Lei Zihao, who was standing on the wooden shelf and squinting at the frontal battlefield, nodded and muttered to himself: "Yes, the courage of these Pylos prisoners of war in the face of aliens is a little stronger than imagined. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Lei Zihao's side had to follow Li Qingmei, who had come over to gain knowledge, and couldn't help but ask, "Really?" Why didn't I see it, the spear phalanx on the first line was almost pierced by the gnolls......"

Li Qingmei is also a princess who broke out of the siege of the half-orc army, and she has long been accustomed to seeing life and death, and she has no special reaction to the scene of limbs flying in front of her.

"After all, the Pilos prisoners of war are not our direct troops, and the individual combat effectiveness of the gnolls is second only to the elite Spartan warriors, don't you see that the gnolls have already killed more than half of them?"

After Lei Zihao finished educating Li Qingmei, whose military level was not as good as his own, he added another sentence in his heart:

"Nima! More than half of Dute Meow's deaths have passed, and these gnolls have no sign of collapse at all!!

Could it be that the vassal main battle group that the orcs snapped out of it even inherited the skill of fighting to the death and not retreating? ”

What Lei Zihao didn't know was that for the gnoll, whether the collapse was not based on how many people died on his side, and the gnoll's brain could not count the number of people who died......

Gnolls still have a sense of fear compared to half-orc warriors, and their simple brains judge whether they are victorious or not is very simple, just look at the number of brothers and comrades around them!

That's why the Gnoll Commander directly pressed all the Gnoll warriors in battle, and also used a crowding swarm formation, which is the most time-saving and effortless way to maintain morale for Gnoll people who can't teach discipline what it is!

If the gnolls huddled together found that the number of comrades around them was much smaller than the number of the opposing party, it meant that the gnolls were almost dead......

By that time, it doesn't matter if the gnolls are afraid of collapse or not......

The advantage of IQ arrears!

However, this is also the reason why the jackals can persist because of their ferocious and belligerent nature, if they change to kobolds, they will not look at the number of comrades around them, as long as a few more comrades die around them, they will basically collapse......

Lei Zihao didn't send anyone to support, just watched the tragic confrontation between the Pilos prisoners of war spearmen and the gnolls, and the Pilos prisoners of war who escaped from the phalanx by sporadic luck would be mercilessly shot by the crossbowmen who relined the team behind!

Even so, there were still a few points in the spear phalanx of Pylos cannon fodder that were pierced by the fierce gnolls warriors, and the gnolls who pierced through the spear phalanx did not wait to use their simple brains to choose whether to charge or turn around and continue to slash and kill the spearmen, and they ushered in a volley of crossbowmen dozens of meters away!

Under Lei Zihao's orders, these crossbowmen would not care if they accidentally injured the prisoners of war of Pylos!

What's more, at a distance of tens of meters, the crossbow is still quite reliable to aim!

Wei Wushu and Qin crossbowmen, divided into 4 squads, scattered to shoot the gnolls warriors who broke through the spear phalanx!

Initially, the 4 squads of crossbowmen killed a lot of scattered gnolls without damage, but as the spear phalanx became more and more porous, the number of prominent gnolls increased exponentially, and they set their sights on the crossbowmen who kept shooting arrows!

So, these crossbowmen retreated again and drilled into the castrated Greek phalanx of more than a thousand town militias in the rear!

At this time, the spear phalanx of the first-line Pylos prisoners of war had been completely torn apart and surrounded by divisions!

It's not that the Pilos prisoners don't want to escape, it's that they can't......

Either your own people or jackals before and after, running a bird!

This is where the dense phalanx comes in, using the collective strength to increase attack and morale when you have the advantage, and stopping the deserters from leaving easily when they collapse......

It is precisely because of this that in the history of the earth, it is often difficult for most of the spear phalanxes that were chiseled and surrounded by cold weapon wars in ancient cold weapon wars to break and escape, either they should not be captured or surrounded and slaughtered!

For the Pilos prisoners of war, surrendering to the gnolls is not as straightforward as giving themselves a happy life, so whether they want to or not, there is only one option left, to find the soldiers who are also humans, and to survive!

When the phalanx of Pilos prisoners of war spears was chiseled and divided, Li Si's weapon had been replaced by a machete full of gaps from the corpse of the jackal, and the spear had long been broken and thrown into an unknown corner......

On a battlefield full of corpses, it is still convenient to find weapons......

Because Li Si was wearing the leather armor that only team officers could wear, coupled with his efforts to gather the remnants, more than 200 remnants who had lost contact with the commander had been gathered around him, forming an irregular circular resistance group, with weapons outward, desperately resisting the attack of the gnolls in order to survive!

These desperate Pylos prisoners of war brandished their weapons in despair, and the passwords and motivational slogans that Li Si sent out from time to time had become their last hope for survival!

These Pylos prisoners of war were all soldiers, and they knew very well that if they followed a commander who could organize the remnants of the army, the probability of survival would increase a lot, well, from hopelessness to a little hope......

Rather than breaking through the gnoll blockade and escaping, these Pylos prisoners of war still felt safer to follow Officer Li's side......

They know in their hearts that their own line has been defeated, and there are second-line and even third-line reserves behind them, those soldiers in red cloaks, but they are quite a fierce existence, with them, there may be hope for this battle?

When people are in a desperate situation, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, they can burst out with the potential to struggle, which is also the biggest reason why Li Si can still survive by gathering the remnants of the army!

"Formation!"

"Phew!" The militia in the Greek phalanx, under the command of the officer, shouted and prepared to meet the charge of the gnolls, these town militia with simple training, the overall appearance is good, but if you look closely, you will find that the soldiers in the front row with shields are constantly flowing with layers of cold sweat on their foreheads!

The right hand holding the short spear was already soaked with sweat, and his eyes stared directly at the gnoll warrior with a hideous face, brandishing a blood-stained weapon and running over!

"Spear throwing ready ~ throw!"

The light infantry behind the Greek phalanx, under the command of the officer, suddenly threw the bronze throwing spear captured from the Pylos light infantry in their hands and threw it at the jackals who were attacking!

Shoot spears back and forth, cut through non-standard parabolas and plunge into the body of the gnolls, or plunge into the dirt floor!

The militiamen in the front row, raising their shields, couldn't help but exhale: fortunately, the brothers in the back did not throw their spears on their heads......