Froststone Camp, five minutes before the battle begins.
Todd looked at the group of male and female barbarians of different ages in front of him and asked Ackerman in a low voice: "Are these all the troops we can use?"
The latter nodded helplessly: "I know there are indeed fewer people, but the key problem is that we don't have enough equipment. Look at these people, they don't have decent armor, and even the weapons are just homemade hunting bows and choppers.
The ax of the tree..."
Todd turned his head to Rachel: "How long have Alfonso and the others been leaving?"
"Almost thirty minutes." Rachel silently calculated the distance and time in her mind: "According to the predetermined tactics, the knights set off first, working in teams of two, to clear all the enemy's hidden sentries in the forest. The gladiator's troops,
Then march directly towards the enemy camp."
Todd nodded: "Then it's almost time to fight..."
Before he finished speaking, a sharp whistle came from the distance.
Ackerman looked into the distance in surprise: "What is that sound?!"
Rachel said to him: "The enemy is using loud arrows to notify the troops in the distance...Ackerman, tell the sentries around the camp to strengthen their vigilance!"
A few minutes later, a barbarian hunter ran into the camp panting and said to Todd: "Chief! A group of cavalry is coming towards the camp!"
"How many people are there?"
"More than seventy people."
Todd issued an order to everyone around him: "Ackerman, let all those who can fight guard the entrance to the camp! Rachel, organize the old and weak of the tribe to hide in the bunker we have built in advance!"
Rachel opened her eyes wide and asked Todd, "What about you?"
"I have to stay here!" Todd gave her a relieved look: "Besides, there are only seventy cavalry. As long as they stick to the camp and use the terrain, they can be easily repelled."
Rachel glanced at Todd, said nothing, just nodded and left the place.
Glancing at Ackerman, who had straight eyes, Todd laughed: "First time on the battlefield?"
Ackerman shook his head.
Patting him on the shoulder, Todd picked up his sword and shield and strode towards the gate of the camp.
The barbarian warriors were holding their own weapons and were already waiting behind the fence of the camp. The sound of horse hooves in the distance was getting closer and closer and more urgent.
Todd stood still in the middle of the crowd, slowly drew out his sword, pointed it forward, and shouted: "Behind us, stand our brothers and sisters, parents and children! Think about it, if we are defeated, what will happen to them later?"
What kind of fate?! Death will become a luxury!"
"Pick up the weapons in your hands and stand up your chests! Let us use our flesh and blood and will to tell these sons of bitches of Ulster that this is our home!"
"roar!"
Under Todd's instigation, the barbarian warriors knocked on the fence with their weapons and let out a loud roar.
At this moment, the enemy's cavalry also emerged from the forest and appeared in everyone's sight.
"Archers prepare! Make sure every arrow is not wasted!" Todd looked at the cavalry who were getting closer and closer, estimated the distance between the two sides, and then loudly ordered: "Attack!"
The barbarian warriors may not have received military training, but these people who make a living by hunting are all top-notch experts in the use of bows and arrows.
The arrow passed through the gap in the fence, and the quivering tail acted as a balance. It cut a nearly straight trajectory in the air, pierced directly into the eye socket of a cavalryman, and the powerful force forced him off the horse.
Pulled it off.
After two rounds of bow and arrow shooting, the enemy cavalry lost eleven men, but the distance between the two sides had shortened to the point of close combat.
"Shield wall!" Todd lifted the shield of his deputy and took a step forward: "Get ready for close combat!"
To Todd's surprise, the expected collision did not occur. After approaching the outskirts of the camp, these Ulster light cavalry simply threw the packages on their horses behind the fence and fled in panic.
The enemy retreated like this?
Todd and Ackerman, who were on the front line, looked at each other.
The latter walked to a torn package and carefully opened the outermost layer of oil paper. The overwhelming stench almost made him unsteady.
Looking at the things inside, Ackerman shouted: "This is full of carrion and internal organs, damn, there are even maggots!"
Todd was stunned for a moment, then stood there and thought hard for a moment, and suddenly shouted: "Everyone! Pull back to the bunker!"
It's a little late to say this.
From the forest came the howls of wild beasts and the rustling of trees.
Just when everyone was in doubt, a mutant giant wolf with a body length of more than two meters jumped up from the tree trunk and jumped into the crowd.
This war beast overturned a wooden shield with one claw, opened its huge mouth, and bit the throat of a barbarian warrior. After biting repeatedly, it actually tore off the opponent's head.
Immediately afterwards, another dozen giant wolves jumped out of the forest and began to attack the camp.
Todd pierced the throat of the giant wolf with his sword and kicked the corpse away. Before he could wipe off the blood on his face, he saw a soldier next to him being bitten by the ankle by the giant wolf. He was dragged into the wolf pack and separated in the blink of an eye.
Corpse. He banged his shield with his sword and shouted loudly to the people around him: "Everyone, come here! Gather around me and form a circle!"
The soldiers began to spontaneously form a circular defensive array with Todd as the center.
