The First Battle on the Beach
Along the coastline of Sun Island Bay, the white sand beach is only a few dozen meters wide.
The beach, far from the coastline, is covered with soft, fine glass grass. A few steps further into the jungle, you will see a kind of Thorn Vines covering the sand. These Thorn Vines are not only tough, but also covered with poisonous barbs. If you are pricked by these Thorn Vines, the wound will hurt for a long time.
Only by walking through this area of Thorn Vines can you reach the edge of the jungle next to the coastline.
The Mine Guard Regiment were stationed deep in the jungle. Roy originally wanted to familiarize himself with the surroundings and learn about the weaknesses of the Fishmen Monster on the beach...
The Half-Elf Warrior of the Mine Guard Regiment had just set up their tents in the jungle when the Fishmen Monster on the beach noticed their presence.
These Fishmen Monster crossed the lush green grass, howling as they were pricked by the Thorn Vines, yet they still charged towards the beach.
Fishmen Monster on the beach, densely packed together, rushing towards the edge of the dense forest.
They have completely transparent eyelids, their bodies are covered with a layer of silver scales, and they have far more fish-like features than human-like features. Their feet have completely transformed into Flippers, and they wield long knives.
They seemed to have long been accustomed to fighting the Half-Elf, their eyes filled with a greedy and bloodthirsty aura.
On the outskirts of the camp, near the beach, a group of Half-Elf Warrior dressed in standard Light Armor stood in neat rows, each holding a shield in one hand and Elf Long Sword in the other.
The silver armor worn by these Half-Elf Warrior was all standard Light Armor provided by the Silver Pegasus Legion. It included shoulder armor, breastplates, trousers, greaves, and boots. The boots, covered with steel plates, allowed them to walk on the thorny grass without worrying about getting pricked by the thorns.
In addition, the wristbands crafted by the elven artisans fit the arms perfectly, and the Half-Elf also wore a pair of hard leather gloves.
Compared to these fully armed Half-Elf Warrior, the Fishmen Monster rushing down from the beach were practically a bunch of refugees and beggars. They were completely naked, covered only by a layer of scales, and the weapons they carried were just scrap metal.
The two collided...
The Fishmen Monster charged forward recklessly, disregarding their own injuries. As long as their weapons could touch the Half-Elf Warrior, they would do anything to leave a wound on Elf Warrior.
Unfortunately, these Half-Elf Warrior were not the Half-Elf villagers from Sun Island Bay. They had first been baptized by war on the Pagisto Plateau, and then participated in the Queen Ivini Islands Naval Battle. Having experienced two wars in a row, the Half-Elf had already mastered some survival rules on the battlefield.
They were well aware of their advantages: their martial arts, tactics, and military equipment almost completely overwhelmed these Fishmen Monster.
The Half-Elf Warrior raised their Elf Long Sword in unison, shields in hand, and took a step forward in unison, simultaneously swinging their longswords...
'Puff puff puff'
The sound of the sword Fish Scale Armor rang out almost continuously.
The Half-Elf Warrior had fought the Fishmen Monster on the Empress Ivini Islands and knew their weaknesses. The Fishmen Monster were extremely resilient; only by piercing the back of their heads with a sword could they be killed completely.
As the Elf Long Sword fell, the Fishmen Monster at the forefront was the first to suffer.
The slender arm holding the long sword was severed, Fishmen Monster seized the opportunity to pounce on the shield...
These Fishmen Monster were even shorter than the dwarves. They desperately lunged at the Half-Elf Warrior Elf Warrior warrior, trying to slow him down with their bodies.
The Half-Elf Warrior in the back row took the opportunity to finish off these Fishmen Monster.
Almost at the same time that these Fishmen Monster fell, the Half-Elf Warrior in the front row took a half step back in unison, and the Fishmen Monster at the forefront fell one after another in the woods.
The Half-Elf Warrior used his shield to parry the blades slashing at him from the Fishmen Monster while reaping their lives with his Elf Long Sword...
The Fishmen Monster kept falling into pools of blood, Half-Elf Warrior were in high spirits and managed to hold back the surging Fishmen Monster outside the jungle.
Some Half-Elf Warrior even took the opportunity to climb up the trees and shoot Fletched Arrow, pinning the Fishmen Monster to the grass.
The Fishmen Monster, shouting "Woo-li-wa-la," charged recklessly into the battlefield...
