The fast-moving scouts rushed back to the army an hour ahead of the small Chaos war group, and reported to Carter that they were tracking the civilians.

"Are you sure they didn't send forwards to explore the road?"

"Yes, I have observed them for a long time, and they do not have transportation tools such as horses. Although a few of their feet have mutated into hooves, they are not very fast, and there are only a dozen or so of them. By the way, there are

The two-headed pig that some villagers failed to take away mutated."

"I understand, you go and rest first."

A little confused, Carter stood there and thought for a while.

"Captain Carter, what should we do?"

Everyone was waiting for Carter's decision, and Qinilon, who had the highest status among all the elves present, couldn't help but ask.

"We are setting up an ambush on the reverse slope of this hillside! Lord, please lead the city defense troops to cover up our traces as you trained before, dig a few pits on the road ahead, bury these things and connect them with match ropes.

"

"good!"

Qinilon didn't know why he trusted the man he had known for a short time so much, but he still brought Estari's city defense troops and some tools to the main road.

The thinking of chaotic creatures cannot be based on common sense, so Carter asked Qiniron and his people to lay few land mines, lest if they were buried, it would be funny if these Chaos believers walked through the wilderness instead of taking the main road.

Carter took the remaining more than 300 people to the reverse slope of the hillside and began to prepare for battle.

Although Carter had tried his best to arm his men, the amount of iron armor was still insufficient, so more than half of them wore leather armor. In order to make it easier to identify, Carter simply asked everyone to put on a robe over their armor.

, this avoids the embarrassing situation where the equipment is not uniform and looks like a militia at first glance.

Carter currently has 400 men in his hands, among which the city defense troops in Estari are all spear and shield soldiers, because the quality of their armor is much better than that of the new recruits (except for those who brought ancestral armor from home) and have been in the army for a long time.

Even if their discipline is average, their ability to cooperate day and night is higher than that of the newly formed 21st Company, so they serve as the 'central army' for this battle.

As for the more than 300 people in the "Twenty-first Company", 200 of them are spear and shield soldiers responsible for serving as the left and right flanks, and the rest are full-time archers. They are all selected from the best recruits.

, even by the standards of elves, they are all masters of archery, and are managed by Legolas on their behalf.

At the same time, there were a dozen crossbowmen who formed a separate team. The foot-operated crossbows in their hands were improvised from compound bows and accessories.

The elves who used them obviously didn't like foot-operated crossbows, but they still equipped them under Carter's order.

After arranging everyone's positions, the soldiers of the "21st Company" who were seriously out of standard raised their heads and looked at Carter, who was standing on the hillside with a 'potato masher' in his hand.

"Listen up, everyone! I am now going to distribute the throwing weapons that I have practiced in training! But before that, I have to let you remember a few points!

First of all, it can only be thrown after igniting the fuse under the warhead!

Secondly, after lighting it, don’t hesitate and throw it directly into the team of Chaos lackeys. We are about fifty meters away from the foot of the mountain, so you must throw it as hard as you can for fifty meters!

This is a new type of weapon that will explode five seconds after being ignited! Just like the popping mushrooms that everyone has stepped on in the forest, but this one will kill people when it explodes! So before I issue the order, I will definitely

Do not light the fuse! Secondly, after throwing it out, you must wait until you hear a huge thunder sound before it is safe, and you must wait until the thunder sound is completely over before you can poke your head out!

Do you understand everything?!"

"I understand!" Xn

"I actually understood them all. I'll just pick a few and take the test. You, repeat the key points to me!"

Carter looked at the team and picked a soldier at random.

"Yes! Repeat the key points: light the fuse before throwing, and then throw directly into the enemy's team. It will be safe after the thunder is over!"

"Very good! It seems that I really understand! The captains of each team come to me to receive the equipment!"

The grenades Carter brought this time were not too many, only more than a hundred. There were thirty squads in a team of 300 people. On average, each squad was only allocated three grenades.

"Give flints and grenades to the soldiers with the best throwing training, and emphasize the essentials with them. You must be careful. Once this thing is ignited, if you don't throw it out, you will hurt your own people!"

As soon as Carter distributed the grenades processed these days to each team, the soldiers in the team began to compete for the right to use the grenades.

"Captain, give it to me! I'm good at throwing things. I can throw them seventy meters with the wind!"

"No, no, captain, give it to me. I used to throw stones very accurately when driving sheep! I will throw stones wherever you ask me within fifty meters!"

"No! I go first!"

All the elves were curious about this new weapon, and one by one joined in the fight for the grenades.

"Quiet! What are you doing? Follow your captain's command and don't make any noise!"

Carter scolded the noisy team and then approached the dozen crossbowmen who were not in a very high mood.

When Carter came to them, all of them looked downcast, their heads drooped.

