Gnolls can barely be considered intelligent creatures, but their intelligence is not high. A little, but not much. This creature has more beastly habits than human ones, and the tendency to seek profit and avoid harm inherited in their blood makes it impossible for them to fight to the death with their enemies. Without the suppression of a strong leader, after the brief animal frenzy cools down, all that remains is the survival instinct to preserve one's life. It's just like a wolf pack without a leader, or even easier to disperse than a wolf pack. This is also the reason why small intelligent races such as kobolds, goblins, and murlocs are easily enslaved by other races. "What's wrong with these kobolds? With such little strength, they dare to charge over here?" Looking at the kobold troop disappearing in the dense forest and the more than twenty kobold corpses outside the camp, Uliyang walked to Leo and muttered to himself in confusion. Leo explained: "How surprising! Big and small, they all came out in droves. This can only mean that we are blocking their doorsteps and they are getting anxious." He accompanied Uliyan and watched the dog-headed man disappear, and suddenly made up his mind. "Hurry up and eat! After eating, catch up with them, seize the opportunity to defeat them, and kill them all in one go!"
Uliyan looked at Leo in surprise, "Why are you so anxious? Are you healed?" Leo pressed his aching chest, raised his still stiff arm, and said helplessly, "We have to hurry. It's not just the kobolds that will attack us. This time it was just the kobolds, what will happen next time?" "These dog-headed men frequently launch sneak attacks, which have destroyed their own fighting power. The other alien tribes have not made any moves at all." Wu Liyan sighed, revealing a trace of fatigue: "Yes, we have too much to do, and no one can be left behind. Starting today, I will assign half of the people to cut down trees. We must quickly build houses and put up fences. Who knows what will come next time." "If we can't reclaim 300 acres of land, then we can only reclaim half of it. We have to survive first." Looking at the silent Leo, Uliyang felt relieved. In the past, this boy would never consider these things. Fight when you have to, eat when you have to, sleep when you have to. "You have finally grown up, at least you have a brain. Good! When I am conferred the title of Pioneer Knight, you will be my first knight squire!" Leo immediately expressed his dissatisfaction: "I have done so much, and you only send me off as a knight's squire?" Wu Liyan's eyes widened, and the kind face of the old father disappeared instantly. "What? You become a knight, and I become your squire?" The villagers in the camp were not as uneasy as imagined. They seemed to have become accustomed to the attacks of the kobolds. After witnessing the disappearance of the kobolds, the villagers immediately came out in groups and started another day's cycle. Instead of causing panic, the attack by the kobolds inexplicably increased the confidence of the villagers in the camp. At least no one died this time, right? That's a big improvement. The wilderness seemed suddenly less dangerous. A large pot had been set up in the center of the camp. On the chopping board nearby, fish of all sizes had their scales and internal organs removed and thrown into the pot. Just as Leo was about to choose a live fish suitable for grilling from the barrel, Olivia slapped him on the back of his hand. Olivia sat down on the barrel without caring about her image, opened her dress to cover the other barrel, and glared at Leo like a hen protecting her cubs, "What are you doing?" Leo sputtered, "This is the fish I caught!" "You have to share what you caught with everyone. We only have fish soup this morning!"
"I'll just take one!" "Not even one." Seeing that he couldn't hold out, Leo immediately changed his strategy and said with a dejected look, "After breakfast I will go to kill the Kobolds. I might never come back. This may be my last meal." Olivia was stunned and at a loss as to what to do. Leo had already seized the opportunity, and reached into Olivia's skirt like lightning, and took out a live fish from the wooden barrel under her. Unfortunately, with such hasty grasping, I only caught a small fish the size of a palm. Leo, carrying a small fish, looked like a victorious general returning to the court, and went to grill the fish with the little mouse, who had a look of admiration on his face. After breakfast, Leo immediately organized a militia of 25 people with the cooperation of Ulyaan, as well as 25 reserve young men, a total of 50 people, and set off. Led by two scouts, they followed the traces left by the gnolls and headed straight for the gnolls' lair. Uliyan took the remaining young and strong men to guard the camp to prevent the thieves from stealing. Leo took away the core combat force of the camp, and the remaining old and weak cannot be left unprotected. There are more than one ogre nest among the surrounding alien tribes. When Ulian was guarding the border at the western outpost, he would often go upstream along the Anzeno River to conduct reconnaissance and patrol deep into the wilderness of the river bend. Occasionally, he would lead the knights of the Fruilov family to clear out and expel the aliens and beasts that approached the human territory. But that was all five years ago, and five years is enough time to change the distribution of power in the wilderness. It would take a new investigation to find out the current situation of the river bend development. According to the original plan, the biggest difficulty for the pioneering team was the migration route of more than a thousand miles. Although the alien tribes around the river bend had multiplied and grown in the past five years, they were no match for the more than one hundred trained militiamen. Unfortunately, things went against our wishes and the size of the pioneering team was greatly reduced, and they have become a vulnerable group. Currently, there are less than 30 militiamen in the camp. Fortunately, after such a long period of training and actual combat, they have almost acquired the strength to recruit infantry. Among them, seven or eight have always been used by Uliyan as personal soldiers, and their performance is particularly outstanding. As long as they are equipped with equipment, they will be qualified regular infantry of the empire. The Orlantis Empire once had a complete standing army system. Although the empire's standing army was greatly reduced as the princes divided their rule, and top soldiers like Urian had to retire and go home, the military system was still popular in various places and was even adopted by the lords' armies. The imperial military system divided civilian infantry into four levels. The first level of conscripted infantry was recruited from the lord's army, elite militia, and forest rangers in each territory, and was equipped with iron-studded armor, wooden shields, and iron swords. Among them, those who had served for more than three years and had excellent strength were transferred to the regular infantry of the empire, the so-called professional soldiers, and were equipped with iron helmets, leather-lined chain mail, Mont-Temu shields and one-handed swords. The heavy-armored elite infantry above them are the core combat force of the imperial infantry. In addition to the equipment of regular infantry, they also have additional steel armor parts such as half-body armor, slatted arm guards, plate shoulder guards, and splint leg guards. The equipment alone weighs hundreds of pounds. If you are not the elite among the elite, it is difficult to move in a set of heavy armor, let alone participate in combat. Hundreds of years ago, the Imperial Heavy Infantry Regiment, composed of elite heavily armored infantry, was capable of intercepting the grassland cavalry and defending against the orc infantry head-on. The fourth-level imperial sergeant is the top rank among civilian soldiers, that is, a civilian officer, second only to the noble knights. So the composition of their army can be described as follows: one third-level soldier, with five second-level soldiers and twenty first-level soldiers, as well as twenty-five conscripted peasants. The only flaw is that all the equipment does not meet the standards, and the combat effectiveness is directly halved. There is a clear difference in vegetation on both sides of the Anzeno River. The wolf trees on the north bank are all giant coniferous trees, and the treetops are covered with thick snow. Near the river bend on the south bank, there are all kinds of deciduous trees. The dead branches with bared fangs and claws cut through the sky, giving it a somewhat eerie and strange look in winter.
The rotten leaves on the ground were a foot thick, covered with fallen small branches, so the path of the kobolds' movements could be clearly seen. Although Leo didn't believe that the Gnolls had the organizational ability to lure the enemy deep into their territory and ambush them halfway, just in case, he still let a few veteran soldiers with good strength walk in front of the main force and advance cautiously.
