Chapter XVIII

There were only thirty-five barbarians and forty mercenaries in Sulun's camp, and as for those artisan slaves, their combat effectiveness was negligible, and Suren was reluctant to let them go to battle.

The cost of buying these artisan slaves was much higher than that of the barbarians, and the craftsmen of these forty-five alone cost more than a thousand jinnars. If these artisan slaves die on the battlefield, he won't have the money to buy them.

After a hearty lunch, Suren asked the mercenaries to start sorting out their equipment, and then he led the mercenaries to the northeast wall, because of the rush of time, most of the wall here in the camp had not been converted to stone, and some of it was in the east.

The walls of Suren's territory had only two gates, one to the east and one to the west, and this time the enemy came from the northeast. There is a high chance that they will attack the eastern gate, and Suren is going to set some traps here, and when it comes to setting traps, the barbarians are experts, they used to hunt in the wilderness, and many times they relied on traps.

Although these traps are not very useful against a large number of monsters, they can kill one by one. While the barbarians were making traps, Suren also took the remaining forty-five slave craftsmen with them to carry out the dried reeds collected these days and pile them near the east gate.

Minutes and seconds passed, and by three o'clock in the afternoon, it might still be hot and dry in the south, but it was already cool in the northern heath. Autumn is crisp, and in the wilderness in the distance, a black line is rapidly approaching.

When I got closer, I realized that there was a black line, but a huge army of thousands of goblins, goblins, kobolds, and gnolls. In fact, they are more like a bunch of bandits than an army, no, they should be inferior to bandits.

Most of them didn't even have clothes, and most of the weapons they held in their hands were wooden sticks or bone weapons, only the Gnolls used crudely made metal weapons, although many of them looked at them and knew they were inferior, but they were also metal weapons.

In addition to these monsters, Suren also saw several tall monsters, these monsters were taller than the jackals, the body muscles were strained, and they looked very impactful, Suren had seen them on monster pictures before, and these monsters were trolls.

Although the number of trolls is small, their strength is far stronger than that of the gnolls, although there are only a dozen, but their combat power can easily defeat a team of a hundred gnolls. The mace in the hands of these trolls weighed forty or fifty kilograms, and they looked ugly, and there was unmelted iron slag on them, but their power was not diminished.

And the number of this group of monsters is also a little different from the news that was passed back before, the number of this group of monsters is at least one thousand fourteen, the number has doubled, so many numbers, it is close to twenty times that of Su Lun and them.

The mercenary standing on the city wall not only felt his heart beating faster, his hands and feet were cold, and he looked at the monster in the distance, his mind was blank, and his eyes were full of fear. If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't outrun the monsters in the wilderness, it is estimated that these mercenaries would have dropped their weapons and fled.

Seeing this situation, Su Lun secretly shook his head, the mental quality of these mercenaries was too poor.

"Master Suren, the number of these monsters has exceeded a thousand, we are less than a hundred, we can't resist their attacks at all, at this time it is no longer a matter of estimating the face of the nobles, I suggest driving those kobold slaves and goblin slaves, leaving all the baggage and retreating immediately..."Jean said anxiously.

"Retreat? Why retreat? Just rely on these chickens and dogs?" Su Lun patted the city wall and laughed: "I still think that they are coming less, so many slaves, as long as you catch most of them, it is estimated that my lord's castle will be built soon!"

Hearing Su Lun's words, the mercenaries looked at each other, looking at Su Lun as if they were looking at fools, but those barbarians applauded Su Lun, although they had followed Su Lun for less than a month, but these barbarians had completely become Su Lun's diehard loyalists, and they resolutely carried out Su Lun's orders.

While the mercenaries were still struggling to escape, the monster army outside attacked.

"Whoosh!"

Bows and arrows were thrown from a distance, and the spear in Suren's hand swung slightly, pushing away all the arrows that were shot at him, and those barbarians also swung their weapons one after another, sweeping the arrows away, and only a few unlucky mercenaries were shot, but the power of these bows and arrows was too poor, and the arrows did not even penetrate the leather armor.

Kobolds have poor archery skills, they have limited strength and can't shoot strong bows, and most of the arrows of bows and arrows are also bone, so it's okay to deal with wild monsters without armor, but they are useless against Suren.

Seeing that the bow and arrow had no effect, the gnoll let out a roar and angrily waved the mace in his hand, directly knocking out a goblin that could not dodge much. Then he roared at the monster army, and the entire monster army directly began to attack the city.

Thirty or forty meters away from the full charge, a few seconds passed, but many monsters just rushed ten meters, either stepped on the pit, were rolled through the soles of their feet by wooden thorns, or were hit in the head by falling rocks, and some unlucky people were directly trampled to death by the monsters behind after falling.

But these did not stop the monster army, and soon the gate was breached, and Suren did not let people go to stop them, but led the barbarians and mercenaries to withdraw to the camp.

The easy breakdown of the gate made these wilderness monsters very excited, in their consciousness, the human fortress is difficult to break, but as long as it is breached, there will be rich loot, sweet food, beautiful clothes, all kinds of beautiful utensils, and those human white and tender flesh.

These hot-headed monsters didn't care how the camp could be breached so easily, whether it was goblins, kobolds, or gnolls, they all swarmed towards the city gates.

Behind the city gate, the kobolds who rushed in first wanted to rush inside and plunder, but what made them dumbfounded was that there was a stone wall on the left and right sides of the city gate, and before they could figure it out, they were pushed forward by more monsters behind them.

These two stone walls were created by Su Lun's skill of turning mud into stone, and there were a total of thirty meters of stone walls on the left and right sides of the east gate, and two stone walls blocked them, so they could go all the way.

Soon the monsters that rushed in saw their enemies.

Two teams of thirty barbarian warriors with huge axes in their hands stood in battle, did not dodge, could not dodge, and in a breath, these barbarian warriors came into contact with the army of monsters, the huge axes were wielded, flesh and blood flew sideways, and the monsters in the front row fell in rows like cutting wheat.