Summoning Total War

Second Age Era 377, early July.

When the gray dwarf tribe, which took nearly half a month to cross the Karazhan Mountains, finally arrived in Athens, before they could happily and heartily rob, they were seriously in Athens. There was an autumn wind blowing in the territory, and they were unlucky enough to fall into Murphy's trap. As soon as they appeared in the outer areas of the Karazhan Mountains, their whereabouts were already locked by the high-level harpies in the sky.

Then Murphy made a series of deployments, preparing a big net waiting for them to enter and catch a big fish home!

"Mr. Governor! Those gray dwarves have entered the encirclement." Next to Murphy, a newly promoted general in Athens said respectfully.

Because there have been many newly promoted generals in Athens during this period, these generals include Athenian citizens and aboriginal humans, so in this operation to capture the gray dwarves, Murphy simply took the opportunity to train them and let them understand more or less Let’s give some actual combat command. These talents are all recently promoted rookies, and Murphy thinks they should be sharpened more to bring out their potential!

Why were the generals in the early days of Athens so excellent and talented?

It is because Athens faced the threat of wolves and orcs at the beginning. Under the oppression of these threats, the early generals of Athens can be said to be first-class talents. But after Athens became powerful, the newly born generals were not so good. They can only be said to be pretty good. There is no other reason. It's just that the potential of these generals has not yet been forced out. The education of the Athens Academy can only give them basic abilities. , and cannot unleash their full potential.

As a general, the best training is of course on the battlefield!

"Send the signal! Prepare to attack!" Murphy said slowly with a calm expression.

There was a burst of chirping of birds in the mountain forest, and then there were vague responses from all directions... Murphy did not personally direct this time, but after issuing the order to attack, he sat in the rear and let several people The new generals of Athens led their troops to surround him.

This group of gray dwarves has about 2,000 people, which is more than double the number of soldiers brought by Murphy. If you add the reinforcements of high-level winged people, as well as the two legendary realms of Panda Brewmaster and Panda Brewmaster, who have heroic templates, As for the legendary mage, it can be said that these gray dwarves basically have no chance of winning. What Murphy really cared about was the toll of a distant battle.

Victory is very easy, but how to win with minimal losses and capture more prisoners is a difficult problem.

This is exactly what Murphy wants to test these new generals in Athens.

The Karazhan Mountains are densely forested. In fact, places like this that resemble primeval forests rarely see much action.

There is no other reason, there is just no way.

Murphy opened roads several times and built lumber quarries, so some rudimentary roads were sorted out in the outer areas. However, these roads still need to be cleared regularly, otherwise they will become overgrown with shrubs and weeds in a month or two. The ambush site was the only exit nearby. If the gray dwarves didn't come out from here, they would have to climb five mountains and spend several times the time.

Bi Lao here is the Karazhan Mountains, with rolling peaks and lush well trees.

These gray dwarves obviously didn't know that Murphy had discovered them one day in advance. As early as when they tried to get closer, Murphy's sentry posted near Canyon Pass discovered them. After all, there were three thousand people moving at the same time, so it was impossible to be completely unnoticed.

Dangerous peak, halfway up the mountain.

Murphy looked down with a telescope. The gray dwarf was not tall, but he was very strong, especially his arms, which were almost as thick as an adult's thigh. This is one of their natural characteristics. Generally, dwarves have very strong upper limbs.

The size of the three thousand people was not small. The team stretched out for a kilometer or two. The adult men of the tribe were walking in front. They used heavy battle axes to open up roads and clear away some shrubs that blocked the road. Behind is the gray dwarf woman. Because of her long lifespan, there are not many old and weak people in a gray dwarf tribe.

Gray dwarves have grown up when they are about twenty years old, but they are still immature in terms of thinking and combat experience. Only when they are about fifty years old can they form their own worldview and values ​​like humans do when they are twenty. At this time That’s when you’ve truly matured mentally.

Underage dwarves have a bad temper and irritable character, and like to solve problems through fighting.

Therefore, for any dwarf, it is their unshirkable responsibility to teach their underage kin in the tavern and tell them that in addition to using their muscles to solve problems, they must also use their brains.

A dwarf who was not beaten up in a tavern by his own kin before being thrown out when he was a minor has an incomplete life.

There is a problem that must be corrected here.

That is, although the dwarves have a bad temper, they are definitely not a race that does not use their brains to think about problems, otherwise they would have almost died long ago.

There are reports of bad tempers, more to do with the underage dwarves and their addiction to alcohol. A formally adult dwarf over the age of fifty is actually very intelligent. Their lifespan is much longer than that of ordinary races, which also allows them to accumulate more experience. Definitely not a stupid creature with a brain full of muscles!

Modern science tells us that anyone who is addicted to alcohol will become grumpy.

