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Chapter Ten Attack (Part 2) ()

The Gnoll's gathering place is a bit like a primitive village, surrounded by a few wooden strips to barely make a fence, and inside is a simple tent made of four thick logs and animal skins. In the middle of the tent was a big pot, which was where the gnolls cooked food. In the primitive clan social system, the food was distributed uniformly, but the strong males and Shaman enjoyed it first.

Only the strong males in the wolf man clan can live in these tents. Females without mates and weak males can only sleep in the wilderness or find a cave by themselves as a place of residence.

It is said that the wolf man who is fighting with humans has undergone great evolution and has a fairly strict hierarchy. It is even possible that the most primitive gnoll aristocratic system was born because of the war-military rank aristocrats!

Fortunately, Murphy found that the gnolls entrenched near his town were relatively primitive, more like beasts than intelligent life.

This undoubtedly saved him a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Murphy didn't know much about combat.

However, as a product of the era of information explosion, Murphy also learned a lot about strategy and tactics from other channels, even if it was by analogy.

Rationally screened out the tactics that belonged to the era of hot weapons, and Murphy began to sort out the scattered tactical knowledge of the era of cold weapons in his memory.

Before the battle has evolved to the era of just pulling the trigger, the tactics in those domestic movies can basically be ruled out. The war in the era of cold weapons consumes a lot of physical strength, and the role of morale is particularly important! The phrase "one effort, then decline, and three exhaustion" clearly expresses this point.

After thinking about it for a while, Murphy thought of a sentence that was widely circulated in the previous life, which came from "The Art of War by Sun Tzu".

"Sun Tzu's Art of War" has a saying: "Don't stop returning to the teacher, besiege the teacher, and don't chase the poor."

Twelve words that are very simple to answer, but hide the essence of the art of war.

"Surrounding divisions must be quelled..." Murphy stood on the hillside hundreds of meters away and looked at the gathering place of gnolls. He already had some calculations in his mind.

There are more than 300 adult wolf men in this wolf man gathering place, and their villages have just been built, using leather and cloth looted from human towns.

These jackals are quite ignorant. They sew leather, linen, cotton, and even satin with rough fishing thread, and then make them into colorful tents as their houses. The only thing these primitive uncivilized creatures are good at is skinning and sewing crude leather armor. Their clawed hands are not at all suitable for things like farming and crafting. They can't even build an ordinary wooden house.

There are simple fences on all sides of the gathering place, which house the beast cubs captured by the wolf man, the livestock plundered from human towns, and there may even be humans...

The Marquise Elizabeth mentioned that those wolf men who formed the tribe already knew how to enslave humans. They knew how to use uninjured humans as slaves, raise livestock for them, plant farmland, build houses, and forge weapons!

But obviously the gnolls around here are not that intelligent. 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 gnolls are evolving!

The jackals in the entire southern plain are gradually evolving from primitive beasts to intelligent life.

And their barbaric civilization system is also gradually improving in the war with humans! They began to create primitive cuneiform characters, formed a military rank and noble system, learned to herd and domesticate wild animals, captured slaves, and worshiped ancestors...

Maybe the clan gnolls are still primitive beasts, but those adult gnolls absorbed by the Kazat gnoll tribe have begun to have wisdom!

"Spartan heavy infantry, advance."

The strength of the Greek arms lies in their defensive capabilities and marching formations. In field battles, the Greeks without strong cavalry are always unable to reap the scattered enemy troops to their heart's content.

Murphy chose to attack at noon, which was when the Jackals started cooking after capturing their prey.

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

That is lunch and dinner.

At about ten o'clock, Murphy ordered the army to eat lunch in advance, in order to wait for the gnolls to make a surprise attack when they were preparing lunch!

At that time, most of the gnolls will return to the gathering place.

"Bump! Bump! Bump!"

The dull footsteps of the Spartan heavy infantry alarmed the female gnolls who were cooking food, and they let out horrified cries.

The male Jackal who came back from the hunt picked up a simple weapon and protected the female and the young Jackal behind him. They looked vigilantly to the east of the fence, grinned and howled sharply, trying to intimidate and drive away the enemy!

It's a pity that they are facing real soldiers - lifelong professional soldiers! Their howling didn't even make the footsteps of the Spartan heavy infantry a little messy. Instead, because of the fearlessness of the Spartan heavy infantry, these jackals themselves showed a trace of panic.

"Greek infantry, advance!"

