For several days, the devil's offensive never stopped, but it was basically a bluff.
Not to mention the main force of the devil, even the middle-level soldiers have not been seen.
The demons used mirror images and little devils to continuously consume Graycastle's ammunition reserves.
This time, Xu Lai was a little anxious. He had more ammunition reserves than the devil expected, so there was no need to panic.
But Xu Lai is still worried about Cregan's forbidden curse. It has been less than half a month since Cregan's forbidden curse was unsealed.
Of course, the city-burning curse may last longer, but the longer it lasts, the more powerful it is.
Half a month has passed.
When the time comes, once Kerrigan's forbidden curse is released, even if Xu Lai has time to evacuate Gray Castle, he is not sure that he can control Gray Castle immediately.
Those damn crypt demons have been lying underground for four days, motionless, waiting for an opportunity.
It must be said that the defenders on both sides were very calm.
Kerrigan took the trouble to summon hellfire, copy the mirror image, and arrange for the reincarnated little devil to rush over and die.
Leina, who was attacked day and night, also arranged each unit in an orderly manner, dividing them into defensive areas and shifts.
Kerrigan used the same fatigue tactics as Xu Lai before. The demon's main force has never been dispatched, and only used summons and little demons to harass.
Four days of continuous attacks would require all the soldiers to be ready. Today, they would no longer be able to defend, and they would not even have the strength to abandon the city and flee.
But in the hell camp, among the little devils and mirror images, there are also high-end goods like hellfire.
If we don't care, if these guys run under the city wall and cooperate with the underground demons, a major crisis will probably occur.
If you want to manage it, you need to concentrate some elite troops. You can't be like the hell demons, where all the high-level troops and above are waiting for work.
At the same time, humans must always pay attention to what is going on underground.
It can be said that in terms of energy and physical consumption, the human side is several times more than the demons of hell.
On the contrary, Xu Lai, who was basically a spectator and was only responsible for logistical arrangements and transporting supplies, became increasingly frustrated.
The sense of oppression in hell is still very strong, especially as Xu Lai knows very well that the opponent's demon army can teleport into the city at any time to fight.
The existence of the city wall can only resist the regular troops of hell. High-level special forces such as demons, fire elves, and crypt demons will not be blocked by the city wall.
What's more, there are forbidden spells in hell.
Now Xu Lai’s Gray Castle and Kasay City, which he conquered with his forbidden spell, have completely switched places.
Now Hell has taken the initiative, and Xu Lai and the others are trapped in the city.
"Otherwise, let Tahan and the others move?
Hell has been sieging the city for four days, and Tahan and the others have not brought much dry food. At least let them come close to replenish food and other supplies."
< br>Xu Lai took the lead to find Reina and expressed that he wanted the cavalry troops outside the city to move.
However, Reina shook her head firmly and said: "Your Majesty, I have observed it.
Some time ago, there was no sign of a catapult in hell.< br>
Today, I have seen demon craftsmen starting to assemble catapults.
This shows that the demons are about to launch a real attack.
At this time, you let the cavalry regiment attack the opponent, but the devil has not launched an siege at this time, and the main force is still concentrated in Kerrigan's hands.
When the time comes, he turns around and chooses to eat the cavalry troops. Should we rescue him or not? "
Seeing Xu Lai's silence, Reina continued: "Besides, General Tahan and General Yan Feng both wear the best space rings.
Before they set off, we also expected that the enemy would be unable to attack for a long time, so every knight carried as much food and grass as possible.
I believe that the knights still have complete reserves for at least more than a week.
I guarantee you that within a week, hell will launch a real attack. "
"You promise? "
Leina smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, I promise, in fact, Kerrigan is more anxious than us. ”
Xu Lai said in confusion: "How is that possible? He can wait until the forbidden curse is ready, give us a shot, and capture Gray Castle without any bloodshed."
Leina smiled and said: "Then Let me ask you, what is the purpose of taking Gray Castle?"
Xu Lai was stunned and said: "Of course it is to destroy us."
"Will we be stupid? Are you going to stand still and wait for his forbidden spell to hit us?”
