Chapter 44: The Battle Begins

Early in the morning, the sky was not yet bright, and the originally calm garrison camp suddenly fell into a commotion with a whistle from Giggs, and did not go out to exercise, because Giggs was ready to lead a squadron to Withered Leaf Town today, and after gathering as usual, Giggs said a few words about the scene, and then dismissed the guards, and the personnel who got up in advance to cook had prepared a hot breakfast in the cafeteria.

After washing, the guards bustled into the cafeteria to enjoy breakfast, and Giggs drank the remaining gruel from the bowl in one gulp, wiped his mouth, got up and went back to his tent to put on his equipment.

Taking off his tunic and putting on a simple leather armor made of animal leather, Giggs put his coat on the bed again, took the black belt that lay on the table, circled his waist twice, tied a knot on the left side, took the quiver, stepped on the bow and arrow, plunged the dagger into the leggings, took his short knife, and straddled it around his waist.

Giggs moved his body slightly, walked to the school field, secretly estimated the time, and looked at the guards who were almost ready to probe his brain, and Giggs blew a crisp whistle.

The heavily armed squadron stood on the far left side of the line, and after making sure that no one had arrived, Giggs swung his right hand forward vigorously,

"Let's go!"

He has already said what he should say many times, and he is ready to set off at this time, and there is no need to say more, because the battle is about to begin, and if he does not listen, he will naturally pay the price for his actions, and war is not child's play!

The garrison walked silently on the road to Withered Leaf Town, and needed encouragement in front of the station, only needed silence before facing the battle, and then completely released the flames suppressed by silence in the battle, this is the elite soldier, and the garrison already has this kind of appearance.

Giggs led the way, ignoring the early arrivals of the inhabitants who had been toiling in the fields, and controlled the pace of his feet to ensure that the speed behind the garrison would not be accelerated by his own pace, which would expend more physical strength.

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Three days later, the first squadron had reached the border of Withered Leaves.

Giggs ordered everyone to camp and rest, and took Gibson and a few guards to investigate the situation, Giggs needed to know if the gnolls had moved since the last time they eliminated one of their hunting parties, despite how much time had passed.

In addition, it is necessary to find some posts that are easy to hide for security at night. Now it's time to start fighting, so these details have to be taken into account.

Half-ringing Giggs led a few people back to the current camp of the first squadron of guards, and Giggs said to everyone in the camp, "The gnolls may have been looking for a while and didn't find out who killed their hunting team, so we didn't find any unusual movement in them~"

Giggs shrugged, "Of course, it's also possible that they may not have noticed that their kind are missing, and think they have eaten themselves~"

"Haha~" is very good, Giggs's cold joke successfully made the guards happy.

Giggs continued, "One more thing, when we went to the front and started fighting, our resting place became on the branches of the trees in the forest, just as we learned to climb trees and hide from them~"

"Okay, let's rest, tomorrow we'll go harvest the heads of those gnolls~" Giggs said lightly.

A Xuan tightened for a while to loosen it a little, and then tightened it better, and Giggs tried to use his wits to lead the troops.

"Yes!" the guards all had a little smile on their faces, their heads were so full of confidence, and they were naturally full of confidence.

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The next morning, shortly after the sun came out, the sun shone on the gnolls' fur, making them look up and howl in their throats.

The gnolll squinted his eyes with withered teeth, and picked up a thick stick beside him, and today it was his turn to go out in search of prey. Seeing that the female gnolls in the tribe were doing some simple clean-up work, Witherfang secretly thought that he could save a little more prey today and do something shameful with a female gnolls.

However, I won't meet the elves again today like the unlucky ones last time.

Just over a week ago, a hunting party had all died in the wild, with only a few arrow wounds on their bodies, and it was clear that they had either been cut through the head by an arrow or had their heads cut off with a single knife.

In short, judging from the wounds, they died easily

And after careful reconnaissance by the people in the tribe, they found that there was no enemy who was later determined to be the elves, because except for the elves, nothing could solve a dozen gnolls warriors so easily.

God knows if the elves were upset to meet them, or if they were hungry and rushed at them as delicious humans.

As for their heads, who knows what those elves think.

The jackal's withered teeth thought to himself.

Greeting his companions who had gone out to hunt with him today, he walked in front of the woods where they often hunted.

"Huh~ Isn't this the direction those unlucky guys went in last time?" Withered Tooth suddenly remembered, because the previous two times when it was his turn to hunt in other directions.

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Giggs looked at the group of gnolls who had already entered the ambush circle, and with a wave of his hand, the guards in camouflage made of weeds stood up one after another, shooting at these gnolls, and the dense arrows shot at the group of gnolls, they fell to the ground without even screaming, and Giggs's arrows shot into the eye sockets of the jackal man at the front very accurately.

The gnolls had withered their teeth into the same place where he had said the hapless man had gone, and Giggs was unaware of this.

"Drag all the corpses of these gnolls into the woods and bury them, then set traps around them, cut off their heads, the trophies we brought back to Licorice Town, and when they're all done, we'll rush to the next place!" Giggs ordered in an orderly manner.

"Yes!!"

The guard Lisuo carried out Giggs's order, and it was already an hour after everything was completed, Giggs looked at the map he wrote down last time, found a direction, and said loudly, "Let's go here now, and try to kill more gnolls today~"