Today's first update: Chapter 2737! 1/4!
"Master, these rat troops seem like they've been played silly." A Li could not hide his smile.
Three months had passed since the war began. The Huang Clan had adopted the guerrilla tactics Xu Kun had laid out before the battle, achieving tremendous success.
The Huang Clan scattered into small groups. Some hid among the mountains and forests, while others disguised themselves as ratfolk. Their various methods shone brilliantly, all based on the different forms of Totemic Power.
Most of the rat army's vanguard had poured into the Huang Clan's temporary Race Battlefield, originally intending to encircle and wipe them out in one stroke. Yet the scattered rat troops could only be picked off one by one!
It was more like they were delivering themselves to the door!
Just looking at the results of these three months showed how stifled the rat army had been!
The ratfolk's numbers had fallen from 36.1 billion at the beginning of the war to 35.8 billion. In only three months, as many as 300 million had died in battle!
Compared to their total numbers, that death toll might not have seemed especially striking, but...
One had to remember that these 300 million ratfolk were essentially the elite rat troops Xu Kun had estimated would account for one-eleventh of their force—the batch charging at the very front.
Meanwhile, the Huang Clan had suffered losses of only a little over ten million, nearly all of them ordinary Huang Clan members.
The casualty ratio had reached an astonishing 1:30!
Such results could be called a resounding victory. Moreover, as they grew more proficient with the tactics, they had gone from some guerrilla squads making mistakes and falling into encirclements at the start to handling matters with ease. Over 300 million