Chapter 10 Attack (Part 2) ()

The gathering place of the gnolls is a bit like a primitive village. It is barely made of a few wooden strips around it. Inside is a simple tent made of four thick round woods and animal skins. A large pot is surrounded by the middle of the tent, which is where the gnolls cook food. The primitive clan social system distributed food uniformly, but strong males and sprinkled are preferred.

These tents can only be inhabited by strong males in the gnoll clan. Female without mates and weak males can only sleep in the wilderness or find a cave for their own residence.

I heard that the werewolf who are fighting with humans have undergone great evolution and have a very strict hierarchy. It is even possible that the most primitive werewolf aristocratic system - military rank aristocrats!

Thankfully, Murphy found that the werewolves entrenched near his town were relatively primitive, more like wild animals than smart life.

This undoubtedly reduced him a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Murphy didn't know much about combat.

However, as a product of the information explosion era, even if it is learned from other sources, Murphy has learned a lot about strategy and tactics from other channels.

Reasonably screened out the tactics that belonged to the Age of Hot Weapons, and Murphy began to sort out the tactical knowledge of the Age of Cold Weapons in his memory.

Before the battle evolved to an era when it was just pulling the trigger, the tactics in those domestic movies could basically be ruled out. Wars in the era of cold weapons consumed a lot of physical strength, and the role of morale was particularly important! The sentence "One concerted effort, one more time, another less time, and three more time" clearly expressed this point.

After some thought, Murphy thought of a widely circulated sentence in his previous life, which comes from "The Art of War".

"The Art of War" says: "Do not stop the return troops, the encirclement troops must be deprived, and do not pursue the enemy if they are defeated."

The twelve very simple words hide the essence of the art of war.

"The army besieged..." Murphy stood on the hillside hundreds of meters away and looked at the gathering place of the werewolf, and he had some calculations in his heart.

This was a gathering place where there were more than 300 adult zombies. Their village was also just built, made of leather and fabric plundered from human towns.

These werewolves were quite ignorant. They sewed leather, linen, cotton, and even satin with rough fishing lines, and then made colorful tents as their own houses. The only thing these primitive creatures who had not yet born civilization were skinning and sewing simple leather armor. Their sharp clawed palms were not suitable for things like farming and making handicrafts. They would not even build an ordinary wooden house.

There are simple fences on all sides of the gathering place, with cubs of wild beasts captured by werewolf, animals plundered from human towns, and even humans...

Marquis Elizabeth mentioned that the werewolves that formed tribes already knew how to enslave humans. They knew to use uninjured humans as slaves, raise livestock, plant cultivated land, build houses, and build weapons for them!

However, it is obvious that the gnolls nearby do not have that high wisdom. I am afraid that after capturing humans, the first thing they think of is to fill their stomachs.

All the information collected is telling Murphy!

These werewolfs are evolving!

The werewolf throughout the southern plains are evolving from primitive beasts to intelligent life bit by bit.

And their barbaric civilization system is gradually improving in the war with mankind! They began to create primitive cuneiform characters, form a system of military aristocratic ranks, learn to grazle and tame wild animals, capture slaves, and worship ancestors...

Perhaps the clan gnolls are still primitive beasts, but those adult gnolls absorbed by the Kazart gnolls are already beginning to have wisdom!

"Spartan heavy infantry, advance."

The strength of Greek troops lies in their defensive ability and marching arrays. In field battles, Greeks without powerful cavalry were always unable to harvest the scattered enemy troops to their fullest.

Murphy's attack time is noon, when the gnobles catch their prey and start cooking.

Gnolls are the same as humans, or most intelligent creatures in this world are the same. They all maintain the tradition of eating two meals a day.

That is, lunch and supper.

At about ten o'clock, Murphy ordered the army to have lunch in advance, just to wait for the zombies to launch a raid when they prepare lunch!

At that time, most werewolves would return to the gathering ground.

"Touch! Touch! Touch!"

The dull footsteps of the Spartan infantry alarmed the female zombies who were cooking food, and they made horror.

The male gnolls who returned from hunting took up simple weapons and protected the female and the young gnolls behind them. They looked vigilantly at the east side of the fence, grinning and making sharp howls, trying to intimidate and drive away the enemy!

Unfortunately, they are facing real soldiers - lifelong professional soldiers! Their howlings did not even make the footsteps of the Spartan heavy infantry a little messy. Instead, because of the fearlessness of the Spartan heavy infantry, these werewolves themselves had a hint of panic.

