Rosch arrived at the eastern wall. The southern wall and eastern wall were the ones that could be attacked, since they are part of the entire border wall of the Goblin village. The northern and western wall separated Roschar's territory from the rest of the village, but since those are inside the village this two walls can only be attacked when Gargaschars territory would have been breached. Rosch was the only one to separate his territory entirely from the rest of the Goblin village. The others only build walls on the border of the village.
Rosch looked around and saw that everything went how it should be. He heard screams and those weren't from Goblins. The scouts of the Nightwalkers tried to find a hole in the wall, but didn't think an avalanche of rocks would surprise them. Rosch went down with some of his warriors.
"Search for survivers. Kill them and take the bodies back into the village.", Rosch order, as he himself searched around. He sniffed the air and walked a bit downwards, as he looked further down towards the edge of the forest. Their was another squad of Nightwalkers, trembling in fear. Their bodies were sturdy and they would probably survive 100s of kilograms of rocks and stones thrown on them. But the horrible thing wasn't the damage, it was something else that made them scream like that. Those buried are probably suffocating or are getting smushed slowly right now. Rosch finally found and enemy that was still alive. But that one's body was horribly mangled and after a while he gave up, searching for an opponent.
"Seems like the avalanche of rocks is more effective than I could have ever guessed. They won't come up here. They will now only attack from the front.", Rosch thought, as he went back to Gerhard.
Back at the southern wall, where Gerhard was.
"They didn't attack?", Rosch asked Gerhard, who nodded.
"But they have to now. They will probably get the information that attacking from the eastern wall will be impossible for them. Only if they want to get rolled over again. ", Rosch said with a smile, while Gerhard understood that their plan must have worked and smiled, too.
Meanwhile at the forest edge.
A Nightwalker completely covered in black leather went over to a towering Nightwalker. Probably 2,50 meters tall. It was Zeke. A son of the king of the Nightwalkers and Zas brother. The difference to Zas, Zeke was a true warrior and not a disgrace in his father's eyes. Rosch was just released into the forest for the first time when he met Zas and was able to cut of an arm of him. If it was Zeke, that he would have met that day. They wouldn't even be able to as much as prick him.
"Commander Zeke, bad news. We can't go around the village. They lined rocks up the mountain and will let them down on us. We may try more often, but we could still see a huge amount of stones up there, lined up and ready to kill us. Our only option is to attack from the front now. ", the leader of the scouts told Zeke.
" Tzz I hoped it would get easy, but they have Elves now. And even that Vilcet Moonshine, who is a war veteran. We shouldn't underestimate them now. I just hoped that those animals wouldn't listen to the Elves, but it seems they did. Look at that shit. Walls, traps and whatnot. This could become at least as hard a fight as if we would have fought the northern tribes. ", Zeke said annoyed. They had lost many scouts, who should have gathered information about the Goblins down south. But most got killed by Rosch, but that he didn't knew.
So new information about the Goblin village building walls and traps never reached them. And if the Demon lair Basarilia was sealed in is another Goblin village, never reached them either. Even the alliance with the Sunshine Elves just got done a month prior, because Rosch annihilated the Elves and almost all Nightwalkers in the Aria incident. Capturing even four of those Nightwalker scouts.
"I want 60 Nightwalkers attacking the left wall and 60 ones attacking the right wall. The scouts will be looking at the gate in the middle. I want to know how fast we can breach it. But start slowly. We will test them a bit first. ", Zeke said while looking towards the wall.
Rosch waited. Morning was close and it seems today wouldn't be an attack. He wanted to turn around and go back to his cave, as suddenly screams were heard. Spears were flying and hitting the Goblins of Norbert, Bog, Leonhard and Rosch.
"Seems they want to test the water, before the night ends. Everyone listen, just make sure to survive. As long as you survive, you can be healed.", Roschar's scream stunned the scared Footsoldier ranked Goblins of Bog, Norbert and Leonhard. Healing wasn't common for lower ranked Goblins. They had only 3 shamans at the village and they were at the other side with Randan. And even if they were here. They would only heal the important beings. Their magic reserves were to precious to waste on canon fodder.
