratfolk servant soldiers to guard it.
Once these ratfolk servant soldiers heard about what happened in Blackhorn City and the main cities of their clans.
Or perhaps in their dreams, they received the revelation and blessing of the Horned Rat God.
If they were unwilling to become slaves and cannon fodder for all eternity.
A mere single digit clan warrior was not enough to stop the uncontrollable tide. In an instant, it boiled over and became a disaster.
Of course, even if the ratfolk could temporarily occupy a town.
It was wishful thinking to firmly defend their brand new home under the crushing vanguard of the clan army.
The ratfolk were very clear on this point.
They knew that the source of their power was their numbers.
"Once all the ratfolk in Turanze gather together and form a super army of unprecedented scale, with the blessing of the Horned Rat God, there will be no power that can stop our existence!"
The messengers of the Rat God shouted such slogans, driving batches after batches of ratfolk to flee the important towns that were heavily guarded by the clans. They rushed towards the border between the Blood Hoof Clan and the Golden Clan.
As for the main force of the Big Horn Army, they had already set off and headed north, charging towards the hinterland of the Golden Clan.
In the hearts of all the people of Turanze, the Holy Mountain, which held a supreme position, was there.
It was said that the Big Horn Army was going to fight a fair and square battle to the death with the heavy troops of the Golden Clan at the foot of the Holy Mountain.
They were going to use their glorious sacrifice to let the ancestral spirits at the peak of the Holy Mountain see that the brave and fearless ratfolk were worthy of the title of the sixth clan.
Meng Chao pieced together the changes of the situation over the past ten days from the fragmented and overly exaggerated information, and he could not help but praise the Big Horn Army's tactical choice.
"Do you really think that the main force of the Big Horn Army should charge into the Golden Clan's territory and die?"
Ice Storm was puzzled. "Don't tell me that this motley crew thinks that conquering a few towns at the borders, which have no soldiers, is the same as conquering the strategic locations of the strongest clans, which are heavily guarded cities?
"You have to know that quite a number of the strategic locations of the Golden Clan were not conquered by the armies of the Land of the Holy Light even during the era of the Major Extinction Order three thousand years ago!"
"That's right. On the surface, if we gather all our forces and charge into the Golden Clan's territory, we will definitely die. The safer choice seems to be to attack the Divine Wood Clan, which is the weakest among the five clans and also the least aggressive. We will first seize some of their territory and strategic resources before anything else," Meng Chao said.
"But if we think about it carefully, we will know that the seemingly safe strategy is actually digging our own grave.
"Over the past few thousand years, the main theme of the internal competition in the Tulan civilization has always been the Blood Hoof, Lightning, Dark Moon, and Divine Wood Clans, which are relatively weak, fighting against the Golden Clan, which is the strongest clan in the world.
"The Blood Hoof and the other three clans have long since signed an alliance to attack and defend. There's no way they will leave us in the lurch.
"Even if the main force of the Big Horn Army can conquer the Divine Wood Clan's territory and temporarily occupy some of their territory, so what? The Blood Hoof, Lightning, and Dark Moon Clans will definitely chase after them and attack them from the front and back with the Divine Wood Clan's elite troops. They will then completely destroy the main force of the Big Horn Army.
"Even if the main force of the Big Horn Army really has the Rat God's protection and can kill their way through the heavy encirclement of the four clans, don't forget that the strongest and most terrifying Golden Clan is waiting in front of them!
"Now, the Big Horn Army's choice is to send an endless stream of soldiers into the Golden Clan's territory.
"Let's not talk about whether or not the crazed rat people can win against the hungry wolves, tigers, and leopards.
"Think about it. If you were one of the higher-ups of the Blood Hoof and the other three clans, how would you view this change in the situation? Would you wholeheartedly help the Golden Clan and attack the Big Horn Army from the back?"
This question made Ice Storm sink into deep thought.
"Now that I think about it, the reason why the Blood Hoof Clan's pursuers changed their strategy from encirclement and suppression to banishment wasn't just because they were influenced by our news," Meng Chao continued.
"In truth, for the four clans, including the Blood Hoof Clan, driving the rioting rat people in their territories to the Golden Clan's territory is the best solution.
"No matter how terrible the chaos caused by the rat people is on the surface, their individual combat strength is weak, they lack heavy weapons such as totemic armor that can decide the outcome of a battle, and they lack the ability to continue the fight because they don't have a base, and other problems have determined that they are just a bunch of unruly people. No matter how happy they are now, they will be destroyed sooner or later.
"The true competitors of the five clans are still each other.
"More accurately speaking, to the Blood Hoof Clan and the other three clans, they are the Golden Clan.
"At the start of the Battle of Glory, the Golden Clan was in a dominant position.
"But their strongest challenger, the Blood Hoof Clan's main city, suffered the most severe damage from the rat people, so much so that the Blood Hoof Clan suffered a great blow to their foundation and was practically forced out of the competition.
"Without the Blood Hoof Clan as a strong challenger, the Lightning Clan, Dark Moon Clan, and Divine Wood Clan won't be able to fight against the Golden Clan. Forget about the throne of war chief, it will still be held by the strongest of the lionmen or tigermen. Even the power of the Blood Hoof Clan and the other three clans will be greatly reduced when it comes to the distribution of spoils of war and achievements in the Battle of Glory.
"I believe that the chiefs, priests, and generals of the four clans will definitely not be willing to see such a bleak future turn into reality.
"Now, to them, if they want to win against the Golden Clan, there is only one way left. They will let the rat people rush into the Golden Clan's territory and let the Big Horn Army wreak havoc right under their noses. It will be best if they can deal a heavy blow to the Golden Clan's heavy military!"
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