The sound of orderly footsteps sounded from the other side of the wolf man gathering place, and a group of Greek infantry in the town was approaching the wolf man at the same pace. Unlike the Spartan heavy infantry, this group of Greek infantry continued to utter wild beast-like shouts as they advanced.

Two teams of infantry approached the wolf man gathering place in a 'v' shape formation.

The infantry formation is widened and elongated vertically and horizontally, leaving a large and a small opening at the front and rear of the 'V' shape.

"General guard, speed up!"

Murphy raised his horsewhip, pointed at the door of the Gnoll camp and said in a low voice.

The sound of galloping horseshoes was more oppressive than the footsteps of the infantry. There was a commotion in the camp of the gnolls. The strong gnolls had already picked up their weapons and charged towards the infantry formation, while the weak gnolls wanted to escape from the direction where there were no enemies. .

Confronting an army is not the same as facing an unarmed peasant.

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

"The Spartan heavy infantry charged, and the Greek infantry advanced with guns."

Murphy stood alone outside the encirclement formation, with the herald and the captain guarding him. When the encirclement was close to 50 meters away, Murphy decisively ordered the Spartan heavy infantry to charge at the best distance!

The Spartan heavy infantry is not invincible to the Greek infantry in terms of physical combat skills or discipline. Their high morale can even fight to the death when encountering enemies that are several times their own! Therefore, using Spartan heavy infantry can let go of their hands and feet, and use their powerful lethality to tear apart the enemy's formation. However, the Greek infantry is very mediocre in terms of combat effectiveness, discipline and morale, so the commander must be conservative and aggressive, and use the advantages of the Greek spear phalanx to advance steadily, reduce casualties and avoid heavy losses due to the counterattack of the jackals.

After the Spartan heavy infantry charged, the lower gap under the 'V' formation began to close, and only the upper gap was still wide open.

"General guard, free throw!"

Under Murphy's order, the general's guard was divided into two, and they galloped towards both sides with a bigger 'V'. After finding the right position, the general's guard began to throw javelins into the gnoll gathering place.

"Sparta!"

The Spartan heavy infantry wearing blood-red cloaks put their round shields in front of them when they approached the fence, and then these powerful warriors broke through the fence and rushed towards the male gnolls guarding the periphery.

The Spartan heavy infantry who crashed into the Gnoll camp in one breath was like a huge boulder thrown into the lake. It was not just waves, but a violent shock on the lake!

These warriors standing at the top of the earth in that era were like a sharp sword, so they forcibly plunged into the camp of the wolf man, split the terrified wolf man into two, and cut them into two big cakes!

"Good opportunity!" Murphy's expression brightened, and without hesitation, he ordered the general's guards to attack the separated male gnolls surrounded by Spartan heavy infantry and Greek infantry from the side.

The weapons equipped by the general guard are javelins and short swords. The length of the javelins is about two meters. Under normal circumstances, they are also used as short spears.

"Huh! Drink! Kill!!!"

Amidst the muffled sounds of weapons piercing through, the male wolf man who was surrounded by three sides quickly collapsed.

The fear of death made them lose the courage to fight on, and they began to flee towards the opening of the 'v' formation.

Murphy decisively ordered the general's guards to go around the fence from the side and block the way of the female jackals and jackal cubs. He didn't order to chase down the fleeing male Gnolls, but contracted his formation to eat the weak beings in the Gnoll clan.

The battle was quickly over.

Those female wolf man and wolf man cubs had almost no power to fight back under the pincer attack of the Spartan heavy infantry and the Greek infantry.

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

The soldiers began to treat the wounded and make up for the Gnolls that had not been killed before.

Casualty statistics will come out soon.

One hundred and twenty-four enemies were wiped out, five people were lost, and more than thirty people were slightly injured.

The casualties were all on the Greek infantry, and the Spartan heavy infantry suffered almost no losses. The crude weapons of the Gnoll were not enough to hurt the Spartan heavy infantry under the protection of the shield, and the few soldiers who died were basically because they were attacked to a vital position. Most of the other injured soldiers were scratched by sharp claws, and with holy water, such wounds would heal quickly.

About two hundred adult Gnolls fled.

Murphy calculated the time and ordered the Spartan heavy infantry and Greek infantry to pursue in the direction where the gnolls were fleeing.

And he himself led the general guard around a nearby river and approached the valley in the north.

There he ambushed half-formed Greek infantry who had seen battle!