"What's wrong with each of you? Are you so unhappy that you are allowed to use a crossbow?"

After hearing Carter's words, the temporary captain immediately stood up:

"Captain, it's not that we don't like it, it's just that we feel that using crossbows is meaningless. Although it is true that you can aim for a long time as you said, and once you become proficient, the shooting accuracy within 100 meters will be better than that of bows and arrows, but the improvement is not much. We

You can shoot with similar accuracy using a bow, but the rate of fire is much faster."

Carter immediately laughed when he heard their complaints.

"Haha, you are so blessed that you don't know how lucky you are. I'll give you the next thing, and you won't want to change it back to the bow even if I'm beaten to death!"

After saying that, Carter placed a box in front of them and opened it to reveal thirty crossbows with detonating charms attached to them.

"These are explosive arrows. The effect is similar to the grenades I distributed to the infantry. They also ignite the fuse and will explode five seconds after being fired. The task of your crossbow team is to use these explosive arrows to deal with possible behemoths or those

Chaos infantry wearing full plate armor!"

Sure enough, as Carter said, as soon as they saw the crossbow with the detonating talisman missing, they threw all their depression into the bottom of the vast ocean.

Watching the elf's expression change from gloomy one second to clear the next second, Carter couldn't help but laugh or cry.

"You must pay attention to your cooperation. You can first load the crossbows and load the explosive arrows, but two people must cooperate, one to light the fire and the other to shoot! Otherwise, if an accident occurs and the arrows are not fired in time, your entire team will suffer!"

"Yes! Don't worry, captain, we will be divided into two teams!"

"Well, good!"

Then Carter just patted a few people on the shoulders and walked away.

…

The city defense troops who went to lay mines and clean up the traces quickly completed their tasks and walked towards the opposite side of the hillside while clearing their own footprints up the mountain.

Soon they met up with the 21st Company brought by Carter.

"Very good! Take a break while there is still time, eat something and drink some water! At the same time, set up an assault formation and wait for orders at any time!"

After saying hello to the city defense army led by Qiniron, Carter took off his wind-winged helmet, which could easily expose himself, and lay on the top of the hillside with his head exposed to observe the movement in the distance. At the same time, the mine's match rope was placed on Carter's side.

around.

At the same time, there was a foot-operated crossbow that came from the crossbowman.

Not long after, when the elves were hiding behind the hillside to rest and replenish their strength, Carter's eyes changed from normal blue to the unique scarlet color of the Sharingan, and he suddenly noticed movement behind a forest.

It didn't take long for hundreds of chaotic creatures of various shapes to come out of the forest one after another.

[Why is the quality of this batch of Chaos Infantry so high? It feels like all of them are wearing armor, but the color is a bit strange, I like purple... Could it be that they are followers of Slaanesh? They don't seem to be real Chaos Warriors, but even so the bows and arrows may not be effective.

, you have to use a grenade...]

With his double Magatama Sharingan, Carter has excellent farsightedness. Even though he is still several kilometers away, in his eyes, he is very close. He can easily observe the specific situation of Slaanesh's battle group in the distance.

The last ones to walk out of the forest were more than twenty mutated two-headed pigs.

Carter frowned when he saw this scene.

[Do you really need to use the grenades and explosive arrows I just made? This is a bit of wealth that I finally saved!]

Whether they are domesticated or wild, the pigs in Ulthuan are existences with complete vitality, not to mention that after mutation, you can tell that their skin is very thick just by looking at them.

Although Carter was confident that he would be able to kill hundreds of Slaanesh followers without any damage by slowly fighting guerrillas by himself, he would not do so.

This is not a war for one person. If there is no army that can compete with Chaos, it will be useless no matter how strong that person is. Even if he is as strong as the 'First Generation Phoenix King', he can single-handedly challenge the existence of four Chaos Demons.

He also feels powerless against the endless army of Chaos, let alone Carter.

"Everyone, get ready! The enemy has appeared! Throwers come forward, get ready and obey my orders!"

While the enemy was still far away, Carter turned around and gave orders to the troops behind him.

The soldiers assigned to the grenades immediately arrived near the top of the mountain.

"Don't show your head at all, listen to me and be ready to obey my orders!"

"yes!"

The followers of Slaanesh who continued to sing while walking staggeringly seemed a bit funny to Carter, and he didn't know who gave them the confidence to be so arrogant.

But after just thinking about it for a moment, Carter figured out that Lustria's victory should have inspired these "two devils".

In their view, even the eldest son created by the ancient saints was defeated by his master, and then the other remaining races in the world are not worth mentioning.

Any human degenerate who has invaded Lustria has seen the mysterious magic of that continent. Even the eldest son of God who mastered such powerful magic was defeated. There is no reason for them not to expand.

Carter knew that if history continued on its original trajectory, their expansion would not be unreasonable.
To be continued...