lizard lord

Chapter 89 Successful completion
Regardless of Tang Zhao, the centaur commander or the captain of the dwarf squad are not the kind of genius commanders. They may have enough basic military literacy, but they can't make amazing offensive plans like those geniuses in history, and then they can't attack in one fell swoop. crush the enemy.

Like many ancient battles, they will command soldiers to fight against the enemy, gain advantages little by little, wear down the enemy's vitality, and finally accumulate enough advantages to win the final battle.

It's a very normal and stable mode, which is enough. After all, it's just a battle with hundreds of people. You don't need so many things. It's good to be able to defeat the enemy.

After losing several times in succession, the goblins had not many cards to play. In fact, their commanders were already thinking of retreating. Some hobgoblins quietly withdrew from the front of the battlefield and gathered behind the pass, encircling the weakest area. place.

The main unit of the hobgoblin society is the clan. Although there is cooperation and communication among the various clans, and when necessary, they will be consistent with each other, but there will still be internal competition. This is an unavoidable problem in most humanoid societies.

Most of these hobgoblins belonged to the same clan as the commander, so they were regarded as their own people, so they would receive a certain degree of preferential treatment, at least they would not be sold as cannon fodder to buy time for the retreat.

Tang Zhao and others can also predict that once the battle situation turns bad, the hobgoblins will definitely lead people to prepare to break through. They don't have such a big appetite. In fact, they don't intend to wipe out the entire goblin luggage team, as long as they can reimburse their luggage. , it's best to grab it to supplement yourself, if you can't grab it, it's considered a mission.

They deliberately deployed fewer troops at the entrance of the pass, in order to make the hobgoblins retreat, otherwise if there is no hope of breaking through at all, if the commander on the hobgoblin side finally decides to fight to the death, it is very likely It will cause heavy losses to them, which is unacceptable to Tang Zhao and others.

Tang Zhao glanced at the goblins' line quite humanely, then immediately turned around and ran towards the goblin line at the end of the supply chain.

Originally, there had been concentrated fire from ballistas and dwarf crossbowmen, and the line had been attacked by kobolds and dwarves. It was already in a precarious state. Tang Zhao slammed into the defense line composed of goblins. Three rows of thick spears The spear array formed by his hands was directly torn apart by him, and the waiting dwarf warriors immediately filed in to fill in the gap created by Tang Zhao.

Ordinary goblins without heavy weapons can't do anything about Tang Chao, and dwarves wearing super-heavy armor, unless a group of people work together to knock down a dwarf like in the Middle Ages, and then use weapons to penetrate the weak gaps in the armor, However, the dwarves have always acted in groups and would never give the goblins such an opportunity.

The goblins were already at a serious disadvantage, but the morale blow brought by the Tang Dynasty completely collapsed these goblins. The defeat of the few spear-wielding goblins in the front row quickly turned into a major collapse of the whole.

At the beginning, the hobgoblins tried to maintain order, but any hobgoblins who made similar moves would be accurately sniped by the dwarf crossbowmen. Scattered teams tried to break out.

Tang Zhao and the others don't expect to wipe out the enemy completely, but they don't mind weakening the enemy's vitality as much as possible. In particular, the dwarves have a bloody feud with the goblins. Goblins are constantly being cut down and shot, and the battle situation has become one-sided. kill.

Seeing that the goblins at the head of the team had collapsed, Tang Zhao was not interested in doing this kind of work of chasing and killing the remnants of the enemy. Now that there were enough people doing it, he simply started to pay attention to the situation on the other side.

Obviously, his return gave the hobgoblin commander a sense of urgency. Before he got close to the front line, the hobgoblins gathered all the remaining manpower and broke out towards the weak point at the entrance of the pass.

In order to avoid excessive casualties, the elder dwarves in charge of commanding the infantry did not order to block these goblins who were eager to save their lives. They only asked the soldiers to carry out symbolic pursuit and interception. After appropriately reducing the number of escaping goblins, they did not carry out more aggressive attacks.

That being said, the hobgoblins left most of the normal goblins behind - they were consumables in their minds, and being able to stay and hold off pursuing enemies was a good use.

After the goblins at the end of the team ran away, there were not many enemies left on the battlefield. They were either killed by the dwarves' battle axes, or they ran into the forest by chance in the chaos. It didn't take long for the battlefield as a whole to fall into chaos. silence.

A small number of kobolds chased away for a symbolic distance, while most of the rest were cleaning the battlefield, treating the wounded as quickly as possible, and counting the seized supplies.

This is still an active area for goblins, so it is not suitable to stay for a long time. It would be good if they can take away the things that should be brought. They are now relying on the local number of people and their familiarity with the terrain, and they don't really have much overall advantage.
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The wounded were removed by the troops one after another. As for the luggage, some of them could barely be taken away. Tang Zhao didn't think it was a pity.

The remaining materials were directly burned, and Tang Zhao and others quickly left the battlefield and disappeared into the lush forest.

(End of this chapter)