Summoning Total War

Chapter 72 Ogre (Part 2)

"How many?" Murphy asked, frowning slightly.

"There are about fifteen of them. They seem to be fighting some kind of creature." The cavalry of the general's guard thought for a moment, and then added: "The terrain is open there, and I don't dare to get too close for fear of disturbing them."

Fifteen heads?

And it’s not armor-piercing? The weapons are also relatively primitive.

Murphy's expression softened slightly and he said to the soldiers around him: "Go south. Let's go see what kind of creature it is!"

Although this creature is huge, its threat is much reduced without equipment. After all, they are still mortal creatures, and their flesh and blood bodies have limited defensive abilities. Murphy was accompanied by two teams of Cretan long archers with a total of 160 people. They could deal with this unarmored creature even if the opponent had a physical advantage.

Murphy has always deliberately collected information about many races in the world.

However, there are too many species in this world, not only the main race, but also many collateral subspecies. Murphy still knows too little now. Since I met it today, and it is one of the humanoid species, I have to go and see it to get acquainted with it, so as not to be caught off guard when I encounter it later.

A team of about five hundred people began to move south, and the cavalry of the general's guard were recalled one by one.

Fifteen minutes later, Murphy led his army to the position the cavalry had said it would take.

This is a high slope of about 60 meters, with a wide view, and everything nearby can be seen at a glance.

The location pointed by the scouts was a flat canyon under a high slope, with rolling mountains nearby. This was a branch of the Karazhan Mountains, extending all the way to the Salma Basin where the centaur tribe lived.

About five hundred meters away from the high slope, a group of huge creatures with a height of more than three meters and a shoulder width of nearly one meter, with muscles all over their bodies and ferocious faces, were surrounding something and threatening them. Due to distance and field of view issues, Murphy couldn't see clearly what the surrounding creatures were for the moment.

"It's ogres!" The aborigines who came with Murphy screamed in horror. He trotted to Murphy's side slightly trembling and said, "Your Excellency, they are ogres! A terrible monster. They eat all living creatures, whether human, elves or other races!”

Ogre?

Is this the ogre? According to legend, weren't they expelled to the wilderness as early as the beginning of the Second Age?

Did they cross the Karazhan Mountains and come back?

At the beginning of the Second Age, in addition to defeating man-eating creatures like gnolls, the famous heroes of mankind also had to face another kind of more powerful man-eating creature, that is - the ogre!

Compared to the gnolls, the human heroes were more thorough in the battle against the ogres!

At the beginning of the Second Age, all the ogre tribes that extended from the southern plains to the elven territory were plucked out by intelligent races! At that time, even the Centaur tribe, which had never been friendly with other races, joined the battle to clean up the ogres! The intelligent races headed by the five tribes of orcs, elves, dwarves, humans, and centaurs jointly launched a three-year military operation to expel the ogres at the beginning of the Second Age!

At the beginning of the Second Age, the ogre clans with a population of nearly 150,000 living on the continent at that time were uprooted, and only a small number fled across the Karazhan Mountains to the wild land on the other side of the continent.

That battle was quite brutal, because ogres are very strong creatures. According to legend, they are the descendants of an evil giant from the First Era. The shaman inheritance left over from that era allowed many ogres to return. Master the power of the elements! It can be said that the ogre clan at that time had evolved a deformed prototype of civilization!

Led by the three major ogre clans: Warhammer, Blade, and Iron Fist, they formed a loose tribal system.

It is precisely because of this that many intelligent races will unite to uproot the ogre clan!

Facing a creature that does not require logistics and uses enemy corpses as food, you can fully imagine how brutal the battle was at that time! And what kind of courage it takes to fight such a creature!

One of the human heroes, Hegor-Warhammer, who is now worshiped by the barbarians and is called the "Growler", became the leader in the battle with the ogres. Human beings did not have surnames at first, and the origin of surnames represents an extraordinary meaning. [Growler] Hegor killed the leader of the Warhammer Ogre clan with his bare hands, so he took Warhammer as his surname. In today's barbarian tribes, the surname Warhammer belongs to warriors recognized by shamans. No matter what surname he had before, after being recognized as a warrior, he can continue to use the surname "Warhammer" of his ancestors.

Murphy took out two polished glass pieces from his pocket. Because of the low level of craftsmanship in this world, the transparency of the glass was very low. It was not qualified for use as a telescope and could only barely increase the field of view.

