Tahan led a large cavalry force to watch outside, making it impossible for Kerrigan to attack the city wholeheartedly.
Without taking Graycastle and without ground passage, the main force of the Burning Legion will not be able to advance westward.
In fact, Kerrigan didn't have much interest in marching westward. He just wanted to eat Xu Lai's main force.
So, wherever Xu Lai and his troops are, Kerrigan will fight until this troop is destroyed or Xu Lai is killed.
It’s just right that the Western Empire can be taken back. After all, Kerrigan also sacrificed a lot of resources and souls in order to transform the terrain of the Western Empire.
If he can't take it back, he needs to defeat Xu Lai at least once to bring back the morale and morale of the Burning Legion.
In order to prevent Tahan from interfering with his attack on Graycastle, Kerrigan sent out his fire elf army.
After incorporating Bristone's defense forces, there are not many fire elves and fire elves in the Burning Legion.
The reason why Kerrigan was named the Burning Legion is because the main force of this legion is composed of lava trolls, fire trolls, fire elves, and fire elves.
These are all units that are immune to fire and can deal a large amount of fire damage.
There are many types of demons in hell, including those that fly in the sky, those that walk on the ground, and those that wear underground.
But there are only a few things that can really be used.
The Fire Elves are extremely restrained against melee troops, the Lava Trolls have a wide range of long-range power, and the Evil God King is most important for pig-raising tactics.
At the speed of the Evil God King and the Evil God, chasing those cavalry would have no effect other than being treated like dogs and running away.
Moreover, although the attack range of the whip that the Evil God King is good at has an advantage over melee combat, his body is extremely fragile, and his defense and health are not as good as those of the Horned Warlord.
The role of the Evil God King is still more auxiliary, and it is also an important means for the Hell camp to continuously produce mid-level troops with energy.
In today's situation, where there are only a few hell cities left, Kerrigan is reluctant to consume the only remaining evil god.
The lava troll seems to have the advantage of range, but the cavalry is the least afraid of long-range units.
Unparalleled speed, led by high-level, highly talented cavalry heroes, will unleash unparalleled impact.
Although we had an advantage in the previous test, that was because we had hundreds of times more shooters than knights.
Even if the lava troll behind is blocked, there are far fewer shooters output.
Unless Kerrigan still has hundreds of times the strength of the cavalry, then maybe both sides can fight to the death.
But don’t say that Kerrigan didn’t have it. Even if he had it, he wouldn’t be able to part with it.
Although the fire elves cannot catch up with the cavalry, they cannot attack from a distance.
But as long as these things are within the coverage of Kerrigan's heroic abilities, human cavalry will never dare to attack them.
Because even if they can kill the fire elves, they themselves will definitely be killed by the rebound.
Even if one rebound does not kill him, two or three can kill a high-level knight.
Kerrigan can fully bear these casualties. Even if all the fire elves die, he will not feel bad.
But as far as he knew about the Eagle Kingdom, these in and under the city of Graycastle were all.
Once this group of cavalry is consumed, Kerrigan's main purpose is considered to be half achieved.
Speaking of which, he wished these cavalrymen would die together with the fire elves.
Without the restraints of these cavalry, he would wait another half month and personally lead the Great Demon Legion to fly into the Ashen Valley to block the retreat of mankind.
Then a forbidden fire spell wiped out all the humans in the city.
But with this cavalry here, Kerrigan will have to prevent them from attacking his troops from the front and back. Not only will they rush out of the city, but they may even defeat his Burning Legion.
After Kerrigan sent out the fire elves, Tahan and the others indeed retreated, not daring to get too close.
The group of fire elves did not dare to attack the cavalry.
Once they get close, they will be beaten by the horse archers first. Even if the casualties will not be too great with Cregan's protection, it is still a wasted loss.
They are fast, but with the blessing of the Knight's Wind Banner and Tahan, these knights cannot be caught up by the Fire Elves even without the blessing of divine speed.
Even if there is an advantage in the flight path, if you can catch up, you still have to take many arrows from the archers. After catching up, will there be any protection from Cregan?
If not, Tahan used a magic scroll and a fire-bending thaumaturgy to launch a charge. The ratio of battle losses between the two sides would not be acceptable to Cregan.
After driving away the knights, we no longer had the flying legion, and the thousands of abyss demons we had recruited back were of little use.