Moral raised instantly and you could see that even the weakest Goblins seemed to look out for enemies and didn't try to hide somewhere. With the first volley of spears you could see over 20 Goblins getting carried away. Some had still their doubts, but as the first Goblins walked out of the hospital without a scratch moral skyrocket and every Goblin held their position, even with spears raining on them. They protected their vitals and went down to heal when hurt.
"Wow to think you have the capacity to heal so many. And to that you do it for the weakest warriors. Not bad.", Leonhard said amazed.
"Haha that would be nice. I have only 10 healers and some females, who got trained in first aid. My plan is to only heal those that are close to death, the rest gets first aid and held alive till the healers regenerate their magic. So we will still have lesser and lesser warriors as time goes on and even casualties will rise if many Goblins with lethal wounds will come at the same time. ", Rosch said, wishing Silvana had more time to train some of the younger female Elves and Goblins with talent. But that needed much more time. At least some first aid was teached and they came up with this kind of plan.
Leonhard was surprised. This was a brilliant strategy. Firstly, casualties would lessen. Secondly, moral would rise and lastly Goblins wouldn't hesitate that much anymore. It was truly a big favor on their side.
"Very good. I will thank you on behalf of my warriors.", Leonhard said with a smile. He wanted to go and watch some other parts of the wall, as Rosch told him to wait.
After a while, Bog and Norbert, as well as Roschar's leaders except for Orosh and Gorker, who where at Roschar's cave, one hurt the other was there to protect Roschar's females, arrived.
"The reason I wanted to get you all here is simply. I want to give those Nightwalkers a big blow. We need to hit them hard tonight and that is why I want your strongest weapons out now and we will kill as many as possible from the get-go. Make them fear us. ", Rosch said, shocking almost everyone here. Only Vilcet, and Gorker if he would be present, wasn't surprised.
" Why should we use our trump cards from the very first day?",Bog said still shocked. This could be their lifelines. Why should they use them now.
Everyone wanted to know and as Rosch started to explain only smiles were seen on the faces of the various leaders.
Leonhard laughed loudly, smacking Rosch on his back as approval.
"You are a sneaky one. But for the right reasons.", Leonhard said as he left. After that the others left, too getting their strongest weapons to the front line.
Spears were still flying and since those spears are directly flying out of the forest, retaliation would be completely useless. They would just lose weapons and ammunition without hitting one Nightwalker.
But they knew that they had to come out soon and attack, because at such a distance hitting targets was hard. Only throwing spears at them won't win the war, either. And after an hour it was time. The Nightwalkers dashed out suddenly.
"Around 50 or 60 are dashing towards the wall, get ready.", Luchs shouted. Spears were still flying, but not as much anymore.
Rosch stood on a tower looking at the approaching enemies. He waited long and as they were only 50 meters away, his hand suddenly sunk down.
In an instant the Elves on the towers got bigger bows with bigger arrows ready. Those looked sturdier and were made from bones.
Roschar's Elven warriors had a Goblin as support. The Goblin helped holding the huge bow, while the Elf drew the bow to the limit. With a terrifying sound 10 big arrows were shot towards the approaching enemies.
The velocity of the arrow was horrifying. 7 Nightwalkers were hit and got pierced through completely. The arrows were flying into the forest making loud noises. The 7 Nightwalkers flew another 50 meters back, shocking everyone on the battlefield and on the wall. Those 3 arrows that didn't hit a target got blasted into the forest, too but had enough power to break three trees like twigs. But so much power had its price. Two bows got destroyed, snapping in the middle. They still had ten spare bows making it from 20 down to 18 now.
"Those fuckers use Nightwalker bones, as arrows.", a Nightwalker warrior screamed in shock. The others woke up after the scream and wanted to spread further out. But it was to late, huge barrels with the top being on fire were thrown at them.
