Chapter 334 The Knight Suffers a Disadvantage
"Information, Commander-in-Chief." The guard approached a beast carriage that was painted with gorgeous patterns, extremely exquisite, and looked very expensive. He knocked on the wooden door and spoke in a low voice.
A gap opened under the wooden door. The guard was not surprised. He passed the parchment with information written on it into the door through the gap, then turned and left.
Inside the animal cart, the assistant picked up the parchment and checked it, then walked up to the rat commander and handed him the parchment.
"I guess the undead must have discovered us and have already formed a formation." The old rat man with white hair, very bright eyes, and a very kind look said jokingly, while taking the animal skin paper handed to him by his assistant and opening it.
The information was sent by spies.
"Ha, I guessed right, not a bit wrong." The ratman commander just glanced at it and laughed out loud, looking very proud.
"You have always been very foresighted." The assistant said flatteringly.
"No, no, no, I'm not that magical. Being able to predict things is what the emperors do. I just have more experience. If you live to my age, you can do the same. When you live long enough, many things are no longer secrets." The rat man commander smiled and waved his hand.
"Commander-in-chief, what should we do next? Should we go to war with the undead directly?" On the other side, a ratman assistant asked with a serious expression.
"Wouldn't it be pleasing to the Undead if we started the battle now?" The Ratman Commander shook his head. "We've been marching for so long, the warriors are tired, but the Undead... well, the Skeletons probably don't feel tired."
The ratman assistant nodded seriously with a serious expression. He understood what the ratman commander meant.
They had been traveling for a long time, and were exhausted and weak. The soldiers were in poor condition. Starting a war at this time would be tantamount to giving the undead a chance.
If you want to win, you must at least ensure that the soldiers are in a good mental state.
"Send the order and let the team stop. The soldiers need to rest. There will be a tough battle coming up." The ratman commander said to the assistant beside him.
The assistant nodded, opened the car door and went to deliver the message.
Only the ratman commander and his serious-looking assistant were left in the carriage.
"Commander, if we stop to rest now, won't the undead come and start a war with us?" asked the assistant.
"Maybe, maybe not, who knows." The ratman commander raised his eyebrows and said with a smile on his face.
The assistant's face froze.
He is a formal and old-fashioned man. He has been working with the commander for several years, but he still cannot adapt to the commander's naughty way of speaking.
He says half of the sentence and hides the other half. Anyway, he just doesn't like to tell the whole story.
The assistant was very worried. This time they had a rat army of more than 600,000, most of whom were private soldiers of various elders, nobles, and families.
In terms of combat effectiveness and weaponry, there is no problem at all.
The biggest problem is coordination.
Private soldiers are different from regular armies. The weapons and equipment of regular armies may not be better than those of private soldiers, and their physical fitness may not be better than that of private soldiers.
But there is one thing: the military discipline of the regular army is much stricter than that of private soldiers, and long-term training together will allow the regular army to develop the habit of cooperation, which will enable them to exert stronger combat effectiveness on the battlefield.
The momentum is also different. The regular army has more momentum and is not easily defeated.
The private soldiers had never experienced these things, and they made a living under the various nobles. They had many conflicts with each other and looked down on each other.
This is not a good thing.
The war with the undead is about to begin. The assistant has already sorted out intelligence about the undead and knows many things that other people don’t know.
This time they had a tough battle. They only had an army of more than 600,000, while the number of undead was more than 20 times theirs, conservatively estimated to be more than 12 million.
Although the majority of the undead army is a mob and cannon fodder, a large number of ants can kill an elephant.
Even when they are weak, when their numbers reach a terrifying level, they can still pose a great threat.
To make matters worse, the Undead were completely different from any other race their Skaven had fought.
In the history of the ratmen, every race has the problem of "morale".
If the morale is strong, the army’s combat effectiveness will be strong; if the morale is weak, the army’s combat effectiveness will be weak.
When casualties are heavy and morale collapses, the army will fall apart and suffer a rout.
For ordinary races, morale will collapse if 10-20% of the army is damaged.
For a powerful race, morale will also collapse when 40% of its army is damaged.
But this doesn't work on the undead.
There is no such thing as morale among the undead.
They will attack desperately, no matter how many casualties there are, they will not care, even if there is only one last undead, they will pounce.
This is very scary.
Without morale restrictions, they would have to consider killing all the undead.
This is simply an impossible task.
That's more than 12 million undead. Even if you just stand there and let the ratmen kill them at will, it will take a lot of time and energy, not to mention a head-on battle.
"Hahaha... don't think too much. War cannot be decided solely by numbers, it also requires wisdom." The ratman commander looked at his assistant's expression of "I'm speechless, I don't know what to say" and burst into laughter.
He laughed for a while, but when his assistant's expression became increasingly worse, he stopped smiling and said softly to him, "The war has actually already begun."
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