"Greek infantry, advance!"

Neat footsteps sounded from the other side of the gathering place of the jaggers, and a group of Greek infantry in the town was approaching the jaggers at the same pace. Unlike the heavy Spartan infantry, the Greek infantry kept shouting like driving away the beasts as they advanced.

Two teams of infantry approached the gathering place of the zombies in a ‘v’ shape.

The infantry formation is wide and lengthened vertically and horizontally, leaving a large and a small hole at the front and back ends of the ‘v’ shape.

"General Guard, speed up!"

Murphy raised his horse whip and pointed at the gate of the Gnoll Camp.

The sound of horse hooves in the gallop was more oppressive than the neat footsteps of the infantry. Riots began to appear in the werewolf camp. The strong werewolf had already picked up their weapons and rushed towards the infantry formation, while the weak werewolf wanted to escape from the direction without enemies.

Facing the army is different from facing the unarmed farmer.

The latter is just prey in the eyes of the gnolls, while the former is even harder to deal with than bears, tigers and leopards!

"Spartan heavy infantry charge, Greek infantry gun array advances."

Murphy stood alone outside the encirclement formation, and the commander and the guard captain were guarding him. When the encirclement was close to fifty meters, Murphy decisively issued an order to let the Spartan heavy infantry charge at the best distance!

The Spartan heavy infantry are not invincible in terms of physical strength, combat skills and discipline. Their high morale can even fight to the death even if they encounter enemies that are several times higher than their own side! Therefore, the Spartan heavy infantry can let go and use their powerful lethal power to tear the enemy's formation. However, the Greek infantry is very average in terms of combat effectiveness, discipline and morale, so the commander must be conservative and enterprising, and use the advantages of the Greek spear phalanx to advance steadily, reducing casualties and avoiding heavy losses due to the counterattack of the werewolf.

After the Spartan heavy infantry launched the charge, the lower gap below the ‘v’ formation began to close, and only the gap above was still wide open.

"General Guard, free shot!"

Under Murphy's order, the General Guard split into two and ran to both sides with a larger "v". After finding the right position, the General Guard began to throw javelins into the gathering place of the gnolls.

"Sparta!"

The Spartan heavy infantry wearing a blood-red cloak stood the round shield in front of him as they approached the fence. Then the powerful soldiers broke open the fence and rushed towards the male zombies protecting the periphery.

The Spartan heavy infantry who crashed into the werewolf camp in one breath was like a huge rock throwing into the lake. It was not only a turbulence, but also caused violent shocks on the lake!

These warriors standing at the top of the earth at that time were like a sharp sword, and they pierced into the werewolf camp, dividing the terrified werewolf into two, and cutting them into two big cakes!

"Good opportunity!" Murphy's expression lit up, and without hesitation, ordered the general guards to attack the male zombies surrounded by the Spartan heavy infantry and Greek infantry without hesitation.

The weapons equipped by the General Guard are javelins and daggers. The length of the javelins is about two meters. Under normal circumstances, they will also be used as short spears.

"Huh! Drink! Kill!!!"

With the sound of dull weapons piercing through the sky, the male zombie attacked from three sides quickly collapsed.

The fear of death made them lose the courage to continue fighting, and they began to escape in the direction of the "v" formation.

Murphy decisively ordered the general guard to go around the fence from the side to block the female zombies and the zombies' cubs. He did not order to pursue the escaped male zombies, but instead contracted the formation to eat the weak existences in these zombies' clans.

The battle ended soon.

The female gnolls and were almost unable to fight back under the attack of Spartan heavy infantry and Greek infantry.

In just a few minutes, all the surrounded female werewolf and werewolves cubs turned into corpses.

The soldiers began to treat the wounded and finished the slaughter of the zombies that had not been killed before.

The casualties statistics came out soon.

He annihilated 124 enemies, lost five people, and more than 30 people were slightly injured.

All casualties were on Greek infantry, and the Spartan heavy infantry suffered almost no losses. The zombies' simple weapons were not enough to injure the Spartan heavy infantry under the protection of the shield, and the dead soldiers were basically attacked to the critical position. Most of the other injured soldiers were scratched by sharp claws and holy water, so such wounds would heal soon.

About two hundred adult gnolls fled.

Murphy calculated the time and ordered the Spartan heavy infantry and the Greek infantry to pursue the gnolls in the direction of the escape.

And he himself led the general guards around a nearby river and approached the valley to the north.

There, he ambushed the Greek infantry who had been in battle!
Chapter completed!