15 One sided battle

The goblin village was built on a low lying hillock, which had been flattened and lay only five meters above the surrounding. It was built in an oval shape, a little bigger than a football pitch.The walls were simple, made of mud, five feet high and three feet wide and the ditch was made on the flat ground, seven feet deep and five feet wide, sharpened sticks stuck insides.

Alex and the wardogs had return with woods from a small forest in the west moor, which was next to a small lake after a day long journey. Thanks to Sharx and his wardogs, who were well equipped with axes, they split the wooden trunks into two halves.

Soon the reconstruction of the village wall was in full swing. The split woods were stuck to the grounds, each more than fifteen feet long on the outside and thirteen feet long on the inside, giving a space of five feet between the two.

They worked till midnight as goblins had great night vision. The Wooden wall were finished, eight feet high on the outside and eight feet on the outside. All that was left was to fill up the gap with mud and gravel, as well as water to hardened them.

Exhausted, Alex went inside his tent. He found his three girls already asleep on the fur bed.He quietly slipped in and fall asleep right in.

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Alex walked across the ramp, inspecting any fault. The wall took two days to finished. There was no entrance as the goblin had a system of escape route built underground but they did installed a fake gate. They had put mud and gravels inside and pour water over it to harder the material.

The ditch was now twelve feet deep and ten feet wide and covered with a fake covering of mud and other toppings. Inside the ditches, they had laid pointed wooden shafts. It was the perfect trap considering their low resources.

Alex eyes caught the sight of a smoke

signal coming from the east. It was from the scout he posted to watch the trolls, who were resting at Orak former hideout.

"Sound the alarm," Shout Alex,"execute the defensive and the contingency plan."

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As expected, the trolls approached at dusk from the eastern side. Alex ready his shotgun with his last round of slugs. The goblin village had gone silent. The goblettes, whelps and elderlies had been taken to a safe location, a cave in a forested wood near a small lake to the west.

The troll recovered faster than predicted, taking only three days and two nights but it seem to be a drastic decision on their part. Some of the trolls hadn't still recovered and were limping or walking awkwardly.

There were only eight trolls in total but out of them, only two look uninjured. Trolls were ugly giants. They were all above eight feet tall and huge, pot bellied fat body with warty gray skin, hunched back and an oxen like horn on each side of the head. They were hairless, both sexes and had long, hooked nose and gibbon like long hands. They wore only loin clothes over their groin, both male and females and each of them had a large club on their hand. There were three males and five males, their distinction being the sagging large breasts the female trolls had.

The leader, who was a nine feet tall trolls and had several depression on his face,

his left eye blinded stop and sniff, closing his eye. He opened his eyes, full of rage.

"Rarrrrrrrrrrrr," roar the troll, pointing his club towards the goblin village.

The two other males charged while the rest stayed their ground. For their huge body, the trolls were quite fast as they ran on their four limbs like hairless gorillas. They didn't reached even the ditch, forget about the wall as both of them landed on pitfalls with stakes and got impaled.

"Now,"Shout Alex, who was on the wall.

Five goblettes were on the wall, riding on top of giant bats muzzled and saddled, each bats the size of an average human with wingspan of 3 meters.They look like foxes and were black and furry.

The riders gave a low whistle with small pan like instrument. In few seconds, they were up in the sky. Their job was to bombard the remaining trolls with jars of oil.

Two jars had hit the mark.The archers readied their fire-arrows and aim towards the east.

"Steady,steady," Said Alex. The trolls had begun the charge but still wasn't in range. His archers were not good, all twenty of them but were the only ones who could wield bow and arrows. His objective was not precision but blind shooting. Out of twenty, one will hit the mark but even for that, the trolls had to come into a precise range, that is fifty feet.

"Loose," shout Alex. Twenty flaming arrows flew to the sky and landed on the ground. The whole area got drench in flames.

Within fifty yard, Alex had laid dry peats harvested by the goblettes.

The three trolls caught up in flames and started to panicked. They ran towards the wall, all of them trying to escape the fire. The fire was spreading and surrounded the hill. The trolls stumbled out of the thick smokes.

The three trolls fell prey to the ditch. The only remaining were the three trolls, the original trio, who hadn't still move from their place.

The troll leader roar in anger and turned away, bounding for the east, followed by his mates.The battle was lost to them.Advancing any further just meant death.

"We won," Cried out Crom,cheering joyously,"Boss, your plan worked."

"Yes, it did.we won," Said Alex, smiling warmly, unconsciously patting the little goblin.

The whole village erupted in cheers. The only ones not celebrating were two persons, the ones who were the tallest among the people gathered there, Alex and Kara.

Alex looked at Kara and she nodded.

It was time to end the vendetta.

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