Since the invasion of Hell, nothing exciting has happened in the entire Western Empire.
But recently, all the resistance armies, large and small, in the Western Empire, on both sides of the Hanjiang River, and in various refugee strongholds, are discussing a piece of good news.
The news that Xu Lai had regained the Brilliant Territory quickly spread along the resistance forces on both sides of the Han River and around the Brilliant Territory.
The Brilliant Territory is just a count territory, and its total area may only be one percent of the former Western Empire, or even less than that.
The reason why the news spread so quickly is because this was the first major victory since the confrontation between the Western Empire and the Hell Demon.
Xu Lai didn't compile the big and small battle reports, but his secretaries helped him compile them.
Not counting those who died in the hands of the demons themselves, at least one hundred thousand demons were annihilated just by recovering the Brilliant Territory.
And these hundreds of thousands of demons are all demons with real corpses, crawling out of the gate of hell, not demons recruited from the buildings.
Including the demons recruited, the number must be at least doubled.
Such a victory can be regarded as a great victory anywhere, even if among the hundreds of thousands of demons, there is no one with a particularly high level.
But the further the news spreads, the more authenticity is lost.
After layers of processing, the news has become a rumor, which is almost completely unbelievable.
When it reached the ears of Cregan, the Burning Legion, he became a demon vulnerable to attack, with millions of losses and corpses scattered all over the place.
When the rumors spread near the imperial capital, more than a week had passed since Xu Lai captured the entire Brilliant Territory.
The army of Lionheart City guarded this huge city, and countless catapults projected boulders and magic ammunition more than ten kilometers away.
With city walls and ballistics skills, coupled with the fact that humans have always been wealthy, the capital has not experienced war for thousands of years.
Although the soldiers guarding the city are inexperienced, it is undeniable that the equipment in Lion Heart City is incredibly luxurious.
Not only has Lionheart City gone through thousands of years without war, there are also two small cities in the city.
One is the palace of the Supreme King Aled, and the other is the Holy Angel City that has been inherited for thousands of years.
With thousands of years of reserves, none of the catapults and catapults in Lionheart City are ordinary, and the lowest level is magic.
Compared with Lion Heart City, the hell demon's catapult is so simple that it's ridiculous.
Even though the master commanding this army is the Great Demon of the Abyss, he is Kerrigan, who is affected by the power of the Abyss and has no limit on the number of specializations.
There is no doubt that when Kerrigan split this body in order to attack the city, he deliberately upgraded his ballistics to the ultimate level.
Both are ultimate ballistics, but the quality of one's own catapult is far inferior to that of the opponent's, and the range is naturally huge.
Not to mention, the enemy's city wall is also a top-level city wall, with a protruding city platform every 100 meters.
On each city platform, there is stationed an elite team of crossbow shooters and a high-level slingshot.
They are troops who specialize in controlling slings and crossbows. The hit rate of controlling slings is higher than that of shooters, let alone militiamen or low-level demons.
In addition to the city wall, there are also many catapult positions set up behind the city wall to suppress the charge of the demon's large forces.
With the blessing of this top-level city wall, these top-level catapults on the city platform can cover a maximum range of 50 kilometers.
Of course, even for crossbow shooters, even if the top catapult has a sight system, the hit rate beyond 50 kilometers is almost meaningless.
The most critical thing is that compared with these top catapults, what Lionheart City really lacks is ammunition.
As the imperial capital, Lionheart City is a place where every inch of land is truly precious.
Countless high-ranking officials and nobles live here. Although there is an arsenal in reserve, it is impossible for the ammunition to overflow once it is full.
Even this ammunition, after the demons launched the invasion, the members of Congress tried to fill it up. The previous standing stock only had one third.
Now that Lionheart City is completely surrounded, it is unrealistic to collect ammunition from outside the city or transport it through caravans.
The only good news is that because the devil did not dare to get too close, it did not form a strategic siege.
The teleportation array in Lion Heart City can still operate, and even teleportation spells such as the Gate of Time and Space and the Gate of Different Dimensions can also be used.
Because there is enough space both inside and outside Lion Heart City.
The Congress and the temple ordered the demolition of outlying buildings early on, and used the demolished resources to make ammunition.
