Seeing the jackals on all fours, Tu Hong, who was commanding at the top of the city, knew that the situation was not good and immediately ordered: "All crossbowmen evacuate immediately, and the sword and shield soldiers are behind to provide support!"
If we really have to wait until the jackals attack the city, those hundred crossbowmen will be lambs to be slaughtered.
"Withdraw and move to the next preset battlefield!"
After receiving the order, the crossbowmen, led by the corps commander and the chief commander, quickly removed the city wall without stopping at all, and went straight to the six residences near the city gate.
This was practiced yesterday.
After all, the pile of stones is not a real city wall. It is neither straight up or down, nor has battlements. It cannot use rolling stones, logs, etc. for auxiliary defense. It can only be regarded as a temporary high ground.
During yesterday's deduction, we had predicted the fall of the city and made plans.
"Jie Jie!"
Hogg couldn't help but feel very proud when he saw that the other party was frightened and fled in panic as soon as he attacked.
"withdraw!"
Not only the defenders at the top of the city, but also the Blades and Blades and Shields who had been blocking the city gate were slowly retreating when they saw the Jackals changing their tactics.
To avoid being dumped by jackals.
In any case, in this battle, the Jackals had a huge advantage in terms of troop size.
"Want to escape? No way!"
The jackals who were fighting fiercely at the gate of the city were already simmering with anger due to the heavy casualties suffered by their companions. Seeing that the opponent was about to retreat, how could they be willing to do so? They immediately bit them like a mad dog.
"court death!"
"You retreat first, with the Blades behind!"
Tu Qiang also showed his fire nature. If he didn't take a step back, he would fight with the jackals again.
The sword and shield soldiers in the rear took the opportunity to break away from the battle.
In order to buy time for the Blades, Tang Jing, who was in the team, was also full of firepower. He decisively used the magic ring on his hand and shot the ice arrows continuously as if they were free.
In an instant, all the jackals in the front row were frozen.
Tu Qiang knew what was going on and took the opportunity to break away from the jackals.
Tang Jing seized the opportunity and before the Jackals thawed, he immediately threw out a large amount of stones from the resource bag and blocked the space between the Jackals and the Blades, further buying time for the Blades.
Finally, the retreat was successfully completed.
Almost at the same time that the large army completed its evacuation, the jackal army led by Hogg had also climbed over the pile of rocks and continued to kill the generals inside the territory.
"Jie Jie, can you escape?"
Hogg commanded the jackal army to follow the enemy's retreat route and press forward across the board.
Be sure to annihilate all enemies.
Soon, the Blades, together with the Blades and Shields who had already merged, had withdrawn from the city gate to the main north-south road, quietly passing by the residences where the Crossbow Team had set up an ambush in advance.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Without Tu Hong's command, the crossbowmen who were hiding behind the residential walls and stepping on the stones all leaned out from the top of the wall and aimed their crossbows at the pursuing jackal army.
Rows of crossbow arrows shot out from both sides of the street, within fifty meters, with astonishing force.
"Ouch! Woo!!!"
The jackal was caught off guard, and his muscles and bones were penetrated by the crossbow arrows, and he howled fiercely.
He fell to the ground instantly.
"kill!!"
At the same time, the Blades and Blades and Shields who were "retreating" in front also stopped at this moment, turned their guns again, and fought with the Jackals.
"Damn!!!"
Falling into the trap again, Hogg, who prided himself on being smart, was so angry that he immediately divided into two teams and attacked the houses on both sides of the street, intending to cut those hateful crossbowmen into pieces.
If the crossbowmen are not dealt with, they will only become living targets.
"kill!"
The jackals were also ferocious, and they quickly rushed towards the door of the house under the rain of arrows.
But it was all in vain.
The gate has long been blocked, so we can only climb the wall and become a living target.
After finally climbing over the wall, the crossbowmen in the courtyard had already completed their retreat and stood in a row under the eaves, dealing crazy damage to the jackals who had just jumped off the wall.
The jackals suffered heavy losses!
The jackals who followed him roared in anger and continued to charge.
The crossbowman did not show any resistance and retreated into the house.
"Jie Jie!"
Seeing that the enemy had no way to retreat, the jackal warriors all had ferocious expressions on their faces. They held their blood-stained battle axes and smashed open the door, vowing to tear the crossbowmen into pieces.
Then...he was attacked by countless swordsmen!
"Ouch? Woo?"
There were not only crossbowmen but also more than twenty civilians armed with weapons hidden in the house. They used the dark and narrow environment in the house to chop the gnolls who rushed into the house into pieces.
The poor jackals, faced with layers of attacks, were finally wiped out.
His eyes turned back to the main battlefield of the street.
After sending two teams to attack civilian houses, the main force of jackals on the street was finally protected from the crossbows and could concentrate on fighting with the enemy.
