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Chapter 97: Match (Part 2)

The Gnoll launched its offensive much later than Murphy expected.

It seemed that the wolf man's march last night also consumed a lot of physical strength. It was not until around eleven o'clock at noon that the wolf man army began to move forward. They are all made up of adult male Gnolls, about two meters in size, equipped with weapons and leather armor, and some of the elite are equipped with modified half-body armor, but there are not many of them. Under normal circumstances, the elite human troops were only equipped with half-body armor. Judging from the defeated human army at the front line, the number of half-body armor captured by the wolf man should not exceed 3,000.

The wolf man group is a loose system.

Just like what Murphy had encountered several times, every wolf man army had the strongest and tallest high-ranking wolf man as the leader.

That is, a general similar to a human.

However, creatures like wolf man do not advocate wisdom. They are used to obeying strength, that is, the strongest physique.

This also leads to a point where they are undisciplined.

The structure of the fortifications is not complicated, rejecting horses, ravines, rejecting horses, poisoned signs, and earthen walls. The depth of the entire fortification is 100 meters, that is to say, the purpose of these fortifications is to slow down the progress of the Jackals within this 100 meters and buy time for the archers to shoot.

noon.

The gnoll army lined up in front of the canyon.

In terms of equipment alone, they are much, much better than those scattered clan wolf men. However, in terms of fighting style, the gap between them is actually not that big. At least Murphy hasn't seen a very obvious tactical style from them.

Gnoll consists of three echelons.

The first echelon is composed of male gnolls who are generally more than two meters tall and holding shields. They are wearing leather armor, some are equipped with half body armor, and they are holding human-style shields in their hands. That is, it is a bit similar to the square shield in the Roman military system. It is made of wood, covered with a layer of iron, and the length is about 90 centimeters. If this kind of shield is used by humans with a smaller physique, there is naturally no big problem. But being carried by these jackals who are generally over two meters tall, it seems a bit unsightly.

It can only barely cover the vital part of the 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 Gnoll heavy infantry. They are generally equipped with inlaid leather armor, which is a kind of simple armor with some iron pieces sewn on the leather armor to protect vital points such as the heart. This is very common in this rather primitive era. Even in human city-states, there are many equipped with such leather armor. In terms of weapons, the gnolls in the second echelon were equipped with heavy weapons. At least Murphy didn't see the gnolls with the short sword.

There are a lot of gnolls in the second echelon, close to two thousand.

The third echelon consisted of adult Gnolls with ordinary equipment. They had leather armor and weapons in a mess. Some even used short swords looted from humans as weapons. But in their hands, it is more like a dagger. At present, there are only two cities that have been breached by Jackals. With the military reserves of the two cities, it is obviously impossible to arm one hundred thousand Jackals. What's more, even in human city-states, the weapons equipped by ordinary soldiers are nothing more than short swords and long spears.

There are a large number of gnolls in this echelon, more than five thousand.

In addition, there are those elite gnolls who are all equipped with half body armor and wield weapons such as battle axes and giant hammers. There are about five hundred of them in number, all guarding the side of the high-ranking wolf man leader.

But in terms of equipment, the danger posed to Murphy by this wolf man army was not as great as that of the elite wolf cavalry.

It's a little troublesome.

Some of these gnolls appeared as archers.

They used the bows and arrows they plundered from humans to train a group of archers, about a thousand in number.

Mixed between the first and second echelons.

Although Jackals are a hunting and fishing race, they are not good at archery.

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

However, these newly trained Gnoll archers seemed to have cut off their long and narrow claws. Otherwise, with their hand shape, it would be really difficult to shoot arrows.

The gnoll army began to advance.

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

Due to the topography of the canyon, the Wolf man army could only have more than a thousand troops to fight at one time, because if it was too dense, they would not be able to disperse at all.

From the first time he saw the wolf man army, Murphy knew that this battle would not be difficult.

Because these are not the main force of the frontline Jackals at all.

Murphy learned from the information obtained by the human city-state that the elite gnoll troops on the front line should be a top-notch heavy infantry of about 3,000 and about 2,000 wolf cavalry, all composed of high-level armored gnolls. . The wolf cavalry had already been partly defeated by Murphy yesterday, and the high-level wolf man heavy infantry, all equipped with half body armor, should still be confronting the human city-state on the front line.

The distance was shortened to two hundred meters.

Before the gnolls got close to the first refusal, Murphy ordered the archers to shoot.

The earth wall made of sandbags is about four meters wide and can accommodate two rows of archers. Counting the 640 longbowmen in the city of Athens, it means that the first wave of Gnolls who made a tentative attack will have to advance two hundred meters under the shooting of more than 2,400 archers. Then reach the front of the Greek heavy infantry and fight the long-awaited enemy close to hand.

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

In other words, it looks like it can shoot about ten times in one minute.

The distance of two hundred meters, from pushing off the horse, crossing the gully, until reaching the front of the defensive line.

These gnolls took about three minutes.

Three minutes, even if one person only shoots 10 arrows. The amount of ammunition poured by 2,000 men in three minutes is more than 20,000 arrows.

In fact, fighting is much simpler than these data.

Because those square shields with a length of only ninety centimeters couldn't completely protect the two-meter-tall wolf man. And it is impossible for them to use square shields to form the famous tortoise shell array like the Roman legion!

Especially under the shooting of 640 longbowmen, those jackals with shields in the first row were simply living targets one by one.

The centaur longbow can penetrate ordinary half body armor within 200 meters, while the Athens imitation longbow is a little bit worse, but its strength is much stronger than ordinary bows and arrows.

It can be summed up in one sentence.

"The skill of the Cretan archers is famous!"

In fact, before those gnolls came within the range of the 2000 aboriginal archers during the battle, the first wave of tentative gnoll troops fell to the ground under the shooting of the longbowmen. And when they reached the range of the aboriginal archers, they were completely disintegrated after only three throws, and they retreated directly without even fighting the Greek heavy infantry in close quarters. As for the Gnoll archers, under the suppression of the Cretan archers, they didn't have a few chances to shoot arrows. The range and power of the two are not on the same level at all.

The space of the canyon is less than 500 meters, and it can withstand the shooting of 2640 archers.

The density of arrows is completely imaginable.

After leaving behind more than 600 wolf man corpses, the high-ranking wolf man leader who commanded the wolf man army wisely gave up the attack.

The wolf man army retreated two miles and camped under a mountain peak.

"Go and take back the arrow." Murphy looked at the retreating wolf man and ordered to the herald.

Naturally, these jackals couldn't retreat so easily.

A part of the Greek heavy infantry crossed the line, took back the arrows scattered in front of them, and made up for the Gnolls who hadn't died yet. In fact, most of the gnolls who were shot were not killed immediately. They were mostly shot by arrows and lay dying on the ground.

Greek hoplites decapitated the gnolls and pulled arrows from their bodies.

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

In such an afternoon, the army of gnolls remained silent.

The time is about three o'clock in the afternoon.

The light cavalry sent by Murphy to scout the Wolf man's movements brought back a message.

"Your Excellency, those jackals are cutting down a large number of trees!" The soldier in charge of the investigation came to Murphy quickly and said in a deep voice.

Cut down trees?

Making siege facilities?

Murphy looked at the earthen wall built with sacks under his feet, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

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

"Yes!" The soldier responded.

Until the evening, the information was finally clear.

Those jackals were really cutting down trees to make a relatively primitive siege machine.