Summoning Total War

Chapter 97: Confrontation (Part 2)

The time for the Jackal to attack was much longer than Murphy expected.

It seemed that the marching jackals also consumed a lot of physical energy last night, and it was not until nearly eleven o'clock at noon that the troops of the jackals began to pull out their camp and advance. They are all made up of adult male xìng jackals. They are about two meters in size. They are equipped with weapons and leather armor. Some elites are equipped with modified half-body armor, but they are not many. Under normal circumstances, human elite troops are only equipped with half-length armor. Judging from the defeated human army on the front line, the number of half-length armor captured by the Jackal should not exceed three thousand.

The tribe of jackals is a loose system.

Just like Murphy has met several times, every gnoll army has a superior gnoll who is the strongest and tallest.

That is, generals similar to humans.

However, creatures like jackals do not admire wisdom. They are accustomed to obeying power, that is, the strongest.

This also leads to a point, they are loosely disciplined.

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The structure of the fortifications is not complicated, with no horses, ravines, no horses, poisoned lotteries, and earth walls. The depth of the entire fortifications is meters, that is to say, the purpose of these fortifications is to slow down the progress of the Jackal within this meter, and buy time for archers to create gods.

At noon.

The wolves lined up in front of the canyon.

In terms of equipment alone, they are much better than those scattered clan jackals. But in terms of fighting methods, the gap between them is actually not that big. At least Murphy has not seen a very obvious tactical style from them.

The Jackal consists of three echelons.

The first echelon is composed of male xìng jackals who are generally more than two meters tall holding a shield. They are wearing leather armor, partly equipped with half-length armor, and holding human-style shields in their hands. It is similar to the kind of square shield in the Roman military system. It is made of wood, wrapped with a layer of iron, and the length is about ninety centimeters. If this kind of shield is used by humans with better physique, there is no big problem. But being held by these jackals, who are generally over two meters in height, seemed a bit under-sighted.

Can barely block the vital part before ng.

There are not many jackals in the first echelon, less than one thousand.

The second echelon is composed of more well-equipped jackal heavy infantry. They are generally equipped with leather armor, which is a simple armor with some iron pieces sewn on the leather armor to protect vital points such as the position of the heart. This is very common in this rather primitive era, even for human city-states, many of them are equipped with such leather armor. In terms of weapons, the jackals of the second echelon are equipped with heavy weapons, at least Murphy did not see the jackals with short swords.

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

The third echelon is those who are equipped with ordinary adult jackals. They have leather armor and weapons. Some even take short swords looted from human hands as weapons. But in their hands, it looks more like a dagger. At present, there are only two cities that have been attacked by gnolls. With the military reserves of the two cities, it is obviously impossible to arm 100,000 wolves. What's more, even if it is a human city-state, ordinary soldiers are equipped with daggers and spears.

There are many jackals in this echelon, over five thousand.

In addition, it is the elite wolves who are all equipped with half-length armor and armed with weapons such as battle axes and giant hammers. The number of them is about five hundred, and they are all guarded by the high-level jackals.

But from the equipment point of view, the danger this gnoll army poses to Murphy is not as great as that of the elite wolf cavalry.

It's a little troublesome.

Some archers appeared among these jackals.

They used bows and arrows plundered from humans to train a group of archers, about a thousand people.

hún is mixed between the first and second echelon.

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

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

However, these newly trained jackal archers all seem to have cut off their long and narrow claws. Otherwise, with their hands, it is really difficult to shoot arrows.

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The army of jackals began to advance.

The jackals of the first echelon held Fang Shield high in front of them and moved forward quickly, while the jackals of the second echelon followed closely behind.

Due to the problem of the terrain of the canyon, the army of wolves can only put more than a thousand troops into battle at a time, because if it is too dense, it will not disperse at all.

From the first sight of this army of gnolls, Murphy knew that this battle was hardly difficult.

Because these are not the main force of the front-line jackals at all.

Murphy learned from the information obtained by the human city-states that the elite force of the front-line gnolls should be a top heavy infantry with a number of about 3,000, and a number of wolves with a number of about 2,000. . The wolf cavalry had been partially defeated by Murphy yesterday, and those high-grade wolves heavy infantry, all equipped with half-length armor, should still be on the front line against the human city-state.

The distance narrowed to two hundred meters.

Before the Jackal approached the first refusal, Murphy ordered the archers to shoot.

The earth wall built up by sandbags is about four meters wide, and can stand on two rows of archers. Counting the first temptation to attack the city of Athens, the jackal must advance two hundred meters under the shooting of an extraordinary archer. Then arrived in front of the Greek heavy infantry to fight personally with the long-awaited enemy.

The average archer shoots an arrow in six seconds.

In other words, it looks like you can focus on shooting 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 jackals hua spent about three minutes creating gods.

Three minutes, even if one person only shoots arrows. The amount of ammunition that a person dumps in three minutes is an arrow.

In fact, fighting is much simpler than these statistics.

Because those square shields with a length of only ninety centimeters can't completely protect the jackals who are 2 meters tall. And they are also impossible to use square shields like the Roman legions to form the famous tortoise formation

Especially the jackals holding the shields in the first row are simply living targets one by one.

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

It can be summarized in one sentence.

"The skills of the Cretan archers are world-renowned"

In fact, before the gnolls were within the range of the aboriginal archers in the battle, the army of the gnolls who were the first to tentatively fell to the ground under the shooting of the longbowmen. When they reached the range of the aboriginal archers, only three throws, they collapsed completely, and they didn't even have a close fight with the Greek heavy infantry, and they retreated directly. As for those jackal archers, under the suppression of the Cretan longbowmen, they have no chance to shoot arrows at all. The range and power of the two are simply not on the same level.

The gorge is less than five hundred meters away, and it can bear the shooting of famous archers.

The density of arrows is completely imaginable.

After leaving six hundred gnoll corpses, the high-ranking gnoll leader who commanded the gnoll army wisely gave up the attack.

The army of jackals retreated two miles and camped under a mountain.

"Go and take back the arrow." Murphy looked at the retreating jackal and ordered the herald.

Naturally, these wolves could not retreat so easily.

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A part of the Greek heavy infantry crossed the front line, retracted the arrows scattered in the front, and made up for the jackals who had not yet died. In fact, most of the wolves who were shot were not killed immediately. Most of them were dying with arrows in their bodies.

The Greek heavy infantry cut off the heads of these wolves, and then drew arrows from their corpses.

The corpses were piled up together, the weapons, armor and shields were recovered and thrown into the canyon.

In such an afternoon, there was no movement from the gnoll army.

Time to create gods is about the afternoon... around the clock.

The light cavalry sent by Murphy to investigate the movements of the jackals brought back a message ~www.novelmtl.com~Your Excellency, those jackals are cutting down a large number of trees." Shen said.

Felling trees?

Make a siege facility?

Murphy looked at the earth wall built with sacks under his feet, and frowned slightly.

"Continue investigating" Murphy ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes" the soldier answered.

Until the evening, the message was finally clear.

The jackals are really cutting down trees to make a primitive siege weapon.

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