However, the Fishmen Monster on this side of Sun Island Bay were not accompanied by sirens, thus minimizing their threat to the fully armed Half-Elf Warrior.
The Half-Elf Warrior had a clear advantage on the battlefield, and Roy even thought that victory in this battle would be easy.
Unexpectedly, there were so many Fishmen Monster. These Fishmen Monster were so fearless that even though the grassland was already littered with corpses, Fishmen Monster continued to crawl out of the sea, still soaking wet, and run onto the beach, rushing madly towards the dense jungle by the sea.
The battle raged from noon until dusk, turning the entire beach red with blood. The corpses of the Fishmen Monster were even piled up on top of each other at the edge of the woods.
As the tide rises, wave after wave washes over the silvery sand.
The Fishmen Monster's corpse was battered by the waves and drifted into the sea.
This silver beach was stained dark red with the blood of the Fishmen Monster, and a large amount of blood flowed into the sea.
The smell of blood attracted some sharks, who swam incessantly in the sea, tearing at the corpses of the Fishmen Monster that had been swept into the ocean by the waves.
The Half-Elf Warrior thought that the battle with the Fishmen Monster would subside after dark.
Unexpectedly, as darkness fell, the Fishmen Monster did not stop their charge.
The Half-Elf Warrior at the front line had rotated seventeen times. Almost every Half-Elf Warrior wielding a sword and shield had fought two rounds in the front line. Even though their Light Armor covered their fingers and toes, many of the Elf Warrior were still injured by the Fishmen Monster.
As night fell, the beach shimmered under the moonlight...
Vice Captain Tennyson, who was originally planning to lead a team to sneak up on the beach to ambush the Fishmen Monster, was stopped by Roy.
"Timothy, Tennyson, you two cover our retreat with the Assassin Squad back into the jungle..."
Roy gave instructions to the two Dark Moon Elf captains.
He then ordered the Half-Elf Warrior Half-Elf Warrior retreat in a staggered formation, leaving the tents they had set up in the jungle still in place.
Rows of Half-Elf Warrior took turns providing cover as they retreated deeper into the jungle.
The Fishmen Monster on the beach continued their relentless charge...
The Half-Elf Warrior retreated continuously, and the battlefield gradually expanded. As the Fishmen Monster rushed into the dense forest, the Assassin Squad warriors hidden in the shadows of the trees finally began to reveal their ferocious fangs.
Those Fishmen Monster who brandish blades and dive headfirst into the bushes often end up lying silently in the undergrowth.
When the Fishmen Monster arrived, they discovered that these Fishmen Monster all had piercing wounds on the back of their heads, almost all of which were caused by bayonets piercing their brains...
The Half-Elf Warrior retreated in an orderly fashion, giving the Fishmen Monster a false impression of being a liability. The Fishmen Monster had been trying to take a bite out of the Half-Elf Warrior, but had never succeeded in the battle. Now, seeing the Half-Elf Warrior showing signs of retreat, the Fishmen Monster sensed Dawn of Victory of victory and charged forward even more desperately, unwilling to let the Half-Elf Warrior leave the battlefield so easily.
But these Fishmen Monster didn't realize that the deeper they went into the jungle, the more of their companions who fell dead in the woods multiplied...
It wasn't until the Fishmen Monster at the front realized that its companions behind it couldn't keep up that it understood the seriousness of the situation.
They stared blankly at the Half-Elf Warrior retreating into the darkness of the deep jungle, then turned to leave the forest, only to find daggers emerging from the shadows of the surrounding trees, and Fishmen Monster falling one after another around them...
Faced with these invisible and intangible enemies, the Fishmen Monster could only huddle together, as only by sticking together could they reduce casualties.
The Half-Elf Warrior of the Mine Guard Regiment retreated into the depths of the jungle, and the Fishmen Monster finally did not follow...
The Half-Elf Warrior sat under the tree to rest and took the opportunity to eat some fruit.
"There are just too many Fishmen Monster here..."
"Even in the West Reef Islands, I never thought the Fishmen Monster were this hard to kill!"
"That's because West Reef Islands wasn't the main battlefield. Only a few small groups of Fishmen Monster went West Reef Islands, so we had an easier time killing them. I heard that on the main battlefield at Queen Island, these Fishmen Monster, under the command of the siren, almost overturned Queen Island..."
