(it rains a lot during the Qingming Festival, and people go to the grave on the road. I''m sorry for one.)
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Bear goblin.
They are a variety of goblin, evil, greedy, stupid is their nature. As one of the most powerful goblin like creatures, bear goblins are tall, strong, vicious, and more agile than ordinary humans. They are the rulers of goblin like creatures and the strongest. They are named after bear like faces, covered with thick coarse hair and ranging in color from brown to brick red. Their noses are like bears, and their senses are as sensitive as bears. Their tough fur and sharp claws inherit the characteristics of bears, but their movements are much more agile than bears.
In this world, many low-level bear goblins sharpen their claws with pieces of stone or bone. Some high-level bear goblins, including their leaders, like to use hammers and sticks as weapons. Sometimes these high-level bear goblins also master some skills of using hammers.
Some high-level bear goblins can use common language.
They live by hunting anything weaker than themselves. When food is scarce, they even feed on their own kind!
Bear goblins are big and powerful. When they stand, they are about 7 feet tall (about 2.2-2.3 meters). Their skin color ranges from light yellow to yellowish brown, and they are covered with thick coarse hair. Their eyes are similar to those of wild animals. There is a red pupil in the center of their green and white eyes, and a pair of shovel shaped ears.
This kind of bioluminescence can even compare with many higher jackals in terms of size.
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As the most powerful individual of the goblin like creatures, bear goblins often exist as leaders. There are not too many bear goblins living on the mainland. They are mainly concentrated near the barren rock highland, because it is a hub connecting many races. As natural robbers and thieves, living in such a place is obviously more suitable for their activities.
Since this migrating bear goblin entered the territory of Athens, they have been monitored by Murphy from three aspects: land, sea and air.
Not only did the temple of war send elite soldiers to investigate their whereabouts and directions, but Gandalf, the grey robed mage, also called for Eagles under Murphy''s command to closely monitor the migration routes of these bear goblins from the sky.
It''s not polite to say that Murphy is a must for these slaves!
Athens, across the harbor.
"Governor!" A Spartan conqueror came out of the thick reeds, ran quickly to Murphy and said, "those bear goblins sent scouts, and seemed to be aware of our existence. They''re turning east. "
Although xiongdijing is stupid, as a natural bandit, they always have the tradition of sending scouts to investigate first.
Murphy didn''t expect to be found so easily by them.
However, after thinking of the rumor that Xiong''s nose is very sensitive, he also understood why creatures like this can easily smell the breath of strangers. If they send out a lot of scouts, it''s normal for them to find them.
"Now that they have found it. Then we''ll call in the army to catch up! " Murphy immediately no longer hesitated, to the side of the general, ordered.
Since the bear goblins are the migration of the whole ethnic group, it is impossible for them to clap their hands and bare their buttocks to take a group of people to other areas. Since it''s a migration, it''s necessary to bring most of the materials that can be brought. After all, these bear Goblins who earn without work and live by plundering are not rich. Now that we''ve got our supplies, we won''t be able to move very fast. The Athenian troops are all light-weight, and they don''t have anything except weapons and equipment and a day''s rations.
In order to be safe, Murphy also mobilized more than 600 cavalry troops.
There is no difficulty in catching up with these migrating bear goblins!
The army is out!
The phalanx infantry of the first Athenian legion, led by general riodari, caught up with the bear goblins from the rear, while Murphy led cavalry and 1200 archers to overtake them from the side, ready to intercept the bear goblins from the front.
The trade with centaurs brought a lot of horse resources to Athens. Although the size of the cavalry was only over 800, the allocation of horses was one man and two horses. This was due to the fact that Murphy had reserved some extra horses for the formation of Armored Cavalry in the future, otherwise it would be more than enough for one man and three horses! The Centaur group has tens of thousands of horses in captivity. Depending on the trade relations with them, Athens now has more than 2500 horses. After the completion of the construction of the horse ranch, Murphy had a plan to open up a horse ranch from an area within the territory.
It was not until noon that the Athenian army caught up with the migrating xiongdijing.
At the end of August, it was quite hot.
It''s been four or five days since these bear goblins moved all the way, and this morning they''re tired. After being chased by the Athenian army for a morning, he was even more exhausted.
Although they seldom meet with other intelligent races, even if they do, they are robbing them, but they have heard of Athens''s reputation. Tens of thousands of orcs were defeated by the Athenian army, not to mention their loose horde of bear goblins. The prosperity of Athens and the strength of Spartan soldiers have long been heard by all races around the southern plains.
"Your Highness, general riodari has caught up!" A rider galloped from a high slope, and the knight on the horse jumped down after reaching Murphy''s side.
"Good! Prepare to attack Murphy heard the words with a look of vibration.
Although the Athenian army became very tired after a morning''s rapid march, it was much better than those bear goblins. Enough food and nutrition, high-intensity exercise, perhaps because of the world''s reasons, even ordinary human beings are more powerful than the soldiers on earth. This characteristic becomes more and more obvious after the beginning of the element tide.
In a simple way, because of some differences in the world, the upper limit of human potential seems to be much higher than that on earth.
Although the average strength of human beings is relatively weak, the middle and high-end aspects are equal to other creatures.
It''s not that human beings have no potential, but they are not as high as other creatures in physical ability. The barbarians, whose physical strength can compete with jackals and orcs, are a good example.
The potential of human physical fitness is not necessarily inferior!
"Attack
Boom!!!
With the sound of a horse''s hoof shaking the earth, two thousand cavalry rushed out from the hillside, and were just robbed at the intersection of those xiongdijing.
