Chapter 89: Battle! (Central)

The next day, early morning.

The Pioneer Army set out at three o'clock in the morning, and they brought nothing but weapons and a water bag. Under the leadership of General Leodale, they would march for three hours until around six o'clock in the morning to reach the canyon between the Zangala Mountains and the Karazan Mountains. Murphy had sent light cavalry to survey the route and clear the road a few days ago, so there was no need to worry about the trouble of night marching.

With the strategic map of the "Total War" auxiliary system, Murphy has an innate advantage in the overall situation.

Murphy gave General Leodale an hour to resolve the battle and deal with the zombies entrenched near the canyon.

The vanguard army includes 1,200 Greek heavy infantry teams, 240 Crete Long Bowmen Teams, 54 Macedonian elite light cavalry teams, 12 priests in the Temple of War, and Spartan heavy infantry who have been replenished to 45 people.

This army of about 1,500 people can be said to be the backbone of the Athenian city, in order to capture the canyon as fast as possible!

The central army was led by Murphy and set off at four o'clock in the morning, including 2,000 Silver Shield Eagle Flag Infantry, 2,400 archers, and about 1,000 miscellaneous infantry provided by Lady Elizabeth, 800 Psian mercenaries and some Aboriginal noble knights and their entourages. The central army was all lightly equipped, and except for the necessary materials for building fortifications, all the others were handed over to the auxiliary legion.

Murphy's plan was to immediately start laying out defensive facilities after the Pioneer Army captured the canyon.

The auxiliary legion was led by General Marcus Kane and set off at six o'clock in the morning. They were mainly composed of militias that had just been trained for a long time, with a number of about four thousand people. The main supplies, including food, arrows, tents, etc., were carried by them. Their mission was as long as they arrived at the canyon when the zombies discovered and arrived.

Murphy did not expect much hope for these auxiliary legions who had only been training for one or two months.

After all, they were just farmers working in the fields before, without any military training, and did not know any combat skills.

The time is approaching the end of August, which is the end of autumn and winter.

Although the moon was hanging high in the sky, it was still pitch black around at four o'clock in the morning.

The city of Athens is brightly lit and women are seeing off the soldiers.

In this battle, Murphy drew nearly one-half of the adult citizens in the territory, and they can be said to be the foundation of urban development!

So Murphy can't afford to lose this battle!

Losing means that most of the working people in the territory are suddenly emptied.

Central Square.

The General Guard stood solemnly around Murphy with torches in his hand. In the early days of the war, the residents of Athens city also consciously gathered near the square in the early morning.

"Citizens of Athens! Soldiers from human city-states!"

Murphy stood solemnly on the platform in the central square, with a serious expression. He looked around and said in a deep voice: "This time! We will drive the gnolls! We will drive them out of our homeland! Our land!"

"We must use blood to tell them that humans are not weak to bully!"

"We must use death to tell them that civilization will overcome barbarity!"

"We will surely win!"

Sharp!

Murphy pulled out the sword from his waist and raised it high, staring at the people in the square, and said the most critical sentence!

——"Everyone will get land after victory!"

land!

No one does not desire land!

Land is the source of all wealth!

The atmosphere in the square suddenly became excited, and the desire for land made the soldiers full of fighting spirit!

Murphy waved his sword and said in a deep voice: "Set out!"

The army slowly set off.

The leader was the Silver Shield Eagle Flag Infantry sent by the human city-state. They were all well-equipped and disciplined, even if they were heavier than the Greek infantry. These Silver Shield Eagle Flag Infantry are the most elite soldiers in the human city-state. They are equipped with square shields up to 90 cm long, all equipped with half-body armor and holding long spears and short swords. During this half month of training, the priests of the Temple of War have taught them how to use long spears to fight.

The combat skills of the spear are not very good, they are just a spear. The real key is cooperation between the teams.

In the traditional combat mode and the training of the priests of the Temple of War, these silver shield eagle flag infantry added the combat mode of the Roman elite before the Horse Reissue. Although they are only initially familiar, they were originally elite soldiers, and their ability to adapt to weapons is invincible to other infantrymen.

To put it in a simpler way.

In order to use the spear to have advantages in fighting gnolls, the priest of the Temple of War at Murphy's instructions, let these silver-shield eagle flag infantry learn from the combat methods of the Roman elite infantry before the reform of the Roman Empire of Marriott.

An excellent nation should keep making progress.

