In Suhlen's camp, there were only 35 barbarians and 40 mercenaries who could fight. As for the slave craftsmen, their fighting power was negligible. Besides, Suhlen was reluctant to let them fight on the battlefield.
The cost of these slave craftsmen was much higher than the barbarians. Just these 45 slaves cost more than 1000 Kinnar. If these slave craftsmen died on the battlefield, he would have no money to buy more.
After a sumptuous lunch, Suhlen asked the mercenaries to start organizing their equipment. Then he led the mercenaries to the wall in the northeast. Because of the lack of time, most of the wall in the camp had not been turned into stone. Part of it was on the east side.
There were only two gates in Suhlen's territory. One was on the east side, and the other was on the west side. This time, the enemy was coming from the northeast. There was a high chance that they would attack the east gate. Suhlen was going to set up some traps here. The barbarians were experts in setting traps. When they hunted in the wilderness, they often relied on traps.
Although these traps were not very effective against large numbers of monsters, they could still kill as many as they could. While the barbarians were making traps, Su Lun, together with the remaining 45 slave craftsmen, moved out the dried reeds collected these days and piled them near the east gate.
Time passed by. It was three o 'clock in the afternoon. The south was still hot, but the northern wilderness was already very cool. The autumn air was refreshing. In the distance, a black line was quickly approaching.
When they got closer, they realized that it was not a black line. It was a huge army made up of thousands of goblins, gnolls, kobolds, and gnolls. In fact, rather than an army, they were more like a group of bandits. No, they were worse than bandits.
Most of them did not even have clothes, and the weapons in their hands were mostly wooden sticks or bone weapons. Only the Gnolls used crude metal weapons. Although many of the weapons looked inferior at first glance, they were still metal weapons.
In addition to these monsters, Suhlen also saw a few tall monsters. These monsters were even taller than the Gnolls. Their bodies were muscular and looked very powerful. Suhlen had seen pictures of monsters before. These monsters were trolls.
Although the trolls were few in number, they were far stronger than the gnolls. Although there were only a dozen of them, they could easily defeat a group of 100 gnolls. The maces in the hands of these Trolls were at least 40 to 50 kilograms in weight. They looked ugly, and there was still iron residue on them that hadn't melted, but their power hadn't decreased at all.
The number of monsters in this group was also different from the information they received. There were at least 1,400 monsters in this group, which was double the number of monsters that Suhlen's group had. This number was almost 20 times more than the number of monsters that Suhlen's group had.
The mercenaries standing on the city walls felt their hearts race, and their hands and feet turned cold. Looking at the monsters in the distance, their minds went blank, and their eyes were filled with fear. If it weren't for the fact that they knew they couldn't outrun monsters in the wilderness, these mercenaries would have dropped their weapons and fled long ago.
Seeing this, Suhlen shook his head inwardly. These mercenaries' mental fortitude was too weak.
"Master Suhlen, there are more than a thousand of these monsters, and we have less than a hundred people. We can't defend against their attacks at all. This is no longer a matter of saving face for the nobles. I suggest we drive away the gnoll and kobold slaves, abandon all our supplies, and retreat immediately …" Zeon said anxiously.
"Retreat? Why should we retreat? With these chickens and dogs? " Suhlen slapped the city wall and laughed. "I think they're too few. With so many slaves, as long as we capture half of them, I'll be able to build my lord's castle very quickly!"
Hearing Suhlen's words, the mercenaries looked at each other. They looked at Suhlen as if they were looking at an idiot. The barbarians, on the other hand, were cheering for Suhlen. Although they had followed Suhlen for less than a month, these barbarians were completely loyal to Suhlen. They would carry out Suhlen's orders without hesitation.
Just as the mercenaries were struggling to escape, the army of monsters outside launched an attack.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
Arrows were thrown from afar. Suhlen swung his spear lightly and deflected all the arrows aimed at him. The barbarians also swung their weapons and deflected the arrows. Only a few unlucky mercenaries were hit, but the arrows were too weak. The arrowheads couldn't even penetrate their leather armor.
The gnolls' archery skills were very poor. Their strength was limited and they couldn't use strong bows. Most of the arrowheads were made of bone. It was effective against unarmored monsters, but it was useless against Suhlen and the others.
Seeing that the arrows were ineffective, the gnolls roared angrily and waved their maces, sending a gnoll who couldn't dodge in time flying. They then roared at the army of monsters, and the entire army began to attack the city.
A distance of 30 to 40 meters was covered in a few seconds. However, many of the monsters had just charged 10 meters when they either stepped into a pit, had their soles pierced by wooden spikes, or were hit in the head by falling rocks. Some unlucky ones fell and were trampled to death by the monsters behind them.
However, these didn't stop the army of monsters. Soon, the gate was breached. Suhlen didn't send anyone to stop them. Instead, he led the barbarians and mercenaries to retreat to the camp.
The monsters were very excited to break through the gate so easily. In their minds, human fortresses were difficult to break through, but as long as they broke through, there would be rich spoils of war. Sweet food, beautiful clothes, all kinds of beautiful objects, and tender human flesh.
These hot-headed monsters didn't care how the camp was breached so easily. Regardless of whether they were gnolls, gnolls, or gnolls, they all swarmed toward the gate.
Behind the gate, the kobolds who rushed in first wanted to rush in and loot, but they were dumbfounded when they saw two stone walls on both sides of the gate. Before they could figure out what was going on, they were pushed forward by more monsters behind them.
These two stone walls were created by Suhlen's Mud to Stone skill. There were a total of 30 meters of stone walls on both sides of the east gate. With two stone walls blocking their way, the gnolls were able to move forward.
It didn't take long for the monsters to see their enemies.
Two teams of 30 Barbarian warriors held their giant axes and waited. They didn't dodge, and they couldn't dodge. In a breath, these Barbarian warriors came into contact with the army of monsters. They swung their giant axes, and blood and flesh flew everywhere. The monsters in the front line fell like wheat being harvested.
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