The giant wolves began to run around the circular formation, looking for flaws in their lower jaws. Although some of the barbarian warriors were occasionally dragged out of the formation due to carelessness, they finally stood firm and resisted the waves of the beasts.
Wave attack.
"The archers aim at the legs of the giant wolves to slow them down! Once the people in charge of defense in the outer circle are injured, they quickly withdraw into the formation and the people behind them take their place!"
Todd carefully calculated the combat power ratio between the enemy and ourselves. There were originally twenty-four giant wolves in the war beast group, nine of them were killed, and fifteen were left. Our warriors originally numbered about one hundred and forty.
Now there are less than 110 people left.
"Stabilize the formation and don't let the war beasts rush in. We can win this battle!" Todd pulled a soldier with an injured leg from the outside of the circle formation, took his position again, and began to stand shoulder to shoulder with the others.
Combat.
The giant wolf swam away for a while, then suddenly stopped, retreated a short distance, and began howling toward the sky.
A few seconds later, a huge, shambling female wolf walked out of the forest and slowly walked towards the circle formation.
Its body was covered with hollows, and its belly was bulging high. Judging from its shape, it was filled with wriggling spheres, and a strange red light emitted from its belly.
As the female wolf approached step by step, its abdomen became larger and larger, its squirming speed became faster and faster, and its red light became brighter and brighter.
Todd, knowing that something was wrong, quickly ordered the soldiers to focus their arrows on the strange female wolf.
At the same time, the surrounding giant wolves came to the side of the female wolf one after another, using their bodies to cover the latter as she continued to move forward.
As it got closer and closer to the circular formation, the she-wolf made a sound like a baby crying, and suddenly quickened her pace. The ball in her belly was like an inflated balloon, and it looked like it would explode at any time.
Todd roared, pushed away the warrior beside him, covered his body with metal skin, rushed forward, and pierced the she-wolf's head with the sword in his hand.
boom!
There was a loud noise.
A violent explosion occurred in front of the camp. The huge air wave overturned the fence and blew away the snow.
The circular defensive formation formed by the barbarian warriors was also disintegrated in an instant. The nearest few warriors had blood gradually flowing out from their mouths and noses, and they looked like they were dead.
Todd was pushed several meters away by the explosion, and his whole head was in chaos.
The world seemed to have turned into a slow-motion movie in his eyes. The giant wolf leaped into the air, its sharp teeth reflecting the dazzling light; the barbarian warriors raised their hands to block in front of them, and the expressions of fear on their faces slowly enlarged; the second one
, the third self-exploding female wolf appeared at the edge of the forest.
Todd stood up slowly, and the passage of time became slower and slower around him, finally freezing to a stop.
One memory picture after another that he had never seen before flashed quickly in front of his eyes.
A sick barbarian boy was escorted by a group of barbarians to the shaman's hut in a snowy forest.
An injured barbarian boy hugged his injured calf and looked at the wolves in front of him. Several barbarian hunters holding torches stood in front of him, driving the beasts away for him.
A young barbarian led a group of warriors in a desperate fight with the enemy in front of them.
The memory images kept flickering, and finally Boyle's light blue spirit appeared in front of Todd.
"I am an incompetent person, an unqualified leader..." Boyle's spirit body flickered on and off, and his expression looked a little confused, but more of a sadness: "My people take care of me and trust me.
But I failed to bring them a better life..."
Todd said in surprise: "Aren't you wandering in the soul space? How did you break through the barrier and come here?!"
"The explosion caused a gap to appear in your soul world. From there, I saw what happened to my tribe, and came to you through the gap." Boyle's spirit body began to slowly fade, and his face slowly appeared.
Smiling: "Todd, I owe you a lot, but I still beg you to lend me your strength again. In this last moment, I hope to do something for my people..."
"The last time...what are you talking about?!"
Time passes and returns to normal, everything around restarts.
But Todd found that his body began to enter a state of evolution, and an uncontrollable fighting spirit rose from the depths of his soul.
Ackerman held the dilapidated wooden shield high. The sharp teeth of the giant wolf in his pupils were getting closer and closer, but he had no power to fight back at all. He could only close his eyes and wait quietly for death.
A pair of dark iron claws stretched out from behind him and grabbed the giant wolf's upper and lower jaws. When the claws were separated, the giant wolf was immediately torn in half.
A three-meter-tall humanoid monster jumped into the group of beasts. Its pitch-black iron scales resisted all the attacks of the giant wolves. A burst of frost breath spurted from its mouth froze the seven giant wolves around it into ice cubes.
.
A self-destructing female wolf saw the right moment and climbed onto the monster's back. After the violent explosion, the latter was unscathed, shook its body, threw the broken body of the female wolf to the ground, and then fought with the remaining beasts.
A bunch.
In less than a minute, the war beast group was completely wiped out.
The dark monster looked back at the surviving barbarian warriors, dropped the wolf head that was still dripping with blood in his hand, fell to the ground with all four limbs, his figure was like the wind, and ran towards the northern battlefield without looking back...