Humans have the advantage of defending the city. Whether it is a long-range or ultra-long-range unit, the human side has the advantage.
Krigan also has no intention of sending lava trolls to attack the city. These trolls standing on their own city walls may not be as good as humans, let alone attack at the foot of human cities.
What Kerrigan has high hopes for is his other auxiliary force, the Crypt Devils.
Xu Lai and Reina have been attacking the Western Empire separately for so long, Wing Demon has seen a lot and killed a lot.
Only the Crypt Demon, which is known as the Twin Demons of Heaven and Earth together with the Wing Demon, has not been seen much.
In the sky, Kerrigan has more useful fire elves and great demons.
Therefore, Kerrigan really didn't have much interest in keeping the Winged Demon, who couldn't outpace the Great Demon in terms of speed and whose combat power was so weak that it couldn't even defeat an infantryman of the lower level.
But the Crypt Demon is not very powerful in combat, only its sneak attacks are more powerful.
But the use of the crypt demon is wider than that of the wing demon, because this thing can dig holes in the ground.
Of course, the Crypt Demon does not really dig holes in the ground, but uses its unique control of earth magic to travel underground.
The troops defending the city often ignore the underground troops because they can see the enemies in the sky but not the targets underground.
The Crypt Devils are so numerous that their sudden disappearance would hardly attract the attention of investigators.
And they also need to consume magic power to travel underground. It is impossible to really travel from Bristone all the way to Graycastle.
However, Xu Lai found out that Xu Lai had no good solution and could only order everyone to take precautions.
The Crypt Demon consumes a lot of magic power to travel underground, but waiting underground is almost the same as sleeping.
If you go underground after eating, you can stay underground for at least three or four days.
Xu Lai was unable to determine their specific location and the timing of their launch.
In addition to making the ground troops watch their steps, he can also make the soldiers responsible for reconnaissance pay close attention to the movements underground.
Although the demons outside the city had surrounded Graycastle early, they did not make any gesture of attacking the city.
Not to mention catapults and siege towers, they didn't even prepare a simple ladder to climb the city.
Although Xu Lai is the commander of the legion, he only wants to cover his own attributes with Tahan and Reina.
The actual command of the battlefield is still in Lena's hands.
This left Xu Lai free to hold up his telescope and observe the arrangement of the demon camp on the opposite side. Thousands of balrogs, which are usually rare to see, appeared in Xu Lai's sight.
He couldn't count them one by one, but conservatively estimated that the number of Balrogs must be 3,000 plus.
The number of lava trolls is much greater, at least tens of thousands.
Tens of thousands of fireballs bigger than a bathtub hit the city wall. Xu Lai couldn't even imagine the scene.
Fortunately, in the past half month, Graycastle has been supported by thousands of craftsmen, tens of thousands of helpers, and Qingfeng City at all costs.
Not only have all the previously damaged buildings been repaired, but also several new arrow towers and more catapult platforms have been built.
The phantom archers have all settled in the arrow tower with powerful bonuses.
On the city wall, there are also tens of thousands of sky shooters who have reached high levels. The rest of the master shooters are not even qualified to climb the city wall as the main force.
On the city wall, in addition to the sky shooters, there are also royal guards responsible for protecting them with shields.
There are also crusaders and golden-armored warriors who prevent the enemy from engaging in hand-to-hand combat after they board the city.
As for Seraph and Sin Angel, Xu Lai will never move unless the enemy's demon army is dispatched.
To be honest, Xu Lai was quite looking forward to the demon attacking the city. After all, his side had a huge advantage in city defense and his troops were not weak.
However, Kerrigan didn't think so. He was like a seasoned hunter, quietly waiting for the most favorable opportunity for him.
After the confrontation between the two sides for a whole morning, Xu Lai finally lost his composure.
Krigan and the Burning Legion he led were three kilometers away.
Except for some high-level catapults on the city wall that can attack this location, other methods have no effect.
But such a long distance obviously exceeds the optimal attack distance of most catapults.
Except for the few advanced catapults that are enchanted with range and can still maintain full damage, the damage of other catapults needs to be halved.
However, with the power of the catapult, even if the damage is halved, killing a few demons is still a small problem.