The overall momentum is not as good as before.
The well-prepared army of jackals first broke out at the city gate, then ambushed them in the streets, and then divided their forces to attack civilian houses. The main force was no longer three hundred.
But their opponents were the Blades + Blades and Shields who suffered almost zero casualties.
Both sides fought evenly.
Seeing that the war has reached a stalemate, Hogg, the leader of the jackals, is not impatient. In his imagination, as long as the jackals who attacked the civilian houses return victorious, they will gain the upper hand again.
It can also defeat the enemy's confidence in one fell swoop.
But after waiting and waiting, not only did no reinforcements arrive, but a new round of crossbow arrows arrived.
"Ahh???"
Hogg's face was full of confusion. Before he could recover, he was hit by an arrow in his left eye, and his eyeball was shot out!
"ah!!!"
Even a tough guy like Hogg couldn't help but scream.
The reappearance of the crossbowman broke the balance of the battlefield in one fell swoop and became the last straw that crushed the gnoll army. With the leader hit by an arrow, the gnolls no longer wanted to fight.
They all started to retreat.
"kill!"
Under the blessing and blessing, the Blade Team led by Tu Qiang, although wearing heavy armor, did not feel tired at all, and took the lead in blowing the clarion call for counterattack.
Facing the fleeing wolf man, it was a frenzied killing spree.
"Retreat, retreat quickly!"
Seeing this, Hogg finally became frightened and fled towards the city gate with his troops in panic, completely unaware that the open space near the city gate had been soaked with water at some point.
"Ice Arrow!"
Under the cover of the army, and with his mana restored after the upgrade, Tang Jing started his performance again, like a sharp archer, shooting ice arrows one after another.
Not only did it freeze the jackals, but it also froze the ground where the water was splashed.
"Ah~~touch!!!"
The fleeing jackal stepped on the slippery ice and was immediately knocked down. Then he was knocked down from behind by his companion who was chasing after him.
In an instant, it resulted in a series of tragic accidents, and they fell all over the ground.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
What's even worse is that the crossbowmen who had been hiding in the residential houses showed up again at some point, completed the outflanking of the jackal army, and fired crossbow arrows wildly.
Tu Qiang and others also attacked from behind.
Suddenly, the jackal army suffered heavy losses again. In the end, only One-Eyed Hogg was left, leading less than a hundred jackals, and fled in embarrassment on all fours.
In order to run fast, many jackals even took off their iron armor.
"What a pity there are no cavalry!"
Facing the frantically fleeing Jackals, it would be difficult for the city defense battalion to catch up.
Although the defense of the heavily armored Blades has been greatly improved, it also limits their own marching speed, making it difficult to catch up with the fleeing Jackals.
What's more, although the jackals fled in a panic, there were still more than a hundred of them.
The strength is not weak.
"Sir, this is already a great victory." Tu Hong was so happy that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear.
In this battle, the city defense battalion relied on the advantages of defense and made full use of the geographical convenience to defeat the many with fewer and the stronger with the weak. Not only did they win, but they also annihilated most of the enemy's effective forces.
It's nothing short of a miracle.
The creator of this miracle was not him, the city defender, but the lord.
It was the Lord who single-handedly formed the Crossbow Team, reshaped the Blades, proposed and led pre-war deductions, and participated in formulating highly targeted defensive tactics.
During the battle, the lord's ice arrows also worked wonders.
The Blessing Technique also played a decisive role.
After this battle, the lord's prestige in the city defense camp and even the entire territory has reached a new high.
"The lord is mighty, the city defense camp is mighty!"
The civilians who participated in the battle all walked out of their houses and came to the street, dancing excitedly as if they were celebrating a festival.
The faces of the soldiers were filled with pride.
"Yes, a great victory!" Of course Tang Jing was also very excited and said with a smile: "After this battle, the jackals should be unable to attack again in a short period of time."
After a while, the stone city wall will be completed, and there will be no fear of jackals.
It can be said.
The territory has survived its biggest crisis since its establishment.
………
Among the revelers on the street were the dwarfs Bag and Ola who had just joined the territory yesterday.
"Father, my second brother is right, this territory has great potential for development." Euler's eyes were glaring.
Just now.
The father and son also took the initiative to participate in the battle in civilian houses.
"yes!"
Dwarf Bag's face was also full of admiration.
Even if his tribe wanted to defeat the army of more than five hundred jackals, it would take a lot of effort, but it was defeated by a newly established human territory.
It's really incredible.
"That's right!" Tang Jing thought of something and turned around to tell Tu Hong, "Don't rush to kill the jackals who were injured on the ice. Lock them all up and find out the location of their camp."
He was still thinking about continuing to harvest the spoils of war.