The Roman Empire was still very outstanding in this regard. They learned javelin throwing from Spanish mercenaries, and learned the phalanx skills from the Greek nation, and gradually evolved into the fighting style after the reform of Marius.

The fighting style of human city-states is very close to that of the Roman Empire, but the reason for this is to say something.

The half-elves race that was originally inlaid with human territory was the half-elves that lived in the forests of the Karazan Mountains. Of course, half-elves are another way of saying it. In fact, they are the hybrid elves and descendants of ancient elves.

As we all know, the elves are rich in archers.

The original werewolves lived in the jungle area inside the Karazan Mountains, which means that they were originally separated from the human city-state by an elves.

The elves that are rich in archers basically do not have any leather-armored nerds.

You can completely imagine how strong the zombie was suppressed by the elves, and it can be said that he did not dare to cross the boundary at all!

This situation has remained for nearly a thousand years.

In other words, for more than a thousand years, all the races adjacent to humans, except for the kobolds, have been intelligent species such as elves and centaurs who are good at archers.

So this leads to a little bit.

The military system of human city-states began to fight in a battle style similar to that of large shields like the Roman Empire. It was mainly to form dense shield formations to fight against troops like archers.

This is also the reason why the Silver Shield Eagle Flag Infantry is the main combat arm of human city-states.

A tradition of more than a thousand years.

After the dwarf tribe returned strongly to issue a declaration of revenge to the elves, the peace was broken.

The elves began to shrink their defense lines and recalled the mixed-blood elves that were originally scattered on the continent, and an elves tribe living near the Karazan Mountains were also recalled. In this way, a barrier between humans and gnolls disappeared.

After the large-scale migration of the elves, the zodiac tribe carefully and tentatively walked out of the Karazan Mountains.

They were surprised to find that humans that were not easy to deal with in the past seemed to have become much weaker. Their shields and daggers did not have any advantage when facing tall creatures like werewolves. So the heart of the gnoll clan suddenly became hot.

They want to regain the southern plains and defeat humans completely!

So, the war broke out.

This is the change in history before Murphy came.

The dwarves return and declare war on the elves.

Faced with the strong return of the dwarves, the mixed-blood elves with greatly reduced elemental abilities had to recall the scattered tribes.

The scattered tribes were recalled, and a barrier between humans and gnolls disappeared.

For more than a thousand years, humans who are accustomed to fighting species with bows and arrows have been suddenly fooled by the werewolf! Under the strong attack of the werewolf, humans can only passively defend while finding the direction of military reform.

And at this time, Murphy came to this world.

Without Murphy's arrival, humans might have slowly found the direction of military reform. However, it may cost a considerable price, that is life, the lives of a large number of soldiers...

After losing a large number of people, human strength will be greatly reduced. However, the current situation is that although humans have suffered heavy losses, they have not shaken their foundation, which has retained the strength of the entire race! In history, a small part often causes unpredictable changes!

Because of Murphy's arrival, the human city-state began military changes ahead of schedule.

After discovering that the Greek spear phalanx was advantageous to the zodiac, the human city-state began to change clothes in large numbers, gradually changing from the original combat method of shield and archers to the combat method of spear phalanx and a large number of auxiliary troops.

It is precisely because of this that the human city-state gradually stabilized its defense line and began to counterattack.

The human city-state in the southern plains itself has spearmen, and the problem is just the number. The biggest change is that the main combat troops have changed from the original shield armor heavy infantry to the current spear square infantry. But just this change, the human city-state has buffered back from the form of being crushed and hit, forming the current confrontation with the Kazart Gnoll Tribe.

In fact, when Murphy saw these Silver Shield Eagle Flag infantry, he remembered the Roman military system before the Horse Reform. The equipment and combat methods of these Silver Shield Eagle Flag infantry were a bit similar to those of Roman heavy infantry. The only difference is that the species they faced have bow and arrow specialization attributes, so these Silver Shield Eagle Flag infantry were not equipped with javelins. Of course, in terms of strength, Silver Shield Eagle Flag infantry is still a little stronger than Roman heavy infantry. After all, they are the top infantry in the entire southern plains human city-state.

The Roman legion-style fighting style does not have the advantage in facing the gnolls, such tall and fast-moving species.

The best way to deal with this creature is to line up to defend and use static to prevent it!

In fact, after seeing these silver shield eagle flag infantry, Murphy immediately jumped out of his mind and trained them into a military similar to the one born of imitating the Greek infantry phalanx before the horse reform of the Roman Empire - the elite Roman infantry!
Chapter completed!