The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

Chapter 761: Stand Firm and Wait for Help
"Hum hum!"

"Hum hum!"

The boars grunted heavily as they charged forward, their short, thick limbs thrashing about. A layer of battle aura gathered in front of them, forming a semi-circular shield that reduced the resistance to their charge and helped them block attacks from the front.

"Charge! Charge! Charge!" Alistar roared, raising his lance high. The Eastern Yi charioteers in front of him had not yet transported their chariots and horses to the other side. A group of infantrymen relying on shield formations wanted to stop the charging knights? They really underestimated the boar riders, who were also one of the three types of riders!

"For His Highness! For the gold coins!"

"For the gold coins!"

The goblin knights shouted battle cries. Although they weren't particularly enthusiastic about fighting for humans, considering Lord Roland's gleaming gold coins and plentiful grains—real contributions—the goblin knights didn't mind offering their loyalty to their generous lord. To them, their lives were actually quite worthless. Despite their title of "pig riders," before meeting Roland, this savage goblin tribe was no different from their own kind; lacking armor and weapons, they were excellent cannon fodder on the battlefield…

"The glory of the goblin knights has not faded! Glory belongs to the goblins!" After being empowered by human knight skills, the goblin knights became wild after activating their charge skill. They shouted the name of glory and victory (although this never belonged to goblins) and launched a crazy charge towards the Eastern Yi chariot people.

"Stop them! Stop them!"

"Behead those who retreat!"

"Push them all forward, no retreating!" The officers of the Dongyi chariot people were clearly very knowledgeable. Faced with the charging knights, they had no choice but to overwhelm them with their own lives. It seemed cruel, but it was their only option.

"Retreat! The vanguard is doomed!" Luwaku, the Dongyi vanguard commander trailing behind during the crossing, gave the order the moment he saw the charging goblin knights. Those wall-riding formations had already chilled his heart. What did goblin knights, capable of using numerous knight skills and charging, mean? Luwaku felt he had already sacrificed enough lives; there was no need to sacrifice more. This small-scale crossing was undoubtedly the most advantageous piecemeal tactic for the knights. Under the knights' relentless, rubbing-back approach, the fate of those soldiers who landed first was already sealed…

"Bang bang bang!"

"Boom!"

One after another, burly, short figures, wreathed in battle flames, slammed into the shield wall of the Dongyi chariot warriors. The chariot warriors were instantly sent flying, their arms and legs flailing wildly. Under the goblin knights' frenzied charge, they suffered heavy casualties in an instant. The originally dense shield wall only lasted for a few breaths before collapsing. Large numbers of Dongyi chariot warriors fled in terror, crying out for their mothers. These Dongyi chariot warriors were terrified to the core by the giant tusks of the goblin knights; being hit by them meant broken bones and torn tendons! Naturally, no one wanted to test its terrifying impact.

"Kill! Kill them all!" Alistar roared with bloodlust and excitement. After bullying those unarmed orcs of the wasteland all day long, today he was finally fighting a real battle with a regular army. In that instant, all the goblin knights felt a sense of fulfillment in their human value. Otherwise, the goblins who dealt with those trash orcs all day long would feel that they had let down Boss Roland's gold coins.

"Blood sacrifice to the Dragon God! Skull offered to the throne!" Alistar swung his sword and beheaded an Eastern barbarian. Ignoring the man's still struggling and twisting face and the blood dripping from his severed neck, Alistar held him high, letting the blood fall from his head and stain him with blood.

If Roland could see this, he would surely praise Lord Arista's loyalty highly! Look at this! What loyalty!
"Kill! For His Highness! Blood sacrifice to the Dragon God!" The fanatical goblin knights went berserk, as if on drugs, relentlessly slaughtering their way through the crowd. Thanks to the power of their Glory skills, these goblin knights could even slash at the soldiers of the West Bank while maintaining their thin battle aura shields. "Help! Help!"

"General, save me!"

"Centurion!"

The surviving Dongyi people stared at the rafts and boats that were beginning to retreat to the east bank, their eyes wide with disbelief, before they immediately cried out for help.

"Plop! Plop!"

Many Dongyi soldiers, realizing they had been abandoned, jumped into the river. They knew no boats would come back for them. However, many armored soldiers, due to the heavy armor and their inability to swim, went directly into the river to fish.

"Thud!" The sharp spears were exceptionally deadly in the hands of the goblin knights. Without any human or death knights to stop them, the infantry, who had no advantage in terrain, were destined to be slaughtered when faced with thousands of goblin knights.

"Ah!" A goblin knight clutched his arm in pain as an arrow pierced through it, causing him immense agony.

"Retreat!" Alistar noticed this and his pupils contracted as he hurriedly ordered. The fact that the soldiers were wounded by stray arrows meant that most of their battle spirit had been exhausted. The failure of their Glory Skills meant that it was no longer possible for them to crush the enemy again. Alistar decisively chose to retreat.

That was just a stray arrow from the Dongyi people in their dying counterattack. While the Dongyi army is still unaware, we should retreat first. If the Dongyi people were to launch a volley of arrows now, Alistar's men would probably lose at least a hundred men.

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"Chief! We have almost wiped out this vanguard!" The goblin knight who went to scout the battlefield returned excitedly with good news. Although the battle just now was not very intense, the gains were indeed considerable. At least half of the nearly 10,000 Dongyi vanguard had died in the previous skirmishes. In particular, the final charge completely broke the backbone of the chariot vanguard.

“I wonder where Your Highness is now…” Alistar said wistfully.

"His Highness's army should arrive soon! Otherwise, we really wouldn't be able to keep up!" Alista smiled wryly. Don't think that only Roland was reinforcing the troops; reinforcements from the Eastern Yi chariot people were also arriving in droves. Alista could already foresee a fierce battle ahead! So when Roland would arrive was Alista's biggest concern. He was unwilling to trade blows with these Eastern Yi chariot people! If the kingdom's army arrived a day earlier, Alista could breathe a sigh of relief a day sooner.

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"Roar!" Alistar looked up and saw Weiss flying in the sky, then patted his chest in salute.