Diff, the leader of the caravan, saw that the situation was not good. He quickly handed over the command of the defense of the camp to the lame old coachman and rushed forward with his sword and shield.
Diff was very experienced in battle. After he rushed forward, he quickly killed two Gnoll warriors and stabilized the situation.
But at this time, the gunmen and archers on the carriage screamed and fell down one after another.
It turned out that the Gnoll hunters who had been preparing to ambush the camp and had retreated after Feng Chou had regrouped and joined the battle.
These rangers were hiding behind a large tree about a hundred meters away, constantly shooting arrows from behind.
At this time, the other disadvantage of a gun was revealed, and that was its accuracy.
Bows were also difficult to aim accurately, but after a long period of training and mastering the performance of a bow, an archer could become a sharpshooter who could never miss a shot.
Qiankun Pagoda told Feng Chou that this kind of gun was the same as the early guns on Earth. There was no rifling, and there was a gap between the bullet and the barrel. Before the bullet left the barrel, it would collide with the barrel irregularly, and after it left the barrel, it would scatter irregularly. Although it had a rough accuracy within a hundred meters, the range of impact beyond a hundred meters would be very large. Therefore, early guns needed to be of a large scale to be a deterrent.
A distance of a hundred meters was nothing to these Jackalans, who were five or six times stronger than ordinary people on Earth and could draw three to four hundred pounds of fearsome bows. Moreover, these Jackalan hunters were all excellent archers, and the arrows they shot were enchanted with magic. The coachman and the workers were wearing ordinary inlaid leather armor that was not much better than the Jackalans', so they could not block the arrows at all.
These Gnoll hunters first took out the few gunmen on the carriages, and then they could do whatever they wanted to the gunmen on the carriages. The gunmen could not even lift their heads.
Without the support of the musketeers, the human melee combatants were once again in a precarious situation.
To make matters worse, at this time, a group of Gnolls walked out of the forest in the distance.
Among this group of Gnolls, there was a figure that was particularly eye-catching. It was a burly Gnoll more than two meters tall. He wore an excellent medium black steel armor, held a heavy black steel shield in one hand, and held a heavy flail in the other, which made people's hearts tremble.
Beside the giant-like Gnoll was an old Gnoll with a walking stick. In front of the two of them were four Gnoll warriors in fine armor.
After seeing the appearance of this new force, Feng Chou could not help but want to retreat. However, for some reason, the mercenaries and the workers of the trade caravan did not retreat. They did not have the slightest intention of running away.
After Feng Chou had never used his gun, he did not use it because he was afraid of hurting his own people in front of him.
He looked at the gun in his hand, then looked at the gunmen on the carriages who were being suppressed by the Gnoll rangers, and then looked at the mercenaries who were fighting to the death outside the carriages. He really did not want to run away now.
After struggling for a while, Feng Chou finally decided to help first. After all, he had Qiankun Pagoda to monitor the situation, so he should not be tricked.
After making the decision, Feng Chou picked up the knight's shield with one hand and the gun with the other and rushed out from behind the obstacles. He did not go to the center of the battlefield, but rushed out of the carriages' defensive circle from the side of the battlefield and cut into the battlefield from the side.
Just as Feng Chou rushed into the battlefield, a level 4 mercenary was smashed to the ground by a level 5 Gnoll warrior with a flail.
The Gnoll warrior raised the flail high and let out an excited whimper, as if he could already see the human's head being smashed by him.
At that moment, he seemed to feel something approaching from the side, but when he turned around, all he saw was the black muzzle of a gun.
Feng Chou rushed to the Gnoll's side unexpectedly, and at the same time, pointed the gun in his hand at the Gnoll's face and fired a shot.
Boom!
The huge recoil of the gun made Feng Chou, who was holding the gun with one hand, almost lose his grip on it.
With such a huge recoil, a normal person would not be able to use it at all. Perhaps only a level 2 warrior could barely control it with both hands.
The huge recoil naturally meant huge power. The thumb-sized bullet tore open the Gnoll warrior's helmet and opened a big hole in his ugly hyena face.
Feng Chou found it strange that such a powerful bullet could not even break the wooden shield in the Gnoll's hand.
But he immediately threw this thought to the back of his mind, because the Gnoll warrior closest to him saw the tragic death of his comrade. He roared angrily and pushed the human warrior in front of him away with his axe, then turned around and rushed towards him.
Facing a level 5 Gnoll warrior, Feng Chou threw away his gun and pulled out the one-handed sword at his waist, fearlessly meeting the Gnoll warrior.
In fact, a level 5 Gnoll warrior was not the same as a level 5 Gnoll warrior. A level 5 Gnoll warrior had already grasped the basics of "Hydgar's Strength", and their fighting strength was much higher than a level 4 Gnoll warrior.
A level 5 Gnoll warrior was actually just a level 3 creature with two levels added to the warrior's level. At most, their agility was higher than a normal warrior's, but their fighting skills could not be compared to a level 5 Gnoll warrior's. Speaking of which, it was a bit similar to Feng Chou's situation.
The level 5 Gnoll warrior rushed up and swung his heavy axe at Feng Chou. Feng Chou took a step forward, slightly squatted down, and used the knight's shield hanging on his left arm to meet the huge axe.
The moment the axe and shield met, Feng Chou lowered his body again, and used the shield on his left arm to block the Gnoll warrior's axe. The surface of the shield formed a 45 degree angle above his head.
The horizontal slash of the axe hit the slanted surface of the shield, and involuntarily slid down the slanted surface of the shield.
The inertia of the axe caused the Gnoll's body to involuntarily turn to the right. At this time, Feng Chou used the shield to lightly push the Gnoll's shoulder, and it obediently turned around, exposing its back to Feng Chou.
Feng Chou naturally did not hold back. He took a step forward, twisted his waist, and used the strength of his waist to drive his shoulder, his shoulder to drive his forearm, and his forearm to drive his forearm. His forearm and the one-handed sword in his hand formed a straight line, and he viciously stabbed towards the Gnoll's back.
The one-handed sword pierced through the Gnoll's steel armor like cardboard, and the blade almost pierced through the Gnoll's heart without any resistance.
This was the effect brought by the + 3 enchantment.
Alchemy enchantment was a broad branch of arcane magic. For example, in the enchantment standards of the sword in Feng Chou's hand, there were two aspects of toughness and sharpness. Toughness made the weapon harder to damage, and sharpness made the weapon sharper. With the + 3 Sharpness of the black steel sword, let alone steel armor, even Black Steel Armor could be easily pierced through.
When Feng Chou killed the first level Gnoll warrior, everyone thought that he was just lucky, but when he killed the second level Gnoll warrior, no one dared to think so anymore.
To be honest, when it came to fighting skills and experience, Feng Chou combined the martial arts of his previous life, the orthodox knight martial arts of this world, and the hundreds of life and death battles in the illusion of Qiankun Pagoda. Even a veteran warrior who had survived hundreds of battles might not necessarily be a match for him.
Feng Chou's killing of two Gnoll warriors in a row instantly broke the balance of power on his side of the battlefield.
The powerful Gnoll warriors surrounding Walter and Diff had no choice but to send a level 5 and a level 6 Gnoll warrior to surround Feng Chou.
However, with the loss of two Gnolls, the Gnolls surrounding Walter and Diff became somewhat stretched.
At this time, the Gnoll army not far away finally moved.