It was so simple. Leonhard's warriors used Jova-fruit alcohol. They took barrels full of them,made an opening at the top, while putting clothes into it and ignited those barrels right before throwing them. The strongest beast-tribe mixes then threw those barrels at the enemy. Instantly huge fire blast filled the battlefield. Terrifying screams sounded everywhere and right after the flames the Dwarf mixes took out their crossbows. They started to fire at the Nightwalker's. While the crossbows were strong, they couldn't be compared to the huge bows of Roschar's subordinates. Those bows were made from the best wood of the Elves and the best strings of the dwarven mixes. Those two weapons use the same strings, but not the wood. The crossbows are made sturdier, with metal parts in them, too. Losing their flexibility, but they don't break that easily.
Bolts flew down at the burning Nightwalkers. The flames and bolts won't kill many maybe non at all. But they may bleed to death later and still have another purpose. The human mixes were now the last to use their specialty. And what they had was nasty.
They had jars full of a white powder. They started to throw it down. It didn't have to even hit, just needed to land close to them.
The jars broke open and the white powder was released. The Nightwalkers, who were finally able to extinguish the flames on their bodies started to feel itchy. It got worse and the wounds started to burn even though the flames were gone and then they eyes started to hurt and water up, too. They couldn't see anymore, while bolts were still flying down at them. Down there was chaos and Rosch wanted to give them some more.
He suddenly sunk his arm again. And the 8 remaining bows shot down at the enemy. This time all eight hit since the Nightwalkers couldn't dodge. They didn't see anything and were completely helpless.
Three bows broke this time, but Rosch didn't care, as he sunk his hand again and another 5 went down and then again Rosch sunk his hand and another 3 went down till the last bow broke down.
The screams got louder and confusion rose.
Rosch looked down and saw that the powder got slowly blown away by the wind. He then ordered to let the ramps down the wall. Ten beings could go down simultaneously without those ramps breaking. They had four of them and in an instant 40 warriors were down on the battlefield. Every family ordered 10 of their warriors down. They wanted to finish it, but the leader of the Nightwalker could see a bit even under terrible pain in his eyes and ordered to retreat.
It was chaos and some didn't even know where was the wall and where was the forest. Most went back the forest, but some run up to the Goblin warriors and got massacred.
Zeke was standing at the forest edge and had a huge vein on his forehead, almost popping. He waited till the last ones of his warriors returned.
"This shit is terrible. How many did we lose? What is going on? This is a DISGRACE.", He shouted at his warriors. He wanted to go back to his father and scream, that whoever told him that it would be easy, should be tortured and killed.
After he heard that more than half of them were dead, to be exact 34 of his Nightwalkers and the rest was at least wounded lightly, made him fume with anger even more.
It took some time till he calmed down.
"This is bad. Did you see those weapons. Humans use that white powder, Elves use those special bows and Dwarves normally use those crossbows that nobody else can make. Only those fire bombs I have never seen before are probably special Goblin weapons. That is a huge pain in the ass. Thanks to the mixing they know how to build those weapons that are normally exclusive weapons of those races.
To that, they are probably stronger than average Goblins through the mixing. Those 40 that came down looked huge. We should have attacked much sooner. Their growth is dangerous. ", Zeke said, while the leader of the defeated right flank looked at his commander with concern.
" But they still have a flaw. Look, our left flank is already on the wall. Why aren't those enemies on the right side attacking our Nightwalkers on the left side? Now would be the perfect time to help them. ", Zeke said with a smile.
" They aren't a unit. If you look closely, they have split their troops in two camps. More civilized races like Humans, Dwarves and Elves are on one side and on the other side I can see Ogars, Orcs and pure blooded Goblins. They must have internal conflicts. In the end they are still dumb Goblins only capable of killing each other. We will change our tactics tomorrow night. ", Zeke said further. His smile growing unbelievable. He had a plan to take them down.
Rosch looked around the battlefield. The warriors of Roschar's alliance down the wall, looked for enemies that survived. They finished them and brought their bodies back. Nightwalker bones were valuable.
He looked to the side and saw that Gargaschar's side was still fighting. He smiled and looked towards Gerhard and the rest.
"Seems our plan was a success, but tomorrow we will see if it truly worked. If it didn't work, we still have enough of our special weapons to attack them a second maybe a third time. Let's go back to sleep. We need it. But I want full towers and no one slacking.", Rosch ordered as he went back to his cave.