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Chapter Eleven Killing (Part 1) ()

It actually took less than five minutes from treating the wounded to making up for the still-dead Gnoll.

Five minutes later, the Greek infantry who finished cleaning up the battlefield continued to chase the fleeing adult Gnolls, while some soldiers who were more seriously injured and would affect the next battle drove the spoils they had obtained to the Greek town.

Gnolls don't like shiny things, but they have a habit of collecting metal. Because they don't know how to forge metal at all. Solitary gnolls eat all they can get their hands on, but gregarious gnoll clans surround and domesticate the young of captured animals. Most of the Gnoll clans living in groups lead a hunting life, and their food sources are hunting wild animals and plundering other intelligent life forms.

These creatures that are almost humanoid beasts are also one of the few species on the continent that feed on other intelligent life forms.

In the mouths of the natives of this world, they are called humanoids.

It has not been included in the scope of intelligent life.

Cleaning up the battlefield is what auxiliary soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers should do, but because Murphy has not yet established an auxiliary army, the Greek infantry has to deal with cleaning up the battlefield.

In the cold weapon war, a regular army is often followed by a large number of auxiliary soldiers and miscellaneous troops, and even slave traders!

It's like a knight needs one or two knight retinues. Similarly, behind a regular legion, several auxiliary corps are needed to clean up the battlefield.

The combat habits of the Greek city-states are generally long-range arms as auxiliary soldiers. They harass and attack during the battle, and chase after the enemy is defeated by the spear phalanx, harvesting corpses, etc.

Due to time constraints, the only thing Murphy had in hand that could serve as an auxiliary corps was his general's guard.

At this point, you have to envy Rome.

Because the Roman javelin soldiers are recognized as the best auxiliary arms.

The Spartan hoplites began to pursue after treating the wounded. These strong fighters had plenty of physical strength and amazing endurance. When Murphy led the general's guards to the valley, the Spartan heavy infantry had already caught up with the scattered adult gnolls.

They spread out and drove the Jackals in a semi-surrounding manner towards Murphy's intended direction. These Spartan heavy infantry did not give chase. In order to prevent the Jackals from desperately counterattacking, they only accelerated their charge every once in a while, beheading the Jackals who fell behind. This is a long run of fifteen kilometers. At the place of the terminus there would be a half-cohort of Greek infantry to harvest them all.

As we all know, if a person jogs for ten kilometers, he does not consume a lot of energy. But if he runs five kilometers fast, he may not have the strength to continue running soon.

That's what Murphy wanted.

Chase the Gnolls, keep them running, and finally harvest them all when they run out of stamina!

The strength of these humanoid beasts is not small, if they are pushed too hard, they may suffer a lot of casualties under their dying counterattack.

There are righteousness and strangeness in the way of military attack.

Murphy didn't think of such a clever plan, so he could only use upright tactics to deal with these jackals.

The terrain within fifty miles of the town of Athens is relatively flat, and there are not too dense forests around it. Murphy has calculated the escape route to drive the gnolls in advance. It was about fifteen kilometers from the start point, the Gnoll camp, to the end point, a branch of the Nidolia River. This distance is not short, let alone a wolf man, even a cavalry galloping for fifteen kilometers, they can't stand it!

The Spartan heavy infantry has very good endurance, so the key point of driving the gnolls is none other than them.

As long as half a team of general guards is deployed to cooperate with the sniper to kill those gnolls who are scattered and fleeing alone, then the goal of driving them to the edge of the river can be perfectly achieved.

After dealing with the battlefield, the Greek infantry opened up the phalanx and formed a larger encirclement outside the encirclement of the Spartan heavy infantry. Their role was not to kill the gnolls, but to put pressure on the gnolls! An illusion!

An illusion that there are enemies on the left, right and rear in addition to the front.

In this way, the plan to drive the Wolf man towards the destination can be completed.

The Art of War——"The overall situation is important, but the details are more important!"

This is what Murphy felt after commanding the army for the first time.

The big picture is to create an environment that is exhausted, and the details are to take all variables into account and figure out how to remedy them.

If more than three hundred adult jackals were forcibly besieged and killed, I'm afraid I would have to pay more than a quarter of the casualties!

For Murphy, who was underpopulated and in short supply, it was already a big defeat!

His purpose is simple, to eradicate this camp of wolf man, the casualties of himself can only reach twenty people at most. Beyond this value, the loss outweighs the gain.

There are a large number of wolf man gathering places in the wild, but his town currently has a population of just over 2,000.

Fighting for the head, he can't afford it!

The advantages of light cavalry are good endurance and fast speed.

Of course, this stamina refers to the stamina of running, because the horses equipped by the light cavalry themselves are not very good, and if they are used for close combat, the stamina is quite bleak.

Especially the Greek city-states with extremely weak cavalry!

The speed of four legs was invincible with two legs. When Murphy arrived at the valley and calmly set up his battle line, the figure of an adult wolf man fleeing in embarrassment appeared on the west side.

Most of the remaining gnolls were males and females who were strong enough, and those females who were not strong enough were basically harvested one by one by the Spartan heavy infantry because they fell behind.

"Pull out the formation! General guard, throw javelins!" Murphy stood behind the phalanx, commanding the battle calmly.

Although there was a man's bloody desire in his heart, wanting to go into battle and kill those jackals himself, but Murphy tried his best to restrain himself. Although after coming to this world, his body is much stronger than before, but this alone is not enough.

There is an old saying: 'The son of a thousand gold, don't sit in the hall'!

As the commander-in-chief of an army, it is obviously not a wise idea to go into battle to kill the enemy in person.

So Murphy told himself rationally that what he had to do was to command the army to boost morale, not charge into battle.

The first round of javelins brought despair to the jackals who had been driven for a full fifteen kilometers.

They desperately found that there were enemies in front of them.

They are completely surrounded!

What's even more tragic is that the fifteen-kilometer run has exhausted most of their energy. Even if they have much better stamina than ordinary adult men, they don't have much fighting power now.

But soon, hope was rekindled in their eyes.

Because they saw a river with gentle water!

As long as he could break through the front line of defense and jump into the river, he would be able to escape and ascend to heaven.

Gnolls have good water skills, and the river behind them is the last trap Murphy left for them!

Infantry obviously cannot pursue the enemy who jumped into the river.

Even the Gnoll understands this simple question.

As long as you jump into the river, whether you swim down the river or swim to the other side, you can say that you have escaped. Because it is impossible for the enemy to throw away their weapons and armor and jump into the river to chase them.

Looking at the gnolls rushing towards the frontal defense net after a commotion, a smile finally appeared on the corner of Murphy's mouth.

Because he knew it was over.

It is simply impossible for these poorly equipped and exhausted jackals to challenge the Greek spear phalanx head-on!

In the era of cold weapons, the pike phalanx and super long spear phalanx in the Greek world can almost be said to be head-to-head confrontation. Even the Roman Legion in the later period defeated the Macedonian super long spear phalanx in the hilly area.

southern plains.

In the plains, the propulsion of the Greek spear phalanx can definitely make people's scalp tingle!