130. The centaurs retreated
After the centaurs who dared to attack and supervise the battle in the rear were killed one after another, the rest of the blindly obedient centaurs began to retreat and flee one after another.
If the centaur khan was still sitting in the tribe at this time, then with the deterrent power of the various leaders of the annexed tribe with a strong force, these centaur tribes would not be so unbearable. It's a pity that the centaur Khan at this time has long been led by Li Xiang and others to a place far away from the castle and entangled. The Centaur Khan was not present to suppress the battle, and the die-hard tribesmen under his command were eliminated one after another, and the remaining die-hard factions could not suppress the newly attached wall-riding faction, and finally led to the collapse of the entire centaur line.
The centaurs outside the castle scattered and retreated, but the defenders of the city only fired arrows to chase them away instead of going out of the city in pursuit. Although the centaurs under the castle have become frightened birds, there are still about 17,800 in number, which is more than the total number of combatants in the castle. Coupled with the innate mobility advantage of the centaur, it is difficult to pursue out of the city to have an effect, not to mention, it is easy to force the other party to resist madly, and when the time comes, it will take more energy to eliminate it. Therefore, in the battles of human resistance against centaurs over the years, either the centaurs gain the advantage, enter the human hinterland and plunder and then flaunt away; Either the human side gains the upper hand and inflicts massive damage on the Centaur and forces it away.
It's just that today's situation is a bit special, because of the impact of natural disasters, the centaur tribes that are now active outside the borders of the human realm are all seriously injured in terms of attrition, and they have been annexed and integrated with each other many times to form a larger tribe, which has been continued. However, this has further reduced the number of centaurs in the grasslands. If they win and get enough food, then this centaur tribe will become the overlord of this grassland after a year. However, if they fail, even if they are not killed, the remaining tribes will have to wait to starve to death without food, and correspondingly, the centaurs who have lived in this grassland for many years will also be wiped out.
The reality is that this centaur tribe's dream of continuing the inheritance and dominating the grassland has failed.
Most of the remaining centaurs fled back the path they had come from and retreated from Prailly to lead the way they routed the grasslands, where they faced hunger, cold, and other predatory beasts and aliens in the grasslands for the next year, perhaps not one in ten survived. And after living for a year, if you want to reproduce and prosper again, you can't do it without five or six years of effort. And a deep fear of Praile Territory will be engraved in the hearts of those who survived, and this fear will stay with them for the rest of their lives, until they die.
A handful of centaurs took refuge in the woods outside the castle. Although the mountainous area is not suitable for a large number of centaurs, it is still okay for a few centaurs to live for a short time. If they are left alone, these centaurs hiding in the mountains and forests will occasionally raid the surrounding human villages and towns for some time to come, and the longer the time, the greater the impact on the territory. Therefore, after the centaurs broke and retreated, the main gate of the castle in Minobel was opened, and the elite team composed of a number of knights from the Rog Knights set off from the castle and scattered into the mountains and forests outside the city in groups of five to kill the centaur tribes who fled into the forest. The Xuanyuan Adventure Troupe's traversers were not idle, except for Fu Bin who took three companions to assist the main force of the Rogge Knights to stay at Minoburg, the remaining twenty people were divided into two teams and set off from the castle. A team led by Sun Xiaoyu went to join forces with Li Xiang and the other four to kill the centaur Khan who was led away. The other team, led by Ruan Kunpeng, went deep into the forest to assist the Rogue knights who entered the forest to kill the remnants of the centaurs hiding in the forest.
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The lush woods may seem peaceful and calm, but in fact they are full of murderous opportunities. The ubiquitous assault has been tormenting the nerves of the centaurs who have escaped into the woods, almost breaking them.
Suddenly, a few terrible screams suddenly came from somewhere out of sight, and then fell silent again. The centaurs who were walking in the forest understood that it meant that another tribe had encountered a strong human and had been defeated and killed.
Zhang Boyin slaughtered from the tree, tearing one of the centaur warriors in the middle of the ambush in two. The centaur warrior who only had half of his body left let out a low cry and dragged half of his body forward to try to escape from Zhang Boyin's claws, but the next second his remnants were smashed by the fist of the horse Jun who arrived later, leaving only half of the headless corpse still in a crawling posture, and the fingers of the outstretched arms were still slightly spasmodic and twitching, as if unwilling to admit his death.
Not far away, another centaur warrior stared unwillingly. A javelin stuck in his chest pierced his leather armor and smashed his heart, and it was held by a hand that poked out from behind a large tree at the side of the centaur. The centaur fled forward without paying attention to his surroundings, and the unlucky one crashed into the ambush where Guo Qi was hiding, and was stabbed by Guo Qi, who was hiding behind a tree, with a shot in the vital point, and his life was killed in a daze.
Several centaurs lost their way in the dense forest, turned left and right, and found the dead bodies of several of their clansmen in one place. The centaurs were alarmed, but after searching around and finding nothing unusual, they finally thought that the ambusher had retreated after they had succeeded, so they went forward to rummage through the corpses of their people in order to find some supplies to replenish them. Unexpectedly, just as they were examining the bodies of their companions, several corpses suddenly burst open, and a skeleton with a bone knife dancing from each of them jumped out of it and stabbed at the centaurs who were examining the corpses, and several centaurs who could not react were injured one after another, and then several more figures appeared around them, each with a weapon rushed up and killed them one by one. The centaurs who died in ambush couldn't understand why they hadn't found any trace of the enemy when they searched before, and what were the skeletons that had appeared in the corpses of their own people? And after another successful ambush, the Rogge knights who set up the ambush sorted out the scene, and with the help of Liu Chang's 'invisibility technique' who cooperated with the operation, they hid again and hid separately. And after Zhao Ke disbanded the summoned skeleton soldiers, he also lurked with Liu Chang and waited for any new prey to take the bait.