· Showing off one’s edge

The fourth day of the march.

The combined forces of humans, dwarves, and wood elves encountered no fewer than six waves of small war beasts and troll monsters.

Thanks to the wood elf woodland guards who always wander about two miles away from the main coalition force, and the aerial warning from the dwarf gyroplane, Lailan and the others have enough time to prepare in advance, and the coalition force can always be on the path of the dark creatures in the forest.

The perfect ambush.

Often a volley of fire from the Musketeers and Woodland Guards, or a group charge from the Eternal Knights and the White Wolf Knights, would defeat the weak enemies in one blow, leaving them unwilling to fight again.

In the hinterland of Dracovald Forest, a Red Venom Tribe goblin army numbering approximately two thousand was moving slowly.

The scene is very chaotic. The cunning goblins have never been a friendly group, especially the very insidious forest goblins who have lived in the black forest for a long time. The only meaning of their existence is to occupy the entire forest and expel and kill all the pointed ears.

, humans, beastmen, and even part of their tribe.

Forest elves are slender, with dexterous fingers, dark green skin, large and pointed noses, and even sharper teeth. Their eyes always flash with an evil light.

Unlike their dull-minded southern cousins, who are mainly Orcs, forest goblins have taken their cunning and cunning to the extreme.

All their weapons are smeared with spider venom, and their bodies are covered with dirty, smelly animal skins and bones. Their ugly faces have pointed noses and pointed ears. From time to time, they spit out yellow teeth and stab each other with the hilts of their knives.

few times.

The main components of this Red Venom tribe's army are a large group of forest goblins and a small number of night goblins, a giant more than six meters tall, and a dozen trolls.

Ordinary forest goblins are purely cannon fodder for consumption, while night goblins are a type of mutant goblin with stronger combat power among the goblins, but are very afraid of light. They prefer to hide in dark and moist caves and mines.

Cultivate mushrooms and quarrel endlessly.

Night goblins have a certain ability to manufacture weapons, produce and mine. The weapons and equipment of these insidious creatures covered in tattered black robes are two poisoned short blades or flails, and most of the forest goblins hold

A short stone spear and a small wooden shield, and further back, the equipment of more than 300 wild orcs walking and shaking their heads was even worse. A stone axe, two stone knives, this group of green and well-developed wild orcs, except for a few of their lower bodies.

A piece of rag, almost naked.

In the darkness of the black forest, such an army of forest goblins is inconspicuous at all.

"The wood elves reported that the Red Venom tribe is approaching us. They did not notice that anyone was ambush." ​​In the shadows of the forest, Francis carefully poked his head out and pointed at the one not far away that was slowly approaching.

Goblin Goblin: "My Baron, the position of the army has been arranged. Now we are waiting for the message from the artillery battalion."

"Very good, order everyone to continue to ambush, not to act rashly, and no one is allowed to shoot without permission." Lailan, who was sitting on a low hill in the forest, ordered in a low voice, "Wait until they get closer!"

"Understood!" Nikas Francis responded and left.

"Laylen, this forest goblin may not be as easy to deal with as you think." Von Tugenheim, who was lurking aside, interjected: "Look over there, a large group of crawling black shadows. If I guessed correctly, that's the forest goblin.

Nagra - the poisonous death crawlers, their deadly detours pose a huge threat to our rear artillery positions."

"So, Tugenheim, what can you do?" Lailan asked immediately.

'The speed of the death crawlers in the forest is extremely fast, and the rugged forest terrain is not suitable for war horses to run. Our knights cannot catch up, so it is basically impossible to intercept them.' The adopted son of the White Wolf Elector set his sights

When he arrived at the group of green-skinned goblins riding large spiders, he thought for a few seconds: "Laylan, give me the command of three spearmen and two halberdiers. I am familiar with their combat habits and can at least weaken the death crawling."

The threat to the back row."

"No problem, hurry up!"

"Don't worry, leave it to me." Tugenheim grinned and left with the four White Wolf Knights.

Lairon set his sights on the forest again, with Baron Flag Officer Adrian Gentle guarding him.

At the same time, four mule carts carrying mortars in the Allied rear line had arrived at the designated position. Together with his student Anna, Suterson quickly directed the artillery crew members to remove the gun jackets and load the test shells at the same time.

Not long after the coalition forces entered the forest, the leader of the Red Venom tribe, Snagra Venom, a cunning forest goblin warlord, learned that a human army had appeared in the black forest. After that, the goblin warlord who worshiped the spider god immediately made a decision

In response, it sent two thousand tribal troops to the place where the dragon rested, in order to protect its home base from being overrun by the damn human shrimps.

And Snagra-Sloth is wary of a brass-bodied bull-headed blood beast that appears around the dark abyss and the disputes it leads in the beastman tribe and the black forest, which are far more lethal than the human patrol camp.

Thousands of forest goblins have died under the blood-red double axes of the Brass Minotaur. The forest goblin warlords are also actively offering sacrifices to the Thousand-Eyed Spider God in order to gain the powerful power to restrain the war beasts.

"Boss! Boss!"

An ugly goblin riding a big spider passed through the green tide, and soon came to another bigger and greener goblin. The bigger and greener guy was the leader of the army, Sturwich-Blind, a man with poor eyesight.

Forest goblin shaman.

The shaman wore a hat surrounded by colorful feathers captured from the imperial army. He held a flashing green spider staff in his left hand, a stone ax in his right hand, and a blue drama extracted from spider venom.

