Xu Lai divided the troops into three waves and set off in three periods.
One reason is that siege during the day mainly consumes the physical strength and life of the infantry.
If you don’t give them time to recover and receive treatment, it will only waste them in vain, which is really unwise.
On the contrary, Yan Feng's horse archers and the knightly style troops have been watching the show all day long. They have recuperated and now, it is no problem to attack.
The most important thing is that Xu Lai didn't know what kind of reaction the devil would have.
He was determined to give it a go because he didn't want to waste such a God-given opportunity.
But if the time is not right, of course he will not be foolish enough to take this gamble. The risk far outweighs the benefit.
But the timing was extremely difficult to judge, so Xu Lai had to arrange two waves of people to test.
If Kerrigan reacted quickly, Xu Lai would retreat immediately and defend the Gray Castles with all his strength, making sure to block the demons and prevent them from coming out.
In this case, Xu Lai can obtain most of the land in the Western Empire, including the most fertile plain areas.
Coupled with the grassland area, as well as the underground city and the offerings at the stronghold, Xu Lai's development potential can definitely exceed that of any empire.
Although the Hell camp has the Gate of the Abyss and can seemingly mobilize unlimited troops, they no longer have many resources to plunder in the Western Empire.
The gates of the abyss cannot last long, and they themselves will have to close.
Except during this period, the demons can still achieve any major gains, such as occupying the rich south.
In short, with Hell's current state of being beleaguered on all sides, if Gray Castle and Xu Lai really fight to the death, it will definitely be a lose-lose situation.
Instead of doing this, it would be better to bully the Southern Empire and the Northern Empire, where the population is large and the combat effectiveness of the troops is not high.
Although Xu Lai's idea is a bit immoral, it will kill fellow Taoists rather than die as poor Taoists.
If he really had to choose one force to die with the devil, Xu Lai hoped it would be the Northern Empire or the Southern Empire. Anyway, it would have nothing to do with him.
I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. Although there were a lot of beauties around me, they were much more tired than me, and it was hard for Xu Lai to torment them.
Early the next morning, Xu Lai got up.
Yan Feng set out overnight last night, but Xu Lai did not receive any news from Yan Feng last night.
After being promoted to a general, Yan Feng can also wear and use equipment. With the magic message stone, there is no problem in using communication.
But no news is good news.
If Yan Feng sent a message overnight, it might mean that he suffered a loss in Bridgestone.
Either Kerrigan is back. If that's the case, even Xu Lai doesn't need to go out anymore.
After breakfast, Xu Lai also set off with his knightly troops.
The cavalry is very fast and will surely reach Bristone before lunch.
Xu Lai will confirm again in person. If Kerrigan is confirmed to have returned, it will still be too late to inform Reina to move. She and the Qingfeng Army will not set off until after noon.
In fact, Kerrigan got the news earlier than Xu Lai expected.
The evil god of hell wanted to run away, but he did not dare not inform Kerrigan of the news that he had abandoned Graycastle.
Therefore, just before Xu Lai and the others ended the battle, Kerrigan had already received the news.
However, at this time, he was attacking the palace in Lion Heart City and had already breached the outer palace wall.
After receiving the news, Kerrigan didn't even bother to warn the Angel Legion in Holy Angel City and sent all the Great Demon Legion there.
With the help of the Great Demon Legion, the Guards Legion in the palace was unable to hold on until dawn, and was completely defeated in less than an hour after midnight.
But for Kerrigan, just taking the palace is meaningless. What he wants is the heart of the castle buried in the palace.
But this kind of thing couldn't be rushed, so he chopped off all the generals stationed in the palace one by one. From one or two o'clock in the middle of the night, he interrogated one by one and hacked them until daylight.
Still no one can tell him where the Heart of the Castle is buried.
Of course, Kerrigan does not have other options.
If this is true, the owner of each city only needs to dig the heart of the castle into a corner that no one knows about, otherwise it is destined that others will not be able to take away the city.
To find the heart of the castle, each camp has its own method.
For example, strongholds can be divined through prophets, and humans have made many kinds of equipment to detect the heart of the castle.
