Chapter 19: Capture slaves!

(It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and the road is full of people visiting the graves. I'm embarrassed.)

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Bear Goblin.

They are a variant of goblins, evil, greed, and stupidity are their nature. As the most powerful of goblin-like creatures, bear goblins are tall, strong, ferocious, and more agile than ordinary humans. They are the rulers of goblin-like creatures and are the strongest. They are named after the faces like bears, covered with thick rough hair, and the color is between brown and brick red. Their noses are very much like bears, and bears are as sensitive as bears. The tough fur and sharp claws also inherit the characteristics of bears, but their movements are much more agile than bears.

In this world, many low-level bear goblins will use stone or bone pieces to sharpen their claws. Some high-level bear goblins, including their leaders, prefer to use maces and thick wooden sticks as weapons. Sometimes these high-level bear goblins will also master some combat skills using nail-head pounding.

Bear Goblins use goblins, and some advanced bear Goblins use common terms.

They survive by hunting any creature that is weaker than themselves, and when food is short, they even use their own kind as food!

The bear goblins are huge and powerful. They are about 7 feet tall when standing (about 2.2-2.3 meters). Their skin color is between light yellow and yellow-brown, covered with thick and rough hair. Their eyes are similar to those of wild beasts. There is a red pupil in the center of the green and white eyeballs, and there is also a pair of large shovel-shaped ears.

In terms of size, this biolight can even be compared with many higher zombies.

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As the most powerful individual among similar goblin creatures, bear goblins are often the leader. There are not many bear goblins that are active on the mainland, and are mainly concentrated near the deserted stone highlands, because this is a hub point connecting many races. As natural robbers and thieves, living in such a place is obviously more suitable for their activities.

Since this migrating bear goblin entered the territory of Athens, they have been monitored by Murphy's "sea, land and air".

Not only did the Temple of War send elite soldiers to detect their whereabouts and directions, the gray-robed mage Gandalf also called on the eagle under Murphy's order to closely monitor the migration routes of these bear goblins from the sky.

It can be said without hesitation that Murphy is absolutely sure to win these slaves who come to his door!

Athens, across the harbor.

"Governor!" A Spartan conqueroer emerged from the dense reed marsh and ran to Murphy quickly, and spoke, "The bear goblins sent scouts, seemingly aware of our existence. They are turning east."

Although bear goblins are stupid, as a natural robber, they have always had the tradition of sending scouts to conduct reconnaissance first.

Murphy didn't expect that they would be discovered so easily.

However, after thinking about the rumors that the bear goblin's nose was very sensitive, he also understood why, such creatures can easily smell the breath of a stranger. If they send a lot of scouts, it would be normal for them to find it.

"Since they have discovered it, then we will summon the army to chase after it!" Murphy immediately stopped hesitating and ordered to the general Leodalee beside him.

Since the entire race is moving, it is naturally impossible for the bear goblin to pat his hands and take a group of people to other areas with his butt naked. Since it is moving, he must bring most of the supplies that he can bring. After all, these bear goblins who live by robbery for nothing can be considered wealthy. Since he brings baggage, the speed of advance will naturally not be too fast. The army of Athens is light-fitting this time, and it can be said that he has brought nothing except weapons and equipment and a day's rations.

And in order to be foolproof, Murphy also mobilized more than 600 cavalry troops.

It can be said that there is no difficulty in catching up with these migrating bear goblin tribes!

The army sets off!

General Leodari led the phalanx infantry of the First Legion of Athens from the rear to catch up with the footsteps of the Bear Goblin tribes, while Murphy led the cavalry and a 1,200 archer troops to cross from the side, preparing to intercept these Bear Goblins in the front.

Trade with the centaur tribe brought a large amount of horse resources to Athens. Although the size of the cavalry was only more than 800, the horses were matched with one person and two horses. This was because Murphy had reserved some additional horses in order to form an iron armored cavalry in the future, otherwise there would be more than three horses per person! The centaur tribe kept tens of thousands of horses in captivity, and relying on their trade relations, Athens now has more than 2,500 horses. After the construction of the horse farm was completed, Murphy had planned to divide an area from the territory to open a horse farm.

It was not until noon that the army of Athens caught up with the migrating bear goblin tribes.

The weather was still quite hot in late August.

Four or five days have passed since these bear goblin groups migrated all the way, and now they are already covered in dust and full of fatigue. After being chased by the Athenian army for a morning, they are even more exhausted.

Although they rarely intersect with other intelligent races, even if they intersect, they are robbing them, but these bear goblins have heard of the "great reputation" of Athens. Tens of thousands of orc warriors were defeated by these Athenian armies, not to mention just some of their loose bear goblin tribes. The prosperity of Athens and the power of Spartan warriors have long been circulated in the ears of all races around the southern plains.

"Governor General, General Leodale has already caught up!" A horse rushed from a high slope. The knight on the horse flew down after reaching Murphy and said quickly.

"Okay! Get ready to attack!" Murphy's expression turned up and said in a deep voice.

Although the Athenian army became very tired after a morning march, it was much better than those bear goblins. There was enough food and nutrition, and high-intensity exercise, perhaps because of this world, even ordinary humans were more powerful at the limit of their physical limits than soldiers on Earth. This characteristic became more obvious after the elemental tide began.

To put it simply, it is because of some differences in this world that the upper limit of human potential seems to be much higher than that on Earth.

Although humans have a weak average strength, they are on par with other organisms in the middle and high end aspects.

Humans are not without potential, they are just not as physically as other creatures. The barbarian humans whose physical abilities can fight against werewolves and orcs are a good representative.

Humans’ physical potential may not be disadvantageous!

"attack!"

Rumble!!!