The skin of gray dwarves has a stone-like color, which may be because they were enslaved by the evil demons a long time ago. As [Silver subspecies] creatures, the combat effectiveness of these gray dwarves is comparable to that of Greek heavy infantry trained by the War Temple, or even stronger. And their equipment is also very good. As a race that is good at blacksmithing, almost everyone has a heavy metal battle axe.

So far, Murphy has not seen any gray dwarves equipped with full body armor.

Perhaps because it was very inconvenient to wear heavy armor when crossing the Karazhan Mountains, most of these gray dwarves wore ordinary clothes or ordinary leather armor.

Even so, it is not easy.

Because the weather now is July, in a word it is the season of midsummer. Those who can hold back and wear leather armor and rush on the road are already very endurance.

More male gray dwarves were shirtless and moving forward.

The heroes of the gray dwarves who were walking in front to explore the way had already entered the encirclement, but the Athenian troops ambushing on both sides did not launch an attack. When Murphy saw this, he couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction. It seemed that these new generals in Athens had learned something useful in the academy.

Until the dwarves' advancing troops entered half of the ambush circle.

"Let go!" A roar suddenly came from the forest.

Then the heralds shouted loudly from both sides. The Athenian longbowmen who had been ambushing for a long time stood up and started shooting at the gray dwarves who walked into the ambush circle.

Suo Suo Suo!

A dense rain of arrows covered the leading force of the gray dwarves, causing heavy casualties immediately.

However, the new generals in Athens obviously underestimated the fighting power of the gray dwarves. After being shot by bows and arrows, many of these extremely strong gray dwarf heroes actually roared, and the skin of their bodies began to show a stone-like color. After the long bow was shot, it was actually unable to penetrate their bodies, and after being stuck in the flesh and blood, it did not cause fatal injuries!

"As expected of the Silver subspecies! They are indeed powerful!" Murphy couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the many gray dwarf elites on the battlefield who weighed several arrows and were able to fight back and rush towards the Athenian longbowmen.

The elite gray dwarves in the front rushed towards the archers, while the gray dwarves in the rear immediately formed a defensive formation and protected their shields on the left and right.

bump!

A dull clatter.

As if they were aware of the extraordinary nature of the gray dwarves, the new generals in Athens did not send the Greek heavy infantry to intercept them, but ordered the Sijida heavy infantry to line up.

It would be difficult for the Greek heavy infantry to fight against these gray dwarf elites. Only the Sihada warriors could stand up to these natural silver subspecies!

It is impossible to form a spear formation in forest terrain.

The Greek heavy infantry, equipped with short swords and shields, gradually surrounded the past in a traditional four-row battle line. However, the weapons used by Sijida's heavy infantry are still long guns, because all they are equipped with are about three meters in length, and it does not matter when fighting in deep forest terrain. Some of the Sida warriors who had been blessed by the Divine Grace Ceremony of the War Temple were also equipped with heavy two-handed swords.

No matter how powerful the gray dwarves were, they could not withstand the intensive shooting of the longbowmen. Soon, all the gray dwarves at the front of the team were killed or injured!

A "Woooooooo!!!"

The desolate sound of horns echoed in the mountains, and the Athenian army formed a formation and surrounded them.

A series of sudden attacks have knocked these gray dwarves away.

Even now they don't understand why they were discovered so quickly. But it wasn't until the Nose tribe reinforcements led by Queen Evenna appeared on the battlefield that they suddenly realized and regretted it!

If they had known that the high-level harpies were siding with Athens, they would never have come here!

The sound of wings flapping came from the sky, and hundreds of high-level harpies appeared above the heads of these gray dwarves. These high-level harpies who broke free from the curse and restored the inheritance of the high elves are also creatures of the silver species level, even higher than the gray dwarves. The talents of the silver subspecies are better. There are more than 200,000 harpies in the group, but only a few hundred people can break away from the curse and evolve into the winged people.

The gray dwarves had obviously seen these high-level harpies before, because after they discovered that hundreds of forces were pointing at their heads, they went into chaos.

The advantages of the flying arms are fully demonstrated at this moment!

Facing the gray dwarves with short arms and short tui, these high-level harpies were not threatened at all. They flapped their snow-white wings and glided in the sky, using the power in their hands to command the elite gray dwarves below one by one. Click to kill! These high-level harpies have archery skills that are comparable to those of pure-blood elves, and even much better than Cretan long archers. Almost all arrows are sure to hit!

Facing these races that can shoot in the air, even Murphy is quite difficult to deal with, let alone these An dwarves.

The enemy was killing them, but they couldn't even fight back.

The range of high-level Harpy bows and arrows is about three hundred steps, but they shoot from the sky, and their lethality is even more astonishing. And those gray dwarves have almost no way to attack hundreds of meters in the sky. Some of the conflicting gray dwarf elites blindly threw their battle axes at the enemies in the sky. However, they only flew to half the height and fell powerlessly. down.

