leonardwarren Chapter 120: Slaughter
Chapter 120: Slaughter
Women, children, and the elderly risked their lives to earn work points so that their children could have the chance to become knights.
The militia and city guards on the city wall kept their eyes fixed on the goblins in the distance.
The lord gave the order.
Killing a small goblin earns 0.5 points, a large goblin earns 2 points, an elite goblin earns 10 points, and a goblin hero earns 100 points.
Of course, this kind of killing only counts if you kill someone with your own hands; otherwise, the users of the crossbows and catapults would be laughing their heads off.
After all, they are all ranged attackers, especially catapults, which also have area-of-effect damage.
The messenger ran up the city wall and shouted: "The lord has sent the latest order! Anyone who kills a goblin hero with an eight-ox crossbow will be rewarded with fifty work points, and those who assist will be rewarded with twenty work points."
Upon hearing this news, the soldiers at each of the eight-ox crossbow positions cheered.
Mad waved his hands excitedly. He was originally the captain of the crossbow team, but as the number of knights in the territory increased, knight apprentices sprang up like mushrooms after rain. He wisely stepped down from his position as captain of the crossbow team and became the person in charge and archer of an eight-ox crossbow.
Recently, Mad's wife also became pregnant. Although he was granted a knight's allowance and land, the five acres of land were located at the foot of the west city wall.
Nowadays, the main crops planted are those that restore soil fertility, and magic fertilizer is used to nourish the land. The output from five acres of land is probably not even as much as his knight's subsidy.
So he still needs to earn work points, and now that he has a child, he naturally wants to send the child to the preschool knight training camp.
He knew very well that he was just an ordinary person with no talent, and that his children would most likely be without talent as well, so he could only pin his hopes on the preschool knight training camp.
A new territory notice was recently issued, stating that the food and land granted as knight subsidies are time-limited.
If no qualified heir is born within five years of the grantor's death, the territory will reclaim the subsidy.
This forces ordinary people like Mad to stop lying down and work harder to earn more work points and merits in exchange for a future for their heirs.
Mad immediately shouted, "Brothers, you all heard that! This time, we must work together and try to shoot down one or two goblin heroes!"
"Boss, what do you say? What do we do?"
Mad nodded and said in a low voice, "Once the battle begins, Kress will fire the first few crossbow shots. You just need to maintain your normal level. I'm going to find the goblin hero. When we find him, everyone should fire their crossbows with all their might. Every extra shot we fire gives us another chance."
"clear!"
Mad was so confident in taking on the task of reconnaissance because the lord had given him a monocular telescope when he was in the crossbowmen's unit.
The magnification is not high, only three times, but it is small and portable. This is a privilege that only veteran officials can enjoy. However, this monocular telescope can only be carried when performing duties, and most of the time it is kept in the territory's warehouse.
They were only released during times of war, precisely to prevent the telescope technology from being leaked.
Three days was pure torture for the people of Ashwood Territory.
They couldn't wait for the goblin army to attack so they could earn work points instead of just standing around doing nothing.
When the gates of the goblin camp opened and a large number of goblins poured into the main city, the entire Ashwood territory erupted in deafening cheers.
The cheers were so loud that even the goblin army could hear them.
As the commander of the first battle, Dodok felt his scalp tingle upon hearing the cheers.
Pertel also noticed the difference in Ashwood Territory. In the past, when the goblin army was on the border, all the lords of these Blackthorn Wastes were tense and fearful, and the people in the city were also uneasy.
But this territory felt completely different to him. Pertel snapped his fingers, and the falcon that had been perched on his shoulder spread its wings and flew toward Ashwood Territory.
Perdue's vision overlapped with that of the falcon, looking down at the city walls from high above.
Sharing vision with the falcon allowed Pertel to clearly see the fanatical expressions on the faces of the soldiers on the city wall, their eyes gleaming as they stared at the slowly approaching goblin army.
The feeling was like a hunter spotting his prey.
"Are we the prey?" Perdue asked, somewhat incredulous.
Are these humans really that confident?
As the horns sounded, the goblins split into two squares, each with a thousand men, and began their attack on the northern and eastern walls of Ashwood territory.
The goblin army advanced slowly, while the human army on the city walls remained unmoved.
At distances ranging from 100 meters to 50 meters, no matter what kind of ranged weapon it was, even the archers did not fire a single arrow.
The entire city wall was silent, and many of the goblins could already see the figures on the wall.
The distance continued to shrink, forty meters, thirty meters, and after entering the 20-meter range, the goblin archers were able to threaten the soldiers on the city wall.
But there was still no movement on the city wall, which made the goblins uneasy.
This oppressive atmosphere continued to permeate, and even when they were less than ten meters away from the city wall, there was still no reaction on the wall.
On the siege ladder, the goblins began to scale the wall, and it went surprisingly smoothly. But when these goblins poked their heads out of the wall, they saw more than a dozen faces grinning at the same time.
The smiles on their faces didn't seem like those of soldiers guarding a city; they looked more like those of a group of people waiting for their meal.
"The work points have finally arrived."
The hook-and-sickle spear extended and pierced directly into the goblin's body. With a forceful tug, it dragged the little goblin into the crowd, where it was hacked to death.
The efficiency was incredibly fast; the goblins below only saw the goblins above jump onto the city wall, and then one after another rushed up to them.
I never imagined why the overwhelming falling logs and stones that used to accompany sieges had disappeared, and the deafening battle cries had ceased, replaced only by an unexpected calm and the sounds of clashing weapons.
High in the sky, Pertel watched the human army efficiently slaughtering the goblins and felt a chill run down his spine.
The slain goblins were quickly taken away on carts and then pushed to the city wall tower and thrown down.
The human women who had been waiting for a long time under the city wall—those things that were only fit to be breeding tools for goblins—quickly dragged away the goblin corpses, bled them, cut off their flesh, removed their bones, then sorted and processed them before taking them away again.
The whole process was efficient and quick; they were dismantling the goblin corpses faster than the goblins could fall.
Two thousand cannon fodder sounds like a lot, but if you divide it up between the two city walls, there are only a thousand on each side.
The defenders on the city wall were already used to this kind of intense close combat. The front row was armed with hook-and-sickle spears, the middle row was used to finish off the enemies, and the rear row was responsible for dragging away the corpses.
Once the goblins have scaled the walls, there's no turning back. Below the ladders are successors lining up to climb the walls; there's nowhere to retreat.
Pertol immediately understood: "They deliberately let the little goblins onto the city."
Two thousand goblins attacked the city walls. With the strength of the small goblins, the battering rams could not break through the city gate at all. The successful ascent of the city walls allowed the small goblins to slow down their attack on the city gate and speed up their ascent of the city walls.