“Of course not”
Reina shrugged and said:
“So, Kerrigan’s purpose is to eliminate our effective forces, not to seize a military fortress with no development potential.
He Of course we can activate the forbidden curse, but we are not surrounded by him like Holy Angel City.
When the time comes, we will most likely abandon the city and flee. Are you not fully prepared to deal with the forbidden curse. It's just a Gray Castle. I'll give it to him in the worst case.
We station troops in Little Gray Castle, which consumes less money and has a greater effect.
On the other hand, Kerrigan put aside the imperial capital he had just captured and came here to confront us. This confrontation lasted for a month.
Isn't he really afraid that after this month has passed, the Lion Heart City he captured will return to human hands again?
Has he forgotten how much effort it took to capture Lionheart City?
Now that Lion Heart City is internally unstable, the Southern Empire, Northern Empire and even the Eastern Empire have all coveted Lion Heart City for a long time.
Kerrigan has not shown up in Lionheart City for a long time, and he has also brought out the main force. I feel that at this moment, we are definitely not the ones who are anxious. "
"Yes, we will lose a city at most. Anyway, this city plus the entire Ashen Valley can't support many people.
As long as Little Gray Castle is not lost, the devil will still be unable to break out of Gray Valley.
For Kerrigan, Ashenvale is also a useless thing, useless in his hand, but its value cannot be compared with Lionheart City.
At this moment, Kerrigan probably wants a decisive battle more than anyone else. ”
Reina nodded and said: "We have support outside and support within. As long as we don't act rashly, the advantage will always be in our hands."
When Reina said this, Xu Lai was completely relieved.
He might as well be too lazy to come out every day to see it, and simply leave it to Reina completely, out of sight and out of mind.
And the facts turned out just as Lena guessed. On the sixth day, the devil couldn't bear it anymore and showed signs of launching a general attack.
After being bombarded by Graycastle's 120 catapults for nearly a week, the hell demons finally made their first counterattack.
It's a pity that the demons took aim for a long time, and the first shot that they had prepared for a long time failed to hit the target
The huge stone fell a hundred meters away from Gray Castle.
The devil is really not good at operating this kind of siege equipment. Under Rena's order, all the catapults on the city wall launched a counterattack against the demon catapults.
But these demons were very timid and arranged the catapult ten kilometers away.
Shooting in such a place, a hundred catapults can hit one shot, and you have to burn incense and worship Buddha all day long.
As for the catapults that the demons deployed one after another, the total number was only about 20.
Of course, there are also advantages. Even humans are difficult to hit, and they are basically based on deterrence.
In this way, the two sides smashed each other for a long time. In the end, a big mark was made on the human city wall, and the devil directly lost a catapult.
In the afternoon, the devil seemed to have brought more catapults.
The previous catapult position actually began to move forward on its own initiative.
Of course Reina would not miss this good opportunity and immediately ordered that all high-end catapults on the city wall be replaced with magic ammunition.
High-end ammunition was fired one after another.
Even if it did not hit the target, the exploding ice picks and exploding ground thorns caused a lot of damage to the demons being transported and guarded around the catapult.
No matter how calm Kerrigan was, he couldn't help but curse his mother when he saw this.
"How many more ammunition are hidden on the human side?
We have been throwing them day and night this week. The stone bullets we throw out alone can build a city!"
Although Kerrigan's statement was a bit exaggerated, Xu Lai consumed a lot of stone during this period.
Fortunately, there is Mingyue City underground in Qingfeng City, and there is a very large quarry nearby.
Moreover, after Mingyue City was handed over to the management of the former Horse Thief King Bello, the resources collected from the underground increased significantly.
This guy, it was not enough just to let people mine, he also hired underground nobles near Darkhor.
Underground, only gold mines, sulfur mines, crystal mines and other resources are valuable, and wood resources are also relatively precious.
But stones and iron ore are basically goods that are thrown on the ground and no one picks them up.
The key is that Bello does not provide them with gold coins, but only supplies them with wine, fruits, pearls, gems, gold and silver utensils produced in human cities.
This kind of stuff has lost a lot of value in the human world due to war.
But underground, it is still a rare treasure.