The falling heavy battle ax carried huge kinetic energy and suddenly split the head of an unlucky gray dwarf into two halves!

Hundreds of high-level harpies actually produced such great results, and those Athenian generals who only knew how to fight were no longer eager to attack. After all, Murphy's order was to capture as many gray dwarf prisoners as possible, not to eliminate them all. It would be the best thing to be able to reduce one's own losses and avoid excessive casualties.

In front of them was an iron wall composed of the Athenian army, and in the sky were high-ranking Harpy archers circling.

After the initial chaos, the chiefs of these gray dwarves immediately ordered them all to retreat, rushing towards the weak position of the rear encirclement. At this time, several gray dwarf mages with extraordinary talents began to release magic, preparing to create a gap from the rear.

The enemy is so powerful, it's better to escape as much as you can, at least it's better than having to explain everything here.

But as soon as those gray dwarf mages condensed their elemental energy, they attracted the attention of Queen Evana and the group of harpy priests around her.

It is possible for gray dwarves to have arcane mages, but it is difficult to tell them apart just by looking at them. After all, most gray dwarves look similar to other races.

So Queen Evanna has been waiting for these gray dwarf mages to come out violently.

As soon as the elemental energy rippled, she led the high-level harpy priests behind her to fly towards that direction. She did not need to cast any spells. She aimed dozens of force guides at the enemies below, and just fired a volley... A mage shot into a sieve!

Murphy was startled when he saw this scene, and immediately discovered that these high-level harpies actually have the talent of low-level mage killers!

Because almost all mages below the intermediate level do not have much protective magic.

Very vulnerable to melee combat, and also vulnerable to bow and arrow fire. It may be difficult for ordinary archers to find these mages among the crowd, and then aim and shoot, but these high-level harpies have no such problem, because they can fly, and they have an absolute advantage in vision in the sky!

Bang bang bang!

The elite troops gathered by the gray dwarves tried to break out of the encirclement. They held their shields high and waved their battle axes and rushed towards the Athenian soldiers in the rear. Suddenly, dull crashes echoed on the battlefield. Because there was no gun formation, the gray dwarf warriors at the front easily rushed into the Athenian army and dragged the enemy into close combat. The gray dwarf warriors at the rear roared forward and tried to expand the results of the battle. A gap was torn open in the encirclement!

But at this time.

A tall figure with extraordinary majesty and astonishing momentum appeared on the battlefield.

"Damn gray dwarf! Take a stick from me!" The Panda Brewmaster's face was full of murderous intent. He roared and waved a thick wooden stick and charged into a large group of gray dwarves! The thick wooden stick was turned like a windmill by the Panda Brewmaster. As long as it touched a gray dwarf, whether he was a silver subspecies or an elite warrior, he would be killed or injured immediately! It looks like a fat and bloated figure, but it has extraordinary agility. The gray dwarves can't even touch its edge. Even if some gray dwarves throw the battle ax in their hands, they are easily swept away by it. aside!

One cavalry is worth a thousand, sweeping thousands of armies!

The powerful melee warriors in the legendary field show their unparalleled lethality on the battlefield simply by breaking out of the formation in a crushing way!

Since it is a battle, there will inevitably be losses.

The gray dwarves suffered considerable casualties, and Athens also suffered certain casualties. This panda wine master has always lived in the military camp. Because he looks naive and is very simple, it can be said that he gets along well with many Athenian soldiers. But just now, because he took action too late, an Athenian officer who had drank with it, served it barbecue, and helped it clean its room died in front of him!

A heavy dwarf battle ax took his life. This Athenian warrior was not a friend, but he drank three hundred cups with it.

How can this not make Panda Jiuxian angry and full of murderous intent?

For a moment, it also forgot about Murphy's words to catch as many people as possible alive, and instead waved a thick wooden stick and rushed towards the gray dwarf's main formation! Immediately, the entire gray dwarf line was thrown off their feet!

After charging for a while, it finally remembered Murphy's instructions.

It turned around again, circled around and rushed towards the gray dwarf chief hiding inside. No one could stop it.

at the same time!

On the other side of the battlefield, the rich fire element also began to gather.

This terrifying elemental ripple not only changed the face of the gray dwarf shaman who was aware of magic, but even Murphy, who was halfway up the mountain, was shocked and pale!

"Damn it! She actually enlarged the area of ​​​​attack magic!" Murphy's intestines are filled with regret now!

If he had known that this legendary mage girl would unleash such an astonishing large-scale attack magic, he would never have invited her over. This strong elemental wave is also the most lethal fire element. If she is really allowed to be released, even if these gray dwarves surrender, there won't be many left, right?

But it's too late.

The legendary mage girl had finished the magic in her hands and let out a shout!

A "Dragon Break!"! .