However, the Congress does not agree to the procurement of ammunition through the teleportation array.
The mages and energy stone reserves in Lionheart City are also not sufficient.
Members of Congress are all top nobles. Even if they are willing to use all the energy stones for commercial transmission, they must save them for evacuation at critical moments.
With these concerns, Lionheart City actually did not put its city defense weapons into full use.
At least half of the range is wasted in order to increase the hit rate and power as much as possible.
With the blessing of the city wall, even the best range without reducing it by half is still farther than the catapults of hell.
Hell's catapult, no matter how durable and defensive it is, will fall apart almost immediately if it is hit.
In the process of conquering the Western Empire, Kerrigan has lost a large number of demons.
Xu Lai has angels who can help resurrect him, but he is still damaged in the battle, let alone a demon who has no resurrection ability.
However, the Western Empire is the second to last country among the southeast, northwest and northwest.
The Southern Empire ranks last. However, the Southern Empire is crisscrossed by rivers and connected by lakes and seas, which is a huge test for the devil.
After taking the imperial capital, Kerrigan did not want to lose too many soldiers, so he was not in a hurry to launch a large-scale attack.
Their main army is more than ten kilometers away from Lion Heart City. Unless they use forbidden spells, their spells will not have much effect.
Kerrigan ordered the human slaves to push the catapults forward. The catapults in Lionheart City opposite would definitely attack these vehicles.
It doesn't matter if you smash a catapult. Anyway, this kind of low-level catapult is very cheap to build and fast to build.
Krigan captured a large number of human craftsmen, and together with the craftsmen from hell, he could build thousands of vehicles in a day.
Even Kerrigan doesn't need to be really usable, as long as there are dozens or hundreds of catapults pushed out in each batch that can actually be launched.
If these catapults can really hit the wall of Lion Heart City, or hit the troops, catapults, ballistas, etc. on the wall, they will be considered lucky.
It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t hit, at least let those humans know that these catapults are a threat.
The catapult is a threat, so it cannot be left unattended. Naturally, it is impossible to identify it carefully if the distance is too far.
As for the human slaves pushing the catapults, at this time, neither the dignitaries of Lionheart City nor the demons of hell care.
Kerrigan also tentatively launched a flying troop charge.
On the human side, angels and griffon legions were dispatched without hesitation.
And neither angels nor griffins care about their own life or death at all. Kerrigan knew that this was because they could be resurrected after dying in battle, and neither the Winged Demon nor the Fire Elves could gain air superiority.
The angels occupy a favorable location and have the support of long-range shooters on the city wall. Even if the number is smaller, they can completely dominate.
Even if they were unfortunately killed in battle, the bodies of the angels and griffons would still be in the Lion Heart City, so there was no need to worry about the enemy rushing over and destroying them.
After trying this once, there is almost no benefit at all except that the morale of mankind is greatly increased, our own morale is low, and the losses are not small.
Kerrigan also has a headache. For the time being, he can only choose this kind of war of attrition to continuously consume human ammunition, physical strength, and energy.
If the city defense weapons are not consumed and a large-scale charge is launched, a wave of ice crystal bombs will be dropped, which will cause tens of thousands of demon casualties.
But even if they use ammunition to deceive humans, they will only project the most common boulder ammunition, and magic ammunition such as ice crystal bombs will not be easily fired.
Or use high-level troops to rush up to the city wall in one go.
Human beings now only attack enemies within ten kilometers, leaving the big demons outside. They can scale the city wall by teleporting at most twice.
But in that case, the Great Demon's casualties would definitely not be small.
His precious son Serron has already destroyed an army of demons, killing thousands of big demons, hundreds of Hellboys and thousands of demons.
If there is another casualty like this, it will take at least another hundred years for Hell to take a breath.
The attack on the Emperor was not going well, and Kerrigan was already in a very bad mood. When he heard such rumors, his lungs almost exploded with anger.
Of course, it is impossible for Kerrigan to believe such rumors. Although Matthias died in the battle, there are still other high-level demons who can pass information to him.
Not to mention, other demon lords near the Brilliant Territory will also pass detailed battle reports to him.
But if it was just a counterattack organized by the remaining forces of the Western Empire, Kerrigan wouldn't be so angry.