Krigan's method is also very simple and crude, which is to dig, but instead of digging from top to bottom, he lets the Crypt Demon rummage from the ground up.
As long as it is something buried underground, there is nothing that the Crypt Demon cannot find, it is just that it is difficult to say in terms of time.
Kerrigan has arranged many defenses in his base camp. After all, the only remaining abyss gate is in Bristone.
At this critical moment, he refused to retreat, especially in capturing Lion Heart City, which consumed too much time and troops.
The key is that he has not yet completely captured Lionheart City.
If he completely captures Lionheart City, he can still leave some of his troops here and then fly back with his own troops.
But if he dares to do this now, the group of angels in Holy Angel City will definitely rush out and eat the troops he left behind.
The time and troops he spent were all in vain.
Humans have priests who can heal and angels who can resurrect.
He didn't have any demons. Even with his powerful bonus, he would have killed countless demons when he captured the human capital. The number was impossible to count.
If he was asked to put down all his gains at this time and turn around to rescue, he would never be willing to do so.
Now, he really has the urge to drag Mendis, the Evil God of Hell, and the others over and beat them to death.
But this can only be thought of. It is impossible for him to get Mendis back now, let alone pull the dead guy out and beat him again.
He really wanted to have confidence in his base camp, but past experience told him that the man named Xu Lai had created incredible things too many times.
Kerrigan found his lieutenant, a great demon named Tren.
"You immediately lead a thousand great demons and move to Bristone through the castle gate to prevent humans from capturing our base camp."
"Yes, my majesty." Trendan He knelt down and accepted the order without hesitation.
Krigan thought for a while and said: "I sent you there mainly as an insurance policy. As long as the city is not destroyed and the gate of the abyss is not destroyed, you must not take action.
Remember , you only need to record what you see and hear, don’t worry about anything else, and don’t listen to anyone’s orders.”
Although Teren is not a hero, he is Cregan's chief assistant and is responsible for helping him take charge of the most important demon army.
It is particularly unwise to change the coach before the battle, not to mention that now Bristone not only has the defender he appointed, but also Mendis, who was defeated.
Throwing heroes over to Bristone will probably only cause confusion in command, but will not help the battle situation.
However, Tren leads his most important core troops, and if not all of them, he cannot let others squander them. Even before the battle begins, the demons are already making plans.
Even someone as powerful as Kerrigan cannot truly control all demons, let alone the limitations of the demons themselves.
The support of a thousand great demons has greatly improved Bristone's morale.
Of course, these big demons are just friendly forces to boost their morale.
They themselves can only bring bad luck to others, and they do not have the ability to boost morale like angels.
As Kerrigan expected, these big demons were targeted by Mendis as soon as they arrived.
In the name of the deputy commander of the Burning Legion, he ordered Tron to temporarily join his command. He wanted to give these great demons heroic attributes.
Tron just looked at him coldly without making any move.
"I'm sorry, your order is contrary to His Majesty Cregan's order. I'm sorry that I can't obey it."
Mendis narrowed his eyes, but he was not angry. Of course he knew that Cregan It was impossible to hand over the big devil in his heart to him.
"It doesn't matter if you don't want to join my command, but without my blessing, I'm afraid you won't be able to catch up with those human cavalry."
"Can't catch up? Human cavalry? What's going on? Did humans reach Bristone so quickly? I remember Graycastle just fell!"
Mendis chuckled and said: "Grey Castle It's true that the fort has just fallen, but those human cavalry are running fast.
Just before you came over, the group of archery knights just passed by our city wall and killed several of them. Thousands of fire demons
I sent my abyss lords to chase them for a while, but unfortunately they ran too fast and we couldn't catch up. "
"So, just let them go. Humans are roaming around our base camp and allowed to be massacred?”
As the Hellboy General, Teren is one of the few demons who was born in Rome, and is a great demon who is born to be superior to all demons.
In the entire hell camp, except for Kerrigan who was able to make him surrender, everyone else was not even noticed by him.
Therefore, even if he is facing the so-called deputy commander, he can still question him without any scruples.