There is the body of an ogre on the ground, and about fourteen ogres are surrounding a tiger-like creature. This tiger-like creature is very large, more than four meters long, and almost 30 meters tall. It reached the ogre's shoulder, but it seemed to be injured and stayed in place.

The ogres surrounded it and threatened it, but they did not dare to step forward.

"Let's go over and take a look." Murphy got on his horse and ordered the troops to go over and take a look.

There were fourteen unarmored ogres and two teams of Cretan long archers with a total of 160 people. Murphy was not afraid of them. Besides, Murphy was also quite curious about what kind of creature was surrounded by so many ogres. He was so injured that he couldn't move, which also made these strong ogres, who were up to three meters tall, afraid to step forward.

The knights of the general's guard consciously guarded Murphy, while other soldiers quickly followed.

"Lord Governor!..."

The natives who were recommended by the slave traders had a grimace and wanted to stop Murphy, but were lifted up by a Spartan heavy infantryman and followed the team.

As the distance got closer, Murphy finally saw clearly what kind of creature was surrounded by the ogres.

It was a tiger, a tiger with gray and white stripes. It stood close to 2.4 meters tall and was about 5 meters long. The length of its tail was over 6 meters.

Six meters away, a car can be parked.

As he got closer, Murphy discovered that the tiger was not injured at all. Its belly was bulging and the soil on its lower body was covered with blood. It was obvious that it was a pregnant tigress and was about to give birth.

How could such a pregnant tigress prevent so many ogres from coming forward?

Murphy was very surprised!

It has been nearly half an hour since the scouts discovered them and Murphy arrived.

But the pregnant tiger still held up its upper body and glared at the ogres, letting out a low roar. The corpse of an ogre not far away seemed to have died under its claws during a tentative attack during this period.

The distance is closer.

Murphy finally discovered what was different about this tiger that made the ogres fearful. Its upper jaw had a pair of long and narrow fangs, nearly twenty-five centimeters in length!

——Sabre-toothed tiger! ! !

Murphy was shocked!

He really didn't expect to see this extinct creature here!

There is no doubt that the iconic fangs are proof of the identity of the saber-toothed tiger! No other tiger's upper jaw fangs can reach such a length.

The distance was shortened to about two hundred meters. After taking the lead to bypass the high slope, the general guards and Cretan long archers led by Murphy were also discovered by the ogres.

These species, which feed on all living creatures, were not afraid when they saw the army led by Murphy.

And there were seven or eight of them, waving huge wooden sticks and roaring towards them!

"Seeking death!" Murphy smiled coldly and said in a deep voice: "Longbowmen prepare!"

Murphy will show no mercy to this brutal and brutal cannibal species!

Following his order, the Cretan longbowmen lined up and took off the centaur longbows on their backs.

"Armor-breaking arrow!"

The arrows of crossbows are different, such as diamond-shaped armor-piercing arrows, special arrow clusters with barbs that will get stuck in the bones after being shot into the body, etc. There are currently three types of arrow clusters equipped by Cretan long archers, one is armor-breaking, the other is blood-letting, and the other is an arrow cluster that gets stuck in the body and is difficult to pull out.

One hundred and fifty meters.

The Cretan long archer nocked an arrow and aimed at the ogre, which was striding closer.

The effective range of the Centaur Longbow is 250 meters, and the optimal range is between 100-150 meters. Because this distance can not only bring out the armor-piercing properties of the longbow, but also give the longbowman time to shoot a second time.

The Cretan longbowmen could shoot at a rate of about ten arrows per minute, which is one arrow per six seconds.

There are a large number of species in this world that are far taller than humans. Due to their size, these species move faster than humans. Therefore, before the real cold weapon battle begins, it is good for Cretan long archers to be able to shoot five arrows from a distance of one or two hundred meters. Of course, this shooting is rapid shooting, that is, intensive shooting, and does not require aiming.

If it is a precise shooting, the shooting speed will drop a little.

One hundred and twenty meters.

"Let go!" Murphy waved his hand and said in a deep voice.

shuttle!

One hundred and eighty armor-piercing arrows pierced the air and shot out, and the muffled sound of the ogre's huge body falling to the ground was heard not far away.

With a wave of precise shots, half of the eight ogres were knocked down on the spot.

These ogres who fell to the ground were shot in the vital points and soon lost their lives.

The four surviving ogres had more than a dozen arrows stuck in their bodies. Although they were not hit in the vital points and could still stand with their tenacious vitality, they had lost their combat effectiveness.

Without Murphy's orders, the Cretan long archers once again set their arrows and harvested the remaining ogres one by one.