Chapter 97: Battle (Part 2)

The Gnolls launched the offensive much longer than Murphy expected.

It seems that the jaggers marching last night also consumed a lot of physical strength. It was not until noon that the jaggers' army began to advance. They were all composed of adult male jaggers, with a physique of about two meters, equipped with weapons and leather armor. Some elite soldiers were equipped with modified half-body armor, but not many. Generally speaking, the elite human troops were only equipped with half-body armor. Judging from the human army defeated on the front line, the number of half-body armor seized by the jaggers should not exceed three thousand.

The gentry of the werewolf is a loose system of existence.

Just like Murphy met several times, each zodiac army had a strongest and tallest high zodiac as its leader.

That is, a general who is similar to a human being.

However, creatures like zombies do not advocate wisdom. They are used to obeying power, which is the strongest person.

This also leads to a little bit that they are disorganized.

The structure of the fortifications is not complicated, such as horse resistance, gullies, horse resistance, poison signs, and earthen walls. The depth of the entire fortification is 100 meters, which means that the purpose of these fortifications is to slow down the zombies' advance within these 100 meters and to gain time for shooting for archers.

At noon.

The zombies lined up before the canyon.

In terms of equipment alone, they are much better than those scattered clan zombies. However, in terms of combat methods, the gap between them is actually not big. At least Murphy has not seen a very obvious tactical style from them.

The Gnoll is composed of three echelons.

The first echelon is composed of male zombies with shields that are generally over two meters tall. They are wearing leather armor, partly equipped with half-body armor, and in their hands are human-style shields. They are somewhat similar to the square shields in the Roman military system. They are wooden, wrapped in a layer of iron sheets, and the length is about ninety centimeters. If this kind of shield is used by humans with smaller physiques, there is naturally no big problem. However, it seems a bit invisible to hold them by these zombies with generally over two meters tall.

I can only barely block the vital part on my chest.

The number of gnolls in the first echelon is not large, less than a thousand.

The second echelon is composed of more well-equipped gnolls and heavy infantry soldiers. They are generally equipped with leather armor, which is a simple armor that sews some iron pieces on the leather armor to protect the key points such as heart position. This is very common in this very primitive era. Even in human city-states, many of them are equipped with such leather armor. In terms of weapons, the second echelons are equipped with heavy weapons, at least Murphy did not see the gnolls holding short swords.

The number of gnolls in the second echelon is quite large, close to two thousand.

The third echelon is those adult zombies equipped with ordinary equipment. They have leather armor and their weapons are messy. Some even use short swords plundered from humans as weapons. However, in their hands, it is more like daggers. Currently, there are only two cities that have been broken by zombies. With the military reserves of the two cities, it is obviously impossible to arm 100,000 zombies. What's more, even in human city-states, the weapons equipped by ordinary soldiers are just short swords and spears.

There are many gnolls in this echelon, more than 5,000.

In addition, there are elite zombies equipped with half-body armor and holding weapons such as tomahawk hammers. Their number is about 500, and they are all guarding the upper zombie leaders.

But in terms of equipment, this werewolves army gave Murphy not as much danger as the elite wolf cavalry.

The one that is a little troublesome is.

Some archers appeared among these gnolls.

They trained a group of archers with the number of archers plundered from humans, with a number of about a thousand people.

Mixed between the first and second echelons.

Although zombies are fishing and hunting races, they are not good at archery.

The reason is that their claws have sharp claws on their hands, which are not suitable for drawing arrows.

However, these newly trained zombie archers all looked like they had cut off their long and narrow claws, otherwise it would be really difficult to shoot arrows with their hand shape.

The army of jaggers began to advance.

The gnolls in the first echelon held Fang Shield high in front of them and quickly advanced, while the gnolls in the second echelon followed closely behind.

Due to the terrain of the canyon, the werewolves were able to invest in the battle at one time, because if it was too dense, it would not be dispersed at all.

When I first saw this zombie army, Murphy knew that this battle was almost no difficulty.

Because these are not the main forces of the frontline zombies at all.

Murphy learned from the information obtained by the human city-state that the elite troops of the front-line werewolfs should be a top heavy infantry consisting of armored high gnolls with a number of about 3,000 and a wolf cavalry with a number of about 2,000. The wolf cavalry had been defeated by Murphy yesterday, and those high gnoll heavy infantry with half-armor should still be on the front-line to fight against the human city-state.

The distance is closer to two hundred meters.

Before the gnolls approached the first horse-rejected horse, Murphy ordered the archers to shoot.

The earth wall built from sandbags is about four meters wide, and two rows of archers can stand. Including the 640-man longbowers in the city of Athens, it means that these first wave of tentative attacks will advance two hundred meters under the shooting of more than 2,400 archers. Then they will arrive in front of the Greek heavy infantry and fight with the long-awaited enemy.

The average shooting speed of archers is about six seconds per arrow.

In other words, you can shoot at a concentrated amount of about ten times within one minute.

A distance of two hundred meters ranges from pushing off the horse, crossing the gully, and reaching the front of the defensive front.

These werewolves took about three minutes.

In three minutes, even if one person shoots only 10 arrows, the amount of ammunition dumped by 2,000 people in three minutes is more than 20,000 arrows.

In fact, combat is much simpler than these data.

Because those square shields, which are only ninety centimeters long, cannot completely protect the zombies with a size of up to 2 meters. And they are also impossible to use square shields to form the famous tortoise shell formation like the Roman legion!

Especially under the shooting of 640 longbowmen, the first row of gnolls holding shields were simply alive targets one by one.

The centaur longbow can penetrate ordinary half-body armor within 200 meters. Although the longbow imitated in Athens is a little worse, its strength is much stronger than that of ordinary bows and arrows.

It can be summarized in one sentence.

"The Cretan archers' skills are famous all over the world!"

In fact, before the gnolls entered the range of 2,000 indigenous archers during the battle, the first wave of tentative gnolls fell to the ground under the shooting of the longbowmen. When they reached the range of the indigenous archers, they collapsed completely after only three shots, and they did not even have close combat with the Greek heavy infantry, so they retreated directly. As for the gnolls, under the suppression of the Crete longbowmen, they had no chance to shoot archers at all. The range and power of the two were not on the same level at all.

The canyon has less than five hundred meters of space and is under fire from 2,640 archers.

The density of arrows is completely imaginable.

After leaving behind more than six hundred zodiac bodies, the high-ranking zodiac leader who commanded the zodiac army wisely gave up the attack.

The zombies retreated two miles and camped under a mountain.

"Go and retrieve the arrows." Murphy looked at the retreating werewolf and ordered the commander.

Naturally, these werewolves could not retreat so easily.

Some Greek heavy infantry crossed the front, took back the arrows scattered in front, and finished the slaughter of the werewolves that had not yet died. In fact, most of the werewolves shot were not killed immediately. Most of them were shot and were lying on the ground and dying.

Greek heavy infantry cut off the heads of the zombies and pulled the arrows from their bodies.

The bodies were piled up together, the weapons, armor and shields were taken back, and they were thrown inside the canyon.

After all afternoon, the werewolf army had no movement.

It was around three o'clock in the afternoon.

The light cavalry sent by Murphy to investigate the movements of the werewolf brought back a message.

"Governor General, those werewolf are cutting down trees in large numbers!" The soldiers in charge of the reconnaissance quickly came to Murphy and said in a deep voice.

Cut down trees?

Making siege facilities?

Murphy looked at the earthen wall built with sacks under her feet, and couldn't help but frowned slightly.

"Continue to investigate!" Murphy ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes!" the soldier responded.

Until the evening, the information finally became clear.
Chapter completed!