Chapter 442
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Chapter 442: War Units
The alarm bell on White River City’s wall quickly rang out.
Looking at the barbarian army advancing again in the distance, Zhang Lue and Luo Cheng, standing on the wall, wore relaxed expressions, almost as if they were outsiders.
Thinking about it, both were intelligent men with a 4-star intelligence cap, so there was no way they wouldn’t understand Luo Ji’s intentions.
They knew the Emperor’s purpose in bringing the Beastmen army here.
On one hand, it was to reduce human soldier casualties.
On the other hand, it was to help the Beastmen earn achievements, thereby promoting the integration of the two societies.
Having clearly understood these two intentions, Zhang Lue and Luo Cheng naturally wouldn’t be so tactless as to get in the way.
However, symbolic work still had to be done.
Even if they were going to ‘slack off’ in this battle, they couldn’t do it too overtly.
Resounding horn calls echoed across the battlefield. Upon seeing the barbarian army enter firing range, Zhang Lue waved his hand, decisively ordering the triple-bow crossbows to open fire.
After a few volleys, the Foxman archers decisively followed up with a long-range arrow rain attack for suppression.
Immediately after, facing the barbarian army that had closed to a certain distance, White River City’s tightly shut gates slowly rose.
With Minotaur infantry as the vanguard, Kobold halberdiers and Wolfman warriors close behind, the long-prepared Beastman army immediately charged out from within the city!
In just a single glance, after seeing the enemies who had come out to meet them, the expressions of the attacking barbarians instantly changed!
“Monsters! These guys are very similar to the monsters we encountered before!”
“They came out from behind that stone wall!”
“What’s going on? How can there be so many monsters hidden behind the southerners’ stone wall?”
The sudden unexpected situation caused the barbarians a wave of panic, but not disarray.
Clearly, before their southern migration, they had probably already engaged other Beastmen.
In other words, Beastman races had also appeared in the Bitter Cold Land.
Standing on the wall, listening to the commotion outside the city, Zhang Lue and Luo Cheng, realizing this, quickly exchanged a look.
Each understood the other’s meaning from that glance.
If this was truly the case, then this matter needed to be properly reported to the Emperor.
However, the current battle was the priority.
Hak’s trumpeting directly stabilized the barbarian army’s morale.
However, the seriousness in Hill’s eyes became increasingly apparent.
Those Beastman monsters didn’t look like they could coexist peacefully with humans.
But the fact laid out before her was that these monsters were fighting for those southerners.
“What exactly is going on?”
Hill’s mind was full of questions.
“Could it be that these monsters were captured by the southerners?”
Various conjectures churned in her mind, and in Hill’s heart, those southerners were now shrouded in a veil of mystery.
But this extent was not enough to make her retreat.
Their northern tribal warriors had also fought these Beastman monsters.
Having combat experience, she knew deeply that they weren’t incapable of defeating those Beastman monsters.
Especially her Mammoth and the Ice Bear warriors of the Ice Bear Tribe.
Even those Beastman monsters couldn’t contend with the Mammoth’s power!
As thoughts raced, the two armies had already begun their first clash.
Under the cover of the Minotaur infantry, the Kobolds all raised the bloodletting spears issued to them.
As soon as they began, it was a full volley of throws.
The almost overwhelming threat of death instantly changed Hill’s expression.
She had already suffered from these bloodletting spears in the previous battle.
Unless she was foolish, how could one fall into the same pit twice?
With this thought, Hill decisively commanded Hak to retreat while continuously swinging its thick trunk, sweeping away all the bloodletting spears flying towards it.
Hill’s maneuver undoubtedly worked.
There were two fundamental reasons: on one hand, she was prepared in advance and wouldn’t be caught off guard by the bloodletting spears again.
On the other hand, the bloodletting spears thrown by cavalrymen were empowered by the momentum of their warhorses galloping at full speed.
In other words, the bloodletting spears thrown by the Kobolds would have significantly less power.
After a round of throws, the Kobolds quickly switched to their bronze halberds for close combat, preparing for a direct melee.
As the frontline unit of the Beastman army, the burly Minotaur infantry, wielding double-bladed battle axes, had already engaged the barbarian army in fierce combat.
The two armies clashed furiously, and for a time, the scene was utterly spectacular.
As the Minotaur infantry swung their double-bladed battle axes, a northern barbarian warrior was immediately cut down on the spot.
Clearly, even the robust northern barbarian tribesmen found it difficult to surpass the naturally superior physical prowess of the Minotaurs.
However, it was too early to say that the Beastmen army had sealed the victory.
Don’t forget that the barbarian army had two special war units: the Mammoth and the Ice Bear warriors.
After days of pent-up anger, Hak charged directly into the Beastmen army’s formation.
Its thick trunk swung frantically, and its pillar-like legs stomped continuously, as if making the ground tremble.
Relying on its massive body and almost unreasonable strength, Hak rampaged through the Beastmen army, slaughtering widely.
Even the strongest Minotaur infantry found it difficult to contend with it.
Watching the thick trunk, accompanied by a muffled whistling sound, lash out towards them, several Minotaur infantry had nowhere to escape.
In the end, they could only raise their double-bladed battle axes, attempting to block and parry.
However, the disparity in strength rendered them powerless against Hak’s terrifying attack.
The moment the thick trunk lashed down, those Minotaur infantry who were directly hit instantly lost their lives.
In front of this war unit with overwhelming power, the Minotaur infantry, lacking defensive means, seemed somewhat fragile.
Luo Ji had considered equipping the Minotaur infantry with a bronze shield, having them switch to shield-axe soldier equipment to add some defensive capabilities.
He had actually tried it, but the result was regrettable.
Just as he couldn’t demand human soldiers to meet the standards of Beastmen soldiers, conversely, he couldn’t demand Beastmen soldiers to meet the standards of human soldiers.
To put it simply, Minotaurs were a bit single-minded and not flexible enough.
If you only put a double-bladed battle axe in their hands, they could focus entirely on using that double-bladed battle axe.
But if you were to give them a bronze shield in addition to a double-bladed battle axe, asking them to control two pieces of equipment simultaneously in combat, their minds would quickly become chaotic.
In the end, they performed worse than when they only used one weapon.
