Chapter 144: Flesh and Blood
The noisy footsteps are getting closer and closer, and soon a dense figure will appear in front of everyone's eyes, although the goblin itself is not high in combat effectiveness, but the number of them will still be a headache, looking at the current situation, I am afraid that the number is not less than a thousand.
"My dear, so many goblins!" exclaimed one of the mercenaries.
"Don't be afraid, goblins are nothing special, hurry up and form a phalanx!" Will and Prince commanded their knights to begin to form the phalanx they were best at.
The mercenaries formed small squads according to their usual habits, and the archers, under the command of Exewin, stepped back to allow enough distance to shoot, and everything began to work.
"Here, everyone prepare!" reminded the man in front of the array.
Everyone looked up, only to see a large group of black figures began to rush towards the camp, hundreds of goblins huddled together in confusion, driven forward by the elves behind. The goblins have a variety of weapons in their hands, some even come with a wooden stick, most of the goblins don't have any armor, and it is obvious that the elves are just using them as cannon fodder to disrupt the defense of the expeditionary army.
"Archers prepare!" Following Exewin's command, the archers began to draw their bows with arrows, and in the face of such a dense number of goblins, there was no need to aim at all.
The goblins showed a look of fear in their eyes when they saw a group of knights in neat armor on the opposite side, and some of the timid goblins hesitated for a moment, and were immediately pushed forward by the people behind, and several goblins wanted to escape from the team, but they were immediately whipped back by the elves, and the goblins in ragged clothes rushed to the expeditionary army.
"Shoot!" Exewin ordered.
"Whoosh...... arrows pierced the air and shot towards the dense goblins, and the first dozen goblins were shot to the ground with nowhere to avoid, and then they were trampled under the feet of the goblins behind. The goblins continued to crowd each other forward, and soon the second round of arrows arrived, and this time there were more fallen goblins, but that didn't stop the team from moving on, seeing that the low wall was already in sight.
"Archers shoot freely!" exclaimed Axevin, at this point it was difficult for the archers' salvo to be more effective.
"Woo whoa, woo whoa!" The goblins crawled over the log wall like ants, and swooped down on the expeditionary army, the first to be met by a phalanx of hundreds of knights. The knights held their shields to form an iron wall to firmly resist the influx of goblins, and the speed of the goblins' advance quickly slowed down, and the two sides entered a stalemate.
"Thorn!" Prince ordered in a loud voice. With his order, dozens of spears stabbed out from the gaps between the shields, and the goblins in the front row were instantly pierced with blood, and the screams rang out.
The shield-raising knights took the opportunity to push forward and shoved the wounded goblins backwards, and the goblins were suddenly thrown into a mess, some moving forward and others retreating, all of them becoming headless flies.
"Thorn!" Prince ordered again, and dozens of spears stabbed the goblins again......
Some goblins saw that the knight phalanx was difficult to break through, so they changed direction and rushed towards the mercenaries, the mercenaries fought in a completely different way from the knights, they were better at fighting on a small team scale, and the goblins who crossed the low wall quickly intertwined with the mercenaries. The mercenaries worked in groups of three or five to divide the goblins into small groups, and then used their weapons to kill them one by one.
The goblins suffered extremely heavy casualties at first, and those who first crossed the low wall were quickly killed, but as the number of goblins increased, it was difficult for the expeditionary army to kill the enemy as cleanly as at the beginning, and the goblins came one after another, and both knights and mercenaries suffered a serious loss of physical strength.
The two sides began to engage in hand-to-hand combat, and every second someone was cut to the ground, and the camp was covered with blood, so much so that even the ground became muddy.
By this time, the archers of the expeditionary army could no longer be useful, so they also drew their swords and joined the warband. Sawan took the two large axes and struck the densest place of the goblins, only to see the two axes dancing like a speeding windmill, leaving a large number of goblin corpses in each place.
The goblins let out a piercing scream of fright when they saw Sawin so powerful, and they all rushed to escape when they saw Sawin approaching.
Celia and Narros were not idle, Celia kept swinging the wind wolf sword in her hand, and the invisible wind blades slashed towards the goblins, only to see the human head and stump flying around like fallen leaves rolled up by the autumn wind, and the blood of the wind blade fell like raindrops everywhere it went...... Narros's way of fighting is a different story, her strange and nimble body allows her to move back and forth through the crowd with ease, like a swimming fish moving quickly between the reefs, whether fast or slow, the swimming fish will never touch the reef. Almost all of the goblins killed by Narros were stabbed in the back, and many lost their lives without understanding what was going on.
The battle entered the white heat, almost all the goblins were driven to the battlefield by the elves, and the elves finally had their hands free. Solan Ido was waiting for this moment, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said to himself: "Axevin is ready to die......
"Give me my order, all bow and arrow!" Soranido said loudly, pointing to the scuffling crowd with his hand.
Solan Ido's words surprised the people around him, and someone cautiously reminded: "My lord, there are a lot of our people over there!"
"Hmph! Goblins are our people, they don't have to be a bunch of inferior creatures, they die when they die, there's no pity. Immediately give me the order! Shoot these damned humans with bows and arrows!"
The other elves all looked at each other, and thought that such an order was too vicious, but the leader's order had to be carried out. The order was quickly conveyed to each elf, and everyone silently recited in their hearts: "Goddess of Life, please forgive today's killing, we are also a last resort......"
"Shoot!" Soranidó shouted.
With the shouting of arrows raining down, the people who were killing red-eyed did not expect that the elves would release their arrows at this time, and dozens of people were shot down in an instant......, and many others were wounded by arrows, both the conquest army and the goblins were stunned by this sudden attack.
However, the elves did not stop there, and the second salvo soon came, and dozens of people fell in the camp in an instant, screaming and scolding were incessant, and the previously peaceful place of sacrifice was now a living hell......
"Don't stop, keep shooting me!" Solanidor commanded.
The elves were a little unbearable when they saw this tragic situation, but they had to pull the bow again under the coercion of Solan Ido, but someone still quietly put the bow down, so many people couldn't see it if there were one or two less salvos, and there were more and more people with this idea, and after another salvo, the number of arrows was significantly less.
"Who dares to disobey my orders!" Solan Ido scolded angrily, "Who is it?
"My lord, this is too cruel, we would rather fight ourselves!" someone finally mustered up the courage to say.
"Who?" Soranidor searched through the crowd when a young male elf stepped out of the queue and looked at Solanidor with blazing eyes.
"You, Grancido?" Solanidor asked as he walked up to the young elf, staring into each other's eyes, "Are you going to betray me?"
"My lord, I don't want to betray you, but it's really not above board. Grancido replied without humility or arrogance.
"To disobey my orders is to betray me!come, tie him up for me!" Soranidor roared, and the other elves hesitated for a moment, before finally the two men stepped out and escorted Grancido aside and tied him with ropes.
Solan Ido glanced around with a cold gaze, and then said: "Listen to me, whoever disobeys my orders again will end up with Glacido, and when the war is over, I will definitely give the most severe punishment, remember?"
Seeing that everyone was silent, Solan Yido ordered again: "Go on, shoot me hard!"
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