Chapter 13 The little greenskin is not easy to mess with
"Outsider, I am the representative of the ten goblin tribes within a radius of five hundred miles, and let your leader come out and speak. The leading goblin said in a haughty tone.
The goblin wore a silk Western-style robe covered with a new and new heavy armor, no helmet, and held a banner of gray linen depicting two muskets crossing.
This pattern is a bit abstract and the painting is a lot of work with the big ** topographic map, so that Hannibal on the city wall rolled his eyes and looked at it for a long time before he finally saw a little connotation.
"I am!, if you have something to say, if you fart, let it go!" said Hannibal, crying and laughing, standing up and stepping on the wall with one foot on the wall, looking condescendingly at the goblin leader.
What the hell are these goblins selling? Instead of swarming up, a few leaders came to the door, asking for negotiations. Hannibal had a strange brain.
"Your Excellency's identity is γγ? why did you suddenly come to our territory and innocently not capture our compatriots and sell them to slave traders??"
"That's our village chief! Hannibal!
Jobs interjected, and as soon as he finished speaking, Hannibal picked up a pebble and threw it at Jobs's buttocks.
"Oh, for this, then what are you going to do, anyway, the person has already sold, and I have collected the money, you can see it!"
Hannibal looked at the goblin with a righteous and awe-inspiring look, and finally couldn't help laughing
"Our ten tribes have gathered an army of 90,000, if you are willing to leave here, we will evacuate, and give you 20,000 gold coins and a thousand high-quality muskets as compensation, if you don't want to, then we can only step on your fortress! Provoke your head with a spear!" (In fact, this goblin old man is quite sincere, there is a tactic in the military world called the claim, there are 40,000 people who dare to claim 200,000, that is all done by honest people)
The goblin leader took a scroll made of sheepskin from his breastplate and threw it to Jobs, looking up at Hannibal: "This is the war book, you can choose now"
"Sick! What a hypocrisy!"
Hannibal spat on it.
"This belongs to the goblins, not to you outsiders. If you want to live on this land, you can choose to be our domestic helper. The goblin leader turned his horse's head and walked back in style.
"Do you want to keep these little people?" Jobs asked, dropping the war letter on the ground, unbuckling his belt, pulling out the "dick style" that was almost as thick as the goblin neck's neck, swaggering on it, and turning his head to look back at Hannibal.
"I'll go down and sweep it all over with one shot!"
Hannibal gave a hache and waved his hand: "Catch them alive! I'm going to use them to change your equipment! Come back!"
"Really!?
"What kind of equipment, I want a set of plate armor like Xiao Qiao!"
"I'm going to take the axe, that thing looks majestic, and it's easy to use!"
"Lord Wang, it's time for the brothers' sabers to change!"
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The goblin coalition had walked for half an hour after only three miles, and when their figures appeared on the open ground in front of the fortress, Hannibal was surrounded by a pile of snow-white pumpkin seeds.
More than 200 goblins and brown bears first appeared in the eyes of Hannibal and others amid the shouts of more than 200 goblins armed with whips, and when five small trebuchets were displayed in front of Hannibal about a thousand meters away, this destructive war machine still made everyone feel a little cold.
"It's a trebuchet, but it's fragile and breakdowns!" Stewart reminded his leader.
Hannibal nodded subconsciously: "Yes!"
"Wellγγγ who the let you out??"
"Lord, let's take a look, let's see if we can help!"
Hannibal knew it was bad when he heard Stewart say "we", and when he looked around, he saw that more than two hundred Anglo warriors who had covered their wounds in cowhide were squirming and smirking at him.
200 brown bears kept roaring, showing their white teeth, and stopped in place under the shouts of the animal trainer, so that the goblins would not let them play the vanguard, these domesticated brown bears were worth more than their own people in the eyes of the patriarch.
At the forefront of the goblin coalition was a neat row of goblin warriors armed with spears and shields made of thick wooden planks with bronze rivets glittering in the sunlight.
If this row of round shields is enclosed together, it is believed that the defense of long-range weapons is still effective.
"Originally, this kind of shield could block the spear-throwing attack at close range in the hands of ordinary humans, but unfortunately the energy of these people is too small, and the momentum of the spear-throwing can destroy their formation!
"You keep me honest!" Hannibal said without looking up.
"Yes!
Stewart shrugged.
In the slowly moving line of the goblins, the five catapults behind them also slowly moved forward under the retreat of nearly a thousand goblins!