The galloping sound of horse''s hooves caused a riot in the Xiongdi goblin tribe. The sound of thousands of horses galloping at the same time was like a mountain heavily pressing on their hearts.
A person is not impressive, a hundred people may not be too many, but a thousand people hand in hand can pull out a two kilometer formation!
As for tens of thousands of people, only when they have seen it with their own eyes can they understand a word.
That is the sea of people!
The scene of two thousand horses galloping at the same time may be hard for modern people to imagine, but this is not remarkable in many novels, or even a few figures that are a little out of reach. When they really appear in front of people''s eyes, they have an unimaginable shock! If thousands of horses have been unable to imagine, then simply understand it as 200 heavy trucks in a row to move forward!
A kilometer long front!
In the dust all over the sky, the galloping sound of horses'' hooves, and the trembling sound of the earth, thousands of cavalry in two rows and in a fan-shaped encirclement face to face those bear goblin Tribes! The dust obscured the enemy''s sight, and the bear goblins could not even determine the number of enemies! Everywhere are traces of the enemy, in the end are the deafening sound of horse hooves, the enemy''s shouts let them gradually disorder the square array, the internal turmoil is more and more serious!
This is the powerful deterrence of cavalry in the age of cold weapons!
When the galloping horse forms a torrent, unless it is an extremely elite soldier, no one dares to shake its edge!
This is just the momentum generated by the charge of light cavalry. If it is replaced by the same amount of armored heavy cavalry, then the terrible psychological pressure and the fear in the face of a torrent of steel can easily make these bear goblins give up all resistance and turn around and run away. In history, there are many examples of thousands of armored heavy cavalry attacking tens of thousands of enemy troops and defeating them. In Sui and Tang Dynasties, Li Shimin''s black armored heavy cavalry gave full play to the heavy cavalry''s lethality on the battlefield!
"Dismount!"
The six flagmen galloped, waved the flag and yelled Murphy''s orders.
More than 1200 archers jump off the horse, take off the long bow on their back, and mount the arrow with the bow. The cold arrow points to the restless Xiong Dijing. The light cavalry ran left and right after the bow and arrow array, which was divided into three square arrays to form the cavalry conical array, with long guns in hand!
After all, the bear goblins are notorious creatures. After the initial riot, some strong, armed, and seemingly leader and soldier, Gao Da, the bear goblins, pushed the group away and strode out. There are about four or five hundred of these bear goblins, almost all of them are the leaders and elite soldiers of bear goblins. They yelled at the group, waving weapons to boost morale, and under their action, many bear goblins took up arms and formed a dense formation in front of them. Although a little bit of morale was aroused, the other bear goblins still walked in the back of the team timidly.
Five hundred steps!
Four hundred steps!
Three hundred steps!
"Shoot!"
"Shoot!"
"Shoot!"
The heralds repeated Murphy''s orders in a loud voice, while the bowmen in the front line immediately released their tight bowstring, and a shower of arrows hit the elite bear goblin soldiers in the front.
One wave, two waves, three waves
The archers of Athens, in two formations, shot ten waves of arrows in a minute!
The sky is full of arrows.
12000 arrows shrouded the hundreds of bear goblins walking in the front of the queue in just one minute
Under the powerful penetrating power of the long bow, the place that is not a battlefield is full of arrows, a mess!
Dead silence!
The whole battlefield was silent. The bear goblins seemed to be sluggish. They kept the action of a minute ago, and looked at the corpses in front of the team who were their leaders and elite soldiers in the group with fear in their eyes.
That pile of wasps is beyond recognition.
Covering the arrow rain shooting, it really belongs to the terrible lethality on the battlefield. In an instant, those bear Goblins who usually just snatch past caravans and attack several small villages understand what is the gap!
And this mob, which is in charge of petty fighting and robbery, has finally understood the concept of the army in the bottom of their hearts.
Massacre!
As long as the enemies in front of them are willing, they can easily kill everyone. They began to fear and wanted to run away, because they knew that the enemies in front of them were not the ones they could defeat.
Because these enemies are the army, the real army!
Step on, step on!
The orderly footsteps appeared in the rear of the xiongdijing group. Under the leadership of general riodari, 3600 Greek heavy infantry appeared on the battlefield with orderly steps. These soldiers, who were well disciplined and strictly trained by the priests of the war temple, cut off all the xiongdijing''s rear roads with three elongated infantry squares under the command of their respective chieftains.
Long guns, cold light!
The long gun array in rows is like an insurmountable torrent of steel, which makes these bear fields full of despair.
They looked at the sticks in their hands, the maces inlaid with iron nails, the simple or no leather armor on their bodies, and then at the long guns shining in the sun and the neat sets of standard armor of the Athenian soldiers. They no longer missed them.
At this time, a goblin dressed in a generous human costume, looking a bit like a dog, but extremely funny, came out of the array of Athenian soldiers and appeared in front of those bear goblins.
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It''s over before it really starts.
In fact, this result was expected by Murphy, because he mobilized a huge army in Athens that could even support a battle. If he could not deal with the mob of xiongdijing, it would be a joke.
3600 Greek heavy infantry, 1200 bowmen, including a full complement of Crete bowmen, plus 800 cavalry.
This kind of lineup, not to mention to deal with these bear goblins, is more than enough even for the next city!
If it wasn''t for capturing these bear goblins as much as possible, avoiding unnecessary fighting and reducing the population he gained, Murphy would never have made such a large team to deal with these small characters.
But soon he got excited.
Because of these strong slaves, the construction of Athens will no longer worry.