Warlord: King of All Clans

The performance of the troll army was unexpected. They completely played with the main force of the human race. If they didn't have some auxiliary tools, we could only say that their leader was very good at predicting the future.

According to the normal routine, the troll vanguard should be defeated and flee back to their lair, and then the leader of the troll army would make the next decision based on the information obtained.

If you feel that the human race's main force is mediocre, then send out all your forces and continue the attack.

If you feel that the human race is too powerful, you can only change direction to look for food.

For example, they could retreat northward, or invade the Ilanrado region in the northeast. At worst, they would just stay in their old nest and starve.

Leo also had this idea in mind, so he concentrated his forces and launched a heavy attack, defeating the troll vanguard in one fell swoop, making them feel fearful and retreat on their own.

Of course, we should avoid fighting a war that does not bring any benefits to us if possible.

But now, the trolls had played a trick on him and had successfully lured them into the wilderness, leaving Stonebreak isolated and helpless.

Without Insight, the troll's trick would have succeeded.

But it doesn’t matter, after all, Leo is also open, otherwise he wouldn’t have rashly entered the wilderness to play away.

When information is transparent, it depends on which side has stronger military strength.

The Gravel Fort was a fortress carefully built by Leo to defend against the wild aliens. Its solidity was beyond the imagination of the wild aliens.

Even if we can't hold out for ten days or half a month, it's still easy to hold out for three to five days.

After hearing that the main force of the trolls was rushing towards Stonebreak Fort, Leo was not too worried.

But others were different, especially the generals who seldom went to Gravel Fort. In their opinion, the fighting power of 5,000 trolls was comparable to that of a fully staffed human army. Gravel Fort, with a total population of only 3,000 plus reinforcements, was still too weak.

The Minotaur Strong was not in a high position and could not squeeze next to Leo to discuss, but he had enough height advantage to stand far away, stretching his neck to look at the map and listen to the discussions of the generals.

Hearing that the main force of the trolls was heading towards Stonebreak Fort, his eyes immediately fell on the troll tribe's lair.

Seeing that everyone was still discussing the issue of returning for reinforcements, Strong scratched his head anxiously.

Leo knew he was onto something, so he asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Strong said loudly: "The main force of the trolls has gone to destroy the stone fort. There are only two thousand old and weak ones left in the camp, and more than half of them are young cubs without fighting ability. It is better to kill them directly and give them a little surprise."

"They surprise us, and we surprise them."

"As long as we capture the troll's lair and build some defensive fortifications to hold out for a few days, the main force of the trolls will be unable to advance or retreat and can only eat snow on the gravel hills. It won't take a few days for them to collapse."

Leo nodded repeatedly, he meant the same thing.

No matter how strong the trolls' physical fitness is, they cannot survive the cold winter nights on an empty stomach and then continue to pick up weapons to attack cities and strongholds.

Since they failed to capture the Gravel Fort in one go, they had no choice but to retreat back to their nest.

It will be very exciting to go back and find that your home is gone.

Of course, the prerequisite is that they cannot capture Gravel Fort.

Looking at the map, and then at the River Bend Infantry and the Petukhov Corps behind him, Leo ordered: "Bjorn, Rambovan, you must immediately bypass the Gravel Hill and rush to support Gravel Castle."

"yes."

"Uncle, let's move on and raid the troll's home."

As he said this, he called the Rose Knight next to him, "Xia, set off immediately and find Isenkulov and the Hobert Legion. Ask them to end the battle as soon as possible and catch up with us."

"yes!"

The wildling hunters led by Bjorn and the kobold scouts led by Rambowan had off-road capabilities second only to the trolls. They crossed mountains and rivers, traveled day and night, and were able to bypass the Gravel Hills and return to Gravel Fort within a day.

As for the River Bend Infantry Regiment and the Petukhov Legion, they had a large group of iron cans and moved extremely slowly in the wilderness, and they could not catch up with the trolls' siege even if they returned.

The soldiers of Hewan and the Petukhov family had sufficient mules and horses to provide transportation, which could speed up the march. Those poor corner flags basically only had a group of armored and leather armored soldiers, and they had to walk the entire journey.

Instead of doing this, it is better to take the opportunity to copy the hometown opposite.

After leaving Valley No. 8, Leo led the infantry regiment and followed the footsteps of the remnants of the troll vanguard, slowly heading towards the troll lair.

After passing through several miles of forest, the view suddenly opened up. There were no towering trees in front of us, but rugged rocks with piles of low shrubs scattered in between.

Further ahead are gravel hills. The landform here is very special, with natural piles of gravel everywhere. The high stone mountains are one or two hundred meters high, but most of them are small stone hills within twenty meters, which are endless as far as the eye can see.

This kind of terrain looks relatively flat, but it is actually more difficult to walk on than the forest.

After all, in a flat forest, one only needs to cut down the trees that are in the way and fill in the gullies a little to build a mountain path.

However, these piles of rubble that are ten or twenty meters in size are not something that the ancient army can deal with in a short period of time.

Moreover, when traveling through gravel, neither people nor horses can bear too much weight, otherwise even the slightest bumps and collisions will result in a large number of non-combat casualties.

Only those wild and foreign tribes who travel light can move freely in this terrain.

Leo's troops could only meander through the valleys and cols in the gravel hills, stretching the team very long.

At this time, if there was an ambush of 500 foreign troops, they would be defeated.

However, Leo had Freya's company and was fully aware of the situation around him. He was not worried about enemy attacks at all, as if he was taking the troops on an outing.

After a day and a night, Leo's 3,000-man army and Arnold and Rudolf's 3,000-man army met in a valley.

The two small square-flag legions, which originally had a total of 4,000 people, suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, but they also successfully defeated the 3,000-strong foreign coalition force.

Their enemies were a mixed force of large and small tribes of boarmen, gnolls, and kobolds, with only a troll clan of about 500 people supervising the battle.

The combat effectiveness of this alien coalition was relatively low. Only some boarmen and gnolls had hunting crossbows, and there were dozens of troll headhunters that could launch long-range attacks on the human army.

But Arnold and Hobert's legions had more than a thousand longbowmen and crossbowmen.

After returning from the expedition to the north, the two witnessed Leo's combat style and tasted the benefits of long-range projection troops.

During the past six months, the two men had vigorously recruited hunters and crossbowmen to join the war, but because the time was still short, they only recruited a thousand archers at most.

The only downside is that it is too expensive. The quality of many archers' crossbows is not up to standard and can only kill small and medium-sized animals. They cannot effectively penetrate armor. The lord needs to pay for better crossbows.

Then there is the distressing consumption of arrows. In one battle, half of the 30,000 arrows carried were used up.

Fighting a war like this is simply wasting money. Although the casualties were greatly reduced, when you count the accounts after the war, you feel that you have won, but you have also lost.