What Hannibal didn't expect was that the goblins were surprisingly well equipped, almost like the Ottoman infantry phalanx he had personally experienced, with round shields and spears in the first row, long knives (for goblins) and rectangular shields in the second row, two short-handled muskets in the third row, and long-handled muskets with longer ranges in the fourth and fifth rows.
"Hissγγγ"
Hannibal then slapped the back of the head of an Anglo warrior next to him: "Look at the people, look at the people, it's not right to let you line up for a long time, and you still want equipment, when can you line me up like this!"
The goblins' infantry phalanx is invulnerable, with the first row of spears and round shields being effective against cavalry and long-range strikes, and the second-row armies equipped with long knives and square shields suitable for hand-to-hand combat, even if the enemy breaks through the first layer and the second layer, then the two-handed muskets that give support to the second layer, and then the long-handled musket team that can give effective long-range strikes. This platoon is the most suitable formation for goblin combat.
More than 3,000 goat cavalry armed with spears guarded the left and right flanks of the goblin line, and the goats kept walking on four small short legs, occasionally lowering their heads and nibbling on a mouthful or two of weeds.
The orderliness of the goblins made a whisper from the Viking warriors behind Hannibal, who had always despised the goblins.
The mighty but orderly army of goblins slowly crawled towards their prey like a green seven-step snake!
When they reached the middle ground, the entire army of goblins slammed into the ground, and a neat right foot stamped sounded! Hannibal was so shocked, if it was bravery, then the Viking warriors and Anglo warriors under his command were all first-class, strong, strong and cold-blooded, but if they were well-trained, they were obviously far from the goblins on the other side. At the very least, they couldn't line up such a neat phalanx of infantry!
Hannibal pulled out a thick linen rope from his waist, and tied the hilt of the "Gentleman of Ambition" in his right hand around his palm, so that it would not slip from too much blood.
Jobs handed him a round shield, which he pushed away, and he picked up a double-edged axe in his left hand.
Now Hannibal has a giant axe in his left hand and a long sword in his right hand, and he is desperately stance.
Before Hannibal could swing the double-edged axe in his hand, the goblin's catapult began to wield its might.
Ten goblins joined forces to carry an irregular boulder of three meters by two meters and placed it on the trebuchet, followed by a sour crushing sound of the trebuchet.
The same is true of the five trebuchets.
Rumble!
Rumble!
Only three boulders hit the walls, and the remaining two were fired into the fortress, killing several sheep and a cow!
The walls are full of smoke and dust!
Hannibal asked in a loud voice as he bit the rope around his left hand to wrap around his palm, "Is anyone hurt?"
"No!
"It seems that the materials given by Da Dan Yu are all genuine, that is, a few supporting logs have been broken!"
"Okay, little cubs, clean them up later!"
"Didi, Di, Di,
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A row of brightly armored goblins puffed out their cheeks and blew the trumpets in unison, and in an instant the trumpets in the goblin army formation shook loudly, and the cavalry on both wings of the goblins began to assemble, and the inferior spears in their hands made a series of clanging sounds.
Now the fortress has more than 13,000 soldiers, which means that the opponent is more than three times more than Hannibal, and there are catapults, even if the Anglo warriors and Vikings are brave!
The last time I paid such a small price to kill Howard's goblin lair in one pot, it was the effect of a surprise attack, and if I had to kill and wound a lot on the frontal battlefield!
I had inquired before I came, and Hannibal's army was no more than 15,000 men, so how could this not make the goblins self-confident inflated.
"The other side is ready to surprise with cavalry! These goats can climb on steep cliffs, and we can't stop them with our few meters high walls!" Stewart reminded of what appeared to be a completely blind leader.
Hannibal laughed wildly and said, "I wonder if their cavalry can compare with us?"
"Viking warriors of the "Eldest Son", let them know what a people on horseback is, and what a real cavalry is!"
"Pay!"
"Pay!"
Under the beckoning of Hannibal, the Viking warriors of the "eldest son group" all ran down the city wall and jumped on their war horses, and Stewart and several injured Viking warriors also secretly tried to climb on their war horses, but were knocked down by several descendants of the "second son group" with a smile.
The goblin goat cavalry was already in its best run. Once the goat pulls away, it is actually not slow, it is relative to the infantry phalanx behind it.
The earth was shaking, the grass was trembling, even the goats, more than 3,000 of them were sprinting. The momentum is also amazing.
The gates of the city suddenly opened!
Hannibal pounced with a sword in one hand and a great axe in the other.