Warlord: King of All Clans

By the time the Petukhov Corps of the Soloviev Knights arrived, the battle had already entered the pursuit stage.

The knights who followed him looked at the tragic scene in the valley in disbelief.

Piles of troll corpses fell in the valley, blood flowed and formed streams, and body parts and organs were everywhere. A group of kobolds were excitedly searching for trophies among the corpses.

But this troll clan is very poor. Apart from some hideous-looking bone ornaments and the protruding fangs in the trolls' mouths, there is almost nothing that the ogres would be interested in.

In addition to the troll headhunters who were executed by cannonballs, there were also many corpses of troll warriors scattered around. They were shot by various long-range weapons of the River Bend Army and were full of arrows.

But the troll's vitality is as strong as that of the orc. Even with three or four heavy arrows from the wild people stuck in its body, it can still wail and crawl on the ground.

Those trolls hit by the kobold scouts and giant shield crossbowmen can continue to flee and fight even if they are turned into hedgehogs, as long as they are not hit directly in the vitals.

But there were very few human corpses, and the fully armed River Bend infantrymen didn't even have blood on their bodies.

This was beyond the knights' understanding, and they were unable to recreate the scene of the battle in their minds.

Only a few corner flags, who had previously followed Rigolav in his rebellion against Tariq and in his war with the Adonis family, had witnessed the power of Strong's artillery.

Knight Solovie watched the tall and strong trolls running around in the valley under the firepower of the Riverbend Army, then looked at the lance in his hand and suddenly sighed: "Times have changed..."

When the remaining trolls fled into the forest, Leo said to his adjutant, "Retreat."

The team leader in charge of the communication quickly blew the horn. As the melodious horn sounded, the wild folk hunters and kobold scouts who were chasing the trolls gave up their targets and turned around to regroup.

In order to prevent heavy casualties from the enemy's counterattack, Leo did not allow them to pursue further.

Despite this, there were still many casualties.

Nowadays, almost all the wild hunters wear heavy chain armor. This armor is enough to withstand the attacks of ordinary swords and stray arrows, but it cannot stop the obsidian javelins and heavy battle axes of the trolls.

The sharp and fragile obsidian javelin tore a big hole in the heavy chain mail and penetrated deeply into the body. The broken spear head was like a shotgun, embedded in the flesh and internal organs, making them immediately unable to move.

But the heavy chain mail was not completely useless. In the past, if the wild hunters were attacked to this extent, they would have been pierced through the body by short spears or even nailed to the ground.

The ogre scouts barked anxiously and quickly took out the herbal pills they had prepared and gave them to their human friends for internal and external application and to bandage their wounds.

To a certain extent, these kobold scouts are all disciples of the Savage Hunters. They grew up hunting with the Savage Hunters, and most of the combat skills they mastered came from the guidance of the Savage Hunters.

Next to Leo, a squad leader from the River Bend Infantry Regiment who did not take part in the battle sat on the ground, looking at his plate breastplate with heartache.

The troll clan that had just assembled to charge dispersed a hundred meters away from the artillery team, but a group of troll headhunters in the front row also threw their javelins before they died.

Dozens of short spears weighing more than three kilograms flew over a distance of a hundred meters and became sparse, falling into the crowd. Most of them missed or were blocked by the thick shields of the Hewan infantry.

But there were also a few heavy short spears that successfully hit the human body, and this team leader was one of them.

The power of the obsidian short spear was even more terrifying than the savages' heavy arrows. It left a palm-sized dent on his plate breastplate. Although the stone spear shattered and failed to penetrate the plate armor, the huge impact force made the team leader feel as if he was hit by a heavy hammer. He has not yet recovered.

Compared with his own injuries, the team leader felt more distressed about the plate breastplate issued by the lord's mansion. Two years ago, this plate breastplate could have bought him three lives.

Plate armor has strong defensive capabilities, but is also difficult to repair.

This dent can be restored to its original shape by hammering, but the price is that the defense will be greatly weakened, becoming superficial and might be pierced by a spear next time.

However, he was much luckier than a River Bend Infantryman from the next team. The basic River Bend Infantryman already had the equipment of regular soldiers, but could not get the plate breastplate imported from the South Territory. He was only protected by legion chain mail and bearskin cloak.

A sharp headhunter's spear pierced through his bearskin cloak and penetrated the legion's chain mail, but it did not break. Instead, it went through the infantryman's shoulder, with half of the spear tip sticking out from the back of the shoulder.

As the wounded infantryman vomited blood, his companions quickly performed first aid, and a groundhog stood in front of them, emitting a bright green light, which sustained the infantryman's life and allowed him to survive.

After treating the wounded, Freya was a little depressed. She quickly got into Leo's breastplate and was unwilling to speak.

After a long while, she finally pulled herself together, poked her little head out from Leo's neck, and issued a warning: "The main force of the trolls is moving out! The route, um... is to Stonecrush Castle!"

Leo frowned deeply, "The main force of the trolls is heading straight for Stonebreak Castle?"

"What's wrong with them? Why don't they fight in Linhai Town for no reason and go to attack Stone Fort?"

Any army leader with a normal mind would not choose to attack the strategically located Gravel Fort and ignore the indefensible Linhai Town.

It was for this reason that Leo assembled his army in Linhai Town, and the movements of the vanguard of the troll army also confirmed his guess.

Knight Solovi was checking the map and couldn't help saying, "This troll leader is quite capable. They guessed that our main force is in Linhai Town."

"These two vanguard troops are just a cover to trick us into going deep into the forest. Their target is the Stone Fort."

On the map, the River Bend Army and the Petukhov Corps, a total of 3,500 people, are in Valley 8 on the edge of the Gravel Hills.

Four thousand men from the Isenkulov Corps and the Hobert Corps were in the forest further north.

The two troops are not far from Linhai Town and can go back to provide support at any time before the troll army approaches.

If the troll army attacks the low-walled town of Linhai, they will have to face the main human force of Isembol.

But Gravel Fort was defended by only 300 regular troops and 1,000 militia, 500 of whom were untrained wild hunters.

The march in the wilderness is not a straight line, there must be a path to walk on. At this time, the human army that entered the wilderness and wanted to return to support Gravel Fort had only two options.

One is to go directly over the gravel hills and go to the north gate of Gravel Fort.

However, with the off-road speed of the human army, they are bound to fall behind the troll army and be blocked outside the gate by the troll army that approaches the city wall first.

In a battle with the main force of the trolls in the wilderness, a head-on combat would at best give you a fifty-fifty chance of winning. If you were attacked by guerrillas or ambushed, you would most likely be defeated miserably.

The second option is to go back to Linhai Town along the ridge, walk for another day, and go to the south gate of Gravel Fort from Linhai Avenue.

This requires the defenders of Stonecrush Fort to hold off the attack of the troll army for at least one day.

All of this is based on the assumption that Leo has opened the entire map and can react immediately.

If the ancient army's communication speed was really used, relying on horseback messengers to deliver information back and forth, the response speed would be extended by at least three days.

Moreover, the Riverbend Army directly defeated the troll vanguard that was holding them back, and did not fight with them in the wilderness.

If it drags on for another ten days or so, I'm afraid that by then we'll just get the news that the Gravel Fort has been breached.

The troll army on the opposite side seemed to have predicted the future and calculated the actions of the human army exactly.

Looking at the map, Leo was a little confused: "Could the other side have opened the map?"

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