Anyway, for the underground nobles, things like cavemen are no different from tools, and they will not feel distressed if they die no matter how much they die.
However, the efficiency of these cavemen in mining underground can even exceed those of workers who have stayed underground for a long time and lived a depressing life.
It is precisely because of the supply of stones from Mingyue City that Xu Lai doesn't feel bad no matter how many stone bullets he throws.
Kerrigan complained. He had received reports from other demon heroes. Both the Northern Empire and the Eastern Empire had sent troops to formally invade the territory occupied by Hell.
The former territory of Hell included a small half of the Northern Empire, the entire Western Empire, plus the imperial capital and parts of the Eastern Empire and the Southern Empire.
Now, half of the Western Empire has fallen into the hands of Xu Lai, and the cities such as Emerald City that were once occupied in the Northern Empire have also been spit out. Now only half of the Western Empire and one-tenth of the Northern Empire are left.
Added together the remaining corners, including the newly captured Lion Heart City, the total territory is less than half of the previous one.
People are attacking more and more territory, but Kerrigan is attacking less and less. Can you not be anxious?
As for the most important Lion Heart City, there are currently not many main troops at all.
Once the Eastern Empire and Northern Empire troops penetrated the defense line he had deployed before, it would be hard to say who owned the Lion Heart City he had just captured.
This was unacceptable to Kerrigan, so he could only bite the bullet and find Xu Lai to fight.
Whether he wins or loses this battle, he cannot stay here any longer.
And whether he wins or loses in this battle, he doesn’t want Bridgstone.
If we win, let Barton guard Graycastle, and he will lead the main force back to defend Lionheart City.
If they lose, they will retreat to Lion Heart City together and use Lion Heart City as the foundation to develop the existing hell territory.
When the situation stabilizes, he will have to go back to hell.
Although he is unable to open the Gate of the Abyss again, it is not a big problem to bring a few hell elites up.
What he lacks now is not the hell troops, but high-level hell heroes.
In this year's campaign, too many heroes from hell were lost. Those descended heroes that he had looked down upon before now had to be reused.
However, although Kerrigan already had the subconscious mind to fail, he actually still could not accept failure.
After traveling thousands of miles this time, he no longer planned to take back the catapult brought from Lion Heart City.
Even if the future is not good, he must make those hateful humans pay the price today!
For more than half a month, Kerrigan did not do anything.
He poured countless sacrificed souls into the incubation pool, coupled with the resources collected from Lion Heart City, and quickly corrupted nearly a million demons.
Of course, these are just little demons with approximately no fighting power, and they basically have no fighting power.
Krigan hatched these little demons not for fighting, but to consume human ammunition.
It is not easy to hatch a little devil quickly. Gold coins and souls are both indispensable.
It is obviously not cost-effective if it is only used to consume one or more arrows from humans.
But if you send them to die and then use the power of the evil god to transform them into level 4 horned demons, it will be a great deal.
In the meantime, I don’t know how much time, experience and money have been saved.
The only thing Kerrigan lost was the demons produced in this batch. Without the diversity, he would always be able to advance on the basis of the horned demons.
Otherwise, these little demons should theoretically grow slowly according to the proportion of demon arms.
It's just that now Kerrigan can no longer accept the word "slow".
Even the powerful hellfire and human long-range troops cannot rush through without releasing water, let alone these little demons.
These little devils have almost no other advantages besides their numerical advantage.
But humans had no choice but to let go. Firstly, the rest of the troops were still resting, and secondly, Reina was not sure whether the demon would launch a general attack.
Because the devil is the attacker, the initiative is always in others' hands.
They can attack when they want and withdraw when they want.
However, Lena cannot be on guard at will because of the demon's actions, as that will not restore the physical strength and energy of her own soldiers.
Moreover, the devil also dispatched his own catapult. Reina needed to concentrate the firepower of the catapult and give priority to killing the devil's ultra-long-range firepower points.
Without the support of a large number of catapults, it will be easier for the hell demons to pass through the fire net.
Even if a demon falls halfway, the evil gods behind them will use these demon corpses to summon a terrifying number of horned demons across half the battlefield. (End of this chapter)