Author: Conquer people with virtue

"Oops!"

Zoro felt something bad in his heart. At least two to three hundred of the hundreds of Gnolls who were chasing him, including him, were tied to the spot.

The Grasp of the Earth cast by the Gray Stonemen caused their legs or feet to be wrapped in stones, making it impossible to break free in a short period of time.

Although the gnolls could fight back and forth with the mountain giants in the past, this was mainly due to the number of enemies and the speed and flexibility of the gnolls.

If they were fixed in place, they would become targets and be torn apart by those mountain giants.

"Calm down! Calm down." Solo's heartbeat accelerated and he calmed himself down.

They had already anticipated this from the intelligence beforehand, so they brought hammers, but they were in the hands of the hobgoblins behind them.

In a short period of time, the hobgoblin comrades behind him had no time to rush over, and the mountain giant who had been retreating just now was now running back with a grin!

In desperation, the gnoll warriors used their gimmicks as hammers to break the stones on their legs.

All of a sudden, hundreds of jackals were clanging and banging.

"Everyone, move forward and take cover!"

Clay also ordered the hobgoblins to move their formation forward, and let them resist the front for the gnolls, but this was obviously a bit slow.

The heavy shield was picked up again, and the five hundred goblins moved forward step by step.

"Pay attention to the formation! Don't mess up!" Clay ordered calmly.

The distance that the Jackals chased was about two hundred meters. It was certain that they would not be able to catch up, but even so, they could not give up the formation. Otherwise, the consequence would not be a loss of part, but a disaster!

In just one minute, the situation on the battlefield took a turn for the worse.

The gnolls banged on the rocky arms of the Earth Grip with all their strength, while from behind, the hobgoblins came towards them step by step.

In the end, it was the mountain giant who took the lead.

"puff!"

As soon as they came back, they couldn't wait to swing the giant wood and hit the gnolls. The powerful impact caused many gnoll warriors to spurt blood from their mouths and noses, and they were knocked to death on the spot.

What's more, the stronger Mountain Giants can hit a home run and knock their opponents away.

In less than thirty seconds, two or three elite Jackal warriors were already succumbed to big sticks. All this made Zoro heartbroken, but there was nothing he could do.

As time went by, soldiers among the jackals continued to break free from the stone arms and faced the mountain giant, buying time for their comrades next to them.

However, the Jackal soldiers who adopt flexible combat tactics are not suitable for fighting head-on. Therefore, these Jackal soldiers who have just gained freedom are equivalent to being restrained in disguise, suffering heavy casualties.

One after another, the jackal warriors were knocked to death or knocked away. Finally, a mountain giant looked at Solo.

He walked towards Solo with a ferocious smile, his mouth opened wide and very ugly, and a foul smell emanated from him, which almost made Solo faint.

"You son of a bitch!" the giant yelled, then raised his weapon.

"Is this the end?" Solo asked himself, but he didn't know whether he was referring to this battle or his own life.

But the next moment, an unexpected scene happened!

A bright silver-white spear poked out from behind, hitting the wrist of the giant in front of him.

The spear was extremely sharp and pierced the giant's wrist in an instant. At the same moment, he could no longer hold the weapon in his hand.

The giant screamed in pain, but before he could recover and come back to fight back, he saw another silver light flying towards him.

With a "pop" sound, the mountain giant's left eye was pierced by a spear, and then the spear swept across and scratched his right eye.

"What a spear!" Solo exclaimed regardless of the danger of life and death. Turning his head, at some point, a familiar figure was standing next to him.

"Captain Clay!"

"Yes." Clay nodded and said, "Captain Ten, deal with the trouble quickly and reorganize your team."

It turned out that Clay came here first, wanting to buy time for the Jackal warriors. He lowered his head and carefully observed the rock on Solo's legs, trying to get a clearer picture.

At this moment, the mountain giant whose eyes had just been blinded staggered and stood up again.

"Sir Clay, be careful!" Solo reminded.

The next second, Clay explained to him why he was here.

Without raising his head, he subconsciously thrust out the spear again and accurately hit the giant's other hand. Then he took two steps forward, turned back and swiped, severing the giant's Achilles tendon.

The mountain giant, who was nearly three meters tall, fell to the ground with a roar, completely becoming a useless man. On the battlefield, this almost sentenced him to death.

Clay stopped moving. Behind him, uniform lines of hobgoblins emerged one after another.

