Chapter 19: The First Battle with the Gnolls
Broken Tooth would be a little hungry, the feeling of hunger made his red eyes redder and redder, and the kind around him tacitly moved away from it ten meters away.
Among the gnolls, who are generally over 1.9 meters tall and weigh an average of 300 pounds, only 1.6 meters of broken teeth are exceptionally short and thin, but none of them dare to expose themselves to hungry broken teeth
Because he's a ferocious gnoll.
Compared to its rough and strong, tiger-backed counterparts, Broken Tooth is small and slender, but there is terrifying strength hidden in this seemingly weak body. However, what really makes Broken Tooth the best of the pack is his unmatched speed and agility.
Broken Tooth always has a current of air around its body every time it charges, giving it the feeling of gliding through the air, which makes it far faster than its peers, and silently unintentional. At the same time, its foul body odor seemed to be locked in by this current, and even the most olfactory creature in the group could not smell it.
So Broken Tooth was the leader of this group of gnolls, before Hogg came.
Kicking away a goblin slave dying of hunger, Broken Teeth headed deeper into the camp, unoblivious to the other gnolls starting to eat the hapless goblin.
Unless he is very hungry, Broken Tooth will not eat goblins, as the smell of goblins will make him nauseous for days.
Gnolls only eat meat, as long as it is meat, but they prefer the meat of intelligent species, especially humans, because the fear wails of humans before death make them especially happy, which makes them hungry.
Gnolls never work, they enslave the goblins and kobolds they caught, the kobolds can mine, and the goblins craft simple weapons and armor for them. Of course, in times of food shortage, the gnolls would also use slaves as food.
Broken Tooth made its way to the center of the camp, and it saw Hogg.
Hogg is a 2.2-meter-tall gnoll weighing over 400 pounds, with knotted muscles under his brown-black fur and a hyena-like head, which is ugly and hideous.
Unlike the red eyes of the other members of this group, Hogg's eyes are green.
Yes, Hogg is an outsider, and this giant gnolls challenged Broken Fang's position as soon as they arrived in the group.
After Hogg tore apart Broken Tooth's two strong siblings with his bare hands, Broken Tooth wisely showed his belly in front of Hogg, who already knew that Hogg was also a violent gnoll.
Hogg was already full, and as the leader of the gnolls, he had the right to choose food first. He stared at Broken Tooth with a terrifying gaze for a moment, and after Broken Tooth showed a humble expression, Hogg was satisfied to get out of the way of eating.
Hogg is smarter and more ambitious than his stupid counterparts. When he first arrived in this tribe, there were only about two dozen gnolls in this tribe, and after he captured the leader of the tribe, he led his men to wander around, collecting many lone gnolls, and capturing many goblins and kobold slaves.
Soon, there were more than seventy gnolls and more than a hundred slaves under his command. As the population expanded, food began to become scarce. So, Hogg got the idea of a human village.
After two days of observation, Hogg led his men to attack a human village in the middle of the night, and Broken Fang, under Hogg's orders, easily climbed over the human wall, and when he quietly opened the village gate, the raid became simple and deadly.
However, humanity's revenge was not long in coming.
When Hogg saw that one of the Tin Men was in the human team that had come to surround them, he decisively ordered them to disperse and flee.
Hogg is the most powerful gnoll in the group, but it knows full well that he is no match for the Tin Man, even with a broken tooth.
Rushing to the face of weak prey and scattering in the face of strong opponents are the only tactics of the gnolls. After losing more than two dozen members, Hogg and the rest of the gnolls temporarily escaped the pursuit of the humans.
Over the next few days of pursuit, Hogg discovered a problem with the human army, which was understaffed. So, Hogg and his people found a valley with three exits as a camp, and this valley was also overgrown with half-man-tall weeds that the jackals could cover as long as they ran on all fours. Hogg sent some of his men to keep an eye on the three entrances to the valley, and if he spotted the Tin Man, he would lead his men out of the other two exits and scatter. After a day or two, they will return to the valley.
After several temptations, Hogg found that there was really nothing the humans could do with him. This made him proud for a while.
Just as Broken Tooth was just beginning to feast on a fat alpaca, there was a sudden terrible howl at the entrance to the eastern part of the valley, which was a warning that the Gnoll Sentinel had spotted the Tin Man.
Here it was again, Hogg thought disdainfully, and just as he was about to gather the people to flee through the other exits, the sentinels were heard from the north and west entrances, and the sudden situation made Hogg and Broken Tooth a little confused.
Looking at the panicked race, Hogg knew what he had to do as a leader at this time, otherwise the group would soon collapse according to the habits of the gnolls.
"Scatter those lowly slaves, all the people follow me, and we will go from the west!" Hogg roared loudly in the Gnoll.
Goblins and kobolds scattered and fled, and the gnolls quickly moved closer to Hogg amid the howls.
Looking at the more than thirty fierce and strong men who had gathered around, Hogg let out a long howl and rushed towards the western exit with these wilderness bandits.
"Damn, turn around, go to the north!" Hogg wisely led his men to the north exit when he saw the fully armored Baron Ericles with dozens of heavily armed soldiers coming towards them.
As he reached the north, he saw the Bruce Knight approaching them with a dozen well-armed soldiers.
Without hesitation, the jackals turned around and ran. Although there were fewer human soldiers on this side, the Jackal's beast instincts told Hogg that the new Tin Man was stronger than the one they had been pestering for days.
Before they could reach the exit on the east side of the valley, the gnolls and robbers, who had fled in a hurry, encountered more than fifty human soldiers. Although there was no terrifying Tin Man among these soldiers, the human warrior who was at the head of the group with two one-handed heavy axes exuded an aura that made the gnolls fearful, which was the breath of death of the gnolls, and on those two shiny battle axes, the gnolls could even smell the blood of the same kind.
By this time, all the gnolls understood that they had nowhere to run.
Looking at his panicked men, Hogg decided to lead them out from this side, and although most of the gnolls would die here, it was certain that it would escape under the cover of these men.
As long as he can run out, with his own strength, he will definitely be able to gather a group of subordinates again, Hogg thought secretly.
Just as Hogg was about to give orders, the human soldiers on the opposite side suddenly fired a dense barrage of arrows at them, and several unlucky ghosts standing in front of them were instantly shot to the ground, and the blood and wails of their companions caused the other gnolls to scatter in a hurry.
Nelson is experienced in dealing with gnolls, in fact, the monsters he kills the most are gnolls, especially after arriving at the centaur hills, the War Bear mercenaries have received several missions to eliminate these bloodthirsty bandits.
All the members of the War Bear know that the gnolls are both ferocious and timid, and they must not show any fear when fighting with the gnolls, first shoot a few arrows at the gnolls with a crossbow, the blood and wails of the same kind will make these selfish guys collapse instantly, at this time the only idea in the gnoll's mind is to run faster than other kinds, some cunning gnolls will even attack their companions when they escape, and these injured and backward kinders will help it buy time to escape.
At that time, the mercenaries will be able to kill these filthy beasts one by one.
Led by Nelson, the guards fired a series of powerful crossbows at the gnolls who tried to climb the hillside, and the arrows mercilessly pierced the bodies of the gnolls, but the strong physique of the gnolls kept them wounded, but the human soldiers armed with spears would catch up and stab the gnolls who had fallen to the ground on the spot. The screams of their companions before they died caused the remaining gnolls to flee into the valley in a hurry, driven by human soldiers.
There they will meet the fate of perdition.