Chapter 391 Movement Of Two Armies
"General, the monsters are showing sign of movement just now!" one of the scouts reported.
"Is it the regular skirmish? If so, then there is no-"
"It's not a skirmish sir. There are about 20 000 monsters moving, most of the are Goblins with several powerful Goblin variant with it." despite being cut off, the commander who received the report did not reprimand his subordinates, as his mind to busy thinking of the implication.
'Does that mean the monsters are making their moves now?'
"I will report this to the General. Make sure to keep an eye on the small force for now and do not make any move unless they attack your position." after giving the order, the commander ran towards the General's tent, hoping to get him prepared for likely battle that will come in the future.
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The Assault Horde began their moves as quickly as they could. While they lack the discipline of their humans counterpart, they make up with their fear of the one stronger than them, allowing them to main cohesion similar to those of a regular army.
As for their lack of good equipment, there is nothing they can do about it as most of it are given to the true army, so they had to make do with shoddy equipment.
It still do their job, just not as good as having steel armor, shield and sword. But they make do. Quickly, the Assault Horde split themselves into several different battle group, as they planned on attacking and destroying the Eastern Army as quickly as possible.
And so, a large number of Goblins were sent on a mission; to act as bait for the Eastern Army.
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"It's a trap." General Lanki exclaimed, eying the small force of Goblin with narrow eyes.
"Why do you think so, General?" one of his subordinates, a beautiful woman in her thirties, asked.
"Those monsters are smart. They have the numbers and are not afraid to use it, plus, with how they did not attack us straight from the start, and only doing skirmish, either the demon commanded them to such level or it train the monsters to become smarter.
But this small group decided to do some stupid things, likely to make us send our cavalry to get a chunk of them, which would allow the cavalry to fall into a trap.
So no, we are not going after them unless we could hit them with magic or arrow."
The rest of the subordinates bow towards the man, who still keep an eye on the group of Goblins.
He believe there are more to it, but what is it he missing.
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"Grughh," Gobruk looked at the group of monsters gathered in front of him. Once again, they are split based on their races. It is a necessity as to fight in a Formation in an open plain, one would need to be in great cohesion to the one on the left and right.
Different size allies made it hard to do so, it could leave holes in the formation during movement. So, splitting up is necessary, though the advantage of having multiple races of monsters fighting at once would allow them to hit harder than before, hence the reason why there are small group of other monsters aside from Goblins in his force.
The Demon Goblin King smiled. The human would not be prepared for what will come next.
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"General, there are large movement in the monster horde. They seem to be splitting up and planning to attack us from several direction at once!" another scout reported.
The General's face remain its stoic look but one who knew the man could tell he is itching for a fight.
"Get me to composition of each forces!"
Moments later, they are now at the strategy table, where the scout pointed at the map, "From the east, there would be Goblins and Orcs. They would likely be the main force. Then, at the nouth are the Kobold while on the south, the Lizardman are leading the charge.
"I see." General Lanki rubbed his chin, as he plan a counter.
"The monsters want to encircle us, surrounding us with their forces. However, we will not let them do as they please. 50 000 soldiers will follow me as we attack each forces one by one.
We will move against the Kobold first. Unlike the Goblins, they did not have a powerful support, allowing us to do as much damage as we can to them. After annihilating the Kobold, we will swing around and either hit the Goblin's rear or the Lizardmen.
Then, we will retreat after dealing as much damage as we could. Understand?" the others nodded, showing they understand the plan.
"Good, then order the man to be prepared. We will strike as soon preparation is done."
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Retaliating to the attempt of encirclement, a 50 000 strong force are moved to destroy the Kobold Army.
While they are smaller in size compared to the Kobold force, which now have 60 000 monsters, it was still a manageable number, one that will allow the human force a chance to defeat them as quickly as possible.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
It help the leader of the army, General Lanki is there, the presence of a powerful A-rank fighter boosting the morale of the large force.
Soon, they found the Kobold and began the first engagement.
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As the two forces spotted one another, the Kobold was taken by surprise while the human army charged at them. With the Kobold being surprised, the attack is more devastating than it had any right to be. The Kobold Force would have disintegrated right from the start if not for several high-ranking Kobold doing their best to organize the Kobold.
Thanks to their attempt, the Kobold, or like more than half of the army, formed up, while leaving a quarter of their numbers to die, using them as shield while they organize themselves.
General Lanki want to prevent it but he was caught up with the assault, his sword already stained with blood of monsters.
'The Kobold had organized themselves. Attacking them would only result more casualties than we could afford. If that is the case,"
He signaled his subordinates with only sign language. The subordinates nodded as two blow of horns echoed through the field. With that, the human force began their retreat, not planning to continue the assault as it would lead to it being a meat grinder.
And so, the human force retreated after having nearly 15 000 monsters kill, while only losing less than 300 soldiers, showing how strong the human force really is.