With the sound of horse hooves that made the earth tremble, two thousand cavalry rushed out from the hillside, and just happened to be at the intersection where the bear goblins advanced.

The sound of horse hooves caused a riot in the Bear Goblin Tribe. The sound of thousands of horses galloping at the same time was like a mountain pressing heavily on their hearts.

One person is not conspicuous, and one hundred people may not be too many, but a thousand people can form a two-kilometer formation when holding hands!

As for tens of thousands of people, only one word can be understood by seeing it with one's own eyes.

That is - crowded!

The scene of two thousand horses galloping at the same time may be difficult for modern people to imagine, but this is inconspicuous in many novels, and it can even be said to be a few numbers that are a bit incredible. When it really appears in front of people, it has an unimaginable shock! If thousands of horses are unimaginable, then it is simply understood that it is two hundred heavy trucks that are trained in a row and moved forward!

A one-kilometer-long front!

The dust flying all over the sky, the sound of horse hooves rushing, and the trembling sound of the earth, thousands of cavalry faced the bear goblin tribes in two rows and fan-shaped encirclements! The dust raised blocked the enemy's sight, and the bear goblins could not even determine how many enemies there were! There were traces of the enemy everywhere, and the sound of horse hooves were deafening. The shouts of the enemy gradually made them mess up the square formation, and the internal riots became more and more serious!

This is the powerful deterrent power of cavalry in the era of cold weapons!

When the galloping horse forms a torrent, no one dares to shake its edge unless it is an extremely elite soldier!

This is just the momentum generated by the charge of light cavalry. If it were replaced with an equal amount of iron armored heavy cavalry, then the terrible psychological pressure and the fear in the face of a torrent of steel can even easily make these bear goblins give up all resistance and turn around and flee. In history, there are many examples of the enemy defeated by more than a thousand iron armored heavy cavalry attacking tens of thousands of enemy troops. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Li Shimin's black armored iron cavalry fully exerted the lethality of heavy cavalry on the battlefield!

"dismount!"

Six flag bearers galloped on horseback, waved the flags, and shouted Murphy's orders.

More than 1,200 long-bowmen jumped off the horse, took off the longbow on their backs, and put on the arrows. The deep cold arrow pointed at the turbulent bear goblins. The light cavalrymen ran left and right after the bow and arrow array, divided into three square formations to form a cavalry cone formation with long spears in their grasp!

After all, the bear goblins are quite famous creatures. After the initial riots, some tall bear goblins who were strong and holding weapons seemed to be the leader and the warriors pushed away the clan and strode out. There were about four or five hundred bear goblins, almost all the leaders and elite warriors in the bear goblin tribe. They shouted loudly at the clan and waved their weapons to boost morale. Under their influence, many bear goblins picked up weapons and formed a dense formation and lined up in front. Although they were aroused a little morale, other bear goblins still walked timidly behind the team.

Five hundred steps!

Four hundred steps!

Three hundred steps!

"shoot!"

"shoot!"

"shoot!"

The commanders repeated Murphy's orders loudly, and the longbowers lined up in the front immediately loosened the tense bowstrings, and a rain of arrows hit the elite bear goblin warriors in the front.

One wave, two waves, three waves...

The longbowmen of Athens shot out ten waves of arrow rain in just one minute in two formations!

Raining arrows all over the sky.

In just one minute, 12,000 arrows enveloped the hundreds of bear goblins walking at the front of the queue...

Under the powerful penetration of the longbow, the place that was not considered a battlefield was full of arrows, and it was a mess!

Dead silence!

The entire battlefield was silent, and the bear goblins seemed to be stunned, maintaining their movements a minute ago, looking at the corpses of the team that were once their leader and elite soldiers in the clan in front of the team.

That bunch of hornet nests that were beyond recognition.

The terrible lethality of the covering arrow rain shot on the battlefield instantly made the bear goblins who usually just rob the passing caravans and attack several small villages understand what the gap is!

And this group of mobs who were commanding small robberies finally understood in their hearts what the concept of the army is.

massacre!

As long as the enemies in front of them are willing, they can easily slaughter everyone. They begin to fear and want to escape because they understand that the enemies in front of them are not something that they are the mobs that can defeat.

Because these enemies in front of you are an army, a real army!

Step by step!

The neat footsteps appeared behind the bear goblin tribe. Under the leadership of General Leodard, 3,600 heavy Greek infantrymen appeared on the battlefield in neat steps. These soldiers, who were disciplined and strictly trained by the priests of the Temple of War, cut off all the rear paths of these bear goblins with three elongated infantry formations under the command of their respective commanders.

Long spears stand, and the cold light shines!

The rows of spear square arrays were like an unsurpassable torrent of steel, which made these bears feel desperate.

They looked at the wooden sticks in their hands, maces inlaid with iron nails, leather armor on their bodies that were simple or not, and then at the Athenian soldiers' spears that were shining with cold light in the sun, and those neat sets of standard armors, and there was no longer any longing in their hearts.

At this time, a goblin who was wearing a wide human costume and looked a bit arrogant, but was extremely funny, walked out of the square formation of Athenian soldiers and appeared in front of the bear goblins.

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Everything is over before it really begins.

In fact, this result was long ago as Murphy expected, because he mobilized a huge army that could even support a battle. If he could not deal with these rascal bear goblins, it would be a joke.

Three thousand six hundred heavy Greek infantry, one thousand two hundred long archers, including the fully organized Crete long archers, plus eight hundred cavalry units.

This lineup is more than enough to deal with these bear goblins, even if it wins a city!

If it weren't for the purpose of capturing these bear goblins as much as possible and avoiding unnecessary battles to reduce the population he gained, Murphy would never have created such a large lineup to deal with these small characters.

However, he soon became excited.
Chapter completed!