The poisonous pigment, applied to the skinny body, seems to have some protective effects.

"Quickly fart!" The forest goblin shaman's wrinkled and ugly face revealed a bit of cruelty, and he bared his teeth and screamed: "The Spider God curses you, damn little guy!"

"Boss, boss! My spider smells the meaty scent of human shrimps. There must be humans around here!" The spider rider's ugly face was filled with a flattering smile: "Human shrimps, boss! Let the spider bite him to death.

them!"

"Xiami?" The forest goblin shaman narrowed his red eyes. In fact, he could not see anything, but Stewitch-Blind was given excellent hearing by the Spider God.

Creatures with a cunning nature are very sensitive to changes in their surroundings. At the reminder of the spider rider, it vaguely heard the gentle footsteps coming from the forest ahead.

Intuition tells it... ah no, there is no doubt that it is a damn human being!

"Quick! Quick! Quick! Green bastards, retreat, retreat! I'm thinking there's a bunch of shrimps in front of me!" Stewitch-Blind Eyes stood up from the back of his spider mount and screamed: "The shrimps are coming,

Shrimp is here!”

As a result, the goblins fell into chaos, and the hundreds of wild orcs behind them instantly lost control and were beaten to pieces.

"Xiaomi? Where is the shrimp?! Waaagh!!!"

"I am so hungry and thirsty that I can't bear to drop my big axe!"

"What are you looking at? Do you believe I cut it with a stone knife?"

"I'm just looking at you! Why are I looking at you!"

But in the chaos, with the magical brain circuits of creatures like goblins, they can always find a way to fulfill the boss's order, and the entire green army slowly retreats backwards.

"Huh?" Lailan was a little stunned by the sudden situation. Although he didn't know how these ugly green creatures knew that there was an ambush ahead, but...

"fire!"

"Bang~~Bang~~Bang~~·"

At the rear of the position, the test firing fuses of four mortars were ignited by the gunners. With the roar in the forest, four explosive bombs with orange-red tail flames flew up, and then fell in a parabola with a certain curvature.

A few seconds later, one exploded on a tree trunk, one deflected the target, and two landed in the middle of a dense group of goblins, immediately igniting a sea of ​​​​blazing fire, killing more than thirty goblins, and also startled several groups of forest.

Flying birds.

"The distance is too far, adjust the angle and explode directly forward!" Almost at the same time, Imperial Engineer Sutson shouted: "Anna!"

"The left side is offset by 11°, and the elevation angle is 37°42′." In front of the artillery position, it was the first actual combat operation. The excited young female apprentice held a crystal-polished measuring instrument and immediately gave an adjustment data, "Hmm... black

Less gunpowder….”

The imperial engineer turned to look at his students, with a trace of dissatisfaction in his eyes. He shouted an order to the gunners: "Reduce the black powder by two points and reload!"

"Load!"

"Fire!"

"Bang~~Bang~~Bang~~·"

The gunner quickly adjusted the parameters, reduced the amount of black powder, and the four mortars sprayed flames again.

This time, the four cannonballs with orange-red tail flames landed in the densest place without any bias. One of them blew up several wild orcs. In a salvo, nearly seventy forest goblins were wiped out.

.

Anna looked through the crystal telescope, and the abominable green creature was blown away and fled. She noticed the stern look from Master Sutson, and her hot cheeks instantly turned red with shame, which also aroused

Inspired by Anna's unwillingness to admit defeat, she cheered herself up from the bottom of her heart and observed more carefully.

The gunner fired live ammunition dozens of times, and his extremely skillful loading steps made the shells fall faster and faster.

Ten seconds later, the third round of shells fell, and another sea of ​​fire broke out.

"It's worth the money." Seeing the goblins being blown to pieces, Lailan nodded with satisfaction.

"It's the enemy, it's the enemy, fight, you guys, stupid pigs!" In the dense forest, Stewie Blind shouted in panic, and the black magic of the Thousand-Eyed God condensed on the top of the spider staff.

The more than two thousand green-skinned troops adjusted their formation at an unusually slow speed, especially the untimely fighting of the wild orcs, which hindered the rapid movement of the death crawlers. The entire army faced only chaos, with the formations in a mess and huddled together.

Unable to advance or retreat.

The chaos lasted for nearly two minutes. During this period, more than a hundred goblins and more than twenty wild orcs were killed.

Finally, after the forest goblin shaman identified the enemy's location, the coalition forces also ushered in a counterattack from the greenskin army.

More than three hundred death crawlers detoured from both sides. The wild orcs charged forward. The stupid giant also aroused his ferocity. He stepped out with his big feet and waved the big stick in his hand, mixed with a large number of forest goblins.

Together with the night goblins, the trolls grinned their mouths wide, and the foul-smelling acid dripped from the corners of their mouths. Their claws scratched the ground and brought up a burst of dust.

Baron Draco looked at the charging greenskin army calmly and ordered: "Adrian, give the order to fight!"

Soon, Lelan's order was passed to each company, and the company captains shouted: "Fight! Fight! Warriors of the Empire!"

The five front ranks of barony's halberdiers held sharp halberds tightly. They stepped forward with their left legs, lowered their center of gravity, and faced the enemy with the tips of their halberds, forming the first line of defense. Eighty men wearing half plate armor
To be continued...