The key is that after exceeding the optimal range, the hit rate of the catapult, which has a low hit rate, will drop again.
Both sides knew this, so Kerrigan placed the main force five kilometers away and the outpost force three kilometers away.
Xu Lai originally didn't want to waste ammunition. The demons three kilometers away were extremely scattered, and many of them were even in the sun without even a shadow.
Obviously, those were created by Kerrigan using the mirror method to confuse the public.
The purpose of doing this is also very simple, which is to consume the ammunition of the defenders.
Unfortunately, he is different from all the other besieged people.
Greycastle does not have a teleportation array, and there is no need to block teleportation.
Xu Lai, who owns the warehouse ring, will have an endless supply of supplies as long as Qingfeng City does not fall and as long as the warehouse is not destroyed and needs to be re-bound.
Only a few people know this secret.
Even Kerrigan, Barton and the others only knew that Xu Lai had plenty of supplies, but they did not expect that Xu Lai had an entire city to back him up.
In the devil’s inherent impression, human beings have sufficient supplies.
Like Lionheart City, Kerrigan used a steady stream of abyss summons for nearly a month, but still failed to consume all of Lionheart City.
At this time, he also planned to repeat his old tricks. Anyway, he had the Gate of Hell snatched from the three-headed dog of hell, which could continuously summon the demons in hell.
Unfortunately, Mendis was beheaded by Xu Lai, and all the abyss lords under his command were also killed or injured.
The remaining abyss demons and abyss lords cannot maintain too many troops no matter how much mana they have.
Xu Lai had no shortage of ordinary ammunition anyway. If the magic ammunition were not too expensive, he would have used magic ammunition to consume it.
Dozens of boulders roared out and smashed towards the demonic troops in the distance.
The reinforced city wall was already wide, and Xu Lai also added several more platforms, nearly doubling the number of catapults.
With the support of Rena's ballistics, even though most of the boulders were beyond the optimal range, nearly half of the boulders still hit the target.
The boulder brought a lot of smoke and dust. Xu Lai looked through the telescope and saw countless demons shattered into pieces.
Kerrigan is really cunning. Xu Lai thought that the demons in the first row were half real and fake, but he didn't expect that they were all mirror images.
When Xu Lai was really waiting for the demon to launch an attack, he would be at a huge loss if he projected all the most powerful magic ammunition on these mirror images.
Of course, in order to prevent being deceived by the devil again, Xu Lai directly ordered all catapults within the range to hit him hard without worrying about ammunition consumption.
Although mirror images can confuse people, even if you don't destroy these mirror images, they can still cause actual damage.
Mirrors are also extremely fragile, and any damage can break them.
Most of the boulders smashed over will break into a lot of rubble.
Originally, these gravels would do no harm to rough-skinned demons, but they would be fatal to these mirror images.
This is also the reason why the demons disappeared in pieces after being hit by more than a dozen boulders.
When Xu comes here, he even has a super catapult that can be launched more than ten kilometers away, so there is no need to just focus on this row of demons.
When the demons in the front row were bombarded, Kerrigan was still able to remain indifferent, and was even complacent that the mirror image worked.
But when the troops in the rear were also hit, he felt uncomfortable.
After all, you are just being beaten and cannot fight back.
"Haha, the king of mankind is still too immature. He loses his composure so quickly."
The hit rate three kilometers away is only 50%. Five kilometers away, not only the number of catapults that can be launched One-third less, the hit rate is only about 30%.
If the demon troops were sparser, the hit rate might be reduced to 20%, and not many demons would be killed even if they were smashed for a day.
However, no matter how small the number is, the death will be in vain. In the past, it was guaranteed that Kerrigan would not even bother to adjust his position.
Now he not only ordered the troops to move back, but also continuously mixed in the mirror images and specially made fake demons.
In addition to using treasures such as telescopes for observation, or possessing reconnaissance skills, ordinary shooters cannot see targets 5 kilometers away, even if they have the vision bonus of the city wall.
As long as the fake demon is made darker, it doesn't even need to be human.
Although Xu Lai saw it, he had no choice but to use those catapults himself.
In this way, in line with the principle that people rest and the catapults do not rest, the boulders continued to hit until it was almost dark.
The demon, which was hit by these boulders and kept retreating, and now has retreated to 7 kilometers away, finally made some movement. (End of chapter)