"They are weak in combat, their only weakness is their sheer number. They keep charging up relentlessly. If our armor wasn't so good and our swords so sharp, we might not have been able to deal with this tidal wave tactic."
While resting, a group of Half-Elf Warrior were still reviewing the battle they had just fought.
After all, these Fishmen Monster drove them out of their half-built camp. If we disregard casualties on both sides, the Fishmen Monster had clearly achieved a partial victory.
In fact, Kaka's Griffon Corps also participated in this battle. The Griffon Cavalry rained down arrows from the sky, but the Fishmen Monster didn't care about the arrows falling from the sky at all. They practically charged into the jungle battlefield with the arrows flying through their faces.
Therefore, in this battle, the Griffon Corps seemed to have no presence whatsoever...
After resting for a while, the Half-Elf Warrior began to set up a temporary camp in the woods.
Kaka and his Griffon Cavalry landed in the forest. He didn't expect that the Mine Guard Regiment would fight a big battle with the Fishmen Monster as soon as they arrived in the jungle of Sun Island Bay.
Although this place is several kilometers away from the beach battlefield, the smell of blood coming from there is still very strong.
Watching the Half-Elf Warrior slay the Fishmen Monster until their hands were sore, Chief Tiprado and Kaka realized that the reason they hadn't been able to defeat these Fishmen Monster was probably because they weren't ruthless enough...
Now, whenever Kaka closes his eyes, he sees a scene of bloodshed on the beach.
The blood flowed into the sea, staining the coastline within a kilometer radius red. Meanwhile Kaka and his companions flew through the sky on their griffins, taking in the entire panorama of the battlefield. The corpses of those Fishmen Monster littered the land, and even the griffins' dinner that night consisted of those Fishmen Monster ...
It was only then that Kaka realized something: these griffins didn't seem to be picky eaters; they ate the ugly fish-men just the same.
"Uncle Tiprado, if we keep killing like this, can we wipe out all those Fishmen Monster?" Kaka took a few deep breaths, trying to suppress the restlessness in his heart...
"Of course, if the fighting continues like this, the Fishmen Monster of Sun Island Bay will soon disappear..." said the village chief Tiprado.
He was actually shocked by the battle scene.
He and Kaka had initially asked Roy for help in dealing with the Fishmen Monster in Sun Island Bay.
In fact, Chief Tiprado didn't have such high expectations. He only hoped that Roy would lead the Mine Guard Army to drive the Fishmen Monster back to Sun Island in the middle of the bay, and preferably restrain Fishmen Monster a bit more so that they would live obediently on the island.
Now...
After a battle, both sides are probably bloodthirsty, and the negotiations that haven't even started yet may fall through.
Kaka walked to the center of the camp, carrying his longsword. Roy's tent was pitched there, and he was sitting under a tree outside the camp, with a faint holy light shining above him...
Roy was sketching a draft on a piece of parchment. Kaka walked over, craned her neck to watch for a while, and asked, "Roy, what are you drawing?"
"For tomorrow's battle plan, I'm going to set a trap and take out as many Fishmen Monster as possible before they can react," Roy said without looking up.
Hearing Roy say this, Kaka curiously leaned closer and examined it for a while, but still couldn't figure out what Roy had drawn.
"Uncle Tiprado plans to call all the Half-Elf living nearby tomorrow and have them join the battle..." Kaka said to Roy.
"There's no need now. These merfolk probably haven't even realized what's happening yet. I need to take this opportunity to reduce Fishmen Monster numbers." Roy put down his Charcoal Pencil, patted Kaka on the shoulder, and said to him:
"It's alright, just think of it as bringing the Guard Regiment out of the plateau for a real combat training exercise," Roy said optimistically.
A Assassin Squad ambushed the Fishmen Monster in the jungle, giving them no chance to get close to the guard camp deep in the jungle at Fishmen Monster.
The next morning, Roy returned to the battlefield with a squad of Half-Elf Warrior and found that Fishmen Monster corpses on the beach had disappeared. If the beach hadn't been still a dark red, it would have been impossible to recognize that this place was a battlefield piled high with corpses just yesterday.
On the beach now, besides a large number of Fishmen Monster, there were even some Fishmen Monster riding strange sea beasts. At first glance, Roy thought those exceptionally ugly sea beasts looked like toadfish...