Amidst the heavy footsteps, Solo only saw the hobgoblin soldiers wearing the thickest armor and holding the thickest shields. They separated from the formation to include them, and then closed them again. After a while, most of the gnolls

The soldiers were already protected within a thick line of defense.

He saw these hobgoblins using shields and heavy spears to push back the mountain giants step by step. The overlapping heavy spears left the mountain giants helpless against these iron hedgehogs, and they could only keep retreating.

After paying the price of more than a dozen people again, the mountain giants also knew that it would be difficult for them to win again. In order to protect the gnolls and avoid being attacked from the side of the formation, the hobgoblins did not move too far forward. Therefore, the two sides

The confrontation started like this.

During this time, the hammers that were specially brought to deal with the Glaish Stonemen came in handy, and the rocky arms wrapping the Jackal warriors were shattered one after another.

Zoro reassembled his team according to the order, and the remaining jackals returned to their original positions, on both sides of the hobgoblins.

Only now has the entire vanguard army regained the ability to move forward.

In the formation, Solo changed from his previous excited state and remained silent, only acting according to the centurion's orders.

It must be said that this period of fighting gave him great feelings and shock. Only now did he truly understand the significance of the various concepts and regulations he learned in the military academy.

War is not a display of personal bravery. The place to demonstrate personal strength is the arena or arena.

A defensive formation that originally seemed like it could only be beaten passively and kill a few enemies "depending on the situation" after taking casualties first, seemed so invincible under certain circumstances. And the jackals were strangulating each other in a melee with the giants.

, and so fragile in some cases...

As a captain of ten, he can now only be called a captain of five... He lost nearly half of his troops!

During the pursuit, his team ran at the head.

Next, Solo followed the team forward steadily. He saw that Centurion Clay, who was actually astonishingly powerful, never took action again, but just continued to give orders. He saw that Centurion Biden, who had been brushed off by him, was giving orders like an arm.

He commanded his soldiers in an attempt to give them an advantage when facing the mountain giants.

Finally, he realized it.

"Fighting and war are two fucking different things!"

His voice was so loud that Clay, who was not far away, heard it. He just smiled.

He couldn't answer Solo's question because he hadn't fully figured it out yet.

For them, fighting and war are two different things, but if they are Lords, the two can also be the same thing.

…

Three days later, the vanguard army completed its mission and returned to the main force to rest and recuperate. After returning to the heavily defended military camp, Solo was finally relieved.

After the failure in the first battle, he was lucky enough to bring back all his remaining soldiers, instead of becoming the fourth or third captain again.

The soldiers got some time to breathe, but Clay had no time to rest. He held a meeting with the centurions all night, and then arrived at Valcke's tent early the next morning.

He wants to submit a combat report for this time.

In the big tent, the senior military officials circulated it carefully, with mixed feelings.

During the three days of fighting, the vanguard encountered more than 200 mountain giants, killing 56 of them, leaving 143 of their own dead and 217 injured.

Among them, more than half of the dead soldiers were gnolls who were plotted by the Gray Stones in the first battle and were massacred by the giants. A small number were hobgoblins who resisted the giants' attack head-on.

Most of the injured soldiers had minor injuries, mostly caused by being hit by stone throws.

The battle loss ratio is almost 1:3, which is unacceptable to everyone including Valcke. Even Clay later pointed out in the report that after gaining experience and improving tactics, the battle loss ratio can become 1:2 or even 1

:1.5, but this is still a bit high.

"In this battle, it is certain that the mountain giants are very organized and have almost no tactics at all. But combined with the Gray Stonemen, their individual strength alone is enough to cause trouble for us," Gray said.

"Would it be better if the gnolls were replaced by black-scaled lizard warriors?" A general asked the question.

The black-scaled lizardmen are physically strong and use weapons such as maces. Even if they are restrained by the Grasp of the Earth, they can escape quickly.

When Valk heard this, he shook his head.

"But in this case, we have to go head-to-head with the giants no matter what. After all, in close combat, the flexible jackal warriors actually have an advantage."

"How about some archers? Those giants are as poorly equipped as the ogres."

"No, long-range crossbowmen can only kill giants when used in groups, but they have almost no backhand power against stone men or giants."

"Is it possible to concentrate the elite shooters in the army to fight guerrilla warfare against those mountain giants?"

"No, there is no guerrilla warfare in the Wild Stone Mountains. Unless we can get rid of the Gray Stones first. Otherwise, not even the Warg Cavalry can enter."

"Oh, this won't work, and that won't work either!"

The atmosphere in the hall was stagnant and very gloomy.
To be continued...