Chapter 53 Oak (Part 2)
After engaging with the left-behind soldiers, it was already a little dim the day after.
The season is already a bit like summer. The daytime is longer, and the nighttime is shortening.
When the team returned, it was about six o'clock in the afternoon. The sky was dyed with red glow, but the surroundings were still very bright. One of the soldiers who were left behind was slightly injured. Because they forgot to leave them with deworming powder, a soldier seemed to be bitten by some poisonous insect during a vigil, and a big bag of his legs was swollen near the bare feet.
In the dense forest, there are many such poisonous insects. Although they are not fatal, they are prone to wound infection and subsequent fever after being bitten.
So, almost all wild adventurers will carry some detoxification drugs on their bodies.
The injured soldier cut a cross with a dagger on the wound, then released poisonous blood, and sprinkled a little holy water. When Murphy and others came back, he had recovered his ability to move.
The holy water in the territory is a strategic reserve resource, and Murphy does not intend to sell it to the outside world.
Now that the period of peaceful development has entered a period of peace and development, the demand in the territory is not very large, and there is a surplus every day. However, if a large-scale war occurs, then the holy water will basically be insufficient.
When we went back, we didn't have to save the horse's foot strength. The group let go and rushed to the road overnight.
Here we must briefly talk about the terrain within a radius of 100 kilometers within the territory. Because it is located in the southern plains, the terrain within the territory is gentle. Except for the occasional small hills, all are plains covered with grass. However, because of the inlay of the Karazan Mountains, there is a dense forest in the southeast of the territory a hundred kilometers away. The dense forests used to be towering mountains.
The Karazan Mountains in front and the Nidoria River behind.
Simply put, the territory is like an upside-down bowl, with a difficult mountain road formed by the Karazan Mountains and a spacious river channel of the Nidoria River.
There is only one exit between the two faults in the mountains. To put it bluntly, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. To put it bluntly, it is not easy to come in and it is not easy to go out. This is also the reason why this place was first abandoned by human city-states. Due to the terrain, if a war breaks out here, it is impossible to mobilize troops from the rear to support it in a short period of time, unless a fleet is organized to transport troops from the Nidoria River.
But in this way, the front line will be lengthened and become a human city-state that will send soldiers to an upside down bowl to fight the gnolls to the death!
This is definitely something that the noble council is unwilling to face.
So when the werewolf invaded a year ago, the noble council of the human city-state decisively gave up here.
To the west of the territory is the Nidoria River, and on the other side of the Nidoria River is a gentle terrain, but then there is the deserted stone highland. It is a scattered place for the goblins, and the Salma Basin where centaurs live. These cunning creatures bully the weak and fear the strong, and are very annoying things, far more difficult than the kobolds. In this way, humans have to stop expanding to the west, not because of the goblins, but because of fear of the centaur tribes.
Humans are still in awe of such species that were born as cavalry and had only talented archery under elves.
Born cavalry and bow and arrow specialization.
Judging from the current level of human civilization, it can almost be said to be a living target.
"Governor, there are people fighting in front!" The cavalry running in front suddenly turned their horses and came to Murphy's side, saying in a deep voice.
"stop!"
A horse neighed, and the team in the galloped stopped.
Murphy and two guards climbed a high slope and looked towards a forest not far away.
Sure enough, someone is fighting!
At this time, the sky was already dark, but the moon had risen, and there were not many clouds in the sky, which did not affect the vision too much.
The man was besieged, and the attacker was Murphy's old opponent - the Gnoll!
"Go and go over and take a look." Murphy raised his hand, and the general guard's knight immediately rode his horse to follow.
The terrain here is smooth and has the advantage of horse speed. Murphy is not afraid of being surrounded by these gnolls. At present, the only mercenaries and gnoll clans will fight within the territory. Since they have encountered it, they have to go and take a look.
About three hundred meters away from the battlefield, Murphy and the knights of the General Guard stopped.
"It's them?!" Murphy was a little surprised. He didn't expect that these people would be besieged by the werewolf.
It's a Psyche!
The number of Psiahs besieged was about eighty, most of whom were injured. The number of werewolves besieged was about one hundred and fifty, and most of them were female werewolves. Murphy only saw a few tall male figures.
The battle was getting glued, and the Psycheans contracted into a circular formation for defense, protecting their seriously injured companions in the garden formation, while the werewolf surrounded them. The Psychean tribe was a bit similar to the barbarian tribe, and was composed of clan surnames one by one, and the warriors were all in the same clan with a trace of blood relatives. This kind of warrior composed of blood relatives and tribes is very reliable, and they will not give up their comrades easily!
Just as humans will not give up on their loved ones.
Because of the night, neither side noticed Murphy's approaching.
"The whole army rested!" Murphy simply judged the current form and decided to save these Psycheans.
There are two reasons. The first is that they still have most of their combat power. The second is that there are not too many zombies, and there are not many males with strong combat power. The most important point is that they have the protection of night!
The Mercedes-Benz just now has consumed a lot of physical strength for the horses, and the soldiers also need to take a break to restore their combat effectiveness.
Murphy took out the kettle and poured it into his mouth.
This time, there were no Greek infantry around him, only thirty-two general guards, and his melee combat power was not very impressive. Without the powerful Greek Fangzheng's ability to confront the zombies, if you want to defeat the zombies, you can only rely on the mobility of the cavalry.
When they came out, each general guards' javelin cavalry carried four short javelins.
In other words, after the four-wheeled javelin was thrown, the cavalry had to enter hand-to-hand combat.
To be honest, Murphy was not sure to defeat these gnolls, because if you want to win a beautiful battle, you still need to look at the war sense of those Psian leaders!
The number of people is still too small.
Murphy could only use the night to cause the gnolls to riot for a while.
However, if you want to defeat these gnolls head-on, the leader of the Psyia must be able to seize the fighter and decisively launch a counterattack when the gnolls riots occur!
Then Murphy's cavalry could start charging!
If the other party does not have this sense of war and cannot seize the opportunity of counterattack, then Murphy can only say sorry.
He would not joke about the lives of soldiers, nor would he joke about his own lives.
If the other party did not launch a counterattack until the gnoll recovered from the riot, Murphy would immediately flee with the cavalry of the General Guard!
He has done his best.
Chapter completed!