Although Mendis was unhappy, at this moment, he really couldn't fall out with Tren.
“I can’t catch up, what can I do.”
Bristone was not assigned, and it was clearly Kerrigan's own territory.
If Mendis stays here, he will not be able to control the soldiers in the city. If he helps win the battle, he will not gain any benefits. Naturally, he cannot be active.
Tron also knew this, and looked helplessly at Bridgestone's real commander, the fire demon Barton.
“Where is General Patton, what do you say?”
The tall Balrog hero said calmly:
"The only ones who can catch up with those horse archers are the winged demons under the protection of Mendis, or the big demons led by Sir Terun.
If you are unwilling to move, what can I do.< br>
What's more, those horse archers are obviously sent by humans to harass us.
Except for shooting some arrows from a distance, they can't even get close to the city wall. No matter what they do. "
As soon as he finished speaking, the horse archers who had harassed them for a round began to run around the city wall again under the leadership of Yan Feng.
However, when Yan Feng saw the red light rising into the sky in Bristone, he thought that demonic reinforcements were coming, so he came closer to investigate.
However, he did not dare to get too close. He just shot some arrows from a distance two to three hundred meters away from the city wall.
Yan Feng wanted to carry out Xu Lai's order and block the gate of Bristone's castle, but unfortunately he really couldn't do it.
If you want to block the castle gate, you must get close. Even if he leads the cavalry in circles, he is always on guard against the super fireballs coming from the city wall.
The fireball may be able to be avoided by relying on movement speed, but the strategic spells released by the enemy, especially the slow spell, are not something that can be avoided if you want to.
Fortunately, Xu Lai asked him to bring many acceleration scrolls in advance. Even if they were just ordinary acceleration spells, they could still offset the slow effect.
Relying on this acceleration scroll can give the demon heroes an illusion.
In fact, if there was no acceleration effect, Mendis would be able to catch up with any slightly faster troops he brought along with his logistical advantages.
But what does it matter? Mendis doesn’t care much anyway.
And Bristone is really big, and the number of Yan Feng's horse archers is not enough to completely surround the entire city.
After running back and forth several times, apart from shooting some fire demons on the city wall, Yan Feng and the others could only harass and harass them, preventing the demons from having a good rest.
It's the same this time. Because of the relationship between the Fire Demon Tower and the city wall, Yan Feng and the others don't even have an advantage in shooting range.
But high-level human archers all have projectile skills.
A wave of arrows shot from far away. Whether the shot was successful or not depended on God's will. How much damage was done and how many demons could be killed also depended on God's will.
Anyway, as long as there are demons in that place, a rain of arrows and tens of thousands of arrows will kill dozens or hundreds of them.
Terun groaned and said:
“Although these horse archers are fast, it seems that most of them are recruited knights, so they must not be able to carry extra arrows.
And they are continuous Running around requires a place for the horses to rest.
Send the Winged Demon to chase you. Even if you can't catch up for a while, you will catch up sooner or later.
Besides, even if you can't catch up, you can catch up. It can also get rid of these annoying things.”
Barton thought for a while, Tren's face must be given to him after all.
Besides, after working hard all night, he really wanted to take a good rest.
So, with a wave of his hand, he ordered his Wing Demon generals to lead the Wing Demon into battle.
Of course, Barton specifically warned these winged demons not to get too close, just stay far away.
No one knows if this is a human trap. If humans still have a large army hiding outside, wouldn't they send people to die?
The most important thing now is still to keep Bridgestone, everything else is unimportant.
When Xu Lai arrived, Yan Feng was still blaming himself and apologizing for failing to complete the task.
"So, Kerrigan shouldn't have come back?"
Yan Feng said: "Anyway, I didn't feel a particularly terrifying aura, and based on the scale of the flashing red light last night, Look, there won’t be too many troops coming back.
But in the middle of the night last night, I felt the aura of bad luck. Hellboy should have appeared in the city.”
Xu Lai nodded clearly and asked Yan Feng and the others to go down to rest. He took advantage of the good light during the day and personally reined in his horse and headed towards Bridgestone. (End of this chapter)