But when his intelligence agency told Cregan the truth through the flags, armor, clothing patterns and professional analysis passed through the battle reports, Cregan was completely angry.
Kerrigan immediately activated his succubus hidden among humans, and the intelligence passed back once again confirmed the reliability of the news.
While he was fighting against Lion Heart City, the one who attacked him from behind was Xu Lai, who had once annihilated one of his demon legions.
This Xu Lai not only killed Sellon and annihilated his entire demon army, but also erected a statue of the God of War.
If it weren’t for the statue of the God of War, which allowed the God of War’s divine power to penetrate into the main material world and activate the divine descending technique, the Pope would have been dead long ago.
Now, this guy gave him another huge surprise.
"Send the order and let Mendis bring his army back to support.
Also, tell Mendis that not only can he take away his army, but all the demon lords in the rear will also obey him. Order.
By the way, he also told him that killing Xu Lai and bringing back his head would be his reward.
But if so, he would not be able to defeat that one. The guy named Xu Lai, let him go back to hell."
Kerrigan took out a small door-like object from his space ring and handed it to his herald. .
The herald took over the small Hell Gate and left respectfully.
Mendis is not an ordinary person, he is the number 2 figure of the Burning Legion and an abyss lord who followed His Majesty Kerrigan to climb out of the abyss of hell.
It is different from demons like Kerrigan and Sellon, who are respectfully called the Great Lord of the Abyss and the Lord of the Abyss, but are actually devils.
The Abyss Lord of Mendis is his race and profession.
Krigan's stature is not very tall, and is basically the same size as Seraph.
However, Mendis is a huge demon with a body size of over ten meters, comparable to Behemoth on land.
Fire, giant swords, and a mountain-like body are the standard configuration of an abyss lord.
In terms of status, the abyss lord Mendis is only lower than Sellon, who is the successor of Cregan.
However, his actual power far exceeds that of Sellon.
Just because how many troops Sellon can control depends on how much power his father Kerrigan gives him.
But Abyss Lord Mendis can create and train more Abyss Lords by himself.
Different from ordinary demons, abyss demons are both magicians and powerful warriors.
Although they are bulky, they have a pair of huge wings.
With the blessing of these wings, their speed is not slow.
Except for being somewhat rare in number and can only be trained by Mendis, even the Great Demons cannot compete with them.
Abyss demons, like phantom shooters, paladins, etc., are hidden troops in hell and can only be trained through special means.
Unlike rangers who can be trained from low-level shooters, abyss demons can only be trained by evil gods, and are relatively rare in nature.
But precisely because of their scarcity, abyss demons and abyss lords are extremely powerful species.
The 8th level abyss lord can not only release intermediate and advanced fire spells such as fireballs, continuous fireballs, and meteors and fire showers.
They also inherited the evil god's unique ability to transform the corpses of low-level demons into more powerful abyss demons.
In addition to spells, Abyss Lords are also extremely good at physical combat.
The huge giant sword allows them to kill multiple enemies at once.
Finally, these abyss lords are also proficient in summoning spells and can release the gates of hell and summon low-level demons to fight.
It’s just that the level of the Gate of Hell they released will not be too high. If a high-level demon needs to be summoned, a large number of abyss lords will be required to jointly cast spells.
Ordinary Hell Gate, the upper limit for summoning is only Cerberus, Horned Demon and the like.
If they cast spells together, the more Abyss Lords there are, the more powerful the Gate of Hell will be. At its most powerful, it can even summon level 7 Hellfire to fight.
But the Gate of Hell is just a spell after all. The more powerful it is, the shorter its duration will be.
If you want to continuously summon high-level demons, you must borrow the physical gate of hell.
The Gate of Hell can only be built in an urban-level hell city, which is equivalent to a castle-level city in the empire.
Of course, the cost of building a Hell Gate is quite high, so it is difficult to find a Hell Gate even in a hell city, let alone fighting in the wild.
However, the Lord of Hell, the Great Demon of the Abyss Kerrigan, happens to have a movable gate to hell.
After all, the Gate of Hell is not the Abyss Lord’s unique spell.
Any spellcaster who has the ability to cast spells and has learned this spell can release it. (End of this chapter)